theme,metaphor,work_id,dictionary,provenance,id,created_at,updated_at,reviewed_on,comments,text,context
Ruling Passion,"""Such is my theme, which means to prove, / That tho' we drink, or game, or love, / As that or this is most in fashion, / Precedence is our ruling passion.""",5410,"","Searching HDIS for ""ruling passion""",14510,2004-05-25 00:00:00 UTC,2013-10-21 20:00:53 UTC,,"","Such is my theme, which means to prove,
That tho' we drink, or game, or love,
As that or this is most in fashion,
Precedence is our ruling passion.
(Cf. I, p. 231 in 1764 ed.)
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