work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
5559,"","Found again searching ""stamp"" and ""mind"" in HDIS (Poetry); confirmed in ECCO-TCP.",2003-12-15 00:00:00 UTC,"Faults in the life breed errors in the brain,
And these, reciprocally, those again.
The mind and conduct mutually imprint
And stamp their image in each other's mint.
Each, sire and dam of an infernal race,
Begetting and conceiving all that's base.
(ll. 564-569, p. 278; cf. p. 69 in 1782 ed.)",2012-04-10,14852,"At least 6 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1782, 1790, 1794, 1798, 1800).
•Cross-reference: Goldsmith's Retaliation: ""Here lies honest William, whose heart was a mint,"" (l. 43). See also Yorick's comparison of English and French characters and th entries concerned with treasure.
•INTEREST. Use in dissertation.","""The mind and conduct mutually imprint / And stamp their image in each other's mint.""",Coinage and Impressions,2014-07-13 16:24:39 UTC,""
7211,"",Reading in Google Books,2012-04-10 15:13:59 UTC,"Like Twigs, entrusted to the Planter's Pains,
Who prunes, engrafts, indulges, or restrains,
Till in the Garden Ornament they yield,
And Fruit, which else had cumber'd up the Field:
Or that rich Ore we from the Indies bring,
Which bears, refin'd, the Image of the King;
But mix'd for-ever with ignobler Mold,
Would lie conceal'd, had we no Taste for Gold:
Thus human Soul, neglected, will not shine;
But, cultur'd well, approaches to divine!
(ll. 47-56, p. 45)",,19673,INTEREST. Mixed metaphor of gardening and coinage...,"""Like Twigs, entrusted to the Planter's Pains, / Who prunes, engrafts, indulges, or restrains, / Till in the Garden Ornament they yield, / And Fruit, which else had cumber'd up the Field: / Or that rich Ore we from the Indies bring, / Which bears, refin'd, the Image of the King; / But mix'd for-ever with ignobler Mold, / Would lie conceal'd, had we no Taste for Gold: / Thus human Soul, neglected, will not shine; / But, cultur'd well, approaches to divine!""",Coinage and Metal,2012-04-10 15:13:59 UTC,""