text,updated_at,metaphor,created_at,context,theme,reviewed_on,dictionary,comments,provenance,id,work_id
"PLACID.
My lords and gentlemen, attend a while,
Nor let too specious words your sense beguile.
My brother's somewhat warm; but, entre nous,
Might not Platonic Wives suit some of you?
Men fond of hunting, drinking, or debate,
Would they repine at a Platonic mate?
Their hearts are aliened from domestic life,
And hounds, or wine, or party, are a wife.
Besides, he argues from the common laws,
But I in equity defend the cause;
Plead, women are not bound by Nature's rules,
Nor are their morals borrow'd from the schools:
How many sacrifice their youthful charms
To an old, wealthy husband's feeble arms!
Or yield to titles what they owe to merit,
Wretched themselves, that children may inherit!
These sure are Platonists, who thus forego
Nature's true joys for wealth, or rank, or shew!
Our heroine, tho' she differs wide from these,
Has but refin'd upon the same disease.
Our auth'ress too, perhaps, to aid her cause,
May boast herself the great sublime she draws.
By reason's standard, then, you judge amiss
Of those whose legislator is caprice:
I therefore crave exception for this night,
And plead the privilege of Female-right.
",2013-09-08 19:35:53 UTC,"""By reason's standard, then, you judge amiss / Of those whose legislator is caprice.""",2004-10-14 00:00:00 UTC,"","",,Inhabitants,•INTEREST. Here we see metaphorics of judging and legislation together. ,Searching HDIS; Found again (11/16/2004),14046,5221
" Lady FRANKLAND.
Is she in a bad state of health, Sir Harry?
Sir HARRY.
O, by no means, she is as fat and florid as any woman in England of her age, which I believe is near forty.
Lady FRANKLAND.
Pray where is the danger then, of her becoming a ghost?
Sir HARRY.
Helas, ma chere innocente! don't you meet a thousand ghosts in every public place? Bodies without souls, who have haunted the world so long, that they are worn out of every one's remembrance, and might glide in and out, without ever being taken notice of, if it were not for the space they occupy. Have you never been jostled by a fat red ghost, in the box lobby of the playhouse, or at the puppet-show cascade at Vauxhall? ha! ha! ha!
Lady FRANKLAND.
As they differ in every respect from spirits, I should never have thought of stiling them ghosts, tho', as you have explained it, I own the term is apt enough; yet I fancy that blanks would do still better, as some authors have lately used them, merely to make up bulk, and stuff life's volume.
Sir HARRY.
I vow, madam, your ladyship has an infinity of wit, as well as beauty. But now, prithee, dear lady Frankland, what do you seriously mean to do with them both?",2013-09-08 19:38:14 UTC,"""I fancy that blanks would do still better, as some authors have lately used them, merely to make up bulk, and stuff life's volume.""",2004-10-14 00:00:00 UTC,"Act III, scene ii","",,Writing,"•INTEREST. Ghosts, people, and blanks.
•Cross-reference: Addison's Blanks, who read the paper every morning in order to fill-up and top-off.","Searching ""blank"" and ""fancy"" in HDIS (Drama)",14048,5221
"HENRIQUES.
Is this the land, Gernando, thou hast sought?
GERNANDO.
Ev'n this my friend, its well known image here
Remains engraven by the hand of love:
My beating heart confirms it for the same.
SYLVIA.
Might I but view their face.--
HENRIQUES.
Perchance, my friend,
We yet may be deceiv'd--
(pp. 157-8)
",2014-02-24 04:53:39 UTC,"""Ev'n this my friend, its well known image here / Remains engraven by the hand of love: / My beating heart confirms it for the same.""",2005-03-08 00:00:00 UTC,Scene iv,"",,"",Engraven where?,"Searching ""heart"" and ""engrav"" in HDIS (Poetry); confirmed in ECCO",14152,5253
"2 REAP.
Troth and so it will, and it won't get up at thy bidding again, but that shan't give me any uneasiness:
AIR IX.
My Heart is my own
And a Stranger to Care,
Content is my Throne,
I sit without Fear.
At Night I retire
With Health and with Ease;
The Lasses admire,
And study to please.
