updated_at,reviewed_on,context,comments,theme,id,text,provenance,created_at,work_id,metaphor,dictionary
2014-07-23 17:04:44 UTC,2011-09-23,"Volume II, Chap. v.",This entry had corrupted text in it: FIXED 7/23/2014. ,Ruling Passion,13699,"WHEN a man gives himself up to the government of a ruling passion,--or, in other words, when his HOBBY-HORSE grows head-strong,--farewell cool reason and fair discretion!
My uncle Toby's wound was near well, and as soon as the surgeon recovered his surprize, and could get leave to say as much--he told him, 'twas just beginning to incarnate; and that if no fresh exfoliation happen'd, which there was no signs of,--it would be dried up in five or six weeks. The sound of as many olympiads twelve hours before, would have convey'd an idea of shorter duration to my uncle Toby's mind.--The succession of his ideas was now rapid,--he broil'd with impatience to put his design in execution;--and so, without consulting further with any soul living,--which, by the bye, I think is right, when you are predetermined to take no one soul's advice,--he privately ordered Trim, his man, to pack up a bundle of lint and dressings, and hire a chariot and four to be at the door exactly by twelve o'clock that day, when he knew my father would be upon 'Change.--So leaving a bank-note upon the table for the surgeon's care of him, and a letter of tender thanks for his brother's,--he pack'd up his maps, his books of fortification, his instruments, &c.--and, by the help of a crutch on one side, and Trim on the other,--my uncle Toby embark'd for Shandy-Hall.
(II.v, pp. 29-31)","Searching HDIS (Prose) for ""ruling passion""; text from ECCO-TCP.",2004-05-27 00:00:00 UTC,5088,"""When a man gives himself up to the government of a ruling passion,--or, in other words, when his Hobby-Horse grows head-strong,--farewell cool reason and fair discretion!""",Animals
2011-09-23 19:18:25 UTC,2011-09-23,"Volume II, Chapter 17. ",The Sermon read by Trim,"",13722,"""At first sight this may seem to be a true state of the case; and I make no doubt but the knowledge of right and wrong is so truly impressed upon the mind of man,--that did no such thing ever happen, as that the conscience of a man, by long habits of sin, might (as the scripture assures it may) insensibly become hard;--and, like some tender parts of his body, by much stress and continual hard usage, lose, by degrees, that nice sense and perception with which God and nature endow'd it:--Did this never happen;--or was it certain that self-love could never hang the least bias upon the judgment;--or that the little interests below, could rise up and perplex the faculties of our upper regions, and encompass them about with clouds and thick darkness:--Could no such thing as favour and affection enter this sacred Court:--Did Wit disdain to take a bribe in it;--or was asham'd to shew its face as an advocate for an unwarrantable enjoyment: --Or, lastly, were we assured, that Interest stood always unconcern'd whilst the cause was hearing,--and that passion never got into the judgment-seat, and pronounc'd sentence in the stead of reason, which is supposed always to preside and determine upon the case:--Was this truly so, as the objection must suppose;--no doubt then, the religious and moral state of a man would be exactly what he himself esteem'd it;-- and the guilt or innocence of every man's life could be known, in general, by no better measure, than the degrees of his own approbation and censure.
