work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
5960,"",Reading,2003-07-21 00:00:00 UTC,"When I reflected on that tissue of nice contingences which led him to my door, and enabled me to save from death a being of such rare endowments, my heart overflowed with joy not unmingled with regrets and trepidation. How many have been cut off by this disease, in their career of virtue and their blossom-time of genius! How many deeds of heroism and self-devotion are ravished from existence, and consigned to hopeless oblivion!
(Part II, chapter 1, p. 427)",,15817,"","The heart may overflow ""with joy not unmingled with regrets and trepidation""","",2009-09-14 19:44:46 UTC,Beginning of second part.
5960,"",Reading,2003-07-21 00:00:00 UTC,"This intercourse was strangely fascinating. My heart was buoyed up by a kind of intoxication. I now found myself exalted to my genial element, and began to taste the delights of existence. In the intercourse of ingenious and sympathetic minds, I found a pleasure which I had not previously conceived.
(Part II, chapter 20, p. 585)",,15846,"•I have not included descriptions of the sinking heart, so it seems a little strange to include this reference to the heart's buoyancy.
•The heart droops, melts, sinks, floats, overflows, etc. Notice the figuration of liquid.",The heart may be buoyed up by a kind of intoxication,"",2009-09-14 19:44:52 UTC,Mervyn enjoys talking with Mrs. Watson and Miss Maurice
5960,"",Reading,2003-07-21 00:00:00 UTC,"It is not so when we talk to one another. With your arm about me, and your sweet face close to mine, I can prattle forever. Then my heart overflows at my lips. After hours thus spent, it seems as if there were a thousand things still to be said. Then I can tell you what the book has told me. I can repeat scores of verses by heart, though I heard them only once read, but it is because you have read them to me.
(Part II, chapter 21, p. 593)",,15848,"",The heart may overflow at the lips,"",2009-09-14 19:44:52 UTC,Eliza's letter to Mervyn
5960,"",Reading,2003-07-21 00:00:00 UTC,"I wrote him a letter, in which I poured forth my whole heart; but his answer contained avowals of all his former resolutions, to which time had only made his adherence more easy.
(Part II, chapter 23, p. 615)",,15854,"",The whole heart may be poured forth in a letter,"",2009-09-14 19:44:53 UTC,Mrs. Fielding tells her story
6042,"","Reading a chapter draft of Matt Garrett's dissertation (Chapt 1, p. 27); now published, see Episodic Poetics (Oxford UP, 2014), p. 38.",2006-03-02 00:00:00 UTC,"These sudden eruptions of the passions of the multitude, spread, like the lava of a volcano, throughout all France, nor could men of correct judgment, who aimed only at the reform of abuses, and a renovation in all the departments, check the fury of the torrent. This confusion and terror within, and an army without, sent on by the combined despots of Europe, with the professed design of subjecting the nation, and re-establishing the monarchy of France, gave an opportunity to ambitious, unprincipled, corrupt, and ignorant men, to come forward, under pretence of supporting the rights and liberties of mankind, without any views but those of disorder and disorganization. Thus in the midst of tumult and confusion, was indulged every vicious propensity, peculation, revenge, and all the black passions of the soul. The guillotine was glutted with the blood of innocent victims, while the rapidity of execution, and their jealousy of each other, involved the most guilty, and cut down many of the blackest miscreants, as well as the most virtuous characters in the nation.
(III.xxxi, p. 407; p. 682-3 in OLL edition)",,16026,"•INTEREST. Should search ""lava"" and ""volcano."" I bet these react to the historical (natural) environment more than many of my other metaphors. ","""These sudden eruptions of the passions of the multitude, spread, like the lava of a volcano, throughout all France, nor could men of correct judgment, who aimed only at reform of abuses, and a renovation in all the departments, check the fury of the torrent.""","",2014-05-20 17:09:24 UTC,"Volume III, chapter xxxi"