id,comments,provenance,dictionary,created_at,reviewed_on,work_id,theme,context,updated_at,metaphor,text
12328,"•Aikins picks this out as a paper metaphor: ""Pamela's metaphor of 'tracing' in her little Babes, as if they were blank sheets of paper at birth, finds further extension in her discussion of the education which Miss Goodwin, B.'s illegitimate daughter, will receive under her tutelage"" (86-7).","Reading Janet E. Aikins ""Pamela's Use of Locke's Words."" SECC Vol. 25 (p. 86-7)","",2005-06-07 00:00:00 UTC,,4671,"","Vol. 4, Letter 54",2009-09-14 19:36:51 UTC,"""And all this time improve myself too, not only in Science, but in Nature, by tracing in the little Babes what all Mankind are, and have been, from Infancy to riper Years""","O my dear Mr. B. by your Help and Countenance, what may I not be able to teach them! and how may I prepare the Way for a Tutor's Instructions, and give them up Minds half cultivated to their Hands! ---And all this time improve myself too, not only in Science, but in Nature, by tracing in the little Babes what all Mankind are, and have been, from Infancy to riper Years, and watching the sweet Dawnings of Reason, and delighting in every bright Emanation of that Ray of Divinity lent to the human Mind, for great and happy Purposes, when rightly pointed and directed!"
12348,"•Rich passage. Postcolonial issues as well: savage as blank slates.
•I've included thrice: Marble, Quarry, Statue",Searching in ECCO,"",2006-10-10 00:00:00 UTC,,4684,"","",2009-09-14 19:36:52 UTC,"""Michael Angelo used to say, that a Statuary was a Man who only pared off Superfluities, since every Block of Marble contained in it all possible Forms; but without a Phidias, a Praxiteles, or a Michael Angelo himself, the Marble will lie for ever rude shapeless Mass in its Quarry.""","Ideas of Sensation furnish the Brutes, and altogether untaught Men with Objects of Use only to their Instincts, to enable them to exert those for their Personal Preservation to provide them with the Means of Subsistence, and to avoid Dangers; and of this Truth the New Holland and New Guinea Savages are as evident a Proof, as any other Species of mere Animals. To the instructed Man they afford a vast Quantity of Materials to exercise Knowledge on, but without being taught that [end page 26] Knowledge to apply them to artificial Purposes, they would signify no more to us, besides assisting the Instincts to take Care of that Body they were planted in, that vast Woods and Quarries of Marble in a Country would furnish it with Fleets, Palaces and Cities, without Workmen to fashion them, and Architects to put them into their respective beautiful Orders. Michael Angelo used to say, that a Statuary was a Man who only pared off Superfluities, since every Block of Marble contained in it all possible Forms; but without a Phidias, a Praxiteles, or a Michael Angelo himself, the Marble will lie for ever rude shapeless Mass in its Quarry. Some have said that the human Mind contained within it the Seeds of all Sciences; the Mind is indeed a Soil in which any of these Seeds may be sown, but it must be cultivated; and without an Husbandman it will continue a mere Tabula rasa, except what the Instincts write on it, without a possibility of astronomical, geographical or other learned Observations, let the Savage stare ever so much about him, and gaze up to the Skies all Night long, for the Stars are mere sensible Objects to the Brute and unlearned Man, as the Moon to a Dog, who only barks at it, or an ignorant Traveller, who neither doth nor can consider it farther than as he hath Occasion for its Light: But to the natural, moral and metaphysical Philosopher, all these become intel- [end page 27] ligible Species, Scientifick Objects, and afford Matter for great Variety and Depth of Learning. At present I require and will use no other Proof, than to desire any one to cast his Eyes and Observation on the ancient Athens and modern Setines, both as to Men and Buildings.
(pp. 26-8)"
12557,•Is this a Writing or a Visual Arts metaphor? I've included twice.
•C-H has archived the second edition.
,"Searching ""heart"" and ""engrav"" in HDIS (Prose)","",2005-03-10 00:00:00 UTC,,4743,"",Chapter 20,2009-09-14 19:37:07 UTC,"""[T]he charming image of a city's brightest ornament"" may be engraven on the heart by ""the god of love ... in characters too indelible ever to be erased""","As soon as they were entered he threw the door, as if by accident, which having a spring lock, immediately was made fast. --She either did not, or seemed not to regard what he had done; but casting her eyes round the room, and seeing nothing of what he had mentioned,--Where is this drawing? cried she. In my heart, adorable Mattakesa, answered he, falling at her feet at the same time:--it is not the city of Petersburg, but the charming image of its brightest ornament, that the god of love has engraven on my heart in characters too indelible ever to be erased:--from the first moment I beheld those eyes my soul has been on fire, and I must have consumed with inward burnings had I not revealed my flame:-- pardon, continued he, the boldness of a passion which knows no bounds; and tho' I may not be so worthy of your love as the too happy Horatio, I am certainly not less deserving of your pity."
