work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
3585,"","Searching ""mind"" and ""line"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2005-05-11 00:00:00 UTC,"""A Prince that in the Cedars top doth build,
""And scornes the Sun, and dallies with the Wind,
""Only a Title hath his care to gild,
""His gay robe's lined with a restlesse mind.
""They that stand high have many blasts to shake them,
""And falling from on high, the more they break them.",2008-12-03,9274,"","""His gay robe's lined with a restlesse mind""","",2009-09-14 19:34:05 UTC,""
7137,"","Searching ""imperium"" in EEBO",2012-03-29 18:06:35 UTC,"10. Not that the Plastick virtue, awakened by the Imperium of her Will, shall renew all the lineaments it did in this Earthly Body (for abundance of them are useless and to no purpose, which therefore, Providence so ordaining, will be silent in this aiery figuration, and onely such operate as are fit for this separate state; and such are those as are requisite to perfect the visible feature of a Person, giving him all parts of either ornament or use for the pleasure of rational converse;) nor that this Efformative power does determine the whole appearance alone (for these aerial Spirits appear variously clad, some like beautiful Virgins, others like valiant Warriours with their Helmets and Plumes of feathers, as Philostratus would make us believe Achilles did to Apollonius:) But there is a mixt action and effect, resulting partly from the freeness of the Will and Imagination, and partly from the natural propension of the Plastick virtue, to cast the Vehicle into such a personal shape.
(III.v.10, p. 385)",,19657,"","""Not that the Plastick virtue, awakened by the Imperium of her Will, shall renew all the lineaments it did in this Earthly Body (for abundance of them are useless and to no purpose, which therefore, Providence so ordaining, will be silent in this aiery figuration, and onely such operate as are fit for this separate state.""",Empire,2012-03-29 18:13:15 UTC,"Book III, Chapter v"