"yet the soul, / Like a soft babe, inur'd to foolish fondness, / Is hard to wean from wailing."
— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)
Work Title
Place of Publication
Printed for Samuel Chapman
Publisher
London
Date
1724
Metaphor
"yet the soul, / Like a soft babe, inur'd to foolish fondness, / Is hard to wean from wailing."
Metaphor in Context
SOMERSET.
Ay, mention those, and I relapse to fury!
My restless thoughts drive round like veering winds,
Forgetful of their center!--yet the soul,
Like a soft babe, inur'd to foolish fondness,
Is hard to wean from wailing--Oh! forgive me:
'Tis the last struggle of expiring friendship.
(III.i, p. 149)
Ay, mention those, and I relapse to fury!
My restless thoughts drive round like veering winds,
Forgetful of their center!--yet the soul,
Like a soft babe, inur'd to foolish fondness,
Is hard to wean from wailing--Oh! forgive me:
'Tis the last struggle of expiring friendship.
(III.i, p. 149)
Categories
Provenance
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
