work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
5068,"",Searching in HDIS (Prose Fiction),2005-03-14 00:00:00 UTC,"From the very kind and warm Expressions of fatherly Fondness in this Letter, a small Ray of Hope darted into Lady Dellwyn's Mind; and she began to flatter herself, that possibly her Father might be prevailed on to apply to Lord Dellwyn in her Favour, and endeavour to dissuade him from his Resolution of exposing her publicly. But she found an almost insurmountable Difficulty in wording properly a Request of this Nature to her Father; for she dared by no means let the whole Truth appear, and yet was conscious that she was very unequal to the Task of being intelligible on such a tender Point, whilst she was under a Necessity of blending together in an artful Proportion two Things so very unmixable in their Natures as Truth and Falsehood. Innumerable were the Instances, in which, if Lady Dellwyn had been possessed of the whole World, she would gladly have resigned it all, in Exchange for the Power of boldly, and without conscious Shame, speaking freely, and throwing off the Practice of every Degree of Deceit.",,13611,"","""From the very kind and warm Expressions of fatherly Fondness in this Letter, a small Ray of Hope darted into Lady Dellwyn's Mind.""","",2014-09-02 21:28:50 UTC,"Vol. 2, Book 4, Chap. 1"
5184,"",Searching in HDIS (Prose),2006-04-21 00:00:00 UTC,"I could have resisted her beauty only, but the mind which irradiates those speaking eyes--the melting music of those gentle accents, ""soft as the fleeces of descending snows,"" the delicacy, yet lively tenderness of her sentiments --that angel innocence--that winning sweetness--the absence of her parents, and lady Anne's coquetry with lord Fondville, have given me opportunities of conversing with her, which have for ever destroyed my peace--I must tear myself from her--I will leave Belmont the moment my lord returns--I am for ever lost--doomed to wretchedness--but [Page 95] I will be wretched alone--I tremble lest my eyes should have discovered--lest pity should involve her in my misery.
Great heavens! was I not sufficiently unhappy! to stab me to the heart I have just received the following letter from lord Belmont.
(pp. 94-5)",,13968,"","""I could have resisted her beauty only, but the mind which irradiates those speaking eyes""","",2009-09-14 19:39:36 UTC,"Volume 1, Letter 18"
5507,Ruling Passion,Reading Evelina; found again searching in ECCO-TCP. ,2005-06-21 00:00:00 UTC,"I will not, therefore, enter into a contest from which I have nothing to expect but altercation and impertinence. As soon would I discuss the effect of sound with the deaf, or the nature of colours with the blind, as aim at illuminating with conviction a mind so warped by prejudice, so much the slave of unruly and illiberal passions. Unused as she is to controul, persuasion would but harden, and opposition incense her. I yield, therefore, to the necessity which compels my reluctant acquiescence, and shall now turn all my thoughts upon considering of such methods for the conducting this enterprize, as may be most conducive to the happiness of my child, and least liable to wound her sensibility.
The law-suit, therefore, I wholly and absolutely disapprove.
(I, p. 171; cf. p. 142 in Penguin)",,14754,Lockean Philosophy.,"""As soon would I discuss the effect of sound with the deaf, or the nature of colours with the blind, as aim at illuminating with conviction a mind so warped by prejudice, so much the slave of unruly and illiberal passions.""","",2014-07-23 17:42:19 UTC,"Vol I, Letter 28. Mr. Villars to Lady Howard"
5579,"","Reading Susan C. Greenfield's ""Money or Mind? Cecilia, the Novel, and the Real Madness of Selfhood"" in SECC Vol. 33, p. 55.",2005-07-21 00:00:00 UTC,"I will not, however, attempt a precise investigation of the interior movements by which I may be impelled: the intricasies of the human Heart are various and innumerable, & its feelings, upon all interesting occasions, are so minute & complex, as to baffle the power of Language. What Addison has said of the Ways of Heaven, may with much more propriety & accuracy be applied to the the Mind of Man which indeed, is
Dark & Intricate,
Filled with wild Mazes, & perplexed with Error.
