Beast, Beauty and the to Becky Stow's Swamp
A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compiled by Eugene F. Irey
Beast, Beauty and the, n. (1)
ET4 5.67 20 This union of qualities is fabled in [the
Englishmen's] national legend of Beauty and the Beast...
beast, n. (29)
Nat 1.67 25 ...we become sensible of a certain occult
recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy and eccentric
forms of beast, fish, and insect.
MR 1.239 18 ...instead of...that mighty and
prevailing heart, which the father had...whom...beast and fish seemed
all to know and to serve,-we have now a puny, protected person...
Pt1 3.10 18 I remember when I was young how much I
was moved one morning by tidings that genius had appeared in a youth
who sat near me at table. He...had written hundreds of lines, but could
not tell whether that which was in him was therein told; he could tell
nothing but that all was changed,--man, beast, heaven, earth and sea.
Exp 3.63 20 We fancy that we are strangers, and not
so intimately domesticated in the planet as the wild man and the wild
beast and bird.
PPh 4.46 8 If the tongue had not been framed for
articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
SwM 4.125 15 [To Swedenborg] Bird and beast is not
bird and beast, but emanation and effluvia of the minds and wills of
men there present.
SwM 4.125 16 [To Swedenborg] Bird and beast is not
bird and beast, but emanation and effluvia of the minds and wills of
men there present.
ET1 5.16 7 When too much praise of any genius annoyed
[Carlyle] he professed hugely to admire the talent shown by his pig. He
had spent much time and contrivance in confining the poor beast to one
enclosure in his pen, but pig, by great strokes of judgment, had found
out how to let a board down, and had foiled him.
Bty 6.284 4 The motive of science was the extension
of man...till his hands should touch the stars...his ears understand
the language of beast and bird...
Bty 6.290 5 Elegance of form in bird or beast, or in
the human figure, marks some excellence of structure...
Farm 7.135 4 [Farmers] harness beast, bird, insect,
to their work;/...
Farm 7.151 13 The first planter, the savage...looking
chiefly to safety from his enemy,--man or beast,--takes poor land.
Cour 7.279 13 George Nidiver stood still/ And looked
[the bear] in the face;/ The wild beast stopped amazed,/ Then came with
slackening pace./
Chr2 10.92 1 [The man] has his life in Nature, like a
beast...
Edc1 10.155 17 These creatures [in nature] have no
value for their time, and [the naturalist] must put as low a rate on
his. By dint of obstinate sitting still...bird and beast...begin to
return.
SovE 10.184 1 ...this unity exists in the
organization of insect, beast and bird, still ascending to man...
EzRy 10.384 24 Then again, May 5th [1735, Joseph
Emerson writes]: Went to the beach with three of the children. The
beast, being frightened when we were all out of the shay, overturned
and broke it.
EzRy 10.385 13 16th May [1735] [Joseph Emerson
wrote]: My wife and I rode together to Rumney Marsh. The beast frighted
several times.
HDC 11.59 9 The red man may destroy here and there a
straggler, as a wild beast may;...
HDC 11.61 22 ...the Indian seemed to inspire such a
feeling as the wild beast inspires in the people near his den.
War 11.156 5 In some parts of this country...the
absorbing topic of all conversation is whipping; who fought, and which
whipped? Of man, boy or beast, the only trait that much interests the
speakers is the pugnacity.
War 11.171 7 ...[peace] is to be accomplished by the
spontaneous teaching, of the cultivated soul, in its secret experience
and meditation,-that it is now time that it should pass out of the
state of beast into the state of man;...
EdAd 11.382 9 Our eyes/ Are armed, but we are
strangers to the stars,/ And strangers to the mystic beast and bird,/
And strangers to the plant and to the mine./
Wom 11.410 16 [Man] is as much raised above the beast
by this creative faculty [taste] as by any other.
Beast, n. (1)
Wsp 6.206 4 Christianity, in the romantic ages,
signified European culture,--the grafted or meliorated tree in a crab
forest. And to marry a pagan wife or husband was to marry Beast...
beast-force, n. (1)
beast-like, adj. (1)
beastly, adj. (1)
beasts, n. (26)
Nat 1.13 1 Beasts, fire, water, stones, and corn
serve [man].
MR 1.253 20 To use an Egyptian metaphor, it is not
[the people's] will for any long time, to raise the nails of wild
beasts and to depress the heads of the sacred birds.
Pt1 3.31 24 ...Aesop reports the whole catalogue of
common daily relations through the masquerade of birds and beasts;...
ET4 5.73 4 William the Conqueror being, says Camden,
better affected to beasts than to men, imposed heavy fines and
punishments on those that should meddle with his game.
ET7 5.117 9 Beasts that make no truce with man, do
not break faith with each other.
ET16 5.278 18 I...was ready to maintain that some
cleverer elephants or mylodonta had borne off and laid these rocks [of
Stonehenge] one on another. Only the good beasts must have known how to
cut a well-wrought tenon and mortise...
F 6.39 14 The ulterior aim...the correlation by which
planets subside and crystallize, then animate beasts and men,-will not
stop but will work into finer particulars...
Pow 6.69 24 Strong race or strong individual rests at
last on natural forces, which are best in the savage, which, like the
beasts around him, is still in reception of the milk from the teats of
Nature.
Wth 6.98 11 Every man may have occasion to consult
books which he does not care to possess...pictures also of birds,
beasts, fishes, shells, trees, flowers, whose names he desires to know.
Ctr 6.139 15 A boy, says Plato, is the most vicious
of all wild beasts;...
Bhr 6.181 7 The alleged power to charm down insanity,
or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye.
Cour 7.278 23 The boy turned round with screams,/ And
ran with terror wild;/ One of the pair of savage beasts/ Pursued the
shrieking child./
Comc 8.157 3 The rocks, the plants, the beasts, the
birds, neither do anything ridiculous, nor betray a perception of
anything absurd done in their presence.
Comc 8.158 4 With the trifling exception of the
stratagems of a few beasts and birds, there is no seeming, no halfness
in Nature, until the appearance of man.
PPo 8.241 16 On the occasion of Solomon's marriage,
all the beasts, laden with presents, appeared before his throne.
Dem1 10.18 1 ...every demoniacal property can
manifest itself in the corporeal and incorporeal, yes, in beasts too in
a remarkable manner...
PerF 10.73 25 It is curious to see how a creature so
feeble and vulnerable as a man, who, unarmed, is no match for the wild
beasts...is yet able to subdue to his will these terrific [natural]
forces...
Edc1 10.137 7 A new Adam in the garden, [the new man]
is to name all the beasts in the field, all the gods in the sky.
SovE 10.189 16 ...the warfare of beasts should be
renewed in a finer field, for more excellent victories.
HDC 11.51 1 ...the secret of [the Indian's] amazing
skill seemed to be that he partook of the nature and fierce instincts
of the beasts he slew.
EWI 11.99 6 We are met to exchange congratulations on
the anniversary of an event singular in the history of civilization; a
day of reason;...of that which makes us better than a flock of birds
and beasts;...
CL 12.159 16 In [the Persians'] belief, wild beasts,
especially gazelles, collect around an insane person...
beat, n. (1)
ET1 5.24 24 To judge from a single conversation,
[Wordsworth] made the impression...of one who paid for his rare
elevation by general tameness and conformity. off his own beat, his
opinions were of no value.
beat, v. (29)
AmS 1.107 10 [The poor and the low]...will perish to
add one drop of blood to make that great heart beat...
Hist 2.36 21 Put Napoleon in an island prison, let
his faculties find...no stake to play for, and he would beat the air,
and appear stupid.
SL 2.139 9 [The soul] has so infused its strong
enchantment into nature that...when we struggle to wound its creatures
our hands...beat our own breasts.
Wsp 6.225 8 The way to conquer the foreign artisan
is, not to kill him, but to beat his work.
Wsp 6.235 10 ...[Benedict said] in all the encounters
that have yet chanced, I have not been weaponed for that particular
occasion, and have been historically beaten; and yet I know all the
time that I...shall certainly fight when my hour comes, and shall beat.
Elo1 7.76 23 We believe that there may be a man who
is a match for events...one of inexhaustible personal resources, who
can give you any odds and beat you.
Cour 7.279 16 Still firm the hunter stood,/ Although
his heart beat high;/ Again the creature stopped,/ And gazed with
wondering eye./
Dem1 10.21 26 Great men feel that they are so
by...falling back on what is humane; in renouncing...each exclusive and
local connection, to beat with the pulse and breathe with the lungs of
nations.
PerF 10.80 17 ...[the prisoner] took his flute out of
his pocket and began to play, to the surprise, and, as it proved, to
the delight of all the company; the jurors waked up, the sheriff forgot
his duty, the judge himself beat time...
PerF 10.80 21 ...[the prisoner] took his flute out of
his pocket and began to play...and the prisoner was by general consent
of court and officers allowed to go his way without any money. And I
suppose, if he could have played loud enough, we here should have beat
time...
PerF 10.80 22 ...[the prisoner] took his flute out of
his pocket and began to play...and the prisoner was by general consent
of court and officers allowed to go his way without any money. And I
suppose, if he could have played loud enough...the whole population of
the globe would beat time...
Prch 10.232 9 ...it were inhuman to affect ignorance
or indifference on Sundays to what makes our blood beat and our
countenance dejected Saturday or Monday.
MoL 10.242 19 ...nothing has been able to resist the
tide with which the material prosperity of America in years past has
beat down the hope of youth...
HDC 11.55 17 The [Concord] river, at this period,
seems to have caused some distress now by its overflow, now by its
drought. A cold and wet summer blighted the corn; enormous flocks of
pigeons beat down and eat up all sorts of English grain;...
FSLC 11.184 5 What is the use of admirable law-forms,
and political forms, if a hurricane of party feeling and a combination
of monied interests can beat them to the ground?
FSLC 11.193 11 If you starve or beat the orphan, in
my presence, and I accuse your cruelty, can I help it?
FSLN 11.226 20 ...a ghastly result of all those years
of experience in affairs, this, that there was nothing better for the
foremost American man [Webster] to tell his countrymen than that
Slavery was now at that strength that they must beat down their
conscience and become kidnappers for it.
AsSu 11.251 16 ...this noble head [Charles
Sumner]...must be the target for a pair of bullies to beat with clubs.
Shak1 11.450 11 ...[Shakespeare] still agitates the
heart in age as in youth, and will, until it ceases to beat.
CInt 12.118 20 We should not think it much to beat
Indians or Mexicans,- but to beat English!
CInt 12.118 21 We should not think it much to beat
Indians or Mexicans,- but to beat English!
beaten, adj. (1)
Hsm1 2.262 10 [Culture] will not now run against an
axe at the first step out of the beaten track of opinion.
beaten, v. (12)
Mrs1 3.128 20 ...fashion...is Mexico, Marengo and
Trafalgar beaten out thin;...
ET5 5.75 20 The power of the Saxon-Danes, so
thoroughly beaten in the war that the name of English and villein were
synonymous......stood on the strong personality of these people.
ET8 5.133 22 It was no bad description of the Briton
generically, what was said two hundred years ago of one particular
Oxford scholar: He was a very bold man...and would often speak his mind
of particular persons then accidentally present, without examining the
company he was in; for which he was...several times threatened to be
kicked and beaten.
Wsp 6.234 20 [Benedict] said, I am never beaten until
I know that I am beaten.
Wsp 6.234 21 [Benedict] said, I am never beaten until
I know that I am beaten.
Wsp 6.235 7 ...[Benedict said] in all the encounters
that have yet chanced, I have not been weaponed for that particular
occasion, and have been historically beaten;...
Wsp 6.235 8 ...[Benedict said] in all the encounters
that have yet chanced, I have not been weaponed for that particular
occasion, and have been historically beaten; and yet I know all the
time that I have never been beaten;...
EWI 11.105 11 Granville Sharpe was accidentally made
acquainted with the sufferings of a slave, whom a West Indian planter
had brought with him to London, and had beaten with a pistol on his
head...
FSLC 11.201 6 By white slaves, by a white slave, are
we beaten.
JBS 11.278 9 ...in Pennsylvania...[John Brown] fell
in with a boy...whom he looked upon as his superior. This boy was a
slave; he saw him beaten with an iron shovel...
MAng1 12.220 16 Granacci, a painter's apprentice,
having lent [Michelangelo], when a boy, a print of Saint Antony beaten
by devils, together with some colors and pencils, he went to the
fish-market to observe the form and color of fins and of the eyes of
fish.
beatified, adj. (1)
Chr1 3.99 15 I revere the person who is riches; so
that I cannot think of him as alone...but as perpetual patron,
benefactor and beatified man.
beatified, v. (1)
beating, adj. (6)
LE 1.177 26 Why should [the scholar]...not know, in
his own beating bosom, [human life's] sweet and smart?
Fdsp 2.193 17 How beautiful, on their approach to
this beating heart, the steps and forms of the gifted and the true!
Art1 2.360 1 [The traveller who visits the Vatican
galleries] studies the technical rules [of art] on these wonderful
remains, but forgets...that each [work] came out of the solitary
workshop of one artist, who...created his work without other model save
life...and the sweet and smart...of beating hearts, and meeting
eyes;...
SwM 4.110 21 ...[Swedenborg] must be reckoned a
leader in that revolution, which, by giving to science an idea, has
given to an aimless accumulation of experiments, guidance and form and
a beating heart.
Edc1 10.158 21 ...to whatsoever beating heart I
speak, to you it is committed to educate men.
EPro 11.319 7 October, November, December will have
passed over beating hearts and plotting brains...
beating, v. (5)
OS 2.279 11 If I am wilful, [my child] sets his will
against mine...and leaves me, if I please, the degradation of beating
him by my superiority of strength.
Civ 7.24 24 The ship, in its latest complete
equipment, is an abridgment and compend of a nation's arts: the
ship...driven by steam; and in wildest sea-mountains, at vast distances
from home,--The pulses of her iron heart/ Go beating through the
storm./
OA 7.316 26 Nature...now puts an old head on young
shoulders, and then a young heart beating under fourscore winters.
MMEm 10.425 24 ...the bare bones of this poor embryo
earth may give the idea of the Infinite far, far better than when
dignified with arts and industry:-its oceans, when beating the symbols
of ceaseless ages, than when covered with cargoes of war and
oppression.
beatitude, n. (19)
Lov1 2.186 5 The soul which is in the soul of each
[lover], craving a perfect beatitude, detects incongruities, defects
and disproportion in the behaviour of the other.
OS 2.269 11 ...this deep power...whose beatitude is
all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every
hour...
OS 2.276 2 ...whoso dwells in this moral beatitude
already anticipates those special powers which men prize so highly.
