"I not upbraid your love, but your wild passions, / Which wou'd, like envious shades, eclipse those beauties, / That else, with justice, sure, must charm mankind!"
— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)
Work Title
Place of Publication
Printed for Samuel Chapman
Publisher
London
Date
1724
Metaphor
"I not upbraid your love, but your wild passions, / Which wou'd, like envious shades, eclipse those beauties, / That else, with justice, sure, must charm mankind!"
Metaphor in Context
CLEORA.
Upbraider!
OVERBURY.
I not upbraid your love, but your wild passions,
Which wou'd, like envious shades, eclipse those beauties,
That else, with justice, sure, must charm mankind!
But, Madam, think--there's not a homely peasant,
If grac'd with innocence, tho' nurs'd in toil,
But boasts more glory than a tainted grandeur.
(III.i, pp. 154-5)
Upbraider!
OVERBURY.
I not upbraid your love, but your wild passions,
Which wou'd, like envious shades, eclipse those beauties,
That else, with justice, sure, must charm mankind!
But, Madam, think--there's not a homely peasant,
If grac'd with innocence, tho' nurs'd in toil,
But boasts more glory than a tainted grandeur.
(III.i, pp. 154-5)
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
