"If I could rip up my heart and lay it at your feet, you would read engrav'd on it in capital letters your own adorable name"
— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for Edward Kerby
Date
1817
Metaphor
"If I could rip up my heart and lay it at your feet, you would read engrav'd on it in capital letters your own adorable name"
Metaphor in Context
COGNOVIT.
Talk not of sincerity, madam. If I could rip up my heart and lay it at your feet, you would read engrav'd on it in capital letters your own adorable name. Thus, madam, let me fall at your feet and swear--
Talk not of sincerity, madam. If I could rip up my heart and lay it at your feet, you would read engrav'd on it in capital letters your own adorable name. Thus, madam, let me fall at your feet and swear--
Categories
Provenance
Searching "engrav" and "heart" in HDIS (Drama)
Citation
Text from Dramas, By Sir James Bland Burges: In Two Volumes (London: Printed for Edward Kerby, 1817).
Date of Entry
03/09/2005
