work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
7853,"","Searching ""steel"" and ""heart"" in ECCO-TCP",2014-03-13 02:58:29 UTC,"I must steel my heart, Fairfax, when I go to the encounter; must recapitulate all my wrongs. I have them noted down severally as they occurred! I
need but read to rage! What do I talk?—Read?—Can I forget them? No; night nor day! They are my familiars. They wake with me, sleep with me, walk with me, ride with me, glower with me, curse with me—but never smile with me. They are become my dearest intimates. I cherish and hug them to my heart! Their biting is my only pleasure!
(VI.cvii, pp. 139-140)",,23696,"","""I must steel my heart, Fairfax, when I go to the encounter; must recapitulate all my wrongs.""",Metal,2014-03-13 02:58:29 UTC,"Vol. 6, Letter CVII."
7853,"","Searching ""heart"" and ""steel"" in ECCO-TCP",2014-03-13 02:59:20 UTC,"No thoughts are so tragical, no suspicions so horrid as not to be justified, by deductions and appearances which are but too probable. Yet I will not sink under difficulties, nor be appalled at the sight of danger; be it death, or what else it may. That I am in a state of jeopardy my seizure and imprisonment prove. That Frank is still in greater peril, if still in existence, I have just cause to conclude. There were pistols fired, and one after he leaped the hedge; I know not at whom directed, nor what its fate!—I would if possible ward off apprehension. I know it to be folly, and I will endeavour to steel my heart against this as well as other mistakes. If he be dead, or if he be to die, grief will not revive or make him invulnerable. His own virtue must preserve him, or nothing can; and in that I will confide.
(VI.cxiv, pp. 207-8)",,23697,"","""I know it to be folly, and I will endeavour to steel my heart against this as well as other mistakes.""",Metal,2014-03-13 02:59:20 UTC,"Vol. 6, Letter CXIV"