id,comments,provenance,dictionary,created_at,reviewed_on,work_id,theme,context,updated_at,metaphor,text
19024,"",Reading,Fetters,2011-07-27 19:11:17 UTC,,7034,"","Act II, scene vi",2011-07-27 19:11:17 UTC,"""Fetters are needless where the affections are rivetted by beneficent actions. Thou hast left me free, and I am thy slave for ever; with my arms in bonds, I could have escaped, but thou fetterest my heart—I will never forsake thee!""","ZAMEO
(Embraces William's knees) Fetters are needless where the affections are rivetted by beneficent actions. Thou hast left me free, and I am thy slave for ever; with my arms in bonds, I could have escaped, but thou fetterest my heart—I will never forsake thee!
(II.vi, p. 87)"
19026,"",Reading,"",2011-07-27 19:13:08 UTC,,7034,"","Act III, scene i",2011-07-27 19:13:08 UTC,"""Alas! the door is locked and bolted, as the hearts of white men are.""","ADA<
I was in Zameo's arms--
LILLI
You were torn from each other.
ADA
(Jumping up.) Ah I I did not dream it! Where is he? Where is my Zameo? (she runs to the door, which she finds fastened.)
LILLI
You might save yourself that trouble. Alas! the door is locked and bolted, as the hearts of white men are.
(III.i, p. 98)"
24054,"",Searching in Google Books,"",2014-06-19 22:03:44 UTC,,7937,"","",2014-06-19 22:03:44 UTC,"""Every thing encourages me on your account, while my own soul, tormented by an unlucky passion, has entirely lost its balance.""","[...] The apartment which he has seen must have been brilliantly lighted, for he said he was dazzled with its splendour. And be assured, that I have certainly guessed, so to speak, what it is he has attempted to describe. Now, my friend, this extravagant luxury characterises the palaces of Persia. He was carried to Persia, and brought back in one night then, said Chebib. My dear landlord, replied Giafar, if your son is decreed to contract a marriage, from which a certain portion of the earth will derive advantage ; when heaven interferes, distance vanishes in a moment. Omar was besieging Aleppo, while Fatme, his wife, was kneeling at the evening prayers at Medina: O my God, cried she, after they were finished, could I now be in the arms of my husband! Scarcely had she formed the wish, when she was instantly carried to him, by the two angels whom she had saluted on the right hand, and on the left, before she began her prayer. Take courage, my dear friend: Heaven has wrought many miracles in my favour; and, as you have been one of its principal instruments with regard to me, though, for the trial of your virtue, obstacles seem allowed to stand in the way of your happiness, be assured that your star will shine with a brighter lustre, when it has emerged from these little clouds. Every thing encourages me on your account, while my own soul, tormented by an unlucky passion, has entirely lost its balance.
(I, p. 517)"