id,comments,provenance,dictionary,created_at,reviewed_on,work_id,theme,context,updated_at,metaphor,text
8649,"","Searching ""soul"" and ""cell"" in HDIS (Poetry)",Rooms,2005-08-17 00:00:00 UTC,,3373,"",II. Poems written in 1769,2009-09-14 19:33:41 UTC,"""In thee each virtue found a pleasing cell, / Thy mind was honour, and thy soul divine""","In thee each virtue found a pleasing cell,
Thy mind was honour, and thy soul divine;
With thee did every god of genius dwell,
Thou wast the Helicon of all the Nine."
16579,"•I've included twice: Prison and Eagle
•I've deleted the duplicate entry (#16580). — 2013-06-04","Searching ""mind"" at Electronic Text Center at UVA Library",Animals and Rooms,2005-08-11 00:00:00 UTC,2013-06-04,6270,"",Essay I. Of Body and Mind. The Prologue.,2013-06-04 15:19:02 UTC,"""We spurn at the bounds of time and space; nor would the thought be less futile that imagines to imprison the mind within the limits of the body, than the attempt of the booby clown who is said within a thick hedge to have plotted to shut in the flight of an eagle""","Man is a godlike being. We launch ourselves in conceit into illimitable space, and take up our rest beyond the fixed stars. We proceed without impediment from country to country, and from century to century, through all the ages of the past, and through the vast creation of the imaginable future. We spurn at the bounds of time and space; nor would the thought be less futile that imagines to imprison the mind within the limits of the body, than the attempt of the booby clown who is said within a thick hedge to have plotted to shut in the flight of an eagle.
(p. 9)"
16581,"","Searching ""mind"" at Electronic Text Center at UVA Library","",2005-08-11 00:00:00 UTC,,6270,"",Essay I. Of Body and Mind. The Prologue.,2009-09-14 19:47:20 UTC,"""The body is apprehended as no more important and of intimate connection to a man engaged in a train of reflections, than the house or apartment in which he dwells""","We never find our attention called to any particular part or member of the body, except when there is somewhat amiss in that part or member. And, in like manner as we do not think of any one part or member in particular, so neither do we consider our entire microcosm and frame. The body is apprehended as no more important and of intimate connection to a man engaged in a train of reflections, than the house or apartment in which he [page 10] dwells. The mind may aptly be described under the denomination of the ""stranger at home."" On set occasions and at appropriate times we examine our stores, and ascertain the various commodities we have, laid up in our presses and our coffers. Like the governor of a fort in time of peace, which was erected to keep out a foreign assailant, we occasionally visit our armoury, and take account of the muskets, the swords, and other implements of war it contains, but for the most part are engaged in the occupations of peace, and do not call the means of warfare in any sort to our recollection.
(pp. 9-10)"
16583,•I've included twice: Governor and Fort,"Searching ""mind"" at Electronic Text Center at UVA Library",Inhabitants,2005-08-11 00:00:00 UTC,,6270,"",Essay I. Of Body and Mind. The Prologue.,2009-09-14 19:47:21 UTC,"""On set occasions and at appropriate times we examine our stores, and ascertain the various commodities we have, laid up in our presses and our coffers. Like the governor of a fort in time of peace, which was erected to keep out a foreign assailant, we occasionally visit our armoury, and take account of the muskets, the swords, and other implements of war it contains, but for the most part are engaged in the occupations of peace, and do not call the means of warfare in any sort to our recollection""","We never find our attention called to any particular part or member of the body, except when there is somewhat amiss in that part or member. And, in like manner as we do not think of any one part or member in particular, so neither do we consider our entire microcosm and frame. The body is apprehended as no more important and of intimate connection to a man engaged in a train of reflections, than the house or apartment in which he [page 10] dwells. The mind may aptly be described under the denomination of the ""stranger at home."" On set occasions and at appropriate times we examine our stores, and ascertain the various commodities we have, laid up in our presses and our coffers. Like the governor of a fort in time of peace, which was erected to keep out a foreign assailant, we occasionally visit our armoury, and take account of the muskets, the swords, and other implements of war it contains, but for the most part are engaged in the occupations of peace, and do not call the means of warfare in any sort to our recollection.
(pp. 9-10)"
16587,"","Searching ""mind"" at Electronic Text Center at UVA Library","",2005-08-11 00:00:00 UTC,,6270,"",Essay I. Of Body and Mind. The Prologue.,2009-09-14 19:47:21 UTC,"""Hence arises the notion, which has been entertained ever since the birth of reflection and logical discourse in the world, and which in some faint and confused degree exists probably even among savages, that the body is the prison of the mind""","Hence arises the notion, which has been entertained ever since the birth of reflection and logical discourse in the world, and which in some faint and confused degree exists probably even among savages, that the body is the prison of the mind. It is in this sense that Waller, after completing fourscore years of age, expresses himself in these affecting and interesting couplets.
When we for age could neither read nor write,
The subject made us able to indite.
The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed,
Lets in new light by chinks that time hath made:
Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become,
As they draw near to their eternal home.
Thus it is common with persons of elevated soul to talk of neglecting, overlooking, and taking small account of the body. It is in this spirit that the story is recorded of Anaxarchus, who, we are told, was ordered by Nicocreon, tyrant of Salamis, to be pounded in a mortar, and who, in contempt of his mortal sufferings, exclaimed, ""Beat on, tyrant! thou dost but strike upon the case of Anaxarchus; thou canst not touch the man himself."" And it is in something of the same light that we must regard what is related of the North American savages. Beings, who scoff at their tortures, must have an idea of something that lies beyond the reach of their assailants.
(p. 11)"
16607,•Haven't searched past here (Essay 6 and following remain).,"Searching ""mind"" at Electronic Text Center at UVA Library","",2005-08-11 00:00:00 UTC,,6270,"",Essay V. Of the Rebelliousness of Man,2009-09-14 19:47:25 UTC,"""The human mind is a creature of celestial origin, shut up and confined in a wall of flesh""","Man is in truth a miracle. The human mind is a creature of celestial origin, shut up and confined in a wall of flesh. We feel a kind of proud impatience of the degradation to which we are condemned. We beat ourselves to pieces against the wires of our cage, and long to escape, to shoot through the elements, and be as free to change at [page 100] any instant the place where we dwell, as to change the subject to which our thoughts are applied.
(pp. 99-100)"