Vat to Victory

A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compiled by Eugene F. Irey

vat, n. (3)

    ET5 5.89 4 [The English] spend largely on their fabric, and await the slow return. Their leather lies tanning seven years in the vat.

    Farm 7.142 20 [The farmer's] machine is of colossal proportions;...and it takes him long to understand its parts and its working. This pump never sucks;...the vat and piston, wheels and tires, never wear out...

    Res 8.139 12 The vat, the piston, the wheels and tires [of the earth], never wear out...

Vathek's [William Beckford, (1)

    ACri 12.288 15 ...some men swear with genius. I knew a poet in whose talent Nature carried this freak so far that his only graceful verses were pretty blasphemies. The better the worse, you will say; and I own it reminds one of Vathek's collection of monstrous men with humps of a picturesque peak...

Vatican Gallery, Rome, Ita (1)

    Art2 7.38 27 ...from the tattooing of the Owhyhees to the Vatican Gallery;... Art is the spirit's voluntary use and combination of things to serve its end.

Vatican, n. (5)

    SR 2.82 3 I seek the Vatican and the palaces.

    Art1 2.359 12 The traveller who visits the Vatican and passes from chamber to chamber through galleries of statues, vases, sarcophagi and candelabra...is in danger of forgetting the simplicity of the principles out of which they all sprung...

    Art1 2.361 27 ...that which I fancied I had left in Boston was here in the Vatican...

    Exp 3.63 2 ...the Transfiguration...the Communion of Saint Jerome, and what are as transcendent as these, are on the walls of the Vatican, the Uffizi, or the Louvre, where every footman may see them;...

    PLT 12.43 16 There are times when the cawing of a crow...is more suggestive to the mind than the Yosemite gorge or the Vatican would be in another hour.

Vatican, Rome, Italy, n. (3)

    Pow 6.72 20 ...[Michel Angelo] went down into the Pope's gardens behind the Vatican, and with a shovel dug out ochres, red and yellow...

    DL 7.131 3 I go to Rome and see on the walls of the Vatican the Transfiguration, painted by Raphael...

    Boks 7.193 6 We look over with a sigh the monumental libraries of Paris, of the Vatican and the British Museum.

Vaticans, n. (1)

    Wth 6.96 12 It is the interest of all men that there should be Vaticans and Louvres full of noble works of art;...

vaticination, n. (2)

    Nat 1.70 1 Every surmise and vaticination of the mind is entitled to a certain respect...

    PLT 12.62 10 We have all of us by nature a certain divination and parturient vaticination in our minds of some higher good and perfection than either power or knowledge.

vats, n. (1)

    Aris 10.43 12 When Nature goes to create a national man, she puts a symmetry between the physical and intellectual powers. She moulds a large brain, and joins to it a great trunk to supply it; as if a fine alembic were fed with liquor for its distillations from broad full vats in the vaults of the laboratory.

Vattel, Emmerichs, n. (2)

    FSLC 11.190 15 ...the great jurists...vattel, Burke...do all affirm [the principle in law that immoral laws are void].

    FSLN 11.227 2 ...Blackstone, Burlamaqui, Vattel...do all affirm [that an immoral law cannot be valid]...

Vauban, Sebastien de, n. (1)

    MAng1 12.225 21 The excellence of the [defense] works constructed by our artist [Michelangelo] has been approved by Vauban...

Vaucansons, n. (1)

    F 6.18 1 This kind of talent so abounds, this constructive tool-making efficiency...as if the air [a man] breathes were made of Vaucansons...

Vaudreuil, Philippe de, n. (1)

    War 11.159 9 ...in 1705, Vaudreuil sent [Assacombuit] to France, where he was introduced to the king.

Vaughan, Henry, n. (1)

    QO 8.195 26 Hallam...is...able to appreciate poetry unless it becomes deep, being always blind and deaf to imaginative and analogy-loving souls...like Donne, Herbert, Crashaw and Vaughan;...

vault, n. (8)

    Lov1 2.188 18 ...in health the mind is presently seen again,--its overarching vault, bright with galaxies of immutable lights...

    F 6.48 14 ...the rainbow and the curve of the horizon and the arch of the blue vault are only results from the organism of the eye.

    Wsp 6.199 10 ...Bound to the stake, no flames appalled,/ But arched o'er him an honoring vault./

    Suc 7.303 19 Lofn is as puissant a divinity in the Norse Edda as Camadeva in the red vault of India...

    PPo 8.246 27 Stands the vault adamantine/ Until the Doomsday;/ The wine-cup shall ferry/ Thee o'er it away./

    SovE 10.191 17 An Eastern poet...said that God had made justice so dear to the heart of Nature that, if any injustice lurked anywhere under the sky, the blue vault would shrivel to a snake-skin and cast it out by spasms.

    SHC 11.434 20 ...I think sometimes that the vault of the sky arching there upward...is only a Sleepy Hollow, with path of Suns, insead of foot-paths;...

    MLit 12.309 14 We go musing into the vault of day and night;...

vaulted, adj. (2)

    Ill 6.307 19 Know, the stars yonder,/ The stars everlasting,/ Are fugitive also,/ And emulate, vaulted,/ The lambent heat-lightning,/ And fire-fly's flight./

    Res 8.149 18 When now and then the vaulted roof [of the Mammoth Cave] rises high overhead...'t is but gloom on gloom.

vaulting, v. (1)

    Nat 1.72 23 This is such a resumption of power as if a banished king should buy his territories inch by inch, instead of vaulting at once into his throne.

vaults, n. (5)

    Nat 1.30 10 ...a paper currency is employed, when there is no bullion in the vaults.

    Comp 2.106 20 [Jove] cannot get his own thunders; Minerva keeps the key of them:--Of all the gods, I only know the keys/ That ope the solid doors within whose vaults/ His thunders sleep./

    Hsm1 2.253 12 ...the soul of a better quality thrusts back the unreasonable economy into the vaults of life...

    Ill 6.309 21 We shot Bengal lights into the vaults and groins of the sparry cathedrals [in the Mammoth Cave]...

    Aris 10.43 12 When Nature goes to create a national man, she puts a symmetry between the physical and intellectual powers. She moulds a large brain, and joins to it a great trunk to supply it; as if a fine alembic were fed with liquor for its distillations from broad full vats in the vaults of the laboratory.

vaults, v. (2)

    Fdsp 2.205 4 [Friendship] must plant itself on the ground, before it vaults over the moon.

    Nat2 3.194 5 [Nature's] mighty orbit vaults like the fresh rainbow into the deep...

vaunt, n. (4)

    ET5 5.94 23 The Mark-Lane Express, or the Custom House Returns, bear out to the letter the vaunt of Pope...

    ET16 5.277 14 It was pleasant to see that...[Stonehenge]--two upright stones and a lintel laid across...were like what is most permanent on the face of the planet: these, and the barrows,--mere mounds...like the same mound on the plain of Troy, which still makes good to the passing mariner on Hellespont, the vaunt of Homer...

    SovE 10.184 5 In ignorant ages it was common to vaunt the human superiority by underrating the instinct of other animals;...

    FSLC 11.180 22 ...we must transfer our vaunt to the country, and say, with a little less confidence, no fugitive man can be arrested here;...

vaunted, adj. (1)

    Hist 2.26 24 ...the vaunted distinction between Greek and English...seems superficial and pedantic.

vaunted, v. (1)

    Thor 10.457 6 I said [to Thoreau]...who does not see with regret that his page is not solid with a right materialistic treatment, which delights everybody? Henry objected, of course, and vaunted the better lectures which reached only a few persons.

vaunting, adj. (1)

    DSA 1.133 5 ...the gift of God to the soul is not a vaunting, overpowering, excluding sanctity...

Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapie (1)

    Chr2 10.92 22 ...we sat it...with Vauvenargues, the mercenary sacrifice of the public good to a private interest is the eternal stamp of vice.

Vaux, Thomas, n. (1)

    QO 8.196 1 ...Hallam...distinguishes a lyric of Edwards or Vaux, and straightway it commends itself to us...

Vecellio, Tiziano [Titian], (6)

    Art1 2.361 23 [At Naples] I saw that nothing was changed with me but the place... That fact I saw again in the Academmia at Naples...and yet again when I came to Rome and to the paintings of...Titian...

    Art2 7.45 8 A very coarse imitation of the human form on canvas, or in wax-work;...these things give...to the uncultured...almost as much pleasure as a statue of Canova or a picture of Titian.

    Art2 7.45 9 A very coarse imitation of the human form on canvas, or in wax-work;...these things give..to the uncultured...almost as much pleasure as a statue of Canova or a picture of Titiaa. And in the statue of Canova or the picture of Titian, these give the great part of the pleasure;...

    Art2 7.56 8 The Madonnas of Raphael and Titian were made to be worshipped.

    MAng1 12.239 13 [Michelangelo] loved to express admiration of Titian...

    MLit 12.325 8 It was with [Goethe] a favorite task to find a theory of every institution, custom, art, work of art, which he observed. Witness his explanation...of the coloring of Titian and Paul Veronese...

Vecellio's, Tiziano [Titian (1)

    Bhr 6.174 23 The modern aristocrat...is well drawn in Itian's Venetian doges and in Roman coins and statues...

vector, radius, n. (1)

    PI 8.23 17 The staff in [man's] hand is the radius vector of the sun.

Vedas, Indian, n. (1)

    OA 7.317 10 If we look into the eyes of the youngest person we sometimes discover that...there is that in him which is the ancestor of all around him; which fact the Indian Vedas express when they say, He that can discriminate is the father of his father.

Vedas, n. (8)

    PPh 4.48 16 In the midst of the sun is the light, in the midst of the light is truth, and in the midst of truth is the imperishable being, say the Vedas.

    PPh 4.49 12 The raptures of prayer and ecstasy of devotion lose all being in one Being. This tendency finds its highest expression...chiefly...in the Vedas, the Bhagavat Geeta, and the Vishnu Purana.

    ShP 4.201 1 Vedas, Aesop's Fables, Pilpay, Arabian Nights, Cid, Iliad, Robin Hood, Scottish Minstrelsy, are not the work of single men.

    Boks 7.218 16 After the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures...[the sacred books] are...the Vedas and Laws of Menu;...

    PI 8.13 24 The Vedas, the Edda, the Koran, are each remembered by their happiest figure.

    PC 8.214 11 ...if these [romantic European] works still survive and multiply, what shall we say of...names of men who have left remains that certify a height of genius...which men in proportion to their wisdom still cherish,-as...the grand scriptures...of the Indian Vedas...

    PerF 10.71 16 The Vedas of India...are hymns to the winds, to the clouds, and to fire.

    CW 12.174 20 Plant...the Soma of the Vedas,-Asclepias Viminalis...

vegetable, adj. (18)

    MN 1.200 2 In all animal and vegetable forms, the physiologist concedes that no chemistry...can account for the facts...

    MN 1.201 15 Nature knows neither palm nor oak, but only vegetable life...

    MN 1.216 11 The doctrine in vegetable physiology of the presence or the general influence of any substance over and above its chemical influence... is more predicable of man.

    Hist 2.21 8 The mountain of granite [the Gothic cathedral] blooms into an eternal flower, with the lightness and delicate finish as well as the aerial proportions and perspective of vegetable beauty.

    Cir 2.318 1 I own I am gladdened by seeing the predominance of the saccharine principle throughout vegetable nature...

    Int 2.330 1 All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud.

    Nat2 3.186 19 The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed...

    F 6.14 16 In vegetable and animal tissue it is just alike...

    F 6.15 19 One leaf [Nature] lays down, a floor of granite;...a thousand ages, and a layer of marl and mud; vegetable forms appear;...

    F 6.39 2 The vegetable eye makes leaf, pericarp, root, bark, or thorn, as the need is;...

    Farm 7.143 2 Long before [the farmer] was born, the sun of ages... mellowed his land...covered it with vegetable film...

    Farm 7.146 15 Water...transports vast boulders of rock in its iceberg a thousand miles. But its far greater power depends on its talent of becoming little, and entering the smallest holes and pores. By this agency, carrying in solution elements needful to every plant, the vegetable world exists.

    PI 8.8 11 In botany we have...the poetic perception of metamorphosis,--that the same vegetable point or eye which is the unit of the plant can be transformed at pleasure into every part...

    PI 8.8 25 Each animal or vegetable form remembers the next inferior and predicts the next higher.

    Insp 8.270 22 The Hunterian law of arrested development is not confined to vegetable and animal structure...

    Thor 10.463 10 ...when some one urged a vegetable diet, Thoreau thought all diets a very small matter...

    PLT 12.17 11 ...as man is conscious of the law of vegetable and animal nature, so is he aware of an Intellect which overhangs his consciousness...

    CL 12.138 27 [Linnaeus]...distributed the animal, vegetable and mineral kingdoms.

vegetable, n. (3)

    Nat 1.10 23 The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable.

    SR 2.71 2 ...the vital resources of every animal and vegetable, are demonstrations of the...self-relying soul.

    LLNE 10.352 13 [Fourier] treats man...as a vegetable, from which, though now a poor crab, a very good peach can by manure and exposure be in time produced...

vegetables, n. (2)

    SwM 4.101 5 ...[Swedenborg] lived on bread, milk and vegetables;...

    Carl 10.491 14 [Carlyle] treats [young men] with contempt;...they will eat vegetables and drink water, and he is a Scotchman who thinks English national character has a pure enthusiasm for beef and mutton...

vegetation, n. (21)

    Nat 1.40 24 ...every change of vegetation...shall hint or thunder to man the laws of right and wrong...

    LE 1.168 11 ...indeed any vegetation, any animation...are alike unattempted [by poets].

    Con 1.300 23 The leaves and a shell of soft wood are all that the vegetation of this summer has made;...

    Lov1 2.184 16 The work of vegetation begins first in the irritability of the bark and leaf-buds.

    Cir 2.314 4 ...this chemistry and vegetation...are means and methods only...

    Pt1 3.21 9 The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation and animation...

    NER 3.252 16 It was in vain urged by the housewife that God made yeast... and loves fermentation just as dearly as he loves vegetation;...

    ET16 5.288 17 There, I thought, in America, lies nature sleeping...too much by half for man in the picture, and so giving a certain tristesse, like the rank vegetation of swamps and forests seen at night...

    Bty 6.281 1 The spiral tendency of vegetation infects education also.

    Bty 6.294 2 To this streaming or flowing belongs the beauty that all circular movement has; as...the annual wave of vegetation...

    Ill 6.310 8 I remarked especially [in the Mammoth Cave] the mimetic habit with which nature, on new instruments, hums her old tunes, making... chemistry to ape vegetation.

    Res 8.153 8 When I see in these brave plants [the willows] this vigor and immortality in weakness, I find a sudden relief and pleasure in observing the mighty law of vegetation...

    SovE 10.183 7 ...each of the great departments of Nature-chemistry, vegetation, the animal life-exhibits the same laws on a different plane;...

    SovE 10.195 17 We do not believe the less in astronomy and vegetation, because we are writhing and roaring in our beds with rheumatism.

    Schr 10.263 5 I think the peculiar office of scholars...is to be...expressors themselves of that firm and cheerful temper...which reigns through the kingdoms of chemistry, vegetation and animal life.

    LLNE 10.329 18 The warm swart Earth-spirit which made the strength of past ages...warm negro ages of sentiment and vegetation,-all gone;...

    SHC 11.430 11 ...the irresistible democracy-shall I call it?-of chemistry, of vegetation, which recomposes for new life every decomposing particle,- the race never dying, the individual never spared,-have impressed on the mind of the age the futility of these old arts of preserving.

    FRO1 11.479 17 ...as soon as every man...is apprised that the perfect law of duty corresponds with the laws of chemistry, of vegetation, of astronomy, as face to face in a glass;...then we have a religion that exalts...

    PLT 12.20 15 It is necessary to suppose that every hose in Nature fits every hydrant; so only is combination, chemistry, vegetation, animation, intellection possible.

    PLT 12.24 14 The idea of vegetation is irresistible in considering mental activity.

    CW 12.177 27 ...the naturalist has no barren places, no winter, and no night, pursuing his researches...in winter, because, remove the snow a little...and there is a perpetual push of buds, so that it is impossible to say when vegetation begins.

vegetative, adj. (2)

    Nat2 3.196 16 Man imprisoned, man crystallized, man vegetative, speaks to man impersonated.

    PLT 12.27 2 The mechanical laws might as easily be shown pervading the kingdom of mind as the vegetative.

vehemence, n. (3)

    MN 1.213 23 It is not proper, said Zoroaster, to understand the Intelligible with vehemence...

    PPh 4.46 5 As soon as, with culture...[men and women] see [things] no longer in lumps and masses but accurately distributed, they desist from that weak vehemence and explain their meaning in detail.

    ET1 5.10 26 ...taking up Bishop Waterland's book, which lay on the table, [Coleridge] read with vehemence two or three pages written by himself in the fly-leaves...

vehement, adj. (2)

    MAng1 12.241 18 So vehement was this desire [for death], that, [Michelangelo] says, my soul can no longer be appeased by the wonted seductions of painting and sculpture.

    Pray 12.357 3 ...thou [God] didst beat back my weak sight upon myself, shooting out beams upon me after a vehement manner;...

vehemently, adv. (1)

    PPh 4.45 26 In adult life, while the perceptions are obtuse, men and women talk vehemently and superlatively...

vehicle, n. (13)

    Nat 1.25 2 Nature is the vehicle of thought...

    Int 2.335 17 ...[the thought] needs a vehicle or art by which it is conveyed to men.

    ShP 4.210 22 ...what [Shakespeare] has to say is of that weight as to withdraw some attention from the vehicle;...

    ET16 5.280 21 At the inn [at Amesbury], there was only milk for one cup of tea. When we called for more, the girl brought us three drops. My friend [Carlyle] was annoyed...and still more the next morning, by the dog-car, sole procurable vehicle, in which we were to be sent to Wilton.

    Bhr 6.169 4 The soul which animates nature is not less significantly published in the figure, movement and gesture of animated bodies, than in its last vehicle of articulate speech.

    Bhr 6.181 20 If the organ of sight is such a vehicle of power, other features have their own.

