updated_at,id,text,theme,metaphor,work_id,reviewed_on,provenance,created_at,comments,context,dictionary
2009-09-14 19:36:47 UTC,12266,"I am charmed with the beautiful Reflections she makes in the Course of her Distresses; her Soliloquies and little Reasonings with herself, are exceeding pretty and entertaining: She pours out all her Soul in them before her Parents without Disguise; so that one may judge of, nay, almost see, the inmost Recesses of her Mind. A pure clear Fountain of Truth and Innocence, a Magazine of Virtue and unblemish'd Thoughts! ",Conversation,"""She pours out all her Soul in [Soliloquies and little Reasonings] before her Parents without Disguise; so that one may judge of, nay, almost see, the inmost Recesses of her Mind""",4671,2006-09-11,HDIS,2004-01-25 00:00:00 UTC,"",Dedication,""
2011-04-26 18:13:51 UTC,12275,"As to the first, the Difficulty of finding a qualify'd Tutor; we must not expect so much Perfection, I doubt, as Mr. Locke lays down as necessary. What, therefore, I humbly conceive is best to be done, will be to avoid chusing a Man of bigotted and narrow Principles, who yet shall not be tainted with sceptical or heterodox Notions; who shall not be a mere Scholar or Pedant; who has travell'd, and yet preserv'd his moral Character untainted; and whose Behaviour and Carriage is easy, unaffected, unformal, and genteel, as well acquiredly as naturally so, if possible; who shall not be dogmatical, positive, overbearing, on one hand; nor too yielding, suppliant, fawning, on the other; who shall study the Child's natural Bent, in order to direct his Studies to the Point, in which he is most likely to excel. In order to preserve the Respect due to his own Character from every one, he must not be a Busybody in the Family, a Whisperer, a Tale-bearer; but be a Person of a benevolent Turn of Mind, ready to compose Differences: who shall avoid, of all things, that Foppishness of Dress and Appearance, which distinguishes the Petits-maîtres, and French Ushers, (that I have seen at some Boarding-schools) for Coxcombs, rather than Guides of Education: For, as I have heard you, my best Tutor, often observe, the Peculiarities of Habit, where a Person aims at something fantastick, or out of Character, are an undoubted Sign of a wrong Head: For such an one is so kind, as always to hang out on his Sign, what sort of Furniture he has in his Shop, to save you the Trouble of asking Questions about him; so that one may know what he is, as much as one can know a Widow by her Weeds.
Such a Person as I have thus negatively describ'd, may be found without very much Difficulty perhaps, because some of these Requisites are personal, and others are such as are obvious, at first Sight, to a common Penetration; or, where not so, may be found out by Inquiry into his general Character and Behaviour: And to the Care of such an one, dear Sir, let me for the present suppose your Billy is committed: And so we acquit ourselves of the first Difficulty, as well as we can, that of the Tutor; who, to make himself more perfect, may form himself, as to what he wants, by Mr. Locke's excellent Rules on that Head.
(Volume IV, Letter 54)",Inner and Outer; Lockean Philosophy,"""For, as I have heard you, my best Tutor, often observe, the Peculiarities of Habit, where a Person aims at something fantastick, or out of Character, are an undoubted Sign of a wrong Head: For such an one is so kind, as always to hang out on his Sign, what sort of Furniture he has in his Shop, to save you the Trouble of asking Questions about him; so that one may know what he is, as much as one can know a Widow by her Weeds.""",4671,,"Searching ""predominant passion"" in HDIS",2004-06-07 00:00:00 UTC,"•I've included thrice: once in Architecture, Body, and Furniture
•REVISIT and search all. I stumbled across this while searching for ""predominant passion.""","Vol. IV, Letter 54. Pamela to Mr. B. (on the Education of Billy)",""
2009-09-14 19:36:51 UTC,12332,"Permit me, Sir, to transcribe four or five Lines more, for the Beauty of the Thought:
And yet the Soul, shut up in her dark Room,
Viewing so clear abroad, at home sees nothing:
But like a Mole in Earth, busy and blind,
Works all her Folly up, and casts it outward
To the World's open View---
(p. 335)
","","""And yet the Soul, shut up in her dark Room, / Viewing so clear abroad, at home sees nothing""",4671,,"Searching ""soul"" and ""room"" in HDIS (Prose)",2005-09-03 00:00:00 UTC,"•Pamela quoting Dryden. INTEREST. This is great. Use in Room entry. Cross-reference: Locke, Newton, and Keach.