But if I don't find
They'll please in their Part
'T may fire the Mind,
But shan't touch the Heart.",2009-09-14 19:40:11 UTC,"""My Heart is my own / And a Stranger to Care""",2006-03-06 00:00:00 UTC,"Act I, scene v","",,Inhabitants,"","Searching ""heart"" and ""stranger"" in HDIS (Drama)",14176,5265
"L. BEL
I must believe you, Emily; there is a charm in truth, that strikes upon the mind, like light upon our eyes.--'Tis irresistible. Yet passion, I will grant, may cast a veil on either; I therefore can excuse Sir Charles for judging wrong.",2009-09-14 19:40:11 UTC,"""I must believe you, Emily; there is a charm in truth, that strikes upon the mind, like light upon our eyes""",2006-04-24 00:00:00 UTC,"Act I, scene ii","",,"","","Searching ""eye"" and ""mind"" in HDIS (Drama)",14179,5266
"LADY LOUISA
I begin to have a thousand fears, sister, perhaps his servant has lost my letter; perhaps some accident has happen'd to Mr. Freeman, or he certainly wou'd not out-stay his time.
LADY MARY
My dear Louisa, your watch and your passions keep pace; it wants some minutes of seven; but I cou'd wish from my heart, that almost any accident might prevent this meeting. I find myself sinking in my own esteem, for being in the secret. I wish you had not told me.
LADY LOUSIA
How can you be so ill-natur'd! Don't you know it was impossible to keep it from you?",2009-09-14 19:40:12 UTC,"""My dear Louisa, your watch and your passions keep pace; it wants some minutes of seven; but I cou'd wish from my heart, that almost any accident might prevent this meeting""",2006-11-16 00:00:00 UTC,"Act III, scene i","",,"","","Searching ""watch"" and ""passions"" in HDIS (Drama)",14182,5266
"HEN.
Ay, then my disgrace is certain, 'tis publick, and perpetual infamy is my portion.--This the reward for all my cares!--my incessant torments! --daily cautions!--hourly admonitions! A man had better have to rule beasts of prey, than women--they have not half their designs--their cruelty--ingratitude! She hath buried my heart in sorrow, and engraven dishonour on the tomb of her ancestors.--She stole away!--her accomplices escaped!--and no means of revenge to be found! Oh! that creatures, which are but feathers in the scale of our enjoyments, shou'd add such weight to our anxieties and torments!",2009-09-14 19:40:13 UTC,"""She hath buried my heart in sorrow, and engraven dishonour on the tomb of her ancestors""",2005-03-09 00:00:00 UTC,"Act III, scene i","",,"","",Searching in HDIS (Drama),14191,5273
"AIR XXVI.
[Hasse]
Away, dissembling Lover!
Your Project I discover,
And see thro' all your Art:
Then fly from Shape to Shape,
Yet hope not to escape,
My Chains enclose your Heart.
(II.ix)",2011-07-28 20:35:35 UTC,"""Then fly from Shape to Shape, / Yet hope not to escape, / My Chains enclose your Heart.""",2011-07-28 20:35:35 UTC,"Act II, scene ix","",,Fetters,"","Searching ""heart"" and ""chain"" in HDIS (Drama)",19046,5218
"CONSTANTIA.
But wherefore all this time--
HENRIQUES.
Till now detain'd
In cruel bonds, his thoughts alone were free,
And these have never stray'd from his Constantia.
CONSTANTIA.
O Heav'ns! how have I wrong'd thee, my Gernando!",2012-01-09 17:23:34 UTC,"""Till now detain'd / In cruel bonds, his thoughts alone were free, / And these have never stray'd from his Constantia.""",2012-01-09 17:23:34 UTC,Scene xiii,"",,"","Again, a reversed metaphor: body bound, mind free.","Searching ""bond"" and ""thought"" in HDIS (Poetry)",19416,5253
"Mr. FRANKLAND.
Lady Frankland is--
EMILIA.
An angel.
Mr. FRANKLAND.
I say, a fallen one.
EMILIA.
Oh, thou art one, and of the blackest dye!--She vile, she artful! thou art a monster but to think it. Her mind and person are as pure as mountain-snow, which the sun's beams have never glanced upon.
(II.i, p. 20)",2013-09-08 19:40:27 UTC,"""She vile, she artful! thou art a monster but to think it. Her mind and person are as pure as mountain-snow, which the sun's beams have never glanced upon.""",2013-09-08 19:40:27 UTC,"Act II, scene i","",,"","","Searching ""mind"" and ""snow"" in ECCO-TCP",22698,5221