work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
3452,"",HDIS,2003-08-07 00:00:00 UTC,"RICHARD OF GLOUCESTER
So dear I loved the man that I must weep.
I took him for the plainest harmless creature
That breathed upon the earth, a Christian,
Made him my book wherein my soul recorded
The history of all her secret thoughts.
So smooth he daubed his vice with show of virtue
That, his apparent open guilt omitted --
I mean, his conversation with Shore's wife --
He lived from all attainture of suspect.
(III.v.23-31)",2003-10-23,8796,•Cross-reference: this is reminiscent of another (perhaps 'Uncategorized' entry)...,"""I took him for the plainest harmless creature / That breathed upon the earth, a Christian, / Made him my book wherein my soul recorded / The history of all her secret thoughts.""","",2009-09-14 19:33:46 UTC,"Act III, scene v. Lovell and Ratcliffe have just entered with Hasting's head"
3474,"",HDIS,2003-08-04 00:00:00 UTC,"HAMLET
O all you host of heaven! O earth! What else?
And shall I couple hell? O fie! Hold, hold, my heart,
And you, my sinews, grow not instant old,
But bear me stiffly up. Remember thee?
Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat
In this distracted globe. Remember thee?
Yea, from the table of my memory
I'll wipe away all trivial fond records,
All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past,
That youth and observation copied there,
And thy commandment all alone shall live
Within the book and volume of my brain
Unmixed with baser matter. Yes, yes, by heaven.
O most pernicious woman!
O villain, villain, smiling, damnèd villain!
My tables,
My tables -- meet it is I set it down
That one may smile and smile and be a villain.
At least I'm sure it may be so in Denmark.
(I.v.92-110)",2003-10-23,8919,"•The Ghost has just left Hamlet commanding him with a ""Remember me""
I've created two separate entries: one for book and one for table
•See note in Kiefer's Writing on the Renaissance Stage (337.n18). Alan Dessen's Elizabethan Stage Conventions and Modern Interpreters (Cambridge UP 1984) is cited: ""Generations of actors playing Hamlet have carried and used tablets here, but the repeated emphasis upon memory and forgetting thoughout the play could suggest (as in 'the table of my memory' in l. 98) that the tragic hero's 'tables' are not literal but rather imaginary or metaphoric"" (68).
•Notice this metaphor becomes mixed with the introduction of living commandment
• There were two metaphor entries... I've deleted the second.
","""Yea, from the table of my memory / I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, / All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, / That youth and observation copied there, / And thy commandment all alone shall live / Within the book and volume of my brain / Unmixed with baser matter.""",Writing,2011-07-13 19:28:40 UTC,"Act I, scene v. "
3546,"",HDIS,2003-07-29 00:00:00 UTC,"SILVIA
When Proteus cannot love where he's beloved.
Read over Julia's heart, thy first, best love,
For whose dear sake thou didst then rend thy faith
Into a thousand oaths, and all those oaths
Descended into perjury to love me.
Thou hast no faith left now, unless thou'dst two,
And that's far worse than none. Better have none
Than plural faith, which is too much by one,
Thou counterfeit to thy true friend.
(V.iv.45-53)",,9146,"","""Read over Julia's heart, thy first, best love.""",Writing,2009-09-14 19:33:59 UTC,"Act V, scene iv."
3546,"",HDIS,2003-07-29 00:00:00 UTC,"JULIA
Counsel, Lucetta. Gentle girl, assist me,
And e'en in kind love I do conjure thee,
Who art the table wherein all my thoughts
Are visibly charactered and engraved,
To lesson me, and tell me some good mean
How with my honour I may undertake
A journey to my loving Proteus.
(II.vii.1-7)",,9150,•Lucetta is the table?
•Pelican explains that table means tablet,"""Gentle girl, assist me, / And e'en in kind love I do conjure thee, / Who art the table wherein all my thoughts / Are visibly charactered and engraved / To lesson me, and tell me some good mean / How with my honour I may undertake / A journey to my loving Proteus.""",Writing,2009-12-12 18:23:21 UTC,"Act II, vii."
