text,updated_at,metaphor,created_at,context,theme,reviewed_on,dictionary,comments,provenance,id,work_id
"4. Rest for my Soul I long to find;
Saviour of All, if Mine Thou art,
Give me Thy meek and lowly Mind,
And stamp Thine Image on my Heart.
(p. 91)",2014-02-09 20:25:17 UTC,"""Give me Thy meek and lowly Mind, /
And stamp Thine Image on my Heart.""",2005-04-07 00:00:00 UTC,"","",2014-02-09,Impressions,Part I,"Searching ""stamp"" and ""mind"" in HDIS (Poetry)",12213,4637
"Holy, and true, and Righteous Lord,
I wait to prove Thy Perfect Will;
Be mindful of Thy gracious Word,
And stamp me with Thy Spirit's Seal.
(p. 263)",2014-02-09 20:43:29 UTC,"""Be mindful of Thy gracious Word, / And stamp me with Thy Spirit's Seal.""",2005-04-07 00:00:00 UTC,"","",2014-02-09,Impressions,"Part II.
Confirmed in 1742. Text from ","Searching ""stamp"" and ""mind"" in HDIS (Poetry); found again ""seal;"" text from Google Books",12214,4638
"3. Transform my Nature into Thine,
Let all my Powers Thine Impress feel,
Let all my Soul become Divine,
And stamp me with Thy Spirit's Seal.
(p. 136)",2014-02-09 19:34:48 UTC,"""Transform my Nature into Thine, / Let all my Powers Thine Impress feel, / Let all my Soul become Divine, / And stamp me with Thy Spirit's Seal.""",2005-04-08 00:00:00 UTC,"","",2014-02-09,Impression,Part II.,"Searching ""stamp"" and ""soul"" in HDIS (Poetry); text from Google Books",12222,4643
"He paus'd a while, stood silent in his Mood,
(For yet, his Rage was boiling in his Blood)
But soon his tender Mind th' Impression felt,
(As softest Metals are not slow to melt,
And Pity soonest runs in gentle Minds:)
Then reasons with himself; and first he finds
His Passion cast a Mist before his Sense,
And either made, or magnify'd th' Offence.
Offence! of what? to whom? Who judg'd the Cause?
The Pris'ner freed himself by Nature's Laws:
Born free, he sought his Right: The Man he freed
Was perjur'd, but his Love excus'd the Deed:
Thus pond'ring, he look'd under with his Eyes,
And saw the Womens Tears, and heard their Cries;
Which mov'd Compassion more: he shook his Head,
And softly sighing, to himself he said:",2009-09-14 19:36:57 UTC,"""But soon his tender Mind th' Impression felt""",2005-05-15 00:00:00 UTC,"","",,Impression,•Also in Dryden: See also entry under Dryden.
•I've included twice: Impression and Metal,"Searching ""mind"" and ""impression"" in HDIS (Poetry)",12412,4695
"His Consort lost, a widowed Life he led,
Three manly Sons had crown'd his nuptial Bed;
The eldest far unlike the generous Knight,
A rough, suspicious, base, uncourteous Wight:
To all ungentle, to his Father most,
His Age he slighted, and his Love he lost:
The younger two were of a milder Kind,
And bore their Sire's Impression on the Mind.",2009-09-14 19:36:57 UTC,"""The younger two were of a milder Kind, / And bore their Sire's Impression on the Mind.""",2005-05-15 00:00:00 UTC,"","",,Impression,"","Searching ""mind"" and ""impression"" in in HDIS (Poetry)",12414,4692
"Thee, placid Queen of Night--the Sultan own'd,
In shining Visions of recover'd Arms!
Thou, to the Syrian lengthen'd Wisdom's Sound,
And Cosroës still his fix'd Attention charms:
But most the Tartar Princess claim'd thy Care,
To sooth the soft Impatience of her Breast;
Her curious Thoughts the Ring's Impression bear,
And new Ideas interrupt her Rest,
In Fancy she surveys the Sylvan Scenes,
And hears the feather'd Choirs--and learns their tuneful Strains!",2011-06-06 03:23:21 UTC,"""Her curious Thoughts the Ring's Impression bear, / And new Ideas interrupt her Rest.""",2005-05-20 00:00:00 UTC,XCIII,"",2011-06-05,Impressions,Mixing literal and figurative: INTEREST.,"Searching ""impression"" and ""thought"" in HDIS (Poetry); found again ""idea""",12415,4696
"What strong Impressions does Affection give?
By Fancy, Men have often ceas'd to live.
