Displays may be "Pregnant, beyond the nicest human search, / Where thought can pierce, or telescope can see"

— Stevenson, William (1730-1783)


Place of Publication
Edinburgh
Publisher
Printed by A. Donaldson and J. Reid
Date
1765
Metaphor
Displays may be "Pregnant, beyond the nicest human search, / Where thought can pierce, or telescope can see"
Metaphor in Context
"This ample, superb, this resplendent arch,
"How pregnant with august displays of Thee!
"Pregnant, beyond the nicest human search,
"Where thought can pierce, or telescope can see."
Categories
Provenance
Searching "thought" and "telescope" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
At least 2 entries in ESTC (1765).

Original Poems on Several Subjects. In Two Volumes. By William Stevenson (Edinburgh: Printed by A. Donaldson and J. Reid. Sold by Alexander Donaldson, in London and Edinburgh, 1765). <Link to ESTC>
Theme
Materialism
Date of Entry
11/14/2005

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