"I am all / That's left to calm, to sooth his troubled Soul, / To Penitence, to Virtue; and perhaps / Restore the better Empire o'er his Mind, / True Seat of all Dominion."
— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for R. Dodsley
Date
1739
Metaphor
"I am all / That's left to calm, to sooth his troubled Soul, / To Penitence, to Virtue; and perhaps / Restore the better Empire o'er his Mind, / True Seat of all Dominion."
Metaphor in Context
CRISTINA.
O delightful Notes!
That I do love thee, yes, tis true, my Lord.
The Bond of Virtue, Friendship's sacred Tie,
The Lover's Pains, and all the Sisters Fondness,
Mine has the Flame of ev'ry Love within it.
But I have a Father, guilty if he be,
Yet is he old; if cruel, yet a Father.
Abandon'd now by ev'ry supple Wretch
That fed his Years with Flattery. I am all
That's left to calm, to sooth his troubled Soul,
To Penitence, to Virtue; and perhaps
Restore the better Empire o'er his Mind,
True Seat of all Dominion--Yet Gustavus
Yet there are mightier Reasons--O farewell!
Had I ne'er lov'd I might have stay'd with Honour.
(p. 80)
O delightful Notes!
That I do love thee, yes, tis true, my Lord.
The Bond of Virtue, Friendship's sacred Tie,
The Lover's Pains, and all the Sisters Fondness,
Mine has the Flame of ev'ry Love within it.
But I have a Father, guilty if he be,
Yet is he old; if cruel, yet a Father.
Abandon'd now by ev'ry supple Wretch
That fed his Years with Flattery. I am all
That's left to calm, to sooth his troubled Soul,
To Penitence, to Virtue; and perhaps
Restore the better Empire o'er his Mind,
True Seat of all Dominion--Yet Gustavus
Yet there are mightier Reasons--O farewell!
Had I ne'er lov'd I might have stay'd with Honour.
(p. 80)
Categories
Provenance
LION
Citation
21 entries in the ESTC (1739, 1753, 1761, 1763, 1773, 1778, 1780, 1791, 1792, 1794, 1796).
Gustavus Vasa, the Deliverer of His Country. A Tragedy. As It Was to Have Been Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. by Henry Brooke (London: Printed for R. Dodsley, 1739). <Link to ESTC>
Gustavus Vasa, the Deliverer of His Country. A Tragedy. As It Was to Have Been Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. by Henry Brooke (London: Printed for R. Dodsley, 1739). <Link to ESTC>
Date of Entry
09/16/2013
