"Ill founded precept too long has steel'd my breast--but still 'tis vulnerable-- this trial was too muc"
— Colman, George, the younger (1762-1836)
Work Title
Date
First performed August 4, 1787
Metaphor
"Ill founded precept too long has steel'd my breast--but still 'tis vulnerable-- this trial was too muc"
Metaphor in Context
INCLE.
Renounce entirely. Ill founded precept too long has steel'd my breast--but still 'tis vulnerable-- this trial was too muc. --Nature 'gainst Habit combating within me, has penetrated to my heart; a heart, I own, long callous to the feelings of sensibility; but now it bleeds, and bleeds for my poor Yarico, Oh, let me clasp her to it while 'tis glowing, and mingle tears of love and penitence.
[Embracing her.]
Renounce entirely. Ill founded precept too long has steel'd my breast--but still 'tis vulnerable-- this trial was too muc. --Nature 'gainst Habit combating within me, has penetrated to my heart; a heart, I own, long callous to the feelings of sensibility; but now it bleeds, and bleeds for my poor Yarico, Oh, let me clasp her to it while 'tis glowing, and mingle tears of love and penitence.
[Embracing her.]
Categories
Provenance
Searching "breast" and "steel" in HDIS (Drama)
Citation
15 entries in the ESTC (1787, 1788, 1789, 1792, 1794, 1795, 1796).
Inkle and Yarico: An Opera, in Three Acts. As Performed at the Theatre-Royal in the Hay-Market, on Saturday, August, 11th, 1787. Written by George Colman, Junior (Dublin: [s.n.], 1787). <Link to ESTC>
Inkle and Yarico: An Opera, in Three Acts. As Performed at the Theatre-Royal in the Hay-Market, on Saturday, August, 11th, 1787. Written by George Colman, Junior (Dublin: [s.n.], 1787). <Link to ESTC>
Date of Entry
06/13/2005
