work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
5178,"",Searching in HDIS (Poetry),2005-04-19 00:00:00 UTC,"Known on earth to none but Thee,
Here a banish'd man I roam;
Let me Thy commandments see,
Show the light that guides me home
All their deep design reveal,
All their inward power impart,
'Grave them with Thy Spirit's seal
On the tables of my heart.
(VIII, p. 211 in 1868 ed.)",,13932,"•I've included thrice: Engraving, Seal, Table
•See also Woodford's and Smart's translations. ","""'Grave [the commandments] with Thy Spirit's seal / On the tables of my heart.""",Writing,2014-02-21 18:36:09 UTC,""
5178,"","Searching ""seal"" and ""heart"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2005-04-19 00:00:00 UTC,"TETH. Part IX.
Lord, Thou hast Thy word fulfill'd,
Good and gracious as Thou art,
On my heart the promise seal'd,
Wrote forgiveness on my heart!
Teach me then Thy perfect will,
I Thine every word receive;
All Thy law in me fulfil;
Lord, I dare, I dare believe
(Vol. VIII, p. 218)",,13935,•See also Woodford's and Smart's translations. ,"""On my heart the promise seal'd, / Wrote forgiveness on my heart!""","",2014-02-21 18:30:40 UTC,""
5901,Blank Slate,Reading Steven Pinker's The Blank Slate (11). Full citation found in ECCO.,2005-07-14 00:00:00 UTC,"In young persons it is otherwise. Theirs is the tear, in many instances at least, ""forgot as soon as shed."" Their minds are like a sheet of white paper, which takes any impression that it is proposed to make upon it. Their pleasures are, to a degree, pure and unadulterated. This is a circumstance considerably enviable.
(p. 70)",2005-10-26,15668,"•Pinker actually quotes ""children are a sort of raw material put into our hands [their minds are] like a sheet of white paper."" Is this actually a differenct use of the same metaphor. REVISIT and follow citation. ","""Their [young persons'] minds are like a sheet of white paper, which takes any impression that it is proposed to make upon it.""",Writing,2009-09-14 19:44:17 UTC,Part I. Of the Happiness of Youth
5904,Blank Slate,"Searching ""tabula rasa"" in ECCO",2006-10-09 00:00:00 UTC,"Tabula rasa. Lat.--""A shaved or smoothed tablet.""--His mind is a tabula rasa--it is a mere blank. The idea is taken from the waxed tablets of the ancients on which they made their memoranda with a sharp instrument called [end page] a stylum, with the other flatted end of which they afterwards erased what they had written.",,15671,•Interesting book to find commonplaces.,"""Tabula rasa. Lat.--'A shaved or smoothed tablet.'--His mind is a tabula rasa--it is a mere blank.""",Writing,2009-09-14 19:44:18 UTC,""
5912,"","Searching ""engrav"" and ""heart"" in HDIS (Drama)",2005-03-09 00:00:00 UTC,"MARIA.
A great and noble soul.--You have read the letter, which he wrote, when he heard of my misfortune. Every letter of it stands engraven on my heart. ""If thou art guilty,"" he writes, ""expect no forgiveness. In addition to thy misery shall the scorn of a brother press yet heavier upon thee, and the curse of a Father. Art thou innocent! O then, all vengeance, all, all burning vengeance upon thy betrayer!"" I tremble--He will come--I tremble; not for myself, I stand before God in innocence. O my Friends, you must--I know not what I wish-- O Clavidgo!",,15680,"","""Every letter of it stands engraven on my heart""","",2009-09-14 19:44:20 UTC,"Act I, scene ii"
5913,"",Searching in HDIS (Drama),2005-08-10 00:00:00 UTC,"STEPANOFF.
