work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
7648,Ruling Passion,Searching in ECCO-TCP,2013-08-23 16:11:11 UTC,"Her hand from vice fair virtues oft hath sprung,
As the skill'd planter raises flow'rs from dung:
Weak are the ties which publick art can find,
To quell the madness of the tainted mind:
Cunning evades, securely wrapt in wiles;
And force strong-sinew'd rends th'unequal toils:
The stream of vice impetuous drives along,
Too deep for policy, for pow'r too strong:
Ev'n fair religion, native of the skies,
Scorn'd by the fool, seeks refuge with the wise:
But SATIRE's arrow searches ev'ry breast:
She plays a ruling passion on the rest:
Fast binds the slave that earth and heav'n defy'd,
And awes him from the battery of his pride.
When fell corruption, by her vassals crown'd,
Derides fall'n justice prostrate on the ground;
Swift to redress an injur'd people's groan,
Bold SATIRE shakes the tyrant on her throne;
Pow'rful as death, defies the sordid train,
And slaves and sycophants surround in vain.
But with the friends of vice, the foes of SATIRE,
All truth is spleen, all spirit is ill-nature.--
(pp. 11-2)",,22551,"","""But SATIRE's arrow searches ev'ry breast: / She plays a ruling passion on the rest""","",2013-08-23 16:11:11 UTC,""
7648,"",Searching in ECCO-TCP,2013-08-23 16:12:23 UTC,"Let SATIRE next, her proper limits know;
And e'er she strike, be sure she strikes a foe.
Nor fondly deem, you spy a real fool
At each gay impulse of blind ridicule;
Before whose altar virtue oft' hath bled,
And oft' a fated victim shall be led:
Lo! Shaftsb'ry rears her high on reason's throne,
And loads the slave with honours not her own:
Big-swoln with folly, as her smiles provoke,
Profaneness spawns, pert dulness drops a joke!
Say, shall we join a while this gaping crew,
And prove at least, the ideot may be true,
Deride our weak forefathers' musty rule,
Who therefore smil'd, because they saw a fool?
(pp. 15-6)",,22552,"","""Lo! Shaftsb'ry rears her [Satire] high on reason's throne, / And loads the slave with honours not her own.""",Throne,2013-08-23 16:12:23 UTC,""