updated_at,id,text,theme,metaphor,work_id,reviewed_on,provenance,created_at,comments,context,dictionary
2009-09-14 19:43:55 UTC,15536,LADY ELEANOR
holding him.
Where would you go? 'Tis evening--'tis dark --Whither would you go at this time?
IRWIN.
distractedly.
I must consider what's to be done--and in this room my thoughts are too confined to reflect.
LADY ELEANOR.
And are London streets calculated for reflection?
IRWIN.
No;--for action. To hurry the faint thought to resolution.,"","""I must consider what's to be done--and in this room my thoughts are too confined to reflect.""",5820,,"Searching ""thought"" and ""room"" in HDIS (Drama)",2005-08-29 00:00:00 UTC,"•Not exactly a metaphor of mind... That is, the mind is not a room here, rather the room impinges on the mind.","Act I, scene iii",Rooms
2009-09-14 19:44:05 UTC,15603,"CHEV.
Fined for Horace, horsed for Homer, and plucked because I could not parrot over their premises and predicates, majors and minors, antecedents and consequents. My brain was a broker's shop; the little good furniture it contained all hid by lumber!
","","""My brain was a broker's shop; the little good furniture it contained all hid by lumber!""",5859,,"Searching ""brain"" and ""Furniture"" in HDIS (Drama)",2006-01-24 00:00:00 UTC,"•I've included thrice: Shop, Furniture, Lumber","Act II, scene iii",""
2009-09-14 19:44:41 UTC,15798,"H. PLUM.
He is not so much in the wrong; but it is his fault. If I knew but of a key to his heart, my closet should be open to him directly. But, that would be music to the deaf. He would laugh, and I--gnash my teeth.
(he sets down, and leans his head on his hand)
Yes, it is consoling, to awaken compassion in the bosom of a friend-- But silence is still better--then to be misunderstood and laugh'd at, is ten times more bitter!","","""If I knew but of a key to his heart, my closet should be open to him directly",5939,,Searching in HDIS (Drama),2005-09-07 00:00:00 UTC,"","Act II, scene x",Rooms
2009-09-14 19:44:42 UTC,15799,"FRANK.
Welcome, dear Doctor.
(Pointing at his feet.)
The enemy holds out bravely yet.
BLUM.
We will make peace with him.
FRANK.
Could we but come to an amnesty meanwhile.
BLUM.
When ease and tranquillity have concluded peace in the cabinet of the mind, the rebellious subjects lay down their arms of their own accord.
EYT.
There's a physician for you, that cures people with sentences.","","""When ease and tranquillity have concluded peace in the cabinet of the mind, the rebellious subjects lay down their arms of their own accord.""",5932,,"Searching ""mind"" and ""cabinet"" in HDIS (Drama)",2005-09-08 00:00:00 UTC,"","Act II, scene v",Rooms
2009-09-14 19:44:44 UTC,15810,"CHARL.
He always reflects on our good doctor; that is very mean.
PHIL.
Fie, Charlotte! Condemn no man.-- Whilst the human heart remains without a glass window, nobody should say--that is mean; for God alone scrutinizes the heart. Eyterborn is an honest man; but he is a man. The doctor has encroached upon his profession, and that has vexed him
CHARL.
But I would lay a wager, that if Eyterborn cure a patient, the doctor would be delighted with it; and consequently he must be a better man.
",Momus Glass,"""Whilst the human heart remains without a glass window, nobody should say--that is mean; for God alone scrutinizes the heart""",5932,,"Searching ""heart"" and ""window"" in HDIS (Drama)",2006-01-25 00:00:00 UTC,"","Act III, scene vi",""
2011-07-27 16:10:52 UTC,19021,"JOHN
Excellent! Dost thou learn those fine fraternal appellations from thy book? What an abominable thing is reading? by this means, the mind is put into a hot-house and forced like a pineapple in Europe; and then produces bad fruit.--If my father had not taught the women to read, I am sure they would have been more reasonable.