    CbW 6.270 12 ...resistance only exasperates the acrid fool, who believes that...he only is right. Hence all the dozen inmates [of his household] are soon perverted...into...repairers of this one malefactor; like a boat about to be overset, or a carriage run away with...everybody on board is forced to assume strange and ridiculous attitudes, to balance the vehicle and prevent the upsetting.

    SS 7.10 27 Both for the vehicle and for the aims of fine arts you must frequent the public square.

    Civ 7.30 9 ...when [man] is the vehicle of ideas, he borrows their omnipotence.

    DL 7.127 7 The first glance we meet may satisfy us that matter is the vehicle of higher powers than its own...

    PI 8.54 14 ...a verse is not a vehicle to carry a sentence as a jewel is carried in a case...

    SA 8.99 8 ...What we want is...your content to be a vehicle of the simple truth.

    PPr 12.379 20 ...the topic of English politics becomes the best vehicle for the expression of [Carlyle's] recent thinking...

vehicles, n. (3)

    YA 1.391 13 Nothing is mightier than we, when we are vehicles of a truth before which the State and the individual are alike ephemeral.

    Dem1 10.14 5 Swans, horses, dogs and dragons, says Plutarch, we distinguish as...vehicles of the divine foresight...

    AKan 11.258 12 We adore the forms of law, instead of making them vehicles of wisdom and justice.

vehicular, adj. (1)

    Pt1 3.34 16 ...all language is vehicular and transitive...

veil, n. (15)

    DSA 1.145 21 ...dare to love God without mediator or veil.

    Lov1 2.175 14 ...no man ever forgot the visitations of that power to his heart and brain...when the youth becomes...studious of a glove, a veil, a ribbon, or the wheels of a carriage;...

    OS 2.284 18 It is...in the nature of man, that a veil shuts down on the facts of to-morrow;...

    OS 2.284 20 By this veil which curtains events [the soul] instructs the children of men to live in to-day.

    OS 2.287 25 ...if a man do not speak from within the veil...let him lowly confess it.

    Cir 2.311 10 We all stand waiting, empty...surrounded by mighty symbols which are not symbols to us, but prose and trivial toys. Then cometh the god...and by a flash of his eye burns up the veil which shrouded all things...

    GoW 4.277 25 [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] is a book over which some veil is still drawn.

    Boks 7.198 5 Of the old Greek books, I think there are five which we cannot spare... ... 3. Aeschylus...who has given us under a thin veil the first plantation of Europe.

    PI 8.38 5 A poet comes who lifts the veil;...

    PPo 8.246 16 Riot, [Hafiz] thinks, can snatch from the deeply hidden lot the veil that covers it...

    LLNE 10.354 7 It argued singular courage, the adoption of Fourier's system, to even a limited extent, with his books lying before the world only defended by the thin veil of the French language.

    Thor 10.476 5 [Thoreau]...knew well how to throw a poetic veil over his experience.

    II 12.89 2 The joy of knowledge, the late discovery that the veil which hid all things from him is really transparent...renew life for [a man].

    Milt1 12.275 4 ...throughout [Milton's] poems, one may see, under a thin veil, the opinions, the feelings, even the incidents of the poet's life...

    MLit 12.328 2 Here was a man [Goethe] who...went up and down, from object to object, lifting the veil from every one, and did no more.

veil, v. (1)

    NR 3.225 23 ...on seeing the smallest arc we complete the curve, and when the curtain is lifted from the diagram which it seemed to veil, we are vexed to find that no more was drawn than just that fragment of an arc which we first beheld.

veiled, adj. (1)

    WD 7.168 13 [The days] come and go like muffled and veiled figures...

veiled, v. (3)

    NR 3.247 9 ...the Truth sits veiled there on the Bench...

    ET1 5.7 11 ...certainly on this May day [Landor's] courtesy veiled that haughty mind...

    SS 7.11 6 ...the power to charm the disguised soul that sits veiled under this bearded and that rosy visage is [the scholar's] rent and ration.

veiling, v. (2)

    Hist 2.30 16 Beside its primary value as the first chapter of the history of Europe (the mythology thinly veiling authentic facts, the invention of the mechanic arts and the migration of colonies,) [the story of Prometheus] gives the history of religion...

    MMEm 10.427 7 I sometimes fancy I detect in [Mary Moody Emerson's] writings a certain...polite and courtly homage to the name and dignity of Jesus...really veiling and betraying her organic dislike to any interference, any mediation between her and the Author of her being...

veils, n. (2)

    PI 8.12 26 ...my young scholar does not wish to know what the leopard, the wolf, or Lucia, signify in Dante's Inferno, but prefers to keep their veils on.

    PI 8.31 16 ...if your verse has not a necessary and autobiographic basis, though under whatever gay poetic veils, it shall not waste my time.

veils, v. (2)

    GoW 4.283 16 ...[Goethe] is very wise, though his talent often veils his wisdom.

    Suc 7.308 26 Nature lays the ground-plan of each creature accurately...then veils it scrupulously.

vein, n. (14)

    AmS 1.86 19 ...to this schoolboy under the bending dome of day, is suggested that he and [nature] proceed from one root;...relation, sympathy, stirring in every vein.

    AmS 1.97 16 I will not...exhaust one vein of thought...

    AmS 1.97 23 Authors we have, in numbers, who have written out their vein...

    MN 1.196 13 ...if you come month after month to see what progress our reformer has made...you still find him...floating about in new parts of the same old vein or crust.

    Prd1 2.239 11 ...neither should you put yourself in a false position with your contemporaries by indulging a vein of hostility and bitterness.

    Chr1 3.106 26 ...wherever the vein of thought reaches down into the profound, there is no danger from vanity.

    Nat2 3.187 12 ...each [man] has a vein of folly in his composition...

    Cour 7.266 25 Undoubtedly there is...a warlike blood, which...does not feel itself except in a quarrel, as one sees in...cats. The like vein appears in certain races of men and in individuals of every race.

    Suc 7.307 2 ...the heart at the centre of the universe with every throb hurls the flood of happiness into every artery, vein and veinlet...

    Grts 8.318 26 Abraham Lincoln is perhaps the most remarkable example of this class [of great style of hero] that we have seen,-a man...with a spirit and a practical vein in the times of terror that commanded the admiration of the wisest.

    FSLC 11.183 14 ...however neatly [Mr. Wolf] has been shaved, and tailored, and set up on end, and taught to say, Virtue and Religion, he cannot be relied on at a pinch: he will say, morality means pricking a vein.

    PLT 12.28 10 'T is only the source that we can see;-the eternal mind... continually ejaculating its torrent into every artery and vein and veinlet of humanity.

    Bost 12.182 10 Let the blood of [Boston's] hundred thousands/ Throb in each manly vein,/ And the wits of all her wisest/ Make sunshine in her brain./

    Milt1 12.258 3 ...[Milton] believed, his poetic vein only flowed from the autumnal to the vernal equinox;...

veinlet, n. (2)

    Suc 7.307 2 ...the heart at the centre of the universe with every throb hurls the flood of happiness into every artery, vein and veinlet...

    PLT 12.28 10 'T is only the source that we can see;-the eternal mind... continually ejaculating its torrent into every artery and vein and veinlet of humanity.

veinlets, n. (1)

    Nat 1.71 22 ...having made for himself this huge shell...[man] no longer fills the veins and veinlets;...

veins, n. (18)

    Nat 1.71 22 ...having made for himself this huge shell...[man] no longer fills the veins and veinlets;...

    Tran 1.354 6 ...we retain the belief that this petty web we weave will at last be overshot and reticulated with veins of the blue...

    SL 2.150 21 ...a person of related mind...comes to us...so nearly and intimately, as if it were the blood in our proper veins, that we feel as if some one was gone, instead of another having come;...

    Lov1 2.177 12 ...[the lover] feels the blood of the violet, the clover and the lily in his veins;...

    SwM 4.110 7 The globule of blood gyrates around its own axis in the human veins...

    SwM 4.114 23 Hunger is an aggregate of very many little hungers, or losses of blood by the little veins all over the body.

    ShP 4.212 26 ...no veins, no curiosities; no cow-painter, no bird-fancier, no mannerist is [Shakespeare]...

    ET14 5.251 4 It would be easy to add exceptions to the limitary tone of English thought, and much more easy to adduce examples of excellence in particular veins;...

    F 6.9 24 How shall a man...draw off from his veins the black drop which he drew from his father's or his mother's life?

    Pow 6.55 10 During...trials of strength, wrestling, fighting, a large amount of blood is collected in the arteries...and but little is sent into the veins.

    Pow 6.55 13 Where [the arteries] pour [the blood] unrestrained into the veins, the spirit is low and feeble.

    Art2 7.54 19 ...[Goethe] suggested, we may see in any stone wall, on a fragment of rock, the projecting veins of harder stone which have resisted the action of frost and water which has decomposed the rest.

    WD 7.166 18 Look up the inventors. Each has his own knack; his genius is in veins and spots.

    PI 8.73 17 [Poets] are, in our experience, men of every degree of skill,-- some of them only once or twice receivers of an inspiration, and presently falling back on a low life. The drop of ichor that tingles in their veins has not yet refined their blood...

    LLNE 10.366 4 ...the conscience of the conscientious runs in veins...

    EWI 11.104 17 The blood is moral: the blood is anti-slavery: it runs cold in the veins...

    EWI 11.134 2 ...you will not suffer me to forget one eloquent old man [John Quincy Adams], in whose veins the blood of Massachusetts rolls...

    MLit 12.332 20 Life for [Goethe]...has a gem or two more on its robe; but... no drop of healthier blood flows yet in its veins.

vellum, n. (2)

    SL 2.154 11 ...vellum and morocco...will not preserve a book in circulation beyond its intrinsic date.

    ET6 5.112 7 An Englishman of fashion is like one of those souvenirs, bound in gold vellum...but with nothing in it worth reading or remembering.

velocity, n. (4)

    MMEm 10.407 17 [Mary Moody Emerson] had the misfortune of spinning with a greater velocity than any of the other tops.

    MMEm 10.407 24 ...though [Mary Moody Emerson] might do very happily in a planet where others moved with the like velocity, she was offended here by the phlegm of all her fellow creatures...

    EWI 11.127 3 ...the West Indian estate was owned or mortgaged in England, and the owner and the mortgagee had very plain intimations that the feeling of English liberty was gaining every hour new mass and velocity...

    FSLN 11.231 3 [Reasonably men] answered...that they knew Cuba would be had, and Mexico would be had, and they stood...as near to monarchy as they could, only to moderate the velocity with which the car was running down the precipice.

velvet, adj. (2)

    SwM 4.101 14 [Swedenborg] wore a sword when in full velvet dress...

    PI 8.14 19 ...our proverb of the courteous soldier reads: An iron hand in a velvet glove.

velvet, n. (1)

    EurB 12.370 15 ...amidst velvet and glory, we long for rain and frost.

venality, n. (1)

    MR 1.231 22 ...in the Spanish islands the venality of the officers of the government has passed into usage...

Venelas [The Boy and the M (1)

    DL 7.123 13 The innocent Venelas alone could wear [the magic mantle].

venerable, adj. (22)

    Nat 1.48 8 Whether nature enjoy a substantial existence without, or is only in the apocalypse of the mind, it is alike useful and alike venerable to me.

    MR 1.241 26 I would not quite forget the venerable counsel of the Egyptian mysteries...

    SR 2.60 1 Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemera.

    SR 2.80 26 They who made...Greece, venerable in the imagination, did so by sticking fast where they were...

    PPh 4.78 14 Let us not seem to treat with flippancy [Plato's] venerable name.

    OA 7.315 2 On the anniversary of the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Cambridge in 1861, the venerable President Quincy...was received at the dinner with peculiar demonstrations of respect.

    OA 7.316 23 ...the venerable forms that so awed our childhood were just such impostors.

    Res 8.143 1 American energy is overriding every venerable maxim of political science.

    PC 8.212 20 The oldest empires,-what we called venerable antiquity,- now that we have true measures of duration [in Geology], show like creations of yesterday.

    Prch 10.217 7 The venerable and beautiful traditions in which we were educated are losing their hold on human belief, day by day;...

    Prch 10.222 13 I cannot keep the sun in heaven, if you take away the purpose that animates him. ... The words, great, venerable, have lost their meaning;...

    EzRy 10.379 1 We love the venerable house/ Our fathers built to God/...

    MMEm 10.402 23 ...Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus,-how venerable and organic as Nature they are in [Mary Moody Emerson's] mind!

    HDC 11.76 2 Captain Charles Miles, who was wounded in the pursuit of the enemy [at Concord bridge] told my venerable friend who sits by me, that he went to the services of that day, with the same seriousness and acknowledgment of God, which he carried to church.

    HDC 11.86 27 The acknowledgment of the Supreme Being exalts the history of this people [of Concord]. It brought the fathers hither. In a war of principle, it delivered their sons. And so long as a spark of this faith survives among the children's children so long shall the name of Concord be honest and venerable.

    War 11.171 18 The manhood that has been in war must be transferred to the cause of peace, before war can lose its charm, and peace be venerable to men.

    JBB 11.272 3 ...the use of a judge is to secure good government, and where the citizen's weal is imperilled by abuse of the federal power, to use that arm which can secure it, viz., the local government. Had that been done on certain calamitous occasions, we should not have seen the honor of Massachusetts trailed in the dust...by the ill-timed formalism of a venerable bench.

    JBB 11.272 7 If judges cannot find law enough to maintain the sovereignty of the state...it is idle to compliment them as learned and venerable.

    ChiE 11.471 6 All share the surprise and pleasure when the venerable Oriental dynasty...suddenly steps into the fellowship of nations.

    CPL 11.497 18 ...I always remember with satisfaction that I saw that venerable plant [Papyrus] in 1833...

    ACri 12.287 24 I remember when a venerable divine [Dr. Osgood] called the young preacher's sermon patty cake.

    PPr 12.387 20 The ancients are only venerable to us because distance has destroyed what was trivial;...

Venerable Bede, n. (1)

    Boks 7.206 25 [The scholar] can look back for the legends and mythology... to Asser's Life of Alfred and Venerable Bede...

venerate, v. (1)

    MAng1 12.215 13 Especially we venerate [Michelangelo's] moral fame.

venerates, v. (1)

    DSA 1.120 27 That which [man] venerates is still his own...

veneration, n. (13)

    DSA 1.126 3 The principle of veneration never dies out.

    MN 1.210 25 ...as far as we can trace the natural history of the soul, its health consists in the fulness of its reception?-call it piety, call it veneration...

    Gts 3.162 18 We arraign society if it do not give us...opportunity, love, reverence and objects of veneration.

    UGM 4.21 1 The veneration of mankind selects these [great men] for the highest place.

    ET16 5.276 21 It looked as if the wide margin given in this crowded isle to this primeval temple [Stonehenge] were accorded by the veneration of the British race to the old egg out of which all their ecclesiastical structures and history had proceeded.

    DL 7.129 21 ...the household should cherish the beautiful arts and the sentiment of veneration.

    SovE 10.212 17 ...all the religion we have is the ethics of one or another holy person; as soon as character appears, be sure love will, and veneration...

    Prch 10.221 10 The understanding...because it has found absurdities to which the sentiment of veneration is attached, sneers at veneration;...

    Prch 10.221 11 The understanding...because it has found absurdities to which the sentiment of veneration is attached, sneers at veneration;...

    LLNE 10.326 24 ...veneration is low;...

    LS 11.18 1 ...our opinions differ much respecting the nature and offices of Christ, and the degree of veneration to which he is entitled.

    HDC 11.77 1 ...the eye of affection and veneration follows you [veterans of the battle of Concord].

    JBB 11.272 8 If judges cannot find law enough to maintain the sovereignty of the state...it is idle to compliment them as learned and venerable. What avails their learning or veneration?

Venetian, adj. (4)

    Art1 2.359 6 ...in the pictures of the Tuscan and Venetian masters, the highest charm is the universal language they speak.

    ET6 5.113 14 ...[the English] think, says the Venetian traveller of 1500, no greater honor can be conferred or received, than to invite others to eat with them, or to be invited themselves...

    Bhr 6.174 23 The modern aristocrat...is well drawn in Titian's Venetian doges and in Roman coins and statues...

    MLit 12.325 2 It was with [Goethe] a favorite task to find a theory of every institution, custom, art, work of art, which he observed. Witness his explanation...of the Venetian music of the gondolier...

Venetian, n. (1)

    ET9 5.145 10 A much older traveller, the Venetian who wrote the Relation of England, in 1500, says:--The English are great lovers of themselves and of every thing belonging to them.

Venetians, n. (1)

    ET3 5.40 13 The old Venetians pleased themselves with the flattery that Venice was in 45 degrees, midway between the poles and the line;...

vengeance, n. (3)

    Comp 2.100 14 If the law is too mild, private vengeance comes in.

    Wsp 6.222 18 ...for each offence a several vengeance;...

    LLNE 10.336 9 ...the paramount source of the religious revolution was Modern Science; beginning with Copernicus, who destroyed the pagan fictions of the Church, by showing mankind that the earth on which we live was not the centre of the Universe...and thus fitted to be the platform on which the Drama of the Divine Judgment was played before the assembled Angels of Heaven,-the scaffold of the divine vengeance Saurin called it...

vengeful, adj. (1)

    Wsp 6.222 17 ...[the countryman] makes the discovery that...the censors of action are as numerous and as near in Paris as in Littleton or Portland; that the gossip is as prompt and vengeful.

Venice, Golden Book of, n. (1)

    Aris 10.32 27 The Golden Book of Venice, the scale of European chivalry... is each a transcript of the decigrade or centigraded Man.

Venice, Italy, n. (9)

    Con 1.311 18 For thee Naples, Florence, and Venice;...

    ET3 5.40 14 The old Venetians pleased themselves with the flattery that Venice was in 45 degrees, midway between the poles and the line;...

    ET12 5.203 15 ...one day, being in Venice [Dr. Bandinel] bought a room full of books and manuscripts...

    Boks 7.209 22 In May, 1812, the library of the Duke of Roxburgh was sold. The sale lasted forty-two days...and among the many curiosities was a copy of Boccaccio published by Valdarfer, at Venice, in 1471;...

    Boks 7.210 24 The tap of [the auctioneer's] hammer was heard in the libraries of Rome, Milan and Venice.

