text,updated_at,metaphor,created_at,context,theme,reviewed_on,dictionary,comments,provenance,id,work_id
"Having recollected my Strength and Spirits the best I could, I adventured to enter my Wife's Apartment. She was just raised in her Bed, from whence her pale and emaciated Countenance looked forth as the Sun, toward his Setting, looks through a sickly Atmosphere, in Confidence of his arising in the Fulness of Morning Glory.
Having cautiously and dejectedly seated myself beside her, she reached out both her Hands, and, pressing one of mine between them, I love you no longer, my Harry, she cried; I love you no longer. [Page 63] Your Rival, at length, has conquered. I am the Bride of Another. And yet I love you in a Measure, since in you I love all that is him, or that is his, and that I think is much, a great deal, indeed, of all that is lovely. O, my dear, my sweet, mine only Enemy, as I may say! Riches were nothing unto me, Pleasures were nothing unto me, the World was nothing unto me; You, and you only, Harry, stood between me and my Heaven, between me and my God. Long, and often, and vainly, have I strove and struggled against you; but my Bridegroom, at length, is become jealous of you; my true Owner calls me from you, and takes me all to himself! Be not alarmed then, my Harry, when I tell you that I must leave you. You will grieve for me, you will grieve greatly for me, my Beloved! but, give way to the kindly Shower that your Lord shed for his Lazarus, and let the Tears of Humanity alleviate and lighten the Weight of your Affliction. -- Ah, my Harry, I tremble for you; what a Course you have to run!--what Perils! what Temptations! deliver him from them, my Master, deliver him from them all: --Again what blissful Prospects--they are gone, they are vanished! --I sink, I die under the Weight and Length of succeeding Misery! --Again it opens, all is cleared, and his End, like that of Job, is more blessed than his Beginning. --Ah, [Page 64] my Harry, my Harry, your Heart must be wrung by many Engines, it shall be tried in many Fires, but I trust it is a golden Heart, and will come forth with all its Weight.
You have been dreaming, my Love, I said, you have been dreaming; and the Impression still lies heavy and melancholy on your Memory.
(pp. 62-4)",2009-09-14 19:39:57 UTC,"""Heart must be wrung by many Engines, it shall be tried in many Fires, but I trust it is a golden Heart, and will come forth with all its Weight""",2005-06-02 00:00:00 UTC,"Vol. 3, Chap. 14","",,Metal,"","Searching ""heart"" and ""gold"" in HDIS (Prose)",14085,5214
"Having recollected my Strength and Spirits the best I could, I adventured to enter my Wife's Apartment. She was just raised in her Bed, from whence her pale and emaciated Countenance looked forth as the Sun, toward his Setting, looks through a sickly Atmosphere, in Confidence of his arising in the Fulness of Morning Glory.
Having cautiously and dejectedly seated myself beside her, she reached out both her Hands, and, pressing one of mine between them, I love you no longer, my Harry, she cried; I love you no longer. [Page 63] Your Rival, at length, has conquered. I am the Bride of Another. And yet I love you in a Measure, since in you I love all that is him, or that is his, and that I think is much, a great deal, indeed, of all that is lovely. O, my dear, my sweet, mine only Enemy, as I may say! Riches were nothing unto me, Pleasures were nothing unto me, the World was nothing unto me; You, and you only, Harry, stood between me and my Heaven, between me and my God. Long, and often, and vainly, have I strove and struggled against you; but my Bridegroom, at length, is become jealous of you; my true Owner calls me from you, and takes me all to himself! Be not alarmed then, my Harry, when I tell you that I must leave you. You will grieve for me, you will grieve greatly for me, my Beloved! but, give way to the kindly Shower that your Lord shed for his Lazarus, and let the Tears of Humanity alleviate and lighten the Weight of your Affliction. -- Ah, my Harry, I tremble for you; what a Course you have to run!--what Perils! what Temptations! deliver him from them, my Master, deliver him from them all: --Again what blissful Prospects--they are gone, they are vanished! --I sink, I die under the Weight and Length of succeeding Misery! --Again it opens, all is cleared, and his End, like that of Job, is more blessed than his Beginning. --Ah, [Page 64] my Harry, my Harry, your Heart must be wrung by many Engines, it shall be tried in many Fires, but I trust it is a golden Heart, and will come forth with all its Weight.
You have been dreaming, my Love, I said, you have been dreaming; and the Impression still lies heavy and melancholy on your Memory.