Art1 2.354 2 Shall I now add that the whole extant
product of the plastic arts has herein its highest value...as a stroke
drawn in the portrait of that fate...according to whose ordinations all
beings advance to their beatitude?
Chr1 3.113 13 A divine person is the prophecy of the
mind; a friend is the hope of the heart. Our beatitude waits for the
fulfilment of these two in one.
SwM 4.97 5 All religious history contains traces of
the trance of saints--a beatitude, but without any sign of joy;...
SwM 4.97 13 All religious history contains traces of
the trance of saints... The trances of Socrates...Swedenborg, will
readily come to mind. But what as readily comes to mind is the
accompaniment of disease. This beatitude comes in terror...
MoS 4.174 21 In the mount of vision, ere they have
yet risen from their knees, [the saints] say, We discover that this our
homage and beatitude is partial and deformed...
Imtl 8.330 10 Hear the opinion of Montesquieu: ... I
do not wish to exchange the idea of immortality against that of the
beatitude of one day.
Chr2 10.114 6 The soul, penetrated with the beatitude
which pours into it on all sides, asks no interpositions...
Supl 10.176 27 ...[Nature]...in the East...inculcates
the tenet of a beatitude to be found in escape from all organization
and all personality...
Prch 10.223 6 The next age will behold God in the
ethical laws...and will regard natural history, private fortunes and
politics, not for themselves, as we have done, but as illustrations of
those laws, of that beatitude and love.
LLNE 10.326 8 The former generations acted under the
belief that a shining social prosperity was the beatitude of man...
ChiE 11.470 5 Nature...in the East...inculcates a
beatitude to be found in escape from all organization and all
personality...
beatitudes, n. (1)
MLit 12.319 5 In Byron...[the subjective tendency]
predominates; but in Byron...it sees not its true end...a life
nourished on absolute beatitudes...
Beatrice [Dante, Divine Co (1)
MMEm 10.429 22 O dear worms,-how they will at some
sure time take down this tedious tabernacle...instructors in the
science of mind, by gnawing away the meshes which have chained it. A
very Beatrice in showing the Paradise.
beats, n. (2)
PI 8.47 2 I think you will also find a charm heroic,
plaintive, pathetic, in these cadences [of common English metres], and
be at once set on searching for the words that can rightly fill these
vacant beats.
PI 8.57 2 ...[Newton] only shows...that the music
must rise...up to the largeness of astronomy: at last that great heart
will hear in the music beats like its own;...
beats, v. (4)
OS 2.277 19 ...in groups where debate is
earnest...the company become aware...that all have a spiritual property
in what was said, as well as the sayer. They all become wiser than they
were. It arches over them like a temple, this unity of thought in which
every heart beats with nobler sense of power and duty...
SwM 4.142 26 ...when [Behmen] asserts that, in some
sort, love is greater than God, his heart beats so high that the
thumping against his leathern coat is audible across the centuries.
PC 8.207 5 The heart still beats with the public
pulse of joy that the country has withstood the rude trial which
threatened its existence...
Beattons, n. (1)
HDC 11.85 24 Why need I remind you of our
own...Cumings, Barretts, Beattons, the departed benefactors of the town
[Concord]?
beau, adj. (2)
MAng1 12.219 7 Since Beauty is thus an abstraction of
the harmony and proportion that reigns in all Nature, it is therefore
studied in Nature, and not in what does not exist. Hence the celebrated
French maxim of Rhetoric, Rien de beau que le vrai; Nothing is
beautiful but what is true.
Beauchamp, Richard [Earl of (2)
ET11 5.175 13 Of Richard Beauchamp...the Emperor told
Henry V. that no Christian king had such another knight for wisdom,
nurture and manhood...
ET11 5.176 7 In the same line of Warwick, the
successor next but one to [Richard] Beauchamp was the stout earl of
Henry VI. and Edward IV.
Beauclerk, Topham, n. (1)
beaucoup, adj. (1)
UGM 4.6 21 Peu de moyens, beaucoup d'effet.
Beauforts, n. (1)
ET11 5.193 8 The historic names of the Buckinghams,
Beauforts, Marlboroughs and Hertfords have gained no new lustre...
Beaumarchais [Pierre August (3)
Clbs 7.240 12 What can you do with Beaumarchais, who
converts the censor whom the court has appointed to stifle his play
into an ardent advocate?
Clbs 7.240 16 What can you do with Beaumarchais, who
converts the censor whom the court has appointed to stifle his play
into an ardent advocate? The court appoints another censor, who shall
crush it this time. Beaumarchais persuades him to defend it.
Clbs 7.240 18 The court successively appoints three
more severe inquisitors; Beaumarchais converts them all into triumphant
vindicators of the play which is to bring in the Revolution.
Beaumont, Francis, n. (12)
Hsm1 2.245 2 In the elder English dramatists, and
mainly in the plays of Beaumont and Fletcher, there is a constant
recognition of gentility...
Hsm1 2.256 7 In Beaumont and Fletcher's Sea Voyage,
Juletta tells the stout captain and his company,--Jul. Why, slaves, 't
is in our power to hang ye./ Master. Very likely,/ 'T is in our powers,
then, to be hanged, and scorn ye./
ShP 4.192 15 The best proof of [the Elizabethan
theatre's] vitality is the crowd of writers which suddenly broke into
this field; Kyd, Marlow, Greene, Jonson, Chapman, Decker, Webster,
Heywood, Middleton, Peele, Ford, Massinger, Beaumont and Fletcher.
ShP 4.203 20 ...I find, among [Wotton's]
correspondents and acquaintances...Paul Sarpi, Arminius, with all of
whom exists some token of his having communicated, without enumerating
many others whom doubtless he saw...Jonson, Beaumont...
ET1 5.7 16 ...[Landor]...talked of Wordsworth, Byron,
Massinger, Beaumont and Fletcher.
Boks 7.218 2 The Greek fables...the English drama of
Shakspeare, Beaumont and Fletcher, and Ford...have this enlargement
[the imaginative element]...
QO 8.190 4 Each man of thought is surrounded by wiser
men than he, if they cannot write as well. Cannot he and they combine?
Cannot they...call their poem Beaumont and Fletcher...
LLNE 10.358 25 Talents supplement each other.
Beaumont and Fletcher and many French novelists have known how to
utilize such partnerships.
MLit 12.311 19 How can the age be a bad one which
gives me...Beaumont and Fletcher, Donne and Sir Thomas Browne, beside
its own riches?
Beaumonts, n. (1)
UGM 4.12 4 Shall we say that quartz mountains will
pulverize into innumerable Werners, Von Buchs and Beaumonts...
beauties, n. (15)
LE 1.163 22 ...the more quaintly you inspect its
evanescent beauties...so much the more you master the biography of this
hero...
YA 1.393 5 One thing...the beauties of aristocracy,
we commend to the study of the travelling American.
Wth 6.91 22 The world is full of fops...who had
persuaded beauties and men of genius to wear their fop livery;...
Boks 7.216 5 We admire parks, and high-born
beauties...
Prch 10.234 4 Given the insight, [the deep observer]
will find as many beauties and heroes and strokes of genius close by
him as Dante or Shakspeare beheld.
Schr 10.262 26 I think the peculiar office of
scholars...is to be...detectors and delineators of occult symmetries
and unpublished beauties;...
LLNE 10.332 6 [Everett's learning] was so coldly and
weightily communicated...adorned with so many simple and austere
beauties of expression ...that...this learning instantly took the
highest place to our imagination...
SHC 11.435 15 ...when these acorns, that are falling
at our feet, are oaks overshadowing our children in a remote
century...heroes, poets, beauties, sanctities, benefactors, will have
made the air timeable and articulate.
CInt 12.129 22 Bring the insight, and [the deep
observer] will find as many beauties and heroes and astounding strokes
of genius close by him as Shakspeare or Aeschylus or Dante beheld.
Bost 12.184 26 ...it appears as if some localities of
the earth...through the ravishing beauties of Nature, were preferred
before others.
MAng1 12.218 1 All particular beauties scattered up
and down in Nature are only so far beautiful as they suggest more or
less in themselves this entire circuit of harmonious proportions.
beautifier, n. (1)
Bhr 6.196 4 There is no beautifier of complexion, or
form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.
beautiful, adj. (235)
Nat 1.10 20 ...in the distant line of the horizon,
man beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature.
Nat 1.27 3 Throw a stone into the stream, and the
circles that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all
influence.
Nat 1.68 15 A perception of this mystery inspires the
muse of George Herbert, the beautiful psalmist of the seventeenth
century.
AmS 1.96 25 In its grub state...[the new deed] is a
dull grub. But suddenly, without observation, the selfsame thing
unfurls beautiful wings...
AmS 1.112 12 Man is surprised to find that things
near are not less beautiful and wondrous than things remote.
DSA 1.137 27 ...the eye felt the sad contrast in
looking at [the preacher], and then...into the beautiful meteor of the
snow.
DSA 1.148 17 ...let us study the grand strokes of
rectitude:...what is the highest form in which we know this beautiful
element, a certain solidity of merit...
LE 1.178 6 ...out of disgrace and contempt, comes our
tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.
MN 1.201 22 ...if...it be assumed that the final
cause of the world is to make holy or wise or beautiful men, we see
that it has not succeeded.
MN 1.205 20 The great Pan of old, who was clothed in
a leopard skin to signify the beautiful variety of things...was but the
representative of thee, O rich and various Man!...
MN 1.212 27 These beautiful basilisks [the stars] set
their brute glorious eyes on the eye of every child...
MN 1.216 26 From the poisonous tree, the world, say
the Brahmins, two species of fruit are produced, sweet as the waters of
life; Love or the society of beautiful souls, and Poetry...
LT 1.271 21 Nature, literature, science, childhood,
appear to us beautiful;...
LT 1.276 9 The impulse [of Reform] is good, and the
theory; the practice is less beautiful.
YA 1.367 8 There is no feature of the old countries
that strikes an American with more agreeable surprise than the
beautiful gardens of Europe;...
YA 1.368 2 A well-laid garden makes the face of the
country of no account; let that be...grand or mean, you have made a
beautiful abode worthy of man.
YA 1.387 16 I think I see place and duties for a
nobleman in every society; but it is...to guide and adorn life for the
multitude...by making his life secretly beautiful.
Hist 2.14 8 ...Io, in Aeschylus, transformed to a
cow, offends the imagination; but how changed when as Isis in Egypt she
meets Osiris-Jove, a beautiful woman with nothing of the metamorphosis
left but the lunar horns as the splendid ornament of her brows!
Hist 2.35 20 Lucy Ashton is another name for
fidelity, which is always beautiful and always liable to calamity in
this world.
Comp 2.125 23 We do not believe there is any force in
to-day to rival or recreate that beautiful yesterday.
SL 2.150 10 ...nearness or likeness of nature,--how
beautiful is the ease of its victory!
SL 2.151 10 The scholar...follows some giddy girl,
not yet taught by religious passion to know the noble woman with all
that is serene, oracular and beautiful in her soul.
SL 2.155 22 The laws of disease, physicians say, are
as beautiful as the laws of health.
SL 2.166 6 Let the great soul incarnated in some
woman's form...sweep chambers and scour floors, and...to sweep and
scour will instantly appear supreme and beautiful actions...
Lov1 2.171 1 ...it is to be hoped that...we may
attain to that inward view of the law which shall describe a truth ever
young and beautiful...
Lov1 2.171 18 Every thing is beautiful seen from the
point of the intellect, or as truth.
Lov1 2.181 13 ...the Deity sends the glory of youth
before the soul, that it may avail itself of beautiful bodies as aids
to its recollection of the celestial good and fair;...
Lov1 2.182 14 ...so is the one beautiful soul only
the door through which [the lover] enters to the society of all true
and pure souls.
Lov1 2.183 18 ...this dream of love, though
beautiful, is only one scene in our play.
Lov1 2.185 15 ...adding up costly
advantages...[lovers] exult in discovering that willingly, joyfully,
they would give all as a ransom for the beautiful, the beloved head...
Lov1 2.188 25 That which is so beautiful and
attractive as these relations [of love], must be succeeded and
supplanted only by what is more beautiful, and so on for ever.
Lov1 2.188 27 That which is so beautiful and
attractive as these relations [of love], must be succeeded and
supplanted only by what is more beautiful, and so on for ever.
Fdsp 2.193 16 How beautiful, on their approach to
this beating heart, the steps and forms of the gifted and the true!
Fdsp 2.196 22 Shall I not be as real as the things I
see? If I am, I shall not fear to know them for what they are. Their
essence is not less beautiful than their appearance...
Fdsp 2.199 18 ...the very flower and aroma of the
flower of each of the beautiful natures disappears as they approach
each other.
Prd1 2.228 20 The beautiful laws of time and space,
once dislocated by our inaptitude, are holes and dens.
Cir 2.313 11 ...steeped in the sea of beautiful forms
which the field offers us, we may chance to cast a right glance back
upon biography.
Art1 2.354 1 Shall I now add that the whole extant
product of the plastic arts has herein its highest value...as a stroke
drawn in the portrait of that fate, perfect and beautiful, according to
whose ordinations all beings advance to their beatitude?
Art1 2.368 2 In nature, all is useful, all is
beautiful. It is therefore beautiful because it is alive, moving,
reproductive;...
Pt1 3.3 5 ...if you inquire whether [the umpires of
taste] are beautiful souls... you learn that they are selfish and
sensual.
Pt1 3.4 23 ...the fountains whence all this river of
Time and its creatures floweth are intrinsically ideal and beautiful...
Pt1 3.24 2 The songs...are pursued by clamorous
flights of censures, which swarm in far greater numbers and threaten to
devour them; but these last are not winged. At the end of a very short
leap they fall plump down and rot, having received from the souls out
of which they came no beautiful wings.
Pt1 3.24 19 [The sculptor] rose one day...before
dawn, and saw the morning break...and for many days after, he strove to
express this tranquillity, and lo! his chisel had fashioned out of
marble the form of a beautiful youth...
Pt1 3.31 1 ...Socrates...tells us that the soul is
cured of its maladies by certain incantations, and that these
incantations are beautiful reasons, from which temperance is generated
in souls;...
Pt1 3.39 22 ...the poet knows well that [what he
says] not his; that it is as strange and beautiful to him as to you;...
Exp 3.57 6 A man is like a bit of Labrador spar,
which has no lustre as you turn it in your hand until you come to a
particular angle; then it shows deep and beautiful colors.
Exp 3.65 8 Right to hold land, right of property, is
disputed...and before the vote is taken, dig away in your garden, and
spend your earnings as a waif or godsend to all serene and beautiful
purposes.
