"Ev'n this my friend, its well known image here / Remains engraven by the hand of love: / My beating heart confirms it for the same."
— Williams, Anna (1708-1783)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for T. Davies
Date
1766
Metaphor
"Ev'n this my friend, its well known image here / Remains engraven by the hand of love: / My beating heart confirms it for the same."
Metaphor in Context
HENRIQUES.
Is this the land, Gernando, thou hast sought?
GERNANDO.
Ev'n this my friend, its well known image here
Remains engraven by the hand of love:
My beating heart confirms it for the same.
SYLVIA.
Might I but view their face.--
HENRIQUES.
Perchance, my friend,
We yet may be deceiv'd--
(pp. 157-8)
Is this the land, Gernando, thou hast sought?
GERNANDO.
Ev'n this my friend, its well known image here
Remains engraven by the hand of love:
My beating heart confirms it for the same.
SYLVIA.
Might I but view their face.--
HENRIQUES.
Perchance, my friend,
We yet may be deceiv'd--
(pp. 157-8)
Categories
Provenance
Searching "heart" and "engrav" in HDIS (Poetry); confirmed in ECCO
Citation
Only 1 entry in ESTC (1766).
See Miscellanies in Prose and Verse. By Anna Williams. (London: Printed for T. Davies, in Great Russel-Street, Covent-Garden, 1766). <Link to ESTC>
See Miscellanies in Prose and Verse. By Anna Williams. (London: Printed for T. Davies, in Great Russel-Street, Covent-Garden, 1766). <Link to ESTC>
Date of Entry
03/08/2005
