"[T]he Sight of me will cause so many tumultuous Motions in the Soul of his Patient"
— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for A. Millar
Date
1752
Metaphor
"[T]he Sight of me will cause so many tumultuous Motions in the Soul of his Patient"
Metaphor in Context
I know, said she, that he apprehends, the Sight of me will cause so many tumultuous Motions in the Soul of his Patient, as may prove prejudicial to him: Nevertheless, since his Disorder is, questionless, more in his Mind than Body, I may prove, haply, a better Physician than he; since I am more likely, than he, to cure and Illness i have caused--
(Bk. III, Chapter viii, p. 133)
(Bk. III, Chapter viii, p. 133)
Categories
Provenance
Reading
Citation
The Female Quixote; or, the Adventures of Arabella. In Two Volumes. (London: Printed for A. Millar, over-against Catharine-Street in the Strand, 1752). <Link to ESTC>
Reading The Female Quixote. World's Classics. Ed. Margaret Dalziel. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
Reading The Female Quixote. World's Classics. Ed. Margaret Dalziel. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
Date of Entry
09/14/2009
