"Passions, and snow balls each by motion swell, / And Kitty finds her little heart rebel; / Full of desires she sighs for this, and that, / Her heart for ev'ry man goes pit-a-pat."
— Thompson, Edward (1738-1786)
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London
Date
1765, 1770
Metaphor
"Passions, and snow balls each by motion swell, / And Kitty finds her little heart rebel; / Full of desires she sighs for this, and that, / Her heart for ev'ry man goes pit-a-pat."
Metaphor in Context
Such is the girl, love nestling in her eye,
In vain she strives, love gives her tongue the lye;
Melting like dripping at the Bedford fire,
She seeks the Park to quench the fierce desire:
Chooses the shadiest part, grows sick of light,
And every moment seems an age to night:
By passions torn, by prudence check'd she roves,
Now firm to yield, and now she flies the groves:
Resolv'd to speak, she stops, shame warms her cheek,
She won't, she will, she can, she cannot speak:
Amidst these conflicts Me---d---t appears,
The smoothest, greyest villain of his years;
With sugar'd speeches moves the doubtful part,
And conquer'd Kitty, sighs beneath the smart.
Passions, and snow balls each by motion swell,
And Kitty finds her little heart rebel;
Full of desires she sighs for this, and that,
Her heart for ev'ry man goes pit-a-pat;
Thus by degrees she steps upon the Town,
And what's so common pray, as Kitty Brown?
(ll. 151-170)
In vain she strives, love gives her tongue the lye;
Melting like dripping at the Bedford fire,
She seeks the Park to quench the fierce desire:
Chooses the shadiest part, grows sick of light,
And every moment seems an age to night:
By passions torn, by prudence check'd she roves,
Now firm to yield, and now she flies the groves:
Resolv'd to speak, she stops, shame warms her cheek,
She won't, she will, she can, she cannot speak:
Amidst these conflicts Me---d---t appears,
The smoothest, greyest villain of his years;
With sugar'd speeches moves the doubtful part,
And conquer'd Kitty, sighs beneath the smart.
Passions, and snow balls each by motion swell,
And Kitty finds her little heart rebel;
Full of desires she sighs for this, and that,
Her heart for ev'ry man goes pit-a-pat;
Thus by degrees she steps upon the Town,
And what's so common pray, as Kitty Brown?
(ll. 151-170)
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Citation
4 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1765, 1770).
Text from The Court of Cupid. By the Author of the Meretriciad. Containing the Eighth Edition of the Meretriciad, with Great Additions. 2 vols. (London: Printed for C. Moran, 1770).
See also The Courtesan. By the Author of the Meretriciad. (London: Printed for J. Harrison, in Covent Garden, 1765). <Link to ESTC>
Text from The Court of Cupid. By the Author of the Meretriciad. Containing the Eighth Edition of the Meretriciad, with Great Additions. 2 vols. (London: Printed for C. Moran, 1770).
See also The Courtesan. By the Author of the Meretriciad. (London: Printed for J. Harrison, in Covent Garden, 1765). <Link to ESTC>
Date of Entry
10/28/2013
