"Sad, for the Tragic Scene, your Hearts prepare, / Where Love kills Friendship, and awakes Despair; / Where cherish'd Mischiefs tow'r above Controul, / And warring Passions rend the tortur'd Soul!"
— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for Samuel Chapman
Date
1724
Metaphor
"Sad, for the Tragic Scene, your Hearts prepare, / Where Love kills Friendship, and awakes Despair; / Where cherish'd Mischiefs tow'r above Controul, / And warring Passions rend the tortur'd Soul!"
Metaphor in Context
Sad, for the Tragic Scene, your Hearts prepare,
Where Love kills Friendship, and awakes Despair;
Where cherish'd Mischiefs tow'r above Controul,
And warring Passions rend the tortur'd Soul!
Taught by the pictur'd Woes, which weep, to-night,
Let long-weigh'd Caution guide your Wishes right;
Slow, thro' your Eyes, give smiling Ruin Way;
Love, by That Pass, but enters to betray!
Beauty fades fast—nor will its transient Grace
Sooth the sick Bosom, when the Thought takes Place.
(p. 13)
Where Love kills Friendship, and awakes Despair;
Where cherish'd Mischiefs tow'r above Controul,
And warring Passions rend the tortur'd Soul!
Taught by the pictur'd Woes, which weep, to-night,
Let long-weigh'd Caution guide your Wishes right;
Slow, thro' your Eyes, give smiling Ruin Way;
Love, by That Pass, but enters to betray!
Beauty fades fast—nor will its transient Grace
Sooth the sick Bosom, when the Thought takes Place.
(p. 13)
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Provenance
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Citation
See The Tragedy of Sir Thomas Overbury: As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane (London: Printed for Samuel Chapman, 1724). <Link to ECCO-TCP>
Date of Entry
08/16/2013
