text,updated_at,metaphor,created_at,context,theme,reviewed_on,dictionary,comments,provenance,id,work_id
"Wise Nature likewise, They suppose,
Has drawn two Conduits down our Nose:
Cou'd Alma else with Judgment tell,
When Cabbage stinks, or Roses smell?
Or who wou'd ask for her Opinion
Between an Oyster, and an Onion?
For from most Bodies, Dick, You know,
Some little Bits ask Leave to flow;
And, as thro' these Canals They roll,
Bring up a Sample of the Whole.
Like Footmen running before Coaches,
To tell the Inn, what Lord approaches.
(p. 471, ll. 48-59)",2013-07-22 14:10:08 UTC,"""For from most Bodies, Dick, You know,/ Some little Bits ask Leave to flow; / And, as thro' these Canals They roll, / Bring up a Sample of the Whole. / Like Footmen running before Coaches, / To tell the Inn, what Lord approaches.""",2004-02-27 00:00:00 UTC,"","",2009-01-23,Inhabitants,"•Matthew sets up the Cantabrigian position with which his own ""system"" and the Aristotelian position contrast.
•The stanzas that follow continue to elaborate the personification: nerves and taste, drums in the ear, nerves and touch. Only this second and third figures have I included in the database. See the next entries.",HDIS,11066,4253
"Last, to enjoy her Sense of Feeling
(A thing She much delights to deal in)
A thousand little Nerves She sends
Quite to our Toes, and Fingers Ends;
And These in Gratitude again
Return their Spirits to the Brain;
In which their Figure being printed
(As just before, I think, I hinted)
Alma inform'd can try the Case,
As She had been upon the Place.
Thus, while the Judge gives diff'rent Journeys
To Country Counsel, and Attornies;
He on the Bench in quiet sits,
Deciding, as They bring the Writs.
The Pope thus prays and sleeps at Rome,
And very seldom stirs from Home:
Yet sending forth his Holy Spies,
And having heard what They advise,
He rules the Church's blest Dominions;
And sets Men's Faith by His Opinions.
(p. 472-3, ll. 70-89)",2013-07-22 14:25:14 UTC,"""A thousand little Nerves She sends / Quite to our Toes, and Fingers Ends; / And These in Gratitude again / Return their Spirits to the Brain; / In which their Figure being printed / (As just before, I think, I hinted) / Alma inform'd can try the Case, / As She had seen upon the Place. // Thus, while the Judge gives diff'rent Journeys / To Country Counsel, and Attornies; / He on the Bench in quiet sits, / Deciding, as They bring the Writs."" ",2004-02-27 00:00:00 UTC,"","",2009-01-23,Court and Inhabitants and Writing,"•Matthew sets up the Cantabrigian position with which his own ""system"" and the Aristotelian position contrast.
•The stanzas that follow continue to elaborate the personification: nerves and taste, drums in the ear, nerves and touch. Only this second and third figures have I included in the database. See the next entries.
•I've included twice: Printing and Judge
•INTEREST. USE IN ENTRY.",HDIS,11069,4253
"Last, to enjoy her Sense of Feeling
(A thing She much delights to deal in)
A thousand little Nerves She sends
Quite to our Toes, and Fingers Ends;
And These in Gratitude again
Return their Spirits to the Brain;
In which their Figure being printed
(As just before, I think, I hinted)
Alma inform'd can try the Case,
As She had been upon the Place.
Thus, while the Judge gives diff'rent Journeys
To Country Counsel, and Attornies;
He on the Bench in quiet sits,
Deciding, as They bring the Writs.
The Pope thus prays and sleeps at Rome,
And very seldom stirs from Home:
Yet sending forth his Holy Spies,
And having heard what They advise,
He rules the Church's blest Dominions;
And sets Men's Faith by His Opinions.
(p. 472-3, ll. 70-89)",2013-07-22 14:20:27 UTC,"The mind is like ""The Pope [who] prays and sleeps at Rome, / And very seldom stirs from Home: / Yet sending forth his Holy Spies, / And having heard what They advise, / He rules the Church's blest Dominions; / And sets Men's Faith by His Opinions.""",2004-02-27 00:00:00 UTC,"","",2009-01-23,Inhabitants,"•Matthew sets up the Cantabrigian position with which his own ""system"" and the Aristotelian position contrast.
•The stanzas that follow continue to elaborate the personification: nerves and taste, drums in the ear, nerves and touch. Only this second and third figures have I included in the database. See the next entries.
• Great metaphor! INTEREST. USE IN ENTRY",HDIS,11071,4253
"Here, Richard, how could I explain,
The various Lab'rinths of the Brain?
Surprise My Readers, whilst I tell 'em
Of Cerebrum, and Cerebellum?
How could I play the Commentator
On Dura, and on Pia Mater?
Where Hot and Cold, and Dry and Wet,
Strive each the t'other's Place to get;
And with incessant Toil and Strife,
Would keep Possession during Life.
