text,updated_at,metaphor,created_at,context,theme,reviewed_on,dictionary,comments,provenance,id,work_id
"Thus on soft sophas in her cave reclin'd,
Slept the fam'd goddess of the leaden mind:
When thither tending, danc'd a jovial throng,
From whom loud shouts in thund'ring vollies rung:
""Down with King Cibber, was the general cry,
""Down with King Cibber, all Moorfields reply:
""Huzza, huzza, King W*rb---n's our own,
""Be he our King, be his King Colley's throne.""
Thus in old times the Bacchanalian crew,
In madding sort, o'er rocks and mountains flew,
They wav'd their Thyrsus, while the rocks around,
God save King Bacchus! joyously rebound.",2010-12-30 23:39:12 UTC,"""Thus on soft sophas in her cave reclin'd, / Slept the fam'd goddess of the leaden mind.""",2006-01-17 00:00:00 UTC,"","",2010-12-30,Metal,"The footnote gives, ""1. IMITATION / A common mode of expression amongst poets.--So Thompson,--The goddess of the fearless eye. Liberty, Part 2.""",Searching in HDIS (Poetry),12953,4856
"But then he distinguishes again concerning this Mind or intellect, and makes it two-fold; agent and Patient: The former of which, he concludes to be immortal, and the latter corruptible. The agent intellect is only immortal and eternal, but the passive is corruptible. Cudworth thinks this a very doubtful and obscure passage; and imagines Aristotle was led to write thus unintelligibly, by his [end page 211] doctrine of forms and qualities; which confounds corporeal, with incorporeal substances: But had that excellent person reflected on the general doctrine of the [GREEK CHARACTERS: TO EN], he would have seen, the passage was plain and easy; and that Aristotle, from the common principle of the human's soul being part of the Divine Substance, draws a conclusion against a future state of separate existence; which, though (as it now appears) all the philosophers embraced, yet all were not so forward to avow. The obvious meaning of the words then is this: The agent Intelligent (says he) is only immortal and eternal, but the passive, corruptible, i.e. The particular sensation of the soul (the passive intelligent) will cease after death; and the substance of it (the agent intelligent) will be resolved into the Soul of the universe. For it was Aristotle's opinion, who compared the soul to a rasa tabula, that human sensations and reflections were passions: These therefore are what he finely calls, the passive intelligent; which, he says, shall cease, or is corruptible. What he meant by the agent intelligent, we learn from his commentators; who interpret it to signify, as Cudworth here acknowledges, the DIVINE INTELLECT; which gloss Aristotle himself fully justifies, in calling it [GREEK CHARACTERS: DEION], divine. But what need many words. The Learned well know, that the intellectus agens of Aristotle was the very same with the anima mundi of Plato and Pythagoras.
(pp. 211-2 in 4th ed.; pp. 389-390 in 1st edition)
",2014-02-05 15:16:44 UTC,"""For it was Aristotle's opinion, who compared the soul to a 'rasa tabula', that human sensations and reflections were passions: These therefore are what he finely calls, the 'passive intelligent'; which, he says, shall cease, or is corruptible.""",2006-10-11 00:00:00 UTC,"Book III, Section iv",Blank Slate,,Writing,"•Cross-reference: this passage is cited in a 1797 translation of Aristotle's Ethics and Politics. (p. 50n)
•Metaphor CONFIRMED.","Searching ""tabula rasa"" in ECCO; found in 4th edition, confirmed in 1st.",13436,5011
"POLITICIAN
Well has thy sovereign Wisdom, Royal Judge,
The Suit refus'd of these Pretenders vain,
And, by rejecting them, embolden'd Me.
For Valour, and Nobility and Wealth,
Though by their proud Possessors vaunted high,
Are but subordinate, the Slaves and Tools,
Not the Companions, and the Counsellors
Of Godlike Monarchy; whose awful Throne
By darksome Clouds envelop'd, far beyond
The Ken of vulgar Eyes, supported stands
On that deep-rooted Prop, the Craft of State,
Mysterious Policy.--Who best hath learn'd
Her wily Lessons, best deserves to share
The Honours, Counsels, and the Hearts of Kings.
