theme,metaphor,work_id,dictionary,provenance,id,created_at,updated_at,reviewed_on,comments,text,context "","""While Hood-wink'd Ignorance her Reign resign'd, / Reason resum'd her Empire o'er the Mind""",4415,Empire,"Searching ""empire"" and ""mind"" in HDIS (Poetry); Found again searching ""empire"" and ""reason"" in HDIS (Poetry)",11647,2004-08-11 00:00:00 UTC,2014-08-27 19:40:31 UTC,,"•The poem is ""Inscrib'd to His Grace John Duke of Marlborough"" and was written in 1714. Poem ends celebrating the birth of a prince.
•INTEREST. Explicit connection with political history."," They soonest pierc'd the Church's darksome Gloom,
And snatch'd Religion from the Chains of Rome;
Taught Bright-ey'd Faith to soar above the Skies,
And leave her Legends, Venerable Lies;
Then Superstition, of a motley Hue,
With all her Idol-Saints and Gods withdrew;
While Hood-wink'd Ignorance her Reign resign'd,
Reason resum'd her Empire o'er the Mind
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(Cf. pp. 23-24 in Poems)",""