"From sense abstracted, some, with arduous flight, / Explore the realms of intellectual light."
— Scott, Mary [later Taylor] (1751/2-1793)
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for Joseph Johnson
Date
1774
Metaphor
"From sense abstracted, some, with arduous flight, / Explore the realms of intellectual light."
Metaphor in Context
With joy ineffable the Muse surveys
The orient beams of more resplendent days:
As on she raptured looks to future years,
What a bright throng to Fancy's view appears!
To them see Genius her best gifts impart,
And Science raise a throne in every heart!
One turns the moral, one th' historic page;
Another glows with all a Shakespeare's rage!
With matchless Newton now one soars on high,
Lost in the boundless wonders of the sky;
Another now, or curious mind, reveals
What treasures in her bowels Earth conceals;
Nature's minuter works attract her eyes;
Their laws, their powers, her deep research descries,
From sense abstracted, some, with arduous flight,
Explore the realms of intellectual light;
With unremitting study seek to find
How mind on matter, matter acts on mind:
Alike in nature, arts, and manners read,
In every path of knowledge, see they tread!
Whilst men, convinced of Female Talents, pay
To Female Worth the tributary lay.
(ll.7-28, pp. 321-2)
The orient beams of more resplendent days:
As on she raptured looks to future years,
What a bright throng to Fancy's view appears!
To them see Genius her best gifts impart,
And Science raise a throne in every heart!
One turns the moral, one th' historic page;
Another glows with all a Shakespeare's rage!
With matchless Newton now one soars on high,
Lost in the boundless wonders of the sky;
Another now, or curious mind, reveals
What treasures in her bowels Earth conceals;
Nature's minuter works attract her eyes;
Their laws, their powers, her deep research descries,
From sense abstracted, some, with arduous flight,
Explore the realms of intellectual light;
With unremitting study seek to find
How mind on matter, matter acts on mind:
Alike in nature, arts, and manners read,
In every path of knowledge, see they tread!
Whilst men, convinced of Female Talents, pay
To Female Worth the tributary lay.
(ll.7-28, pp. 321-2)
Categories
Provenance
Reading
Citation
At least 2 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1774, 1775).
See The Female Advocate; a Poem. Occasioned by Reading Mr. Duncombe's Feminead. By Miss Scott. (London: Printed for Joseph Johnson, No. 72, St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1774). <Link to ECCO>
Reading Roger Lonsdale's Eighteenth Century Women Poets. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989.
See The Female Advocate; a Poem. Occasioned by Reading Mr. Duncombe's Feminead. By Miss Scott. (London: Printed for Joseph Johnson, No. 72, St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1774). <Link to ECCO>
Reading Roger Lonsdale's Eighteenth Century Women Poets. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989.
Date of Entry
08/21/2014
