text,updated_at,metaphor,created_at,context,theme,reviewed_on,dictionary,comments,provenance,id,work_id
"AMONG those vices which the Law
Does not controul or keep in awe,
Which look not to the grave intent
Of any Act of Parliament;
Are subject to no other rule
Than what is taught in Reason's school,
But, straying from her general plan,
Degrade the character of Man;
Among them all, who can descry
A vice more mean than Gluttony?
Of any groveling slave of sense,
Not one can claim so small pretence
To that indulgence which the wise
Allow to human frailties,
As the inglorious, beastly sinner,
Whose only object is--a dinner.
The Miser, who heaps up his store,
May prove a Treasurer for the poor;
And, by his avarice, prepare
The funds by which his gen'rous heir
Can, with unbounded grace, impart
The kindness of a feeling heart.
--The thoughtless, but the jovial souls,
Who pleasure find in flowing bowls,
Enjoy the day, or pass the nights
In Bacchanalian delights:--
Though their excesses do not give
The happiness for which we live:
Yet, round their table mirth prevails,
And Humour laughs, though Reason fails.",2009-09-14 19:46:33 UTC,"One may be a ""groveling slave of sense"" (e.g., a miser or a epicure)",2004-06-15 00:00:00 UTC,"","",,"","",Searching HDIS (Poetry),16334,6167
"""At length my fate more calmly I survey'd.
""If to propitiate the obdurate maid
""Were still by heav'n allow'd, my longer stay
""Would only the transporting bliss delay;
""If still relentless she should prove, my soul
""Might gain remission from her stern controul.
""By hope and fear thus torn, with eager haste
""Th' impression on my buckler I effac'd,
""Resolv'd that, till my fate should milder grow,
""Me as its once-fam'd bearer none should know.
""Arm'd at all points, and vaulting on my steed,
""To the Larissan court I urg'd his speed.
""In phrase the most respectful I essay'd
""To move the justice of the royal maid;
""I told my suff'rings, call'd on heav'n above
""To vouch my tender, my eternal love,
""And her permission humbly sought once more
""To claim her pity and her grace implore.
""The scroll I sent; her answer quickly came--
""By Heav'n! my madd'ning soul is in a flame
""When I reflect--Oh! may'st thou never know
""The tort'ring pangs, th' inexplicable woe,
""Which like a torrent overwhelm'd my soul,
""When I unopen'd saw again my scroll,
""Which from her cruel hand this sentence bore--
""'Never, oh prince, these eyes may see thee more.
""'This further proof of my resolve receive,
""'And, if my wish avail, Larissa leave.'--
""Yes too obdurate maid! Thou know'st too well
""The potency of that o'erpow'ring spell,
""Which spite of all that reason can suggest,
""Maintains despotic empire o'er my breast.
""Yes, yes! In all thy cruelty exult,
""Mock at my pangs, my constancy insult,
""To enhance my woes exert thine ev'ry art,
""Probe to its inmost core my tortur'd heart!
""That heart may break--But, while its pulses beat,
""There my immortal love shall hold its seat;
""And when, releas'd from sublunary ties,
""My soul to regions yet unknown shall rise,
""E'en in the trance and agony of death,
""Thy still dear name shall linger on my breath,
""With ev'ry pray'r for sacred mercy blend,
""And with my spirit to high heav'n ascend.--
""Forgive, forgive me, friend! My weakness needs
""The sympathy from friendship which proceeds.
""Methinks, already thy consoling sigh,
""The pitying tear which trembles in thine eye,
""Calm to repose my agitated soul:
""As if some opiate o'er my senses stole,
""The tempest of my heart subsides, again
""Reason asserts her interrupted reign.
""Let me then cherish her reviving beam,
""And quit, while yet I can, my painful theme:
""A few brief words, and those succinctly told,
""The sequel of my fortunes will unfold.
""With burning brain and agonizing breast,
""I paid obedience to the stern behest:
""My soul with wonder, as with passion, fraught,
""The town I quitted, and the forest sought.
""To thee I need not what ensued repeat,
""The story of my suff'rings is complete.""
",2009-09-14 19:46:37 UTC,"An ""o'erpow'ring spell may, in spite of ""all that reason can suggest,"" maintain ""despotic empire o'er [the] breast""",2004-08-16 00:00:00 UTC,"","",,"","","Searching ""reason"" and ""empire"" in HDIS (Poetry)",16352,6177
"I hear, old friends, I hear you: ""Make all sure:
""Let spies surround her, and let bolts secure.""
