text,updated_at,metaphor,created_at,context,theme,reviewed_on,dictionary,comments,provenance,id,work_id
"1. A most sensible memorial is to be found in the diary of Bobb Doddington, to prove what a sorry figure an heir apparent must ever make at the head of a party; it was written and presented to Frederic Prince of Wales, when he was engaged in the trouble, and felt all the inconvenience of such a situation. This volume, except the above memorial, does the writer so little honour as a man, that I cannot believe it to have been his design to have it published. I should rather think it was brought to light, to make certain impressions upon the mind of a certain person, whom a certain set of men have been doing their utmost to betray into his grandfather's errors.",2009-09-14 19:42:41 UTC,"One may ""make certain impressions upon the mind of a certain person, whom a certain set of men have been doing their utmost to betray into his grandfather's errors.""",2005-05-15 00:00:00 UTC,"","",,Impression,"•Footnote to following lines:
'Tis wiser far to pass your present hours
In courtly palaces and ladies bowers,
In Cupid's lists to urge love's warm debate,
Than aid a factious uproar in the state.[1]","Searching ""mind"" and ""impression"" in HDIS (Poetry)",15068,5620
" Thus saying, to her wildly throbbing breast,
Which rose as if convuls'd with amorous pain,
With grasp ecstatic she the Monarch press'd.
A kindling ardour rush'd thro' ev'ry vein,
Panting he gaz'd, scarce able to sustain
The soft impressions which his heart assail'd.
But faith and duty soon resum'd their reign:
He paus'd, he sigh'd, as reason's pow'r unveil'd
The artifice refin'd which o'er his soul prevail'd.",2009-09-14 19:45:02 UTC,"""Panting he gaz'd, scarce able to sustain / The soft impressions which his heart assail'd.""",2005-05-16 00:00:00 UTC,"","",,Impression,"","Searching ""heart"" and ""impression"" in HDIS (Poetry)",15900,5976
" As hung the list'ning warriors on his song
He saw the varying passions as they rose,
And mark'd in every face th' emotion strong.
Sudden a melancholy theme he chose;
And, as he sung the fallen hero's woes,
The sympathetic chords he softly press'd.
Still, at each mournful modulation's close,
Th' impression sad pervaded every breast,
Each moisten'd eye the power of melody confess'd.",2009-09-14 19:45:02 UTC,""" Th' impression sad pervaded every breast,""",2005-05-20 00:00:00 UTC,"","",,Impression,"","Searching ""breast"" and ""impression"" in HDIS (Poetry)",15901,5976
"Ramirez.
When ambition and wealth their allurements unite,
What heart can resist their attractive impression?",2009-09-14 19:45:52 UTC,"""When ambition and wealth their allurements unite, / What heart can resist their attractive impression?""",2005-05-16 00:00:00 UTC,"","",,Impression,"","Searching ""heart"" and ""impression"" in HDIS (Poetry)",16143,6110
"""Perinthus! Theron! Aracynthus!"" cried
The maiden, while her cheek deep blushes dyed,
""Whate'er thy title, from my grateful heart
""Ne'er can th' impression of thy zeal depart.
""Alas! what say I?--Pardon me, nor deem
""Too strong th' expression of my fix'd esteem:
""Still must I think, whate'er thy rank, thy name,
""That Mysia's prince and Theron are the same.""",2009-09-14 19:46:38 UTC,"""'Whate'er thy title, from my grateful heart / 'Ne'er can th' impression of thy zeal depart.""",2005-05-16 00:00:00 UTC,"","",,Impression,"","Searching ""heart"" and ""impression"" in HDIS (Poetry)",16361,6177
"'Twere well if sage, domestic power
Would watch the Infant's earliest hour;
And let that constant care be shown
Which Duty may be proud to own.
Chuse sense as well as healthy state
In those who on the Cradle wait;
Nor e'er allow that vulgar curse,
The babbling nonsense of a Nurse.
Oh never cease the thought to scan,
That ev'ry Boy may be a Man!
'Tis known, that oft the Goblin's tale
Does to Life's latest hour prevail;
And Doctrines, by the Nurses taught,
Are fix'd for ever in the thought:
The fair Impression then pursue,
Of what is just, and what is true;
Nor think Instruction's hourly boon,
In its due shape, can come too soon.
The seeds, in earliest Childhood sown
As buds, will in the Boy be known:
In Youth, as blossoms will appear,
And in full Manhood, fruitage bear.
