work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
3596,"",Reading Ron Cooleys' website. <http://www.usask.ca/english/phoenix/cavendishpoems1.htm>.,2006-12-15 00:00:00 UTC,"Thoughts as a Pen do write upon the Braine;
The Letters which wise Thoughts do write, are plaine.
Fooles Scribble, Scrabble, and make many a Blot,
Which makes them Non-sense speak, they know not what.
Or Thoughts like Pencils draw still to the Life,
And Fancies mixt, as colours give delight.
Sad melancholy Thoughts are for Shadowes plac'd,
By which the lighter Fancies are more grac'd.
As through a dark, and watry Cloud, more bright,
The Sun breakes forth with his Resplendent Light.
Or like to Night's black Mantle, where each Star
Doth clearer seem, so lighter Fancies are.
Some like to Rain-bowes various Colours shew,
So round the Braine Fantastick Fancies grow. ",2007-04-26,9317,"","""Thoughts as a Pen do write upon the Braine; / The Letters which wise Thoughts do write, are plaine.""",Writing,2012-04-26 20:40:58 UTC,I've included the entire poem
3596,"",Reading Ron Cooleys' website. <http://www.usask.ca/english/phoenix/cavendishpoems1.htm>.,2006-12-15 00:00:00 UTC,"Thoughts as a Pen do write upon the Braine;
The Letters which wise Thoughts do write, are plaine.
Fooles Scribble, Scrabble, and make many a Blot,
Which makes them Non-sense speak, they know not what.
Or Thoughts like Pencils draw still to the Life,
And Fancies mixt, as colours give delight.
Sad melancholy Thoughts are for Shadowes plac'd,
By which the lighter Fancies are more grac'd.
As through a dark, and watry Cloud, more bright,
The Sun breakes forth with his Resplendent Light.
Or like to Night's black Mantle, where each Star
Doth clearer seem, so lighter Fancies are.
Some like to Rain-bowes various Colours shew,
So round the Braine Fantastick Fancies grow. ",2007-04-26,9318,"","""Or Thoughts like Pencils draw still to the Life, / And Fancies mixt, as colours give delight.""",Writing,2012-04-26 20:42:30 UTC,I've included the entire poem
3598,"",Reading Ron Cooleys' website. <http://www.usask.ca/english/phoenix/cavendishpoems1.htm>.,2006-12-15 00:00:00 UTC,"I Language want, to dresse my Fancies in,
The Haire's uncurl'd, the Garments loose, and thin;
Had they but Silver Lace to make them gay,
Would be more courted then in poore array.
Or had they Art, might make a better show;
But they are plaine, yet cleanly doe they goe.
The world in Bravery doth take delight,
And glistering Shews doe more attract the sight;
And every one doth honour a rich Hood,
As if the outside made the inside good.
And every one doth bow, and give the place,
Not for the Mans sake, but the Silver Lace.
Let me intreat in my poore Booke's behalfe,
That all may not adore the Golden Calf.
Consider, pray, Gold hath no life therein,
And Life in Nature is the richest thing.
So Fancy is the Soul in Poetrie,
And if not good, a Poem ill must be.
Be just, let Fancy have the upper place,
And then my Verses may perchance finde grace.
