The heart may overflow "with joy not unmingled with regrets and trepidation"
— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
George Folliot Hopkins
Date
1800
Metaphor
The heart may overflow "with joy not unmingled with regrets and trepidation"
Metaphor in Context
When I reflected on that tissue of nice contingences which led him to my door, and enabled me to save from death a being of such rare endowments, my heart overflowed with joy not unmingled with regrets and trepidation. How many have been cut off by this disease, in their career of virtue and their blossom-time of genius! How many deeds of heroism and self-devotion are ravished from existence, and consigned to hopeless oblivion!
(Part II, chapter 1, p. 427)
(Part II, chapter 1, p. 427)
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Citation
Brown, Charles Brockden. Three Gothic Novels. New York: Library of America,1998.
Date of Entry
07/21/2003
