"Oh! that superior mind is gone for ever! / --Yet still, thus ruin'd, like a broken mirror, / It gives a perfect image in each fragment!"
— Lee, Sophia (bap. 1750, d. 1824)
Work Title
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
"Oh! that superior mind is gone for ever! / --Yet still, thus ruin'd, like a broken mirror, / It gives a perfect image in each fragment!"
Metaphor in Context
ORSASMYN.
Oh! that superior mind is gone for ever!
--Yet still, thus ruin'd, like a broken mirror,
It gives a perfect image in each fragment!
(IV.i, p. 53)
Oh! that superior mind is gone for ever!
--Yet still, thus ruin'd, like a broken mirror,
It gives a perfect image in each fragment!
(IV.i, p. 53)
Categories
Provenance
Searching "mind" and "mirror" 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>
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
