"But see! the Sultan comes!--my beating Heart / Bounds with exulting Motion, Hope, and Fear, / Fight with alternate conquest in my Breast."
— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
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Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for Jacob Tonson
Date
1702
Metaphor
"But see! the Sultan comes!--my beating Heart / Bounds with exulting Motion, Hope, and Fear, / Fight with alternate conquest in my Breast."
Metaphor in Context
AXALLA.
But see! the Sultan comes!--my beating Heart
Bounds with exulting Motion, Hope, and Fear,
Fight with alternate conquest in my Breast.
Oh! Can I give her from me? Yield her up?
Now mourn thou God of Love, since Honour triumphs,
And crowns his cruel Altars with thy Spoils.
(III.i, p. 32)
But see! the Sultan comes!--my beating Heart
Bounds with exulting Motion, Hope, and Fear,
Fight with alternate conquest in my Breast.
Oh! Can I give her from me? Yield her up?
Now mourn thou God of Love, since Honour triumphs,
And crowns his cruel Altars with thy Spoils.
(III.i, p. 32)
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Provenance
C-H Lion
Citation
Performed in December 1701. Over fifty entries in the ESTC (1702, 1703, 1714, 1717, 1719, 1720, 1722, 1723, 1725, 1726, 1728, 1733, 1735, 1736, 1744, 1750, 1755, 1757, 1758, 1764, 1766, 1770, 1771, 1772, 1774, 1776, 1778, 1784, 1790, 1792, 1795).
Text from Tamerlane. A Tragedy. As it is Acted At the New Theater in Little Lincoln's-Inn-Fields. By His Majesty's Servants. Written by N. Rowe (London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1702). <Link to 2nd edition in Google Books>
Text from Tamerlane. A Tragedy. As it is Acted At the New Theater in Little Lincoln's-Inn-Fields. By His Majesty's Servants. Written by N. Rowe (London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1702). <Link to 2nd edition in Google Books>
Date of Entry
07/17/2013
