work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
3229,"","Searching ""throne"" and ""soul"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2004-07-30 00:00:00 UTC,"The bustling World, to fetch her out from thence,
Will urge the various, plausible Pretence;
Will praise Perfections of a grander Name,
Sound great Exploíts, and call her out to Fame;
Amuse and flatter, till the Soul, too prone
To Self-activity, deserts her Throne.
(cf. I, p. 82 in 1773 ed.)",,8479,"","""The bustling World, to fetch her out from thence, / Will urge the various, plausible Pretence; / Will praise Perfections of a grander Name, / Sound great Exploíts, and call her out to Fame; / Amuse and flatter, till the Soul, too prone / To Self-activity, deserts her Throne.""",Empire,2014-08-20 03:39:59 UTC,""
3252,"","Searching ""judge"" and ""reason"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2004-09-01 00:00:00 UTC,"My Reason is I, and your Reason is You,
And, if we shall differ, both cannot be true;
If Reason must judge, and we two must agree,
Another, third Reason must give the Decree,
Superior to ours, and to which it is fit
That both, being weaker, should freely submit.
Now, in Reason submitting is plainly implied
That it does not pretend, of itself, to decide.
",,8507,•INTEREST. A solution to the competing judgments of reason.
,"""If Reason must judge, and we two must agree, / Another, third Reason must give the Decree""",Court,2009-09-14 19:33:37 UTC,I've included the entire poem
3271,"","Searching ""engrav"" and ""heart"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2005-03-08 00:00:00 UTC,"I Love my God, and freely too,
With the Same Love that he imparts;
That He, to Whom all Love is due,
Engraves upon pure loving Hearts.
(pp. 191, ll. 1-4)",2009-03-06,8532,"","""That He, to Whom all Love is due, / Engraves upon pure loving Hearts.""",Writing,2009-09-14 19:33:37 UTC,""
3309,"",Searching in HDIS (Poetry),2005-04-20 00:00:00 UTC,"Of Tempers, by inferior Forms express'd,
And seen for nothing, something may be guess'd.
When the sly Fox ensnares the silly Geese,
Who does not see that Mind is of a piece
With former Lawyers, who devour'd by far
The sillier Clients, drawn into the Bar?
",,8575,"","The mind devour'd by ""former Lawyers"" is like a silly Goose ensnared by ""the sly Fox""","",2009-09-14 19:33:39 UTC,""
3310,"",Searching in HDIS (Poetry),2005-04-20 00:00:00 UTC,"But she had that which all the Force of Art
Could neither give nor take away,--an Heart,
An honest, humble, well-disposèd Will,
The true Capacity for higher Skill
Than what the World with all its learnèd Din
Could teach. She learn'd her Lesson from within,--
Plain, single Lesson of essential Kind:
The Love of God's Pure Presence in her Mind.
Her artless, innocent, attentive Thought
Was at the Source of all True Knowledge taught.
There she could read the Characters imprest
Upon the Mind of ev'ry human Breast,--
The native Laws prescrib'd to ev'ry Soul,
And Love, the One Fulfiller of the Whole.
",,8576,•I've included twice: Laws and Characters,"One may learn ""her Lesson from within"" and ""There […] read the Characters imprest / Upon the Mind of ev'ry human Breast,-- / The native Laws prescrib'd to every Soul, / And Love, the One Fulfiller of the Whole.""",Impressions and Writing,2013-11-01 21:34:00 UTC,""
5434,"","Searching ""soul"" and ""lamp"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2006-01-19 00:00:00 UTC,"The human Spirit, when it burns and shines,
""Lamp of Jehovah"" Solomon defines.
Now, as a Vessel, to contain the Whole,
This ""Lamp"" denotes the Body, Oil the Soul
(As H---observes) which, tho' itself be dark,
Is capable of Life's enkindling Spark;
But, as consider'd in its own dark Root,
Still wants the Unction and the Light's Recruit.",2006-10-30,14544,•I've included twice: Lamp and Oil
Filled in Publication information - PNH,"""The human Spirit, when it burns and shines, / 'Lamp of Jehovah"" Solomon defines. / Now, as a Vessel, to contain the Whole, / This 'Lamp' denotes the Body, Oil the Soul""","",2009-09-14 19:41:11 UTC,p.264
7201,"",Reading in Google Books,2012-03-12 19:32:33 UTC,"O what a deal he said! and in the Light,
Wherein he plac'd it, all was really right:
But like good Doctrine, of some good Divine,
Which, while 'tis preach'd, is admirably fine,
When Doctor Gratitude had left the Spot,
All that he said was charming and forgot.
