"Ha!--what a shoot was there!--my blood boils in me! / Flames wind about my breast--my brain burns red, / And my eyes swim in a blue sea of sulphur!"
— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)
Work Title
Place of Publication
Printed for Samuel Chapman
Publisher
London
Date
1724
Metaphor
"Ha!--what a shoot was there!--my blood boils in me! / Flames wind about my breast--my brain burns red, / And my eyes swim in a blue sea of sulphur!"
Metaphor in Context
OVERBURY.
Ha!--what a shoot was there!--my blood boils in me!
Flames wind about my breast--my brain burns red,
And my eyes swim in a blue sea of sulphur!
Stand off!--and let me breathe!--what's that grim form,
That stalks along! and creeps so pale upon me?
I know the meagre phantom now!--'tis death!
He's gone!--and now the heav'ns all open to me!
A flight of angels swoop upon my head,
And clap their wings about me!
(V.i, pp. 181-2)
Ha!--what a shoot was there!--my blood boils in me!
Flames wind about my breast--my brain burns red,
And my eyes swim in a blue sea of sulphur!
Stand off!--and let me breathe!--what's that grim form,
That stalks along! and creeps so pale upon me?
I know the meagre phantom now!--'tis death!
He's gone!--and now the heav'ns all open to me!
A flight of angels swoop upon my head,
And clap their wings about me!
(V.i, pp. 181-2)
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
