"Rage and Despair have broke upon my Soul, / And wash'd away all Patience."
— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for L. Gilliver
Date
1731
Metaphor
"Rage and Despair have broke upon my Soul, / And wash'd away all Patience."
Metaphor in Context
Leolyn.
Patience!--Curse Patience: why dost thou talk of Patience,
With the same Breath, the same cold, tasteless, Calmness
That spoke Distraction to me? Hast thou not told me
That she confesses it? that this proud Beauty,
This haughty, fierce, disdainful, marbly Vertue,
That scorn'd my honest Passion; this austere Frowner!
Has been--Perdition on the Name! 'Twou'd choak me.--
Hast thou not fir'd me with the basest Truth
That ever stung the Heart of a Fool Lover!
And dost thou talk of Patience?--Give it to Statesmen;
I spurn the servile Lesson. Patience! said'st thou?
Rage and Despair have broke upon my Soul,
And wash'd away all Patience.
(p. 29)
Patience!--Curse Patience: why dost thou talk of Patience,
With the same Breath, the same cold, tasteless, Calmness
That spoke Distraction to me? Hast thou not told me
That she confesses it? that this proud Beauty,
This haughty, fierce, disdainful, marbly Vertue,
That scorn'd my honest Passion; this austere Frowner!
Has been--Perdition on the Name! 'Twou'd choak me.--
Hast thou not fir'd me with the basest Truth
That ever stung the Heart of a Fool Lover!
And dost thou talk of Patience?--Give it to Statesmen;
I spurn the servile Lesson. Patience! said'st thou?
Rage and Despair have broke upon my Soul,
And wash'd away all Patience.
(p. 29)
Categories
Provenance
ECCO-TCP
Citation
3 entries in the ESTC (1731, 1732, 1760).
Athelwold: a Tragedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, by His Majesty's Servants. (London: Printed for L. Gilliver, 1731.) <Link to ECCO-TCP>
Athelwold: a Tragedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, by His Majesty's Servants. (London: Printed for L. Gilliver, 1731.) <Link to ECCO-TCP>
Date of Entry
08/21/2013
