"Ere yet we were, / Our finer tones of mind some guardian spirit / Touch'd into harmony; and, when we met, / Th' according strings struck forth a sound so sweet, / That heav'n itself might listen! love! ev'n love, / That brand of discord, burns within our bosoms, / Pale—cold—before the steady flame of virtue!"

— Lee, Sophia (bap. 1750, d. 1824)

Author

Lee, Sophia (bap. 1750, d. 1824)

Work Title

Almeyda, Queen of Granada: A Tragedy

Place of Publication
Dublin
Publisher
Printed by Brett Smith, for Messrs. P. Wogan, P. Byrne, C. Brown, and G. Folingsby
Date
April 20, 1796
Metaphor
"Ere yet we were, / Our finer tones of mind some guardian spirit / Touch'd into harmony; and, when we met, / Th' according strings struck forth a sound so sweet, / That heav'n itself might listen! love! ev'n love, / That brand of discord, burns within our bosoms, / Pale—cold—before the steady flame of virtue!"
Metaphor in Context
ALONZO
—snatching his hand.
Ere yet we were,
Our finer tones of mind some guardian spirit
Touch'd into harmony; and, when we met,
Th' according strings struck forth a sound so sweet,
That heav'n itself might listen! love! ev'n love,
That brand of discord, burns within our bosoms,
Pale—cold—before the steady flame of virtue!
(IV.i, p. 44)
Categories
Music::Harmony Music::Instruments::String Instruments Fire::Flame
Provenance
Searching in ECCO-TCP
Citation
Three entries in ESTC (1796)

Almeyda, Queen of Granada: A Tragedy, in Five Acts. By Sophia Lee. As Performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury-Lane. (Dublin: Printed by Brett Smith, for Messrs. P. Wogan, P. Byrne, C. Brown, and G. Folingsby, 1796). <Link to EECO-TCP>
Date of Entry
08/16/2013

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