"Bid the face, red'ning, warm'd idea take, / Strait, the soul's wildfires all obstruction break: / Stung, by inflicted thought's imagin'd pain, / Hard heave the muscles, rolling eye-balls strain: / 'Twixt the clos'd teeth, indignantly, supprest, / Or, storm-like, loud, out pours th' unguarded breast: / Slack'ning, exclaiming, swift, slow, restless change, / Wings the voic'd tempest, in its whirlwind range; / Quick turns, and startings, face, and air, deform; / And thick, short breathings paint the infelt storm."
— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Date
1746, 1753
Metaphor
"Bid the face, red'ning, warm'd idea take, / Strait, the soul's wildfires all obstruction break: / Stung, by inflicted thought's imagin'd pain, / Hard heave the muscles, rolling eye-balls strain: / 'Twixt the clos'd teeth, indignantly, supprest, / Or, storm-like, loud, out pours th' unguarded breast: / Slack'ning, exclaiming, swift, slow, restless change, / Wings the voic'd tempest, in its whirlwind range; / Quick turns, and startings, face, and air, deform; / And thick, short breathings paint the infelt storm."
Metaphor in Context
Anger is pride provok'd, (so felt, so known)
Strange! its stage influence is so faintly, shown!
Yet, with what absent sense of all its flame,
See we rage meek--fire cold--and fury tame!
Bid the face, red'ning, warm'd idea take,
Strait, the soul's wildfires all obstruction break:
Stung, by inflicted thought's imagin'd pain,
Hard heave the muscles, rolling eye-balls strain:
'Twixt the clos'd teeth, indignantly, supprest,
Or, storm-like, loud, out pours th' unguarded breast:
Slack'ning, exclaiming, swift, slow, restless change,
Wings the voic'd tempest, in its whirlwind range;
Quick turns, and startings, face, and air, deform;
And thick, short breathings paint the infelt storm.
Strange! its stage influence is so faintly, shown!
Yet, with what absent sense of all its flame,
See we rage meek--fire cold--and fury tame!
Bid the face, red'ning, warm'd idea take,
Strait, the soul's wildfires all obstruction break:
Stung, by inflicted thought's imagin'd pain,
Hard heave the muscles, rolling eye-balls strain:
'Twixt the clos'd teeth, indignantly, supprest,
Or, storm-like, loud, out pours th' unguarded breast:
Slack'ning, exclaiming, swift, slow, restless change,
Wings the voic'd tempest, in its whirlwind range;
Quick turns, and startings, face, and air, deform;
And thick, short breathings paint the infelt storm.
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Provenance
Reading at the Folger Library
Citation
At least 4 entries in ESTC (1746, 1753, 1754, 1779).
Text from The Works of the Late Aaron Hill, 4 vols. (London: Printed for the Benefit of the Family, 1753).
Copy at Folger Library also consulted. Aaron Hill, The Art of Acting. Part 1. Deriving Rules from a New Principle, for Touching the Passions in a Natural Manner. An Essay of General Use. (London: Printed for J. Osborn, 1746).
Text from The Works of the Late Aaron Hill, 4 vols. (London: Printed for the Benefit of the Family, 1753).
Copy at Folger Library also consulted. Aaron Hill, The Art of Acting. Part 1. Deriving Rules from a New Principle, for Touching the Passions in a Natural Manner. An Essay of General Use. (London: Printed for J. Osborn, 1746).
Date of Entry
03/05/2012
