"When future years in fancy's mirror rose, / What pleasure 'twas to lead thy opening mind, / Where virtue blossoms, and religion blows!"
— Thomson, James (fl. 1793) [Rev.]
Date
1793, 1794
Metaphor
"When future years in fancy's mirror rose, / What pleasure 'twas to lead thy opening mind, / Where virtue blossoms, and religion blows!"
Metaphor in Context
XVI
Fled, all are fled! Mortality how blind!
When future years in fancy's mirror rose,
What pleasure 'twas to lead thy opening mind,
Where virtue blossoms, and religion blows!
(p. 66)
Fled, all are fled! Mortality how blind!
When future years in fancy's mirror rose,
What pleasure 'twas to lead thy opening mind,
Where virtue blossoms, and religion blows!
(p. 66)
Categories
Provenance
Searching "fancy's mirror" in ECCO
Citation
2 entries in ESTC (1793, 1794).
Major Piper; or the Adventures of a Musical Drone. A Novel. In Five Volumes. by the Rev. J. Thomson. (London: Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1793).
Text from Major Piper; or the Adventures of a Musical Drone. A Novel. In Two Volumes. By the Rev. J. Thomson. (Dublin: Printed for Messrs. P. Wogan, P. Byrne, and W. Jones, 1794). <Link to ESTC>
Major Piper; or the Adventures of a Musical Drone. A Novel. In Five Volumes. by the Rev. J. Thomson. (London: Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1793).
Text from Major Piper; or the Adventures of a Musical Drone. A Novel. In Two Volumes. By the Rev. J. Thomson. (Dublin: Printed for Messrs. P. Wogan, P. Byrne, and W. Jones, 1794). <Link to ESTC>
Date of Entry
07/29/2014
