updated_at,id,text,theme,metaphor,work_id,reviewed_on,provenance,created_at,comments,context,dictionary
2009-09-14 19:36:13 UTC,11751,"L. GRA.
That you are not restrain'd from unlawful Pleasures, by the Love of Virtue, but Variety; and that your Husband is not safe, from having no Rival, but from having a great many; for your Heart is like a Coffee-House, where the Beaus frisk in and out, one after another; and you are as little the worse for them, as the other is the better; for one Lover, like one Poyson, is your Antidote against another.","","""[Y]our Heart is like a Coffee-House, where the Beaus frisk in and out, one after another; and you are as little the worse for them, as the other is the better""",4457,,Searching in HDIS (Drama),2006-07-06 00:00:00 UTC,"•Strangely, this was missing when last I went looking for it in the database. had it been mistakenly deleted? I hope I don't do that very often","Act I, scene i",""
2009-09-14 19:37:04 UTC,12520,"HEART.
There goes an Instance of the great Power our Reason hath over our Passions. But hold,-- Why should I seek Instances abroad, who have so sufficient an Example in my own Breast--Where had Reason the Dominion, I should have long since expell'd the little Tyrant, who hath made such Ravage there--Of what Use is Reason then? Why, of the Use that a Window is to a Man in a Prison, to let him see the Horrors he is confined in; but lends him no Assistance to his Escape.","","""Of what Use is Reason then? Why, of the Use that a Window is to a Man in a Prison, to let him see the Horrors he is confined in; but lends him no Assistance to his Escape""",4742,,"Searching ""reason"" and ""window"" in HDIS (Drama)",2006-01-25 00:00:00 UTC,•I've included twice: Window and Prison.
•INTEREST. USE in entry. I really like this metaphor.,"Act V, scene iv",Rooms
2014-08-10 08:03:07 UTC,12864,"As he did not, however, outwardly express any such Disgust, it would be an ill Office in us to pay a Visit to the inmost Recesses of his Mind, as some scandalous People search into the most secret Affairs of their Friends, and often pry into their Closets and Cupboards only to discover their Poverty and Meanness to the World.
(II.iv.3, pp. 14-15; cf. p. 120)","","""[I]t would be an ill Office in us to pay a Visit to the inmost Recesses of his Mind, as some scandalous People search into the most secret Affairs of their Friends, and often pry into their Closets and Cupboards only to discover their Poverty and Meanness to the World.""",4812,2006-06-05,Reading,2009-09-14 19:37:29 UTC,"","Vol. II, Book iv, Chap. 3",Rooms
2013-07-17 04:35:44 UTC,13051,"He said, he had discovered, that as she valued herself chiefly on her Understanding, so she was extremely jealous of mine, and hated me on Account of my Learning. That as he had loved me passionately from his first seeing me, and had thought of Nothing, from that Time, but of throwing himself at my Feet, he saw no Way so open to propitiate my Aunt as that which he had taken; by commending my Beauty, a Perfection to which she had long resigned all Claim, at the Expence of my Understanding, in which he lamented my Deficiency to a Degree almost of Ridicule. This he imputed chiefly to my Learning; on this Occasion he advanced a Sentiment, which so pleased my Aunt, that she thought proper to make it her own: For I heard it afterwards more than once from her own Mouth. Learning, he said, had the same Effect on the Mind, that strong Liquors have on the Constitution; both tending to eradicate all our natural Fire and Energy. His Flattery had made such a Dupe of my Aunt, that she assented, without the least Suspicion of his Sincerity, to all he said; so sure is Vanity to weaken every Fortress of the Understanding, and to betray us to every Attack of the Enemy.
You will believe, Madam, that I readily forgave him all he had said, not only from that Motive which I have mentioned, but as I was assured he had spoke the Reverse of his real Sentiments. I was not, however, quite so well pleased with my Aunt, who began to treat me as if I was really an Ideot. Her Contempt, I own, a little piqued me; and I could not help often expressing my Resentment, when we were alone together, to Mr. Bennet; who never failed to gratify me, by making her Conceit the Subject of his Wit; a Talent which he possessed in the most extraordinary Degree.
(III.vii.5)","","""His Flattery had made such a Dupe of my Aunt, that she assented, without the least Suspicion of his Sincerity, to all he said; so sure is Vanity to weaken every Fortress of the Understanding, and to betray us to every Attack of the Enemy.""",4875,,HDIS (Prose),2009-09-14 19:37:42 UTC,See previous,"",Rooms
2013-06-11 18:25:21 UTC,13059,"'Indeed, my dear Sir,' cries Amelia, you are the wisest as well as best Man in the World--'
'Not a Word of my Wisdom,' cries the Doctor. 'I have not a Grain---I am not the least versed in the Chrematistic Art, as an old Friend of mine calls it. I know not how to get a single Shilling, nor how to keep it in my Pocket when I have it.'
