work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
5760,"","Searching ""thought"" and ""gold"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2005-06-01 00:00:00 UTC,"Hail to each ancient sacred shade
Of those, who gave the Muses aid,
Skill'd verse mysterious to unfold,
And set each brilliant thought in gold.
Hail Aristotle's honour'd shrine,
And great Longinius hail to thine;
Ye too, whose judgment ne'er cou'd fail,
Hail Horace, and Quintilian hail;
And, dread of every Goth and Hun,
Hail Pope, and peerless Addison.",2011-06-20,15342,"","""Hail to each ancient sacred shade / Of those, who gave the Muses aid, / Skill'd verse mysterious to unfold, / And set each brilliant thought in gold.""",Metal,2011-06-20 18:51:29 UTC,Fables
5762,"","Searching ""heart"" and ""steel"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2005-06-11 00:00:00 UTC,"Thy bravery often did I much approve;
Rais'd by that queen of passions, Love.
Whene'er in Love's delicious phrensy crost
By long-ear'd brothers, lo wert thou a host!
Love did thy lion-heart with courage steel!
Quicker than that of Vestris mov'd thy heel:
Here, there, up, down, in, out, how thou didst smite!
And then no alderman could match thy bite!",,15349,"","""Love did thy lion-heart with courage steel!""",Metal,2009-09-14 19:43:24 UTC,"The Remonstrance; To which is Added an Ode to my Ass; Also the Magpie and Robin, A Tale; An Apology for Kings; and an Address to my Pamphlet"
5752,"","Searching ""bosom"" and ""steel"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2005-06-13 00:00:00 UTC,"Rouse! and let 'Richard be himself again!'--
Forge, forge anew Oppression's galling chain;
Strip o'er his ears bold Opposition's skin,
And bid with gags the mouth of Freedom grin.
Bid the dark Furies all thy bosom steel,
And Cumberland afresh thine anger feel:
Yes, yes, of Cumberland the comet, blaze,
And, crab-like, roast her rascals with thy rays.
Stretch o'er the shrinking towns thine arm of pow'r,
And, hydra-like, their croaking frogs devour.
Show that thy breath, like Envy's, baleful blows:
A canker be, that kills the lovely rose.
Prove how a rising country can be curst,
And bid with spleen old Nero's spectre burst.",,15352,•Earliest appearance in Gentleman's Magazine Vol. 61. ii. p. 1131 R.,"""Bid the dark Furies all thy bosom steel, / And Cumberland afresh thine anger feel.""",Metal,2011-09-28 01:32:41 UTC,""
5787,Innate Ideas; Moral Sense,"Searching ""heart"" and ""stamp"" in HDIS (Poetry); found again ""fancy""",2005-04-07 00:00:00 UTC,"Meantime the untutor'd hearers, with rude signs
Not inexpressive of the moral sense
Stamp'd on each heart--of fancy tho' enclos'd
By narrow boundaries--of the affections, wild
In native force; the veteran chieftain hail
Their judge, their legislator, father, friend.
",,15436,"•Both Kenton and Exmouth were close to Exeter, where Polwhele joined a literary society which published in 1792 Poems Chiefly by Gentlemen of Devonshire and Cornwall (2 vols.), edited by Polwhele, and in 1796 Essays by a Society of Gentlemen at Exeter. A quarrel over the second publication gave rise to a bitter controversy between Polwhele and his colleagues (GM, 1st ser., 66, 1796). ","Rude signs may be expressive of ""moral sense / Stamp'd on each heart""","",2009-09-14 19:43:39 UTC,""
5787,"","Searching ""heart"" and ""seal"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2005-04-17 00:00:00 UTC,"For, vainly think not, tho' the classic school
Of eloquence hath charm'd thy tranced hours,
That, there, the just--the appropriate model claims
Thine imitative labours. Unconstrain'd,
From equity's intrinsic source, (to all
Perspicuous), and the heart's decisions stamp'd
By Nature's seal, and man's primæval laws,
The immortal champions of the forum drew
Their more persuasive numbers. Short their code,
And simple; wedded to no toil austere;
Nor asking many a lustrum, to devote
The midnight lamp to musing. To combine
The quick varieties of thought; to snatch
From elocution all the heightening grace
Of diction; and amuse the million's eye
By each external impulse; this their boast,
This was their aim. No deep immuring pile
(The science of innumerous tomes) opprest