Exp 3.67 2 How easily, if fate would suffer it, we
might keep forever these beautiful limits...
Mrs1 3.147 7 ...as we show beyond that Heaven and
Earth/ In form and shape compact and beautiful;/ .../ So on our heels a
fresh perfection treads/...
Gts 3.163 11 I say to [the donor], How can you give
me this pot of oil or this flagon of wine when all your oil and wine is
mine, which belief of mine this gift seems to deny? Hence the fitness
of beautiful, not useful things, for gifts.
Nat2 3.175 7 [A boy] hears the echoes of a horn in a
hill country...which converts the mountains into an Aeolian harp,--and
this supernatural tiralira restores to him...Apollo, Diana, and all
divine hunters and huntresses. Can a musical note be so lofty, so
haughtily beautiful!
Nat2 3.176 19 There is nothing so wonderful in any
particular landscape as the necessity of being beautiful under which
every landscape lies.
Nat2 3.182 5 Flowers so strictly belong to youth that
we adult men soon come to feel that their beautiful generations concern
not us...
NR 3.231 19 Money...is, in its effects and laws, as
beautiful as roses.
NR 3.233 24 ...it was easy [at Handel's Messiah] to
observe what efforts nature was making, through so many hoarse, wooden
and imperfect persons, to produce beautiful voices...
NR 3.234 14 Beautiful details we must have, or no
artist;...
NR 3.246 22 We keep a running fire of sarcasm at
ignorance and the life of the senses; then goes by, perchance, a fair
girl...making the commonest offices beautiful...
NER 3.254 19 It is right and beautiful in any man to
say, I will take this coat, or this book, or this measure of corn of
yours,--in whom we see the act to be original...
NER 3.283 9 ...the man...whose advent men and events
prepare and foreshow, is one who...shall rely on the Law alive and
beautiful...
PPh 4.57 4 All things are for the sake of the good,
and it is the cause of every thing beautiful. This dogma animates and
impersonates [Plato's] philosophy.
PPh 4.65 3 [Plato] called the several faculties,
gods, in his beautiful personation.
PPh 4.69 18 ...there is another, which is as much
more beautiful than beauty as beauty is than chaos; namely, wisdom...
PPh 4.70 1 When an artificer, [Plato] says, in the
fabrication of any work, looks to that which always subsists according
to the same; and, employing a model of this kind, expresses its idea
and power in his work,--it must follow that his production should be
beautiful.
PPh 4.70 3 When an artificer, [Plato] says, in the
fabrication of any work, looks to that which always subsists according
to the same; and, employing a model of this kind, expresses its idea
and power in his work,--it must follow that his production should be
beautiful. But when he beholds that which is born and dies, it will be
far from beautiful.
PNR 4.83 2 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a
second sense, and ulterior senses. His...beautiful definitions of
ideas...
SwM 4.104 27 ...Linnaeus, [Swedenborg's]
contemporary, was affirming, in his beautiful science, that Nature is
always like herself...
SwM 4.127 25 ...though the virgins [Swedenborg] saw
in heaven were beautiful, the wives were incomparably more beautiful...
SwM 4.127 26 ...though the virgins [Swedenborg] saw
in heaven were beautiful, the wives were incomparably more beautiful...
SwM 4.144 13 The entire want of poetry in so
transcendent a mind [as Swedenborg's]...like a hoarse voice in a
beautiful person, is a kind of warning.
SwM 4.146 9 ...if [Swedenborg] staggered under the
trance of delight, the more excellent is the spectacle he saw, the
realities of being which beam and blaze through him...and he renders a
second passive service to men... and, in the retributions of spiritual
nature, not less glorious or less beautiful to himself.
MoS 4.149 18 [A man] sees the beauty of a human face,
and searches the cause of that beauty, which must be more beautiful.
ET1 5.7 6 I found [Landor]...living in a cloud of
pictures at his Villa Gherardesca, a fine house commanding a beautiful
landscape.
ET1 5.22 19 ...[Wordsworth] recollected himself for a
few moments and then stood forth and repeated...the three entire
sonnets with great animation. I fancied the second and third more
beautiful than his poems are wont to be.
ET10 5.163 11 Whatever is excellent and beautiful in
civil, rural, or ecclesiastic architecture...the English noble crosses
sea and land to see and to copy at home.
ET12 5.199 7 I regret that I had but a single day
wherein to see...the beautiful lawns and gardens of the colleges [at
Cambridge]...
ET14 5.239 19 Whoever...requires heaps of facts
before any theories can be attempted, has no poetic power, and nothing
original or beautiful will be produced by him.
ET14 5.249 24 ...Carlyle was driven by his disgust at
the pettiness and the cant, into the preaching of Fate. In comparison
with all this rottenness [in England], any check, any cleansing, though
by fire, seemed desirable and beautiful.
ET14 5.258 2 There are all degrees in poetry, and we
must be thankful for every beautiful talent.
F 6.36 24 Christopher Wren said of the beautiful
King's College chapel, that if anybody would tell him where to lay the
first stone, he would build such another.
F 6.43 13 By and by [man] will...have his gardens and
vineyards in the beautiful order...of his thought.
F 6.45 6 Moller...taught that the building which was
fitted accurately to answer its end would turn out to be beautiful...
Bhr 6.189 22 ...go into the house; if the proprietor
is constrained and deferring, 't is of no importance...how beautiful
his grounds...
Bhr 6.197 7 An old man...said to me, When you come
into the room, I think I will study how to make humanity beautiful to
you.
Wsp 6.232 2 ...a beautiful atmosphere is generated
from the planet by the averaged emanations from all its rocks and
soils.
CbW 6.278 22 The secret of culture is to learn that a
few great points steadily reappear...and that these few are alone to be
regarded;...love of what is simple and beautiful;...
Bty 6.288 2 We know [our friends] have intervals of
folly...but wait there appearings of the genius, which are sure and
beautiful.
Bty 6.292 15 Beautiful as is the symmetry of any
form, if the form can move we seek a more excellent symmetry.
Bty 6.298 16 ...we see faces every day which have a
good type but have been marred in the casting; a proof that we are
all...should have been beautiful if our ancestors had kept the laws...
Bty 6.299 13 A beautiful person among the Greeks was
thought to betray by this sign some secret favor of the immortal
gods;...
Bty 6.303 1 Things are pretty, graceful, rich,
elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet
beautiful.
Bty 6.303 8 If I could put my hand on the North Star,
would it be as beautiful?
Bty 6.303 25 Every natural feature...speaks of that
central benefit which is the soul of nature, and thereby is beautiful.
Civ 7.25 1 ...I watched, in crossing the sea, the
beautiful skill whereby the engine in its constant working was made to
produce two hundred gallons of fresh water out of salt water, every
hour...
Art2 7.40 15 I hasten to state the principle which
prescribes...its firm law to the useful and the beautiful arts.
Art2 7.40 18 ...to make anything useful or beautiful,
the individual must be submitted to the universal mind.
Art2 7.48 19 The artist who is to produce a
work...which is to be more beautiful to the eye in proportion to its
culture, must disindividualize himself...
Art2 7.53 27 ...each work of art...took its form from
the broad hint of Nature. Beautiful in this wise is the obvious origin
of all the known orders of architecture;...
Elo1 7.92 20 ...in cases where profound conviction
has been wrought, the eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker,
but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief.
DL 7.103 16 [The nestler's] unaffected lamentations
when he lifts up his voice on high, or, more beautiful, the sobbing
child...soften all hearts to pity...
DL 7.106 26 ...by beautiful traits...the little
pilgrim prosecutes the journey through Nature which he has thus gayly
begun.
DL 7.111 19 The houses of the rich are confectioners'
shops, where we get sweetmeats and wine; the houses of the poor are
imitations of these to the extent of their ability. With these ends
housekeeping is not beautiful;...
DL 7.129 26 ...let [a man] not think that a property
in beautiful objects is necessary to his apprehension of them...
WD 7.160 2 How excellent are the mechanical aids we
have applied to the human body, as...in the beautiful aid of ether...
WD 7.174 21 History of ancient art, excavated cities,
recovery of books and inscriptions,--yes, the works were beautiful, and
the history worth knowing;...
Boks 7.216 25 Great is the poverty of [novelists']
inventions. She was beautiful and he fell in love.
Clbs 7.225 12 Varied foods, climates, beautiful
objects...are the necessity of this exigent system of ours.
Cour 7.268 19 The beautiful voice at church goes
sounding on, and covers up in its volume...all the defects of the
choir.
Suc 7.299 8 ...I have just seen a man...who told
me...that every spring was more beautiful to him than the last.
Suc 7.304 20 ...the man of sensibility counts it a
delight...to see the beautiful manners of the youth of either sex.
Suc 7.309 3 Nature lays the ground-plan of each
creature accurately...then veils it scrupulously. See how carefully she
covers up the skeleton. ... She weaves her tissues and integuments of
flesh and skin and hair and beautiful colors of the day over it...
PI 8.38 8 A poet comes who...shows that Nature is
only a language to express the laws, which are grand and beautiful;...
PI 8.60 4 The Crusades brought out the genius of
France, in the twelfth century, when Pierre d'Auvergne said,--I will
sing a new song which resounds in my breast, never was a song good or
beautiful which resembled any other.
PI 8.69 27 It is not style or rhymes, or a new image
more or less that imports, but...that life should be an image in every
part beautiful;...
SA 8.94 8 When they showed [Madame de Stael] the
beautiful Lake Leman, she exclaimed, O for the gutter of the Rue de
Bac!...
Elo2 8.130 13 ...such practical chemistry as the
conversion of a truth written in God's language into a truth in
Dunderhead's language, is one of the most beautiful and cogent weapons
that are forged in the shop of the Divine Artificer.
Comc 8.167 17 I chanced the other day to fall in with
an odd illustration of the remark I had heard, that the laws of disease
are as beautiful as the laws of health;...
PPo 8.251 18 Take my heart in thy hand, O beautiful
boy of Shiraz!/ I would give for the mole on thy cheek Samarcand and
Buchara!/
Imtl 8.325 24 [The Greek] carried his arts to Rome,
and built his beautiful tombs at Pompeii.
Aris 10.39 17 I wish...men who are charmed by the
beautiful Nemesis as well as by the dire Nemesis...
Aris 10.55 2 He is beautiful in face, in port, in
manners, who is absorbed in objects which he truly believes to be
superior to himself.
Aris 10.55 9 What is it that makes the true knight?
Loyalty to his thought. That makes the beautiful scorn...which all men
admire...
PerF 10.84 26 A man has a rare mathematical talent,
inviting him to the beautiful secrets of geometry, and wishes to clap a
patent on it;...
Edc1 10.133 1 ...the event of each moment...the
passing of a beautiful face, the apoplexy of our neighbor, are all
tests to try our theory [of life]...
Edc1 10.148 23 The joy of our childhood in hearing
beautiful stories from some skilful aunt who loves to tell them, must
be repeated in youth.
SovE 10.184 26 The poor grub, in the hole of a tree,
by yielding itself to Nature, goes blameless through its low
part...expands into a beautiful form with rainbow wings...
SovE 10.190 21 Shall I say then it were truer to see
Necessity calm, beautiful, passionless...
Prch 10.217 7 The venerable and beautiful traditions
in which we were educated are losing their hold on human belief, day by
day;...
Schr 10.262 19 Stung by this intellectual conscience,
we go to measure our tasks as scholars...and our sadness is suddenly
overshone by a sympathy of blessing. Beauty...which draws by being
beautiful...comes in and puts a new face on the world.
Schr 10.271 23 ...[genius and virtue] are the First
Good, of which Plato affirms that...it is the cause of everything
beautiful.
Schr 10.279 21 I declare anew from Heaven that truth
exists new and beautiful and profitable forevermore.
LLNE 10.331 13 If any of my readers were at that
period [1820] in Boston or Cambridge, they will easily remember
[Everett's] radiant beauty of person...a voice...that...was the most
mellow and beautiful and correct of all the instruments of the time.
LLNE 10.351 10 Aladdin and his magician, or the
beautiful Scheherezade can alone, in these prosaic times before the
[Fourierist] sight, describe the material splendors collected there [in
the Golden Horn].
LLNE 10.367 19 See how much more joy [children] find
in pouring their pudding on the table-cloth than into their beautiful
mouths.
MMEm 10.397 13 But O, these waves and leaves,-/ When
happy, stoic Nature grieves,-/ No human speech so beautiful/ As their
murmurs, mine to lull./
SlHr 10.446 7 ...so entirely was [Samuel Hoar's]
respect to the ground-plan and substructure of society a natural
ability...that it was...like one of those opaque crystals...not less
perfect in their angles and structure, and only less beautiful, than
the transparent topazes and diamonds.
GSt 10.506 19 For a year or two, the most
affectionate and domestic of men [George Stearns] became almost a
stranger in his beautiful home.
ALin 11.328 10 How beautiful to see/ Once more a
shepherd of mankind indeed,/ Who loved his charge, but never loved to
lead;/...
ALin 11.337 9 The ancients believed in a serene and
beautiful Genius which rules in the affairs of nations;...
HCom 11.340 18 ...They followed [Truth] and found
her/ Where all may hope to find/ Not in the ashes of the burnt-out
mind,/ But beautiful, with danger's sweetness round her./
SHC 11.435 19 ...hither [to Sleepy Hollow] shall
repair...every sweet and friendly influence; the beautiful night and
beautiful day will come in turn to sit upon the grass.
FRO2 11.489 10 Let [the lesson of the New Testament]
stand, beautiful and wholesome...
II 12.79 16 All men are inspirable. Whilst they say
only the beautiful and sacred words of necessity, there is no weakness,
and no repentance.
Mem 12.103 27 At this hour the stream is still
flowing, though you hear it not; the plants are still drinking their
accustomed life and repaying it with their beautiful forms.
CInt 12.123 16 ...each talent links itself so fast
with self-love and with petty advantage that it loses sight of its
obedience, which is beautiful...
CL 12.146 8 It seems to me much that I have brought a
skilful chemist into my ground...for an art he has, out of all kinds of
refuse rubbish to manufacture Virgaliens, Bergamots, and Seckels...and
his method of working is no less beautiful than the result.
CL 12.153 12 At Niagara, I have noticed, that, as
quick as I got out of the wetting of the Fall, all the grandeur changed
into beauty. You cannot keep it grand, 't is so quickly beautiful;...
CW 12.173 7 I [Linnaeus] possess here [in the Academy
Garden]...unless I am very much mistaken, what is far more beautiful
than Babylonian robes...
CW 12.179 8 ...when [the man] sees this annual
reappearance of beautiful forms, the lovely carpet, the lovely tapestry
of June, he may well ask himself the special meaning of the
hieroglyphic...
