One may make a new conquest and gain "a heart all flaming and adoration"
— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
T. Gardner
Date
1753
Metaphor
One may make a new conquest and gain "a heart all flaming and adoration"
Metaphor in Context
On this they all cried to her not to keep them in supence;--'I will not, resumed she,--and hope you will not think me too vain a boaster, when I tell you at once that I have made a new conquest,--have gain'd a heart all flaming and adoration,--a lover who for my sake has done such things as I believe no man besides himself ever did or would do.'
Categories
Provenance
Searching "heart" and "conque" in HDIS (Prose)
Citation
5 entries in ESTC (1753, 1769, 1776, 1785).
Haywood, Eliza. The History of Jemmy and Jenny Jessamy. 3 vols. (London: Printed for T. Gardner, 1753).
Haywood, Eliza. The History of Jemmy and Jenny Jessamy. 3 vols. (London: Printed for T. Gardner, 1753).
Date of Entry
01/20/2005
