"If haply human passions swell, / And shake awhile their peaceful cell, / They strive with idle force"
— Downman, Hugh (1740-1809)
Author
Place of Publication
Exeter
Publisher
Printed by W. Grigg
Date
1781, 1791
Metaphor
"If haply human passions swell, / And shake awhile their peaceful cell, / They strive with idle force"
Metaphor in Context
If haply human passions swell,
And shake awhile their peaceful cell,
They strive with idle force:
Soon, mutual fondness in her chains
The momentary blasts restrains,
And smiling, checks their course.
And shake awhile their peaceful cell,
They strive with idle force:
Soon, mutual fondness in her chains
The momentary blasts restrains,
And smiling, checks their course.
Categories
Provenance
Searching in "passion" and "cell" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
3 entries in ESTC (1781, 1791, 1792).
Text from Poems to Thespia. To Which are Added, Sonnets, &c. (Exeter: Printed by R. Trewman and Son, 1791). <Link to ECCO>
See also Hugh Downman, Poems to Thespia (Exeter: Printed by W. Grigg, 1781). <Link to ECCO>
Text from Poems to Thespia. To Which are Added, Sonnets, &c. (Exeter: Printed by R. Trewman and Son, 1791). <Link to ECCO>
See also Hugh Downman, Poems to Thespia (Exeter: Printed by W. Grigg, 1781). <Link to ECCO>
Date of Entry
08/29/2005
