work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
5214,Conscience,"Searching ""conque"" and ""heart"" in HDIS (Prose)",2004-09-29 00:00:00 UTC,"Ah my Country, exclaimed Saint Pierre, it is now that I tremble for You. Edward could only win your Cities, but Philippa conquers Hearts.
Brave Saint Pierre, said the Queen, wherefore look you so dejected? --Ah Madam! replied Saint Pierre, when I meet with such another Opportunity of dying, I shall not regret that I survived this Day.
Here a long Pause ensued. At length the Earl recollected himself. Mr. Meekly, sais he, You have now proved to me your Position more effectually, more convincingly, than all the Powers of Ratiocination could possibly do. While you related the Story of those divine Citizens, I was imperceptibly stolen away and won entirely from Self. I entered into all their Interests, their Passions, and Affections; and was wrapt, as it were, into a new World of delightful Sensibilities. Is this what you call Virtue, what you call Happiness?
(pp. 135-6)",,14045,"","""Edward could only win your Cities, but Philippa conquers Hearts""","",2009-09-14 19:39:48 UTC,"Vol. I, chapter iv
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5214,"","Searching ""conque"" and ""passion"" in HDIS (Prose)",2005-01-26 00:00:00 UTC,"Here I found myself under the Necessity of discovering to my Husband the little Adventures, Impressions, and Sentiments of my Infancy, wherewith you are already acquainted. When I had finished my short Narrative, he seized my Hand, and pressing it passionately to his Lips, and then to his burning Bosom, he melted into Tears. O, my Fanny, he cried, my most noble, my adorable Creature! what a Combat have you fought, what a Conquest have you gained, of Grace over Nature, of Virtue against Passion! can you excuse me, will you forgive me? may I hope that you will restore me to the blessings of your Friendship? May I flatter myself that you gave me as much as you could of your Affections? that, if you had been able, you would have loved me with a Love like mine?",,14047,"","""O, my Fanny, he cried, my most noble, my adorable Creature! what a Combat have you fought, what a Conquest have you gained, of Grace over Nature, of Virtue against Passion!""","",2009-09-14 19:39:49 UTC,"Vol. 2, Chap. 12
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