One may carry with him "all the flimsy furniture of a country Miss's brain"
— Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816)
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
John Wilkie
Date
1775
Metaphor
One may carry with him "all the flimsy furniture of a country Miss's brain"
Metaphor in Context
ABSOLUTE
By Heavens! I shall forswear your company. You are the most teasing, captious, incorrigible lover!--Do love like a man.
FAULKLAND
I own I am unfit for company.
ABSOLUTE
Am not I a lover; aye, and a romantic one too? Yet do I carry every where with me such a confounded farago of doubts, fears, hopes, wishes, and all the flimsy furniture of a country Miss's brain!
FAULKLAND
Ah! Jack, your heart and soul are not, like mine, fixed immutably on one only object.-- You throw for a large stake, but losing--you could stake, and throw again:--but I have set my sum of happiness on this cast, and not to succeed, were to be stript of all.
ABSOLUTE
But for Heaven's sake! what grounds for apprehension can your whimsical brain conjure up at present? Has Julia miss'd writing this last post? or was her last too tender, or too cool; or too grave, or too gay; or--
(Act II, Scene i)
By Heavens! I shall forswear your company. You are the most teasing, captious, incorrigible lover!--Do love like a man.
FAULKLAND
I own I am unfit for company.
ABSOLUTE
Am not I a lover; aye, and a romantic one too? Yet do I carry every where with me such a confounded farago of doubts, fears, hopes, wishes, and all the flimsy furniture of a country Miss's brain!
FAULKLAND
Ah! Jack, your heart and soul are not, like mine, fixed immutably on one only object.-- You throw for a large stake, but losing--you could stake, and throw again:--but I have set my sum of happiness on this cast, and not to succeed, were to be stript of all.
ABSOLUTE
But for Heaven's sake! what grounds for apprehension can your whimsical brain conjure up at present? Has Julia miss'd writing this last post? or was her last too tender, or too cool; or too grave, or too gay; or--
(Act II, Scene i)
Categories
Provenance
Reading, text from HDIS (Drama); found again searching "brain" and "furniture"
Citation
First performed January 17th, 1775. 14 entries in ESTC (1775, 1776, 1785, 1788, 1791, 1793, 1797, 1798).
Sheridan, R. B. The Rivals, a Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden (London: John Wilkie, 1775). <Link to ECCO-TCP>
Sheridan, R. B. The Rivals, a Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden (London: John Wilkie, 1775). <Link to ECCO-TCP>
Date of Entry
11/02/2003
