text,updated_at,metaphor,created_at,context,theme,reviewed_on,dictionary,comments,provenance,id,work_id
"He, entering at the study door,
Its ample area 'gan explore;
And something in the wind
Conjectured, sniffing round and round,
Better than all the books he found,
Food chiefly for the mind.
(ll. 37-42, p. 31)",2009-09-14 19:43:06 UTC,"Books are ""Food chiefly for the mind""",2003-12-30 00:00:00 UTC,"","",,"","•First printed in Gentleman's Magazine, lix, 1789, 163-4",HDIS,15231,5707
"""These"" said the Muse, ""are subjects for thy song!
""Let themes like these thy manly strain prolong.
--""Does pining Merit in Oppression live?
""Give that protection which the Muse can give.
--""Does Patriot Virtue strive, but strive in vain,
""Its Country's dear-bought Freedom to maintain?
""Dare to support that long-deserted cause,
""And give, tho' Crowns oppose thee, give applause!
--""Is there a Man, who, from his earliest youth,
""Ne'er felt a sense of Honour or of Truth;
""Whose heart ne'er struggled with a wish for Fame,
""Whose cheek ne'er bore the blush of honest Shame;
""Vice his sole good, Himself his only end,
""The lurking Foe, the hypocritic Friend?
""If such an one there be, his bosom bare,--
""Show his black heart, and guide the Vultures there.
--""Should the vile Priest, for Lucre's filthy gain,
""Give up his Flock to join the courtly Train;
""Should he forsake the path his Saviour trod,
""And proudly turn his Back upon his God;
""Tho' Mitres crown him, break his golden Rest,
""And 'wake a troubled Conscience in his breast.
--""Does Beauty, swerving from its Maker's plan
""To be the Solace and the Joy of Man,
""Spurning at Fame and Honour's mild decree,
""Drink, with delight, the dregs of Infamy?
--""Does Man, so made to cherish, first betray,
""Then leave the Victim to the World a Prey?
""Let not thy Verse its angry scourge forbear,
""Nor veil the shameless Wanton's last despair.
--""Should frolic Youth, by mast'ring Passions led,
""In Folly's fair but treach'rous mazes tread,
""With cunning skill, and well-imagin'd care,
""Full in his view expose the lurking snare;
""And strive, by just degrees and friendly art,
""To 'wake the Virtue slumb'ring in his Heart.
--""Is there a Man, who, wealthy to no end,
""Ne'er knew the common wish to be a Friend,
""Whose callous Heart's to all Compassion steel'd?--
""Scourge him!--nor fear the wit of Chesterfield.
--""Do hireling Statesmen, in Corruption bold,
""Sell their poor Country as themselves are sold?
""With noble courage let thy Patriot Song
""Inflame a Nation to revenge its wrong.
--""Is there a Monarch, by mad Folly led,
""And under something worse than Folly bred;--
""Who would his People's sacred Rights betray,
""And longs to rule them with tyrannic Sway?--
""Exalt thy Strain, nor be the silly Thing
""That fears to speak of Justice to a King;--
""Deep in his Bosom plant the conscious Groan,--
""Nor spare a Vice,--tho' seated on a Throne.""--",2009-09-14 19:43:08 UTC,"""'Is there a Man, who, wealthy to no end, / 'Ne'er knew the common wish to be a Friend, / 'Whose callous Heart's to all Compassion steel'd?""",2005-06-09 00:00:00 UTC,"","",,Metal,•I've included twive: Callous and Steel,"Searching ""heart"" and ""steel"" in HDIS (Poetry)",15246,5717
"He spake; whom all applauded with a shout
Loud as against some headland cliff the waves
Roll'd by the stormy South o'er rocks that shoot
Afar into the deep, which in all winds
The flood still overspreads, blow whence they may.
Arising, forth they rush'd, among the ships
All scatter'd; smoke from every tent arose,
The host their food preparing; next, his God
Each man invoked (of the Immortals him
Whom he preferr'd) with sacrifice and prayer
For safe escape from danger and from death.
But Agamemnon to Saturnian Jove
Omnipotent, an ox of the fifth year
Full-flesh'd devoted, and the Princes call'd
Noblest of all the Greecians to his feast.
First, Nestor with Idomeneus the King,
Then either Ajax, and the son he call'd
Of Tydeus, with Ulysses sixth and last,
Jove's peer in wisdom. Menelaus went,
Heroic Chief! unbidden, for he knew
His brother's mind with weight of care oppress'd.
The ox encircling, and their hands with meal
Of consecration fill'd, the assembly stood,
When Agamemnon thus his prayer preferred.
()",2009-09-14 19:43:18 UTC,"The mind may be oppress'd with ""weight of care""",2004-01-02 00:00:00 UTC,"","",,"",•Not collected in Baird and Ryskamp. I will need to find another edition. REVISIT ALL ENTRIES.
,HDIS,15307,5748
"Terrour and consternation at that sound
The mind of Priam felt; erect the hair
Bristled his limbs, and with amaze he stood
Motionless. But the God, meantime, approach'd,
And, seizing ancient Priam's hand, enquired.
",2009-09-14 19:43:19 UTC,"The mind may feel ""Terrour and consternation""",2004-01-02 00:00:00 UTC,"","",,"",
,HDIS,15313,5748
"Phæacians! how appears he in your eyes
This stranger, graceful as he is in port,
In stature noble, and in mind discrete?
My guest he is, but ye all share with me
That honour; him dismiss not, therefore, hence
With haste, nor from such indigence withhold
Supplies gratuitous; for ye are rich,
And by kind heaven with rare possessions blest.
