text,updated_at,metaphor,created_at,context,theme,reviewed_on,dictionary,comments,provenance,id,work_id
"The cousins met, what pass'd with Gwyn was told:
""Alas!"" the Doctor said, ""how hard to hold
""These easy minds, where all impressions made
""At first sink deeply, and then quickly fade;
""For while so strong these new-born fancies reign,
""We must divert them, to oppose is vain:
""You see him valiant now, he scorns to heed
""The bigot's threat'nings or the zealot's creed;
""Shook by a dream, he next for truth receives
""What frenzy teaches, and what fear believes;
""And this will place him in the power of one
""Whom we must seek, because we cannot shun.""",2009-09-14 19:47:30 UTC,"""These easy minds, where all impressions made / At first sink deeply, and then quickly fade""",2005-05-15 00:00:00 UTC,"","",,Impression,"","Searching ""mind"" and ""impression"" in HDIS (Poetry)",16627,6285
"Our Poet hurried on, with wish to fly,
From all mankind, to be conceal'd, and die.
Alas! what hopes, what high romantic views
Did that one visit to the soul infuse,
Which, cherish'd with such love, 'twas worse than death to lose!
Still he would strive, though painful was the strife,
To walk in this appointed road of life;
On these low duties duteous he would wait,
And patient bear the anguish of his fate.
Thanks to the Patron, but of coldest kind,
Express'd the sadness of the Poet's mind;
Whose heavy hours were pass'd with busy men,
In the dull practice of th' official pen;
Who to Superiors must in time impart
(The custom this) his progress in their art:
But, so had grief on his perception wrought,
That all unheeded were the duties taught;
No answers gave he when his trial came,
Silent he stood, but suffering without shame;
And they observed that words severe or kind
Made no impression on his wounded mind:
For all perceived from whence his failure rose,
Some grief whose cause he deign'd not to disclose.
A soul averse from scenes and works so new,
Fear ever shrinking from the vulgar crew;
Distaste for each mechanic law and rule,
Thoughts of past honour and a patron cool;
A grieving parent, and a feeling mind,
Timid and ardent, tender and refined:
These all with mighty force the youth assail'd,
Till his soul fainted, and his reason fail'd:
When this was known, and some debate arose,
How they who saw it should the fact disclose,
He found their purpose, and in terror fled
From unseen kindness, with mistaken dread.",2009-09-14 19:47:30 UTC,"""And they observed that words severe or kind / Made no impression on his wounded mind""",2005-05-15 00:00:00 UTC,"","",,Impression,"","Searching ""mind"" and ""impression"" in HDIS (Poetry)",16628,6286
"His books, his walks, his musing, morn and eve,
Gave such impressions as such minds receive;
And with his moral and religious views
Wove the wild fancies of an Infant-Muse,
Inspiring thoughts that he could not express,
Obscure sublime! his secret happiness.
Oft would he strive for words, and oft begin
To frame in verse the views he had within;
But ever fail'd: for how can words explain
The unform'd ideas of a teeming brain?",2009-09-14 19:47:30 UTC,"""His books, his walks, his musing, morn and eve, / Gave such impressions as such minds receive""",2005-05-15 00:00:00 UTC,Posthumous Tales,"",,Impression,"","Searching ""mind"" and ""impression"" in HDIS (Poetry)",16629,6287
Survey these features--see if nothing there
May old impressions on your mind repair!
Is there not something in this shattered frame
Like to that--
,2009-09-14 19:47:30 UTC,"""Survey these features--see if nothing there / May old impressions on your mind repair!""",2005-05-15 00:00:00 UTC,Posthumous Tales,"",,Impression,"","Searching ""mind"" and ""impression"" in HDIS (Poetry)",16630,6288
"The Captain's heart, although unused to melt,
A strong impression from persuasion felt;
His pride was soften'd by the prayers he heard,
And then advantage in the match appear'd.",2009-09-14 19:47:30 UTC,"""The Captain's heart, although unused to melt, / A strong impression from persuasion felt;""",2005-05-15 00:00:00 UTC,Posthumous Tales,"",,Impression,"","Searching ""mind"" and ""impression"" in HDIS (Poetry)",16631,6289