work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
7440,"",C-H Lion,2013-06-14 19:55:41 UTC,"It is easie to imagine the Princess's surprize upon this occasion: Elizabeth's promises had given her some hopes, but she expected not so speedy a performance of them; she had not heard one word of her arrival, and not being able to conceive by what Enchantment she saw her at her awaking. Pardon me, Madam (said she in Saluting her) if I still am doubtful of what I hear, since I doubt even of what I see, and since my eyes dare hardly assure me that you are the Queen. I did indeed imagine (replied the Queen) that you would not easily believe me at the first; but the news I tell you, will for that reason be more agreeable unto you, and it shall be your fault only, if you find them not more true, than unexpected. All these assurances made but weak impressions on the Princess's Spirit, she felt something at the bottom of her heart, which would not suffer her to receive the joy which such news ought to give her, and this beam of hope appeared to her like a Sun shine just before a Storm, which it seemed willing to disperse.
(pp. 120-1)",,20710,"","""All these assurances made but weak impressions on the Princess's Spirit, she felt something at the bottom of her heart, which would not suffer her to receive the joy which such news ought to give her, and this beam of hope appeared to her like a Sun shine just before a Storm, which it seemed willing to disperse.""",Impressions,2013-06-14 19:55:41 UTC,""
7440,"",C-H Lion,2013-06-14 19:59:49 UTC,"These Reasons were supported by the impressions which the Duke's Charms had made in the Princess's Spirit, and she would have been glad to hide the inclination of her heart under a pretext of policy; but her mind was still so replenished with the Ideas of her confinement, and the state of her Fortune appeared to her so tottering, that it was hard for her to entertain thoughts so gay, as those of a Gallantry. So that rejecting the advice Meneville gave her, she told her, That she would indeed be glad to have the Duke of Alançon for a Protector, but that she never thought of making him her Lover. That he had too strict bonds with the Queen for that, That the advances he had made to her Majesty, were sufficient demonstrations of his Ambition; That his Marriage was not quite broke off for being delayed; and that he was far from forsaking the hopes of a Crown, of which he was almost assured, to unite himself to a Princess's Fortunes, who had only a Title to it, and even that uncertain. Nevertheless (added she) if I believed that he had other Sentiments, and that he was generous enough to sacrifice all these advantages to the passion which he has expressed for me, I would not be answerable for my own heart, and I know not whether it would have strength enough to defend it self: But alas (pursued she) these examples of Generosity are no longer found, the Duke of Alançon is infallibly made like other men, he will retake his heart with the same ease as he may have given it; and the first assurances of Friendship Elizabeth shall give him, will prevail in a moment, over the feeble, impressions which I may have been able to make upon his Spirit: But if he were constant enough to love me for ever, and if he should distinguish himself from those of his own Sex, by that, as well as by all other things; yet Ambition would still work in him the same effect as inconstancy.
(pp. 152-155)",,20713,"","""These Reasons were supported by the impressions which the Duke's Charms had made in the Princess's Spirit, and she would have been glad to hide the inclination of her heart under a pretext of policy; but her mind was still so replenished with the Ideas of her confinement, and the state of her Fortune appeared to her so tottering, that it was hard for her to entertain thoughts so gay, as those of a Gallantry.""",Impressions,2013-06-14 19:59:49 UTC,""
7443,"",C-H Lion,2013-06-17 13:44:25 UTC,"[...] He would not leave her, till he had prevailed with her to be his Partner in a Country Dance; and tho' till she was drawn out few observed her, because either Chance, or her own Modesty had placed her in a dark part of the Room, yet when she came into the light, she alone drew the admiration of all the Men, as she did the envy of the Women: Her face was oval and somewhat thin, as if grief had but newly left it, yet her looks were as chearful, as if it had not left the least impression on her mind; some signs of the Small-pox were just perceivable, yet they and her thinness, instead of lessening, served rather to increase the repute of her Beauty, while they shew'd how it had triumphed over those two great destroyers of the handsomest Faces: Her Forehead was high and smooth, as if no Frown had ever deformed it to a wrinkle; and as much beyond the whiteness of the rest of her Sex, as theirs is beyond the browner Complexion of ours; her Neck, and all the parts of her Face were equally Snowy, except her Cheeks; but they, as if they received their colour from the Rays which her Eyes darted down on them, were of such a lively Carnation, as if that and the rest of her Face were at a strife, which of those two Colours were the best. Her Eyes were of the same azure of the clearest Summer Skyes, and, like them too, so shining, that it would dazle you to look on them, and her Brows, which grew over them in an exact Arch, were inclining to a light colour, as if they got it from the brightness of those Beams which shone from beneath them. Her Stature was neither so low as that Sex usually is, nor so tall as to seem too masculine; her Shape was curiously slender, and all her Limbs after a feminine delicacy, but she had withall a Deportment so Great and so Majestick, that the comeliness of the stronger Sex was mixed with the graces of the weaker: And that the stateliness of her Carriage seemed to command that Love and Adoration, which the sweetness of her Face did invite to. [...]