Howe're absurd things in themselves appear,
Weak Minds are apt to credit what they fear.",2009-09-14 19:36:57 UTC,"""What strong Impressions does Affection give? / By Fancy, Men have often ceas'd to live.""",2005-05-20 00:00:00 UTC,"","",,Impression,"","Searching ""impression"" and ""fancy"" in HDIS (Poetry)",12417,4707
"Remarks.
Ver. 149, 150. Jacob, the scourge of Grammar, mark with awe; Nor less revere him, blunderbuss of Law. ]
There may seem some error in these verses, Mr. Jacob having proved our author to have a Respect for him, by this undeniable argument. ""He had once a Regard for my Judgment; otherwise he would never have subscribed Two Guineas to me, for one small Book in octavo."" Jacob's Letter to Dennis, printed in Dennis's Remarks on the Dunciad, pag. 49. Therefore I should think the appellation of Blunderbuss to Mr. Jacob, like that of Thunderbolt to Scipio, was meant in his honour.
Mr. Dennis argues the same way. ""My writings having made great impression on the minds of all sensible men, Mr. P. repented, and to give proof of his Repentance, subscribed to my two volumes of select Works, and afterward to my two Volumes of Letters."" Ibid. pag. 80. We should hence believe, the Name of Mr. Dennis hath also crept into this poem by some mistake. But from hence, gentle reader! thou may'st beware, when thou givest thy money to such Authors, not to flatter thyself that my motives are Good-nature or Charity.",2009-09-14 19:37:04 UTC,"""Mr. Dennis argues the same way. 'My writings having made great impression on the minds of all sensible men'""",2005-05-16 00:00:00 UTC,"","",,Impression,"•Note to line ""Jacob, the scourge of Grammar, mark with awe,""","Searching in ""mind"" and ""impression"" HDIS (Poetry)",12507,4727
"Such, Britons! is the cause, to you unknown,
Or worse, o'erlook'd; o'erlook'd by magistrates,
Thus criminals themselves. I grant the deed
Is madness; but the madness of the heart.
And what is that? Our utmost bound of guilt.
A sensual, unreflecting life is big
With monstrous births, and Suicide, to crown
The black infernal brood. The bold to break
Heaven's law supreme, and desperately rush
Through sacred Nature's murder on their own,
Because they never think of death, they die.
'Tis equally man's duty, glory, gain,
At once to shun and meditate his end.
When by the bed of languishment we sit,
(The seat of wisdom! if our choice, not fate,)
Or o'er our dying friends in anguish hang,
Wipe the cold dew, or stay the sinking head,
Number their moments, and in every clock
Start at the voice of an eternity;
See the dim lamp of life just feebly lift
An agonizing beam, at us to gaze,
Then sink again, and quiver into death,
That most pathetic herald of our own:---
How read we such sad scenes? as sent to man
In perfect vengeance? No; in pity sent,
To melt him down, like wax, and then impress,
Indelible, Death's image on his heart;
Bleeding for others, trembling for himself.
We bleed, we tremble; we forget, we smile:
The mind turns fool before the cheek is dry.
Our quick-returning folly cancels all;
As the tide rushing rases what is writ
In yielding sands, and smooths the letter'd shore.
(ll. 483-515, pp. 129-130 in CUP edition)",2013-06-10 20:10:44 UTC,"""No; in pity sent, / To melt him down, like wax, and then impress, / Indelible, Death's image on his heart; / Bleeding for others, trembling for himself.""",2013-06-10 20:10:44 UTC,Night the Fifth,"",,Impressions,"",Reading,20498,7407
"In man, the more we dive, the more we see
Heaven's signet stamping an immortal make.
Dive to the bottom of his soul, the base
Sustaining all, what find we? Knowledge, love.
As light and heat essential to the sun,
These to the soul. And why, if souls expire?
How little lovely here! How little known!
Small knowledge we dig up with endless toil;
And love unfeign'd may purchase perfect hate.
Why starved, on earth, our angel-appetites,
While brutal are indulged their fulsome fill?
Were then capacities Divine conferr'd,
As a mock diadem, in savage sport,
Rank insult of our pompous poverty,
Which reaps but pain from seeming claims so fair?
In future age lies no redress? and shuts
Eternity the door on our complaint?
If so, for what strange ends were mortals made!
The worst to wallow, and the best to weep;
The man who merits most, must most complain.
Can we conceive a disregard in Heaven,
What the worst perpetrate, or best endure?
(ll 253-174, pp. 185-6)",2013-06-12 15:34:18 UTC,"""In man, the more we dive, the more we see / Heaven's signet stamping an immortal make.""",2013-06-12 15:34:18 UTC,Night the Seventh,"",,Impressions,"",Reading,20552,7411