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Animals | "The first reverend sage who delivered himself on this mysterious subject, having stroked his grey beard, and hemmed thrice with great solemnity, declared that the soul was an animal; a second pronounced it to be the number three, or proportion; a third contended for the number seven, or harmony; a fourth defined the soul the universe; a fifth affirmed it was a mixture of elements; a sixth asserted it was composed of fire; a seventh opined it was formed of water; an eighth called it an essence; a ninth, an idea; a tenth stickled for substance without extension; an eleventh, for extension without substance; a twelfth cried it was an accident; a thirteenth called it a reflecting mirrour; a fourteenth, the image reflected; a fifteenth insisted upon its being a tune; a sixteenth believed it was the instrument that played the tune; a seventeenth undertook to prove it was material; an eighteenth exclaimed it was immaterial; a nineteenth allowed it was something; and a twentieth swore it was nothing." | Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777) | The History and Adventures of an Atom | 1769 | 7 entries in the ESTC (1769, 1786, 1795, 1797, 1799).<br>
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Tobias Smollett, <u>The History and Adventures of an Atom</u>, 2 vols. (London: Robinson and Roberts, 1769). <<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW111569721&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>> |
Animals | "But was it made for nothing else beside / Passions to draw, and Reason to be Guide? / Was so much Art employ'd to drag and drive / Nothing within the Vehicle alive? / No seated Mind that claims the moving Pew, / Master of Passions, and of Reason too?" | Byrom, John (1692-1763) | Thoughts on the Constitution of Human Nature, as Represented in the Systems of Modern Philosophers [from Miscellaneous Poems] | 1773 | 2 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1773).<br>
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Text from <u>The Poems of John Byrom</u>, ed. Adolphus William Ward, 2 vols. (Manchester: Printed for The Chetham Society, 1894-1895). <<a href="http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003&xri:pqil:res_ver=0.2&res_id=xri:lion&rft_id=xri:lion:ft:po:Z300293584:3">Link to LION</a>><br>
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See also John Byrom, <u>Miscellaneous Poems</u>, 2 vols. (Manchester: J. Harrop, 1773), 98-100. <<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T144863">Link to ESTC</a>><<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW110186143&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>><<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=HyYJAAAAQAAJ">Link to Vol. II Google Books</a>> |
Animals | "But upon turning this Plan to and fro in my Thoughts, I observed so many unaccountable Humours in Man, that I did not know out of what Animals to fetch them." | Addison, Joseph (1672-1719) | Spectator, No. 211 | 1711 | At least 80 entries in ESTC (1711, 1712, 1713, 1714, 1715, 1716, 1717, 1718, 1720, 1721, 1723, 1724, 1726, 1729, 1733, 1734, 1735, 1737, 1738, 1744, 1745, 1747, 1748, 1749, 1750, 1753, 1754, 1755, 1756, 1756, 1757, 1761, 1763, 1765, 1766, 1767, 1769, 1771, 1776, 1778, 1785, 1788, 1789, 1781, 1793, 1797, 1799, 1800).<br>
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By Steele, Addison, Budgell and others, <u>The Spectator</u> (London: Printed for Sam. Buckley, at the Dolphin in Little Britain; and sold by A[nn]. Baldwin in Warwick-Lane, 1711-1714). <<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/P1724">Link to ESTC</a>> -- No. 1 (Thursday, March 1. 1711) through No. 555 (Saturday, December 6. 1712); 2nd series, No. 556 (Friday, June 18. 1714), ceased with No. 635 (20 Dec. 1714).<br>
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Some text from <u>The Spectator</u>, 3 vols. Ed. Henry Morley (London: George Routledge, 1891). <<a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12030/12030-h/12030-h/12030-h.htm">Link to PGDP edition</a>><br><br>
Reading in Donald Bond's edition: <u>The Spectator</u>, 5 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965). |
Animals::Animal Activities::Breeding | Insinuations "breed suspicion" in the mind | Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810) | Arthur Mervyn; or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 [First Part] | 1799 | First part published in 1799; second in 1800. Reading and transcribing text from Charles Brockden Brown, <u>Three Gothic Novels</u>. New York: Library of America,1998. |
Animals::Animal Activities::Feeding | "Sorrow may well possess the mind / That feeds where thorns and thistles grow" | Cowper, William (1731-1800) | Hymn LXII. The Narrow Way | 1779 | Cowper, William. <u>The Poems of William Cowper</u>. 3 vols. Ed. John D. Baird and Charles Ryskamp. Oxford: Oxford UP: 1980. |
Animals::Animal Activities::Flying | "His Words I must confess fir'd my Blood; all my Spirits flew about my Heart, and put me into Disorder enough." | Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731) | The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders | 1722 | At least 13 entries in the ESTC (1722, 1741, 1753, 1761, 1765, 1770, 1773, 1776, 1799). [Abridgments not included in foregoing list: see, for example, <u>Fortune's Fickle Distribution</u>]<br>
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Daniel Defoe, <u>The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, & c. Who was Born in Newgate, And during a Life of continu'd Variety for Threescore Years, besides her Childhood, was Twelve Years a Whore, five Times a Wife (whereof once to her own Brother) Twelve years a Thief, Eight Years a Transported Felon in Virginia, at last grew Rich, liv'd Honest, and died a Penitent. Written from her own Memorandums</u> (London: W. Chetwood, at Cato's-Head in Russel-street, Covent Garden and T. Edling, at the Prince's-Arms, over against Exeter Change in the Strand, 1722). |
Animals::Animal Activities::Gnawing | "That name indeed / Becomes the rosy breath of love; becomes / The radiant smiles of joy, the applauding hand / Of admiration: but the bitter shower / That sorrow sheds upon a brother's grave, / But the dumb palsy of nocturnal fear, / Or those consuming fires that gnaw the heart / Of panting indignation, find we there/ To move delight?" | Akenside, Mark (1720-1771) | The Pleasures of Imagination | 1744 | Over 33 entries in the ESTC (1744, 1748, 1754, 1758, 1759, 1763, 1765, 1767, 1768, 1769, 1771, 1775, 1777, 1780, 1786, 1788, 1794, 1795, 1796).<br>
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Text from Mark Akenside, <u>The Poems Of Mark Akenside</u> (London: W. Bowyer and J. Nichols, 1772).<br>
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Compare the poem as first published: Mark Akenside, <u>The Pleasures of Imagination: A Poem. In Three Books.</u> (London: Printed for R. Dodsley 1744). <<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004832460.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>> <<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=vy0GAAAAQAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>><br>
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Also reading <u>The Pleasures of Imagination</u> (Otley, England: Woodstock Books, 2000), which reprints <u>The Pleasures of Imagination. By Mark Akenside, M.D. to Which Is Prefixed a Critical Essay on the Poem, by Mrs. Barbauld.</u> (London: Printed for T. Cadell, jun. and W. Davies, (successors to Mr. Cadell), 1795). <<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T85421">Link to ESTC</a>> |
Animals::Animal Activities::Gnawing | "I'll wait till her just resentment is abated--and when I distress her so again, may I lose her for ever! and be linked instead to some antique virago, whose knawing passions, and long-hoarded spleen, shall make me curse my folly half the day, and all the night!" | Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816) | The Rivals, a Comedy. | 1775 | First performed January 17th, 1775. 14 entries in ESTC (1775, 1776, 1785, 1788, 1791, 1793, 1797, 1798).<br>
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Sheridan, R. B. <u>The Rivals, a Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden</u> (London: John Wilkie, 1775). <<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004899844.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>> |
Animals::Animal Activities::Predation | "Such the strong passions that his reason sway, / The lust, and av'rice on his vital prey." | Ruffhead, James | The Passions of Man. A Poem. In Four Epistles | 1746 | At least 2 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1746, 1747).<br>
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James Ruffhead, <u>The Passions of Man. A Poem. In Four Epistles</u> (London: Printed for the Author, 1746). <<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW116315481&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>> |
Animals::Animal Activities::Predation | "[S]he had no Food from outward Objects, to employ her animal Spirits, and they therefore prey'd at home; and oppressed her own Mind." | Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768) | The History of the Countess of Dellwyn | 1759 | 2 entries in the ESTC (1759).<br>
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See <u>The History of the Countess of Dellwyn. In Two Volumes: By the Author of David Simple.</u> (London: Printed for A. Millar, 1759). <<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T66941">Link to ESTC</a>> |
Animals::Animal Activities::Taming | "His passions tamed and all at his control, / How perfect the composure of his soul!" | Cowper, William (1731-1800) | Truth [from Poems] | 1782 | At least entries in ECCO and ESTC (1782, 1786, 1787, 1788, 1790, 1792, 1793, 1794, 1797, 1798, 1800, 1799, 1800).<br>
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See <u>Poems by William Cowper</u> (London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1782). <<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T14895">Link to ESTC</a>>
<<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004792651.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>><br>
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Text from <u>The Works of William Cowper</u> (London: Baldwin and Cradock, 1835-1837).<br>
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Reading <u>The Poems of William Cowper</u>, 3 vols. ed. John D. Baird and Charles Ryskamp (Oxford: Oxford UP: 1980), I, pp. 280-296. |
Animals::Animals | "He supposed that a philosopher's brain was like a great forest, where ideas ranged like animals of several kinds; that those ideas copulated and engendered conclusions; that when those different species copulate, they bring forth monsters and absurdities; that the major is the male, the minor the female, which copulate by the middle term, and engender the conclusion." | Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Arbuthnot, John (bap. 1677, d. 1735) | Memoirs of the Extraordinary Life, Works, and Discoveries of Martinus Scriblerus | 1741 | At least 16 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1741, 1742, 1752, 1756, 1757, 1758, 1761, 1764, 1766, 1767, 1768, 1772, 1774, 1778, 1779, 1789). Republished in the <u>Works</u> of Pope and of Swift.<br>
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See <u>Memoirs of the Extraordinary Life, Works, and Discoveries of Martinus Scriblerus. By Mr. Pope</u> (Dublin: Printed by and for George Faulkner, 1741). <<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004809278.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>>
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Reading <u>Memoirs of the Extraordinary Life, Works, and Discoveries of Martinus Scriblerus</u> (London: Hesperus Press, 2002). [From which much of my text was originally transcribed.] |
Animals::Bat | "Whether the learned Dr. Edmund Law, and the great Dr. Sherlock bishop of London, be right, in asserting, the human soul sleeps like a bat or a swallow, in some cavern for a period, till the last trumpet awakens the hero of Voltaire and Henault, I mean Lewis XIV." | Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788) | The Life of John Buncle, Esq. | 1756 | At least 4 entries in the ESTC (1756, 1763, 1766, 1770).<br>
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Text from first printing: <u>The Life of John Buncle, Esq; Containing Various Observations and Reflections, Made in Several Parts of the World; and Many Extraordinary Relations</u>, (London: Printed for J. Noon, 1756). <<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW109147609&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>><<a href="http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003&xri:pqil:res_ver=0.2&res_id=xr i:lion&rft_id=xri:lion:ft:pr:Z000000000:0">Link to LION</a>><br>
