"Your zeal for the Czar hurries you to an inhumanity, that I thought a stranger to the breast of my gentle Michaelhoff."

— O'Keeffe, John (1747-1833)

Author

O'Keeffe, John (1747-1833)

Work Title

The Czar Peter, in three acts, Performed at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden, in 1789 [from The Dramatic Works of John O'Keeffe ... Published under the gracious patronage of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. Prepared for the press by the author. In four volumes]

Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for the author, by T. Woodfall [etc.]
Date
1790
Metaphor
"Your zeal for the Czar hurries you to an inhumanity, that I thought a stranger to the breast of my gentle Michaelhoff."
Metaphor in Context
OTTO.
Your zeal for the Czar hurries you to an inhumanity, that I thought a stranger to the breast of my gentle Michaelhoff.

(weeps)
Categories
Population::Stranger
Provenance
Searching "soul" and "stranger" in HDIS (Drama); again "breast"
Date of Entry
03/06/2006

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