    MAng1 12.223 20 ...even at Venice, on defective evidence, [Michelangelo] is said to have given the plan of the bridge of the Rialto.

    MAng1 12.224 1 When the Florentines united themselves with Venice, England and France, to oppose the power of the Emperor Charles V., Michael Angelo was appointed Military Architect and Engineer, to superintend the erection of the necessary works.

    MAng1 12.225 7 ...[Michelangelo] withdrew privately from the city [Florence] to Ferrara, and thence to Venice.

    MLit 12.325 9 It was with [Goethe] a favorite task to find a theory of every institution, custom, art, work of art, which he observed. Witness his explanation...of the coloring of Titian and Paul Veronese, which one may verify in common daylight in Venice every afternoon;...

Venice, Merchant of [Wm. S (1)

    PI 8.30 25 See how Shakspeare grapples at once with the main problem of the tragedy, as in...the opening of the Merchant of Venice.

venison, n. (3)

    Comp 2.94 24 What did the preacher mean by saying that the good are miserable in the present life? Was it...that a compensation is to be made to these last [the good] hereafter, by giving them the like gratifications another day,--bank-stock and doubloons, venison and champagne?

    ET5 5.84 7 You dine with a gentleman [in England] on venison, pheasant, quail, pigeons, poultry, mushrooms and pine-apples, all the growth of his estate.

    HDC 11.35 1 For flesh, [the pilgrims] looked not for any, in those times, unless they could barter with the Indians for venison and raccoons.

venom, n. (2)

    F 6.33 4 ...whilst art draws out the venom, it commonly extorts some benefit from the vanquished enemy.

    MLit 12.311 6 ...[the library of the Present Age] vents...books...which work dubiously on society and seem to inoculate it with a venom before any healthy result appears.

vent, n. (13)

    ShP 4.210 16 [Shakespeare] was...a brain exhaling thoughts and images, which, seeking vent, found the drama next at hand.

    Pow 6.68 27 [Men of this surcharge of arterial blood's] friends and governors must see that some vent for their explosive complexion is provided.

    Bhr 6.191 9 ...when a man does not write his poetry it escapes by other vents through him, instead of the one vent of writing;...

    Civ 7.22 7 When the Indian trail gets widened, graded and bridged to a good road...there is...a vent for industry.

    Art2 7.50 25 ...in the moment or in the successive moments when that form [of a work of art] was seen, the iron lids of Reason were unclosed, which ordinarily are heavy with slumber. The individual mind became for the moment the vent of the mind of humanity.

    Elo1 7.83 10 ...if one of [the debaters] have anything of commanding necessity in his heart, how speedily he will find vent for it...

    Boks 7.213 6 We must have...some swing and verge for the creative power...driving ardent natures to insanity and crime if it do not find vent.

    Clbs 7.236 18 Conversation is the vent of character as well as of thought;...

    Clbs 7.240 27 Every variety of gift...has its vent and exchange in conversation.

    OA 7.327 9 Every faculty new to each man thus...drives him out into doleful deserts until it finds proper vent.

    PPo 8.250 1 Hafiz praises...birds, mornings and music, to give vent to his immense hilarity and sympathy with every form of beauty and joy;...

    LLNE 10.365 2 In the American social communities, the gossip found such vent and sway as to become despotic.

    Bost 12.200 16 This thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers;...

vent, v. (2)

    Hist 2.34 7 ...when [the bard] seems to vent a mere caprice and wild romance, the issue is an exact allegory.

    PPo 8.250 25 A saint might lend an ear to the riotous fun of Falstaff; for it is...created...to vent the joy of a supernal intelligence.

vented, v. (1)

    Art1 2.366 9 The old tragic Necessity, which...furnishes the sole apology for the intrusion of such anomalous figures [as Venuses and Cupids] into nature,--namely...that the artist was drunk with a passion for form which... vented itself in these fine extravagances,--no longer dignifies the chisel or the pencil.

ventilate, v. (1)

    ET5 5.85 5 [The English]...warm and ventilate houses.

ventilated, v. (2)

    F 6.37 22 [Man's] food is cooked when he arrives;...the house ventilated;...

    Bost 12.199 2 When one thinks of the enterprises that are attempted in the heats of youth...which have been so profoundly ventilated, but end in a protracted picnic...we see with new increased respect the solid, well-calculated scheme of these emigrants [to New England]...

ventilation, n. (3)

    DL 7.111 11 The progress of domestic living has been in cleanliness, in ventilation...

    Supl 10.178 13 The European civility, or that of the positive degree, is established by coal-mines, by ventilation, by irrigation and every skill...

    EdAd 11.383 13 ...this energetic race [Americans] derive an unprecedented material power...from ventilation, from ice, ether, caoutchouc, and innumberable inventions and manufactures.

venting, n. (1)

    PPr 12.389 14 ...in all this glad and needful venting of his redundant spirits, [Carlyle] does yet, ever and anon, as if catching the glance of one wise man in the crowd...lance at him in clear level tone the very word...

ventriloquist, n. (1)

    CInt 12.120 11 ...I value [talent] more...when the talent is...in harmony with the public sentiment of mankind. Such is the patriotism of Demosthenes, of Patrick Henry...strong by the strength of the facts themselves. Then the orator is still one of the audience, persuaded by the same reasons which persuade them; not a ventriloquist, not a juggler...

vents, n. (2)

    MN 1.209 3 The ends...are vents for the current of inward life which increases as it is spent.

    Bhr 6.191 8 ...when a man does not write his poetry it escapes by other vents through him, instead of the one vent of writing;...

vents, v. (2)

    Hsm1 2.247 21 I do not readily remember any poem, play, sermon, novel or oration that our press vents in the last few years, which goes to the same [heroic] tune.

    MLit 12.310 24 ...[the library of the Present Age] vents books that breathe of new morning...

venture, n. (2)

    Tran 1.332 8 The sturdy capitalist...must set [his banking-house], at last... on a mass of unknown materials and solidity...which...goes spinning away, dragging bank and banker with it... And this wild balloon, in which his whole venture is embarked, is a just symbol of his whole state and faculty.

    Chr2 10.94 24 Compare...all our private and personal venture in the world, with this deep of moral nature in which we lie...

venture, v. (13)

    Comp 2.109 19 Nothing venture, nothing have.

    SwM 4.101 20 The genius [of Swedenborg] which was...to...venture into the dim spirit-realm...began its lessons in quarries and forges...

    GoW 4.266 21 If I were to compare action of a much higher strain with a life of contemplation, I should not venture to pronounce with much confidence in favor of the former.

    ET14 5.259 3 Might I [Warren Hastings]...venture to prescribe bounds to the latitude of criticism, I should exclude...all rules drawn from the ancient or modern literature of Europe...

    CbW 6.263 2 If now in this connection of discourse we should venture on laying down the first obvious rules of life, I will not here repeat the first rule of economy...

    Boks 7.197 6 ...I will venture...to count the few books which a superficial reader must thankfully use.

    Clbs 7.231 4 Amidst all the gay banter, sentiment cannot profane itself and venture out.

    Cour 7.274 25 Sacred courage indicates...that [a man]...will venture all to put in act the invisible thought in his mind.

    Aris 10.50 11 ...we venture to put any man in any place.

    Aris 10.57 5 I will not protract this discourse by describing the duties of the brave and generous. And yet I will venture to name one...

    Thor 10.484 12 There is a flower known to botanists...which grows on the most inaccessible cliffs of the Tyrolese mountains, where the chamois dare hardly venture...

    EdAd 11.391 19 Will [a journal] venture into the thin and difficult air of that school where the secrets of structure are discussed under the topics of mesmerism and the twilights of demonology?

    Let 12.397 6 ...we are impatient of the tedious introductions of Destiny... and would venture something to accelerate them.

ventured, v. (7)

    LE 1.185 5 ...I have ventured to offer you these considerations upon the scholar's place and hope...

    MN 1.203 19 ...Nature seems further to reply, I have ventured so great a stake as my success, in no single creature.

    SR 2.75 1 ...it demands something godlike in him who...has ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster.

    ET15 5.270 4 Who would care for [the London Times], if it surmised...or ventured to predict, etc.?

    Wsp 6.233 8 It is related of William of Orange, that whilst he was besieging a town on the continent, a gentleman...learning that the king was before the walls...ventured to go where he was.

    Plu 10.312 6 [Seneca] ventured far-apparently too far-for so keen a conscience as he inly had.

    FRep 11.521 9 ...we can all count the few cases...when a public man ventured to act as he thought...

ventures, v. (1)

    Aris 10.58 9 ...a hero's, a man's success is made up of failures, because he experiments and ventures every day...

Venus [de Milo ?], n. (1)

    Bty 6.295 22 How many copies are there of the Belvedere Apollo, the Venus...

Venus, n. (6)

    PNR 4.87 7 The gods are [to Plato] the ideas. ... Venus is proportion;...

    ET1 5.7 24 [Landor] prefers the Venus to everything else...

    Bty 6.292 2 The Greeks fabled that Venus was born of the foam of the sea.

    PI 8.25 22 ...[people] like to talk and hear of Jove, Apollo, Minerva, Venus and the Nine.

    Comc 8.171 23 A lady of high rank, but of lean figure, had given the Countess Dulauloy the nickname of Le Grenadier tricolore, in allusion to her tall figure, as well as to her republican opinions; the Countess retaliated by calling Madame the Venus of the Pere-Lachaise...

    PPo 8.253 4 ...I heard the harp of the planet Venus, and it said in the early morning, I am the disciple of the sweet-voiced Hafiz!

Venuses, n. (1)

    Art1 2.366 3 The old tragic Necessity, which lowers on the brows even of the Venuses and the Cupids of the antique...no longer dignifies the chisel or the pencil.

vera, n. (1)

    FSLN 11.226 15 [Webster]...left, with much complacency we are told, the testament of his [7th of March] speech to the astonished State of Massachusetts, vera pro gratis;...

veracious, adj. (1)

    Chr2 10.108 2 ...So far the religion is now where it should be. Persons are discriminated as honest, as veracious, as illuminated...

veracities, n. (1)

    Carl 10.496 9 ...[Carlyle] thinks Oxford and Cambridge education indurates the young men...so that when they come forth of them, they say... we have gone through all the degrees, and are case-hardened against the veracities of the Universe;...

veracity, n. (16)

    Pt1 3.11 15 ...the value of genius to us is in the veracity of its report.

    NR 3.230 24 ...universally, a good example of this social force is the veracity of language, which cannot be debauched.

    UGM 4.3 10 The world is upheld by the veracity of good men...

    UGM 4.10 8 ...a sober grace adheres to the mineral and botanic kingdoms, which, in the highest moments, comes up as the charm of nature...the veracity of angles.

    ET7 5.117 1 Veracity derives from instinct...

    ET7 5.117 14 'T is said that the wolf, who makes a cache of his prey and brings his fellows with him to the spot, if, on digging, it is not found, is instantly and unresistingly torn in pieces. English veracity seems to result on a sounder animal structure...

    ET7 5.120 24 ...one cannot think this festival [of St. George in Montreal] fruitless, if, all over the world, on the 23d of April, wherever two or three English are found, they meet to encourage each other in the nationality of veracity.

    ET12 5.213 13 ...when you have settled it that the universities are moribund, out comes a poetic influence from the heart of Oxford...to give veracity to art and charm mankind...

    ET14 5.232 13 This homeliness, veracity and plain style appear in the earliest extant [English literary] works and in the latest.

    F 6.19 25 No picture of life can have any veracity that does not admit the odious facts.

    Bty 6.294 25 Veracity first of all, and forever.

    Ill 6.322 25 I look upon the simple and childish virtues of veracity and honesty as the root of all that is sublime in character.

    PI 8.29 24 Veracity...is that which we require in poets...

    PI 8.39 14 ...we demand of [the poet] what he demands of himself,-- veracity, first of all.

    PC 8.229 11 Men say, Ah! if a man could impart his talent, instead of his performance, what mountains of guineas would be paid! Yes, but in the measure of his absolute veracity he does impart it.

    Bost 12.193 11 ...[the savage] goes muttering his rude ritual or mythology, which yet conceals some grand commandment; as courage, veracity, honesty...

Veracity, n. (1)

    PI 8.29 14 Veracity.--I do not wish...to find that my poet is not partaker of the feast he spreads...

Veraguas [Veragua], Panama, (3)

    Suc 7.285 8 Columbus at Veragua found plenty of gold;...

    Suc 7.285 16 ...when he reached Spain [Columbus] told the King and Queen that they may ask all the pilots who came with him where is Veragua.

    Suc 7.285 17 ...when he reached Spain [Columbus] told the King and Queen that they may ask all the pilots who came with him where is Veragua. Let them answer and say if they know where Veragua lies.

verament, adv. (1)

    Wsp 6.206 7 Hengist had verament/ A daughter both fair and gent,/ But she was heathen Sarazine,/ And Vortigern for love fine/ Her took to fere and to wife,/ And was cursed in all his life;/...

veranda, adj. (1)

    Art2 7.41 21 The veranda or pagoda roof can curve upward only to a certain point.

verb, n. (1)

    Pt1 3.20 2 The world being thus put under the mind for verb and noun, the poet is he who can articulate it.

verbal, adj. (4)

    ET1 5.10 10 From London...I went to Highgate, and wrote a note to Mr. Coleridge, requesting leave to pay my respects to him. It was near noon. Mr Coleridge sent a verbal message that he was in bed, but if I would call after one o'clock he would see me.

    SovE 10.202 2 [A man] may throw himself upon...some verbal creed, with such concentration as to hide the universe from him: but the stars roll above;...

    Plu 10.309 15 Plutarch has such a keen pleasure in realities that he has none in verbal disputes;...

    WSL 12.347 17 ...the minuteness of [Landor's] verbal criticism gives a confidence in his fidelity when he speaks the language of meditation or of passion.

verbiage, n. (1)

    Insp 8.295 19 ...read...fact-books, which all geniuses prize...as antidote to verbiage and false poetry.

verbs, n. (6)

    Nat 1.26 7 Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs...

    NER 3.282 26 Every time we converse we seek to translate [Providence] into speech, but whether we hit or whether we miss, we have the fact. Every discourse is an approximate answer: but it is of small consequence that we do not get it into verbs and nouns...

    UGM 4.3 17 [Great men's] names are wrought into the verbs of language...

    SwM 4.122 9 To the withered traditional church...[Swedenborg] let in nature again, and the worshipper, escaping from the vestry of verbs and texts, is surprised to find himself a party to the whole of his religion.

    WD 7.180 25 You must hear the bird's song without attempting to render it into nouns and verbs.

    PLT 12.37 19 ...Perception is the armed eye. A civilization has tamed and ripened this savage wit, and he is a Greek. His Aye and No have become nouns and verbs and adverbs.

verdict, n. (30)

    AmS 1.102 8 ...whatsoever new verdict Reason...pronounces on the passing men and events of to-day, - this [the scholar] shall hear and promulgate.

    LT 1.269 27 The fury with which the slave-trader defends every inch of... his howling auction-platform, is a trumpet...to...drive all neutrals...to listen to the argument and the verdict.

    Con 1.325 22 ...if they could give their verdict, [mankind] would say that [the intemperate and covetous person's] self-indulgence and his oppression deserved punishment from society...

    YA 1.389 27 ...to stand for the private verdict against popular clamor is the office of the noble.

    SR 2.49 7 ...[the boy] gives an independent, genuine verdict.

    SR 2.62 10 The picture waits for my verdict;...

    SL 2.154 4 They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and noisy readers of the hour when it appears...

    SL 2.156 10 You think because you...have given no opinion on the times... that your verdict is still expected with curiosity as a reserved wisdom.

    SL 2.157 3 I have heard an experienced counsellor say that he never feared the effect upon a jury of a lawyer who does not believe in his heart that his client ought to have a verdict.

    OS 2.286 7 ...[the wise man] lets [men] judge themselves, and merely reads and records their own verdict.

    SwM 4.144 24 ...[Swedenborg] gave a verdict.

    ShP 4.218 8 The Egyptian verdict of the Shakspeare Societies comes to mind; that [Shakespeare] was a jovial actor and manager.

    Ctr 6.157 16 Here is a new poem, which elicits a good many comments in the journals and in conversation. From these it is easy at last to gather the verdict which readers passed upon it;...

    Wsp 6.226 9 You want but one verdict; if you have your own you are secure of the rest.

    Wsp 6.241 27 [Man] needs only his own verdict.

    CbW 6.245 22 The lawyer...is as gay and as much relieved as the client if it turns out that he has a verdict.

    OA 7.321 15 The cynical creed or lampoon of the market is refuted by the universal prayer for long life, which is the verdict of Nature...

    SA 8.101 12 ...in the last age, this system [of hereditary nobility] has been on its trial, and the verdict of mankind is pretty nearly pronounced.

    PC 8.219 20 Tennyson would give his fame for a verdict in his favor from Wordsworth.

    Imtl 8.321 3 Wilt thou not ope thy heart to know/ What rainbows teach, and sunsets show?/ Verdict which accumulates/ From lengthening scroll of human fates/...

    Aris 10.49 18 I think that the community...will be the best measure and the justest judge of the citizen, or will in the long run give the fairest verdict and reward;...

    Aris 10.49 23 The verdict of battles will best prove the general;...

    SlHr 10.442 15 Many good stories are still told of the perplexity of jurors who found the law and the evidence on one side, and yet Squire Hoar had said that he believed, on his conscience, his client entitled to a verdict.

    HDC 11.29 12 We will...pass that just verdict on [the deeds of our fathers] we expect from posterity on our own.

    EWI 11.140 17 In the case of the ship Zong, in 1781, whose master had thrown one hundred and thirty-two slaves alive into the sea, to cheat the underwriters, the first jury gave a verdict in favor of the master and owners...

    FSLN 11.241 7 ...when one sees how fast the rot [of slavery] spreads...I think we demand of superior men that they be superior in this,-that the mind and the virtue shall give their verdict in their day...

    FSLN 11.243 1 You, gentlemen of these literary and scientific schools, and the important class you represent, have the power to make your verdict clear and prevailing.

    TPar 11.292 23 The sudden and singular eminence of Mr. Parker, the importance of his name and influence, are the verdict of his country to his virtues.

