D., Mr. to Daws

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

D., Mr. [Elias Phinney], n (3)

    AgMs 12.362 3 One would think that Mr. D. [Elias Phinney] and Major S. [Abel Moore] were the pillars of the Commonwealth.
    AgMs 12.362 9 ...Mr. D. [Elias Phinney]...would starve in two years on any one of fifty poor farms in this neighborhood...
    AgMs 12.362 13 Mr. D. inherited a farm, and spends on it every year from other resources;...

dab, n. (1)

    ACri 12.287 21 ...the lowest classifying words outvalue arguments; as, upstart, dab, cockney...

dabbled, v. (1)

    ET4 5.64 21 From childhood, [the English] dabbled in water...

Dabney's Mills, Virginia, n (1)

    SMC 11.374 1 At Dabney's Mills, in a sharp fight, [the Thirty-second Regiment] lost seventy-four killed, wounded and missing.

dactyls, n. (1)

    PI 8.53 9 Lord Bacon, we are told, loved not to see poesy go on other feet than poetical dactyls and spondees;...

Daedalus Hyperboreus [Emanu (1)

    SwM 4.99 23 [Swedenborg] published in 1716 his Daedalus Hyperboreus...

Daedalus, n. (2)

    PC 8.216 6 All the transcendent writers and artists of the world,-'t is doubtful who they were, they are lifted so fast into mythology;...Daedalus, Hermes, Zoroaster...
    PC 8.216 9 The early names are too typical...Daedalus, cunning;...

daemon, n. (4)

    Pt1 3.25 7 Over everything stands its daemon or soul...
    PPh 4.64 2 ...the fairest fortune that can befall man is to be guided by his daemon to that which is truly his own.
    F 6.45 16 ...as every man is hunted by his own daemon...this checks all his activity.
    F 6.47 21 Leaving the daemon who suffers, [man] is to take sides with the Deity...

Daemon, n. (3)

    PPh 4.66 27 Socrates declares that if some have grown wise by associating with him, no thanks are due to him;...he pretends not to know the way of it. It is adverse to many, nor can those be benefited by associating with me whom the Daemon opposes;...
    Chr2 10.97 3 Devout men...have used different images to suggest this latent [moral] force; as...the Comforter, the Daemon, the still, small voice...
    Plu 10.304 26 ...asking Epaminondas about the manner of Lysis's burial, I found that Lysis had taught him as far as the incommunicable mysteries of our sect, and that the same Daemon that waited on Lysis, presided over him...

Daemon of Socrates, On the (1)

    Boks 7.200 5 [The reader] will read in [Plutarch's Morals] the essays On the Daemon of Socrates, On Isis and Osiris...

daemoniacal, adj. (1)

    Boks 7.203 6 ...[in the Platonists] the grand and pleasing figures of gods and daemons and daemoniacal men...sail before [the scholar's] eyes.

daemonic, adj. (2)

    SwM 4.109 8 ...every thing at the end of one use is lifted into a superior, and the ascent of these things climbs into daemonic and celestial natures.
    GoW 4.274 6 ...in the solidest kingdom of routine and the senses, [Goethe] showed the lurking daemonic power;...

daemons, n. (5)

    Pt1 3.39 10 [The artist] hears a voice, he sees a beckoning. Then he is apprised, with wonder, what herds of daemons hem him in.
    GoW 4.285 2 The lurking daemons sat to [Goethe], and the saint who saw the daemons;...
    GoW 4.285 3 The lurking daemons sat to [Goethe], and the saint who saw the daemons;...
    Boks 7.203 6 ...[in the Platonists] the grand and pleasing figures of gods and daemons and daemoniacal men...sail before [the scholar's] eyes.
    Boks 7.203 8 ...[in the Platonists] the grand and pleasing figures of gods and daemons and daemoniacal men...daemons with fulgid eyes...sail before [the scholar's] eyes.

Daemons, n. (1)

    Plu 10.305 2 The paths of life are large, but few are men directed by the Daemons.

Dag, of Norway [Sturluson, (1)

    ET4 5.59 7 If a [Norse] farmer has so much as a hay-fork, he sticks it into a King Dag.

dagger, n. (1)

    ET11 5.176 16 At [Richard Neville's] house in London, six oxen were daily eaten at a breakfast...and who had any acquaintance in his family should have as much boiled and roast as he could carry on a long dagger.

Daguerre, Louis Jacques Ma (1)

    ShP 4.214 3 Daguerre learned how to let one flower etch its image on his plate of iodine...

daguerreotyped, v. (1)

    ET15 5.268 27 ...[the London Times] is [the Englishmen's] understanding and day's ideal daguerreotyped.

