id,comments,provenance,dictionary,created_at,reviewed_on,work_id,theme,context,updated_at,metaphor,text
14039,"","Searching ""empire"" and ""soul"" in HDIS (Drama)","",2004-08-11 00:00:00 UTC,,5218,"","Act I, scene v",2009-09-14 19:39:48 UTC,"One may fell Love's vengeful Shaft transfix her heart ""And yield to [it] the Empire of [her] Soul]","MARIA
Heigh ho! I begin to perceive I have play'd the Fool.
AIR VIII.
[Bertoni.]
O Love, tyrannic God, whose fatal Dart
Subdues all Nature to its proud Controul;
I feel thy vengefal Shaft transfix my Heart,
And yield to thee the Empire of my Soul.
"
14308,"","Searching ""empire"" and ""heart"" in HDIS (Drama)",Empire,2004-08-16 00:00:00 UTC,2012-04-02,5332,"",Epilogue,2012-04-02 16:36:14 UTC,"""This Night we'd fix her [the Muse of Comedy's] Empire in your Hearts.""","Who but has seen the celebrated strife,
Where Reynolds calls the Canvass into Life;
And, 'twixt the Tragic, and the comic Muse,
Courted of both, and dubious where to chuse,
Th' immortal Actor stands?--Here we espy
An awful Figure, pointing to the Sky;
A grave, sublime, commanding Form she bears;
And in her Zone an unsheath'd Dagger wears.
On t'other Side, with sweet, attractive Mien,
The playful Muse of Comedy is seen:
She, with a thousand soft, bewitching Smiles,
Mistress of Love, his yielding Heart beguiles;
(For where's the Heart so harden'd, to withstand
The fond Compulsion of so fair a Hand?)
Oh! would she he here bestow those winning Arts!
This Night we'd fix her Empire in your Hearts;
No tragic Passions shou'd deface the Age,
But all shou'd catch good Humour from the Stage:
The storming Husband, and imperious Wife,
Shou'd learn the Doctrine of a quiet Life:
The plodding Drudge shou'd here at Times resort,
And leave his stupid Club, and stummy Port;
The pensive Politician, who foresees
Clouds, Storms, and Tempests, in the Calms of Peace;
The scribbling Tribe, who vent their angry Spleens
In Songs, Prints, Pamphlets, Papers, Magazines;
Lucius, and Anti-Lucius, Pro's and Con's,
The List of Placets, and of Placet-nons;
The mobbing Vulgar, and the ruling Great,
And all who storm, and all who steer the State;
Here should forget the Labours of the Day,
And laugh their Cares, and their Complaints away:
The Wretch of Jonathan's, who crush'd with Shame,
Crawls lamely out from India's desp'rate game,
Safely might speculate within these Walls;
For here, while you approve, Stock never falls:
Pleas'd then indulge the Efforts of To-night,
Nor grudge to give, if you've receiv'd, delight.
"
14446,"","Searching ""heart"" and ""empire"" in HDIS (Drama)","",2004-08-16 00:00:00 UTC,,5371,"","",2009-09-14 19:40:55 UTC,One may weed out unmanly prejudice from the hearts of his countrymen,"MORTIMER
Come, come, 'tis you that should know better; in this poor Highlander, the force of prejudice has some plea, because he is a clown; but you, a citizen that should be of the world, whose heart, philosophy and travel, might have open'd, shou'd know better than to join the cry with those, whose charity, like the limitation of a brief, stops short at Berwick, and never circulates beyond the Tweed: By Heaven, I'd rather weed out one such unmanly prejudice from the hearts of my countrymen, than add another Indies to their Empire."
14464,"","Searching ""heart"" and ""iron"" in HDIS (Drama)",Metal,2005-06-08 00:00:00 UTC,,5371,"",Act IV,2009-09-14 19:40:57 UTC,"""Oh! if my fate depends upon her looks, they must be iron hearts that can withstand 'em.""","TYR.
Oh! if my fate depends upon her looks, they must be iron hearts that can withstand 'em.
"
14580,"","Searching ""heart"" and ""steel"" in HDIS (Drama)",Metal,2005-06-13 00:00:00 UTC,,5456,"","Act I, scene iv",2009-09-14 19:41:18 UTC,"""Oh, there's been precious doings with the Hearts of Steel""","MACCORMUCK.
I've a small little bit of a lease, d'ye observe me, under one Mr. Rivers, of Castle-Rivers, who I'm told is in this place gambling up and down, so I wou'd fain have him fill it up, d'ye see; and in the meantime I'd let him into the secret a little how his affairs stand, or I shou'd rather say tumble down, in the county of Antrim.--Oh, there's been precious doings with the Hearts of Steel; blood and 'oons, man alive, 'twou'd make all your bowels quake in your body only to hear of it."