    FRep 11.528 3 Our institutions, of which the town is the unit, are educational... ... The result appears...in the voice of the public...because it is thought to be, on the whole, the verdict...of the greatest number.

    ACri 12.299 12 ...[Carlyle's History of Frederick II is] withal a book that is a judgment-day for its moral verdict on the men and nations and manners of modern times.

verdicts, n. (2)

    ET14 5.245 13 ...[Hallam's] eye does not reach to the ideal standards: the verdicts are all dated from London;...

    II 12.75 4 ...in order to win infallible verdicts from the inner mind, we must indulge and humor it in every way...

Vere, Aubrey de [Earl Oxfo (2)

    ET8 5.139 18 No nation was ever so rich in able men [as England];...men of such temper, that, like Baron Vere, had one seen him returning from a victory, he would by his silence have suspected that he had lost the day; and, had he beheld him in a retreat, he would have collected him a conqueror by the cheerfulness of his spirit.

    ET11 5.178 22 Pepys tells us, in writing of an Earl Oxford, in 1666, that the honor had now remained in that name and blood six hundred years.

verge, n. (12)

    Cir 2.315 15 ...the highest prudence is the lowest prudence. Is this too sudden a rushing from the centre to the verge of our orbit?

    Cir 2.315 18 Think how many times we shall fall back into pitiful calculations before we...make the verge of to-day the new centre.

    ET4 5.61 2 ...[the Normans] burned, harried, violated, tortured and killed, until everything English was brought to the verge of ruin.

    Civ 7.17 10 Witness the mute all hail/ The joyful traveller gives, when on the verge/ Of craggy Indian wilderness he hears/ From a log cabin stream Beethoven's notes/ On the piano, played with master's hand./

    DL 7.119 11 Honor to the house where they are simple to the verge of hardship...

    WD 7.171 16 The sky is...the verge or confines of matter and spirit.

    Boks 7.213 3 We must have...some swing and verge for the creative power lying coiled and cramped here...

    Cour 7.277 12 ...if your skepticism reaches to the last verge...then be brave...

    Imtl 8.338 24 On the borders of the grave, the wise man looks forward with equal elasticity of mind, or hope; and why not, after millions of years, on the verge of still newer existence?...

    HDC 11.84 15 If, at any time, in common with most of our towns, [our fathers] have carried this economy to the verge of a vice, it is to be remembered that a town is, in many respects, a financial corporation.

    FSLN 11.230 23 [Reasonably men] answered...that they saw plainly that all was going to the utmost verge of licence;...

    MAng1 12.231 9 ...is there not something affecting in the spectacle of an old man [Michelangelo], on the verge of ninety years, carrying steadily onward...his poetic conceptions into progressive execution...

veridicus, n. (1)

    ET7 5.117 24 Alfred...is called by a writer at the Norman Conquest, the truth-speaker; Alueredus veridicus.

veriest, adj. (4)

    LE 1.171 24 ...the first observation you make...though on the veriest trifle, may open a new view of nature and of man...

    Clbs 7.234 12 [Yonder man's] dissent from me is the veriest affectation.

    MMEm 10.419 11 ...I [Mary Moody Emerson] pass my youth, its last traces, in the veriest shades of ignorance...

    War 11.172 20 I do not wonder at the dislike some of the friends of peace have expressed at Shakspeare. The veriest churl and Jacobin cannot resist the influence of the style and manners of these haughty lords.

verification, n. (1)

    MAng1 12.219 12 In art, Michael Angelo is himself but a document or verification of this maxim [Rien de beau que le vrai].

verified, v. (1)

    Nat2 3.183 21 Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

verifies, v. (2)

    Hist 2.30 8 One after another [the advancing man] comes up in his private adventures with every fable of Aesop...and verifies them with his own head and hands.

    Mrs1 3.150 19 The wonderful generosity of her sentiments raises [woman] at times into heroical and godlike regions, and verifies the pictures of Minerva, Juno, or Polymnia;...

verify, v. (8)

    Tran 1.358 26 ...it may not be without its advantage that we should now and then encounter rare and gifted men, to...verify our bearings from superior chronometers.

    SwM 4.105 7 What was left for a genius of the largest calibre but to go over [his predecessors'] ground and verify and unite?

    GoW 4.276 11 Take the most remarkable example that could occur of [Goethe's] tendency to verify every term in popular use.

    Boks 7.190 1 ...there are books which are of that importance in a man's private experience as to verify for him the fables of Cornelius Agrippa...

    Edc1 10.145 4 This is the perpetual romance of new life...when [God] sends into quiet houses a young soul...looking for something which is not there, but which ought to be there: the thought is dim but it is sure, and he casts about restless for means and masters to verify it;...

    SlHr 10.441 21 ...[Samuel Hoar] sometimes wearied his audience with the pains he took to qualify and verify his statements...

    SMC 11.356 25 All sorts of men went to the [Civil] war...the village politician, who could now verify his newspaper knowledge...

    MLit 12.325 9 It was with [Goethe] a favorite task to find a theory of every institution, custom, art, work of art, which he observed. Witness his explanation...of the coloring of Titian and Paul Veronese, which one may verify in common daylight in Venice every afternoon;...

verifying, v. (6)

    Hist 2.10 1 We are always coming up with the emphatic facts of history in our private experience and verifying them here.

    Hist 2.10 9 What the former age has epitomized into a formula or rule for manipular convenience, [the mind] will lose all the good of verifying for itself, by means of the wall of that rule.

    Hist 2.18 8 The trivial experience of every day is always verifying some old prediction to us...

    ET11 5.192 27 Dismal anecdotes abound, verifying the gossip of the last generation, of [English] dukes served by bailiffs...

    OA 7.329 18 An old scholar finds keen delight in verifying the impressive anecdotes and citations he has met with in miscellaneous reading and hearing, in all the years of youth.

    Trag 12.412 8 The Egyptian sphinxes...have countenances expressive of complacency and repose...verifying the primeval sentence of history on the permanency of that people, Their strength is to sit still.

verily, adv. (6)

    LE 1.165 18 The hero is great by means of the predominance of the universal nature;...he has only to be forced to act, and it acts. All men... embrace the deed, with the heart, for it is verily theirs as much as his;...

    Fdsp 2.196 8 The lover, beholding his maiden, half knows that she is not verily that which he worships;...

    ShP 4.199 15 Is there at last in [the writer's] breast a Delphi whereof to ask concerning any thought or thing, whether it be verily so, yea or nay?...

    Edc1 10.143 26 ...I hear the outcry which replies to this suggestion:- Would you verily throw up the reins of public and private discipline;...

    CPL 11.494 4 The bishop of Cavaillon, Petrarch's friend, in a playful experiment locked up the poet's library...but the poet's misery caused him to restore the key on the first evening. And I verily believe I should have become insane, says Petrarch, if my mind had longer been deprived of its necessary nourishment.

    MLit 12.334 4 Verily [the Doctrine of the Life of Man] will not long want articulate and melodious expression.

veritable, adj. (3)

    ShP 4.205 12 It appears...that [Shakespeare] was a veritable farmer.

    ET1 5.12 22 ...I proceeded to inquire [of Coleridge] if the extract from the Independent's pamphlet, in the third volume of the Friend, were a veritable quotation.

    Elo1 7.59 6 For whom the Muses smile upon,/ .../ In his every syllable/ Lurketh nature veritable;/...

verities, n. (5)

    Nat 1.66 6 That which seems faintly possible...is often faint and dim because it is deepest seated in the mind among the eternal verities.

    LE 1.175 6 Pindar, Raphael...dwell in crowds it may be, but the instant thought comes...they spurn personal relations; they deal...with verities...

    Hist 2.30 12 The beautiful fables of the Greeks...are universal verities.

    MoS 4.152 15 After dinner, a man believes less, denies more: verities have lost some charm.

    Wsp 6.216 15 ...when poems were made,--the human soul...had fixed its thoughts on spiritual verities...

verity, n. (4)

    Elo1 7.76 11 Leaving behind us these pretensions...to come a little nearer to the verity,--eloquence is attractive as an example of the magic of personal ascendency...

    PI 8.20 25 Poetry, if perfected, is the only verity;...

    PI 8.27 2 ...poetry is the only verity...

    Pray 12.356 23 He that knows truth or verity knows what that light [of the soul] is...

Verity, n. (1)

    Pray 12.356 25 O eternal Verity! and true Charity! and dear Eternity! thou art my God...

verius, adj. (1)

    ET7 5.118 4 The mottoes of [English] families are monitory proverbs, as... Vero nil verius, of the DeVeres.

vermin, n. (2)

    MR 1.238 9 Every species of property is preyed on by its own enemies, as... provisions by mould, putridity, or vermin;...

    MR 1.239 6 ...rust, mould, vermin, rain, sun, freshet, fire, all seize their own...

Vermont, adj. (1)

    JBB 11.272 11 A Vermont judge, Hutchinson, who has the Declaration of Independence in his heart;...is worth a court-house full of lawyers so idolatrous of forms as to let go the substance.

Vermont, n. (5)

    SR 2.76 7 A sturdy lad from...Vermont...is worth a hundred of these city dolls.

    Ctr 6.146 21 Poor country boys of Vermont and Connecticut formerly owed what knowledge they had to their peddling trips to the Southern States.

    CbW 6.268 3 [The young people] set forth on their travels in search of a home: they reach Berkshire; they reach Vermont;...

    EzRy 10.382 25 There were an unusually large number of distinguished men in this [Harvard] class of 1776...Royall Tyler, Chief Justice of Vermont;...

    SMC 11.353 23 ...when you replace the love of family or clan by a principle, as freedom, instantly that fire runs over the state-line into New Hampshire, Vermont, New York and Ohio...

vernacular, adj. (3)

    ET13 5.218 7 ...when the Saxon instinct had secured a [religious] service in the vernacular tongue, it was the tutor and university of the people.

    WD 7.167 4 The new study of the Sanskrit has shown us the origin of the old names of God...names of the sun, still recognizable through the modifications of our vernacular words...

    Chr2 10.111 7 A true nation loves its vernacular tongue.

vernacular, n. (2)

    Mrs1 3.122 11 ...we must keep alive in the vernacular the distinction between fashion...and the heroic character which the gentleman imports.

    PPh 4.39 21 ...every brisk young man who says in succession fine things to each reluctant generation...is some reader of Plato, translating into the vernacular, wittily, his good things.

vernal, adj. (3)

    CL 12.160 16 ...the zones of plants, the savin, the pine, vernal gentian...are all thermometers which cannot be deceived...

    Milt1 12.258 4 ...[Milton] believed, his poetic vein only flowed from the autumnal to the vernal equinox;...

    Milt1 12.258 7 [Milton says] In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against Nature not to go out and see her riches...

Vernons, n. (1)

    Wth 6.96 10 Ages derive a culture from the wealth of...Townleys, Vernons and Peels, in England; or whatever great proprietors.

vero, adv. (1)

    ET7 5.118 4 The mottoes of [English] families are monitory proverbs, as... Vero nil verius, of the DeVeres.

vero, n. (1)

    Nat 1.44 21 Omne verum vero consonat.

Veronese, Paul, n. (1)

    MLit 12.325 8 It was with [Goethe] a favorite task to find a theory of every institution, custom, art, work of art, which he observed. Witness his explanation...of the coloring of Titian and Paul Veronese...

vers de societe, n. (3)

    Scot 11.464 23 [Scott] made no pretension to the lofty style of Spenser, or Milton, or Wordsworth. Compared with their purified songs...his were vers de societe.

    Scot 11.464 24 ...[Scott] had the skill proper to vers de societe...

    EurB 12.365 19 [Wordsworth's] are such verses as in a just state of culture should be vers de societe...

Versailles, France, n. (4)

    MN 1.203 14 Why should not then these messieurs of Versailles strut and plot for tabourets and ribbons...

    Nat2 3.174 16 In [the stars'] soft glances I see what men strove to realize in some Versailles...

    PPh 4.53 19 The Roman legion...the saloons of Versailles...may all be seen in perspective;...

    ACri 12.287 26 The sans-culottes at Versailles cried out, Let our little Mother Mirabeau speak!

versatile, adj. (7)

    Pt1 3.31 25 ...when Aesop reports the whole catalogue of common daily relations through the masquerade of birds and beasts;--we take the cheerful hint of the immortality of our essence and its versatile habit and escapes...

    Mrs1 3.124 18 The rulers of society must be...equal to their versatile office...

    SwM 4.99 10 Such a boy [as Swedenborg]...goes...prying into...physiology, mathematics and astronomy, to find images fit for the measure of his versatile and capacious brain.

    ET8 5.138 27 To understand the power of performance that is in their finest wits...in the versatile transcendent poets...one should see how English day-laborers hold out.

    ET10 5.160 25 The wise, versatile, all-giving machinery makes chisels, roads, locomotives, telegraphs.

    QO 8.184 23 So the sarcasm attributed to Baron Alderson upon Brougham, What a wonderful versatile mind has Brougham!...if he only knew a little of law, he would know a little of everything.

    Bost 12.183 7 ...it was remarked that insulary people are versatile and addicted to change...

versatility, n. (7)

    UGM 4.16 27 We go to the gymnasium and the swimming-school to see the power and beauty of the body; there is the like pleasure and a higher benefit from witnessing intellectual feats of all kinds; as...the transmutings of the imagination, even versatility and concentration...

    GoW 4.271 11 Goethe was the philosopher of this [modern] multiplicity;... able and happy to cope with this rolling miscellany of facts and sciences, and by his own versatility to dispose of them with ease;...

    ET10 5.167 11 The incessant repetition of the same hand-work dwarfs the man, robs him of his strength, wit and versatility...

    Supl 10.172 26 The arithmetic of Newton...the versatility of Julius Caesar... are sure of commanding interest and awe in every company of men.

    ChiE 11.474 4 [Asian immigrants'] power of continuous labor, their versatility in adapting themselves to new conditions...are unlooked-for virtues.

    Bost 12.185 8 ...if the character of the people [of Boston] has a larger range and greater versatility...perhaps they may thank their climate of extremes...

    MAng1 12.226 18 Versatility of talent in men of undoubted ability always awakens the liveliest interest;...

verse, n. (59)

    AmS 1.102 3 [The scholar] is to resist the vulgar prosperity that retrogrades ever to barbarism, by preserving and communicating...melodious verse...

    Lov1 2.177 16 The heats that have opened [the lover's] perceptions of natural beauty have made him love music and verse.

    Int 2.338 7 ...a good sentence or verse remains fresh and memorable for a long time.

    Int 2.338 19 ...I remember any beautiful verse for twenty years.

    Pt1 3.8 10 ...whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word or a verse...

    Pt1 3.34 3 ...all books of the imagination endure, all which ascend to that truth that the writer sees nature beneath him, and uses it as his exponent. Every verse or sentence possessing this virtue will take care of its own immortality.

    Pt1 3.42 5 ...thou [O poet] shalt not be able to rehearse the names of thy friends in thy verse, for an old shame before the holy ideal.

    Chr1 3.106 15 They are a relief from literature,--these fresh draughts from the sources of thought and sentiment; as we read...the first lines of written prose and verse of a nation.

    Chr1 3.112 12 ...there is a Greek verse which runs, The Gods are to each other not unknown./

    ShP 4.196 3 The first play [Shakespeare's Henry VIII] was written by a superior, thoughtful man, with a vicious ear. I can mark his lines, and know well their cadence. See Wolsey's soliloquy, and the following scene with Cromwell, where...the verse has even a trace of pulpit eloquence.

    ShP 4.210 24 ...[Shakespeare] is like some saint whose history is to be rendered...into verse and prose...

    ShP 4.213 12 This power...of transferring the inmost truth of things into music and verse, makes [Shakespeare] the type of the poet...

    ShP 4.218 11 The Egyptian verdict of the Shakspeare Societies comes to mind; that [Shakespeare] was a jovial actor and manager. I can not marry this fact to his verse.

    ET1 5.24 14 [Wordsworth] then said he would show me a better way towards the inn; and he walked a good part of a mile, talking and ever and anon stopping short to impress the word or the verse...

    ET14 5.232 19 [The English] ask their constitutional utility in verse.

    ET14 5.257 7 [Wordsworth's] verse is the voice of sanity in a worldly and ambitious age.

    F 6.29 10 One of these [sallies of freedom] is the verse of the Persian Hafiz...

    CbW 6.266 1 An old French verse runs, in my translation:--Some of your griefs you have cured,/ And the sharpest you still have survived;/ But what torments of pain you endured/ From evils that never arrived!/

    Art2 7.46 19 The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight which a verse gives in happy quotation than in the poem.

    Art2 7.50 8 [Good poets] found the verse, not made it.

    DL 7.128 20 A verse of the old Greek Menander remains...

    Clbs 7.248 19 Herrick's verses to Ben Jonson no doubt paint the fact:-- When we such clusters had/ As made us nobly wild, not mad;/ And yet, each verse of thine/ Outdid the meat, outdid the frolic wine./

    Suc 7.299 6 ...I have just seen a man...who told me that [Wordsworth's] verse was not true for him;...

    OA 7.330 12 The day comes...when the admirable verse finds the poet to whom it belongs;...

    PI 8.31 14 ...if your verse has not a necessary and autobiographic basis...it shall not waste my time.

    PI 8.40 7 ...a new verse comes once in a hundred years;...

    PI 8.43 10 I have heard that the Germans think the creator of Trim and Uncle Toby, though he never wrote a verse, a greater poet than Cowper...

    PI 8.52 8 You shall not speak ideal truth in prose uncontradicted: you may in verse.

    PI 8.53 6 Victor Hugo says well, An idea steeped in verse becomes suddenly more incisive and more brilliant...

    PI 8.54 14 ...a verse is not a vehicle to carry a sentence as a jewel is carried in a case...

    PI 8.54 15 ...the verse must be alive...

    PI 8.56 1 Keats disclosed by certain lines in his Hyperion this inward skill; and Coleridge showed at least his love and appetency for it. It appears in... Collins's Ode to Evening, all but the last verse...

    PI 8.56 12 Gray avows that he thinks even a bad verse as good a thing or better than the best observation that was ever made on it.

    PI 8.63 23 None of your parlor or piano verse...will satisfy us.

    PI 8.64 12 Bring us...poetry like that verse of Saadi, which the angels testified met the approbation of Allah in Heaven;...

