work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
5459,"",Reading but the text comes from HDIS (Drama),2003-11-02 00:00:00 UTC,"JULIA
I see you are determined to be unkind.-- The contract which my poor father bound us in gives you more than a lover's privilege.
FAULKLAND
Again, Julia, you raise ideas that feed and justify my doubts.--I would not have been more free--no--I am proud of my restraint.-- Yet--yet--perhaps your high respect alone for this solemn compact has fettered your inclinations, which else had made worthier choice.--How shall I be sure, had you remained unbound in thought and promise, that I should still have been the object of your persevering love?
JULIA
Then try me now.--Let us be free as strangers as to what is past:-- my heart will not feel more liberty!
FAULKLAND
There now! so hasty, Julia! so anxious to be free!--If your love for me were fixed and ardent, you would not loose your hold, even tho' I wish'd it!
JULIA
O, you torture me to the heart!--I cannot bear it.
FAULKAND
I do not mean to distress you.--If I lov'd you less, I should never give you an uneasy moment. --But hear me.--All my fretful doubts arise from this--Women are not used to weigh, and separate the motives of their affections:--the cold dictates of prudence, gratitude, or filial duty, may sometimes be mistaken for the pleadings of the heart.--I would not boast--yet let me say, that I have neither age, person, or character, to found dislike on;--my fortune such as few ladies could be charged with indiscretion in the match.--O Julia! when Love receives such countenance from Prudence , nice minds will be suspicious of its birth .
JULIA
I know not whither your insinuations would tend:--as they seem pressing to insult me--I will spare you the regret of having done so.--I have given you no cause for this!
(Act III, Scene ii)",2011-06-26,14596,"•There is something Kantian about Faulkland's (sentimental?) reasoning...
•See also Faulkland's speech about the birth of love below.","""Yet--yet--perhaps your high respect alone for this solemn compact has fettered your inclinations, which else had made worthier choice.""",Fetters,2011-05-27 13:59:03 UTC,"Act III, scene ii. Faulkland and Julia attempt to make up"
7141,"","Searching ""bond"" and ""heart"" in HDIS (Drama)",2012-01-06 19:21:27 UTC,"TOWNLY
'Tis true, or may I never merit your attention--She is the deceitful sorceress who now holds your husband's heart in bondage.
(V.i)",,19382,"","""She is the deceitful sorceress who now holds your husband's heart in bondage.""",Fetters,2012-01-06 19:21:36 UTC,"Act V, Scene i"