work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
5963,"","Searching ""iron"" and ""mind"" in HDIS (Poetry); confirmed in ECCO",2005-06-07 00:00:00 UTC,"When injuries have gor'd a well-wrought soul,
'Tis urg'd we should forgive and then forget!
When Priestley fats in Diocesan chair,
When Genius, Wit and Virtue are ador'd,
When Pitt shall kiss the Muses on their hill,
When Lady Grosv'nor curtsies to the creed,
When Gunning's sportive, who is all for-Lorn,
When Strathmore's Countess martyrs all her cats,
When Banks prefers Philosophers to flies,
When Tippoo makes the decalogue his law,
When Providence gives Q. his second sight,
When Gloster's Duchess names her Grandmama,
When regal finger purifies the blood,
When Sandwich writhes at tales of defloration,
When Cambria's Prince and meanness are allied,
When Israel's dingy produce hallow pigs,
When Lonsdale's lord becomes a man of wax,
When Dysart gives his mutton to the poor,
When Drapers' yards exceed the scale an inch,
When Burke and Freedom eat with the same spoon,
Then from the iron tablet of my mind,
Will I efface my catalogue of wrongs.
(pp. 37-9 in 1791 printing)",,15863,•I've included twice: Writing and Metal,"""Then from the iron tablet of my mind, / Will I efface my catalogue of wrongs.""",Metal,2014-02-26 22:27:24 UTC,""
6027,"","Searching ""engrav"" and ""thought"" in HDIS (Drama)",2005-03-09 00:00:00 UTC,"VILLARS.
Mean you Maria's?--Oh! you little know --her door is shut against the common tribe, who visit but to murder Fame and Time; but to the poor and houseless wanderer, 'tis open as her heart
(Tourly and Jack Analyse appear at the wing and listen)
: --come--she shall greet you with a sister's smiles,--and for myself--
(taking her hand and kissing it,)
pity first stamp'd your story in my breast, and the impression is engrav'd for ever!",,16004,•Reynolds is much given to Writing and Engraving metaphors!
•I've included twice: Engraving and Stamping.,"Pity first stamp'd your story in my breast, and the impression is engrav'd for ever""","",2009-09-14 19:45:23 UTC,"Act II, scene iv"
7749,"","Searching ""heart"" and ""steel"" in ECCO-TCP",2014-03-12 21:21:29 UTC,"Emma warned him against the jays of France and the nightingales of Italy. She said she foresaw that, if his heart was not steel and adamant, he would be ruined; that she had read his mind thoroughly, and plainly saw that the only vice he had in the world was want of deceit. It was, to be sure, a strange declaration, but it was very true. That she should not wonder at any thing he became in the hands of the French and Italians; for he was such pliable wax that any man, with a plausible story, the argument of which could be deduced from a good motive, might shape him into any form. She begged of him, in particular, to beware of holy hypocrites. What she had read, she told him, of their cruelty and dissoluteness, was yet worse, if possible, than all the gambols with which the forms of their facetious religion seemed to burlesque its author: or rather, the author of that which they daringly ventured to innovate, and which involved a system of morality mild as mercy, and benignant as his holy name who established it. Above all she cautioned him against convents, and an intercourse with those drones of society the inmates of them, who, from leisure to plan, and inclination to execute, were the perpetrators of every species of profligacy and mischief. Her reading, she said, had induced her to believe that there were more than three hundred thousand cloystered clergy in France, and a proportionable number of females; that the wickedness, the attrocious wickedness carried on within those walls, which were supposed to immure saints, was shock to humanity.
(II.xii, pp. 128-9)",,23684,"","""She said she foresaw that, if his heart was not steel and adamant, he would be ruined; that she had read his mind thoroughly, and plainly saw that the only vice he had in the world was want of deceit.""",Metal and Writing,2014-03-12 21:21:29 UTC,"Vol II, Chap xii"