text,updated_at,metaphor,created_at,context,theme,reviewed_on,dictionary,comments,provenance,id,work_id
"Mean time the Thinkers wha are out of Play,
For their ain Comfort kenna what to say;
That the Foundation's loose fain wa'd they shaw,
And think na but the Fabrick soon will fa'.
That's a' but Sham,--for inwardly they fry,
Vext that their Fingers were na in the Pye.
Faint-hearted Wights, wha dully stood afar,
Tholling your Reason great Attempts to mar;
While the brave Dauntless, of sic Fetters free,
Jumpt headlong glorious in the golden Sea:
Where now like Gods they rule each wealthy Jaw,
While you may thump your Pows against the Wa'.
",2011-02-09 05:18:40 UTC,"""Faint-hearted Wights, wha dully stood afar, / Tholling your Reason great Attempts to mar; / While the brave Dauntless, of sic Fetters free, / Jumpt headlong glorious in the golden Sea.""",2004-06-22 00:00:00 UTC,"","",2010-12-31,Fetters,"•2nd Foonote from 1721 edition used by Chadwyck Healey gives ""Threw off all the Fetters of Reason, and plung'd gloriously into Confusion.""
•1st, ""Many of just Thinking at that Time were vex'd to see themselves trudging on Foot, when some others of very indifferent Capacities were setting up gilded Equipages; and notwithstanding of all the Doubts they formed against it, yet fretted because they were not so lucky as to have some Shares.""","Searching ""rule"" and ""reason"" in HDIS (Poetry)",11253,4317
"Illi robur & aes triplex
Circa pectus erat, qui fragilem truci
Commisit pelago ratem
Primus, ------
Hor.
Daring and unco' stout he was,
With Heart hool'd in three Sloughs of Brass,
Wha ventur'd first upon the Sea
With Hempen Branks, and Horse of Tree.",2009-09-14 19:35:43 UTC,"""Daring and unco' stout he was, / With Heart hool'd in three Sloughs of Brass, Wha ventur'd first upon the Sea / With Hempen Branks, and Horse of Tree""",2005-06-07 00:00:00 UTC,Opening Lines,"Horace, Book I, Ode iii",,Metal,"•Cross--reference: Triple brass and Brass Hearts abound. These would seem to all derive from Horace: Book I, Ode iii.
","Searching ""heart"" and ""brass"" in HDIS (Poetry)",11254,4317