work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
7243,"","Searching ""heart"" and ""bird"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2012-04-29 19:48:56 UTC,"In my gay Years a new and strange Desire
Sprung up, and with such Pleasures fill'd my Soul,
That never One did Life, or Liberty,
Or Wealth, or if ought dearer is, pursue
So eagerly, as I thy Sweets, O Love.
Now doating on the glances of an Eye,
Now on a snowy Hand; and if from far
Thro' a loose Veil the Golden Ringlets shone,
Or beauteous Feet beneath the flowing Gown
Plaid tripping, (how the Folly I bewail!)
My ravish'd Heart strait like a Bird of Prey
Stoop'd at the Lure; And thus my early Youth
Was by vain Thoughts bewildred and mis-led:",,19741,"","""My ravish'd Heart strait like a Bird of Prey / Stoop'd at the Lure; And thus my early Youth / Was by vain Thoughts bewildred and mis-led.""",Beasts,2012-04-29 19:48:56 UTC,""
5298,"",C-H Lion,2013-07-13 14:26:01 UTC,"Behold him now once more, in the possession of every thing, for which the heart of man in the wildest wishes of Epicurean phrenzy, could pant. He gave the reins to his passions; he again became the slave of voluptuous appetites: He submitted a second time to the power of beauty; he invented new modes of luxury; and his delightful abode became the scene of every licentious pleasure.
(pp. 92-3)",,21706,"","""He gave the reins to his passions; he again became the slave of voluptuous appetites.""",Animals,2013-07-13 14:26:01 UTC,""
7776,"",Searching in ECCO-TCP,2013-11-15 21:18:01 UTC,"Upon Kent's still continuing his entreaty, he still refuses to comply, but reasons with him thus:
Thou think'st 'tis much that this contentious storm
Invades us to the skin--So 'tis to thee--
But where the greater malady is fixt,
The lesser is scarce felt--Thou'dst shun a bear;
But if thy flight lay toward the roaring sea,
Thou'dst meet the bear i' th' mouth. When the mind's free,
The body's delicate--The tempest in my mind
Doth from my senses take all feeling else,
Save what beats there
This is the true nature of the human mind; the greater evil always swallowing up the lesser, as the rod of Moses did the other serpents. And in great calamities I do not know but it might, perhaps, be an advantage to have some other ills of an inferior nature to combat with, at the same time; for, as Lear says, just after, as his reason for refusing to take shelter,
This tempest will not give me leave to ponder,
On things would hurt me more.
(p. 363)",,23213,"","""This is the true nature of the human mind; the greater evil always swallowing up the lesser, as the rod of Moses did the other serpents.""",Animals,2013-11-15 21:18:01 UTC,""