"Yes, Sophia, let this prospect confirm your resolution, if nothing else speaks for me in your heart; then will I renounce the irregularities of dissipation; then will I shake off all unworthy fetters, and live only to chain your affection to my heart."
— Anonymous; Kotzebue (1761-1819)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for G. G. And J. Robinson
Date
1799
Metaphor
"Yes, Sophia, let this prospect confirm your resolution, if nothing else speaks for me in your heart; then will I renounce the irregularities of dissipation; then will I shake off all unworthy fetters, and live only to chain your affection to my heart."
Metaphor in Context
DITTHELM
Yes, Sophia, let this prospect confirm your resolution, if nothing else speaks for me in your heart; then will I renounce the irregularities of dissipation; then will I shake off all unworthy fetters, and live only to chain your affection to my heart. This amiable red on your cheeks--this trembling hand--this soft tear in your eye. O Sophia! give your feelings a free scope--speak a word of comfort.
[falls on his knee before her]
(II.ix)
Yes, Sophia, let this prospect confirm your resolution, if nothing else speaks for me in your heart; then will I renounce the irregularities of dissipation; then will I shake off all unworthy fetters, and live only to chain your affection to my heart. This amiable red on your cheeks--this trembling hand--this soft tear in your eye. O Sophia! give your feelings a free scope--speak a word of comfort.
[falls on his knee before her]
(II.ix)
Categories
Provenance
Searching "heart" and "chain" in HDIS (Drama)
Citation
August von Kotzebue, The Writing Desk, or, Youth in Danger (London: G.G. and J. Robinson, 1799). <Link to Google Books>
Date of Entry
07/28/2011
