"What can the youth in fancy's mirror view / Save her, the maid that shines in all reveal'd?"
— Wieland, Christoph Martin (1733-1813); Sotheby, Richard (1757-1833)
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for Cadell and Davies
Date
1780, 1798
Metaphor
"What can the youth in fancy's mirror view / Save her, the maid that shines in all reveal'd?"
Metaphor in Context
XX.
What can the youth in fancy's mirror view
Save her, the maid that shines in all reveal'd?
He paints the goddess on his polish'd shield:--
Now dares with fearless speed her trace pursue,
Up Taurus' height; now penetrates the gloom
That shrouds the horrors of dread Merlin's tomb:
Goblins and dragons levels at a blow
That guard the castle, echoing to her woe:
Nor dreads to drag her forth from hell's unfathom'd womb!
(p. 113)
What can the youth in fancy's mirror view
Save her, the maid that shines in all reveal'd?
He paints the goddess on his polish'd shield:--
Now dares with fearless speed her trace pursue,
Up Taurus' height; now penetrates the gloom
That shrouds the horrors of dread Merlin's tomb:
Goblins and dragons levels at a blow
That guard the castle, echoing to her woe:
Nor dreads to drag her forth from hell's unfathom'd womb!
(p. 113)
Categories
Provenance
Searching "fancy's mirror" in ECCO
Citation
2 entries in ESTC (1798).
Oberon, a Poem, from the German of Wieland. By William Sotheby, Esq. (London: Printed for Cadell and Davies, Strand; Edwards, Pall Mall; Faulder, Bond Street; and Hatchard, Piccadilly, 1798).
Oberon, a Poem, from the German of Wieland. By William Sotheby, Esq. (London: Printed for Cadell and Davies, Strand; Edwards, Pall Mall; Faulder, Bond Street; and Hatchard, Piccadilly, 1798).
Date of Entry
07/29/2014
