"Her charms my raptur'd eyes detain'd, / Her virtues conquer'd all my soul"
— Blacklock, Thomas (1721-1791)
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for T. Davies
Date
1774
Metaphor
"Her charms my raptur'd eyes detain'd, / Her virtues conquer'd all my soul"
Metaphor in Context
Whilst thus in Scotland I remain'd
A wretched captive on parole,
Her charms my raptur'd eyes detain'd,
Her virtues conquer'd all my soul:
Oh! what is liberty regain'd,
When endless chains the mind controul?
Fulfil, just heav'n, thy fixt decree,
And strike me dead, or set me free!
A wretched captive on parole,
Her charms my raptur'd eyes detain'd,
Her virtues conquer'd all my soul:
Oh! what is liberty regain'd,
When endless chains the mind controul?
Fulfil, just heav'n, thy fixt decree,
And strike me dead, or set me free!
Categories
Provenance
Searching "conque" and "soul" in 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
02/14/2005
