"The first time I saw you, you left me with the pangs of love upon me; and this day my soul has quite given up her liberty."
— Etherege, Sir George (1636-1691/2)
Work Title
Date
1676
Metaphor
"The first time I saw you, you left me with the pangs of love upon me; and this day my soul has quite given up her liberty."
Metaphor in Context
HARRIET
To a great, rambling, lone house that looks as it were not inhabited, the family's so small. There you'll find my mother, an old lame aunt, and myself, sir, perched up on chairs at a distance in a large parlor, sitting moping like three or four melancholy birds in a spacious volary. Does not this stagger your resolution?
DORIMANT
Not at all, madam. The first time I saw you, you left me with the pangs of love upon me; and this day my soul has quite given up her liberty.
(Act V, scene ii, p. 149-50)
To a great, rambling, lone house that looks as it were not inhabited, the family's so small. There you'll find my mother, an old lame aunt, and myself, sir, perched up on chairs at a distance in a large parlor, sitting moping like three or four melancholy birds in a spacious volary. Does not this stagger your resolution?
DORIMANT
Not at all, madam. The first time I saw you, you left me with the pangs of love upon me; and this day my soul has quite given up her liberty.
(Act V, scene ii, p. 149-50)
Categories
Provenance
Reading
Citation
McMillin, Scott, ed. Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Comedy. Norton Critical Edition. New York: Norton, 1973.
Date of Entry
07/23/2003
Date of Review
12/30/2010
