"But, since we never from the Breast of Fools / Can root their Passions, yet while Reason rules, / Let her hold forth her Scales with equal Hand, / Justly to punish, as the Crimes demand."

— Francis, Philip (1708-1773)


Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for A. Millar
Date
1746, 1749
Metaphor
"But, since we never from the Breast of Fools / Can root their Passions, yet while Reason rules, / Let her hold forth her Scales with equal Hand, / Justly to punish, as the Crimes demand."
Metaphor in Context
But, since we never from the Breast of Fools
Can root their Passions, yet while Reason rules,
Let her hold forth her Scales with equal Hand,
Justly to punish, as the Crimes demand.
Provenance
Searching HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
Nineteen entries in ESTC (1742, 1743, 1746, 1747, 1749, 1750, 1753, 1756, 1764, 1765, 1778, 1779, 1791, 1794). Francis translated Horace in four volumes. The first two volumes containing Horaces odes, epodes, and "Carmen Seculare" were issued together in 1743; Vol III, containing the satires, and IV, containing the epistles and Horace's "Art of Poetry," were issued in 1746.

See The Odes, Epodes, and Carmen Seculare of Horace. In Latin and English. With Critical Notes Collected from his best Latin and French commentators. By the Revd. Mr. Philip Francis, 2 vols. (London: Printed for A. Millar). <Link to Vol. I in ECCO><Link to Vol. II>

Also A Poetical Translation of the Works of Horace: with the Original Text, and Notes Collected from the Best Latin and French Commentators on that Author. By the Revd Mr. Philip Francis (London: Printed for A. Millar, 1746). <Link to Vol. III in ECCO><Link to Vol. IV in ECCO>

Text from A Poetical Translation of the Works of Horace, With the Original Text, and Critical Notes Collected from his Best Latin and French Commentators. By the Revd Mr. Philip Francis, 3rd edition, 4 vols. (London: Printed for A. Millar, 1749).
Date of Entry
06/15/2004

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