text,updated_at,metaphor,created_at,context,theme,reviewed_on,dictionary,comments,provenance,id,work_id
"PAMELA : or, Virtue Rewarded. In a SERIES of Familiar Letters from a Beautiful Young Damsel, To her PARENTS. Now first Published In order to cultivate the Principles of Virtue and Religion in the Minds of the Youth of Both Sexes. A Narrative which has its Foundation in TRUTH and NATURE; and at the same time that it agreeably entertains, by a Variety of curious and affecting Incidents, is intirely divested of all those Images, which, in too many Pieces calculated for Amusement only, tend to inflame the Minds they should instruct.
In Two VOLUMES. Vol. I. ",2014-10-18 16:22:40 UTC,"""A Narrative which has its Foundation in TRUTH and NATURE; and at the same time that it agreeably entertains, by a Variety of curious and affecting Incidents, is intirely divested of all those Images, which, in too many Pieces calculated for Amusement only, tend to inflame the Minds they should instruct.""",2004-01-25 00:00:00 UTC,Title Page,"",2006-09-11,"","",HDIS (Prose),12265,4671
"I am charmed with the beautiful Reflections she makes in the Course of her Distresses; her Soliloquies and little Reasonings with herself, are exceeding pretty and entertaining: She pours out all her Soul in them before her Parents without Disguise; so that one may judge of, nay, almost see, the inmost Recesses of her Mind. A pure clear Fountain of Truth and Innocence, a Magazine of Virtue and unblemish'd Thoughts! ",2009-09-14 19:36:47 UTC,"""She pours out all her Soul in [Soliloquies and little Reasonings] before her Parents without Disguise; so that one may judge of, nay, almost see, the inmost Recesses of her Mind""",2004-01-25 00:00:00 UTC,Dedication,Conversation,2006-09-11,"","",HDIS,12266,4671
"I am charmed with the beautiful Reflections she makes in the Course of her Distresses; her Soliloquies and little Reasonings with herself, are exceeding pretty and entertaining: She pours out all her Soul in them before her Parents without Disguise; so that one may judge of, nay, almost see, the inmost Recesses of her Mind. A pure clear Fountain of Truth and Innocence, a Magazine of Virtue and unblemish'd Thoughts! ",2009-09-14 19:36:47 UTC,"The mind may be a ""pure clear Fountain of Truth and Innocence.""",2004-01-25 00:00:00 UTC,Dedication,"",,"","",HDIS,12267,4671
"I am charmed with the beautiful Reflections she makes in the Course of her Distresses; her Soliloquies and little Reasonings with herself, are exceeding pretty and entertaining: She pours out all her Soul in them before her Parents without Disguise; so that one may judge of, nay, almost see, the inmost Recesses of her Mind. A pure clear Fountain of Truth and Innocence, a Magazine of Virtue and unblemish'd Thoughts! ",2009-09-14 19:36:47 UTC,"The mind may be a ""a Magazine of Virtue and unblemish'd Thoughts.""",2004-01-25 00:00:00 UTC,Dedication,"",2009-07-20,"","",HDIS,12268,4671
"'Dear Pamela,
The Passion I have for you, and your Obstinacy, have constrained me to act by you in a manner that I know will occasion you great Trouble and Fatigue, both of Mind and Body. Yet, forgive me, my dear Girl; for tho' I have taken this Step, I will, by all that's good and holy, use you honourably. Suffer not your Fears to transport you to a Behaviour that will be disreputable to us both. For the Place where you'll receive this, is a Farm that belongs to me; and the People civil, honest and obliging. ",2009-09-14 19:36:47 UTC,"""The Passion I have for you, and your Obstinacy, have constrained me to act by you in a manner that I know will occasion you great Trouble and Fatigue, both of Mind and Body""",2004-01-25 00:00:00 UTC,Vol I. Letter 31,Mind and Body,2006-09-11,"","•I have not been consistently entering these ""Fatigue"" metaphors... REVISIT and straighten out the protocol.",HDIS,12269,4671
"I. When sad I sat in B---n-hall,
All watched round about,
And thought of ev'ry absent Friend,
The Tears for Grief burst out.
II.My Joys and Hopes all overthrown,
My Heart strings almost broke,
Unfit my Mind for Melody,
Much more to bear a Joke;
III.Then she to whom I Prisoner was,
Said to me tauntingly,
Now chear your Heart, and sing a Song,
And tune your Mind to Joy.
IV.Alas! said I, how can I frame
My heavy Heart to sing;
Or tune my Mind, while thus inthrall'd
By such a wicked Thing!
V.But yet, if from my Innocence
I, ev'n in Thought, should slide,
Then let my Fingers quite forget
The sweet Spinnet to guide.
VI.And let my Tongue within my Mouth
Be lock'd for ever fast,
If I rejoice, before I see
My full Deliv'r ance past.
VII.And thou, Almighty, recompence
The Evils I endure,
From those who seek my sad Disgrace,
So causeless, to procure.
VIII.Remember, Lord, this Mrs. Jewkes,
When with a mighty Sound,
She cries, Down with her Chastity,
Down to the very Ground!
