work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
3970,"","Searching ""stamp"" and ""passion"" HDIS (Drama)",2005-04-11 00:00:00 UTC,"STAND.
I once, Madam, hop'd the Honour of defending you from all Injuries thro a Title to your lovely Person, but now my Love must attend my Fortune. This Commission, Madam, was my Pasport to the Fair; adding a nobleness to my Passion, it stampt a value on my Love; 'twas once the life of Honour, but now its Hearse, and with it must my Love be buried.",,10307,•Actually published 1699? REVISIT.
,"""This Commission, Madam, was my Pasport to the Fair; adding a nobleness to my Passion, it stampt a value on my Love""","",2009-09-14 19:34:52 UTC,"Act I, scene i"
3983,"",HDIS (Drama),2004-11-10 00:00:00 UTC,"TREMILIA
Stand by ye Fools--That noble Theam's my share,
Farce is a Strain too low to court the Fair;
When to that pitch your Thoughts attempt to fly,
Like unskill'd Icarus you soar too high;
We beg the Favours by the fair Sex giv'n,
With solemn awe as we petition Heav'n.
To please them was the Poet's greatest Care,
He thinks in this Play, nothing can appear,
Rude, or obscene to grate the nicest Ear.
My Character, he hopes, will chiefly move;
The greatness of my Mind, you must approve,
Tho' few this aiery Age the Dress may love;
And since the Poet wou'd good Manners show,
He has made me conformable to you;
In short--A Word's the Moral of the Play,
Appearance does not always get the Day;
Fine Airs, and Graces may some Conquests gain,
Yet still without 'em we shou'd not complain,
Since they are Trifles, which the Wise disd an.
Love is not always in the Pow'r of Dress,
Tho' we want Fortune, or the finest Face,
And all those fading Charms our Sex surround,
Where Virtue shines, a Lover may be found.
",,10348,"","""Stand by ye Fools--That noble Theam's my share,/ Farce is a Strain too low to court the Fair; / When to that pitch your Thoughts attempt to fly, / Like unskill'd Icarus you soar too high.""","",2013-06-18 14:22:00 UTC,Back Matter
3996,"","Searching ""stamp"" and mind"" in HDIS (Drama)",2005-04-11 00:00:00 UTC,"CAM.
Ay, Mr. Sable, but all those are Objects that promote our Joy, are bright to the Eye, or stamp upon our Minds, Pleasure, and Self-satisfaction.",,10376,"","Some Objects may ""promote our Joy, are bright to the Eye, or stamp upon our Minds, Pleasure, and Self-satisfaction""","",2009-09-14 19:34:56 UTC,"Act I, scene i"
3989,"",Searching in HDIS (Drama),2011-08-01 19:50:16 UTC,"But the third thing requisite for the succeeding in Comedy is a due Application, and that likewise includes two things, the one of which is Leisure, and the other Serenity. First, Leisure, for Poetry is of that Dignity, that it requires the whole man. And never any man writ any thing that was admirable, who had any avocations at the time that he writ it. But secondly, to succeed in Comedy requires Serenity. For a Comick Poet is obliged to put off himself, and transform himself into his several Characters; to enter into the Foibles of his several persons, and all the Recesses and secret turns of their minds, and to make their Passions, their Interests, and their Concern his own. Now how should he possibly do this, unless he is absolutely free, and undisturbed by tormenting Passions, which bind him, as it were, and if I may use that expression, chain him fast to himself.",,19082,"","""For a Comick Poet is obliged to put off himself, and transform himself into his several Characters; to enter into the Foibles of his several persons, and all the Recesses and secret turns of their minds, and to make their Passions, their Interests, and their Concern his own.""","",2011-08-01 19:50:16 UTC,Epistle Dedicatory
7548,"",C-H Lion,2013-07-17 03:54:18 UTC,"MONESES.
Hast me to find the place. Oh! my Arpasia!
Shall we not meet? Why hangs my Heart thus heavy
Like Death within my Bosom? Oh! 'tis well,
The Joy of meeting pays the pangs of Absence,
Else who could bear it?
When thy lov'd Sight shall bless my Eyes again,
Then I will own, I ought not to complain,
Since that sweet Hour is worth whole Years of Pain.
(II.i, pp. 17-18)",,21843,"","""Why hangs my Heart thus heavy / Like Death within my Bosom?""","",2013-07-17 03:54:18 UTC,"Act II, scene i"
7548,"",C-H Lion,2013-07-17 03:56:37 UTC,"BAJAZET.
