"Consider; Gwendolen, my lasting Passion; / A Passion, that, through Time, takes deeper Root; / A Love, that, spight of Absence, hourly grows; / In spight even of Despair:--Yet, will I not / Despair; since Fortune favours thus my Hopes."
— Philips, Ambrose (1674-1749)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for B. Lintot
Date
1722
Metaphor
"Consider; Gwendolen, my lasting Passion; / A Passion, that, through Time, takes deeper Root; / A Love, that, spight of Absence, hourly grows; / In spight even of Despair:--Yet, will I not / Despair; since Fortune favours thus my Hopes."
Metaphor in Context
Val.
What then have I endured!--Revolving Moons;
Divided from your Presence; from my Bliss.
And, do you wish already to be gone!
And, can you not allow me one short Day,
One Hour to renew my ardent Vows,
And breathe my tender Sighs once more, before you?
Those Sighs, that nightly fill my silent Tent,
And keep me waking on my lonely Couch.
Consider; Gwendolen, my lasting Passion;
A Passion, that, through Time, takes deeper Root;
A Love, that, spight of Absence, hourly grows;
In spight even of Despair:--Yet, will I not
Despair; since Fortune favours thus my Hopes.
(IV.vi, pp. 48-9)
What then have I endured!--Revolving Moons;
Divided from your Presence; from my Bliss.
And, do you wish already to be gone!
And, can you not allow me one short Day,
One Hour to renew my ardent Vows,
And breathe my tender Sighs once more, before you?
Those Sighs, that nightly fill my silent Tent,
And keep me waking on my lonely Couch.
Consider; Gwendolen, my lasting Passion;
A Passion, that, through Time, takes deeper Root;
A Love, that, spight of Absence, hourly grows;
In spight even of Despair:--Yet, will I not
Despair; since Fortune favours thus my Hopes.
(IV.vi, pp. 48-9)
Categories
Provenance
ECCO-TCP
Citation
At least 4 entries in the ESTC (1722, 1725).
The Briton: A Tragedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane by His Majesty's Servants. By Mr. Philips. (London: Printed for B. Lintot, 1722). <Link to ECCO>
The Briton: A Tragedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane by His Majesty's Servants. By Mr. Philips. (London: Printed for B. Lintot, 1722). <Link to ECCO>
Date of Entry
08/25/2013
