text,updated_at,metaphor,created_at,context,theme,reviewed_on,dictionary,comments,provenance,id,work_id
How shall I receive him? In what figure shall I give his Heart the first Impression? There is a great deal in the first impression.,2009-09-14 19:34:53 UTC,"""In what figure shall I give his Heart the first Impression? There is a great deal in the first impression.""",2005-05-20 00:00:00 UTC,"","",,Impression,"","Looking up ""Sterling"" in the OED",10312,3959
"BRUTUS.
Yes, of you, Cassius; if you can believe
I would receive a Favour from a Foe.
Is this a Time to be oblig'd by Cæsar?
Good Gods! had I not Doubts enough before?
Did I not struggle hard enough for Virtue?
That this last Tenderness of his is added
To shake my very Soul? The strong Impression
May break my Heart, but shall not bend my Mind.
Cassius in this is honour'd more than Brutus;
For, when our Country is so much debas'd,
Repulse is glorious, and Advancement Shame:
I'll not be rais'd by him who ruins her.
It was no private Injury provok'd me;
Frowns had not frighten'd me, nor shall his Favours,
With all their Syren Voice, entice me to him.
I must go on thro' Virtue's plainest Course;
In that smooth Path there is no Fear of Falling.",2011-06-06 03:21:45 UTC,"""The strong Impression / May break my Heart, but shall not bend my Mind.""",2005-05-15 00:00:00 UTC,"","",2011-06-05,Impressions,•Is this not actually drama? (found in HDIS Poetry),"Searching ""impression"" and ""mind"" in HDIS (Poetry); found again ""heart""; and again ""soul""",12314,4680
"I Ang. See, see, he smiles amidst his Trance,
And shakes a visionary Lance,
His Brain is fill'd with loud Alarms,
Shouting Armies, clashing Arms,
The softer Prints of Love deface;
And Trumpets sound in ev'ry Trace.
Both. Glory Strives,
The Field is won,
Fame revives
And Love is Gone.
(III.i, p. 28)",2013-06-12 13:48:41 UTC,"""See, see, he smiles amidst his Trance, / And shakes a visionary Lance, / His Brain is fill'd with loud Alarms, / Shouting Armies, clashing Arms, / The softer Prints of Love deface; / And Trumpets sound in ev'ry Trace.""",2013-06-12 13:48:22 UTC,"Act III, Scene i","",,Impressions and Inhabitants,"INTEREST: a ""visionary"" battle, literalized in the brain.",Searching in Google Books,20543,7410
"Enter King.
Some dreadful Birth of Fate is near:
Or why, my Soul, unus'd to fear
With secret Horror dost thou shake?
Can Dreams such dire Impressions make!
What means this solemn silent Show?
This Pomp of Death, this Scene of Woe!
Support me, Heav'n! What's this I read?
O Horror! Rosamond is dead.
What shall I say, or whither turn?
With Grief, and Rage, and Love, I burn:
From Thought to Thought my Soul is toss'd,
And in the Whirle of Passion lost.
Why did I not in Battle fall,
Crush'd with the Thunder of the Gauls
Why did the Spear my Bosom miss;
Ye Pow'rs, was I reserv'd for this!
Disracted with Woe
I'll rush on the Foe
To seek my Relief:
The Sword or the Dart
Shall pierce my sad Heart,
And finish my Grief!
(III.i, p. 31)",2013-06-12 13:52:05 UTC,"""Some dreadful Birth of Fate is near: / Or why, my Soul, unus'd to fear / With secret Horror dost thou shake? / Can Dreams such dire Impressions make!""",2013-06-12 13:52:05 UTC,"Act III, Scene i","",,Impressions,"",Searching in Google Books,20544,7410
"QUEEN.
Oh Brother! let me lowly thus entreat,
That I may answer this Tyrannick King:
With his great Merit, how are you upbraided?
He has recited all his warlike Deeds,
To make Impression on your grateful Heart.
But Sir! consider, I'm a Queen, was doubly Crown'd:
By Birth and Marriage, I am twice a Sovereign.
Think whose I was---Oh! pity Kindred Grief,
And Royal Woes! Mine's not a vulgar Fate,
To be weigh'd out by ev'ry common Hand,
Or at a Moment's Call, to be determin'd.
