work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
5925,"",Reading,2003-07-16 00:00:00 UTC,"His emotion seemed to communicate itself, with an electrical rapidity, to my heart. My tongue faltered while I made some answer. I said, I had been seeking relief from the heat of the weather, in the bath. He heard my explanation in silence: and, after a moment's pause, passed into his own room, and shut himself in. I hastened to my chamber.
A different observer might have found in these circumstances no food for his suspicion or his wonder. To me, however, they suggested vague and tumultuous ideas.
(Part I, chapter 8, p. 296)",2007-06-26,15720,"•Welback and Mervyn are reminiscent of Caleb and Falkland, although the sympathy of the latter two is described as ""magnetic.""","""His emotion seemed to communicate itself, with an electrical rapidity, to my heart.""","",2009-09-14 19:44:28 UTC,Late night encounter with Welbeck
5960,"",Reading,2003-07-21 00:00:00 UTC,"The saftey of Eliza was the object that now occupied my cares. To have slept, after her example, had been most proper, but my uncertainty with regard to her fate, and my desire to conduct her to some other home, kept my thoughts in perpetual motion. I waited with impatience tille she shoudl awake and allow me to consult with her on plans for futurity.
(Part II, chapter 8, p. 484)",,15825,•Usage,"Thoughts may be kept in ""perpetual motion""","",2009-09-14 19:44:47 UTC,Mervyn has buried Eliza's sister
5960,"",Reading,2003-07-21 00:00:00 UTC,"On this occasion all my wariness forsook me. I cannot explain why my perplexity and the trouble of my tho'ts were greater upon this than upon similar occasions. However it be, I was incapable of speaking, and fixed my eyes upon the floor. A sort of electrical sympathy pervaded my companion, and terror and anguish were strongly manifested in the glances which she sometimes stole at me. We seemed fully to understand each other with the aid of words.
(Part II, chapter 17, p. 569-70)",,15844,"Mervyn visits the wife of Amos Watson
•See the previous ""Emotion is communicated to the heart with electrical rapidity"" that characterizes Mervyn and Welbeck's relationship. On page 296. I have already noted that in Godwin's Caleb Williams sympathy is magnetic.","""A sort of electrical sympathy pervaded my companion, and terror and anguish were strongly manifested in the glances which she sometimes stole at me.""","",2011-04-15 16:24:00 UTC,""