    PI 8.73 4 Much that we call poetry is but polite verse.

    QO 8.186 2 The fine verse in the old Scotch ballad of The Drowned Lovers...is a translation of Martial's epigram on Hero and Leander...

    PPo 8.253 13 Only he despises the verse of Hafiz who is not himself by nature noble.

    Insp 8.268 4 If with light head erect I sing,/ Though all the Muses lend their force,/ From my poor love of anything,/ The verse is weak and shallow as its source./

    Insp 8.268 11 ...if with bended head I grope/ Listening behind me for my wit,/ With faith superior to hope,/ More anxious to keep back than forward it,/ Making my soul accomplice there/ Unto the flame my heart has lit,/ Then will the verse forever wear,/ Time cannot bend a line which God hath writ./ Inspiration, H. Thoreau.

    Insp 8.283 3 I understand The Harbingers to refer to the signs of age and decay which [Herbert] detects in himself, not only in his constitution, but in his fancy and his facility and grace in writing verse;...

    Insp 8.295 7 A Greek epigram out of the anthology, a verse of Herrick or Lovelace, are in harmony both with sense and spirit.

    Insp 8.295 14 You may read Chaucer, Shakspeare, Ben Jonson, Milton,- and Milton's prose as his verse;...

    Schr 10.269 20 The poet writes his verse on a scrap of paper, and instantly the desire and love of all mankind take charge of it...

    Plu 10.298 2 ...though [Plutarch] never used verse, he had many qualities of the poet...

    Plu 10.299 5 A poet in verse or prose must have a sensuous eye...

    Plu 10.302 20 [Plutarch] has preserved for us a multitude of precious sentences, in prose or verse, of authors whose books are lost;...

    Plu 10.318 10 ...wherever the Cid is relished, the legends of...Bonaparte, and Walter Scott's Chronicles in prose or verse,-there will Plutarch...sit as...laureate of the ancient world.

    LLNE 10.351 17 ...it is not to be doubted but that in the reign of Attractive Industry all men will speak in blank verse.

    SlHr 10.448 5 ...I have heard that the only verse that [Samuel Hoar] was ever known to quote was the Indian rule: When the oaks are in the gray,/ Then, farmers, plant away./

    RBur 11.441 10 It was indifferent-they thought who saw him-whether [Burns] wrote verse or not...

    Shak1 11.447 15 ...it is to us [The Saturday Club] a painful disappointment...that a well-known and honored compatriot, who first in Boston wrote elegant verse...Mr. Charles Sprague,-pleads the infirmities of age as an absolute bar to his presence with us.

    Scot 11.464 25 ...[Scott] had the...skill to fit his verse to his topic...

    Scot 11.466 21 In the number and variety of his characters [Scott] approaches Shakspeare. Other painters in verse or prose have thrown into literature a few type-figures; as Cervantes, De Foe...

    PLT 12.43 17 There are times when the cawing of a crow...is more suggestive to the mind than the Yosemite gorge or the Vatican would be in another hour. In like mood an old verse, or certain words, gleam with rare significance.

    CL 12.134 5 Keen ears can catch a syllable,/ As if one spoke to another,/ In the hemlocks tall, untamable,/ And what the whispering grasses smother./ Wonderful verse of the gods,/ Of one import, of varied tone;/...

    ACri 12.290 9 The next virtue of rhetoric is compression, the science of omitting, which makes good the old verse of Hesiod, Fools, they did not know that half was better than the whole.

    MLit 12.320 1 When we read poetry, the mind asks,-Was this verse one of twenty which the author might have written as well;...

    Let 12.392 8 ...we have thought that we might clear our account [of correspondence] by writing a quarterly catholic letter to all and several who have honored us, in verse or prose, with their confidence...

versed, adj. (2)

    CL 12.161 6 ...Goethe...said no man should be admitted to his Republic, who was not versed in Natural History.

    EurB 12.373 15 We are not very well versed in these books [novels]...

verses, n. (56)

    AmS 1.91 26 We read the verses of one of the great English poets...with the most modern joy...

    AmS 1.92 3 We read the verses of one of the great English poets...with a pleasure...which is in great part caused by the abstraction of all time from their verses.

    Hist 2.15 17 A particular picture or copy of verses, if it do not awaken the same train of images, will yet superinduce the same sentiment as some wild mountain walk...

    SR 2.45 1 I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original...

    SL 2.133 26 Timoleon's victories are the best victories, which ran and flowed like Homer's verses, Plutarch said.

    Lov1 2.177 17 ...men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion who cannot write well under any other circumstances.

    Int 2.340 27 ...the poet, whose verses are to be spheral and complete, is one whom Nature cannot deceive...

    Pt1 3.9 24 The argument [in modern poetry] is secondary, the finish of the verses is primary.

    Pt1 3.39 15 The poet pours out verses in every solitude.

    PPh 4.46 13 ...[ardent young men and women] sigh and weep, write verses and walk alone...

    SwM 4.113 16 This book [The Animal Kingdom] announces [Swedenborg' s] favorite dogmas. The ancient doctrine...of Leucippus, that the atom may be known by the mass; or...in the verses of Lucretius...The principle of all things, entrails made/ Of smallest entrails;.../

    ShP 4.215 9 Cultivated men often attain a good degree of skill in writing verses;...

    GoW 4.269 10 There have been times when [the writer] was a sacred person: he wrote...Sibylline verses...

    ET1 5.13 8 When I rose to go, [Coleridge] said...I will repeat some verses I lately made on my baptismal anniversary...

    ET1 5.22 13 [Wordsworth] said, If you are interested in my verses perhaps you will like to hear these lines.

    ET1 5.24 1 [Wordsworth]...quoted, with evident pleasure, the verses addressed To the Skylark.

    ET14 5.237 4 The country gentlemen [in England] had a posset or drink they called October; and the poets, as if by this hint, knew how to distil the whole season into their autumnal verses...

    ET14 5.256 1 What did Walter Scott write without stint? a rhymed traveller' s guide to Scotland. And the libraries of verses [the English] print have this Birmingham character.

    ET14 5.257 3 ...if this religion is in the poetry, it raises us to some purpose, and we can well afford...want of popular tune in the verses.

    Bhr 6.191 12 ...poets have often nothing poetical about them except their verses.

    Bty 6.295 15 Burns writes a copy of verses and sends them to a newspaper, and the human race take charge of them that they shall not perish.

    WD 7.179 12 ...we do not listen with the best regard to the verses of a man who is only a poet...

    Boks 7.200 15 [Plutarch's] memory is like the Isthmian Games...and you are stimulated and recruited by lyric verses...

    Boks 7.207 22 [Jonson] has written verses to or on all his notable contemporaries;...

    Clbs 7.228 19 How sweet those hours when the day was not long enough to communicate and compare our intellectual jewels...the delicious verses we had hoarded!

    Clbs 7.248 15 Herrick's verses to Ben Jonson no doubt paint the fact...

    Suc 7.297 11 When the scholar or the writer has pumped his brain for thoughts and verses, and then comes abroad into Nature, has he never found that there is a better poetry hinted in a boy's whistle...than in all his literary results?

    PI 8.44 9 Vast is the difference between writing clean verses for magazines, and creating these new persons and situations...

    PI 8.48 14 So in our songs and ballads the refrain skilfully used, and deriving some novelty or better sense in each of many verses...

    PI 8.64 10 Bring us...poetry which, like the verses inscribed on Balder's columns in Breidablik, is capable of restoring the dead to life;...

    Elo2 8.122 22 If indignation makes verses, as Horace says, it is not less true that a good indignation makes an excellent speech.

    PPo 8.239 21 Such [amatory] verses...will drive [Persian] warriors to the combat...

    PPo 8.243 7 Gnomic verses...were always current in the East;...

    PPo 8.243 11 Gnomic verses...were always current in the East; and if the poem is long, it is only a string of unconnected verses.

    PPo 8.243 20 Take, as specimens of these [Persian] gnomic verses, the following...

    PPo 8.250 9 ...if you mistake [Hafiz] for a low rioter, he turns short on you with verses which express the poverty of sensual joys...

    PPo 8.251 21 It is told of Hafiz, that, when he had written a compliment to a handsome youth...the verses came to the ears of Timour in his palace.

    PPo 8.254 5 O Hafiz! speak not of thy need;/ Are not these verses thine?/ Then all the poets are agreed,/ No man can less repine./

    PPo 8.256 28 The loving nightingale mourns;-cause enow for mourning;-/ Why envies the bird the streaming verses of Hafiz?/ Know that a god bestowed on him eloquent speech./

    PPo 8.257 3 The cedar, the cypress, the palm, the olive and fig-tree, the birds that inhabit them, and the garden flowers, are never wanting in these musky verses [of Hafiz]...

    Insp 8.294 14 I have heard from persons who had practice in rhyming, that it was sufficient to set them on writing verses, to read any original poetry.

    Edc1 10.141 2 That stormy genius of [the boy's] needs a little direction to... verses of society, song...

    Thor 10.475 16 [Thoreau's] own verses are often rude and defective.

    Thor 10.476 27 [Thoreau's] biography is in his verses.

    TPar 11.286 27 ...[Theodore Parker's] scholarship had made him a reader and quoter of verses.

    RBur 11.442 5 How many Bonny Doons and John Anderson my jo's and Auld lang synes all around the earth have [Burns's] verses been applied to!

    CPL 11.500 21 In a private letter to a lady, [Thoreau] writes, Do you read any noble verses?

    PLT 12.49 10 I once found Page the painter modelling his figures in clay... before he painted them on canvas. Dante, one would say, did the same thing before he wrote the verses.

    CL 12.164 16 A farmer's boy finds delight in reading the verses under the Zodiacal vignettes in the Almanac.

    Milt1 12.252 23 We think we have heard the recitation of [Milton's] verses by genius which found in them that which itself would say;...

    Milt1 12.263 5 [Milton's] virtues remind us of what Plutarch said of Timoleon's victories, that they resembled Homer's verses, they ran so easy and natural.

    Milt1 12.276 27 ...the genius and office of Milton were...to ascend by the aids of his learning and his religion...to a higher insight and more lively delineation of the heroic life of man. This was his poem; whereof all his indignant pamphlets and all his soaring verses are only single cantos or detached stanzas.

    ACri 12.288 13 ...some men swear with genius. I knew a poet in whose talent Nature carried this freak so far that his only graceful verses were pretty blasphemies.

    WSL 12.343 12 Do not brag of your actions, as if they were better than Homer's verses or Raphael's pictures.

    EurB 12.365 18 [Wordsworth's] are such verses as in a just state of culture should be vers de societe...

    EurB 12.366 14 ...[the poet's] verses must be spheres and cubes...

versing, n. (1)

    Insp 8.282 21 ...in this poem [The Flower] [Herbert] says:-And now in age I bud again,/ After so many deaths I live and write;/ I once more smell the dew and rain,/ And relish versing/...

version, n. (11)

    Nat 1.41 26 ...every natural process is a version of a moral sentence.

    Pt1 3.25 18 ...herein is the legitimation of criticism, in the mind's faith that the poems are a corrupt version of some text in nature with which they ought to be made to tally.

    SwM 4.106 15 The thoughts in which [Swedenborg] lived were, the universality of each law in nature;...the version or conversion of each into other, and so the correspondence of all the parts;...

    ET15 5.271 7 Punch is equally an expression of English good sense, as the London Times. It is the comic version of the same sense.

    Boks 7.197 23 Of Homer, George Chapman's is the heroic translation, though the most literal prose version is the best of all.

    Boks 7.204 12 I rarely read any Latin, Greek, German, Italian, sometimes not a French book, in the original, which I can procure in a good version.

    Plu 10.295 6 [Amyot's] genial version of [Plutarch's] Lives in 1559, of the Morals in 1572, had signal success.

    Plu 10.321 2 ...I yet confess my enjoyment of this old version [of Plutarch's Morals]...

    Milt1 12.275 15 The Samson Agonistes is too broad an expression of [Milton's] private griefs to be mistaken, and is a version of the Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce.

    Milt1 12.277 2 It was plainly needful that [Milton's] poetry should be a version of his own life...

    ACri 12.300 18 Whatever new object we see, we perceive to be only a new version of our familiar experience...

vertebra, n. (2)

    SwM 4.107 18 In the animal, nature makes a vertebra, or a spine of vertebrae...

    GoW 4.275 10 ...in osteology, [Goethe] assumed that one vertebra of the spine might be considered as the unit of the skeleton...

vertebrae, n. (4)

    SwM 4.107 19 In the animal, nature makes a vertebra, or a spine of vertebrae...

    GoW 4.275 13 ...in osteology, [Goethe] assumed that one vertebra of the spine might be considered as the unit of the skeleton: the head was only the uttermost vertebrae transformed.

    GoW 4.275 18 Man and the higher animals are built up through the vertebrae, the powers being concentrated in the head [wrote Goethe].

    PLT 12.4 7 [These higher laws]...may be numbered and recorded, like stamens and vertebrae.

vertebrate, n. (1)

    PI 8.8 3 Anatomy, osteology, exhibit arrested or progessive ascent in each kind; the lower pointing to the higher forms, the higher to the highest, from the fluid in an elastic sack, from radiate, mollusk, articulate, vertebrate, up to man;...

vertical, adj. (1)

    Bost 12.183 18 There is the climate of the Sahara: a climate where the sunbeams are vertical;...

vertically, adv. (1)

    MN 1.196 1 As our soils and rocks lie in strata...so do all men's thinkings run laterally, never vertically.

vertigo, n. (1)

    Exp 3.60 23 ...amidst this vertigo of shows and politics, I settle myself ever the firmer in the creed that we should...do broad justice where we are...

Vertue [Virtue] [George He (1)

    PI 8.55 28 Keats disclosed by certain lines in his Hyperion this inward skill; and Coleridge showed at least his love and appetency for it. It appears in...Herbert's Virtue and Easter...

verum, n. (1)

    Nat 1.44 20 Omne verum vero consonat.

Very, Jones, n. (1)

    CSC 10.375 15 ...Edward, Palmer, Jones Very, Maria W. Chapman and many other persons of a mystical or sectarian or philanthropic renown, were present [at the Chardon Street Convention]...

Vesalius, Andreas, n. (2)

    SwM 4.104 23 Unrivalled dissectors, Swammerdam...Vesalius...had left nothing for scalpel or microscope to reveal in human or comparative anatomy...

    GoW 4.263 18 ...if we knew the genesis of fine strokes of eloquence, they might recall the complaisance of Sultan Amurath, who struck off some Persian heads, that his physician, Vesalius, might see the spasms in the muscles of the neck.

vesicle, n. (4)

    F 6.14 14 All we know of the egg, from each successive discovery, is, another vesicle;...

    F 6.14 20 A vesicle in new circumstances...became an animal;...

    F 6.14 21 ...a vesicle lodged in darkness, Oken thought, became animal;...

    F 6.14 25 Lodged in the parent animal, [the vesicle] suffers changes which end in unsheathing miraculous capability in the unaltered vesicle...

vesicles, n. (1)

    F 6.14 19 ...all that the primary power or spasm operates is still vesicles, vesicles.

vespertina, adj. (2)

    Nat 1.73 19 ...the knowledge of man is an evening knowledge, vespertina cognitio, but that of God is a morning knowledge...

    Mem 12.94 23 Memory was called by the schoolmen vespertina cognitio, evening knowledge...

Vespucci, Amerigo, n. (1)

    ET9 5.152 19 Amerigo Vespucci, the pickle-dealer at Seville...managed in this lying world to supplant Columbus...

vessel, n. (14)

    Tran 1.358 21 ...the storm-tossed vessel at sea speaks the frigate or line packet to learn its longitude...

    SL 2.146 10 If you pour water into a vessel twisted into coils and angles...it will find its level in all.

    Pt1 3.30 19 ...the metamorphosis once seen, we divine that it does not stop. I will not now consider how much this makes the charm of algebra and the mathematics, which also have their tropes, but it is felt in every definition; as when Aristotle defines space to be an immovable vessel in which things are contained;...

    Exp 3.46 23 Embark, and the romance quits our vessel...

    Chr1 3.95 19 The will of the pure runs down from them into other natures, as water runs down from a higher into a lower vessel.

    ET5 5.86 23 Lord Collingwood was accustomed to tell his men that if they could fire three well-directed broadsides in five minutes, no vessel could resist them;...

    Pow 6.80 24 ...every man is efficient only as he is a container or vessel of this force [spirit]...

    Ctr 6.163 9 [The ancients] preferred the noble vessel too late for the tide... to her companion borne into harbor with colors flying and guns firing.

    Cour 7.262 5 Coleridge has preserved an anecdote of an officer in the British Navy who told him that when he...accompanied Sir Alexander Ball, as we were rowing up to the vessel we were to attack...I was overpowered with fear...

    Cour 7.266 3 ...there is no separate essence called courage...no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue;...

    Comc 8.162 22 The victim who has just received the discharge [of wit], if in a solemn company, has the air very much of a stout vessel which has just shipped a heavy sea;...

    EWI 11.130 9 ...I see...poor black men of obscure employment...in ships... freeborn as we,-whom the slave-laws of the States of South Carolina and Georgia and Louisiana have...shut up in jails so long as the vessel remained in port...

    CPL 11.502 16 Once brought into the world, [thought] runs over the vessel which received it into all minds that love it.

    PLT 12.48 2 Somewhat is to come to the light, and one [talent] was created to fetch it,-a vessel of honor or of dishonor.

vessels, n. (8)

    MN 1.210 11 It is pitiful to be an artist, when by forbearing to be artists we might be vessels filled with the divine overflowings...

    Prd1 2.229 20 Even lifeless figures, as vessels and stools--let them be drawn ever so correctly--lose all effect so soon as they lack the resting upon their centre of gravity...

    Nat2 3.181 20 Plants are...vessels of health and vigor;...

    UGM 4.4 20 The gods of fable are the shining moments of great men. We run all our vessels into one mould.

    UGM 4.34 4 The vessels on which you read sacred emblems turn out to be common pottery;...

    Carl 10.492 22 [Carlyle says] St. John was insulted by the Dutch; he came home, got the law passed that foreign vessels should pay high fees, and it cut the throat of the Dutch, and made the English trade.

