"Coriolanus has here carried his sternness, and the strained principles of stoical pride, whose throne is only in the mind, as far as they could go; and now great Nature, whose more sovereign seat of empire is in the heart, takes her turn to triumph; for upon the joint prayers, tears, and intreaties of his family, he becomes a man, at last."
— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for T. Cadell
Date
1775
Metaphor
"Coriolanus has here carried his sternness, and the strained principles of stoical pride, whose throne is only in the mind, as far as they could go; and now great Nature, whose more sovereign seat of empire is in the heart, takes her turn to triumph; for upon the joint prayers, tears, and intreaties of his family, he becomes a man, at last."
Metaphor in Context
Coriolanus has here carried his sternness, and the strained principles of stoical pride, whose throne is only in the mind, as far as they could go; and now great Nature, whose more sovereign seat of empire is in the heart, takes her turn to triumph; for upon the joint prayers, tears, and intreaties of his family, he becomes a man, at last, crying out--
Not of a woman's tenderness to be,
Requires nor child, nor woman's face to see--
I've sat too long.
Endeavours to go, but is withheld.
(p. 444)
Not of a woman's tenderness to be,
Requires nor child, nor woman's face to see--
I've sat too long.
Endeavours to go, but is withheld.
(p. 444)
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Citation
3 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1775, 1777).
Text from The Morality of Shakespeare's Drama Illustrated: By Mrs. Griffith. (London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1775). <Link to ECCO-TCP>
Text from The Morality of Shakespeare's Drama Illustrated: By Mrs. Griffith. (London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1775). <Link to ECCO-TCP>
Date of Entry
11/15/2013
