work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context 3636,"","Searching in HDIS (Poetry). See also Sean Silver, The Mind is a Collection: Case Studies in Eighteenth-Century Thought (Philadelphia: Penn Press, 2015), 40.",2003-08-20 00:00:00 UTC,"Best image of myself, and dearer half,
The trouble of thy thoughts this night in sleep
Affects me equally; nor can I like
This uncouth dream, of evil sprung, I fear;
Yet evil whence? in thee can harbour none,
Created pure. But know that in the soul
Are many lesser faculties, that serve
Reason as chief; among these Fancy next
Her office holds; of all external things
Which the five watchful senses represent,
She forms imaginations, aery shapes,
Which Reason, joining or disjoining, frames
All what we affirm or what deny, and call
Our knowledge or opinion; then retires
Into her private cell, when nature rests.

Oft in her absence mimick Fancy wakes
To imitate her; but, misjoining shapes,
Wild work produces oft, and most in dreams;
Ill matching words and deeds long past or late.
Some such resemblances, methinks, I find
Of our last evening's talk, in this thy dream,
But with addition strange; Yet be not sad.
Evil into the mind of God or Man
May come and go, so unreproved, and leave
No spot or blame behind: Which gives me hope
That what in sleep thou didst abhor to dream,
Waking thou never will consent to do.
Be not disheartened then, nor cloud those looks,
That wont to be more cheerful and serene,
Than when fair morning first smiles on the world;
And let us to our fresh employments rise
Among the groves, the fountains, and the flowers
That open now their choisest bosomed smells,
Reserved from night, and kept for thee in store.
(Bk. V, ll. 95-128)",2003-10-22,9447,"•Eve relates her dream of the ""interdicted"" tree to Adam who responds
•Longman annotates, ""The psychology involved here was common knowledge. Thus in Bartholomew, 'the Imaginative vertue ... is in the soule as the eye in the body, by beholding to receive the images that are offered unto it by the outward scenes ... Now after the Imagination hath received the images ... then doth it prepare and digest them, either by joyning them together, or by separating them according as their natures require. They that distinguish Imagination from Fantasie, attribute this office to Fantasie' (cit. Svendsen 38). Cp. Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy [etc. I should REVISIT this long footnote and stock up the database].
•Johnson comments on this passage: ""Adam's discourse of dreams seems not to be the speculation of a new-created being.""
•I should reference Klibansky, Raymond, and others, Saturn and Melancholy, 1964.
•I know, I know, I'm not supposed to include personification.","""But know that in the soul / Are many lesser faculties, that serve / Reason as chief; among these Fancy next / Her office holds; of all external things / Which the five watchful senses represent, / She forms imaginations, aery shapes, / Which Reason, joining or disjoining, frames / All what we affirm or what deny, and call / Our knowledge or opinion; then retires / Into her private cell, when nature rests.""","",2016-03-11 21:43:44 UTC,Book V