"Though the soul, like a hermit in his cell, sits quiet in the bosom, unruffled by any tempest of its own, it suffers from the rude blasts of others faults"
— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
T. Gardner
Date
1753
Metaphor
"Though the soul, like a hermit in his cell, sits quiet in the bosom, unruffled by any tempest of its own, it suffers from the rude blasts of others faults"
Metaphor in Context
Yet not even these can find an asylum from cares;--though the soul, like a hermit in his cell, sits quiet in the bosom, unruffled by any tempest of its own, it suffers from the rude blasts of others faults;--envy and detraction are sure to taint it with their envenom'd breath;--treachery, deceit and all kinds of injustice alarm it with the most dreadful apprehensions of impending danger, and shew the necessity of keeping a continual guard against their pernicious enterprises;--but above all, the ingratitude of friends is the most terrible to sustain;--that anguish which proceeds from the detected falshood of a person on whom we depend is almost insupportable; nor can reason or philosophy be always sufficient to defend us from it,--as I remember to have somewhere read,
Fate ne'er strikes deep but when unkindness joins.
(II.v, pp. 47-8)
Fate ne'er strikes deep but when unkindness joins.
(II.v, pp. 47-8)
Categories
Provenance
Searching "soul" and "cell' in HDIS (Prose); found again "bosom"
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
08/29/2005
