text,updated_at,metaphor,created_at,context,theme,reviewed_on,dictionary,comments,provenance,id,work_id
"Wherever Fortune points my destin'd way,
If my capricious stars ordain my stay
In gilded palace, or in rural scene,
While breath shall animate this frail machine,
My heart sincere, which never flatt'ry knew,
Shall consecrate its warmest wish to you.
A monarch compass'd by a suppliant crowd,
Prompt to obey, and in his praises loud,
Among those thousands who on smiles depend,
Perhaps has no disinterested friend.",2013-06-12 17:45:53 UTC,"""While breath shall animate this frail machine, / My heart sincere, which never flatt'ry knew, / Shall consecrate its warmest wish to you.""",2006-11-21 00:00:00 UTC,"","",,"","","Searching ""heart"" and ""machine"" in HDIS (Poetry)",8699,3408
"Don't your Heart ake for me? --I am sure mine flutter'd about like a Bird in a Cage new caught. O Pamela, said I to my self, why art thou so foolish and fearful! Thou hast done no harm! what, if thou fearest an unjust Judge, when thou art innocent, wouldst thou do before a just one, if thou wert guilty? Have Courage, Pamela, thou knowest the worst! And how easy a Choice Poverty and Honesty is, rather than Plenty and Wickedness?",2012-06-27 20:19:08 UTC,"""Don't your Heart ake for me? --I am sure mine flutter'd about like a Bird in a Cage new caught.""",2005-09-03 00:00:00 UTC,"Vol. 1, Letter 16","",2009-07-31,Beasts,"","Searching in HDIS (Prose); found again searching ""heart"" and ""bird""",12331,4671
"Permit me, Sir, to transcribe four or five Lines more, for the Beauty of the Thought:
And yet the Soul, shut up in her dark Room,
Viewing so clear abroad, at home sees nothing:
But like a Mole in Earth, busy and blind,
Works all her Folly up, and casts it outward
To the World's open View---
(p. 335)
",2009-09-14 19:36:51 UTC,"""And yet the Soul, shut up in her dark Room, / Viewing so clear abroad, at home sees nothing""",2005-09-03 00:00:00 UTC,"Vol. 4, Letter 53","",,Rooms,"•Pamela quoting Dryden. INTEREST. This is great. Use in Room entry. Cross-reference: Locke, Newton, and Keach.
•I've included twice: Room and Animals","Searching ""soul"" and ""room"" in HDIS (Prose)",12332,4671
"Permit me, Sir, to transcribe four or five Lines more, for the Beauty of the Thought:
And yet the Soul, shut up in her dark Room,
Viewing so clear abroad, at home sees nothing:
But like a Mole in Earth, busy and blind,
Works all her Folly up, and casts it outward
To the World's open View---
(p. 335)
",2009-09-14 19:36:51 UTC,"The soul ""like a Mole in Earth, busy and blind, / Works all her Folly up, and casts it outward / To the World's open View""",2005-09-03 00:00:00 UTC,"Vol. 4, Letter 53","",,Room,•I've included twice: Room and Animals
•Lines quoted from Dryden's All for Love. In letter discussing Locke's theory of education.,"Searching ""soul"" and ""room"" in HDIS (Prose)",12333,4671
"This, dear Sir, is excellently said: 'Tis noble Theory. And if the Tutor is a Man void of Resentment and Caprice, and will not be govern'd by partial Considerations in his own Judgment of Persons and Things, it will be well: But if otherwise, he may take Advantage of the Confidence plac'd in him, to the Injury of some worthy Person, and by Degrees monopolize the young Gentleman to himself, and govern his Passions as absolurely, as I have heard some First Ministers have done those of their Prince, equally to his own personal Disreputation, and to the Disadvantage of his People. But,
