"[A]ll these threatning storms which, like impregnant Clouds, do hover o'er our heads, (when they once are grasp'd but by the eye of reason) melt into fruitful showers of blessings on the people."
— Villiers, George, Second Duke of Buckingham (1628-1687)
Work Title
Publisher
Printed for Thomas Dring [etc.]
Date
1672
Metaphor
"[A]ll these threatning storms which, like impregnant Clouds, do hover o'er our heads, (when they once are grasp'd but by the eye of reason) melt into fruitful showers of blessings on the people."
Metaphor in Context
PHYSICIAN
Sir, to conclude, the place you fill, has more than amply exacted the Talents of a wary Pilot, and all these threatning storms which, like impregnant Clouds, do hover o'er our heads, (when they once are grasp'd but by the eye of reason) melt into fruitful showers of blessings on the people.
BAYES
Pray mark that Allegory. Is not that good?
JOHNSON
Yes; that grasping of a storm with the eye is admirable.
PHYSICIAN
But yet some rumours great are stirring; and if Lorenzo should prove false, (as none but the great Gods can tell) you then perhaps would find, that--
(Act II, Scene I)
Sir, to conclude, the place you fill, has more than amply exacted the Talents of a wary Pilot, and all these threatning storms which, like impregnant Clouds, do hover o'er our heads, (when they once are grasp'd but by the eye of reason) melt into fruitful showers of blessings on the people.
BAYES
Pray mark that Allegory. Is not that good?
JOHNSON
Yes; that grasping of a storm with the eye is admirable.
PHYSICIAN
But yet some rumours great are stirring; and if Lorenzo should prove false, (as none but the great Gods can tell) you then perhaps would find, that--
(Act II, Scene I)
Categories
Provenance
HDIS (Drama); Found again reading Kames's Elements of Criticism (122)
Theme
Mind's Eye
Date of Entry
01/18/2004
