work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
5951,"","Searching ""mind"" and ""impression"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2005-05-15 00:00:00 UTC,"""Last year's events I've scann'd--they shew me
""Some prosp'rous scenes, and others gloomy;
""Together ta'en--they on my mind
""No good impression leave behind.
""Now, you must know, my friends, I like
""That same Philosopher antique,
""(Though be assured, not half so well,
""As those in France that bear the bell)
""Who, with his royal master chattering,
""Requested to dispense with flattering
""His Majesty, would condescend,
""Because he meant to be his friend.--
""And thus, for ev'ry Royal Sir,
""(Elector, viz. of Westminster;
""For other Royalty, you know,
""I've turn'd my back on long ago,)
""Trust me, the high consideration
""I feel precludes all consolation:
""I, your true friend, see nought but evils,
""Enough to give you the Blue Devils.
""You've toasted Nelson in a brimmer:--
""Yet fortune, to my ken, looks grimmer
""By half, Sirs, than she did before he
""Enhanc'd Great Britain's naval glory.
""'Twas, I'll admit, a feat to crack on--
""Yet this White Day 's to me a Black One;
""And since some weep for joy, I'll borrow
""Of Joy a tear or two for Sorrow.
""Te Deum sing who will to cheer ye;
""I choose to chaunt my Miserere;
""And, for the Souls, lament and groan,
""Of those who told us they had none!
""Judge, you who quaff Shaksperian wine,
""How dreadful to be drench'd with brine!
""Ah! what induc'd our gallant fleet,
""With nauseous draught saline to treat
""(Not attic salt like Sheridan's)
""Th' advent'rous citizens of France!
""Heav'ns!--were the Great Republic's founders
""Compell'd to fraternize with flounders!--
""And serve the world's Regenerators
""For sandwiches to alligators!
""Of thrice-renown'd, tri-colour'd flags
""Shall Cophtis make their pudding bags,
""Or sulph'rous explosion toss over,
""To crocodiles, a French philosopher!!--
""Had I a heart of oak or flint,
""'Twould break, or else the devil 's in't,
""To recapitulate--Hei Mihi!--
""Such tragi-conquest with a dry eye!!!",,15780,"","Events ""'Together ta'en--they on my mind / 'No good impression leave behind.""",Impression,2009-09-14 19:44:37 UTC,""
6506,"",Reading,2013-06-04 20:39:20 UTC,"A groan awakened him, but what were his feelings, when, on looking up, he perceived the same figure standing before him! It was not, however, immediately that he could convince himself the appearance was more than the phantom of his dream, strongly impressed upon an alarmed fancy. The voice of the monk, for his face was as usual concealed, recalled Vivaldi from his error; but his emotion cannot easily be conceived, when the stranger, slowly lifting that mysterious cowl, discovered to him the same awful countenance, which had characterised the vision in his slumber. Unable to inquire the occasion of this appearance, Vivaldi gazed in astonishment and terror, and did not immediately observe, that, instead of a dagger, the monk held a lamp, which gleamed over every deep furrow of his features, yet left their shadowy markings to hint the passions and the history of an extraordinary life.
(III.v, p. 368)",,20363,"","""It was not, however, immediately that he could convince himself the appearance was more than the phantom of his dream, strongly impressed upon an alarmed fancy.""",Impressions,2013-06-04 20:39:20 UTC,"Vol. III, Chap. v"
6506,"",Reading,2013-06-04 20:44:30 UTC,"The emotion betrayed by Schedoni, on the appearance of the last witness, and during the delivery of the evidence, disappeared when his fate became certain, and when the dreadful sentence of the law was pronounced, it made no visible impression on his mind. From that moment, his firmness, or his hardihood, never forsook him.
(III.viii, p. 421)",,20367,"","""The emotion betrayed by Schedoni, on the appearance of the last witness, and during the delivery of the evidence, disappeared when his fate became certain, and when the dreadful sentence of the law was pronounced, it made no visible impression on his mind.""",Impressions,2013-06-04 20:44:30 UTC,"Vol. III, Chap. viii"
7587,"",Reading,2014-07-12 17:15:18 UTC,"Why did she thus obstinately cling to an ill-starred, unhappy passion? Because it is of the very essence of affection, to seek to perpetuate itself. He does not love, who can resign this cherished sentiment, without suffering some of the sharpest struggles that our nature is capable of enduring. Add to this, Mary had fixed her heart upon this chosen friend; and one of the last impressions a worthy mind can submit to receive, is that of the worthlessness of the person upon whom it has fixed all its esteem. Mary had struggled to entertain a favourable opinion of human nature; she had unweariedly sought for a kindred mind, in whose integrity and fidelity to take up her rest. Mr. Imlay undertook to prove, in his letters written immediately after their complete separation, that his conduct towards her was reconcilable to the strictest rectitude; but undoubtedly Mary was of a different opinion. Whatever the reader may decide in this respect, there is one sentiment that, I believe, he will unhesitatingly admit: that of pity for the mistake of the man, who, being in possession of such a friendship and attachment as those of Mary, could hold them at a trivial price, and, ""like the base Indian, throw a pearl away, richer than all his tribe.""
