"For who can hear the Lad complain, / And not participate and feel / His artless undissembled Pain, / Unless he has a Heart of Steel."
— Ramsay, Allan (1684-1758)
Author
Place of Publication
Edinburgh
Publisher
Thomas Ruddiman
Date
1721
Metaphor
"For who can hear the Lad complain, / And not participate and feel / His artless undissembled Pain, / Unless he has a Heart of Steel."
Metaphor in Context
For who can hear the Lad complain,
And not participate and feel
His artless undissembled Pain,
Unless he has a Heart of Steel.
And not participate and feel
His artless undissembled Pain,
Unless he has a Heart of Steel.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "heart" and "Steel" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
At least 14 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1721, 1723, 1724, 1727, 1731, 1733, 1751, 1760, 1761, 1776, 1780, 1793, 1797, 1800).
Text from Allan Ramsay, The Works of Allan Ramsay, eds. Burns and Martin, 6 vols. (Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1944-1973).
See also Poems by Allan Ramsay (Edinburgh: Thomas Ruddiman, 1721). <Link to ECCO>
Text from Allan Ramsay, The Works of Allan Ramsay, eds. Burns and Martin, 6 vols. (Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1944-1973).
See also Poems by Allan Ramsay (Edinburgh: Thomas Ruddiman, 1721). <Link to ECCO>
Date of Entry
06/10/2005