12573,•I've included twice: Tabula Rasa and Picture,"Searching ""tabula rasa"" in ECCO",Writing,2006-10-10 00:00:00 UTC,,4751,Blank Slate,Sermon V,2009-09-14 19:37:08 UTC,"""A mere existence or being is an indifferent thing, ('tis a Rasa Tabula) that may be coloured over with sin or holiness: and accordingly it receives its value from these; as a picture is esteemed not from the materials upon which it is drawn, but from the draught itself.""","2. Sin disengages God from shewing love to the creature, by taking away that similitude that is between God and him; which (as has been observed) was one cause of that love. The creature, indeed, still retains that resemblance of God that consists in being; but the greatest resemblance, that consists in moral perfections, this is totally lost and defaced. A mere existence or being is an indifferent thing, ('tis a Rasa Tabula) that may be coloured over with sin or holiness: and accordingly it receives its value from these; as a picture is esteemed not from the materials upon which it is drawn, but from the draught itself. Holiness elevates the worth of the being in which it is, and is of more value than the being itself. As in scarlet, the bare dye is of greater value than the cloath. Sin debases the being in which it is; and makes the soul more unlike God, in respect of its qualities, than it is like him in respect of its substance. 'Tis not the alliance of flesh and blood, but the resemblance of virtue, that makes the greatest likeness between the father and son. [...]
(vol.viii, p. 124)"
19202,"",Searching in ECCO,"",2011-09-20 19:42:03 UTC,,7099,"","",2011-09-20 19:42:21 UTC,"""In a Word, I may palliate and soften as much as I please; but upon an honest Examination of my Heart, I am afraid the same Vanity which makes even homely People employ Painters to preserve a flattering Record of their Persons, has seduced me to print off this Chiaro Oscuro of my Mind.""","Now, Sir, when my Time comes, lest they shou'd think it worth while to handle my Memory with the same Freedom, I am willing to prevent its being so odly besmear'd (or at best but flatly white-wash'd) by taking upon me to give the Publick This, as true a Picture of myself as natural Vanity will permit me to draw: For to promise you that I shall never be vain, were a Promise that, like a Looking-glass too large, might break itself in the making: Nor am I sure I ought wholly to avoid that Imputation, because if Vanity be one of my natural Features, the Portrait wou'd not be like me without it. In a Word, I may palliate and soften as much as I please; but upon an honest Examination of my Heart, I am afraid the same Vanity which makes even homely People employ Painters to preserve a flattering Record of their Persons, has seduced me to print off this Chiaro Oscuro of my Mind.
(p. 3)"
19203,USE IN ENTRY,Searching in ECCO,Coinage,2011-09-20 19:44:30 UTC,,7099,"","",2011-09-20 19:50:31 UTC,"""This Work, I say, shall not only contain the various Impressions of my Mind, (as in Louis the Fourteenth his Cabinet you have seen the growing Medals of his Person from Infancy to Old Age,) but shall likewise include with them the Theatrical History of my Own Time, from my first Appearance on the Stage to my last Exit.""","And when I have done it, you may reasonably ask me of what Importance can the History of my private Life be to the Publick? To this, indeed, I can only make you a ludicrous Answer, which is, That the Publick very well knows my Life has not been a private one; that I have been employ'd in their Service ever since many of their Grandfathers were young Men; And tho' I have voluntarily laid down my Post, they have a sort of Right to enquire into my Conduct (for which they have so well paid me) and to call for the Account of it during my Share of Administration in the State of the Theatre. This Work, therefore, which I hope they will not expect a Man of hasty Head shou'd confine to any regular Method: (For I shall make no scruple of leaving my History when I think a Digression may make it lighter for my Reader's Digestion.) This Work, I say, shall not only contain the various Impressions of my Mind, (as in Louis the Fourteenth his Cabinet you have seen the growing Medals of his Person from Infancy to Old Age,) but shall likewise include with them the Theatrical History of my Own Time, from my first Appearance on the Stage to my last Exit.