Your Doctor's Potion, Patience, and the Bark,
May hit both mental, and material Mark;
One serves to keep the Ague from the Mind,
As t'other does, from its corporeal Rind:
There is, methinks, in their respective Growth,
A fair Analogy betwixt 'em both.
For what the Bark is to the growing Tree,
To human Mind, that, Patience seems to be;
They hold the Principles of Growth together,
And blunt the Force of Accident, and Weather:
Bar'd of its Bark, a Tree, we may compute,
Will not remain much longer on its Root.
And Mind in Mortals, that are wisely will'd,
Will hardly bear to have its Patience peel'd:
Nothing, in fine, contributes more to Living,
Physic, or Food, than Patience and Thanksgiving;
Patience defends us from all outward Hap;
Of inward Life Thanksgiving is the Sap.
(p. 98)",,19641,META-METAPHORICAL,"""Your Doctor's Potion, Patience, and the Bark, / May hit both mental, and material Mark; / One serves to keep the Ague from the Mind, / As t'other does, from its corporeal Rind.""","",2012-03-12 19:32:52 UTC,""
7201,"",Reading in Google Books,2012-03-12 19:35:06 UTC,"O what a deal he said! and in the Light,
Wherein he plac'd it, all was really right:
But like good Doctrine, of some good Divine,
Which, while 'tis preach'd, is admirably fine,
When Doctor Gratitude had left the Spot,
All that he said was charming and forgot.
Your Doctor's Potion, Patience, and the Bark,
May hit both mental, and material Mark;
One serves to keep the Ague from the Mind,
As t'other does, from its corporeal Rind:
There is, methinks, in their respective Growth,
A fair Analogy betwixt 'em both.
For what the Bark is to the growing Tree,
To human Mind, that, Patience seems to be;
They hold the Principles of Growth together,
And blunt the Force of Accident, and Weather:
Bar'd of its Bark, a Tree, we may compute,
Will not remain much longer on its Root.
And Mind in Mortals, that are wisely will'd,
Will hardly bear to have its Patience peel'd:
Nothing, in fine, contributes more to Living,
Physic, or Food, than Patience and Thanksgiving;
Patience defends us from all outward Hap;
Of inward Life Thanksgiving is the Sap.
(p. 98)",,19642,"","""For what the Bark is to the growing Tree, / To human Mind, that, Patience seems to be; / They hold the Principles of Growth together, / And blunt the Force of Accident, and Weather.""","",2012-03-12 19:35:06 UTC,""
7201,"",Reading in Google Books,2012-03-12 19:36:03 UTC,"O what a deal he said! and in the Light,
Wherein he plac'd it, all was really right:
But like good Doctrine, of some good Divine,
Which, while 'tis preach'd, is admirably fine,
When Doctor Gratitude had left the Spot,
All that he said was charming and forgot.
Your Doctor's Potion, Patience, and the Bark,
May hit both mental, and material Mark;
One serves to keep the Ague from the Mind,
As t'other does, from its corporeal Rind:
There is, methinks, in their respective Growth,
A fair Analogy betwixt 'em both.
For what the Bark is to the growing Tree,
To human Mind, that, Patience seems to be;
They hold the Principles of Growth together,
And blunt the Force of Accident, and Weather:
Bar'd of its Bark, a Tree, we may compute,
Will not remain much longer on its Root.
And Mind in Mortals, that are wisely will'd,
Will hardly bear to have its Patience peel'd:
Nothing, in fine, contributes more to Living,
Physic, or Food, than Patience and Thanksgiving;
Patience defends us from all outward Hap;
Of inward Life Thanksgiving is the Sap.
(p. 98)",,19643,"","""Patience defends us from all outward Hap; / Of inward Life Thanksgiving is the Sap.""","",2012-03-12 19:36:03 UTC,""