"In her it [beauty] seems the mirror of her soul"

— Papendick, George (fl. 1798)


Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for F. Wingrave
Date
1798
Metaphor
"In her it [beauty] seems the mirror of her soul"
Metaphor in Context
STRANGER
So much the worse. Beauty's a mask.

JOHN.
In her it seems the mirror of her soul. Her charity--
(I.v)
Categories
Provenance
Searching "mirror" and "heart" in HDIS (Drama)
Citation
6 entries in the ESTC (1798, 1799).

See George Papendick, trans. The Stranger; or Misanthropy and Repentance: A Drama in Five Acts. Faithfully translated, Entire, from the German of Augustus von Kotzebue (London: Printed for F. Wingrave, 1798). <Link to ECCO>
Date of Entry
11/30/2005

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