(pp. 111-3, Norton 90-1)",Searching in HDIS (Prose),2004-11-24 00:00:00 UTC,5088,"""Could no such thing as favour and affection enter this sacred Court [of Conscience]:--Did Wit disdain to take a bribe in it;--or was asham'd to shew its face as an advocate for an unwarrantable enjoyment?""",Court
2011-09-23 19:20:36 UTC,2011-09-23,"Volume II, Chapter 17. The Sermon read by Trim","","",13723,"""At first sight this may seem to be a true state of the case; and I make no doubt but the knowledge of right and wrong is so truly impressed upon the mind of man,--that did no such thing ever happen, as that the conscience of a man, by long habits of sin, might (as the scripture assures it may) insensibly become hard;--and, like some tender parts of his body, by much stress and continual hard usage, lose, by degrees, that nice sense and perception with which God and nature endow'd it: --Did this never happen; --or was it certain that self-love could never hang the least bias upon the judgment;--or that the little interests below, could rise up and perplex the faculties of our upper regions, and encompass them about with clouds and thick darkness: --Could no such thing as favour and affection enter this sacred Court: --Did Wit disdain to take a bribe in it;--or was asham'd to shew its face as an advocate for an unwarrantable enjoyment: --Or, lastly, were we assured, that Interest stood always unconcern'd whilst the cause was hearing,--and that passion never got into the judgment-seat, and pronounc'd sentence in the stead of reason, which is supposed always to preside and determine upon the case: --Was this truly so, as the objection must suppose;--no doubt then, the religious and moral state of a man would be exactly what he himself esteem'd it;-- and the guilt or innocence of every man's life could be known, in general, by no better measure, than the degrees of his own approbation and censure.
(pp. 111-3, Norton 90-1)",Searching in HDIS (Prose),2004-11-24 00:00:00 UTC,5088,"""Or, lastly, were we assured, that Interest stood always unconcern'd whilst the cause was hearing,--and that passion never got into the judgment-seat, and pronounc'd sentence in the stead of reason, which is supposed always to preside and determine upon the case.""",Court
2015-12-02 18:12:51 UTC,,"","","",23051,"The young fellow, said the landlord, is beloved by all the town, and there is scarce a corner in Montriul where the want of him will not be felt: he has but one misfortune in the world, continued he, ""He is always in love.""--I am heartily glad of it, said I,--'twill save me the trouble every night of putting my breeches under my head. In saying this, I was making not so much La Fleur's eloge, as my own, having been in love with one princess or another almost all my life, and I hope I shall go on so, till I die, being firmly persuaded, that if ever I do a mean action, it must be in some interval betwixt one passion and another: whilst this interregnum lasts, I always perceive my heart locked up--I can scarce find in it, to give Misery a sixpence; and therefore I always get out of it as fast as I can, and the moment I am rekindled, I am all generosity and good will again; and would do any thing in the world either for, or with any one, if they will but satisfy me there is no sin in it.
(I, pp. 104-5)","Reading; found again searching in LION. And again: reading Paul Kelleher's Making Love: Sentiment and Sexuality in Eighteenth-Century British Literature (Lanham, MD: Bucknell UP, 2015), 3.
",2013-10-26 19:30:58 UTC,5301,"""In saying this, I was making not so much La Fleur's eloge, as my own, having been in love with one princess or another almost all my life, and I hope I shall go on so, till I die, being firmly persuaded, that if ever I do a mean action, it must be in some interval betwixt one passion and another: whilst this interregnum lasts, I always perceive my heart locked up--I can scarce find in it, to give Misery a sixpence; and therefore I always get out of it as fast as I can, and the moment I am rekindled, I am all generosity and good will again; and would do any thing in the world either for, or with any one, if they will but satisfy me there is no sin in it.""",""
2016-02-23 16:27:39 UTC,,"Vol. IV, Chap. xxvii",Is that planting a Plant metaphor? -- I think not. REVISIT.,"",24848,"It is curious to observe the triumph of slight incidents over the mind:--What incredible weight they have in forming and governing our opinions, both of men and things,--that trifles light as air, shall waft a belief into the soul, and plant it so immoveably within it,--that Euclid's demonstrations, could they be brought to batter it in breach, should not all have power to overthrow it.
(IV.xxvii, pp. 179-80; Norton, 226)",Reading,2016-02-23 16:27:29 UTC,5088,"""It is curious to observe the triumph of slight incidents over the mind:--What incredible weight they have in forming and governing our opinions, both of men and things,--that trifles light as air, shall waft a belief into the soul, and plant it so immoveably within it,--that Euclid's demonstrations, could they be brought to batter it in breach, should not all have power to overthrow it.""",""