"Then Clifford, were thy Heart as hard as Steel, / As thou hast shown it flinty by thy Deeds, / I come to pierce it, or to give thee mine."
— Cibber, Theophilus (1703-1758)
Date
1723
Metaphor
"Then Clifford, were thy Heart as hard as Steel, / As thou hast shown it flinty by thy Deeds, / I come to pierce it, or to give thee mine."
Metaphor in Context
RICHARD.
Then Clifford, were thy Heart as hard as Steel,
As thou hast shown it flinty by thy Deeds,
I come to pierce it, or to give thee mine.
(III.i, p. 28).
Then Clifford, were thy Heart as hard as Steel,
As thou hast shown it flinty by thy Deeds,
I come to pierce it, or to give thee mine.
(III.i, p. 28).
Categories
Provenance
Searching "heart" and "steel" in ECCO-TCP
Citation
Only 1 entry in ESTC (1723).
An Historical Tragedy of the Civil Wars in the Reign of King Henry VI. (Being a Sequel to the Tragedy of Humfrey Duke of Gloucester: and a Introduction to the Tragical History of King Richard III.) Alter’d from Shakespear, in the Year 1720. By Theo. Cibber. (London: Printed for J. Walthoe, Jun. in Cornhill; W. Chetwood, in Russel-Street, Covent-Garden; and J. Stagg, in Westminster-Hall: and sold by J. Roberts, in Warwick-Lane, [1723?]). <Link to ESTC><Link to ECCO-TCP>
An Historical Tragedy of the Civil Wars in the Reign of King Henry VI. (Being a Sequel to the Tragedy of Humfrey Duke of Gloucester: and a Introduction to the Tragical History of King Richard III.) Alter’d from Shakespear, in the Year 1720. By Theo. Cibber. (London: Printed for J. Walthoe, Jun. in Cornhill; W. Chetwood, in Russel-Street, Covent-Garden; and J. Stagg, in Westminster-Hall: and sold by J. Roberts, in Warwick-Lane, [1723?]). <Link to ESTC><Link to ECCO-TCP>
Date of Entry
03/12/2014