Bost 12.190 17 In our beautiful [Boston] bay...a good
boatman can easily find his way for the first time to the State
House...
Bost 12.211 9 ...the Quincy of the Revolution seems
compensated for the shortness of his bright career in the son who so
long lingers among the last of those bright clouds, That on the steady
breeze of honor sail/ In long succession calm and beautiful./
MAng1 12.217 3 ...in proportion as man rises above
the servitude to wealth and a pursuit of mean pleasures, he perceives
that what is most real is most beautiful...
MAng1 12.217 21 ...because the understanding in the
presence of the beautiful, cannot ask, Why is it beautiful? for that
reason it is so.
MAng1 12.217 24 There is no standard whereby the
understanding can determine whether objects are beautiful or otherwise.
MAng1 12.218 2 All particular beauties scattered up
and down in Nature are only so far beautiful as they suggest more or
less in themselves this entire circuit of harmonious proportions.
MAng1 12.218 11 The Italian artists sanction this
view of Beauty by describing it as il piu nell' uno...or multitude in
unity, intimating that what is truly beautiful seems related to all
Nature.
MAng1 12.219 8 Since Beauty is thus an abstraction of
the harmony and proportion that reigns in all Nature, it is therefore
studied in Nature, and not in what does not exist. Hence the celebrated
French maxim of Rhetoric, Rien de beau que le vrai; Nothing is
beautiful but what is true.
MAng1 12.219 18 The common eye is satisfied with the
surface on which it rests. The wise eye knows that it is surface and,
if beautiful, only the result of interior harmonies...
MAng1 12.220 9 The human form, says Goethe, cannot be
comprehended through seeing its surface. It must be stripped of the
muscles...the hidden, the reposing, the foundation of the apparent,
must be searched, if one would really see and imitate what moves as a
beautiful, inseparable whole in living waves before the eye.
MAng1 12.240 16 [Michelangelo's sonnets] are founded
on the thought... that a beautiful person is sent into the world as an
image of the divine beauty...
Milt1 12.257 8 Aubrey says [of Milton], This
harmonical and ingenuous soul dwelt in a beautiful, well-proportioned
body.
Milt1 12.262 20 ...the old eternal goodness finds a
home in [Milton's] breast, and for once shows itself beautiful.
MLit 12.310 15 ...they say every man walks environed
by his proper atmosphere, extending to some distance around him. This
beautiful result must be credited to literature also in casting its
account.
MLit 12.319 5 In Byron...[the subjective tendency]
predominates; but in Byron...it sees not its true end-an infinite good,
alive and beautiful...
Pray 12.351 15 In the Phaedrus of Plato, we find this
petition in the mouth of Socrates: O gracious Pan!...grant that I may
be beautiful within;...
EurB 12.372 16 The Talking Oak, though a little hurt
by its wit and ingenuity, is beautiful...
PPr 12.387 13 ...[each age's] limitation assumes the
poetic form of a beautiful superstition, as the dimness of our sight
clothes the objects in the horizon with mist and color.
beautiful, n. (21)
AmS 1.110 22 Instead of the sublime and beautiful,
the near...was explored and poetized.
Int 2.343 7 ...a true and natural man contains and is
the same truth which an eloquent man articulates; but in the eloquent
man, because he can articulate it, it seems something the less to
reside, and he turns to these silent beautiful with the more
inclination and respect.
Art1 2.358 22 Though we travel the world over to find
the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
Art1 2.366 18 Art makes the same effort which a
sensual prosperity makes; namely to detach the beautiful from the
useful...
Exp 3.64 9 [Nature's] darlings, the great, the
strong, the beautiful, are not children of our law;...
Exp 3.82 19 In Flaxman's drawing of the Eumenides of
Aeschylus, Orestes supplicates Apollo, whilst the Furies sleep on the
threshold. The face of the god expresses a shade of regret and
compassion, but is calm with the conviction of the irreconcilableness
of the two spheres. He is born...into the eternal and beautiful.
Mrs1 3.146 15 The beautiful and the generous are, in
the theory, the doctors and apostles of this church [of Fashion]...
Bty 6.288 20 Goethe said, The beautiful is a
manifestation of secret laws of nature which, but for this appearance,
had been forever concealed from us.
DL 7.121 9 What is the hoop that holds [the eager,
blushing boys] stanch? It is the iron band...of austerity,
which...has...made them...reverers of the grand, the beautiful and the
good.
DL 7.126 21 Beauty is, even in the beautiful,
occasional...
Bost 12.197 10 As an antidote to the spirit of
commerce and of economy, the religious spirit-always...prompting the
pursuit of the vast, the beautiful, the unattainable-was especially
necessary to the culture of New England.
MAng1 12.217 18 The nature of the beautiful-we gladly
borrow the language of Moritz, a German critic-consists herein, that
because the understanding in the presence of the beautiful, cannot ask,
Why is it beautiful? for that reason it is so.
MAng1 12.217 21 ...because the understanding in the
presence of the beautiful, cannot ask, Why is it beautiful? for that
reason it is so.
MAng1 12.217 25 What other standard of the beautiful
exists than the entire circuit of all harmonious proportions of the
great system of Nature?
MAng1 12.219 13 [Michelangelo] labored to express the
beautiful, in the entire conviction that it was only to be attained by
knowledge of the true.
Milt1 12.263 24 [Milton says] Nor did Ceres,
according to the fable, ever seek her daughter Proserpine with such
unceasing solicitude as I have sought this tou kalou idean, this
perfect model of the beautiful in all forms and appearances of things.
Beautiful, n. (7)
LT 1.271 10 The conscience of the Age demonstrates
itself in this effort to raise the life of man by putting it in harmony
with his idea of the Beautiful and the Just.
Tran 1.355 19 We call the Beautiful the highest,
because it appears to us the golden mean, escaping the dowdiness of the
good and the heartlessness of the true.
Fdsp 2.194 3 Shall I not call God the Beautiful, who
daily showeth himself so to me in his gifts?
DL 7.113 27 ...the love of wealth seems to grow
chiefly out of the root of the love of the Beautiful.
Plu 10.311 4 ...[Plutarch's] extreme interest in
every trait of character and his broad humanity, lead him
constantly...to the study of the Beautiful and Good.
MAng1 12.233 27 ...as...[Michelangelo] sought to
approach the Beautiful by the study of the True, so he failed not to
make the next step of progress, and to seek Beauty in its highest form,
that of Goodness.
Let 12.400 17 It is heartrending to see your [German]
poet, your artist, and all who still revere genius, who love and foster
the Beautiful. The Good!
Beautiful Necessity, n. (3)
Beautiful, The [Francois P (1)
Carl 10.494 14 ...if, after Guizot had been a tool of
Louis Philippe for years, he is now to come and write essays on the
character of Washington, on The Beautiful...[Carlyle] thinks that
nothing.
beautifully, adv. (1)
beautify, v. (1)
MMEm 10.421 14 Alone, feeling strongly, fully, that I
[Mary Moody Emerson] have deserved nothing;...yet joying in existence,
perhaps striving to beautify one individual of God's creation.
beautitude, n. (1)
Schr 10.263 21 Language can hardly exaggerate the
beautitude of the intellect flowing into the faculties.
Beauty and the Beast, n. (1)
ET4 5.67 19 This union of qualities is fabled in [the
Englishmen's] national legend of Beauty and the Beast...
Beauty, Idea, of, n. (1)
MAng1 12.216 12 [Michelangelo] is an eminent master
in the four fine arts, Painting, Sculpture, Architecture and Poetry. In
three of them by visible means, and in poetry by words, he strove to
express the Idea of Beauty.
beauty, n. (470)
Nat 1.15 4 The ancient Greeks called the world
kosmos, beauty.
Nat 1.16 17 The influence of the forms and actions in
nature is so needful to man, that, in its lowest functions, it seems to
lie on the confines of commodity and beauty.
Nat 1.18 14 To the attentive eye, each moment of the
year has its own beauty...
Nat 1.19 8 ...this beauty of Nature which is seen and
felt as beauty, is the least part.
Nat 1.19 9 ...this beauty of Nature which is seen and
felt as beauty, is the least part.
Nat 1.19 17 The beauty that shimmers in the yellow
afternoons of October, who ever could clutch it?
Nat 1.20 17 When a noble act is done, - perchance in
a scene of great natural beauty...are not these heroes entitled to add
the beauty of the scene to the beauty of the deed?
Nat 1.20 26 ...are not these heroes entitled to add
the beauty of the scene to the beauty of the deed?
Nat 1.21 8 Ever does natural beauty steal in like
air, and envelope great actions.
Nat 1.22 27 Therefore does beauty, which...comes
unsought...remain for the apprehension and pursuit of the intellect;...
Nat 1.23 26 A leaf, a sunbeam, a landscape, the
ocean, make an analogous impression on the mind. What is common to them
all...is beauty.
Nat 1.24 2 The standard of beauty is...the totality
of nature; which the Italians expressed by defining beauty il piu nell'
uno.
Nat 1.24 9 The poet...the architect, seek...each in
his several work to satisfy the love of beauty which stimulates him to
produce.
Nat 1.24 13 Thus in art does Nature work through the
will of a man filled with the beauty of her first works.
Nat 1.24 20 Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but
different faces of the same All.
Nat 1.55 13 That [universal] law, when in the mind,
is an idea. Its beauty is infinite.
Nat 1.55 15 The true philosopher and the true poet
are one, and a beauty, which is truth, and a truth, which is beauty, is
the aim of both.
Nat 1.55 16 The true philosopher and the true poet
are one, and a beauty, which is truth, and a truth, which is beauty, is
the aim of both.
Nat 1.58 24 ...[the theosophists] might all say of
matter, what Michael Angelo said of external beauty...
Nat 1.63 25 ...the dread universal essence, which is
not wisdom, or love, or beauty, or power, but all in one...is that for
which all things exist...
Nat 1.73 22 The problem of restoring to the world
original and eternal beauty is solved by the redemption of the soul.
Nat 1.77 4 As when the summer comes...the face of the
earth becomes green before it, so shall the advancing spirit...carry
with it the beauty it visits...
DSA 1.120 21 A more...overpowering beauty appears to
man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.
DSA 1.128 22 ...ravished by [the soul's] beauty,
[Jesus Christ] lived in it...
DSA 1.133 18 ...when I vibrate to the melody and
fancy of a poem; I see beauty that is to be desired.
DSA 1.134 14 ...it is the effect of conversation with
the beauty of the soul, to beget a desire and need to impart to others
the same knowledge and love.
LE 1.157 7 ...the mark of American merit...in
eloquence, seems...a vase of fair outline...which does not, like the
charged cloud, overflow with terrible beauty...
LE 1.169 15 ...this beauty...which the sun and the
moon, the snow and the rain, repaint and vary, has never been recorded
by art...
LE 1.169 16 ...this beauty,-haggard and desert
beauty, which the sun and the moon, the snow and the rain, repaint and
vary, has never been recorded by art...
LE 1.170 2 ...not less is there a relation of beauty
between my soul and the dim crags of Agiochook up there in the clouds.
LE 1.177 12 The scholar will feel that...the heart
and soul of beauty, lies enclosed in human life.
LE 1.185 19 If...God have called any of you to
explore truth and beauty, be bold, be firm, be true.
MN 1.199 27 The beauty of these fair objects is
imported into them from a metaphysical and eternal spring.
MN 1.200 11 ...in balanced beauty, the dance of the
hours goes forward still.
MN 1.208 15 ...many more men than one [God] harbors
in his bosom, biding their time and the needs and the beauty of all.
LT 1.263 24 ...an eloquent man,-let him be of what
sect soever,-would be ordained at once in one of our metropolitan
churches. To be sure he would;...but he must be...able to supplant our
method and classification by the superior beauty of his own.
LT 1.271 23 This beauty which the fancy finds in
everything else, certainly accuses the manner of life we lead.
Con 1.300 1 Nature does not give the crown of its
approbation, namely, beauty, to any action or emblem or actor but to
one which combines both these elements [Conservatism and Reform];...
Con 1.300 5 ...the superior beauty is with the oak
which stands with its hundred arms against the storms of a century...
Tran 1.330 7 [The idealist]...admits the impressions
of sense, admits...their use and beauty...
Tran 1.339 12 ...genius and virtue predict in man the
same absence of private ends and of condescension to circumstances,
united with every trait and talent of beauty and power.
Tran 1.343 15 To behold the beauty of another
character...these are degrees on the scale of human happiness to which
[Transcendentalists] have ascended;...
Tran 1.343 16 ...to behold the beauty lodged in a
human being, with such vivacity of apprehension that I am instantly
forced home to inquire if I am not deformity itself;...these are
degrees on the scale of human happiness to which [Transcendentalists]
have ascended;...
Tran 1.345 27 ...Where are they who represented
genius, virtue, the invisible and heavenly world, to these? ... ...did
the high idea die out of them, and leave their unperfumed body as its
tomb and tablet, announcing to all that the celestial inhabitant, who
once gave them beauty, had departed?
Tran 1.359 20 ...the thoughts which these few hermits
strove to proclaim... not only by what they did, but by what they
forbore to do, shall abide in beauty and strength...
YA 1.378 17 This is the good and this the evil of
trade, that it would put everything into market; talent, beauty,
virtue, and man himself.
Hist 2.14 26 ...we have [the Greek national mind
expressed] once more in their architecture, a beauty as of temperance
itself...
Hist 2.17 13 ...a profound nature awakens in us...the
same power and beauty that a gallery of sculpture or of pictures
addresses.
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.
SR 2.64 2 What is the nature and power of that
science-baffling star...which shoots a ray of beauty even into trivial
and impure actions...
SR 2.81 25 At home I dream that...at Rome, I can be
intoxicated with beauty...
SR 2.82 23 Beauty, convenience, grandeur of thought
and quaint expression are as near to us as to any...
Comp 2.104 13 [The soul] would be the only fact. All
things shall be added unto it,--power, pleasure, knowledge, beauty.
SL 2.139 25 Place yourself in the middle of the
stream of power and wisdom...and you are without effort impelled...to
right and a perfect contentment. ... Then you are...the measure...of
beauty.
SL 2.150 12 Persons approach us, famous for their
beauty...with very imperfect result.
SL 2.151 7 The scholar...apes the customs and
costumes of the man of the world to deserve the smile of beauty...
Lov1 2.171 13 Let any man go back to those delicious
relations which make the beauty of his life...he will shrink and moan.
Lov1 2.173 14 The girls may have little beauty, yet
plainly do they establish between them and the good boy the most
agreeable, confiding relations;...