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See also <u>The Life of John Buncle, Esq; Containing Various Observations and Reflections, Made in Several Parts of the World, and Many Extraordinary Relations</u>, 2 vols. (London: Printed for J. Johnson and B. Davenport, 1766). <<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=578NAAAAQAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>> |
Animals::Beast | "Fierce is their [natives of hot climates] Rage, and all the Savage Beast / Reigns in their Soul, and haunts their desart Breast; / Where Hate, Revenge, and Jealousy are bred, / And livid Envy hides her spleenful Head." | Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729) | The Nature of Man. A Poem. In Three Books. | 1711 | At least 2 entries in the ESTC (1711, 1720)<br>
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Richard Blackmore, <u>The Nature of Man. A Poem. In Three Books.</u> (London: Sam. Buckley, 1711). <<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CB132805565&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>> |
Animals::Beast | "Tread down Thy foes, with power control / The beast and devil in my soul." | Wesley, John and Charles | Hymn CXXVIII [from A Collection of Hymns] | 1780 | At least 14 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1780, 1781, 1782, 1784, 1786, 1788, 1791, 1793, 1795, 1797).<br>
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Collected as early as 1780 in <u>A Collection of Hymns, for the Use of the People Called Methodists.</u> (London: Printed by J. Paramore, at the Foundry, 1780). <<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T28513">Link to ESTC</a>><br>
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Also located in an ECCO search: titled "Hymn 128" in <u>A Collection of Hymns, for the Use of the People Called Methodists. by the Rev. John Wesley, A. M. Late Fellow of Lincoln-College, Oxford. A New Edition.</u> (London:, 1795). <<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW3319012894&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>><br>
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Text from <u>The Poetical works of John and Charles Wesley</u>, Ed. G. Osborn, 13 vols. (London: The Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1868). <<a href="http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007432022">Link to Hathi Trust</a>> [Hymn is there titled "Galatians III. 22." -- First line: "Jesu, the sinners friend, to thee"] |
Animals::Beast::Lamb | "This <em>Winged Boy</em> a gentle mind did bear, / As gentle as the beast [a lamb] which him up-bore, / Ne could he see th'unhappy drop a tear / But it would make his breast with pity sore, / And he himself would weep and grieve therefore." | Downman, Hugh (1740-1809) | The Land of the Muses: A Poem, In the Manner of Spenser; As if to be inserted in the 2d Book of the Fairy Queen, between the 11th and 12th Cantos. [from The Land of the Muses] | 1768 | Only 1 entry in ESTC (1768).<br>
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<u>The Land of the Muses: a Poem, in the Manner of Spenser. With Poems on Several Occasions. By Hugh Downman</u> (Edinburgh: Printed for the author. Sold by A. Kincaid & J. Bell, Edinburgh; and by R. Baldwin, and Richardson & Urquhart, London, 1768). <<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T92236">Link to ESTC</a>><<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004858358.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>><<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW113112837&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>> |
Animals::Beast::Lion | "'Tis said, when Japhet's Son began / To mould the Clay, and fashion Man, / He stole from every Beast a Part, / And fix'd the Lion in his Heart." | Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [Editor] | Ode XVI. To Tyndaris, Whom he had Insulted in Iämbic Verse [from The Works of Horace] | 1757 | <u>The Works of Horace in English verse. By several Hands. Collected and Published by Mr. Duncombe. With Notes Historical and Critical</u>, 2 vols. (London: R. and J. Dodsley, 1757). <<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW112364291&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>> |
Animals::Beasts | "O save me from the tumult of the soul! / From the wild beasts within!" | Thomson, James (1700-1748) | The Tragedy of Sophonisba | 1730 | At least 22 entries in the ESTC (1730, 1735, 1736, 1738, 1744, ).<br>
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See James Thomas. <u>The Tragedy of Sophonisba</u>. London: Printed for A. Millar, 1730. <<a href="http://xtf.lib.virginia.edu/xtf/view?docId=chadwyck_evd/uvaGenText/tei/chevd_V2.0353.xml;brand=default;">Link to UVA Library</a>> |
Animals::Beasts | "My soul is dead, my heart is stone, / A cage of birds and beasts unclean, / A den of thieves, a dire abode / Of dragons, but no house of God." | Wesley, John and Charles | Groaning for Redemption. [from Hymns and Sacred Poems] | 1742 | More than 11 entries in ESTC (1742, 1743, 1745, 1747, 1749, 1755, 1756). See also the many other collections of hymns which select from or incorporate hymns from the original.<br>
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From the 1742 edition <u>Hymns and Sacred Poems</u> (Bristol: Printed and sold by Felix Farley, in Castle-Green; J. Wilson in Wine-Street; and at the School-Room in the Horse-Fair: in Bath, by W. Frederick, Bookseller: and in London, by T. Harris on the Bridge; also, at the Foundery in Upper-Moor-Fields, 1742). <<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T31325">Link to ESTC</a>><<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=CGoFAAAAQAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>><br>
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Metaphors found searching in <u>The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley</u>, ed. G. Osborn, 13 vols. (London: The Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1868). <<a href="http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007432022">Link to Hathi Trust</a>> |
Animals::Beasts | "Mankind's the same to Beasts and Fouls / That Devils are to Humane Soules, / Who therefor, when like Fiends th' appeare, / Avoyd and Fly with equal feare." | Butler, Samuel (1613-1680) | The World [from Poetical Thesaurus] | 1759 | Text from <u>Satires and Miscellaneous Poetry and Prose</u>, ed. René Lamar (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1928).<br>
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See "Miscellaneous Thoughts" in vol. I of <u>The Genuine Remains in Verse and Prose of Mr. Samuel Butler</u> (London: J. and R. Tonson, 1759). <<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW111950411&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>> |
Animals::Beasts | "My soul is like a wilderness, / Where beasts of midnight howl; / There the sad raven finds her place, / And there the screaming owl." | Watts, Isaac (1674-1748) | Psalm 102. v. 1-13, 20, 21. First Part. (C. M.) A Prayer of the Afflicted. | 1719 | Text from <u>The Works of the Reverend and Learned Isaac Watts, D. D.</u>, 6 vols. (London: Printed by and for John Barfield, 1810).<br>
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See also <u>The Psalms of David, Imitated in the Language of the New Testament, and Applied to the Christian State and Worship</u> (London: Printed for J. Clark and R. Ford, 1719. <<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW118241639&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>> |
Animals::Beasts | "Passions that flatter, or that slay, / Are beasts that fawn, or birds that prey." | Cotton, Nathaniel, the elder (1705-1788) | Visions in Verse, for the Entertainment and Instruction of Younger Minds | 1751 | At least 20 entries in ESTC (1751, 1752, 1753, 1755, 1760, 1767, 1771, 1776, 1781, 1782, 1786, 1787, 1790, 1794, 1798).<br>
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Text from <u>Various Pieces in Verse and Prose</u>, 2 vols. (London: J. Dodsley, 1791). <<a href="http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=zXT3KLT74J4C">Link to Google Books</a>><br>
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See also Nathaniel Cotton, <u>Visions in Verse, for the Entertainment and Instruction of Younger Minds.</u> 2nd edition (London: Printed for R. Dodsley in Pall-Mall; and Sold by M. Cooper, at the Globe in Pater-Noster Row, 1751). <<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW113883766&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>><<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW3317188183&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to 2nd edition</a>><br>
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See also <u>Visions in Verse: For the Entertainment and Instruction of Younger Minds. A New Edition.</u> (London: J. Dodsley, 1790). <<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=V6oDAAAAQAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>><br>
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The revised and enlarged 3rd edition adds a new, ninth vision: "Death. Vision the Last" |
Animals::Beasts | "Behold the frantick passion how it burns, / Like a wild beast breaks every tie, / Laughs at the Priest; the Legislator spurns, / And gives both heaven and earth the lye!" | Stevenson, John Hall (1717-1785) | Ode to Venus | 1780 | Text from volume iii, of <u>The Works</u> <<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=Py0JAAAAQAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>><br>
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See also <u>Crazy Tales: and Fables for Grown Gentlemen</u>, new ed. (London: Printed for J. Dodsley and T. Becket, 1780). <<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=K04shfHupqQ">Link to Google Books</a>> |
Animals::Beasts | "These abandon'd him to the Fury of an enrag'd Conscience, open'd the Sluices of the Soul, as I call them, and pour'd in a Flood of unsufferable Grief, letting loose those wild Beasts call'd Passions upon him, such as Rage, Anguish, Self-reproach, too late Repentance, and final Desperation, all to fall upon him at once; so the Man runs to Death for Relief, tho' it be to the Gallows, or any where, and that even by the meer Consequence of Things." | Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731) | An Essay on the History and Reality of Apparitions | 1727 | 2 entries in ESTC (1727, 1728). For a publication history, see Rodney Baine's 1962 essay, "Daniel Defoe and 'The History and Reality of Apparitions.'" First edition, published by J. Roberts, appeared anonymously on March 18, 1727. Second issues were sold the same year by A. Millar. The 1735 edition, reissued in 1738 and 1740.<br>
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Text from <u>An Essay on the History and Reality of Apparitions: Being an Account of What They are, and What They are Not; Whence They Come, and Whence They Come Not.</u> (London: Printed: and sold by J. Roberts, 1727). <<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004843878.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>> |
Animals::Beasts::Wild Beasts | "His mind resembled the vast ampitheatre, the Colisaeum at Rome. In the centre stood his judgment, which like a mighty gladiator, combated those apprehensions that, like the wild beasts of the <i>Arena</i>, were all around in cells, ready to be let out upon him. After a conflict, he drives then back to their dens; but not killing them, they were still assailing him." | Boswell, James (1740-1795) | The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. | 1791 | 5 entries in ESTC (1791, 1792, 1793, 1799).<br>
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See <u>The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order; a Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations With Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published. The Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great-Britain, for Near Half a Century, During Which He Flourished. In Two Volumes. By James Boswell, Esq.</u> 2 vols. (London: Printed by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, in the Poultry, 1791). <<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T64481">Link to ESTC</a>><<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004839390.0001.001">Vol. I in ECCO-TCP</a>><<a href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/ecco/004839390.0001.002">Vol. II</a>><br>
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My main reading text is James Boswell, <u>The Life of Johnson</u>, ed. Claude Rawson, (New York: Knopf, 1992). Also reading in David Womersley's Penguin edition, 2008.<br>
