"No! now she shoots her fires into my Breast, / She urges my Desires, and bids me seize thee."
— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for R. Wellington and Thomas Osborne
Date
1700, 1702
Metaphor
"No! now she shoots her fires into my Breast, / She urges my Desires, and bids me seize thee."
Metaphor in Context
ARTABAN.
Forbear to argue, with that Angel Face,
Against the Passion thou wert form'd to raise.
Alas! thy frozen Heart has only known
Love in Reverse, not tasted of its Joys;
The Wishes, soft Desires, and pleasing Pains,
That centre all in most extatick Bliss.
Oh, lovely Maid, mis-pend no more that Treasure
Of Youth and Charms, which lavish Nature gives;
The Paphian Goddess frowns at thy Delay;
By her fair self and by her Son she swears,
Thy Beauties are devoted to her Service.
No! now she shoots her fires into my Breast,
She urges my Desires, and bids me seize thee,
[Taking her Hand, and kissing it.]
And bear thee as a Victim to her Altar,
Then offer up ten thousand thousand Joys,
As an amends for all thy former Coldness.
(III.i, p. 28)
Forbear to argue, with that Angel Face,
Against the Passion thou wert form'd to raise.
Alas! thy frozen Heart has only known
Love in Reverse, not tasted of its Joys;
The Wishes, soft Desires, and pleasing Pains,
That centre all in most extatick Bliss.
Oh, lovely Maid, mis-pend no more that Treasure
Of Youth and Charms, which lavish Nature gives;
The Paphian Goddess frowns at thy Delay;
By her fair self and by her Son she swears,
Thy Beauties are devoted to her Service.
No! now she shoots her fires into my Breast,
She urges my Desires, and bids me seize thee,
[Taking her Hand, and kissing it.]
And bear thee as a Victim to her Altar,
Then offer up ten thousand thousand Joys,
As an amends for all thy former Coldness.
(III.i, p. 28)
Categories
Provenance
C-H Lion
Citation
First performed December, 1700. Twenty-three entries in ESTC (1701, 1702, 1714, 1715, 1720, 1726, 1727, 1728, 1733, 1735, 1760, 1761, 1764, 1777, 1781, 1790, 1792, 1795).
The second edition includes "the addition of a new scene." The Ambitious Step-Mother. A Tragedy. As it is Acted at the New Theatre in Little-Lincolns-Inn-Fields. By Her Majesties Servants. Written by N. Rowe, 2nd edition (London: Printed for R. Wellington and Thomas Osborne, 1702). <Link to ECCO>
The second edition includes "the addition of a new scene." The Ambitious Step-Mother. A Tragedy. As it is Acted at the New Theatre in Little-Lincolns-Inn-Fields. By Her Majesties Servants. Written by N. Rowe, 2nd edition (London: Printed for R. Wellington and Thomas Osborne, 1702). <Link to ECCO>
Date of Entry
07/22/2013
