"How light my heart feels from / A villainous guest that sat like lead upon it!"
— Armstrong, John (1708/9-1779)
Place of Publication
London
Date
1770
Metaphor
"How light my heart feels from / A villainous guest that sat like lead upon it!"
Metaphor in Context
OLYMPIA.
Well, I'm cured
Of one great folly. How light my heart feels from
A villainous guest that sat like lead upon it!
My spirit mounts again. Believe me, cousin,
I'm glad of this man's baseness; I enjoy it:
There's luxury in it. I do not entertain
A wish so tame as that he had proved unalterable.
'Tis better as it is. It feeds my spite
Voluptuously to find him such a villain.
I wish he knew how heartily I scorn him!
How thoroughly I detest him!--He shall know it.
I'll make him feel it.--
Well, I'm cured
Of one great folly. How light my heart feels from
A villainous guest that sat like lead upon it!
My spirit mounts again. Believe me, cousin,
I'm glad of this man's baseness; I enjoy it:
There's luxury in it. I do not entertain
A wish so tame as that he had proved unalterable.
'Tis better as it is. It feeds my spite
Voluptuously to find him such a villain.
I wish he knew how heartily I scorn him!
How thoroughly I detest him!--He shall know it.
I'll make him feel it.--
Categories
Provenance
Searching "heart" and "guest" in HDIS (Poetry)
Date of Entry
03/13/2006
