work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
5100,"","Searching ""mind"" and ""room"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2005-08-29 00:00:00 UTC,"When Dinner comes, amid the various Feast,
That crowns your genial Board, where every Guest,
Or grave, or gay, is happy, and at home,
And none e'er sighed for the Mind's Elbow-room;
I warn you still to make your chief Repast
On one plain Dish, and trifle with the rest.
. . .
. . .
Beef, in a Fever, if your Stomach crave it,
Ox-cheek, or mawkish Cod, be sure you have it,
For still the Constitution, even the Case,
Directs the Stomach; this informs the Taste;
And what the Taste in her capricious Fits
Coyly, or even indifferently admits,
The peevish Stomach, or disdains to toil,
Or indolently works to vapid Chyle.
This Instinct of the Taste so seldom errs,
That if you love, yet smart for Cucumbers,
Or Plumbs of bad Repute, you'll likely find
'Twas for you separated what Nature join'd,
The spicey Kernel here, and there the Rind.",,13781,•There is at least one more elbow room metaphor...,"""When Dinner comes, amid the various Feast, / That crowns your genial Board, where every Guest, / Or grave, or gay, is happy, and at home, / And none e'er sighed for the Mind's Elbow-room""","",2009-09-14 19:39:12 UTC,""
5164,"",Searching in HDIS (Poetry),2006-01-18 00:00:00 UTC,"""Rest thou,"" I said, ""behind my shield; rest in peace, thou beam of light! the gloomy chief of Sora will fly, if Fingal's arm is like his soul. In some lone cave I might conceal thee, daughter of the sea! but Fingal never flies. Where the danger threatens, I rejoice in the storm of spears."" I saw the tears upon her cheek. I pitied Craca's fair. Now, like a dreadful wave afar, appeared the ship of stormy Borbar. His masts high-bended over the sea, behind their sheets of snow. White roll the waters on either side. The strength of ocean sounds. ""Come thou,"" I said, ""from the roar of ocean, thou rider of the storm! Partake the feast within my hall. It is the house of strangers.""",,13894,"","""'Rest thou,' I said, 'behind my shield; rest in peace, thou beam of light! the gloomy chief of Sora will fly, if Fingal's arm is like his soul.""","",2009-09-14 19:39:27 UTC,Argument to Book III
5112,"","Searching ""mind"" and ""exercise"" in HDIS (Prose)",2007-03-20 00:00:00 UTC,"The doctor, who had practised on board a man of war in his youth, and was perfectly well acquainted with the Captain's dialect, assured him, that if his bottom was damaged, he would new-pay it with an excellent salve, which he always carried about him, to guard against such accidents on the road: but Tom Clarke, who seemed to have cast the eyes of affection upon the landlady's eldest daughter, Dolly, objected to their proceeding farther without rest and refreshment, as they had already travelled fifty miles since morning; and he was sure his uncle must be fatigued both in mind and body, from vexation as well as from a hard exercise, to which he had not been accustomed. Fillet then desisted, saying, he was sorry to find the Captain had any cause for vexation; but he hoped it was not an incurable evil. This expression was accompanied with a look of curiosity, which Mr. Clarke was glad of an occasion to gratify; for, as we have hinted above, he was a very communicative gentleman, and the affair which now lay upon his stomach interested him nearly. ""I'll assure you, Sir, (said he) this here gentleman, captain Crowe, who is my mother's own brother, has been cruelly used by some of his relations. He bears as good a character as any captain of a ship on the Royal Exchange, and has undergone a variety of hardships at sea. What d'ye think, now, of his bursting all his sinews, and making his eyes start out of his head, in pulling his ship off a rock, whereby he saved to his owners.""----Here he was interrupted by the Captain, who exclaimed, ""Belay, Tom Belay:----prithee, don't veer out such a deal of jaw. Clap a stopper on thy cable, and bring thyself up, my lad.-----What a deal of stuff thou hast pumped up concerning bursting, and starting, and pulling ships, Laud have mercy upon us!----Look ye here brother----look ye here----mind these poor crippled joints: two fingers on the starboard, and three on the larboard hand: crooked, d'ye see, like the knees of a bilander.---I'll tell you what, brother, you seem to be a----ship deep laden----rich cargoe---current setting into the bay----hard gale---lee shore---all hands in the boat---tow round the headland---self pulling for dear blood, against the whole crew.---Snap go the finger-braces---crack went the eye-blocks.---Bounce daylight---flash starlight---down I foundered, dark as hell---whizz went my ears, and my head spun like a whirligig.---That don't signify---I'm a Yorkshire boy, as the saying is---all my life at sea, brother, by reason of an old grandmother and maiden aunt, a couple of old stinking---kept me these forty years out of my grandfather's estate.---Hearing as how they had taken their departure, came ashore, hired horses, and clapped on all my canvas, steering to the northward, to take possession of my---But it don't signify talking---these two old piratical---had held a palaver with a lawyer---an attorney, Tom, d'ye mind me, an attorney----and by his assistance hove me out of my inheritance:---that is all, brother---hove me out of five hundred pounds a year----that's all---what signifies---but such windfalls we don't every day pick up along shore.---Fill about, brother---yes, by the Lord! those two smuggling harridans, with the assistance of an attorney---an attorney, Tom---hove me out of five hundred a year."" ""Yes, indeed, Sir, (added Mr. Clarke,) those two malicious old women docked the intail, and left the estate to an alien.""