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First edition in Google Books, <<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=P-INAAAAQAAJ">Vol. I</a>><<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=0OINAAAAQAAJ">Vol. II</a>>. See also Jack Lynch's online e-text, prepared from the 1904 Oxford edition <<a href="http://ethnicity.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/BLJ/front.html">Link</a>>. |
Animals::Bee | "My Heart was so free, / It rov'd like the Bee, / 'Till Polly my Passion requited." | Gay, John (1685-1732) | The Beggar's Opera | 1728 | <u>The Beggar's Opera. As it is Acted at the Theatre Royal in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields. Written by Mr. Gay</u> (London: Printed for John Watts, 1728). <<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW109713725&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>><br>
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Extremely popular and often reprinted, with ninety some entries in the ESTC. Reading Penguin edition, edited by Bryan Loughrey and T.O. Treadwell, which is based on the third, quarto, edition of 1729. |
Animals::Beehive | "Wisdom, though richer than Peruvian mines, / And sweeter than the sweet ambrosial hive,-- / What is she but the means of happiness?" | Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765) | Night the Second. On Time, Death, Friendship. Humbly Inscrib'd to the Right Honourable The Earl of Wilmington [Night-Thoughts] | 1742 | Uniform title published in 9 volumes, from 1742 to 1745. At least 133 reprintings after 1745 in ESTC (1747, 1748, 1749, 1750, 1751, 1752, 1755, 1756, 1757, 1758, 1760, 1761, 1762, 1764, 1765, 1766, 1767, 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, 1773, 1774, 1775, 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, 1780, 1782, 1783, 1785, 1786, 1787, 1788, 1789, 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, 1795, 1796, 1797, 1798, 1800).<br>
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Edward Young, <u>Night the Second. On Time, Death, Friendship. Humbly Inscrib'd to the Right Honourable The Earl of Wilmington</u> (London: Printed for R. Dodsley, 1742).<br>
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Text from <u>The Complete Works, Poetry and Prose, of the Rev. Edward Young, LL.D.</u>, 2 vols. (London: William Tegg, 1854). <<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=ixYUAAAAQAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>> Reading Edward Young, <u>Night Thoughts</u>, ed. Stephen Cornford (New York: Cambridge UP, 1989). |
Animals::Beehive | "An antient philosopher indeed, full of real or pretended honesty, declared it to be his wish that there were a window in his breast that every body might see the integrity and purity of his thoughts. It would be truly be very pretty and amusing if our bodies were transparent, so that we could see one anothers sentiments and passions working as we see bees in a glass-hive." | Boswell, James (1740-1795) | The Hypochondriack, No. 6 | 1778 | <u>The Hypochondriack</u>, No. 6 (March, 1778). See <u>The London Magazine, or Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer</u> <<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=M_URAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA105#v=onepage&q&f=false">Link to Google Books</a>><br>
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See also James Boswell, <u>The Hypochondriack</u>, ed. Margery Bailey, 2 vols. (Stanford UP, 1928)
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Animals::Beehive::Dioptrical Beehive | "That had said glass been there set up, nothing more would have been wanting, in order to have taken a man's character, but to have taken a chair and gone softly, as you would to a dioptrical bee-hive, and look'd in,--view'd the soul stark naked;--observ'd all her motions,--her machinations;--traced all her maggots from their first engendering to their crawling forth;--watched her loose in her frisks, her gambols, her capricios; and after some notice of her more solemn deportment, consequent upon such frisks, &c." | Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768) | The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman | 1760 | At least 82 entries in ESTC (1759, 1760, 1761, 1762, 1763, 1765, 1767, 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, 1773, 1774, 1775, 1776, 1777, 1779, 1780, 1781, 1782, 1783, 1786, 1788, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, 1795, 1796, 1798, 1799, 1800). Complicated publication history: vols. 1 and 2 published in London January 1, 1760. Vols. 3, 4, 5, and 6 published in 1761. Vols. 7 and 8 published in 1765. Vol. 9 published in 1767.<br>
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See Laurence Sterne, <u>The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman</u>, 9 vols. (London: Printed for D. Lynch, 1760-1767). <<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&contentSet=ECCOArticles&type=multipage&tabID=T001&prodId=ECCO&docId=CW114738374&source=gale&userGroupName=viva_uva&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>><<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&contentSet=ECCOArticles&type=multipage&tabID=T001&prodId=ECCO&docId=CW114607600&source=gale&userGroupName=viva_uva&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to 1759 York edition in ECCO</a>><br>
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First two volumes available in ECCO-TCP: <<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004792564.0001.001">Vol. 1</a>><<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004792564.0001.002">Vol. 2</a>>. Most text from second London edition <<a href="http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003&xri:pqil:res_ver=0.2&res_id=xri:lion&rft_id=xri:lion:ft:pr:Z000046871:0">Link to LION</a>>.<br>
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For vols. 3-4, see ESTC T14705 <<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T14705">R. and J. Dodsley, 1761</a>>. For vols. 5-6, see ESTC T14706 <<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T14706">T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, 1762</a>>. For vols. 7-8, see ESTC T14820 <<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T14820">T. Becket and P. A. Dehont, 1765</a>>. For vol. 9, <a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T14824">T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, 1767</a>.<br>
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Reading in Laurence Sterne, <u>Tristram Shandy: An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Sources, Criticism</u>, Ed. Howard Anderson (New York: Norton, 1980). |
Animals::Bees | "For, it is the opinion of choice <EM>virtuosi</EM>, that the brain is only a crowd of little animals, but with teeth and claws extremely sharp, and therefore cling together in the contexture we behold, like the picture of Hobbes's <EM>Leviathan</EM>, or like bees in perpendicular swarm upon a tree, or like a carrion corrupted into vermin, still preserving the shape and figure of the mother animal; that all invention is formed by the morsure of two or more of these animals, upon certain capillary nerves, which proceed from thence, whereof three branches spread into the tongue, and two into the right hand." | Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) | A Discourse Concerning the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit. In a Letter to a Friend. A Fragment | 1704 | More than 40 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1704, 1705, 1710, 1711, 1720, 1724, 1726, 1727, 1733, 1734, 1739, 1741, 1743, 1747, 1750, 1751, 1752, 1753, 1754, 1756, 1760, 1761, 1762, 1766, 1768, 1769, 1771, 1772, 1774, 1776, 1781, 1784, 1798).<br>
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Reading Jonathan Swift, <u>A Tale of a Tub and Other Works</u>, eds. Angus Ross and David Woolley. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986). Some text drawn from <a href="http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/swift/jonathan/s97t/complete.html">ebooks@Adelaide</a>.<br>
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Note, the textual history is complicated. First published May 10, 1704. The second edition of 1704 and the fifth of 1710 include new material. Ross and Woolley's text is an eclectic one, based on the three authoritative editions.<br>
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See <u>A Tale of a Tub. Written for the Universal Improvement of Mankind. To Which Is Added, an Account of a Battel Between the Antient and Modern Books in St. James's Library</u>, 2nd edition, corrected (London: Printed for John Nutt, 1704). <<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T49833">Link to ESTC</a>> |
Animals::Bees::Honey | "If you, these moral Truths, would comprehend, / To moral Writers, your Attention lend; / By reading them, you'll Wisdom's Honey gain, / And with her golden Stores, inrich your Brain." | Marriott, Thomas (d. 1766) | Female Conduct: Being an Essay on the Art of Pleasing | 1759 | 3 entries in ESTC (1759, 1760, 1775).<br>
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Text from <u>Female Conduct: Being an Essay on the Art of Pleasing. To Be Practised by the Fair Sex, Before, and After Marriage. A Poem, in Two Books. Humbly Dedicated, to Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales. Inscribed to Plautilla. by Thomas Marriott, Esq.</u> (London: Printed for W. Owen, at Homer's Head, Temple-Bar, 1759). <<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW114353522&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>> |
Animals::Bees::Honey | "If you, these moral Truths, would comprehend, / To moral Writers, your Attention lend; / By reading them, you'll Wisdom's Honey gain, / And with her golden Stores, inrich your Brain." | Marriott, Thomas (d. 1766) | Female Conduct: Being an Essay on the Art of Pleasing | 1759 | 3 entries in ESTC (1759, 1760, 1775).<br>
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Text from <u>Female Conduct: Being an Essay on the Art of Pleasing. To Be Practised by the Fair Sex, Before, and After Marriage. A Poem, in Two Books. Humbly Dedicated, to Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales. Inscribed to Plautilla. by Thomas Marriott, Esq.</u> (London: Printed for W. Owen, at Homer's Head, Temple-Bar, 1759). <<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW114353522&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>> |
Animals::Bird | "As a bird that had been frighted from its nest, my affections out-went my haste, and hovered around my little fire-side, with all the rapture of expectation." | Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774) | The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale | 1766 | 68 entries in the ESTC (1766, 1767, 1769, 1772, 1774, 1775, 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, 1780, 1781, 1783, 1784, 1785, 1786, 1787, 1788, 1789, 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1795, 1797, 1799, 1800).<br>
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See also Oliver Goldsmith, <u>The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale. Supposed to be Written by Himself</u>, 2 vols. (Salisbury: B. Collins, 1766). <<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW113759305&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>><<a href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/ecco/004897279.0001.001">Link to Vol. I in ECCO-TCP</a>><<a href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/ecco/004897279.0001.002">Vol. II</a>><br>
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Reading Oliver Goldsmith, <u>The Vicar of Wakefield</u>, ed. Stephen Coote (London and New York: Penguin Books, 1986). |
Animals::Bird | "Our Soul, as from a broken Snare / A Bird escapes, is fled." | Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729) | Psalm CXXIV [from A New Version of the Psalms of David] | 1721 | Sir Richard Blackmore, <u>A New Version of the Psalms of David, Fitted to the Tunes used in Churches.</u> (London: J. March, 1721). <<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW118241296&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>> |
Animals::Bird | "My Heart flutters like a Bird: I long for Mrs. Martha's Return. | Miller, James (1704-1744) | Vanelia: Or, The Amours of the Great. An Opera. As it is Acted By a Private Company near St. James's. | 1732 | |
Animals::Bird | "Do, mother, put your hand upon my heart, it springs like a bird in my breast with joy." | Pilon, Frederick (1750-1788) | Barataria: or, Sancho Turn'd Governor, a Farce, in Two Acts: As it is Performed at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden. | 1785 | Text from Frederick Pilon, <u>Barataria: or, Sancho Turn'd Governor, a Farce, in Two Acts</u>, new edition (London: J. Almon, 1793). <<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW106892899&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO,</a>><br>
