updated_at,id,text,theme,metaphor,work_id,reviewed_on,provenance,created_at,comments,context,dictionary
2009-09-14 19:47:06 UTC,16508,"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.","","Reason ""from her judgement-seat / Must, with a tender rigour, treat / The venial errors of the mind, / And in severity be kind""",6230,,"Searching ""judge"" and ""reason"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2004-09-01 00:00:00 UTC,"","",Court
2009-09-14 19:47:06 UTC,16511,"On errands of this grave intent,
Quæ Genus now and then was sent,
And how he did his plans arrange,
Or in what shape place the exchange:
How he contriv'd these sly affairs,
Paid soon, or lengthen'd the arrears,
Of this we know not more nor less,
For we ne'er heard his tongue confess,
And 'twould be wasting time to guess.
But, somehow, he contriv'd to please,
By grace or guile, old Master Squeeze,
And by some strange, peculiar art,
He gain'd upon the Us'rer's heart,
If an heart such a being owns,
Who chuckles when misfortune moans,
At least, when that is understood
To be a vessel fraught with good.
But to proceed, the mind's keen eye
Of Squeezing Jack, thought he could spy
In our Quæ Genus that quick sense,
Which might reward his confidence;
That wary, penetrating thought,
Which could not be too dearly bought,
And in his present, sickly trim,
Would be of golden use to him:
For he grew old and wanted aid,
In his nice calculating trade.
In short, in every point of view,
As one who certain fancies knew,
The old man felt that he would do,
And that he could his interest make
A station at the desk to take.","","""But to proceed, the mind's keen eye / Of Squeezing Jack, thought he could spy / In our Quæ Genus that quick sense, / Which might reward his confidence""",6230,,"Searching ""mind"" and ""eye"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2006-04-17 00:00:00 UTC,"","",Eye
2009-09-14 19:47:08 UTC,16517," But thee I sing, thou first great work of heav'n!
Pure emanation of th' eternal mind!
Who, ere an impulse to our orb was giv'n,
To guide th' unerring fabric wast design'd.
Thee in each age and every clime we find,
From Zembla's frost to Afric's burning zone,
With nature's laws and nature's works combin'd;
Thy pow'r in all created things is shewn,
And in the virtuous heart is fix'd thy lasting throne.
","","""[I]n the virtuous heart is fix'd [Love's] lasting throne""",6234,,"Searching ""throne"" and ""heart"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2004-08-07 00:00:00 UTC,"","",""
2009-09-14 19:47:08 UTC,16518," ""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.
","",The prize of conquered hearts may repay pain,6234,,"Searching ""conque"" and ""heart"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2005-02-09 00:00:00 UTC,"","",""
2009-09-14 19:47:09 UTC,16519," The one a strange fantastic shape appear'd,
Which from its centre inward made a bend,
The while, as if too close a touch it fear'd,
It backward strove to turn at either end,
Unheedful of what thence was seen append
In guise of cord, which playing loosely wav'd
In the cool gales that thro' heav'n's courts ascend:
On either side, and all around, engrav'd
Were mystic symbols seen of free-born hearts enslav'd.
","","""On either side, and all around, engrav'd / Were mystic symbols seen of free-born hearts enslav'd""",6234,,Searching in HDIS (Poetry),2005-03-08 00:00:00 UTC,"","",""
2009-09-14 19:47:09 UTC,16523," 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!
","","A sublime power rules the will ""And stamps His precepts on the conscious breast""",6234,,"Searching in HDIS (Poetry); Found again ""stamp"" and ""breast""",2005-03-08 00:00:00 UTC,"","",""
2013-06-11 19:15:30 UTC,16524," 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!","","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.""",6234,,"Searching ""soul"" and ""alloy"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2005-04-14 00:00:00 UTC,I've included twice: Alloy and Treasure,"",Metal
2011-08-31 20:06:17 UTC,19114,"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)","","""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.""",7076,,Reading,2011-08-31 20:06:17 UTC,"","",""
2011-08-31 20:11:56 UTC,19115,"The string you touched in your last truly kind letter has been vibrating ever since, and making music most delightful to a parent's mental ear; an organ not commonly noticed, but which is full as much in daily exercise as the mind's eye of which we speak so familiarly. As I believe my dear son's greatest pleasure from his academical success has arisen out of that which he sees his mother and I have received from it, so my greatest gratification has been from the cordial congratulations of kind firends, and not one of them I can truly say has given me as much sober certainty of waking bliss, as your letter and its enclosure.
(ii, p. 290)",Mind's Eye,"""The string you touched in your last truly kind letter has been vibrating ever since, and making music most delightful to a parent's mental ear; an organ not commonly noticed, but which is full as much in daily exercise as the mind's eye of which we speak so familiarly.""",7077,,Reading,2011-08-31 20:11:56 UTC,"","",""