"Is the face of a friend become disgusting to you? or dare you not let your eye be the mirror of your soul?"
— Papendick, George (fl. 1798)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for F. Wingrave
Date
1798
Metaphor
"Is the face of a friend become disgusting to you? or dare you not let your eye be the mirror of your soul?"
Metaphor in Context
MAJOR.
You are then but two-and-thirty.--But why do you turn thus from me? Is the face of a friend become disgusting to you? or dare you not let your eye be the mirror of your soul? Where is that open manly look that used to penetrate into every heart?
You are then but two-and-thirty.--But why do you turn thus from me? Is the face of a friend become disgusting to you? or dare you not let your eye be the mirror of your soul? Where is that open manly look that used to penetrate into every heart?
Categories
Provenance
Searching "mirror" and "soul" 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>
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
