text,updated_at,metaphor,created_at,context,theme,reviewed_on,dictionary,comments,provenance,id,work_id
"The sons of Europe found a guileless race,
No fraud was veiled beneath the smiling face;
Their manners, mild, benevolent, and kind,
Pourtrayed the cloudless sunshine of the mind:
Bless'd in their Prince's patriarchal reign,
Whose power relieved, but ne'er inflicted pain,
Their placid lives no fancy'd evils knew;
Their joys were many, and their wants were few.
One custom with their virtues ill agreed,
Which made Humanity with anguish bleed;
Compelled at Superstition's shrine to bow,
The hapless victims of a cruel vow!
Their sweetest maids were often doomed to prove,
No joy in friendship, nor no bliss in love!
Yet love and nature cannot be supprest,
The sigh will heave, and palpitate the breast;
For spite of vows, which Heaven's wise laws disown,
Love sits triumphant on the heart--his throne!
And breaks those fetters bigots would impose,
To aggravate the sense of human woes!",2011-05-27 14:14:23 UTC,"""Love sits triumphant on the heart--his throne! / And breaks those fetters bigots would impose, / To aggravate the sense of human woes!""",2004-08-07 00:00:00 UTC,Front Matter,"",2011-06-26,Fetters,"",Searching in HDIS (Drama),15425,5780
"SPIEGELBERG
[Warmly]
Yes, jealous of me--madly jealous you, and all of you.--I will invent such plans as shall confound every one of you.--How the light breaks in!--What great ideas dawn upon my mind --What giant-projects formed in this creative brain?--Curs'd lethargy of the soul!
[Striking his head]
that chain'd my better judgement, cramp'd all my strength of mind--ruin'd all my prospects-- I am now awake--I feel what I am, what I must yet be.--Go leave me--you shall all be indebted to my bounty for your support!
(I.i)",2011-07-30 21:11:05 UTC,"""Curs'd lethargy of the soul! ... that chain'd my better judgement, cramp'd all my strength of mind--ruin'd all my prospects.""",2004-10-14 00:00:00 UTC,"Act I, scene i","",2011-05-26,Fetters,"•I've included twice: Chain and Cramp.
• Found again (11/16/2004)","Searching HDIS (Drama); found again searching ""mind"" and ""chain"" and again, ""soul""",15430,5783
"FRANCIS
(Looking at him with an air of mockery.)
Ay, be comforted, my good dotard. Never more shall you press your darling to your bosom;--no, there is a gulph between--distant as heaven from hell.-- He was torn for ever from your arms, before you knew it was possible you ever could have wished it.--These papers must not be seen;--that might be dangerous--if the hand-writing were known.
(He gathers up all the scraps of paper.)
--I should be a pitiful bungler indeed, if I knew not yet how to tear a son from the heart of his father, were they link'd together with chains of iron. --Courage my boy! the favourite's removed;-- that's a giant's step.--But there is another heart, from which I must tear that image; ay, were that heart to break for it.--
(He walks with a striding step across the stage.)
I have a heavy debt of hatred against Nature, and by my soul! I'll make it good.--Why was that hideous burden of deformity laid upon me alone;--of all my race, on me alone?
(Stamps with his foot!)
Hell and damnation! on me alone;--as if she had formed me only of the scum, the very refuse of her stuff! She damn'd me from my birth! And here I swear eternal enmity against her--I'll blast her fairest works.--What are to me the ties of kindred! I'll burst those trammels of affection,--bonds of the soul.--I never knew their force:--She denied me the sweet play of the heart, and all its persuasive eloquence.--What must its place supply? Imperious force;--henceforth be that the only servant of my wishes,--and all shall yield before me.",2011-05-26 19:06:58 UTC,"""I should be a pitiful bungler indeed, if I knew not yet how to tear a son from the heart of his father, were they link'd together with chains of iron.""",2005-06-08 00:00:00 UTC,"Act I, scene i","",2011-05-26,Fetters,•Cross-reference: multiple translations of Schiller in HDIS,"Searching ""heart"" and ""iron"" in HDIS (Drama)",15449,5783
"WILL.
Thou'rt a brave girl!--I admire thy love and courage, and will give thee as little cause as I can to repent 'em.
