work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
5092,"",Reading and HDIS (Poetry),2003-11-27 00:00:00 UTC," In all my Enna's beauties blest,
Amidst profusion still I pine;
For though she gives me up her breast,
Its panting tenant is not mine.
(ll. 1-4, p. 593)",2010-06-10,13762,"","""In all my Enna's beauties blest, / Amidst profusion still I pine; / For though she gives me up her breast, / Its panting tenant is not mine.""",Inhabitants,2010-06-10 18:58:24 UTC,""
5101,"","Searching ""iron"" and ""heart"" in HDIS (Poetry); confirmed in ECCO.",2005-06-07 00:00:00 UTC,"If to my choice indulgent Heav'n would give,
This life worn out, another life to life,
And say, 'Partake what form delights thee best,
'Be man again, again with reason blest;
'Assume the horse's strength, the sheep's warm coat,
'Bark in the dog, or wanton in the goat;
'For this is Fate's immutable decree,
'And one more being is reserv'd for thee:
To bounteous Heav'n I'd thus prefer my prayer;
'O let not Reason's lamp be lighted here!
'Make me not man; his only-partial race
'Holds vice in credit, virtue in disgrace.
'The steed victorious in the rapid course
'Eats food more dainty than the sluggish horse:
'Is there a dog, distinguish'd for his smell?
'No common dog will ever fare so well:
'The gallant cock that boasts heroic blood,
'Rakes not in dirty dunghills for his food;
'And should he strut among the feathered crew,
'Each conscious brother pays him honour due.
'Man, tho' of each accomplishment possest,
'Renown'd for valour, and with virtue blest,
'Gains from the heedless world no due regard,
'His worth no praise, his valour no reward:
'While fawning flatterers bask in Fortune's ray,
'Knaves that detract, and villains that betray.
''Tis better far thro' any form to pass,
'To crawl a reptile, or to drudge an ass,
'Than see base miscreants, Guilt's abandon'd crew,
'Enjoy those honours that are Virtue's due.'
(pp. 155-6)",,13783,"","""'O let not Reason's lamp be lighted here!""","",2014-03-09 14:54:18 UTC,Fragments of Menander
5302,Ruling Passion / Materialism,"Searching ""ruling passion"" in HDIS (Poetry);",2004-05-24 00:00:00 UTC,"Grant that corporeal is the human mind,
It must have parts in infinitum join'd;
And each of these must will, perceive, design,
And draw confus'dly in a different line;
Which then can claim dominion o'er the rest,
Or stamp the ruling passion in the breast?",,14234,
•I've included this entry twice: once in Government and once in Writing.
•Jenyns attempts a reductio ad absurdum. INTEREST. REVISIT and read whole poem.,"If the mind is corporeal it must be composed of infinite parts: ""Which then can claim dominion o'er the rest, / Or stamp the ruling passion in the breast""","",2009-09-14 19:40:21 UTC,""
5302,"","Searching ""judge"" and ""soul"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2004-08-31 00:00:00 UTC,"How cou'd the mind, did she alone depend
On sense, the errors of those senses mend?
Yet oft, we see, those senses she corrects,
And oft their information quite rejects.
In distances of things, their shapes, and size,
Our reason judges better than our eyes.
Declares not this the soul's pre-eminence
Superior to, and quite distinct from sense?
For sure 'tis likely, that, since now so high,
Clog'd and unfledg'd she dares her wings to try,
Loos'd and mature she shall her strength display,
And soar at length to Truth's refulgent ray.
",,14244,
,"""Our reason judges better than our eyes""",Eye,2009-09-14 19:40:22 UTC,""
5302,"","Searching ""soul"" and ""stamp"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2005-04-08 00:00:00 UTC,"This then's the first great law by Nature giv'n,
Stamp'd on our souls, and ratify'd by Heav'n;
All from utility this law approve,
As ev'ry private bliss must spring from social love.
",,14248,•I've included twice: Stamping and Law
,"""This then's the first great law by Nature giv'n, / Stamp'd on our souls, and ratify'd by Heav'n""","",2009-09-14 19:40:23 UTC,""
5302,Refinement,"Searching ""mind"" and ""dross"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2005-07-18 00:00:00 UTC,"If to conceive how any thing can be
From shape extracted and locality
Is hard; what think you of the Deity;
His Being not the least relation bears,
As far as to the human mind appears,
To shape, or size, similitude, or place,
Cloath'd in no form, and bounded by no space.
Such then is God, a spirit pure refin'd
From all material dross, and such the human mind.
For in what part of essence can we see
More certain marks of immortality
Ev'n from this dark confinement with delight
She looks abroad, and prunes herself for flight;
Like an unwilling inmate longs to roam
From this dull earth, and seek her native home.",,14256,"","""Such then is God, a spirit pure refin'd / From all material dross, and such the human mind.""",Metal,2009-09-14 19:40:25 UTC,""
5302,"",Searching in HDIS (Poetry),2005-07-18 00:00:00 UTC,"If to conceive how any thing can be
From shape extracted and locality
Is hard; what think you of the Deity;
His Being not the least relation bears,
As far as to the human mind appears,
To shape, or size, similitude, or place,
Cloath'd in no form, and bounded by no space.
