"The bustling World, to fetch her out from thence, / Will urge the various, plausible Pretence; / Will praise Perfections of a grander Name, / Sound great Exploíts, and call her out to Fame; / Amuse and flatter, till the Soul, too prone / To Self-activity, deserts her Throne."
— Byrom, John (1692-1763)
Author
Date
1773, 1814
Metaphor
"The bustling World, to fetch her out from thence, / Will urge the various, plausible Pretence; / Will praise Perfections of a grander Name, / Sound great Exploíts, and call her out to Fame; / Amuse and flatter, till the Soul, too prone / To Self-activity, deserts her Throne."
Metaphor in Context
The bustling World, to fetch her out from thence,
Will urge the various, plausible Pretence;
Will praise Perfections of a grander Name,
Sound great Exploíts, and call her out to Fame;
Amuse and flatter, till the Soul, too prone
To Self-activity, deserts her Throne.
(cf. I, p. 82 in 1773 ed.)
Will urge the various, plausible Pretence;
Will praise Perfections of a grander Name,
Sound great Exploíts, and call her out to Fame;
Amuse and flatter, till the Soul, too prone
To Self-activity, deserts her Throne.
(cf. I, p. 82 in 1773 ed.)
Categories
Provenance
Searching "throne" and "soul" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
2 entries in ESTC (1773).
See Miscellaneous Poems, by John Byrom, M.A. F.R.S. sometime Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Inventor of the Universal English Short-Hand. In Two Volumes. (Manchester: Printed by J. Harrop, 1773). <Link to ESTC><Link to Google Books>
Text from The Poems of John Byrom, ed. Adolphus William Ward, 2 vols. (Manchester: Printed for The Chetham Society, 1894-1895).
See Miscellaneous Poems, by John Byrom, M.A. F.R.S. sometime Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Inventor of the Universal English Short-Hand. In Two Volumes. (Manchester: Printed by J. Harrop, 1773). <Link to ESTC><Link to Google Books>
Text from The Poems of John Byrom, ed. Adolphus William Ward, 2 vols. (Manchester: Printed for The Chetham Society, 1894-1895).
Date of Entry
07/30/2004
