id,dictionary,theme,reviewed_on,metaphor,created_at,provenance,comments,work_id,text,context,updated_at
15709,"","",2007-06-26,"""I spent the night ruminating on the future and in painting to my fancy the adventures which I should be likely to meet.""",2003-07-16 00:00:00 UTC,Reading,•Usually the fancy is the painter. Here the fancy is a viewer?,5925,"I determined to commence my journey the next morning. No wonder the prospect of so considerable a change in my condition should deprive me of sleep. I spent the night ruminating on the future and in painting to my fancy the adventures which I should be likely to meet. The foresight of man is in proportion to his knowledge. No wonder that in my state of profound ignorance, not the faintest preconceptions should be formed of the events that really befel me. My temper was inquisitive, but there was nothing in the scene to which I was going from which my curiosity expected to derive gratification. Discords and evil smells, unsavoury food, unwholesome labour, and irksome companions, were, in my opinion, the unavoidable attendants of a city.
(Part I, chapter 2, p. 250)","",2009-09-14 19:44:26 UTC
15713,"","",2003-10-22,"""I could not help smiling at the picture which my fancy drew of their anxiety and wonder.""",2003-07-16 00:00:00 UTC,Reading,"",5925,"On the morrow the two doors of the chamber and the window below would be found unclosed. They will suspect a design to pillage, but their searches will terminate in nothing but in the discovery of a pair of clumsy and dusty shoes in the closet. Now that I was safe I could not help smiling at the picture which my fancy drew of their anxiety and wonder. These thoughts, however, gave place to more momentous considerations.
(Part I, chapter 5, p. 271)",Mervyn hiding in the closet. Leaves his shoes.,2009-09-14 19:44:26 UTC
15733,"","",,"Past events may be painted, ""in vivid hues"" on the [canvas] of the memory",2003-07-18 00:00:00 UTC,Reading,"",5925,"What condition was ever parallel mine? The transactions of the last three days, resembled the monstrous creations of delirium. They were painted with vivid hues on my memory; but so rapid and incongruous were these transitions, that I almost denied belief to their reality. They exercised a bewildering and stupifying influence on my mind, from which the meditations of an hour were scarcely sufficient to relieve me. Gradually I recovered the power of arranging my ideas, and forming conclusions.
(Part I, chapter 12, p. 332)",Mervyn assisting Welbeck (on the night of Watson's murder),2009-09-14 19:44:30 UTC
15742,"","",2007-06-26,"""My fancy readily depicted the progress and completion of this tragedy.""",2003-07-18 00:00:00 UTC,Reading,"",5925,"My fancy readily depicted the progress and completion of this tragedy. Wallace was the first of the family on whom the pestilence had seized. Thetford had fled from his habitation. Perhaps, as a father and husband, to shun the danger attending his stay, was the injunction of his duty.
(Part I, chapter 15, p. 361)",Mervyn believes he has deiscovered Wallace,2009-09-14 19:44:32 UTC
15836,"","",,The fancy may outstrip one's footsteps and be busy picturing and rehearsing,2003-07-21 00:00:00 UTC,Reading,"•Rich passage. Phantoms, revolution, understanding, soliloquy, and fancy.
•I've only included ""fancy"" in the database. I am not confident that the other references are metaphorically rich enough. REVISIT.",5960,"Hitherto I had strolled along the path at a lingering pace. Time enough, methought, to reach your threshold between sun-rise and moonlight, if my way had been three times longer than it was. Yon were the pleasing phantoms that hovered before me, and beckoned me forward. What a total revolution had occurred in the course of a few seconds, for thus long did my reasonings with regard to Clemenza and the Villars require to pass through my understanding, and escape, in half muttered soliloquy, from my lips. My muscles trembled with eagerness, and I bounded forward with impetuousity. I saw nothing but a visto of catalpas, leafless, loaded with icicles, and terminating in four chimneys and a painted roof. My fancy outstripped my footsteps, and was busy in picturing faces and rehearsing dialogues. Presently I reached this new object of my pursuit, darted through the avenue, noticed that some windows of the house were unclosed, drew thence an hasty inference that the house was not without inhabitants, and knocked, quickly and loudly, for admission.
(Part II, chapter 11, p. 514)",Mervyn is about to visit the Mrs. Villars,2009-09-14 19:44:50 UTC
15843,"","",,The fancy depicts pictures,2003-07-21 00:00:00 UTC,Reading,"•Previous paragraphs on the pleasures of the imagination. Racialized omparisons of a monkey, the Congolese, and the Creole-Gaul. See a younger Mervyn doing the same with features of nature (539).",5960,"My chief occupation, however, related to the scenes into which I was about to enter. My imaginations were, of course, crude and inadequate; and I found an uncommon gratification in comparing realities, as they successively occurred, with the pictures which my wayward fancy had depicted.
(Part II, chapter 17, p. 566)",Mervyn on his way to Baltimore,2009-09-14 19:44:51 UTC