theme,metaphor,work_id,dictionary,provenance,id,created_at,updated_at,reviewed_on,comments,text,context
Magnetism,"""There was a magnetical sympathy between me and my patron""",5826,Metal,Reading,15563,2005-05-09 00:00:00 UTC,2009-09-14 19:43:59 UTC,,"•Note the momentary transparency of Falkland. On the page that follows Falkland looks at Caleb ""as if he would see my very soul"" (187)","The instant I had uttered these words, I felt what it was that I had done. There was a magnetical sympathy between me and my patron, so that their effect was not sooner produced upon him, than my own mind reproached me with the inhumanity of the allusion. Our confusion was mutual. The blood forsook at once the transparent complexion of Mr. Falkland, and then ruched back again with rapidity and fierceness. I dared not utter a word, lest I should commit a new error worse than that into which I had just fallen. After a short, but severe struggle to continue the conversation, Mr. Falkland began with trepidation, but afterwards became calmer:--
(p. 186)",""
"","""If her heart was not quite at peace, its exquisite sensibility was corrected by the influence of reason; as the quivering needle, though subject to some variations, still tends to one fixed point.""",7591,Metal,Searching in ECCO-TCP,22189,2013-08-16 06:03:38 UTC,2013-08-16 06:03:38 UTC,,"","But whatever were Julia's real sensations, her conduct was irreproachable. Her ideas of rectitude were of the most exalted kind; and no pain would have been so insufferable to her pure and feeling bosom, as the conciousness of having in the smallest degree deviated from those principles of delicacy, truth, integrity, and honour, which were not only the inviolable sentiments of her soul, but the stedfast rules of her actions. If her heart was not quite at peace, its exquisite sensibility was corrected by the influence of reason; as the quivering needle, though subject to some variations, still tends to one fixed point.
(I.xi, p. 128)","Vol. I, Chap. xi"