work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
4339,"","Searching ""empire"" and ""soul"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2004-08-11 00:00:00 UTC,"Now did the Monarch, fierce Sedition's Fire
Subdu'd, to fair Parthenope retire,
Where he dismiss'd the Ministers of State
Who had incurr'd the People's general Hate.
Dora the Pontiff, who abus'd his Trust,
From his high Station was excluded first;
And all the novel Modes and Rites divine
Obtruded on the Nation with Design
To change Religion, by the ruling Priest
Who Pow'r ill us'd, the Sov'reign soon dismist.
While all condemn'd the Pontiff's barb'rous Course,
That would new Rites impose and Conscience force,
Justly; can Arms o'er Reason Conquests win,
And triumph o'er the awful Judge within?
Do bloody Troops in Casuistry excell?
Can Lictors able in Dispute dispell
The Clouds of Errour that involve the Mind,
And by enlight'ning Pains restore the Blind?
Can Scourges argue, or the Rack persuade?
Can Kings the Empire of the Soul invade?
No, Let them first draw Armies in Array
Along the Shore, and bid the Ocean stay
His rushing Tides, the driving Storm restrain,
And stop the rolling Sands on Libya's Plain;
That done, the Tyrant may to Conscience say
Rebel submit, and my Decrees obey.",,11361,•I've included twice: Empire and Invasion,"""Can Kings the Empire of the Soul invade?""","",2009-09-14 19:35:49 UTC,""
4672,"","Searching ""conque"" and ""heart"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2005-02-09 00:00:00 UTC,"A Heart by Kindness only gain'd,
Will a dear Conquest prove;
And, to be kept, must be maintain'd
At vast Expence of Love.
",,12292,•INTEREST. Maintaining a conquest: expense.,"""A Heart by Kindness only gain'd, / Will a dear Conquest prove""","",2009-09-14 19:36:48 UTC,""
4257,"",Searching in HDIS (Poetry),2010-05-20 17:34:21 UTC,"Should you at length decide the doubtful War,
Renounce to Virtue, and for Vice declare,
You'll ne'er in Triumph captive Reason lead,
On Conscience wholly conquer'd never tread.
That dreadful Worm may long enchanted lie,
And roll'd in Volumes sleep, but cannot die;
Rousing at Times, indignant 'twill exert
Immortal Rage, and sting you to the Heart.
(ll. 86-93)",,17816,"","""Should you at length decide the doubtful War, / Renounce to Virtue, and for Vice declare, / You'll ne'er in Triumph captive Reason lead, / On Conscience wholly conquer'd never tread.""","",2010-05-20 17:34:21 UTC,""
4257,Psychomachia,"Searching ""reason"" and ""frontier"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2010-05-20 17:41:09 UTC,"Should you presumptuous, quit your safer Ground,
And seek the utmost Lines, which Vertue bound,
And on the Frontier to engage the Foe,
With Reason 's weak collected Forces go,
You'll soon those nice, ill-guarded Limits pass,
Throw down your Arms, and fond her Feet embrace,
In her soft Snares her Pris'ner she'll detain,
And will you then have Pow'r to break her Chain?",2011-06-26,17819,"","""Should you presumptuous, quit your safer Ground, / And seek the utmost Lines, which Vertue bound, / And on the Frontier to engage the Foe,
With Reason 's weak collected Forces go, / You'll soon those nice, ill-guarded Limits pass, / Throw down your Arms, and fond her Feet embrace, / In her soft Snares her Pris'ner she'll detain, / And will you then have Pow'r to break her Chain?""",Fetters,2011-05-27 14:37:20 UTC,""
4257,Psychomachia,Searching in HDIS (Poetry),2010-05-20 17:43:50 UTC,"The Foe has secret Friends within your Breast,
Perfidious Passions, which dissemble Rest;
All these, should you approach her Camp too near,
Rising in Arms, against you will declare.
By this strong Party lurking in your Heart,
Reason seduc'd, will to her Side desert.
The Fort of Virtue thus will be betray'd,
And you, uncautious Youth, a Captive made.",,17820,"","""The Foe has secret Friends within your Breast, / Perfidious Passions, which dissemble Rest / All these, should you approach her Camp too near, / Rising in Arms, against you will declare.""","",2010-05-20 17:43:50 UTC,""
4257,"",Searching in HDIS (Poetry),2010-05-20 17:45:10 UTC,"The Foe has secret Friends within your Breast,
Perfidious Passions, which dissemble Rest;
All these, should you approach her Camp too near,
Rising in Arms, against you will declare.
By this strong Party lurking in your Heart,
Reason seduc'd, will to her Side desert.
