work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
6196,"",Searching HDIS (Poetry),2004-06-15 00:00:00 UTC,"""No harsh, pedantic Censor I,
""To preach up gloomy Sanctity;
""Youth's lively season claims its pleasure,
""But just in mode and wise in measure,
""Whose hours, by Virtue's smiles refin'd,
""Leave no regrets or pain behind.
""Court the gay Muse to whom belong
""The chasten'd jest, the pleasing song;
""But would you nobler thoughts inspire,
""The Masters of the Grecian Lyre,
""Or Latian Bards, by Phoebus taught,
""Will please and elevate the thought.
""Nor ask their powerful aid alone;--
""Join those we proudly call our own:
""Immortal Shakespeare--Milton's rhyme,
""That soars beyond the bounds of Time;
""With Dryden, in whose verse we trace
""A blended energy and grace;
""And Pope, whose sweet harmonious lays
""The mind delights in, and obeys;
""With Gray, in Elegiac pride,
""And the free verse of Akenside.
""--These, as they charm, with taste refin'd
""Will decorate the expanding mind;
""And thus a secret grace convey
""To all you do, and all you say;
""Smooth the dull brow of wrinkling care,
""And chase the thought that may ensnare.
""--Nor these alone, th'historic page,
""Of ev'ry race, of every age,
""Displays the long and various story:
""Heroes that liv'd or died in glory,
""Patriots, who their country sav'd,
""Tyrants, who mankind enslav'd,
""Sages, whose high-gifted powers
""That knowledge taught which now is ours,
""The Pictures form of human kind,
""Of every feeling of the mind,
""As in social man we see,
""Or the wide range of Policy;--
""Hence they a sage experience give,
""E'en to the times in which we live;
""And frame a Lesson to supply
""The Ages of Posterity.
""--With these Instructors may be join'd
""To strengthen and enrich the mind,
""Science, whose powers profound impart,
""Whate'er of nature and of art
""Presents to th'intellectual eye,
""In all the vast variety:
""While Philosophic Lore combines
""The various Labour, and confines
""In their due regulated sphere
""The essential parts of Character;
""And, as the Mistress of the Soul,
""Let mild Religion crown the whole:--
""That power, which commands the thought
""To think the very thing we ought;
""And holds up to our solemn view
""What we should shun, and what pursue.
""--O let not Sloth depress to earth
""Those early blossoms in their birth,
""Which to your ripening mind is given,
""To bloom through time, then rise to heaven!
""Awake your nature and expand
""Its powers; with attentive hand
""Prune its Luxuriance; and prepare
""Each branch the expected Fruit to bear.
""But think not in your jovial hours,
""When Riot rules and Reason lours,
""That time is actively employ'd:
""'Tis then, I say, that Time's destroy'd,
""At least, e'en Truth itself may say,
""'Tis wasted, squander'd, thrown away:
""For Folly's vigour and excess
""Is nought but active Idleness.",,16379,•Included twice in Garden.,"""'--O let not Sloth depress to earth / 'Those early blossoms in their birth, / 'Which to your ripening mind is given, / 'To bloom through time, then rise to heaven!""","",2011-11-25 01:22:13 UTC,""
6196,"",Searching HDIS (Poetry),2004-06-15 00:00:00 UTC,"""No harsh, pedantic Censor I,
""To preach up gloomy Sanctity;
""Youth's lively season claims its pleasure,
""But just in mode and wise in measure,
""Whose hours, by Virtue's smiles refin'd,
""Leave no regrets or pain behind.
""Court the gay Muse to whom belong
""The chasten'd jest, the pleasing song;
""But would you nobler thoughts inspire,
""The Masters of the Grecian Lyre,
""Or Latian Bards, by Phoebus taught,
""Will please and elevate the thought.
""Nor ask their powerful aid alone;--
""Join those we proudly call our own:
""Immortal Shakespeare--Milton's rhyme,
""That soars beyond the bounds of Time;
""With Dryden, in whose verse we trace
""A blended energy and grace;
""And Pope, whose sweet harmonious lays
""The mind delights in, and obeys;
""With Gray, in Elegiac pride,
""And the free verse of Akenside.
