text,updated_at,metaphor,created_at,context,theme,reviewed_on,dictionary,comments,provenance,id,work_id
"LAT.
How quietly he rests! Oh that I could by watching him, hanging thus over him, and feeling all his Care, protract his Sleep!
Oh sleep! thou sweetest Gift of Heav'n to Man,
Still in thy downy Arms embrace my Friend,
Nor loose him from his inexistent Trance
To sense of Yesterday, and pain of Being;
In thee Oppressors sooth their angry Brow,
In thee th' oppress'd forget tyrannick Pow'r,
In thee--
The Wretch condemn'd is equal to his Judge,
And the sad Lover to his cruel Fair;
Nay, all the shining Glories Men pursue,
When thou art wanted, are but empty Noise;
Who then wou'd court the Pomp of guilty Power,
When the Mind sickens at the weary Shew,
And flies to temporary Death for Ease;
When half our Life's Cessation of our Being--
He wakes--
How do I pity that returning Life,
Which I cou'd hazard thousand Lives to save!
(V.v)",2011-05-31 03:37:59 UTC,"""Who then wou'd court the Pomp of guilty Power, / When the Mind sickens at the weary Shew, / And flies to temporary Death for Ease.""",2004-10-13 00:00:00 UTC,"Act V, scene v","",,"",•I've included twice: Death and Disease,Searching HDIS,10434,4029
"Here too did Clifford's Course of Glory end,
A Man of Honour, and a faithful Friend.
None the Theorbo with a softer Hand,
Few with a stronger did the Sword command.
Whene'er he took the Lute, or grasp'd the Spear,
He touch'd the Heart with Pleasure, or with Fear.
By the same Hand, the Lute, the Lance, the Foe,
Did tremble in their turn, and like Emotion show.
The envious Ball pass'd thro' from Ear to Ear,
And did the tuneful Drums to pieces tear,
Which aeiey Accents beat, to make us hear.
It did the curious Instruments confound,
And all the winding Labarynths of Sound,
The charming Musick-Rooms, that entertain
The Soul high seated in her Throne the Brain.
(Bk IV, pp. 104-5)
",2014-07-02 16:49:58 UTC,"""It did the curious Instruments confound, / And all the winding Labarynths of Sound, / The charming Musick-Rooms, that entertain / The Soul high seated in her Throne the Brain.""",2004-07-28 00:00:00 UTC,Book IV,"",2012-01-12,Inhabitants and Throne,•I've included twice: Government and Architecture,"Searching ""throne"" and ""soul"" in HDIS (Poetry); confirmed in ECCO.",10455,4038
"When other Potentates their Subjects scare,
With fain'd Invasions, and pretended War,
To make their Kingdoms bleed at every Vein;
And to enrich themselves, their Subjects drain:
Th'indulgent Queen, when Danger was sincere,
The Mother felt, and did her Britons spare.
When for their own Defence, she ask'd their Aid,
She with Reluctance easy Burdens laid.
She publick Wants and Pressures to supply,
Her State, and private Pleasures did deny.
From publick Thrift, to Sov'raign Pow'rs unknown,
She streighten'd for her Subjects Ease, the Crown;
Their Families to spare, almost distress'd her own.
She frugal of their Treasure and their Blood,
Still quitting private Ends for publick Good;
Friends to her Empire all her Subjects made,
And in their Hearts its deep Foundations laid.",2009-09-14 19:35:00 UTC,"A monarch may make ""all her Subjects"" ""Friends to her Empire and ""in their Hearts"" lay ""its deep Foundations""",2004-08-19 00:00:00 UTC,"","",,"",•I've included twice: Empire and Architecture,"Searching ""heart"" and ""empire"" in HDIS (Poetry)",10457,4038
"Lopez in Poison skill'd, I will employ,
This Bulwark of Apostates to destroy.
His potent Drugs shall serve my Int'rest more
Than Mansfelt's Arms, and all Iberia's Pow'r.
This noble Genius ever well inclin'd,
By me for mighty Services design'd,
I form'd with Labour, and with Skill refin'd.
In Characters of Malice, Pride, and Fraud,
Stamp'd on his Mind, my Image I applaud.
