"The unbridled Athamand, his sister's son, / In firm alliance with a noble princess, / Whom Persia's court had destin'd to his love, / (His tyrant passions brooking no controul,) / Demanded Zobeide as despotic master."

— Cradock, Joseph (1742-1826)


Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for T. Cadell
Date
1762
Metaphor
"The unbridled Athamand, his sister's son, / In firm alliance with a noble princess, / Whom Persia's court had destin'd to his love, / (His tyrant passions brooking no controul,) / Demanded Zobeide as despotic master."
Metaphor in Context
SEYFEL.
Oppression's arts, unworthy of the brave
To be the Prince's slave, t' enslave his people,
To crouch, or cruelly exact obedience,
Dazzled a while—but now demand repentance.
The noble Cyrus, with a lavish hand,
Would heap on me full measure of rewards;
I ever was the partner of his counsels—
But Cyrus died—and I was soon forgotten.
Cambyses I abandon'd—impious man!
Unworthy successor of such a father!
Ecbatan, as yet the abode of Media's Prince,
At her new court conceal'd my hoary head,
Till Smerdis, governing the Median realm,
Smerdis, who sought the ruin of the virtuous,
Gave a decisive blow to all my hopes;
The unbridled Athamand, his sister's son,
In firm alliance with a noble princess,
Whom Persia's court had destin'd to his love,
(His tyrant passions brooking no controul,)
Demanded Zobeide as despotic master.

(pp. 7-8)
Categories
Provenance
ECCO-TCP
Citation
5 entries in ESTC (1762, 1771, 1772).

Based on based on Voltaire's Les Scythes. See Zobeide. A Tragedy: As It Is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden. (London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1762). <Link to ECCO-TCP>
Date of Entry
03/12/2014

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