id,dictionary,theme,reviewed_on,metaphor,created_at,provenance,comments,work_id,text,context,updated_at
24094,Rooms,"",,"""What becomes of the old furniture when the new is continually introduced? In what hidden cells are these solid ideas lodged, that they may be produced again in good repair when wanted to fill the apartments of memory?""",2014-06-22 03:39:46 UTC,Reading (in the British Library),INTEREST: USE IN ENTRY?,7946,"If solid matter, either and entire solid, or a solid surrounding a vacuum, then the representation of objects in all their dimensions may be molded in the solid itself, or may be introduced into the included vacuum, as the furniture in a room. These solid representations must be of a texture hard and firm, else how can the mind retain its ideas? Yet they must be sufficiently soft and yielding instantly to admit of new shapes, else how shall we account for the quick succession of ideas? What becomes of the old furniture when the new is continually introduced? In what hidden cells are these solid ideas lodged, that they may be produced again in good repair when wanted to fill the apartments of memory? What gives life to these figures; and how are they perceived and felt?
(pp. 34-5)","",2014-06-22 03:39:46 UTC
24095,Writing,"",,"""Ideas of sense are but the first elements of thought: and the produce raised from these elements by the operation of the mind upon them is as far superiour to the elements themselves in variety, copiousness and use, as books are to the characters of which they are composed.""",2014-06-22 03:40:46 UTC,Reading (in the British Library),"",7946,"Perception is the first and lowest operation of the mind. If then the action of matter upon matter cannot account for the formation and perception of the ideas of sense, how will it account for all the higher operations of the mind? ideas of sense are but the first elements of thought: and the produce raised from these elements by the operation of the mind upon them is as far superiour to the elements themselves in variety, copiousness and use, as books are to the characters of which they are composed. How shall he who is ignorant of the use of letters, write an history, or a poem? If matter acting upon matter cannot account for the production of the elementary ideas, how can it account for all that is accomplished by the action of the mind upon them?
(p. 39)","",2014-06-22 03:40:46 UTC
24096,"","",,"""So that all material objects, in themselves, and to each other, are dark and naked: to the mind alone are they cloathed in all the pleasing variety of sensible qualities.""",2014-06-22 03:41:31 UTC,Reading (in the British Library),"",7946,"But when it acts upon the mind, a variety of qualities, till then unkown, are first discovered. For to the mind it not only appears solid, figured and moveable, but enriched with beautiful colours; grateful to the taste; perfumed with pleasant odours; and yielding sweet harmonious sounds. So that all material objects, in themselves, and to each other, are dark and naked: to the mind alone are they cloathed in all the pleasing variety of sensible qualities
(p. 50)","",2014-06-22 03:41:31 UTC
24097,"","",,"""Mind, like a bride from a nobler family, enriches matter by its union, and brings as a dower, possessions before unknown. Henceforth matter appears cloathed in a gayer and richer garment; and the fruits of this union are a new progeny, to which matter, confining its alliance to its own family, could never have given birth.""",2014-06-22 03:42:37 UTC,Reading (in the British Library),"",7946,"Mind, like a bride from a nobler family, enriches matter by its union, and brings as a dower, possessions before unknown. Henceforth matter appears cloathed in a gayer and richer garment; and the fruits of this union are a new progeny, to which matter, confining its alliance to its own family, could never have given birth.
(pp. 50-1).","",2014-06-22 03:42:37 UTC
24098,Impressions,"",,"""When the outward object hath made its impression, and stamped the idea, the passive organ hath then done its part, and the rest is accomplished by the presiding mind.""",2014-06-22 03:43:37 UTC,Reading (in the British Library),"",7946,"When the outward object hath made its impression, and stamped the idea, the passive organ hath then done its part, and the rest is accomplished by the presiding mind. Which, like a skilful artist, goes to work upon the materials furnished by the senses; comparing selecting, analysing, and abstracting; till by placing them in different points of view their fitness, relations, and dependencies are seen. Then the first rays of truth break in upon the mind; the principles of knowledge are established; and the powers of reason are employed. Led by the light of truths already known, new truths are daily discovered; the bounds of knowledge are gradually englarged; and the mind is all enlightened.
