updated_at,reviewed_on,context,comments,theme,id,text,provenance,created_at,work_id,metaphor,dictionary
2009-09-14 19:43:42 UTC,,"",•I've included twice: Ocean and Mirror,"",15457,"Childhood's loved group revisits every scene;
The tangled wood-walk and the tufted green!
Indulgent Memory wakes, and lo, they live!
Clothed with far softer hues than Light can give.
Thou first, best friend that Heaven assigns below
To sooth and sweeten all the cares we know;
Whose glad suggestions still each vain alarm,
When nature fades and life forgets to charm;
Thee would the Muse invoke!--to thee belong
The sage's precept and the poet's song.
What softened views thy magic glass reveals,
When o'er the landscape Time's meek twilight steals!
As when in ocean sinks the orb of day,
Long on the wave reflected lustres play;
Thy tempered gleams of happiness resigned
Glance on the darkened mirror of the mind.",Searching in HDIS (Poetry),2005-10-21 00:00:00 UTC,5795,"""As when in ocean sinks the orb of day, / Long on the wave reflected lustres play; / Thy tempered gleams of happiness resigned / Glance on the darkened mirror of the mind.""",""
2009-09-14 19:43:53 UTC,,"Vol. I, To a Clear Insight into the Nature of Happiness: As Being Properly Intellectual","","",15522,"The equalisation we are describing is farther indebted for its empire in the mind to the ideas with which it is attended of personal happiness. It grows out of a simple, clear and unanswerable theory of the human mind, that we first stand in need of a certain animal subsistence and shelter, and after that, that our only true felicity consists in the expansion of our intellectual powers, the knowledge of truth, and the practice of virtue. It might seem at first sight as if this theory omitted a part of the experimental history of mind, the pleasures of sense and the pleasures of delusion. But this omission is apparent, not real. However many are the kinds of pleasure of which we are susceptible, the truly prudent man will sacrifice the inferior to the more exquisite. Now no man who has ever produced or contemplated the happiness of others with a liberal mind, will deny that this exercise is infinitely the most pleasurable of all sensations. But he that is guilty of the smallest excess of sensual pleasures, by so much diminishes his capacity of obtaining this highest pleasure. Not to add, if that be of any importance, that rigid temperance is the reasonable means of tasting sensual pleasures with the highest relish. This was the system of Epicurus, and must be the system of every man who ever speculated deeply on the nature of human happiness. For the pleasures of delusion, they are absolutely incompatible with our highest pleasure. If we would either promote or enjoy the happiness of others, we must seek to know in what it consists. But knowledge is the irreconcileable foe of delusion. In proportion as mind rises to its true element, and shakes off those prejudices which are the authors of our misery, it becomes incapable of deriving pleasure from flattery, fame or power, or indeed from any source that is not compatible with, or in other words does not make a part of the common good. The most palpable of all classes of knowledge is that I am, personally considered, but an atom in the ocean of mind.--The first rudiment therefore of that science of personal happiness which is inseparable from a state of equalisation, is, that I shall derive infinitely more pleasure from simplicity, frugality and truth, than from luxury, empire and fame. What temptation has a man, entertaining this opinion, and living in a state of equal property, to accumulate?","Searching ""mind"" in on-line offerings at Liberty Fund's Free-Press .",2005-05-26 00:00:00 UTC,5813,"""The most palpable of all classes of knowledge is that I am, personally considered, but an atom in the ocean of mind.""",""
2009-09-14 19:44:25 UTC,2007-06-26,"","","",15707,"The more we saw him, indeed, the more did we congratulate ourselves on the proceeding. His torments were acute and tedious, but in the midst even of delirium, his heart seemed to overflow with gratitude, and to be actuated by no wish but to alleviate our toil and our danger.
(Part I, chapter 1, p. 236)",Reading,2003-07-16 00:00:00 UTC,5925,"""His torments were acute and tedious, but in the midst even of delirium, his heart seemed to overflow with gratitude, and to be actuated by no wish but to alleviate our toil and our danger.""",""
2013-06-04 21:04:09 UTC,2007-06-26,"Part I, chapter 12",• Mervyn's reaction to Welbeck's narrative. Note the haunting of the mind implied in the last sentence. (Not included in database as a separate entry.),"",15731,"What would have been the fruit of deliberation, if I had had the time or power to deliberate, I know not. My thoughts flowed with tumult and rapidity. To shut this spectacle from my view was my first impulse; but to desert this man, in a time of so much need, appeared a thankless and dastardly deportment. To remain where I was, to conform implicitly to his direction, required no effort. Some fear was connected with his presence, and with that of the dead; but, in the tremulous confusion of my present thoughts, solitude would conjure up a thousand phantoms.
