id,comments,provenance,dictionary,created_at,reviewed_on,work_id,theme,context,updated_at,metaphor,text
15584,"","Searching ""throne"" and ""mind"" in HDIS (Drama)","",2004-07-14 00:00:00 UTC,,5852,"","Act I, scene 4",2009-09-14 19:44:02 UTC,"In ""the serious and reflective mind, love raises a despotic throne, and, like the burning sun of Africa, he pours his chiefest ardors upon slaves""","ASGILL
O! how he mistakes! it is in souls like mine that love rages with all his fury. The gay, the volatile, can scarcely maintain a passion; but in the serious and reflective mind, love raises a despotic throne, and, like the burning sun of Africa, he pours his chiefest ardors upon slaves.
Enter Perkins.
Perkins! how now! your looks alarm me. What news from the City?"
15793,"•INTEREST. Orientalism and foot-binding. Use in Entry.
&bull:I've included twice: Feet and Growth","Reading Sheryl O' Donnell's ""Mr. Locke and the Ladies"" in SECC Vol. 8 (p. 157)","",2005-07-06 00:00:00 UTC,2007-10-12,5949,"","",2009-09-14 19:44:40 UTC,"""And, indeed, there is so much truth in the remark, that till women shall be more reasonably educated, and till the native growth of their mind shall cease to be stinted and cramped, we have no juster ground for pronouncing that their understanding has already reached its highest attainable point, than the Chinese would have for affirming that their women have attained to the greatest possible perfection in walking, while the first care is, during their infancy to cripple their feet""","Here it may be justly enough retorted, that, as it is allowed the education of women is so defective, the alleged inferiority of their minds may be accounted for on that ground more justly than by ascribing it to their natural make. And, indeed, there is so much truth in the remark, that till women shall be more reasonably educated, and till the native growth of their mind shall cease to be stinted and cramped, we have no juster ground for pronouncing that their understanding has already reached its highest attainable point, than the Chinese would have for affirming that their women have attained to the greatest possible perfection in walking, while the first care is, during their infancy to cripple their feet. At least, till the female sex are more carefully instructed, this question will always remain as undecided as to the degree of difference between the masculine and feminine understandings, as the question between the understandings of blacks and whites; for until men and women, and until Africans and Europeans are put more nearly on a par in the cultivation of their minds, the shades of distinction, whatever they be, between their native abilities can never be fairly ascertained."
15794,"","Reading Sheryl O' Donnell's ""Mr. Locke and the Ladies: The Indelible Words on the Tabula Rasa,"" Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture. 8 (1979): 151–64. p. 157.","",2005-07-06 00:00:00 UTC,2007-10-12,5949,"","",2009-09-14 19:44:41 UTC,"""[W]hat knowledge they [women] have gotten stands out as it were above the very surface of their minds, like the appliquée of the embroiderer, instead of having been interwoven with the growth of the piece, so as to have become a part of the stuff. They did not, like men, acquire what they know while the texture was forming.""","what knowledge they [women] have gotten stands out as it were above the very surface of their minds, like the appliquée fo the embroiderer, instead of having been interwoven with the growth of the piece, so as to have become a part of the stuff. They did not, like men, acquire what they know while the texture was forming."
18726,"Truly disgusting evangelical sentiment: depraved slaves must figure ""massas.""",Reading,"",2011-06-17 19:20:50 UTC,,6948,"","",2011-06-17 19:20:50 UTC,"""O ye slaves whom Massa beat, / Ye are stained with guilt within / As ye hope for mercy sweet / So forgive your Massas' Sin.""","Told me too, like one who knew him,
(Can such love as this be true?)
How he dy'd for them that slew him.
Died for wretched Yamba too.
Freely he his mercy proffer'd,
And to Sinners he was sent;
E'en to Massa pardon's offer'd;
O if Massa would repent!
Wicked deed full many a time
Sinful Yamba too hath done;
But she wails to God her crime;
But she trusts his only Son.
O ye slaves whom Massa beat,
Ye are stained with guilt within
As ye hope for mercy sweet
So forgive your Massas' Sin.
And with grief when sinking low,
Mark the Road that Yamba trod;
Think how all her pain and woe
Brought the Captive home to God. "
19043,"","Searching ""heart"" and ""chain"" in HDIS (Drama)",Fetters,2011-07-28 19:36:02 UTC,,7043,"","Act III, scene i",2011-07-28 19:36:02 UTC,"""Yes, she has a thousand charms, and my heart is already in her chains.""","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)
"
19074,"","Searching ""soul"" and ""chain"" in HDIS (Drama)",Fetters,2011-07-30 20:52:30 UTC,,7043,"","Act V, scene v",2011-07-30 20:52:30 UTC,"""Thou wife of Orloff! thou hast my soul in chains--drag it not to perdition!""","IBRAHIM
O thou enchantress!
[Starting back]
Thou wife of Orloff! thou hast my soul in chains--drag it not to perdition!
(V.v)"
19080,"","Searching ""passion"" and ""chain"" in HDIS (Drama)",Fetters,2011-08-01 19:45:06 UTC,,7043,"","Act V, scene 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.""","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)"
22162,"","Searching ""mind"" and ""mirror"" in ECCO-TCP",Mirror,2013-08-15 23:18:04 UTC,,7585,"","",2013-08-22 22:02:57 UTC,"""The purity of his intentions, and the uprightness of his principles--the transcript before you will sufficiently establish;--it is a mental mirror, in which you behold the features of the writer's mind, as distinctly as a looking glass reflects, to a young beauty, her cheek of roses, and her eye of fire.""","The purity of his intentions, and the uprightness of his principles--the transcript before you will sufficiently establish;--it is a mental mirror, in which you behold the features of the writer's mind, as distinctly as a looking glass reflects, to a young beauty, her cheek of roses, and her eye of fire. That he was popular as to courage and resolution, is plain from a formal petition sent to Parliament by the inhabitants of Portsmouth, praying that Sir William Waller might be made their Governor.
That he had a mind capable of the tenderest impressions, and alive to all the charms of love, appears, from this, that he never lived unmarried. Three times he exulted in the flowery hymeneal chain; and speaks of each Lady with exalted fondness and affection. But those, alas! were days in which the connubial passion was the only one tolerated!
(p. 98)"