Lov1 2.174 12 ...a beauty overpowering all analysis
or comparison and putting us quite beside ourselves we can seldom see
after thirty years...
Lov1 2.177 15 The heats that have opened [the
lover's] perceptions of natural beauty have made him love music and
verse.
Lov1 2.180 16 ...personal beauty is then first
charming and itself when it dissatisfies us with any end;...
Lov1 2.181 20 ...the man beholding such a [beautiful]
person in the female sex runs to her and finds the highest joy in
contemplating the form, movement and intelligence of this person,
because it suggests to him the presence of that which indeed is within
the beauty, and the cause of the beauty.
Lov1 2.181 25 If...from too much conversing with
material objects, the soul was gross, and misplaced its satisfaction in
the body, it reaped nothing but sorrow; body being unable to fulfil the
promise which beauty holds out;...
Lov1 2.181 27 ...if, accepting the hint of these
visions and suggestions which beauty makes to [a man's] mind...the
lovers contemplate one another in their discourses and their actions,
then they pass to the true palace of beauty...
Lov1 2.182 4 ...if...the soul passes through the body
and falls to admire strokes of character, and the lovers contemplate
one another in their discourses and their actions, then they pass to
the true palace of beauty...
Lov1 2.182 18 In the particular society of his mate
[the lover] attains a clearer sight of any spot, any taint which her
beauty has contracted from this world...
Lov1 2.182 24 ...beholding in many souls the traits
of the divine beauty... the lover ascends to the highest beauty...
Lov1 2.182 27 ...separating in each soul that which
is divine from the taint which it has contracted in the world, the
lover ascends to the highest beauty...
Lov1 2.188 1 ...I do not wonder...at the profuse
beauty with which the instincts deck the nuptial bower...
Fdsp 2.202 6 ...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].
Fdsp 2.203 8 I knew a man who under a certain
religious frenzy...spoke to the conscience of every person he
encountered, and that with great insight and beauty.
Fdsp 2.210 19 ...that scornful beauty of [your
friend's] mien and action, do not pique yourself on reducing, but
rather fortify and enhance.
Prd1 2.222 16 [Prudence] is legitimate...when it
unfolds the beauty of laws within the narrow scope of the senses.
Prd1 2.222 25 A third class live above the beauty of
the symbol to the beauty of the thing signified;...
Prd1 2.222 26 A third class live above the beauty of
the symbol to the beauty of the thing signified;...
Prd1 2.223 5 Once in a long time, a man...sees and
enjoys the symbol solidly, then also has a clear eye for its beauty...
Prd1 2.230 4 ...beside all the resistless beauty of
form, [the Raphael in the Dresden gallery] possesses in the highest
degree the property of the perpendicularity of all the figures.
Prd1 2.230 23 We must...ask why health and beauty and
genius should now be the exception rather than the rule of human
nature?
Hsm1 2.245 22 The Roman Martius has conquered
Athens,--all but the invincible spirits of Sophocles, the duke of
Athens, and Dorigen, his wife. The beauty of the latter inflames
Martius...
OS 2.269 5 The Supreme Critic on the errors of the
past and the present... is...that overpowering reality...which evermore
tends to pass into our thought and hand and become wisdom and virtue
and power and beauty.
OS 2.273 1 Some thoughts always find us young, and
keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal
beauty.
OS 2.297 2 ...revering the soul, and learning, as the
ancient said, that its beauty is immense, man will come to see that the
world is the perennial miracle which the soul worketh...
Cir 2.311 15 The facts which loomed so large in the
fogs of yesterday... breeding, personal beauty, and the like, have
strangely changed their proportions.
Art1 2.351 7 ...in every act [the soul] attempts the
production of a new and fairer whole. This appears in works both of the
useful and fine arts, if we employ the popular distinction of works
according to their aim either at use or beauty.
Art1 2.351 13 [The painter] should know that the
landscape has beauty for his eye because it expresses a thought which
is to him good;...
Art1 2.354 4 ...historically viewed, it has been the
office of art to educate the perception of beauty.
Art1 2.359 14 The traveller who visits the Vatican
and passes from chamber to chamber...through all forms of beauty cut in
the richest materials, is in danger of forgetting the simplicity of the
principles out of which they all sprung...
Art1 2.362 10 A calm benignant beauty shines over all
this picture [Raphael, Transfiguration]...
Art1 2.366 21 ...this division of beauty from use,
the laws of nature do not permit.
Art1 2.366 23 As soon as beauty is sought...for
pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
Art1 2.366 24 As soon as beauty is sought...for
pleasure, it degrades the seeker. High beauty is no longer attainable
by him in canvas or in stone...
Art1 2.366 27 As soon as beauty is sought...for
pleasure, it degrades the seeker. ...an effeminate, prudent, sickly
beauty, which is not beauty, is all that can be formed;...
Art1 2.367 1 As soon as beauty is sought...for
pleasure, it degrades the seeker. ...an effeminate, prudent, sickly
beauty, which is not beauty, is all that can be formed;...
Art1 2.368 11 ...it is [genius's] instinct to find
beauty and holiness in new and necessary facts...
Pt1 3.3 15 It is a proof of the shallowness of the
doctrine of beauty as it lies in the minds of our amateurs, that men
seem to have lost the perception of the instant dependence of form upon
soul.
Pt1 3.5 8 Nature enhances her beauty, to the eye of
loving men, from their belief that the poet is beholding her shows at
the same time.
Pt1 3.7 1 ...the Universe has three children...which
reappear under different names in every system of thought...but which
we will call here the Knower, the Doer and the Sayer. These stand
respectively for the love of truth, for the love of good, and for the
love of beauty.
Pt1 3.13 9 ...let us...observe how nature, by
worthier impulses, has insured the poet's fidelity to his office of
announcement and affirming, namely by the beauty of things, which
becomes a new and higher beauty when expressed.
Pt1 3.13 10 ...let us...observe how nature, by
worthier impulses, has insured the poet's fidelity to his office of
announcement and affirming, namely by the beauty of things, which
becomes a new and higher beauty when expressed.
Pt1 3.13 25 ...a perception of beauty should be
sympathetic, or proper only to the good.
Pt1 3.23 22 ...when the soul of the poet has come to
ripeness of thought, [nature] detaches and sends away from it its poems
or songs...a fearless, vivacious offspring, clad with wings...which
carry them fast and far, and infix them irrecoverably into the hearts
of men. These wings are the beauty of the poet's soul.
Pt1 3.39 13 [The artist] pursues a beauty, half seen,
which flies before him.
Exp 3.68 18 The most attractive class of people are
those who are powerful obliquely...one gets the cheer of their light
without paying too great a tax. Theirs is the beauty of the bird...and
not of art.
Exp 3.71 15 When I converse with a profound mind...I
am at first apprised of my vicinity to a new and excellent region of
life. By persisting to read or to think, this region gives further sign
of itself...in sudden discoveries of its profound beauty and repose...
Mrs1 3.120 20 ...the salt, the dates, the ivory, and
the gold, for which these horrible regions are visited, find their way
into...countries where man... establishes a select
society...which...adopts and makes its own whatever personal beauty or
extraordinary native endowment anywhere appears.
Mrs1 3.122 2 [Good society]...is a compound result
into which every great force enters as an ingredient, namely virtue,
wit, beauty, wealth and power.
Mrs1 3.122 20 The point of distinction in all this
class of names, as courtesy, chivalry, fashion, and the like, is that
the flower and fruit, not the grain of the tree, are contemplated. It
is beauty which is the aim this time, and not worth.
Mrs1 3.138 20 We imperatively require a perception
of, and a homage to beauty in our companions.
Mrs1 3.140 14 [One] must leave the omniscience of
business at the door, when he comes into the palace of beauty.
Mrs1 3.143 19 ...a comic disparity would be felt, if
we should enter the acknowledged first circles [of fashion] and apply
these terrific standards of justice, beauty and benefit to the
individuals actually found there.
Mrs1 3.146 15 Even the line of heroes is not utterly
extinct. ... These are the creators of Fashion, which is an attempt to
organize beauty of behavior.
Mrs1 3.147 9 ...as we show beyond that Heaven and
Earth/ In form and shape compact and beautiful;/ .../ So on our heels a
fresh perfection treads,/ A power more strong in beauty.../
Mrs1 3.147 22 ...within the ethnical circle of good
society there is a narrower and higher circle...to which there is
always a tacit appeal of pride and reference... And this is constituted
of those persons in whom heroic dispositions are native; with the love
of beauty, the delight in society and the power to embellish the
passing day.
Gts 3.159 16 ...flowers...are a proud assertion that
a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
Gts 3.160 15 For common gifts, necessity makes
pertinences and beauty every day...
Nat2 3.173 5 ...I go with my friend to the shore of
our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle I...pass into a
delicate realm of sunset and moonlight... We penetrate bodily this
incredible beauty;...
Nat2 3.173 10 ...I go with my friend to the shore of
our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle I...pass into a
delicate realm of sunset and moonlight... A holiday...the proudest,
most heart-rejoicing festival that valor and beauty, power and taste,
ever decked and enjoyed, establishes itself on the instant.
Nat2 3.173 18 Art and luxury have early learned that
they must work as enhancement and sequel to this original beauty [of
nature].
Nat2 3.175 22 The muse herself betrays her son [the
poor young poet], and enhances the gifts of wealth and well-born beauty
by a radiation out of the air, and clouds, and forests that skirt the
road...
Nat2 3.178 6 ...the beauty of nature must always seem
unreal and mocking, until the landscape has human figures that are as
good as itself.
Nat2 3.178 16 The critics who complain of the sickly
separation of the beauty of nature from the thing to be done, must
consider that our hunting of the picturesque is inseparable from our
protest against false society.
Nat2 3.190 17 The hunger for wealth...fools the eager
pursuer. What is the end sought? Plainly to secure the ends of good
sense and beauty from the intrusion of deformity or vulgarity of any
kind.
Nat2 3.191 9 Thought, virtue, beauty, were the ends
[of wealth];...
Nat2 3.192 12 I have seen the softness and beauty of
the summer clouds floating feathery overhead...
NR 3.225 16 ...a society of men will cursorily
represent well enough a certain quality and culture, for example,
chivalry or beauty of manners;...
NR 3.226 25 All persons exist to society by some
shining trait of beauty or utility which they have.
NR 3.234 4 Art, in the artist, is...a habitual
respect to the whole by an eye loving beauty in details.
NR 3.234 11 In modern sculpture, picture and poetry,
the beauty is miscellaneous;...
NER 3.249 6 Peace now each for malice takes,/ Beauty
for his sinful weeds,/ For the angel Hope aye makes/ Him an angel whom
she leads./
NER 3.258 13 The ancient languages, with great beauty
of structure, contain wonderful remains of genius...
NER 3.272 5 With silent joy [the master] sees himself
to be capable of a beauty that eclipses all which his hands have
done;...
NER 3.285 4 That which befits us, embosomed in beauty
and wonder as we are, is cheerfulness and courage...
UGM 4.12 14 In one of those celestial days when
heaven and earth meet and adorn each other...we wish for a thousand
heads, a thousand bodies, that we might celebrate its immense beauty in
many ways and places.
UGM 4.16 22 We go to the gymnasium and the
swimming-school to see the power and beauty of the body;...
UGM 4.21 9 Ever their phantoms arise before us,/ Our
loftier brothers, but one in blood;/ At bed and table they lord it o'er
us/ With looks of beauty and words of good./
PPh 4.41 3 ...they say that Helen of Argos had that
universal beauty that every body felt related to her...
PPh 4.69 18 ...there is another, which is as much
more beautiful than beauty as beauty is than chaos; namely, wisdom...
PPh 4.70 9 ...the Banquet [of Plato] is a teaching in
the same spirit [of ascension]...that the love of the sexes is initial,
and symbolizes at a distance the passion of the soul for that immense
lake of beauty it exists to seek.
SwM 4.103 4 There is beauty of a concert, as well as
of a flute;...
SwM 4.126 6 [Swedenborg] delivers golden sayings
which express with singular beauty the ethical laws;...
SwM 4.127 27 ...though the virgins [Swedenborg] saw
in heaven were beautiful, the wives were incomparably more beautiful,
and went on increasing in beauty evermore.
SwM 4.131 3 Beauty is disgraced, love is unlovely,
when truth...is denied...
SwM 4.141 16 ...there is [in Swedenborg] no beauty,
no heaven: for angels, goblins.
SwM 4.144 9 In [Swedenborg's] profuse and accurate
imagery is no pleasure, for there is no beauty.
MoS 4.149 16 [A man] sees the beauty of a human face,
and searches the cause of that beauty, which must be more beautiful.
MoS 4.149 17 [A man] sees the beauty of a human face,
and searches the cause of that beauty, which must be more beautiful.
ShP 4.204 21 ...there is in all cultivated minds a
silent appreciation of [Shakespeare's] superlative power and beauty...
ShP 4.214 22 ...the speeches in [Shakespeare's]
plays, and single lines, have a beauty which tempts the ear to pause on
them for their euphuism...
ShP 4.215 23 One more royal trait properly belongs to
the poet. I mean his cheerfulness, without which no man can be a
poet,--for beauty is his aim.
ShP 4.215 27 Beauty, the spirit of joy and hilarity,
[the poet] sheds over the universe.
ShP 4.217 8 Shakspeare employed [the things of
nature] as colors to compose his picture. He rested in their beauty;...
ShP 4.219 2 ...other men...beheld the same objects
[as Shakespeare]: they also saw through them that which was contained.
And to what purpose? The beauty straightway vanished;...
ET4 5.66 9 The bronze monuments of crusaders lying
cross-legged in the Temple Church at London...please by beauty of the
same character...which is daily seen in the streets of London.
ET4 5.66 19 The anecdote of the handsome captives
which Saint Gregory found at Rome, A. D. 600, is matched by the
testimony of the Norman chroniclers, five centuries later, who wondered
at the beauty and long flowing hair of the young English captives.
ET4 5.66 22 ...the Heimskringla has frequent occasion
to speak of the personal beauty of its heroes.
ET8 5.135 15 Here [in England] was lately a
cross-grained miser [Joseph Turner]...yet as true a worshipper of
beauty in form and color as ever existed...
ET10 5.156 5 The Crystal Palace is not considered
honest until it pays; no matter how much convenience, beauty, or eclat,
it must be self-supporting.
ET14 5.237 6 ...nature, to pique the more, sometimes
works up deformities into beauty in some rare Aspasia or Cleopatra...
ET14 5.237 10 ...the Greek art wrought many a vase or
column, in which too long or too lithe, or nodes, or pits and flaws are
made a beauty of;...