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See also <u>Barataria: or, Sancho Turn'd Governor, a Farce, in Two Acts</u> (London: J. Almon, 1785). <<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW110070950&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>> |
Animals::Bird | The heart like a bird to its nestling will fly, / And when by the weight of a parent its bending, / Yet wishes while constant to break and to die. / Like a bird in a snare, of its freedom bereft, / Still hoping and wishing releasement again, / 'Till clos'd in the cage the flutterer is left / To pant and to sigh for its freedom in vain." | Robertson, James (fl.1768-1788) | The Heroine of Love, a Musical Piece of Three Acts | 1778 | Only 1 entry in ESTC (1778).<br>
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James Robertson, The Heroine of Love, a Musical Piece of Three Acts (York: W. Blanchard, 1778). <<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T117783">Link to ESTC</a>><<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=HJkNAAAAQAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>> |
Animals::Bird | "'Tis all in vain, this Rage that tears thy Bosom, / Like a poor Bird that flutters in its Cage, / Thou beat'st thy self to Death." | Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718) | The Tragedy of Jane Shore. | 1714 | Over seventy entries in the ESTC (1714, 1719, 1720, 1723, 1726, 1728, 1731, 1733, 1735, 1736, 1740, 1746, 1748, 1751, 1752, 1754, 1755, 1756, 1758, 1760, 1761, 1764, 1765, 1767, 1768, 1770, 1772, 1773, 1774, 1780, 1783, 1784, 1785, 1786, 1787, 1790, 1791).<br>
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See <u>The Tragedy of Jane Shore. Written in Imitation of Shakespear's Style. By N. Rowe</u> (London: Printed for Bernard Lintott, 1714). |
Animals::Bird | "Upon her Tongue did such smooth Mischief dwell, / And from her Lips such welcome Flatt'ry fell, / Th' unguarded Youth, in Silken Fetters ty'd, / Resign'd his Reason, and with Ease complied. / Thus does the Ox to his own Slaughter go, / And thus is senseless of th' impending Blow. / Thus flies the simple Bird into the Snare, / That skilful Fowlers for his Life prepare." | Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729) | Spectator, No. 410 | 1712 | At least 80 entries in ESTC (1711, 1712, 1713, 1714, 1715, 1716, 1717, 1718, 1720, 1721, 1723, 1724, 1726, 1729, 1733, 1734, 1735, 1737, 1738, 1744, 1745, 1747, 1748, 1749, 1750, 1753, 1754, 1755, 1756, 1756, 1757, 1761, 1763, 1765, 1766, 1767, 1769, 1771, 1776, 1778, 1785, 1788, 1789, 1781, 1793, 1797, 1799, 1800).<br>
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By Steele, Addison, Budgell and others, <u>The Spectator</u> (London: Printed for Sam. Buckley, at the Dolphin in Little Britain; and sold by A[nn]. Baldwin in Warwick-Lane, 1711-1714). <<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/P1724">Link to ESTC</a>> -- No. 1 (Thursday, March 1. 1711) through No. 555 (Saturday, December 6. 1712); 2nd series, No. 556 (Friday, June 18. 1714), ceased with No. 635 (20 Dec. 1714).<br>
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Some text from <u>The Spectator</u>, 3 vols. Ed. Henry Morley (London: George Routledge, 1891). <<a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12030/12030-h/12030-h/12030-h.htm">Link to PGDP edition</a>><br><br>
Reading in Donald Bond's edition: <u>The Spectator</u>, 5 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965). -- Notes, poem by Matthew Ward |
Animals::Bird::Bird of Paradise | "Whether a tincture of malice in our natures makes us fond of furnishing every bright idea with its reverse, or whether reason, reflecting upon the sum of things, can, like the sun, serve only to enlighten one half of the globe, leaving the other half by necessity under shade and darkness, or whether fancy, flying up to the imagination of what is highest and best, becomes over-short, and spent, and weary, and suddenly falls, like a dead bird of paradise, to the ground; or whether, after all these metaphysical conjectures, I have not entirely missed the true reason." | Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) | A Tale of a Tub | 1704 | 43 entries in the ESTC (1704, 1705, 1710, 1711, 1724, 1726, 1727, 1733, 1734, 1739, 1741, 1742, 1743, 1747, 1750, 1751, 1752, 1753, 1754, 1756, 1760, 1762, 1766, 1768, 1769, 1771, 1772, 1776, 1781, 1784, 1798).<br>
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Reading Jonathan Swift, <u>A Tale of a Tub and Other Works</u>, eds. Angus Ross and David Woolley. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986). Some text drawn from <a href="http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/swift/jonathan/s97t/complete.html">ebooks@Adelaide</a>.<br>
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Note, the textual history is complicated. First published May 10, 1704. The second edition of 1704 and the fifth of 1710 include new material. Ross and Woolley's text is an eclectic one, based on the three authoritative editions.<br>
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See <u>A Tale of a Tub. Written for the Universal Improvement of Mankind. To Which Is Added, an Account of a Battel Between the Antient and Modern Books in St. James's Library</u>, 2nd edition, corrected (London: Printed for John Nutt, 1704). <<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T49833">Link to ESTC</a>><<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW115346064&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>> |
Animals::Bird::Cormorant | "Among the helluones librorum, the Cormorants of Books, there are wretched Reasoners, that have canine Appetites, and no Digestion." | Mandeville, Bernard (bap. 1670, d. 1733) | The Fable of the Bees. Part II. | 1729 | Complicated publication history. At least 16 entries for <u>The Fable of the Bees</u> in ESTC (1729, 1732, 1733, 1734, 1740, 1750, 1755, 1755, 1772, 1795).<br>
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<u>The Grumbling Hive</u> was printed as a pamphlet in 1705. 1st edition of <u>The Fable of the Bees</u> published in 1714, 2nd edition in 1723 (with additions, essays "On Charity Schools" and "Nature of Society"). Part II, first published in 1729. Kaye's text based on 6th edition of 1732.<br>
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See <u>The Fable of the Bees. Part II. By the Author of the First.</u> (London: Printed: and sold by J. Roberts in Warwick-Lane, 1729). <<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T78343">Link to ESTC</a>><<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CB129250300&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>><br>
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See also Bernard Mandeville, <u>The Fable of the Bees</u>, ed. F.B. Kaye, 2 vols. (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1988). Orig. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924. Reading first volume in Liberty Fund paperback; also searching online ed. <<a href="http://oll.libertyfund.org/Texts/LFBooks/Mandeville0162/FableOfBees/0014-01_Bk.html#hd_lf14v1.head.037">Link to OLL</a>><br>
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I am also working with another print edition: <u>The Fable of the Bees</u>, ed. F. B. Kaye, 2 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957). |
Animals::Bird::Dove | "It is sufficient for our present purpose, if it be allowed, what surely, without the greatest absurdity, cannot be disputed, that there is some benevolence, however small, infused into our bosom; some spark of friendship for human kind; some particle of the dove, kneaded into our frame, along with the elements of the wolf and serpent." | Hume, David (1711-1776) | An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals | 1751 | Working from Nidditch's census and confirming 3 entries through the ESTC (1751, 1753, 1760, 1764, 1767, 1768, 1770, 1772, 1777).<br>
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First published as <u>An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals. By David Hume, Esq</u> (London: Printed for A. Millar, 1751). <<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW119331113&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>><<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004806387.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>><br>
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Text from David Hume, <u>Enquiries Concerning Human Understanding and Concerning the Principles of Morals</u>. ed. L. A. Selby-Bigge, rev. ed. P. H. Nidditch (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1975). |
Animals::Bird::Eagle | "But in its proper Vacuity, and being freed from these Letts and Impediments, it [the soul] would mount towards its Original, like an Eagle toward the Sun." | Cheyne, George (1671-1743) | An Essay of Health and Long Life | 1724 | Cheyne, George. <u>An Essay of Health and Long Life</u> (London: George Strahan, 1724). <<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=5wIAAAAAQAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>> |
Animals::Birds | "For if vast Thoughts shou'd play about a <i>Mind</i> / Inclos'd in Flesh, and dregging cumbrous Life, / Fluttering and beating in the mournful Cage, / It soon wou'd break its Grates and wing away." | Evans, Abel (1679-1737) | Præ-existence. A Poem, In Imitation of Milton. | 1714 | 3 entries in ESTC (1714, 1740, 1800).<br>
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<u>Præ-Existence. A Poem, In Imitation of Milton.</u> (London: Printed for John Clark, at the Bible and Crown in the Old Change, near St. Paul’s, 1714). <<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T2349">Link to ESTC</a>> |
Animals::Birds | "For if vast Thoughts shou'd play about a <i>Mind</i> / Inclos'd in Flesh, and dregging cumbrous Life, / Fluttering and beating in the mournful Cage, / It soon wou'd break its Grates and wing away." | Evans, Abel (1679-1737) | Præ-existence. A Poem, In Imitation of Milton. | 1714 | 3 entries in ESTC (1714, 1740, 1800).<br>
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<u>Præ-Existence. A Poem, In Imitation of Milton.</u> (London: Printed for John Clark, at the Bible and Crown in the Old Change, near St. Paul’s, 1714). <<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T2349">Link to ESTC</a>> |
Animals::Birds | "'Tis hard, he cries, to bring to sudden sight / Ideas that have wing'd their distant flight." | Pope, Alexander (1688-1744), Broome, W. and Fenton, E. | The Odyssey of Homer. Translated from the Greek | 1725 | Over 30 entries in ESTC (1725, 1726, 1745, 1752, 1753, 1758, 1760, 1761, 1763, 1766, 1767, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1773, 1778, 1790, 1792, 1795, 1796).<br>
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<u>The Odyssey of Homer. Translated from the Greek</u>, 5 vols. (London: Printed for Bernard Lintot, 1725-26). |
Animals::Birds | "Don't your Heart ake for me? --I am sure mine flutter'd about like a Bird in a Cage new caught." | Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761) | Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded. | 1740 | Over 53 entries in ESTC (1740, 1741, 1742, 1743, 1746, 1754, 1762, 1767, 1771, 1772, 1775, 1776, 1785, 1792, 1794, 1795, 1796, 1797, 1798, 1799). [Richardson published third and fourth volumes in 1741.]<br>
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First edition published in two volumes on 6 November, 1740--dated 1741 on the title page. Volumes 3 and 4 were published in December 7, 1741 (this sequel is sometimes called <u>Pamela in her Exalted Condition</u>).<br>
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See Samuel Richardson, <u>Pamela: or, Virtue Rewarded. In a Series of Familiar Letters from a Beautiful Young Damsel, to Her Parents: Now First Published in Order to Cultivate the Principles of Virtue and Religion in the Minds of the Youth of Both Sexes. A Narrative Which Has Its Foundation in Truth and Nature: and at the Same Time That It Agreeably Entertains, by a Variety of Curious and Affecting Incidents, Is Intirely Divested of All Those Images, Which, in Too Many Pieces Calculated for Amusement Only, Tend to Inflame the Minds They Should Instruct</u> (London: C. Rivington and J. Robinson, 1740). [Title page says 1741] <<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T111392">Link to ESTC</a>><<a href="http://find.galegroup.com.proxy.its.virginia.edu/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW112764551&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>><<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004873068.0001.001">Link to first vol. of 3rd edition in ECCO-TCP</a>><br>
