id,dictionary,theme,reviewed_on,metaphor,created_at,provenance,comments,work_id,text,context,updated_at
15819,"","",,The face may be an index of an honest mind,2003-07-21 00:00:00 UTC,Reading,•Face and mind,5960,"Wickedness may sometimes be ambiguous, its mask may puzzle the observer; our judgment may be made to faulter and fluctuate, but the face of Mervyn is the index of an honest mind.
(Part II, chapter 2, p. 436)","",2009-09-14 19:44:46 UTC
15831,"","",,The passions may be supplied with food,2003-07-21 00:00:00 UTC,Reading,"•Some mixing of metaphors in that passion is described in the next paragraph as a flame. (I have not created an entry for the ""flame."") REVISIT.
•Hadwin reminds me of Godwin's Barnabas Tyrrel",5960,"I was indebted for my safety to an inflexible adherence to this medium. To have strayed, for a moment, to either side, would have brought upon me his blows. that he did not instantly resort to violence, inspired me with courage, since it depended on myself whether food should be supplied to his passion. Rage must either progress or decline, and since it was in total want of provocation, it could not fail of gradually subsiding.
My demeanor was calculated to damp the flame, not only by its direct influence, but by diverting his attention from the wrongs which he had received, to the novelty of my behaviour.
(Part II, chapter 10, p. 505)",Mervyn confronts Philip Hadwin (Eliza's uncle),2009-09-14 19:44:49 UTC
15849,"","",,One may be buried in thought,2003-07-21 00:00:00 UTC,Reading,"•Welbeck is twice described as being ""buried in reverie"" (532, 534).",5960,"Meanwhile I placed myself before her, and fixed my eyes steadfastly upon her features. There is no book in which I read with more pleasure, than the face of a woman. That is generally more full of meaning, and of better meaning too, than the hard and inflexible lineaments of man, and this woman's face has no parallel.
She read it with visible emotion. Having gone through it, she did not lift her eye from the paper, but continued silent, as if buried in thought. After some time, for I would not interrupt the pause, she addressed me thus:
This girl seems to be very anxious to be with you.
(Part II, chapter 22, p. 595)",Achsa Fielding reads Eliza's letter to Mervyn,2009-09-14 19:44:52 UTC
15857,"","",,The heart may be sore,2003-07-21 00:00:00 UTC,Reading,"",5960,"Why, I asked, did she weep.
My heart is sore.
(Part II, chapter 25, p. 636)",Final pages. Mervyn's interview with Achsa.,2009-09-14 19:44:54 UTC
15858,"","",,"""I merely write to allay those tumults which our necessary separation produces; to aid me in calling up a little patience, till the time arrives, when our persons, like our minds, shall be united forever.""",2003-07-21 00:00:00 UTC,Reading,"",5960,"I merely write to allay those tumults which our necessary separation produces; to aid me in calling up a little patience, till the time arrives, when our persons, like our minds, shall be united forever. That time--may nothing happen to prevent--but nothing can happen. But why this ominous misgiving just now? My love has infected me with these unworthy terrors, for she has them too.
(Part II, chapter 25, p. 636)",Final pages. Mervyn's interview with Achsa.,2016-04-28 02:52:51 UTC
15860,"",Physiognomy,,"""Teach thou my hand, with mutual love, to trace / His mind, as perfect as thy lines his face!""",2005-05-11 00:00:00 UTC,"Searching ""mind"" and ""line"" in HDIS (Poetry)","",5961,"That youth of fairest promise, fair as May,
Pensively tender, and benignly gay,
On thy medallion still retains a form,
In health exulting, and with pleasure warm.
Teach thou my hand, with mutual love, to trace
His mind, as perfect as thy lines his face!
