work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
3679,"",Searching HDIS; Found again (11/15/2004),2004-10-14 00:00:00 UTC,"DRYB.
This is a good, pretty, apish, docible fellow; really he might have made a very pretty Barber Surgeon, if he had been put out in time: but it arrides me extreamly, to think how he will be bob'd?
CRAZ.
Yes, yes, he will be bob'd; that men should be so mistaken.
DRYB.
Ay, on my Conscience and Soul the Palat of his Judgement is down; and by the way how do'st like that Metaphor or rather Catachresis?
CRAZ.
Oh admirably.
BRISK.
Drybob.
CRAZ.
While these Coxcombs are in discourse, I'll privately go in and see my Mistriss--",,9540,•INTEREST. A meta-moment as the character comments on the worthiness of his own metaphor.,"""Ay, on my Conscience and Soul the Palat of his Judgement is down; and by the way how do'st like that Metaphor or rather Catachresis?""","",2009-09-14 19:34:17 UTC,Act III
3679,"",Searching HDIS,2004-10-14 00:00:00 UTC,"Nor can I think, to the writing of his humors (which were not onely the follies, but vices and subtleties of men) that wit was not required, but judgment; where, by the way, they speak as if judgment were a less thing than wit. But certainly it was meant otherwise by nature, who subjected wit to the government of judgment, which is the noblest faculty of the mind. Fancy rough-draws, but judgement smooths and finishes; nay judgment does in deed comprehend wit, for no man can have that who has not wit. In fancy mad men equal, if not excel all others, and one may as well say that one of those mad men is as good a man as a temperate wiseman, as that one of the very fancyful Plays (admired most by Women) can be so good a Play as one of Johnson's correct, and well-govern'd Comedies.",,9541,"","""Fancy rough-draws, but judgement smooths and finishes.""","",2011-11-24 17:37:31 UTC,Front Matter
3679,"","Searching ""imagination"" and ""stranger"" in HDIS (Drama)",2006-03-06 00:00:00 UTC,DRYB.
In good faith this thought was no stranger to my imagination.,,9543,"","""In good faith this thought was no stranger to my imagination.""",Inhabitants,2009-09-14 19:34:18 UTC,Act V
3690,"","Searching ""head"" and ""clock"" in HDIS (Drama)",2006-11-16 00:00:00 UTC,"RAINS.
Great dulness qualifies men for great business, there's nothing but order and road in it; your Mill-horse is a Creature of great business. The methodical Block-head that is as regular as a Clock, and as little knows why he is so, is the man cut out by Nature and Fortune for business and government.
Enter Carolina and Lucia disguised.
Hold, here come two sprightly Girls, this may prove the softer and pleasanter encounter of the two.",,9555,"","""The methodical Block-head that is as regular as a Clock, and as little knows why he is so, is the man cut out by Nature and Fortune for business and government.""","",2009-09-14 19:34:18 UTC,"Act II, Scene i"
3701,"",Searching HDIS,2004-10-14 00:00:00 UTC,"D. JOH.
I find thou retir'st here, and never readst or thinkst.
Can that blind faculty the Will be free,
When it depends upon the Understanding?
Which argues first before the Will can chuse;
And the last Dictate of the Judgment sways
The Will, as in a Balance, the last Weight
Put in the Scale, lifts up the other end,
And with the same Necessity.
HERM.
But foolish men and sinners act against
Their Understandings, which inform 'em better.
D. ANT.
None willingly do any thing against the last
Dictates of their Judgments, whatsoe'r men do,
Their present opinions lead 'em to.
D. LOP.
As fools that are afraid of sin, are by the thought
Of present pleasure, or some other reason,
Necessarily byass'd to pursue
The opinion they are of at that moment.
HERM.
The Understanding yet is free, and might perswade 'em better.
D. JOH.
The Understanding never can be free;
For what we understand, spite of our selves we do:
All objects are ready form'd and plac'd
To our hands; and these the Senses to the Mind convey,
And as those represent them, this must judge :
How can the Will be free, when the Understanding,
On which the Will depends, cannot be so.
HERM.
Lay by your devillish Philosophy, and change the dangerous and destructive course of your leud lives.
D. ANT.
Change our natures? Go bid a Blackamore be white, we follow our Constitutions, which we did not give our selves.",,9589,"•Title says tragedy, C-H says comedy. Huh? REVISIT.","""Can that blind faculty the Will be free, / When it depends upon the Understanding??","",2009-09-14 19:34:20 UTC,Act III
3701,"",Searching HDIS,2004-10-14 00:00:00 UTC,"D. JOH.
I find thou retir'st here, and never readst or thinkst.
Can that blind faculty the Will be free,
When it depends upon the Understanding?
Which argues first before the Will can chuse;
And the last Dictate of the Judgment sways
The Will, as in a Balance, the last Weight
Put in the Scale, lifts up the other end,
And with the same Necessity.
HERM.
But foolish men and sinners act against
Their Understandings, which inform 'em better.
