work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
3970,"","Searching ""judge"" and ""passion"" in HDIS (Drama)",2004-10-14 00:00:00 UTC,"WILD.
View your own Charms, Madam, then judge my Passion; your Beauty ravishes my Eye, your Voice my Ear, and your Touch has thrill'd my melting Soul.",,10299,•Actually published 1699? REVISIT.
•This is weakly metaphorical at best but representative of much judgment-talk.,"""View your own Charms, Madam, then judge my Passion.""","",2009-12-12 20:10:56 UTC,"Act III, scene iii"
3987,"","Searching ""rule"" and ""reason"" in HDIS (Drama)",2004-06-23 00:00:00 UTC,"MIRABEL
My very Soul is touch'd--Your Hand, my Fair.
ORIANA
How soft and gentle you feel?--I'll tell you your Fortune, Friend.
MIRABEL
How she stares upon me!
ORIANA
You have a flattering Face; but 'tis a fine one-- I warrant you have five Hundred Mistresses--Ay, to be sure, a Mistress for every Guinea in his Pocket-- Will you pray for me? I shall die to morrow--and will you Ring my Passing Bell?
MIRABEL
O Woman, Woman, of Artifice created! whose Nature, even distracted, has a Cunning: In vain let Man his Sense, his Learning boast, when Womans Madness over-rules his Reason: Do you know me, injur'd Creature
ORIANA
No,--but you shall be my intimate Acquaintance in the Grave.",,10358,"","""O Woman, Woman, of Artifice created! whose Nature, even distracted, has a Cunning: In vain let Man his Sense, his Learning boast, when Womans Madness over-rules his Reason.""","",2012-01-12 21:24:31 UTC,"Act IV, scene iv"
4046,"","Searching ""throne"" and ""reason"" in HDIS (Drama)",2004-07-14 00:00:00 UTC,"CAPTAIN PLUME
The March Beer at the Raven; I have been doubly serving the Queen,--raising Men, and raising the Excise-- Recruiting and Elections are good Friends to the Excise.
MR. WORTHY
You an't drunk?
CAPTAIN PLUME
No, no, whimsical only; I cou'd be mighty foolish, and fancy my self mighty witty; Reason still keeps its Throne , but it nods a little, that's all.
MR. WORTHY
Then you're just fit for a Frolick?",,10481,"","Reason may still keep ""its Throne, but it nods a little""","",2009-09-14 19:35:01 UTC,"Act III, scene iii"
4385,"","Searching ""rule"" and ""reason"" in HDIS (Drama)",2004-06-23 00:00:00 UTC,"MAN.
Well, here am I engaging in other Affairs--let me see--here's a Young Woman, the Governour's Daughter, married to Marsan, a French Officer--I don't say I'm in Love with her--and I have a Mind to--what a Devil have I a Mind to now? Or how am I sure I have a Mind? I have known my self mistaken before now; and upon the whole matter, found, I had not near so much Mind, as I thought I had, when I came to discover it to the Lady. A Pox on this Marsan tho', for being such a pretty Fellow--a handsome, promising young Dog! Wou'd his Wife could say half so much of her humble Servant--why I verily believe if a Man could enter into the Secret, she has as little Reason, as I have, to make him a Cuckold-- but hang Reason; 'twould be a bad World with most of us, if Reason were always to rule. A Woman may Cuckold her Husband, I hope, whether she has any Reason or no--well, there's one comfort, he's a Frenchman, and will give me as many Opportunities--but then she's an English Woman, and will make as little use of an Opportunity--but what's an Opportunity to a Man who has no Occasion of making use of one?--my Opportunities may be harder to come by, than his, for ought I know, and then--I could advise my self now to give over playing the Fool--but at my Years every thing is playing the Fool--and can any Man direct me to a better Diversion?--if I can perswade her to play the Fool, no body will think I play the Fool--if not, every Man is to be laught at for one thing or other, and pray allow me to make my self merry, my way, if I can.",,11566,"•INTEREST. Great moment of skepticism: ""Or how am I sure I have a Mind?""","""'Twould be a bad World with most of us, if Reason were always to rule.""","",2013-06-26 16:31:12 UTC,"Act I, scene i"
4455,Ruling Passion,"Searching ""predominant passion"" in HDIS",2004-06-07 00:00:00 UTC,"MODELEY
Look'ee there it is now, rat me--ha, ha, ha! humorous enough faith. Why, Madam, I am very often passively active, and actively passive; that is, sometimes I am pleas'd to give a beating, and at other Times to take one; Cowardice was only the predominant Passion that seiz'd me then, but now I am as valiant as any Man, and by thy supernatural Charms I adore you.
