"But, O, my brother! if thou hast a heart / That is not steel'd with stoic apathy / Against the magic of all-conqu'ring love, / Beware of beauty's pow'r; for she has charms / Wou'd melt the frozen breast of hoary age, / Or draw the lonely hermit from his cell / To gaze upon her."
— Francklin, Thomas (1721-1784)
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for T. Cadell
Date
1775
Metaphor
"But, O, my brother! if thou hast a heart / That is not steel'd with stoic apathy / Against the magic of all-conqu'ring love, / Beware of beauty's pow'r; for she has charms / Wou'd melt the frozen breast of hoary age, / Or draw the lonely hermit from his cell / To gaze upon her."
Metaphor in Context
MORCAR.
I'll send a trusty slave
That shall conduct thee to her. Soon I mean
To follow thee—away—begone and prosper.
But, O, my brother! if thou hast a heart
That is not steel'd with stoic apathy
Against the magic of all-conqu'ring love,
Beware of beauty's pow'r; for she has charms
Wou'd melt the frozen breast of hoary age,
Or draw the lonely hermit from his cell
To gaze upon her.
(II, p. 34)
I'll send a trusty slave
That shall conduct thee to her. Soon I mean
To follow thee—away—begone and prosper.
But, O, my brother! if thou hast a heart
That is not steel'd with stoic apathy
Against the magic of all-conqu'ring love,
Beware of beauty's pow'r; for she has charms
Wou'd melt the frozen breast of hoary age,
Or draw the lonely hermit from his cell
To gaze upon her.
(II, p. 34)
Categories
Provenance
Searching "steel" and "heart" in ECCO-TCP
Citation
3 entries in ESTC (1775).
Text from Matilda: a Tragedy. As It Is Performed at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. By the Author of the Earl of Warwick. (London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1775). <Link to ECCO-TCP>
Text from Matilda: a Tragedy. As It Is Performed at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. By the Author of the Earl of Warwick. (London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1775). <Link to ECCO-TCP>
Date of Entry
03/13/2014