Oh, Glorious Thought! By Heav'n! I will enjoy it,
Tho' but in Fancy; Imagination shall
Make room to entertain the vast Idea.
Oh! had I been the Master but of Yesterday,
The World, the World had felt me; and for thee,
I had us'd thee, as thou art to me,--a Dog,
The Object of my Scorn, and mortal Hatred:
I would have taught thy Neck to know my weight,
And mounted from that Footstool to my Saddle:
Then, when thy daily servile Task was done,
I would have caged thee, for the Scorn of Slaves,
Till thou hadst begg'd to die; and ev'n that Mercy
I had deny'd Thee: Now thou know'st my Mind,
And question me no farther.
(II.ii, p. 22)",,21845,"","""Oh, Glorious Thought! By Heav'n! I will enjoy it, / Tho' but in Fancy; Imagination shall / Make room to entertain the vast Idea.""","",2013-07-17 03:56:37 UTC,"Act II, scene ii"
7548,"",C-H Lion,2013-07-17 03:58:13 UTC,"MONESES.
Stop thee there, Arpasia,
And bar my Fancy from the guilty Scene;
Let not Thought enter, lest the busie Mind
Should muster such a train of monstrous Images,
As wou'd distract me. Oh! I cannot bear it.
Thou lovely Hoard of Sweets, where all my Joys
Were treasur'd up, to have thee rifled thus!
Thus torn untasted from my eager Wishes!
But I will have thee from him. Tamerlane
(The Sovereign Judge of Equity on Earth)
Shall do me Justice on this mighty Robber,
And render back thy Beauties to Moneses.
(II.ii, p. 28)",,21846,"","""Stop thee there, Arpasia, / And bar my Fancy from the guilty Scene; / Let not Thought enter, lest the busie Mind / Should muster such a train of monstrous Images, / As wou'd distract me.""","",2013-07-17 03:58:13 UTC,"Act II, scene ii"
7553,"",C-H Lion,2013-07-21 19:13:59 UTC,"MIRZA.
Indeed I did, then favour'd by the King,
And by that means a sharer in the secret.
'Twas on a day of publick Festival,
When Beauteous Artemisa stood to view,
Behind the Covert of a Golden Lattice,
When King and Court returning from the Temple;
When just as by her stand Arsaces past,
The Windows, by design or chance, fell down,
And to his view expos'd her blushing Beauties.
She seem'd surpriz'd, and presently withdrew,
But ev'n that moment was an age in Love:
So was the Monarchs heart for passion moulded,
So apt to take at first the soft impression.
Soon as we were alone, I found the Evil
Already past a Remedy, and vainly
Urg'd the resentment of her Injur'd Lord:
His Love was deaf to all.
(I.i, pp. 3-4)",,21942,fixing punctuation error in C-H Lion,"""So was the Monarchs heart for passion moulded, / So apt to take at first the soft impression.""",Impressions,2013-07-21 19:13:59 UTC,"Act I, scene i"
7553,"",C-H Lion,2013-07-22 02:47:18 UTC,"ARTEMISA.
It is not well, these thoughts must be remov'd:
That eating Canker Grief, with wastful spight,
Preys on the Rosie bloom of Youth and Beauty:
But Love shall chace away these clouds of sadness;
My Son shall breathe so warm a gale of sighs,
As shall dissolve those Isicles, that hang
Like death about her heart.
Attend us, holy Magus, to the King,
Nor cease to importune the mighty Gods
To grant him health, tho much I fear in vain.
(I.i, pp. 7-8)",,21947,"","""My Son shall breathe so warm a gale of sighs, / As shall dissolve those Isicles, that hang / Like death about her heart.""","",2013-07-22 02:47:18 UTC,"Act I, scene i"
7553,"",C-H Lion,2013-07-22 02:54:33 UTC,"MAGAS.
Friends like Memnon
Are worth being sought in Danger; since this Age
Of most flagitious Note, degenerates
From the fam'd Vertue of our Ancestors,
And leaves but few Examples of their Excellence,
Whom should we seek for Friendships but those few,
Those happy few, within whose Breasts alone,
The Footsteps of lost Virtue yet remain?
(II.i, p. 12)",,21951,Footsteps...,"""Whom should we seek for Friendships but those few, / Those happy few, within whose Breasts alone, / The Footsteps of lost Virtue yet remain?""","",2013-07-22 02:54:33 UTC,"Act II, scene i"