work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
4798,"","Searching ""heart"" and ""impression"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2005-05-16 00:00:00 UTC,"Yet Oh! what Hero Folly can confound?
The dull, lethargic Villain feels no Wound:
Culprits, like poisonous Adders deaf, we find:
In Biscay's Bay who chides the raging Wind?
Such callous Hearts to no Impression yield,
All-guarded with Corruption's seven-fold Shield;
Unstung by Shame, and resolute in Ill;
Vice is a Python Phoebus ne'er can kill:
Heedless of Satire, Sin persists to reign,
As Curfews bid us leave our Fires in vain;
Poets, and Setting-Dogs, one Task employs,
Each points at Knaves or Birds, but ne'er destroys;
What tho' you sweat, complain, and rail, and write,
The mad, luxurious Town sins on for Spite.
Could Boileau to reform a Nation hope?
A Sodom can't be mended by a Pope.
To cleanse th' Augëan Stable tho' you toil,
Still Virtue yields to[1] Heidegger and[2] Hoyle;
Still Britons (Justice, Freedom, Conscience sold)
Own the supreme Omnipotence of Gold.",,12767,"•I've included thrice: Impression, Callous, Shield.","""Such callous Hearts to no Impression yield, / All-guarded with Corruption's seven-fold Shield;""",Impression,2009-09-14 19:37:21 UTC,""
6997,"","Searching ""heart"" and ""impression"" in HDIS (Poetry)
",2011-07-14 21:17:39 UTC,"What time your poppy-crowned God
Sends his truth-telling scouts abroad,
Ere yet the cock to matins rings,
And the lark with mounting wings,
The simple village swain has warn'd
To shake off sleep by labour earn'd;
Or on the rose's silken hem,
Aurora weeps her earliest gem;
Or beneath the opening dawn,
Smiles the fair-extended lawn.
When in the soft encircled shade
Ye find reclined the gentle maid,
Each busy motion laid to rest,
And all compos'd her peaceful breast:
Swift paint the fair internal scene,
The phantom labours of your reign;
The living imag'ry adorn
With all the limnings of the morn,
With all the treasures nature keeps
Conceal'd below the forming deeps;
Or dress'd in the rich waving pride,
That covers the green mountain's side,
Or blooms beneath the am'rous gale
In the wide embosom'd vale.
Let pow'rful Music too essay
The magic of her hidden lay:
While each harsh thought away shall fly
Down the full stream of harmony,
Compassion mild shall fill their place,
Each gentle minister of grace,
Pity, that often melts to Love,
Let weeping Pity, kind improve,
The soften'd heart, prepar'd to take
Whate'er impressions Love shall make.
Oh! in that kind, that sacred hour,
When Hate, when Anger have no pow'r;
When sighing Love, mild simple boy,
Courtship sweet, and tender joy,
Alone possess the fair one's heart;
Let me then, Fancy, bear my part.
(p. 378)",,18875,Found this entry mistitled (it also had a strange act/scene ascription?). Googling pulled it up in Google Books. ,"""The soften‘d heart, prepar'd to take / Whate'er impressions Love shall make.""",Impressions,2011-07-14 21:19:35 UTC,""
7622,"",ECCO-TCP,2013-08-18 04:25:48 UTC,"AEMILIUS
Besides the five Senses, the Naturalists generally speak of a Sensorium, or common Sense, which they reckon the ground of all Sensation, or a Medium, as it were, for modifying the Impressions and conveying them to the Mind. The Eye, say they, knows not that it sees, nor the Ear that it hears, till this common Sense interposes its Verdict.
This makes no addition to the number of our Senses, whether it be granted or denied; it only serves, as a new Instrument, to account in some dark manner for their Operations. And perhaps it is owing to this Medium or Canal, among other things, that having two Eyes and two Ears we do not see nor hear double.
(p. 31)",,22324,"","""Besides the five Senses, the Naturalists generally speak of a Sensorium, or common Sense, which they reckon the ground of all Sensation, or a Medium, as it were, for modifying the Impressions and conveying them to the Mind.""",Impressions,2013-08-18 04:25:48 UTC,""
7622,"",ECCO-TCP,2013-08-18 05:00:53 UTC,"LUCINUS
But this divine Love seems to be quite lost since the Sin of Adam, Faith which is previous to that Virtue being now extinguished. Before we can love we must believe, since (according to the old Maxim) there is no desire of a thing unknown. All the Faith natural Men can pretend to, is work'd up by their Reason, *the things of God appearing Foolishness to them. We may see God indeed in his Works, for the Heavens declare his Glory, and there may be an impression of his almighty Power upon our minds some other way than by our own Reasoning or making Inferences from the things that strike our Senses: but this is only what they call believing à posteriori, and we could give no Demonstration of the Existence of God to others who doubt of it, but that either they must believe it, or they must believe a Contradiction; as Dr. Clarke very well argues in his Discourses upon Mr. Boyle's Establishment; the substance of which is this.
