theme,metaphor,work_id,dictionary,provenance,id,created_at,updated_at,reviewed_on,comments,text,context
"","""If offer'd in a mild and tim'rous Tone, / Nor urg'd and press'd, its [Counsel's] feeble Force is gone, / And leaves no more Impressions on the Mind, / Than Rocks receive from a soft Breeze of Wind.""",4339,Impressions,"Searching ""impression"" and ""mind"" in HDIS (Poetry)",11381,2005-05-12 00:00:00 UTC,2012-01-11 20:25:03 UTC,2012-01-11,"","How hard ill Kings unartful Counsels hear!
How the rough Truth disturbs their tender Ear!
If offer'd in a mild and tim'rous Tone,
Nor urg'd and press'd, its feeble Force is gone,
And leaves no more Impressions on the Mind,
Than Rocks receive from a soft Breeze of Wind.
But if you edge your Words, repeat your Blow,
And in your Looks a loyal Ardour show,
You cut too deep, and soon offensive grow.
Hard Fate! when Monarchs neither can endure
The threat'ning Gangrene, nor the painful Cure",""
"","""This Work, I say, shall not only contain the various Impressions of my Mind, (as in Louis the Fourteenth his Cabinet you have seen the growing Medals of his Person from Infancy to Old Age,) but shall likewise include with them the Theatrical History of my Own Time, from my first Appearance on the Stage to my last Exit.""",7099,Coinage,Searching in ECCO,19203,2011-09-20 19:44:30 UTC,2011-09-20 19:50:31 UTC,,USE IN ENTRY,"And when I have done it, you may reasonably ask me of what Importance can the History of my private Life be to the Publick? To this, indeed, I can only make you a ludicrous Answer, which is, That the Publick very well knows my Life has not been a private one; that I have been employ'd in their Service ever since many of their Grandfathers were young Men; And tho' I have voluntarily laid down my Post, they have a sort of Right to enquire into my Conduct (for which they have so well paid me) and to call for the Account of it during my Share of Administration in the State of the Theatre. This Work, therefore, which I hope they will not expect a Man of hasty Head shou'd confine to any regular Method: (For I shall make no scruple of leaving my History when I think a Digression may make it lighter for my Reader's Digestion.) This Work, I say, shall not only contain the various Impressions of my Mind, (as in Louis the Fourteenth his Cabinet you have seen the growing Medals of his Person from Infancy to Old Age,) but shall likewise include with them the Theatrical History of my Own Time, from my first Appearance on the Stage to my last Exit.
(p. 4)
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