"Virtue, Love, and Grief, so amply fill her Mind, there is no Room for any ruder Guest"
— Lillo, George (1691/3-1739)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for J. Watts
Date
November 10, 1730
Metaphor
"Virtue, Love, and Grief, so amply fill her Mind, there is no Room for any ruder Guest"
Metaphor in Context
WEL.
Still sighing!--Still in Tears!--In soft and gentle Murmurs still complaining! Yet she, innocent even in Thought of any Guilt, that might deserve a Punishment so severe, accuses not the Heavens, nor Me, nor Him, the cruel Author of her Woes. No Storm of Rage ruffles her lovely Face; no Thought of Vengeance swells her beating Breast; Virtue, Love, and Grief, so amply fill her Mind, there is no Room for any ruder Guest. Never did Passion in a Female Breast run with so deep, so strong, so smooth a Stream.
Still sighing!--Still in Tears!--In soft and gentle Murmurs still complaining! Yet she, innocent even in Thought of any Guilt, that might deserve a Punishment so severe, accuses not the Heavens, nor Me, nor Him, the cruel Author of her Woes. No Storm of Rage ruffles her lovely Face; no Thought of Vengeance swells her beating Breast; Virtue, Love, and Grief, so amply fill her Mind, there is no Room for any ruder Guest. Never did Passion in a Female Breast run with so deep, so strong, so smooth a Stream.
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Provenance
Searching in HDIS (Drama)
Citation
7 entries in the ESTC (1730, 1731, 1775).
See George Lillo, Silvia; or, the Country Burial. An Opera. As it is Performed at the Theatre Royal in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields (London: Printed for J. Watts, 1731). <Link to ECCO><Link to ECCO-TCP><Link to Google Books>
See George Lillo, Silvia; or, the Country Burial. An Opera. As it is Performed at the Theatre Royal in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields (London: Printed for J. Watts, 1731). <Link to ECCO><Link to ECCO-TCP><Link to Google Books>
Date of Entry
08/29/2005
