"[E]nvy had ever been a stranger to her breast, yet since her own marriage, and that of mr. Trueworth with his lady, she had sometimes been tempted to accuse heaven of partiality, in making so wide a difference in their Fates"
— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by T. Gardner
Date
1751
Metaphor
"[E]nvy had ever been a stranger to her breast, yet since her own marriage, and that of mr. Trueworth with his lady, she had sometimes been tempted to accuse heaven of partiality, in making so wide a difference in their Fates"
Metaphor in Context
She thought it great pity, that so virtuous, so beautiful, and so accomplish'd a young lady, as she had been told mrs. Trueworth was, should thus early be snatch'd away from all the joys of love and life, but could not lament so melancholly an incident, in a manner she was sensible it deserved:--envy had ever been a stranger to her breast, yet since her own marriage, and that of mr. Trueworth with his lady, she had sometimes been tempted to accuse heaven of partiality, in making so wide a difference in their Fates:--and though the blame of her misfortunes lay wholly on herself, had been apt to imagine, that she had only been impelled by an unavoidable impulse, to act as she had done, and was fated by an invincible necessity, to be the enemy of her own happiness.
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Provenance
Searching "breast" and "stranger" in HDIS (Prose)
Citation
9 entries in the ESTC (1751, 1752, 1762, 1765, 1768, 1772, 1783).
See Eliza Haywood, The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless, In Four Volumes (London: Printed by T. Gardner, 1751). <Link to ESTC><Link to ECCO>
Reading The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless, ed. Christine Blouch (Peterborough: Broadview, 1998).
See Eliza Haywood, The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless, In Four Volumes (London: Printed by T. Gardner, 1751). <Link to ESTC><Link to ECCO>
Reading The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless, ed. Christine Blouch (Peterborough: Broadview, 1998).
Date of Entry
03/06/2006