D. ANT.
None willingly do any thing against the last
Dictates of their Judgments, whatsoe'r men do,
Their present opinions lead 'em to.
D. LOP.
As fools that are afraid of sin, are by the thought
Of present pleasure, or some other reason,
Necessarily byass'd to pursue
The opinion they are of at that moment.
HERM.
The Understanding yet is free, and might perswade 'em better.
D. JOH.
The Understanding never can be free;
For what we understand, spite of our selves we do:
All objects are ready form'd and plac'd
To our hands; and these the Senses to the Mind convey,
And as those represent them, this must judge :
How can the Will be free, when the Understanding,
On which the Will depends, cannot be so.
HERM.
Lay by your devillish Philosophy, and change the dangerous and destructive course of your leud lives.
D. ANT.
Change our natures? Go bid a Blackamore be white, we follow our Constitutions, which we did not give our selves.",,9590,"•Title says tragedy, C-H says comedy. Huh? REVISIT.
•I've included twice: Balance and Scale","The understanding argues before the will can choose and ""the last Dictate of the Judgment sways / The Will, as in a Balance, the last Weight / Put in the Scale, lifts up the other end""","",2009-09-14 19:34:20 UTC,Act III
3701,"","Searching ""judge"" in HDIS (Drama)",2004-10-14 00:00:00 UTC,"D. JOH.
I find thou retir'st here, and never readst or thinkst.
Can that blind faculty the Will be free,
When it depends upon the Understanding?
Which argues first before the Will can chuse;
And the last Dictate of the Judgment sways
The Will, as in a Balance, the last Weight
Put in the Scale, lifts up the other end,
And with the same Necessity.
HERM.
But foolish men and sinners act against
Their Understandings, which inform 'em better.
D. ANT.
None willingly do any thing against the last
Dictates of their Judgments, whatsoe'r men do,
Their present opinions lead 'em to.
D. LOP.
As fools that are afraid of sin, are by the thought
Of present pleasure, or some other reason,
Necessarily byass'd to pursue
The opinion they are of at that moment.
HERM.
The Understanding yet is free, and might perswade 'em better.
D. JOH.
The Understanding never can be free;
For what we understand, spite of our selves we do:
All objects are ready form'd and plac'd
To our hands; and these the Senses to the Mind convey,
And as those represent them, this must judge:
How can the Will be free, when the Understanding,
On which the Will depends, cannot be so.
HERM.
Lay by your devillish Philosophy, and change the dangerous and destructive course of your leud lives.
D. ANT.
Change our natures? Go bid a Blackamore be white, we follow our Constitutions, which we did not give our selves.",,9591,"•Title says tragedy, C-H says comedy. Huh? REVISIT.
•INTEREST. A poweful philosophical argument tucked away in a play.
•The senses represent and the mind judges. ","""All objects are ready form'd and plac'd / To our hands; and these the Senses to the Mind convey, / And as those represent them, this must judge: / How can the Will be free, when the Understanding, / On which the Will depends, cannot be so""",Court,2010-03-11 15:58:29 UTC,Act III
3740,"","Searching ""mind"" and ""room"" in HDIS (Drama)",2005-08-29 00:00:00 UTC,"SONG.
Let some great joys pretend to find
In empty Whimsies of the mind;
And nothing to the Soul can come,
Till th' ushering Senses make it room.
Nor can the Mind be e'r at ease,
Unless you first the Body please.
Life is, what e're vain Man may doubt,
But taking in and putting out.
Since Life's but a Span,
Live as much as you can:
Let none of it pass without Pleasure;
But push on your Strength
Of what Life wants in length:
In the Breadth you must make up the Measure.",,9660,•A version of the empiricist slogan: nothing in the mind that was not first in the senses.,"""And nothing to the Soul can come, / Till th' ushering Senses make it room.""",Rooms,2013-06-17 03:54:32 UTC,"Act II, scene ii"
7036,"","Searching ""mind"" and ""chain"" in HDIS (Drama)",2011-07-27 20:13:54 UTC,"CLARINDA
But now let's hear it--
Song.
How wretched is the Slave to Love,
Who can no real pleasures prove;
For still they're mixt with pain:
When not obtain'd, restless is the desire.
Enjoyment puts out all the fire,
And shows the Love was vain.
It wanders to another soon,
Wanes and Encreases like the Moon,
And like her never rests:
Brings Tides of Pleasure now, and then of Tears;
Makes Ebbs and Flows of Joys and Cares,
In Lovers wavering breasts.
But spight of Love I will be free,
And triumph in the liberty
I without him enjoy.
I'th' worst of Prisons I'll my Body bind,
Rather than Chain my free-born mind,
For such a foolish Toy.
",,19033,"","""I'th' worst of Prisons I'll my Body bind, / Rather than Chain my free-born mind, / For such a foolish Toy.""",Fetters,2011-07-27 20:13:54 UTC,"Act IV, scene iv"