text,updated_at,metaphor,created_at,context,theme,reviewed_on,dictionary,comments,provenance,id,work_id
"ZAMEO
(Embraces William's knees) Fetters are needless where the affections are rivetted by beneficent actions. Thou hast left me free, and I am thy slave for ever; with my arms in bonds, I could have escaped, but thou fetterest my heart—I will never forsake thee!
(II.vi, p. 87)",2011-07-27 19:11:17 UTC,"""Fetters are needless where the affections are rivetted by beneficent actions. Thou hast left me free, and I am thy slave for ever; with my arms in bonds, I could have escaped, but thou fetterest my heart—I will never forsake thee!""",2011-07-27 19:11:17 UTC,"Act II, scene vi","",,Fetters,"",Reading,19024,7034
"ADA<
I was in Zameo's arms--
LILLI
You were torn from each other.
ADA
(Jumping up.) Ah I I did not dream it! Where is he? Where is my Zameo? (she runs to the door, which she finds fastened.)
LILLI
You might save yourself that trouble. Alas! the door is locked and bolted, as the hearts of white men are.
(III.i, p. 98)",2011-07-27 19:13:08 UTC,"""Alas! the door is locked and bolted, as the hearts of white men are.""",2011-07-27 19:13:08 UTC,"Act III, scene i","",,"","",Reading,19026,7034
"FANCY, sportive goddess, hail!
Fleeting as the vernal gale,
Hail! thou dear illusive power
Changing with the swift-wing'd hour;
Now despairing, now reviving,
Now with tenfold vigour thriving,
Now tormenting, now delighting,
Now in midst of battle fighting:
'Tis thine, or to depress or raise
Whilst short-sighted mortals gaze,---
Gaze, at veil'd futurity
Actuated but by thee---
Fancy, place me by the shore,
Where the broken surges roar,
Where old ocean, Terra laves,
With his ever-rolling waves;
In yonder forest's dusky gloom,
Next my vision'd soul entomb;
Near yon mouldering castle's walls
Where the solemn screech-owl squalls,
Where the bat essays his flight,
In the solitary night;---
Then in yonder shady grove,
Let me taste the sweets of love;
Let me visit woven bowers,
Graced with variegated flowers;
The woodbine and the jasmine gay,
With all the various sweets of May.
(pp. 462)",2011-10-06 21:31:03 UTC,"""FANCY, sportive goddess, hail! / Fleeting as the vernal gale, / Hail! thou dear illusive power / Changing with the swift-wing'd hour; / Now despairing, now reviving, / Now with tenfold vigour thriving, / Now tormenting, now delighting, / Now in midst of battle fighting.""",2011-10-06 21:31:03 UTC,"","",,"","",Searching in Google Books,19252,7107
"""Godly persons,"" that is, Christian philosophers, are described, in those articles which all churchmen have most solemnly assented to, as,""such as feel in themselves the spirit of Christ, mortifying the works of the flesh, and drawing up their minds to high and, heavenly things."" He who feels the spirit in him, will be conscious of possessing the pearl of great price, and will lock it up in the sanctuarv of his heart, as his richest treasure, never to be despoiled of it by the seducing arts of false philosophy; never to exchange that pure gold, which is the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever, for the base metal of worldly politicians, who may endeavour, as they have done, to make truth itself alter her inimitable nature, to serve the varying purposes of temporary ambition. Those doctrines of Christianity, which were true under the first Charles, will be considered, notwithstanding the subtle attempts of politicians, equally true under the abandoned profligacy of a second; or in subsequent reigns, when it was discovered by the court divines, that Christianity was as old as the creation, and the religion of grace, a mere republication of the religion of nature. The substance of Christianity can survive the wreck of empires, the demolition of temples made with hands, and the dismission of a superstitious or a time-serving priesthood. The living temple of the heart, where the Holy Spirit fixes his shrine, will stand unimpaired, amidst the fallen columns of marble. The kingdom of heaven will remain unshaken, amidst all the convulsions of this changeable globe. We are told, that the gates of hell shall not prevail against it; and, though it should happen, in any country of Christendom, that the rulers should be infidels, and the visible church abolished; yet while there are human creatures left alive in it, the church of Christ may still flourish. [...]
(151)",2013-06-11 19:39:22 UTC,"""He who feels the spirit in him, will be conscious of possessing the pearl of great price, and will lock it up in the sanctuary of his heart, as his richest treasure, never to be despoiled of it by the seducing arts of false philosophy; never to exchange that pure gold, which is the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever, for the base metal of worldly politicians, who may endeavour, as they have done, to make truth itself alter her inimitable nature, to serve the varying purposes of temporary ambition.""",2012-04-13 18:50:33 UTC,"","",,Coinage and Metal and Rooms,Embroidering Knox's metaphor...,Searching in Google Books,19688,7217
"Behold lovely Westmorland leads the gay throng,
Herself by the graces led calmly along;
With a bosom of innocence easily hit
By the nice ball of humour or arrow of wit;
With a mind which when tragical sorrows appear
Rushes up to her eye, and descends in a tear.
Divine Sensibility! widely impart
Thy fibres of feeling, and live in each heart!
Where Misery stalks in her garment of woe,
Oh! bid the rich flood of humanity flow;
When Sorrow more secret retires to her shed,
Oh! hasten with comforts to pillow her head;--
It is thus we should act thro' life's perilous scene--
Thus Westmorland proves she is really a queen.",2013-05-16 22:40:58 UTC,"""Divine Sensibility! widely impart / Thy fibres of feeling, and live in each heart!""",2013-05-16 22:40:58 UTC,"","",,Inhabitants,"",Reading at the Folger,20209,7392
"[...] The apartment which he has seen must have been brilliantly lighted, for he said he was dazzled with its splendour. And be assured, that I have certainly guessed, so to speak, what it is he has attempted to describe. Now, my friend, this extravagant luxury characterises the palaces of Persia. He was carried to Persia, and brought back in one night then, said Chebib. My dear landlord, replied Giafar, if your son is decreed to contract a marriage, from which a certain portion of the earth will derive advantage ; when heaven interferes, distance vanishes in a moment. Omar was besieging Aleppo, while Fatme, his wife, was kneeling at the evening prayers at Medina: O my God, cried she, after they were finished, could I now be in the arms of my husband! Scarcely had she formed the wish, when she was instantly carried to him, by the two angels whom she had saluted on the right hand, and on the left, before she began her prayer. Take courage, my dear friend: Heaven has wrought many miracles in my favour; and, as you have been one of its principal instruments with regard to me, though, for the trial of your virtue, obstacles seem allowed to stand in the way of your happiness, be assured that your star will shine with a brighter lustre, when it has emerged from these little clouds. Every thing encourages me on your account, while my own soul, tormented by an unlucky passion, has entirely lost its balance.
(I, p. 517)",2014-06-19 22:03:44 UTC,"""Every thing encourages me on your account, while my own soul, tormented by an unlucky passion, has entirely lost its balance.""",2014-06-19 22:03:44 UTC,"","",,"","",Searching in Google Books,24054,7937