work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
5244,"",Reading,2009-09-14 19:40:03 UTC,"The two ladies, who affected to be ignorant of the rest, seemed highly displeased with this last stroke of freedom, and began a very discreet and serious dialogue upon virtue: in this my wife, the chaplain, and I, soon joined; and the 'Squire himself was at last brought to confess a sense of sorrow for his former excesses. We talked of the pleasures of temperance, and of the sun-shine in the mind unpolluted with guilt. I was so pleased, that my little ones were kept up beyond the usual time edified by so much good conversation. Mr Thornhill went beyond me, and demanded it I had any objection to giving prayers. I joyfully embraced the proposal, and in this manner the night was passed in a most comfortable way, till at last the company began to think of returning.
(IX, p. 72)",2006-09-12,14122,End of Chapter 9. ,"""We talked of the pleasures of temperance, and of the sun-shine in the mind unpolluted with guilt.""","",2012-01-04 18:03:06 UTC,Chapter 9
5328,"",Reading and HDIS (Poetry),2003-11-27 00:00:00 UTC,"At church, with meek and unaffected grace,
His looks adorned the venerable place;
Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway,
And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.
The service past, around the pious man,
With steady zeal, each honest rustic ran;
Even children followed with endearing wile,
And plucked his gown, to share the good man's smile.
His ready smile a parent's warmth expressed,
Their welfare pleased him and their cares distressed;
To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given,
But all his serious thoughts had rest in Heaven.
As some tall cliff, that lifts its awful form,
Swells from the vale and midway leaves the storm,
Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread,
Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
(ll. 177-192, pp. 683-4)",2010-06-10,14303,"•Correct category? Borders on 'Weather'....[I've added it, BMP 6/10/2010]
•Lonsdale gives G.'s source for these lines: ""A Voyage to South-America ... by Don George Juan, and Don Antonio de Ulloa (1758) i 231. Cp. also Young, Night Thoughts ii (ad fin): 'As some tall tower, or lofty mountain's brow / Detains the sun illustrious from its height; / While rising vapours and descending shades / With damps and darkness drown the specious vale...' Parallels in Lucan, Statius, Claudian, Chapelain, Chaulieu have also bee suggested"" (p. 684).","""But all his serious thoughts had rest in Heaven. / As some tall cliff, that lifts its awful form, / Swells from the vale and midway leaves the storm, / Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, / Eternal sunshine settles on its head.""","",2010-06-10 18:47:55 UTC,""
7982,"",Searching in ECCO-TCP,2014-07-24 21:39:31 UTC,"The religion of the Daures is more absurd than even that of the sectaries of Fohi. How would you be surprized, O sage disciple and follower of Confucius! you who believe one eternal intelligent cause of all, should you be present at the barbarous ceremonies of this infatuated people. How would you deplore the blindness and folly of mankind. His boasted reason seems only to light him astray, and brutal instinct more regularly points out the path to happiness. Could you think it? they adore a wicked divinity; they fear him and they worship him; they imagine him a malicious being, ready to injure and ready to be appeased. The men and women assemble at midnight in a hut, which serves for a temple. A priest stretches himself on the ground, and all the people pour forth the most horrid cries, while drums and timbrels swell the infernal concert. After this dissonance, miscalled music, has continued about two hours, the priest rises from the ground, assumes an air of inspiration, grows big with the inspiring daemon, and pretends to a skill in futurity.
(I, pp. 32-33)",,24258,"","""His boasted reason seems only to light him astray, and brutal instinct more regularly points out the path to happiness.""","",2014-07-24 21:39:31 UTC,LETTER X. To the same.
7982,"",Searching in ECCO-TCP,2014-07-24 21:40:29 UTC,"The customs of this people correspond to their religion; they keep their dead for three days on the same bed where the person died; after which they bury him in a grave moderately deep, but with the head still uncovered. Here for several days they present him different sorts of meats; which, when they perceive he does not consume, they fill up the grave, and desist from desiring him to eat for the future. How, how can mankind be guilty of such strange absurdity; to entreat a dead body already putrid to partake of the banquet? Where, I again repeat it, is human reason! not only some men, but whole nations, seem divested of its illumination. Here we observe a whole country adoring a divinity through fear, and attempting to feed the dead. These are their most serious and most religious occupations: are these men rational, or are not the apes of Borneo more wise?
(I, p. 33-34)",,24259,"","""Where, I again repeat it, is human reason! not only some men, but whole nations, seem divested of its illumination.""","",2014-07-24 21:40:29 UTC,LETTER X. To the same.
7982,"",Searching in ECCO-TCP,2014-07-25 02:34:32 UTC,"That treasure which I still kept within my bosom, my child, my all that was left to me, is now a slave.* Good heavens, why was this! why have I been introduced into this mortal apartment, to be a spectator of my own misfortunes, and the misfortunes of my fellow creatures! wherever I turn, what a labyrinth of doubt, error, and disappointment appears: why was I brought into being; for what purposes made; from whence have I come; whither stray'd; or to what regions am I hastening? Reason cannot resolve. It lends a ray to shew the horrors of my prison, but not a light to guide me to escape them. Ye boasted revelations of the earth, how little do you aid the enquiry.
(I, pp. 84-85)",,24261,"","""Reason cannot resolve. It lends a ray to shew the horrors of my prison, but not a light to guide me to escape them.""","",2014-07-25 02:34:32 UTC,""