"I know it to be folly, and I will endeavour to steel my heart against this as well as other mistakes."
— Holcroft, Thomas (1745-1809)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for Shepperson and Reynolds
Date
1792
Metaphor
"I know it to be folly, and I will endeavour to steel my heart against this as well as other mistakes."
Metaphor in Context
No thoughts are so tragical, no suspicions so horrid as not to be justified, by deductions and appearances which are but too probable. Yet I will not sink under difficulties, nor be appalled at the sight of danger; be it death, or what else it may. That I am in a state of jeopardy my seizure and imprisonment prove. That Frank is still in greater peril, if still in existence, I have just cause to conclude. There were pistols fired, and one after he leaped the hedge; I know not at whom directed, nor what its fate!—I would if possible ward off apprehension. I know it to be folly, and I will endeavour to steel my heart against this as well as other mistakes. If he be dead, or if he be to die, grief will not revive or make him invulnerable. His own virtue must preserve him, or nothing can; and in that I will confide.
(VI.cxiv, pp. 207-8)
(VI.cxiv, pp. 207-8)
Categories
Provenance
Searching "heart" and "steel" in ECCO-TCP
Citation
3 entries in ESTC (1792, 1800).
Anna St. Ives: A Novel. By Thomas Holcroft. 7 vols. (London: Printed for Shepperson and Reynolds, 1792). <Link to ESTC><Link to Vol. 1 in ECCO-TCP><Vol. 2><Vol. 3><Vol. 4><Vol. 5><Vol. 6><Vol. 7>
Anna St. Ives: A Novel. By Thomas Holcroft. 7 vols. (London: Printed for Shepperson and Reynolds, 1792). <Link to ESTC><Link to Vol. 1 in ECCO-TCP><Vol. 2><Vol. 3><Vol. 4><Vol. 5><Vol. 6><Vol. 7>
Date of Entry
03/13/2014
