"Your form is indelibly engraven on my heart."

— Plumptre, Anne (1760-1818); Kotzebue (1761-1819)


Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for R. Phillips
Date
1799
Metaphor
"Your form is indelibly engraven on my heart."
Metaphor in Context
ALONZO.
Yes, amiable youth, I remember you well. You are the bold person who ventured to expostulate with Pizarro, when he pronounced sentence of death upon me. Your form is indelibly engraven on my heart.
Provenance
Searching "engrav" and "heart" in HDIS (Drama)
Citation
The Spaniards in Peru; or, the Death of Rolla. A Tragedy, in Five Acts: By Augustus von Kotzebue. Translated from the German by Anne Plumptre (London: Printed for R Phillips, 1799).
Date of Entry
03/09/2005
Date of Review
06/09/2009

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