"Oft let remembrance sooth his mind / With dreams of former days, / When in the lap of Peace reclined / He framed his infant lays; / When Fancy roved at large, nor Care / Nor cold Distrust alarm'd, / Nor Envy with malignant glare / His simple youth had harm'd."
— Beattie, James (1735-1803)
Author
Work Title
Date
1776
Metaphor
"Oft let remembrance sooth his mind / With dreams of former days, / When in the lap of Peace reclined / He framed his infant lays; / When Fancy roved at large, nor Care / Nor cold Distrust alarm'd, / Nor Envy with malignant glare / His simple youth had harm'd."
Metaphor in Context
Oft let remembrance sooth his mind
With dreams of former days,
When in the lap of Peace reclined
He framed his infant lays;
When Fancy roved at large, nor Care
Nor cold Distrust alarm'd,
Nor Envy with malignant glare
His simple youth had harm'd.
(p. 46, ll. 3-40)
With dreams of former days,
When in the lap of Peace reclined
He framed his infant lays;
When Fancy roved at large, nor Care
Nor cold Distrust alarm'd,
Nor Envy with malignant glare
His simple youth had harm'd.
(p. 46, ll. 3-40)
Categories
Provenance
C-H Lion (Poetry); confirmed in ECCO.
Citation
At least 13 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1776, 1779, 1782, 1791, 1795, 1797, 1799). Collected in A Collection of Poems, The Muse's Pocket Companion, Bell's Classical Arrangment of Fugitive Poetry, and Preceptive, Moral, and Sentimental Pieces.
Text from Poems on Several Occasions, by James Beattie, LL. D. Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Aberdeen. (Edinburgh: Printed for W. Creech, 1776). <Link to ESTC>
Variant line in 1760, 1761, et alia: "Blest days! when Fancy smil'd at Care."
Text from Poems on Several Occasions, by James Beattie, LL. D. Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Aberdeen. (Edinburgh: Printed for W. Creech, 1776). <Link to ESTC>
Variant line in 1760, 1761, et alia: "Blest days! when Fancy smil'd at Care."
Date of Entry
07/02/2013
