Many "kind Words" and "many kind Looks" may make an entire Conquest of the Heart
— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
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Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for A. Millar
Date
1752
Metaphor
Many "kind Words" and "many kind Looks" may make an entire Conquest of the Heart
Metaphor in Context
The Colonel was, at present, unhappily tormented by both these Fiends. His last Evening's Conversation with Amelia had done his Business effectually. The many kind Words she had spoken to him, the many kind Looks she had given him, as being, she conceived, the Friend and Preserver of her Husband, had made an entire Conquest of his Heart. Thus, the very Love which she bore him, as the Person to whom her little Family were to owe their Preservation and Happiness, inspired him with Thoughts of sinking them all in the lowest Abyss of Ruin and Misery; and while she smiled with all her Sweetness on the supposed Friend of her Husband, she was converting that Friend into his most bitter Enemy.
(III.iii.8)
(III.iii.8)
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Provenance
Searching "conque" and "heart" in HDIS (Prose)
Citation
13 entries in ESTC (1752, 1762, 1771, 1775, 1777, 1780, 1790, 1793).
See Amelia. By Henry Fielding, 4 vols. (London: A. Millar, 1752). <Link to ECCO>
Reading Henry Fielding, Amelia, ed. David Blewett (London: Penguin Books, 1987).
See Amelia. By Henry Fielding, 4 vols. (London: A. Millar, 1752). <Link to ECCO>
Reading Henry Fielding, Amelia, ed. David Blewett (London: Penguin Books, 1987).
Date of Entry
09/29/2004
