"Their hearts of comfort felt no ray."
— Blacklock, Thomas (1721-1791)
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for T. Davies
Date
1774
Metaphor
"Their hearts of comfort felt no ray."
Metaphor in Context
Not so the hosts on yonder plain:
Their hearts of comfort felt no ray;
For conquest each had toil'd in vain,
Nor hop'd the dear decisive day:
Sadden'd with labour, want, and pain,
Th'interminable prospect lay;
But chief in ev'ry English soul
Sedition rag'd without controul.
Their hearts of comfort felt no ray;
For conquest each had toil'd in vain,
Nor hop'd the dear decisive day:
Sadden'd with labour, want, and pain,
Th'interminable prospect lay;
But chief in ev'ry English soul
Sedition rag'd without controul.
Categories
Provenance
Searching HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
At least 2 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1774, 1784).
See The Graham; an Heroic Ballad: in Four Cantos. By Thomas Blacklock, D.D. (London: Printed for T. Davies, 1774). <Link to ESTC>
See also Old Ballads, Historical and Narrative, With Some of Modern Date; Now First Collected, and Reprinted from Rare Copies and Mss. With Notes. By Thomas Evans. ([London]: Printed for T. Evans, in the Strand, 1784), vol. 3 of 4. <Link to ECCO>
See The Graham; an Heroic Ballad: in Four Cantos. By Thomas Blacklock, D.D. (London: Printed for T. Davies, 1774). <Link to ESTC>
See also Old Ballads, Historical and Narrative, With Some of Modern Date; Now First Collected, and Reprinted from Rare Copies and Mss. With Notes. By Thomas Evans. ([London]: Printed for T. Evans, in the Strand, 1784), vol. 3 of 4. <Link to ECCO>
Date of Entry
02/09/2005