    EWI 11.130 8 ...I see...poor black men of obscure employment...in ships, yet citizens of this our Commonwealth of Massachusetts,-freeborn as we,-whom the slave-laws of the States of South Carolina and Georgia and Louisiana have arrested in the vessels in which they visited those ports...

    FRep 11.511 20 Wedgwood, the eminent potter, bravely took the sculptor Flaxman to counsel, who said, Send to Italy, search the museums for the forms of old Etruscan vases...domestic and sacrificial vessels of all kinds.

vest, n. (2)

    Hist 2.39 3 [A man] shall walk...in a robe painted all over with wonderful events and experiences;--his own form and features by their exalted intelligence shall be that variegated vest.

    Pt1 3.37 3 He is the poet and shall draw us with love and terror, who sees through the flowing vest the firm nature, and can declare it.

Vesta, Temple of, Rome, It (1)

    Bty 6.295 23 How many copies are there of the Belvedere Apollo...the Temple of Vesta?

vested, adj. (2)

    ET10 5.164 19 Vested rights are awful things...

    ET15 5.270 11 [The London Times's] editors know better than to defend... English vested rights, on abstract grounds.

vestibule, n. (1)

    MoS 4.172 4 The ground occupied by the skeptic is the vestibule of the temple.

vestige, n. (3)

    Comp 2.93 16 ...in [Compensation] might be shown men...the present action of the soul of this world, clean from all vestige of tradition;...

    Ill 6.319 1 We are coming on the secret of a magic which sweeps out of men's minds all vestige of theism and beliefs which they and their fathers held and were framed upon.

    PI 8.5 13 I believe this conviction makes the charm of chemistry,--that we have the same avoirdupois matter in an alembic, without a vestige of the old form;...

vestiges, n. (2)

    Schr 10.271 11 There could always be traced...some vestiges of a faith in genius...

    War 11.159 4 ...our American annals have preserved the vestiges of barbarous warfare down to more recent times.

Vestiges of...Creation [Rob (1)

    EdAd 11.391 15 Here is the standing problem of Natural Science, and the merits of her great interpreters to be determined; the encyclopaedical Humboldt, and the intrepid generalizations collected by the author of the Vestiges of Creation [Robert Chambers].

vestment, n. (1)

    Nat 1.31 5 A man conversing in earnest...will find that a material image... arises in his mind...which furnishes the vestment of the thought.

vestry, n. (2)

    SwM 4.122 9 To the withered traditional church...[Swedenborg] let in nature again, and the worshipper, escaping from the vestry of verbs and texts, is surprised to find himself a party to the whole of his religion.

    EzRy 10.392 1 In debate, in the vestry of the Lyceum, the structure of [Ezra Ripley's] sentences was admirable;...

vests, v. (1)

    Plu 10.302 11 We sail on [Plutarch's] memory into the ports of every nation, enter into every private property, and do not stop to discriminate owners, but give him the praise of all. 'T is all Plutarch...and all property vests in this emperor.

vesture, n. (1)

    PI 8.47 23 ...all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them...

Vesuvius, Mount, Italy, n. (2)

    AmS 1.108 19 [The universal mind] is one central fire, which, flaming... now out of the throat of Vesuvius, illuminates the towers and vineyards of Naples.

    Mrs1 3.144 12 ...here is...Signor Torre del Greco, who extinguished Vesuvius by pouring into it the Bay of Naples;...

Vesuvius, Mount, n. (1)

    SMC 11.350 27 I shall say of this obelisk [the Concord Monument]...what Richter says of the volcano in the fair landscape of Naples: Vesuvius stands in this poem of Nature, and exalts everything, as war does the age.

veteran, adj. (1)

    Cour 7.263 7 It is the veteran soldier, who, seeing the flash of the cannon, can step aside from the path of the ball.

veteran, n. (3)

    SS 7.10 23 When a young barrister said to the late Mr. Mason, I keep my chamber to read law,--Read law! replied the veteran, 't is in the court-room you must read law.

    Cour 7.272 6 Heroic women offer themselves as nurses of the brave veteran.

    OA 7.328 10 What to the youth is only a guess or a hope, is in the veteran a digested statute.

veterans, n. (2)

    Mrs1 3.125 2 My gentleman...will...outgeneral veterans in the field...

    SMC 11.366 10 The regiment [Fifty-ninth Massachusetts] being formed of veterans, and in fields requiring great activity and exposure, suffered extraordinary losses;...

veto, n. (1)

    Exp 3.54 8 Temperament is the veto or limitation-power in the constitution...

vex, v. (1)

    Hsm1 2.246 25 Soph. Why should I grieve or vex for being sent/ To them I ever loved the best?.../

vexation, n. (6)

    MR 1.239 8 ...rust, mould, vermin, rain, sun, freshet, fire, all...fill [the heir] with vexation...

    Nat2 3.189 1 The friend coldly turns [the pages of a young person's diary] over, and passes from the writing to conversation, with easy transition, which strikes the other party with astonishment and vexation.

    ET9 5.148 18 A man's personal defects will commonly have, with the rest of the world, precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men. We all find in these a convenient metre of character, since a little man would be ruined by the vexation.

    DL 7.103 18 [The nestler's] unaffected lamentations when he lifts up his voice on high, or, more beautiful, the sobbing child,--the face all liquid grief, as he tries to swallow his vexation,--soften all hearts to pity...

    DL 7.131 13 I wish to bring home to my children and my friends copies of these admirable forms [Michelangelo's sibyle and prophets], which I can find in the shops of the engravers; but I do not wish the vexation of owning them.

    CPL 11.503 14 There is no hour of vexation which on a little reflection will not find diversion and relief in the library.

vexations, n. (6)

    SL 2.131 21 Neither vexations nor calamities abate our trust.

    GoW 4.263 12 Vexations and a tempest of passion only fill [the writer's] sail;...

    Schr 10.286 9 The scholar must be ready for...many vexations.

    MMEm 10.401 22 Every word [Mary Moody Emerson] writes about this farm (Elm Vale, Waterford), her dealings and vexations about it...interest like a romance...

    CPL 11.503 2 ...when you sprain your mind, by gloomy reflection on your failures and vexations, you come to have a bad opinion of life.

    MAng1 12.236 14 The combined desire to fulfil, in everlasting stone, the conceptions of his mind, and to complete his worthy offering to Almighty God, sustained [Michelangelo] through numberless vexations with unbroken spirit.

vexatious, adj. (2)

    Gts 3.159 10 ...it is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts.

    PI 8.68 27 Vexatious to find poets, who are by excellence the thinking and feeling of the world, deficient in truth of intellect and of affection.

vexed, adj. (2)

    AmS 1.104 12 It is a shame to [the scholar]...if he seek a temporary peace by the diversion of his thoughts from politics or vexed questions...

    PPh 4.41 9 This range of Plato instructs us what to think of the vexed question concerning his reputed works...

vexed, v. (6)

    SL 2.133 17 ...the question is everywhere vexed when a noble nature is commended, whether the man is not better who strives with temptation.

    Hsm1 2.246 24 Val. But art not grieved nor vexed to leave thy life thus?/

    NR 3.225 23 ...on seeing the smallest arc we complete the curve, and when the curtain is lifted from the diagram which it seemed to veil, we are vexed to find that no more was drawn than just that fragment of an arc which we first beheld.

    UGM 4.21 21 I go to Boston or New York and run up and down on my affairs: they are sped, but so is the day. I am vexed by the recollection of this price I have paid for a trifling advantage.

    F 6.45 17 ...as every man is...vexed by his own disease, this checks all his activity.

    TPar 11.289 12 One fault [Theodore Parker] had, he...sometimes vexed [his friends] with the importunity of his good opinion...

vexes, v. (1)

    Plu 10.300 6 ...though Plutarch is as plain-spoken [as Montaigne], his moral sentiment is always pure. What better praise has any writer received than he whom Montaigne finds frank in giving things, not words, dryly adding, it vexes me that he is so exposed to the spoil of those that are conversant with him.

vexing, v. (1)

    LT 1.277 2 The young men who have been vexing society for these last years with regenerative methods seem to have made this mistake;...

viands, n. (2)

    Farm 7.149 8 As [the farmer] nursed his Thanksgiving turkeys on bread and milk, so he will pamper his peaches and grapes on the viands they like best.

    Clbs 7.248 11 Plutarch, Xenophon and Plato, who have celebrated each a banquet of their set, have given us next to no data of the viands;...

Viasa [Vyasa], n. (3)

    Nat 1.58 12 [Religion] does that for the unschooled, which philosophy does for Berkeley and Viasa.

    PC 8.216 5 All the transcendent writers and artists of the world,-'t is doubtful who they were, they are lifted so fast into mythology; Homer, Menu, Viasa...

    PC 8.216 9 The early names are too typical...Viasa, compiler;...

vibrate, v. (5)

    DSA 1.133 17 ...when I vibrate to the melody and fancy of a poem; I see beauty that is to be desired.

    OS 2.294 2 ...every sound that is spoken over the round world, which thou oughtest to hear, will vibrate on thine ear!

    PI 8.16 5 ...the sole question is how many strokes vibrate on this mystic string,--how many diameters are drawn quite through from matter to spirit;...

    Mem 12.103 22 ...confined now in populous streets you behold again the green fields, the shadows of the gray birches; by the solitary river...vibrate anew to the tenderness and dainty music of the poetry your boyhood fed upon.

    MLit 12.331 23 Poetry is with Goethe thus external...but the Muse never assays those thunder-tones which cause to vibrate the sun and the moon...

vibrated, v. (1)

    Bty 6.304 23 There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.

vibrates, v. (2)

    SR 2.47 12 Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.

    CInt 12.119 12 I value dearly the poet who knows his art so well that, when his voice vibrates, it fills the hearer with sympathetic song...

vibrating, adj. (1)

    EPro 11.316 18 [Movement toward liberty]...is as when an orator... announces with vibrating voice the grand human principles involved;...

vibration, n. (3)

    Grts 8.302 24 Who can doubt the potency of an individual mind, who sees the shock given to torpid races...by Mahomet; a vibration propagated over Asia and Africa?

    CInt 12.119 15 I value dearly the poet who knows his art so well that, when his voice vibrates, it fills the hearer with sympathetic song, just as a powerful note of an organ sets all tuned strings in its neighborhood in accordant vibration...

    Milt1 12.254 27 ...we think it impossible to recall one in those countries [England, France, Germany] who communicates the same vibration of hope, of self-reverence, of piety, of delight in beauty, which the name of Milton awakens.

vibrations, n. (5)

    ShP 4.203 1 Ben Jonson...had no suspicion of the elastic fame whose first vibrations [Shakespeare] was attempting.

    Wth 6.105 10 If the Rothschilds at Paris do not accept bills...landlords are shot down in Ireland. The police-records attest it. The vibrations are presently felt in New York, New Orleans and Chicago.

    Art2 7.43 23 The basis of music is the qualities of the air and the vibrations of sonorous bodies.

    Suc 7.299 13 Does that deep-toned bell...render to you nothing but acoustic vibrations?

    PLT 12.32 20 The air rings with sounds, but only a few vibrations can reach our tympanum.

Vicar of Wakefield [Oliver (1)

    PI 8.43 12 I have heard that the Germans think...that Goldsmith's title to the name [of poet] is...derived from the Vicar of Wakefield.

vicarious, adj. (2)

    Comp 2.112 12 The terror of cloudless noon...the instinct which leads every generous soul to impose on itself tasks of a noble asceticism and vicarious virtue, are the tremblings of the balance of justice through the heart and mind of man.

    SovE 10.195 9 The new saint gloried in infirmities. Who or what was he? His rise and his recovery were vicarious.

vice, n. (61)

    LE 1.186 12 ...the vice of the times and the country is an excessive pretension...

    MR 1.233 10 That is the vice,-that no one feels himself called to act for man...

    LT 1.280 15 I am not mortified by our vice;...

    Con 1.298 9 ...[conservatism] must saddle itself with the mountainous load of the violence and vice of society...

    Con 1.319 15 Sickness gets organized as well as health, the vice as well as the virtue.

    SR 2.58 24 Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions...

    SR 2.58 25 Men...do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment.

    Comp 2.115 25 The league between virtue and nature engages all things to assume a hostile front to vice.

    Comp 2.121 6 Vice is the absence or departure of [Essence, or God].

    Comp 2.121 17 ...the criminal adheres to his vice and contumacy...

    SL 2.141 26 It is the vice of our public speaking that it has not abandonment.

    SL 2.159 10 [A man's] vice glasses his eye...

    OS 2.267 4 ...our vice is habitual.

    OS 2.288 14 In these instances [the scholar and author] the intellectual gifts do not make the impression of virtue, but almost of vice;...

    Chr1 3.98 14 Our proper vice takes form in one or another shape, according to the sex, age, or temperament of the person...

    Pol1 3.209 16 The vice of our leading parties in this country...is that they do not plant themselves on the deep and necessary grounds to which they are respectively entitled...

    PNR 4.83 23 Plato affirms the coincidence of science and virtue; for vice can never know itself and virtue, but virtue knows both itself and vice.

    PNR 4.83 24 Plato affirms the coincidence of science and virtue; for vice can never know itself and virtue, but virtue knows both itself and vice.

    SwM 4.134 21 The vice of Swedenborg's mind is its theologic determination.

    MoS 4.165 22 ...[says Montaigne,] I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice;...

    MoS 4.175 11 ...though philosophy extirpates bugbears, yet it supplies the natural checks of vice, and polarity to the soul.

    ET14 5.253 6 I fear the same fault [lack of inspiration] lies in [English] science, since they have known how to make it repulsive and bereave nature of its charm;--though perhaps...the vice attaches to many more than to British physicists.

    F 6.10 4 ...sometimes...the family vice is drawn off in a separate individual and the others are proportionally relieved.

    F 6.47 19 ...when a man...is ground to powder by the vice of his race;-he is to rally on his relation to the Universe...

    Pow 6.60 21 ...the torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice...

    Wsp 6.211 8 See what allowance vice finds in the respectable and well-conditioned class.

    Wsp 6.212 21 It has been charged that a want of sincerity in the leading men is a vice general throughout American society.

    Ill 6.325 6 Fooled thou must be, though wisest of the wise:/Then be the fool of virtue, not of vice./

    SS 7.6 21 Even Swedenborg...who reprobates to weariness the danger and vice of pure intellect, is constrained to make an extraordinary exception: There are also angels who do not live consociated...

    Art2 7.51 22 If the earth and sea conspire with virtue more than vice,--so do the masterpieces of art.

    DL 7.109 20 That our expenditure and our character are twain, is the vice of society.

    DL 7.122 24 ...the vice of our housekeeping is that it does not hold man sacred.

    DL 7.122 25 The vice of government, the vice of education, the vice of religion, is one with that of private life.

    DL 7.122 26 The vice of government, the vice of education, the vice of religion, is one with that of private life.

    PI 8.69 9 Faust abounds in the disagreeable. The vice is prurient, learned, Parisian.

    PPo 8.235 2 Go transmute crime to wisdom, learn to stem/ The vice of Japhet by the thought of Shem./

    Grts 8.302 3 What anecdotes of any man do we wish to hear or read? Only the best. Certainly not those in which he was degraded to the level of dulness or vice...

    Chr2 10.92 24 ...we sat it...with Vauvenargues, the mercenary sacrifice of the public good to a private interest is the eternal stamp of vice.

    Chr2 10.114 17 There is no vice that has not skulked behind [the false religions].

    Edc1 10.144 10 Let [the child] find you so true to yourself that you are the irreconcilable hater of his vice...

    Edc1 10.151 26 If [the young man] has his own vice, he has its correlative virtue.

    Edc1 10.153 14 ...the gentle teacher, who wished to be a Providence to youth...knows as much vice as the judge of a police court...

    Prch 10.227 26 [Cudworth's, More's, Bunyan's] purpose is as real as Dante's sentiment and hatred of vice.

    Plu 10.299 9 ...[Plutarch] is tolerant even of vice, if he finds it genial;...

    Plu 10.308 25 'T is a temperance, not an eclecticism, which makes [Plutarch] adverse to the severe Stoic, or the Gymnosophist, or Diogenes, or any other extremist. That vice of theirs shall not hinder him from citing any good word they chance to drop.

    Thor 10.455 10 [Thoreau]...never had a vice in his life.

    HDC 11.84 15 If, at any time, in common with most of our towns, [our fathers] have carried this economy to the verge of a vice, it is to be remembered that a town is, in many respects, a financial corporation.

    TPar 11.288 26 The vice charged against America is the want of sincerity in leading men.

    Scot 11.467 7 ...[Scott] had no insanity, or vice, or blemish.

    FRep 11.543 11 No monopoly must be foisted in...no coward compromise conceded to a strong partner. Every one of these is the seed of vice, war and national disorganization.

    PLT 12.9 10 ...'t is a great vice in all countries, the sacrifice of scholars to be courtiers and diners-out...

    PLT 12.45 8 There is indeed this vice about men of thought, that you cannot quite trust them;...

    PLT 12.50 20 The excess of individualism, when it is not...subordinated to the Supreme Reason, makes that vice which we stigmatize as monotones, men of one idea...

    CL 12.142 7 ...Plato said of exercise that it would almost cure a guilty conscience. For the living out of doors, and simple fare, and gymnastic exercises, and the morals of companions, produce the greatest effect on the way of virtue and of vice.

    MLit 12.325 14 ...that other vicious subjectiveness, the vice of the time, infected [Goethe] also.

    EurB 12.368 4 We have poets who write the poetry of society...and others who, like Byron and Bulwer, write the poetry of vice and disease.

    EurB 12.370 18 A critical friend of ours affirms that the vice which bereaved modern painters of their power is the ambition to begin where their fathers ended;...

    EurB 12.371 1 ...[modern painters]...paint for their predecessors' public. It seems as if the same vice had worked in poetry.

    PPr 12.381 1 ...Mr. Carlyle very fairly finds...the vice [of the times] in false and superficial aims of the people...

    PPr 12.386 22 It was perhaps inseparable from the attempt to write a book of wit and imagination on English politics that a certain local emphasis and love of effect, such as the vice of preaching, should appear...

