updated_at,id,text,theme,metaphor,work_id,reviewed_on,provenance,created_at,comments,context,dictionary
2009-09-14 19:44:00 UTC,15572,"Peter, with his poetical Broomstick, belaboureth foreign Tyrants.--Taketh the Part of the oppressed Poor.--Asketh Tyrants knotty and puzzling Questions.--Giveth a Speech of Cato.--Peter seriously informeth them that they are not like the Lord.--Peter taketh a Survey of the Furniture of their Heads.--Peter solemnly declareth that the Million doth not like to be ridden. --Giveth an insolent Speech of Tyrants, and calleth them Highwaymen.--The Taylor and the Satin Breeches.--The Shoemaker and the Shoes.--Peter lamenteth that there should besome who think it a Sin to resist Tyrants.-- Adviseth them to read Æsop's Fables.
Who, and what are ye, sceptred bullies?--speak,
That millions to your will must bow the neck,
And, ox-like, meanly take the galling yoke?
Philosophers your ignorance despise;
Ev'n Folly, laughing, lifts her maudlin eyes,
And freely on your wisdoms cracks her joke.
(p. 34)","","""PETER taketh a Survey of the Furniture of their Heads.""",5843,,"Searching ""furniture"" and ""head"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2006-01-24 00:00:00 UTC,"","",""
2012-07-03 16:40:35 UTC,19845,"In birth the public sees no kind of merit!
Think of the present equalizing spirit!
Amidst the populace how rank it springs!
Nay, from the palaces the Virtues fly,
While boldly entering from their beastly stye,
The vulgar passions rush to pig with kings!
(p. 12)","","""Nay, from the palaces the Virtues fly, / While boldly entering from their beastly stye, / The vulgar passions rush to pig with kings!",7287,,Searching in HDIS (Poetry),2012-07-03 16:40:09 UTC,"","",Beasts
2014-03-03 18:32:22 UTC,23437,"Now on the band of ladies star'd the cooks,
And seem'd to show hair-ruin in their looks.
Great is the eloquence of eyes indeed--
Much hist'ry in those tell-tale orbs we read!
What though no bigger than a button hole,
Yet what a wondrous window to the soul!
The bosom's joy, and grief, and hope, and fear,
In lively colours are depicted here!
(cf. pp. 4-5 in 1792 edition)",Meta-metaphorical,""Much hist'ry in those tell-tale orbs we read! / What though no bigger than a button hole, / Yet what a wondrous window to the soul!""",7828,2014-03-03,"",2014-03-03 18:32:22 UTC,"Was assigned to title that goes with first canto. Deleted, reassigned.","Searching ""soul"" and ""window"" in HDIS (Poetry); again ""bosom;"" confirmed in ECCO.",Rooms