'But you understand Human Nature to the Bottom,' answered Amelia;' and your Mind is a Treasury of all ancient and modern Learning.'
'You are a little Flatterer,' cries the Doctor; 'but I dislike you not for it. And to shew you I don't, I will return your Flattery; and tell you, you have acted with great Prudence in concealing this Affair from your Husband; but you have drawn me into a Scrape: For I have promised to dine with this Fellow again To-morrow; and you have made it impossible for me to keep my Word.' (III.ix.5)","","""'But you understand Human Nature to the Bottom,' answered Amelia;' and your Mind is a Treasury of all ancient and modern Learning.'""",4875,2003-10-23,HDIS (Prose),2009-09-14 19:37:43 UTC,"REVISIT. INTEREST.
•I should doublecheck the prevailing sense of treasury in the c18. What is a treasury here? Building, government, or book? (This is the kind of example a poststructuralist delights in...)
•The OED gives as a first definition: ""1. A room or building in which precious or valuable objects are preserved, esp. a place or receptacle for money or valuables (now Hist. ); transf. the funds or revenue of a state or of a public or private corporation."" and as a second definition: ""2. fig. A repository of 'treasures'; a thesaurus; a 'treasure-house', 'storehouse'.""
•So the entry could be put in 'Architecture' or 'Writing'? Notice this OED citation of Chaucer: ""c1384 CHAUCER H. Fame II .16 In the tresorye hyt shette Of my brayn""","",Coinage and Rooms and Writing
2009-09-14 19:37:43 UTC,13062,"'But if you can be so lost to all Sense of Fear, and of Shame, and of Goodness, as not to be debarred by the Evil which you are to bring on yourself, by the extreme Baseness of the Action, nor by the Ruin in which you are to involve others, let me still urge the Difficulty, I may say the Impossibility of the Success. You are attacking a Fortress on a Rock; a Chastity so strongly defended, as well, by a happy natural Disposition of Mind , as by the strongest Principles of Religion and Virtue, implanted by Education, and nourished and improved by Habit, that the Woman must be invincible even without that firm and constant Affection of her Husband, which would guard a much looser and worse disposed Heart. What therefore are you attempting but to introduce Distrust, and perhaps Disunion between an innocent and a happy Couple, in which too you cannot succeed without bringing, I am convinced, certain Destruction on your own Head?
'Desist, therefore, let me advise you, from this enormous Crime; retreat from the vain Attempt of climbing a Precipice which it is impossible you should ever ascend, where you must probably soon fall into utter Perdition, and can have no other Hope but of dragging down your best Friend into Perdition with you.
(IV.x.2)","",The heart is a fortress on a rock,4875,,HDIS,2009-09-14 19:37:43 UTC,"","",""
2009-09-14 19:37:47 UTC,13114,"Whether Amelia's Beauty, or the Reflexion on the remarkable Act of Justice he had performed, or whatever Motive filled the Magistrate with extraordinary good Humour, and opened his Heart and Cellars, I will not determine; but he gave them so hearty a Welcome, and they were all so pleased with each other, that Amelia, for that one Night, trusted the Care of her Children to the Woman where they lodged, nor did the Company rise from Table till the Clock struck eleven.","","""Whether Amelia's Beauty, or the Reflexion on the remarkable Act of Justice he had performed, or whatever Motive filled the Magistrate with extraordinary good Humour, and opened his Heart and Cellars, I will not determine;""",4875,,"Searching ""heart"" and ""cell"" in HDIS (Prose)",2005-08-29 00:00:00 UTC,
,"Vol. 4, Book 12, Chap. 7",""
2013-08-20 04:25:49 UTC,22500,"KISSINDA.
Poor Lovegirlo's slain.
Oh! give me way, come all you Furies, come,
Lodge in th'unfurnish'd Chambers of my Heart,
My Heart which never shall be let again
To any Guest but endless Misery,
Never shall have a Bill upon it more.
Oh! I am mad methinks, I swim in Air,
In Seas of Sulphur and eternal Fire,
And see Lovegirlo too.
(p. 30)","","""Oh! give me way, come all you Furies, come, / Lodge in th'unfurnish'd Chambers of my Heart, / My Heart which never shall be let again / To any Guest but endless Misery, / Never shall have a Bill upon it more.""",7637,,LION,2013-08-20 04:25:49 UTC,"","",Inhabitants and Rooms