work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
3203,"",HDIS (Poetry),2004-02-15 00:00:00 UTC,"All this says Richard is but Nonsense
For what's the Will without the Conscience
That mighty Pow'r by whom the thought
Is from Kings Bench to Chanc'ry brought.
What Seat for Her have You assign'd
When She may view and sway the mind?.
(II, pp. 969-70)",2012-01-06,8428,"• reviewed 2009-05-20
• I've included more than twice: Court and Government.
• Couldn't, at first, find the citation. C-H identifies as poems from Longleat Mss. Printed in the notes in the second volume of Prior's Works. There associated with Canto III. Note, there was a duplicated entry: I deleted it (1/6/2012).
","""All this says Richard is but Nonsense / For whats the Will without the Conscience / That mighty Pow'r by whom the thought / Is from Kings Bench to Chanc'ry brought. / What Seat for Her have You assign'd / When She may view and sway the mind?""",Court,2012-01-06 16:32:02 UTC,""
4026,"",HDIS (Poetry),2004-02-25 00:00:00 UTC,"Dear angry Friend, what must be done?
Is there no Way?--There is but One,
Send Her abroad; and let Her see,
That all this mingled Mass, which She
Being forbidden longs to know,
Is a dull Farce, an empty Show,
Powder, and Pocket-Glass, and Beau;
A Staple of Romance and Lies,
False Tears, and real Perjuries:
Where Sighs and Looks are bought and sold;
And Love is made but to be told:
Where the fat Bawd, and lavish Heir
The Spoils of ruin'd Beauty share:
And Youth seduc'd from Friends and Fame,
Must give up Age to Want and Shame.
Let Her behold the Frantick Scene,
The Women wretched, false the Men:
And when, these certain Ills to shun,
She would to Thy Embraces run;
Receive Her with extended Arms:
Seem more delighted with her Charms:
Wait on Her to the Park and Play:
Put on good Humour; make Her gay:
Be to her Virtues very kind:
Be to her Faults a little blind:
Let all her Ways be unconfin'd:
And clap your Padlock--on her Mind.
(p. 109, ll. 55-81)
",2011-05-23,10429,"•See also previous stanza where the wife is locked up and the husband keeps the key ""in his Pocket"" (l. 52). Cross-reference: Pope's ""jingling padlock"" hung on the mind in the Dunciad.
• USE in Fetters entry?","""Let all her Ways be unconfin'd: / And clap your Padlock--on her Mind""","",2011-05-23 18:31:53 UTC,""
4044,"",HDIS (Poetry),2004-02-25 00:00:00 UTC," Oh! where shall I begin? what language find
To heal the raging anguish of your mind?
Or if you deign a willing ear to lend,
Oh! where will my disastrous story end?
(p. 798)",,10477,•Attributed to Prior,"""Oh! where shall I begin? what language find / To heal the raging anguish of your mind?""","",2013-06-04 21:32:22 UTC,""
4253,"",HDIS,2004-02-27 00:00:00 UTC,"Here Matthew said:
Alma in Verse; in Prose, the Mind,
By Aristotle's Pen defin'd,
Throughout the Body squat or tall,
Is, bonâ fide, All in All.
And yet, slap dash, is All again
In every Sinew, Nerve, and Vein.
Runs here and there, like Hamlet's Ghost;
While every where She rules the roast.
(p. 471, ll. 13-21)",2009-01-23,11061,"•Matthew sets up the Aristotelian position with which his own ""system"" contrasts.","""And yet, slap dash, is All again / In every Sinew, Nerve, and Vein. / [the mind] Runs here and there, like Hamlet's Ghost; / While every where She rules the roast.""",Animals,2013-07-22 14:02:37 UTC,""
4253,"",Searching in HDIS (Poetry),2004-02-27 00:00:00 UTC," Hence too, that She might better hear,
She sets a Drum at either Ear;
And Loud or Gentle, Harsh or Sweet,
Are but th' Alarums which They beat.
(p. 472, ll. 66-9)",2009-01-23,11068,"•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.","The mind ""sets a Drum at either Ear; / And Loud or Gentle, Harsh or Sweet, / Are but th' Alarums which They beat.""","",2013-07-22 14:11:24 UTC,""
4253,"",HDIS,2004-02-27 00:00:00 UTC,"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)",2009-01-23,11069,"•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.","""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."" ",Court and Inhabitants and Writing,2013-07-22 14:25:14 UTC,""
4253,"","Searching ""mind"" and ""room"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2005-08-29 00:00:00 UTC,"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?",2009-01-23,11098,"•OED ""bede-roll"" -- ""A list or string of names; a catalogue; a long line, a pedigree; a long series.""","""Whilst, as my System says, the Mind / Is to these upper Rooms confin'd.""",Inhabitants and Rooms,2013-07-22 14:42:28 UTC,""
4253,Theater,"Searching ""head"" and ""stage"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2006-04-14 00:00:00 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:
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.",2009-01-23,11115,"•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). ","""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.""",Inhabitants,2013-07-22 14:43:48 UTC,""
4253,"",Reading,2009-01-25 00:00:00 UTC,"Objections to my general System
May 'rise, perhaps, and I have mist them:
But I can call to my Assistance
Proximity (mark that!) and Distance:
Can prove, that all Things, on Occasion,
Love Union, and desire Adhesion;
That Alma merely is a Scale;
And Motives, like the Weights, prevail.
If neither Side turn down or up,
With Loss or Gain, with Fear or Hope;
The Balance always would hang ev'n,
Like Mah'met's Tomb, 'twixt Earth and Heav'n.
(p. 490, II, ll. 188-199)",,17216,"","""But I can call to my Assistance / Proximity (mark that!) and Distance: / Can prove, that all Things, on Occasion, / Love Union, and desire Adhesion; / That Alma merely is a Scale; / And Motives, like the Weights, prevail.""",I've included twice: Scale and Weights,2013-07-22 14:49:14 UTC,Canto II
4253,"",Reading,2009-01-25 00:00:00 UTC,"Objections to my general System
May 'rise, perhaps, and I have mist them:
But I can call to my Assistance
Proximity (mark that!) and Distance:
Can prove, that all Things, on Occasion,
Love Union, and desire Adhesion;
That Alma merely is a Scale;
And Motives, like the Weights, prevail.
If neither Side turn down or up,
With Loss or Gain, with Fear or Hope;
The Balance always would hang ev'n,
Like Mah'met's Tomb, 'twixt Earth and Heav'n.
(p. 490, II, ll. 188-199)",,17218,"A simile packed inside a metaphor? ""Like Mah'met's tomb?""","""If neither Side turn down or up, / With Loss or Gain, with Fear or Hope; / The Balance always would hang ev'n, / Like Mah'met's Tomb, 'twixt Earth and Heav'n.""","",2013-07-22 14:50:13 UTC,Canto II