(I.xii, p. 326)",Reading,2003-07-18 00:00:00 UTC,5925,"""My thoughts flowed with tumult and rapidity.""",""
2009-09-14 19:44:32 UTC,2003-10-22,"",•Two metaphors in this paragraph. See next entry under 'Government' and 'Usurpation'.,"",15746,"These thoughts were superseded by a tide of new sensations. The weight that incommoded my brows and my stomach was suddenly increased. My brain was usurped by some benumbing power, and my limbs refused to support me. My pulsations were quickened, and the prevalence of fever could no longer be doubted.
(Part I, chapter 19, p. 393)",Reading,2003-07-18 00:00:00 UTC,5925,"Thoughts may be superseded by a ""tide of new sensations""",""
2009-09-14 19:44:33 UTC,2007-06-26,Welbeck and Mervyn discuss the Lodi bills,"•The soul is liquid? Not the simile properly concerns the ""influence of this thought"" and not the soul.","",15752,"As I perpetually revolved these incidents, they assumed new forms, and were linked with new associations. The volume written by his father, and transferred to me by tokens, which were now remembered to be more emphatic than the nature of the composition seemed to justify, was likewise remembered. It came attended by recollections respecting a volume which I filled, when a youth, with extracts from the Roman and Greek poets. Besides this literary purpose I likewise used to preserve the bank bills, with the keeping or carriage of which I chanced to be intrusted. This image led me back to the leather-case containing Lodis's property, which was put into my hands at the same time with the volume.
These images now gave birth to a third conception, which darted on my benighted understanding like an electrical flash. Was it possible that Lodi's property might be inclosed with the leaves of this volume? In hastily turning it over, I recollected to have noticed leaves whose edges by accident or design adhered to each other. Lodi, in speaking of the sale of his father's West-Indian property, mentioned the sum obtained for it, was forty thousand dollars. Half only of this sum had been discovered by me. How had the remainder been appropriated? Surely this volume contained it.
The influence of this thought was like the infusion of a new soul into my frame.
(Part I, chapter 21, p. 409)",Reading,2003-07-21 00:00:00 UTC,5925,"""The influence of this thought was like the infusion of a new soul into my frame.""",""
2011-05-19 20:27:41 UTC,,Chapter 3,"","",18437,"Do we need a stronger evidence of the absurdity of hereditary government than is seen in the descendants of those men, in any line of life, who once were famous? Is there scarcely an instance in which there is not a total reverse of the character? It appears as if the tide of mental faculties flowed as far as it could in certain channels, and then forsook its course, and arose in others. How irrational then is the hereditary system, which establishes channels of power, in company with which wisdom refuses to flow! By continuing this absurdity, man is perpetually in contradiction with himself; he accepts, for a king, or a chief magistrate, or a legislator, a person whom he would not elect for a constable.
(p. 277)",Reading,2011-05-19 20:27:41 UTC,6856,"""It appears as if the tide of mental faculties flowed as far as it could in certain channels, and then forsook its course, and arose in others. How irrational then is the hereditary system, which establishes channels of power, in company with which wisdom refuses to flow!""",""
2013-04-25 18:52:10 UTC,,Proverbs of Hell,"","",20142,"The cistern contains: the fountain overflows
One thought, fills immensity.
Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.
(Plate 8)",Reading,2013-04-25 18:52:10 UTC,7382,"""The cistern contains: the fountain overflows / One thought, fills immensity.""",""
2013-04-25 19:11:05 UTC,,"","","",20146,"My friend the Angel climb'd up from his station into the mill; I remain'd alone, & then this appearance was no more, but I found myself sitting on a pleasant bank beside a river by moon light hearing a harper who sung to the harp. & his theme was, The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, & breeds reptiles of the mind.
(Plate 19)",Reading,2013-04-25 19:11:05 UTC,7382,"""The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, & breeds reptiles of the mind.""",Animals
2013-09-28 19:51:38 UTC,,"","","",22880,"
Other associate tribes and trains of motions, as well as the irritative and sensitive ones, appear to be increased in their activity during the suspension of volition in sleep. As those which contribute to circulate the blood, and to perform the various secretions; as well as the associate tribes and trains of ideas, which contribute to furnish the perpetual streams of our dreaming imaginations.
(p. 214)",ECCO-TCP,2013-09-28 19:50:57 UTC,7694,"""As those which contribute to circulate the blood, and to perform the various secretions; as well as the associate tribes and trains of ideas, which contribute to furnish the perpetual streams of our dreaming imaginations.""",Inhabitants