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See also <u>Pamela: or, Virtue Rewarded. in a Series of Familiar Letters from a Beautiful Young Damsel to Her Parents: and Afterwards, in Her Exalted Condition, Between Her, and Persons of Figure and Quality, Upon the Most Important and Entertaining Subjects, in Genteel Life. the Third and Fourth Volumes. Publish’d in Order to Cultivate the Principles of Virtue and Religion in the Minds of the Youth of Both Sexes. by the Editor of the Two First.</u> (London: Printed for S. Richardson: and sold by C. Rivington, in St. Paul’s Church-Yard; and J. Osborn, in Pater-Noster Row, [1742] [1741]). <<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T111391">Link to ESTC</a>><br>
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All searching was originally done in Chadwyck Healey's eighteenth-century prose fiction database through Stanford's HDIS interface. Chadwyck-Healey contains electronic texts of the original editions (1740-1741) and the 6th edition (1742). |
Animals::Birds | "The window was open. Away the troublesome bosom-visiter [Conscience], the intruder, is flown." | Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761) | Clarissa. Or, the History of a Young Lady: Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life. | 1748 | Published December 1747 (vols. 1-2), April 1748 (vols. 3-4), December 1748 (vols. 5-7). Over 28 entries in ESTC (1748, 1749, 1751, 1751, 1759, 1764, 1765, 1768, 1772, 1774, 1780, 1784, 1785, 1788, 1790, 1791, 1792, 1794, 1795, 1798, 1800). Passages "restored" in 3rd edition of 1751. An abridgment in 1756.<br>
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See Samuel Richardson, <u>Clarissa. Or, the History of a Young Lady: Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life</u>, 7 vols. (London: Printed for S. Richardson, 1748). <<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW112657733&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>><br>
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Some text drawn from ECCO-TCP <<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004835420.0001.001">Link to vol. I in ECCO-TCP</a>><<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004835420.0001.002">Link to vol. II</a>><<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004835420.0001.003">Link to vol. III</a>><<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004835420.0001.004">Link to vol. IV</a>><<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004835420.0001.005">Link to vol. V</a>><<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004835420.0001.006">Link to vol. VI</a>><<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004835420.0001.007">Link to vol. VII</a>><br>
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Reading Samuel Richardson, <u>Clarissa; or, the History of a Young Lady</u>, ed. Angus Ross (London: Penguin Books, 1985). <<a href="http://gateway.proquest.com.proxy.its.virginia.edu/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003&xri:pqil:res_ver=0.2&res_id=xri:lion&rft_id=xri:lion:ft:pr:Z001581568:0">Link to LION</a>> |
Animals::Birds | "Ev'n from this dark confinement with delight / She [the mind] looks abroad, and prunes herself for flight; / Like an unwilling inmate longs to roam / From this dull earth, and seek her native home." | Jenyns, Soame (1704-1787); Browne, Isaac Hawkins (1706-1760) | On the Immortality of the Soul | 1761 | At least 4 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1761, 1770, 1790, 1793).<br>
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See Miscellaneous Pieces, in Two Volumes. ... . Containing Poems, Translations, and Essays. (London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, at Tully's Head, in Pall Mall, 1761).<<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW111804350&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>><br>
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Text from <u>The Works of Soame Jenyns ... In Four Volumes. Including Several Pieces Never Before Published. To Which are Prefixed, Short Sketches of the History of the Author's Family, and also of his Life; By Charles Nalson Cole</u> (London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1790). |
Animals::Birds | "Fat flattens the most brilliant thoughts, / Like the buff-stop on harpsichords, or spinets-- / Muffling their pretty little tuneful throats, / That would have chirp'd away like linnets." | Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819) | Ode V [from Lyric Odes to the Royal Academicians] | 1787 | 14 entries in ESTC. Collection expanded from 1782 to 1790; see also <u>More Lyric Odes</u>. Hits in ECCO and ESTC (1782, 1787, 1788, 1789, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, 1795).
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The first eight odes published as <u>Lyric Odes, to the Royal Academicians. By Peter Pindar, a Distant Relation to the Poet of Thebes.</u> (London: Printed for the author, and sold by T. Egerton, Charing Cross; Baldwin, Pater-Noster Row; and Debrett, opposite Burlington House, Piccadilly, 1782). <<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T4197">Link to ESTC</a>><<a href="http://find.galegroup.com.proxy.its.virginia.edu/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW3312995295&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>> [This ode doesn't appear in this 1782 edition]
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See <u>Lyric Odes to the Royal Academicians, for M,Dcc,Lxxxii. by Peter Pindar, a Distant Relation of the Poet of Thebes.</u>, 5th ed., enlarged (London: Printed for G. Kearsley, No. 46, Fleet-Street; and W. Forster, No. 348, near Exeter-Change, in the Strand, 1787). <<a href="http://find.galegroup.com.proxy.its.virginia.edu/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW116631772&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>><br>
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Text from <u>The Works of Peter Pindar</u>, 4 vols. (London: Printed for Walker and Edwards, 1816). |
Animals::Birds | "But the free-thinker, with a vigorous flight of thought, breaks through those airy springes, and asserts his original independency." | Berkeley, George (1685-1753) | Alciphron: or the Minute Philosopher | 1732 | At least 9 entries in ESTC (1732, 1752, 1755, 1757, 1767).<br>
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<u>Alciphron: or, the Minute Philosopher. In Seven Dialogues. Containing an Apology for the Christian Religion, Against Those Who Are Called Free-Thinkers.</u> (Dublin: Printed for G. Risk, G. Ewing, and W. Smith, 1732). <<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004854093.0001.001">Link to Vol. I in ECCO-TCP</a>><<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004854093.0001.002">Vol. II</a>><br>
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See also <u>Alciphron: or the Minute Philosopher</u> (London: J. Tonson, 1732). <<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=CCIJAAAAQAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>><br>
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Animals::Birds | "My Brain's disturb'd; alas! alas! I rave; / What can I do? a poor forsaken Slave! / Like Birds, that spend their little idle Rage, / And, fruitless, mourn, indignant of their Cage, / From Thought to Thought, my fluttering Spirits rove, / Betray'd to Bondage, and, ah! lost to Love." | Whyte, Samuel (1733-1811) [Editor] | Peruvian Letters [from The Shamrock: or, Hibernian Cresses] | 1772 | 5 entries in the ESTC (1772, 1773, 1774, 1782).<br>
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See <u>The Shamrock: or, Hibernian Cresses. A Collection of Poems, Songs, Epigrams, &c. Latin as well as English, The Original Production of Ireland.</u> (Dublin: Printed by R. Marchbank, 1772). <<a href="http://estc.bl.uk:80/F/KSF3YMTA6F9VV8FRDXY99M8IV6YYFAVCNJIM6323L33LE5UVS5-08764?func=service&doc_library=BLL06&doc_number=006360694&line_number=0001&func_code=WEB-FULL&service_type=MEDIA%22">Link to ECCO</a>> <<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=nd9LAAAAcAAJ">Link to 1774 edition in Google Books</a>> |
Animals::Birds | "Our soul is escaped even as a bird out of the snare of the fowler: the snare is broken, and we are delivered." | The Church of England | The Book of Common Prayer | 1762 | <u>The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of The Church of England: Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David</u>. (Cambridge: Baskerville, 1762). <<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=_sYUAAAAQAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>> |
Animals::Birds | "In Christ, his work and word / I trust, why should ye say, / That like a tim'rous bird / My soul must wing her way, / And flee from those, whose deadly skill / At worst can but the body kill?" | Smart, Christopher (1722-1771) | Psalm XI [from A Translation of the Psalms of David] | 1765 | Only 1 entry in ESTC (1765).<br>
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Text from <u>The Poems of the Late Christopher Smart ... Consisting of His Prize Poems, Odes, Sonnets, and Fables, Latin and English Translations: Together With Many Original Compositions, Not Included in the Quarto Edition. To Which Is Prefixed, an Account of His Life and Writings, Never Before Published.</u> 2 vols. (London: Printed and Sold by Smart and Cowslade; and sold by F. Power and Co., 1791).<br>
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See also <u>A Translation of the Psalms of David, Attempted in the Spirit of Christianity, and Adapted to the Divine Service. By Christopher Smart, A. M. Some Time Fellow of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, and Scholar of the University.</u> (London: Printed by Dryden Leach, for the author; and sold by C. Bathhurst in Fleet-Street; and W. Flexney, at Gray’s Inn Gate; and T. Merril, at Cambridge, 1765). <<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T12464">Link to ESTC</a>><br>
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Reading in Katrina Williamson and Marcus Walsh, eds., <u>Christopher Smart: Selected Poems</u> (New York: Penguin Books, 1990). |
Animals::Birds | "In Christ, his work and word / I trust, why should ye say, / That like a tim'rous bird / My soul must wing her way, / And flee from those, whose deadly skill / At worst can but the body kill?" | Smart, Christopher (1722-1771) | Psalm XI [from A Translation of the Psalms of David] | 1765 | Only 1 entry in ESTC (1765).<br>
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Text from <u>The Poems of the Late Christopher Smart ... Consisting of His Prize Poems, Odes, Sonnets, and Fables, Latin and English Translations: Together With Many Original Compositions, Not Included in the Quarto Edition. To Which Is Prefixed, an Account of His Life and Writings, Never Before Published.</u> 2 vols. (London: Printed and Sold by Smart and Cowslade; and sold by F. Power and Co., 1791).<br>
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See also <u>A Translation of the Psalms of David, Attempted in the Spirit of Christianity, and Adapted to the Divine Service. By Christopher Smart, A. M. Some Time Fellow of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, and Scholar of the University.</u> (London: Printed by Dryden Leach, for the author; and sold by C. Bathhurst in Fleet-Street; and W. Flexney, at Gray’s Inn Gate; and T. Merril, at Cambridge, 1765). <<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T12464">Link to ESTC</a>><br>
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Reading in Katrina Williamson and Marcus Walsh, eds., <u>Christopher Smart: Selected Poems</u> (New York: Penguin Books, 1990). |
Animals::Birds | "As when the greedy fowler's snare / The birds by providence elude, / Our souls are rescu'd from despair, / And their free flight renew'd." | Smart, Christopher (1722-1771) | Psalm CXXIV [from A Translation of the Psalms of David] | 1765 | Only 1 entry in ESTC (1765).<br>
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Text from <u>The Poems of the Late Christopher Smart ... Consisting of His Prize Poems, Odes, Sonnets, and Fables, Latin and English Translations: Together With Many Original Compositions, Not Included in the Quarto Edition. To Which Is Prefixed, an Account of His Life and Writings, Never Before Published.</u> 2 vols. (London: Printed and Sold by Smart and Cowslade; and sold by F. Power and Co., 1791).<br>
