id,comments,provenance,dictionary,created_at,reviewed_on,work_id,theme,context,updated_at,metaphor,text
15204,"",Searching in HDIS (Poetry),"",2006-01-24 00:00:00 UTC,,5702,"","",2009-09-14 19:43:01 UTC,"""What glittering adders lurk to sting the mind!""","Thus mouru'd the youth--'till sunk in pensive grief,
He woo'd his handkerchief for soft relief;
In either pocket, either hand he threw;
When lo! from each a precious tablet flew.
Thus--his sage patron's wond'rous speech on trade!
This--his own book of sarcasms, ready made!
Tremendous book!--thou motley magazine
Of stole severities, and pilter'd spleen!
Oh! rich in ill!--within thy leaves entwin'd,
What glittering adders lurk to sting the mind!
Satire's Museum--with Sir Ashton's lore,
The Naturalist of malice, eyes thy store;
Ranging with fell Virtu his poisonous tribes
Of embryo sneers, and animalcule gibes.
Here insect puns their feeble wings expand,
To speed, in little flights, their Lord's command;
There, in their paper chrysalis, he sees,
Specks of bon mots, and eggs of repartees.
In modern spirit ancient wit he steeps;
If not its gloss, the reptile's venom keeps:
Thy quaintness, Dunning;--but without thy sense,
And just enough of Bearcroft, for offence."
15440,•INTEREST.,"Searching ""law"" and ""mind"" in HDIS (Drama)",Court,2005-04-25 00:00:00 UTC,,5790,"","Act II, scene ii",2009-09-14 19:43:39 UTC,"""But the properties of the mind elude the frail laws of hereditary descent, and own no sort of obedience to their authority""","MR. WINGROVE
How powerful is the influence of prejudice. My reason convinces me that there is no other just criterion for deciding upon the merits of men, but such as grows out of their own personal good or ill properties. If it were true, that the qualities of the parent were transmitted to the progeny, then, indeed, it might be as necessary to establish the genealogy of a man, as to ascertain the pedigree of a horse. But the properties of the mind elude the frail laws of hereditary descent, and own no sort of obedience to their authority-- How is it, then, that with this distinct light before me, I cannot help falling into my father's prejudices:--I feel them to be unjust; I know them to be absurd: and yet, unjust and absurd as they are, they influence my conduct in spite of me.-- I love my sister--I know her affections are engaged to Young Manly--I am satisfied he is worthy of her--Yet I am adverse to the match, and conspire with my father in throwing every obstacle in the way of its completion, and in favour of whom? Of Lord Dartford, a man void of feeling, sentiment, or sincerity--uniting in him every contradiction of depravity; cold, gay, ostentatious, and interested--But he is a man of birth--Despicable distinction."
15445,"",Searching in HDIS (Drama),"",2005-05-25 00:00:00 UTC,,5790,"","Act I, scene iv",2009-09-14 19:43:40 UTC,"""No, no, my heart of oak; I defy the power of gold to disorder my senses""","YOUNG MANLY.
No, no, my heart of oak; I defy the power of gold to disorder my senses--But, what do you think, my noble commander, of gaining the woman one loves. Can your old weather-beaten fancy conceive any joy equal to that?"