work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
5715,"","Searching HDIS (Poetry); variant in Stuart's Star: ""But tho' theirs they have enroll'd me""",2003-12-30 00:00:00 UTC,"Forced from home and all its pleasures,
Afric's coast I left forlorn,
To increase the stranger's treasures,
O'er the raging billows borne.
Men from England bought and sold me,
Paid my price in paltry gold;
But, though slave they have enroll'd me,
Minds are never to be sold.
(ll. 1-8, p. 13)",,15232,•USE in entry for Coinage.,"""Minds are never to be sold""",Fetters,2014-08-10 04:45:30 UTC,Opening stanza
6085,"","Searching ""mind"" and ""chain"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2011-07-14 20:11:56 UTC,"""These tasks befit the rugged sons of toil,""
Cries speculative Pride with scornful smile,
""While they in ignorance and darkness grope,
""And labour on, and talk of faith and hope;
""Far nobler labours aid us to extol
""The task of minds, the labour of the soul.
""To trace French novelists with steady gaze,
""Through sentiment's inexplicable maze;
""Whose evanescent meaning caught meanwhile,
""Shall add new graces to enrich our style;
""New systems of philosophy be shown,
""With happier art in language all our own;
""New modes, new governments, new laws, new light,
""Shall put all superstition's train to flight;
""And revelation's trembling, dubious ray,
""No more its faint, uncertain beams display;
""But knowledge flash with such resplendent blaze,
""That maddening crowds grow giddy while they gaze.
""Such are our triumphs, while at ease reclin'd,
""With active force the comprehensive mind
""Breaks custom's chains and prejudice's ties,
""And wide in sportive curves unbounded flies.""",,18870,"","""With active force the comprehensive mind / Breaks custom's chains and prejudice's ties, / And wide in sportive curves unbounded flies.""",Fetters,2011-07-14 20:12:37 UTC,""
7034,"",Reading,2011-07-27 19:11:17 UTC,"ZAMEO
(Embraces William's knees) Fetters are needless where the affections are rivetted by beneficent actions. Thou hast left me free, and I am thy slave for ever; with my arms in bonds, I could have escaped, but thou fetterest my heart—I will never forsake thee!
(II.vi, p. 87)",,19024,"","""Fetters are needless where the affections are rivetted by beneficent actions. Thou hast left me free, and I am thy slave for ever; with my arms in bonds, I could have escaped, but thou fetterest my heart—I will never forsake thee!""",Fetters,2011-07-27 19:11:17 UTC,"Act II, scene vi"
5733,"","Searching ""mind"" and ""chain"" in HDIS (Drama); found again searching ""heart""",2011-07-27 19:55:43 UTC,"WILL.
Thou'rt a brave girl!--I admire thy love and courage, and will give thee as little cause as I can to repent 'em.
Henceforth no other pleasures can I know,
Than those of fond fidelity to you;
Your pow'r my captive heart in chains shall bind,
Sweet as the graces of your face and mind:--
Blest in my friends, and doubly blest in love,
My joy's complete indeed--if you approve.",,19030,"","""Your pow'r my captive heart in chains shall bind, / Sweet as the graces of your face and mind.""",Fetters,2011-07-29 16:14:27 UTC,"Act V, scene iv"
5681,"",Reading,2012-08-14 13:32:28 UTC," Whene'er to Afric's shores I turn my eyes,
Horrors of deepest, deadliest guilt arise;
I see, by more than Fancy's mirror shewn,
The burning village, and the blazing town:
See the dire victim torn from social life,
The shrieking babe, the agonizing wife!
She, wretch forlorn! is dragg'd by hostile hands,
To distant tyrants sold, in distant lands!
Transmitted miseries, and successive chains,
The sole sad heritage her child obtains!
Ev'n this last wretched boon their foes deny,
To weep together, or together die.
By felon hands, by one relentless stroke,
See the fond links of feeling nature broke!
The fibres twisting round a parent's heart,
Torn from their grasp, and bleeding as they part.
(ll. 95-110, p. 104 in Wood)",,19913,"","""See the fond links of feeling nature broke! / The fibres twisting round a parent's heart, / Torn from their grasp, and bleeding as they part.""",Fetters,2012-08-14 13:32:28 UTC,""
7365,"",Searching in HDIS,2013-03-23 20:34:51 UTC,"He had been the slave of beauty, the captive of sense; love he ne'er had felt; the mind never rivetted the chain, nor had the purity of it made the body appear lovely in his eyes. He was humane, despised meanness; but was vain of his abilities, and by no means a useful member of society. He talked often of the beauty of virtue; but not having any solid foundation to build the practice on, he was only a shining, or rather a sparkling character: and though his fortune enabled him to hunt down pleasure, he was discontented.
(pp. 149-150)",,20061,"","""He had been the slave of beauty, the captive of sense; love he ne'er had felt; the mind never rivetted the chain, nor had the purity of it made the body appear lovely in his eyes.""",Fetters,2013-03-23 20:34:51 UTC,Chapter XXIV