"Tears from our sex are not always the result of grief; they are frequently no more than little sympathetic tributes which we pay to our fellow-beings, while the mind and the heart are steeled against the weakness which our eyes indicate"

— Inchbald [née Simpson], Elizabeth (1753-1821)


Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson
Date
1793
Metaphor
"Tears from our sex are not always the result of grief; they are frequently no more than little sympathetic tributes which we pay to our fellow-beings, while the mind and the heart are steeled against the weakness which our eyes indicate"
Metaphor in Context
MISS WOOBURN.
By no means, my Lord. Tears from our sex are not always the result of grief; they are frequently no more than little sympathetic tributes which we pay to our fellow-beings, while the mind and the heart are steeled against the weakness which our eyes indicate.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "mind" and "steel" in HDIS (Drama)
Citation
First performed January 29, 1793. 11 entries in the ESTC (1793, 1794, 1795).

Every One Has His Fault: a Comedy, In Five Acts, as it is Performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent-Garden. By Mrs Inchbald (London: Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1793). <Link to ECCO>
Date of Entry
06/13/2005

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