(pp. 145-6)",,22347,"","""We may see God indeed in his Works, for the Heavens declare his Glory, and there may be an impression of his almighty Power upon our minds some other way than by our own Reasoning or making Inferences from the things that strike our Senses.""",Impressions,2013-08-18 05:00:53 UTC,""
7622,"",ECCO-TCP,2013-08-18 05:02:13 UTC,"AEMILIUS
'Tis very remarkable too, that the same Principle of Self-Love, which divides Men from one another, and produces such a variety of fanciful Distinctions, should yet in some measure unite them again, their Necessities making them subservient to one another; and, which is still more remarkable, the inferiour Ranks often serving their Superiours chearfully, and without the least disdain. Domat has very good Observations upon this Head, in his Treatise of the Law, shewing how out of Self-Love, which is the Poison of Society, God brings Remedies for its subsistence. And there seems to be the like Impression on the Minds of the generality of Mankind, very much to the honour of the divine Wisdom, that God draws Order out of Confusion.
(pp. 174-5)",,22348,"","""And there seems to be the like Impression on the Minds of the generality of Mankind, very much to the honour of the divine Wisdom, that God draws Order out of Confusion.""",Impressions,2013-08-18 05:02:13 UTC,""
7856,"",Reading,2014-03-14 20:17:22 UTC,"The faculties, necessary for my purpose to be mentioned next, are those of compounding simple into complex ideas, and of comparing our ideas, which implies the just and nice discernment of them, in order to perceive the innumerable relations which they bear to one another. These are some of the steps by which the mind attempts to rise from particular to general knowledge. They have been called arts of the mind, but improperly, in some respects; for though the mind is forced to employ several arts, and to call in sense to the aid of intellect, even after it has full possession of its ideas, to help out its imperfect manner of knowing, and to lengthen a little its short tether; yet the composition, and comparison of ideas is plainly a lesson of nature: this lesson is taught us by the very first sensations we have. As the mind does not act till it is rouzed into action by external objects; so when it does act, it acts conformably to the suggestions it receives from these impressions, and takes with its first ideas the hints how to multiply, and improve them. If nature makes us lame, she gives crutches to lean upon. She helps us to walk where we cannot run, and to hobble where we cannot walk. She takes us by the hand, and leads us by experience to art.
(Essay I, §2; vol. iii, pp. 369-70)",,23718,"","""As the mind does not act till it is rouzed into action by external objects; so when it does act, it acts conformably to the suggestions it receives from these impressions, and takes with its first ideas the hints how to multiply, and improve them.""",Impressions,2014-03-14 20:17:22 UTC,""
7856,"",Reading,2014-03-14 20:51:18 UTC,"[...] An argument fairly drawn from the power of God will determine me at any time and on any occasion; though it does not determine these men who insist so much upon it, when they hope to make it serve their purpose by an unfair application of it. I am persuaded that God can make material systems capable of thought, not only because I must renounce one of the kinds of knowledge that he has given me, and the first though not the principal in the order of knowing, or admit that he has done so: but because the original principles and many of the properties of matter being alike unknown to me, he has not shewn me that it implies any contradiction to assert a material thinking substance. This now, which implies no contradiction, except it be with their precarious hypothetical ideas, these great asserters of the divine power deny. But at the same time they draw another argument unfairly from this very power, by assigning it as the cause of an effect which does manifestly imply contradiction. It implies contradiction manifestly, to say that a substance capable of thought by its nature, in one degree or instance, is by its nature incapable of it in another. God may limit the exercise of this power, no doubt, in his creatures variously, according to their different organizations, or to the imperceptible differences that there may be in the atoms that compose their bodies, or by other causes, absolutely inconceivable. This happens to other animals: it happens to men, and the largest understanding is limited in the exercise of its mental faculties. But a nature capable of sensation, that is of perception, that is of thought (to say nothing of spontaneous motion, of memory, nor of the passions) cannot be incapable of another mode of thinking, any more than finite extension can be capable of one figure alone, or a piece of wax that receives the impression of one seal cannot receive that of another.
(Essay I, §5; vol. iii, pp. 531-2)",,23741,"","""But a nature capable of sensation, that is of perception, that is of thought (to say nothing of spontaneous motion, of memory, nor of the passions) cannot be incapable of another mode of thinking, any more than finite extension can be capable of one figure alone, or a piece of wax that receives the impression of one seal cannot receive that of another.""",Impressions,2014-03-14 20:51:18 UTC,""
8015,"",Searching in EEBO-TCP,2014-07-31 19:15:49 UTC,"When the Bread of Life was distributed, She was sure to be there, a devout and never failing Communicant; and the strictness of her Attention, and the reverence of her Behaviour, were, if it were possible, rais'd and improv'd on those occasions: The lively Image of a Crucify'd Saviour then exhibited, could not but make very moving impressions on a mind of so much pious Warmth and Tenderness.
(2nd edition, pp. 10-11)",,24378,"","""The lively Image of a Crucify'd Saviour then exhibited, could not but make very moving impressions on a mind of so much pious Warmth and Tenderness.""",Impressions,2014-07-31 19:15:49 UTC,""