work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
4645,"","Searching ""seal"" and ""soul"" in HDIS (Poetry); text from ECCO",2005-04-19 00:00:00 UTC,"6. Perfect then thy mighty Pow'r
In a weak, sinkful Worm;
All my Sins destroy, devour,
And all my Soul transform:
Now apply Thy Spirit's Seal;
O come quickly from above,
Empty me of Self, and fill
With all the Life of Love.
(p. 52)
",2014-09-10,12225,"Part II
VARIANT: sinful/sinkful","""All my Sins destroy, devour, / And all my Soul transform: / Now apply Thy Spirit's Seal; / O come quickly from above, / Empty me of Self, and fill / With all the Life of Love.""",Impressions,2014-02-10 06:50:31 UTC,""
5130,"","Searching ""stamp"" and ""mind"" in HDIS (Poetry); found again ""breast""",2005-04-07 00:00:00 UTC,"Thou waitest still, when Thee I know,
A larger blessing to bestow,
A second gift impart,
(The sinless mind, the farther rest,)
And stamp Thine image on my breast,
And fill my emptied heart.
",2012-07-05,13847,"","""And stamp Thine image on my breast, / And fill my emptied heart.""",Impressions,2012-07-05 15:16:09 UTC,From Isaiah.
5175,"","Searching ""stamp"" and ""fancy"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2005-04-11 00:00:00 UTC,"When (to the spirit-stirring sound
Of trumpets, breathing courage round,
And fifes, well-mingled to restrain
And bring that courage down again;
Or to the melancholy knell
Of the dull, deep, and doleful bell,
Such as of late the good Saint Bride
Muffled, to mortify the pride
Of those, who, England quite forgot,
Paid their vile homage to the Scot,
Where Asgill held the foremost place,
Whilst my Lord figured at a race)
Processions ('tis not worth debate
Whether they are of stage or state)
Move on, so very, very slow,
'Tis doubtful if they move or no;
When the performers all the while
Mechanically frown or smile,
Or, with a dull and stupid stare,
A vacancy of sense declare,
Or, with down-bending eye, seem wrought
Into a labyrinth of thought,
Where Reason wanders still in doubt,
And, once got in, cannot get out,
What cause sufficient can we find,
To satisfy a thinking mind
Why, duped by such vain farces, man
Descends to act on such a plan?
Why they, who hold themselves divine,
Can in such wretched follies join,
Strutting like peacocks, or like crows,
Themselves and Nature to expose?
What cause, but that (you'll understand
We have our remedy at hand,
That if perchance we start a doubt,
Ere it is fix'd, we wipe it out;
As surgeons, when they lop a limb,
Whether for profit, fame, or whim,
Or mere experiment to try,
Must always have a styptic by)
Fancy steps in, and stamps that real,
Which, ipso facto, is ideal.",,13908,"","""Fancy steps in, and stamps that real, / Which, ipso facto, is ideal.""",Impressions,2012-05-29 14:20:08 UTC,""
5175,"","Searching ""seal"" and ""reason"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2005-04-19 00:00:00 UTC," With these grave fops, who (bless their brains!)
Most cruel to themselves, take pains
For wretchedness, and would be thought
Much wiser than a wise man ought
For his own happiness, to be;
Who what they hear, and what they see,
And what they smell, and taste, and feel,
Distrust, till Reason sets her seal,
And, by long trains of consequences
Ensured, gives sanction to the senses;
Who would not, Heaven forbid it! waste
One hour in what the world calls Taste,
Nor fondly deign to laugh or cry,
Unless they know some reason why,--
With these grave fops, whose system seems
To give up certainty for dreams
The eye of man is understood
As for no other purpose good
Than as a door, through which, of course,
Their passage crowding objects force;
A downright usher, to admit
New-comers to the court of Wit:
(Good Gravity! forbear thy spleen,
When I say wit, I wisdom mean)
Where, (such the practice of the court,
Which legal precedents support)
Not one idea is allow'd
To pass unquestion'd in the crowd,
But ere it can obtain the grace
Of holding in the brain a place,
Before the chief in congregation
Must stand a strict examination.",,13909,"","The senses should be distrusted ""till Reason sets her seal, / And, by long trains of consequences / Ensured, gives sanction to the senses.""",Impressions,2012-05-29 13:57:53 UTC,""
5224,"","Searching ""stamp"" and ""heart"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2005-04-07 00:00:00 UTC,"But though enrich'd by these, still in the gross
Our profit's nearly balanc'd by the loss.
