"[I]ndeed, in her more serious moments, which are but few, she, perhaps, gives me an hearing, when all at once a crowd of gayer thoughts rush on, and kill at once the hopes wherewith I was elated a few minutes before"
— O'Keeffe, John (1747-1833)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for T. Lowndes and J. Williams [etc.]
Date
1767
Metaphor
"[I]ndeed, in her more serious moments, which are but few, she, perhaps, gives me an hearing, when all at once a crowd of gayer thoughts rush on, and kill at once the hopes wherewith I was elated a few minutes before"
Metaphor in Context
Y. WOOD.
Ah, Delamour, I am no object to be envied, and far from having an assurance of Florimel's affections; happy, then, indeed should I be; but she is still the same gay, unthinking, lovely, witty rogue; if in the most unfeign'd rapture I breathe my love, the return is a loud laugh, an opera tune, or a ridiculous simile, which, faith, sometimes makes me look very silly; indeed, in her more serious moments, which are but few, she, perhaps, gives me an hearing, when all at once a crowd of gayer thoughts rush on, and kill at once the hopes wherewith I was elated a few minutes before.
Ah, Delamour, I am no object to be envied, and far from having an assurance of Florimel's affections; happy, then, indeed should I be; but she is still the same gay, unthinking, lovely, witty rogue; if in the most unfeign'd rapture I breathe my love, the return is a loud laugh, an opera tune, or a ridiculous simile, which, faith, sometimes makes me look very silly; indeed, in her more serious moments, which are but few, she, perhaps, gives me an hearing, when all at once a crowd of gayer thoughts rush on, and kill at once the hopes wherewith I was elated a few minutes before.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "thought" and "crowd" in HDIS (Drama)
Date of Entry
03/13/2006
