work_id,theme,id,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,created_at,context,comments,text,reviewed_on,provenance
4107,"",10565,"""Provided still, you moderate your Joy, / Nor in your Pleasures all your Might employ: / Let Reason's Rule your strong Desires abate, / Nor please too lavishly your gentle Mate.""","",2013-06-12 19:47:12 UTC,2004-06-21 00:00:00 UTC,"",•Also published in Ogle's Canterbury Tales(1741).See also entry in Ogle.
•C-H also has it in The Works (1736).
,"This Justin heard; nor could his Spleen controul,
Touch'd to the Quick, and tickled at the Soul.
'Sir Knight (he cry'd) if this be all your Dread,
'Heav'n put it past your Doubt, whene'er you wed;
'And to my fervent Pray'rs so far consent,
'That, e're the Rites are o'er, you may repent!
'Good Heav'n, no doubt, the nuptial State approves,
'Since it chastises still what best it loves:
'Then be not, Sir, abandon'd to Despair;
'Seek, and perhaps you'll find, among the Fair,
'One that may do your Business to a Hair;
'Not ev'n in Wish your Happiness delay,
'But prove the Scourge to lash you on your Way:
'Then to the Skies your mounting Soul shall go,
'Swift as an Arrow soaring from the Bow.
'Provided still, you moderate your Joy,
'Nor in your Pleasures all your Might employ:
'Let Reason's Rule your strong Desires abate,
'Nor please too lavishly your gentle Mate.
'Old Wives there are, of Judgment most acute,
'Who solve these Questions beyond all Dispute;
'Consult with those, and be of better Chear;
'Marry, do Penance, and dismiss your Fear.",,HDIS (Poetry)
4151,Dualism,10686,"""With Tyranny, then Superstition join'd, / As that the body, this enslav'd the mind.""","",2009-09-14 19:35:11 UTC,2003-11-03 00:00:00 UTC,Part III,"","Thus long succeeding Critics justly reign'd,
Licence repress'd, and useful laws ordain'd.
Learning and Rome alike in empire grew,
And Arts still follow'd where her Eagles flew.
From the same foes, at last, both felt their doom,
And the same age saw Learning fall, and Rome .
With Tyranny, then Superstition join'd,
As that the body, this enslav'd the mind;
Much was believ'd, but little understood,
And to be dull was constru'd to be good;
A second deluge learning thus o'er-run,
And the Monks finish'd what the Goths begun.
(III, ll. 526-59)",,HDIS
4209,"",10913,"""Let great Achilles, to the Gods resign'd, / To Reason yield the Empire o'er his Mind.""","",2014-03-12 14:45:37 UTC,2003-09-29 00:00:00 UTC,"",•I've included twice: Rule of Reason and Empire,"Forbear! (the Progeny of Jove replies)
To calm thy Fury I forsook the Skies:
Let great Achilles, to the Gods resign'd,
To Reason yield the Empire o'er his Mind.
By awful Juno this Command is giv'n;
The King and You are both the Care of Heav'n.
The Force of keen Reproaches let him feel,
But sheath, Obedient, thy revenging Steel.
For I pronounce (and trust a heav'nly Pow'r)
Thy injur'd Honour has its fated Hour,
When the proud Monarch shall thy Arms implore,
And bribe thy Friendship with a boundless Store.
Then let Revenge no longer bear the Sway,
Command thy Passions, and the Gods obey.
",2003-10-22,"Found again searching ""empire"" and ""mind"" in HDIS (Poetry); And a third time searching ""reason"" and ""empire."""
4209,Ruling Passion,10916,"""Homer draws him (as we have seen) soft of Speech, the natural Quality of an amorous Temper; vainly gay in War as well as Love; with a Spirit that can be surprized and recollected, that can receive Impressions of Shame or Apprehension on the one side, or of Generosity and Courage on the other; the usual Disposition of easy and courteous Minds which are most subject to the Rule of Fancy and Passion.""","",2009-09-14 19:35:23 UTC,2003-10-26 00:00:00 UTC,"",•INTEREST. This much predates Pope's Essay on Man. Who is responsible for this note?,"Verse 86. 'Tis just, my Brother .]
This Speech is a farther opening of the true Character of Paris . He is a Master of Civility, no less well-bred to his own Sex than courtly to the other. The Reproof of Hector was of a severe Nature, yet he receives it as from a Brother and a Friend, with Candour and Modesty. This Answer is remarkable for its fine Address; he gives the Heroe a decent and agreeable Reproof for having too rashly depreciated the Gifts of Nature. He allows the Quality of Courage its utmost due, but desires the same Justice to those softer Accomplishments, which he lets him know are no less the Favour of Heaven. Then he removes from himself the Charge of want of Valour, by proposing the single Combate with the very Man he had just declined to engage; which having shewn him void of any Malevolence to his Rival on the one hand, he now proves himself free from the Imputation of Cowardice on the other. Homer draws him (as we have seen) soft of Speech, the natural Quality of an amorous Temper; vainly gay in War as well as Love; with a Spirit that can be surprized and recollected, that can receive Impressions of Shame or Apprehension on the one side, or of Generosity and Courage on the other; the usual Disposition of easy and courteous Minds which are most subject to the Rule of Fancy and Passion. Upon the whole, this is no worse than the Picture of a gentle Knight , and one might fancy the Heroes of the modern Romance were form'd upon the Model of Paris .
",2004-06-01,HDIS
4209,"",10939,"""Let great Achilles, to the Gods resign'd, / To Reason yield the Empire o'er his Mind.""","",2009-09-14 19:35:24 UTC,2003-09-29 00:00:00 UTC,"",•I've included twice: Rule of Reason and Empire,"Forbear! (the Progeny of Jove replies)
To calm thy Fury I forsook the Skies:
Let great Achilles, to the Gods resign'd,
To Reason yield the Empire o'er his Mind.