No more the youth, by love of science smit,
Shall under thy leaf-wove umbrella sit;
Charm'd with the wide diffusion of thy sprays,
Impervious to the noontide-pointed rays;
No care-form'd wrinkles on his brow imprest,
That mark the anxious thoughts estrang'd to rest;
That mark the inward bias disinclin'd
To study, and the pursuits of the mind;
Those objects that assimilate the taste
To Nature's standard, ever rightly plac'd;
Stamp on the passive heart each soft impress,
And bounds prescribe to ev'ry wrong excess;
Render the thoughts capacious, to extend
Not merely to existence, but the end;
Not to a moment's unsubstantial good,
But lasting, as by Virtue understood.
Distinguish'd thus, the studious youth no more
Shall here advance in Wisdom's hallow'd lore.
No more consult each deeply-labour'd page,
The well-collected knowledge of an age;
Where Nature's grand arcanas lie explain'd,
Where manners glow depicted as they reign'd;
Mark'd all the changes of this lower ball,
While in succession empires rise or fall;
Kings are dethron'd, or slaves to monarchs rais'd,
Those lights extinguish'd that superiour blaz'd;
Lights of the church, the cabinet, and field,
Immortal names, that only once could yield!
Lights, far remov'd from Fame's illustrious strife,
That shone in circles of domestic life;
Though fainter their restricted radiance glows,
These not less glorious to a state than those.
No more, with eye elate, and kindled thought,
To relish beauties by example taught,
Shall he in thy romantic gloom peruse
The fine descriptions of the moral muse;
Where wit and humour charm with native ease,
By stealth surprise us, and by magic please;
Where delicately sketch'd each object looks
As drawn from living nature, not from books;
Where fancy's gay ideal pictures shine,
And manly sense inspirits ev'ry line:
While taste, as eyes illuminate the face,
Throws over all an elegance and grace.",,14053,•I've included twice: Stamping and Impression,"""Those objects that assimilate the taste / To Nature's standard, ever rightly plac'd; / Stamp on the passive heart each soft impress""","",2009-09-14 19:39:53 UTC,""
5225,"","Searching ""brain"" and ""stamp"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2005-04-11 00:00:00 UTC,"Thou God with vengeance arm'd, appear;
Thou God with vengeance arm'd, whose fear
The Earth (for Thee her Judge she knows,)
Submissive owns, thy pow'r disclose,
And instant from thy seat arise,
Each proud transgressor to chastise.
How long shall impious Crouds, how long,
With haughtiest insult arm their tongue?
How long in bitt'rest gall each word
Infuse, and boast their conqu'ring sword?
Thy Flock, great God, their fury own;
Beneath their stroke thy People groan:
Their hands, remorseless, to the tomb
The Widow and the Stranger doom;
Nor innocence nor tend'rest age
Can shield the Orphan from their rage.
""Ne'er shall our deeds in Heav'n be known,
""Or reach (they cry,) the distant Throne
""Of Israel's Lord.""--Ye fools and blind!
Return, and seek a better mind.
Say, when shall Wisdom's light serene
Your souls from error's childhood wean?
Who knew to plant the ear, shall He
Not hear? Who form'd the eye, not see?
Shall aught of guilt his search evade,
Who bids the Nations he has made,
Inform'd by his paternal care,
The gifts of various Science share,
Who Reason in the bosom pours,
Its growth improves, its fruit matures,
Each counsel of the human brain
Weighs in his scale, and stamps it vain?",,14056,"•Psalm XCIV
•DNB notes Psalms is a popular work. ""Merrick was evidently aiming to capture a different audience from the nonconformists who were singing Isaac Watts's The Psalms of David of 1719: he seems to have been attempting a version which would be an alternative to Watts for the Church of England, and which would also 'answer the purposes of private devotion' (preface). He used a number of metres; the majority were couplets in octosyllabics or of seven syllables. The popularity of the book is shown by its frequent reprinting, and by an edition 'divided into stanzas and adapted for devotion' by W. D. Tattersall (1794). Before that, twenty-one of Merrick's psalms had appeared in J. Ash and C. Evans's A Collection of Hymns Adapted to Public Worship (1781), over the signature 'M'; they were set to music by William Hayes (1775) for use in Magdalen College chapel, Oxford. Further editions with musical settings followed, including settings by Haydn. According to Julian's Dictionary of Hymnology, Merrick's psalm versions were popular in the early nineteenth century, but had by 1892 'fallen very much into disuse' (p. 725, col. 2). It is not difficult to see why: although they were commended by Robert Lowth (who of course had a hand in them, and who described Merrick as 'one of the best of men, and most eminent of scholars'), they were described by a contemporary critic as tame and diffuse, and James Montgomery has some sharp comments on their verbosity. They are now forgotten. They were greatly admired, however, in Merrick's own time: Thomas Warton said that they evidenced 'a flow of poetical language, and a richness of imagery, which give dignity to the subject, without departing from the sense of the inspired writer' (Coates, 439).""","""Reason in the bosom pours, / Its growth improves, its fruit matures, / Each counsel of the human brain / Weighs in his scale, and stamps it vain?""",Impression,2013-11-11 04:40:28 UTC,I've included the entire poem
5227,"","Searching ""heart"" and ""impression"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2005-05-16 00:00:00 UTC," The man is blessed, as he prays,
Whose reins thy strength receive,
And in whose heart thy word and ways
A deep impression leave.
