work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
6177,"","Searching ""conque"" and ""heart"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2005-02-09 00:00:00 UTC,"""But wherefore thus each gracious phrase repeat,
""Which made her conquest of my heart complete?
""From that blest moment I her slave became,
""And nourish'd in my breast a sacred flame;
""I liv'd but in her presence; ev'ry thought
""From her its hue by inspiration caught:
""Whate'er of virtue lurk'd within my mind
""Became from her example more refin'd,
""Whate'er of ill had there admission gain'd
""Her purity or banish'd or restrain'd;
""From her my ev'ry thought and action sprung,
""Her eyes my guide, my oracle her tongue;
""The silent vassal of her charms I bow'd,
""Exulting in my fate, and of her fetters proud.
""Judge then, oh king! if my subjected heart
""Could 'gainst her sister act a traitor's part,
""If he, who liv'd but in Zapheria's sight,
""Could so ungratefully her smiles requite.
""No--When appearance most my treason prov'd,
""Then most Zapheria and thyself I lov'd,
""And when opposing thee my sword I drew,
""Then to thy service was my soul most true.",,16353,"",A woman's conquest of a man's heart may be complete,"",2009-09-14 19:46:37 UTC,""
6196,"","Searching ""conque"" and ""heart"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2005-02-09 00:00:00 UTC,"Near sixty years were gone and o'er,
Since, she an Orphan girl and poor,
First pass'd the stately Mansion's door.
In ev'ry duty little Sue
Did all that she was bid to do.
In Kitchen, Laundry, Dairy she
Wore the blithe form of Industry:
Did through her daily work rejoice,
And chirrup with a chearful voice:
She too could spin, and knit, and sew,
And Village Scholarship she knew.
--The Pet of Kitchen, Parlour, Hall,
Thus little Sue was loved by all;
And many a chuck, beneath the chin,
Did the young Maid's affections win:
For she possess'd, devoid of art,
The feelings of a grateful heart.
--Of all the birds she was the guard,
And govern'd the whole poultry yard:
But she would sigh, when call'd, 'tis said,
To pick the chickens she had fed:
For many a tale or false or true,
Brought up a laugh 'gainst little Sue,
--When her young Misses sought the plain
To form a sprightly, sportive train,
She was call'd forth to join the play,
And cheer it with a rustic lay.
--She had a weighty charge, I ween,
To keep my Lady's lap-dog clean;
For none but her dare comb a lock,
Or wash the silky coat of Shock.
--When sorrow, or disease, or pain
Did 'mong the neighb'ring poor complain,
The little Almoner was seen
Tripping, in haste, across the Green;
To learn what might the history be
That ask'd her Lady's charity;
Whose feeling heart ne'er fail'd to grant
What ev'ry kind of woe might want;
And all agreed that little Sue
Wish'd to have nothing else to do.
My Lady's pitying Angel she
Was nam'd by all the peasantry;
For she had been, at Sorrow's call,
A welcome Messenger to all.
--At length a comely woman grown
She was as Mrs. Susan known,
And now became th'attendant maid
Of those with whom she oft had play'd.
Still treated as an humble friend,
She did the Toilette's cares attend.
Susan, in all she had to do,
Was pleasing as in Little Sue.
--She now learn'd those mysterious arts
Which Fashion plies to conquer hearts:
She could arrange, in contrast due,
Each varying colour to the view;
And had attain'd the skill to place
The Ribbon, with superior grace,
To deck the Hat--t'adorn the Bonnet,
And fix the waving Plume upon it:
The Flounce's flow, its depth, its border,
And all the artful, gay disorder
Which studious Milliners possess,
To scatter Taste o'er female dress.",,16384,"","""She now learn'd those mysterious arts / Which Fashion plies to conquer hearts""","",2009-09-14 19:46:42 UTC,""
6234,"","Searching ""conque"" and ""heart"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2005-02-09 00:00:00 UTC," ""For this with care preserve the Hearts thy prize,
""Whose conquest well has now repaid thy pain;
""With them triumphantly to heav'n arise:
""There to remoter times shall they remain;
""Till, when at length thy rival shall attain
""Dominion wide, and vice shall dauntless rove,
""For virtue's aid to Britain sent again,
""On her high throne examples shall they prove
""Of pure unblemish'd faith, of constancy and love.
",,16518,"",The prize of conquered hearts may repay pain,"",2009-09-14 19:47:08 UTC,""
7075,"","Searching ""mind"" in Google Books",2011-08-30 20:14:19 UTC,"They travel, perhaps, into foreign countries; a proceeding which naturally tends to weaken their nursery prejudice in favour of the Religion in which they were bred, and by removing them from all means of public worship, to relax their practical habits of Religion. They return home, and commonly are either hurried round in the vortex of dissipation, or engage with the ardour of youthful minds in some public or professional pursuit. If they read or hear any thing about Christianity, it is commonly only about those tenets which are subjects of controversy: and what reaches their ears of the Bible, from their occasional attendance at church; though it may sometimes impress them with an idea of the purity of Christian morality, contains much which, coming thus detached, perplexes and offends them, and suggests various doubts and startling objections, which a farther acquaintance with the Scripture would remove. Thus growing more and more to know Christianity only by the difficulties it contains; sometimes tempted by the ambition of shewing themselves superior to vulgar prejudice, and always prompted by the natural pride of the human heart to cast off their subjection to dogmas imposed on them; disgusted, perhaps, by the immoral lives of some professed Christians, by the weaknesses and absurdities of others, and by what they observe to be the implicit belief of numbers, whom they see and know to be equally ignorant with themselves, many doubts and suspicions of greater or less extent spring up within them. These doubts enter into the mind at first almost imperceptibly: they exist only as vague indistinct surmises, and by no means take the precise shape or the substance of a formed opinion. At first, probably, they even offend and startle by their intrusion: but by degrees the unpleasant sensations which they once excited wear off: the mind grows more familiar with them. A confused sense (for such it is, rather than a formed idea) of its being desirable that their doubts should prove well founded, and of the comfort and enlargement which would be afforded by that proof, lends them much secret aid. The impression becomes deeper; not in consequence of being reinforced by fresh arguments, but merely by dint of having longer rested in the mind; and as they increase in force, they creep on and extend themselves. At length they diffuse themselves over the whole of Religion, and possess the mind in undisturbed occupancy.
(pp. 480-2)",,19113,An interesting description of invasion. USE in EMPIRE or INHABITANTS?,"""The impression becomes deeper; not in consequence of being reinforced by fresh arguments, but merely by dint of having longer rested in the mind; and as they [doubts] increase in force, they creep on and extend themselves. At length they diffuse themselves over the whole of Religion, and possess the mind in undisturbed occupancy.""",Empire and Inhabitants,2011-08-30 20:14:19 UTC,Chapter VII