"The happiness of love, the felicities that flow from a suitable union, his heart shall be a stranger to"
— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Date
February 15, 1776
Metaphor
"The happiness of love, the felicities that flow from a suitable union, his heart shall be a stranger to"
Metaphor in Context
MR. D.
My Son shall be a great Man!--To such a vanity as this how many have been sacrificed!--He shall be great!--The happiness of love, the felicities that flow from a suitable union, his heart shall be a stranger to--but he shall convey my name, deck'd with titles, to posterity, though, to purchase these distinctions, he lives a wretc. --This is the silent language of the heart, which we hold up to ourselves as the voice of Reason and Prudence.
Enter Emily.
Miss Morley!--Why this pensive air?
My Son shall be a great Man!--To such a vanity as this how many have been sacrificed!--He shall be great!--The happiness of love, the felicities that flow from a suitable union, his heart shall be a stranger to--but he shall convey my name, deck'd with titles, to posterity, though, to purchase these distinctions, he lives a wretc. --This is the silent language of the heart, which we hold up to ourselves as the voice of Reason and Prudence.
Enter Emily.
Miss Morley!--Why this pensive air?
Categories
Provenance
Searching "heart" and "stranger" in HDIS (Drama)
Date of Entry
03/06/2006