ET14 5.248 3 The critic [in England] hides his
skepticism under the English cant of practical. To convince the reason,
to touch the conscience, is romantic pretension. The fine arts fall to
the ground. Beauty, except as luxurious commodity, does not exist.
ET14 5.250 3 ...[Carlyle's] imagination, finding no
nutriment in any creation, avenged itself by celebrating the majestic
beauty of the laws of decay.
ET14 5.256 5 How many volumes of well-bred metre we
must jingle through, before we can be filled, taught, renewed! We want
the miraculous; the beauty which we can manufacture at no mill...
ET14 5.256 7 How many volumes of well-bred metre we
must jingle through, before we can be filled, taught, renewed! We want
the miraculous;...the beauty of which Chaucer and Chapman had the
secret.
F 6.18 23 In a large city...things whose beauty lies
in their casualty, are produced as punctually...as the baker's muffin
for breakfast.
F 6.45 7 Moller...taught that the building which was
fitted accurately to answer its end would turn out to be beautiful
though beauty had not been intended.
F 6.48 11 I do not wonder at...the glory of the
stars; but at the necessity of beauty under which the universe lies;...
Pow 6.51 3 His tongue was framed to music,/ And his
hand was armed with skill;/ His face was the mould of beauty,/ And his
heart the throne of will./
Pow 6.71 3 In history the great moment is when the
savage is just ceasing to be a savage, with all his hairy Pelasgic
strength directed on his opening sense of beauty...
Ctr 6.146 3 ...let [the traveler] go where he will,
he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries.
Ctr 6.159 11 We only vary the phrase, not the
doctrine, when we say that culture opens the sense of beauty.
Bhr 6.170 20 There are certain manners which are
learned in good society, of that force that if a person have them, he
or she...is everywhere welcome, though without beauty, or wealth, or
genius.
Bhr 6.172 12 ...when we think...what high lessons and
inspiring tokens of character [manners] convey...we see what range the
subject has, and what relations to convenience, power and beauty.
Bhr 6.178 23 ...there is no end to the catalogue of
[the eye's] performances, whether in indolent vision (that of health
and beauty), or in strained vision (that of art and labor).
Bhr 6.185 4 Look on this woman. There is not beauty,
nor brilliant sayings...
Bhr 6.195 24 I have seen manners that make a similar
impression with personal beauty;...and in memorable experiences they
are suddenly better than beauty...
Bhr 6.195 26 I have seen manners that make a similar
impression with personal beauty;...and in memorable experiences they
are suddenly better than beauty, and make that superfluous and ugly.
But they must be marked by...the acquaintance with real beauty.
Wsp 6.207 8 [Dido] was so fair,/ So young, so lusty,
with her eyen glad,/ That if that God that heaven and earthe made/
Would have a love for beauty and goodness,/ And womanhede, truth, and
seemliness,/ Whom should he loven but this lady sweet?/ There n' is no
woman to him half so meet./
Wsp 6.213 1 ...the moral sense reappears to-day with
the same morning newness that has been from of old the fountain of
beauty and strength.
Wsp 6.216 19 It is true that genius takes its rise
out of the mountains of rectitude; that all beauty and power which men
covet are somehow born out of that Alpine district;...
Wsp 6.218 11 If your eye is on the eternal...your
opinions and actions will have a beauty which no learning or combined
advantages of other men can rival.
Wsp 6.229 19 Not only does our beauty waste, but it
leaves word on how it went to waste.
Wsp 6.238 16 If there ever was a good man, be certain
there was another and will be more. And so in relation to...that
spectre clothed with beauty at our curtain by night...
Wsp 6.241 17 There will be a new church founded on
moral science;...it will fast enough gather beauty, music, picture,
poetry.
Bty 6.286 27 ...the beauty of school-girls...we know
how these forms thrill, paralyze, provoke, inspire and enlarge us.
Bty 6.287 12 ...there are many beauties; as, of
general nature...of brain or method, moral beauty or beauty of the
soul.
Bty 6.287 13 ...there are many beauties; as, of
general nature...of brain or method, moral beauty or beauty of the
soul.
Bty 6.288 14 ...the beauty which certain objects have
for [man] is the friendly fire which expands the thought...
Bty 6.289 1 Every man values every acquisition he
makes in the science of beauty, above his possessions.
Bty 6.289 5 ...as fast as [a man] sees beauty, life
acquires a very high value.
Bty 6.290 13 ...in the construction of any fabric or
organism any real increase of fitness to its end is an increase of
beauty.
Bty 6.291 27 In the midst of...a festal procession
gay with banners, I saw a boy seize an old tin pan...and poising it on
the top of a stick, he set it turning and made it describe the most
elegant imaginable curves, and drew away attention from the decorated
procession by this startling beauty.
Bty 6.294 19 ...our art...reaches beauty by taking
every superfluous ounce that can be spared from a wall, and keeping all
its strength in the poetry of columns.
Bty 6.295 14 Let an artist scrawl a few lines or
figures on the back of a letter, and that scrap of paper...in
proportion to the beauty of the lines drawn, will be kept for
centuries.
Bty 6.296 5 The felicities of design in art or in
works of nature are shadows or forerunners of that beauty which reaches
its perfection in the human form.
Bty 6.296 10 To Eve, say the Mahometans, God gave two
thirds of all beauty.
Bty 6.298 15 ...we see faces every day which have a
good type but have been marred in the casting; a proof that we are all
entitled to beauty...
Bty 6.299 22 Beauty, without expression, tires.
Bty 6.299 27 A Greek epigram intimates that the force
of love is not shown by the courting of beauty...
Bty 6.300 7 ...petulant old gentlemen...who see,
after a world of pains have been successfully taken for the costume,
how the least mistake in sentiment takes all the beauty out of your
clothes,--affirm that the secret of ugliness consists not in
irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
Bty 6.301 14 This is the triumph of expression,
degrading beauty...
Bty 6.301 22 When the delicious beauty of lineaments
loses its power, it is because a more delicious beauty has appeared;...
Bty 6.301 23 When the delicious beauty of lineaments
loses its power, it is because a more delicious beauty has appeared;...
Bty 6.301 26 Still, it was for beauty that the world
was made.
Bty 6.302 7 If a man can cut such a head on his stone
gatepost as shall draw and keep a crowd about it all day, by its
beauty, good nature, and inscrutable meaning;...this is still the
legitimate dominion of beauty.
Bty 6.302 16 ...if a man...can take such advantages
of nature that all her powers serve him;...this is still the legitimate
dominion of beauty.
Bty 6.302 18 The radiance of the human form, though
sometimes astonishing, is only a burst of beauty for a few years or a
few months at the perfection of youth...
Bty 6.303 1 Things are pretty, graceful, rich,
elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet
beautiful. This is the reason why beauty is still escaping out of all
analysis.
Bty 6.303 9 The sea is lovely, but when we bathe in
it the beauty forsakes all the near water.
Bty 6.305 1 The poets are quite right in decking
their mistresses with the spoils of the landscape...since all beauty
points at identity;...
Bty 6.305 24 ...the fact is familiar that...a phrase
of poetry, plants wings at our shoulders; as if the Divinity, in his
approaches...deigns to draw a truer line, which the mind knows and
owns. This is that haughty force of beauty... which the poets praise...
Ill 6.316 13 We find a delight in the beauty and
happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
Civ 7.21 21 ...a nomad, will die with no more estate
than the wolf or the horse leaves. But so simple a labor as a house
being achieved, his chief enemies are kept at bay. ... Invention and
art are born, manners and social beauty and delight.
Art2 7.35 3 I framed his tongue to music,/ I armed
his hand with skill,/ I moulded his face to beauty/ And his heart the
throne of Will./
Art2 7.39 21 ...the Spirit, in its creation, aims at
use or at beauty...
Art2 7.43 1 Let us now consider this [natural] law as
it affects the works that have beauty for their end...
Art2 7.43 12 Architecture and eloquence are mixed
arts, whose end is sometimes beauty and sometimes use.
Art2 7.44 21 Just as much better as is the polished
statue of dazzling marble than the clay model, or as much more
impressive as is the granite cathedral or pyramid than the ground-plan
or profile of them on paper, so much more beauty owe they to Nature
than to Art.
Art2 7.46 18 The adventitious beauty of poetry may be
felt in the greater delight which a verse gives in happy quotation than
in the poem.
Art2 7.51 14 ...a study of admirable works of art
sharpens our perceptions of the beauty of Nature;...
Art2 7.52 26 Nothing is arbitrary, nothing is
insulated in beauty.
Art2 7.57 9 ...beauty, truth and goodness are not
obsolete;...
Elo1 7.59 4 For whom the Muses smile upon,/ And touch
with soft persuasion,/ His words, like a storm-wind, can bring/ Terror
and beauty on their wing;/...
Elo1 7.89 24 By applying the habits of a higher style
of thought to the common affairs of this world, [the orator] introduces
beauty and magnificence wherever he goes.
DL 7.102 7 I detected many a god/ Forth already on
the road,/ Ancestors of beauty come/ In thy breast to make a home./
DL 7.113 8 ...is there any calamity...that more
invokes the best good will to remove it, than this?--to go from chamber
to chamber and see no beauty;...
DL 7.113 16 ...is there any calamity...that more
invokes the best good will to remove it, than this?...to find no
invitation to what is good in us, and no receptacle for what is
wise:--this is a great price to pay for...being defrauded...of genial
culture and the inmost presence of beauty.
DL 7.126 20 Beauty is, even in the beautiful,
occasional...
DL 7.127 22 Whilst thus Nature and the hints we draw
from man suggest... a household equal to the beauty and grandeur of
this world, especially we learn the same lesson from those best
relations to individual men which the heart is always prompting us to
form.
DL 7.130 18 If by love and nobleness we take up into
ourselves the beauty we admire, we shall spend it again on all around
us.
DL 7.132 5 Certainly, not aloof from this homage to
beauty...the house will come to be esteemed a Sanctuary.
Farm 7.138 20 It is the beauty of the great economy
of the world that makes [the farmer's] comeliness.
Farm 7.140 27 The men in cities who are the centres
of energy...and the women of beauty and genius, are the children or
grandchildren of farmers...
WD 7.173 25 ...as soon as the irrecoverable years
have woven their blue glory between to-day and us these passing hours
shall glitter and draw us as the wildest romance and the homes of
beauty and poetry?
Boks 7.213 7 Without the great arts which speak to
the sense of beauty, a man seems to me a poor, naked, shivering
creature.
Suc 7.302 12 This sensibility appears in the homage
to beauty which exalts the faculties of youth;...
Suc 7.305 11 ...our tenderness for youth and beauty
gives a new and just importance to their fresh and manifold claims...
OA 7.319 12 ...they who take the larger draughts [of
the cup of time]...lose their stature, strength, beauty and senses...
PI 8.22 27 ...Thomson's Seasons and the best parts of
many old and many new poets are simply enumerations by a person who
felt the beauty of the common sights and sounds...
PI 8.35 12 The test of the poet is the power to take
the passing day...and hold it up to a divine reason, till he sees it to
have a purpose and beauty...
PI 8.52 13 ...we talk of our work, our tools and
material necessities, in prose; that is, without any elevation or aim
at beauty;...
PI 8.53 16 Poetry being an attempt to express...the
beauty and soul in [the hero's] aspect...runs into fable, personifies
every fact...
SA 8.86 25 You have in you there a noisy, sensual
savage, which you are to keep down, and turn all his strength to
beauty.
Comc 8.163 10 [Wit] is like ice, on which no beauty
of form, no majesty of carriage can plead any immunity...
PC 8.224 22 Whilst [Nature's] power is offered to
[man's] hand, its laws to his science, not less its beauty speaks to
his taste, imagination and sentiment.
PPo 8.250 3 Hafiz praises...birds, mornings and
music, to give vent to his immense hilarity and sympathy with every
form of beauty and joy;...
PPo 8.257 15 [The rose] was of her beauty proud,/ And
prouder of her youth,/ The while unto her flaming heart/ The bulbul
gave his truth./
Aris 10.32 6 A reference to society is part of the
idea of culture; science of a gentleman; art of a gentleman; poetry in
a gentleman: intellectually held, that is...for their universal beauty
and worth;...
Aris 10.32 9 A reference to society is part of the
idea of culture; science of a gentleman; art of a gentleman; poetry in
a gentleman: intellectually held, that is, for their own sake...not for
economy...but not over-intellectually, that is, not to ecstasy,
entrancing the man, but redounding to his beauty and glory.
Aris 10.34 10 If one thinks of the interest which all
men have in beauty of character and manners;...certainly, if culture,
if laws...could secure such a result as superior and finished men, it
would be the interest of all mankind to see that the steps were
taken...
Aris 10.52 25 ...[Genius] raises men above
themselves, intoxicates them with beauty.
Aris 10.65 24 To many the word [Gentleman]
expresses...only graceful manners, and independence in trifles; but the
fountains of that thought are in the deeps of man, a beauty which
reaches through and through, from the manners to the soul;...
Aris 10.66 3 ...the American who would serve his
country must learn the beauty and honor of perseverance...
PerF 10.76 11 ...[man] draws on all knowledge as his
province, on all beauty for his innocent delight...
PerF 10.81 10 See in a circle of school-girls one
with no beauty...but she can so recite her adventures that she is never
alone...
PerF 10.87 20 ...all beauty, all health, all
intelligence exist by [our moral sentiment];...
Chr2 10.98 19 In the ever-returning hour of
reflection, [a man] says: I stand here glad at heart of all the
sympathies I can awaken and share, clothing myself with them as with a
garment of shelter and beauty...
Chr2 10.117 10 There will always be a class of
imaginative youths, whom poetry, whom the love of beauty, lead to the
adoration of the moral sentiment...
Edc1 10.127 16 Enamoured of [sun's, moon's, plants',
animals'] beauty, comforted by their convenience, [man] seeks them as
ends...
Edc1 10.141 11 ...[the boy] gladly enters a school
which...requires good will, beauty, wit and select information;...
Edc1 10.142 22 There comes the period of the
imagination to each, a later youth; the power of beauty, the power of
books, of poetry.
Edc1 10.145 26 ...Sir Charles Fellowes...being at
Xanthus...had seen a Turk point with his staff to some carved work on
the corner of a stone almost buried in the soil. Fellowes...was struck
with the beauty of the sculptured ornaments...
SovE 10.191 9 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 beauty and pure love...
SovE 10.209 14 ...the inspirations we catch of this
[moral] law are... recorded for their beauty, for the delight they
give...
Schr 10.261 21 ...in the worldly habits which harden
us, we find with some surprise that learning and truth and beauty have
not let us go;...