But who shall keep the keepers? Wives contemn
Our poor precautions, and begin with them.
Lust is the master passion; it inflames,
Alike, both high and low; alike, the dames,
Who, on tall Syrians' necks, their pomp display,
And those who pick, on foot, their miry way.
",2011-09-15 20:47:58 UTC,"""Lust is the master passion.""",2004-06-01 00:00:00 UTC,"",Ruling Passion,,"","","Searching HDIS for ""master passion""",16376,6195
"""No harsh, pedantic Censor I,
""To preach up gloomy Sanctity;
""Youth's lively season claims its pleasure,
""But just in mode and wise in measure,
""Whose hours, by Virtue's smiles refin'd,
""Leave no regrets or pain behind.
""Court the gay Muse to whom belong
""The chasten'd jest, the pleasing song;
""But would you nobler thoughts inspire,
""The Masters of the Grecian Lyre,
""Or Latian Bards, by Phoebus taught,
""Will please and elevate the thought.
""Nor ask their powerful aid alone;--
""Join those we proudly call our own:
""Immortal Shakespeare--Milton's rhyme,
""That soars beyond the bounds of Time;
""With Dryden, in whose verse we trace
""A blended energy and grace;
""And Pope, whose sweet harmonious lays
""The mind delights in, and obeys;
""With Gray, in Elegiac pride,
""And the free verse of Akenside.
""--These, as they charm, with taste refin'd
""Will decorate the expanding mind;
""And thus a secret grace convey
""To all you do, and all you say;
""Smooth the dull brow of wrinkling care,
""And chase the thought that may ensnare.
""--Nor these alone, th'historic page,
""Of ev'ry race, of every age,
""Displays the long and various story:
""Heroes that liv'd or died in glory,
""Patriots, who their country sav'd,
""Tyrants, who mankind enslav'd,
""Sages, whose high-gifted powers
""That knowledge taught which now is ours,
""The Pictures form of human kind,
""Of every feeling of the mind,
""As in social man we see,
""Or the wide range of Policy;--
""Hence they a sage experience give,
""E'en to the times in which we live;
""And frame a Lesson to supply
""The Ages of Posterity.
""--With these Instructors may be join'd
""To strengthen and enrich the mind,
""Science, whose powers profound impart,
""Whate'er of nature and of art
""Presents to th'intellectual eye,
""In all the vast variety:
""While Philosophic Lore combines
""The various Labour, and confines
""In their due regulated sphere
""The essential parts of Character;
""And, as the Mistress of the Soul,
""Let mild Religion crown the whole:--
""That power, which commands the thought
""To think the very thing we ought;
""And holds up to our solemn view
""What we should shun, and what pursue.
""--O let not Sloth depress to earth
""Those early blossoms in their birth,
""Which to your ripening mind is given,
""To bloom through time, then rise to heaven!
""Awake your nature and expand
""Its powers; with attentive hand
""Prune its Luxuriance; and prepare
""Each branch the expected Fruit to bear.
""But think not in your jovial hours,
""When Riot rules and Reason lours,
""That time is actively employ'd:
""'Tis then, I say, that Time's destroy'd,
""At least, e'en Truth itself may say,
""'Tis wasted, squander'd, thrown away:
""For Folly's vigour and excess
""Is nought but active Idleness.",2011-11-25 01:21:01 UTC,"""And, as the Mistress of the Soul, / Let mild Religion crown the whole.""",2004-06-15 00:00:00 UTC,"","",,"","",Searching HDIS (Poetry),16378,6196
"""No harsh, pedantic Censor I,
""To preach up gloomy Sanctity;
""Youth's lively season claims its pleasure,
""But just in mode and wise in measure,
""Whose hours, by Virtue's smiles refin'd,
""Leave no regrets or pain behind.
""Court the gay Muse to whom belong
""The chasten'd jest, the pleasing song;
""But would you nobler thoughts inspire,
""The Masters of the Grecian Lyre,
""Or Latian Bards, by Phoebus taught,
""Will please and elevate the thought.
