id,comments,provenance,dictionary,created_at,reviewed_on,work_id,theme,context,updated_at,metaphor,text
14522,"","Searching in ""judg"" and ""bosom"" HDIS (Prose)",Court,2004-11-24 00:00:00 UTC,2012-05-15,5418,"","The Conclusion. Vol II, Epilogue",2012-05-15 20:27:35 UTC,"""But there was a judge in the bosom of Annesly, whom it was more difficult to satisfy; nor could he for a long time be brought to pardon himself that blow, for which the justice of his country had acquitted him.""","Early next morning sir Thomas Sindall expired. The commendable zeal of the coroner prompted him to hold an inquest on his body; the jury brought in their verdict Self-defence. But there was a judge in the bosom of Annesly, whom it was more difficult to satisfy; nor could he for a long time be brought to pardon himself that blow, for which the justice of his country had acquitted him.
After paying their last duty to sir Thomas's remains, the family removed to Sindall-Park. Mrs. Wistanly was prevailed on to leave her own house for a while, and preside in that of which Bolton was now master. His delicacy needed not the ceremonial of fashion to restrain him from pressing Miss Sindall's consent to their marriage, till a decent time had been yielded to the memory of her father. When that was elapsed, he received from her uncle that hand, which sir Thomas had bequeathed him, and which mutual attachment entitled him to receive.
(pp. 249-50)"
14671,"",Searching in HDIS (Prose),"",2009-09-14 19:41:35 UTC,2003-10-22,5483,"","Vol I, Letter 11
Julia to Maria",2012-01-25 21:37:07 UTC,"""Hide me, my friend, from the consciousness of my folly, or let it speak till its expiation be made, till I have banished Savillon from my mind ... Must I then banish him from my mind?""","I have now time to think, and power to express my thoughts--It is midnight, and the world is hushed around me! After the agitation of this day, I feel something silently sad at my heart, that can pour itself out to my friend!
Savillon! cruel Savillon!--but I complain, as if it were falsehood to have forgotten her whom perhaps he never loved.
She too must forget him--Maria! he is the husband of another! That sea-captain, who dined with my father today, is just returned from Martinique. With a beating heart, I heard him questioned of Savillon. With a beating heart I heard him tell of the riches he is said to have acquired by the death of that relation with whom he lived; but judge of its sensations, when he added, that Savillon was only prevented by that event, from marrying the daughter of a rich planter, who had been destined for his wife on the very day his uncle died, and whom he was still to marry as soon as decency would permit. ""And before this time, (said the stranger) he must be her husband.""
Before this time! --While I was cherishing romantic hopes! or, at least, while, amidst my distress, I had preserved inviolate the idea of his faith and my own. --But whither does this delusion carry me? Savillon has broken no faith; to me he never pledged it. Hide me, my friend, from the consciousness of my folly, or let it speak till its expiation be made, till I have banished Savillon from my mind.
Must I then banish him from my mind? Must I forget the scenes of our early days, the opinions we formed, the authors we read, the music we played together? There was a time when I was wont to retire from the profanity of vulgar souls, to indulge the remembrance!
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I heard somebody tap at my door. I was in that state of mind which every thing terrifies; I fancy I looked terrified, for my mother, when she entered, begged me, in a low voice, not to be alarmed.
(pp. 93-6)"
14679,•Savillon to Beauvaris. Opening of Volume II. Added a new entry under conquest on 1/20/2005.,"Found again searching ""conque"" and ""heart"" in HDIS (Prose) on 1/20/2005",Ruler,2009-09-14 19:41:36 UTC,2003-10-22,5483,"","Vol II, Letter 26
",2012-01-25 21:50:30 UTC,"""The love, to which at length I discovered my heart to be subject, had conquered without tumult, and become despotic under the semblance of freedom.""","The fate of my father, as well as mutual inclination, made Roubigné his friend; for this last is of a temper formed rather to delight in the pride of assisting unfortunate worth, than in the joy of knowing it in a better situation. After the death of my father, I became the ward of his friend's generosity: a state I should have brooked but ill, had not Julia been his daughter. From those early days, when first I knew her, I remember her friendship as making part of my existence: without her, pleasure was vapid, and sorrow, in her society, was changed into enjoyment. At that time of life, the mind has little reserve. We meant but friendship, and called it so without alarm. The love, to which at length I discovered my heart to be subject, had conquered without tumult, and become despotic under the semblance of freedom.
(pp. 5-6)"
14701,"•This poem is a response to another: The Duchess of Devonshire's Cow. Reason's bar is an artifact of that other poem. A second footnote (to ""Appeal reply"") gives the following lines (from that other poem?):
Thou Great Judge, Reason check awhile that frown!
And you, th'impannel'd jury, call'd the Town,
Mark well the Fair, who now before you stands,
And dares to hope acquittal at your hands.","Searching ""judge"" and ""reason"" in HDIS (Poetry)",Court,2004-09-01 00:00:00 UTC,2012-02-05,5491,"","",2012-02-05 17:04:36 UTC,"""For since, my Lord, at Reason's awful bar / You plac'd Devonia's Duchess, 'mid the war / Of jarring tongues; since Satire's two-edg'd sword, / That smites alike the Peasant and the Lord, / By Genius whetted, threats its angry blow; / --I tremble at the vengeance of the Foe-- / While my starv'd Muse from your lorn Heath retires.""","Thus did I sing, and thus did I intend;
But cool Reflection prov'd a timely friend!
