work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
3329,"","Searching ""heart "" and ""gold"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2005-05-27 00:00:00 UTC,"Think of the Palms, my masters dear!
That crown this memorable year!
Come fill the glass, my hearts of gold,
To Britain's Heroes brisk and bold;
While into rhyme I strive to turn all
The famed events of many a Journal.",,8599,"","""Come fill the glass, my hearts of gold, / To Britain's Heroes brisk and bold;""",Metal,2009-09-14 19:33:39 UTC,""
7645,"","Searching ""fancy"" and ""mirr*"" in ECCO-TCP",2013-08-23 14:26:30 UTC,"Or bear me to yon antique wood,
Dim temple of sage Solitude!
But still in Fancy's mirror sees
Some more romantic scene would please,
There within a nook most dark,
Where none my musing mood may mark,
Let me, in many a whisper'd rite,
The Genius old of Greece invite,
With that fair wreath my brows to bind,
Which for his chosen imps he twin'd,
Well nurtur'd in Pierian lore,
On clear Ilissus' laureat shore--
Till high on waving nest reclin'd,
The raven wakes my tranced mind!
(p. 277)",,22545,"","""But still in Fancy's mirror sees / Some more romantic scene would please, / There within a nook most dark, / Where none my musing mood may mark, / Let me, in many a whisper'd rite, / The Genius old of Greece invite, / With that fair wreath my brows to bind, / Which for his chosen imps he twin'd, / Well nurtur'd in Pierian lore, / On clear Ilissus' laureat shore-- / Till high on waving nest reclin'd, / The raven wakes my tranced mind!""",Mirror,2013-08-23 14:26:30 UTC,""
8032,"",Reading,2014-10-07 04:36:21 UTC,"The oriental writers relate, that Giamschid, one of their kings, the Solomon of the Persians and their Alexander the Great, possessed, among his inestimable treasures, cups, globes, and mirrours, of metal, glass, and crystal, by means of which, he and his people knew all natural as well as supernatural things. A title of an Arabian book, translated from the Persian, is,
""The Mirrour which reflects the World.""
There is this passage in an antient Turkish poet,
""When I am purified by the light of heaven my soul will become the mirrour of the world, in which I shall discern all abstruse secrets.""
Monsieur l'Herbelot is of opinion, that the orientals took these notions from the patriarch Joseph's cup of divination, and Nestor's cup in Homer, on which all nature was symbolically represented h. Our great countryman Roger Bacon, in his OPUS MAJUS, a work entirely formed on the Aristotelic and Arabian philosophy, describes a variety of Specula, and explains their construction and uses. This is the most curious and extraordinary part of Bacon's book, which was written about the year 1270. Bacon's optic tube, with which he pretended to see future events, was famous in his age, and long afterwards, and chiefly contributed to give him the name of a magician. This art, with others of the experimental kind, the philosophers of those times were fond of adapting to the purposes of thaumaturgy; and there is much occult and chimerical speculation in the discoveries which Bacon affects to have made from optical experiments. He asserts, and I am obliged to cite the passage in his own mysterious expressions,
""Omnia sciri per Perspectivam, quoniam omnes actiones rerum fiunt secundum specierum et virtutum multiplicationem ab agentibus hujus mundi in materias patientes, &c. l.""
(I, pp. 407-408)",,24463,"","""When I am purified by the light of heaven my soul will become the mirrour of the world, in which I shall discern all abstruse secrets.""",Mirror,2014-10-07 04:37:16 UTC,""