"Hard was his Heart, inclos'd in Folds of Brass, / Who in a feeble Bark first boldly try'd / The Watry Path and Region of the Seas, /And adverse Winds and swelling Waves defy'd"

— Oldisworth, William (1680-1734)


Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for B. Lintot [etc.]
Date
1719
Metaphor
"Hard was his Heart, inclos'd in Folds of Brass, / Who in a feeble Bark first boldly try'd / The Watry Path and Region of the Seas, /And adverse Winds and swelling Waves defy'd"
Metaphor in Context
Hard was his Heart, inclos'd in Folds of Brass,
Who in a feeble Bark first boldly try'd
The Watry Path and Region of the Seas,
And adverse Winds and swelling Waves defy'd.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "heart" and "brass" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
At least 3 entries in ESTC (1712, 1719, 1737).

Text from The Odes, Epodes, and Carmen Seculare of Horace in English Verse. To Which Is Prefix'd the Life of Horace: Written by Suetonius. Translated from Dr. Bentley’s Latin Edition, by Mr. William Oldisworth. 2nd ed. (London: Printed for B. Lintot, between the Temple Gates in Fleet-Street, 1719). <Link to ESTC>

Found also in The Odes of Horace in Latin and English; With a Translation of Dr. Bentley's Notes. To Which Are Added, Notes Upon Notes; Done in the Bentleian Stile and Manner. Part I. To Be Continued. (London: Printed for Bernard Lintott, at the Cross-Keys, between the two Temple-Gates in Fleet-Street, 1712). <Link to ECCO>
Theme
Horace, Book I, Ode iii
Date of Entry
06/07/2005

The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.