"There is a Dropsy, in his Mind, and his Thirst augments, with drinking."
— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
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Place of Publication
London
Date
Monday, August 24. 1724
Metaphor
"There is a Dropsy, in his Mind, and his Thirst augments, with drinking."
Metaphor in Context
The restless, but unwearied, Lover, seeks for himself, out of himself: Let him gaze, touch, listen, and be bless'd, for ever, yet, still, he longs, and is unsatisfied!--There is a Dropsy, in his Mind, and his Thirst augments, with drinking.--His Soul is either not at home, or in a starting, and impatient Posture.--If he presses his Charmer's Hand, it darts, with Violence, into his Fingers. If he leans at her lov'd Side, it beats against his Breast, as if it would break its Prison, to be nearer her. When she speaks, it is in his Ear: When he looks on her, it is in his Eye: But, he has no Soul at all, when she is absent.
(pp. 381-2)
(pp. 381-2)
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Provenance
ECCO-TCP
Citation
Text from The Plain Dealer: Being Select Essays on Several Curious Subjects: Relating to Friendship, ... Poetry, and Other Branches of Polite Literature. Publish'd originally in the year 1724. And Now First Collected into Two Volumes (London: Printed for S. Richardson, and A. Wilde, 1730.) <Link to Vol. I in ECCO-TCP><Link to Vol. II in ECCO-TCP>
Date of Entry
08/17/2013