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See also <u>A Translation of the Psalms of David, Attempted in the Spirit of Christianity, and Adapted to the Divine Service. By Christopher Smart, A. M. Some Time Fellow of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, and Scholar of the University.</u> (London: Printed by Dryden Leach, for the author; and sold by C. Bathhurst in Fleet-Street; and W. Flexney, at Gray’s Inn Gate; and T. Merril, at Cambridge, 1765). <<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T12464">Link to ESTC</a>><br>
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Reading in Katrina Williamson and Marcus Walsh, eds., <u>Christopher Smart: Selected Poems</u> (New York: Penguin Books, 1990). |
Animals::Birds | "My soul is dead, my heart is stone, / A cage of birds and beasts unclean, / A den of thieves, a dire abode / Of dragons, but no house of God." | Wesley, John and Charles | Groaning for Redemption. [from Hymns and Sacred Poems] | 1742 | More than 11 entries in ESTC (1742, 1743, 1745, 1747, 1749, 1755, 1756). See also the many other collections of hymns which select from or incorporate hymns from the original.<br>
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From the 1742 edition <u>Hymns and Sacred Poems</u> (Bristol: Printed and sold by Felix Farley, in Castle-Green; J. Wilson in Wine-Street; and at the School-Room in the Horse-Fair: in Bath, by W. Frederick, Bookseller: and in London, by T. Harris on the Bridge; also, at the Foundery in Upper-Moor-Fields, 1742). <<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T31325">Link to ESTC</a>><<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=CGoFAAAAQAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>><br>
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Metaphors found searching in <u>The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley</u>, ed. G. Osborn, 13 vols. (London: The Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1868). <<a href="http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007432022">Link to Hathi Trust</a>> |
Animals::Birds | "This little Bird, when you receive, / An emblem of my heart believe." | Bowden, Samuel (fl. 1733-1761) | To a Young Lady, With a Bird and Cage [from Poems on Various Subjects] | 1754 | <u>Poems on Various Subjects; with some Essays in Prose, Letters to Correspondents, &c. and A Treatise on Health. By Samuel Bowden</u> (Bath: T. Boddely, 1754). <<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=usYIAAAAQAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>> |
Animals::Birds | "For, oh! my heart was light as ony bird that flew, / And, wae as a' thing was, it had a kindly hue." | Barnard [née Lindsay], Lady Anne (1750-1825) | Auld Robin Gray | 1776 | An altered version first printed in David Herd's <u>Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs, Heroic Ballads, &c.</u> (1776). First authoritative edition published by Walter Scott in 1825. |
Animals::Birds | "My ravish'd Heart strait like a Bird of Prey / Stoop'd at the Lure; And thus my early Youth / Was by vain Thoughts bewildred and mis-led." | Monck [née Molesworth], Mary (1677?-1715) | Canzone of Monsignior della Casa [from Marinda. Poems and Translations upon Several Occasions] | 1716 | Mary Monck, <u>Marinda: Poems and Translations upon Several Occasions</u> (London: J. Tonson, 1716). <<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW111311518&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>> |
Animals::Birds | "When love is fetter'd, all is fire, / And tender passion soon decays; / Like those sweet birds which soon expire, / When we wou'd force their tuneful lays." | Whalley, Thomas Sedgwick (1746-1828) | The Fatal Kiss, a Poem | 1781 | Thomas Sedgwick Whalley, <u>The Fatal Kiss, a Poem. Written in the Last Stage of an Atrophy, by a Beautiful and Unfortunate Young Lady; The Singular and Melancholy Circumstances of Whose Life May, Perhaps, be One Day Offered the Publick, to the Confusion and Disgrace of one whose Fortune and Rank Would not have Power to Shield Him from the Censure and Detestation of Every One who has True Principles of Honour and Humanity</u> (London: R. Baldwin and T. Becket, 1781). <<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW110969756&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>> |
Animals::Birds | "His Love's the very Bird-lime of his Brain, / And pulls some Part away with every Strain." | Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709) | Love Given Over: Or, A Satyr Against Woman | 1709 | At least 7 entries in ESTC (1682, 1683, 1685, 1686, 1690, 1709, 1710).<br>
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See <u>Love Given O're: or, a Satyr Against the Pride, Lust, and Inconstancy, &c. of Woman.</u> (London: Printed for Andrew Green, 1682). <<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/R28042">Link to ESTC</a>><br>
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See also <u>Love Given Over: Or, A Satyr Against the Pride, Lust, and Inconstancy, &c. of Woman</u> (London: Printed for W. Lewis, 1709). <<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=m_NbAAAAQAAJ">Link to Google</a>><br>
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Text from <u>The Works of Mr. Robert Gould: In Two Volumes. Consisting of those Poems [and] Satyrs Which were formerly Printed, and Corrected since by the Author; As also of the many more which He Design'd for the Press. Publish'd from his Own Original Copies.</u>, 2 vols. (London: Printed for W. Lewis, 1709). |
Animals::Birds | "[A]nd when they perceive him so different from what he hath been described, all Gentleness, Softness, Kindness, Tenderness, Fondness, their dreadful Apprehensions vanish in a moment; and now (it being usual with the human Mind to skip from one Extreme to its Opposite, as easily, and almost as suddenly, as a Bird from one Bough to another;) Love instantly succeeds to Fear." | Fielding, Henry (1707-1754) | The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews, And of his Friend Mr. Abraham Adams. Written in Imitation of The Manner of Cervantes, Author of Don Quixote. In Two Volumes | 1742 | Text from Henry Fielding, <u>The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews, And of his Friend Mr. Abraham Adams. Written in Imitation of The Manner of Cervantes, Author of Don Quixote</u>, 2 vols. (London: Printed for A. Millar, 1742). <<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW114699258&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>><br>
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See also Henry Fielding, <u>The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews</u> and <u>An Apology for the Life of Shamela Andrews</u>, ed. Douglas Brooks-Davies. World Classics Edition (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1980). |
Animals::Birds | "Tears gushing again, my heart fluttering as a bird against its wires; drying my eyes again and again to no purpose." | Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761) | Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady ... The Third Edition. In which Many Passages and Some Letters are Restored from the Original Manuscripts | 1751 | Printed in three installments in 1747-8. Over 25 entries in ESTC (1751, 1759, 1764, 1765, 1768, 1772, 1774, 1780, 1784, 1785, 1788, 1790, 1791, 1792, 1794, 1795, 1798, 1800). <br>
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Samuel Richardson, <u>Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life. In Eight Volumes. To each of which is added a Table of Contents. The Third Edition. In which Many Passages and Some Letters are Restored from the Original Manuscripts. And to Which is Added, an Ample Collection of such of the Moral and Instructive Sentiments Interspersed Throughout the Work, as may be Presumed to be of General Use and Service</u>, 3rd ed., 8 vols. (London: Printed for S. Richardson, 1751). <<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T58989">Link to ESTC</a>><<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW110372246&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>> |
Animals::Birds | "A most susceptible and tender Heart? -- Yes, you may feel it throb, it beats against my Breast, like an imprison'd Bird, and fain would burst it's Cage! to fly to you, the Aim of all its Wishes!" | Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756) | Love in Excess: or the Fatal Enquiry, a Novel | 1719 | At least 12 entries in ESTC (1719, 1720, 1721, 1722, 1724, 1725, 1732, 1742).<br>
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Published in 3 parts in 1719-1720. <<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T75397">Part 1, ESTC</a>><<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T75398">Part 2, ESTC</a>><<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T75399">Part 3, ESTC</a>><br>
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See Eliza Haywood, <u>Love in Excess: or the Fatal Enquiry, a Novel</u> (London: Printed for W. Chetwood; and R. Francklin; and sold by J. Roberts, 1719). <<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW111942655&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>><br>
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Text from Vol. 1 of <u>Secret Histories, Novels and Poems. In Four Volumes. Written by Mrs. Eliza Haywood.</u> (London: Printed [partly by Samuel Aris] for Dan. Browne, jun. at the Black Swan without Temple-Bar; and S. Chapman, at the Angel in Pall-Mall, 1725). <<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T66936">Link to ESTC</a>><<a href="http://gateway.proquest.com.proxy.its.virginia.edu/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003&xri:pqil:res_ver=0.2&res_id=xri:lion&rft_id=xri:lion:ft:pr:Z000030088:0">Link to LION</a>> |
Animals::Birds | "My Heart flutters within me for Fear of him, like a Bird that's hunted in a Cage." | Bellamy, Daniel, the Elder (b. 1687) | The Rival Priests; Or, The Female Politician: A Farce | 1739 | Text from <u>Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, Consisting of Dramatick Pieces, Poems, Humorous Tales, Fables, &c.</u>, 2 vols. (London: Printed for J. Hodges, 1739-40). <<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW114296870&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>> |
Animals::Birds | "So very well Sweetheart; I am mightily troubled with Phlegm--od I took it a little too high for my Constitution, but every time I look upon you, I fancy my self but Eighteen, and my Heart springs in my Belly like a Bird in a Cage." | Bullock, Christopher (bap. 1690, d. 1722) | Woman is a Riddle; a Comedy | 1717 | Eight entries in ESTC (1717, 1729, 1731, 1732, 1770, 1717, 1759, 1760).<br>
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See Christopher Bullock, <u>Woman is a Riddle; a Comedy: as it is Acted at the Theatre in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields</u> (London: Printed by T. Wood and T. Sharpe, for A. Bettesworth, 1717). <<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW112276741&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>><br>
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See also <u>Woman is a Riddle: A Comedy</u>, 2nd ed. (London: A. Bettesworth, 1729). <<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=wqoCAAAAYAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>> |
Animals::Birds | "I am gone--oh my Transported Soul,... That like a Bird fain to its nest wou'd fly, / But finds all Plunder'd where it us'd to lye." | D'Urfey, Thomas (1653?-1723) | The Bath, or, the Western Lass. A Comedy, As It Is Acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane, by His Majesty's Servants. | 1701 | Thomas D'Urfey, <u>The Bath, or, the Western Lass. A Comedy, As It Is Acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane, by His Majesty's Servants</u> (London: Printed for Peter Buck, 1701). <<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW107397090&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>> |
Animals::Birds | "Mankind's the same to Beasts and Fouls / That Devils are to Humane Soules, / Who therefor, when like Fiends th' appeare, / Avoyd and Fly with equal feare." | Butler, Samuel (1613-1680) | The World [from Poetical Thesaurus] | 1759 | Text from <u>Satires and Miscellaneous Poetry and Prose</u>, ed. René Lamar (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1928).<br>
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See "Miscellaneous Thoughts" in vol. I of <u>The Genuine Remains in Verse and Prose of Mr. Samuel Butler</u> (London: J. and R. Tonson, 1759). <<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW111950411&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>> |
Animals::Birds | "Passions that flatter, or that slay, / Are beasts that fawn, or birds that prey." | Cotton, Nathaniel, the elder (1705-1788) | Visions in Verse, for the Entertainment and Instruction of Younger Minds | 1751 | At least 20 entries in ESTC (1751, 1752, 1753, 1755, 1760, 1767, 1771, 1776, 1781, 1782, 1786, 1787, 1790, 1794, 1798).<br>
