There are sovereign Lords "Whom Lust controuls, and wild Desires direct; / The Reigns of Empire but such Hands disgrace, / Where Passion, a blind Driver, guides the Race."
— Granville, George, Baron Lansdowne (1666-1735)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for J. Tonson
Date
1712, 1736
Metaphor
There are sovereign Lords "Whom Lust controuls, and wild Desires direct; / The Reigns of Empire but such Hands disgrace, / Where Passion, a blind Driver, guides the Race."
Metaphor in Context
Ye sovereign Lords, who sit like Gods in State,
Awing the World, and bustling to be great;
Lords but in Title, Vassals in Effect,
Whom Lust controuls, and wild Desires direct;
The Reigns of Empire but such Hands disgrace,
Where Passion, a blind Driver, guides the Race.
Awing the World, and bustling to be great;
Lords but in Title, Vassals in Effect,
Whom Lust controuls, and wild Desires direct;
The Reigns of Empire but such Hands disgrace,
Where Passion, a blind Driver, guides the Race.
Provenance
HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
In EEBO, ECCO (1693, 1706, 1712, 1716, 1716 1721, 1726, 1727, 1732, 1732, 1736, 1779, 1790, 1795). Collected in Tonson's Miscellany and The Works of the English Poets.
See Examen Poeticum Being the Third Part of Miscellany Poems Containing Variety of New Translations of the Ancient Poets, Together With Many Original Copies by the Most Eminent Hands. (London: J. Tonson, 1693, 1706). <Link to EEBO>
Text from The Genuine Works in Verse and Prose, Of the Right Honourable George Granville, Lord Lansdowne (London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson, L. Gilliver, J. Clarke, 1736).
See also Poems Upon Several Occasions (London: Printed for J. Tonson, 1712), 103-4. <Link to ECCO> and Poems Upon Several Occasions, 3rd edition (London: J. Tonson, 1721), 72. <Link to Google Books>
See Examen Poeticum Being the Third Part of Miscellany Poems Containing Variety of New Translations of the Ancient Poets, Together With Many Original Copies by the Most Eminent Hands. (London: J. Tonson, 1693, 1706). <Link to EEBO>
Text from The Genuine Works in Verse and Prose, Of the Right Honourable George Granville, Lord Lansdowne (London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson, L. Gilliver, J. Clarke, 1736).
See also Poems Upon Several Occasions (London: Printed for J. Tonson, 1712), 103-4. <Link to ECCO> and Poems Upon Several Occasions, 3rd edition (London: J. Tonson, 1721), 72. <Link to Google Books>
Date of Entry
08/23/2004
