work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
3402,"",Searching in HDIS (Poetry); text replaced with that from ECCO-TCP.,2006-07-21 00:00:00 UTC,"WHAT the grave triflers on this busy scene,
When they make use of this word REASON, mean,
I know not; but, according to my plan,
'TIS LORD-CHEIF-JUSTICE in the COURT OF MAN,
Equally form'd to rule in age and youth,
The Friend of Virtue and the Guide to Truth.
To HER I bow, whose sacred power I feel;
To HER decision make my last appeal;
Condemn'd by HER, applauding worlds, in vain,
Should tempt me to resume the Pen again:
By HER absolv'd, my course I'll still pursue:
If REASON's for me, GOD is for me too.
(p. 20)",,8689,"Was citing I, p. 61 in Poems?","""WHAT the grave triflers on this busy scene, / When they make use of this word REASON, mean, / I know not; but, according to my plan, / 'TIS LORD-CHEIF-JUSTICE in the COURT OF MAN, / Equally form'd to rule in age and youth, / The Friend of Virtue and the Guide to Truth.""",Court,2014-06-30 15:14:30 UTC,Final Stanza
5095,"","Searching ""rule"" and ""reason"" in HDIS (Poetry); found again ""law""",2004-06-15 00:00:00 UTC,"Go on, ye fools, who talk for talking sake,
Without distinguishing distinctions make;
Shine forth in native folly, native pride,
Make yourselves rules to all the world beside;
Reason, collected in herself disdains
The slavish yoke of arbitrary chains,
Steady and true each circumstance she weighs,
Nor to bare words inglorious tribute pays.
Men of sense live exempt from vulgar awe,
And Reason to herself alone is law.
That freedom she enjoys with lib'ral mind
Which she as freely grants to all mankind.
No idol titled name her rev'rence stirs,
No hour she blindly to the rest prefers,
All are alike, if they're alike employ'd,
And all are good if virtuously enjoy'd.
(p. 3)",,13767,•INTEREST. Has a Kantian flavor. ,"""And Reason to herself alone is law.""",Court,2014-04-28 17:53:31 UTC,""
5122,"","Searching ""reason"" and ""empire"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2004-08-16 00:00:00 UTC,"Nor mourn I long; my grief subdued
By reason's empire shown:
Deep anguish comes by Heaven's decree,
Continues by our own;
",,13824,"","Grief may be subdued ""by reason's empire shown""","",2009-09-14 19:39:18 UTC,""
5216,"","Searching ""rule"" and ""reason"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2004-06-22 00:00:00 UTC,"""In each condition, ev'ry change below,
""May I the end and motive learn to know;
""The measure just, and consequence of things,
""What flows from Prudence, what from Folly springs;
""Thy sapient distributions still in view,
""To give Thee all the glory that is due.
""If Prejudices rule with tyrant sway,
""Teach them the voice of Reason to obey.
""If Passion domineers with wild uproar,
""Speak, and again the Mind's lost peace restore,
""To Thee, when sickness or distress draw nigh.
""May I direct my help-imploring eye,
""When all the boasted remedies of Art,
""And friends themselves, in vain their aid impart:
""And O! at that, perhaps not distant, hour,
""When Health, impair'd in ev'ry active pow'r.
""In the last spark of animation flits,
""Glows out afresh, and languishes by fits;
""When by a thread all human safety hangs,
""And thought anticipates Life's parting pangs;
""Father of mercy! graciously impart
""Solace and comfort to my drooping heart!
""In Thee Supreme, sole Conquerour of death,
""O may I triumph with my latest breath!""
",,14031,"","""If Prejudices rule with tyrant sway, / Teach them the voice of Reason to obey.""",Empire,2014-08-28 20:53:40 UTC,""
5216,"",Reading,2004-06-22 00:00:00 UTC," ""In each condition, ev'ry change below,
""May I the end and motive learn to know;
""The measure just, and consequence of things,
""What flows from Prudence, what from Folly springs;
""Thy sapient distributions still in view,
""To give Thee all the glory that is due.
""If Prejudices rule with tyrant sway,
""Teach them the voice of Reason to obey.
""If Passion domineers with wild uproar,
""Speak, and again the Mind's lost peace restore,
""To Thee, when sickness or distress draw nigh.
""May I direct my help-imploring eye,
""When all the boasted remedies of Art,
""And friends themselves, in vain their aid impart:
""And O! at that, perhaps not distant, hour,
""When Health, impair'd in ev'ry active pow'r.
