"[H]e took the road to the garison, in the most elevated transports of joy, unallayed with the least mixture of grief at the death of a parent whose paternal tenderness he had never known; so that his breast was absolutely a stranger to that boasted Storgh, or instinct of affection, by which the charities are supposed to subsist"
— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for the author [etc.]
Date
1751
Metaphor
"[H]e took the road to the garison, in the most elevated transports of joy, unallayed with the least mixture of grief at the death of a parent whose paternal tenderness he had never known; so that his breast was absolutely a stranger to that boasted Storgh, or instinct of affection, by which the charities are supposed to subsist"
Metaphor in Context
All these previous steps being taken in less than an hour, our hero took his leave of the Fleet, after he had left twenty guineas with the warden [Page 291] for the relief of the poor prisoners, a great number of whom conveyed him to the gate, pouring forth prayers for his long life and prosperity; and he took the road to the garison, in the most elevated transports of joy, unallayed with the least mixture of grief at the death of a parent whose paternal tenderness he had never known; so that his breast was absolutely a stranger to that boasted Storgh, or instinct of affection, by which the charities are supposed to subsist.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "breast" and "stranger" in HDIS (Prose)
Theme
Innatism
Date of Entry
03/06/2006
