"This very Morning I'll prepare for Turin, / Where Time and Absence will deface the Image / Of that bewitching Beauty, which how haunts / My tortur'd Mind."

— Centlivre [née Freeman; other married name Carroll], Susanna (bap. 1669?, d. 1723)

Author

Centlivre [née Freeman; other married name Carroll], Susanna (bap. 1669?, d. 1723)

Work Title

The Perjur'd Husband: or, the Adventures of Venice. A Tragedy

Date
1700
Metaphor
"This very Morning I'll prepare for Turin, / Where Time and Absence will deface the Image / Of that bewitching Beauty, which how haunts / My tortur'd Mind."
Metaphor in Context
BASSINO.
Thanks for your Counsel--
You like a God support my feeble Virtue.
This very Morning I'll prepare for Turin,
Where Time and Absence will deface the Image
Of that bewitching Beauty, which how haunts
My tortur'd Mind--Yet, first I'll take my Leave
Of this fair Charmer--And Heaven grant
That I may see her unconcern'd--
(p. 16)
Categories
Uncategorized::Defacing Uncategorized::Image Uncategorized::Haunting
Provenance
ECCO-TCP
Citation
3 entries in ESTC (1700, 1720, 1737)

See The Perjur'd Husband: or, the Adventures of Venice. A Tragedy. As 'Twas Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, by His Majesty's Servants. Written by S. Carroll. (London: Printed for Bennet Banbury, at the Blue Anchor in the New Exchange in the Strand, 1700).<Link to ESTC>

Text from The Perjur'd Husband: or, the Adventures of Venice. A Tragedy. As It Is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. by His Majesty's Servants. Written by Mrs. Centlivre. (London: Printed for W. Feales, 1737). <>
Date of Entry
03/12/2014

The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.