"The nymph, whose passions nature had filled to the brim, could not hear such a rhapsody unmoved"
— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for T. Johnson
Date
1753
Metaphor
"The nymph, whose passions nature had filled to the brim, could not hear such a rhapsody unmoved"
Metaphor in Context
The nymph, whose passions nature had filled to the brim, could not hear such a rhapsody unmoved: being an utter stranger to addresses of this kind, she understood every word of it, in the literal acceptation; she believed implicitly in the truth of the encomiums he had bestowed, and thought it reasonable he should be rewarded for the justice he had done to her qualifications which had hitherto been almost altogether over-looked:
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Provenance
Searching in HDIS (Prose)
Citation
14 entries in ESTC (1753, 1760, 1771, 1772, 1780, 1782, 1784, 1786, 1789, 1792, 1795, 1796).
Smollett, Tobias. The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom. By the Author of Roderick Random. (London: printed for T. Johnson, 1753).
Smollett, Tobias. The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom. By the Author of Roderick Random. (London: printed for T. Johnson, 1753).
Date of Entry
03/06/2006