AIR I.
Whilst the Town's brim full of Folly.
Whilst your Eyes so full of Fire
Fill my Soul with soft Desire,
Who can bear their Influence?
All Mankind must needs adore you,
Gods themselves too fall before you,
Ev'ry Glance charms ev'ry Sense.
(III.i)",,11734,"","""Cowardice was only the predominant Passion that seiz'd me then, but now I am as valiant as any Man, and by thy supernatural Charms I adore you.""","",2011-04-26 17:43:57 UTC,"Act III, scene i"
7519,"",C-H Lion,2013-07-09 14:32:01 UTC,"LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR.
Fye, fye, I wou'd not force her. Tho' she be
A Slave, her Mind is free, and shou'd consent.
OROONOKO.
Such Honour will engage her to consent:
And then, if you'r in love, she's worth the having.
Shall we not see this wonder?
LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR.
Have a care;
You have a Heart, and she has conquering Eyes.
(p. 27)",,21565,"","""Tho' she be / A Slave, her Mind is free, and shou'd consent.""",Fetters,2013-07-09 14:32:01 UTC,""
7519,"",C-H Lion,2013-07-09 14:33:04 UTC,"OROONOKO.
If you but mock me with her Image here:
If she be not Imoinda --
Ha! she faints!
[She looks upon him, and falls into a Swoon, he runs to her]
Nay, then it must be she: it is Imoinda:
My Heart confesses her, and leaps for joy,
To welcome her to her own Empire here.
I feel her all, in every part of me.
O! let me press her in my eager Arms,
Wake her to life, and with this kindling Kiss
Give back that Soul, she only sent to me.
[Kisses her]
(p. 32)",,21566,"","""Nay, then it must be she: it is Imoinda:
My Heart confesses her, and leaps for joy, / To welcome her to her own Empire here.""",Empire,2013-07-09 14:33:04 UTC,""
7519,"",C-H Lion,2013-07-09 14:36:54 UTC,"OROONOKO.
Let the Fools, who follow Fortune, live upon her smiles.
All our Prosperity is plac'd in Love.
We have enough of that to make us happy.
This little spot of Earth you stand upon,
Is more to me, than the extended Plains
Of my great Father's Kingdom. Here I reign
In full delights, in Joys to Pow'r unknown;
Your Love my Empire, and your Heart my Throne.
(p. 34)",,21568,USE IN ENTRY,"""Here I reign / In full delights, in Joys to Pow'r unknown; / Your Love my Empire, and your Heart my Throne.""",Empire and Throne,2013-07-09 14:36:54 UTC,""
7675,"",LION,2013-09-16 04:11:37 UTC,"Then, greatly rising in his Country's Right,
Her Hero, her Deliverer sprung to Light;
A Race of hardy, northern Sons he led,
Guiltless of Courts, untainted, and unread,
Whose inborn Spirit spurn'd th' ignoble Fee,
Whose Hands scorn'd Bondage, for their Hearts were free.
Ask ye what Law their conq'ring Cause confess'd?
Great Nature's Law, the Law within the Breast,
Form'd by no Art, and to no Sect confin'd,
But stamp'd by Heav'n upon th' unletter'd Mind.
(Prologue)",,22753,"","""Ask ye what Law their conq'ring Cause confess'd? / Great Nature's Law, the Law within the Breast, / Form'd by no Art, and to no Sect confin'd, / But stamp'd by Heav'n upon th' unletter'd Mind.""",Impressions,2013-09-16 04:11:37 UTC,""
7675,"",LION,2013-09-16 04:12:48 UTC,"By Personal Freedom I mean that State resulting from Virtue; or Reason ruling in the Breast superior to Appetite and Passion; and by National Freedom I mean a Security (arising from the Nature of a well-order'd Constitution) for those Advantages and Privileges that each Man has a Right to, by contributing as a Member to the Weal of that Community.
(p. vii)
This is truly to Reign; this, only, is to Reign. How glorious, how extensive is the Prerogative of such a Monarch! He is superior to Subjects, each of whom is equal to any Monarch, who is only superior to Slaves. He is scepter'd in the Hearts of his People, from whence He directs their Hands with double Force and Energy. His Office partakes of the Divine Inclination , by being exerted to no other End, but the Happiness of a People.
(p. vii)",,22754,INTEREST. USE IN ENTRY? FETTERS or EMPIRE? ,"""By Personal Freedom I mean that State resulting from Virtue; or Reason ruling in the Breast superior to Appetite and Passion.""",Empire,2013-09-16 04:31:25 UTC,""