15073,"","Searching ""heart"" and ""steel"" in HDIS (Drama)",Metal,2005-06-13 00:00:00 UTC,,5638,"",Back Matter,2009-09-14 19:42:42 UTC,"""While in high life our hearts the fashions steel, / Too gay to listen, and too fine to feel--""","While in high life our hearts the fashions steel,
Too gay to listen, and too fine to feel--
Honest John Bull--before a sturdy elf--
Now claims no right of judging for himself;
To Puffs from Theatres gives up his vote,
And kindly thinks all true--because 'tis wrote;
For when no plaudits strike our duller ear,
The papers hear a voice we cannot hear--
And when for seats no beauties disagree,
They see a croud, alas! we cannot see;
--And while you clamber o'er the empty rows,
In sweet ADVERTISEMENT--the House o'erflows!
Puff is the word: where fame is not a breath,
--How many an Actress Puff has sav'd from death!
And Actors for whom Mutes were full enough,
Have risen Alexanders--from a Puff!
While generous paragraphs all-lavish give
Sums Total, which our Treasurers ne'er receive."
19046,"","Searching ""heart"" and ""chain"" in HDIS (Drama)",Fetters,2011-07-28 20:35:35 UTC,,5218,"","Act II, scene ix",2011-07-28 20:35:35 UTC,"""Then fly from Shape to Shape, / Yet hope not to escape, / My Chains enclose your Heart.""","AIR XXVI.
[Hasse]
Away, dissembling Lover!
Your Project I discover,
And see thro' all your Art:
Then fly from Shape to Shape,
Yet hope not to escape,
My Chains enclose your Heart.
(II.ix)"
19872,"","Searching ""passion"" and ""horse"" in HDIS (Drama)",Beasts,2012-07-05 16:58:36 UTC,,5638,"",Act IV,2012-07-05 16:58:36 UTC,"""I was surpriz'd, taken unawares, passion ran away with me like an unbroke horse: but I have got him under now; I can govern him with a twine of thread.""","JACK.
Don't be frighten'd, Mrs. Phoebe! you have nothing to fear: I have seen my error, and thoroughly repent of it.
PHOEBE.
'Tis well you have, Sir.
JACK.
Very true, 'tis a happy reformation-- but who can command himself at all times, Mrs. Phoebe? Where's the man that can do it? I was surpriz'd, taken unawares, passion ran away with me like an unbroke horse: but I have got him under now; I can govern him with a twine of thread.
PHOEBE.
'Tis well you can, Sir.
(IV)"
23172,"",Searching in ECCO-TCP,Court,2013-11-11 02:33:42 UTC,,7759,"","",2013-11-11 02:33:42 UTC,"""In this view of the case perhaps that species of detraction, which a court of law will not denominate a libel, in a court of conscience and in the eye of Heaven shall amount to murder. I had almost forgot to add that Castillo was a poet.""","The reader may be apt to conclude that Castillo was a man of insufferable selfconceit and corroded with envy; to the contrary of this there is not to be found upon record an artist of more distinguished good qualities, or more complacent disposition: In accounting for the operations of a sensitive mind acting upon a delicate frame of body, there seems to be no occasion for making the malevolent passions accessary to an event like this which took place in the person of poor Castillo: The deduction, which I should recommend to be drawn from it, and in which I am persuaded I shall be anticipated by candour, is simply to reflect, that such being the frail materials, of which men of tender feelings, and more especially professors of the fine arts, are too apt by nature to be compounded, we ought to regard their infirmity with compassion and be cautious how we attempt to derogate from that excuseable self-opinion, which is so inseparable from talents and so essential to man's happiness: In this view of the case perhaps that species of detraction, which a court of law will not denominate a libel, in a court of conscience and in the eye of Heaven shall amount to murder. I had almost forgot to add that Castillo was a poet.
(p. 67)"
24397,"",Reading,Fetters,2014-08-10 05:27:06 UTC,,8016,"","Act I, scene v",2014-08-10 05:27:06 UTC,"""But, Sir, my passions are my masters; they take me where they will; and oftentimes they leave to reason and to virtue nothing but my wishes and my sighs.""","STOCKWELL.
To use it, not to waste it, I should hope; to treat it, Mr. Belcour, not as a vassal, over whom you have a wanton and despotic power, but as a subject, which you are bound to govern with a temperate and restrained authority.
BELCOUR.
True, Sir; most truly said; mine's a commission, not a right: I am the offspring of distress, and every child of sorrow is my brother; while I have hands to hold, therefore, I will hold them open to mankind: but, Sir, my passions are my masters; they take me where they will; and oftentimes they leave to reason and to virtue nothing but my wishes and my sighs.
STOCKWELL.
Come, come, the man who can accuse corrects himself.
(I.v, pp. 8-9)"