id,comments,provenance,dictionary,created_at,reviewed_on,work_id,theme,context,updated_at,metaphor,text
14277,"","Searching ""mind"" and ""stamp"" in HDIS (Drama)","",2005-04-11 00:00:00 UTC,,5322,"","Act II, scene ii",2009-09-14 19:40:28 UTC,"A debt of gratitude to parents is ""stamp'd upon our frames; In polish'd minds it shines the most""","SO.
How terrible is my situation! I can never marry this man--shall I then turn rebel against a father's authority, and violate one of the strongest obligations that nature has imposed on us? I shudder at the thought!
AIR. Set by Mr. Arnold.
Duty is nature's strongest law;
A tie, that all should have in view;
A debt of gratitude, love, awe,
To every tender parent due.
By heaven 'tis stamp'd upon our frames;
In polish'd minds it shines the most:
The wretch that duty's bond disclaims,
Must be to every virtue lost.
[Sits down in a musing posture.
And yet methinks duty cannot demand the sacrifice of my own happiness! Surely neither heaven nor nature require me, in obedience to a parent, to marry a man, with whom I must be for ever miserable."
14284,"","Searching ""mind"" and ""stamp"" in HDIS (Drama)","",2005-04-11 00:00:00 UTC,,5322,"","Act II, scene ii",2009-09-14 19:40:29 UTC,"""Your beauteous looks inspire my mind / With passion of the purest kind: / No selfish views my bosom sway, / But all is love without allay.""","JON.
But, at the same time, I know your compliance with them cannot be compelled.
AIR. Dr. Arne.
Your beauteous looks inspire my mind
With passion of the purest kind:
No selfish views my bosom sway,
But all is love without allay.
Of such a darling gem possess'd,
My lot would be supremely blest;
Possession would increase my joy,
For charms like yours can never cloy.
With every charm, with every grace
Hath nature deck'd that form, and face;
At your creation heaven design'd
To show a goddess to mankind."