All this, and much more, according to Mr. Locke, is the Duty of a Tutor; and on the finding out such an one, depends his Scheme of an Home Education. No Wonder then, that he himself says, ""When I consider the Scruples and Cautions, I here lay in your Way, methinks it looks as if I advised you to something, which I would have offer'd at, but in Effect not done,"" & c. Permit me, dear Sir, in this Place, to express my Fear, that it is hardly possible for any one, of Talents inferior to those of Mr. Locke himself, to come up to the [Page 331] Rules he has laid down on this Subject; and 'tis to be question'd, whether even he, with all that vast Stock of natural Reason, and solid Sense, for which, as you tell me, Sir, he was so famous, had attain'd to these Perfections, at his first setting out into Life.",2009-09-14 19:36:51 UTC,"""But if otherwise, he may take Advantage of the Confidence plac'd in him, to the Injury of some worthy Person, and by Degrees monopolize the young Gentleman to himself, and govern his Passions as absolurely, as I have heard some First Ministers have done those of their Prince""",2005-09-03 00:00:00 UTC,"Vol. 4, Letter 53",Lockean Philosophy,,"","",Searching in HDIS (Prose),12334,4671
"Prayers, that the Divine Grace would at last touch his Heart, and make him more than a Countenancer,more than an Applauder, of my Duties: That he might, for his own dear sake, become a Partaker, a Partner in them; and then, thought I, when we can Hand in Hand, Heart in Heart, one Spirit, as well as one Flesh, join in the same Closet, in the same Prayers and Thanksgivings, what an happy Creature shall I be!",2009-09-14 19:36:51 UTC,"""That he might, for his own dear sake, become a Partaker, a Partner in them; and then, thought I, when we can Hand in Hand, Heart in Heart, one Spirit, as well as one Flesh, join in the same Closet, in the same Prayers and Thanksgivings, what an happy Creature shall I be!""",2005-09-06 00:00:00 UTC,"","",,"",•Closet,HDIS (Prose),12335,4671
"After he had been adjusting some Affairs with his dear Principal, which took them up two Hours, my best Beloved sent for me. --My Dear, said he, taking my Hand, and seating me down by him, and making the good old Gentleman sit down, (for he will always rise at my Approach) Mr. Longman and I have settled in two Hours some Accounts, which would have taken up as many Months with some Persons. But never was an exacter or more methodical [Page 146] Accomptant than Mr. Longman: He gives me, (greatly to my Satisfaction, because I know it will delight you) an Account of the Kentish Concern, and of the Pleasure your Father and Mother take in it. --Now, my Charmer, said he, I see your sweet Eyes begin to glisten:---- O how this Subject raises your whole Soul to the Windows of it!--- Never was so dutiful a Daughter, Mr. Longman, and never did Parents better deserve a Daughter's Duty!",2009-09-14 19:36:52 UTC,"""I see your sweet Eyes begin to glisten:---- O how this Subject raises your whole Soul to the Windows of it!""",2006-01-25 00:00:00 UTC,"Vol. 3, Letter 25","",,Rooms,"","Searching ""soul"" and ""window"" in HDIS (Prose)",12338,4671
"What is faulty in it, which Mr. Locke calls Sheepishness, should indeed be shaken off as soon as possible, because it is an Enemy to Merit in its Advancement in the World: But were I to chuse a Companion for your Billy, as he grows up, I should not think the worse of the Youth, who, not having had the Opportunities of knowing Men, or seeing the World, had this Defect. On the contrary, [Page 371] I should be apt to look upon it as an outward Fence or Inclosure, as I may say, to his Virtue, which might keep off the lighter Attacks of Immorality, the Hussars of Vice, as I may say, who are not able to carry on a formal Siege against his Morals; and I should expect such an one to be docile, humane, good-humour'd, diffident of himself, and so most likely to improve as well in Mind as Behaviour: While an harden'd Mind, that never doubts itself, must be a Stranger to its own Infirmities, and, suspecting none, is impetuous, over-bearing, incorrigible; and if rich, a Tyrant; if not, possibly an Invader of other Mens Properties.",2009-09-14 19:36:52 UTC,"Pamela is apt to look upon sheepishness ""as an outward Fence or Inclosure, as I may say, to his Virtue, which might keep off the lighter Attacks of Immorality, the Hussars of Vice, as I may say, who are not able to carry on a formal Siege against his Morals""",2006-03-06 00:00:00 UTC,"Vol. 4, Letter 57","",,"","•I've included thrice: Fence, Siege, Enclosure",Searching in HDIS (Prose),12340,4671
