"Till now detain'd / In cruel bonds, his thoughts alone were free, / And these have never stray'd from his Constantia."

— Williams, Anna (1708-1783)


Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for T. Davies
Date
1766
Metaphor
"Till now detain'd / In cruel bonds, his thoughts alone were free, / And these have never stray'd from his Constantia."
Metaphor in Context
CONSTANTIA.
But wherefore all this time--

HENRIQUES.
                                Till now detain'd
In cruel bonds, his thoughts alone were free,
And these have never stray'd from his Constantia
.

CONSTANTIA.
O Heav'ns! how have I wrong'd thee, my Gernando!
Categories
Provenance
Searching "bond" and "thought" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
Only 1 entry in ESTC (1766).

See Miscellanies in Prose and Verse. By Anna Williams. (London: Printed for T. Davies, in Great Russel-Street, Covent-Garden, 1766). <Link to ESTC>
Date of Entry
01/09/2012

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