work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
5960,"",Reading,2003-07-21 00:00:00 UTC,"Wickedness may sometimes be ambiguous, its mask may puzzle the observer; our judgment may be made to faulter and fluctuate, but the face of Mervyn is the index of an honest mind.
(Part II, chapter 2, p. 436)",,15819,•Face and mind,The face may be an index of an honest mind,"",2009-09-14 19:44:46 UTC,""
5960,"",Reading,2003-07-21 00:00:00 UTC,"Rejoice that you are a woman, then, and are at liberty to pursue that which costs least labor and demands most skill. You see, though a man, I use your privilege, and prefer knitting yarn to threshing my brain with a book or the barn-floor with a flail.
(Part II, chapter 2, p. 441)",,15820,"","""You see, though a man, I use your privilege, and prefer knitting yarn to threshing my brain with a book or the barn-floor with a flail""","",2009-09-14 19:44:46 UTC,Mrs. Althorpe recounts a conversation she had with Mervyn
5960,"",Reading,2003-07-21 00:00:00 UTC,"My heart drooped and my tongue faultered, at this sight.
(Part II, chapter 4, p. 459)",2003-10-23,15821,"","""My heart drooped and my tongue faultered, at this sight""","",2009-09-14 19:44:47 UTC,"Part II, chapter 4. Carlton in prison"
5960,"",Reading,2003-07-21 00:00:00 UTC,"Others, unemployed, were strolling to and fro, and testified to their vacancy of thought and care by humming or whistling a tune.
(Part II, chapter 4, p. 458)",2009-12-28,15822,•Mindless prisoners. Usage? REVISIT.,"""Others, unemployed, were strolling to and fro, and testified to their vacancy of thought and care by humming or whistling a tune.""","",2009-12-28 04:45:53 UTC,"Part II, Chapter 4"
5960,"",Reading,2003-07-21 00:00:00 UTC,"Ellis was by no means hard of heart.
(Part II, chapter 7, p. 481)",2003-10-23,15824,"","""Ellis was by no means hard of heart""","",2009-09-14 19:44:47 UTC,"Part II, chapter 7"
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,"As to me, it seemed at first view, as if every incident conspired to determine my choice. Omitting all regard to the happiness of others, my own interest could not fail to recommend a scheme by which the precious benefits of competence and independence might be honestly obtained. The excursions of my fancy had sometimes carried me beyond the bounds prescribed by my situation, but they were, nevertheless, limited to that field to which I had once some prospect of acquiring a title. All I wanted for the basis of my gaudiest and most dazzling structures, was an hundred acres of plough-land and meadow. Here my spirit of improvement, my zeal to invent and apply new maxims of household luxury and convenience, new modes and instruments of tillage, new arts connected with orchard, garden, and cornfield, were supplied with abundant scope. Though the want of these would not benumb my activity, or take away content, the possession would confer exquisite and permanent enjoyments.
(Part II, chapter 9, p. 493)",,15826,•,"""The excursions of my fancy had sometimes carried me beyond the bounds prescribed by my situation, but they were, nevertheless, limited to that field to which I had once some prospect of acquiring a title""","",2009-09-14 19:44:47 UTC,"Part II, chapter 9. What to do with Eliza?"
5960,Reverie,Reading,2003-07-21 00:00:00 UTC,"My thoughts have ever hovered over the images of wife and children with more delight than over any other images. My fancy was always active on this theme, and its reveries sufficiently extatic and glowing; but since my intercourse with this girl, my scattered visions were collected and concentered. I had now a form and features before me, a sweet and melodious voice vibrated in my ear, my soul was filled, as it were, with her lineaments and gestures, actions and looks. All ideas, possessing any relation to beauty or sex, appeared to assume this shape. They kept an immoveable place in my mind, they diffused around them an ineffable complacency. Love is merely of value as a prelude to a more tender, intimate and sacred union. Was I not in love, and did I not pant after irrevocable bonds, the boundless privileges of wedlock?
(Part II, chapter 9, p. 493)",,15827,•See also the following record.,"""My thoughts have ever hovered over the images of wife and children with more delight than over any other images""","",2009-09-14 19:44:48 UTC,"Part II, chapter 9. What to do with Eliza?"
5960,Reverie,Reading,2003-07-21 00:00:00 UTC,"My thoughts have ever hovered over the images of wife and children with more delight than over any other images. My fancy was always active on this theme, and its reveries sufficiently extatic and glowing; but since my intercourse with this girl, my scattered visions were collected and concentered. I had now a form and features before me, a sweet and melodious voice vibrated in my ear, my soul was filled, as it were, with her lineaments and gestures, actions and looks. All ideas, possessing any relation to beauty or sex, appeared to assume this shape. They kept an immoveable place in my mind, they diffused around them an ineffable complacency. Love is merely of value as a prelude to a more tender, intimate and sacred union. Was I not in love, and did I not pant after irrevocable bonds, the boundless privileges of wedlock?
(Part II, chapter 9, p. 493)",,15828,•Doesn't fit my categories. REVISIT.,"Ideas may assume shapes and keep an ""immoveable place"" in the mind and diffuse ""around them an ineffable complacency.""","",2009-09-14 19:44:48 UTC,"Part II, chapter 9. What to do with Eliza?"
5960,"",Reading,2003-07-21 00:00:00 UTC,"To say truth, I was now conscious of a revolution in my mind. I can scarcely assign its true causes. Not tokens of it appeared during my late retreat to Malverton. Subsequent incidents, perhaps, joined with the influence of meditation, had generated new views. On my first visit to the city, I had met with nothing but scenes of folly, depravity and cunning. No wonder the images connected with the city, were disastrous and gloomy; but my second visit produced somewhat different impressions. Maravegli, Estwick, Medlicote and you, were beings who inspired veneration and love. Your residence appeared to beautify and consecrate this spot, and gave birth to an opinion that if cities are the chosen seats of misery and vice, they are likewise the soil of all laudable and strenuous productions of mind.
(Part II, chapter 9, p. 494)",2003-10-22,15829,"•See earlier qualms about the figurative nature of ""revolution."" REVISIT.
•Note also that an opinion is given birth to in the last sentence. I have not given the metaphor its own entry. (Should I include opinions with ideas, images, thoughts, etc.?) REVISIT.",There may be revolutions in the mind,"",2009-09-14 19:44:48 UTC,Mervyn changes his mind about the city