"My flame revives!--each fit comes stronger on me! / Varying convulsions torture every nerve! / I love! I rage!--hate--fear--and love again! / And burn, and die with a whole war of passions!"
— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)
Work Title
Place of Publication
Printed for Samuel Chapman
Publisher
London
Date
1724
Metaphor
"My flame revives!--each fit comes stronger on me! / Varying convulsions torture every nerve! / I love! I rage!--hate--fear--and love again! / And burn, and die with a whole war of passions!"
Metaphor in Context
CLEORA.
Fain wou'd I--but all thought forsakes me!
My flame revives!--each fit comes stronger on me!
Varying convulsions torture every nerve!
I love! I rage!--hate--fear--and love again!
And burn, and die with a whole war of passions!
(IV.i, p. 166)
Fain wou'd I--but all thought forsakes me!
My flame revives!--each fit comes stronger on me!
Varying convulsions torture every nerve!
I love! I rage!--hate--fear--and love again!
And burn, and die with a whole war of passions!
(IV.i, p. 166)
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
