"The happiness of love, the felicities that flow from a suitable union, his heart shall be a stranger to"

— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)


Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for the Author
Date
February 15, 1776
Metaphor
"The happiness of love, the felicities that flow from a suitable union, his heart shall be a stranger to"
Metaphor in Context
MR. D.
My Son shall be a great Man!--To such a vanity as this how many have been sacrificed!--He shall be great!--The happiness of love, the felicities that flow from a suitable union, his heart shall be a stranger to--but he shall convey my name, deck'd with titles, to posterity, though, to purchase these distinctions, he lives a wretc. --This is the silent language of the heart, which we hold up to ourselves as the voice of Reason and Prudence.

Enter
Emily.

Miss Morley!--Why this pensive air?
Provenance
Searching "heart" and "stranger" in HDIS (Drama)
Citation
First performed February 15, 1776. 6 entries in ESTC (1776, 1790).

The Runaway, a Comedy: As It Is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. (London: Printed for the Author; and sold by Mr. Dodsley; Mr. Becket, and Mr. Cadell; Mr. Langman; and Carnan and Newbery, 1776). <Link to ECCO-TCP>
Date of Entry
03/06/2006

The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.