"Let others on the Senses Surface play, / And purchase fleeting Honours of a Day; / Your Empire's lasting, for the Mind's your Throne, / And ev'ry Hour you gain upon Renown."
— Anonymous
Author
Place of Publication
London
Date
1707
Metaphor
"Let others on the Senses Surface play, / And purchase fleeting Honours of a Day; / Your Empire's lasting, for the Mind's your Throne, / And ev'ry Hour you gain upon Renown."
Metaphor in Context
Let others on the Senses Surface play,
And purchase fleeting Honours of a Day;
Your Empire's lasting, for the Mind's your Throne,
And ev'ry Hour you gain upon Renown;
A greater Wonder, than you sing, you prove
A Dame of Wit exceeds a Man in Love.
So when of late th'Immortal Granville strove
To shew no Magick like Inchanting Love,
He broke the Power himself design'd to raise,
And prov'd a stronger Magick in his Lays.
(Iv, p. 455, ll. 15-24)
And purchase fleeting Honours of a Day;
Your Empire's lasting, for the Mind's your Throne,
And ev'ry Hour you gain upon Renown;
A greater Wonder, than you sing, you prove
A Dame of Wit exceeds a Man in Love.
So when of late th'Immortal Granville strove
To shew no Magick like Inchanting Love,
He broke the Power himself design'd to raise,
And prov'd a stronger Magick in his Lays.
(Iv, p. 455, ll. 15-24)
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Reading
Citation
At least 2 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1707, 1716)
Text from Poems on Affairs of State, from 1620. to this Present Year 1707. 4 vols. (London: 1707). <Link to ECCO><Link to Google Books>
Text from Poems on Affairs of State, from 1620. to this Present Year 1707. 4 vols. (London: 1707). <Link to ECCO><Link to Google Books>
Date of Entry
07/11/2013
