"Fair Ideas in full Glory shine, / Eternal Models of exalted Parts, / The Pride of Minds, and Conquerors of Hearts."
— Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718)
Author
Work Title
Date
w. 1702, 1713
Metaphor
"Fair Ideas in full Glory shine, / Eternal Models of exalted Parts, / The Pride of Minds, and Conquerors of Hearts."
Metaphor in Context
Above the Beauties, far above the Show
In which weak Nature dresses here below,
Stands the great Palace of the Bright and Fine,
Where fair Ideas in full Glory shine,
Eternal Models of exalted Parts,
The Pride of Minds, and Conquerors of Hearts.
In which weak Nature dresses here below,
Stands the great Palace of the Bright and Fine,
Where fair Ideas in full Glory shine,
Eternal Models of exalted Parts,
The Pride of Minds, and Conquerors of Hearts.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "conque" and "mind" in HDIS (Poetry); found again "conque" and "heart"
Citation
Over 15 entries hits in ECCO and ESTC (1713, 1715, 1724, 1735, 1744, 1767, 1771, 1776, 1780, 1789, 1790, 1795, 1796, 1797).
See An Essay on the Different Stiles of Poetry. (London: Printed for Benj. Tooke, at the Middle-Temple-Gate in Fleet-street, 1713).
Parnell's first published poem. Appears to be first added to the 6th edition of Poems on Several Occasions in 1735. Found also in Miscellaneous Poems, Original and Translated, by Several Hands (1724), p. 278 <Link to ECCO>. Also in vol. III of Bell's Classical Arrangement of Poetry (1789), p. 8 <Link to ECCO>.
Reading and searching Collected Poems of Thomas Parnell, eds. Claude Julien Rawson and F. P. Lock. (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1989). Compare "To ------ on the various Styles of Poetry," from the Satires Notebook. Parnell manuscript among the Congleton papers. Poems dated 1702 to 1713. Described in Rawson and Lock, pp. 604-5.
See An Essay on the Different Stiles of Poetry. (London: Printed for Benj. Tooke, at the Middle-Temple-Gate in Fleet-street, 1713).
Parnell's first published poem. Appears to be first added to the 6th edition of Poems on Several Occasions in 1735. Found also in Miscellaneous Poems, Original and Translated, by Several Hands (1724), p. 278 <Link to ECCO>. Also in vol. III of Bell's Classical Arrangement of Poetry (1789), p. 8 <Link to ECCO>.
Reading and searching Collected Poems of Thomas Parnell, eds. Claude Julien Rawson and F. P. Lock. (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1989). Compare "To ------ on the various Styles of Poetry," from the Satires Notebook. Parnell manuscript among the Congleton papers. Poems dated 1702 to 1713. Described in Rawson and Lock, pp. 604-5.
Date of Entry
02/06/2005
Date of Review
04/09/2009
