work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
3700,"",Reading,2003-07-23 00:00:00 UTC,"MRS. LOVEIT
Horror and distraction seize you! Sorrow and remorse gnaw your soul and punish all your perjuries to me!
Weeps
DORIMANT [turning to Bellinda]
""So thunder breaks the cloud in twain.
And makes a passage for the rain.""
(Act II, scene ii, p. 100)",,9584,"•Dorimant quotes Sidney's ""An Elegy ... for his Astrophel""","""Sorrow and remorse gnaw [the] soul""","",2009-09-14 19:34:20 UTC,Mrs. Loveit is jealous of Dorimant's new masked lady and curses Dorimant
3720,"",Searching the internet for cross reference in Pamela. ,2005-09-03 00:00:00 UTC,"DOLA.
Men are but children of a larger growth;
Our appetites as apt to change as theirs,
And full as craving too, and full as vain;
And yet the soul, shut up in her dark room,
Viewing so clear abroad, at home sees nothing:
But, like a mole in earth, busy and blind,
Works all her folly up, and casts it outward
To the world's open view: Thus I discovered,
And blamed the love of ruined Antony:
Yet wish that I were he, to be so ruined.
(ll. 43-52)",,9614,•Cross-reference: These lines also appear in Richardson's Pamela.,"""But, like a mole in earth, busy and blind, / [the soul] Works all her folly up, and casts it outward / To the world's open view""","",2009-09-14 19:34:21 UTC,"Act IV, scene i"
3920,"",Reading,2004-03-24 00:00:00 UTC,"WORTHY
Endeavours we may use, but flesh and blood are got in t'other scale; and they are ponderous things.
AMANDA
Whate'er they are, there is a weight in resolution sufficient for their balance. The soul, I do confess, is usually so careless of its charge, so soft, and so indulgent to desire, it leaves the reins in the wild hand of nature, who like a Phaeton, drives the fiery chariot, and sets the world on flame. Yet still the sovereignty is in the mind, whene'er it pleases to exert its force. Perhaps you may not think it worth your while to take such mighty pains for my esteem; but that I leave to you.
You see the price I set upon my heart;
Perhaps 'tis dear: but spite of all your art
You'll find on cheaper terms we n'er shall part.",,10174,"•I've included thrice: Reins, Phaeton, Chariot","The soul may leave ""the reins in the wild hand of nature, who like a Phaeton, drives the fiery chariot, and sets the world on flame""","",2009-09-14 19:34:46 UTC,Amanda struggles and refuses Worthy's advances. He soliloquizes and closes out scene.
3626,"","Reading Martin Kallich, ""The Association of Ideas and Critical Theory: Hobbes, Locke, and Addison"" ELH 12:4 (1945): 295n.",2012-01-28 20:25:39 UTC,"The advantages which rhyme has over blank verse, are so many, that it were lost time to name them. Sir Philip Sydney, in his Defence of Poesy, gives us one, which, in my opinion, is not the least considerable; I mean the help it brings to memory: which rhyme so knits up by the affinity of sounds, that by remembering the last word in one line, we often call to mind both the verses. Then in the quickness of repartees, which in discoursive scenes fall very often, it has so particular a grace, and is so aptly suited to them, that the sudden smartness of the answer, and the sweetness of the rhyme, set off the beauty of each other. But that benefit which I consider most in it, because I have not seldom found it, is, that it bounds and circumscribes the fancy: for imagination in a poet is a faculty so wild and lawless, that, like an high-ranging spaniel, it must have clogs tied to it, lest it outrun the judgment. The great easiness of blank verse renders the poet too luxuriant; he is tempted to say many things which might better be omitted, or at least shut up in fewer words: but when the difficulty of artful rhyming is interposed, where the poet commonly confines his sense to his couplet, and must contrive that sense into such words, that the rhyme, shall naturally follow them, not they the rhyme; the fancy then gives leisure to the judgment to come in; which seeing so heavy a tax imposed, is ready to cut off all unnecessary expences. This last consideration has already answered an objection which some have made; that rhyme is only an embroidery of sense, to make that which is ordinary in itself, pass for excellent with less examination. But certainly, that which most regulates the fancy, and gives the judgment its busiest employment, is like to bring forth the richest and clearest thoughts. The poet examines that most which he produceth with the greatest leisure, and which, he knows, must pass the severest test of the audience, because they are aptest to have it ever in their memory; as the stomach makes the best concoction, when it strictly embraces the nourishment, and takes account of every little particle as it passes through. But as the best medicines may lose their virtue by being ill applied, so is it with verse, if a fit subject be not chosen for it. Neither must the argument alone, but the characters and persons, be great and noble; otherwise (as Scaliger says of Claudian) the poet will be ignobiliore materia depressus. The scenes, which, in my opinion, most commend it, are those of argumentation and discourse, on the result of which the doing or not doing some considerable action should depend.",,19547,"","""But that benefit which I consider most in it [rhyme], because I have not seldom found it, is, that it bounds and circumscribes the fancy: for imagination in a poet is a faculty so wild and lawless, that, like an high-ranging spaniel, it must have clogs tied to it, lest it outrun the judgment.""",Fetters,2012-01-28 20:29:25 UTC,""
7270,"",Searching in HDIS (Drama),2012-06-29 16:44:28 UTC,"JACINTHA.