    Trag 12.406 18 ...no theory of life can have any right which leaves out of account the values of vice...fear and death.

vicegerent, n. (1)

    MMEm 10.425 14 The wonderful inhabitant of the building to which unknown ages were the mechanics, is left out [of Brougham's title of a System of Natural Theology] as to that part where the Creator had...placed a viceregent.

vice-like, adj. (1)

    LT 1.280 19 ...I own our virtue makes me ashamed;...virtue so vice-like.

vice-president, n. (1)

    CPL 11.498 27 Major Simon Willard's son Samuel graduated at Harvard in 1659, and was for six years, from 1701 to 1707, vice-president of the college;...

vices, n. (50)

    LE 1.179 9 ...that man [Napoleon], with whatever defects or vices, represented performance in lieu of pretension.

    MR 1.242 9 ...the faults and vices of our literature and philosophy...are attributable to the enervated and sickly habits of the literary class.

    LT 1.269 14 The leaders of the crusades against War, Negro slavery...are the right successors of Luther...and Whitefield. They have the same virtues and vices;...

    Tran 1.348 18 The good, the illuminated, sit apart from the rest, censuring their dulness and vices...

    YA 1.389 4 I shall not need to go into an enumeration of our national defects and vices which require this Order of Censors in the State.

    Hist 2.5 21 ...I can see my own vices without heat in the distant persons of Solomon, Alcibiades, and Catiline.

    Lov1 2.187 2 The angels that inhabit this temple of the body appear at the windows, and the gnomes and vices also.

    Lov1 2.187 3 If there be virtue, all the vices are known as such; they confess and flee.

    Cir 2.316 27 The virtues of society are vices of the saint.

    Cir 2.317 4 The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues...into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices...

    Exp 3.81 26 [Men] wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.

    Pol1 3.219 13 ...the nature of the revolution is not affected by the vices of the revolters;...

    UGM 4.25 15 ...there are vices and follies incident to whole populations and ages.

    SwM 4.134 12 The thousand-fold relation of men is not there [in Swedenborg's system of the world]. The interest that attaches in nature to each man...strong by his vices, often paralyzed by his virtues;...

    MoS 4.165 11 [Montaigne] pretends to most of the vices;...

    ShP 4.211 12 ...[Shakespeare] read the hearts of men and women...the transitions by which virtues and vices slide into their contraries...

    NMW 4.224 19 [Napoleon] had [the middle classes'] virtues and their vices;...

    NMW 4.253 8 [Napoleon] had the virtues of the masses of his constituents: he had also their vices.

    ET4 5.60 20 [The Normans] had...learned the Romance or barbarous Latin of the Gauls, and had acquired, with the language, all the vices it had names for.

    ET8 5.134 26 [The English] hide virtues under vices, or the semblance of them.

    ET11 5.192 15 The sycophancy and sale of votes and honor, for place and title;...the splendor of the titles, and the apathy of the nation; are instructive, and make the reader pause and explore the firm bounds which [in England] confined these vices to a handful of rich men.

    ET11 5.192 24 Under the present reign the perfect decorum of the Court is thought to have put a check on the gross vices of the [English] aristocracy;...

    F 6.34 27 Who likes to believe that he has, hidden in his...pelvis, all the vices of a Saxon...race...

    Pow 6.64 27 ...the 'bruisers,' who have run the gauntlet of caucus and tavern through the county or the state,--have their own vices, but they have the good nature of strength and courage.

    Wth 6.113 25 The virtues are economists, but some of the vices are also.

    Wth 6.114 3 ...pride eradicates so many vices...that is seems as if it were a great gain to exchange vanity for pride.

    CbW 6.251 24 The coxcomb and bully and thief class are allowed as proletaries, every one of their vices being the excess or acridity of a virtue.

    CbW 6.258 9 Better, certainly, if we could secure the strength and fire which rude, passionate men bring into society, quite clear of their vices.

    CbW 6.259 18 ...there is no man who is not at some time indebted to his vices...

    SS 7.3 18 [My new friend] had...no vices;...

    Civ 7.31 2 ...a wise government puts fines and penalties on pleasant vices.

    Civ 7.31 8 Was it Bonaparte who said that he found vices very good patriots?...

    Farm 7.138 11 Poisoned by town life and town vices, the sufferer resolves: Well, my children...shall go back to the land...

    SA 8.92 21 Virtues speak to virtues, vices to vices...

    SA 8.92 22 Virtues speak to virtues, vices to vices...

    SA 8.98 25 Everything is unseasonable which is private to two or three or any portion of the company. Tact...never intrudes...the vices of the absent...

    Comc 8.160 19 ...all falsehoods, all vices seen at sufficient distance... become ludicrous.

    Grts 8.317 6 It is noted of some scholars...that they pretended to vices which they had not, so much did they hate hypocrisy.

    Chr2 10.93 22 ...inoperative, [the sense of Right and Wrong] exists underneath whatever vices and errors.

    SovE 10.191 3 These threads [of Necessity] are Nature's pernicious elements...the orphan's tears, the vices of men, lust, cruelty and pitiless avarice.

    Plu 10.312 9 ...we owe to that wonderful moralist [Seneca] illustrious maxims; as if the scarlet vices of the times of Nero had the natural effect of driving virtue to its loftiest antagonisms.

    Plu 10.315 8 ...this Stoic [Plutarch] in his fight...with vices, effeminacy and indolence, is gentle as a woman when other strings are touched.

    EWI 11.123 11 ...we...have acquired the vices and virtues that belong to trade.

    EWI 11.125 17 [The planters] were full of vices;...

    AsSu 11.250 7 ...if Mr. Sumner had any vices, we should be likely to hear of them.

    ALin 11.331 20 [Lincoln] was a man without vices.

    Wom 11.423 1 If the wants, the passions, the vices, are allowed a full vote... I think it but fair that the virtues, the aspirations should be allowed a full vote...

    PLT 12.61 7 Ideal and practical...are never parallel. Each has its vices...

    Bost 12.208 7 No doubt all manner of vices can be found in [Boston], as in every city;...

    MLit 12.329 18 [We can fancy Goethe saying to himself] ...out of many vices and misfortunes [in Wilhelm Meister], I have let a great success grow, as I had known in my own and many other examples.

vicinity, n. (6)

    Exp 3.71 11 When I converse with a profound mind...I am at first apprised of my vicinity to a new and excellent region of life.

    Art2 7.46 6 [The temple] is exalted by...its grouping with the houses, trees and towers in its vicinity.

    EzRy 10.386 17 Some of those around me will remember one occasion of severe drought in this vicinity...

    EzRy 10.394 14 In [Ezra Ripley] have perished more local and personal anecdotes of this village and vicinity than are possessed by any survivor.

    HDC 11.43 11 ...when, presently, the design of the [Massachusetts Bay] colony began to fulfil itself, by the settlement of new plantations in the vicinity of Boston...the Governor and freemen in Boston found it neither desirable nor possible to control the trade and practices of these farmers.

    HDC 11.68 8 ...in answer to letters received from the united committees of correspondence, in the vicinity of Boston, the town [of Concord] say: We cannot possibly view with indifference the...endeavors of the enemies of this...country, to rob us of those rights, that are the distinguishing glory and felicity of this land;...

vicious, adj. (26)

    LT 1.276 4 ...[these reforms] only name the relation which subsists between us and the vicious institutions which they go to rectify.

    Con 1.319 15 Now that a vicious system of trade has existed so long, it has stereotyped itself in the human generation, and misers are born.

    Tran 1.335 10 Am I vicious and insane? my fortunes will seem to you obscure and descending.

    Tran 1.349 18 As to the general course of living, and the daily employments of men, [Transcendentalists] cannot see much virtue in these, since they are parts of this vicious circle;...

    YA 1.390 25 ...the terror of old people and of vicious people is lest the Union of these states be destroyed;...

    SR 2.77 17 Prayer that craves...anything less than all good, is vicious.

    NR 3.248 7 My companion assumes to know my mood and habit of thought, and we go on from explanation to explanation until all is said which words can, and we leave matters just as they were at first, because of that vicious assumption.

    ShP 4.195 22 The first play [Shakespeare's Henry VIII] was written by a superior, thoughtful man, with a vicious ear.

    ET18 5.302 16 We cannot go deep enough into the biography of the spirit who...delegates his energy in parts or spasms to vicious and defective individuals.

    F 6.24 4 'T is weak and vicious people who cast the blame on Fate.

    Ctr 6.139 14 A boy, says Plato, is the most vicious of all wild beasts;...

    CbW 6.250 2 What a vicious practice is this of our politicians at Washington pairing off!...

    DL 7.116 12 ...this voice of communities and ages, Give us wealth and the good household shall exist, is vicious...

    Boks 7.215 20 The question there [in Jane Eyre] answered in regard to a vicious marriage will always be treated according to the habit of the party.

    PerF 10.87 25 ...the courts snatch...at any vicious form of law to rule [the moral sentiment] out;...

    Supl 10.170 18 [The guest's] health was drunk with some acknowledgment of his distinguished services to both countries, and followed by nine cold hurrahs. There was the vicious superlative.

    Plu 10.320 15 Professor Goodwin is a silent benefactor to the book [Plutarch's Morals], wherever I have compared the editions. I did not know how careless and vicious in parts the old book was...

    LLNE 10.350 13 ...the good Fourier knew what those creatures [the hyaena, the jackal, the gnat, the bug, the flea] should have been, had not the mould slipped, through the bad state of the atmosphere; caused no doubt by the same vicious imponderable fluids.

    FSLC 11.210 26 [Massachusetts] must follow no vicious examples.

    FRep 11.518 12 ...liberal congresses and legislatures ordain...equivocal, interested and vicious measures.

    FRep 11.528 1 Our institutions, of which the town is the unit, are educational... ... The result appears...in the voice of the public even when irregular and vicious...

    CInt 12.122 8 ...it happens often that the wellbred and refined...are more vicious and malignant than the rude country people...

    ACri 12.297 13 In [Carlyle's] books the vicious conventions of writing are all dropped.

    MLit 12.314 18 ...a man may recite passages of his life with no feeling of egotism. Nor need a man have a vicious subjectiveness because he deals in abstract propositions.

    MLit 12.325 13 ...that other vicious subjectiveness, the vice of the time, infected [Goethe] also.

    MLit 12.330 23 The vicious conventions...stand [in Wilhelm Meister] for all they are worth in the newspaper.

vicissitudes, n. (1)

    PI 8.26 12 ...when, on rare days, [nature] speaks to the imagination, we feel...that the light, skies and mountains are but the painted vicissitudes of the soul.

victim, n. (31)

    AmS 1.84 7 ...when the victim of society, [the scholar] tends to become a mere thinker...

    Tran 1.345 2 ...the delicate [nature] will be shallow, or the victim of sensibility;...

    Exp 3.53 3 ...[physicians] esteem each man the victim of another...

    NER 3.268 27 We adorn the victim [of education] with manual skill...

    UGM 4.18 17 Especially when a mind of powerful method has instructed men, we find the examples of oppression. The dominion of Aristotle...in religion the history of hierarchies, of saints, and the sects which have taken the name of each founder, are in point. Alas! every man is such a victim.

    NMW 4.258 5 [Napoleon's egotism] resembled the torpedo, which inflicts a succession of shocks on any one who takes hold of it, producing spasms which contract the muscles of the hand, so that the man can not open his fingers; and the animal inflicts new and more violent shocks, until he paralyzes and kills his victim.

    GoW 4.267 3 Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

    ET5 5.75 11 Last of all the Norman or French-Dane arrived [in England], and formally conquered, harried and ruled the kingdom. A century later it came out that the Saxon...had managed to make the victor speak the language and accept the law and usage of the victim;...

    ET10 5.170 9 [England] too is in the stream of fate, one victim more in a common catastrophe.

    F 6.11 14 Who meets [a man], or who meets [a woman], in the street, sees that they are ripe to be each other's victim.

    F 6.47 14 ...when a man is the victim of his fate...he is to rally on his relation to the Universe...

    Ctr 6.138 12 If you are the victim of your doing, who cares what you do?

    Bhr 6.184 9 ...[of every two persons who meet on any affair],--one instantly perceives...that his will comprehends the other's will...and he has only to use courtesy and furnish good-natured reasons to his victim to cover up the chain, lest he be shamed into resistance.

    Ill 6.316 26 I, who have all my life...read poems and miscellaneous books... am still the victim of any new page;...

    Cour 7.260 11 One heard much cant of peace-parties long ago in Kansas and elsewhere, that their strength lay in the greatness of their wrongs... But were their wrongs greater than the negro's? And what kind of strength did they ever give him? It was always invitation to the tyrant, and bred disgust in those who would protect the victim.

    Cour 7.265 16 Bodily pain is superficial, seated usually in the skin and the extremities...not in the vitals, where the rupture that produces death is perhaps not felt, and the victim never knew what hurt him.

    Elo2 8.115 10 ...I think every one of us can remember when our first experiences made us for a time the victim and worshipper of the first master of this art [of eloquence] whom we happened to hear in the court-house or in the caucus.

    Elo2 8.120 20 Every one of us has at some time been the victim of a well-toned and cunning voice...

    Comc 8.162 20 The victim who has just received the discharge [of wit], if in a solemn company, has the air very much of a stout vessel which has just shipped a heavy sea;...

    Insp 8.285 27 At last it has become summer,/ And at the first glimpse of morning/ The busy early fly stings me/ Out of my sweet slumber./ Unmerciful she returns again:/ When often the half-awake victim/ Impatiently drives her off,/ She calls hither the unscrupulous sisters,/ And from my eyelids/ Sweet sleep must depart./

    Imtl 8.329 7 A man of affairs is afraid to die...because he...is the victim of those who have moulded the religious doctrines into some neat and plausible system...

    Aris 10.37 7 The common man is the victim of events.

    MMEm 10.421 1 Am I [Mary Moody Emerson], poor victim, swept on through the sternest ordinations of Nature's laws, which slay? yet I 'll trust.

    HDC 11.61 13 A great defence [of Concord] undoubtedly was the village of Praying Indians, until this settlement fell a victim to the envenomed prejudice against their countrymen.

    EWI 11.101 25 From the earliest monuments it appears that one race was victim and served the other races.

    EWI 11.111 20 ...when...some Quakers, or Moravians, and Wesleyan and Baptist missionaries...had been moved to come [the the West Indies] and cheer the poor victim...these missionaries were persecuted by the planters...

    AsSu 11.246 3 His erring foe,/ Self-assured that he prevails,/ Looks from his victim lying low,/ And sees aloft the red right arm/ Redress the eternal scales./

    AsSu 11.248 26 The outrage [attack on Sumner] is the more shocking from the singularly pure character of its victim.

    ALin 11.336 2 ...who does not see, even in this tragedy [death of Lincoln] so recent, how fast the terror and ruin of the massacre are already burning into glory around the victim?

    PLT 12.50 18 The Delphian prophetess, when the spirit possesses her, is herself a victim.

    AgMs 12.363 1 [The Agricultural Surveyor] is the victim of the Reports, which are sent him, of particular farms.

victimizable, adj. (1)

    Chr1 3.107 14 I remember the thought which occurred to me when some ingenious and spiritual foreigners came to America, was, Have you been victimized in being brought hither?--or, prior to that, answer me this, Are you victimizable?

victimized, v. (1)

    Chr1 3.107 12 I remember the thought which occurred to me when some ingenious and spiritual foreigners came to America, was, Have you been victimized in being brought hither?...

victims, n. (27)

    Con 1.301 19 ...men are...very foolish children, who...are the victims at all times of the nearest object.

    Pt1 3.13 5 ...leaving these victims of vanity, let us, with new hope, observe how nature, by worthier impulses, has insured the poet's fidelity to his office of announcement and affirming...

    Exp 3.66 6 [Scholars] are nature's victims of expression.

    Exp 3.66 10 You who see the artist, the orator, the poet, too near, and find... themselves victims of partiality...conclude very reasonably that these arts are not for man, but are disease.

    NR 3.237 12 We...get our clothes and shoes made and mended, and are the victims of these details;...

    MoS 4.155 21 The studious class are their own victims;...

    ET4 5.64 6 The Jews have been the favorite victims [in England] of royal and popular persecution.

    Pow 6.54 25 ...the key to all ages is--Imbecility; imbecility in the vast majority of men at all times...victims of gravity, custom and fear.

    Ctr 6.139 2 ...we are victims of adaptation.

    CbW 6.269 26 ...a virulent, aggressive fool taints the reason of a household. I have seen a whole family of quiet, sensible people unhinged and beside themselves, victims of such a rogue.

    Bty 6.285 21 ...the clergy are not victims of their pursuits more than others.

    Ill 6.313 11 I find men victims of illusion in all parts of life.

    SS 7.15 24 ...let us not be the victims of words.

    Farm 7.138 10 All men keep the farm in reserve as an asylum...or a solitude, if they do not succeed in society. And who knows how many glances of remorse are turned this way...from the victims of idleness and pleasure?

    Cour 7.265 11 ...'t is possible that the beholders suffer more keenly than the victims.

    PI 8.38 3 [Mortal men] live cabined, cribbed, confined...in mean employments,--and victims of these;...

    PC 8.227 19 In our daily intercourse, we...become the victims of our own arts and implements...

    LLNE 10.361 15 ...there was immense hope in these young people [at Brook Farm]. There was nobleness; there were self-sacrificing victims who compensated for the levity and rashness of their companions.

    HDC 11.31 23 Persecution readily knits friendship between its victims.

    HDC 11.74 26 A head-stone and a foot-stone, on this bank of the river, mark the place where these first victims [of the American Revolution] lie.

    EWI 11.110 17 In consequence of the dangers of the [slave] trade growing out of the act of abolition, ships were built...with a frightful disregard of the comfort of the victims they were destined to transport.

    EWI 11.134 18 ...if, most unhappily, the ambitious class of young men and political men have found out that these neglected victims are poor and without weight;...then let the citizens in their primary capacity take up [the negroes'] cause on this very ground...

    Wom 11.417 10 In all [literature], the body of the joke is one, namely...to describe [women] as victims of temperament;...

    Wom 11.418 7 [Women] are victims of the finer temperament.

    II 12.80 14 Why should we be...the victims of our own works...

    CInt 12.117 14 Few men wish to know how the thing really stands, what is the law of it without reference to persons. Other men are victims of their means...

