"Their eyes are water! their hearts are brass! Kisses upon their lips! daggers in their hearts!"
— Render, William (fl. 1790-1801); Schiller (1759-1805)
Work Title
Place of Publication
Cambridge
Publisher
Printed by C. Whittingham [etc.]
Date
1799
Metaphor
"Their eyes are water! their hearts are brass! Kisses upon their lips! daggers in their hearts!"
Metaphor in Context
Enter
MOOR.
He stalks hastily up and down the room, with wild emotion, talking to himself.]
Men!--Men! false hypocritical brood of crocodiles! Their eyes are water! their hearts are brass! Kisses upon their lips! daggers in their hearts! Lions and leopards feed their young, ravens provide carrion for their food, and he, he.-- I have learnt to bear malice; I can smile at it, if my bitterest enemy offers me my own heart's blood to drink--But when love is banished from a father's breast; Oh! then take fire, noble humanity; degenerate into a tyger, tender-hearted lamb, and let every nerve distort itself with rage and fury.
MOOR.
He stalks hastily up and down the room, with wild emotion, talking to himself.]
Men!--Men! false hypocritical brood of crocodiles! Their eyes are water! their hearts are brass! Kisses upon their lips! daggers in their hearts! Lions and leopards feed their young, ravens provide carrion for their food, and he, he.-- I have learnt to bear malice; I can smile at it, if my bitterest enemy offers me my own heart's blood to drink--But when love is banished from a father's breast; Oh! then take fire, noble humanity; degenerate into a tyger, tender-hearted lamb, and let every nerve distort itself with rage and fury.
Categories
Provenance
Searching in HDIS (Drama)
Date of Entry
04/11/2005
