"By fortitude of mind he conquest gains / O're sordid pleasures and imagind pains."
— Ramsay, Allan (1684-1758)
Author
Work Title
Date
w. 1719, 1951
Metaphor
"By fortitude of mind he conquest gains / O're sordid pleasures and imagind pains."
Metaphor in Context
The thinking Man eyes his Ancestor's worth
preservs the Grandure of his house and Birth
and through the Golden Mien he wisely steers
Not cheated with vain Hopes nor Crush'd with fears.
By fortitude of mind he conquest gains
O're sordid pleasures and imagind pains
superior to the puny pleagues of Life
looks down on trifles which engender strife.
such a great Soul can destiny command
who holds his passions with a steady hand
Great in himself, he all his actions Rules
by virtue, and leavs pegeantry to fools
he scorns to cringe at courts or Blur his mind
with consent, when his countrey's fall's designd
But when plac'd at the Helm of state affairs
the publick good engroses all his Cares
preservs the Grandure of his house and Birth
and through the Golden Mien he wisely steers
Not cheated with vain Hopes nor Crush'd with fears.
By fortitude of mind he conquest gains
O're sordid pleasures and imagind pains
superior to the puny pleagues of Life
looks down on trifles which engender strife.
such a great Soul can destiny command
who holds his passions with a steady hand
Great in himself, he all his actions Rules
by virtue, and leavs pegeantry to fools
he scorns to cringe at courts or Blur his mind
with consent, when his countrey's fall's designd
But when plac'd at the Helm of state affairs
the publick good engroses all his Cares
Categories
Provenance
Searching "conque" and "mind" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
Dated "Edinburgh, Janr 1st 1719."
Text from The Works of Allan Ramsay, eds. Burns Martin and John W. Oliver, et. al (London and Edinburgh: Printed by William Blackwood & Sons, 1944-1973).
See also The Works of Allan Ramsay (Edinburgh: Scottish Text Society, 1951).
Text from The Works of Allan Ramsay, eds. Burns Martin and John W. Oliver, et. al (London and Edinburgh: Printed by William Blackwood & Sons, 1944-1973).
See also The Works of Allan Ramsay (Edinburgh: Scottish Text Society, 1951).
Date of Entry
02/06/2005
