work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
3336,"",Searching in HDIS (Poetry),2005-05-31 00:00:00 UTC,"Sprite of Segowen
speaks.
Deceiving gold was once my only toy,
With it my soul within the coffer lay,
It did the mastery of my life employ,
By night my mistress, and my jub by day.
Once, as I dozing in the witch-hour lay,
Thinking how best to filch the orphan's bread,
And from the helpless take their goods away,
I from the skyën heard a voice, which said:
""Thou sleepest; but lo! Satan is awake,
Some deed that's holy do, or he thy soul will take.""",,8607,"","""Deceiving gold was once my only toy, / With it my soul within the coffer lay""",Metal,2009-09-14 19:33:40 UTC,Stanza XXV
5849,Blank Slate; Lockean Philosophy,"Searching ""tabula rasa"" in ECCO",2006-10-14 00:00:00 UTC,"Therefore I take the mind or soul of men to be so perfectly indifferent to receive all impressions, as a rasa tabula, or white paper, &c.
(p. 14)",,15579,"•A footnote to this passage cites, Watts Essay, p. 106.","""Therefore I take the mind or soul of men to be so perfectly indifferent to receive all impressions, as a rasa tabula, or white paper, &c.""",Writing,2009-09-14 19:44:01 UTC,Chap IV. §19
5855,Blank Slate,"Searching ""mind"" and ""blank"" in HDIS (Poetry); found again ""soul"" and ""blank""",2005-03-02 00:00:00 UTC,"Here lies the body of John H---,
Entomb'd within this castle-wall;
Impaired by time not overthrown,
Fairly subdued by Sloth alone.
Like one of Virgil's lazy cattle,
Unfit alike for peace or battle.
As snug and totally at rest
As dormice in their dormant nest.
Like souls unborn and unequipp'd,
A blank, of many a passion stripp'd.
That minds as much as these same weak ones
The threats of bishops, priests, and deacons.
And who the promises believes
Of priests and deacons and lawn sleeves,
As much as they themselves believe
All that they teach from morn to eve.
Which they are not to blame for teaching,
But those that pay them for their preaching.
When young, by his parish priest's assistance,
He saw great marvels at a distance;
He saw both heaven and hell below,
And also saw in heaven or hell,
But so far off they made no show,
All people that on earth do dwell,
As children lifted by the chin
See London town and all within.",,15587,"","""Like souls unborn and unequipp'd, / A blank, of many a passion stripp'd.""","",2009-09-14 19:44:03 UTC,""