"Tho' some hollow hearts may have much room to spare, / The Devil himself wou'd not chuse to dwell there."
— Stevens, George Alexander (1710?-1784)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for G. Kearsley
Date
1772, 1788
Metaphor
"Tho' some hollow hearts may have much room to spare, / The Devil himself wou'd not chuse to dwell there."
Metaphor in Context
The Devil is in you's a phrase daily us'd,
Yet oft, by such language the Devil's abus'd.
Tho' some hollow hearts may have much room to spare,
The Devil himself wou'd not chuse to dwell there.
(p. 234 in 1773 ed.)
Yet oft, by such language the Devil's abus'd.
Tho' some hollow hearts may have much room to spare,
The Devil himself wou'd not chuse to dwell there.
(p. 234 in 1773 ed.)
Categories
Provenance
Searching in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
6 entries in ESTC (1772, 1778, 1782, 1788, 1796).
Text from Songs, comic and satyrical. By George Alexander Stevens, new ed., corrected (London: Printed for G. Kearsley, 1788)
Text from Songs, comic and satyrical. By George Alexander Stevens, new ed., corrected (London: Printed for G. Kearsley, 1788)
Date of Entry
08/29/2005
