"I saw you stand in chains before Pizarro; I heard you speak like an ancient Roman; and at that moment the chains glided from your hands to my heart."
— Plumptre, Anne (1760-1818); Kotzebue (1761-1819)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for R. Phillips
Date
1799
Metaphor
"I saw you stand in chains before Pizarro; I heard you speak like an ancient Roman; and at that moment the chains glided from your hands to my heart."
Metaphor in Context
ELVIRA
If you find that name displeasing, call it by any other less offensive. I, for my own part, have never taken the trouble of seeking to express my feelings according to scholastic rule. I saw you stand in chains before Pizarro; I heard you speak like an ancient Roman; and at that moment the chains glided from your hands to my heart. I felt it essential to my repose to save you:--my soul is not formed to endure a tedious interval between the resolution and the action--I felt--and I have acted.
(IV.iv)
If you find that name displeasing, call it by any other less offensive. I, for my own part, have never taken the trouble of seeking to express my feelings according to scholastic rule. I saw you stand in chains before Pizarro; I heard you speak like an ancient Roman; and at that moment the chains glided from your hands to my heart. I felt it essential to my repose to save you:--my soul is not formed to endure a tedious interval between the resolution and the action--I felt--and I have acted.
(IV.iv)
Categories
Provenance
Searching "heart" and "chain" in HDIS (Drama)
Citation
The Spaniards in Peru; or, the Death of Rolla. A Tragedy, in Five Acts: By Augustus von Kotzebue. Translated from the German by Anne Plumptre (London: Printed for R Phillips, 1799).
Date of Entry
07/30/2011