(Cancelled Introduction, see p. 945 Oxford edition)",,14898,"•From the canceled preface. Greenfield notes that Burney paraphrases Addison here. Addison, I see, writes of ""The ways of heaven"" not the mind.","""What Addison has said of the Ways of Heaven, may with much more propriety & accuracy be applied to the the 'Mind of Man which indeed, is Dark & Intricate, Filled with wild Mazes, & perplexed with Error.''""","",2013-06-15 20:26:51 UTC,Cancelled Introduction
7365,"",Searching in HDIS,2013-03-23 20:32:22 UTC,"She could not write any more; she wished herself far distant from all human society; a thick gloom spread itself over her mind: but did not make her forget the very beings she wished to fly from. She sent for the poor woman she found in the garret; gave her money to clothe herself and children, and buy some furniture for a little hut, in a large garden, the master of which agreed to employ her husband, who had been bred a gardener. Mary promised to visit the family, and see their new abode when she was able to go out.",,20059,"","""She could not write any more; she wished herself far distant from all human society; a thick gloom spread itself over her mind: but did not make her forget the very beings she wished to fly from.""","",2013-03-23 20:32:22 UTC,Chapter XXIII
7365,"",Searching in HDIS,2013-03-23 20:32:36 UTC,"She could not write any more; she wished herself far distant from all human society; a thick gloom spread itself over her mind: but did not make her forget the very beings she wished to fly from. She sent for the poor woman she found in the garret; gave her money to clothe herself and children, and buy some furniture for a little hut, in a large garden, the master of which agreed to employ her husband, who had been bred a gardener. Mary promised to visit the family, and see their new abode when she was able to go out.",,20060,"",""She could not write any more; she wished herself far distant from all human society; a thick gloom spread itself over her mind: but did not make her forget the very beings she wished to fly from.""","",2013-03-23 20:32:36 UTC,Chapter XXIII
5579,"",C-H Lion,2013-06-16 20:23:40 UTC,"He stopt, and turned from her, yet could not tear himself away; he came back, he again looked at her, he hung over her in anguish unutterable; he kissed each burning hand, he folded to his bosom her feeble form, and, recovering his speech, though almost bursting with sorrow, faintly articulated, ""Is all over? no ray of reason left? no knowledge of thy wretched Delvile?--no, none! the hand of death is on her, and she is utterly gone!--sweet suffering excellence! loved, lost, expiring Cecilia!--but I will not repine! peace and kindred angels are watching to receive thee, and if thou art parted from thyself, it were impious to lament thou shouldst be parted from me.--Yet in thy tomb will be deposited all that to me could render existence supportable, every frail chance of happiness, every sustaining hope, and all alleviation of sorrow!""
(V, p. 360)",,20804,"","""Is all over? no ray of reason left? no knowledge of thy wretched Delvile?""","",2013-06-16 20:23:40 UTC,""
7487,"",Searching in ECCO,2013-06-27 20:57:09 UTC,"Col. Dormer, though he knew the human heart, had never yet thought of taking his nieces in more active scenes of life: he had fallen into the common mistake of people past the meridian of their days, who, feeling tranquillity their greatest good, do not sufficiently reflect that it is insipid at that season when expectation and wish for novelty are the springs which actuate the mind; when all opens fair on the dawning imagination, and a thousand ideal pleasures play in the chearful rays of hope.
(I.i.5, p. 15)",,21223,"","""Col. Dormer, though he knew the human heart, had never yet thought of taking his nieces in more active scenes of life: he had fallen into the common mistake of people past the meridian of their days, who, feeling tranquillity their greatest good, do not sufficiently reflect that it is insipid at that season when expectation and wish for novelty are the springs which actuate the mind; when all opens fair on the dawning imagination, and a thousand ideal pleasures play in the chearful rays of hope.""","",2013-06-27 20:57:09 UTC,""
5507,"",Searching in ECCO-TCP,2014-07-23 20:09:17 UTC,"Once, indeed, I thought there existed another,--who, when time had wintered o'er his locks, would have shone forth among his fellow-creatures, with the same brightness of worth which dignifies my honoured Mr. Villars; a brightness, how superior in value to that which results from mere quickness of parts, wit, or imagination! a brightness, which, not contented with merely diffusing smiles, and gaining admiration from the sallies of the spirits, reflects a real and a glorious lustre upon all mankind! Oh how great was my error! how ill did I judge! how cruelly have I been deceived!
(II, 80)",,24240,"","""Once, indeed, I thought there existed another,--who, when time had wintered o'er his locks, would have shone forth among his fellow-creatures, with the same brightness of worth which dignifies my honoured Mr. Villars; a brightness, how superior in value to that which results from mere quickness of parts, wit, or imagination! a brightness, which, not contented with merely diffusing smiles, and gaining admiration from the sallies of the spirits, reflects a real and a glorious lustre upon all mankind!""","",2014-07-23 20:09:17 UTC,""
5535,"",Searching in LION,2014-08-02 18:59:31 UTC,"After a moderate refreshment, he kneeled down, and prayed with the greatest fervency; he resigned himself to the disposal of Heaven: I am nothing, said he, I desire to be nothing but what thou, O Lord, pleasest to make me: If it is thy will that I should return to my former obscurity, be it obeyed with cheerfulness! and, if thou art pleased to exalt me, I will look up to thee, as the only fountain of honour and dignity. While he prayed, he felt an enlargement of heart beyond what he had ever experienced before; all idle fears were dispersed, and his heart glowed with divine love and affiance: He seemed raised above the world and all its pursuits. He continued wrapt up in mental devotion, till a knocking at the door obliged him to rise, and let in his two friends, who came without shoes, and on tiptoe, to visit him.
(pp. 68-69)",,24389,"","""While he prayed, he felt an enlargement of heart beyond what he had ever experienced before; all idle fears were dispersed, and his heart glowed with divine love and affiance: He seemed raised above the world and all its pursuits.""","",2014-08-02 18:59:31 UTC,""