Such then is God, a spirit pure refin'd
From all material dross, and such the human mind.
For in what part of essence can we see
More certain marks of immortality
Ev'n from this dark confinement with delight
She looks abroad, and prunes herself for flight;
Like an unwilling inmate longs to roam
From this dull earth, and seek her native home.",2013-06-04,14257,•I've included twice: Inmate and Bird,"""Ev'n from this dark confinement with delight / She [the mind] looks abroad, and prunes herself for flight; / Like an unwilling inmate longs to roam / From this dull earth, and seek her native home.""",Animals and Inhabitants and Rooms,2013-06-04 15:47:23 UTC,""
5302,Materialism,"Searching ""soul"" and ""machine"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2006-11-21 00:00:00 UTC,"Allow that motion is the cause of thought,
With what strange pow'rs must motion then be fraught?
Reason, sense, science, must derive their source
From the wheel's rapid whirl, or pully's force:
Tops whip'd by school-boys sages must commence,
Their hoops, like them, be cudgel'd into sense,
And boiling pots o'erflow with eloquence.
Whence can this very motion take its birth?
Not sure from matter, from dull clods of earth;
But from a living spirit lodg'd within,
Which governs all the bodily machine:
Just as th' Almighty Universal Soul
Informs, directs, and animates the whole.",,14260,•Interesting. Opening lines operate as a counterfactual. USE in ENTRY.
•Machine is governed... How to categorize this metaphor. REVISIT.,"""Whence can this very motion take its birth? / Not sure from matter, from dull clods of earth; / But from a living spirit lodg'd within, / Which governs all the bodily machine""","",2009-09-14 19:40:25 UTC,""
6321,"","Searching ""fancy"" and ""coin"" in HDIS (Poetry); found again ""mint""",2005-04-14 00:00:00 UTC,"For when Aurora weeps the balmy dew,
(And dreams, as rev'rend dreamers tell, are true)
Sir George my shoulder slaps, just in the time
When some rebellious word consents to rhyme:
Sudden my verses take the rude alarm,
New-coin'd, and from the mint of fancy warm:
I start, I stare, I question with my eyes;
At once the whole poetic vision flies.
Up, up, exclaims the Knight; the season fair;
See how serene the sky, how calm the air;
Hark! from the hills the cheerful horns rebound,
And echo propagates the jovial sound;
The certain hound in thought his prey pursues,
The scent lies warm, and loads the tainted dews,
I quit my couch, and cheerfully obey,
Content to let the younker have his way;
I mount my courser, fleeter than the wind,
And leave the rage of poetry behind.
But when, the day in healthful labour lost,
We eat our supper earn'd at common cost;
When each frank tongue speaks out without control,
And the free heart expatiates o'er the bowl;
Though all love prose, my poetry finds grace,
And, pleased, I chant the glories of the chace.
(p. 160)",2011-07-14,16719,"•I've included twice: Mint and Coin
","""Sudden my verses take the rude alarm, / New-coin'd, and from the mint of fancy warm""",Coinage,2011-07-14 21:02:34 UTC,""
6321,"","Searching ""chain"" and ""mind"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2011-07-14 20:56:40 UTC,"There is a certain pleasing force that binds,
Faster than chains do slaves, two willing minds.
Tempers oppos'd each may itself control,
And melt two varying natures in one soul.
This made two brothers different humours hit,
Tho' one had probity, and one had wit.
Of sober manners this, and plain good sense,
Avoided cards, wine, company, expense:
Safe from the tempting fatal sex withdrew,
Nor made advances farther than a bow.
A diff'rent train of life his twin pursues;
Lov'd pictures, books, (nay authors write) the stews,
A mistress, op'ra, play, each darling theme;
To scribble, above all, his joy supreme.
Must these two brothers always meet to scold,
Or quarrel, like to Jove's fam'd twins of old?
Each yielding, mutual, could each other please,
And drew life's yoke with tolerable ease:
This, thinking mirth not always in the wrong,
Would sometimes condescend to hear a song;
And that, fatigu'd with his exalted fits,
His beauties, gewgaws, whirlegigs and wits,
Would leave them all, far happier to regale
With prose and friendship o'er a pot of ale.
Then to thy friend's opinion sometimes yield,
And seem to lose, although thou gain'st the field;
Nor, proud that thy superior sense be shown,
Rail at his studies, and extol your own.
(pp. 159-60)",,18874,"","""There is a certain pleasing force that binds, / Faster than chains do slaves, two willing minds.""",Fetters,2011-07-14 21:01:13 UTC,""