""Nor ask their powerful aid alone;--
""Join those we proudly call our own:
""Immortal Shakespeare--Milton's rhyme,
""That soars beyond the bounds of Time;
""With Dryden, in whose verse we trace
""A blended energy and grace;
""And Pope, whose sweet harmonious lays
""The mind delights in, and obeys;
""With Gray, in Elegiac pride,
""And the free verse of Akenside.
""--These, as they charm, with taste refin'd
""Will decorate the expanding mind;
""And thus a secret grace convey
""To all you do, and all you say;
""Smooth the dull brow of wrinkling care,
""And chase the thought that may ensnare.
""--Nor these alone, th'historic page,
""Of ev'ry race, of every age,
""Displays the long and various story:
""Heroes that liv'd or died in glory,
""Patriots, who their country sav'd,
""Tyrants, who mankind enslav'd,
""Sages, whose high-gifted powers
""That knowledge taught which now is ours,
""The Pictures form of human kind,
""Of every feeling of the mind,
""As in social man we see,
""Or the wide range of Policy;--
""Hence they a sage experience give,
""E'en to the times in which we live;
""And frame a Lesson to supply
""The Ages of Posterity.
""--With these Instructors may be join'd
""To strengthen and enrich the mind,
""Science, whose powers profound impart,
""Whate'er of nature and of art
""Presents to th'intellectual eye,
""In all the vast variety:
""While Philosophic Lore combines
""The various Labour, and confines
""In their due regulated sphere
""The essential parts of Character;
""And, as the Mistress of the Soul,
""Let mild Religion crown the whole:--
""That power, which commands the thought
""To think the very thing we ought;
""And holds up to our solemn view
""What we should shun, and what pursue.
""--O let not Sloth depress to earth
""Those early blossoms in their birth,
""Which to your ripening mind is given,
""To bloom through time, then rise to heaven!
""Awake your nature and expand
""Its powers; with attentive hand
""Prune its Luxuriance; and prepare
""Each branch the expected Fruit to bear.
""But think not in your jovial hours,
""When Riot rules and Reason lours,
""That time is actively employ'd:
""'Tis then, I say, that Time's destroy'd,
""At least, e'en Truth itself may say,
""'Tis wasted, squander'd, thrown away:
""For Folly's vigour and excess
""Is nought but active Idleness.",2011-11-25 01:24:08 UTC,"""But think not in your jovial hours, / When Riot rules and Reason lours, / That time is actively employ'd.""",2004-06-15 00:00:00 UTC,"","",,"","","Searching ""rule"" and ""reason"" in HDIS (Poetry)",16381,6196
"But her example shall survive
While Granny Woodbine's doom'd to live;
Yes, her example shall inspire
My teaching of the Little 'Squire;
And, 'spite of all his humour'd tricks,
I trust, in Heaven, that I shall fix
In his young mind th'unerring rules,
Not always taught in higher schools,
That certain sense of right and wrong,
Which kneaded in a mind so young,
With all the Hopes Religion gives,
And Fears which thence the heart receives:
Hopes that enchant the early view,
But while they please, exalt it too;
And Fears call'd forth, whene'er we err,
Not to affright but to deter,--
Such hopes, such fears when once combin'd
With the first feelings of the mind;
Though by the gales of passion tost,
Though, for a time, o'erwhelm'd and lost;
Or laid asleep amid the strife,
And opiate Joys of sensual Life;
When Reason doth regain its throne,
And the mind dares its follies own;
Or when Misfortune's wak'ning power
Compels the sad, reflective hour,
Unless, by desp'rate vices chang'd,
The mind from Virtue's quite estrang'd,
Again returns the Love of Truth
Which gave a grace to early Youth;
Again is cherish'd every thought
Which the first fond Instructress taught.
",2011-11-25 01:16:58 UTC,"""When Reason doth regain its throne, / And the mind dares its follies own.""",2004-07-09 00:00:00 UTC,"","",2011-11-24,Throne,Found again: (7/19/2004),"Searching ""throne"" and ""mind"" in HDIS (Poetry); found again searching ""throne"" and ""reason""",16383,6196
"But soon he knew himself the most unfit
Of men to herd with Man, with whom he held
Little in common; untaught to submit
His thoughts to others, though his soul was quelled
In youth by his own thoughts; still uncompelled,
He would not yield dominion of his mind
To Spirits against whom his own rebelled,
Proud though in desolation--which could find
A life within itself, to breathe without mankind.