For since, my Lord, at Reason's awful bar
You plac'd Devonia's Duchess, 'mid the war
Of jarring tongues; since Satire's two-edg'd sword,
That smites alike the Peasant and the Lord,
By Genius whetted, threats its angry blow;
--I tremble at the vengeance of the Foe--
While my starv'd Muse from your lorn Heath retires:
To her own chearful, animating fires;
Where Truth with fuel feeds the sober flame,
And Justice lights the blazing torch of Fame;
Where Satire forges the sharp-pointed dart,
That strikes its barb into the hardest heart;
And Virtue trims her lamp, whose ardent ray,
By Heaven imparted, never will decay.
There Reason did the wayward Truant own,
And for her idle wand'rings to atone,
Bade her to your unwise Appeal reply,
Made for the sake of tender Charity.
With pleasure I obey the dread command,
And now the Advocate of Reason stand.
'Tis she that does my honest strain prolong,
And turns my mirthful to a serious song."
15887,•Note that one can be a stranger to oneself...,"Searching HDIS for ""master passion""","",2004-05-25 00:00:00 UTC,,5976,Ruling Passion,"",2009-09-14 19:45:00 UTC,"A strenuous mind may have ""master passions"" that may be bred by nature or nurtured by indulgence","""These master passions of the strenuous mind,
""Whether by nature in it's essence bred,
""Or nurtur'd by indulgence unconfin'd
""Are best adapted for our use, to spread
""Our rule destructive and dominion dread.
""Prompted by these to ill, presumptuous man
""T' oppose th' eternal law of Heav'n is led:
""A stranger to himself, he dares to scan
""The Great Eternal Cause, and to correct His plan.
"
15891,"",HDIS,"",2004-08-11 00:00:00 UTC,,5976,"","",2009-09-14 19:45:00 UTC,"Doubts and fears may ""Contend for empire and distract the mind"""," ""Ah cease!"" he cried, ""fond Nymph! the heart t'upbraid,
""Which thy fair image too distinctly bears:
""The cloud, which darkly o'er my fancy play'd,
""Whate'er th' illusion may have caus'd, now clears,
""And, tho' with range uncertain, doubts and fears
""Contend for empire and distract my mind.
""Ah! look not so! drop not those pearly tears
""Hide those perfections, lest, to duty blind,
'Again my working soul to madness be resign'd!'
"
15892,•Spoken by the Monarch?,"Searching ""empire"" and ""soul"" in HDIS (Poetry)","",2004-08-11 00:00:00 UTC,,5976,"","",2009-09-14 19:45:00 UTC,"One may fix his empire ""o'er the soul of man"""," ""Might I without presumption sketch a plan,
""By which Heav'n's high behest to circumvent,
""And fix our empire o'er the soul of man,
""Thus would I realize my great intent.
""Let your expertest ministers be sent
""His heart against compassion's touch to steel;
""'Till, callous grown, he ceases to lament
""The tortures which his suff'ring victims feel,
""When from his hand they shrink, and make their vain appeal.
"
15893,"","Searching ""empire"" and ""heart"" in HDIS (Poetry)","",2004-08-22 00:00:00 UTC,,5976,"","",2009-09-14 19:45:01 UTC,"Subtlety may steal ""insidious empire o'er [the] weaken'd heart"""," ""'Tis transport worthy of infernal skill,
""To view the struggling and half-vanquish'd soul,
""Led on from crime to crime, entangled still,
""And still compell'd to own our high controul:
""To hear man curse the subtlety which stole
""Insidious empire o'er his weaken'd heart;
""Still framing new pretences, to console
""For added sin, yet by our potent art
""From virtue's bound'ry forc'd still further to depart."
19970,"",Reading,Fetters,2013-03-09 15:42:22 UTC,,7332,"","",2013-03-09 15:42:22 UTC,"""[T]he Slave Trade has enslaved their [Africans'] minds, blackened their character and sunk them so low in the scale of animal beings, that some think the very apes are of a higher class, and fancy the Ourang Outang has given them the go-by.""","I believe, Sir, I have now touched upon all the objections of any consequence, which are made to the abolition of this Trade.--When we consider the vastness of the Continent of Africa; when we reflect how all other countries have for some centuries past, been advancing in happiness and civilization; when we think how in this same period all improvement in Africa has been defeated by her intercourse with Britain; when we reflect how it is we ourselves that have degraded them to that wretched brutishness and barbarity which we now plead as the justification of our guilt; how the Slave Trade has enslaved their minds, blackened their character and sunk them so low in the scale of animal beings, that some think the very apes are of a higher class, and fancy the Ourang Outang has given them the go-by.--What a mortification must we feel at having so long neglected to think of our guilt, or to attempt any reparation: It seems, indeed, as if we had determined to forbear from all interference until the measure of our folly and wickedness was so full and complete; until the impolicy which eventually belongs to vice, was become so plain and glaring, that not an individual in the country would refuse to join in the abolition: It seems as if we had waited until the persons most interested should be tired out with the folly and nefariouness of the trade, and should unite in petitioning against it.
(47-8) "
24488,"",LION,"",2014-10-20 02:26:59 UTC,,5418,"","",2014-10-20 02:26:59 UTC,"""But he felt not that contrition which results from ingenuous sorrow for our offences; his soul was ruled by that gloomy demon, who looks only to the anguish of their punishment, and accuses the hand of providence, for calamity which himself has occasioned.""","The next morning he rose without knowing how the wants of the day were to be provided for, and strolling out into one of his accustomed walks, gave himself up to all the pangs, which the retrospect of the past, and the idea of the present, suggested. But he felt not that contrition which results from ingenuous sorrow for our offences; his soul was ruled by that gloomy demon, who looks only to the anguish of their punishment, and accuses the hand of providence, for calamity which himself has occasioned.
(p. 145)"