By awful Juno this Command is giv'n;
The King and You are both the Care of Heav'n.
The Force of keen Reproaches let him feel,
But sheath, Obedient, thy revenging Steel.
For I pronounce (and trust a heav'nly Pow'r)
Thy injur'd Honour has its fated Hour,
When the proud Monarch shall thy Arms implore,
And bribe thy Friendship with a boundless Store.
Then let Revenge no longer bear the Sway,
Command thy Passions, and the Gods obey.
",2003-10-22,"Found again searching ""empire"" and ""mind"" in HDIS (Poetry); And a third time searching ""reason"" and ""empire"""
4247,"",11057,"""Like Eastern Kings a lazy state they keep, / And close confin'd in their own palace sleep.""","",2009-09-14 19:35:31 UTC,2006-11-28 00:00:00 UTC,"",•I've included twice: Monarch and Palace,"Why bade ye else, ye Pow'rs! her soul aspire
Above the vulgar flight of low desire?
Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes;
The glorious fault of Angels and of Gods:
Thence to their images on earth it flows,
And in the breasts of Kings and Heroes glows!
Most souls, 'tis true, but peep out once an age,
Dull sullen pris'ners in the body's cage:
Dim lights of life that burn a length of years,
Useless, unseen, as lamps in sepulchres;
Like Eastern Kings a lazy state they keep,
And close confin'd in their own palace sleep.
(p. 262, ll. 11-22)",,Reading
4505,Ruling Passion,11835,"""The ruling Passion conquers reason still.""","",2009-09-14 19:36:18 UTC,2004-05-25 00:00:00 UTC,Epistle I,•I've included this entry twice: once in Government and once in War,"All this is madness, cries a sober Sage:
But who, my friend, has reason in his Rage?
""The ruling Passion, be it what it will,
""The ruling Passion conquers reason still.
Less mad the wildest whimsey we can frame,
Than ev'n that passion, if it has no aim;
For tho' such motives folly you may call,
The folly's greater to have none at all.
",,"Searching HDIS for ""ruling passion"""
4525,Ruling Passion,11880,"""And hence one Master Passion in the breast, / Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.""",Animals,2014-07-11 16:09:06 UTC,2003-11-04 00:00:00 UTC,Epistle II,"•I've included twice: Government and Animals.
•Christopher Fox reads these lines as influencing Hume and quotes the following from the Treatise: ""a predominant passion swallows up an inferior, and converts it to it self."" See Fox, ""Defining Eighteenth-Century Psychology"" in Psychology and Literature in the Eighteenth Century (New York: AMS Press, 1987). p. 11.","Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes,
And when in act they cease, in prospect rise;
Present to grasp, and future still to find,
The whole employ of body and of mind.
All spread their charms, but charm not all alike ,
On diff'rent Senses diff'rent objects strike;
Hence diff'rent Passions more or less inflame,
As strong, or weak, the organs of the frame;
And hence one Master Passion in the breast,
Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.
(Epistle II, ll. 123-32; cf. pp. 28-9 in ECCO-TCP ed.)
",,HDIS (Poetry); confirmed in ECCO-TCP.
4525,Ruling Passion,11881,"""So, cast and mingled with his very frame, / The mind's disease, its ruling passion came: / Each vital humour which should feed the whole, / Soon flows to this, in body and in soul.""","",2011-04-26 18:10:21 UTC,2003-11-04 00:00:00 UTC,Epistle II,"•I've included this entry twice: once in Body and once in Government (5/25/2004).
•Christopher Fox reads these lines as influencing Hume and quotes the following from the Treatise: ""a predominant passion swallows up an inferior, and converts it to it self."" See Fox, ""Defining Eighteenth-Century Psychology"" in Psychology and Literature in the Eighteenth Century (New York: AMS Press, 1987). p. 11.","As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath,
Receives the lurking principle of death;
The young disease that must subdue at length,
Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength:
So, cast and mingled with his very frame,
The mind's disease, its ruling passion came:
Each vital humour which should feed the whole,
Soon flows to this, in body and in soul;
Whatever warms the heart, or fills the head,
As the mind opens, and its functions spread,
Imagination plies her dang'rous art,
And pours it all upon the peccant part.
(Epistle II, ll. 133-44)
",2004-05-25,HDIS
4525,Ruling Passion,11892,"""Nature its mother, Habit is its nurse; / Wit, Spirit, Faculties, but make it worse; / Reason itself but gives it edge and pow'r; / As Heaven's blest beam turns vinegar more sowr; / We wretched subjects tho' to lawful sway, / In this weak queen, some fav'rite still obey.""",Ruler,2009-09-14 19:36:22 UTC,2004-05-25 00:00:00 UTC,Epistle II,"","Nature its mother, Habit is its nurse;
Wit, Spirit, Faculties, but make it worse;
Reason itself but gives it edge and pow'r;
As Heaven's blest beam turns vinegar more sowr;
We wretched subjects tho' to lawful sway,
In this weak queen, some fav'rite still obey.
Ah! if she lend not arms, as well as rules,
What can she more than tell us we are fools?
Teach us to mourn our Nature, not to mend,
A sharp accuser, but a helpless friend!
Or from a judge turn pleader, to persuade
The choice we make, or justify it made;
Proud of an easy conquest all along,
She but removes weak passions for the strong:
So, when small humors gather to a gout,
The doctor fancies he has driv'n them out.
(Epistle II, ll. 145-160)
",,HDIS (Poetry)