"But left th'Impression deep upon my Mind / Of DUNCOMB honour'd, and AUGUSTA kind."

— Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709)


Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for A. Baldwin
Date
1700, 1703, 1709
Metaphor
"But left th'Impression deep upon my Mind / Of DUNCOMB honour'd, and AUGUSTA kind."
Metaphor in Context
I here had answer'd but the Dame withdrew;
And with Her Sleep retir'd, and left me too:
But left th'Impression deep upon my Mind
Of DUNCOMB honour'd, and AUGUSTA kind.

Ah Heav'n! I cry'd, let him but Prospe'rous be,
And 'tis no matter what becomes of me.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "mind" and "impression" in HDIS (Poetry); found again in C-H Lion's Poems on Affairs of State
Citation
See The Dream. To Sr. Charles Duncomb. By R. Gold, a Schoolmaster in a Village of North-Wiltshire. (London: Printed for A. Baldwin, 1700). <Link to EEBO>

Published anonymously as "The Dream, to Sir Charles Duncomb" in Poems on Affairs of State, from the Reign of K. James the First, to this Present Year 1703, 2 vols. (London: 1703). <Link to ECCO>

Text from "The Dream. To Sire Charles Duncomb from the Country," from The Works of Mr. Robert Gould: In Two Volumes. Consisting of those Poems and Satyrs Which were formerly Printed, and Corrected since by the Author; As also of the many more which He Design'd for the Press. Publish'd from his Own Original Copies (London: W. Lewis, 1709). <Link to ECCO>
Date of Entry
05/12/2005

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