work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context 4875,"",HDIS (Prose),2009-09-14 19:37:43 UTC,"'Indeed, my dear Sir,' cries Amelia, you are the wisest as well as best Man in the World--'

'Not a Word of my Wisdom,' cries the Doctor. 'I have not a Grain---I am not the least versed in the Chrematistic Art, as an old Friend of mine calls it. I know not how to get a single Shilling, nor how to keep it in my Pocket when I have it.'

'But you understand Human Nature to the Bottom,' answered Amelia;' and your Mind is a Treasury of all ancient and modern Learning.'

'You are a little Flatterer,' cries the Doctor; 'but I dislike you not for it. And to shew you I don't, I will return your Flattery; and tell you, you have acted with great Prudence in concealing this Affair from your Husband; but you have drawn me into a Scrape: For I have promised to dine with this Fellow again To-morrow; and you have made it impossible for me to keep my Word.' (III.ix.5)",2003-10-23,13059,"REVISIT. INTEREST. •I should doublecheck the prevailing sense of treasury in the c18. What is a treasury here? Building, government, or book? (This is the kind of example a poststructuralist delights in...)
•The OED gives as a first definition: ""1. A room or building in which precious or valuable objects are preserved, esp. a place or receptacle for money or valuables (now Hist. ); transf. the funds or revenue of a state or of a public or private corporation."" and as a second definition: ""2. fig. A repository of 'treasures'; a thesaurus; a 'treasure-house', 'storehouse'.""
•So the entry could be put in 'Architecture' or 'Writing'? Notice this OED citation of Chaucer: ""c1384 CHAUCER H. Fame II .16 In the tresorye hyt shette Of my brayn""","""'But you understand Human Nature to the Bottom,' answered Amelia;' and your Mind is a Treasury of all ancient and modern Learning.'""",Coinage and Rooms and Writing,2013-06-11 18:25:21 UTC,""