"My dear Louisa, your watch and your passions keep pace; it wants some minutes of seven; but I cou'd wish from my heart, that almost any accident might prevent this meeting"
— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for J. Almon ... T. Lowndes ... S. Bladon [etc.]
Date
1766
Metaphor
"My dear Louisa, your watch and your passions keep pace; it wants some minutes of seven; but I cou'd wish from my heart, that almost any accident might prevent this meeting"
Metaphor in Context
LADY LOUISA
I begin to have a thousand fears, sister, perhaps his servant has lost my letter; perhaps some accident has happen'd to Mr. Freeman, or he certainly wou'd not out-stay his time.
LADY MARY
My dear Louisa, your watch and your passions keep pace; it wants some minutes of seven; but I cou'd wish from my heart, that almost any accident might prevent this meeting. I find myself sinking in my own esteem, for being in the secret. I wish you had not told me.
LADY LOUSIA
How can you be so ill-natur'd! Don't you know it was impossible to keep it from you?
I begin to have a thousand fears, sister, perhaps his servant has lost my letter; perhaps some accident has happen'd to Mr. Freeman, or he certainly wou'd not out-stay his time.
LADY MARY
My dear Louisa, your watch and your passions keep pace; it wants some minutes of seven; but I cou'd wish from my heart, that almost any accident might prevent this meeting. I find myself sinking in my own esteem, for being in the secret. I wish you had not told me.
LADY LOUSIA
How can you be so ill-natur'd! Don't you know it was impossible to keep it from you?
Categories
Provenance
Searching "watch" and "passions" in HDIS (Drama)
Date of Entry
11/16/2006
