"It is usual enough for Persons, who are disturbed by two such violent passions, to change their Resolutions and Sentiments, accordingly as one of those two becomes the stronger. Elizabeth's heart did long since experience that vicissitude, and it being equally divided, between the love of her Authority, and that which she had for the Duke of Alançon; these two passions destroyed and mastered each other by turns, so that her mind could stick upon no fixed resolution."
— Anonymous
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Will with the Whisp
Date
1691
Metaphor
"It is usual enough for Persons, who are disturbed by two such violent passions, to change their Resolutions and Sentiments, accordingly as one of those two becomes the stronger. Elizabeth's heart did long since experience that vicissitude, and it being equally divided, between the love of her Authority, and that which she had for the Duke of Alançon; these two passions destroyed and mastered each other by turns, so that her mind could stick upon no fixed resolution."
Metaphor in Context
It is usual enough for Persons, who are disturbed by two such violent passions, to change their Resolutions and Sentiments, accordingly as one of those two becomes the stronger. Elizabeth's heart did long since experience that vicissitude, and it being equally divided, between the love of her Authority, and that which she had for the Duke of Alançon; these two passions destroyed and mastered each other by turns, so that her mind could stick upon no fixed resolution. But at length her inclination for the Prince being very much augmented, and the jealousie Marianna's Beauty gave her, having turned the Ballance on Love's side, she resolved to do her utmost endeavours to resist the Charms of so dangerous a Rival.
(pp. 155-6)
(pp. 155-6)
Categories
Provenance
C-H Lion
Citation
Anonymous, The Secret History of the Duke of Alançon and Q. Elizabeth. A True History (London: Printed for Will with the Whisp, 1691).
Date of Entry
06/14/2013
