"When Friendship engraves the Image of Love, 'tis true, she proceeds by slow Degrees, But forms each Feature with the deepest Art, / And carves a lasting Image on the Heart."
— Odingsells, Gabriel (1690-1734)
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed and sold by J. Walthoe
Date
1725
Metaphor
"When Friendship engraves the Image of Love, 'tis true, she proceeds by slow Degrees, But forms each Feature with the deepest Art, / And carves a lasting Image on the Heart."
Metaphor in Context
HONORIA.
Dear Honoria! how emphatically had Love address'd that to my Sister. Blind Liberia, I pity thee!--Tho' shou'd Reflection correct thy wandering Fanc. -- Wretched Honoria!--Passion is yet my Foe, tho' Friendship has already won his Soul: Esteem may in time correct his Passions too, and turn him from a vain Pursuit. When Friendship engraves the Image of Love, 'tis true, she proceeds by slow Degrees,
But forms each Feature with the deepest Art,
And carves a lasting Image on the Heart.
Dear Honoria! how emphatically had Love address'd that to my Sister. Blind Liberia, I pity thee!--Tho' shou'd Reflection correct thy wandering Fanc. -- Wretched Honoria!--Passion is yet my Foe, tho' Friendship has already won his Soul: Esteem may in time correct his Passions too, and turn him from a vain Pursuit. When Friendship engraves the Image of Love, 'tis true, she proceeds by slow Degrees,
But forms each Feature with the deepest Art,
And carves a lasting Image on the Heart.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "engrav" and "passion" in HDIS (Drama)
Citation
At least 2 entries in ESTC (1725).
The Bath Unmask'd. A Comedy. Acted at the Theatre Royal in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields. Written by Mr. Odingsells. (London: Printed and sold by J. Walthoe, over against the Royal Exchange, in Cornhill, and at the Theatre Royal in Lincoln’s-Inn-Fields, 1725). <Link to ESTC>
The Bath Unmask'd. A Comedy. Acted at the Theatre Royal in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields. Written by Mr. Odingsells. (London: Printed and sold by J. Walthoe, over against the Royal Exchange, in Cornhill, and at the Theatre Royal in Lincoln’s-Inn-Fields, 1725). <Link to ESTC>
Date of Entry
03/09/2005
Date of Review
11/24/2011
