"Never! By those chast Lights above, I swear, / My Soul shall never know Pollution more."

— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)


Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for Bernard Lintott
Date
1714
Metaphor
"Never! By those chast Lights above, I swear, / My Soul shall never know Pollution more."
Metaphor in Context
JANE SHORE.
Never! By those chast Lights above, I swear,
My Soul shall never know Pollution more
;
Forbear my Lord!--Here let me rather die
[Kneeling.]
Let quick Destruction overtake me here,
And end my Sorrows and my Shame for ever.
(II.i, p. 21)
Provenance
C-H Lion
Citation
Over seventy entries in the ESTC (1714, 1719, 1720, 1723, 1726, 1728, 1731, 1733, 1735, 1736, 1740, 1746, 1748, 1751, 1752, 1754, 1755, 1756, 1758, 1760, 1761, 1764, 1765, 1767, 1768, 1770, 1772, 1773, 1774, 1780, 1783, 1784, 1785, 1786, 1787, 1790, 1791).

See The Tragedy of Jane Shore. Written in Imitation of Shakespear's Style. By N. Rowe (London: Printed for Bernard Lintott, 1714).
Date of Entry
07/20/2013

The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.