"Beyond this to awake our zeal, / To quicken our resolves, and steel / Our steady souls to bloody bent,"
— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Work Title
Date
1764
Metaphor
"Beyond this to awake our zeal, / To quicken our resolves, and steel / Our steady souls to bloody bent,"
Metaphor in Context
'Is he not ranked amongst our foes?
Hath not his spirit dared oppose
Our dearest measures, made our name
Stand forward on the roll of shame?
Hath he not won the vulgar tribes,
By scorning menaces and bribes,
And proving, that his darling cause
Is of their liberties and laws
To stand the champion? In a word,
Nor need one argument be heard
Beyond this to awake our zeal,
To quicken our resolves, and steel
Our steady souls to bloody bent,
(Sure ruin to each dear intent,
Each flattering hope) he, without fear,
Hath dared to make the truth appear.'
Hath not his spirit dared oppose
Our dearest measures, made our name
Stand forward on the roll of shame?
Hath he not won the vulgar tribes,
By scorning menaces and bribes,
And proving, that his darling cause
Is of their liberties and laws
To stand the champion? In a word,
Nor need one argument be heard
Beyond this to awake our zeal,
To quicken our resolves, and steel
Our steady souls to bloody bent,
(Sure ruin to each dear intent,
Each flattering hope) he, without fear,
Hath dared to make the truth appear.'
Categories
Provenance
Searching "soul" and "steel" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
4 entries in ESTC (1764, 1765).
See The Duellist. A Poem. In Three Books. by C. Churchill. (London: Printed for G. Kearsly; W. Flexney; J. Coote; C. Henderson; J. Gardiner; and J. Almon, 1764). <Link to ECCO-TCP>
Text from Poems of Charles Churchill, ed. James Laver ([London]: The King's Printers, 1933).
See The Duellist. A Poem. In Three Books. by C. Churchill. (London: Printed for G. Kearsly; W. Flexney; J. Coote; C. Henderson; J. Gardiner; and J. Almon, 1764). <Link to ECCO-TCP>
Text from Poems of Charles Churchill, ed. James Laver ([London]: The King's Printers, 1933).
Date of Entry
06/12/2005
