"Shalt thou inflame me thus,--Unseat my Soul; / Tear out wrong'd Patience from my bleeding Heart, / And work me into Tempest!"
— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for L. Gilliver
Date
1731
Metaphor
"Shalt thou inflame me thus,--Unseat my Soul; / Tear out wrong'd Patience from my bleeding Heart, / And work me into Tempest!"
Metaphor in Context
Athelwold.
Tortures and Fire!
Shalt thou inflame me thus,--Unseat my Soul;
Tear out wrong'd Patience from my bleeding Heart,
And work me into Tempest! Then grow cool,
And, insolently mild, with Stoick Tameness,
Hope,--thou coud'st stop me, in the steepest Fall
Of my whole hurried Vengeance.--No,--if thou wait'st
New Provocation, it attends thy Call;
This will enrage thee, to renew thy Rashness;
[Strikes him.]
And meet the Death I mean thee.
(p. 39)
Tortures and Fire!
Shalt thou inflame me thus,--Unseat my Soul;
Tear out wrong'd Patience from my bleeding Heart,
And work me into Tempest! Then grow cool,
And, insolently mild, with Stoick Tameness,
Hope,--thou coud'st stop me, in the steepest Fall
Of my whole hurried Vengeance.--No,--if thou wait'st
New Provocation, it attends thy Call;
This will enrage thee, to renew thy Rashness;
[Strikes him.]
And meet the Death I mean thee.
(p. 39)
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
