work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
3887,Soliloquy; Physiognomy,"Searching ""heart"" and ""stamp"" in HDIS (Drama)",2005-04-11 00:00:00 UTC,"WELL.
(solus)
I'll think no more on't, 'tis impossible: what's impossible? nothing's impossible to a Woman: we judge but on the outside of that Sex; and know not what they can, nor what they doe, more than they please to shew us. I have known Mrs. Sightly these seven years--known her! I mean, I have seen her, observed her, followed her: may be there's no knowing a Woman: but in all that time, I never found a freedom, that allowed me any encouragement beyond a friend--May be I have been wanting to my self--But then she would not throw her self away upon a common Lover; that's not probable: If she had been affectedly reserv'd, I wou'd suspect, the Devil in her heart had stampt the sign of Vertue in her looks, that she might cheat the world, and sin more close. But she is open in her carriage, easie, clear of those arts that have made Lust a Trade--Perhaps that openness may be design--'Tis easie to raise doubts--And still she may be--I won't think she can--till I know more: But Wittwoud is, I know her, every thing that's mischievous; abandon'd and undone; undone her self, she wou'd undo the Sex: she is to bawd for VVilding: I know her bad enough for any trade. But Bawds have some good Nature, and procure pleasure for pay: VVittwoud has baser ends, A general ruine upon all her friends.",,10063,"","""I wou'd suspect, the Devil in her heart had stampt the sign of Vertue in her looks, that she might cheat the world, and sin more close""","",2009-09-14 19:34:41 UTC,"Act III, scene i"
7519,"",C-H Lion,2013-07-09 14:32:01 UTC,"LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR.
Fye, fye, I wou'd not force her. Tho' she be
A Slave, her Mind is free, and shou'd consent.
OROONOKO.
Such Honour will engage her to consent:
And then, if you'r in love, she's worth the having.
Shall we not see this wonder?
LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR.
Have a care;
You have a Heart, and she has conquering Eyes.
(p. 27)",,21565,"","""Tho' she be / A Slave, her Mind is free, and shou'd consent.""",Fetters,2013-07-09 14:32:01 UTC,""
7519,"",C-H Lion,2013-07-09 14:33:04 UTC,"OROONOKO.
If you but mock me with her Image here:
If she be not Imoinda --
Ha! she faints!
[She looks upon him, and falls into a Swoon, he runs to her]
Nay, then it must be she: it is Imoinda:
My Heart confesses her, and leaps for joy,
To welcome her to her own Empire here.
I feel her all, in every part of me.
O! let me press her in my eager Arms,
Wake her to life, and with this kindling Kiss
Give back that Soul, she only sent to me.
[Kisses her]
(p. 32)",,21566,"","""Nay, then it must be she: it is Imoinda:
My Heart confesses her, and leaps for joy, / To welcome her to her own Empire here.""",Empire,2013-07-09 14:33:04 UTC,""
7519,"",C-H Lion,2013-07-09 14:35:41 UTC,"OROONOKO.
Take, take me all: enquire into my heart,
(You know the way to every secret there)
My Heart, the sacred treasury of Love:
And if, in absence, I have mis-employ'd
A Mite from the rich store: if I have spent
A Wish, a Sigh, but what I sent to you:
May I be curst to wish, and sigh in vain,
And you not pity me.
(p. 33)",,21567,"","""Take, take me all: enquire into my heart, / (You know the way to every secret there) / My Heart, the sacred treasury of Love: / And if, in absence, I have mis-employ'd / A Mite from the rich store: if I have spent / A Wish, a Sigh, but what I sent to you: / May I be curst to wish, and sigh in vain, / And you not pity me.""",Coinage,2013-07-09 14:35:41 UTC,""
7519,"",C-H Lion,2013-07-09 14:36:54 UTC,"OROONOKO.
Let the Fools, who follow Fortune, live upon her smiles.
All our Prosperity is plac'd in Love.
We have enough of that to make us happy.
This little spot of Earth you stand upon,
Is more to me, than the extended Plains
Of my great Father's Kingdom. Here I reign
In full delights, in Joys to Pow'r unknown;
Your Love my Empire, and your Heart my Throne.
(p. 34)",,21568,USE IN ENTRY,"""Here I reign / In full delights, in Joys to Pow'r unknown; / Your Love my Empire, and your Heart my Throne.""",Empire and Throne,2013-07-09 14:36:54 UTC,""
7519,"",C-H Lion,2013-07-09 14:39:33 UTC,"HOTTMAN.
Curse? only curse? I cannot conjure,
To raise the Spirits of other Men:
I am but one. O! for a Soul of fire,
To warm, and animate our common Cause,
And make a body of us: then I wou'd
Do something more than curse.
(p. 35)",,21569,"","""O! for a Soul of fire, / To warm, and animate our common Cause, / And make a body of us.""","",2013-07-09 14:39:33 UTC,""
7519,"",C-H Lion,2013-07-09 14:41:52 UTC,"OROONOKO.
Ha! thou hast rouz'd
The Lion in his den, he stalks abroad,
And the wide Forrest trembles at his roar.
I find the danger now: my Spirits start
At the alarm, and from all quarters come
To Man my Heart, the Citadel of love
Is there a power on Earth to force you from me?
And shall I not resist it? not strike first
To keep, to save you? to prevent that curse?
This is your Cause, and shall it not prevail?
O! you were born all ways to conquer me.
Now I am fashion'd to thy purpose: speak,
What Combination, what Conspiracy,
Woud'st thou engage me in? Ile undertake
All thou woud'st have me now for liberty,
For the great Cause of Love and Liberty.
(p. 42)",,21570,"","""I find the danger now: my Spirits start / At the alarm, and from all quarters come / To Man my Heart, the Citadel of love.""",Inhabitants and Room,2013-07-09 14:41:52 UTC,""
7519,"",C-H Lion,2013-07-09 14:42:47 UTC,"OROONOKO.
Imoinda! Oh!
'Tis She that holds me on this Argument
Of tedious Life: I cou'd resolve it soon,
Were this curst Being only in Debate.
But my Imoinda struggles in my Soul:
She makes a Coward of me: I Confess
I am afraid to part with Her in Death:
And more afraid of Life to lose Her here.
(pp. 61-2)",,21571,"","""I cou'd resolve it soon, / Were this curst Being only in Debate. / But my Imoinda struggles in my Soul.""","",2013-07-09 14:42:47 UTC,""
7519,"",C-H Lion,2013-07-09 14:43:42 UTC,"IMOINDA.
But 'tis a pleasure more than life can give,
That with unconquer'd Passion to the last,
You struggle still, and fain wou'd hold me to you.
(p. 80)",,21572,"","""But 'tis a pleasure more than life can give, / That with unconquer'd Passion to the last, / You struggle still, and fain wou'd hold me to you.""",Empire,2013-07-09 14:43:42 UTC,""
7519,"",C-H Lion,2013-07-09 14:45:10 UTC,"OROONOKO.
Ever, ever, and let those stars, which are my Enemies,
Witness against me in the other World,
If I wou'd leave this Mansion of my Bliss,
To be the brightest Ruler of their Skies.
O! that we cou'd incorporate, be one,
[Embracing her]
One Body, as we have been long one Mind:
That blended so, we might together mix,
And losing thus our Beings to the World,
Be only found to one anothers Joys.
(pp. 80-1)",,21573,"","""O! that we cou'd incorporate, be one, / One Body, as we have been long one Mind: / That blended so, we might together mix, / And losing thus our Beings to the World, / Be only found to one anothers Joys.""","",2013-07-09 14:45:10 UTC,""