"Whate'er we see, whate'er we feel, / Does all the God reveal, / Confirms the Grand Mistake / Of Those, whose Eagle-Thoughts would make / His Seat so wondrous high, / Beyond the Limits of the Sky, /Out beyond the World's wide Sphear, /And fix his Habitation there."

— Woodward, George (b. 1708?)


Place of Publication
Oxford
Publisher
Printed at the Clarendon Printing-House
Date
1730
Metaphor
"Whate'er we see, whate'er we feel, / Does all the God reveal, / Confirms the Grand Mistake / Of Those, whose Eagle-Thoughts would make / His Seat so wondrous high, / Beyond the Limits of the Sky, /Out beyond the World's wide Sphear, /And fix his Habitation there."
Metaphor in Context
V.
Whate'er we see, whate'er we feel,
Does all the God reveal,
Confirms the Grand Mistake
Of Those, whose Eagle-Thoughts would make
His Seat so wondrous high,
Beyond the Limits of the Sky,
Out beyond the World's wide Sphear,
And fix his Habitation there.
Provenance
Searching in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
Only 1 entry in ESTC (1730).

Poems on Several Occasions. By Mr. George Woodward. (Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Printing-House, 1730). <Link to ESTC>
Date of Entry
03/25/2013

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