text,updated_at,metaphor,created_at,context,theme,reviewed_on,dictionary,comments,provenance,id,work_id
"""I have now vexed you enough, and will try to please you. Your resolution to obey your father I sincerely approve; but do not accustom yourself to enchain your volatility by vows; they will sometime leave a thorn in your mind, which you will, perhaps, never be able to extract or eject. Take this warning; it is of great importance.
(p. 327)",2011-05-26 19:03:41 UTC,"""Your resolution to obey your father I sincerely approve; but do not accustom yourself to enchain your volatility by vows; they will sometime leave a thorn in your mind, which you will, perhaps, never be able to extract or eject.""",2005-09-19 00:00:00 UTC,"A.D. 1766, Aetat. 57","",2011-05-26,Fetters,"",Reading,15362,5767
"""These tasks befit the rugged sons of toil,""
Cries speculative Pride with scornful smile,
""While they in ignorance and darkness grope,
""And labour on, and talk of faith and hope;
""Far nobler labours aid us to extol
""The task of minds, the labour of the soul.
""To trace French novelists with steady gaze,
""Through sentiment's inexplicable maze;
""Whose evanescent meaning caught meanwhile,
""Shall add new graces to enrich our style;
""New systems of philosophy be shown,
""With happier art in language all our own;
""New modes, new governments, new laws, new light,
""Shall put all superstition's train to flight;
""And revelation's trembling, dubious ray,
""No more its faint, uncertain beams display;
""But knowledge flash with such resplendent blaze,
""That maddening crowds grow giddy while they gaze.
""Such are our triumphs, while at ease reclin'd,
""With active force the comprehensive mind
""Breaks custom's chains and prejudice's ties,
""And wide in sportive curves unbounded flies.""",2011-07-14 20:12:37 UTC,"""With active force the comprehensive mind / Breaks custom's chains and prejudice's ties, / And wide in sportive curves unbounded flies.""",2011-07-14 20:11:56 UTC,"","",,Fetters,"","Searching ""mind"" and ""chain"" in HDIS (Poetry)",18870,6085
"Now, Chiefs and Senators--ye patriot band!
Born to illume, protect, and bless the land;
While the loose furies rage in other climes,
And Nature sickens at her children's crimes;
While Gallia pours profuse the purple flood,
And stains her lilies with her Monarch's blood;
Encircle like an adamantine zone
The hallow'd altar and the honour'd throne;
And let your banners, rais'd aloft, reveal
The blended interests of the general weal:
Draw close those ties, so fine and yet so strong,
That gently lead the willing soul along,
Nor crush beneath oppression's iron rod
The kindred image of the parent God;
Nor think that rigour's galling chains can bind
The native force of the superior mind.
'Twas not from such the glowing ardour rose
That followers drew to Wallace and Montrose.
Brethren in martial toils--affection fond,
Kind twisting round each heart the lasting bond;
Like that wide chain, which, when creation rose,
Did all the mighty Maker's works inclose,
Whose closing ties celestial voices sung,
While all the answering constellations rung,
Which joins the worlds below to those above
With golden links, and angels call it--LOVE!",2011-07-14 20:20:19 UTC,"""Draw close those ties, so fine and yet so strong, / That gently lead the willing soul along, / Nor crush beneath oppression's iron rod / The kindred image of the parent God; / Nor think that rigour's galling chains can bind / The native force of the superior mind.""",2011-07-14 20:20:19 UTC,"","",,Fetters,"","Searching ""mind"" and ""chain"" in HDIS (Poetry)",18871,6085
"ELVIRA
Give it any name you please .... I saw you brought in chains before Pizarro .... I saw in you the heroism of an ancient Roman .... your chains then dropped from your wrists, and fixed my heart .... I resolved to save you .... with me to resolve, is to act .... I felt, and as I felt I acted.
(IV.iv)",2011-07-28 21:06:48 UTC,"""I saw in you the heroism of an ancient Roman .... your chains then dropped from your wrists, and fixed my heart.""",2011-07-28 21:06:48 UTC,"Act IV, scene iv","",,Fetters,"","Searching ""heart"" and ""chain"" in HDIS (Drama)",19050,7046
"""Let the fair Syrens sly deceive
""The gaudy saunt'ring throng,
""Who, scorning merit, idly grieve
""Such fairy scenes among.
""Far nobler prize my heart constrains,
""Yielding to soft controul;
""Far other beauty binds in chains
""The magnet of my soul.
",2012-01-11 20:59:50 UTC,"""Far nobler prize my heart constrains, / Yielding to soft controul; / Far other beauty binds in chains / The magnet of my soul.""",2012-01-11 20:59:32 UTC,"","",,Fetters,"","Searching ""chain"" and ""soul"" in HDIS (Poetry)",19440,7162
"He mentioned Dr. Clarke, and Bishop Bramhall on Liberty and Necessity, and bid me read South's sermons on Prayer; but avoided the question which has excruciated philosophers and divines beyond any other. I did not press it further, when I perceived that he was displeased, and shrunk from any abridgement of an attribute usually ascribed to the Divinity, however irreconcileable in its full extent with the grand system of moral government. His supposed orthodoxy here cramped the vigorous powers of his understanding. He was confined by a chain which early imagination and long habit made him think massy and strong, but which, had he ventured to try, he could at once have snapt asunder.
(I, pp. 327-8; cf. pp. 313-4 in Penguin)",2014-04-29 02:02:44 UTC,"""His supposed orthodoxy here cramped the vigorous powers of his understanding. He was confined by a chain which early imagination and long habit made him think massy and strong, but which, had he ventured to try, he could at once have snapt asunder.""",2014-04-29 02:02:44 UTC,"","",,Fetters,"",Reading,23822,5767