work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
4281,Dualism,"Searching ""soul"" and ""gold"" HDIS (Poetry)",2005-05-31 00:00:00 UTC,"But as the Soul inspires our earthly Frame,
And by an Union manages the same:
So perfect Gold no more excells the Brass,
Than Love of Soul doth Love of Body pass.
Nat'ral Affection has a pow'rful Sway;
But that is mortal and will soon decay.
The Fire of Love to Womankind with Pain
May fill the Soul, and soon be quench'd again.
But Friendship binds with strongest Cords the Heart,
And causes greatest Trouble when we part.
Ne'er was a dying Martyr more belov'd
By Heav'n, than I by him whom Death remov'd:
Nor does my Body to my Soul adhere
With truer Love, than he to me was dear.
Unfeign'd and pure was our exalted Tye,
And lasting as the Chain of pow'rful Destiny.",,11194,•I've included twice: Gold and Brass,"""So perfect Gold no more excells the Brass, / Than Love of Soul doth Love of Body pass.""",Metal,2009-09-14 19:35:39 UTC,Stanza I.
7934,"","Searching ""steel"" in Past Masters edition of TMS",2014-06-17 18:55:38 UTC,"But while those ancient philosophers endeavoured in this manner to suggest every consideration which could, as Milton says, arm the obdured breast with stubborn patience, as with triple steel; they, at the same time, laboured above all to convince their followers that there neither was nor could be any evil in death; and that, if their situation became at any time too hard for their constancy to support, the remedy was at hand, the door was open, and they might, without fear, walk out when they pleased. If there was no world beyond the present, death, they said, could be no evil; and if there was another world, the Gods must likewise be in that other, and a just man could fear no evil while under their protection. Those philosophers, in short, prepared a death-song, if I may say so, which the Grecian patriots and heroes might make use of upon the proper occasions; and, of all the different sects, the Stoics, I think it must be acknowledged, had prepared by far the most animated and spirited song.
(II, 241-2; cf. p. 283 in Liberty Fund ed.)",,23960,"•Cross-reference: footnote gives, ""Paradise Lost II.568-9""
•INTEREST. Use in entry.
Originally assigned to 1759 ed. but doesn't appear until 6th ed. Deleting entry: http://metaphors.lib.virginia.edu/admin/metaphors/13630
Record created on 2005-06-14 00:00:00 UTC
Record last updated on 2009-09-14 19:38:52 UTC
","""But while those ancient philosophers endeavoured in this manner to suggest every consideration which could, as Milton says, arm the obdured breast with stubborn patience, as with triple steel; they, at the same time, laboured above all to convince their followers that there neither was nor could be any evil in death; and that, if their situation became at any time too hard for their constancy to support, the remedy was at hand, the door was open, and they might, without fear, walk out when they pleased.""",Metal,2014-10-12 22:00:08 UTC,""