(II.i, p. 16)",2013-06-29 06:03:17 UTC,"""He has recited all his warlike Deeds, / To make Impression on your grateful Heart.:",2013-06-29 06:03:17 UTC,"Act II, scene i","",,Impressions,"",C-H Lion,21304,7495
"ARMINIUS.
Deal we like Statesmen, for a while, in Cunning;
Your End but gain'd, no Matter what the Means:
If once the Queen be parted from the Prince,
The Lustre of a Crown will soon efface
Th'Impression made upon a Woman's Heart.
(III.i, p. 19)",2013-06-29 06:05:59 UTC,"""If once the Queen be parted from the Prince, / The Lustre of a Crown will soon efface / Th'Impression made upon a Woman's Heart.""",2013-06-29 06:05:59 UTC,"Act III, scene i","",,Impressions,"",C-H Lion,21305,7495
"MIRZA.
Indeed I did, then favour'd by the King,
And by that means a sharer in the secret.
'Twas on a day of publick Festival,
When Beauteous Artemisa stood to view,
Behind the Covert of a Golden Lattice,
When King and Court returning from the Temple;
When just as by her stand Arsaces past,
The Windows, by design or chance, fell down,
And to his view expos'd her blushing Beauties.
She seem'd surpriz'd, and presently withdrew,
But ev'n that moment was an age in Love:
So was the Monarchs heart for passion moulded,
So apt to take at first the soft impression.
Soon as we were alone, I found the Evil
Already past a Remedy, and vainly
Urg'd the resentment of her Injur'd Lord:
His Love was deaf to all.
(I.i, pp. 3-4)",2013-07-21 19:13:59 UTC,"""So was the Monarchs heart for passion moulded, / So apt to take at first the soft impression.""",2013-07-21 19:13:59 UTC,"Act I, scene i","",,Impressions,fixing punctuation error in C-H Lion,C-H Lion,21942,7553
"ARTABAN.
Nay then 'tis time I should Assert my self,
And tho' you gave me Birth; yet from the God's
(Who made my Father be as he was, Royal,
And stamp't the Mark of Greatness on my Soul;)
I Claim my Right to Empire; may I fall
Vile and forgotten if I Ever own
Any Superiour Being but those God's.
(IV.i, p. 43)",2013-07-22 04:18:01 UTC,"""Who made my Father be as he was, Royal, / And stamp't the Mark of Greatness on my Soul.""",2013-07-22 04:18:01 UTC,"Act IV, scene i","",,Impressions,"",C-H Lion,21963,7553
"OSWALD.
'Tis wonderful indeed; and yet great Souls,
By Nature half divine, soar to the Stars,
And hold a near Acquaintance with the Gods.
And oh, my Prince, when I survey thy Virtue,
I own the Seal of Heav'n imprinted on thee;
I stand convinc'd that good and holy Powers
Inspire and take Delight to dwell within thee.
Yet Crowds will still believe, and Priests will teach,
As wand'ring Fancy, and as Int'rest leads.
How will the King and our fierce Saxon Chiefs
Approve this Bride and Faith? Had Royal Hengist,
Thy Father, liv'd!--
(I.i, pp. 2-3)",2013-07-25 03:13:42 UTC,"""And oh, my Prince, when I survey thy Virtue, / I own the Seal of Heav'n imprinted on thee; / I stand convinc'd that good and holy Powers / Inspire and take Delight to dwell within thee.""",2013-07-25 03:13:42 UTC,"Act I, scene i","",,Impressions and Inhabitants,"",C-H Lion,22004,7565
"CHAUCER
But just arriv'd--Absence, Mrs. Busie, has not been able to deface the Impressions of Love,--and still the Lady Myrtilla reigns in my Bosom, haunts my waking Thoughts, and is ever present in my Dreams.--I think, I talk, I write of nothing but her.
(I.i, p. 7)",2013-08-17 22:28:36 UTC,"""But just arriv'd--Absence, Mrs. Busie, has not been able to deface the Impressions of Love,--and still the Lady Myrtilla reigns in my Bosom, haunts my waking Thoughts, and is ever present in my Dreams.""",2013-08-17 22:28:36 UTC,"Act I, scene i","",,"","",LION,22313,4193