text,updated_at,metaphor,created_at,context,theme,reviewed_on,dictionary,comments,provenance,id,work_id
"[Presenting the ring.]
FEL.
A memorial! do I need one?--memorial of you! Oh! that word friend, which you have just uttered, what diamond in the world is sufficient to repay it? What diamond could throw a greater lustre on my soul in the hours of sadness than the reflection that I saved your life? Must I then be doomed, each time I cast a look at my finger, to exclaim: Thou art paid!
NAT.
Curse upon that hateful word!--No! no! When destiny shall separate us, this ring will recal to your remembrance the image of a friend.
FEL.
Oh! it was not a diamond which engraved that image on my heart.
NAT.
The cypher of my name is formed of my own hair.
FEL.
Your hair, encircled with diamonds, would for ever remind me, that Natalia is a countess.",2009-09-14 19:44:07 UTC,"""Oh! it was not a diamond which engraved that image on my heart""",2005-03-09 00:00:00 UTC,"Act II, scene iii",Negated Metaphor,,"",•Another case where metaphor is rejected.
•C-H uses the second edition of 1799 but indicates that the first edition was pulished in 1796.,"Searching ""engrav"" and ""heart"" in HDIS (Drama)",15618,5878
"OTT.
My little boy slumbered sweetly: but my anguish steeled my heart against every sentiment of feeling, and compelled me to wake him. I wanted one creature at least to be awake near me. I took him up and shook him, thinking he would cry. God hear his cries, and protect his father! But the little infant was so drowsy, that he could not keep his eyes open.",2009-09-14 19:44:10 UTC,"""My little boy slumbered sweetly: but my anguish steeled my heart against every sentiment of feeling, and compelled me to wake him""",2005-06-13 00:00:00 UTC,"Act I, scene ii","",,Metal,•C-H uses the second edition of 1799 but indicates that the first edition was pulished in 1796.,"Searching ""heart"" and ""steel"" in HDIS (Drama)",15634,5878
"My name is Brecknock; and I am the eldest son of a wealthy farmer in Galloway. I was naturally of a fierce and ungovernable disposition, which my father unfortunately fostered, instead of checking, by a misguided education. He had imbibed some newfangled opinions of certain French philosophers, and proposed to train me up in a manner directly opposite to that of our ancestors. He not only prevented my being educated in the religion of the country, but taught me, by his example, to ridicule it. He guarded my mind from imbibing any religious principles at all, under the notion of preserving it to maturity, like a rasa tabula, free from all prejudices. In consequence of this, I greedily embraced every licentious opinion, and was, with warm passions, exposed to temptations and the corruption of bad example, without any principles of reason, morality, or religion, to counteract them; but rather with a bias in their favour. I was not restrained in any whim or caprice, nor subject to any coercion or penalty, for fear of breaking my spirit, and destroying the energies of my freeborn mind.
(III.ii, pp. 13-4)",2014-03-08 20:33:27 UTC,"""He guarded my mind from imbibing any religious principles at all, under the notion of preserving it to maturity, like a rasa tabula, free from all prejudices.""",2006-10-14 00:00:00 UTC,"Chap. II. History of the Misanthrope, Or Recluse of the Forest.",Blank Slate,,Writing,"","Searching ""tabula rasa"" in ECCO",15647,5893
"JOHN
Excellent! Dost thou learn those fine fraternal appellations from thy book? What an abominable thing is reading? by this means, the mind is put into a hot-house and forced like a pineapple in Europe; and then produces bad fruit.--If my father had not taught the women to read, I am sure they would have been more reasonable.
(I.iii, p. 18)",2011-07-27 16:10:52 UTC,"""What an abominable thing is reading? by this means, the mind is put into a hot-house and forced like a pineapple in Europe; and then produces bad fruit.""",2011-07-27 16:10:35 UTC,"Act I, Scene iii","",,"",John the heartless slaver to his brother who has tried to buy a slave he would rape away from him. ,Reading,19021,7034
"LILLI
Hear'st thou--Poor Ada! Look at her. Is she not beautiful as the flower Gloriosa? and she is still more good than beautiful.--—Fy! you are horrid people! we lacerate our bodies; you, your souls.---We believe that the scars on our faces add to our beauty; you consider your vices as ornaments.---Which ought to reprove the other?
(I.vii, p. 40)",2011-07-27 19:07:21 UTC,"""Fy! you are horrid people! we lacerate our bodies; you, your souls.---We believe that the scars on our faces add to our beauty; you consider your vices as ornaments.""",2011-07-27 19:07:21 UTC,"Act I, scene vii","",,"","",Reading,19022,7034
"TRURO
In this manner did they treacherously deceive our harmless fathers. They were marked as criminals, when in the midst of serenity and innocence, they knew no transgression. If you should ever meet a company of wretches like these, you would take them for a string of malefactors. Mind and body are both subdued by affliction and chains; their heads are fixed between great wooden forks, supported behind with iron cramps; not one can stir a step without the other; all walk in procession panting under the heavy fork.--Their fettered hands are not at liberty to wipe off the sweat. It is with tears alone that they can wash the blood and sweat from their faces.--In this manner you conduct your slaves to market. Your cattle at least go free to the slaughter-house.
(II.iii, p. 64)",2011-07-27 19:09:20 UTC,"""Mind and body are both subdued by affliction and chains; their heads are fixed between great wooden forks, supported behind with iron cramps; not one can stir a step without the other; all walk in procession panting under the heavy fork.""",2011-07-27 19:09:20 UTC,"Act II, scene iii","",,Fetters,"","Searching ""mind"" and ""chain"" in HDIS (Prose)",19023,7034
"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
"WILLIAM
The sky is clear, and we are glad: a glad heart and sun-shine are well-suited. Come, brother, let thy soul for this once be tuned in unison with ours.
(II.vi, pp. 88-9)",2011-07-27 19:12:09 UTC,"""Come, brother, let thy soul for this once be tuned in unison with ours.""",2011-07-27 19:12:09 UTC,"Act II, scene vi","",,"","",Reading,19025,7034
"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
"ADA
Are only those in bonds who have cords around them? Alas! there are invisible fetters which no mortal can wrench! both soft and firm are the bonds of virtue, no force can loosen its strong ties, no sword divide it from my soul! it has guided me from childhood to the age of woman, it presided over my marriage, it has attended me in all my wretchedness, nor will it forsake me at the hour of death.--Away! amulet formed of serpents heads, which a priest once gave me! (She tears it from her neck, and casts it from her) virtue is the only amulet! it cools in feverish heats, and warms in feverish chills! with virtue, as with love, one may live happily under a roof of palm-leaves! virtue and love give a life of serenity, and a gentle death.--Ah! what numbering vigor is awakened in me! I am no more what I was, my heart expands, my bosom swells, some being which I do not know inspires me, an inward glow destroys fear and dries up my eyes! I have no tears--I tremble not--I can meet death!--Go, old man, say to my Zameo, thou hast found me thus; go, say to my tyrant, I await him.
(III.ii, pp. 107-8)",2011-07-27 19:15:58 UTC,"""Alas! there are invisible fetters which no mortal can wrench! both soft and firm are the bonds of virtue, no force can loosen its strong ties, no sword divide it from my soul! it has guided me from childhood to the age of woman, it presided over my marriage, it has attended me in all my wretchedness, nor will it forsake me at the hour of death.""",2011-07-27 19:15:58 UTC,"Act III, scene ii","",,Fetters,"",Reading,19027,7034