(pp. 62-4)",2009-09-14 19:39:57 UTC,"""I said, you have been dreaming; and the Impression still lies heavy and melancholy on your Memory""",2005-06-02 00:00:00 UTC,"Vol. 3, Chap. 14","",,Impression,"",Searching in HDIS (Prose),14086,5214
"From his five Wounds shall be poured forth incessant Floods of Glory and wide diffusing Blessedness upon all his Redeemed. Adoring Worlds, in self-Abjection, shall strive to sink beneath the Abjection that became their Salvation. These ever apparent Ensigns of so dearly purchased [Page 242] Benefits shall inevitably attract the Wills of all Creatures, they shall cause all Hearts and Affections to rush and cleave to him, as Steel Dust rushes to Adamant, and as Spokes stick in the Nave whereon they are centred. There shall be no Lapse thence-forward, no Falling away, for ever. But God in his Christ, and Christ in his Redeemed, shall be a Will and a Wisdom, and an Action and a Mightiness, and a Goodness and a Graciousness, and a Glory rising on Glory, and a Blessing rising on Blessedness, through an ever beginning to a never ending Eternity.",2009-09-14 19:39:58 UTC,"""These ever apparent Ensigns of so dearly purchased Benefits shall inevitably attract the Wills of all Creatures, they shall cause all Hearts and Affections to rush and cleave to him, as Steel Dust rushes to Adamant, and as Spokes stick in the Nave whereon they are centred.""",2005-06-09 00:00:00 UTC,Vol. 5,Magnetism,,Metal,•I've included twice: Steel Dust and Wheel Spokes,"Searching ""heart"" and ""steel"" in HDIS (Prose)",14089,5214
"As God is, every where (in and of himself) the Fullness of all possible Beings and Beatitudes, he cannot create any thing independent or out of himself; they cannot be but by being both in him and by him. Could it be otherwise, could any Creature be wise, or powerful, or happy, in and of itself, what a poor and stinted Happiness must that have been; its Blessedness, in that Case, must have been limited, like its [Page 93] Being; and how infinitely, my Child, should we then have fallen short of that eternal Weight of Glory intended for us. But God has been graciously pleased to provide better things. If we humbly and desirously depend upon him, we become entitled to All that he has and that he is. He will enlighten our Darkness with his own Illumination; he will inform our Ignorance with his own Wisdom; his Omnipotence will become the Strength of our Weakness; He, himself, will be our Rectitude and Guide from all Error; He will purify our Pollution; put his own Robe on our Nakedness; enrich our Poverty with the Heart-felt Treasures of himself; and we shall be as so many Mirrors, wherein our divine Friend and Father shall delight to behold the express Image of his own Person, his own Perfections and Beatitudes represented for ever!
(pp. 92-3)",2013-08-22 16:56:42 UTC,"""And we shall be as so many Mirrors, wherein our divine Friend and Father shall delight to behold the express Image of his own Person, his own Perfections and Beatitudes represented for ever.""",2005-11-30 00:00:00 UTC,"Vol. 4, Chap. 1","",,Mirror,"","Searching ""heart"" and ""mirror"" in HDIS (Prose)",14099,5214
"Then asking him where he lived, and Harry pointing to the Town before them, they both got up and went towards it. Our Hero was now again all Glee, all Action; he sprung from and to his Friend, and play'd and gambol'd about him, like a young Spaniel in a Morning, just loos'd from his Chain, and admitted to accompany his Master to the Field. As his two Dogs frisked about him, he would now mount upon One, then bound upon t'other, and each pranced and paraded under him as delighted with the Burden. The old Gentleman beheld all with a Pleasure that had long been a Stranger to his Breast, and shared in the Joys of his young Associate.",2009-09-14 19:40:00 UTC,"""The old Gentleman beheld all with a Pleasure that had long been a Stranger to his Breast, and shared in the Joys of his young Associate""",2006-03-06 00:00:00 UTC,"Vol. 1, Chap. 2","",,Inhabitants,"","Searching ""breast"" and ""stranger"" in HDIS (Prose)",14100,5214
"The three Consorts were now joined, as our Mate had foreseen, and came down in full Sail and a sweeping Course upon us; and then it was that my Sins came crowding into my Mind, and I believe I was the only Person of the Ship's Company who trembled.",2009-09-14 19:40:00 UTC,"""[A]nd then it was that my Sins came crowding into my Mind, and I believe I was the only Person of the Ship's Company who trembled""",2006-03-11 00:00:00 UTC,"Vol. 3, Chap. 16","",,Inhabitants,"","Searching ""mind"" and ""crowd"" in HDIS (Prose)",14102,5214
"The infant mind at coming to the world, is a meer rasa tabula, destitute of all ideas and materials of reflection. It is a charte blanche, ready for receiving the inscriptions of sense; yet it behoves us carefully to observe, that it differs from a rasa tabula or a sheet of clean paper, in the following respect, that you may write on clean paper; that sugar is bitter, wormwood sweet, fire and frost in every degree pleasing and [sufferable?]; that compassion and gratitude are base; treachery, falshood, and envy noble; and that contempt is indifferent to us: Yet no human [end page 57] art or industry are able to make those impression on the mind: in respect to them, the mind discovers not a passive capacity, but it resists them with the force of fate: the signification of the words may indeed be altered; but when we take our attention off from the words, and place it on the ideas, I mean, that no human power is able to impress the ideas I speak of, on the mind of man, in the order and relation I write them. The infant mind then is justly compared to a sheet of clean paper, in being pure of ideas, and susceptible of a vast variety; but it cannot be compared to a sheet of clean paper in this other respect, that prior to the impression, they are both equally indifferent to the inscription they are to bear. For the human mind hath several predetermined tastes and sentiments, which arise from a source that lies beyond experience; custom, or choice; that with absolute, [end page 58] authority decides the good and bad of the ideas we receive.