Schr 10.262 17 Stung by this intellectual conscience,
we go to measure our tasks as scholars...and our sadness is suddenly
overshone by a sympathy of blessing. Beauty...comes in and puts a new
face on the world.
Schr 10.280 4 ...society...sometimes is for an age
together a maniac, with birth, breeding, beauty, cunning, strength and
money.
LLNE 10.331 7 If any of my readers were at that
period [1820] in Boston or Cambridge, they will easily remember
[Everett's] radiant beauty of person...
LLNE 10.333 21 [Everett] delighted in quoting Milton,
and with such sweet modulation that he seemed to give as much beauty as
he borrowed;...
LLNE 10.334 24 ...[Everett's power] lay...in a new
perception of Grecian beauty, to which he had opened our eyes.
LLNE 10.360 10 Many persons, attracted by the beauty
of the place [Brook Farm] and the culture and ambition of the
community, joined them as boarders...
LLNE 10.369 9 [Brook Farm] was a close
union...assembled there by a sentiment which all shared...of the beauty
of a life of humanity.
MMEm 10.405 19 [Mary Moody Emerson] delighted in
success, in youth, in beauty...
MMEm 10.412 12 ...when Nature beams with such excess
of beauty, when the heart thrills with hope in its Author...it exults,
too fondly perhaps for a state of trial.
SlHr 10.440 22 The strength and the beauty of the man
[Samuel Hoar] lay in the natural goodness and justice of his mind...
SlHr 10.443 24 Such was, in old age, the beauty of
[Samuel Hoar's] person and carriage, as if the mind radiated, and made
the same impression of probity on all beholders.
SlHr 10.443 27 Such was, in old age, the beauty of
[Samuel Hoar's] person and carriage, as if the mind radiated, and made
the same impression of probity on all beholders. His beauty was
pathetic and touching in these latest days...
Thor 10.471 21 Every fact lay in glory in [Thoreau's]
mind, a type of the order and beauty of the whole.
Thor 10.474 15 [Thoreau's] eye was open to beauty,
and his ear to music.
Thor 10.475 7 [Thoreau] was so enamoured of the
spiritual beauty that he held all actual written poems in very light
esteem in the comparison.
Thor 10.484 13 There is a flower known to
botanists...which grows on the most inaccessible cliffs of the Tyrolese
mountains...and which the hunter, tempted by its beauty...climbs the
cliffs to gather...
Thor 10.485 8 ...wherever there is knowledge,
wherever there is virtue, wherever there is beauty, [Thoreau] will find
a home.
LS 11.7 16 I see natural feeling and beauty in the
use of such language from Jesus, a friend to his friends;...
HDC 11.39 1 The little flower which at this season
stars our woods and roadsides with its profuse blooms, might attract
even eyes as stern as [the settlers of Concord's] with its humble
beauty.
EWI 11.124 24 ...you could not get any poetry, any
wisdom, and beauty in woman, any strong and commanding character in
man, but these absurdities would still come flashing out,-these
absurdities of a demand for justice, a generosity for the weak and
oppressed.
FSLC 11.179 14 I wake in the morning with a painful
sensation...which, when traced home, is the odious remembrance of that
ignominy which has fallen on Massachusetts, which robs the landscape of
beauty...
EPro 11.314 9 O North! give [the slave] beauty for
rags,/ And honor, O South! for his shame;/ Nevada! coin thy golden
crags/ With freedom's image and name./
SMC 11.351 16 ...whatever good grows to the country
out of war, the largest results, the future power and genius of the
land, will go on clothing this shaft [the Concord Monument] with daily
beauty and spiritual life.
SMC 11.368 24 Here [at the battle of Gettysburg]
Francis Buttrick, whose manly beauty all of us remember, and Sergeant
Appleton...were fatally wounded.
Wom 11.410 2 Position, Wren said, is essential to the
perfecting of beauty;...
Wom 11.418 13 Nature's end, of maternity for twenty
years, was of so supreme importance that it was to be secured at all
events, even to the sacrifice of the highest beauty.
Wom 11.419 14 ...perhaps it is because these people
[advocates of women' s rights] have been deprived of...opportunities,
such as they wished...that they have been stung to say, It is too late
for us to be polished and fashioned into beauty, but, at least, we will
see that the whole race of women shall not suffer as we have suffered.
RBur 11.442 21 ...[Burns] had that secret of genius
to draw from the bottom of society the strength of its speech, and
astonish the ears of the polite with these artless words...filtered of
all offence through his beauty.
Shak1 11.448 6 Wherever there are men, and in the
degree in which they are civil-have...sensibility to beauty, music, the
secrets of passion, and the liquid expression of thought, [Shakespeare]
has risen to his place as the first poet of the world.
Scot 11.462 4 Our concern is only with the residue,
where the man Scott was warmed with a divine ray that clad with beauty
every sheet of water... he looked upon...
CPL 11.496 3 ...we may all anticipate a sudden and
lasting prosperity to this ancient town [Concord], in the benefit of a
noble library, which adds by the beauty of the building...a quite new
attraction...
CPL 11.501 26 Everything that gives [a man] a new
perception of beauty multiplies his pure enjoyments.
II 12.76 3 ...the moral sense reappears forever with
the same angelic newness that has been from of old the fountain of
poetry and beauty and strength.
II 12.77 11 ...all beauty of discourse or of manners
lies in launching on the thought, and forgetting ourselves;...
CL 12.135 18 The avarice of real estate native to us
all covers...all that is called the love of Nature, comprising the
largest use and the whole beauty of a farm or landed estate.
CL 12.140 7 ...we cannot overpraise the comfort and
the beauty of the [Massachusetts] climate in the best days of the year.
CL 12.147 26 ...[the man growing old against his
will] may draw a moral from the fact that 't is the old trees that have
all the beauty and grandeur.
CL 12.148 2 I admire the taste which makes the avenue
to a house... through a wood; besides the beauty, it has a positive
effect on manners...
CL 12.153 11 At Niagara, I have noticed, that, as
quick as I got out of the wetting of the Fall, all the grandeur changed
into beauty.
CL 12.156 22 Where is he who is to save the perfect
moment, and cause that this beauty shall not be lost?
CL 12.157 20 Every acquisition we make in the science
of beauty is so sweet that I think it is cheaply paid for by what
accompanies it, of course, the prating and affectation of
connoisseurship.
CL 12.164 6 Every new perception of the method and
beauty of Nature gives a new shock of surprise and pleasure;...
CL 12.166 16 ...the imagination...does not impart its
secret to inquisitive persons. Sometimes a parlor in which fine persons
are found, with beauty, culture and sensibility, answers our purpose
still better.
CW 12.169 1 Not many men see beauty in the fogs/ Of
close, low pine-woods in a river town;/...
CW 12.170 8 The gentle deities/ Showed me the love of
color and of sounds,/ The innumerable tenements of beauty,/...
CW 12.176 3 There are two companions, with one or
other of whom 't is desirable to go out on a tramp. One is an artist,
that is, who has an eye for beauty.
Bost 12.196 22 ...the New Englander...lacks that
beauty and grace which the habit of living much in the air, and the
activity of the limbs not in labor but in graceful exercise, tend to
produce in climates nearer to the sun.
MAng1 12.216 13 Beauty in the largest sense...this to
receive and this to impart, was [Michelangelo's] genius.
MAng1 12.216 14 Beauty in the largest sense, beauty
inward and outward... this to receive and this to impart, was
[Michelangelo's] genius.
MAng1 12.217 5 This truth, that perfect beauty and
perfect goodness are one, was made known to Michael Angelo;...
MAng1 12.219 20 The common eye is satisfied with the
surface on which it rests. The wise eye knows that it is surface and,
if beautiful, only the result of interior harmonies, which, to him who
knows them, compose the image of higher beauty.
MAng1 12.222 11 ...not the most swinish compost of
mud and blood that was ever misnamed philosophy, can avail to hinder us
from doing involuntary reverence to any exhibition of majesty or
surpassing beauty in human clay.
MAng1 12.223 7 The love of beauty which never passes
beyond outline and color was too slight an object to occupy the powers
of [Michelangelo's] genius.
MAng1 12.223 13 ...[Michelangelo's] love of beauty is
made solid and perfect by his deep understanding of the mechanic arts.
MAng1 12.232 15 A man of such habits and such deeds
[as Michelangelo] made good his pretensions to a perception and to
delineation of external beauty.
MAng1 12.232 23 ...contemplating ever with love the
idea of absolute beauty, [Michelangelo] was still dissatisfied with his
own work.
MAng1 12.233 10 [Michelangelo] never made but one
portrait...because he abhorred to draw a likeness unless it were of
infinite beauty.
MAng1 12.233 15 ...let no man suppose...that this
profound soul [Michelangelo] was taken or holden in the chains of
superficial beauty.
MAng1 12.233 17 Through [superficial beauty]
[Michelangelo] beheld the eternal spiritual beauty which ever clothes
itself with grand and graceful outlines...
MAng1 12.233 23 As from the fire, heat cannot be
divided, no more can beauty from the eternal.
MAng1 12.237 7 [Michelangelo] shared Dante's deep
contempt...of that sordid and abject crowd of all classes and all
places who obscure, as much as in them lies, every beam of beauty in
the universe.
MAng1 12.240 14 [Michelangelo's sonnets] are founded
on the thought that beauty is the virtue of the body, as virtue is the
beauty of the soul;...
MAng1 12.240 15 [Michelangelo's sonnets] are founded
on the thought that beauty is the virtue of the body, as virtue is the
beauty of the soul;...
MAng1 12.240 17 [Michelangelo's sonnets] are founded
on the thought... that a beautiful person is sent into the world as an
image of the divine beauty...
MAng1 12.242 22 ...this man [Michelangelo] was
penetrated with the love of the highest beauty, that is, goodness;...
MAng1 12.244 21 ...[Michelangelo] was a brother and a
friend to all who acknowledge the beauty that beams in universal
Nature...
Milt1 12.245 3 I framed his tongue to music,/ I armed
his hand with skill,/ I moulded his face to beauty,/ And his heart the
throne of will./
Milt1 12.253 10 The opposition to [a masterpiece of
art]...at last ends; and a new race grows up in the taste and spirit of
the work, with the utmost advantage for seeing intimately its power and
beauty.
Milt1 12.255 2 ...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.
Milt1 12.257 26 With these keen perceptions, [Milton]
naturally received... a rare susceptibility to impressions from
external beauty.
Milt1 12.258 12 [Milton's] sensibility to impressions
from beauty needs no proof from his history;...
Milt1 12.261 5 ...[Milton]...bent [English] to
express every trait of beauty, every shade of thought;...
Milt1 12.277 8 The creations of Shakspeare are cast
into the world of thought to no further end than to delight. Their
intrinsic beauty is their excuse for being.
ACri 12.291 3 In architecture the beauty is increased
in the degree in which the material is safely diminished;...
MLit 12.310 11 Over every true poem lingers a certain
wild beauty, immeasurable;...
WSL 12.345 1 ...in the character of Pericles [Landor]
has found full play for beauty and greatness of behavior...
EurB 12.376 24 ...a perception of beauty was the
equally indispensable element of the association [society in Wilhelm
Meister]...
PPr 12.383 15 ...to bring out the truth for beauty,
and as literature, surmounts the powers of art.
Let 12.404 21 A literature...is the affair of a power
which works by a prodigality of life and force very dismaying to
behold,-every trait of beauty purchased by hecatombs of private
tragedy.
Trag 12.412 12 To this architectural stability of the
human form, the Greek genius added an ideal beauty...
Beauty, n. (54)
Nat 1.12 5 Whoever considers the final cause of the
world will discern a multitude of uses that enter as parts into that
result. They all admit of being thrown into one of the following
classes: Commodity; Beauty; Language; and Discipline.
Nat 1.15 2 A nobler want of man is served by nature,
namely, the love of Beauty.
Nat 1.55 3 ...[the poet] differs from the philosopher
only herein, that the one proposes Beauty as his main end; the other
Truth.
DSA 1.151 7 I look for the hour when that supreme
Beauty which ravished the souls of those Eastern men...shall speak in
the West also.
DSA 1.151 23 I look for the new Teacher that shall
follow so far those shining laws that he...shall show that the Ought,
that Duty, is one thing... with Beauty...
LE 1.185 17 What is this Truth you seek? What is this
Beauty? men will ask, with derision.
Tran 1.354 18 ...this class [Transcendentalists] are
not sufficiently characterized if we omit to add that they are lovers
and worshippers of Beauty.
Tran 1.354 19 In the eternal trinity of Truth,
Goodness, and Beauty... [Transcendentalists] prefer to make Beauty the
sign and head.
Tran 1.354 21 In the eternal trinity of Truth,
Goodness, and Beauty... [Transcendentalists] prefer to make Beauty the
sign and head.
Tran 1.354 25 A reference to Beauty in action
sounds...a little hollow and ridiculous in the ears of the old church.
Lov1 2.178 15 ...[the maiden] teaches [the lover's]
eye why Beauty was pictured with Loves and Graces attending her steps.
Lov1 2.181 4 [What we love] is that which you know
not in yourself and can never know. This agrees well with that high
philosophy of Beauty which the ancient writers delighted in;...
Pt1 3.4 25 ...this hidden truth, that the fountains
whence all this river of Time and its creatures floweth are
intrinsically ideal and beautiful, draws us to the consideration of the
nature and functions of the Poet, or the man of Beauty;...
Pt1 3.28 12 ...a great number of such as were
professionally expressers of Beauty...have been more than others wont
to lead a life of pleasure and indulgence;...
Pt1 3.42 22 ...wherever is danger, and awe, and
love,--there is Beauty... shed for thee [O poet]...
Mrs1 3.146 20 The beautiful and the generous are, in
the theory, the doctors and apostles of this church [of Fashion]:
Scipio...and Washington, and every pure and valiant heart who
worshipped Beauty by word and by deed.
Bhr 6.167 1 Grace, Beauty, and Caprice/ Build this
golden portal/...
Bty 6.279 26 [Seyd] thought it happier to be dead,/
To die for Beauty, than live for bread./
Bty 6.286 11 At the birth of Winckelmann...side by
side with this arid, departmental, post mortem science, rose an
enthusiasm in the study of Beauty;...
Bty 6.288 18 The question of Beauty takes us out of
surfaces to thinking of the foundations of things.
Bty 6.289 23 In the true mythology Love is an
immortal child, and Beauty leads him as a guide...
Bty 6.289 25 In the true mythology Love is an
immortal child, and Beauty leads him as a guide: nor can we express a
deeper sense than when we say, Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.
Bty 6.298 10 That Beauty is the normal state is shown
by the perpetual effort of nature to attain it.
Bty 6.301 25 Still, Beauty rides on her lion, as
before.