(pp. 125-5 in 2nd ed., cf. p. 212 in Broadview ed.)",,24160,"","""Add to this, Mary had fixed her heart upon this chosen friend; and one of the last impressions a worthy mind can submit to receive, is that of the worthlessness of the person upon whom it has fixed all its esteem.""",Impressions,2014-07-12 17:15:18 UTC,""
7587,"",Searching in ECCO-TCP,2014-07-12 17:42:51 UTC,"Mary was now arrived at the situation, which, for two or three preceding years, her reason had pointed out to her as affording the most substantial prospect of happiness. She had been tossed and agitated by the waves of misfortune. Her childhood, as she often said, had known few of the endearments, which constitute the principal happiness of childhood. The temper of her father had early given to her mind a severe cast of thought, and substituted the inflexibility of resistance for the confidence of affection. The cheerfulness of her entrance upon womanhood, had been darkened, by an attendance upon the death-bed of her mother, and the still more afflicting calamity of her eldest sister. Her exertions to create a joint independence for her sisters and herself, had been attended, neither with the success, nor the pleasure, she had hoped from them. Her first youthful passion, her friendship for Fanny, had encountered many disappointments, and, in fine, a melancholy and premature catastrophe. Soon after these accumulated mortifications, she was engaged in a contest with a near relation, whom she regarded as unprincipled, respecting the wreck of her father's fortune. In this affair she suffered the double pain, which arises from moral indignation, and disappointed benevolence. Her exertions to assist almost every member of her family, were great and unremitted. Finally, when she indulged a romantic affection for Mr. Fuseli, and fondly imagined that she should find in it the solace of her cares, she perceived too late, that, by continually impressing on her mind fruitless images of unreserved affection and domestic felicity, it only served to give new pungency to the sensibility that was destroying her.
(pp. 108-110)",,24167,"","""Finally, when she indulged a romantic affection for Mr. Fuseli, and fondly imagined that she should find in it the solace of her cares, she perceived too late, that, by continually impressing on her mind fruitless images of unreserved affection and domestic felicity, it only served to give new pungency to the sensibility that was destroying her.""",Impressions,2014-07-12 17:42:51 UTC,""
7587,"",Searching in ECCO-TCP,2014-07-12 17:45:08 UTC,"After having been for a considerable time insensible, she was recovered by the exertions of those by whom the body was found. She had sought, with cool and deliberate firmness, to put a period to her existence, and yet she lived to have every prospect of a long possession of enjoyment and happiness. It is perhaps not an unfrequent case with suicides, that we find reason to suppose, if they had survived their gloomy purpose, that they would, at a subsequent period, have been considerably happy. It arises indeed, in some measure, out of the very nature of a spirit of self-destruction; which implies a degree of anguish, that the consistution of the human mind will not suffer to remain long undiminished. This is a serious reflection, Probably no man would destroy himself from an impatience of present pain, if he felt a moral certainty that there were years of enjoyment still in reserve for him. It is perhaps a futile attempt, to think of reasoning with a man in that state of mind which precedes suicide. Moral reasoning is nothing but the awakening of certain feelings; and the feeling by which he is actuated, is too strong to leave us much chance of impressing him with other feelings, that should have force enough to counterbalance it. But, if the prospect of future tranquillity and pleasure cannot be expected to have much weight with a man under an immediate purpose of suicide, it is so much the more to be wished, that men would impress their minds, in their sober moments, with a conception, which, being rendered habitual, seems to promise to act as a successful antidote in a paroxysm of desperation.
(pp. 134-136)",,24170,"","""Moral reasoning is nothing but the awakening of certain feelings; and the feeling by which he is actuated, is too strong to leave us much chance of impressing him with other feelings, that should have force enough to counterbalance it.""",Impressions,2014-07-12 17:45:08 UTC,""