"Valour holds a woman's soul in far securer chains than Science."
— Dutton, Thomas (fl. 1770-1815); Kotzebue (1761-1819)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for W. West
Date
1799
Metaphor
"Valour holds a woman's soul in far securer chains than Science."
Metaphor in Context
ELVIRA.
Hark you, mine honest friend! a woman in love enquires not whether the object of her passion can read or write; for love is only legible in the eyes, and in the heart only is it written. Valour holds a woman's soul in far securer chains than Science. Pizarro combats with the sword, you with the pen. He is prodigal of blood, you only prodigal of ink.
(I.i)
Hark you, mine honest friend! a woman in love enquires not whether the object of her passion can read or write; for love is only legible in the eyes, and in the heart only is it written. Valour holds a woman's soul in far securer chains than Science. Pizarro combats with the sword, you with the pen. He is prodigal of blood, you only prodigal of ink.
(I.i)
Categories
Provenance
Searching "heart" and "chain" in HDIS (Drama); found again "soul"
Citation
Trans Thomas Dutton, Pizarro in Peru, or the Death of Rolla; Being the Original of the New Tragedy. Now Performing at the Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lane. Translated from the last German Edition of Augustus von Kotzebue, with notes, &c. by Thomas Dutton, A. M. Author of the Literary Census. (London: printed for W. West, 1799). <Link to ECCO>
Date of Entry
07/28/2011
Date of Review
07/30/2011
