"Still o'er my mind wild Fancy holds her sway, / Still on strange visionary land I stray."

— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)


Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for J. Walthoe
Date
1729
Metaphor
"Still o'er my mind wild Fancy holds her sway, / Still on strange visionary land I stray."
Metaphor in Context
Still o'er my mind wild Fancy holds her sway,
Still on strange visionary land I stray.

Now scenes crowd thick! now indistinct appear!
Swift glide the months, and turn the varying year!
Provenance
Searching in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
At least 8 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1729, 1761, 1775, 1775, 1777, 1779, 1780).

See also The Wanderer: A Poem. In Five Canto's. By Richard Savage, Son of the late Earl Rivers. (London: Printed for J. Walthoe, 1729). <Link to ESTC><Link to ECCO>

Text from The Works of Richard Savage ... With an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author, by Samuel Johnson. A New Edition (London: Printed for T. Evans, 1777). <Link to LION>
Date of Entry
02/22/2006

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