•I've included twice: Room and Animals","Vol. 4, Letter 53",Rooms
2009-09-14 19:36:52 UTC,12338,"After he had been adjusting some Affairs with his dear Principal, which took them up two Hours, my best Beloved sent for me. --My Dear, said he, taking my Hand, and seating me down by him, and making the good old Gentleman sit down, (for he will always rise at my Approach) Mr. Longman and I have settled in two Hours some Accounts, which would have taken up as many Months with some Persons. But never was an exacter or more methodical [Page 146] Accomptant than Mr. Longman: He gives me, (greatly to my Satisfaction, because I know it will delight you) an Account of the Kentish Concern, and of the Pleasure your Father and Mother take in it. --Now, my Charmer, said he, I see your sweet Eyes begin to glisten:---- O how this Subject raises your whole Soul to the Windows of it!--- Never was so dutiful a Daughter, Mr. Longman, and never did Parents better deserve a Daughter's Duty!","","""I see your sweet Eyes begin to glisten:---- O how this Subject raises your whole Soul to the Windows of it!""",4671,,"Searching ""soul"" and ""window"" in HDIS (Prose)",2006-01-25 00:00:00 UTC,"","Vol. 3, Letter 25",Rooms
2009-09-14 19:36:54 UTC,12370,"In this design of Martin to investigate the diseases of the mind, he thought nothing so necessary as an enquiry after the seat of the soul; in which at first he laboured under great uncertainties. Sometimes he was of opinion that it lodged in the brain, sometimes in the stomach, and sometimes in the heart. Afterwards he thought it absurd to confine that sovereign lady to one apartment, which made him infer that she shifted it according to the several functions of life. The brain was her study, the heart her state room and the stomach her kitchen. but as he saw several offices fo life went on at the same time, he was forced to give up this hypothesis also.
He now conjectured it was more of the dignity of the soul to perform several operations by her little ministers, the animal spirits, from whence it was natural to conclude that she resides in different parts according to different inclinations, sexes, ages, and professions. Thus in epicures he seated her in the brain, soldiers in their hearts, women in their tongues, fiddlers in their fingers, and rope-dancers in their toes.
At length he grew fond of the glandula pinealis, dissecting many subjects to find out the different figure of this gland, from whence he might discover the cause of the different tempers in mankind. He supposed that in factious and restless-spirited people he should find it sharp and pointed, allowing no room for the soul to repose herself; that in quiet tempers it was flat, smooth and soft, affording the soul as it were an easy cushion. He was confirmed in this by observing that calves and philosophers, tigers and statesmen, foxes and sharpers, peacocks and fops, cock sparrows and coquettes, monkeys and players, courtiers and spaniels, moles and misers, exactly resemble one another in the conformation o fthe pineal gland. He did not doubt likewise to find the same resemblance in highwaymen and conquerors. In order to satisfy himself in which, it was that he purchased the body of one of the first species (as hath before related) at Tyburn; hoping in time to have the happiness of one of the latter too, under his anatomical knife
(Chapter XII, pp. 59-60)",Soul's Location,"""In this design of Martin to investigate the diseases of the mind, he thought nothing so necessary as an enquiry after the seat of the soul; in which at first he laboured under great uncertainties.""",4687,,Reading,2004-05-18 00:00:00 UTC,"•A letter from the Society of Freethinkers follows.
•During the court scene that follows the adventure of the double mistress, arguments are made to the effect that the seat of the soul is ""one simple, single aidoion, or member of generation"" (83). Men and women are ""one flesh"" when united in that part (83)",Scriblerus's enquiries into the seat of the soul,""
2009-09-14 19:36:57 UTC,12420,"But Donnegilda, cruel, crafty Dame,
Great Alla's Mother over-fond of Fame,
She, (as all antique Parents, wond'rous Sage!
For Youth project the Inappetence of Age,
Each Sense endearing, and humane, despise,
And on the Mammon feast their down-cast Eyes)
Malevolent beheld a Stranger led,
Unknown, unfriended to the regal Bed;
For in the secret Closet of her Breast,
Constantia her imperial Birth suppress'd,
Till Heav'n shou'd perfect the connubial Band,
And with her Royal Off-spring bless the Land.
Ah! ill tim'd Caution! were this Truth declar'd,
What a vast Cost of future Woe was spar'd,
But where Heav'ns Will th' unequal Cause supplies,
To set the World on Fire, a Spark may well suffice.","","""Unknown, unfriended to the regal Bed; / For in the secret Closet of her Breast, / Constantia her imperial Birth suppress'd""",4698,,"Searching ""breast"" and ""closet"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2005-09-07 00:00:00 UTC,•Cross-reference: See also Henry Brooke's entry. ,"",Rooms
2009-09-14 19:36:57 UTC,12421,"Thro' all the various Scenes the Muses rove,
The peopled Town, or the sequester'd Grove,
Amidst the Silvan Choir, or Courtly Throng,
They ne'er found one so worthy of their Song;
Never such Youth with so much Prudence join'd,
Never so tender, yet so firm a Mind:
Such gentle Manners, such refin'd Good-Sense!
