text,updated_at,metaphor,created_at,context,theme,reviewed_on,dictionary,comments,provenance,id,work_id
"But you are unacquainted yet
With half the power of Amoret;
For she can drink as well as swive,
Her growing empire still must thrive.
Our hearts weak forts we must resign
When beauty does its forces join
With man's strong enemy, good wine.
This I was told by my Lord O'Brien,
A man whose words I much rely on:
He kept touch and came down hither
When you were scar'd by the foul weather.
But if thou wouldst forgiven be,
Say that a c--- detained thee;
C---! whose strong charms the world bewitches,
The joy of kings! the beggar's riches!
The courtier's business! statesman's leisure!
The tired tinker's ease and pleasure!
Of which, alas, I've leave to prate,
But oh, the rigor of my fate!
For want of bouncing bona-roba,
Lasciva est nobis pagina vita proba.
For that rhyme I was fain to fumble;
When Pegasus begins to stumble,
'Tis time to rest, your very humble.",2013-06-12 17:34:04 UTC,"""Our hearts weak forts we must resign / When beauty does its forces join / With man's strong enemy, good wine.""",2004-08-19 00:00:00 UTC,"","",2011-05-27,"","•Does this not also belong in Architecture? — Yes, 6/10/2013.",HDIS (Poetry),8498,3244
"Chast Cynthia bids me love, but hope no more,
Ne'er wish Enjoyment, which I still have strove
T'obey, and ev'ry looser Thought reprove;
Without desiring her, I her adore.
What Humane Passion does with Tears implore,
The Intellect Enjoys, when 'tis in Love
With the Eternal Soul, which here does move
In Mortal Closet, where 'tis kept in Store.
Our Souls are in one mutual Knot combin'd,
Not Common Passion, Dull and Unrefin'd;
Our Flame ascends, That smothers here below:
The Body made of Earth, turns to the same,
As Soul t'Eternity, from whence it came;
My Love's Immortal then, and Mistress too.",2009-09-14 19:34:32 UTC,"""What Humane Passion does with Tears implore, / The Intellect Enjoys, when 'tis in Love / With the Eternal Soul, which here does move / In Mortal Closet, where 'tis kept in Store""",2005-09-06 00:00:00 UTC,"","",,Rooms,"","Searching ""soul"" and ""closet"" in HDIS (Poetry)",9878,3841
"But can such fancies challenge an abode
Within your Heart to dis-believe a God?
On th' Universal Fabrick cast an Eye,
The Sea, the Earth, and the expanded Sky:
Can so sublime illustrious an Effect
Be form'd without a Glorious Architect?
If Reason be your Rule, true Logicks Laws
Pronounce Effects resulting from a Cause,
Whose order leads us to Infinity,
Sure Arguments of a Divinity.
Created things must a Creator have;
And that Begetter who first Being gave
Unto all Essences can't be Begot;
He's therefore God, and other else is not.
This causa prima, without time or date,
We do believe could not himself Create,
And therefore hence we do conclude that he
Must have his Essence from Eternity.",2009-09-14 19:34:34 UTC,"Fancies can (not) challenge ""an abode / Within your Heart to dis-believe a God""",2004-06-14 00:00:00 UTC,"","",,"",•See also God as architect in lines below.,Searching HDIS (Poetry),9904,3854
"I shall expect so great an interest
For such a Gift, as t'have that Gemam possest,
Not of your Cabinet, but of your Breast.",2009-09-14 19:34:34 UTC,"""For such a Gift, as t'have that Gemam possest, / Not of your Cabinet, but of your Breast.""",2005-09-07 00:00:00 UTC,"","",,Rooms,"","Searching ""breast"" and ""cabinet"" in HDIS (Poetry)",9912,3860
"The other way of Retention is the Power to revive again in our Minds those Ideas, which after imprinting have disappeared, or have been as it were laid aside out of Sight: And thus we do, when we conceive Heat or Light, Yellow or Sweet, the Object being removed. This is Memory, which is as it were the Store-house of our Ideas. For the narrow Mind of Man, not being capable of having many Ideas under View and Consideration at once, it was necessary to have a Repository, to lay up those Ideas, which at another time it might have use of. But our Ideas being nothing, but actual Perceptions in the Mind, which cease to be any thing, when there is no perception of them, this laying up of our Ideas in the Repository of the Memory, signifies no more but this, that the Mind has a Power, in many cases to revive Perceptions, which it has once had, with this additional Perception annexed to them, that is has had them before. And in this Sense it is, that our Ideas are said to be in our Memories, when indeed, they are actually no where, but only there is an ability in the Mind, when it will, to revive them again; and as it were paint them anew on it self, though some with more, some with less difficulty, some more obscurely. And thus it is, by the Assistance of this Faculty, that we are said to have all those Ideas in our Understandings, which though we do not actually contemplate, yet we can bring in sight, and make appear again, and be the Objects of our Thoughts, without the help of those sensible Qualities, which first imprinted them there.