",2011-06-05,14069,"","""The man is blessed, as he prays, / Whose reins thy strength receive, / And in whose heart thy word and ways / A deep impression leave.""",Impression,2011-06-06 03:25:23 UTC,""
6370,"","Searching ""soul"" and ""seal"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2005-04-19 00:00:00 UTC,"""Take the bloody seal I give thee,
Deep impressed upon thy soul;
God, thy God will now receive thee,
Faith hath sav'd thee, thou art whole.""
Grace Divine, &c.",,16842,"","""Take the bloody seal I give thee, / Deep impressed upon thy soul.""",Impressions,2011-06-25 02:57:41 UTC,""
7642,"",Searching in ECCO-TCP,2013-08-22 22:34:34 UTC,""" Can you, who brave repell'd th' insidious foe,
"" And nobly humbled their imperious crest;
"" Can you, so high-renown'd for martial deeds
"" And fair emprise, to discord fall a prey?
"" Instant renounce each stupor of the soul,
"" And virtuous dare the fam'd Britannia's weal.
"" Remember Rome, august, imperial Rome—
"" She long in virtue's cause resplendent shone:
"" Fragrant she bloom'd, and flourish'd wondrous fair,
"" Till pomp, vile luxury, corruption fell,
"" And Hydra Faction, with malignant breath,
"" Tumbled, with cumbrous fall, her eagle-head!
"" This world's dread empress, renown'd for learning;
"" For arms, arts, virtuous deeds, without compeer.
"" Now how inglorious! how supinely sunk!
"" Fallen from her high estate, and grovelling in the dust.
"" Since reason's lamp illuminates the mind,
"" And cogent proves eternity to man;
"" Since justice too, eternal, will require
"" Strict retribution for offences past;
"" Serious reflect on God's supreme decrees,
"" And learn obedience to his great commands:
"" For what avail earth's pageant pomp and joys
"" In that dread hour when death terrific comes,—
"" The gaudy title, silken dalliance,
"" And life too gaily spent, will but torment,
"" Not calm the mind, in that tremendous moment!
"" Let then your civil broils and discord cease;
"" Enjoy the fruits of your well-earn'd renown;
"" Cast off each vice, each poisonous dreg of life;
"" Fly fell corruption, taint of generous minds,
"" Lest her corroding hand your frame dissolve,
"" And bury in the dust your antient toil:
"" But if, unheeded, exhortation pass,
"" Britannia, now so fam'd, will sure imbibe
"" A deeper stain than Afric's tawny sons!""
She said; then instant vanish'd into air,
When Morpheus soon his guardian post resign'd,
And memory, faithful, stamp'd upon my mind
The sage instructions of the meek-eyed fair.
(IX, pp. 114-5)",,22540,"","""When Morpheus soon his guardian post resign'd, / And memory, faithful, stamp'd upon my mind / The sage instructions of the meek-eyed fair.""",Impressions,2013-08-22 22:34:34 UTC,""
7752,"",ECCO-TCP,2013-11-10 05:10:32 UTC,"Ye happier times of innocence and truth,
Pleasing instructors of my thoughtless youth,
When none the image of his God belied,
No Minions crouch'd beneath a Sultan's pride,
No wealth ensnar'd, no poverty distress'd,
No ruffians plunder'd, and no kings oppress'd;
Tho' doom'd to grovel in a baser age,
Will I from Memory's enchanting page
Retrace your scatter'd annals.--When of old
Arcadia's peaceful shepherds uncontroul'd
Their ranging flocks thro' boundless pastures drove,
Or tun'd their pipes beneath the myrtle grove,
Their laws on brazen tablets unimprest
Were deeply grav'd on each ingenuous breast,
No proud Vicegerent of Astrea reign'd,
Astrea's self her own decrees maintain'd.
(p. 239)",,23150,"","""When of old / Arcadia's peaceful shepherds uncontroul'd / Their ranging flocks thro' boundless pastures drove, / Or tun'd their pipes beneath the myrtle grove, / Their laws on brazen tablets unimprest / Were deeply grav'd on each ingenuous breast, / No proud Vicegerent of Astrea reign'd, / Astrea's self her own decrees maintained.""",Impressions and Writing,2013-11-10 05:10:32 UTC,""