work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
5593,Ruling Passion,"Searching HDIS for ""ruling passion""",2004-05-28 00:00:00 UTC,"LAURA
Because I have luckily got the start of you; in a few weeks I should have been the accuser, and you the false and fickle.
DON CARLOS
And to secure yourself from that disgrace, you prudently looked out in time for another lover.
LAURA
I can pardon your sneer, because you are mortified.
DON CARLOS
Mortified!
LAURA
Yes, mortified to the soul. Carlos! I know your sex: the vainest female, in the hour of her exultation and power, is still out-done by man in vanity.--'Tis more your ruling passion , than 'tis ours; and 'tis wounded vanity that makes you thus tremble with rage at being deserted.",,14955,"",Vanity is more a man's ruling passion than a woman's,"",2009-09-14 19:42:23 UTC,"Act II, Scene i"
7590,"",Searching in ECCO-TCP,2013-08-16 04:20:57 UTC,"DARIUS.
Pharnaces, speak!
I know thou lov'st me; I but meant to chide
Thy flatt'ry, not reprove thee for thy zeal.
Speak boldly, friends, as man shou'd speak to man.
Perish the barb'rous maxims of the East,
Which basely wou'd enslave the free-born mind,
And plunder it of the best gift of Heav'n,
Its liberty!
(pp. 212-3)",,22181,"","""Perish the barb'rous maxims of the East, / Which basely wou'd enslave the free-born mind, / And plunder it of the best gift of Heav'n, / Its liberty!""",Fetters,2013-08-16 04:20:57 UTC,""
7619,"",LION,2013-08-17 21:29:01 UTC,"DON ALONZO
Oh, what a Pain to think! when every Thought,
Perplexing Thought in Intricacies runs,
And Reason knits th'inextricable Toil
In which her self is taken. I am lost,
Poor Insect that I am, I am involv'd,
And bury'd in the Web my self have wrought.
One Argument is ballanc'd by another,
And Reason Reason meets in doubtful Fight,
And Proofs are countermin'd by equal Proofs.
No more I'll bear this Battel of the Mind,
This inward Anarchy; but find my Wife,
And to her trembling Heart presenting Death,
Force all the Secret from her.
(IV.i, p. 36)",,22304,"","""One Argument is ballanc'd by another, / And Reason Reason meets in doubtful Fight, / And Proofs are countermin'd by equal Proofs. / No more I'll bear this Battel of the Mind, / This inward Anarchy.""","",2013-08-17 21:29:01 UTC,Act IV