"Ferdinand, these circumstances are not to be doubted, and conviction opens upon my mind a flow of extacy I never knew till now."
— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
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Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for T. Hookham
Date
1790
Metaphor
"Ferdinand, these circumstances are not to be doubted, and conviction opens upon my mind a flow of extacy I never knew till now."
Metaphor in Context
"O! talk for ever thus!" sighed Hippolitus. "These words are so sweet, so soothing to my soul, that I could listen till I forgot I had a wish beyond them. Yes!--Ferdinand, these circumstances are not to be doubted, and conviction opens upon my mind a flow of extacy I never knew till now. O! lead me to her, that I may speak the sentiments which swell my heart."
(I.iii, pp. 115-6; p. 51 in OUP edition)
(I.iii, pp. 115-6; p. 51 in OUP edition)
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Reading
Citation
At least 6 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1790, 1791, 1792, 1795, 1796).
Text from A Sicilian Romance. By The Authoress of The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne 2 vols. (London: Printed for T. Hookham, 1790). <Link to volume I, 2nd edition in Google Books><Volume II>
Reading in A Sicilian Romance, ed. Alison Milbank (Oxford and New York: OUP, 1993).
Text from A Sicilian Romance. By The Authoress of The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne 2 vols. (London: Printed for T. Hookham, 1790). <Link to volume I, 2nd edition in Google Books><Volume II>
Reading in A Sicilian Romance, ed. Alison Milbank (Oxford and New York: OUP, 1993).
Date of Entry
05/31/2013
