The mind devour'd by "former Lawyers" is like a silly Goose ensnared by "the sly Fox"
— Byrom, John (1692-1763)
Author
Date
1773, 1894-1895
Metaphor
The mind devour'd by "former Lawyers" is like a silly Goose ensnared by "the sly Fox"
Metaphor in Context
Of Tempers, by inferior Forms express'd,
And seen for nothing, something may be guess'd.
When the sly Fox ensnares the silly Geese,
Who does not see that Mind is of a piece
With former Lawyers, who devour'd by far
The sillier Clients, drawn into the Bar?
And seen for nothing, something may be guess'd.
When the sly Fox ensnares the silly Geese,
Who does not see that Mind is of a piece
With former Lawyers, who devour'd by far
The sillier Clients, drawn into the Bar?
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Provenance
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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
04/20/2005