I could demonstrate every Pore,
Where Mem'ry lays up all her Store;
And to an Inch compute the Station,
'Twixt Judgment, and Imagination.
O Friend! I could display much Learning,
At least to Men of small Discerning.
The Brain contains ten thousand Cells:
In each some active Fancy dwells;
Which always is at Work, and framing
The several Follies I was naming.
As in a Hive's vimineous Dome,
Ten thousand Bees enjoy their Home;
Each does her studious Action vary,
To go and come, to fetch and carry:
Each still renews her little Labor;
Nor justles her assiduous Neighbour:
Each--whilst this Thesis I maintain;
I fancy, Dick, I know thy Brain.
O with the mighty Theme affected,
Could I but see thy Head dissected!",2013-07-22 14:37:39 UTC,"""The Brain contains ten thousand Cells: / In each some active Fancy dwells; / Which always is at Work, and framing / The several Follies I was naming.""",2005-08-29 00:00:00 UTC,"","",2009-01-23,Inhabitants and Rooms,"•I've included twice: Cell and Dwelling
•Editors point out: ""Alma"" may derive from Spenser's House of Alma (FQ, II, ix) and subtitle may have been suggested by Donne's Of the Progresse of the Soule (The Second Anniversarie).
•Johnson uses as an illustration of the first sense of cell in the Dictionary.","Searching ""cell"" and ""fancy"" in HDIS (Poetry); found again ""brain""",11094,4253
"Dick, thus We act; and thus We are,
Or toss'd by Hope, or sunk by Care.
With endless Pain This Man pursues
What, if he gain'd, He could not use:
And T'other fondly Hopes to see
What never was, nor e'er shall be.
We err by Use, go wrong by Rules;
In Gesture grave, in Action Fools:
We join Hypocrisie to Pride,
Doubling the Faults, We strive to hide.
Or grant, that with extreme Surprize,
We find our selves at Sixty wise;
And twenty pretty Things are known,
Of which we can't accomplish One;
Whilst, as my System says, the Mind
Is to these upper Rooms confin'd:
Should I, my Friend, at large repeat
Her borrow'd Sense, her fond Conceit;
The Bede-roll of her vicious Tricks;
My Poem would be too prolix.
For could I my Remarks sustain,
Like Socrates, or Miles Montaigne;
Who in these Times would read my Books,
But Tom o' Stiles, or John o' Nokes?",2013-07-22 14:42:28 UTC,"""Whilst, as my System says, the Mind / Is to these upper Rooms confin'd.""",2005-08-29 00:00:00 UTC,"","",2009-01-23,Inhabitants and Rooms,"•OED ""bede-roll"" -- ""A list or string of names; a catalogue; a long line, a pedigree; a long series.""","Searching ""mind"" and ""room"" in HDIS (Poetry)",11098,4253
"My simple System shall suppose,
That Alma enters at the Toes;
That then She mounts by just Degrees
Up to the Ancles, Legs, and Knees:
Next, as the Sap of Life does rise,
She lends her Vigor to the Thighs:
And, all these under-Regions past,
She nestles somewhere near the Waste:
Gives Pain or Pleasure, Grief or Laughter;
As We shall show at large hereafter.
Mature, if not improv'd, by Time
Up to the Heart She loves to climb:
From thence, compell'd by Craft and Age,
She makes the Head her latest Stage.",2013-07-22 14:43:48 UTC,"""Mature, if not improv'd, by Time / Up to the Heart She loves to climb: / From thence, compell'd by Craft and Age, / She makes the Head her latest Stage.""",2006-04-14 00:00:00 UTC,"",Theater,2009-01-23,Inhabitants,"•Editors point out: ""Alma"" may derive from Spenser's House of Alma (FQ, II, ix) and subtitle may have been suggested by Donne's Of the Progresse of the Soule (The Second Anniversarie). ","Searching ""head"" and ""stage"" in HDIS (Poetry)",11115,4253
"My simple System shall suppose,
That Alma enters at the Toes;
That then She mounts by just Degrees
Up to the Ancles, Legs, and Knees:
Next, as the Sap of Life does rise,
She lends her Vigor to the Thighs:
And, all these under-Regions past,
She nestles somewhere near the Waste:
Gives Pain or Pleasure, Grief or Laughter;
As We shall show at large hereafter.
Mature, if not improv'd, by Time
Up to the Heart She loves to climb:
From thence, compell'd by Craft and Age,
She makes the Head her latest Stage.",2013-07-22 14:46:41 UTC,"""My simple System shall suppose, / That Alma enters at the Toes; / That then She mounts by just Degrees / Up to the Ancles, Legs, and Knees: / Next, as the Sap of Life does rise, / She lends her Vigor to the Thighs: / And, all these under-Regions past,/ She nestles somewhere near the Waste.""",2013-07-22 14:46:41 UTC,"","",,Inhabitants,"",HDIS (Poetry),21971,4253