""--These, as they charm, with taste refin'd
""Will decorate the expanding mind;
""And thus a secret grace convey
""To all you do, and all you say;
""Smooth the dull brow of wrinkling care,
""And chase the thought that may ensnare.
""--Nor these alone, th'historic page,
""Of ev'ry race, of every age,
""Displays the long and various story:
""Heroes that liv'd or died in glory,
""Patriots, who their country sav'd,
""Tyrants, who mankind enslav'd,
""Sages, whose high-gifted powers
""That knowledge taught which now is ours,
""The Pictures form of human kind,
""Of every feeling of the mind,
""As in social man we see,
""Or the wide range of Policy;--
""Hence they a sage experience give,
""E'en to the times in which we live;
""And frame a Lesson to supply
""The Ages of Posterity.
""--With these Instructors may be join'd
""To strengthen and enrich the mind,
""Science, whose powers profound impart,
""Whate'er of nature and of art
""Presents to th'intellectual eye,
""In all the vast variety:
""While Philosophic Lore combines
""The various Labour, and confines
""In their due regulated sphere
""The essential parts of Character;
""And, as the Mistress of the Soul,
""Let mild Religion crown the whole:--
""That power, which commands the thought
""To think the very thing we ought;
""And holds up to our solemn view
""What we should shun, and what pursue.
""--O let not Sloth depress to earth
""Those early blossoms in their birth,
""Which to your ripening mind is given,
""To bloom through time, then rise to heaven!
""Awake your nature and expand
""Its powers; with attentive hand
""Prune its Luxuriance; and prepare
""Each branch the expected Fruit to bear.
""But think not in your jovial hours,
""When Riot rules and Reason lours,
""That time is actively employ'd:
""'Tis then, I say, that Time's destroy'd,
""At least, e'en Truth itself may say,
""'Tis wasted, squander'd, thrown away:
""For Folly's vigour and excess
""Is nought but active Idleness.",,16380,"","With ""attentive hand"" the ""Luxuriance"" of one's nature may be pruned so that branches will bear fruit","",2009-09-14 19:46:41 UTC,""
6196,Pedagogy; Lockean Philosophy,Searching in HDIS (Poetry),2005-05-20 00:00:00 UTC,"'Twere well if sage, domestic power
Would watch the Infant's earliest hour;
And let that constant care be shown
Which Duty may be proud to own.
Chuse sense as well as healthy state
In those who on the Cradle wait;
Nor e'er allow that vulgar curse,
The babbling nonsense of a Nurse.
Oh never cease the thought to scan,
That ev'ry Boy may be a Man!
'Tis known, that oft the Goblin's tale
Does to Life's latest hour prevail;
And Doctrines, by the Nurses taught,
Are fix'd for ever in the thought:
The fair Impression then pursue,
Of what is just, and what is true;
Nor think Instruction's hourly boon,
In its due shape, can come too soon.
The seeds, in earliest Childhood sown
As buds, will in the Boy be known:
In Youth, as blossoms will appear,
And in full Manhood, fruitage bear.
The comforts of a future day
Will thus Affection's toil repay;
And the glad Parent fondly see
The Wisdom of the Nursery.",,16390,1:38:23 PM,"""The seeds, in earliest Childhood sown / As buds, will in the Boy be known: / In Youth, as blossoms will appear, / And in full Manhood, fruitage bear.""","",2009-09-14 19:46:43 UTC,""
7075,"",Searching in Google Books,2011-08-30 19:53:37 UTC,"But though these effects of human depravity are every where acknowledged and lamented, we must not expect to find them traced to their true origin.
Causa latet, vis est notissima.Prepare yourself to hear rather of frailty and infirmity, of petty transgressions, of occasional failings, of sudden surprisals, and of such other qualifying terms as may serve to keep out of view the true source of the evil, and, without shocking the understanding, may administer consolation to the pride of human nature. The bulk of professed Christians are used to speak of man as of a being, who, naturally pure, and inclined to all virtue, is sometimes, almost involuntarily, drawn out of the right course, or is overpowered by the violence of temptation. Vice with them is rather an accidental and temporary, than a constitutional and habitual distemper; a noxious plant, which, though found to live and even to thrive in the human mind, is not the natural growth and production of the soil.