"Love's an heroick Passion, which can find No room in any base degen'rate Mind: It kindles all the Soul with Honour's Fire, To make the Lover worthy his Desire."
— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for D. Browne jun. and S. Chapman
Date
1725
Metaphor
"Love's an heroick Passion, which can find No room in any base degen'rate Mind: It kindles all the Soul with Honour's Fire, To make the Lover worthy his Desire."
Metaphor in Context
Love's an heroick Passion, which can find No room in any base degen'rate Mind: It kindles all the Soul with Honour's Fire, To make the Lover worthy his Desire.
Dryden
Dryden
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Provenance
Searching in HDIS (Prose)
Citation
11 entries in ESTC (1724, 1725, 1760, 1791, 1794, 1795, 1796, 1797, 1798).
Text from second edition, The Surprise: Or, Constancy Rewarded. By Mrs. Eliza Haywood. (London: Printed for D. Browne jun. and S. Chapman, 1725). <Link to 1724 printing in ECCO>
Text from second edition, The Surprise: Or, Constancy Rewarded. By Mrs. Eliza Haywood. (London: Printed for D. Browne jun. and S. Chapman, 1725). <Link to 1724 printing in ECCO>
Date of Entry
09/06/2005
