"That fiery thought / Glows in my breast; and as I weigh my wrongs, / I swell like Ætna, when her sulph'rous rage / Bursts o'er the earth, and rolls in floods of fire."
— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)
Work Title
Place of Publication
Printed for Samuel Chapman
Publisher
London
Date
1724
Metaphor
"That fiery thought / Glows in my breast; and as I weigh my wrongs, / I swell like Ætna, when her sulph'rous rage / Bursts o'er the earth, and rolls in floods of fire."
Metaphor in Context
NORTHAMPTON.
He did, nor think that I forget he did it:
My genius, baleful as a comet's blaze,
Hangs o'er his head, and burns with red revenge!
Nay, he's my rival too!--That fiery thought
Glows in my breast; and as I weigh my wrongs,
I swell like Ætna, when her sulph'rous rage
Bursts o'er the earth, and rolls in floods of fire.
(p. 120)
He did, nor think that I forget he did it:
My genius, baleful as a comet's blaze,
Hangs o'er his head, and burns with red revenge!
Nay, he's my rival too!--That fiery thought
Glows in my breast; and as I weigh my wrongs,
I swell like Ætna, when her sulph'rous rage
Bursts o'er the earth, and rolls in floods of fire.
(p. 120)
Categories
Provenance
Searching in Lion
Citation
4 entries in ESTC (1724, 1777, 1779).
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>
Searching The Works of Richard Savage(London: Printed for T. Evans, 1777), from which the text is drawn.
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>
Searching The Works of Richard Savage(London: Printed for T. Evans, 1777), from which the text is drawn.
Date of Entry
08/16/2013