(pp. 7-11)",2011-07-27,16956,"","""[B]ut Tom Clarke, who seemed to have cast the eyes of affection upon the landlady's eldest daughter, Dolly, objected to their proceeding farther without rest and refreshment, as they had already travelled fifty miles since morning; and he was sure his uncle must be fatigued both in mind and body, from vexation as well as from a hard exercise, to which he had not been accustomed.""","",2011-07-27 15:28:54 UTC,"Vol. 1, Chap. 1"
5206,Mind's Eye,"Reading Lois Peter Agnew's Outward, Visible Propriety: Stoic Philosophy and Eighteenth-Century British Rhetorics (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2008), p. 73.",2010-06-15 21:00:54 UTC,"All reasoning must be from first principles; and for first principles no other reason can be given but this, that, by the constitution of our nature, we are under a necessity of assenting to them. Such principles are parts of our constitution, no less than the power of thinking: reason can neither make nor destroy them; nor can it do any thing without them: it is like a telescope, which may help a man to see farther, who hath eyes; but without eyes, a telescope shows nothing at all. A mathematician cannot prove the truth of his axioms, nor can he prove any thing, unless he takes them for granted. We cannot prove the existence of our minds, nor even of our thoughts and sensations. A historian, or a witness, can prove nothing, unless it is taken for granted that the memory and senses may be trusted. A natural philosopher can prove nothing, unless it is taken for granted that the course of nature is steady and uniform.
(V.vii, p. 71-2)",,17884,"","""Such principles are parts of our constitution, no less than the power of thinking: reason can neither make nor destroy them; nor can it do any thing without them: it is like a telescope, which may help a man to see farther, who hath eyes; but without eyes, a telescope shows nothing at all.""","",2010-06-15 21:01:40 UTC,Chapter 5. Of Touch. Section VII. Of the Existence of the Material World
5206,"",Reading,2011-03-06 19:38:20 UTC,"The fabric of the human mind is intricate and wonderful, as well as that of the structure of the human body. The faculties of the one are with no less wisdom adpated to their several ends, than the organs of the other. Nay it is reasonable to think, that as the mind is a nobler work, and of a higher order than the body, even more of the wisdom and skill of the divine Architect hath been employed in its structure. It is therefore a subject highly worthy of inquiry on its own account, but still more worthy on account of the extensive influence which the knowledge of it hath over every other branch of science.
(I.i, p. 11)",,18205,"","""The fabric of the human mind is intricate and wonderful, as well as that of the structure of the human body. The faculties of the one are with no less wisdom adpated to their several ends, than the organs of the other.""","",2011-03-06 19:38:20 UTC,Chapter I. Section 1.
5206,"",Reading,2011-03-06 19:50:11 UTC,"All that we know of the body, is owing to anatomical dissection and observation, and it must be by an anatomy of the mind that we can discover its powers and principles.
(I.i, p. 12)",,18209,"","""All that we know of the body, is owing to anatomical dissection and observation, and it must be by an anatomy of the mind that we can discover its powers and principles.""","",2011-03-06 19:50:11 UTC,Chapter I. Section 1.
5206,"",Reading,2011-03-06 19:53:44 UTC,"An anatomist who hath happy opportunities, may have access to examine with his own eyes, and with equal accuracy, bodies of all different ages, sexes, and conditions; so that what is defective, obscure, or preternatural in one, may be discerned clearly, and in its most perfect state, in another. But the anatomist of the mind cannot have the same advantage. It is his own mind only that he can examine, with any degree of accuracy and distinctness. This is the only subject he can look into. He may, from outward signs, collect the operations of other minds; but these signs are for the most part ambiguous, and must be interpreted by what he perceives within himself.
