"Is it a Dream, when at each Word you utter / In Scorn or Hate, my feav'rish Pulse beats high, / And all is War and Waste within my Bosom?"
— Jeffreys, George (1678-1755)
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Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed, and Sold by T. Woodward, J.Walthoe, J.Peele, and T.Wood
Date
1724
Metaphor
"Is it a Dream, when at each Word you utter / In Scorn or Hate, my feav'rish Pulse beats high, / And all is War and Waste within my Bosom?"
Metaphor in Context
LEOLIN.
Delightful Torturer! but spare me here:
Call you my Love a Dream? behold the Dews
Of waking Anguish thick upon my Brow:
Is it a Dream, when at each Word you utter
In Scorn or Hate, my feav'rish Pulse beats high,
And all is War and Waste within my Bosom?
When I breath short in Agony of Grief,
And shake these Chains with Trembling?
(IV.i, p. 51)
Delightful Torturer! but spare me here:
Call you my Love a Dream? behold the Dews
Of waking Anguish thick upon my Brow:
Is it a Dream, when at each Word you utter
In Scorn or Hate, my feav'rish Pulse beats high,
And all is War and Waste within my Bosom?
When I breath short in Agony of Grief,
And shake these Chains with Trembling?
(IV.i, p. 51)
Categories
Provenance
C-H Lion
Citation
Only 1 entry in ESTC (1724).
Edwin: A Tragedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields. By Geo. Jeffreys. (London: Printed, and Sold by T. Woodward, J.Walthoe, J.Peele, and T.Wood, 1724). <Link to ESTC><Link to Google Books>
Edwin: A Tragedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields. By Geo. Jeffreys. (London: Printed, and Sold by T. Woodward, J.Walthoe, J.Peele, and T.Wood, 1724). <Link to ESTC><Link to Google Books>
Date of Entry
06/29/2013
