"Let's join our Hearts then, and seal them with a Kiss"

— Bellamy, Daniel, the Elder (b. 1687)


Place of Publication
London
Publisher
E. Say
Date
1723, 1739-40
Metaphor
"Let's join our Hearts then, and seal them with a Kiss"
Metaphor in Context
HIL.

[Aside.]

Ah, pretty Turtle! how supple it 'is! like Wax before the Sun! Now must I kiss her, there's the Misfortune on't.--

[To her.]

Let's join our Hearts then, and seal them with a Kiss.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "seal" and "heart" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
Text from Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, Consisting of Dramatick Pieces, Poems, Humorous Tales, Fables, &c., 2 vols. (London: Printed for J. Hodges, 1739-40). <Link to ECCO>

See also The Rival Nymphs: Or, The Merry Swain. A Pastoral Comedy. As it was Perform'd By the Young Ladies of Mrs. Bellamy's School, as One of their Annual Publick Exercises, collected in The Young Ladies Miscellany (London: Printed by E. Say for the Author, 1723). <Link to ECCO>
Date of Entry
04/24/2005

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