Daguerreotypist, n. (1)

    LT 1.264 26 Whilst the Daguerreotypist...begins now to traverse the land, let us set up our Camera also...

Daguesseau, M., n. (3)

    Mem 12.96 1 We are told that Boileau having recited to Daguesseau one day an epistle or satire he had just been composing, Daguesseau tranquilly told him he knew it already...
    Mem 12.96 2 We are told that Boileau having recited to Daguesseau one day an epistle or satire he had just been composing, Daguesseau tranquilly told him he knew it already...
    Mem 12.106 5 Talk of memory and cite me these fine examples of Grotius and Daguesseau, and I think how awful is that power...

daily, adj. (88)

    Nat 1.9 5 [The lover of nature's] intercourse with heaven and earth becomes part of his daily food.
    Nat 1.75 21 It were a wise inquiry...to compare...our daily history with the rise and progress of ideas in the mind.
    DSA 1.129 20 ...[Jesus] knew that this daily miracle shines as the character ascends.
    LE 1.177 18 [Human life's] laws are concealed under the details of daily action.
    MR 1.227 18 ...every man should be open to ecstacy or a divine illumination, and his daily walk elevated by intercourse with the spiritual world.
    MR 1.231 19 How many articles of daily consumption are furnished us from the West Indies;...
    MR 1.247 27 ...the idea which now begins to agitate society has a wider scope than our daily employments...
    LT 1.271 15 We arraign our daily employments.
    LT 1.271 21 Nature, literature, science, childhood, appear to us beautiful; but not our own daily work...
    LT 1.273 5 Milton...describes a relation between religion and the daily occupations...
    Con 1.315 13 ...[Friar Bernard]...talked with gentle mothers...who told him how much love they bore their children, and how they were perplexed in their daily walk lest they should fail in their duty to them.
    Tran 1.331 19 ...how easy it is to show [the materialist]...that he need only ask a question or two beyond his daily questions to find his solid universe growing dim and impalpable before his sense.
    Tran 1.349 16 As to the general course of living, and the daily employments of men, [Transcendentalists] cannot see much virtue in these...
    SR 2.52 26 Men do what is called a good action...much as they would pay a fine in expiation of daily non-appearance on parade.
    Comp 2.95 25 [Men's] daily life gives [their theology] the lie.
    SL 2.140 18 We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession.
    Fdsp 2.189 8 ...The world uncertain comes and goes,/ The lover rooted stays./ I fancied he was fled,/ And, after many a year,/ Glowed unexhausted kindliness/ Like daily sunrise there./
    Fdsp 2.206 6 [Friends] are to dignify to each other the daily needs and offices of man's life...
    Cir 2.312 20 In my daily work I incline to repeat my old steps...
    Int 2.326 26 All that mass of mental and moral phenomena which we do not make objects of voluntary thought...constitute the circumstance of daily life;...
    Art1 2.354 18 ...[the infant's] individual character and his practical power depend on his daily progress in the separation of things...
    Pt1 3.31 23 ...Aesop reports the whole catalogue of common daily relations through the masquerade of birds and beasts;...
    Mrs1 3.133 3 [A man] should preserve in a new company the same attitude of mind and reality of relation which his daily associates draw him to...
    NR 3.241 3 I think I have done well if I have acquired a new word from a good author; and my business with him is to find my own, though it were only to melt him down into an epithet or an image for daily use...
    PPh 4.72 7 ...[Socrates] showed one who was afraid to go on foot to Olympia, that it was no more than his daily walk within doors, if continuously extended, would easily reach.
    ET8 5.139 13 ...[the Englishmen's] daily feasts argue a savage vigor of body.
    ET9 5.147 13 ...it must be admitted, the island [England] offers a daily worship to the old Norse god Brage...
    ET10 5.164 4 [The English] have...drowsy habitude, daily dress-dinners, wine and ale and beer and gin and sleep.
    ET13 5.219 5 From his infancy, every Englishman is accustomed to hear daily prayers for the Queen...
    ET15 5.264 22 ...a daily paper can only be new and seasonable for a few hours.
    ET15 5.265 22 ...[Mowbray Morris] told us that the daily printing [of the London Times] was then 35,000 copies;...
    ET15 5.265 25 ...[Mowbray Morris] told us...that, since February, the daily circulation [of the London Times] had increased by 8000 copies.
    ET15 5.267 14 The daily paper [London Times] is the work of many hands...
    ET15 5.269 17 ...I read, among the daily announcements [in the London Times], one offering a reward of fifty pounds to any person who would put a nobleman, described by name and title, late a member of Parliament, into any county jail in England...
    ET15 5.270 2 One would think the world was on its knees to The [London] Times office for its daily breakfast.
