"Philosophy was incapable of affording her any Relief, and all her Reason served only to paint the Unhappiness of her Condition in the stronger Colours."
— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
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Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for S. Baker
Date
1736
Metaphor
"Philosophy was incapable of affording her any Relief, and all her Reason served only to paint the Unhappiness of her Condition in the stronger Colours."
Metaphor in Context
All seem'd deaf to her Entreaties, and her Misfortune certain and irremedible. Horror and wild Astonishment now seiz'd every Faculty; she stood motionless, and even bereft of Thought for some Moments; but cruel Recollection soon bringing to her mind the Value of what she had been deprived of, the Manner of her Loss, and the Mischiefs which were to ensue, an adequate Despair succeeded: Philosophy was incapable of affording her any Relief, and all her Reason served only to paint the Unhappiness of her Condition in the stronger Colours. With her Lamentations she could not restrain herself from mingling Repinings: Since so much depended on the keeping that fatal Jewel, said she, why was it intrusted to one of my weak Sex? Why was it not rather enclos'd in a brazen Tower, guarded by fiery Dragons, and inaccessible to all the Efforts of Man, or Beast, or Fiend? -- Why did not the divine Aiou protect his Workmanship? — Why suffer so silly, so inconsiderable an Animal, to prophane the hallowed Relique? -- Or why, continued she, in the bitterest Anguish of Soul, did he at all make what he foresaw the Fates were resolute to destroy? — And why, O why, was it ordain'd, that the Blessings of fifteen hundred Years must end in me? —— Why am I alone, of my whole Race, born to feel and give Calamity, who am the least able to sustain it in my self, or afford Relief to others?
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Citation
4 entries in ESTC (1736, 1741). Retitled in second edition as The Unfortunate Princess: or the Life and Surprizing Adventures of the Princess of Ijaveo.
See Adventures of Eovaai. Princess of Ijaveo. A Pre-Adamitical History. Interspersed with a great Number of remarkable Occurrences, which happened, and may again happen, to several Empires, Kingdoms, Republicks, and particular Great Men. With some Account of the Religion, Laws, Customs, and Policies of those Times. Written originally in the Language of Nature, (of later Years but little understood.) First translated into Chinese, at the command of the Emperor, by a Cabal of Seventy Philosophers; and now retranslated into English, by the Son of a Mandarin, residing in London. (London: Printed for S. Baker, 1736). <Link to ESTC><Link to ECCO>
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See Adventures of Eovaai. Princess of Ijaveo. A Pre-Adamitical History. Interspersed with a great Number of remarkable Occurrences, which happened, and may again happen, to several Empires, Kingdoms, Republicks, and particular Great Men. With some Account of the Religion, Laws, Customs, and Policies of those Times. Written originally in the Language of Nature, (of later Years but little understood.) First translated into Chinese, at the command of the Emperor, by a Cabal of Seventy Philosophers; and now retranslated into English, by the Son of a Mandarin, residing in London. (London: Printed for S. Baker, 1736). <Link to ESTC><Link to ECCO>
Text from Women Writers Online. <Link to WWO>
Date of Entry
09/23/2013
