text,updated_at,metaphor,created_at,context,theme,reviewed_on,dictionary,comments,provenance,id,work_id
"I took my leave on this, and making a sign to the antient matron, she followed me out of the room, leaving her daughter at the bed-side of the lady. I asked her what she thought of the real state of our patient's health. She said she was certain that the whole of her disorder arose from the violent agitation of her mind, and that she believed a good night's rest would set all to rights again; that she had felt her hand, and thought her not in the least feverish; on the contrary, she had found her extremely low; and as her strength and spirits had been so much exhausted by her fainting-fits, she was of opinion that a glass or two of good wine would be of more service to her than all the drugs in the apothecary's shop. As I have an implicit faith in this good woman's skill, I remained perfectly satisfied with the judgment she had pronounced; and agreeing with her, that the sickness of the mind was beyond the power of medicine to reach, I contented myself with ordering the prudent dame to give the lady some of her own little innocent cordials, which she kept for her private drinking, and to pass them on her for the doctor's prescription.
(pp. 117-8)",2011-07-27 14:38:29 UTC,"""As I have an implicit faith in this good woman's skill, I remained perfectly satisfied with the judgment she had pronounced; and agreeing with her, that the sickness of the mind was beyond the power of medicine to reach.""",2004-11-17 00:00:00 UTC,"Volume V, Letter 57","",2011-07-27,"","",Searching in HDIS (Prose),13769,5094
"This scene had made too deep an impression on our minds, not to be the subject of our discourse all the way home, and in the course of conversation, I learnt, that when these people were first rescued out of their misery, their healths were much impaired, and their tempers more so: to restore the first, all medicinal care was taken, and air and exercise assisted greatly in their recovery; but to cure the malady of the mind, and conquer that internal source of unhappiness, was a work of longer time. Even these poor wretches had their vanity, and would contend for superior merit, of which, the argument was the money their keepers had gained in exhibiting them. To put an end to this contention, the ladies made them understand, that what they thought a subject for boasting, was only a proof of their being so much farther from the usual standard of the human form, and therefore a more extraordinary spectacle. But it was long before one of them could be persuaded to lay aside her pretensions to superiority, which she claimed on account of an extraordinary honour she had received from a great princess, who had made her a present of a sedan chair.
(74).",2013-06-27 21:20:12 UTC,"""I learnt, that when these people were first rescued out of their misery, their healths were much impaired, and their tempers more so: to restore the first, all medicinal care was taken, and air and exercise assisted greatly in their recovery; but to cure the malady of the mind, and conquer that internal source of unhappiness, was a work of longer time.""",2004-01-25 00:00:00 UTC,"","",,Empire,"",Reading; found again in HDIS,13797,5106
"By teaching her humanity, he initiated her into civility of manners. She had learnt, that to give pain was immoral; and could no more have borne to have shocked any person's mind, than to have racked his body. Any thought therefore that could hurt she suppressed as an indispensable duty, and to please by her actions, and not offend by her words, was an essential part of the religion in which she was educated; but in every thing whereby no one could suffer, she was innocence and simplicity itself; and in her nature shone pure and uncorrupted, either by natural or acquired vices.
(225)",2013-06-27 21:25:05 UTC,"""She had learnt, that to give pain was immoral; and could no more have borne to have shocked any person's mind, than to have racked his body.""",2004-01-25 00:00:00 UTC,"",Mind and Body,,"","",Reading and using HDIS to doublecheck search,13805,5106
"I have long, my dear Mr. Mandeville, suspected my Lord's design in favour of Lord Melvin, of which there is not now the least doubt. Our coming away from his father's, on his arrival, was a circumstance which then struck me extremely. Lady Julia's stay there, on this supposition, would have been ill suited to the delicacy of her sex and rank. Yet I am astonished my Lord has not sooner told her of it; but there is no accounting for the caprice of age. How shall I tell my dear Mr. Mandeville my sentiments on this discovery! How shall I, without wounding a passion which bears no restraint, hint to him my wishes, that he would sacrifice that love, which can only by its continuance make him wretched, to Lady Julia's peace of mind! That he would himself assist her to conquer an inclination which is incompatible with the views which the most indulgent of parents entertains for her happiness? Views, the disappointment of which, he has declared, will embitter his last hours! Make one generous effort, my amiable friend: it is glorious to conquer where conquest is most difficult: think of Lord Belmont's friendship; of his almost parental care of your fortune; of the pleasure with which he talks of your virtues; and it will be impossible for you to continue to oppose that design on which his hopes of a happy evening of life are founded. Would you deny a happy evening to that life to which thousands owe the felicity of theirs?
