"Ambition only fired my Youth, and led me on to Greatness; but now a gentler Flame hath filled my Heart, yet more tormenting."
— Pix, Mary (c.1666-1720)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for John Harding and Richard Wilkin
Date
1696
Metaphor
"Ambition only fired my Youth, and led me on to Greatness; but now a gentler Flame hath filled my Heart, yet more tormenting."
Metaphor in Context
'Ambition only fired my Youth, and led me on to Greatness; but now a gentler Flame hath filled my Heart, yet more tormenting. I am in Love, O Olimpia; raging mad with Love, to that degree possess'd, that if I enjoy not the Object of these violent Desires, life it self will become a burthen insupportable.'
(p. 4)
Categories
Provenance
C-H Lion
Citation
Mary Pix, The Inhumane Cardinal, or Innocence Betray'd. A Novel. Written By a Gentlewoman, for the Entertainment of the Sex. (London: Printed for John Harding and Richard Wilkin, 1696).
Date of Entry
07/01/2013
