work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
6825,"",Reading in Google Books,2011-04-18 02:39:23 UTC,"Nothing is more luxuriant to a thinking mind than self approbation: It is a sun which dispels the clouds of solicitude and anxiety. Homer tells us of an herb which the ancients called Nepenthe; that being made an ingredient in their feasts, banished sorrow from their minds. I wish we could obtain this valuable plant for my aunt: It would be a pleasing substitute for cards; for, as usual, the tea tray is no sooner removed, than the apparatus for play is introduced.
(p. 33-4)
",,18302,"","""Nothing is more luxuriant to a thinking mind than self approbation: It is a sun which dispels the clouds of solicitude and anxiety.""","",2011-04-18 02:39:23 UTC,Letter III
5767,"",Reading,2013-03-21 05:22:11 UTC,"In my interview with Dr. Johnson this evening, I was quite easy, quite as his companion; upon which I find in my Journal the following reflection: ""So ready is my mind to suggest matter for dissatisfaction, that I felt a sort of regret that I was so easy. I missed that aweful reverence with which I used to contemplate Mr. Samuel Johnson, in the complex magnitude of his literary, moral, and religious character. I have a wonderful superstitious love of mystery; when, perhaps, the truth is, that it is owing to the cloudy darkness of my own mind. I should be glad that I am more advanced in my progress of being, so that I can view Dr. Johnson with a steadier and clearer eye. My dissatisfaction to-night was foolish. Would it not be foolish to regret that we shall have less mystery in a future state? That we 'now see in a glass darkly,' but shall 'then see face to face ?""--This reflection, which I thus freely communicate, will be valued by the thinking part of my readers, who may have themselves experienced similar states of mind.
(vol. II, p. 187; Penguin, 645)",,19982,"","""I have a wonderful superstitious love of mystery; when, perhaps, the truth is, that it is owing to the cloudy darkness of my own mind.""","",2013-03-21 05:22:11 UTC,Aetat 69
7391,"",Reading at the Folger,2013-05-16 22:07:01 UTC,"O hail, thou blest anticipated day!
Gild my young Muse with one enlightened ray:
So shall thy light each intellect refine,
Burn in each thought, and glow thro' ev'ry line.
Hail, happy dawn! thy glorious sun shall rise,
Beam on the dreary night of polar skies;
Chase the thick mists of ignorance away,
And on the darkest mind emit full day.
At thy approach Injustice shall retreat,
Astraea shall resume her long-lost seat,
The reign of red-arm'd Tyranny be past,
Oppression cease, and Discord breathe her last;
No more shall men with hate their brethren greet;
No more the slave shall kiss his master's feet;
No more with speechless patience crouching bear
The chains that gall him, and the whips that tear;
No more the wretch, despondent in his grief,
Crawl to a vault, and die without relief.
(pp. 31-2)",,20192,"","""Hail, happy dawn! thy glorious sun shall rise, / Beam on the dreary night of polar skies; / Chase the thick mists of ignorance away, / And on the darkest mind emit full day.""","",2013-05-16 22:07:01 UTC,Part II
7991,"",Searching in ECCO,2014-07-29 19:42:48 UTC,"[...] He who luxuriates in abundance, has to expect evil, and should fortify his mind to receive the pressures of want. The favours of fortune are never permanent; pleasure and pain are inseparable concomitants; and as good is succeeded by misfortune, so is joy followed by grief. Like the blue firmament above us, our minds and fortunes are constantly changing. The sun that descends in glory amidst the serenity of an evening sky, frequently rises in the morning, through the gloom of clouds, and the rage of storms.
(pp. 56-57)",,24342,"","""Like the blue firmament above us, our minds and fortunes are constantly changing. The sun that descends in glory amidst the serenity of an evening sky, frequently rises in the morning, through the gloom of clouds, and the rage of storms.""","",2014-07-29 19:42:48 UTC,""