work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
6464,"","Reading Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice. Norton Critical Edition. Third Edition. New York: Norton, 2001. p. 266.",2008-11-17 00:00:00 UTC,"I am gratified by her having pleasure in what I write, but I wish the knowledge of my being exposed to her discerning criticism may not hurt my style, by inducing too great a solicitude. I begin already to weigh my words and sentences more than I did, and am looking about for a sentiment, an illustration, or a metaphor in every corner of the room. Could my ideas flow as fast as the rain in the store-closet it would be charming.",2008-11-17,17189,"","""Could my ideas flow as fast as the rain in the store-closet it would be charming.""","",2009-09-14 19:49:20 UTC,""
6936,Psychomachia,"Searching ""mind"" in HDIS (Austen)",2011-06-09 20:30:38 UTC,"""The mind which does not struggle against itself under one circumstance, would find objects to distract it in the other, I believe; and the influence of the place and of example may often rouse better feelings than are begun with. The greater length of the service, however, I admit to be sometimes too hard a stretch upon the mind. one wishes it were not so--but I have not yet left Oxford long enough to forget what chapel prayers are."" While this was passing, the rest of the party being scattered about the chapel, Julia called Mr. Crawford's attention to her sister, by saying, ""Do look at Mr. Rushworth and Maria, standing side by side, exactly as if the ceremony were going to be performed. Have not they completely the air of it?""
(I.ix, p. 63)",,18633,"","""The mind which does not struggle against itself under one circumstance, would find objects to distract it in the other, I believe; and the influence of the place and of example may often rouse better feelings than are begun with.""","",2011-06-09 20:30:38 UTC,"Volume I, Chapter ix"
6936,"","Searching ""mind"" in HDIS (Austen)",2011-06-09 20:34:02 UTC,"Had Sir Thomas applied to his daughter within the first three or four days after Henry Crawford's leaving Mansfield, before her feelings were at all tranquillized, before she had given up every hope of him, or absolutely resolved on enduring his rival, her answer might have been different; but after another three or four days, when there was no return, no letter, no message--no symptom of a softened heart--no hope of advantage from separation--her mind became cool enough to seek all the comfort that pride and self-revenge could give.
(II.iii, p. 139)",,18634,"","""[H]er mind became cool enough to seek all the comfort that pride and self-revenge could give.""","",2011-06-09 20:34:02 UTC,"Volume II, Chapter iii"
6936,"","Searching ""mind"" in HDIS (Austen)",2011-06-09 20:36:38 UTC,"""This is pretty--very pretty,"" said Fanny, looking around her as they were thus sitting together one day: ""Every time I come into this shrubbery I am more struck with its growth and beauty. Three years ago, this was nothing but a rough hedgerow along the upper side of the field, never thought of as any thing, or capable of becoming any thing; and now it is converted into a walk, and it would be difficult to say whether most valuable as a convenience or an ornament; and perhaps in another three years we may be forgetting--almost forgetting what it was before. How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!"" And following the latter train of thought, she soon afterwards added: ""If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient--at others, so bewildered and so weak--and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond controul!--We are to be sure a miracle every way--but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting, do seem peculiarly past finding out.""
(II.iv, p. 143)",,18635,"","""The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient--at others, so bewildered and so weak--and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond controul!""","",2011-06-09 20:36:38 UTC,"Volume II, Chapter iv"
6936,"","Searching ""mind"" in HDIS (Austen)",2011-06-09 20:38:33 UTC,"Upon such expressions of affection, Fanny could have lived an hour without saying another word; but Edmund, after waiting a moment, obliged her to bring down her mind from its heavenly flight by saying, ""But what is it that you want to consult me about?""
(II.ix, p. 180)",,18636,"","""Upon such expressions of affection, Fanny could have lived an hour without saying another word; but Edmund, after waiting a moment, obliged her to bring down her mind from its heavenly flight by saying, 'But what is it that you want to consult me about?'""","",2011-06-09 20:38:33 UTC,"Volume II, Chapter ix "
6936,"","Searching ""mind"" in HDIS (Austen)",2011-06-09 20:41:41 UTC,"Edmund could not but agree to it. ""Yes, that uncle and aunt! They have injured the finest mind!--for sometimes, Fanny, I own to you, it does appear more than manner; it appears as if the mind itself was tainted.""
