work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
3683,"","Searching ""heart"" and ""empire"" in HDIS (Drama)",2004-08-16 00:00:00 UTC,"1 MAN
A heart in loves Empire, tho' jocund, and blyth
From cares, and from fears can never be free:
'Tis said that with pleasure we languish and sigh;
But for all can be urg'd, there's nothing can be
So pleasant, so pleasant as our libertie.
",,9547,"","""A heart in loves Empire, tho' jocund, and blyth / From cares, and from fears can never be free""","",2009-09-14 19:34:18 UTC,"Act IV, scene i"
3692,"","Searching ""rule"" and ""reason"" in HDIS (Drama)",2004-06-23 00:00:00 UTC,"HAZ.
That Servant you call Trusty, is a Traytor,
Or an o're-diligent officious Servant,
Whose care creates imaginary difficulties
And dangers, where the way is safe, and easie.
Please to consult the Steward of your Soul,
And Ruler of your Senses, Your wise Reason.
Ask if nine Winters Cold, nine Summers Heats,
And almost a continual emptiness
Can chuse but alter th' Organs of the Voice?
Oh! Madam, Madam, did you know my Story,
You'd rather wonder I can speak at all,
Then that my Tone is chang'd: if that be all
The scruple, from this hour I will be dumb;
And give no food to your distrust.
",2012-01-12,9557,•I've included twice: Government and Population,"""Please to consult the Steward of your Soul, / And Ruler of your Senses, Your wise Reason.""",Inhabitants,2012-01-12 21:05:07 UTC,""
3693,"","Searching ""heart"" and ""empire"" in HDIS (Drama)",2004-08-16 00:00:00 UTC,"CHRIS.
Whither, whither, cruel Sir, are you conveying my felicity away, now I have taken such pains to attain it? Oh use not that Empire Nature has given you over poor womens hearts too tyrannically! consider we are poor soft loving things, and a little cruelty will kill us; have pity on a poor Lady that dyes for you, and is forc'd to descend from the modesty of her Sex, to Court you to a minutes conversation, at an hour when the rest of the happy world enjoy some their Loves, some their Repose, and all are at ease but poor me.",,9559,•Bizarre: I had (d. 1703) for Crowne for this play. ODNB confirms this Crowne wrote The Country Wit.,"A man may use that Empire that Nature has given him ""over poor womens hearts too tyrannically""","",2009-09-14 19:34:19 UTC,"Act III, scene iii"
3694,"","Searching ""court"" and ""soul"" in HDIS (Drama)",2004-11-10 00:00:00 UTC,"OREST.
No more. I love, and I come to seek her I love, Hermione; here, in Epyrus, in this City, in this Palace, in the very arms of Pyrrhus, and I will snatch her hence, or die in her sight.--But thou who art not ignorant of my Rivals affairs, tell me, what passes in his Court, in his Soul! Will he resolve to retain my Hermione? or fairly resign to me the heart he ravished from me?
PYLAD.
Sir; I should abuse your hopes, should I promise you that. Not, that he payes her any such great regard, he offers devotion now at other Altars; the fair Andromache, Hector's widow commands his Soul; but governs it with such severity, that her beauty revenges your quarrel, and requites his passion with hate as great as that Hermione paid to yours; and provokes the proud Pyrrhus to such excess of rage, that every day he attempts either to make her embrace his Love, or dread his Power. He threatens the life of her Infant-Son, and makes him responsible for his mothers disdain: And when he finds that even this cannot subdue her invincible mind, then in revenge he returns to the first obedience he vowed to Hermione, falls at her feet, and payes her dissembled homage, sighs, less with Love than Fury; And in short, I cannot say what a heart so little master of it self, in so great disorder will not dare to do. He may, Sir, perhaps in this extremity marry what he hates, destroy what he adores.",2009-01-20,9560,"","""But thou who art not ignorant of my Rivals affairs, tell me, what passes in his Court, in his Soul!""","",2009-09-14 19:34:19 UTC,"Act I, scene i"
3700,"",Reading,2003-07-23 00:00:00 UTC,"HARRIET
To a great, rambling, lone house that looks as it were not inhabited, the family's so small. There you'll find my mother, an old lame aunt, and myself, sir, perched up on chairs at a distance in a large parlor, sitting moping like three or four melancholy birds in a spacious volary. Does not this stagger your resolution?
DORIMANT
Not at all, madam. The first time I saw you, you left me with the pangs of love upon me; and this day my soul has quite given up her liberty.
(Act V, scene ii, p. 149-50)",2010-12-30,9588,•Notice that the soul is gendered.,"""The first time I saw you, you left me with the pangs of love upon me; and this day my soul has quite given up her liberty.""","",2010-12-30 23:09:43 UTC,Dorimant will visit and court Harriet in the country
3701,"","Searching ""judge"" in HDIS (Drama)",2004-10-14 00:00:00 UTC,"D. JOH.
