text,updated_at,metaphor,created_at,context,theme,reviewed_on,dictionary,comments,provenance,id,work_id
"These saving Truths import Thee most to know,
The Links that tie the Mighty to the Low;
What now, our Fellow-Subject, is your Due,
And, when our Prince, shall be a debt on You.
O! may'st Thou to the Throne such Maxims bring!
And feel the Free-man while Thou reign'st the King!
Far hence the Tribe, whose servile Arts delude,
And teach the Great to spurn the Multitude.
Are Those unworthy of the Royal Heir,
Who claim the future Monarch's duteous Care?
Still may thy Thoughts the Godlike Task pursue,
And to the Many ne'er prefer the Few!
Still mayst thou fly thy Fortune's specious Friends,
Who deal forth sov'reign Grace to private Ends;
In narrow Streams divert the copious Tide,
Exalt one Sect and damn the World beside:
While with false Lights directing partial Rule,
The Lord of Nations falls a Party's Tool.
Such there have been----and such, in Truth's Despite,
Disgrace'd the Cause of Liberty and Right;
But Thou shalt rise superior to their Arts,
And fix Thy Empire in a People's Hearts.
(pp. 3-4)",2010-06-09 16:34:34 UTC,"""But Thou shalt rise superior to their Arts, / And fix Thy Empire in a People's Hearts.""",2004-08-22 00:00:00 UTC,"","",2010-06-09,Empire,"•INTEREST. Addressed to the Prince of Wales.
•Also C-H mistake? Poem appears under Henry Carey.I deleted this other attribution.","Searching ""heart"" and ""empire"" in HDIS (Poetry); text from ECCO",8500,3246
"As the skill'd Artist, in the glowing Mold,
First pours, and then extracts the minted Gold;
Which if neglected, till the Heat o'erpass,
Would still continue an unsightly Mass.
So virtuous Education forms the Mind,
And leaves for Life the beauteous Stamp behind!
",2009-09-14 19:37:00 UTC,"As an artist pours and extracts gold from a mold, ""So virtuous Education forms the Mind, / And leaves for Life the beauteous Stamp behind!""",2005-04-06 00:00:00 UTC,"","",,Metal,•I've included twice: Stamp and Mold and Gold,Searching in HDIS (Poetry); ,12453,4721
"As when the Eagle courts the solar Ray,
The timorous Hawk at Distance eyes her Way!
So hellish Discord still withdraws her Face,
And hides her from the hateful Beams of Peace:
In vain th'infernal Hag would try her Arts,
On Minds well-principled, and generous Hearts.
Where Equity, with an impartial Hand,
Administers the Laws that bless the Land;
Where heav'nly Reason with her temperate Light,
Teaches th'unbiass'd Mind to judge aright;
There Property secure enjoys her own;
There Conscience sits untroubl'd on her Throne;
For every lawless Passion sprung of Night,
Is aw'd by Virtue,--and abhors the Light.",2009-09-14 19:37:00 UTC,"""Where heav'nly Reason with her temperate Light, / Teaches th'unbiass'd Mind to judge aright / There Property secure enjoys her own; / There Conscience sits untroubl'd on her Throne""",2006-01-25 00:00:00 UTC,"","",,"",•I've included twice: Light and Throne,Searching in HDIS (Poetry); ,12455,4721
"106 I do verily think there is not any other medicine whatsoever so effectual to restore a crazy constitution, and cheer a dreary mind, or so likely to subvert that gloomy empire of the spleen (Sect. 103) which tyrannizeth over the better sort (as they are called) of these free nations, and maketh them, in spite of their liberty and property, more wretched slaves than even the subjects of absolute power, who breathe clear air in a sunny climate: while men of low degree often enjoy a tranquility and content that no advantage of birth or fortune can equal. Such, indeed, was the case while the rich alone could afford to be debauched; but when even beggars became debauchees, the case was altered.",2010-12-30 23:37:01 UTC,"""I do verily think there is not any other medicine whatsoever so effectual to restore a crazy constitution, and cheer a dreary mind, or so likely to subvert that gloomy empire of the spleen (Sect. 103) which tyrannizeth over the better sort (as they are called) of these free nations, and maketh them, in spite of their liberty and property, more wretched slaves than even the subjects of absolute power, who breathe clear air in a sunny climate.""",2005-05-03 00:00:00 UTC,"","",,"","•INTEREST. REVISIT. This looks like a really crazy work (table of contents includes headings on tar-water, mercury, etc.)",Searching in Past Masters ,12563,4748
"308. That philosopher held that the mind of man was a tabula rasa, and that there were no innate ideas. Plato, on the contrary, held original ideas in the mind, that is, notions which never were or can be in the sense, such as being, beauty, goodness, likeness, parity. Some perhaps may think the truth to be this; that there are properly no ideas or passive objects in the mind, but that that were derived from sense: but that there are also besides these her own acts or operations: such are notions.