By Him instructed, even the meanest Prince
Shall rise to envy'd Greatness, shall advance
His dreaded Pow'r above Restraint and Fear,
And all the Rules, that in fantastick Chains
Inferior Minds confine. Thus Milan's Dukes,
Thus Padoua's Lords above their Country's Laws
Have rais'd their Heads, and trampled to the Dust
The Pride of Freedom, that essays in vain
Their high, superior Genius to controul.
These were my Masters, mighty Prince; beneath
Their Rule, and in their Councils was I form'd
To know the false corrupted Heart of Man,
His every Weakness, every Vice, and thence
To tempt, or break his Passions to the Yoke:
To scorn the Publick as an empty Name,
And on the helpless Multitude impose
The Adamantine Bonds of Fraud and Force.
(pp. 40-1)",2011-07-20 16:16:32 UTC,"""By Him instructed, even the meanest Prince / Shall rise to envy'd Greatness, shall advance / His dreaded Pow'r above Restraint and Fear, / And all the Rules, that in fantastick Chains / Inferior Minds confine.""",2011-07-20 16:16:01 UTC,"","",,Fetters,"","Searching ""mind"" and ""chains"" in HDIS (Poetry)",18936,7022
"But thou whose eye, from passion's film refin'd,
Can see true greatness in an honest mind;
Can see each virtue and each grace unite,
And taste the raptures of a PURE delight;
O visit oft his awful page with care,
And view the bright assemblage treasur'd there.--
Yet deign to hear the efforts of a muse,
Whose eye, not wing, his ardent flight pursues;
Intent from this great archetype to draw,
Or faintly shadow SATIRE's pow'r and law;
Pleas'd, if from hence th' unlearn'd may comprehend,
And rev'rence HIS and SATIRE's generous end.
(p. 6)",2013-08-23 16:08:45 UTC,"""But thou whose eye, from passion's film refin'd, / Can see true greatness in an honest mind.""",2013-08-23 16:08:45 UTC,"","",,"","",Searching in ECCO-TCP,22549,7648
"Thus still imperious nature plies her part,
And still her dictates work in ev'ry heart:
Each pow'r that sovereign nature bids enjoy,
Man may corrupt, but man can ne'er destroy:
Like mighty rivers, with resistless force
The passions rage, obstructed in their course;
Swell to new heights, forbidden paths explore,
And drown those virtues which they fed before.
(p. 8)",2013-08-23 16:10:05 UTC,"""Like mighty rivers, with resistless force / The passions rage, obstructed in their course; / Swell to new heights, forbidden paths explore, / And drown those virtues which they fed before.""",2013-08-23 16:10:05 UTC,"","",,"","",Searching in ECCO-TCP,22550,7648
"Her hand from vice fair virtues oft hath sprung,
As the skill'd planter raises flow'rs from dung:
Weak are the ties which publick art can find,
To quell the madness of the tainted mind:
Cunning evades, securely wrapt in wiles;
And force strong-sinew'd rends th'unequal toils:
The stream of vice impetuous drives along,
Too deep for policy, for pow'r too strong:
Ev'n fair religion, native of the skies,
Scorn'd by the fool, seeks refuge with the wise:
But SATIRE's arrow searches ev'ry breast:
She plays a ruling passion on the rest:
Fast binds the slave that earth and heav'n defy'd,
And awes him from the battery of his pride.
When fell corruption, by her vassals crown'd,
Derides fall'n justice prostrate on the ground;
Swift to redress an injur'd people's groan,
Bold SATIRE shakes the tyrant on her throne;
Pow'rful as death, defies the sordid train,
And slaves and sycophants surround in vain.
But with the friends of vice, the foes of SATIRE,
All truth is spleen, all spirit is ill-nature.--
(pp. 11-2)",2013-08-23 16:11:11 UTC,"""But SATIRE's arrow searches ev'ry breast: / She plays a ruling passion on the rest""",2013-08-23 16:11:11 UTC,"",Ruling Passion,,"","",Searching in ECCO-TCP,22551,7648
"Let SATIRE next, her proper limits know;
And e'er she strike, be sure she strikes a foe.
