"Or can they ought that's mean, when God has set / A Jewel in their earthly Cabinet?"

— Wesley, Samuel, The Elder (bap. 1662, d. 1735)


Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for Benj. Cowse and John Hooke [etc.]
Date
1715
Metaphor
"Or can they ought that's mean, when God has set / A Jewel in their earthly Cabinet?"
Metaphor in Context
Can Dust-born Men be proud or vain, who know
From whence they come, and whither doom'd to go?
Or can they ought that's mean, when God has set
A
Jewel in their earthly Cabinet?
A Soul, of heavenly Seed, of Angel-kind,
And marry'd Matter with Immortal Mind?
Provenance
Searching "soul" and "cabinet" in HDIS (Poetry)
Date of Entry
09/07/2005

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