"[I]n his breast, / Crowded with follies, Honour found no room"

— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)


Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for the Author
Date
1764
Metaphor
"[I]n his breast, / Crowded with follies, Honour found no room"
Metaphor in Context
Ne'er could he feel how truly man is blest
In blessing those around him; in his breast,
Crowded with follies, Honour found no room
;
Mark'd for a coward in his mother's womb,
He was too proud without affronts to live,
Too timorous to punish or forgive.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "breast" and "crowd" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
8 entries in ESTC (1764, 1765).

Issued in 3 "Books" in 1764, each with a separate half-title; collected in Churchill's Poems (1765).

Text from Poems of Charles Churchill, ed. James Laver. 2 vols. (London: The King's Printers, 1933).
Date of Entry
03/08/2006

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