text,updated_at,metaphor,created_at,context,theme,reviewed_on,dictionary,comments,provenance,id,work_id
LADY ELEANOR
holding him.
Where would you go? 'Tis evening--'tis dark --Whither would you go at this time?
IRWIN.
distractedly.
I must consider what's to be done--and in this room my thoughts are too confined to reflect.
LADY ELEANOR.
And are London streets calculated for reflection?
IRWIN.
No;--for action. To hurry the faint thought to resolution.,2009-09-14 19:43:55 UTC,"""I must consider what's to be done--and in this room my thoughts are too confined to reflect.""",2005-08-29 00:00:00 UTC,"Act I, scene iii","",,Rooms,"•Not exactly a metaphor of mind... That is, the mind is not a room here, rather the room impinges on the mind.","Searching ""thought"" and ""room"" in HDIS (Drama)",15536,5820
"CHEV.
Fined for Horace, horsed for Homer, and plucked because I could not parrot over their premises and predicates, majors and minors, antecedents and consequents. My brain was a broker's shop; the little good furniture it contained all hid by lumber!
",2009-09-14 19:44:05 UTC,"""My brain was a broker's shop; the little good furniture it contained all hid by lumber!""",2006-01-24 00:00:00 UTC,"Act II, scene iii","",,"","•I've included thrice: Shop, Furniture, Lumber","Searching ""brain"" and ""Furniture"" in HDIS (Drama)",15603,5859
"HONORIA
Ambition!--not that emulative zeal
Which wings the tow'ring souls of godlike men!
But bold, oppressive, self-created pow'r,
That, trampling o'er the barrier of the laws,
And scattering wide the tender shoots of pity,
Strikes at the root of reason, and confines
Nature itself in bondage! Oh! 'tis vile!
But, thank the Gods! no spells can curb the mind,
While splendour's proudest claim is less than virtue!",2012-01-09 18:24:54 UTC,"""Ambition!--not that emulative zeal
Which wings the tow'ring souls of godlike men! / But bold, oppressive, self-created pow'r, / That, trampling o'er the barrier of the laws, / And scattering wide the tender shoots of pity, / Strikes at the root of reason, and confines / Nature itself in bondage!""",2012-01-09 18:24:54 UTC,"","",,Fetters,"","Searching ""bond"" and ""reason"" in HDIS (Poetry)",19421,6050