"How far am I raised above a girl educated among antelopes; a girl, whose heart must ever be a stranger to love!"

— Jones, Sir William (1746-1794)


Place of Publication
Calcutta
Publisher
Printed and Sold by Joseph Cooper
Date
1789
Metaphor
"How far am I raised above a girl educated among antelopes; a girl, whose heart must ever be a stranger to love!"
Metaphor in Context
DUSHM.
I shall enter the forest, be assured, only through respect for its pious inhabitants; not from any inclination for the daughter of a hermit. How far am I raised above a girl educated among antelopes; a girl, whose heart must ever be a stranger to love! The tale was invented for my diversion.
Provenance
Searching "heart" and "stranger" in HDIS (Drama)
Citation
4 entries (1789, 1790, 1792, 1796).

Sacontalá, or The Fatal Ring; An Indian Drama by Cálidás: Translated from the Original Sanscrit and Prácrit (Calcutta: Printed and Sold by Joseph Cooper, 1789).
Date of Entry
03/06/2006

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