Bty 6.305 26 ...the fact is familiar that...a phrase
of poetry, plants wings at our shoulders; as if the Divinity, in his
approaches...deigns to draw a truer line, which the mind knows and
owns. This is that haughty force of beauty... which the poets
praise...Beauty hiding all wisdom and power in its calm sky.
Chr2 10.96 1 Truth, Power, Goodness, Beauty, are [the
moral sentiment's] varied names...
Prch 10.226 15 ...when [the railroads] came into his
poetic Westmoreland... [Wordsworth] yet manned himself to say,-In spite
of all that Beauty may disown/ In your harsh features, Nature doth
embrace/ Her lawful offspring in man's art/...
Schr 10.275 14 The hero rises out of all comparison
with contemporaries and with ages of men, because he...will oppose all
mankind at the call of that private and perfect Right and Beauty in
which he lives.
LLNE 10.324 1 For Joy and Beauty planted it/ With
faerie gardens cheered,/ And boding Fancy haunted it/ With men and
women weird./
CInt 12.127 24 ...I thought a college was a place not
to train talents...but to adorn Genius, which only speaks truth, and
after the way which truth uses, namely, Beauty;...
MAng1 12.216 20 It is a happiness to find...a soul at
intervals born to behold and create only Beauty.
MAng1 12.216 25 The ancient Greeks called the world
kosmos, Beauty;...
MAng1 12.217 11 In considering a life dedicated to
the study of Beauty, it is natural to inquire, what is Beauty?
MAng1 12.217 12 In considering a life dedicated to
the study of Beauty, it is natural to inquire, what is Beauty?
MAng1 12.218 8 The Italian artists sanction this view
of Beauty by describing it as il piu nell' uno, the many in one...
MAng1 12.218 18 In relation to this element of
Beauty, the minds of men divide themselves into two classes.
MAng1 12.218 26 ...certain minds, more closely
harmonized with Nature, possess the power of abstracting Beauty from
things...
MAng1 12.219 3 ...Beauty is thus an abstraction of
the harmony and proportion that reigns in all Nature...
MAng1 12.227 18 ...not only was this discoverer of
Beauty [Michelangelo]...rooted and grounded in those severe laws of
practical skill, which genius can never teach...but he was one of the
most industrious men that ever lived.
MAng1 12.234 2 ...as...[Michelangelo] sought to
approach the Beautiful by the study of the True, so he failed not...to
seek Beauty in its highest form, that of Goodness.
MLit 12.330 5 An interchangeable Truth, Beauty and
Goodness, each wholly interfused in the other, must make the humors of
that eye which would see causes reaching to their last effect...
beaver, n. (2)
Art2 7.39 7 Relatively to themselves, the bee, the
bird, the beaver, have no art;...
WD 7.160 12 What of this dapper caoutchouc and
gutta-percha, which make...rain-proof coats for all climates, which
teach us to defy the wet, and put every man on a footing with the
beaver and the crocodile?
beavers, n. (1)
Thor 10.474 6 ...[Thoreau] well knew that asking
questions of Indians is like catechizing beavers and rabbits.
became, v. (76)
LE 1.178 24 Not the least instructive passage in
modern history seems to me a trait of Napoleon exhibited to the English
when he became their prisoner.
MN 1.198 27 Empedocles undoubtedly spoke a truth of
thought, when he said, I am God; but the moment it was out of his mouth
it became a lie to the ear;...
YA 1.383 16 In one hand [a dime] became an eagle as
it fell, and in another hand a copper cent.
Comp 2.116 23 ...the royal armies sent against
Napoleon, when he approached cast down their colors and from enemies
became friends...
Lov1 2.175 11 ...no man ever forgot the visitations
of that power to his heart and brain...when he became all eye when one
was present, and all memory when one was gone;...
Pt1 3.12 14 This day shall be better than my
birthday: then I became an animal; now I am invited into the science of
the real.
Exp 3.51 18 I knew a witty physician who...used to
affirm that if there was a disease in the liver, the man became a
Calvinist...
Exp 3.51 19 I knew a witty physician who...used to
affirm that if there was a disease in the liver, the man became a
Calvinist, and if that organ was sound, he became a Unitarian.
Exp 3.59 2 A political orator wittily compared our
party promises to western roads, which opened stately enough...but soon
became narrow and narrower and ended in a squirrel-track and ran up a
tree.
Mrs1 3.151 22 [Lilla] was a unit and whole, so that
whatsoever she did, became her.
NER 3.258 23 These things [Latin, Greek, Mathematics]
became stereotyped as education...
MoS 4.163 3 ...I became acquainted with an
accomplished English poet, John Sterling;...
ShP 4.194 14 [Sculpture in Egypt and in Greece] was
the ornament of the temple wall: at first a rude relief carved on
pediments, then the relief became bolder and a head or arm was
projected from the wall;...
ShP 4.219 6 ...other men...beheld the same objects
[as Shakespeare]: they also saw through them that which was contained.
And to what purpose? The beauty straightway vanished;...and life became
ghastly, joyless...
ET9 5.152 11 ...this precious knave [George of
Cappadocia] became, in good time, Saint George of England...
ET10 5.165 15 Strawberry Hill of Horace Walpole,
Fonthill Abbey of Mr. Beckford, were freaks; and Newstead Abbey became
one in the hands of Lord Byron.
ET11 5.176 27 [The Duke of Bedford's]
ancestor...became the companion of a foreign prince wrecked on the
Dorsetshire coast, where Mr. [John] Russell lived.
ET13 5.228 18 The English Church, undermined by
German criticism...was led logically back to Romanism. But that was an
element which only hot heads could breathe...and the alienation of such
men [the educated class] from the church became complete.
ET14 5.235 20 To the images from this twin source (of
Christianity and art), the mind became fruitful as by the incubation of
the Holy Ghost.
ET14 5.243 16 Locke, to whom the meaning of ideas was
unknown, became the type of philosophy [in England]...
ET17 5.294 18 We [Emerson and Martineau] found Mr.
Wordsworth asleep on the sofa. He...soon became full of talk on the
French news.
F 6.13 4 ...There is in every man a certain feeling
that he has been what he is from all eternity, and by no means became
such in time.
F 6.14 22 ...a vesicle lodged in darkness, Oken
thought, became animal;...
F 6.20 14 ...[Maya] became at last woman and goddess,
and [Vishnu] a man and a god.
F 6.37 5 ...it was found that whilst some animals
became torpid in winter, others were torpid in summer...
Wth 6.114 27 We had in this region, twenty years
ago...a passionate desire to...unite farming to intellectual pursuits.
Many effected their purpose and made the experiment, and some became
downright ploughmen;...
SS 7.3 17 ...[my new friend's] evident earnestness
engaged my attention, and in the weeks that followed we became better
acquainted.
Art2 7.50 24 ...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.
Art2 7.55 18 The leaning towers originated from the
civil discords which induced every lord to build a tower. Then it
became a point of family pride...
Elo1 7.72 8 I [Antenor] became acquainted with the
genius and the prudent judgments of [Ulysses and Menelaus].
Elo1 7.95 1 The power of Chatham, of Pericles, of
Luther, rested on this strength of character, which...became sometimes
exquisitely provoking and sometimes terrific to [their antagonists].
Clbs 7.229 2 We remember the time...on a long journey
in the old stage-coach, where...people became rapidly acquainted...
Clbs 7.239 11 The attention of the English chemist
was instantly arrested, and [he and the American chemist] became
rapidly acquainted.
OA 7.325 26 A lawyer argued a cause yesterday in the
Supreme Court, and I was struck with a certain air of levity and
defiance which vastly became him.
OA 7.334 21 We asked if at Whitefield's return the
same popularity continued.--Not the same fury, [John Adams] said...but
a greater esteem, as he became more known.
Imtl 8.331 18 [One of the men] said that when he
entered the Senate he became in a short time intimate with one of his
colleagues...
Edc1 10.145 20 In London...I became acquainted with a
gentleman, Sir Charles Fellowes...
MoL 10.244 20 In Puritanism, how the whole Jewish
history became flesh and blood in those men, let Bunyan show.
LLNE 10.331 15 The word that [Everett] spoke, in the
manner in which he spoke it, became current and classical in New
England.
LLNE 10.338 18 [Goethe] extended [his theory of
metamorphosis] into anatomy and animal life, and his views were
accepted. The revolt became a revolution.
LLNE 10.343 5 As these persons became in the common
chances of society acquainted with each other, there resulted certainly
strong friendships...
LLNE 10.365 23 ...in every instance the newcomers [to
Brook Farm]... were sure to avail themselves of every means of
instruction; their knowledge was increased, their manners refined,-but
they became in that proportion averse to labor...
MMEm 10.428 5 The sickness of the last week was fine
medicine; pain disintegrated the spirit, or became spiritual.
Thor 10.481 26 [Thoreau] loved Nature so well, was so
happy in her solitude, that he became very jealous of cities...
GSt 10.505 5 ...[George Stearns] became, in the most
natural manner, an indispensable power in the state.
GSt 10.506 18 For a year or two, the most
affectionate and domestic of men [George Stearns] became almost a
stranger in his beautiful home.
HDC 11.54 4 At the instance of [John] Eliot, in 1651,
[the Indians'] desire was granted by the General Court, and Nashobah,
lying near Nagog Pond... became an Indian town...
HDC 11.55 5 In 1643, the colony was so numerous that
it became expedient to divide it into four counties, Concord being
included in Middlesex.
HDC 11.55 22 ...the Concord people became uneasy, and
looked around for new seats.
EWI 11.105 1 It became plain to all men...that the
crimes...of the slave-traders and slave-owners could not be overstated.
EWI 11.105 13 Granville Sharpe was accidentally made
acquainted with the sufferings of a slave, whom a West Indian planter
had brought with him to London, and had beaten with a pistol on his
head, so badly that his whole body became diseased...
EWI 11.107 13 Public attention...was drawn that way
[to the West Indies], and the methods of the stealing and the
transportation [of slaves] from Africa became noised abroad.
EWI 11.114 24 On the night of the 31st July [1834],
[the negroes of the West Indies] met everywhere at their churches and
chapels, and at midnight...on their knees, the silent, weeping assembly
became men;...
FSLC 11.196 14 The first execution of the [Fugitive
Slave] law, as was inevitable, was a little hesitating; the second was
easier; and the glib officials became, in a few weeks, quite practised
and handy at stealing men.
FSLC 11.203 5 ...as the activity and growth of
slavery began to be offensively felt by [Webster's] constituents, the
senator became less sensitive to these evils.
FSLC 11.203 19 ...very unexpectedly to the whole
Union, on the 7th March, 1850...[Webster] crossed the line, and became
the head of the slavery party in this country.
FSLN 11.222 18 ...[Webster's] splendid wrath, when
his eyes became lamps, was the wrath of the fact and the cause he stood
for.
JBB 11.268 1 [John Brown's] father...became a
contractor to supply the army with beef, in the war of 1812...
EPro 11.318 7 ...it became every day more apparent
what gigantic and what remote interests were to be affected by the
decision of the President [Lincoln]...
ALin 11.332 17 ...how [Lincoln's] good nature became
a noble humanity, in many a tragic case which the events of the war
brought to him, every one will remember;...
SMC 11.356 14 ...when the Border raids were let loose
on [Kansas] villages, these people...were so beside themselves with
rage, that they became on the instant the bravest soldiers and the most
determined avengers.
SMC 11.370 23 Being informed that he misunderstood
the order, which was only to inform him how to retire when it became
necessary, [George Prescott] was satisfied...
Shak1 11.446 7 ...centuries brood, nor can attain/
The sense and bound of Shakspeare's brain./ The men who lived with him
became/ Poets, for the air was fame./
Scot 11.467 20 [Scott] was apprenticed at Edinburgh
to a Writer to the Signet, and became a Writer to the Signet...
Milt1 12.249 1 [Milton's tracts] are not
effective...like what became also controversial tracts, several
masterly speeches in the history of the American Congress.
Milt1 12.259 17 In Paris, [Milton] became acquainted
with Grotius;...
Milt1 12.260 4 Very early in life [Milton] became
conscious that he had more to say to his fellow men than they had fit
words to embody.
Beche, De la, Henry Thomas (1)
ET17 5.293 1 Every day in London gave me new
opportunities of meeting men and women who give splendor to society. I
saw...among the men of science...De la Beche, Hooker, Carpenter...
beck, n. (1)
SR 2.88 11 ...what the man acquires, is living
property, which does not wait the beck of rulers...
Becket, Thomas a, n. (1)
PC 8.218 13 If a theologian of deep convictions and
strong understanding carries his country with him, like Luther, the
state becomes Lutheran, in spite of the Emperor; as Thomas a Becket
overpowered the English Henry.
Beckets, n. (1)
ET13 5.220 13 ...the age of the Wicliffes, Cobhams,
Arundels, Beckets;...is gone.
Beckford, William, n. (2)
ET10 5.165 14 Strawberry Hill of Horace Walpole,
Fonthill Abbey of Mr. Beckford, were freaks;...
Wth 6.95 4 The reader of Humboldt's Cosmos follows
the marches of a man whose eyes, ears and mind are armed by all the
science, arts, and implements which mankind have anywhere accumulated,
and who is using these to add to the stock. So it is with...Beckford...
beckon, v. (4)
F 6.1 5 Birds with auguries on their wings/ Chanted
undeceiving things,/ [The bard] to beckon, him to warn;/...
PI 8.1 7 ...From blue mount and headland dim/
Friendly hands stretch forth to him,/ Him they beckon, him advise/ Of
heavenlier prosperities/ And a more excelling grace/ And a truer
bosom-glow/ Than the wine-fed feasters know./
PLT 12.28 21 [Nature] is immensely rich; [man] is
welcome to her entire goods, but she...will not so much as beckon or
cough;...
beckoning, v. (2)
Pt1 3.39 9 [The artist] hears a voice, he sees a
beckoning.
Ill 6.325 12 The young mortal enters the hall of the
firmament; there is he alone with [the gods] alone, they...beckoning
him up to their thrones.
beckons, v. (6)
PI 8.68 2 We must...ask...whether we shall find our
tragedy written in [Hamlet's]...and the way opened to the paradise
which ever in the best hour beckons us?
Imtl 8.338 11 I have a house, a closet which holds my
books, a table, a garden, a field: are these...a reason for refusing
the angel who beckons me away...
Becky Stow's Swamp, n. (1)
Thor 10.480 10 ...the blockheads were not born in
Concord; but who said they were? It was their unspeakable misfortune to
be born in London, or Paris, or Rome; but...they did what they could,
considering that they never saw...Becky Stow's Swamp;...
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