(p. 149)",2009-09-14 19:37:08 UTC,"""That philosopher [Aristotle] held that the mind of man was a tabula rasa, and that there were no innate ideas.""",2006-10-10 00:00:00 UTC,"",Blank Slate,,Writing,•More about innate ideas in what follows. REVISIT and read.,"Searching ""tabula rasa"" in ECCO",12570,4748
"315. The Peripateticks themselves distinguish between reminiscence and mere memory. Themistius observes that commonly the best memories go with the worst parts; but that reminiscence is most perfect in the most ingenious minds. And notwithstanding the tabula rasa (d) of Aristotle, yet some of his followers have undertaken to make him speak Plato's sense. Thus Plutarch the Peripatetic teacheth as agreeable to his master's doctrine, that learning is reminiscence, and that the [GREEK CHARACTERS] is in children. Simplicius also, in his Commentary on the third book of Aristotle [GREEK CHARACTERS], speaketh of a certain interiour reason in the soul, acting of it self, and originally full of it's own proper notions, [GREEK CHARACTERS].
(p. 153)",2009-09-14 19:37:08 UTC,"""And notwithstanding the tabula rasa of Aristotle, yet some of his followers have undertaken to make him speak Plato's sense.""",2006-10-10 00:00:00 UTC,"",Blank Slate,,Writing,•The (d) is a note cross-referencing the previous citation of Aristotle in 308.,"Searching ""tabula rasa"" in ECCO",12571,4748
"A peevish Boy shall proffer'd Fruit despise;
""Take it, dear Puppy."" No, and yet he dies
If you refuse it. Does not this discover
The froward Soul of a discarded Lover,
Thus reasoning with himself? What! when thus slighted
Shall I return, return though uninvited?
Yes, he shall sure return and lingering wait
At the proud Doors he now presumes to hate.
""Shall I not go if she submissive send,
""Or here resolve, my Injuries shall end?
""Expell'd, recall'd, shall I go back again?
""No; let her kneel; for she shall kneel in vain.""
When lo! his wily Servant well reply'd,
Think not by Rule and Reason, Sir, to guide
What ne'er by Reason or by Measure move,
For Peace and War succeed by Turns in Love,
And while tempestuous these Emotions roll,
And float with blind Disorder in the Soul,
Who strives to fix them by one certain Rule,
May by right Rule and Reason play the Fool.",2013-07-16 22:19:41 UTC,"""For Peace and War succeed by Turns in Love, / And while tempestuous these Emotions roll, / And float with blind Disorder in the Soul.""",2004-06-15 00:00:00 UTC,"Book II, Satire iii","",,"",•Cross-reference: see the translation of these lines in Duncombe's Horace.,"",12869,4814
"If we, by Chance, that Thief Petillius name,
You, as your Custom is, defend his Fame.
""Petillius is my Friend; from early Youth
""Chearful we liv'd together, and in truth
""I have been much indebted to his Power,
""And I rejoice to find his Danger o'er.
""But, in the Name of Wonder be it said,
""At that same Trial how he sav'd his Head.""--
Such Rancour this, of such a poisonous Vein,
As never, never, shall my Paper stain:
Much less infect my Heart, if I may dare
For my own Heart, in any thing, to swear.
",2009-09-14 19:37:31 UTC,"""Such Rancour this, of such a poisonous Vein, / As never, never, shall my Paper stain: / Much less infect my Heart""",2005-03-26 00:00:00 UTC,The First Book of the Satires of Horace,"",,"",•Cross-reference: see the translation of these lines in Philip Francis' Horace.,"Searching ""paper"" and ""heart"" in HDIS (Poetry)",12901,4824
"Rogues nightly rise to murder Men for Pelf,
Will you not rouse you to preserve yourself?
But though in Health you doze away your Days,
You run, when puff'd with dropsical Disease.
Unless you light your early Lamp, to find
A moral Book; unless you form your Mind
To nobler Studies, you shall forfeit Rest,
And Love or Envy shall distract your Breast.
For the hurt Eye an instant Cure you find;
Then why neglect, for Years, the sickening Mind?",2009-09-14 19:37:33 UTC,"""For the hurt Eye an instant Cure you find; Then why neglect, for Years, the sickening Mind?""",2006-01-18 00:00:00 UTC,The First Book of the Epistles of Horace,"",,Eye,"",Searching in HDIS (Poetry),12933,4846
"86. As the body is said to clothe the soul, so the nerves may be said to constitute her inner garment. And as the soul animates the whole, what nearly touches the soul relates to all. Therefore the asperity of tartarous salts, and the fiery acrimony of alcaline salts, irritating and wounding the nerves, produce nascent passions and anxieties in the soul; which both aggravate distempers, and render mens lives restless and wretched, even when they are afflicted with no apparent distemper. This is the latent spring of much woe, spleen, and tædium vitæ. Small imperceptible irritations of the minutest fibres or filaments, caused by the pungent salts of wines and sauces, do so shake and disturb the microcosms of high livers, as often to raise tempests in courts and senates. Whereas the gentle vibrations that are raised in the nerves, by a fine subtile acid, sheathed in a smooth volatile oil (a), softly stimulating and bracing the nervous vessels and fibres, promotes a due circulation and secretion of the animal juices, and creates a calm satisfied sense of health. And accordingly I have often known tar-water procure sleep and compose the spirits in cruel vigils, occasioned either by sickness or by too intense application of mind.
(§86, pp. 40-1)
",2012-01-27 18:35:48 UTC,"""As the body is said to clothe the soul, so the nerves may be said to constitute her inner garment.""",2012-01-27 18:35:48 UTC,"","",,"","pp. 40-1 in original text (in Google), Richetti cites V, 60.","Reading John Richetti, Philosophical Writing: Locke, Berkeley, Hume (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1983), 179.
",19544,4748