id,dictionary,theme,reviewed_on,metaphor,created_at,provenance,comments,work_id,text,context,updated_at
15833,"","",,"""My path was already chalked out, and my fancy now pursued it with uncommon pleasure.""",2003-07-21 00:00:00 UTC,Reading,•I'm confused about how to categorize this metaphor. REVISIT.,5960,"My path was already chalked out, and my fancy now pursued it with uncommon pleasure. To reside in your family; to study your profession; to pursue some subordinate or casual mode of industry, by which I might purchase leisure for medical pursuits, for social recreations, and for the study of mankind on your busy and thronged stage, was the scope of my wishes. This destiny would not hinder punctual correspondence and occasional visits to Eliza. Her pen might be called into action, and her mind awakened by books, and every hour be made to add to her stores of knowledge and enlarge the bounds of her capacity.
(Part II, chapter 11, p. 511-2)",Mervyn decides to board Eliza with the Curlings and pursue medicine,2009-09-14 19:44:49 UTC
15834,"","",,"""Every sense was an inlet of pleasure, because it was an avenue to knowledge; and my soul brooded over the world of ideas, and glowed with exultation at the grandeur and beauty of its own creations""",2003-07-21 00:00:00 UTC,Reading,•I've included twice: Inlet and Avenue,5960,"Next morning I set out on my journey hither, on foot. The way was not long; the weather, though cold, was wholesome and serene. My spirits were high, and I saw nothing in the world before me but sunshine and prosperity. I was conscious that my happiness depended not on the revolutions of nature or the caprice of man. All without was, indeed, vicissitude and uncertainty; but within my bosom was a centre not to be shaken or removed. My purposes were honest and steadfast. Every sense was an inlet of pleasure, because it was an avenue to knowledge; and my soul brooded over the world of ideas, and glowed with exultation at the grandeur and beauty of its own creations.
(Part II, chapter 11, p. 512)","Part II, chapter 11. Mervyn has decided to board Eliza with the Curlings and pursue medicine",2009-09-14 19:44:49 UTC
15836,"","",,The fancy may outstrip one's footsteps and be busy picturing and rehearsing,2003-07-21 00:00:00 UTC,Reading,"•Rich passage. Phantoms, revolution, understanding, soliloquy, and fancy.
•I've only included ""fancy"" in the database. I am not confident that the other references are metaphorically rich enough. REVISIT.",5960,"Hitherto I had strolled along the path at a lingering pace. Time enough, methought, to reach your threshold between sun-rise and moonlight, if my way had been three times longer than it was. Yon were the pleasing phantoms that hovered before me, and beckoned me forward. What a total revolution had occurred in the course of a few seconds, for thus long did my reasonings with regard to Clemenza and the Villars require to pass through my understanding, and escape, in half muttered soliloquy, from my lips. My muscles trembled with eagerness, and I bounded forward with impetuousity. I saw nothing but a visto of catalpas, leafless, loaded with icicles, and terminating in four chimneys and a painted roof. My fancy outstripped my footsteps, and was busy in picturing faces and rehearsing dialogues. Presently I reached this new object of my pursuit, darted through the avenue, noticed that some windows of the house were unclosed, drew thence an hasty inference that the house was not without inhabitants, and knocked, quickly and loudly, for admission.
(Part II, chapter 11, p. 514)",Mervyn is about to visit the Mrs. Villars,2009-09-14 19:44:50 UTC
15837,"","",2008-12-03,"""A few incoherent motions and screams, that rent the soul, were followed by a deep swoon.""",2003-07-21 00:00:00 UTC,Reading,"",5960,"The grief which overwhelmed the unhappy parent, was of that outrageous and desperate kind which is wholly incompatible with thinking. A few incoherent motions and screams, that rent the soul, were followed by a deep swoon. She sunk upon the floor, pale and lifeless as her babe.
(Part II, chapter 12, p. 524)",Mervyn discovers Clemenza,2009-09-14 19:44:50 UTC
15838,"","",,"""Mischievous passions"" may be too ""deeply rooted"" in the heart to tear out",2003-07-21 00:00:00 UTC,Reading,•Note the reported thought is spoken aloud. There is an unclear boundary between soliloquy and thought in this novel.,5960,"In the opportunity that had been afforded me to view his countenance, I had observed tokens of a kind very different from those which used to be visible. The gloomy and malignant were more conspicuous. Health had forsaken his cheeks, and taken along with it those flexible parts, which formerly enabled him to cover his secret torments and insidious purposes, beneath a veil of benevolence and cheerfulness. Alas! said I, loud enough for him to hear me, here is a monument of ruin. Despair and mischievous passions are too deeply rooted in this heart for me to tear them away.
