theme,metaphor,work_id,dictionary,provenance,id,created_at,updated_at,reviewed_on,comments,text,context
"","In youth ""Fancy's mimick Pow'r is warm and strong, / Engraving deeply, and retaining long""",4737,"","Searching ""fancy"" and ""engrav"" in HDIS (Poetry)",12503,2005-03-09 00:00:00 UTC,2009-09-14 19:37:03 UTC,,"","Of all the Charms the Female Sex desire,
That Lovers doat on, and that Friends admire,
Those most deserve your Wish that longest last,
Not like the Bloom of Beauty, quickly past;
Virtue the chief: this Men and Angels prize,
Above the finest Shape, and brightest Eyes.
By this alone untainted Joys we find,
As large, and as immortal as the Mind.
What'er your Age would reap, your Youth should sow,
For the great Seed-time of your Life is now;
When Fancy's mimick Pow'r is warm and strong,
Engraving deeply, and retaining long,
What Age can scarcely learn and hardly hold.
The Signet thus cast in the best-wrought Mould,
Imprints no Likeness when the Wax is cold.",""
"","""The Signet thus cast in the best-wrought Mould, / Imprints no Likeness when the Wax is cold.""",4737,Impressions,Searching in HDIS (Poetry); confirmed in ECCO,12504,2005-03-09 00:00:00 UTC,2014-02-21 22:33:52 UTC,,"•Not explicitly metaphorical until connected with previous. Example of Aristotelian replacement of my keywords, a metaphor of ""substitution."" REVISIT. INTEREST. Added to my catalog of metaphor paradigms.","Of all the Charms the Female Sex desire,
That Lovers doat on, and that Friends admire,
Those most deserve your Wish that longest last,
Not like the Bloom of Beauty, quickly past;
Virtue the chief: this Men and Angels prize,
Above the finest Shape, and brightest Eyes.
By this alone untainted Joys we find,
As large, and as immortal as the Mind.
What'er your Age would reap, your Youth should sow,
For the great Seed-time of your Life is now;
When Fancy's mimick Pow'r is warm and strong,
Engraving deeply, and retaining long,
What Age can scarcely learn and hardly hold.
The Signet thus cast in the best-wrought Mould,
Imprints no Likeness when the Wax is cold.
(Cf. p. 94 in 1736 ed.)",""