Henceforth no other pleasures can I know,
Than those of fond fidelity to you;
Your pow'r my captive heart in chains shall bind,
Sweet as the graces of your face and mind:--
Blest in my friends, and doubly blest in love,
My joy's complete indeed--if you approve.",2011-07-29 16:14:27 UTC,"""Your pow'r my captive heart in chains shall bind, / Sweet as the graces of your face and mind.""",2011-07-27 19:55:43 UTC,"Act V, scene iv","",,Fetters,"","Searching ""mind"" and ""chain"" in HDIS (Drama); found again searching ""heart""",19030,5733
"IBRAHIM
Yes, she has a thousand charms, and my heart is already in her chains.--How dared Mustapha deceive me? He talked of deformity--her form is symmetry itself, and her hair which he decried, is fit for the bow-strings of the god of love.
(III.i)
",2011-07-28 19:36:02 UTC,"""Yes, she has a thousand charms, and my heart is already in her chains.""",2011-07-28 19:36:02 UTC,"Act III, scene i","",,Fetters,"","Searching ""heart"" and ""chain"" in HDIS (Drama)",19043,7043
"DUSHMANTA
[aside]
What can I do in this retreat, since my darling has left it?
[musing and looking round]
Ah! my departure is happily delayed. Here lies her bracelet of flowers, exquisitely perfumed by the root of síura which had been spread on her bosom: it has fallen from her delicate wrist, and is become a new chain for my heart.
",2011-07-29 16:09:45 UTC,"""Here lies her bracelet of flowers, exquisitely perfumed by the root of síura which had been spread on her bosom: it has fallen from her delicate wrist, and is become a new chain for my heart.""",2011-07-29 16:09:45 UTC,Act III,"",,Fetters,"","Searching ""heart"" and ""chain"" in HDIS (Drama)",19053,5721
"IBRAHIM
O thou enchantress!
[Starting back]
Thou wife of Orloff! thou hast my soul in chains--drag it not to perdition!
(V.v)",2011-07-30 20:52:30 UTC,"""Thou wife of Orloff! thou hast my soul in chains--drag it not to perdition!""",2011-07-30 20:52:30 UTC,"Act V, scene v","",,Fetters,"","Searching ""soul"" and ""chain"" in HDIS (Drama)",19074,7043
"IBRAHIM
Christian, thou know'st me not! Whilst left to myself, I could command myself! My ardent passions I could hold in chains, and suppress that love which honor could not sanction--But thou shalt know when thus oppos'd, I own no law but will--drag him away.
(V.v)",2011-08-01 19:45:06 UTC,"""My ardent passions I could hold in chains, and suppress that love which honor could not sanction.""",2011-08-01 19:45:06 UTC,"Act V, scene v","",,Fetters,"","Searching ""passion"" and ""chain"" in HDIS (Drama)",19080,7043
"CAPT. P.
If these pretty lasses come much in my way, I shall stand in need of all my constancy.
Air.--Captain.
Away ye giddy smiling throng,
Of tempting beauties fair and young;
My heart be true, altho' my tongue,
Shou'd sing of lovely Flora:
Or shou'd I gaze with fond desire,
Shou'd breath of roses fan the fire;
Or though I on a touch expire,
My soul is thine sweet Norah.
The bonds of Hymen o'er my mind,
My constant soul must ever bind;
To that dear woman left behind,
My kind, my tender Norah!
But, oh! I fear each mortal part,
Nay, e'en this true, this faithful heart,
Resistless to the Urchin's dart,
Shot by the eyes of Flora.
Illusive vapour, transient blaze,
Oh! vanish, while I wond'ring gaze;
But shine like Dian's silver rays,
My passion chaste for Norah:
Yet Hymen winks, and Venus smiles,
And passion ev'ry sense beguiles;
And Cupid with his thousand wiles
Assists my charming Flora.
(I.i)",2012-01-06 18:55:19 UTC,"""The bonds of Hymen o'er my mind, / My constant soul must ever bind.""",2012-01-06 18:55:19 UTC,"Act I, Scene i","",,Fetters,"","Searching ""bond"" and ""mind"" in HDIS (Drama)",19377,7139
"VIOLA.
My freedom I gladly resign,
Nor shall I for liberty ever repine.
OCTAVIO.
And I from my purpose will never depart,
To bind faster those bonds in which Love holds your heart.
(III.iii)",2012-01-06 19:06:44 UTC,"""And I from my purpose will never depart, / To bind faster those bonds in which Love holds your heart.""",2012-01-06 19:06:35 UTC,"Act III, Scene iii","",,Fetters,"","Searching ""bond"" and ""heart"" in HDIS (Drama)",19379,7140