(I.ii, p. 13)",,18210,"","""But the anatomist of the mind cannot have the same advantage.""","",2011-03-06 19:53:44 UTC,Chapter I. Section 2.
7501,"",C-H Lion (Poetry); confirmed in ECCO.,2013-07-02 15:55:06 UTC,"Mild, as the strains, that, at the close of day,
Warbling remote, along the vales decay!---
Yet, why with these compared? What tints so fine,
What sweetness, mildness, can be match'd with thine?
Why roam abroad? Since still, to Fancy's eyes,
I see, I see thy lovely form arise.
Still let me gaze, and every care beguile,
Gaze on that cheek, where all the Graces smile;
That soul-expressing eye, benignly bright,
Where meekness beams ineffable delight;
That brow, where Wisdom sits enthroned serene,
Each feature forms, and dignifies the mien:
Still let me listen, while her words impart
The sweet effusions of the blameless heart,
Till all my soul, each tumult charm'd away,
Yields, gently led, to Virtue's easy sway.
(p. 50, ll. 27-42; cf. p. 42 in 1760 ed.)",,21416,"","""Why roam abroad? Since still, to Fancy's eyes, / I see, I see thy lovely form arise.""","",2014-03-10 21:56:35 UTC,""
7933,Mind's Eye,Reading,2014-06-19 16:28:09 UTC,"The great judge of the world, has, for the wisest reasons, thought proper to interpose, between the weak eye of reason, and the throne of his eternal justice, a degree of obscurity and darkness, which though it does not intirely cover the great tribunal from the view of mankind, yet renders the impression of it faint and feeble in comparison of what might be expected from the grandeur and importance of so might an object. If those infinite rewards and punishments which the Almighty has prepared for those who obey or transgress his will, were perceived as distinctly as we forsee the frivolous and temporary retaliations which we may expect from one another, the weakness of human nature, astonished at the immensity of objects so little fitted to its comprehension, could no longer attend to the little affairs of this world; and it is absolutely necessary that the business of society could have been carried on, if, in this respect, there had been a fuller revelation of the intentions of providence that that which has already been made. That men, however, might never be without a rule to direct their conduct by, not without a judge whose authority should enforce its observation, the author of nature has made man the immediate judge of mankind, and has, in this respect, as in many others, created him after his own image, and appointed him viceregent upon earth to superintend the behaviour of his brethren. They are taught by nature to acknowledge that power and jurisdiction which has thus been conferred upon him, and to tremble and exult according as they imagine that they have either merited his censure, or deserved his applause.
(pp. 203-4; cf. p. 128n in Liberty Fund ed.)",,23986,"","""The great judge of the world, has, for the wisest reasons, thought proper to interpose, between the weak eye of reason, and the throne of his eternal justice, a degree of obscurity and darkness, which though it does not intirely cover the great tribunal from the view of mankind, yet renders the impression of it faint and feeble in comparison of what might be expected from the grandeur and importance of so might an object.""","",2014-06-19 16:28:09 UTC,""
7933,Mind's Eye,Reading,2014-06-19 16:43:46 UTC,"As to the eye of the body, objects appear great or small, not so much according to their real dimensions as according to the nearness or distance of their situation; so do they likewise to what may be called the natural eye of the mind: and we remedy the defects of both these organs pretty much in the same manner. In my present situation, an immense landscape of lawns and woods, and distant mountains, seems to do no more than cover the little window which I write by, and to be out of all proportion less than the chamber in which I am sitting. I can form a just comparison between those great objects and the little objects around me, in no other way than by transporting myself, at least in fancy, to a different station, from whence I can survey both at nearly equal distances, and thereby form some judgment of their real proportions. Habit and experience have taught me to do this so easily and so readily, that I am scarce sensible that I do it; and a man must be, in some measure, acquainted with the philosophy of vision, before he can be thoroughly convinced how little those distant objects would appear to the eye, if the imagination, from a knowledge of their real magnitudes, did not swell and dilate them.
(text from OLL; cf. Liberty Fund edition; cf. p. 210 in 2nd ed.)",,23999,"","""As to the eye of the body, objects appear great or small, not so much according to their real dimensions as according to the nearness or distance of their situation; so do they likewise to what may be called the natural eye of the mind: and we remedy the defects of both these organs pretty much in the same manner.""","",2014-06-19 16:43:46 UTC,""