"Send it? Yes, with all the Passion, the Ferment, the Eagerness, the Salt, the Flame, the Fire of my Soul, I'll send it."
— Gildon, Charles (1665-1724)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
The Post-boy rob'd of his Mail: or, the Pacquet Broke Open
Date
1692
Metaphor
"Send it? Yes, with all the Passion, the Ferment, the Eagerness, the Salt, the Flame, the Fire of my Soul, I'll send it."
Metaphor in Context
With all the Humility, and Submission imaginable, as becomes a poor Country Parson, towards a London Gentleman, of the newest edition. I congratulate the occasion of your Gentility, not being at all surpriz'd, that the largeness of your Mind bears such proportion to that of your Estate. But is it possible you should honour your poor quondam Drudge, and Author with not only demanding an Elegy from him on your late, kind, deceased Relation, but even to accept it gratis too? Well, it had been incredible in any but a Soul so surprizingly great as yours. Send it? Yes, with all the Passion, the Ferment, the Eagerness, the Salt, the Flame, the Fire of my Soul, I'll send it,--it shall come, yea, even now, (unless Dinner abruptly calls) before my Pen dare lift it self from the Paper; and I shall therein endeavour, pedetentim, to follow those curious hints you give me in your last for my direction.--Have at it then this very minute.
(pp. 261-2)
(pp. 261-2)
Categories
Provenance
C-H Lion
Citation
Charles Gildon, The Post-boy rob'd of his Mail: or, the Pacquet Broke Open. Consisting of Five Hundred Letters, to Persons of several Qualities and Conditions. With Observations Upon each Letter. Publish'd by a Gentleman concern'd in the Frolick. Licens'd and Entred, according to Order (London: Printed for John Dunton, 1692). <Link to EEBO-TCP>
Date of Entry
06/30/2013
