"[M]ight I not hope my love, my truth, my perseverance, would in time find some room in a corner of that heart which doubtless then would have exterminated its first ideas.'"
— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
T. Gardner
Date
1753
Metaphor
"[M]ight I not hope my love, my truth, my perseverance, would in time find some room in a corner of that heart which doubtless then would have exterminated its first ideas.'"
Metaphor in Context
'Well madam, said he, after a little pause, I will not presume to call in question the merits of the man whom you are pleased to favour, I will believe him as deserving as I am sure he is happy; yet if any accident, yet unforeseen, should happen to disunite you, if any thing, impossible as it may seem, should render him ungrateful for the blessing he enjoys, might I not hope my love, my truth, my perseverance, would in time find some room in a corner of that heart which doubtless then would have exterminated its first ideas.'
Categories
Provenance
Searching "room" and "heart" 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
09/02/2005
