"'Till kind applauses every pang suppress'd, / Clos'd every wound, and steel'd my daring breast."
— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for the author, and sold by Dodsley
Date
1766
Metaphor
"'Till kind applauses every pang suppress'd, / Clos'd every wound, and steel'd my daring breast."
Metaphor in Context
Nor frowning critics damp the muse's fire,
Nor drown, with clam'rous din, her feeble lyre,
While friends of taste and learning curb their spite,
And Hawkesworth in her praise vouchsafes to write;
As when, from hostile foes, a venom'd dart,
Invades with pungent pain some tender part,
Till skilful hands the arrow disengage,
While antidotes allay the poison's rage;
So shafts discharg'd by th' envious, heedless, blind,
Inflam'd, a while, and fester'd in my mind,
'Till kind applauses every pang suppress'd,
Clos'd every wound, and steel'd my daring breast.
Nor drown, with clam'rous din, her feeble lyre,
While friends of taste and learning curb their spite,
And Hawkesworth in her praise vouchsafes to write;
As when, from hostile foes, a venom'd dart,
Invades with pungent pain some tender part,
Till skilful hands the arrow disengage,
While antidotes allay the poison's rage;
So shafts discharg'd by th' envious, heedless, blind,
Inflam'd, a while, and fester'd in my mind,
'Till kind applauses every pang suppress'd,
Clos'd every wound, and steel'd my daring breast.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "breast" and "steel" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
Only 1 entry in ESTC (1766).
Poems on Several Occasions. By James Woodhouse, Journeyman Shoemaker, 2nd edition (London: Printed for the author, and sold by Dodsley, 1766). <Link to ESTC><Link to ECCO><Link to Hathi Trust><Link to Google Books>
Note, some poems in this edition first collected in 1764 in Poems on Sundry Occasions. Note, also, the collection published in 1788 with title Poems on Several Occasions does not contain the same poems. Cf. ESTC and Brit. Mus. Catalogue.
Text from The Life and Poetical Works of James Woodhouse, ed. R. I. Woodhouse, 2 vols. (London: The Leadenhall Press, 1896). <Link to Hathi Trust> <Link to LION>
Poems on Several Occasions. By James Woodhouse, Journeyman Shoemaker, 2nd edition (London: Printed for the author, and sold by Dodsley, 1766). <Link to ESTC><Link to ECCO><Link to Hathi Trust><Link to Google Books>
Note, some poems in this edition first collected in 1764 in Poems on Sundry Occasions. Note, also, the collection published in 1788 with title Poems on Several Occasions does not contain the same poems. Cf. ESTC and Brit. Mus. Catalogue.
Text from The Life and Poetical Works of James Woodhouse, ed. R. I. Woodhouse, 2 vols. (London: The Leadenhall Press, 1896). <Link to Hathi Trust> <Link to LION>
Date of Entry
06/13/2005
