text,updated_at,metaphor,created_at,context,theme,reviewed_on,dictionary,comments,provenance,id,work_id
"We need only have eyes to see the necessary influence which age has over reason. The soul follows the progress of the body, as well as of education. In the fair sex, the soul adapts itself to the delicacy of constitution: thence flow that tenderness, that affection, those lively sentiments founded rather upon passion than reason; and in fine, those prejudices and superstitions whose impression is so hard to be effaced. Man, on the contrary, whose brain and nerves participate in the firmness of all the solids, has his mind, as well as the features of his face, more nervous. [...]
(p. 14)",2013-07-16 19:19:12 UTC,"""In the fair sex, the soul adapts itself to the delicacy of constitution: thence flow that tenderness, that affection, those lively sentiments founded rather upon passion than reason; and in fine, those prejudices and superstitions whose impression is so hard to be effaced.""",2013-07-16 19:19:12 UTC,"","",,"","",Reading,21807,7547
"Like that bird on yonder spray, the imagination seems to be perpetually ready to take wing. Hurried with incessant rapidity by the vortex of blood and animal spirits, one undulation makes an impression, which is immediately effaced by another; the soul pursues it, but often in vain: she must wait to bewail the loss of what she did not quickly lay hold of; and thus it is that the imagination, true image of time, is incessantly destroyed and renewed.
(pp. 33-4)",2013-07-16 19:39:28 UTC,"""Hurried with incessant rapidity by the vortex of blood and animal spirits, one undulation makes an impression, which is immediately effaced by another; the soul pursues it, but often in vain: she must wait to bewail the loss of what she did not quickly lay hold of; and thus it is that the imagination, true image of time, is incessantly destroyed and renewed.""",2013-07-16 19:39:28 UTC,"","",,"","",Reading,21822,7547
"We do not intend here to affect an ignorance of those objections, which may be made against our opinion, in defence of that superiour distinction so long attributed to man over other animals. There is, say they, a law of nature, a knowledge of right and wrong deeply imprinted on the mind of man, which, in other animals, is not perceived.
(p. 36)",2013-07-16 19:41:53 UTC,"""There is, say they, a law of nature, a knowledge of right and wrong deeply imprinted on the mind of man, which, in other animals, is not perceived.""",2013-07-16 19:41:53 UTC,"","",,Impressions,"",Reading,21824,7547
"Since there are evident commmunications betwixt the mother and the infant, and it is almost impossible to deny the facts produced by Tulpius and other authors of equal credit with him, we will therefore believe that it is by the same means that the foetus feels the force of the mother's imagination, in the same manner as soft wax receives all sort of impressions; and that the same traces, or longings of the mother, may be imprinted on the foetus, tho' this cannot be comprehended, notwithstanding all that has been said to the contrary by Blondel and his adherents. [...]
(pp. 61-2)",2013-07-16 20:15:25 UTC,"""Since there are evident commmunications betwixt the mother and the infant, and it is almost impossible to deny the facts produced by Tulpius and other authors of equal credit with him, we will therefore believe that it is by the same means that the foetus feels the force of the mother's imagination, in the same manner as soft wax receives all sort of impressions; and that the same traces, or longings of the mother, may be imprinted on the foetus, tho' this cannot be comprehended, notwithstanding all that has been said to the contrary by Blondel and his adherents.""",2013-07-16 20:15:25 UTC,"","",,Impressions,Not an obvious or straightforward metaphor of mind. REVISIT? USE IN ENTRY?,Reading,21833,7547
"This author does not send blood flowing down the walls, he does not transport you to distant lands, he does not expose you to being eaten by savages, he does not confine himself within the secret haunts of debauchery, he never wanders off into the world of fantasy. The world we live in is his scene of action, his drama is anchored in truth, his people are as real as it is possible to be, his characters are taken from the world of society, his events belong to the customs of all civilized nations; the passions he portrays are those I feel within me; the same things arouse them, and I recognize their force in myself; the problems and afflictions of his people are of the same kind as those which constantly hang over me; he shows me the general course of life as I experience it. Without this art, my mind would easily take to the paths of fantasy, there would be only a fleeting illusion and a faint, passing impression.
[Cet auteur ne fait point couler le sang le long des lambris; il ne vous transporte point dans des contrées éloignées; il ne vous expose point à être dévoré par des sauvages; il ne se renferme point dans des lieux clandestins de débauche; il ne se perd jamais dans les régions de la féerie. Le monde où nous vivons est le lieu de la scène; le fond de son drame est vrai; ses personnages ont toute la réalité possible; ses caractères sont pris du milieu de la société; ses incidents sont dans les mœurs de toutes les nations policées; les passions qu’il peint sont telles que je les éprouve en moi; ce sont les mêmes objets qui les émeuvent, elles ont l’énergie que je leur connais; les traverses et les afflictions de ses personnages sont de la nature de celles qui me menacent sans cesse; il me montre le cours général des choses qui m’environnent. Sans cet art, mon âme se pliant avec peine à des biais chimériques, l’illusion ne serait que momentanée et l’impression faible et passagère.]",2013-08-25 21:49:39 UTC,"""Sans cet art, mon âme se pliant avec peine à des biais chimériques, l’illusion ne serait que momentanée et l’impression faible et passagère. [Without this art, my mind would easily take to the paths of fantasy, there would be only a fleeting illusion and a faint, passing impression.]""",2013-08-25 21:49:39 UTC,"","",,Impressions,"",Reading,22571,7654