text,updated_at,metaphor,created_at,context,theme,reviewed_on,dictionary,comments,provenance,id,work_id
"LAURA
Because I have luckily got the start of you; in a few weeks I should have been the accuser, and you the false and fickle.
DON CARLOS
And to secure yourself from that disgrace, you prudently looked out in time for another lover.
LAURA
I can pardon your sneer, because you are mortified.
DON CARLOS
Mortified!
LAURA
Yes, mortified to the soul. Carlos! I know your sex: the vainest female, in the hour of her exultation and power, is still out-done by man in vanity.--'Tis more your ruling passion , than 'tis ours; and 'tis wounded vanity that makes you thus tremble with rage at being deserted.",2009-09-14 19:42:23 UTC,Vanity is more a man's ruling passion than a woman's,2004-05-28 00:00:00 UTC,"Act II, Scene i",Ruling Passion,,"","","Searching HDIS for ""ruling passion""",14955,5593
"Perish th' illiberal thought which would debase
The native genius of the sable race!
Perish the proud philosophy, which sought
To rob them of the powers of equal thought!
Does then th' immortal principle within
Change with the casual colour of the skin?
Does matter govern spirit? or is mind
Degraded by the form to which 'tis joined?
No: they have heads to think, and hearts to feel
And souls to act with firm, thought unerring zeal;
For they have keen affections, kind desires,
Love strong as death, and active patriot fires;
All the rude energy, the fervid flame,
Of high-souled passions, and ingenuous shame:
Strong but luxuriant virtues boldly shoot
From the wild vigour of a savage root.
Nor weak their sense of honour's proud control,
For pride is virtue in a pagan soul;
A sense of worth, a conscience of desert,
A high, unbroken haughtiness of heart:
That self-same stuff which erst proud empires swayed,
Of which the conquerors of the world were made.
Capricious fate of man! that very pride
In Afric scourg'd, in Rome was deify'd.
(ll. 59-82, p. 103 in Wood, pp. 330-1 in Lonsdale)
",2012-08-14 13:23:26 UTC,"""Does matter govern spirit? or is mind / Degraded by the form to which 'tis joined?""",2003-07-28 00:00:00 UTC,"",Materialism,2012-08-14,"","•Excerpted in Lonsdale
•""Sable"" minds: watch More's racialism construct them. I should look at the complete poem for richer metaphors.[Done so: 8/2012]
Reviewed 2009-06-09",First encountered reading in Lonsdale,15155,5681
"DARIUS.
Pharnaces, speak!
I know thou lov'st me; I but meant to chide
Thy flatt'ry, not reprove thee for thy zeal.
Speak boldly, friends, as man shou'd speak to man.
Perish the barb'rous maxims of the East,
Which basely wou'd enslave the free-born mind,
And plunder it of the best gift of Heav'n,
Its liberty!
(pp. 212-3)",2013-08-16 04:20:57 UTC,"""Perish the barb'rous maxims of the East, / Which basely wou'd enslave the free-born mind, / And plunder it of the best gift of Heav'n, / Its liberty!""",2013-08-16 04:20:57 UTC,"","",,Fetters,"",Searching in ECCO-TCP,22181,7590
"The most pointed satire I remember to have read, on a mind enslaved by anger, is an observation of Seneca's.
Alexander (said he) had two friends, Clitus and Lysimachus; the one he exposed to a lion, the other to himself: he who was turned loose to the beast escaped, but Clitus was murdered, for he was turned loose to an angry man.