(p. 865, ll. 100-108)",2009-09-14 19:49:14 UTC,"""He would not yield dominion of his mind / To Spirits against whom his own rebelled.""",2008-05-27 00:00:00 UTC,Stanza 12,"",2008-05-27,"","",Reading in Perkins. Text from HDIS,17156,6456
"Thus far have I proceeded in a theme
Renewed with no kind auspices:--to feel
We are not what we have been, and to deem
We are not what we should be,--and to steel
The heart against itself; and to conceal,
With a proud caution, love, or hate, or aught,--
Passion or feeling, purpose, grief, or zeal,--
Which is the tyrant Spirit of our thought,
Is a stern task of soul:--No matter,--it is taught.
(p. 872, ll. 1031-39",2009-09-14 19:49:16 UTC,"""[T]o conceal, / With a proud caution, love, or hate, or aught,-- / Passion or feeling, purpose, grief, or zeal,-- / Which is the tyrant Spirit of our thought, / Is a stern task of soul.""",2008-05-27 00:00:00 UTC,Stanza 111,"",2008-05-27,"","",Reading in Perkins. Text from HDIS,17165,6456
"Ah! when will the yoke of Custom--Custom, the blind tyrant, of which all the other tyrants make their slave--ah! when will that misery-perpetuating yoke be shaken off?--when, when will Reason be seated on her throne?
(ยง13, p. 495)",2010-06-23 22:29:28 UTC,"""Ah! when will the yoke of Custom--Custom, the blind tyrant, of which all the other tyrants make their slave--ah! when will that misery-perpetuating yoke be shaken off?--when, when will Reason be seated on her throne?""",2010-06-23 22:29:28 UTC,"","",,Throne,"","Reading J. C. D. Clark's English society, 1660-1832, p. 159.",17903,6728
"The attention will be more profitably employed in attempting to discover and expose the paralogisms, by the magic of which such a faith could find admission into minds framed for a nobler creed. These, it appears to me, may be all reduced to one sophism as their common genus; the mistaking the conditions of a thing for its causes and essence; and the process, by which we arrive at the knowledge of a faculty, for the faculty itself. The air I breathe is the condition of my life, not its cause. We could never have learned that we had eyes but by the process of seeing; yet having seen we know that the eyes must have pre-existed in order to render the process of sight possible. Let us cross-examine Hartley's scheme under the guidance of this distinction; and we shall discover, that contemporaneity, (Leibnitz's Lex Continui) is the limit and condition of the laws of mind, itself being rather a law of matter, at least of phaenomena considered as material. At the utmost, it is to thought the same, as the law of gravitation is to loco-motion. In every voluntary movement we first counteract gravitation, in order to avail ourselves of it. It must exist, that there may be a something to be counteracted, and which, by its re-action, may aid the force that is exerted to resist it. Let us consider what we do when we leap. We first resist the gravitating power by an act purely voluntary, and then by another act, voluntary in part, we yield to it in order to alight on the spot, which we had previously proposed to ourselves. Now let a man watch his mind while he is composing; or, to take a still more common case, while he is trying to recollect a name; and he will find the process completely analogous. Most of my readers will have observed a small water-insect on the surface of rivulets, which throws a cinque-spotted shadow fringed with prismatic colours on the sunny bottom of the brook; and will have noticed, how the little animal wins its way up against the stream, by alternate pulses of active and passive motion, now resisting the current, and now yielding to it in order to gather strength and a momentary fulcrum for a further propulsion. This is no unapt emblem of the mind's self-experience in the act of thinking. There are evidently two powers at work, which relatively to each other are active and passive; and this is not possible without an intermediate faculty, which is at once both active and passive. In philosophical language, we must denominate this intermediate faculty in all its degrees and determinations, the IMAGINATION. But, in common language, and especially on the subject of poetry, we appropriate the name to a superior degree of the faculty, joined to a superior voluntary controul over it.
(I, 123-5)",2011-12-01 22:45:17 UTC,"""Let us cross-examine Hartley's scheme under the guidance of this distinction; and we shall discover, that contemporaneity, (Leibnitz's Lex Continui) is the limit and condition of the laws of mind, itself being rather a law of matter, at least of phaenomena considered as material. At the utmost, it is to thought the same, as the law of gravitation is to loco-motion.""",2011-12-01 22:45:17 UTC,Chapter 7,"",,"","",Reading,19344,6202