"To me thy better gifts impart, / Each moral beauty of the heart / By studious thought refin’d: / For Wealth, the smiles of glad Content, / For Pow’r, it samplest, best extent, / An empire o’er my mind."
— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)
Work Title
Date
1746; December 17, 1747 [actually January, 1748]
Metaphor
"To me thy better gifts impart, / Each moral beauty of the heart / By studious thought refin’d: / For Wealth, the smiles of glad Content, / For Pow’r, it samplest, best extent, / An empire o’er my mind."
Metaphor in Context
To me thy better gifts impart,
Each moral beauty of the heart
By studious thought refin’d:
For Wealth, the smiles of glad Content,
For Pow’r, it samplest, best extent,
An empire o’er my mind.
(p. 65)
Each moral beauty of the heart
By studious thought refin’d:
For Wealth, the smiles of glad Content,
For Pow’r, it samplest, best extent,
An empire o’er my mind.
(p. 65)
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Provenance
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Citation
At least 26 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1746, 1748, 1751, 1753, 1759, 1760, 1762, 1764, 1766, 1776, 1777, 1785, 1789, 1790, 1791, 1792, 1794, 1800). [Circulated in MS. Published in Clarissa, revised for the Gentleman's Magazine. Reprinted in Bell's Fugitive Poetry.]
See also Poems on Several Occasions (London: Printed for John Rivington, at the Bible and Crown in St. Paul’s Church-Yard, 1762). <Link to ESTC>
Text from Women Writers Online: Elizabeth Carter, Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Elizabeth Carter, with a New Edition of her Poems, Ed. Montagu Pennington, 2 vols. (London: F.C. and J. Rivington, 1816). <Link to WWO><Same edition in Internet Archive>
See also Poems on Several Occasions (London: Printed for John Rivington, at the Bible and Crown in St. Paul’s Church-Yard, 1762). <Link to ESTC>
Text from Women Writers Online: Elizabeth Carter, Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Elizabeth Carter, with a New Edition of her Poems, Ed. Montagu Pennington, 2 vols. (London: F.C. and J. Rivington, 1816). <Link to WWO><Same edition in Internet Archive>
Date of Entry
06/23/2011