The comforts of a future day
Will thus Affection's toil repay;
And the glad Parent fondly see
The Wisdom of the Nursery.",2009-09-14 19:46:43 UTC,"""Doctrines, by the Nurses taught, / Are fix'd for ever in the thought: / The fair Impression then pursue, / Of what is just, and what is true""",2005-05-20 00:00:00 UTC,"",Pedagogy; Lockean Philosophy,,Impression,"•Combe repeats the commonplace (is it originally Lockean?) of the babbling nurse, the goblin tale, and the early association of ideas.","Searching ""thought"" and ""impression"" in HDIS (Poetry)",16389,6196
"Again the Doctor wav'd his hand, And Pat was silent at command.
""I've one word more,"" the Doctor said, ""And I expect to be obey'd.
Whatever you may see me do, Keep this command in constant view;
If I ride on nor silence break, If to myself you hear me speak,
Let not, I beg, your flippant tongue Disturb me as I jog along.""
Pat bow'd, and by his reason's force He felt he might disturb discourse,
But thought it was a curious joke To disturb one who never spoke.
Though hard the task which was assign'd,
Patrick was patient and resign'd.
Blest Contemplation, oft thy power
Charms and improves the passing hour!
'Tis in that hour the mind receives The best impression virtue gives.
For thus, with higher thought prepar'd, As its instructor and its guard,
Vice and its passions ne'er invade The bosom thus so sacred made,
Where solemn musings calm the mind
And leave all boist'rous cares behind.
Vice, it is true, o'er crime may brood In some dark dismal solitude;
There it may whet the murd'rous knife
That threatens some unwary life;
There treason may its schemes employ
To rob, to pillage, and destroy.
But Contemplation, Heavenly Maid! By calling virtue to its aid,
Does with her power benign, controul Each strong emotion of the soul,
Bids every mental tempest cease, And soothes the bosom into peace.",2009-09-14 19:48:02 UTC,"""'Tis in that hour the mind receives ... The best impression virtue gives.""",2005-05-15 00:00:00 UTC,"","",,Impression,"","Searching ""mind"" and ""impression"" in HDIS (Poetry); found again ""thought""",16803,6346
"They travel, perhaps, into foreign countries; a proceeding which naturally tends to weaken their nursery prejudice in favour of the Religion in which they were bred, and by removing them from all means of public worship, to relax their practical habits of Religion. They return home, and commonly are either hurried round in the vortex of dissipation, or engage with the ardour of youthful minds in some public or professional pursuit. If they read or hear any thing about Christianity, it is commonly only about those tenets which are subjects of controversy: and what reaches their ears of the Bible, from their occasional attendance at church; though it may sometimes impress them with an idea of the purity of Christian morality, contains much which, coming thus detached, perplexes and offends them, and suggests various doubts and startling objections, which a farther acquaintance with the Scripture would remove. Thus growing more and more to know Christianity only by the difficulties it contains; sometimes tempted by the ambition of shewing themselves superior to vulgar prejudice, and always prompted by the natural pride of the human heart to cast off their subjection to dogmas imposed on them; disgusted, perhaps, by the immoral lives of some professed Christians, by the weaknesses and absurdities of others, and by what they observe to be the implicit belief of numbers, whom they see and know to be equally ignorant with themselves, many doubts and suspicions of greater or less extent spring up within them. These doubts enter into the mind at first almost imperceptibly: they exist only as vague indistinct surmises, and by no means take the precise shape or the substance of a formed opinion. At first, probably, they even offend and startle by their intrusion: but by degrees the unpleasant sensations which they once excited wear off: the mind grows more familiar with them. A confused sense (for such it is, rather than a formed idea) of its being desirable that their doubts should prove well founded, and of the comfort and enlargement which would be afforded by that proof, lends them much secret aid. The impression becomes deeper; not in consequence of being reinforced by fresh arguments, but merely by dint of having longer rested in the mind; and as they increase in force, they creep on and extend themselves. At length they diffuse themselves over the whole of Religion, and possess the mind in undisturbed occupancy.
(pp. 480-2)",2011-08-30 20:14:19 UTC,"""The impression becomes deeper; not in consequence of being reinforced by fresh arguments, but merely by dint of having longer rested in the mind; and as they [doubts] increase in force, they creep on and extend themselves. At length they diffuse themselves over the whole of Religion, and possess the mind in undisturbed occupancy.""",2011-08-30 20:14:19 UTC,Chapter VII,"",,Empire and Inhabitants,An interesting description of invasion. USE in EMPIRE or INHABITANTS?,"Searching ""mind"" in Google Books",19113,7075