"For still I did preserve your Image in my Heart, and you were ever present to my dearest Thoughts."
— Congreve, William (1670-1729)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for Peter Buck
Date
Licens'd Decemb. 22. 1691
Metaphor
"For still I did preserve your Image in my Heart, and you were ever present to my dearest Thoughts."
Metaphor in Context
'Ah Madam (says he) would Heaven would no other ways look upon, than I behold your Perfections--Wrong not your Creature with a Thought, he can be guilty of that horrid Impiety as once to doubt your Vertue.--Heavens! (cry'd he, starting up) am I so really blessed to see you once again! May I trust my Sight?--Or does my fancy now only more strongly work?--For still I did preserve your Image in my Heart, and you were ever present to my dearest Thoughts.--'
(p. 110)
(p. 110)
Categories
Provenance
C-H Lion
Citation
William Congreve, Incognita: or, Love and Duty Reconcil'd. A Novel. (London: Printed for Peter Buck, 1692). <Link to EEBO-TCP>
Date of Entry
06/18/2013