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Text from <u>Various Pieces in Verse and Prose</u>, 2 vols. (London: J. Dodsley, 1791). <<a href="http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=zXT3KLT74J4C">Link to Google Books</a>><br>
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See also Nathaniel Cotton, <u>Visions in Verse, for the Entertainment and Instruction of Younger Minds.</u> 2nd edition (London: Printed for R. Dodsley in Pall-Mall; and Sold by M. Cooper, at the Globe in Pater-Noster Row, 1751). <<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW113883766&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>><<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW3317188183&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to 2nd edition</a>><br>
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See also <u>Visions in Verse: For the Entertainment and Instruction of Younger Minds. A New Edition.</u> (London: J. Dodsley, 1790). <<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=V6oDAAAAQAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>><br>
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The revised and enlarged 3rd edition adds a new, ninth vision: "Death. Vision the Last" |
Animals::Birds | "Now, while I taste the Sweetness of the Shade, / While Nature lies around deep-lull'd in Noon, / Now come, bold Fancy, spread a daring Flight, / And view the Wonders of the torrid Zone." | Thomson, James (1700-1748) | Summer [from The Seasons (1746)] | 1746 | See <u>The Seasons. By James Thomson.</u> (London: Printed [by Henry Woodfall] for A. Millar, in the Strand, 1746). 234 pp. <<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW3315865100&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>><br>
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Summer was first published in 1727. Text much revised and expanded between 1727 and 1746. Searching metaphors in <u>The Poetical Works</u> (1830) through Stanford HDIS interface, later checked against earlier editions. Also reading James Sambrook's edition of <u>The Seasons and The Castle of Indolence</u> (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972), which reproduces the 1746 edition of Thomson's poem.<br> |
Animals::Birds | "Or it may be thus: his ideas hide themselves like birds in gloomy weather; but in warm sunshine they spring forth gay and airy." | Boswell, James (1740-1795) | The Hypochondriack, No. 67 | 1783 | <u>The Hypochondriack</u>, No. 67 (April, 1783). See also <u>The London Magazine, or Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer</u>
<<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=lPwqAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA164#v=onepage">Link to Google Books</a>><br>
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See also James Boswell, <u>The Hypochondriack</u>, ed. Margery Bailey, 2 vols. (Stanford UP, 1928). |
Animals::Birds | "Let an Hypochondriack then have his park well stocked. Let him get as many agreeable ideas into his mind as he can; and though there may in wintery days seem: a total vacancy, yet when summer glows benignant, and the time of singing of birds is come, he will be delighted with gay colours and enchanting notes." | Boswell, James (1740-1795) | The Hypochondriack, No. 67 | 1783 | <u>The Hypochondriack</u>, No. 67 (April, 1783). See also <u>The London Magazine, or Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer</u>
<<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=lPwqAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA164#v=onepage">Link to Google Books</a>><br>
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See also James Boswell, <u>The Hypochondriack</u>, ed. Margery Bailey, 2 vols. (Stanford UP, 1928). |
Animals::Birds:::Eagle | "Now, now it shoots, / It tow'rs upon the Wing to Crowns and Empire; / While Love and Aribert, those meaner Names, / Are left far, far behind, and lost for ever. / So if by chance the Eagle's noble Off-spring, / Ta'en in the Nest, becomes some Peasant's Prize, / Compell'd a while he bears his Cage and Chains, / And like a Pris'ner with the Clown remains; / But when his Plumes shoot forth, and Pinions swell, / He quits the Rustick, and his homely Cell, / Breaks from his Bonds, and in the face of Day, / Full in the Sun's bright Beams he soars away; / Delights thro' Heav'n's wide pathless Ways to go, / Plays with Joue's Shafts, and grasps his dreadful Bow, / Dwells with immortal Gods, and scorns the World below." | Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718) | The Royal Convert. A Tragedy. | 1708 | First performed November 25, 1707. Thirty-three entries in ESTC (1708, 1714, 1719, 1720, 1725, 1726, 1728, 1733, 1736, 1757, 1764, 1765, 1768, 1774, 1776, 1779, 1780, 1782, 1791, 1794, 1795).<br>
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<u>The Royal Convert. A Tragedy. As it is Acted at the Queen's Theatre in the Hay-Market. By Her Majesty's Sworn Servants. Written by N. Rowe</u> (London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1708). <<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW3310586119&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>>
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Animals::Birds:::Vulture | "Remorse the Raven of a guilty Mind, / Is ever croaking horrid in my Ear; / Often I rouse to banish it away, / But the Tormentor still returns again, / And like PROMETHES' Vulture, ever gnaws." | Gentleman, Francis (1728-1784) | Sejanus, a Tragedy | 1752 | At least 1 entry in ESTC (1752).<br>
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See <u>Sejanus, a Tragedy: As it was Intended for the Stage. With a Preface, Wherein the Manager's Reasons for Refusing it are Set Forth. By Mr. Gentleman.</u> (London: Printed for R. Manby and H.S. Cox, 1752.) <<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T52943">Link to ESTC</a>><<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004831478.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>> |
Animals::Birds::Bird Cage | "Carnal heart, immersed in sin, / All a cage of birds unclean!" | Wesley, John and Charles | Jeremiah XVII. 9 [from Hymns and Sacred Poems] | 1742 | John and Charles Wesley, <u>Hymns and Sacred Poems. Published by John Wesley, M. A. Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford; and Charles Wesley, M. A. Student of Christ-Church, Oxford</u>. (Bristol: Printed and Sold by Felix Farley, J. Wilson, W. Frederick, T. Harris, 1742). <<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW121996488&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>><br>
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Text from <u>The poetical works of John and Charles Wesley</u>, Ed. G. Osborn, 13 vols. (London: The Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1868). <<a href="http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007432022">Link to Hathi Trust</a>> |
Animals::Birds::Bird Lime | "'Tis [the letter of the law] the birdlime of reason to fasten our senses." | Williams, John [pseud. Anthony Pasquin] (1754-1818) | The Letter of the Law [from Poems] | 1789 | 2 entries in ESTC (1789).<br>
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See <u>Poems: By Anthony Pasquin.</u> (London: Printed for J. Strahan, No. 67, near the Adelphi, Strand; W. Creech, Edinburgh; J. Exshaw, Dublin; and the author, No. 125, Strand, [London], [1789]). <<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T42591">Link to ESTC</a>><br>
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Text from <u>Poems: By Anthony Pasquin</u>, 2nd ed. (London: Printed for J. Strahan, No. 67, Near the Adelphi, Strand; W. Creech, Edinburgh; J. Potts, and P. Byrne, Dublin; and the author, [London] No. 125, Strand, 1789). <<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T114258">Link to ESTC</a>><<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&contentSet=ECCOArticles&type=multipage&tabID=T001&prodId=ECCO&docId=CW111623868&source=gale&userGroupName=viva_uva&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>><<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=QJ9tSQAACAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>> |
Animals::Birds::Birds of Prey | "Malice, and Lust, voracious Birds of Prey, / That out-soar Reason, and our Wishes sway; / Desires' wild Seas, on which the wise are tost, / By Pilot Indolence, are safely crost." | Mitchell, Joseph (c. 1684-1738) | The Charms of Indolence [from Poems on Several Occasions] | 1732 | Joseph Mitchell, <u>Poems on Several Occasions</u>, 2 vols. (London: Harmen Noorthouck, 1732). <<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW110021024&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>> |
Animals::Birds::Brooding and Hatching | "It would take up a larger Volume than this whole Work is intended to be, to set down all the Contrivances I hatch'd, or rather brooded upon in my Thought." | Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731) | The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner | 1719 | At least 33 entries in ESTC (1719, 1720, 1722, 1726, 1742, 1744, 1747, 1753, 1761, 1766, 1767, 1772, 1778, 1781, 1784, 1785, 1789, 1790, 1791, 1793, 1797, 1799, 1800).<br>
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See Daniel Defoe, <u>The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who Lived Eight and Twenty Years All Alone in an Un-Inhabited Island on the Coast of America, Near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having Been Cast on Shore by Shipwreck, Wherein All the Men Perished but Himself. With an Account How He Was at Last As Strangely Deliver'd by Pyrates. Written by Himself</u> (London: W. Taylor at the <i>Ship</i> in <i>Pater-Noster-Row</i>, 1719). <<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T72264">Link to ESTC</a>><<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CB3327675440&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>><<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004845034.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>> |
Animals::Birds::Cage | "A most susceptible and tender Heart? -- Yes, you may feel it throb, it beats against my Breast, like an imprison'd Bird, and fain would burst it's Cage! to fly to you, the Aim of all its Wishes!" | Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756) | Love in Excess: or the Fatal Enquiry, a Novel | 1719 | At least 12 entries in ESTC (1719, 1720, 1721, 1722, 1724, 1725, 1732, 1742).<br>
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Published in 3 parts in 1719-1720. <<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T75397">Part 1, ESTC</a>><<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T75398">Part 2, ESTC</a>><<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T75399">Part 3, ESTC</a>><br>
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See Eliza Haywood, <u>Love in Excess: or the Fatal Enquiry, a Novel</u> (London: Printed for W. Chetwood; and R. Francklin; and sold by J. Roberts, 1719). <<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW111942655&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>><br>
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Text from Vol. 1 of <u>Secret Histories, Novels and Poems. In Four Volumes. Written by Mrs. Eliza Haywood.</u> (London: Printed [partly by Samuel Aris] for Dan. Browne, jun. at the Black Swan without Temple-Bar; and S. Chapman, at the Angel in Pall-Mall, 1725). <<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T66936">Link to ESTC</a>><<a href="http://gateway.proquest.com.proxy.its.virginia.edu/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003&xri:pqil:res_ver=0.2&res_id=xri:lion&rft_id=xri:lion:ft:pr:Z000030088:0">Link to LION</a>> |
Animals::Birds::Cage | "My heart a cage of birds unclean, / Its old corrupt affections feels, / Its strong propensity to sin; / And God in me no longer dwells." | Wesley, John and Charles | 3263. Lord, while I in Thy name believe [from Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures] | 1762 |
Dataset Card for "The Mind is a Metaphor"
The Mind is a Metaphor, is an evolving work of reference, an ever more interactive, more solidly constructed collection of mental metaphorics. This collection of eighteenth-century metaphors of mind serves as the basis for a scholarly study of the metaphors and root-images appealed to by the novelists, poets, dramatists, essayists, philosophers, belle-lettrists, preachers, and pamphleteers of the long eighteenth century. While the database does include metaphors from classical sources, from Shakespeare and Milton, from the King James Bible, and from more recent texts, it does not pretend to any depth or density of coverage in literature other than that of the British eighteenth century.