If flattering Language all the Passions rule,
Then Sense, I feare, will be a meere dull Foole. ",2007-04-26,9325,Is this a real metaphor of mind? DELETE?,"""So Fancy is the Soul in Poetrie, / And if not good, a Poem ill must be.""","",2012-04-26 20:52:27 UTC,I've included the entire poem
3617,"","Reading Frederick Kiefer's Writing on the Renaissance Stage: Written Words, Printed Pages, Metaphoric Books. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1996. p. 116.",2006-10-03 00:00:00 UTC,"According to S. Bernard, ... 'we shall be judged by that which is written in our own books,' (the books of conscience), 'and therefore they ought to be written according to the copy of the book of life; and if they not be so written, yet they ought to be so corrected.",,9390,"","""According to S. Bernard, ... 'we shall be judged by that which is written in our own books,' (the books of conscience), 'and therefore they ought to be written according to the copy of the book of life; and if they not be so written, yet they ought to be so corrected.""","",2009-09-14 19:34:11 UTC,""
3617,"",Reading,2010-01-11 21:58:15 UTC,"But thus the Enemy of Mankind hath prevailed upon us, while we were earnest in disputations about things less concerning: Then he was watchful and busy to interweave evil and uncertain principles into our Moral institutions, to intangle what was plain, to divide what was simple, to make an art of what was written in the tables of our hearts with the finger of God. When a gentleman was commending Dr. Fisher Bishop of Rochester his great pains in the confutations of Luther's books, the wise Prelate said heartily, that he wished he had spent all that time in prayer and meditation which he threw away upon such useless wranglings. For that was the
wisdom of the Ancients. Antiqua Sapientia nihil aliud quam facienda & vitanda pracepit: Et tunc meliores erant viri. Postquam docti prodierunt, boni desunt. Simplex enim ilia & aperta virtus in obscuram et solertem scientiam versa est: Docenturque disputare, non vivere. Our fore-Fathers taught their children what to do and what to avoid; and then men were better. But when men did strive to become learned, they did not care so much to become good; then they were taught to dispute rather than to live. To this purpose I understand that excellent saying of Solomon, Of making many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh. Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter. Fear God and keep his Commandments; for this is the whole duty of man. Meaning, that books which serve to any other purpose, are a laborious vanity, consumptive of our time and health to no purpose but such things which teach us to fear God, and how to keep his Commandments. [...]
(pp. vii-viii)",,17637,"","""But thus the Enemy of Mankind hath prevailed upon us, while we were earnest in disputations about things less concerning: Then he was watchful and busy to interweave evil and uncertain principles into our Moral institutions, to intangle what was plain, to divide what was simple, to make an art of what was written in the tables of our hearts with the finger of God.""",Writing,2010-01-11 21:58:15 UTC,Preface
3617,"",Reading,2010-01-12 17:28:09 UTC,"6. But it is to be observed, that conscience is sometimes taken for the practical intellective faculty; so we say
the law of nature, and the fear of God, is written in the
conscience of every man.
(p. 2)",,17653,"","""But it is to be observed, that conscience is sometimes taken for the practical intellective faculty; so we say the law of nature, and the fear of God, is written in the
conscience of every man.""","",2010-01-12 17:28:09 UTC,"Book I, Chapter I"
3617,"",Reading,2010-01-12 17:35:40 UTC,"7. When God sent the Blessed Jesus into the world to perfect all righteousness, and to teach the world all his Fathers will, it was said, and done, I will give my laws in your hearts, and in your minds will I write them; that is, you shall be governed by the law of natural and essential equity and reason, by that law which is put into every mans nature ; and besides this, whatsoever else shall be superinduc'd, shall be written in your minds by the Spirit, who shall write all the laws of Christianity in the Tables of your consciences. He shall make you to understand them, to perceive their relish, to remember them because you love them, and because you need them, and cannot be happy without them: he shall call them to your mind, and inspire new arguments and inducements to their observation, and make it all as natural to us, as what we were born with.
(p.3)",,17654,"Marginal citation of Heb 10.16, Jer 31 33.","""When God sent the Blessed Jesus into the world to perfect all righteousness, and to teach the world all his Fathers will, it was said, and done, 'I will give my laws in your hearts, and in your minds will I write them;' that is, you shall be governed by the law of natural and essential equity and reason, by that law which is put into every mans nature ; and besides this, whatsoever else shall be superinduc'd, shall be written in your minds by the Spirit, who shall write all the laws of Christianity in the Tables of your consciences.""","",2010-01-12 17:36:47 UTC,"Book I, Chapter I"
3617,"",Reading,2010-01-12 18:19:10 UTC,"9. Thus, conscience is the Mind, and God writing his laws in our minds, is, informing our conscience, and furnishing it with laws, and rules, and measures, and it is called by S. Paul, [GREEK], the law of the mind; and though it is once made a distinct thing from the mind (as in those words, Their minds and consciences are defiled) yet it happens in this word as in divers others, that it is sometimes taken largely, sometimes specifically and more determinately: the mind is all the whole understanding part, it is the memory; so Peter called to mind the word that Jesus spake,that is, he remembered it. It is, the signification or meaning, the purpose or resolution. No man knoweth the mind of the spirit, but the spirit. It is the discursive or reasoning part; Mary cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be. It is the assenting and determining part; let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind: and it is also taken for Conscience, or that Treasure of rules which
are in order to practice. And therefore, when S. Paul intended to express the anger of God punishing evil men with evil consciences and false perswasions, in order to criminal actions, and evil worshippings, he said, God gave them over, [GREEK], to a reprobate mind, that is, to a conscience evil perswaded, furnished with false practical principles; but the return to holiness, and the improvement of a holy conscience, is called, a being renewed in the spirit of our mind, [GREEK], the renovation of the mind.
