"Gods, steel my injur'd heart!"
— Cradock, Joseph (1742-1826)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for T. Cadell
Date
1762
Metaphor
"Gods, steel my injur'd heart!"
Metaphor in Context
ATHAMAND.
I stand immoveable—O heaven! O destiny!
O! fatal passion, bent on my destruction!
Gone! Is he fled?—would he not stay to hear?
The fiercest Daemon of infernal vengeance
Might glut his rage to see a monarch humbled.
But say, my Hasan, why yon altar burns?
Those lights? those garlands?—Why the nuptial torch?
A woman too was dragg'd in haste away
At our approach—Ye pow'rs! What have I seen?
Remorse will change to an avenging fury!
Gods, steel my injur'd heart!
(p. 25)
I stand immoveable—O heaven! O destiny!
O! fatal passion, bent on my destruction!
Gone! Is he fled?—would he not stay to hear?
The fiercest Daemon of infernal vengeance
Might glut his rage to see a monarch humbled.
But say, my Hasan, why yon altar burns?
Those lights? those garlands?—Why the nuptial torch?
A woman too was dragg'd in haste away
At our approach—Ye pow'rs! What have I seen?
Remorse will change to an avenging fury!
Gods, steel my injur'd heart!
(p. 25)
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Provenance
Searching "steel" and "heart" in ECCO-TCP
Citation
5 entries in ESTC (1762, 1771, 1772).
Based on based on Voltaire's Les Scythes. See Zobeide. A Tragedy: As It Is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden. (London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1762). <Link to ECCO-TCP>
Based on based on Voltaire's Les Scythes. See Zobeide. A Tragedy: As It Is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden. (London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1762). <Link to ECCO-TCP>
Date of Entry
03/12/2014