(pp. 12-13)",,20812,"","""Her face was oval and somewhat thin, as if grief had but newly left it, yet her looks were as chearful, as if it had not left the least impression on her mind.""",Impressions,2013-06-17 13:44:25 UTC,""
7443,"",C-H Lion,2013-06-17 13:47:42 UTC,"On one side of the Town stood a large Country House, which though not built after the Dorick Order, or the exacter neatness of Courtly Lodgings, yet its largeness gave liberty to guess at the Magnificence and Hospitality of the Owner: It belonged to the Great Moracho, famous all over the Kingdom for his Riches, particularly in his flocks of Sheep, as numerous as those of the mighty Scythian , whose Son was the Terror of the World; or that Rich Man of the East, whom the Turkish Chronicles make Steward to Alexander the Great: All his Ground, far and near, was thick covered with his fleecy Wealth: You would have thought by their bleatings that you were in Arcadia , and Shepherdism coming in fashion again: 'Twas this House which was pitched upon for the Ball; and what place so fit for Dancing and innocent Mirth, as a spacious Hall, whose Building, Size, and Furniture, altogether rustical, imprinted such lively Idea's of Country Freedom, and Country Innocence: Hither Celadon conducted our Prince and his Martial Company; their Musick was as good as the Town could afford, and their Reception suitable to the Riches and Hospitality of him that entertain'd them.
(pp. 17-18)",,20815,"","""'Twas this House which was pitched upon for the Ball; and what place so fit for Dancing and innocent Mirth, as a spacious Hall, whose Building, Size, and Furniture, altogether rustical, imprinted such lively Idea's of Country Freedom, and Country Innocence.""",Impressions,2013-06-17 13:47:42 UTC,""
7576,"",EEBO-TCP,2013-07-26 20:07:11 UTC,"In the mean Time, let us live as honest Men, who have Sin in horror, like the Plague, which poisons the Soul; and apply our selves, as much as in us lies, to what is truly Good; and above all things, let us carefully observe this Precept, writ in the Book of their Law, but is not always imprinted in their Hearts, Never do to Others, no not thy Enemies, that which thou wouldst not have done to thy self. A Duke of Guise gave an Example of this to all France; and 'tis what thou oughtest to Preach in the vast Empire of the Mussulmans. This Prince surprized a Villain that would have Assassinated him, who confessed, that the Interest of his Religion (which was that of Calvin) had obliged him to form a Design to take him away, to deliver himself, and those of his Party from so great an Enemy. The Duke, instead of causing him to suffer the Pains due to so black an Enterprise, Pardoned him, contenting himself to tell him, Friend, If thy Religion Obliged thee to Kill me, without hearing me, my Religion Obliges me to give thee thy Life and Liberty, now I have heard thee: Go thy ways, and amend thy self. This Prince was then General of Charles the IX's Army.
(p. 32)",,22084,"","""And above all things, let us carefully observe this Precept, writ in the Book of their Law, but is not always imprinted in their Hearts, Never do to Others, no not thy Enemies, that which thou wouldst not have done to thy self.""",Impressions and Writing,2013-07-26 20:07:11 UTC,""
7576,"",EEBO-TCP,2013-07-26 20:14:12 UTC,"This charming Greek does now profess the Roman Religion, which is the only Fault I find in her; I never knew Woman, whose whole Carriage is so graceful, who does all things with such a careless exactness, and whose Virtue is less morose. Meer Chance brought me acquainted with her, whom I no sooner saw, but was struck with Admiration. She came to Paris the last Year, to sollicit a Law-Suit against a Stranger about an Estate. It was at Court, and in the presence of the King himself that I first saw Daria; she spake to him so sweetly, that she soon obtained what she desired; and at the same instant I felt such inexpressible Passions and Longings after her Acquaintance--Suffer me, my dear Dgnet, to tell thee, that never any Creature made such deep Impressions in the Heart of a Man, as this charming Greek did in mine.