3553,"","Reading Lancelot Law Whyte's The Unconscious Before Freud (London and New York: St. Martin's Press, 1978), 85. Found again searching HDIS.
",2004-04-01 00:00:00 UTC,"MACBETH
Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased;
Pluck from the memory of a rooted sorrow;
Raze out the written troubles of the brain;
And with some sweet oblivious antidote
Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of that perilous stuff
Which weighs upon the heart?
DOCTOR
Therein the patient
Must minister to himself.
(V.iii)",2003-10-22,9194,Had (V.iii.44),"""Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased; / Pluck from the memory of a rooted sorrow; / Raze out the written troubles of the brain; / And with some sweet oblivious antidote / Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of that perilous stuff / Which weighs upon the heart?""","",2012-04-24 18:13:12 UTC,"Act V, scene iii"
3630,Blank Slate,"Reading Maclean's John Locke and English Literature, (1962), p. 33",2005-03-27 00:00:00 UTC,"VER.
Does heaven on all mankinde such good bestow?
My Fortune's excellent, or they are so:
I grow strangely concern'd, some unknown cause
A secret warmth into my bosom draws;
I blush I know ot why; my confus'd sense
Whispers, that shame can live with innocence;
Minds like smooth paper never writ upon,
When folded up, by some impression
Marks will remain it never had before,
And ne're return to former smoothness more.",,9420,"•Can't find in HDIS, but found in Chadwyck-Healey","Minds are ""like smooth paper never writ upon, / When folded up, by some impression / Marks will remain it never had before, / And ne're return to former smoothness more.""","",2009-09-14 19:34:12 UTC,"Act III, scene i"
3680,"","Searching ""seal"" and ""heart"" in HDIS (Drama)",2005-04-24 00:00:00 UTC,"FEATL.
Here comes the women, Sir,--please you to confirm it
Within.
SOLY.
With my hand seal & heart --
[Ex. Soly. Moor, Featl.
SERIN.
I could have wish'd Ladies, that the men had been more
Moderate in their resolution--But here it
Is at large.
[They open a Scrowl of Parchment and look on.",2008-12-03,9542,"","""[C]onfirm it within ... With my hand seal & heart--""","",2010-03-11 15:56:49 UTC,Act V
3694,"","Searching in ""heart"" and ""engrav"" in HDIS (Drama)",2005-03-09 00:00:00 UTC,"OREST.
I justifie him: Your bounties too him have long since deeply engraven his crimes in my Soul. No, let us revenge our selves. I consent.-- But I some nobler way would cause his fate,
I'd be his Foe, not his Assassinate.
I would make his ruine, and our victory just what to the Greeks-- Who sent me here their Minister instead
Of Pyrrhus answer, shall I bear his head?
Have I not taken upon me the care of all the estates, and shall I acquit my self of my great trust by an Assassination? Permit Madam, in the name of all the Gods, that Greece explain her self. If he must die
Under the publick hatred let him bow,
Remember that a Crown surrounds his brow",,9564,"","""Your bounties too him have long since deeply engraven his crimes in my Soul""","",2009-09-14 19:34:19 UTC,Act IV
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.",,9651,"",Faults may be blotted from the breast,"",2009-09-14 19:34:22 UTC,"Act V, scene v"
3746,"","Searching ""heart"" and ""engrav"" in HDIS (Drama); Found again searching ""thought"" and ""engrav""",2004-10-14 00:00:00 UTC,"TOWNLY.
--My Lady Millicent did me the honour to inform of some expressions of yours in favour of me; each syllable of which is engraven in my heart; nay, the very thought of it has transported me ever since.",,9670,"","""My Lady Millicent did me the honour to inform of some expressions of yours in favour of me; each syllable of which is engraven in my heart""","",2009-09-14 19:34:23 UTC,"Act IV, scene ii"