(II.x.2)",2011-06-14 04:18:04 UTC,"""This is Memory, which is as it were the Store-house of our Ideas.""",2003-09-15 00:00:00 UTC,II.x.2. The retention of ideas,"",,"","•Locke's qualification:""as it were."" Notice how he takes the metaphor back.
•Westbury and Dennett point to this as ""the standard representative theory of memory"" (Memory, Brain, and Belief, 16). Theories of memory which treat a memory as an accurate picture of a perception reduce the problem of memory to the problem of perception: ""In remembering x, we know that it is x for the same reason (whatever that might be!) that we were able to recognize x when we first sensed it"" (16). Memory is only another viewing.
•In a footnote Westbury and Dennett admit Locke is ""more subtle"" than the quotation would suggest. The full passage ""suggests that Locke did not think of the memory simply as a static storehouse of images, but rather as a dynamic ability to evoke or reconstruct an image, a metaphor more closely in keeping with modern scientific views of memory"" (31n.1)",Reading,9958,3866
"The other way of Retention is the Power to revive again in our Minds those Ideas, which after imprinting have disappeared, or have been as it were laid aside out of Sight: And thus we do, when we conceive Heat or Light, Yellow or Sweet, the Object being removed. This is Memory, which is as it were the Store-house of our Ideas. For the narrow Mind of Man, not being capable of having many Ideas under View and Consideration at once, it was necessary to have a Repository, to lay up those Ideas, which at another time it might have use of. But our Ideas being nothing, but actual Perceptions in the Mind, which cease to be any thing, when there is no perception of them, this laying up of our Ideas in the Repository of the Memory, signifies no more but this, that the Mind has a Power, in many cases to revive Perceptions, which it has once had, with this additional Perception annexed to them, that is has had them before. And in this Sense it is, that our Ideas are said to be in our Memories, when indeed, they are actually no where, but only there is an ability in the Mind, when it will, to revive them again; and as it were paint them anew on it self, though some with more, some with less difficulty, some more lively and others more obscurely. And thus it is, by the Assistance of this Faculty, that we are said to have all those Ideas in our Understandings, which though we do not actually contemplate, yet we can bring in sight, and make appear again, and be the Objects of our Thoughts, without the help of those sensible Qualities, which first imprinted them there.
(II.x.2)",2011-06-14 04:19:50 UTC,"""For the narrow Mind of Man, not being capable of having many Ideas under View and Consideration at once, it was necessary to have a Repository, to lay up those Ideas, which at another time it might have use of.""",2003-09-15 00:00:00 UTC,II.x.2. ,"",,"","The retention of ideas
•Locke explains his own ""metaphorical"" meaning
•See also previous entry",Reading,9959,3866
"Thus the Ideas, as well as Children, of our youth, often die before us: And our Minds represent to us those Tombs, to which we are approaching; where though the Brass and Marble remain, yet the Inscriptions are effaced by time, and the Imagery moulders away. The pictures drawn in our Minds, are laid in fading Colours; and if not sometimes refreshed, vanish and disappear. How much the Constitution of our Bodies, and the make of our animal Spirits, are concerned in this; and whether the Temper of the Brain make this difference, that in some it retains the Characters drawn on it like Marble, in others like Free-stone, and in others little better than Sand, I shall not here enquire, though it may seem probable, that the Constitution of the Body does sometimes influence the Memory; since we oftentimes find a Disease quite strip the Mind of all its Ideas, and the flames of a Fever, in a few days, calcine all those Images to dust and confusion, which seem'd to be as lasting, as if graved in Marble.
(II.x.5)",2011-11-24 19:05:05 UTC,"""And our Minds represent to us those Tombs, to which we are approaching; where though the Brass and Marble remain, yet the Inscriptions are effaced by time, and the Imagery moulders away.""",2003-09-15 00:00:00 UTC,II.x.5,"",2011-11-24,Writing,"•Categorize as 'Writing,' 'Visual Arts,' or tomb?