(I.iii, p. 18)","","""What an abominable thing is reading? by this means, the mind is put into a hot-house and forced like a pineapple in Europe; and then produces bad fruit.""",7034,,Reading,2011-07-27 16:10:35 UTC,John the heartless slaver to his brother who has tried to buy a slave he would rape away from him. ,"Act I, Scene iii",""
2011-07-27 19:13:08 UTC,19026,"ADA<
I was in Zameo's arms--
LILLI
You were torn from each other.
ADA
(Jumping up.) Ah I I did not dream it! Where is he? Where is my Zameo? (she runs to the door, which she finds fastened.)
LILLI
You might save yourself that trouble. Alas! the door is locked and bolted, as the hearts of white men are.
(III.i, p. 98)","","""Alas! the door is locked and bolted, as the hearts of white men are.""",7034,,Reading,2011-07-27 19:13:08 UTC,"","Act III, scene i",""
2011-07-30 20:58:44 UTC,19075,"GAMBIA
England! shall I behold thee? Talk of fabled land, or magic power! But what land, that poet ever sung, or enchanter swayed, can equal that, which, when the slave's foot touches, he becomes free--his prisoned soul starts forth, his swelling nerves burst the chain that enthrall'd him, and, in his own strength he stands, as the rock he treads on, majestic and secure.
(III.v)","","""But what land, that poet ever sung, or enchanter swayed, can equal that, which, when the slave's foot touches, he becomes free--his prisoned soul starts forth, his swelling nerves burst the chain that enthrall'd him, and, in his own strength he stands, as the rock he treads on, majestic and secure.""",7056,,"Searching ""soul"" and ""chain"" in HDIS (Drama)",2011-07-30 20:58:44 UTC,"","Act III, scene v",Fetters
2011-10-25 21:02:03 UTC,19289,"MERCURY
Crouch then in silence. Awful Sufferer!
To thee unwilling, most unwillingly
I come, by the great Father's will driven down,
To execute a doom of new revenge.
Alas! I pity thee, and hate myself
That I can do no more: aye from thy sight
Returning, for a season, Heaven seems Hell,
So thy worn form pursues me night and day,
Smiling reproach. Wise art thou, firm and good,
But vainly wouldst stand forth alone in strife
Against the Omnipotent; as yon clear lamps
That measure and divide the weary years
From which there is no refuge, long have taught
And long must teach. Even now thy Torturer arms
With the strange might of unimagined pains
The powers who scheme slow agonies in Hell,
And my commission is to lead them here,
Or what more subtle, foul, or savage fiends
People the abyss, and leave them to their task.
Be it not so! there is a secret known
To thee, and to none else of living things,
Which may transfer the sceptre of wide Heaven,
The fear of which perplexes the Supreme:
Clothe it in words, and bid it clasp his throne
In intercession; bend thy soul in prayer,
And like a suppliant in some gorgeous fane,
Let the will kneel within thy haughty heart:
For benefits and meek submission tame
The fiercest and the mightiest.
(I, ll. 353-70)","","""Clothe it in words, and bid it clasp his throne / In intercession; bend thy soul in prayer, / And like a suppliant in some gorgeous fane, / Let the will kneel within thy haughty heart.""",7120,,Reading,2011-10-25 21:01:26 UTC,"",Act I,""
2012-01-09 18:24:54 UTC,19421,"HONORIA
Ambition!--not that emulative zeal
Which wings the tow'ring souls of godlike men!
But bold, oppressive, self-created pow'r,
That, trampling o'er the barrier of the laws,
And scattering wide the tender shoots of pity,
Strikes at the root of reason, and confines
Nature itself in bondage! Oh! 'tis vile!
But, thank the Gods! no spells can curb the mind,
While splendour's proudest claim is less than virtue!","","""Ambition!--not that emulative zeal
Which wings the tow'ring souls of godlike men! / But bold, oppressive, self-created pow'r, / That, trampling o'er the barrier of the laws, / And scattering wide the tender shoots of pity, / Strikes at the root of reason, and confines / Nature itself in bondage!""",6050,,"Searching ""bond"" and ""reason"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2012-01-09 18:24:54 UTC,"","",Fetters