text,updated_at,metaphor,created_at,context,theme,reviewed_on,dictionary,comments,provenance,id,work_id
" Nor yet explore, with curious bent,
What, known, would but thy soul torment,
And all its hopes betray:
When painful truths invade the mind,
Ev'n wisdom wishes to be blind,
And hates th' officious ray.
(p. 54; cf. p. 253 in London Magazine)",2014-07-10 20:44:43 UTC,"""When painful truths invade the mind, / Ev'n wisdom wishes to be blind, / And hates th' officious ray.""",2005-05-04 00:00:00 UTC,"","",,Empire,"•I've included thrice: Invasion and Light and Blindness.
• cite in MS: p. 182, ll. 22-3, 54. ","Searching ""mind"" and 'invad"" in HDIS (Poetry); confirmed in ECCO.",15487,5812
"If with big meaning pregnant Fancy teem'd;
If o'er each thought, the light of Genius beam'd;
If quick Perception new ideas found,
And lent to verse new luxuries of sound;
If language with new graces was array'd,
More bold, more clear, and more expressive made;
Oh if my muse such gifted stores possess'd
And all those talents labour'd in my breast,
On Cyrrha's highest eminence I'd stand,
Snatch the sonorous harp from Pindar's hand,
His sacred energy thy praise should sing,
Swell ev'ry note, and sound from ev'ry string.
But what avails the sweet resounding lyre,
Thy deeds no aid from tuneful strains require;
Thy praise is hymn'd in the remotest earth,
Thy Fame is universal as thy worth.
(pp 45-6)",2013-05-16 22:16:08 UTC,"""If with big meaning pregnant Fancy teem'd; / If o'er each thought, the light of Genius beam'd; / If quick Perception new ideas found, / And lent to verse new luxuries of sound [...]""",2013-05-16 22:16:08 UTC,Part II,"",,"","",Reading at the Folger,20196,7391