text,updated_at,metaphor,created_at,context,theme,reviewed_on,dictionary,comments,provenance,id,work_id
"Our Depths who fathoms, or our Shallows finds?
Quick Whirls, and shifting Eddies, of our minds?
Life's stream for observation will not stay,
It hurries all too fast to mark their way :
In vain sedate reflections we would make,
When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take.
On human actions reason tho' you can,
It may be Reason, but it is not Man;
His Principle of action once explore,
That instant, 'tis his principle no more;
Like following life thro' Creatures you dissect,
You lose it, in the moment you detect.
(ll. 29-40)",2017-03-08 19:43:38 UTC,"""Our Depths who fathoms, or our Shallows finds? / Quick Whirls, and shifting Eddies, of our minds?""",2003-11-04 00:00:00 UTC,"",Stream of Consciousness,,"","•Great candidate for early figuration of the stream of consciousness.
•Lines below suggest Montaigne's essay on Man's inconstancy, which Pope called ""the best in his whole book."" For a brief discussion of Pope, Montaigne, and Pyrrhonism see Rebecca Ferguson's The Unbalanced Mind (104).","Reading and searching in HDIS (Poetry). See also Patricia Meyer Spacks, An Argument of Images: The Poetry of Alexander Pope (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1971), 3.
",11907,4529
"I was mightily pleased to perceive by your quotation from Voiture, that you had track'd me so far as France. You see 'tis with weak heads as with weak stomachs, they immediately throw out what they received last; and what they read floats upon the surface of their mind, like oil upon water, without incorporating. This, I think however, can't be said of the Love-verses I last troubled you with, where all (I am afraid) is so puerile and so like the author, that no body will suspect any thing to be borrowed. Yet you, (like a Friend entertaining a better opinion of 'em) it seems search'd in Waller, but search'd in vain. Your judgment of 'em is (I think) very right.--
(Letters to and from Mr. Cromwell, Oct 12, 1710, p. 66)",2018-06-18 14:57:45 UTC,"""You see 'tis with weak heads as with weak stomachs, they immediately throw out what they received last; and what they read floats upon the surface of their mind, like oil upon water, without incorporating.""",2013-07-08 17:08:15 UTC,Letter XXXIII,"",,"","",Reading in Google Books,21513,7508
"GOD loves from Whole to Parts: but human Soul
Must rise from Individual to the Whole.
Self-Love but serves the virtuous Mind to wake,
As the small Pebble stirs the peaceful Lake,
The Centre mov'd, a Circle strait succeeds,
Another still, and still another spreads;
Friend, Parent, Neighbour, first it will embrace,
His Country next, and next all human-Race.
Wide, and more wide, th' O'erflowings of the Mind
Take ev'ry Creature in, of ev'ry Kind;
Earth smiles around, with boundless Bounty blest,
And Heav'n beholds its Image in his Breast.
(pp. 52-3, Epistle IV, ll. 361-372)",2017-03-08 19:58:54 UTC,"""Self-Love but serves the virtuous Mind to wake, / As the small Pebble stirs the peaceful Lake, / The Centre mov'd, a Circle strait succeeds, / Another still, and still another spreads.""",2017-03-08 19:58:54 UTC,Epistle IV,"",,"","","Reading Patricia Meyer Spacks, An Argument of Images: The Poetry of Alexander Pope (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1971), 3.",25041,4525