work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
5086,"",Searching in ECCO,2006-10-12 00:00:00 UTC,"SUCH was her external Form, and though her Mind might, with the utmost Propriety, be said to resemble a mere Tabula rasa, yet was it, at the same time, of so naturally delicate a Texture, that it would retain the smallest Impression made on it by the Hands of Wisdom. It is true, that the Want of Education, which her Mother's Poverty prevented her from bestowing, in a great Measure depressed those Seeds of Genius which were sown in her; yet, as the Spirit of a SHAKESPEAR would, under the most mountainous Oppression, have breathed forth some of its inextinguishable Fires, so did the native Genius of PEGGY WOFFINGTON display itself in her minutest Actions, and manifest a Brilliancy which all the studiest Efforts of laborious Industry might in vain attempt.
(p. 8)",,13682,•I've included twice: Seeds and Volcano,"""It is true, that the Want of Education, which her Mother's Poverty prevented her from bestowing, in a great Measure depressed those Seeds of Genius which were sown in her; yet, as the Spirit of a SHAKESPEAR would, under the most mountainous Oppression, have breathed forth some of its inextinguishable Fires, so did the native Genius of PEGGY WOFFINGTON display itself in her minutest Actions, and manifest a Brilliancy which all the studiest Efforts of laborious Industry might in vain attempt.""","",2009-09-14 19:38:58 UTC,""
5355,"","Searching ""mind"" in ECCO",2004-10-01 00:00:00 UTC,"That is, let not great examples, or authorities, browbeat they reason into too great a diffidence fo thyself: thyself so reverence, as to prefer the native growth of thy own mind to the richest import from abroad; such borrowed riches make us poor. The man who thus reverences himself, will soon find the world's reverence to follow his own. His works will stand distinguished; his the sole property of them; which property alone can confer the noble title of an author: that is, of one who, to speak accurately, thinks, and composes; while other invaders of teh press, how voluminous, and learned soever, with due respect be it spoken, only read and write.
(II, 254)",,14349,"•REVISIT. Investigate more this ""native growth."" The expression appears throughout the period. ","""That is, let not great examples, or authorities, browbeat they reason into too great a diffidence fo thyself: thyself so reverence, as to prefer the native growth of thy own mind to the richest import from abroad; such borrowed riches make us poor.""","",2014-09-01 16:25:13 UTC,Vol. II
6824,"","Searching ""the mind is a"" in Google Books",2011-04-16 15:55:44 UTC,"IX. Prudence through the ground of misery cuts a river of patience, where the Mind swims in boats of tranquillity along the streams of life, until she arrives at the haven of death, where all streams meet.
X. Spite creeps like a snake out of the hedge of deceit or the sand-bed of hypocrisy, and having fermented its venom by basking in the sun of prosperity, aims the most deadly wound at the fairest fame.
XI. The mind is a garden where all manner of seeds are sown.
Prosperities are fine painted tulips,
Innocency white lilies,
The Virtues sweet gilliflowers, roses, violets, and primroses.
Learning savoury herbage,
Affliction rues, wormwood, and rhubarb,
Pride, ambition, extortion, nightshade and hellebore,
Stupidity, poppy,
Sloth and Ignorance, briars and thistles.
(p. 316)",,18299,"","""The mind is a garden where all manner of seeds are sown.""","",2011-04-16 15:55:44 UTC,""
7034,"",Reading,2011-07-27 16:10:35 UTC,"JOHN
Excellent! Dost thou learn those fine fraternal appellations from thy book? What an abominable thing is reading? by this means, the mind is put into a hot-house and forced like a pineapple in Europe; and then produces bad fruit.--If my father had not taught the women to read, I am sure they would have been more reasonable.
(I.iii, p. 18)",,19021,John the heartless slaver to his brother who has tried to buy a slave he would rape away from him. ,"""What an abominable thing is reading? by this means, the mind is put into a hot-house and forced like a pineapple in Europe; and then produces bad fruit.""","",2011-07-27 16:10:52 UTC,"Act I, Scene iii"
7128,"",Searching in Google Books,2011-11-23 03:36:39 UTC,"Fancy and Wisdom seldom go together, nor are the Fruits of the same Soil or Season.
(27)
",,19328,"","""Fancy and Wisdom seldom go together, nor are the Fruits of the same Soil or Season.""","",2011-11-23 03:36:39 UTC,"Of Wisdom, Learning, and Good Sense"
7128,"",Searching in Google Books,2011-11-23 03:52:17 UTC,"Plutarch says, That Grecian and Scholar were Names of Contempt among the Romans, just as the Name of Pedant is among us. I am apt to think that as Plants are choak'd with too much Moisture, and Lamps with too much Oil; so it happens to the Mind of Man, when it is embarass'd with too much Study and Matter; for being confounded with a great Variety of Things, it loses the Power of extricating itself, and so is render'd useless.
(170)",,19340,"","""I am apt to think that as Plants are choak'd with too much Moisture, and Lamps with too much Oil; so it happens to the Mind of Man, when it is embarass'd with too much Study and Matter; for being confounded with a great Variety of Things, it loses the Power of extricating itself, and so is render'd useless.""","",2011-11-23 03:52:17 UTC,Seigneur de Montaigne's Essays
7392,"",Reading at the Folger,2013-05-16 22:37:30 UTC,"Madam,
I shall, perhaps, deserve censure for concealing a name which belongs to so much excellence, but I fear to offend the delicacy of your nature; true merit is ever modest, and your mind, like the sensitive plant at the touch, would shrink from the voice of public celebrity: permit me, however, to lay the Mirror at your feet; look into it, and if you there discover a shade of your own beauties, the surface will be to others sufficiently alluring--but not--my pend can never convey lines of such harmony and points of such perfection--It candour is a virtue, let me say that you temper its honest frankness with the feelings of delicacy; if sensibility is amiable, let me proclaim that the tear of benignity never fell more frequent on the cheek of loveliness; if generosity of sentiment deserves respect, let me assert your superiority over those despicable females who grow stale in sordid adoration of their golden phantom. [...]
(Dedication, pp. iii-iv)",,20207,"","""I shall, perhaps, deserve censure for concealing a name which belongs to so much excellence, but I fear to offend the delicacy of your nature; true merit is ever modest, and your mind, like the sensitive plant at the touch, would shrink from the voice of public celebrity.""","",2013-05-16 22:37:30 UTC,Dedication