"What is faulty in it, which Mr. Locke calls Sheepishness, should indeed be shaken off as soon as possible, because it is an Enemy to Merit in its Advancement in the World: But were I to chuse a Companion for your Billy, as he grows up, I should not think the worse of the Youth, who, not having had the Opportunities of knowing Men, or seeing the World, had this Defect. On the contrary, [Page 371] I should be apt to look upon it as an outward Fence or Inclosure, as I may say, to his Virtue, which might keep off the lighter Attacks of Immorality, the Hussars of Vice, as I may say, who are not able to carry on a formal Siege against his Morals; and I should expect such an one to be docile, humane, good-humour'd, diffident of himself, and so most likely to improve as well in Mind as Behaviour: While an harden'd Mind, that never doubts itself, must be a Stranger to its own Infirmities, and, suspecting none, is impetuous, over-bearing, incorrigible; and if rich, a Tyrant; if not, possibly an Invader of other Mens Properties.",2009-09-14 19:36:52 UTC,"""While an harden'd Mind, that never doubts itself, must be a Stranger to its own Infirmities""",2006-03-06 00:00:00 UTC,"Vol. 4, Letter 57","",,"","","Searching ""mind"" and ""stranger"" in HDIS (Prose)",12343,4671
"A DIALOGUE
Says Body to Mind, ''Tis amazing to see,
We're so nearly related yet never agree,
But lead a most wrangling strange sort of life,
As great plagues to each other as husband and wife.
The fault's all your own, who, with flagrant oppression,
Encroach every day on my lawful possession.
The best room in my house you have seized for your own,
And turned the whole tenement quite upside down,
While you hourly call in a disorderly crew
Of vagabond rogues, who have nothing to do
But to run in and out, hurry-scurry, and keep
Such a horrible uproar, I can't get to sleep.
There's my kitchen sometimes is as empty as sound,
I call for my servants, not one's to be found:
They are all sent out on your ladyship's errand,
To fetch some more riotous guests in, I warrant!
And since things are growing, I see, worse and worse,
I'm determined to force you to alter your course.'
Poor Mind, who heard all with extreme moderation,
Thought it now time to speak, and make her allegation:
''Tis I that, methinks, have most cause to complain,
Who am cramped and confined like a slave in a chain.
I did but step out, on some weighty affairs,
To visit last night, my good friends in the stars,
When, before I was got half as high as the moon,
You despatched Pain and Languor to hurry me down;
Vi & Armis they seized me, in midst of my flight,
And shut me in caverns as dark as the night.'
''Twas no more,' replied Body, 'than what you deserved;
While you rambled abroad, I at home was half starved:
And, unless I had closely confined you in hold,
You had left me to perish with hunger and cold.'
'I've a friend,' answers Mind, 'who, though slow, is yet sure,
And will rid me at last of your insolent power:
Will knock down your walls, the whole fabric demolish,
And at once your strong holds and my slavery abolish:
And while in your dust your dull ruins decay,
I'll snap off my chains and fly freely away.'
(p. 168)",2011-06-21 15:44:31 UTC,"""Says Body to Mind, ''Tis amazing to see, / We're so nearly related yet never agree, / But lead a most wrangling strange sort of life, / As great plagues to each other as husband and wife.'""",2009-09-14 19:36:53 UTC,I've included the entire poem,Dualism,2011-06-21,"",Reviewed 2003-10-22,Reading,12356,4685