id,dictionary,theme,reviewed_on,metaphor,created_at,provenance,comments,work_id,text,context,updated_at 15487,Empire,"",,"""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,"Searching ""mind"" and 'invad"" in HDIS (Poetry); confirmed in ECCO.","•I've included thrice: Invasion and Light and Blindness. • cite in MS: p. 182, ll. 22-3, 54. ",5812," 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