"Oh! thou hast set my busy Brain at work, / And now she musters up a Train of Images, / Which to preserve my Peace I had cast aside, / And sunk in deep Oblivion."
— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
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Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for Bernard Lintott
Date
1714
Metaphor
"Oh! thou hast set my busy Brain at work, / And now she musters up a Train of Images, / Which to preserve my Peace I had cast aside, / And sunk in deep Oblivion."
Metaphor in Context
DUMONT.
Oh! thou hast set my busy Brain at work,
And now she musters up a Train of Images,
Which to preserve my Peace I had cast aside,
And sunk in deep Oblivion--Oh! that Form!
That Angel-face on which my Dotage hung!
How have I gaz'd upon her! till my Soul
With very Eagerness went forth towards her,
And issu'd at my Eyes--Was there a Jem
Which the Sun ripens in the Indian Mine,
Or the rich Bosom of the Ocean yields,
What was there Art cou'd make, or Wealth cou'd buy,
Which I have left unsought to deck her Beauty?
What cou'd her King do more?--And yet she fled.
(V.i, p. 51)
Oh! thou hast set my busy Brain at work,
And now she musters up a Train of Images,
Which to preserve my Peace I had cast aside,
And sunk in deep Oblivion--Oh! that Form!
That Angel-face on which my Dotage hung!
How have I gaz'd upon her! till my Soul
With very Eagerness went forth towards her,
And issu'd at my Eyes--Was there a Jem
Which the Sun ripens in the Indian Mine,
Or the rich Bosom of the Ocean yields,
What was there Art cou'd make, or Wealth cou'd buy,
Which I have left unsought to deck her Beauty?
What cou'd her King do more?--And yet she fled.
(V.i, p. 51)
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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).
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
