"Time presses, and a thousand crowding Thoughts / Break in at once; this Way and that they snatch, / They tear my hurry'd Soul. All claim Attention, / And yet not one is heard."
— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for Bernard Lintott
Date
1714
Metaphor
"Time presses, and a thousand crowding Thoughts / Break in at once; this Way and that they snatch, / They tear my hurry'd Soul. All claim Attention, / And yet not one is heard."
Metaphor in Context
LORD HASTINGS
Speak, and give Ease to thy conflicting Passions:
Be quick, nor keep me longer in Suspence.
Time presses, and a thousand crowding Thoughts
Break in at once; this Way and that they snatch,
They tear my hurry'd Soul. All claim Attention,
And yet not one is heard. Oh speak and leave me,
For I have Business would employ an Age,
And but a Minute's Time to get it done in.
(IV.i, p. 44)
Speak, and give Ease to thy conflicting Passions:
Be quick, nor keep me longer in Suspence.
Time presses, and a thousand crowding Thoughts
Break in at once; this Way and that they snatch,
They tear my hurry'd Soul. All claim Attention,
And yet not one is heard. Oh speak and leave me,
For I have Business would employ an Age,
And but a Minute's Time to get it done in.
(IV.i, p. 44)
Categories
Provenance
C-H Lion
Citation
Over seventy entries in the ESTC (1714, 1719, 1720, 1723, 1726, 1728, 1731, 1733, 1735, 1736, 1740, 1746, 1748, 1751, 1752, 1754, 1755, 1756, 1758, 1760, 1761, 1764, 1765, 1767, 1768, 1770, 1772, 1773, 1774, 1780, 1783, 1784, 1785, 1786, 1787, 1790, 1791).
See The Tragedy of Jane Shore. Written in Imitation of Shakespear's Style. By N. Rowe (London: Printed for Bernard Lintott, 1714).
See The Tragedy of Jane Shore. Written in Imitation of Shakespear's Style. By N. Rowe (London: Printed for Bernard Lintott, 1714).
Date of Entry
07/20/2013