All Dregs and Dross of Vertue purg'd away,
His perfect Wickedness knows no Allay:
His native, unsophisticated Vice,
Even rivals that, which has from Hell its Rise.
He unpolluted, has like us remain'd,
Unmix'd with Good, and with Remorse unstain'd.
To take off Vere, he'll be with ease engag'd,
Who is against him mortally enrag'd.
The Gen'ral with Displeasure has deny'd
To please his Avarice, and sooth his Pride.
Will not his great ambitious Suit espouse,
To be Controuler of Eliza's House:
Which to obtain, he came to Belgia's Shore,
Vere's Int'rest with Eliza to implore.
I sure shall gain him by a fair Reward,
Who by his Rage is for the Task prepar'd.
Vere once destroy'd, none can his Place supply,
Their Leader gone, the heartless Troops must fly.",2014-07-02 16:52:39 UTC,"""In Characters of Malice, Pride, and Fraud, / Stamp'd on his Mind, my Image I applaud.""",2005-04-06 00:00:00 UTC,"","",,Impressions and Writing,"•Characters, Image, Stamp. How to categorize these?
•I've included twice: Characters and Image","Searching ""stamp"" and ""mind"" in HDIS (Poetry)",10463,4038
"Lopez in Poison skill'd, I will employ,
This Bulwark of Apostates to destroy.
His potent Drugs shall serve my Int'rest more
Than Mansfelt's Arms, and all Iberia's Pow'r.
This noble Genius ever well inclin'd,
By me for mighty Services design'd,
I form'd with Labour, and with Skill refin'd.
In Characters of Malice, Pride, and Fraud,
Stamp'd on his Mind, my Image I applaud.
All Dregs and Dross of Vertue purg'd away,
His perfect Wickedness knows no Allay:
His native, unsophisticated Vice,
Even rivals that, which has from Hell its Rise.
He unpolluted, has like us remain'd,
Unmix'd with Good, and with Remorse unstain'd.
To take off Vere, he'll be with ease engag'd,
Who is against him mortally enrag'd.
The Gen'ral with Displeasure has deny'd
To please his Avarice, and sooth his Pride.
Will not his great ambitious Suit espouse,
To be Controuler of Eliza's House:
Which to obtain, he came to Belgia's Shore,
Vere's Int'rest with Eliza to implore.
I sure shall gain him by a fair Reward,
Who by his Rage is for the Task prepar'd.
Vere once destroy'd, none can his Place supply,
Their Leader gone, the heartless Troops must fly.",2009-09-14 19:35:00 UTC,""" In Characters of Malice, Pride, and Fraud, / Stamp'd on his Mind, my Image I applaud.""",2005-04-06 00:00:00 UTC,"","",,"","•Characters, Image, Stamp. How to categorize these?
•I've included twice: Characters and Image","Searching ""stamp"" and ""mind"" in HDIS (Poetry)",10464,4038
"Then Bigottry, with Hellish Fury stung,
Did with a Voice that thro' the Palace rung,
Hell's Potentates in Council thus bespeak:
Spain to support, and Albion's Force to break,
Illustrious Princes, is your high Design;
I ask that glorious Province may be mine.
No Minister did e'er with greater Zeal,
Or more Success, promote the Cause of Hell.
Since in your Service, I was first employ'd,
I have your Foes without Remorse destroy'd.
My Mistress, Rome, will own I serv'd her more
Than all her Skill, and all her Pow'r before:
My self alone found out th'effectual Art,
Apostates to extirpate, or convert.
The rankest Weeds of baneful Heresy,
Have from the Church been rooted out by me.
My Racks have set Mens Understandings right;
My Dungeons bless'd them with convincing Light.
Rebels have been reduc'd at my Expence,
Inform'd by Whips, and tortur'd into Sense:
My Reasons always due Impressions made,
Proofs that are felt, are fittest to perswade:
I to the Mind explor'd the ready way,
And by the Senses, Knowledge did convey.
My Arguments with ease are understood,
Adapted to the Man, and clear to Flesh and Blood;
And Reason to our Senses clear and plain,
Will quickly to the Mind, Admission gain:
O what convincing Force have Prisons, Want, and Pain!
My Eloquence must still successful prove;
Those most prevail, who most the Passions move.
