"Confusions! Noises! That teaze Retirement, and only eccho in an empty Head."
— Baker, Thomas (b. 1680-1)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for R. Wellington and B. Bernard Lintott
Date
1701
Metaphor
"Confusions! Noises! That teaze Retirement, and only eccho in an empty Head."
Metaphor in Context
TREMILIA
Confusions! Noises! That teaze Retirement, and only eccho in an empty Head; especially the Ring, that's the most insipid of Diversions; A Whirligig, that shows the giddy Brains of those that frequent it; there's not so much as Conversation, and the whole Design of the Rendezvous is to make a gaudy Appearance, and stare one another out of Countenance.
(IV.iii, p. 45)
Confusions! Noises! That teaze Retirement, and only eccho in an empty Head; especially the Ring, that's the most insipid of Diversions; A Whirligig, that shows the giddy Brains of those that frequent it; there's not so much as Conversation, and the whole Design of the Rendezvous is to make a gaudy Appearance, and stare one another out of Countenance.
(IV.iii, p. 45)
Categories
Provenance
Searching in C-H Lion
Citation
At least 2 entries in the ESTC (1701).
Thomas Baker, The Humour of the Age. A Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane by His Majesty's Servants. (London: Printed for R. Wellington and B. Bernard Lintott, 1701). <Link to ECCO>
Thomas Baker, The Humour of the Age. A Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane by His Majesty's Servants. (London: Printed for R. Wellington and B. Bernard Lintott, 1701). <Link to ECCO>
Date of Entry
06/18/2013
