"Had not Guilt steel'd thy Heart, awakening Conscience / Wou'd flash Conviction on thee, and each Look, / Shot from these Eyes, be arm'd with Serpent-Horrors, / To turn thee into Stone!"
— Brown, John (1715-1766)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper
Date
1755
Metaphor
"Had not Guilt steel'd thy Heart, awakening Conscience / Wou'd flash Conviction on thee, and each Look, / Shot from these Eyes, be arm'd with Serpent-Horrors, / To turn thee into Stone!"
Metaphor in Context
ZAPHIRA.
Thou fell Destroyer!
Had not Guilt steel'd thy Heart, awak'ning Conscience
Wou'd flash Conviction on thee, and each Look,
Shot from these Eyes, be arm'd with Serpent-Horrors,
To turn thee into Stone!--Relentless Man!
Who did the bloody Deed? Oh, tremble Guilt,
Where'er thou art!--Look on me!--Tell me, Tyrant,--
Who slew my blameless Son?
(II, pp. 27-8)
Thou fell Destroyer!
Had not Guilt steel'd thy Heart, awak'ning Conscience
Wou'd flash Conviction on thee, and each Look,
Shot from these Eyes, be arm'd with Serpent-Horrors,
To turn thee into Stone!--Relentless Man!
Who did the bloody Deed? Oh, tremble Guilt,
Where'er thou art!--Look on me!--Tell me, Tyrant,--
Who slew my blameless Son?
(II, pp. 27-8)
Categories
Provenance
Searching "steel" and "heart" in ECCO-TCP
Citation
At least 23 entries in ESTC (1755, 1756, 1757, 1760, 1762, 1770, 1771, 1774, 1777, 1788, 1790, 1791, 1794, 1795).
See Barbarossa: A Tragedy. As It Is Perform'd at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. (London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1755). <Link to ECCO-TCP>
See Barbarossa: A Tragedy. As It Is Perform'd at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. (London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1755). <Link to ECCO-TCP>
Date of Entry
03/12/2014
