"When honour lights up love, / Th' illumin'd soul burns lambent with a flame, / Pure as the hallow'd altars--Such my hope!"
— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)
Work Title
Place of Publication
Printed for Samuel Chapman
Publisher
London
Date
1724
Metaphor
"When honour lights up love, / Th' illumin'd soul burns lambent with a flame, / Pure as the hallow'd altars--Such my hope!"
Metaphor in Context
CLEORA.
Why start you, calm, insulting man?
Is love a crime too great to be forgiven?
But thy cold soul admits no warmth of passion:
I, like the sun, darted too fierce a blaze!
Yet, thy chill wishes
Dawn'd some sick hope, when Isabella's eyes,
Like a pale moon, gleam'd her faint beams upon thee.
OVERBURY.
How! knows she that?
[Aside.]
When honour lights up love,
Th' illumin'd soul burns lambent with a flame,
Pure as the hallow'd altars--Such my hope!
Such were the wishes mov'd by Isabella.
(III.i pp. 153-4)
Why start you, calm, insulting man?
Is love a crime too great to be forgiven?
But thy cold soul admits no warmth of passion:
I, like the sun, darted too fierce a blaze!
Yet, thy chill wishes
Dawn'd some sick hope, when Isabella's eyes,
Like a pale moon, gleam'd her faint beams upon thee.
OVERBURY.
How! knows she that?
[Aside.]
When honour lights up love,
Th' illumin'd soul burns lambent with a flame,
Pure as the hallow'd altars--Such my hope!
Such were the wishes mov'd by Isabella.
(III.i pp. 153-4)
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
