work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
3357,"","Searching ""heart"" and ""steel"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2005-06-09 00:00:00 UTC,"So 'tis with thee, my Emma fair,
If nature's law's unpaid,
If thou refuse our vows to hear
And steel thy heart to ev'ry pray'r,
A cruel frozen maid.
",,8630,"","""If thou refuse our vows to hear / And steel thy heart to ev'ry pray'r, / A cruel frozen maid""",Metal,2009-09-14 19:33:41 UTC,""
4106,"",HDIS,2004-02-25 00:00:00 UTC,"While Cupid smil'd, by kind Occasion bless'd,
And, with the Secret kept, the Love increas'd;
The am'rous Youth frequents the silent Groves;
And much He meditates; for much He loves.
He loves: 'tis true; and is belov'd again:
Great are his Joys: but will they long remain?
Emma with Smiles receives his present Flame;
But smiling, will She ever be the same?
Beautiful Looks are rul'd by fickle Minds;
And Summer Seas are turn'd by sudden Winds.
Another Love may gain her easie Youth:
Time changes Thought; and Flatt'ry conquers Truth.
(p. 283, ll. 155-66)",,10563,"•The Nut-brown Maid is an Oldmixon poem. Henry and Emma was extremely popular. Translations into French, German, and Latin. ","""Beautiful Looks are rul'd by fickle Minds; / And Summer Seas are turn'd by sudden Winds""","",2013-07-22 15:10:24 UTC,""
4106,"",HDIS,2004-02-25 00:00:00 UTC,"With Wishes rais'd, with Jealousies opprest
(Alternate Tyrants of the Human Breast)
By one great Tryal He resolves to prove
The Faith of Woman, and the Force of Love.
If scanning Emma's Virtues, He may find
That beauteous Frame inclose a steady Mind;
He'll fix his Hope, of future Joy secure;
And live a Slave to Hymen's happy Pow'r.
But if the Fair one, as he fears, is frail;
If pois'd aright in Reason's equal Scale,
Light fly her Merits, and her Faults prevail;
His Mind He vows to free from am'rous Care,
The latent Mischief from his Heart to tear,
Resume his Azure Arms, and shine again in War.
(p. 283, ll. 177-90)
",,10564,"","""With Wishes rais'd, with Jealousies opprest / (Alternate Tyrants of the Human Breast) / By one great Tryal He resolves to prove / The Faith of Woman, and the Force of Love.""","",2013-07-22 15:07:44 UTC,""
5871,Blank Slate,My own reading,2009-09-14 19:44:06 UTC,"The mind of a young woman lady should be clear and unsullied, like a sheet of white paper, or her own fairer face: lines of thinking destroy the dimples of beauty; aping the reason of man, they lose the exquisite, fascinating charm, in which consists their true empire.
(p. 57). ",,15611,"•The metaphor reworked in argument that follows. I have recorded this metaphor twice: it also appears in the database as a 'Body' metaphor.
•Note this citation in Ruth Perry's Women, Letters, and the Novel: a perfect governness should not permit letters to enter her house and never allows return answers, ""but what she is privy to; by which means, there is nothing we write we meed be ashamed of, were it legibly written on our Foreheads as well as Papers"" (133). From Hannah Wolley's The Gentlewoman's Companion (London 1673), p. 234. On the next page Perry observes, ""The governess was expected to try and control everything that passed through a girl's mind"" (134).","""The mind of a young woman lady should be clear and unsullied, like a sheet of white paper, or her own fairer face""",Writing,2009-09-14 19:44:06 UTC,In argument about what sort of reading women should undertake.
6178,Free indirect discourse,"Reading Joe Bray's The Epistolary Novel: Representations of Consciousness (2003), p. 22.",2005-03-25 00:00:00 UTC,"Emma's eyes were instantly withdrawn; and she sat silently meditating, in a fixed attitude, for a few minutes. A few minutes were sufficient for making her acquainted with her own heart. A mind like her's, once opening to suspicion, made rapid progress. She touched--she admitted--she acknowledged the whole truth. Why was it so much worse that Harriet should be in love with Mr Knightley, that with Frank Churchill? Why was the evil so dreadfully increased by Harriet's having some hope of return? It darted through her, with the speed of an arrow, that Mr Knightley must marry no one but herself!
(III.xi, p. 263)",2011-06-09,16354,"","""It darted through her, with the speed of an arrow, that Mr Knightley must marry no one but herself!""","",2011-06-09 20:16:54 UTC,"Volume III, Chapter xi"
6178,"","Searching ""mind"" in HDIS (Austen)",2011-06-09 20:09:50 UTC,"Emma scarcely heard what was said.--Her mind was divided between two ideas--her own former conversations with him about Miss Fairfax; and poor Harriet;--and for some time she could only exclaim, and require confirmation, repeated confirmation.
""Well,"" said she at last, trying to recover herself; ""this is a circumstance which I must think of at least half a day, before I can at all comprehend it. What!--engaged to her all the winter--before either of them came to Highbury?""
(III.x, p. 255)",,18631,"","""Her mind was divided between two ideas--her own former conversations with him about Miss Fairfax; and poor Harriet.""","",2011-06-09 20:14:14 UTC,"Volume III, Chapter x"
6178,Speed of Thought,"Searching ""mind"" in HDIS (Austen)",2011-06-09 20:20:23 UTC,"While he spoke, Emma's mind was most busy, and, with all the wonderful velocity of thought, had been able--and yet without losing a word--to catch and comprehend the exact truth of the whole; to see that Harriet's hopes had been entirely groundless, a mistake, a delusion, as complete a delusion as any of her own--that Harriet was nothing; that she was every thing herself; that what she had been saying relative to Harriet had been all taken as the language of her own feelings; and that her agitation, her doubts, her reluctance, her discouragement, had been all received as discouragement from herself.--And not only was there time for these convictions, with all their glow of attendant happiness; there was time also to rejoice that Harriet's secret had not escaped her, and to resolve that it need not and should not.--It was all the service she could now render her poor friend; for as to any of that heroism of sentiment which might have prompted her to entreat him to transfer his affection from herself to Harriet, as infinitely the most worthy of the two--or even the more simple sublimity of resolving to refuse him at once and for ever, without vouchsafing any motive, because he could not marry them both, Emma had it not. She felt for Harriet, with pain and with contrition; but no flight of generosity run mad, opposing all that could be probable or reasonable, entered her brain. She had led her friend astray, and it would be a reproach to her for ever; but her judgment was as strong as her feelings, and as strong as it had ever been before, in reprobating any such alliance for him, as most unequal and degrading. Her way was clear, though not quite smooth.-- She spoke then, on being so entreated.--What did she say?--Just what she ought, of course. A lady always does.--She said enough to show there need not be despair--and to invite him to say more himself.
(III.xiii, pp. 430-1)",,18632,"See metaphor turn into FID in following cascade of semi-colons.
","""While he spoke, Emma's mind was most busy, and, with all the wonderful velocity of thought, had been able--and yet without losing a word--to catch and comprehend the exact truth of the whole.""","",2011-06-09 20:20:56 UTC,"Volume III, Chapter xiii"