"Oh, I begin to take you--your days--the rusticated remains of a ruined Temple Critic--a smatterer of high life from the scenes of Cibber, which remain upon his imagination, as they do upon the stage, forty years after the real characters are lost"
— Burgoyne, John (1722-1792)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for T. Evans
Date
1781
Metaphor
"Oh, I begin to take you--your days--the rusticated remains of a ruined Temple Critic--a smatterer of high life from the scenes of Cibber, which remain upon his imagination, as they do upon the stage, forty years after the real characters are lost"
Metaphor in Context
CONTRAST.
Oh, I begin to take you--your days--the rusticated remains of a ruined Temple Critic--a smatterer of high life from the scenes of Cibber, which remain upon his imagination, as they do upon the stage, forty years after the real characters are lost--Thy ideas of a gentleman are as obsolete, old speculator, as the flaxen wig, and "stap my vitals."
Oh, I begin to take you--your days--the rusticated remains of a ruined Temple Critic--a smatterer of high life from the scenes of Cibber, which remain upon his imagination, as they do upon the stage, forty years after the real characters are lost--Thy ideas of a gentleman are as obsolete, old speculator, as the flaxen wig, and "stap my vitals."
Categories
Provenance
Searching "imagination" and "stage" in HDIS (Drama)
Date of Entry
04/15/2006
