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Read & copy
“Extremes still fright me, though of love itself.”
Meaning & context
Leonora warns that even an emotion as valued as love can become frightening when it is driven to extremes.
Source details
The Revenge: A Tragedy (1721), represented by Project Gutenberg #30653. Leonora says this to Alonzo after asking him to moderate his thoughts; the surrounding scene includes jealousy, a dagger and threatened violence. The sentence is dramatic character dialogue and is not presented as Young speaking autobiographically or as clinical relationship advice.