Grave without Frowns, and gay without Offence!
A Form adorn'd with ev'ry pleasing Grace,
A Soul where ev'ry Virtue held a Place:
The Vestal's Purity, without her Pride;
The Court's high Breeding, not as There apply'd;
Judgment with Candor, Wit which ne'er revil'd,
Zeal cloath'd with Meekness, Piety that smil'd.
No Window to Her Bosom did we need,
The Goodness there appear'd in ev'ry Deed;
In ev'ry Look, in ev'ry Smile was seen
The Innocence and Peace that reign'd within.",Momus Glass,"""No Window to Her Bosom did we need, / The Goodness there appear'd in ev'ry Deed""",4708,,"Searching ""bosom"" and ""window"" HDIS (Poetry)",2006-01-25 00:00:00 UTC,"","",Rooms
2014-02-05 22:11:00 UTC,23372,"III. Use all Diligence to acquire and treasure up a large Store of Ideas and Notions: Take every Opportunity to add something to your Stock; and by frequent Recollection fix them in your memory: Nothing tends to confirm and enlarge the Memory like a frequent Review of its Possessions. Then the Brain being well furnished with various Traces, Signatures and Images, will have a rich Treasure always ready to be proposed or offered to the Soul, when it directs its Thoughts towards any particular Subject. This will gradually give the Mind a Faculty of surveying many objects at once; as a Room that is richly adorned and hung round with a great Variety of Pictures, strikes the Eye almost at once with all that Variety, especially if they have been well surveyed one by one at first: This makes it habitual and more easy to the Inhabitants to take in many of those painted Scenes with a single Glance or two.
(pp. 239-40)","","""This will gradually give the Mind a Faculty of surveying many objects at once; as a Room that is richly adorned and hung round with a great Variety of Pictures, strikes the Eye almost at once with all that Variety, especially if they have been well surveyed one by one at first: This makes it habitual and more easy to the Inhabitants to take in many of those painted Scenes with a single Glance or two.""",4702,,Searching and Reading in Google Books,2014-02-05 22:11:00 UTC,USE IN ENTRY,"",Inhabitants and Rooms
2014-02-05 22:26:40 UTC,23384,"On the contrary, in old Age, Men have a very feeble Remembrance of Things that were done of late, i.e. the same Day or Week or Year; the Brain is grown so hard that the present Images or Strokes make little or no Impression, and therefore they immediately vanish: Prisco in his seventy eighth Year will tell long Stories of Things done when he was in the Battle at the Boyne almost fifty Years ago, and when he studied at Oxford seven Years before; for those Impressions were made when the Brain was more susceptive of them; they have been deeply engraven at the proper season, and therefore they remain. But Words and Things which he lately spoke or did, they are immediately forgot, because the Brain is now grown more dry and solid in its Consistence, and receives not much more impression than if you wrote with your Finger on a Floor of Clay, or a plaister'd Wall.
(p. 256)","","""But Words and Things which he lately spoke or did, they are immediately forgot, because the Brain is now grown more dry and solid in its Consistence, and receives not much more impression than if you wrote with your Finger on a Floor of Clay, or a plaister'd Wall.""",4702,,Searching and Reading in Google Books,2014-02-05 22:26:40 UTC,INTEREST. USE IN ENTRY. REVISIT.,"",Impressions and Writing
2014-02-05 22:27:59 UTC,23385,"But in the middle Stage of Life, or it may be from fifteen to fifty Years of Age, the Memory is generally in its happiest State, the Brain easily receives and long retains the Images and Traces which are impress'd upon on it, and the natural Spirits are more active to range these little infinite unknown Figures of Things in their proper Cells or Cavities, to preserve and recollect them.
Whatsoever therefore keeps the Brain in its best Temper and Consistence may be a Help to preserve the Memory: But Excess of Wine or Luxury of any Kind, as well as Excess in the Studies of Learning or the Businesses of Life, may overwhelm the Memory by overstraining and weakening the Fibres of the Brain, over-wasting the Spirits, injuring the true Consistence of that tender Substance, and confounding the Images that are laid up there.
(pp. 256-7)","","""But in the middle Stage of Life, or it may be from fifteen to fifty Years of Age, the Memory is generally in its happiest State, the Brain easily receives and long retains the Images and Traces which are impress'd upon on it, and the natural Spirits are more active to range these little infinite unknown Figures of Things in their proper Cells or Cavities, to preserve and recollect them.""",4702,,"Searching and Reading in Google Books
",2014-02-05 22:27:59 UTC,"","",Impressions