work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
6177,"","Searching ""heart"" and ""stamp"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2005-04-07 00:00:00 UTC,"""As thus I spoke, encrimson'd blushes dy'd
""Her cheek, her bosom--Fault'ring she replied,
""'Rise, royal Sir--nay, spare me, I implore--
""'I cannot answer--may not hear thee more--
""'Some other time perhaps'--'Oh! why not now,'
""I cried, 'thy Orosmanes' suit allow?
""'Since of thy charms the vassal I became,
""'Pure was my love, and holy was my flame,
""'Pure as thy peerless self! My realm I left,
""'Thy humblest slave I grew, of all bereft,
""'Save only of my honour and my truth;
""'Doom'd in obscurity to pass my youth,
""'Studious 'bove all that secret to conceal,
""'Which jealous honour made me now reveal.
""'This was love's doing: from my constant heart
""'The image stampt by him can ne'er depart.",,16357,"","""This was love's doing: from my constant heart / The image stampt by him can ne'er depart""","",2009-09-14 19:46:38 UTC,""
6196,"","",2004-07-09 00:00:00 UTC,"But her example shall survive
While Granny Woodbine's doom'd to live;
Yes, her example shall inspire
My teaching of the Little 'Squire;
And, 'spite of all his humour'd tricks,
I trust, in Heaven, that I shall fix
In his young mind th'unerring rules,
Not always taught in higher schools,
That certain sense of right and wrong,
Which kneaded in a mind so young,
With all the Hopes Religion gives,
And Fears which thence the heart receives:
Hopes that enchant the early view,
But while they please, exalt it too;
And Fears call'd forth, whene'er we err,
Not to affright but to deter,--
Such hopes, such fears when once combin'd
With the first feelings of the mind;
Though by the gales of passion tost,
Though, for a time, o'erwhelm'd and lost;
Or laid asleep amid the strife,
And opiate Joys of sensual Life;
When Reason doth regain its throne,
And the mind dares its follies own;
Or when Misfortune's wak'ning power
Compels the sad, reflective hour,
Unless, by desp'rate vices chang'd,
The mind from Virtue's quite estrang'd,
Again returns the Love of Truth
Which gave a grace to early Youth;
Again is cherish'd every thought
Which the first fond Instructress taught.
",,16382,"","A certain sense of right and wrong may be ""kneaded in a mind so young""","",2009-09-14 19:46:42 UTC,""
6230,"","Searching ""judge"" and ""reason"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2004-09-01 00:00:00 UTC,"Whene'er enquiry makes a stir
To trace the human character,
The strict and scrutinising eye
Must look for human frailty,
And will perceive as on we range,
Our dispositions prone to change,
Nor like the features of the face,
Fix'd on their first-born, native place.
So many tempting Syrens play
Their games to lead the heart astray,
So many gay temptations smile
The wav'ring prudence to beguile;
So many worldly interests wake
The pliant feelings to forsake
And wander from the beaten road
In which they hitherto have trod;
That reason from her judgement-seat
Must, with a tender rigour, treat
The venial errors of the mind,
And in severity be kind.
--Our Hero an example shews
To ask the candour we propose,
For he, we are compell'd to own,
Had given his thoughts a different tone.
As we have said, it was his plan
To be a future Gentleman,
And that he only could attain
By seizing all the means to gain
An added heap to that same store
Which luck'ly he possess'd before.
He, therefore, now had laid aside
Those scruples which his boasted pride
Maintain'd against the retail sense
Of the shrewd Grocer's eloquence,
While, with Sir Jeffery Gourmand, he
Preserv'd such pure fidelity.
--And here it should not be forgot
That it was Molly's happy lot,
By some keen plan which he had laid,
To be the Lady's fav'rite maid:
For Molly he sincerely lov'd,
And was with gen'rous passion mov'd;
Nay, when his project he should carry,
He had engag'd the maid to marry:
Thus she was well prepar'd to join
In forwarding the main design;
Which as it may, perhaps, appear
From the surmises hinted here,
Was never, never to refuse
What custom offer'd as their dues,
And all the op'ning hand of chance
Might gather from extravagance.
How far this system may succeed
Will soon be seen by those who read.",,16508,"","Reason ""from her judgement-seat / Must, with a tender rigour, treat / The venial errors of the mind, / And in severity be kind""",Court,2009-09-14 19:47:06 UTC,""
6234,"","Searching in HDIS (Poetry); Found again ""stamp"" and ""breast""",2005-03-08 00:00:00 UTC," Ah! how sublime the Pow'r that rules the will
In strong obedience to His high behest,
Who makes wild passion his behest fulfil,
And stamps His precepts on the conscious breast,
Who leads the eagle to his craggy nest,
And guides the sea-fowl thro' it's trackless flight
Secure in tempests and 'midst horrors blest;
By whom instructed prowls the bird of night,
And taught by whom the lark salutes returning light!
",,16523,"","A sublime power rules the will ""And stamps His precepts on the conscious breast""","",2009-09-14 19:47:09 UTC,""
6234,"","Searching ""soul"" and ""alloy"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2005-04-14 00:00:00 UTC," Of Love I sing--not of that treach'rous Boy
To whom the impure Venus erst gave birth,
Whose venom'd shafts empoison mortal joy,
Confounding honour, virtue, rank, and worth;
Whose midnight orgies stamp on lawless mirth
The forged image of celestial pleasure,
Drawing from heav'n the soul of man to earth,
With foul alloy debasing purest treasure--
That Boy, and that Boy's deeds shall not pollute my measure!",,16524,I've included twice: Alloy and Treasure,"The ""venom'd shafts"" of Cupid ""empoison mortal joy,"" ""Drawing from heav'n the soul of man to earth, / With foul alloy debasing purest treasure.""",Metal,2013-06-11 19:15:30 UTC,""
7076,"",Reading,2011-08-31 20:06:17 UTC,"If you lament your decayed faculties, and your present drowsihood, (as Thomson terms it,) how much more cause have I for such lamentations! I say it sincerely and seriously. Yet still what I can do I ought to do. But the complaint in my eyes is a sad hinderance to me in recovering lost ideas and facts. Now in filling my mind with them, and in warming and animating me, you would, I doubt not, do me great good. And I am one of those substances, like sealing wax and other electric bodies, which require to be warmed in order to possess the faculty of attracting objects, of covering and clothing itself with them. I cannot sparkle at all without being rubbed, and this would be effected by your conversation and speechifying. Yet I can perhaps revive the old impressions by meditation and looking at papers. Formerly I had several friends who assisted me to look out for intelligence, Burgh, Dickson, and others. Pitt used to call them my ""white negroes.""
(ii, p. 279)",,19114,"","""Now in filling my mind with them [ideas and facts], and in warming and animating me, you would, I doubt not, do me great good. And I am one of those substances, like sealing wax and other electric bodies, which require to be warmed in order to possess the faculty of attracting objects, of covering and clothing itself with them.""","",2011-08-31 20:06:17 UTC,""