"This my success in search of Friendship's grove, / Where Liberty and Peace I hoped to find, / And soften'd thus with Grief, deceitful Love, / In Friendship's borrow'd garb, attack'd my mind."

— Miss H******* (fl. 1751-1775)


Place of Publication
London
Date
1775
Metaphor
"This my success in search of Friendship's grove, / Where Liberty and Peace I hoped to find, / And soften'd thus with Grief, deceitful Love, / In Friendship's borrow'd garb, attack'd my mind."
Metaphor in Context
This my success in search of Friendship's grove,
Where Liberty and Peace I hoped to find,
And soften'd thus with Grief, deceitful Love,
In Friendship's borrow'd garb, attack'd my mind.
(p. 153)
Categories
Provenance
Reading
Citation
At least 2 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1775, 1789).

Hester Chapone, Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, 3rd edition (London: Printed for E. and C. Dilly ... and J. Walter, 1777). <Link to 3rd edition in Google Books>
Date of Entry
06/16/2011

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