☞ The database was assembled and taxonomized and is maintained by Brad Pasanek."
NOTE: this is basically just a raw conversion. There are formatting tags in it, etc that should probably be removed. I'll do that at some point; if you want to, please, by all means, DO IT! ;-)
Dataset Details
Dataset Description
There are over 14,000 metaphors in the database as of April, 2015. I've hundreds more marked in books and scribbled on notecards, and I am typing those up -- slowly, surely. It's much easier to cut and paste.
My method for finding metaphors may be classified as "hunt-and-peck," but a few years ago I collaborated with D. Sculley, formerly of Tufts University's Department of Computer Science and now at Google Pittsburgh, on a search protocol informed by machine-learning techniques. We trained a computer to label metaphors and non-metaphors correctly. Our experiments suggest one might be able to automate much of my daily drudgery by using a classifier trained on a seed set of 100-200 labeled metaphors and non-metaphors. This hand-curated database of metaphors could then be put to work in bootstrapping efforts, repurposed as training data for automated classifiers sent forward and backward in history, departing from the eighteenth century in order to collect Renaissance and Victorian metaphors.
Should we eventually build an automated metaphor-classifier and charge it with exploring the great unread collections of electronic literature, I would be more confident in presenting a statistical picture of eighteenth-century discourse. In the meantime, two papers we've written on the subject have been published in Oxford's Literary and Linguistic Computing.
I still spend a fair amount of time conducting proximity searches for two character strings. I search one term from a set list ("mind," "heart," "soul," "thought," "idea," "imagination," "fancy," "reason," "passion," "head," "breast," "bosom," or "brain") against another word that I hope will prove metaphorical. For example, I search for "mind" within one hundred characters of "mint" and find the following couplet in William Cowper's poetry:
"The mind and conduct mutually imprint And stamp their image in each other's mint." What follows is a rough breakdown of the database's contents:
Provenance (last updated July, 2013) More than 5,980 of the metaphors were found keyword searching Chadwyck-Healey through the Stanford Humanities Digital Information Service SULAIR search interface. The search interface, named HUGO, has now been retired. Over 900 more metaphors were discovered searching Proquest's Literature Online collections (LION), which expanded and have now replaced the original Chadwyck-Healey collections 783 metaphors are from my Orals reading or date from my first six months of collection Over 3,000 I've encountered while reading since then More than 450 metaphors were discovered searching in Google Books 338 were found browsing in Eighteenth-Century Collections Online (ECCO) 218 were found keyword-searching texts in the Liberty Fund's Online Library of Liberty (OLL) 188 were found keyword searching the Intelex Past Masters database 180 are from Roger Lonsdale's Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Oxford: OUP, 1989. 150 are from the King James Bible (UVA edition) 110 were found browsing in Early English Books Online (EEBO) Over 100 were found searching Project Gutenberg texts 67 were taken from Johnson's Dictionary 27 are from the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) 21 are from Ad Fontes Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts Some Rubrics (last updated April, 2015) 721 Animal metaphors (counted as entries) 986 Architecture metaphors 1,365 Body metaphors 440 Fetters metaphors* 509 Plant metaphors 1,827 Government metaphors* 882 Impression metaphors 738 Light metaphors 689 Liquid metaphors 273 Machine metaphors 1,015 Mineral metaphors* 444 Optics metaphors 1,055 Population metaphors 171 Vehicle metaphors 268 Visual Arts metaphors 667 War metaphors* 524 Weather metaphors 817 Writing metaphors* 2,744 Miscellaneous or "Uncategorized" entries I've done in-depth proximity searches for Fetters, Government, Mineral, War, and Writing metaphors. These categories are marked with an asterisk in the list above.
- Curated by: [Brad Pasanek]
- Language(s) (NLP): [English]
- License: [CC BY-NC-SA 2.5 DEED]
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- Repository: [http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors]
Source Data
There are over 14,000 metaphors in the database as of April, 2015. I've hundreds more marked in books and scribbled on notecards, and I am typing those up -- slowly, surely. It's much easier to cut and paste.
Data Collection and Processing
[My method for finding metaphors may be classified as "hunt-and-peck," but a few years ago I collaborated with D. Sculley, formerly of Tufts University's Department of Computer Science and now at Google Pittsburgh, on a search protocol informed by machine-learning techniques. We trained a computer to label metaphors and non-metaphors correctly. Our experiments suggest one might be able to automate much of my daily drudgery by using a classifier trained on a seed set of 100-200 labeled metaphors and non-metaphors. This hand-curated database of metaphors could then be put to work in bootstrapping efforts, repurposed as training data for automated classifiers sent forward and backward in history, departing from the eighteenth century in order to collect Renaissance and Victorian metaphors.
Should we eventually build an automated metaphor-classifier and charge it with exploring the great unread collections of electronic literature, I would be more confident in presenting a statistical picture of eighteenth-century discourse. In the meantime, two papers we've written on the subject have been published in Oxford's Literary and Linguistic Computing.]
Who are the source data producers?
[Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia]
Glossary [optional]
[Literary Period. Although the preponderance of metaphors collected here originate in the long eighteenth century, I continue to add to the database and have plans to expand the collection of metaphors across neighboring periods, working my way forward to the twentieth century. Conventional periodizations for English literature, drawn loosely from the Norton Anthology of English Literature, are provided as follows:
Middle Ages (500-1500) Tudor Literature (1485-1603) Early Modern (1500-1800) Elizabethan (1558-1603) Seventeenth Century (1600-1700) Early Seventeenth Century (1603-1660) Civil War and Commonwealth (1641-1660) Long Eighteenth Century (1660-1819) Restoration (1660-1714) Augustan (1700-1745) Eighteenth Century (1700-1799) Age of Sensibility (1740-1798) Industrial Revolution (1760-1840) Romantic (1785-1832) French Revolution (1789-1815) Nineteenth Century (1800-1900) Reform and Counterrevolution (1815-1848) Victorian (1837-1901) Aestheticism and Decadence (1870-1901) Twentieth Century (1900-1999) Edwardian (1901-1914) Modernism (1910-1945) Interwar (1914-1939) Post-WWII (1945-1989) Metaphor Categories. Treated here is the long eighteenth century, a neoclassical period; that is, a period that would, by confronting the past, newly classify the world. My categories are meant to help map those constellations of metaphors for the mind that visitors to this site will find most interesting. My categories and subcategories are then a heuristic or a finding aid. They do not correlate with any rigid concept scheme. They are a product of inductive work, of clustering and classifying those metaphors I've collected. The categories are imposed upon the unruly figuration I've dredged up; they do not cut cleanly into the discourse nor could they. Note, a metaphor--the same metaphor--may belong to multiple categories.
Genre. Major generic divisions here observed include poetry, non-fiction prose, prose fiction, and drama.
The Gender of an author is given where known. Women writers are currently outnumbered almost six to one in the database. I'm not happy about that and have considered trying to better balance the authors. Still, Katherine Philips, Sarah Fielding, Anna Seward, and Anna Letitia Barbauld contribute many of my favorite metaphors.
Another thing, a disclaimer. The binary (in fact, ternary: Male/Female/Unknown) nature of these gender assignment must not go unremarked. Such distinctions are without nuance and ineluctably political. I recognize that this eighteenth-century project cannot help but reinscribe distinctions made modern by the history surveyed. But in borrowing Enlightenment forms (the dictionary, the commonplace book) and practices (taxonomy) in my scholarly writing, I try to make strange the present. And in organizing the past in database tables and entries, I want to, likewise, promote categorical confusion as thematic. A metaphor, by one description, is a "category mistake."
So. In the sometimes murky taxonomy applied in this interface, Anonymous is not a woman--even though She may have, in fact, written much of the Bible. (And I take it, for what it's worth, that Paul the Apostle authored the assertion "there is no male and female.") My labeling currently lists Jack Halberstam's author function as "Male," but I plan on resetting such assignments occasionally and as necessary in order to remind myself and others that an improvised metrics is required in the transitional present.
Nationality. The English literature of the period in which I am most interested bedevils the assignment of "nationality." The long eighteenth century in England is witness to two Acts of Union (1707, 1800) and a declaration of independence by the American colonies. I have tried to specify authors' nationalities according to their places of birth. There are then English, Scottish, and American authors listed here, but only a few "British" authors. My ancients are either "Greek" or "Chinese" or "Roman." Kant and other Prussian writers are labeled "German." I realize that "Irish or Anglo-Irish" is a particularly unsatisfactory national designation. And the category "African or Afro-British" is worse than unsatisfactory.
A second disclaimer then: here I let an early modern conception of race as nation mark important eighteenth-century writers (Phillis Wheatley, Ignatius Sancho, and others). Many of these writers brilliantly invoke and evade the category, with Olaudah Equiano being the most famous and most famously ambivalent example of an Afro-Anglo-American author. After 1800 I do not use the unfixed race/nation category: Frederick Douglass's metaphors are tallied as American; Frantz Fanon's, French. I emphasize here that my labels are not an attempt to foreclose the discussion of identity. Just the opposite.
Politics. An author is given a party label only when I find mention of his or her politics in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography or an equally reputable biographical source. The label is applied to authors and not to works of literature, which necessitates the use of some cumbersome labels. (Daniel Defoe, for example, is notorious for changing political affiliations.) My labels were first generated for a set of clustering and classifying experiments undertaken with the computer scientist D. Sculley. These experiments tested connections between metaphorical usage and party affiliation and are the subject of an article on "Meaning and Mining" published in Literary and Linguistic Computing: link. As I am interested primarily in metaphor and eighteenth-century party politics, I have been most assiduous in labeling eighteenth-century authors.
Religion. An author's religious beliefs are likewise labeled when given in the ODNB. Converts from one religion to another are so labeled. Again, converts may collect multiple, conflicting labels. (Vide John Dryden.)]
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