",2009-09-14 19:43:20 UTC,One may be as graceful in port and noble in stature as one is in mind discrete,2004-01-02 00:00:00 UTC,"",Mind and Body,,"",
,HDIS,15317,5749
"Him then thus answer'd his illustrious son.
Trust me, my father! thou shalt soon be taught
That I am not of drowsy mind obtuse.
But this I think not likely to avail
Or thee or me; ponder it yet again;
For tedious were the task, farm after farm
To visit of those servants, proving each,
And the proud suitors merciless devour
Meantime thy substance, nor abstain from aught.
Learn, if thou wilt, (and I that course myself
Advise) who slights thee of the female train,
And who is guiltless; but I would not try
From house to house the men, far better proved
Hereafter, if in truth by signs from heaven
Inform'd, thou hast been taught the will of Jove.
",2009-09-14 19:43:20 UTC,"One may be of ""drowsy mind obtuse""",2004-01-02 00:00:00 UTC,"",Mind and Body,,"",•I've probably missed a number of barely vital figures like this one. How important are they to my project? Could the case be made that minds are literally drowsy? REVISIT.
,HDIS,15318,5749
"She was--at least in Damon's Eyes--
Made up of Loveliness, and Grace;
Her Heart a Stranger to Disguise;
Her Mind as perfect as her Face:",2009-09-14 19:43:43 UTC,"""Her Heart a Stranger to Disguise; / Her Mind as perfect as her Face""",2006-02-22 00:00:00 UTC,"","",,"","",Searching in HDIS (Poetry),15463,5797
"Yon midnight bell, that frights the peaceful air!
Commands the Fathers to their wonted pray'r:
Now in long order flows the sable throng,
Like a dark, sullen stream that creeps along:
Why joins not Abelard the sainted train?
Does torpid sloth his ling'ring steps detain?
These walls, that pillow steep'd in tears, attest
That sleep is exil'd from this tortur'd breast:
This lamp proclaims the same, whose trembling beam
Guides while my hand pursues the glowing theme:
While the dread secret from my soul I tear,
And unreserv'd my bosom'd feelings bare.
Ah me! the passion that my soul misled
Was check'd, not conquer'd; buried, but not dead:
Now bursting from the grave, in evil hour,
It hastens to its prey with fiercer pow'r,
And, vulture-like, with appetite increas'd
It riots on the undiminish'd feast.
Daughter of Paraclete dost thou complain
In iron silence that I lock'd my pain?
That not to thee (soft solacer in woe)
I bad the troubled waves of Anguish flow?
Methought the course of three long years' retreat
Would scarce thy length'ning sacrifice complete:
Methought I should profane the hallow'd rite,
Did my laments thy pitying ear affright:
Thus at the altar, wrapt in holy dread,
The youth of Macedon in silence bled,
Nor from his tortur'd and consuming hand
Dismiss'd the living close-adhering brand[1].
But now thy slow inauguration's o'er,
And thou hast reach'd Religion's tranquil shore,
Now that stern habit throws without controul
Her chain of adamant around thy soul,
May not th' unhappy Abelard disclose
(To her who pities most) his train of woes?",2009-09-14 19:45:31 UTC,"A passion may burst ""from the grave, in evil hour"" and hasten to its prey with fiercer pow'r and ""vulture-like, with appetite increas'd"" riot on the undiminish'd feast",2005-02-14 00:00:00 UTC,"","",,"",•I've included twice: Resurrected Corpse and Vulture
•Rich passage,Searching in HDIS (Poetry),16044,6053
"But would you (as Ithuriel,[1] with his spear,
Struck the dire toad, at Eve's invaded ear)
Probe, with your searching pen, the mind's disease?
The sickly frame salubrious truths displease,
Howe'er adorned, from fancy's moral store;
For ""touch"" but guilt, ""no minister so sore.""
",2009-09-14 19:45:51 UTC,"""But would you (as Ithuriel, with his spear, / Struck the dire toad, at Eve's invaded ear) / Probe, with your searching pen, the mind's disease?""",2005-05-04 00:00:00 UTC,"","",,"","•Note reads, ""See Paradise Lost. B. IV, L. 810."" Cross-reference.
•REVISIT. INTEREST. Strangely structured. Consider when working through paradigms.
",Searching in HDIS (Poetry),16140,6108
"Oh! London! what calamities I see,
""In my mind's eye,"" whene'er I think on thee!
Years lost in folly, keen reflections bring;
The death of friends inflicts an equal sting!
Delusive Capital! where talents bloom
In vigorous flower, to-day; but in the tomb,
They set, for ever, with to-morrow's light,
Wrapt in the darkness of eternal night!
Garrick, who thrilled my soul in Drury Lane;
Charmed me, at Hampton, in his Shakespear's fane;
Passed his great bard's irremeable ""bourn,""
Whence ""no"" exempted ""travellers return.""
Johnson, and Hawkesworth, Goldsmith, too, I knew;
They all, uncloyed with fame, from life withdrew:
When such illustrious men resign their breath,
Even London lessens, by the work of death.
Delusive London! adverse to my strains!
Specious, thy pleasures; but severe, thy pains!
Oh! may I sing thee, in some happier page,
The great Lyceum[1] of my tranquil age!",2009-09-14 19:45:59 UTC,"""'Oh! London! what calamities I see, / 'In my mind's eye,"" whene'er I think on thee!""",2006-04-18 00:00:00 UTC,Vol. II,Mind's Eye,,Eye,"","Searching ""mind"" and ""eye"" in HDIS (Poetry)",16184,6108