Love is a "strange unruly Something in the Soul" that "like a Fire once kindled in a Mine, / Can ne'er be thoroughly quench'd"
— Miller, James (1704-1744)
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Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
J. Watts
Date
1730
Metaphor
Love is a "strange unruly Something in the Soul" that "like a Fire once kindled in a Mine, / Can ne'er be thoroughly quench'd"
Metaphor in Context
TRUMORE
with a Letter in his Hand.
What is this Love?
This strange unruly Something in the Soul,
That baffles all our bravest Resolutions;
And, like a Fire once kindled in a Mine,
Can ne'er be throughly quench'd?--
An Hour ago I thought my Heart as cool,
As any rambling Libertine could wish.
But now this Letter (which shows how near I'm losing Her I lov'd, to a designing mercenary Villain) has rais'd the dying Embers to a Flame.--What can I do? It would be but Justice to let her suffer for her Follies--Vain, inconsiderate Woman! to expose and abuse me, in return to my generous disinterested Passion--and to doat on that empty Fop, that Shell of a Man--
(III.i)
with a Letter in his Hand.
What is this Love?
This strange unruly Something in the Soul,
That baffles all our bravest Resolutions;
And, like a Fire once kindled in a Mine,
Can ne'er be throughly quench'd?--
An Hour ago I thought my Heart as cool,
As any rambling Libertine could wish.
But now this Letter (which shows how near I'm losing Her I lov'd, to a designing mercenary Villain) has rais'd the dying Embers to a Flame.--What can I do? It would be but Justice to let her suffer for her Follies--Vain, inconsiderate Woman! to expose and abuse me, in return to my generous disinterested Passion--and to doat on that empty Fop, that Shell of a Man--
(III.i)
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Provenance
Researching Soliloquy in HDIS
Citation
First performed on January 9, 1730. 4 entries in ESTC (1730).
The Humours of Oxford. A Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal, By His Majesty's Servants. By a Gentleman of Wadham-College (London: J. Watts, 1730).
The Humours of Oxford. A Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal, By His Majesty's Servants. By a Gentleman of Wadham-College (London: J. Watts, 1730).
Date of Entry
03/05/2004
