"From such dire views my muse recoils, / Even my vital blood grows cold; / While nature's most stupendous works / Thro fancy's mirror I behold."
— Hoare, William (fl. 1798)
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Work Title
Date
August 6, 1798
Metaphor
"From such dire views my muse recoils, / Even my vital blood grows cold; / While nature's most stupendous works / Thro fancy's mirror I behold."
Metaphor in Context
From such dire views my muse recoils,
Even my vital blood grows cold;
While nature's most stupendous works
Thro fancy's mirror I behold.
(p. 118)
Even my vital blood grows cold;
While nature's most stupendous works
Thro fancy's mirror I behold.
(p. 118)
Categories
Provenance
Searching "fancy's mirror" in ECCO
Citation
See the Weekly Entertainer; or Agreeable and Instructive Repository (Monday, August 6, 1798). <Link to ECCO>
Date of Entry
07/29/2014
