As an artist pours and extracts gold from a mold, "So virtuous Education forms the Mind, / And leaves for Life the beauteous Stamp behind!"
— Boyse, Samuel (1708-1749)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for A. Dodd
Date
1742
Metaphor
As an artist pours and extracts gold from a mold, "So virtuous Education forms the Mind, / And leaves for Life the beauteous Stamp behind!"
Metaphor in Context
As the skill'd Artist, in the glowing Mold,
First pours, and then extracts the minted Gold;
Which if neglected, till the Heat o'erpass,
Would still continue an unsightly Mass.
So virtuous Education forms the Mind,
And leaves for Life the beauteous Stamp behind!
First pours, and then extracts the minted Gold;
Which if neglected, till the Heat o'erpass,
Would still continue an unsightly Mass.
So virtuous Education forms the Mind,
And leaves for Life the beauteous Stamp behind!
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Provenance
Searching in HDIS (Poetry);
Citation
Only 1 entry in ESTC (1742).
See The Praise of Peace. A Poem. In Three Cantos. From the Dutch of M. Van Haren, One of the Deputies of the Province of West-Friesland in the Assembly of Their High Mightinesses the States General. (London: Printed for A. Dodd, 1742). [A translation of Willem van Haren's "Lof der vrede"] <Link to ESTC>
See The Praise of Peace. A Poem. In Three Cantos. From the Dutch of M. Van Haren, One of the Deputies of the Province of West-Friesland in the Assembly of Their High Mightinesses the States General. (London: Printed for A. Dodd, 1742). [A translation of Willem van Haren's "Lof der vrede"] <Link to ESTC>
Date of Entry
04/06/2005