(p. 4)",,17659,"","""Thus, conscience is the Mind, and God writing his laws in our minds, is, informing our conscience, and furnishing it with laws, and rules, and measures, and it is called by S. Paul, [GREEK], the law of the mind.""","",2010-01-12 18:20:02 UTC,"Book I, Chapter I"
3617,"",Reading,2010-01-12 18:22:33 UTC,"9. Thus, conscience is the Mind, and God writing his laws in our minds, is, informing our conscience, and furnishing it with laws, and rules, and measures, and it is called by S. Paul, [GREEK], the law of the mind; and though it is once made a distinct thing from the mind (as in those words, Their minds and consciences are defiled) yet it happens in this word as in divers others, that it is sometimes taken largely, sometimes specifically and more determinately: the mind is all the whole understanding part, it is the memory; so Peter called to mind the word that Jesus spake,that is, he remembered it. It is, the signification or meaning, the purpose or resolution. No man knoweth the mind of the spirit, but the spirit. It is the discursive or reasoning part; Mary cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be. It is the assenting and determining part; let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind: and it is also taken for Conscience, or that Treasure of rules which
are in order to practice. And therefore, when S. Paul intended to express the anger of God punishing evil men with evil consciences and false perswasions, in order to criminal actions, and evil worshippings, he said, God gave them over, [GREEK], to a reprobate mind, that is, to a conscience evil perswaded, furnished with false practical principles; but the return to holiness, and the improvement of a holy conscience, is called, a being renewed in the spirit of our mind, [GREEK], the renovation of the mind.
(p. 4)",,17660,"","""It is the assenting and determining part; let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind: and it is also taken for Conscience, or that Treasure of rules which are in order to practice.""",Writing,2013-06-11 19:17:35 UTC,"Book I, Chapter I"
3617,"",Reading,2010-01-12 18:51:14 UTC,"12. Conscience relies not at all upon the will directly. For though a Conscience is good or bad, pure or impure; and so the Doctors of Mystic Theologie divide and handle it, yet a conscience is not made so by the will, formally, but by the understanding. For that is a good conscience, which is rightly taught in the word of life ; that is impure and defiled, which hath entertained evil and ungodly principles; such is theirs, who follow false lights, evil teachers, men of corrupt minds. For the conscience is a Judge and a Guide, a Monitor and a Witness, which are the offices of the knowing, not of the chusing faculty. Spiritum, correctorem, & paedagogum anima, so Origen calls it. The instructor of the Soul, the spirit, the corrector. Naturale judicatorium,
or naturalis vis judicandi, so S. Basil. The natural
power of judging, or natures judgment-seat. Lucem
intellectus nostri, so Damascen calls it, The light of our
understanding. The conscience does accuse or excuse a man before God, which the will cannot. If it could, we should all stand upright at doomesday, or at least those would be acquitted, who fain would do well, but miss, who
do the things they love not, and love those they do not; that is, they who strive to enter in, but shall not be able. But to accuse or excuse is the office of a faculty which can neither will nor chuse, that is, of the conscience, which is properly a record, a book, and a judgment-seat.
(p. 4)",,17665,"","""But to accuse or excuse is the office of a faculty which can neither will nor chuse, that is, of the conscience, which is properly a record, a book, and a judgment-seat.""","",2010-01-12 18:51:14 UTC,"Book I, Chapter I"