"Ah, you lucky dog! you have an estate in every corner of your brain, and a pretty income at the end of every finger."
— Holman, Joseph George (1764-1817)
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for T. N. Longman and O. Rees
Date
1799
Metaphor
"Ah, you lucky dog! you have an estate in every corner of your brain, and a pretty income at the end of every finger."
Metaphor in Context
SHARPSET.
That is easily accounted for. I have a thousand resources--Drooply has none. Born to no other inheritance, I have learned to turn to account what I inherit from nature; so that, tho' my acquisitions have been squandered, I am still in possession of my original patrimony.
DROOPLY.
Ah, you lucky dog! you have an estate in every corner of your brain, and a pretty income at the end of every finger. Now, the whole produce of my skull would not get me change for sixpence: and as for my hands, curse them! they are fit for nothing but to dangle by my sides, or stuff out my coat-pockets.
LEONARD.
Why, I am afraid they will never fill your pockets with any thing but themselves.
(I.i)
That is easily accounted for. I have a thousand resources--Drooply has none. Born to no other inheritance, I have learned to turn to account what I inherit from nature; so that, tho' my acquisitions have been squandered, I am still in possession of my original patrimony.
DROOPLY.
Ah, you lucky dog! you have an estate in every corner of your brain, and a pretty income at the end of every finger. Now, the whole produce of my skull would not get me change for sixpence: and as for my hands, curse them! they are fit for nothing but to dangle by my sides, or stuff out my coat-pockets.
LEONARD.
Why, I am afraid they will never fill your pockets with any thing but themselves.
(I.i)
Categories
Provenance
Searching in HDIS (Drama)
Citation
First performed January 12, 1799. 5 entries in ESTC (1799).
Text from The Votary of Wealth; a Comedy, in Five Acts. As performed at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden. By J. G. Holman, 3rd edition (London: Printed for T. N. Longman and O. Rees, 1799). <Link to 2nd edition in ECCO-TCP>
Text from The Votary of Wealth; a Comedy, in Five Acts. As performed at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden. By J. G. Holman, 3rd edition (London: Printed for T. N. Longman and O. Rees, 1799). <Link to 2nd edition in ECCO-TCP>
Date of Entry
07/03/2012
