"I really begin to think that his heart is 'soused in snow,' as Madame de l'Enclos says of Sevigné, which neither your bright eyes or mine can thaw."
— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for T. Cadell
Date
1776
Metaphor
"I really begin to think that his heart is 'soused in snow,' as Madame de l'Enclos says of Sevigné, which neither your bright eyes or mine can thaw."
Metaphor in Context
O MARIA! how do I curse the day that I left my own country for this land of savages.--Though, to be just, I must allow that the once highly favoured Evelyn is a more inhuman being than any I have yet seen here.--What an escape had you, my dear girl, of this same isicle? I really begin to think that his heart is "soused in snow," as Madame de l'Enclos says of Sevigné, which neither your bright eyes or mine can thaw. I am sincerely sorry that I have given myself so much trouble about such an insensible wretch.--I could almost go mad with vexation, if it were not for the comfortable remembrance of his having slipt through your fingers, when you thought yourself almost sure of him--pardon me, Maria, for confessing that this circumstance abates my mortification a little.
(II, 18-19)
(II, 18-19)
Categories
Provenance
ECCO-TCP
Citation
2 entries in ESTC (1776).
The Story of Lady Juliana Harley: A Novel. In Letters. By Mrs. Griffith (London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1776). <Link to Vol. I in ECCO-TCP><Link to Vol. II in ECCO-TCP>
The Story of Lady Juliana Harley: A Novel. In Letters. By Mrs. Griffith (London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1776). <Link to Vol. I in ECCO-TCP><Link to Vol. II in ECCO-TCP>
Date of Entry
08/19/2013