I find thou retir'st here, and never readst or thinkst.
Can that blind faculty the Will be free,
When it depends upon the Understanding?
Which argues first before the Will can chuse;
And the last Dictate of the Judgment sways
The Will, as in a Balance, the last Weight
Put in the Scale, lifts up the other end,
And with the same Necessity.
HERM.
But foolish men and sinners act against
Their Understandings, which inform 'em better.
D. ANT.
None willingly do any thing against the last
Dictates of their Judgments, whatsoe'r men do,
Their present opinions lead 'em to.
D. LOP.
As fools that are afraid of sin, are by the thought
Of present pleasure, or some other reason,
Necessarily byass'd to pursue
The opinion they are of at that moment.
HERM.
The Understanding yet is free, and might perswade 'em better.
D. JOH.
The Understanding never can be free;
For what we understand, spite of our selves we do:
All objects are ready form'd and plac'd
To our hands; and these the Senses to the Mind convey,
And as those represent them, this must judge:
How can the Will be free, when the Understanding,
On which the Will depends, cannot be so.
HERM.
Lay by your devillish Philosophy, and change the dangerous and destructive course of your leud lives.
D. ANT.
Change our natures? Go bid a Blackamore be white, we follow our Constitutions, which we did not give our selves.",,9591,"•Title says tragedy, C-H says comedy. Huh? REVISIT.
•INTEREST. A poweful philosophical argument tucked away in a play.
•The senses represent and the mind judges. ","""All objects are ready form'd and plac'd / To our hands; and these the Senses to the Mind convey, / And as those represent them, this must judge: / How can the Will be free, when the Understanding, / On which the Will depends, cannot be so""",Court,2010-03-11 15:58:29 UTC,Act III
3704,"","Searching ""empire"" and ""soul"" in HDIS (Drama)",2004-08-11 00:00:00 UTC,"WILL
Agreed.
Love does all day the Soules great Empire keep,
But Wine at night Lulls the soft God asleep.",2005-11-30,9596,•Cross-reference: See also Kemble's adaptation: Love in Many Masks (1790).,"""Love does all day the Soules great Empire keep, / But Wine at night Lulls the soft God asleep.""",Empire,2009-09-14 19:34:20 UTC,"Act III, scene i"
3733,"",Searching HDIS,2004-10-14 00:00:00 UTC,"BEVER.
Come to my bosom, thou art mine again--all--all my own, and shalt be so for ever--for from this moment, all base drossy thoughts, that soil'd the life and lustre of my Judgement, shall vanish; and instead of those, thy Beauty, Love, Constancy, and Wit, shall crown my heart--blot from thy breast my faults, and let our union teach the Wild, Roving, and inconstant World, how they should Live and Love, my dearest Creature.",,9650,"","""Beauty, Love, Constancy, and Wit"" may crown the heart","",2009-09-14 19:34:22 UTC,"Act V, scene v"
7142,"","Searching ""bond"" and ""heart"" in HDIS (Drama)",2012-01-06 19:26:28 UTC,"DIEGO
We may constrain our selves not to believe great presumptions. But not to credit such convincing proofs is impossible. Therefore keep back the heart you come to restore, mine from this hour shakes off your bonds, and that you may not again enslave it, this day I will put it under the protection of one who is at least as fair as you. But questionless will not be so perfidious.
(IV.i)",,19383,"","""Therefore keep back the heart you come to restore, mine from this hour shakes off your bonds, and that you may not again enslave it, this day I will put it under the protection of one who is at least as fair as you.""",Fetters,2012-01-06 19:26:28 UTC,"Act IV, Scene i"
7763,"","Reading Clarissa, p. 742 in Penguin edition",2013-11-12 04:36:40 UTC,"BORGIA.
O, 'tis confess'd;
And howsoe're my Tongue has plaid the Braggart,
She Reigns more fully in my Soul than ever:
She Garrisons my Breast, and Mans against me
Even my own Rebel thoughts, with thousand Graces,
Ten thousand Charms, and new discover'd Beauties.
O! hadst thou seen her when she lately blest me,
What tears, what looks, and languishings she darted;
Love bath'd himself in the distilling Balm:
And oh the subtle God has made his entrance
Quite through my heart; he shouts and triumphs too,
And all his Cry is Death, or Bellamira.
(II.i, p. 24)",,23184,"","""O, 'tis confess'd; / And howsoe're my Tongue has plaid the Braggart, / She Reigns more fully in my Soul than ever: / She Garrisons my Breast, and Mans against me / Even my own Rebel thoughts, with thousand Graces, / Ten thousand Charms, and new discover'd Beauties.""",Empire and Inhabitants,2013-11-12 04:36:40 UTC,"Act II, scene i"