(p. 250)",,22092,"","""Suffer me, my dear Dgnet, to tell thee, that never any Creature made such deep Impressions in the Heart of a Man, as this charming Greek did in mine.""",Impressions,2013-07-26 20:14:12 UTC,""
7935,"",Searching in Google Books,2014-06-19 21:20:37 UTC,"When the dervise had done, the princess replied, By what I comprehend from your discourse, the difficulty of succeeding in this affair, is, first, the getting up to the cage, without being frightened at the terrible voices l shall hear; and secondly, not to look behind me: For this last, I hope I shall be mistress enough of myself to observe it. As to the first, I own, that those voices, such as you represent them to be, are capable of striking terror into the most undaunted: But as in all enterprizes and dangers every one may use art and management, I desire to know of you if I may make use of one of great importance. And what is that management you would make use of, said the dervise? To stop my ears so hard with cotton, answered the princess, that I may not hear the voices, and by that means prevent the impression they may make upon my mind, and that I may not lose the use of my reason.
(I, p. 464; cf. vol. xii, pp. 115-6 in ECCO)",,24052,"","""To stop my ears so hard with cotton, answered the princess, that I may not hear the voices, and by that means prevent the impression they may make upon my mind, and that I may not lose the use of my reason.""",Impressions,2014-06-19 21:20:37 UTC,""
7938,"",Reading,2014-06-20 16:19:05 UTC,"It is said that patience is a cure for all distempers, but it sours mine instead of sweetening it. Although your picture be deeply engraven in my heart, my eyes desire constantly to see the original; and they will lose their light if they be any considerable time deprived of it. May I flatter myself that yours have the same impatience to see me? Yes, I can; their tender glances discovered it to me. How happy, prince, should you and Schemselnihar both be, if our agreeable desires were not crossed by invincible obstacles, which afflict me as sensibly as they do you.
(I, 162; cf. V, 109-10 in ECCO; p. 326 in Mack's ed.)",,24058,"","""Although your picture be deeply engraven in my heart, my eyes desire constantly to see the original; and they will lose their light if they be any considerable time deprived of it.""",Impressions,2014-06-20 16:19:05 UTC,""
7938,"",Reading,2014-06-20 16:20:33 UTC,"The prince of Persia was not satisfied to read the letter once; he thought he had read it with too little attention, and therefore read it again with more leisure; and as he read, sometimes he uttered sighs, sometimes he wept, and sometimes he discovered transports of joy and affection, as one who was touched with what he read. In a word, he could not keep his eyes off those characters drawn by so lovely a hand, and therefore began to read it a third time. Then Ebn Thaher told him that the confidant could not stay, and that he ought to think of giving an answer. Alas! cries the prince, how would you have me answer so kind a letter? In what terms shall I express the trouble that I am in? My spirit is tossed with a thousand tormenting things, and my thoughts destroy one another the same moment they are conceived, to make way for more; and so long as my body suffers by the impressions of my mind, how shall I be able to hold paper, or a reed to write. Having spoke thus, he took out of a little desk, paper, cane, and ink.
(I, p. 163; cf. V, p. 111 in ECCO; pp. 326-7 in Mack's ed.)",,24060,"","""My spirit is tossed with a thousand tormenting things, and my thoughts destroy one another the same moment they are conceived, to make way for more; and so long as my body suffers by the impressions of my mind, how shall I be able to hold paper, or a reed to write.""",Impressions,2014-06-20 16:20:33 UTC,""
7939,"",Searching in Google Books,2014-06-20 16:46:26 UTC,"After the princess had passed by Aladdin, and got into the baths, he remained some time astonished and confounded, and in a kind of extacy, in reflecting and imprinting the idea of so charming an object deeply in his mind: But at last considering that the princess was gone past him, and that when she returned from the bath her back would be towards him, and she veiled, he resolved to quit his post, and go home. But when he came there, he could not conceal his uneasiness so well, but that his mother perceived it, and was very much surprised to see him so much more thoughtful and melancholy than usual, and asked him what had happened to him to make him so ? Aladdin returned no answer, but sat carelessly down on the sofa, and remained in the same condition, full of the image of the charming Badroulbadour. His mother, who was dressing supper, pressed him no more; but when it was ready, set it on the table before him; but perceiving that he gave no attention to it, bade him eat, which she had much ado to persuade him to; and when he did, it was with great indifference, and all the time cast down his eyes, and observed so great a silence, that she could not possibly get the least word out of him, to know the reason of so extraordinary an alteration.
(I, p. 350; pp. 668-9 in Mack's ed.)",,24063,"","""After the princess had passed by Aladdin, and got into the baths, he remained some time astonished and confounded, and in a kind of extacy, in reflecting and imprinting the idea of so charming an object deeply in his mind.""",Impressions,2014-06-20 16:46:26 UTC,""