"Come, Reader, learn here what thou art, come see / Thy inmost Pow'rs; acquaint thy self with Thee, / View here the secret and mysterious Guest, / The Tenant, yet the Stranger of thy Breast"
— Glanvil, John (1664-1735)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for Bernard Lintot, J. Osborn and T. Longman, and W. Bell
Date
1725
Metaphor
"Come, Reader, learn here what thou art, come see / Thy inmost Pow'rs; acquaint thy self with Thee, / View here the secret and mysterious Guest, / The Tenant, yet the Stranger of thy Breast"
Metaphor in Context
Come, Reader, learn here what thou art, come see
Thy inmost Pow'rs; acquaint thy self with Thee,
View here the secret and mysterious Guest,
The Tenant, yet the Stranger of thy Breast;
Than which to thee there nothing is so near;
Than which there nothing is from thee so far.
Thy inmost Pow'rs; acquaint thy self with Thee,
View here the secret and mysterious Guest,
The Tenant, yet the Stranger of thy Breast;
Than which to thee there nothing is so near;
Than which there nothing is from thee so far.
Provenance
Searching in HDIS (Poetry); found again "guest" and "breast"
Citation
John Glanvil, Dr. Bathurst's Verses on Mr. Hobbs's Book of Human Nature. [from Poems: Consisting of Originals and Translations (London: Lintot, Osborn, Longman, and Bell, 1725).
Theme
Stranger Within
Date of Entry
03/05/2006