No Orator did e'er his Skill display,
In such a moving and Pathetick way.",2009-09-14 19:35:00 UTC,"""My Reasons always due Impressions made, / Proofs that are felt, are fittest to perswade.""",2005-05-20 00:00:00 UTC,"","",,Impression,"•Impressions are here physicalized and ""felt""","Searching ""reason"" and ""impression"" in HDIS (Poetry)",10467,4038
"Haughton, for finer Conversation nam'd,
For shining Wit, and Erudition fam'd,
Lay, helpless Man! extended on the Ground,
And pour'd his vital Purple from his Wound.
The deadly Bullet thro' his Forehead past,
An Inch above the Eye-brows, and effac'd
The Haunts and Tracks of Learning in the Brain,
The num'rous Lodgings, which did entertain
All Mem'ry's crowded Guests, and Fancy's aeiry Train.",2009-09-14 19:35:01 UTC,"A bullet may efface ""The num'rous Lodgings, which did entertain / All Mem'ry's crowded Guests, and Fancy's aeiry Train.""",2006-03-08 00:00:00 UTC,"","",,Inhabitants,"•Great passage. INTEREST.
•I've included four times: Lodging, Crowd, Guest, Train","Searching ""fancy"" and ""crowd"" in HDIS (Poetry)",10470,4038
"Haughton, for finer Conversation nam'd,
For shining Wit, and Erudition fam'd,
Lay, helpless Man! extended on the Ground,
And pour'd his vital Purple from his Wound.
The deadly Bullet thro' his Forehead past,
An Inch above the Eye-brows, and effac'd
The Haunts and Tracks of Learning in the Brain,
The num'rous Lodgings, which did entertain
All Mem'ry's crowded Guests, and Fancy's aeiry Train.",2009-09-14 19:35:01 UTC,"""The deadly Bullet thro' his Forehead past, / An Inch above the Eye-brows, and effac'd / The Haunts and Tracks of Learning in the Brain,""",2006-03-08 00:00:00 UTC,"","",,"",•Great passage. INTEREST.
•I've included twice: Haunts and Tracks,Searching in HDIS (Poetry),10474,4038
"O'er prostrate Towns and Palaces they pass,
(Now cover'd o'er with Weeds, and hid in Grass)
Breathing Revenge; whilst Anger and Disdain
Fire ev'ry Breast, and boil in ev'ry Vein:
Here shatter'd Walls, like broken Rocks, from far
Rise up in hideous Views, the Guilt of War,
Whilst here the Vine o'er Hills of Ruin climbs,
Industrious to conceal great Bourbon's Crimes.
(p. 5)",2013-08-23 02:19:13 UTC,"""O'er prostrate Towns and Palaces they pass, / (Now cover'd o'er with Weeds, and hid in Grass) / Breathing Revenge; whilst Anger and Disdain / Fire ev'ry Breast, and boil in ev'ry Vein.""",2013-08-23 02:19:13 UTC,"","",,"","",ECCO-TCP,22541,7643
"At length the Fame of England's Heroe drew
Eugenio to the glorious Interview;
Great Souls by Instinct to each other turn,
Demand Alliance, and in Friendship burn;
A sudden Friendship, while with stretch'd out Rays
They meet each other, mingling Blaze with Blaze.
Polish'd in Courts, and harden'd in the Field,
Renown'd for Conquest, and in Council skill'd,
Their Courage dwells not in a troubl'd Flood
Of mounting Spirits, and fermenting Blood;
Lodg'd in the Soul, with Virtue over-rul'd,
Inflam'd by Reason, and by Reason cool'd,
In Hours of Peace content to be unknown,
And only in the Field of Battel shown:
To Souls like these, in mutual Friendship join'd,
Heav'n dares entrust the Cause of Human kind.
(p. 6)",2013-08-23 02:21:07 UTC,"""Polish'd in Courts, and harden'd in the Field, / Renown'd for Conquest, and in Council skill'd, / Their Courage dwells not in a troubl'd Flood / Of mounting Spirits, and fermenting Blood; / Lodg'd in the Soul, with Virtue over-rul'd, / Inflam'd by Reason, and by Reason cool'd, / In Hours of Peace content to be unknown, / And only in the Field of Battel shown.""",2013-08-23 02:21:07 UTC,"","",,"","",ECCO-TCP,22542,7643