The Fort of Virtue thus will be betray'd,
And you, uncautious Youth, a Captive made.",,17821,"","""By this strong Party lurking in your Heart, / Reason seduc'd, will to her Side desert.""","",2010-05-20 17:45:10 UTC,""
4324,Psychomachia,Reading,2012-07-06 13:32:59 UTC,"Mankind, from the eldest ages, have felt great disturbance in themselves, from a vehement and constant strife between their reason and their passions; they found themselves distracted by these inward warring principles, of which they were compounded, drawing different ways, and contending for victory and dominion. These repugnant springs of action created in them great inquietude, while they were unable to serve two opposite masters. When they followed the dictates for reason, they bore the torment of ungratify'd inordinate appetites; and when they chose to obey their passions, reflection fill'd them with terror and remorse: and in this sense, it is true, that all men are born in a state of war; that is, they felt in themselves an obstinate conflict between the superior commanding faculties of the mind, and the subordinate passions that rebel against them.
(Preface, viii-ix)",,19874,"","""Mankind, from the eldest ages, have felt great disturbance in themselves, from a vehement and constant strife between their reason and their passions; they found themselves distracted by these inward warring principles, of which they were compounded, drawing different ways, and contending for victory and dominion.""","",2012-07-06 13:35:13 UTC,Preface
4324,"",Reading,2012-07-06 13:34:44 UTC,"Mankind, from the eldest ages, have felt great disturbance in themselves, from a vehement and constant strife between their reason and their passions; they found themselves distracted by these inward warring principles, of which they were compounded, drawing different ways, and contending for victory and dominion. These repugnant springs of action created in them great inquietude, while they were unable to serve two opposite masters. When they followed the dictates for reason, they bore the torment of ungratify'd inordinate appetites; and when they chose to obey their passions, reflection fill'd them with terror and remorse: and in this sense, it is true, that all men are born in a state of war; that is, they felt in themselves an obstinate conflict between the superior commanding faculties of the mind, and the subordinate passions that rebel against them.
(Preface, viii-ix)",,19875,"","""When they followed the dictates for reason, they bore the torment of ungratify'd inordinate appetites; and when they chose to obey their passions, reflection fill'd them with terror and remorse: and in this sense, it is true, that all men are born in a state of war; that is, they felt in themselves an obstinate conflict between the superior commanding faculties of the mind, and the subordinate passions that rebel against them.""","",2012-07-06 13:34:44 UTC,Preface
4324,"",Reading,2012-07-06 13:57:35 UTC,"It has been the complaint of all men, in all ages, Video meliora proboque, deteriora sequor; which agrees with St. Paul's description of his uneasy condition, while he affirms, the good I would do I do not, &c. Though the world was thoroughly sensible of this calamity, yet they were ignorant of the cause that produc'd it, and did not for a long time apply themselves to find out any means of cure, and ways of methods, by which this unhappy state might be retriev'd; by restoring reason the empire of the mind, and bringing the passions and appetites to their due subjection; when that order, beauty and harmony in the faculties and powers of the soul might be recover'd, in which the perfection of human nature does certainly consist; and by the breach and ruin of which, it is very evident, we become miserable. It is true, that for this purpose some precepts of morality were contain'd in the fables and apologues of the ancient Sages of the East, in the hieroglyphicks and mystical wisdom of the Egyptians, and afterwards several good rules of life were interspers'd in the writings of the poets, but these were impotent and ineffectual to cure the great and universal diseases of the mind, and lay the foundation of peace and tranquility, by bringing the contests of reason and passion to an amicable conclusion. At length the Philosophers of Greece, of whom the famous SocratesIonick school, was the first took this matter in hand. That great man deliver'd many excellent moral precepts for restraining the passions, and subjecting them to the government of reason; and the founder of the Italick school, Pythagoras, instructed by the Magicians of the East, had the same at heart, and carry'd on the like worthy design, though his doctrines were too much involv'd in mystery and allegorical allusions. But the immediate disciples of these two great masters were much divided about reconciling the two combatants, reason and passion, and bring this intestine war to an end. Zeno, and his scholars the Stoicks, took an odd fancy, that the passions were not interwoven with the constitution of man, and so were no part of his nature, but the blemishes and vicious excrescencies of the soul, and therefore ought to be entirely cut off; noxious weeds, that poison'd the mind, and consequently ought to be rooted up, and utterly destroy'd; that reason being deliver'd from its enemies, and freed from incumbrances, might enjoy a peaceful dominion; and man by that means might be at rest: and this doctrine, as the only way to happiness, they inculcated on their disciples. [...]
(Preface, ix-xiii)",,19877,"",""" But the immediate disciples of these two great masters were much divided about reconciling the two combatants, reason and passion, and bring this intestine war to an end.""","",2012-07-06 13:57:35 UTC,Preface