(II, pp. 27-9)",2013-06-27 19:21:32 UTC,"""How shall I, without wounding a passion which bears no restraint, hint to him my wishes, that he would sacrifice that love, which can only by its continuance make him wretched, to Lady Julia's peace of mind!""",2004-09-23 00:00:00 UTC,"Vol. II, Letter 4","",,"","",HDIS,13941,5184
"I am delighted at the idea of Miss Harley's falling in love by a coup d'oeil, and shall certainly congratulate Charles on his conquest. Dry wood is more apt to take fire, than when 'tis green, we all know, but why the deuce came Miss Touchwood, to make such a smoke and pother?--I never knew but one person, besides Miss Harley, whose temper was not softened by love; she poor dear was a middle-aged Lady also, and the fonder she grew of her lover, the more spiteful she became to all the rest of the world.--But various are the effects of the same disease, upon the human body, and as various are the effects of the self-same passion upon the human mind.--I think that last a good pretty philosophical sort of a sentence.--'Tis poetical, at least.
(I, pp. 207-8)",2013-08-19 03:38:07 UTC,"""But various are the effects of the same disease, upon the human body, and as various are the effects of the self-same passion upon the human mind.--I think that last a good pretty philosophical sort of a sentence.--'Tis poetical, at least.""",2013-08-19 03:38:07 UTC,"","",,"","",ECCO-TCP,22424,7629
"O Lucy, if you ever loved me, strive, I conjure you, to assuage her gentle sorrows, and pour the balm of friendship on her wounded heart! Gracious heaven! what can the affliction be that thus oppresses her mild spirits? Would I could bear it for her, and ease her troubled breast.
(I, p. 254)",2013-08-19 03:40:43 UTC,"""O Lucy, if you ever loved me, strive, I conjure you, to assuage her gentle sorrows, and pour the balm of friendship on her wounded heart!""",2013-08-19 03:40:43 UTC,"","",,"","",ECCO-TCP,22427,7629
"There is no sex in souls, and though Milton has been pleased to tell us, that on woman nature has
bestowed
Too much of ornament, in outward show
Elaborate, of inward less exact.
For well I understand in the prime end
Of nature, her the inferior, in the mind
And inward faculties, which most excel.
I must beg leave to dissent from him, nay more, to say that he accuses Providence of a particular partiality in the disposal of his intellectual gifts, between the human race, which is by no means visible in any other part of the animal creation. All instinctive qualities appearing to the full as strong, and as acute, in the female as the male, through every species of the animal world--Why then should we conceive that the highest order of beings, that inhabit this terrestrial globe, should be more unequally dealt with? It is clear, at least, that Milton did not reason from analogy.
(II, pp 46-7)",2013-08-19 03:51:13 UTC,"""There is no sex in souls.""",2013-08-19 03:51:13 UTC,"","",,"","",ECCO-TCP,22436,7629
"I know not why, but my spirits are uncommonly low at present, there is no nostrum for a mind diseased, and therefore your kind wish for your suffering friends is vain.
May you long enjoy those charming spirits, that contribute so much to your own and your friend's happiness.--My sincere regards attend Sir William Stanley, Lady Desmond, and the Selwyns.--Accept the same from your affectionate brother,
C. EVELYN.
(II, p. 148)",2013-08-19 03:55:28 UTC,"""I know not why, but my spirits are uncommonly low at present, there is no nostrum for a mind diseased, and therefore your kind wish for your suffering friends is vain.""",2013-08-19 03:55:28 UTC,"","",,"","",ECCO-TCP,22442,7629
"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)",2014-07-23 17:44:08 UTC,"""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.""",2014-07-23 17:43:49 UTC,"Vol I, Letter 28. Mr. Villars to Lady Howard","",,"","",Reading,24208,5507
"O Sir, to me, the loss is nothing!--greatly, sweetly, and most benevolently have you guarded me from seeling it;--but for him, I grieve indeed!--I must be divested, not merely of a filial piety, but of all humanity, could I ever think upon this subject, and not be wounded to the soul.
(I, p. 164)",2014-07-23 19:44:11 UTC,"""I must be divested, not merely of a filial piety, but of all humanity, could I ever think upon this subject, and not be wounded to the soul.""",2014-07-23 19:44:11 UTC,"","",,"","",Searching ECCO-TCP,24219,5507