"Poor Cornet is a quiet creature: / One reads his mind in every feature."
— Amherst [later Thomas], Elizabeth Frances (c.1716-1779)
Work Title
Date
w. 1740-50
Metaphor
"Poor Cornet is a quiet creature: / One reads his mind in every feature."
Metaphor in Context
Poor Cornet is a quiet creature:
One reads his mind in every feature;
He ne'er makes mischief in the house,
Nor quarrels e'er but with a mouse,
But sits and purrs beside the fire,
For his ambition soars not higher.
(ll. 19-24, p. 185)
One reads his mind in every feature;
He ne'er makes mischief in the house,
Nor quarrels e'er but with a mouse,
But sits and purrs beside the fire,
For his ambition soars not higher.
(ll. 19-24, p. 185)
Categories
Provenance
Reading Lonsdale's anthology
Citation
Oxf. Bodl. MS. Eng. poet. e. 109 (S.C. 46489) [not consulted]
Reading Lonsdale, R. Ed. Eighteenth Century Women Poets (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989), pp. 184-5.
Date of composition c. 1740-50 from Lonsdale, apparently circulated in manuscript. No printed edition found. The New Summary Catalog gives "Thomas, Elizabeth 1714-79" as having verse at Oxf. Bodl. MS. Eng. poet. e. 109 (S.C. 46489) cataloged as "Verse by Elizabeth Amherst, later Mrs. John Thomas, copied by E.F. Amherst, 1798."
Bibliographical description contributed by James Ascher.
Reading Lonsdale, R. Ed. Eighteenth Century Women Poets (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989), pp. 184-5.
Date of composition c. 1740-50 from Lonsdale, apparently circulated in manuscript. No printed edition found. The New Summary Catalog gives "Thomas, Elizabeth 1714-79" as having verse at Oxf. Bodl. MS. Eng. poet. e. 109 (S.C. 46489) cataloged as "Verse by Elizabeth Amherst, later Mrs. John Thomas, copied by E.F. Amherst, 1798."
Bibliographical description contributed by James Ascher.
Date of Entry
09/14/2009
Date of Review
10/04/2013
