"All this says Richard is but Nonsense / For whats the Will without the Conscience / That mighty Pow'r by whom the thought / Is from Kings Bench to Chanc'ry brought. / What Seat for Her have You assign'd / When She may view and sway the mind?"
— Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
Cambridge
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Date
w. 1718 [first published 1907]
Metaphor
"All this says Richard is but Nonsense / For whats the Will without the Conscience / That mighty Pow'r by whom the thought / Is from Kings Bench to Chanc'ry brought. / What Seat for Her have You assign'd / When She may view and sway the mind?"
Metaphor in Context
All this says Richard is but Nonsense
For what's the Will without the Conscience
That mighty Pow'r by whom the thought
Is from Kings Bench to Chanc'ry brought.
What Seat for Her have You assign'd
When She may view and sway the mind?. (II, pp. 969-70)
For what's the Will without the Conscience
That mighty Pow'r by whom the thought
Is from Kings Bench to Chanc'ry brought.
What Seat for Her have You assign'd
When She may view and sway the mind?. (II, pp. 969-70)
Categories
Provenance
HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
Text from Matthew Prior, The Literary Works of Matthew Prior, ed. H. Bunker Wright and Monroe K. Spears, 2 vols, 2nd ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971), ii, pp. 969-70.
See also "Fragments for Alma" in Dialogues of the Dead and Other Works in Prose and Verse, ed. A. R. Waller (Cambridge: Printed at the University Press, 1907), 325. <Link to Google Books>
See also "Fragments for Alma" in Dialogues of the Dead and Other Works in Prose and Verse, ed. A. R. Waller (Cambridge: Printed at the University Press, 1907), 325. <Link to Google Books>
Date of Entry
02/15/2004
Date of Review
01/06/2012
