work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
7107,"",Searching in Google Books,2011-10-06 21:31:03 UTC,"FANCY, sportive goddess, hail!
Fleeting as the vernal gale,
Hail! thou dear illusive power
Changing with the swift-wing'd hour;
Now despairing, now reviving,
Now with tenfold vigour thriving,
Now tormenting, now delighting,
Now in midst of battle fighting:
'Tis thine, or to depress or raise
Whilst short-sighted mortals gaze,---
Gaze, at veil'd futurity
Actuated but by thee---
Fancy, place me by the shore,
Where the broken surges roar,
Where old ocean, Terra laves,
With his ever-rolling waves;
In yonder forest's dusky gloom,
Next my vision'd soul entomb;
Near yon mouldering castle's walls
Where the solemn screech-owl squalls,
Where the bat essays his flight,
In the solitary night;---
Then in yonder shady grove,
Let me taste the sweets of love;
Let me visit woven bowers,
Graced with variegated flowers;
The woodbine and the jasmine gay,
With all the various sweets of May.
(pp. 462)",,19252,"","""FANCY, sportive goddess, hail! / Fleeting as the vernal gale, / Hail! thou dear illusive power / Changing with the swift-wing'd hour; / Now despairing, now reviving, / Now with tenfold vigour thriving, / Now tormenting, now delighting, / Now in midst of battle fighting.""","",2011-10-06 21:31:03 UTC,""
7217,"",Searching in Google Books,2012-04-13 18:50:33 UTC,"""Godly persons,"" that is, Christian philosophers, are described, in those articles which all churchmen have most solemnly assented to, as,""such as feel in themselves the spirit of Christ, mortifying the works of the flesh, and drawing up their minds to high and, heavenly things."" He who feels the spirit in him, will be conscious of possessing the pearl of great price, and will lock it up in the sanctuarv of his heart, as his richest treasure, never to be despoiled of it by the seducing arts of false philosophy; never to exchange that pure gold, which is the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever, for the base metal of worldly politicians, who may endeavour, as they have done, to make truth itself alter her inimitable nature, to serve the varying purposes of temporary ambition. Those doctrines of Christianity, which were true under the first Charles, will be considered, notwithstanding the subtle attempts of politicians, equally true under the abandoned profligacy of a second; or in subsequent reigns, when it was discovered by the court divines, that Christianity was as old as the creation, and the religion of grace, a mere republication of the religion of nature. The substance of Christianity can survive the wreck of empires, the demolition of temples made with hands, and the dismission of a superstitious or a time-serving priesthood. The living temple of the heart, where the Holy Spirit fixes his shrine, will stand unimpaired, amidst the fallen columns of marble. The kingdom of heaven will remain unshaken, amidst all the convulsions of this changeable globe. We are told, that the gates of hell shall not prevail against it; and, though it should happen, in any country of Christendom, that the rulers should be infidels, and the visible church abolished; yet while there are human creatures left alive in it, the church of Christ may still flourish. [...]
(151)",,19688,Embroidering Knox's metaphor...,"""He who feels the spirit in him, will be conscious of possessing the pearl of great price, and will lock it up in the sanctuary of his heart, as his richest treasure, never to be despoiled of it by the seducing arts of false philosophy; never to exchange that pure gold, which is the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever, for the base metal of worldly politicians, who may endeavour, as they have done, to make truth itself alter her inimitable nature, to serve the varying purposes of temporary ambition.""",Coinage and Metal and Rooms,2013-06-11 19:39:22 UTC,""
8331,"",Reading,2019-05-28 15:55:25 UTC,"Focus shifted from norepinephrine to the neurotransmitter serotonin, and, in 1988, Prozac appeared, soon followed by other selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs). Promotional material from GlaxoSmithKline couched the benefits of its SSRI Paxil in cozy terms: ""Just as a cake recipe requires you to use flour, sugar, and baking powder in the right amounts, your brain needs a fine chemical balance.""
(p. 68)",,25283,"Compare fried egg advertisement... ""This is your brain on drugs."" -- A 1987 advertisement! (Likely the GlaxoSmithKline copy interacts with the ad.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is_Your_Brain_on_Drugs","""Just as a cake recipe requires you to use flour, sugar, and baking powder in the right amounts, your brain needs a fine chemical balance.""","",2019-05-28 15:59:03 UTC,""