The mental strength elastic; nor perplex'd
By facts from mazy records, the free flow
Of speech, that never hesitating ran
Thro' easy vein. And while (the rare result
Of letter'd art) the precious volume gave
Its treasures to the few--perhaps no more
Accessible, and barr'd from vulgar gaze;
They bade retentive memory on their mind
Impress each image, in distinctive lines
That mock'd erasure. Hence the pleader, bold
In vigorous thought, and trusting to those powers
Which knew no ready refuge in the means
Of foreign aid, unlock'd with nature's key
The secret springs that agitate the soul!",,15439,•C-H also lists an Oxford edition: Fletcher. Taken from Poems (1806). DNB gives 1785 as earliest edition (although under a different title). ,"""[T]he heart's decisions"" may be ""stamp'd / By Nature's seal, and man's primæval laws""","",2009-09-14 19:43:39 UTC,""
5800,"","Searching ""heart"" and ""mirror"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2005-11-21 00:00:00 UTC,"O Blest! (though Apathy may boast the power
Of unmov'd features in the trying hour)
Blest be the tribute of those tears, that start
From Friendship's eye, the mirrors of the heart!",,15468,"","""Blest be the tribute of those tears, that start / From Friendship's eye, the mirrors of the heart.""",Mirror,2013-08-23 17:03:55 UTC,Elegaic Pieces
5801,"",Searching in HDIS (Poetry),2006-01-18 00:00:00 UTC,"But souls in common are a dreary waste,
By brambles, thistles, barb'rous docks disgrac'd;
That need the ploughshare, harrow, and the fire--
Some souls are caves of filth and spectred gloom,
That want a window and a broom,
To yield them light, and clear the mire.
When honours lift th' unworthy fool on high,
On Fortune how with fierce contempt I scowl!
She hangs a dirty cloud upon the sky,
And with an eagle's pinion imps an ow",,15469,"• In Donald Kerr's ""Satire is Bad Trade"" on the Cardiff Corvey website, the author notes that the buyer Lucraft received a number of Wolcot's titles, including, ""A Pair of Lyric Epistles to Lord Macartney at 1s 3d on 4 September,"" and that, ""on 25 August 1793, 1,150 copies of another printing of A Pair of Lyric Epistles to Lord Macartney were stitched at 1s 6d per hundred""","""But souls in common are a dreary waste, / By brambles, thistles, barb'rous docks disgrac'd; / That need the ploughshare, harrow, and the fire--""","",2009-09-14 19:43:44 UTC,""
6182,"","Searching ""coin"" and ""heart"" in HDIS (Poetry); confirmed in ECCO",2005-04-14 00:00:00 UTC,"O could I gain by gold those heav'nly charms?
Could gold once give thee to my eager arms,
Lo, into guineas would I coin my heart;
Those would I pour pell-mell into thy lap,
With thee to wake to love, and then to nap,
Then wake again--again to sleep depart.
(cf. p. 36 in 1792 ed.)",2007-04-26,16359,"","""Could gold once give thee to my eager arms, / Lo, into guineas would I coin my heart;""",Coinage,2014-03-03 17:02:27 UTC,""
7287,"",Searching in HDIS (Poetry),2012-07-03 16:40:09 UTC,"In birth the public sees no kind of merit!
Think of the present equalizing spirit!
Amidst the populace how rank it springs!
Nay, from the palaces the Virtues fly,
While boldly entering from their beastly stye,
The vulgar passions rush to pig with kings!
(p. 12)",,19845,"","""Nay, from the palaces the Virtues fly, / While boldly entering from their beastly stye, / The vulgar passions rush to pig with kings!",Beasts,2012-07-03 16:40:35 UTC,""
7828,Meta-metaphorical,"",2014-03-03 18:32:22 UTC,"Now on the band of ladies star'd the cooks,
And seem'd to show hair-ruin in their looks.
Great is the eloquence of eyes indeed--
Much hist'ry in those tell-tale orbs we read!
What though no bigger than a button hole,
Yet what a wondrous window to the soul!
The bosom's joy, and grief, and hope, and fear,
In lively colours are depicted here!
(cf. pp. 4-5 in 1792 edition)",2014-03-03,23437,"Was assigned to title that goes with first canto. Deleted, reassigned.",""Much hist'ry in those tell-tale orbs we read! / What though no bigger than a button hole, / Yet what a wondrous window to the soul!""",Rooms,2014-03-03 18:32:22 UTC,"Searching ""soul"" and ""window"" in HDIS (Poetry); again ""bosom;"" confirmed in ECCO."