"Had I spirits left to tell you of his actions, how strongly filial duty has suppressed his love, and how concealment still has doubled all his obligations, the pride, the joy of his alliance, sir, would warm you heart as he has conquered mine."

— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)

Author

Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)

Work Title

The Conscious Lovers

Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for J. Tonson
Date
1722
Metaphor
"Had I spirits left to tell you of his actions, how strongly filial duty has suppressed his love, and how concealment still has doubled all his obligations, the pride, the joy of his alliance, sir, would warm you heart as he has conquered mine."
Metaphor in Context
INDIANA
Oh! Had I spirits left to tell you of his actions, how strongly filial duty has suppressed his love, and how concealment still has doubled all his obligations, the pride, the joy of his alliance, sir, would warm you heart as he has conquered mine.

MR. SEALAND
How laudable is love when born of virtue! I burn to embrace him--
(V.iii, p. 273)
Categories
War::Conquering
Provenance
Reading
Citation
First performed November, 1722. At least 87 entries in ESTC (1722, 1723, 1724, 1725, 1729, 1730, 1732, 1733, 1735, 1736, 1740, 1741, 1743, 1744, 1746, 1747, 1751, 1755, 1757, 1759, 1760, 1761, 1764, 1767, 1768, 1770, 1771, 1774, 1776, 1777, 1778, 1780, 1782, 1785, 1789, 1791, 1793, 1794).

Text from The Conscious Lovers. A Comedy. As It Is Acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane, by His Majesty's Servants. Written by Richard Steele (London: Printed for J. Tonson, 1723).

Reading in Scott McMillin's Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Comedy. Norton Critical Edition. (New York: Norton, 1973).
Date of Entry
07/22/2003

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