"His looks, and the tone of voice with which he spoke this, made my blood run cold, and my heart die within me."
— Sheridan [née Chamberlaine], Frances (1724-1766)
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for R. and J. Dodsley
Date
1761
Metaphor
"His looks, and the tone of voice with which he spoke this, made my blood run cold, and my heart die within me."
Metaphor in Context
That wife, said he, that woman whom you persuaded me to marry, I caught in adultery, and I punished the villain that wronged me with death. She shared in his fate, though without my intending it. For this act of justice, which the law will deem murder, I myself must die, and I am come but to take a last look. --What recompence then can you make the man, whom you have brought to misery, shame, and death?
His looks, and the tone of voice with which he spoke this, made my blood run cold, and my heart die within me.
His looks, and the tone of voice with which he spoke this, made my blood run cold, and my heart die within me.
Categories
Provenance
Searching in HDIS (Prose)
Citation
9 entries in ESTC (1761, 1767, 1772, 1782, 1786, 1796).
Text from Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph, Extracted from Her Own Journal, And now First Published. In Three Volumes. (London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1761). <Link to ESTC>
Text from Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph, Extracted from Her Own Journal, And now First Published. In Three Volumes. (London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1761). <Link to ESTC>
Date of Entry
03/02/2005
Date of Review
07/27/2011
