work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
5106,"",Searching in HDIS (Prose),2005-03-11 00:00:00 UTC,"'You observed, Sir, said Mrs. Trentham, that we live for others, without any regard to our own pleasure, therefore I imagine you think our way of life inconsistent with it; but give me leave to say you are mistaken. What is there worth enjoying in this world that we do not possess? We have all the conveniences of life, nay, all the luxuries that can be included among them. We might indeed keep a large retinue; but do you think the sight of a number of useless attendants could afford us half the real satisfaction, that we feel from seeing the money, which must be lavished on them, expended in supporting the old and decrepid, or nourishing the helpless infant? We might dress with so much expence, that we could scarcely move under the burden of our apparel; but is that more eligible, than to see the shivering wretch clad in warm and comfortable attire? Can the greatest luxury of the table afford so true a pleasure, as the reflection, that instead of its being over-charged with superfluities, the homely board of the cottager is blessed with plenty? We might spend our time in going from place to place, where none wish to see us except they find a deficiency at the card table, perpetually living among those, whose vacant minds are ever seeking after pleasures foreign to their own tastes, and pursue joys which vanish as soon as possessed; for these would you have us leave the infinite satisfaction of being beheld with gratitude and love, and the successive enjoyments of rational delights, which here fill up every hour? Should we do wisely in quitting a scene, where every object exalts our mind to the great Creator, to mix among all the folly of depraved nature?
(pp. 257-8)",,13846,"","""We might spend our time in going from place to place, where none wish to see us except they find a deficiency at the card table, perpetually living among those, whose vacant minds are ever seeking after pleasures foreign to their own tastes, and pursue joys which vanish as soon as possessed.""","",2009-12-28 04:37:19 UTC,Chapter 6
7487,"",Searching in ECCO,2013-06-27 20:55:52 UTC,"She passed the night without rest; the ideas of coaches, coronets, titles, filled her mind, and effectually murdered sleep. She rose, determined to pass the winter in London, the only place where, according to her new-born idea, beauty and merit were allowed their sterling value; but greatly perplexed in what manner to propose to her uncle a design which she was absolutely certain he would disapprove.
(I.i.5, pp. 14-15)
",,21222,Echoing Pope's Rape of the Lock?,"""She passed the night without rest; the ideas of coaches, coronets, titles, filled her mind, and effectually murdered sleep.""","",2013-06-27 20:55:52 UTC,""
8023,"",Reading,2014-09-02 21:09:34 UTC,"Catherine's mind was too full, as she entered the house, for her either to observe or to say a great deal; and, till called on by the General for her opinion of it, she had very little idea of the room in which she was sitting. Upon looking round it then, she perceived in a moment that it was the most comfortable room in the world; but she was too guarded to say so, and the coldness of her praise disappointed him.
(II, 224-225)",,24444,"","""Catherine's mind was too full, as she entered the house, for her either to observe or to say a great deal; and, till called on by the General for her opinion of it, she had very little idea of the room in which she was sitting.""","",2014-09-02 21:09:34 UTC,""