work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
6285,"","Searching ""mind"" and ""impression"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2005-05-15 00:00:00 UTC,"The cousins met, what pass'd with Gwyn was told:
""Alas!"" the Doctor said, ""how hard to hold
""These easy minds, where all impressions made
""At first sink deeply, and then quickly fade;
""For while so strong these new-born fancies reign,
""We must divert them, to oppose is vain:
""You see him valiant now, he scorns to heed
""The bigot's threat'nings or the zealot's creed;
""Shook by a dream, he next for truth receives
""What frenzy teaches, and what fear believes;
""And this will place him in the power of one
""Whom we must seek, because we cannot shun.""",,16627,"","""These easy minds, where all impressions made / At first sink deeply, and then quickly fade""",Impression,2009-09-14 19:47:30 UTC,""
6286,"","Searching ""mind"" and ""impression"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2005-05-15 00:00:00 UTC,"Our Poet hurried on, with wish to fly,
From all mankind, to be conceal'd, and die.
Alas! what hopes, what high romantic views
Did that one visit to the soul infuse,
Which, cherish'd with such love, 'twas worse than death to lose!
Still he would strive, though painful was the strife,
To walk in this appointed road of life;
On these low duties duteous he would wait,
And patient bear the anguish of his fate.
Thanks to the Patron, but of coldest kind,
Express'd the sadness of the Poet's mind;
Whose heavy hours were pass'd with busy men,
In the dull practice of th' official pen;
Who to Superiors must in time impart
(The custom this) his progress in their art:
But, so had grief on his perception wrought,
That all unheeded were the duties taught;
No answers gave he when his trial came,
Silent he stood, but suffering without shame;
And they observed that words severe or kind
Made no impression on his wounded mind:
For all perceived from whence his failure rose,
Some grief whose cause he deign'd not to disclose.
A soul averse from scenes and works so new,
Fear ever shrinking from the vulgar crew;
Distaste for each mechanic law and rule,
Thoughts of past honour and a patron cool;
A grieving parent, and a feeling mind,
Timid and ardent, tender and refined:
These all with mighty force the youth assail'd,
Till his soul fainted, and his reason fail'd:
When this was known, and some debate arose,
How they who saw it should the fact disclose,
He found their purpose, and in terror fled
From unseen kindness, with mistaken dread.",,16628,"","""And they observed that words severe or kind / Made no impression on his wounded mind""",Impression,2009-09-14 19:47:30 UTC,""
6287,"","Searching ""mind"" and ""impression"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2005-05-15 00:00:00 UTC,"His books, his walks, his musing, morn and eve,
Gave such impressions as such minds receive;
And with his moral and religious views
Wove the wild fancies of an Infant-Muse,
Inspiring thoughts that he could not express,
Obscure sublime! his secret happiness.
Oft would he strive for words, and oft begin
To frame in verse the views he had within;
But ever fail'd: for how can words explain
The unform'd ideas of a teeming brain?",,16629,"","""His books, his walks, his musing, morn and eve, / Gave such impressions as such minds receive""",Impression,2009-09-14 19:47:30 UTC,Posthumous Tales
6288,"","Searching ""mind"" and ""impression"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2005-05-15 00:00:00 UTC,Survey these features--see if nothing there
May old impressions on your mind repair!
Is there not something in this shattered frame
Like to that--
,,16630,"","""Survey these features--see if nothing there / May old impressions on your mind repair!""",Impression,2009-09-14 19:47:30 UTC,Posthumous Tales
6289,"","Searching ""mind"" and ""impression"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2005-05-15 00:00:00 UTC,"The Captain's heart, although unused to melt,
A strong impression from persuasion felt;
His pride was soften'd by the prayers he heard,
And then advantage in the match appear'd.",,16631,"","""The Captain's heart, although unused to melt, / A strong impression from persuasion felt;""",Impression,2009-09-14 19:47:30 UTC,Posthumous Tales
8252,"",Reading,2018-01-23 16:29:09 UTC,"And upon this theory we perceive why the four tendencies to irrational conviction which I have set down, survive, and remain in our adult hesitating state as vestiges of our primitive all-believing state. They are all from various causes ""adhesive"" states--states which it is very difficult to get rid of, and which, in consequence, have retained their power of creating belief in the mind, when other states, which once possessed it too, have quite lost it. Clear ideas are certainly more difficult to get rid of than obscure ones. Indeed, some obscure ones we cannot recover, if we once lose them. Everybody, perhaps, has felt all manner of doubts and difficulties in mastering a mathematical problem. At the time, the difficulties seemed as real as the problem, but a day or two after a man has mastered it, he will be wholly unable to imagine or remember where the difficulties were. The demonstration will be perfectly clear to him, and he will be unable to comprehend how any one should fail to perceive it. For life he will recall the clear ideas, but the obscure ones he will never recall, though for some hours, perhaps, they were painful, confused, and oppressive obstructions. Intense ideas are, as every one will admit, recalled more easily than slight and weak ideas. Constantly impressed ideas are brought back by the world around us, and if they are so often, get so tied to our other ideas that we can hardly wrench them away. Interesting ideas stick in the mind by the associations which give them interest. All the minor laws of conviction resolve themselves into this great one: ""That at first we believe all which occurs to us--that afterwards we have a tendency to believe that which we cannot help often occurring to us, and that this tendency is stronger or weaker in some sort of proportion to our inability to prevent the recurrence"". When the inability to prevent the recurrence of the idea is very great, so that the reason is powerless on the mind, the consequent ""conviction"" is an eager, irritable, and ungovernable passion.",,25133,"","""Constantly impressed ideas are brought back by the world around us, and if they are so often, get so tied to our other ideas that we can hardly wrench them away.""","",2018-01-23 16:29:09 UTC,""
8252,"",Reading,2018-01-23 16:31:39 UTC,"1. That we should be very careful how we let ourselves believe that which may turn out to be error. Milton says that ""error is but opinion,"" meaning true opinion, ""in the making"". But when the conviction of any error is a strong passion, it leaves, like all other passions, a permanent mark on the mind. We can never be as if we had never felt it. ""Once a heretic, always a heretic,"" is thus far true, that a mind once given over to a passionate conviction is never as fit as it would otherwise have been to receive the truth on the same subject. Years after the passion may return upon him, and inevitably small recurrences of it will irritate his intelligence and disturb its calm. We cannot at once expel a familiar idea, and so long as the idea remains, its effect will remain too.",,25136,"","""But when the conviction of any error is a strong passion, it leaves, like all other passions, a permanent mark on the mind.""","",2018-01-23 16:31:39 UTC,""