work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
5544,"",HDIS,2003-12-15 00:00:00 UTC,"Nor he alone address'd the wayward fair;
Full many a knight had been entangled there.
But still, whoever woo'd her or embraced,
On every mind some mighty spell she cast.
Some she would teach (for she was wondrous wise,
And made her dupes see all things with her eyes,)
That forms material, whatsoe'er we dream,
Are not at all, or are not what they seem;
That substances and modes of every kind
Are mere impressions on the passive mind;
And he that splits his cranium, breaks at most
A fancied head against a fancied post:
Others, that earth, ere sin had drown'd it all,
Was smooth and even as an ivory ball;
That all the various beauties we survey,
Hills, valleys, rivers, and the boundless sea,
Are but departures from the first design,
Effects of punishment and wrath divine.
She tutor'd some in Dædalus's art,
And promised they should act his wildgoose part,
On waxen pinions soar without a fall,
Swift as the proudest gander of them all.
(ll. 34-55, p. 233-4)",2004-01-25,14819,"•A response to his cousin the Reverend Martin Madan, whose Thelyphthora, or, A Treatise on Female Ruin recommended that a rake become financially responsible for any girl he ruins. Madan's tract challenges the 1753 Marriage Act. Intercourse is by divine ordinance that which makes a marriage (see Exod. xxii. 16 and Deut. xxii. 29). Baird and Ryskamp write, ""Cowper wrote several short poems against Thelyphthora in the course of spring and summer 1780"" (vol. i, p. 502). See also L. Hartley's ""Cowper and the Polygamous Parson"" MLQ, xvi (1955), 137-41.
•The poem is an allegory: Dame Hypothesis is wooed by Airy del Castro.
•The bolded line (and what follows) seems to concern Berkeley's idealism. INTEREST. USE in entry.","The ""passive mind"" may be (merely) impressed by substances and modes",Impression,2009-09-14 19:42:01 UTC,""
5559,"","Found again searching ""stamp"" and ""mind"" in HDIS (Poetry); confirmed in ECCO-TCP.",2003-12-15 00:00:00 UTC,"Faults in the life breed errors in the brain,
And these, reciprocally, those again.
The mind and conduct mutually imprint
And stamp their image in each other's mint.
Each, sire and dam of an infernal race,
Begetting and conceiving all that's base.
(ll. 564-569, p. 278; cf. p. 69 in 1782 ed.)",2012-04-10,14852,"At least 6 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1782, 1790, 1794, 1798, 1800).
•Cross-reference: Goldsmith's Retaliation: ""Here lies honest William, whose heart was a mint,"" (l. 43). See also Yorick's comparison of English and French characters and th entries concerned with treasure.
•INTEREST. Use in dissertation.","""The mind and conduct mutually imprint / And stamp their image in each other's mint.""",Coinage and Impressions,2014-07-13 16:24:39 UTC,""
6370,"","Searching ""soul"" and ""seal"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2005-04-19 00:00:00 UTC,"""Take the bloody seal I give thee,
Deep impressed upon thy soul;
God, thy God will now receive thee,
Faith hath sav'd thee, thou art whole.""
Grace Divine, &c.",,16842,"","""Take the bloody seal I give thee, / Deep impressed upon thy soul.""",Impressions,2011-06-25 02:57:41 UTC,""