work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
4769,"",HDIS (Poetry),2004-08-31 00:00:00 UTC,"Divine inspirer, tuneful maid,
Give me thy never failing aid,
O! ever blessing, ever bless'd,
Pour all thyself into my breast,
Then will I soon an off'ring bring,
Which all thy freeborn sons shall sing,
A tribute to be spread by Fame,
Which shall enlarge thy poet's name,
Shall stretch it to the latest date,
In spite of Envy, spite of Hate,
Shall clear the honour of the times
From uninspir'd, unhallow'd rhymes:
Imagination then shall play
Unbridled in the fields of day,
Thro endless time, and boundless space,
Continue unrestrain'd her race,
Bring what ideas she can find
To the great storehouse of the Mind,
Where Judgement ever sits serene,
To rule the vague and sportive queen.",,12671,"•I've included thrice: Storehouse, Rule of Judgement, Queen","Imagination may ""Bring what ideas she can find / To the great storehouse of the Mind, / Where Judgement ever sits serene, / To rule the vague and sportive queen""",Inhabitants and Empire,2013-11-01 17:06:44 UTC,""
6908,"",Reading,2011-05-26 05:36:19 UTC,"On looking about him, he will find many Avenues to the Temple of Fame barred against him: but some are still open through, that of Virtue: and those, if he has a right Ambition, he will most probably attempt to pass. The more a Man is unactive in his Person, the more his Mind will be at work: and the Time which others spend in Action, he will pass in Study and Contemplation: by these he may acquire Wisdom, and by Wisdom Fame. The Name of Socrates is as much sounded, as those of Alexander and Caesar; and is recorded in much fairer Characters, He gained Renown by Wisdom and Goodness; they by Tyranny and Oppression: he by instructing; they by destroying Mankind: and happy it is, that their evil Deeds were confined to their Lives; while he continues to instruct us to this Day. A deformed Person will naturally consider, where his Strength and his Foible lie; and as he is well acquainted with the last, he will easily find out the first; and must know, that (if it is any where) it is not, like Sampson's , in the Hair; but must be in the Lining of the Head. He will say to himself, I am weak in Person; unable to serve my Country in the Field; I can acquire no military Glory: but I may, like Socrates, acquire Reputation by Wisdom and Probity: let me therefore be wise and honest. My Figure is very bad: and I should appear but ill as an Orator, either in the Pulpit 'or at the Bar: let me therefore pass my Time in my Study, either in reading what may improve my self, or in writing what may entertain or instruct others. I have not the Strength of Hercules; nor can I rid the World of so many Monsters: but perhaps I may get rid of some my self. If I cannot, draw out Cacus from his Den; I may pluck the Villain from my own Breast. I cannot cleanse the Stables of Augeas; but I may cleanse my own Heart from Filth and Impurity: I may demolish the Hydra of Vices within me; and should be careful too, that while I lop off one, I do not suffer more to grow up in its stead. Let me be serviceable in any way that I can: and if I am so, it may in some measure be owing to my Deformity. Which at least should be a Restraint on my Conduct, lest my Conduct make me more deformed.
(pp. 69-71)",,18566,"","""If I cannot, draw out Cacus from his Den; I may pluck the Villain from my own Breast. I cannot cleanse the Stables of Augeas; but I may cleanse my own Heart from Filth and Impurity: I may demolish the Hydra of Vices within me; and should be careful too, that while I lop off one, I do not suffer more to grow up in its stead.""","",2011-05-26 05:36:19 UTC,""
6908,"",Reading,2011-05-26 05:40:41 UTC,"Few Persons have a House entirely to their Mind; or the Apartment in it disposed as they could wish. And there is no deformed Person, who does not wish, that his Soul had a better Habitation: which is sometimes not lodged according to its Quality. Lord Clarendon says of Sir Charles Cavendish (Brother to the Marquis of Newcastle) that he was a Man of the noblest and largest Mind, though of the least and most inconvenient Body, that lived. And every body knows, that the late Prince of Orange had many amiable Qualities. Therefore in Justice to such Persons I must suppose, that they did not repine, that their Tenements were not in a more regular Style of Architecture. And let every deformed Person comfort himself with reflecting; that tho' his Soul hath not the most convenient and beautiful Apartment, yet that it is habitable: that the Accommodation will serve in an Inn upon the Road: that he is but Tenant for Life, or (more properly) at Will: and that, while he remains in it, it, he is in a State to be envied by the Deaf, the Dumb, the Lame, and the Blind.
(pp. 71-3)",,18568,"","""And let every deformed Person comfort himself with reflecting; that tho' his Soul hath not the most convenient and beautiful Apartment, yet that it is habitable: that the Accommodation will serve in an Inn upon the Road: that he is but Tenant for Life, or (more properly) at Will: and that, while he remains in it, it, he is in a State to be envied by the Deaf, the Dumb, the Lame, and the Blind.""",Rooms,2011-05-26 05:40:41 UTC,""