    EurB 12.377 14 Of the tales of fashionable life, by far the most agreeable and the most efficient was Vivian Grey. Young men were and still are the readers and victims.

victim's, n. (1)

    Grts 8.299 1 No fate, save by the victim's fault, is low,/ For God hath writ all dooms magnificent,/ So guilt not traverses his tender will./

victor, n. (9)

    LT 1.290 7 ...[the Moral Sentiment] rides the stormy eloquence of the senate, sole victor;...

    Comp 2.108 2 ...when the Thasians erected a statue to Theagenes, a victor in the games, one of his rivals went to it by night and endeavored to throw it down...

    Fdsp 2.202 4 ...he alone is victor who has truth enough in his constitution to preserve the delicacy of his beauty from the wear and tear of [Time, Want, Danger].

    ET5 5.75 9 Last of all the Norman or French-Dane arrived [in England], and formally conquered, harried and ruled the kingdom. A century later it came out that the Saxon...had managed to make the victor speak the language and accept the law and usage of the victim;...

    SA 8.93 1 In this art of conversation, Woman, if not the queen and victor, is the lawgiver.

    Res 8.147 1 ...one man whose eye commands the end in view and the means by which it can be attained, is...victor over all mankind who do not see the issue and the means.

    MoL 10.253 22 Pytheas of Aegina was victor in the Pancratium of the boys...

    ACri 12.300 23 Pindar when the victor in a race by mules offered him a trifling present, pretended to be hurt at thought of writing on demi-asses.

    AgMs 12.359 2 As I drew near this brave laborer [Edmund Hosmer] in the midst of his own acres, I could not help feeling for him the highest respect. Here is the Caesar, the Alexander of the soil...not like Napoleon, hero of sixty battles, but of six thousand, and out of every one he has come victor;...

Victoria, of England, n. (1)

    PPr 12.384 16 It is plain that...all the great classes of English society must read [Carlyle's Past and Present], even those whose existence it proscribes. Poor Queen Victoria,-poor Sir Robert Peel...

Victoria regia, n. (1)

    Thor 10.468 7 [Thoreau]...told me that he expected to find yet the Victoria regia in Concord.

victories, n. (31)

    MR 1.240 9 Knowledge, Virtue, Power are the victories of man over his necessities...

    MR 1.251 5 Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of some enthusiasm. The victories of the Arabs after Mahomet...is an example.

    SR 2.59 23 What makes the majesty of the heroes of the senate and the field, which so fills the imagination? The consciousness of a train of great days and victories behind.

    SL 2.133 24 Timoleon's victories are the best victories...

    SL 2.133 25 Timoleon's victories are the best victories...

    SL 2.155 19 Truth has not single victories;...

    Fdsp 2.200 10 The valiant warrior famoused for fight,/ After a hundred victories, once foiled,/ Is from the book of honor razed quite/ And all the rest forgot for which he toiled./

    Pt1 3.7 23 ...Homer's words are as costly and admirable to Homer as Agamemnon's victories are to Agamemnon.

    Chr1 3.90 13 [The man of character's] victories are by demonstration of superiority...

    NMW 4.233 21 [Napoleon's] victories were only so many doors...

    NMW 4.245 26 As soon as we are removed out of the reach of local and accidental partialities, Man feels that Napoleon fights for him; these are honest victories;...

    GoW 4.263 21 [The writer's] failures are the preparation of his victories.

    ET15 5.272 25 ...[if the London Times would cleave to the right] the least of its victories would be to give to England a new millennium of beneficent power.

    Pow 6.72 13 The men whom in peaceful communities we hold if we can with iron at their legs...this man [Napoleon] dealt with hand to hand...and won his victories by their bayonets.

    Bhr 6.192 12 ...the victories of character are instant...

    Bhr 6.192 13 ...the victories of character are instant, and victories for all.

    Wsp 6.225 5 ...the real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.

    Res 8.153 22 ...all these acquisitions are victories of the good brain and brave heart;...

    Chr2 10.113 22 All the victories of religion belong to the moral sentiment.

    SovE 10.189 17 ...the warfare of beasts should be renewed in a finer field, for more excellent victories.

    SovE 10.191 10 Humanity sits at the dread loom and throws the shuttle and fills it with joyful rainbows, until the sable ground is flowered all over with a woof of human industry and wisdom...with...courage and the victories of the just and wise over malice and wrong.

    Prch 10.221 5 ...this examination [of religion] resulting in the constant detection of errors, the flattered understanding assumes to judge all things, and to anticipate the same victories.

    Plu 10.298 1 [Plutarch] had that universal sympathy with genius which makes all its victories his own;...

    CSC 10.376 5 There was a great deal of wearisome speaking in each of those three-days' sessions [of the Chardon Street Convention], but relieved...especially by the exhibition of character, and by the victories of character.

    EPro 11.321 12 What right has any one to read in the journals tidings of victories, if he has not bought them by his own valor, treasure, personal sacrifice...

    SMC 11.375 20 Brave men! you [veterans of the Civil War] will hardly be called to see again fields as terrible as those you have already trampled with your victories.

    EdAd 11.389 6 We have a bad war, many victories, each of which converts the country into an immense chanticleer;...

    Milt1 12.262 27 The victories of the conscience in [Milton] are gained by the commanding charm which all the severe and restrictive virtues have for him.

    Milt1 12.263 4 [Milton's] virtues remind us of what Plutarch said of Timoleon's victories, that they resembled Homer's verses, they ran so easy and natural.

    Milt1 12.278 13 [Milton's plea for freedom of divorce] was a sally of the extravagant spirit of the time, overjoyed...with the sudden victories it had gained...

    MLit 12.322 15 [Goethe] has owed to Commerce and to the victories of the Understanding, all their spoils.

victorious, adj. (17)

    Nat 1.40 12 [Man's] victorious thought comes up with and reduces all things...

    MR 1.240 17 Only such persons interest us...who have stood in the jaws of need, and have by their own wit and might...made man victorious.

    MoS 4.177 12 What front can we make against these unavoidable, victorious, maleficent forces?

    ET4 5.56 23 The men who have built a ship and invented the rig, cordage, sail, compass and pump;...have acquired much more than a ship. Now arm them and every shore is at their mercy. ... Of course they...can engage [the land-nations] on shore with a victorious advantage in the retreat.

    F 6.16 11 We like the nervous and victorious habit of our own branch of the family.

    SS 7.9 8 ...the stuff of tragedy and of romances is in a moral union of two superior persons whose confidence in each other for long years...is at last justified by victorious proof of probity...

    Clbs 7.240 10 You may condemn [the eloquent man's] book, but can you fight against his thought? That is always too nimble for you...and breaks out victorious in some other quarter.

    Suc 7.307 26 We know the Spirit by its victorious tone.

    OA 7.322 9 ...if the life be true and noble, we have quite another sort of seniors than the...dotards who are falsely old,--namely, the men...who appearing in any street, the people empty their houses to gaze at and obey them:...as blind old Dandolo...after the revolt again victorious and elected at the age of ninety-six to the throne of the Eastern Empire...

    Prch 10.233 13 The author...falters never, but takes the victorious tone.

    Schr 10.282 13 [Truth]...diminishes and annihilates everybody, and the prophet so gladly feels his personality lost in this victorious life.

    Plu 10.315 12 To erect a trophy in the soul against anger is that which none but a great and victorious puissance is able to achieve.

    Carl 10.493 24 [Carlyle's] firm, victorious, scoffing vituperation strikes [literary, fashionable, political men] with chill and hesitation.

    HCom 11.342 4 Every nation punishes the General who is not victorious.

    EdAd 11.388 14 The young intriguers who drive in bar-rooms and town-meetings the trade of politics, sagacious only to seize the victorious side, have put the country into the position of an overgrown bully...

    Shak1 11.449 1 [Shakespeare] fulfilled the famous prophecy of Socrates, that the poet most excellent in tragedy would be most excellent in comedy, and more than fulfilled it by making tragedy also a victorious melody which healed its own wounds.

    CPL 11.500 26 ...[Thoreau writes] the elegy itself is some victorious melody in you, escaping from the wreck.

victoriously, adv. (1)

    ET12 5.210 15 I looked over the Examination Papers of the year 1848, for the various scholarships and fellowships [at Oxford]...containing the tasks which many competitors had victoriously performed...

victors, n. (2)

    FSLC 11.178 2 The Eternal Rights,/ Victors over daily wrongs:/ Awful victors, they misguide/ Whom they will destroy/...

    FSLC 11.178 3 The Eternal Rights,/ Victors over daily wrongs:/ Awful victors, they misguide/ Whom they will destroy/...

victory, n. (80)

    DSA 1.149 16 ...[Massena] put on terror and victory as a robe.

    MN 1.205 2 The termination of the world in a man appears to be the last victory of intelligence.

    Hist 2.10 21 We must in ourselves see the necessary reason of every fact,-- see how it could and must be. So stand...before a victory of Napoleon...

    SR 2.89 25 A political victory...or some other favorable event raises your spirits...

    SL 2.150 10 ...nearness or likeness of nature,--how beautiful is the ease of its victory!

    Prd1 2.227 10 The application of means to ends insures victory and the songs of victory not less in a farm or a shop than in the tactics of party or of war.

    Exp 3.61 5 ...we should...do broad justice where we are...accepting our actual companions and circumstances...as the mystic officials to whom the universe has delegated its whole pleasure for us. If these are mean and malignant, their contentment, which is the last victory of justice, is a more satisfying echo to the heart than the voice of poets...

    Exp 3.86 2 ...there is victory yet for all justice;...

    Chr1 3.97 26 ...prosperity belongs to a certain mind, and will introduce that power and victory which is its natural fruit, into any order of events.

    Chr1 3.98 21 ...rectitude is a perpetual victory...

    Chr1 3.108 3 Divine persons are character born, or, to borrow a phrase from Napoleon, they are victory organized.

    Chr1 3.114 14 ...the mind requires a victory to the senses;...

    Nat2 3.195 25 Let the victory fall where it will, we are on that side.

    NER 3.283 25 ...whether thy work be fine or coarse...so only it be honest work...no matter how often defeated, you are born to victory.

    NMW 4.232 10 [Bonaparte] never blundered into victory...

    NMW 4.236 23 [Napoleon] fought sixty battles. He had never enough. Each victory was a new weapon.

    NMW 4.257 19 ...when men saw that after victory was another war;...they deserted [Napoleon].

    ET4 5.49 6 Trades and professions carve their own lines on face and form. Certain circumstances of English life are not less effective; as...sense of superiority founded on habit of victory in labor and in war...

    ET4 5.72 23 ...the genius of the English hath always more inclined them to foot-service, as pure and proper manhood, without any mixture; whilst in a victory on horseback, the credit ought to be divided betwixt the man and his horse.

    ET5 5.87 3 ...[the English]...do not like ponderous and difficult tactics, but delight to bring the affair hand to hand; where the victory lies with the strength, courage and endurance of the individual combatants.

    ET7 5.122 27 Lord Collingwood would not accept his medal for victory on 14 February, 1797, if he did not receive one for victory on 1st June, 1794;...

    ET7 5.123 1 Lord Collingwood would not accept his medal for victory on 14 February, 1797, if he did not receive one for victory on 1st June, 1794;...

    ET8 5.139 19 No nation was ever so rich in able men [as England];...men of such temper, that, like Baron Vere, had one seen him returning from a victory, he would by his silence have suspected that he had lost the day; and, had he beheld him in a retreat, he would have collected him a conqueror by the cheerfulness of his spirit.

    ET9 5.152 13 ...this precious knave [George of Cappadocia] became, in good time, Saint George of England...emblem of victory and civility...

    ET11 5.190 27 Of course there is another side to this gorgeous show [of English aristocracy]. Every victory was the defeat of a party only less worthy.

    ET13 5.221 7 A great duke said on the occasion of a victory, in the House of Lords, that he thought the Almighty God had not been well used by them...

    ET14 5.242 13 In England these [generalizations]...do all have a kind of filial retrospect to Plato and the Greeks. Of this kind is...Hegel's study of civil history, as the conflict of ideas and the victory of the deeper thought;...

    ET15 5.263 14 [The London Times] has risen, year by year, and victory by victory, to its present authority.

    ET15 5.271 1 ...when [the editors of the London Times] see that [authors of each liberal movement] have established their fact...they strike in with the voice of a monarch...and make the victory sure.

    F 6.16 4 ...the steadiness with which victory adheres to one tribe and defeat to another, is as uniform as the superposition of strata.

    Bhr 6.181 8 The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye. It must be a victory achieved in the will, before it can be signified in the eye.

    Wsp 6.226 6 Men talk as if victory were something fortunate.

    Wsp 6.226 7 Work is victory.

    Wsp 6.226 7 Wherever work is done, victory is obtained.

    Wsp 6.237 23 Honor him whose life is perpetual victory;...

    Bty 6.301 6 If a man...can organize victory...'t is no matter whether his nose is parallel to his spine...

    WD 7.166 14 Every victory over matter ought to recommend to man the worth of his nature.

    Clbs 7.233 2 ...there are the gladiators, to whom [conversation] is always a battle; 't is no matter on which side, they fight for victory;...

    Clbs 7.237 2 ...though they know that there is in the speaker a degree...of insincerity and of talking for victory, yet the existence of character...is felt by the frivolous.

    Suc 7.287 4 I don't know but we and our race elsewhere set a higher value on wealth, victory and coarse superiority of all kinds, than other men...

    Suc 7.287 11 The ancient Norse ballads describe [the Norseman] as afflicted with this inextinguishable thirst of victory.

    Suc 7.288 20 We are not scrupulous. What we ask is victory, without regard to the cause;...

    SA 8.97 15 Must we always talk for victory...

    Elo2 8.117 2 ...[the orator] gains his victory by prophecy, where [the people] expected repetition.

    Res 8.137 16 I am benefited by every observation of a victory of man over Nature;...

    QO 8.184 17 ...a lady having expressed in his presence a passionate wish to witness a great victory, [Wellington] replied: Madam, there is nothing so dreadful as a great victory,-excepting a great defeat.

    QO 8.184 19 ...a lady having expressed in his presence a passionate wish to witness a great victory, [Wellington] replied: Madam, there is nothing so dreadful as a great victory,-excepting a great defeat.

    PC 8.226 2 The sublime point of experience is the value of a sufficient man. Cube this value by the meeting of two such...who understand and support each other, and you have organized victory.

    Aris 10.58 11 ...a hero's, a man's success is made up of failures, because he experiments and ventures every day...defeated all the time and yet to victory born.

    PerF 10.78 27 The power...of enduring defeat and of gaining victory by defeats, is one of these [mental] forces which never loses its charm.

    PerF 10.83 7 And so, one step higher, when [the susceptible man] comes into the realm of sentiment and will. He sees...the victory of love...

    Chr2 10.109 24 We boast the triumph of Christianity over Paganism, meaning the victory of the spirit over the senses;...

    Chr2 10.122 2 To a well-principled man existence is victory.

    Edc1 10.127 9 Victory over things is the office of man.

    SovE 10.189 21 Savage war gives place to that of Turenne and Wellington, which has limitations and a code. This war again gives place to the finer quarrel of property, where the victory is wealth and the defeat poverty.

    SovE 10.203 8 [Our religion] visits us only on some exceptional and ceremonial occasion...perhaps on a sublime national victory or a peace.

    MoL 10.249 19 The intellectual man lives in perpetual victory.

    Plu 10.322 11 It is a service to our Republic to publish a book that can force ambitious young men...to read...the Apothegms of Great Commanders [of Plutarch]. If we could keep the secret, and communicate it only to a few chosen aspirants, we might confide that, by this noble infiltration, they would easily carry the victory over all competitors.

    Thor 10.456 3 [Thoreau]...required a little sense of victory...to call his powers into full exercise.

    HDC 11.59 14 ...[the red man] may fire a farm-house, or a village; but...in the first blast of [the white men's] trumpet we already hear the flourish of victory.

    EWI 11.141 15 In 1791, Mr. Wilberforce announced to the House of Commons, We have already gained one victory: we have obtained for these poor creatures [West Indian negroes] the recognition of their human nature...

    War 11.152 11 Not only every tribe has war-gods, religious festivals in victory, but religious wars.

    FSLN 11.235 4 To make good the cause of Freedom, you must draw off from all foolish trust in others. You must be...the charter, the battle and the victory.

    FSLN 11.235 18 The army of unright is encamped from pole to pole, but the road of victory is known to the just.

    ACiv 11.310 1 ...it is the maxim of history that victory always falls at last where it ought to fall;...

    EPro 11.319 27 [The Emancipation Proclamation] makes a victory of our defeats.

    EPro 11.320 2 With a victory like this [the Emancipation Proclamation], we can stand many disasters.

    ALin 11.337 21 There is a serene Providence which rules the fate of nations, which...conquers alike by what is called defeat or by what is called victory...

    Koss 11.400 26 Sir [Kossuth]...we congratulate you that you have known how to convert...present defeat into lasting victory.

    Wom 11.413 9 This is the victory of Griselda, her supreme humility.

    FRep 11.515 19 When the cannon is aimed by ideas...when men die for what they live for...then gods join in the combat; then poets are born, and the better code of laws at last records the victory.

    FRep 11.530 9 ...the largest thought and the widest love are born to victory...

    PLT 12.62 7 The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere, good and order, analogy, health and benefit,-the love of truth, tendency to be in the right, no fighter for victory...

    II 12.77 8 I think this pathetic,-not to have any wisdom at our own terms, not to have any power of organizing victory.

    CL 12.136 8 ...the necessity of exercise and the nomadic instinct are always stirring the wish to travel, and in the spring and summer, it commonly gets the victory.

    Bost 12.203 2 The theology and the instinct of freedom that grew here [in Massachusetts] in the dark in serious men furnished a certain rancor which... fed the party and carried it...to victory.

    WSL 12.344 21 [Landor]...serenely enjoys the victory of Nature over fortune.

    EurB 12.372 9 Fortune will still have her part in every victory...

    Let 12.402 12 A new perception...is a victory won to the living universe from Chaos and old Night...

Victory, n. (1)

    War 11.149 4 The archangel Hope/ Looks to the azure cope,/ Waits through dark ages for the morn,/ Defeated day by day, but unto Victory born./


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