For Nature in that mind was pleas'd to pour
Of intellectual charms no trivial store;
Fancy's high spirit, talent's feeling nerve,
With tender modesty, with mild reserve,
And those prime virtues of ingenuous youth,
Alert benevolence, and dauntless truth;
Zeal, ever eager to make merit known,
And only tardy to announce its own;
Silent ambition, but, though silent, quick,
Yet softly shaded with a veil as thick
As the dark glasses tinted to descry
The sun, so soften'd not to wound the eye;
Temper by nature and by habit clear
From hasty choler, and from sullen fear,
Spleen and dejection could not touch the mind
That drew from solitude a joy refin'd,
To nurse inventive fire, in silence caught,
And brood successful o'er sequester'd thought.","",2009-09-14 19:44:54 UTC
15874,Eye,Mind's Eye,,"""Julius! thou proof how mists of pride may blind / The eye of reason in the strongest mind!""",2006-04-17 00:00:00 UTC,"Searching ""mind"" and ""eye"" in HDIS (Poetry)","",5961,"Julius! thou proof how mists of pride may blind
The eye of reason in the strongest mind!
It was thy fatal weakness to believe
Thy sculptur'd form from Romans might receive
Homage as tame as Asian slaves could pay
Their Babylonish king, of boundless sway,
Where all, for leave his city gate to pass,
Bent to his statue of imperial brass.
With equal pomp, by vain ambition plac'd,
Thy sculptur'd form the Capitol disgrac'd;
For, on a trampled globe, insulting sense,
It sought to awe the world with proud pretence.
Nor didst thou only in thy proper frame
Call Art to second thy aspiring aim:
Thy fav'rite steed, from whose portentous birth
Augurs announc'd thy reign o'er all this earth,
Nurs'd with fond care, bestrid by thee alone,
In Sculpture's consecrated beauty shone.
Before the fane of that celestial power,
Said, with parental smiles, to bless thy natal hour.
Misguided Julius! all the wide control
Which force and frankness in thy fearless soul
To thy firm grasp delusively assur'd,
Consummate cunning to thy heir secur'd.","",2009-09-14 19:44:57 UTC
15919,Eye,Mind's Eye,,"""With my inward eye 'tis an old man grey, / With my outward a thistle across the way.""",2005-09-06 00:00:00 UTC,"Reading Toulmin's ""The Inwardness of Mental Life"" in Critical Inquiry 1979 (4)","",5986,"What to others a trifle appears
Fills me full of smiles or tears,
For double the vision my eyes do see,
And a double vision is always with me.
With my inward eye 'tis an old man grey,
With my outward a thistle across the way.","",2009-09-14 19:45:05 UTC
15920,"","",,"""Blest mirror! which can thus, with magic pow'r, / Give the rank weed the fragrance of the flow'r; / And from deformities,--without, within, / Spots in the mind, or specks upon the skin-- / Can all that's good, and all that's fair reflect, / And change to beauty, every dark defect.""",2006-12-18 00:00:00 UTC,"Searching ""mind"" and ""skin"" in HDIS (Poetry)",•I've included twice: Spot and Skin,5981,"Yet happy vanity, and kind self-love,
A tender couple! all they do, approve;
Conscious alone of merit and of charms,
Nor sneers abash, nor ridicule alarms;
And when the public laughter they provoke,
To serious praise they turn the taunting joke;
Or, should grave wisdom hiss them as they go,
Still smooth in Flatt'ry's glass, their follies shew.
Blest mirror! which can thus, with magic pow'r,
Give the rank weed the fragrance of the flow'r;
And from deformities,--without, within,
Spots in the mind, or specks upon the skin--
Can all that's good, and all that's fair reflect,
And change to beauty, every dark defect.","",2009-09-14 19:45:05 UTC
18725,"","",,"""My curiosity grew more eager, in proportion as it was supplied with food, and every day added strength to the assurance that I was no insignificant and worthless being.""",2011-06-17 17:10:14 UTC,Reading,"",5960,"I now set about carrying my plan of life into effect. I began with ardent zeal and unwearied diligence the career of medical study. I bespoke the counsels and instructions of my friend; attended him on his professional visits, and acted, in all practicable cases, as his substitute. I found this application of time more pleasurable than I had imagined. My mind gradually expanded itself, as it were, for the reception of new ideas. My curiosity grew more eager, in proportion as it was supplied with food, and every day added strength to the assurance that I was no insignificant and worthless being; that I was destined to be something in this scene of existence, and might someday lay claim to the gratitude and homage of my fellow-men.
(II,xxi, p. 589)","Part II, Chapter xxi",2011-06-17 17:10:14 UTC