Love "'Tis like soft air, through which admitted light / Peoples pleas'd fancy, and lends shape to sight: / Yet, like that air, disturb'd, man's quiet breaks, / Tempests his reason, and his triumph shakes."
— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
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Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Date
1746, 1753
Metaphor
Love "'Tis like soft air, through which admitted light / Peoples pleas'd fancy, and lends shape to sight: / Yet, like that air, disturb'd, man's quiet breaks, / Tempests his reason, and his triumph shakes."
Metaphor in Context
Love is intense Desire, by rev'rence, check'd;
'Tis hope's hot transport, streak'd with fear's respect:
'Tis passion's every soul-felt power, disjoin'd,
'Tis all th' assembled train's whole force, combin'd.
'Tis like soft air, through which admitted light
Peoples pleas'd fancy, and lends shape to sight:
Yet, like that air, disturb'd, man's quiet breaks,
Tempests his reason, and his triumph shakes.
'Tis hope's hot transport, streak'd with fear's respect:
'Tis passion's every soul-felt power, disjoin'd,
'Tis all th' assembled train's whole force, combin'd.
'Tis like soft air, through which admitted light
Peoples pleas'd fancy, and lends shape to sight:
Yet, like that air, disturb'd, man's quiet breaks,
Tempests his reason, and his triumph shakes.
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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