IX.Ev'n so shalt thou, O wicked One,
At length to Shame be brought;
And happy shall all those be call'd
That my Deliv'r ance wrought.
X.Yea, blessed shall the Man be call'd
That shames thee of thy Evil,
And saves me from thy vile Attempts,
And thee, too, from the D---l ",2009-09-14 19:36:47 UTC,"""Now chear your Heart, and sing a Song, / And tune your Mind to Joy.""",2004-01-25 00:00:00 UTC,Pamela's alteration of the CXXXVIIth Psalm,"",2006-09-11,"","",Searching HDIS (Prose),12270,4671
"'Save then, my Innocence, good God, and preserve my Mind spotless; and happy shall I be to lay down my worthless Life, and see an End to all my Troubles and Anxieties! ",2009-09-14 19:36:47 UTC,"""Save then, my Innocence, good God, and preserve my Mind spotless""",2004-01-25 00:00:00 UTC,Journal,"",2006-09-11,"","",HDIS,12271,4671
"It was well for me, as I have since thought, that I was so maim'd, as made me the longer before I got to the Water; for this gave me some Reflection, and abated that Liveliness of my Passions, which possibly might otherwise have hurry'd me, in my first Transport of Grief, (on my seeing no way to escape, and the hard Usage I had Reason to expect from my dreadful Keepers) to throw myself in without Consideration; but my Weakness of Body made me move so slowly, that it gave Time for a little Reflection, a Ray of Grace, to dart in upon my benighted Mind; and so, when I came to the Pond-side, I sat myself down on the sloping Bank, and began to ponder my wretched Condition: And thus I reason'd with myself. ",2014-09-02 21:22:15 UTC,"""But my Weakness of Body made me move so slowly, that it gave Time for a little Reflection, a Ray of Grace, to dart in upon my benighted Mind; and so, when I came to the Pond-side, I sat myself down on the sloping Bank, and began to ponder my wretched Condition: And thus I reason'd with myself.""",2004-01-25 00:00:00 UTC,Journal,"",,"","",HDIS (Prose),12272,4671
"What shall I do, what Steps take, if all this be designing! --O the Perplexities of these cruel Doubtings! --To be sure, if he be false, as I may call it, I have gone too far, much too far! --I am ready, on the Apprehension of this, to bite my forward Tongue, (or rather to beat my more forward Heart, that dictated to that poor Machine) for what I have said. But sure, at least, he must be sincere for the Time! --He could not be such a practised Dissembler! --If he could, O how desperately wicked is the Heart of Man! --And where could he learn all these barbarous Arts? --If so, it must be native surely to the Sex! --But, silent be my rash Censurings; be hush'd, ye stormy Tumults of my disturbed Mind; for have I not a Father who is a Man! --A Man who knows no Guile! who would do no Wrong!--who would not deceive or oppress to gain a Kingdom! --How then can I think it is native to the Sex? And I must also hope my good Lady's Son cannot be the worst of Men! --If he is, hard the Lot of the excellent Woman that bore him! --But much harder the Hap of your poor Pamela, who has fallen into such Hands! --But yet I will trust in God, and hope the best; and so lay down any tired Pen for this Time.
(pp. 298-9)",2009-09-14 19:36:47 UTC,"The ""stormy Tumults"" of a ""disturbed Mind"" may ""be hush'd.""",2004-01-25 00:00:00 UTC,Journal,"",,"","•Note ""tumults"". Do tumults connote storms? (I've been including some mental tumults under 'Uncategorized', but I have not been collecting them consistently.",HDIS,12273,4671
"""And permit me, Gentlemen, to add, That as an Acquaintance with the Muses contributes not a little to soften the Manners, and to give a graceful and delicate Turn to the Imagination, and a kind of Polish to severer Studies, I believe it would not be amiss, that he should have a Taste of Poetry, altho' perhaps it were not to be wish'd he had such strong Inclinations that way, as to make that lively and delectable Amusement his predominant Passion: For we see very few Poets, whose warm Imaginations do not run away with their Judgments. And yet, in order to learn the dead Languages in their Purity, it will be necessary, as I apprehend, to inculcate both the Love and the Study of the antient Poets, which cannot fail of giving a Youth a Taste for Poetry in general.""
(Volume IV, Letter 54)",2011-04-26 18:11:52 UTC,"""I believe it would not be amiss, that he should have a Taste of Poetry, altho' perhaps it were not to be wish'd he had such strong Inclinations that way, as to make that lively and delectable Amusement his predominant Passion.""",2004-06-07 00:00:00 UTC,"",Ruling Passion,,"","•Pamela to Mr. B. (on Education of Billy). Pamela agrees with ""Mr. Locke's Reasons, where the Behaviour of Servants can be so well answer'd for, as that of yours can be, where the Example of the Parents will be, as I hope, rather edifying than otherwise, that, without being sway'd, as I think, by maternal Fondness, in this Case, I must needs give a Preference to the Home Education; and the little Scheme I presum'd to form in my last, was only, as you will be pleas'd to remember, on a Supposition, that those necessary Points could not be so well secur'd."" Although she differs a little on one or two particulars.","Searching ""predominant passion"" in HDIS",12274,4671