(Part II, chapter 13, p. 533)",Mervyn visits Welbeck in prison,2009-09-14 19:44:50 UTC
15839,"","",,"""Till this moment the uproar in Welbeck's mind appeared to hinder him from distinctly recognizing his visitant""",2003-07-21 00:00:00 UTC,Reading,"•What to do with the fangs in the heart? I am not sure in what way this threat is meant to be taken. REVISIT. Reminiscent of Cleopatra.There are serpents and hearts elsewhere in this database. It would be worthwhile to investigate this strand.
•Uproar? I don't know how to sort this, unless I create a category of sound under which music and other noise gets put.
•On the next page Welbeck threatens: ""My heart would suffocate thee with its bitterness!"" (535)",5960,"Welbeck put his hands to his head and exclaimed: curses on thy lips, infernal messenger! Chant elsewhere thy rueful ditty! Vanish! if thou wouldst not feel in thy heart fangs red with blood less guilty than thine.
Till this moment the uproar in Welbeck's mind appeared to hinder him from distinctly recognizing his visitant. Now it seemed as if the incidents of our last interview suddenly sprung up in his remembrance.
(Part II, chapter 13, p. 534-5)","Part II, chapter 13. Mervyn visits Welbeck in prison and tells him of Clemenza's fate and the death of her child",2009-09-14 19:44:50 UTC
15840,"","",,Thoughts may receive an impulse and continue in motion in spite of solitude and darkness ,2003-07-21 00:00:00 UTC,Reading,"•See also Mervyn's thoughts which are in ""perpetual motion"" (484). These sorts of descriptions are closely allied with notions of mental mechanism, but perhaps I need to create a larger category named ""Kinematics and dynamics"" or something like that.
•Compare also with autopilot moments in the novel. Mervyn is often carried along by his thought--mechanically or otherwise.
•REVISIT. Clumsily put.",5960,"Nay, said he, withdraw not on my account. If I go to my chamber, it will not be to sleep but to meditate, especially after you assurance that something of moment has occurred in my absence. My thoughts, independently of any cause of sorrow or fear, have received an impulse which solitude and darkness will not stop. It is impossible to know too much for our safety and integrity, or to know it too soon. What has happened.
(Part II, chapter 14, p. 537)","Part II, chapter 14. Mervyn returns to Stevens. Can't sleep until all is explained.",2009-09-14 19:44:51 UTC
15841,"","",,"""My soul drooped at the prospect""",2003-07-21 00:00:00 UTC,Reading,•The soul like the heart droops in Mervyn. See also (593).,5960,"My soul drooped at the prospect, but I said, it cannot be prevented, and this reflection was antidote to grief, but nor that thy ruin is complete, it seems as if some of it were imputable to me, who forsook thee when the succour and counsel of a son were most needed.
(Part II, chapter 14, p. 537)","Part II, chapter 14. Mervyn (in conversation with Stevens) apostrophizes his father",2009-09-14 19:44:51 UTC
15843,"","",,The fancy depicts pictures,2003-07-21 00:00:00 UTC,Reading,"•Previous paragraphs on the pleasures of the imagination. Racialized omparisons of a monkey, the Congolese, and the Creole-Gaul. See a younger Mervyn doing the same with features of nature (539).",5960,"My chief occupation, however, related to the scenes into which I was about to enter. My imaginations were, of course, crude and inadequate; and I found an uncommon gratification in comparing realities, as they successively occurred, with the pictures which my wayward fancy had depicted.
(Part II, chapter 17, p. 566)",Mervyn on his way to Baltimore,2009-09-14 19:44:51 UTC
15844,"","",,"""A sort of electrical sympathy pervaded my companion, and terror and anguish were strongly manifested in the glances which she sometimes stole at me.""",2003-07-21 00:00:00 UTC,Reading,"Mervyn visits the wife of Amos Watson
•See the previous ""Emotion is communicated to the heart with electrical rapidity"" that characterizes Mervyn and Welbeck's relationship. On page 296. I have already noted that in Godwin's Caleb Williams sympathy is magnetic.",5960,"On this occasion all my wariness forsook me. I cannot explain why my perplexity and the trouble of my tho'ts were greater upon this than upon similar occasions. However it be, I was incapable of speaking, and fixed my eyes upon the floor. A sort of electrical sympathy pervaded my companion, and terror and anguish were strongly manifested in the glances which she sometimes stole at me. We seemed fully to understand each other with the aid of words.
(Part II, chapter 17, p. 569-70)","",2011-04-15 16:24:00 UTC