theme,metaphor,work_id,dictionary,provenance,id,created_at,updated_at,reviewed_on,comments,text,context
"","""Souls for ever live: / But often their old Habitations leave, / To dwell in new; which them, as Guests, receive.""",4585,Inhabitants and Rooms,Searching HDIS (Poetry),12079,2004-06-14 00:00:00 UTC,2012-01-12 04:54:46 UTC,2012-01-11,"•The footnote gives, ""Sandys alter'd. Ovid. Met. Lib. XV.""
","--Souls for ever live:
But often their old Habitations leave,
To dwell in new; which them, as Guests, receive.
All alter, Nothing finally decays;
Hither, and thither, still the Spirit strays:
Free to all Bodies; out of Beasts it flies
To Men, from Men to Beasts: and never dies.
As pliant Wax each new Impression takes,
Fixt to no Form, but still the Old forsakes,
Yet is the same: so Souls the same abide,
Tho' various Figures their Reception hide.--
(II, 381)","Under the rubric ""Soul"""
"","""The Preservation of Life, the defending the human Body from Decay, and of rendering it a fit Tenement for the Soul to inhabit, in that Season in which she is most capable of exerting her noblest Faculties, are grave and ferious Subjects; with which no trivial Matters ought to mingle.""",7123,Rooms,Searching in Google Books,19304,2011-10-26 21:28:05 UTC,2011-10-26 21:28:05 UTC,,"","I know very well it may, and I doubt not but it will be objected, if Hermippus was so wise a Man, why, instead of drawing old Age to such a Length, did he not preserve the Vigour of his Youth? This surely would have been by far a nobler Discovery, and to which the young Ladies would with the greatest Readiness have contributed. But I must put such People as these in mind, that as, in this Treatise, I have inserted nothing which may not be some way or other serviceable, either to the Instruction or Entertainment of Mankind, so I shall not think myself at all obliged to take Notice of any ludicrous Reflections. The Preservation of Life, the defending the human Body from Decay, and of rendering it a fit Tenement for the Soul to inhabit, in that Season in which she is most capable of exerting her noblest Faculties, are grave and ferious Subjects; with which no trivial Matters ought to mingle. Besides, to speak my Opinion freely, though I think the Method of Hermippus extremely proper for repairing the Wastes of Nature, and preventing the Incommodities which usually attend on Years; yet I am far from believing, that this Method would contribute at all to the Extention of Youth, but rather the contrary; and for this, I think, I am able to offer some very probable reasons.
(pp. 108-9)",""