work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
5775,"",Reading,2009-09-14 19:43:33 UTC,"Many of those children whose conduct has been most narrowly watched, become the weakest men, because their instructors only instil certain notions into their minds, that have no other foundation than their authority; and if they be loved or respected, the mind is cramped in its exertions and wavering in its advances. The business of education in this case, is only to conduct the shooting tendrils to a proper pole; yet after laying precept upon precept, without allowing a child to acquire judgement itself, parents expect them to act in the same manner by this borrowed fallacious light, as if they had illuminated it themselves; and be, when they enter life, what their parents are at the close. They do not consider that the tree, and even the human body, does not strengthen its fibres till it has reached its full growth.
(pp. 111-2)",2003-10-22,15401,"","""The business of education in this case, is only to conduct the shooting tendrils to a proper pole; yet after laying precept upon precept, without allowing a child to acquire judgement itself, parents expect them to act in the same manner by this borrowed fallacious light, as if they had illuminated it themselves; and be, when they enter life, what their parents are at the close. They do not consider that the tree, and even the human body, does not strengthen its fibres till it has reached its full growth""","",2012-01-23 16:55:21 UTC,Chapter V
7335,"","Searching ""mind"" in C-H Lion",2013-03-22 20:51:10 UTC,"Gaiety was so truly the native growth of the mind of Camilla, that neither care nor affliction could chace it long from its home. The speeches of the unsuspicious Eugenia, that a moment before would have past unheeded, now regaled her renovated fancy with a thousand amusing images, which so vigorously struggled against her sadness and her terrors, that they were soon nearly driven from the field by their sportive assailants; and, by the time she reached her chamber, whither, lost in amaze, her sisters followed her, the surprise she had in store for them, the pleasure with which she knew they would sympathise in her happiness, and the security of Edgar's decided regard, had liberated her mind from the shackles of reminiscence, and restored her vivacity to its original spirit.
(IV.vii.5, pp. 64-5)",,20033,"","""Gaiety was so truly the native growth of the mind of Camilla, that neither care nor affliction could chace it long from its home.""","",2013-03-22 20:51:10 UTC,Chapter 5. An Oak Tree
7391,"",Reading at the Folger,2013-05-16 22:01:31 UTC,"Too much abounds, in this romantic age,
The horrid tale, and fear-inspiring page;
The noxious draughts from terror's poison'd bowl,
Shake the firm nerve, emasculate the soul,
The deadly bloit of prejudice impart,
And nip the fairest blossoms of the heart.
View the fair slave of these unworthy fears;
A weakness grafted, on her infant years,
Remains, alas, thro' life a fatal curse,
The work of some old story-telling nurse.
She, when of all society bereft,
To silent midnight meditation left,
Heaves a deep sigh, exhales a piteous moan,
And trembles thus to find herself alone.
She now resolves to reason, bolder grows,
And wrestles with the fiend of her repose. [...]
(p. 18)",,20189,Bloit? (Blot?),"""Too much abounds, in this romantic age, / The horrid tale, and fear-inspiring page; / The noxious draughts from terror's poison'd bowl, / Shake the firm nerve, emasculate the soul, / The deadly bloit of prejudice impart, / And nip the fairest blossoms of the heart.""","",2013-05-16 22:01:31 UTC,Part I
7391,"",Reading at the Folger,2013-05-16 22:01:34 UTC,"Too much abounds, in this romantic age,
The horrid tale, and fear-inspiring page;
The noxious draughts from terror's poison'd bowl,
Shake the firm nerve, emasculate the soul,
The deadly bloit of prejudice impart,
And nip the fairest blossoms of the heart.
View the fair slave of these unworthy fears;
A weakness grafted, on her infant years,
Remains, alas, thro' life a fatal curse,
The work of some old story-telling nurse.
She, when of all society bereft,
To silent midnight meditation left,
Heaves a deep sigh, exhales a piteous moan,
And trembles thus to find herself alone.
She now resolves to reason, bolder grows,
And wrestles with the fiend of her repose. [...]
(p. 18)",,20190,Bloit? (Blot?),"""Too much abounds, in this romantic age, / The horrid tale, and fear-inspiring page; / The noxious draughts from terror's poison'd bowl, / Shake the firm nerve, emasculate the soul, / The deadly bloit of prejudice impart, / And nip the fairest blossoms of the heart.""","",2013-05-16 22:01:34 UTC,Part I
7438,Punning on portray and draw?,Reading,2013-06-13 17:18:37 UTC,"Thou spectre of terrific mien,
Lord of the hopeless heart and hollow eye,
In whose fierce train each form is sees
That drives sick Reason to insanity!
I woo thee with unusual prayer,
""Grim visaged, comfortless Despair:""
Approach; in me a willing victim find,
Who seeks thine iron sway--and calls thee kind!
Ah! hide for ever from my sight
The faithless flatterer Hope--whose pencil, gay,
Portrays some vision of delight,
Then bids the fairy tablet fade away;
While in dire contrast, to mine eyes
Thy phantoms, yet more hideous, rise,
And Memory draws, from Pleasure's wither'd flower,
Corrosives for the heart--of fatal power!
I bid the traitor Love, adieu!
Who to this fond, believing bosom came,
A guest insidious and untrue,
With Pity's soothing voice--in Friendship's name;
The wounds he gave, nor Time shall cure
Nor Reason teach me to endure.
And to that breast mild Patience pleads in vain,
Which feels the curse--of meriting it's pain.
(ll. 1-24, pp. 49-50)",,20630,"","""Ah! hide for ever from my sight / The faithless flatterer Hope--whose pencil, gay, / Portrays some vision of delight, / Then bids the fairy tablet fade away; / While in dire contrast, to mine eyes / Thy phantoms, yet more hideous, rise, / And Memory draws, from Pleasure's wither'd flower, / Corrosives for the heart--of fatal power!""",Writing,2013-06-13 17:18:37 UTC,""