(p. 4)
"
20509,"",Reading,Inhabitants,2013-06-11 14:18:43 UTC,,7408,"",Night the Sixth,2013-06-11 14:18:43 UTC,"""Nor dreadful our transition; though the mind, / An artist at creating self-alarms, / Rich in expedients for inquietude, / Is prone to paint it dreadful.""","Nor dreadful our transition; though the mind,
An artist at creating self-alarms,
Rich in expedients for inquietude,
Is prone to paint it dreadful. Who can take
Death's portrait true? The tyrant never sat.
Our sketch all random strokes, conjecture all;
Close shuts the Grave, nor tells one single tale.
Death, and his image rising in the brain,
Bear faint resemblance; never are alike:
Fear shakes the pencil; Fancy loves excess;
Dark Ignorance is lavish of her shades:
And these the formidable picture draw.
(ll. 49-60, p. 150 in CUP edition)"
23369,"","Searching and Reading in Google Books
","",2014-02-05 22:06:33 UTC,,4702,"","",2014-02-05 22:06:33 UTC,"""For one obscure or confused Idea, especially if it be of great Importance in the Question, intermingled with many clear ones, and placed in its Variety of Aspects towards them, will be in Danger of spreading Confusion over the whole Scene of Ideas, and thus may have an unhappy Influence to overwhelm the Understanding with Darkness, and pervert the Judgment. A little black Paint will shamefully tincture and spoil twenty gay Colours.""","II. ACCUSTOM yourself to clear and distinct Ideas in every thing you think of. Be not satisfied with obscure and confused Conceptions of Things, especially where clearer may be obtained: For one obscure or confused Idea, especially if it be of great Importance in the Question, intermingled with many clear ones, and placed in its Variety of Aspects towards them, will be in Danger of spreading Confusion over the whole Scene of Ideas, and thus may have an unhappy Influence to overwhelm the Understanding with Darkness, and pervert the Judgment. A little black Paint will shamefully tincture and spoil twenty gay Colours.
(p. 239)"
23372,USE IN ENTRY,Searching and Reading in Google Books,Inhabitants and Rooms,2014-02-05 22:11:00 UTC,,4702,"","",2014-02-05 22:11:00 UTC,"""This will gradually give the Mind a Faculty of surveying many objects at once; as a Room that is richly adorned and hung round with a great Variety of Pictures, strikes the Eye almost at once with all that Variety, especially if they have been well surveyed one by one at first: This makes it habitual and more easy to the Inhabitants to take in many of those painted Scenes with a single Glance or two.""","III. Use all Diligence to acquire and treasure up a large Store of Ideas and Notions: Take every Opportunity to add something to your Stock; and by frequent Recollection fix them in your memory: Nothing tends to confirm and enlarge the Memory like a frequent Review of its Possessions. Then the Brain being well furnished with various Traces, Signatures and Images, will have a rich Treasure always ready to be proposed or offered to the Soul, when it directs its Thoughts towards any particular Subject. This will gradually give the Mind a Faculty of surveying many objects at once; as a Room that is richly adorned and hung round with a great Variety of Pictures, strikes the Eye almost at once with all that Variety, especially if they have been well surveyed one by one at first: This makes it habitual and more easy to the Inhabitants to take in many of those painted Scenes with a single Glance or two.
(pp. 239-40)"
24139,"",Reading in the Folger Library; text from ECCO-TCP.,"",2014-07-03 14:47:59 UTC,,7959,"","",2014-07-03 14:47:59 UTC,"""I will endeavour in the following Dissection of our Puppet Heroe, to convince my dear Country Men and Country Women, that they are madly following an Ignis fatuus, or Will of the Whisp, which they take for real substantial Light, and which I shall prove to be only the Rush-light of Genius, the Idol of Fashion, and an Air-drawn Favourite of the Imagination.""","AS I have a long Time (twenty Years, or more) made the STAGE, and ACTING, my Study and Entertainment, I look upon myself, and indeed am thought by my Intimates, a proper Person to animadvert upon, or approve, the Errors and the Excellencies of the Theatre; and as there can be no better Opportunity offer itself than now, when the Town is running after their little fashionable Actor, in a Character of which he is, properly speaking, the Anticlimax of, or rather the Antipode of Shakespear; I will endeavour in the following Dissection of our Puppet Heroe, to convince my dear Country Men and Country Women, that they are madly following an Ignis fatuus, or Will of the Whisp, which they take for real substantial Light, and which I shall prove to be only the Rush-light of Genius, the Idol of Fashion, and an Air-drawn Favourite of the Imagination.
(pp. 1-2)
"