(pp. 56-9) ",2009-09-14 19:40:44 UTC,"""The infant mind at coming to the world, is a meer rasa tabula, destitute of all ideas and materials of reflection.""",2006-10-13 00:00:00 UTC,Section III. Of Instinct,Blank Slate,,Writing,"","Searching ""tabula rasa"" in ECCO",14374,5365
"The infant mind at coming to the world, is a meer rasa tabula, destitute of all ideas and materials of reflection.It is a charte blanche, ready for receiving the inscriptions of sense; yet it behoves us carefully to observe, that it differs from a rasa tabula or a sheet of clean paper, in the following respect, that you may write on clean paper; that sugar is bitter, wormwood sweet, fire and frost in every degree pleasing and [sufferable?]; that compassion and gratitude are base; treachery, falshood, and envy noble; and that contempt is indifferent to us: Yet no human [end page 57] art or industry are able to make those impression on the mind: in respect to them, the mind discovers not a passive capacity, but it resists them with the force of fate: the signification of the words may indeed be altered; but when we take our attention off from the words, and place it on the ideas, I mean, that no human power is able to impress the ideas I speak of, on the mind of man, in the order and relation I write them. The infant mind then is justly compared to a sheet of clean paper, in being pure of ideas, and susceptible of a vast variety; but it cannot be compared to a sheet of clean paper in this other respect, that prior to the impression, they are both equally indifferent to the inscription they are to bear. For the human mind hath several predetermined tastes and sentiments, which arise from a source that lies beyond experience; custom, or choice; that with absolute, [end page 58] authority decides the good and bad of the ideas we receive.
(pp. 56-9) ",2010-07-01 21:09:25 UTC,"""It is a charte blanche, ready for receiving the inscriptions of sense; yet it behoves us carefully to observe, that it differs from a rasa tabula or a sheet of clean paper, in the following respect, that you may write on clean paper; that sugar is bitter, wormwood sweet, fire and frost in every degree pleasing and [sufferable?]; that compassion and gratitude are base; treachery, falshood, and envy noble; and that contempt is indifferent to us: Yet no human art or industry are able to make those impression on the mind.""",2006-10-13 00:00:00 UTC,Section III. Of Instinct,Blank Slate,,Writing,"•This passage is quoted and critiqued in the British Magazine and General Review (1772). p. 270; ""We should be glad to know what is all this more than saying, that the mind is so constituted, that whatever it determines at first to be sweet, it cannot afterwards taught to determine bitter"" (270).
•INTEREST. REVISIT. This passage is taken up by other writers. Cross-reference: Napleton's Advice to a Student in the University (1795).","Searching ""tabula rasa"" in ECCO",14375,5365
"MELT.
There is an instinct in man, that is as quick to discern, as it is fond to seek alliance and fellowship with its like.--As to my Fanny and myself, our souls had been created, like sympathetic steel and magnet, to leap together at first sight!--I conducted her to her house.--I took upon me my pleasing portion of all her griefs.--She admitted me for her servant, her solicitor--her bless'd companion, Townley!--At length we married; and, soon after, set out for London, by the sweetest tour, sure, that ever was taken.--We made it a jaunt of several weeks--we were in no hurry--we carried our Eden within us and about us, wherever we went--till we arrived yesterday se'nnight, at the end of our journey, and the beginning of our misfortunes!",2009-09-14 19:41:49 UTC,"""As to my Fanny and myself, our souls had been created, like sympathetic steel and magnet, to leap together at first sight!""",2005-06-13 00:00:00 UTC,"Act I, scene ii",Sympathy; Magnetism,,Metal,"","Searching ""steel"" and ""soul"" in HDIS (Drama)",14753,5513
"O'erbreath'd we come where, 'twixt impending hills,
Ran the joint current of two gurgling rills;
On either hand, adown each fearful steep,
Hung forth the shaggy horrors, dark and deep:
Here, thro' brown umbrage, glow'd the vivid green,
And headlong slopes, and winding paths between;
Growth above many a growth, tall trees arose,
The tops of these scarce veil'd the roots of those;
A winding court where wandering fancy walk'd
And to herself responsive Echo talk'd.
",2013-06-04 16:48:01 UTC,"""The tops of these scarce veil'd the roots of those; / A winding court where wandering fancy walk'd / And to herself responsive Echo talk'd.""",2004-08-22 00:00:00 UTC,"",Inner and Outer,,Inhabitants,•INTEREST. Metaphor of mind is here exterior?,"Searching ""fancy"" and ""court"" in HDIS (Poetry)",15428,5782