•This is a metaphorically rich chapter! Even more entries follow this paragraph.
•I've split this entry into two entries: 'Writing' and 'Visual Arts'
•Clark cites in his ""Locke and Metaphor Reconsidered""
Reviewed: 2003-10-23",Reading,9963,3866
"In this secondary Perception, as I may call it, or viewing again the Ideas, that are lodg'd in the Memory, the Mind is oftentimes more than barely passive, the appearance of those dormant Pictures, depending sometimes on the Will. The Mind very often sets it self on work in search of some hidden Idea, and turns, as it were, the Eye of the Soul upon it; though sometimes too they start up in our Minds of their own accord, and offer themselves to the Understanding; and very often are rouzed and tumbled out of their dark Cells, into open Day-light, by some turbulent and tempestuous Passion; our Affections bringing Ideas to our Memory, which had otherwise lain quiet and unregarded. This farther is to be observed, concerning Ideas lodg'd in the Memory, and upon occasion revived by the Mind, that they are not only (as the Word revive imports) none of them new ones; but also that the Mind takes notice of them, as of a former Impression, and renews its acquaintance with them, as with Ideas it had known before. So that though Ideas formerly imprinted are not all constantly in view, yet in remembrance they are constantly known to be such, as have been formerly imprinted, i.e. in view, and taken notice of before by the Understanding. So that though Ideas formerly imprinted are not constantly in view, yet in remembrance they are constantly known to be such, as have been formerly imprinted, i.e. in view, and taken notice of before by the Understanding.
(II.x.7) ",2009-09-14 19:34:36 UTC,"Ideas may be ""rouzed and tumbled out of their dark Cells, into open Day-light""",2003-09-15 00:00:00 UTC,II.x.7,"",2004-11-08,Rooms,•This is a metaphorically rich chapter!
•I've included twice: People and Cells
,Found again in Lamb's Preserving the Self (28) on 11/8/2004.,9968,3866
"I pretend not to teach, but to enquire, and therefore cannot but confess here again, that external and internal sensation are the only passages I can find of knowledge to the understanding. These alone, as far as I can discover, are the windows by which light is let into this dark room: For methinks the understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly shut from light, with only some little openings left, to let in external visible resemblances, or ideas of things without: Would the pictures coming into such a dark room but stay there, and lie so orderly as to be found upon occasion, it would very much resemble the understanding of a man, in reference to all objects of sight, and the ideas of them.",2009-09-14 19:34:38 UTC,"""I pretend not to teach, but to enquire, and therefore cannot but confess here again, that external and internal sensation are the only passages I can find of knowledge to the understanding""",2006-04-16 00:00:00 UTC,II.xi.17,"",2004-11-08,"","",Reading; Found again searching in Past Masters,10008,3866
"Secondly, because sometimes I find, that I cannot avoid the having those ideas produced in my mind. For though when my eyes are shut, or windows fast, I can at pleasure recal to my mind the ideas of light, or the sun, which former sensations had lodged in my memory; so I can at pleasure lay by that idea, and take into my view that of the smell of a rose, or taste of sugar. But, if I turn my eyes at noon towards the sun, I cannot avoid the ideas, which the light, or sun, then produces in me. So that there is a manifest difference between the ideas laid up in my memory, (over which, if they were there only, I should have constantly the same power to dispose of them, and lay them by at pleasure) and those which force themselves upon me, and I cannot avoid having. And therefore it must needs be some exterior cause, and the brisk acting of some objects without me, whose efficacy I cannot resist, that produces those ideas in my mind, whether I will or no. Besides, there is nobody who doth not perceive the difference in himself between contemplating the sun, as he hath the idea of it in his memory, and actually looking upon it: Of which two, his perception is so distinct, that few of his ideas are more distinguishable one from another. And therefore he hath certain knowledge that they are not both memory, or the actions of his mind, and fancies only within him; but that actual seeing hath a cause without.",2009-09-14 19:34:38 UTC,"""Secondly, because sometimes I find, that I cannot avoid the having those ideas produced in my mind. For though when my eyes are shut, or windows fast, I can at pleasure recal to my mind the ideas of light, or the sun, which former sensations had lodged in my memory""",2006-04-16 00:00:00 UTC,IV.xi.5,Interiority,2004-11-08,Rooms,"","Searching ""windows"" in Past Masters",10013,3866