What have you laid an ambush for me?
WILDBLOOD.
Only to make a Reprisal of my heart.
JACINTHA.
'Tis so wild, that the Lady who has it in her keeping, would be glad she were well rid on't: it does so flutter about the Cage. 'Tis a meer Bajazet; and if it be not let out the sooner, will beat out the brains against the Grates.
WILDBLOOD.
I am afraid the Lady has not fed it, and 'tis wild for hunger.
JACINTHA.
Or perhaps it wants company; shall she put another to it?
WILDBLOOD.
I; but then 'twere best to trust 'em out of the Cage together; let 'em hop about at libertie.
JACINTHA.
But if they should lose one another in the wide world.
WILDBLOOD.
They'll meet at night I warrant 'em.
JACINTHA.
But is not your heart of the nature of those Birds that breed in one Countrie, and goe to winter in another?
WILDBLOOD.
Suppose it does so; yet I take my Mate along with me. And now to leave our parables, and speak in the language of the vulgar, what think you of a voyage to merry England?
JACINTHA.
Just as Æsop's Frog did, of leaping into a deep Well in a drought: if he ventur'd the leap, there might be water; but if there were no water, how should he get out again?
(II)",,19817,"","""'Tis so wild [Wildblood's heart], that the Lady who has it in her keeping, would be glad she were well rid on't: it does so flutter about the Cage. 'Tis a meer Bajazet; and if it be not let out the sooner, will beat out the brains against the Grates.""",Beasts,2012-06-29 16:45:15 UTC,Act II
7270,"","Searching ""heart"" and ""bird"" in HDIS (Drama)",2012-06-29 16:46:16 UTC,"JACINTHA.
What have you laid an ambush for me?
WILDBLOOD.
Only to make a Reprisal of my heart.
JACINTHA.
'Tis so wild, that the Lady who has it in her keeping, would be glad she were well rid on't: it does so flutter about the Cage. 'Tis a meer Bajazet; and if it be not let out the sooner, will beat out the brains against the Grates.
WILDBLOOD.
I am afraid the Lady has not fed it, and 'tis wild for hunger.
JACINTHA.
Or perhaps it wants company; shall she put another to it?
WILDBLOOD.
I; but then 'twere best to trust 'em out of the Cage together; let 'em hop about at libertie.
JACINTHA.
But if they should lose one another in the wide world.
WILDBLOOD.
They'll meet at night I warrant 'em.
JACINTHA.
But is not your heart of the nature of those Birds that breed in one Countrie, and goe to winter in another?
WILDBLOOD.
Suppose it does so; yet I take my Mate along with me. And now to leave our parables, and speak in the language of the vulgar, what think you of a voyage to merry England?
JACINTHA.
Just as Æsop's Frog did, of leaping into a deep Well in a drought: if he ventur'd the leap, there might be water; but if there were no water, how should he get out again?