An excellent fellow this Wasili! There are occupations in the world, which mould a man into a certain form for life, like a piece of paper which has once been folded, its marks are never obliterated. Does not one discover at the first sight, that this man has been a page of the bed-chamber? He announces those that arrive, he conducts them when they depart, he busies himself in carrying news, he knows how to set out a table, he is as idle as a fat lap-dog, and the inside of his head is like a woman's work-basket.",,15685,"","""There are occupations in the world, which mould a man into a certain form for life, like a piece of paper which has once been folded, its marks are never obliterated.""",Writing,2011-07-30 21:04:42 UTC,"Act I, scene i"
5924,Blank Slate,"Searching ""tabula rasa"" in ECCO",2006-10-15 00:00:00 UTC,"There is this double talk in religion. When a man enters to it, he is not only to be taught true wisdom, but he is withal, yea, first of all, to be untaught the errors and wickedness that are deep-rooted in his mind, which he hath not only learned by the corrupt conversation of the world with him. They do indeed improve and grow by the favour of that example that is round about a man; but they are originally in our nature as it is now; they are connatural to us, besides continual custom, which is another nature. There is none comes to the school of Christ suiting the philosopher's word ut tabula rasa, as blank paper, to receive his doctrine; but, on the contrary, all scribbled and blurred with such base habits as these, malice, hypocrisy, envy, &c.
Therefore the first work is to raze out these, to cleanse and purify the heart from these blots, these foul characters, that it may receive the impression of the image of God. And because it is the word of God that both begins and advances this work, and perfects the lineaments of that divine image on the soul; therefore to the receiving this word aright, and this proper effect by it, the conforming of the soul to Jesus Christ, which is the true growth of the spiritual life, this is pre-required, That the hearts of them that hear it, be purged of these, and such like impurities, malice, hypocrisy, &c.
(pp. 201)",,15703,•I've included twice: Tabula Rasa and Paper,"""There is none comes to the school of Christ suiting the philosopher's word ut tabula rasa, as blank paper, to receive his doctrine; but, on the contrary, all scribbled and blurred with such base habits as these, malice, hypocrisy, envy, &c.""",Writing,2009-09-14 19:44:24 UTC,The First Epistle of Peter
5924,"",Searching in ECCO,2006-10-15 00:00:00 UTC,"There is this double talk in religion. When a man enters to it, he is not only to be taught true wisdom, but he is withal, yea, first of all, to be untaught the errors and wickedness that are deep-rooted in his mind, which he hath not only learned by the corrupt conversation of the world with him. They do indeed improve and grow by the favour of that example that is round about a man; but they are originally in our nature as it is now; they are connatural to us, besides continual custom, which is another nature. There is none comes to the school of Christ suiting the philosopher's word ut tabula rasa, as blank paper, to receive his doctrine; but, on the contrary, all scribbled and blurred with such base habits as these, malice, hypocrisy, envy, &c.
Therefore the first work is to raze out these, to cleanse and purify the heart from these blots, these foul characters, that it may receive the impression of the image of God. And because it is the word of God that both begins and advances this work, and perfects the lineaments of that divine image on the soul; therefore to the receiving this word aright, and this proper effect by it, the conforming of the soul to Jesus Christ, which is the true growth of the spiritual life, this is pre-required, That the hearts of them that hear it, be purged of these, and such like impurities, malice, hypocrisy, &c.
(pp. 201)",,15705,•I've included twice: Blots and Characters,"""Therefore the first work is to raze out these, to cleanse and purify the heart from these blots, these foul characters, that it may receive the impression of the image of God.""",Writing,2009-09-14 19:44:25 UTC,The First Epistle of Peter
7835,"",ECCO-TCP,2014-03-12 03:11:02 UTC,"""Fear not, my sweet girl! Consider me equally as your friend and parent, and apprehend no reproof from me. I have read the emotions of your bosom; you are yet ill skilled in concealing them, and they could not escape my attentive eye. This Lorenzo is dangerous to your repose; he has already made an impression upon your heart. 'Tis true that I perceive easily that your affection is returned: but what can be the consequences of this attachment? You are poor and friendless, my Antonia; Lorenzo is the heir of the duke of Medina Celi. Even should himself mean honourably, his uncle never will consent to your union; nor, without that uncle's consent, will I. By sad experience I know what sorrow she must endure, who marries into a family unwilling to receive her. Then struggle with your affection: whatever pains it may cost you, strive to conquer it. Your heart is tender and susceptible: it has already received a strong impression; but when once convinced that you should not encourage such sentiments, I trust that you have sufficient fortitude to drive them from your bosom.""
(II, pp. 148-9)",,23558,"","""I have read the emotions of your bosom; you are yet ill skilled in concealing them, and they could not escape my attentive eye.""",Writing,2014-03-12 03:11:02 UTC,""