(pp. 54-5)","",2014-06-22 03:43:37 UTC
24099,"","",,"""Which, like a skilful artist, goes to work upon the materials furnished by the senses; comparing selecting, analysing, and abstracting; till by placing them in different points of view their fitness, relations, and dependencies are seen.""",2014-06-22 03:44:39 UTC,Reading (in the British Library),"",7946,"When the outward object hath made its impression, and stamped the idea, the passive organ hath then done its part, and the rest is accomplished by the presiding mind. Which, like a skilful artist, goes to work upon the materials furnished by the senses; comparing selecting, analysing, and abstracting; till by placing them in different points of view their fitness, relations, and dependencies are seen. Then the first rays of truth break in upon the mind; the principles of knowledge are established; and the powers of reason are employed. Led by the light of truths already known, new truths are daily discovered; the bounds of knowledge are gradually englarged; and the mind is all enlightened.
(pp. 54-5)","",2014-06-22 03:44:39 UTC
24100,"","",,"""But the difference is much greater between the ideas of sense, the materials upon which the mind first begins its work, and the truths produced by its operations, than between the rough marble, and the statue formed by the skill of PHIDIAS.""",2014-06-22 03:46:02 UTC,Reading (in the British Library),"",7946,"A block of marble is hewn from the quarry, and brought to PHIDIAS a rude and shapeless mass. He works upon it, reduces it into shape, gives it form and proportion, and a beautiful statue is produced. Is PHIDIAS himself who performed the work, a fragment from a rock? and is the idea of beauty after which he worked no more than a marble image within him?
But the difference is much greater between the ideas of sense, the materials upon which the mind first begins its work, and the truths produced by its operations, than between the rough marble, and the statue formed by the skill of PHIDIAS.
Let matter then be allowed to furnish the first materials; the enlightened mind, which by its operations upon these discovers truth, and pursues it through all its distant connections, must have powers as far superiour to that which gave the first impression, as PHIDIAS is superiour to the marble.
(pp. 55-6)","",2014-06-22 03:46:02 UTC
24101,"","",,"""Let matter then be allowed to furnish the first materials; the enlightened mind, which by its operations upon these discovers truth, and pursues it through all its distant connections, must have powers as far superiour to that which gave the first impression, as PHIDIAS is superiour to the marble.""",2014-06-22 03:47:54 UTC,Reading (in the British Library),"",7946,"A block of marble is hewn from the quarry, and brought to PHIDIAS a rude and shapeless mass. He works upon it, reduces it into shape, gives it form and proportion, and a beautiful statue is produced. Is PHIDIAS himself who performed the work, a fragment from a rock? and is the idea of beauty after which he worked no more than a marble image within him?
But the difference is much greater between the ideas of sense, the materials upon which the mind first begins its work, and the truths produced by its operations, than between the rough marble, and the statue formed by the skill of PHIDIAS.
Let matter then be allowed to furnish the first materials; the enlightened mind, which by its operations upon these discovers truth, and pursues it through all its distant connections, must have powers as far superiour to that which gave the first impression, as PHIDIAS is superiour to the marble.
(pp. 55-6)","",2014-06-22 03:47:54 UTC
25057,"","",,"""I hardly believe there is in any language a metaphor more appositely applied, or more elegantly expressed, than this of the effects of the warmth of fancy.""",2017-03-09 19:11:01 UTC,Reading,META-METAPHORICAL. LOCKEAN LIT.,8211,"5. In the soul while MEMORY prevails,
The solid pow'r of UNDERSTANDING fails;
Where beams of bright imagination play,
The memory's soft figures melt away. * —
I hardly believe there is in any language a metaphor more appositely applied, or more elegantly expressed, than this of the effects of the warmth of fancy. Locke who has embellished his dry subject with a vast variety of pleasing similitudes and allusions, has a passage relating to the retentiveness of the memory so very like this before us, and so happily worded, that I cannot forbear giving the reader the pleasure of comparing them together; only premising that these two passages are patterns of the manner in which the metaphor should be used, and of the method of preserving it unmixed with any other idea, and not continuing it too far. Our minds represent to us those tombs to which we are approaching; where though the brass and marble remain, yet the inscriptions are effaced by time, and the imagery moulders away. How much the constitution of our bodies are concerned in this, and whether the temper of the brain makes this difference, that in some, it retains the characters drawn on it like marble, in others like freestone, and in others little better than sand, I shall not here enquire; though it may seem probable that the constitution of the body does sometimes influence the memory; since we sometimes find, a disease quite strip the mind of all its ideas, and the flames of a fever, in a few days CALCINE all those images to dust and confusion, which seemed to be as lasting as if graved in marble.",Section 3. Essay on Criticism,2017-03-09 19:11:01 UTC