work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
5976,Ruling Passion,"Searching HDIS for ""master passion""",2004-05-25 00:00:00 UTC,"""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.
",,15887,•Note that one can be a stranger to oneself...,"A strenuous mind may have ""master passions"" that may be bred by nature or nurtured by indulgence","",2009-09-14 19:45:00 UTC,""
5976,"",HDIS,2004-08-11 00:00:00 UTC," ""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!'
",,15889,"","The heart may bear a ""fair image""","",2009-09-14 19:45:00 UTC,""
5976,"",HDIS,2004-08-11 00:00:00 UTC," ""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!'
",,15890,"",A cloud may darkly over one's fancy play,"",2009-09-14 19:45:00 UTC,""
5976,"",HDIS,2004-08-11 00:00:00 UTC," ""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!'
",,15891,"","Doubts and fears may ""Contend for empire and distract the mind""","",2009-09-14 19:45:00 UTC,""
5976,"","Searching ""empire"" and ""soul"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2004-08-11 00:00:00 UTC," ""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.
",,15892,•Spoken by the Monarch?,"One may fix his empire ""o'er the soul of man""","",2009-09-14 19:45:00 UTC,""
5976,"","Searching ""empire"" and ""heart"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2004-08-22 00:00:00 UTC," ""'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.",,15893,"","Subtlety may steal ""insidious empire o'er [the] weaken'd heart""","",2009-09-14 19:45:01 UTC,""
5976,"",Searching HDIS (Poetry),2005-04-07 00:00:00 UTC," ""But thee nor toils nor adverse fate alarm:
""Thy gallant heart, where constancy presides,
""Which innate worth and gen'rous feelings warm,
""Mocks at extrinsic chance and fear derides.
""Tho' threat'ning oceans heave their boist'rous tides,
""Tho' light'nings glare, and thunders round thee roll,
""Protecting Heav'n my wand'ring hero guides,
""Inspires new courage fortune to controul,
""Braces each nerve, and stamps with energy his soul.
",,15896,"","Heaven ""Braces each nerve, and stamps with energy his soul""","",2009-09-14 19:45:01 UTC,""
5976,"",Searching HDIS (Poetry),2005-04-07 00:00:00 UTC," ""Stampt on my soul, and with my life combin'd,
""Is the remembrance of my much-lov'd King;
""And dear the hours which to my grateful mind
""The splendid image of his virtues bring.
""From this pure source of knightly prowess spring
""All that of promise grac'd my rude essays.
""Thus when the Eaglet tries his feeble wing,
""Led by his princely sire, he learns to raise
""Towards Heaven his ardent glance, and on the sun to gaze.
",,15897,"","""Stampt on my soul, and with my life combin'd, / Is the remembrance of my much-lov'd King""","",2009-09-14 19:45:01 UTC,""
5976,"","Searching ""heart"" and ""impression"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2005-05-16 00:00:00 UTC," Thus saying, to her wildly throbbing breast,
Which rose as if convuls'd with amorous pain,
With grasp ecstatic she the Monarch press'd.
A kindling ardour rush'd thro' ev'ry vein,
Panting he gaz'd, scarce able to sustain
The soft impressions which his heart assail'd.
But faith and duty soon resum'd their reign:
He paus'd, he sigh'd, as reason's pow'r unveil'd
The artifice refin'd which o'er his soul prevail'd.",,15900,"","""Panting he gaz'd, scarce able to sustain / The soft impressions which his heart assail'd.""",Impression,2009-09-14 19:45:02 UTC,""
5976,"","Searching ""breast"" and ""impression"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2005-05-20 00:00:00 UTC," As hung the list'ning warriors on his song
He saw the varying passions as they rose,
And mark'd in every face th' emotion strong.
Sudden a melancholy theme he chose;
And, as he sung the fallen hero's woes,
The sympathetic chords he softly press'd.
Still, at each mournful modulation's close,
Th' impression sad pervaded every breast,
Each moisten'd eye the power of melody confess'd.",,15901,"",""" Th' impression sad pervaded every breast,""",Impression,2009-09-14 19:45:02 UTC,""