text,updated_at,metaphor,created_at,context,theme,reviewed_on,dictionary,comments,provenance,id,work_id "This I foretell from your auspicious care,
  Who great in search of God and nature grow;
Who best your wise Creator's praise declare,
  Since best to praise His works is best to know.

O truly royal! who behold the law,
  And rule of beings in your Maker's mind;
And thence, like limbecs , rich ideas draw,
  To fit the levelled use of humankind
.
(p. 53, ll. 657-664) ",2011-12-17 19:49:06 UTC,"""O truly royal! who behold the law, / And rule of beings in your Maker's mind; / And thence, like limbecs, rich ideas draw, / To fit the levelled use of humankind.""",2004-01-26 00:00:00 UTC,Apostrophe to the Royal Society,"",2011-04-19,"","Wikipedia: ""Technically, the alembic is the lid with a tube attachment (the capital or still-head), which is placed on top of a flask, the cucurbit, containing the material to be distilled, but the word is often used to refer to the entire distillation apparatus."" ","Reading. Found again in Marshall Brown's ""Romanticism and Enlightenment"" in The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism, ed. Stuart Curran (Cambridge UP, 1993), 32. ",9434,3635