work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
4175,"","Reading. Found again reading Neil Saccamano's ""The Sublime Force of Words in Addison's 'Pleasures,'"" ELH 58:1 (1991): 83-106. p. 102.",2006-06-01 00:00:00 UTC,"We have now discovered the several Originals of those Pleasures that gratifie the Fancy; and here, perhaps, it would not be very difficult to cast upon proper Heads those contrary Objects, which are apt to fill it with Distaste and Terrour; for the Imagination is as liable to Pain as Pleasure. When the Brain is hurt by Accident, or the mind disordered by Dreams or Sickness, the Fancy is over-run with wild dismal Ideas, and terrified with a thousand hideous Monsters of its own framing.
(p. 416)",2011-02-05,10831,"","""When the Brain is hurt by Accident, or the mind disordered by Dreams or Sickness, the Fancy is over-run with wild dismal Ideas, and terrified with a thousand hideous Monsters of its own framing.""",Inhabitants,2013-05-02 15:03:29 UTC,""
4175,"",Reading ,2006-06-01 00:00:00 UTC,"There is not a Sight in Nature so mortifying as that of a distracted Person, when his Imagination is troubled, and his whole Soul disordered and confused. Babylon in Ruins is not so melancholy a Spectacle. But to quit so disagreeable a Subject, I shall consider, by way of Conclusion, what an infinite Advantage this Faculty gives an Almighty Being over the Soul of Man, and how great a measure of Happiness or Misery we are capable of Receiving from the Imagination only.
(p. 416)",2011-02-05,10832,"","""Babylon in Ruins is not so melancholy a Spectacle"" as a distracted Person, whose ""imagination is troubled"" and whose ""whole soul [is] disordered and confused.""","",2011-02-05 19:02:59 UTC,""
4175,"","Reading Wasserman. Found again searching ""as it were"" in Chadwyck-Healey's Literary Theory Database",2006-09-19 00:00:00 UTC,"The Pleasures of the Imagination are not wholly confined to such particular Authors as are conversant in material Objects, but are often to be met with among the Polite Masters of Morality, Criticism, and other Speculations abstracted from Matter; who, though they do not directly treat of the visible Parts of Nature, often draw from them their Similitudes, Metaphors, and Allegories. By these Allusions a Truth in the Understanding is as it were reflected by the Imagination; we are able to see something like Colour and Shape in a Notion, and to discover a Scheme of Thoughts traced out upon Matter. And here the Mind receives a great deal of Satisfaction, and has two of its Faculties gratified at the same time, while the Fancy is busy in copying after the Understanding, and transcribing Ideas out of the Intellectual World into the Material.",2007-06-26,10833,"","""By these Allusions [similitudes, metaphors, and allegories] a Truth in the Understanding is as it were reflected by the Imagination; we are able to see something like Colour and Shape in a Notion, and to discover a Scheme of Thoughts traced out upon Matter""",Mirror,2009-09-14 19:35:19 UTC,Opening Paragraph
4175,"","Searching ""as it were"" in Chadwyck-Healey's Literary Theory Database. Found again, reading Neil Saccamano's ""The Sublime Force of Words in Addison's 'Pleasures'"" ELH 58:1 (1991): 83-106. p. 99",2006-09-19 00:00:00 UTC,"The Pleasures of the Imagination are not wholly confined to such particular Authors as are conversant in material Objects, but are often to be met with among the Polite Masters of Morality, Criticism, and other Speculations abstracted from Matter; who, though they do not directly treat of the visible Parts of Nature, often draw from them their Similitudes, Metaphors, and Allegories. By these Allusions a Truth in the Understanding is as it were reflected by the Imagination; we are able to see something like Colour and Shape in a Notion, and to discover a Scheme of Thoughts traced out upon Matter. And here the Mind receives a great deal of Satisfaction, and has two of its Faculties gratified at the same time, while the Fancy is busy in copying after the Understanding, and transcribing Ideas out of the Intellectual World into the Material.",2007-06-26,10834,•I've included twice: Copying and Transcribing,"""And here the Mind receives a great deal of Satisfaction, and has two of its Faculties gratified at the same time, while the Fancy is busy in copying after the Understanding, and transcribing Ideas out of the Intellectual World into the Material.""",Writing,2013-05-02 15:04:51 UTC,Opening Paragraph