"Tho' sure the Loss / Wou'd wound me to the Heart."

— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)


Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for Bernard Lintott
Date
1715
Metaphor
"Tho' sure the Loss / Wou'd wound me to the Heart."
Metaphor in Context
LORD GUILFORD DUDLEY.
And yet I think,
I should not murmur were thy Lot to prosper,
And mine to be refus'd. Tho' sure the Loss
Wou'd wound me to the Heart.

(I.i, p. 7)
Categories
Provenance
C-H Lion
Citation
First performed April 20, 1715. 33 entries in the ESTC (1715, 1717, 1718, 1719, 1720, 1727, 1730, 1733, 1735, 1736, 1740, 1744, 1748, 1750, 1754, 1755, 1761, 1764, 1771, 1774, 1776, 1777, 1778, 1782, 1791)

See The Tragedy Of The Lady Jane Gray. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. By N. Rowe (London: Printed for Bernard Lintott, 1715). <Link to ECCO>
Date of Entry
07/21/2013

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