text,updated_at,metaphor,created_at,context,theme,reviewed_on,dictionary,comments,provenance,id,work_id
"Thus they, in lowliest plight, repentant stood
Praying; for from the mercy-seat above
Prevenient grace descending had removed
The stony from their hearts, and made new flesh
Regenerate grow instead; that sighs now breathed
Unutterable; which the Spirit of prayer
Inspired, and winged for Heaven with speedier flight
Than loudest oratory: Yet their port
Not of mean suitors; nor important less
Seemed their petition, than when the ancient pair
In fables old, less ancient yet than these,
Deucalion and chaste Pyrrha, to restore
The race of mankind drowned, before the shrine
Of Themis stood devout. To Heaven their prayers
Flew up, nor missed the way, by envious winds
Blown vagabond or frustrate: in they passed
Dimensionless through heavenly doors; then clad
With incense, where the golden altar fumed,
By their great intercessour, came in sight
Before the Father's throne: them the glad Son
Presenting, thus to intercede began.
(Bk. XI, ll. 1-21)",2010-01-06 04:47:55 UTC,"""Thus they, in lowliest plight, repentant stood / Praying; for from the mercy-seat above / Prevenient grace descending had removed / The stony from their hearts, and made new flesh / Regenerate grow instead.""",2003-08-20 00:00:00 UTC,Adam and Eve repent and pray,"",,"","•See Ezekiel 11:19: ""And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a new heart of flesh."" Cited in Longman. Appears in this database.",HDIS,9442,3636
"So saying, on he led his radiant files,
Dazzling the moon; these to the bower direct
In search of whom they sought: Him there they found
Squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve,
Assaying by his devilish art to reach
The organs of her fancy, and with them forge
Illusions, as he list, phantasms and dreams;
Or if, inspiring venom, he might taint
The animal spirits, that from pure blood arise
Like gentle breaths from rivers pure, thence raise
At least distempered, discontented thoughts,
Vain hopes, vain aims, inordinate desires,
Blown up with high conceits ingendering pride.
Him thus intent Ithuriel with his spear
Touched lightly; for no falshood can endure
Touch of celestial temper, but returns
Of force to its own likeness: Up he starts
Discovered and surprised. As when a spark
Lights on a heap of nitrous powder, laid
Fit for the tun some magazine to store
Against a rumoured war, the smutty grain,
With sudden blaze diffused, inflames the air;
So started up in his own shape the Fiend.
Back stept those two fair Angels, half amazed
So sudden to behold the grisly king;
Yet thus, unmoved with fear, accost him soon.
(Bk. IV, ll. 797-822)",2010-01-06 05:23:10 UTC,"""Him there they found / Squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve, / Assaying by his devilish art to reach / The organs of her fancy, and with them forge / Illusions, as he list, phantasms and dreams.""",2003-08-21 00:00:00 UTC,Book IV,"",,Metal,•Ithuriel discovers Satan at Eve's ear. What sense of forge? Forgery or smithing?
•The Longman note on animal spirits holds that Milton believed devils had no access to man's reason and could only work on his imagination. I need to rehearse the distinctions between natural and animal spirits. REVISIT note. ,HDIS (Poetry),9455,3636
"See first a man--of heart as proud
As Lucifer, and half as loud:
As wanton too his eye:
Believe his tale, he's meek and low:
So pure--His thoughts as silver flow:
His mind ne'er mounted high!
",2009-09-14 19:38:38 UTC,"""His thoughts as silver flow""",2005-06-03 00:00:00 UTC,"","",,Metal,"","Searching ""mind"" and ""silver"" in HDIS (Poetry)",13529,5029
And mayn't the fear of death be gone
From thousands as from only one:
Whose state is insecure?
Not sure where found the noble mind:
From vulgar dross and dregs refin'd:
High polish'd--and obdure!,2009-09-14 19:38:39 UTC,"""Not sure where found the noble mind: / From vulgar dross and dregs refin'd: / High polish'd--and obdure!""",2005-07-19 00:00:00 UTC,"",Refinement,,Metal,"","Searching ""mind"" and ""dross"" in HDIS (Poetry)",13534,5029
"Who would the image of his lord retrieve,
Partake His nature, and His mind receive,
Must ask in faith, not doubting or afraid
To plead the promise that Himself hath made:
Yet patient wait, till grace his will subdue,
The fire his dross, the spirit his heart renew:
Dead to his own, as in the world's esteem,
He fits the cross, as that now fitteth him;
Where, stretch'd at length, he shall a conqueror die,
Entomb with Him, and then remount the sky!",2009-09-14 19:42:42 UTC,"""Yet patient wait, till grace his will subdue, / The fire his dross, the spirit his heart renew:""",2005-07-19 00:00:00 UTC,I've included the entire poem,"",,"","","Searching ""heart"" and ""dross"" in HDIS (Poetry)",15074,5639
"1
THE Great Jehovah! who shall dare
With him to tempt unequal War?
What Heart of Steel shall dare t'oppose
And league among his hard'ned Foes?
2
At his Command the Lightnings dart,
And swift transfix the rebel Heart:
Earth trembles at his Look, and cleaves,
And Legions sink in living Graves.
(pp. 22-3)",2014-03-12 21:50:14 UTC,"""What Heart of Steel shall dare t'oppose / And league among his hard'ned Foes?""",2014-03-12 21:50:14 UTC,XXVI. The Impossibility of Prospering while we harden ourselves against God. Job ix. 4.,"",,Metal,"","Searching ""heart"" and ""steel"" in ECCO-TCP.",23687,7849
"7
""In glad Submission bow ye down,
""Nor steel that stubborn Heart;
""'Till mine inexorable Voice
""Pronounce the Word, Depart.""
8
Blest Jesus, may thy Spirit breathe
On Souls, which else must dye;
For, till thy Grace reflect the Sound,
Thy Word in vain will cry.
(p. 66)",2014-03-12 21:53:28 UTC,"""'In glad Submission bow ye down, / ' Nor steel that stubborn Heart.""",2014-03-12 21:52:30 UTC,LXXIV. The Voice of CHRIST addressed to the Children of Men. Proverbs viii. 4.,"",,Metal,"","Searching ""heart"" and ""steel"" in ECCO-TCP",23688,7849