theme,metaphor,work_id,dictionary,provenance,id,created_at,updated_at,reviewed_on,comments,text,context
"","""And still my soul they [cares] hold in pain, / Their cruel empire to maintain.""",3241,"","Searching ""empire"" and ""soul"" in HDIS (Poetry). ",8493,2004-08-11 00:00:00 UTC,2010-06-09 16:04:26 UTC,2010-06-09,"","MANDANE.
What doubts oppress my wounded heart!
My soul at every breath doth start!
Fain would my gloomy thoughts retire,
Nor fill my stormy breast with ire:
Yet cares torment my tortur'd mind,
Leaving their rugged tracts behind;
And still my soul they hold in pain,
Their cruel empire to maintain.
",From Act II. Scene VI
"","""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.""",5253,"","Searching ""heart"" and ""engrav"" in HDIS (Poetry); confirmed in ECCO",14152,2005-03-08 00:00:00 UTC,2014-02-24 04:53:39 UTC,,Engraven where?,"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)
",Scene iv
"","""Till now detain'd / In cruel bonds, his thoughts alone were free, / And these have never stray'd from his Constantia.""",5253,"","Searching ""bond"" and ""thought"" in HDIS (Poetry)",19416,2012-01-09 17:23:34 UTC,2012-01-09 17:23:34 UTC,,"Again, a reversed metaphor: body bound, mind free.","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!",Scene xiii
"","""Thy griefs pent up, have prey'd upon thy heart.""",7844,Animals,ECCO-TCP,23670,2014-03-12 20:13:30 UTC,2014-03-12 20:13:38 UTC,,"","HERMODON.
Too long, my friend,
Thy griefs pent up, have prey'd upon thy heart:
I do not hate the great—I love the Persians;
Their laws and noble manners I admire;
Tho' all mankind at first were equal born,
I strictly hold that subjects should obey
Those whom their Gods make delegates of pow'r:
Simplicity's soft charms, in this republic,
Are no fit lessons for monarchic states.
Could'st thou suppose that I was less attach'd
Because in Scythia—
(pp. 6-7)",""
"","""The unbridled Athamand, his sister's son, / In firm alliance with a noble princess, / Whom Persia's court had destin'd to his love, / (His tyrant passions brooking no controul,) / Demanded Zobeide as despotic master.""",7844,Empire,ECCO-TCP,23671,2014-03-12 20:14:34 UTC,2014-03-12 20:14:34 UTC,,"","SEYFEL.
Oppression's arts, unworthy of the brave
To be the Prince's slave, t' enslave his people,
To crouch, or cruelly exact obedience,
Dazzled a while—but now demand repentance.
The noble Cyrus, with a lavish hand,
Would heap on me full measure of rewards;
I ever was the partner of his counsels—
But Cyrus died—and I was soon forgotten.
Cambyses I abandon'd—impious man!
Unworthy successor of such a father!
Ecbatan, as yet the abode of Media's Prince,
At her new court conceal'd my hoary head,
Till Smerdis, governing the Median realm,
Smerdis, who sought the ruin of the virtuous,
Gave a decisive blow to all my hopes;
The unbridled Athamand, his sister's son,
In firm alliance with a noble princess,
Whom Persia's court had destin'd to his love,
(His tyrant passions brooking no controul,)
Demanded Zobeide as despotic master.
(pp. 7-8)",""
"","""A Scythian's heart is steel'd 'gainst panic terrors.""",7844,Metal,"Searching ""steel"" and ""heart"" in ECCO-TCP",23672,2014-03-12 20:15:20 UTC,2014-03-12 20:15:20 UTC,,"","INDATER.
Let him come on—he shall not cloud our joys;
A Scythian's heart is steel'd 'gainst panic terrors.
Prepare the altar for th' approaching nuptials;
Place round it ev'ry gift of bounteous Nature,
And there present the hand that combats for thee;
[To Seyfel.
No cares intrude; and may th' immortal Gods
Bending from high to hear our plighted vows,
Propitious smile on this important hour,
That gilds or darkens all my future days.
(p. 13)",""
"","""Gods, steel my injur'd heart!""",7844,Metal,"Searching ""steel"" and ""heart"" in ECCO-TCP",23673,2014-03-12 20:16:09 UTC,2014-03-12 20:16:09 UTC,,"","ATHAMAND.
I stand immoveable—O heaven! O destiny!
O! fatal passion, bent on my destruction!
Gone! Is he fled?—would he not stay to hear?
The fiercest Daemon of infernal vengeance
Might glut his rage to see a monarch humbled.
But say, my Hasan, why yon altar burns?
Those lights? those garlands?—Why the nuptial torch?
A woman too was dragg'd in haste away
At our approach—Ye pow'rs! What have I seen?
Remorse will change to an avenging fury!
Gods, steel my injur'd heart!
(p. 25)",""
"","""Had the proud exile read my heart, / He then must have appeas'd the woes I suffer'd, / He then had pardon'd, and thou might'st have sooth'd me.""",7844,Writing,ECCO-TCP,23674,2014-03-12 20:16:52 UTC,2014-03-12 20:16:52 UTC,,"","ATHAMAND.
Had the proud exile read my heart,
He then must have appeas'd the woes I suffer'd,
He then had pardon'd, and thou might'st have sooth'd me.
But now I rave—O pity my distraction!
The fire-ey'd transports of tyrannic love!
Hell is in ev'ry thought.—But say, my Hasan,
Did she not faintly name her native country?
(p. 30)",""
"","""Avarice has canker'd their imprison'd minds, / And lust of gold has blinded them to justice.""",7844,Rooms,ECCO-TCP,23675,2014-03-12 20:17:49 UTC,2014-03-12 20:17:49 UTC,,"","INDATER.
Thou hast none.—Know, that th' unworthy Scythians,
Who border on thy climes, are not like us;
Avarice has canker'd their imprison'd minds,
And lust of gold has blinded them to justice.
(p. 47)",""
"","""Shall kings controul th' eternal rights of nature? / The free-born mind is royal of itself, / Nor asks vain glosses from exterior grandeur.""",7844,"",ECCO-TCP,23676,2014-03-12 20:18:37 UTC,2014-03-12 20:18:37 UTC,,"","INDATER.
Shall kings controul th' eternal rights of nature?
The free-born mind is royal of itself,
Nor asks vain glosses from exterior grandeur.
(p. 49)",""