"Oh, that every heart was like mine, a stranger to dissimulation!"

— Pilon, Frederick (1750-1788)


Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by J. Almon
Date
May 18, 1782, 1785
Metaphor
"Oh, that every heart was like mine, a stranger to dissimulation!"
Metaphor in Context
ANG.
Oh, that every heart was like mine, a stranger to dissimulation! Why is the countenance made a mask for the soul, when it should be a mirror, in which every eye might behold the true features of the mind, in the deformity of vice, or the loveliness of virtue!
(III.iii)
Provenance
Searching "heart" and "stranger" in HDIS (Drama)
Citation
3 entries in ESTC (1782, 1785).

The Fair American: a Comic Opera, in Three Acts; as it is Performed, with Universal Applause, at the Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lane. Written by F. Pilon. Dedicated to the Right Hon. Lord Camden (London: Printed by J. Almon, 1785). <Link to ECCO-TCP>
Date of Entry
03/06/2006

The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.