Nor fondly deem, you spy a real fool
At each gay impulse of blind ridicule;
Before whose altar virtue oft' hath bled,
And oft' a fated victim shall be led:
Lo! Shaftsb'ry rears her high on reason's throne,
And loads the slave with honours not her own:
Big-swoln with folly, as her smiles provoke,
Profaneness spawns, pert dulness drops a joke!
Say, shall we join a while this gaping crew,
And prove at least, the ideot may be true,
Deride our weak forefathers' musty rule,
Who therefore smil'd, because they saw a fool?
(pp. 15-6)",2013-08-23 16:12:23 UTC,"""Lo! Shaftsb'ry rears her [Satire] high on reason's throne, / And loads the slave with honours not her own.""",2013-08-23 16:12:23 UTC,"","",,Throne,"",Searching in ECCO-TCP,22552,7648
"But you more wise, reject th' inverted rule,
That truth is e'er explor'd by ridicule:
On truth, on falsehood let her colours fall,
She throws a dazzling glare alike on all:
Beware the mad advent'rer: Bold and blind
She hoists her sail, and drives with ev'ry wind,
Deaf as the storm to sinking virtue's groan,
Nor heeds a friend's destruction, or her own.
Let clear-ey'd reason at the helm preside,
Bear to the wind, or stem the furious tide:
Then mirth may urge when reason can explore,
This point the way, that waft us to the shore.
(p. 17-8)",2013-08-23 16:13:28 UTC,"""Let clear-ey'd reason at the helm preside, / Bear to the wind, or stem the furious tide: / Then mirth may urge when reason can explore, / This point the way, that waft us to the shore.""",2013-08-23 16:13:28 UTC,"","",,"","",Searching in ECCO-TCP,22553,7648
"[...] -- There are several Savage Nations, discovered by modern Travellers, which, it is probable, in the Revolutions and Distractions of Society, being forced to remove their Seats, have fallen from a civilized, to a barbarous Life. These are found to be without any Knowledge of a God, or Appearance of Religion. And yet, which is wonderful, do all entertain the Belief and Expectation of a future State. A Miracle that can be accounted for no other Way, than by what has been said above of the Legislator's principal Concern in the Support of the Doctrine; and of the deep Root it takes in the Mind of Man, when once it is received, by its agreeable Nature. So that though, as we have observed, no Religion ever existed without, the Doctrine of a future State, yet the Doctrine of a future State has existed without Religion.
(II.5, p. 231)",2014-02-05 15:45:41 UTC,"""A Miracle that can be accounted for no other Way, than by what has been said above of the Legislator's principal Concern in the Support of the Doctrine; and of the deep Root it takes in the Mind of Man, when once it is received, by its agreeable Nature.""",2014-02-05 15:45:41 UTC,"Book II, section 5","",,"","",Searching in Google Books,23356,5011
"But when the Ancients are said to hold the Pre- and Post-existence of the Soul, and therefore to attribute a proper Eternity to it, we must not suppose, that they understood it to be eternal in its distinct and peculiar Existence; but that it was discerped from the Substance of God, in time; and would, in time, be rejoined, and resolved into it again. Which they explained by a Bottle's being filled with Sea Water, that swimming there a while, on the Bottle's breaking, flowed in again, and mingled with the common Mass. They only differed about the Time of this Reunion and Resolution: The greater Part holding it to be at Death, but the Pythagoreans not till after many Transmigrations. The Platonists went between these two Opinions: and rejoined pure and unpolluted Souls, immediately on Death, to the universal Spirit. But those which had contracted much Defilement, were sent into a Succession of other Bodies, to purge and purify them, before they returned to their Parent Substance. And these were the two sorts of the natural Metempsychosis, which we have observed above, to have been really held by those two Schools of Philosophy.
(III.iv, p. 384)",2014-02-05 15:47:20 UTC,"""Which they explained by a Bottle's being filled with Sea Water, that swimming there a while, on the Bottle's breaking, flowed in again, and mingled with the common Mass.""",2014-02-05 15:47:20 UTC,"Book III, section 4, ","",,"","",Searching in Google Books,23357,5011