(II)",,19818,"Meta-metaphorical comment on the ""language of parable""","""But is not your heart of the nature of those Birds that breed in one Countrie, and goe to winter in another?""",Beasts,2012-06-29 16:46:39 UTC,Act II
7272,"","Searching ""soul"" and ""bird"" in HDIS (Drama)",2012-06-29 17:17:57 UTC,"CARL.
We'll have Musick, Wine, and Women, to divert you: yet in spight of all the Sex,
I'll keep my Soul free, as the Bird that flies i'th' Air,
And ne'er Love one, till I of all the rest despair.
(I.viii)",,19820,"Metaphor also appears in [Ravenscroft, E.] THE Careless Lovers: A COMEDY Acted at the Duke's THEATRE.","""I'll keep my Soul free, as the Bird that flies i'th' Air, / And ne'er Love one, till I of all the rest despair.""",Beasts,2012-06-29 17:17:57 UTC,"Act I, scene viii"
7273,"","Searching ""soul"" and ""bird"" in HDIS (Drama)",2012-06-29 17:28:08 UTC,"CARELESS.
I'le be with him presently.
[Ex. Toby.]
By her Witt, I did not judge she had so good a Face; for Wit and Beauty seldome go together in a Woman: She has a large stock of both, and I cou'd wish my self in Bed with her: but the Thoughts of her are Momentary.
I'le keep my Soul free as the Bird that flyes i'th Aire,
I'le ne'r love one, till I of all besides Despair.
(I.i)",,19821,See duplicate metaphor (in a differently titled play) by same author.,"""I'le keep my Soul free as the Bird that flyes i'th Aire, / I'le ne'r love one, till I of all besides Despair.""",Beasts,2012-06-29 20:03:25 UTC,"Act I, Scene i"
7277,"","Searching ""mind"" and ""beast"" in HDIS (Drama)",2012-07-02 13:21:43 UTC,"FREDERICK.
I hope I may love your mind, Madam; I may Love Spiritually.
HIPPOLITA.
That's enough, that's enough: let him love the mind without the body if he can.
ASCANIO.
Ay, ay, when the love is once come so far, that Spiritual Mind will never leave pulling, and pulling, till it has drawn the beastly body after it.
FREDERICK.
Well, Madam, since I must confess it, (though I expect to be laugh'd at, after my railing against Love) I do love you all over, both Soul and Body.
ASCANIO.
Lord, Sir, What a Tygress have you provok'd! you may see she takes it to the death that you have made this declaration.
(IV.iv)",,19831,Like a stubborn animal on a leash?,"""Ay, ay, when the love is once come so far, that Spiritual Mind will never leave pulling, and pulling, till it has drawn the beastly body after it.""",Animals,2012-07-02 13:22:28 UTC,""
7278,"","Searching ""reason"" and ""beast"" in HDIS (Drama)",2012-07-02 13:41:00 UTC,"TOWNLOVE.
If want of consideration be a sign of madness, Will, thou hast been a little craz'd ever since I knew thee. But prethee, what han't I consider'd in this matter?
MERRY.
Living, Townlove, Living: thou hast not so much as consider'd what bus'ness thou was sent into the World about--Tis Living, Man.
TOWNLOVE.
Why, I know 'tis Living, and therefore I strive to Live as much of the time I have allow'd me as I can.
MERRY.
Thou Live, and yet speak against Drinking, the very thing that distinguishes the Life of Man from that of a Beast! Why, 'tis the onely Spur of Wit and Reason; I have heard more new thoughts in Drinking three hours, then the best Modern Play can furnish you with; Therefore if thou would'st Live, that is, truly enjoy thy self, Drink, I say, Drink.
(I, p. 2)",,19832,"Ironic? Drink differentiates man and beast, but is also a spur?","""Thou Live, and yet speak against Drinking, the very thing that distinguishes the Life of Man from that of a Beast! Why, 'tis the onely Spur of Wit and Reason; I have heard more new thoughts in Drinking three hours, then the best Modern Play can furnish you with; Therefore if thou would'st Live, that is, truly enjoy thy self, Drink, I say, Drink.""",Beasts,2012-07-02 13:49:09 UTC,Act I