""In the last spark of animation flits,
""Glows out afresh, and languishes by fits;
""When by a thread all human safety hangs,
""And thought anticipates Life's parting pangs;
""Father of mercy! graciously impart
""Solace and comfort to my drooping heart!
""In Thee Supreme, sole Conquerour of death,
""O may I triumph with my latest breath!""",,14033,•The metaphor is suggestive of war and peace. ,"""If Passion domineers with wild uproar, / Speak, and again the Mind's lost peace restore, / To Thee, when sickness or distress draw nigh.""","",2014-08-28 20:55:45 UTC,""
5216,"","Searching ""throne"" and ""reason"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2004-07-28 00:00:00 UTC,"Authors should too employ my choicest time,
Correct their diction, as their thoughts sublime.
Authors, whose pleasing lessons daily read,
Better the heart, while they inform the head;
Still, as by magic, Passion's inbred storm,
And portray Virtue in her comeliest form;
Not such as drag down Reason from her throne
Or make her reign unaided and alone;
Both ill extremes, and foes to humankind,
That warp the judgment, and debase the mind;
Where fatal doctrines charm in fair disguise,
Oft unperceiv'd by superficial eyes:
Amid a glow of subtile language, still
By taste selected, and arrang'd with skill,
Errour conceal'd from vulgar notice lurks,
And sure her darling scheme, though slowly, works.
As in a bed of flow'rs, or thorny brake,
Fold within fold lies hid the crested snake.
",,14036,•I've included twice in Government: Throne and Monarch,"Authors may ""drag down Reason from her throne / Or make her reign unaided and alone""","",2009-09-14 19:39:47 UTC,""
5216,"","Searching ""heart"" and ""empire"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2004-08-22 00:00:00 UTC,"Say, Music! by what fascinating art,
Dost thou hold sov'reign empire o'er the heart?
Say, whence thy pow'rs mysterious can arise,
Sure some ecstatic impulse from the skies,
By ev'ry nerve that vibrates to the brain,
The soft ascendant o'er the soul to gain?
Rapid and sudden, like ethereal fire,
All the whole man resistless to inspire?",,14043,"","Music may hold ""sov'reign empire o'er the heart""","",2009-09-14 19:39:48 UTC,""
5302,Ruling Passion / Materialism,"Searching ""ruling passion"" in HDIS (Poetry);",2004-05-24 00:00:00 UTC,"Grant that corporeal is the human mind,
It must have parts in infinitum join'd;
And each of these must will, perceive, design,
And draw confus'dly in a different line;
Which then can claim dominion o'er the rest,
Or stamp the ruling passion in the breast?",,14234,
•I've included this entry twice: once in Government and once in Writing.
•Jenyns attempts a reductio ad absurdum. INTEREST. REVISIT and read whole poem.,"If the mind is corporeal it must be composed of infinite parts: ""Which then can claim dominion o'er the rest, / Or stamp the ruling passion in the breast""","",2009-09-14 19:40:21 UTC,""
5302,"","Searching ""soul"" and ""stamp"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2005-04-08 00:00:00 UTC,"This then's the first great law by Nature giv'n,
Stamp'd on our souls, and ratify'd by Heav'n;
All from utility this law approve,
As ev'ry private bliss must spring from social love.
",,14248,•I've included twice: Stamping and Law
,"""This then's the first great law by Nature giv'n, / Stamp'd on our souls, and ratify'd by Heav'n""","",2009-09-14 19:40:23 UTC,""
5489,"","Searching ""throne"" and ""soul"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2004-07-30 00:00:00 UTC,"The goddess summons each illustrious name,
Bids the gay talk, and forms th' amusive game.
She, whose fair throne is fix'd in human souls,
From joy to joy her eye delighted rolls.
But where (she cry'd) is she, my fav'rite! she,
Of all my race, the dearest far to me!
Whose life's the life of each refin'd delight?
She said--But no Tyrconnel glads her fight.
Swift sunk her laughing eyes in languid fear;
Swift rose the swelling sigh, and trembling tear.
In kind, low murmurs all the loss deplore;
Tyrconnel droops, and pleasure is no more.
",2012-04-27,14699,"•Euphrosynè is the ""Goddess of mirth""","""She [the goddess of mirth], whose fair throne is fix'd in human souls, / From joy to joy her eye delighted rolls.""",Throne,2012-04-27 17:21:14 UTC,""