"Mine is a true English Heart; it is an equal Stranger to the Heat of the Equator and the Frost of the Pole."
— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for A. Millar
Date
1743
Metaphor
"Mine is a true English Heart; it is an equal Stranger to the Heat of the Equator and the Frost of the Pole."
Metaphor in Context
MIL.
No, Faith; not very tenderly--not without a great deal of Discretion--Here lies the Difference between us: You, Heartfort, have Discretion in every thing but Love--I have Discretion in nothing else.--Mine is a true English Heart; it is an equal Stranger to the Heat of the Equator and the Frost of the Pole. Love still nourishes it with a temperate Heat, as the Sun doth our Climate; and Beauties rise after Beauties in the one, just as Fruits do in the other.
No, Faith; not very tenderly--not without a great deal of Discretion--Here lies the Difference between us: You, Heartfort, have Discretion in every thing but Love--I have Discretion in nothing else.--Mine is a true English Heart; it is an equal Stranger to the Heat of the Equator and the Frost of the Pole. Love still nourishes it with a temperate Heat, as the Sun doth our Climate; and Beauties rise after Beauties in the one, just as Fruits do in the other.
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Provenance
Searching "heart" and "stranger" in HDIS (Drama)
Citation
2 entries in the ESTC (1743).
The Wedding-Day. A Comedy, as it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, by His Majesty's Servants. By Henry Fielding. (London: Printed for A. Millar, 1743). <Link to ECCO>
The Wedding-Day. A Comedy, as it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, by His Majesty's Servants. By Henry Fielding. (London: Printed for A. Millar, 1743). <Link to ECCO>
Date of Entry
03/06/2006
