"With thee among the haunted groves / The lovely sorc'ress Fancy roves, / O let me find her here!"

— Mulso [later Chapone], Hester (1727-1801)


Place of Publication
London
Date
1775
Metaphor
"With thee among the haunted groves / The lovely sorc'ress Fancy roves, / O let me find her here!"
Metaphor in Context
With thee among the haunted groves
The lovely sorc'ress Fancy roves,
O let me find her here!

For she can time and space controul,
And swift transport my fleeting soul
To all it holds most dear!
(p. 159)
Provenance
Reading
Citation
At least 15 entries in the ESTC (1775, 1777, 1783, 1786, 1787, 1789, 1789)

See See also Miscellanies in Prose and Verse (London: E. and C. Dilly, 1775). <Link to ECCO>

Also The Works of Mrs. Chapone, Containing Letters on the Improvement of the Mind, Addressed to a Young Lady: and Miscellanies in Prose and Verse. In Two Volumes. (Dublin: Printed for the United Company of Booksellers, 1775) [not consulted]. <Link to ESTC>

Text from Hester Chapone, Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, 3rd edition (London: Printed for E. and C. Dilly ... and J. Walter, 1777). <Link to 3rd edition in Google Books>
Date of Entry
06/16/2011

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