Fanny imagined this to be an appeal to her judgment, and therefore, after a moment's consideration, said, ""If you only want me as a listener, cousin, I will be as useful as I can; but I am not qualified for an adviser. Do not ask advice of me. I am not competent.""
(II.ix, p. 184)",,18637,"","""They have injured the finest mind!--for sometimes, Fanny, I own to you, it does appear more than manner; it appears as if the mind itself was tainted.""","",2011-06-09 20:41:41 UTC,"Volume II, Chapter ix"
6936,Free Indirect Discourse,"Searching ""mind"" in HDIS (Austen)",2011-06-09 20:45:30 UTC,"While Fanny's mind was engaged in these sort of hopes, her uncle was soon after tea called out of the room; an occurrence too common to strike her, and she thought nothing of it till the butler re-appeared ten minutes afterwards, and advancing decidedly towards herself, said, ""Sir Thomas wishes to speak with you, Ma'am, in his own room."" Then it occurred to her what might be going on; a suspicion rushed over her mind which drove the colour from her cheeks; but instantly rising, she was preparing to obey, when Mrs. Norris called out, ""Stay, stay, Fanny! what are you about?--where are you going?--don't be in such a hurry. Depend upon it, it is not you that are wanted; depend upon it it is me; (looking at the butler) but you are so very eager to put yourself forward. What should Sir Thomas want you for? It is me, Baddeley, you mean; I am coming this moment. You mean me, Baddeley, I am sure; Sir Thomas wants me, not Miss Price.""
(III.i, p. 220)",,18638,"Lots of crossings and rushings and enterings and lingerings in Austen. These precede FID, often: signaling the rush, flutter, tumult and then performing it.","""Then it occurred to her what might be going on; a suspicion rushed over her mind which drove the colour from her cheeks.""","",2011-06-09 20:45:30 UTC,"Volume III, Chapter i"
7588,"",Searching in ECCO-TCP,2013-08-16 02:54:34 UTC,"ALONZO
—snatching his hand.
Ere yet we were,
Our finer tones of mind some guardian spirit
Touch'd into harmony; and, when we met,
Th' according strings struck forth a sound so sweet,
That heav'n itself might listen! love! ev'n love,
That brand of discord, burns within our bosoms,
Pale—cold—before the steady flame of virtue!
(IV.i, p. 44)",,22168,"","""Ere yet we were, / Our finer tones of mind some guardian spirit / Touch'd into harmony; and, when we met, / Th' according strings struck forth a sound so sweet, / That heav'n itself might listen! love! ev'n love, / That brand of discord, burns within our bosoms, / Pale—cold—before the steady flame of virtue!""","",2013-08-16 02:54:34 UTC,"Act IV, scene i"
7588,"","Searching ""mind"" and ""mirror"" in ECCO-TCP",2013-08-16 02:55:56 UTC,"ORSASMYN.
Oh! that superior mind is gone for ever!
--Yet still, thus ruin'd, like a broken mirror,
It gives a perfect image in each fragment!
(IV.i, p. 53)",,22169,"","""Oh! that superior mind is gone for ever! / --Yet still, thus ruin'd, like a broken mirror, / It gives a perfect image in each fragment!""",Mirror,2013-08-16 02:55:56 UTC,"Act IV, scene i"
7588,"",Searching in ECCO-TCP,2013-11-10 04:10:12 UTC,"ORASMYN.
Th' unwary flight expounds a mystery
My shallow sense o'erlook'd. Oh! well I see
Why thou wouldst not do justice to Orasmyn.
--Yet, oh! I pity, far more than I blame thee!
Hide from all eyes, but chiefly from my father's,
Th' unsanction'd prepossession! Ruin--murder,
A thousand ills, I will not shock thy sense with,
Lurk in the thought of love, and of Alonzo!
--Born to adore, to follow, to protect thee!
Think not Orasmyn will desert himself,
To force a heart upon thee!--Oh, farewell!
I cannot coin in words my soul's soft meaning!
(II.iii, p. 27)",,23144,"","""Oh, farewell! / I cannot coin in words my soul's soft meaning!""",Coinage,2013-11-10 04:10:12 UTC,"Act II, scene iii"