    Ctr 6.150 1 The head of a commercial house or a leading lawyer or politician is brought into daily contact with troops of men from all parts of the country...
    Ctr 6.156 4 He who should inspire and lead his race must be defended... from living, breathing, reading and writing in the daily, time-worn yoke of [other men's] opinions.
    Civ 7.32 9 ...when I look over this constellation of cities which animate and illustrate the land, and see how little the government has to do with their daily life...I see what cubic values America has...
    Elo1 7.90 5 Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol, and an audience is electrified.
    DL 7.112 16 If the children...are...schooled and at home fostered by the parents,--then does the hospitality of the house suffer;...the daily table [is] less catered.
    WD 7.165 15 What sickening details in the daily journals!
    WD 7.172 13 ...the earth is the cup, the sky is the cover, of the immense bounty of Nature which is offered us for our daily aliment;...
    WD 7.176 21 In daily life, what distinguishes the master is the using of those materials he has...
    Boks 7.219 6 All these [sacred] books...are more to our daily purpose than this year's almanac or this day's newspaper.
    Clbs 7.226 1 ...the staple of conversation is widely unlike in its circles. Sometimes it is facts,--running from those of daily necessity, to the last results of science...
    Clbs 7.241 16 We consider those...who think it the highest compliment they can pay a man...to expose to him the grand and cheerful secrets perhaps never opened to their daily companions...
    OA 7.330 23 We remember our old Greek Professor at Cambridge...with nothing to break his leisure after the three hours of his daily classes...
    PI 8.1 2 But over all his crowning grace,/ Wherefor thanks God his daily praise,/ Is the purging of his eye/ To see the people of the sky/...
    PI 8.24 22 ...the beholding and co-energizing mind sees the same refining and ascent to the third, the seventh or the tenth power of the daily accidents which the senses report...
    PI 8.35 6 This contemporary insight is transubstantiation, the conversion of daily bread into the holiest symbols;...
    PI 8.48 23 ...the people liked an overpowering jewsharp tune. Later they like...to detect a melody as prompt and perfect in their daily affairs.
    PI 8.67 7 [A good poem] affects the characters of its readers by...inevitably prompting their daily action.
    SA 8.106 13 Would we codify the laws that should reign in households, and whose daily transgression annoys and mortifies us...we must learn to adorn every day with sacrifices.
    PC 8.227 17 In our daily intercourse, we go with the crowd...
    Insp 8.282 6 ...there is this daily renovation of sensibility...
    Imtl 8.332 19 ...though men of good minds, [the two friends] were both pretty strong materialists in their daily aims and way of life.
    Dem1 10.26 26 [The demonologic] is a lawless world. We have left the geometry, the compensation, and the conscience of the daily world...
    Aris 10.41 9 The multiplication of monarchs known by telegraph and daily news from all countries to the daily papers...has robbed the title of king of all its romance...
    Aris 10.41 10 The multiplication of monarchs known by telegraph and daily news from all countries to the daily papers...has robbed the title of king of all its romance...
    PerF 10.86 25 A boy who knows that a bully lives round the corner which he must pass on his daily way to school, is apt to take sinister views of streets and of school education.
    Supl 10.165 4 Every favorite is not a cherub...nor agonies, excruciations nor ecstasies our daily bread.
    SovE 10.194 9 [Good men] do not see that particulars are sacred to [God]... that these passages of daily life are his work;...
    LLNE 10.360 21 [The projectors of Brook Farm] had the feeling that our ways of living were too conventional and expensive...not permitting men to combine cultivation of mind and heart with a reasonable amount of daily labor.
    LLNE 10.362 24 ...[Charles Newcomb was] a student and philosopher, who found his daily enjoyment not with the elders or his exact contemporaries so much as with the fine boys who were skating and playing ball or bird-hunting;...
    CSC 10.374 2 The daily newspapers reported...brief sketches of the course of proceedings [of the Chardon Street Convention]...
    MMEm 10.415 14 ...I [Nature] comforted thee when going on the daily errand...
    SlHr 10.438 2 At the time when [Samuel Hoar] went to South Carolina...he was repeatedly warned that it was not safe for him...to take his daily walk...
    SlHr 10.438 11 ...[Samuel Hoar] continued the uniform practice of his daily walk in all parts of the city [Charleston].
    Thor 10.456 8 It seemed as if [Thoreau's] first instinct on hearing a proposition was to controvert it, so impatient was he of the limitations of our daily thought.
    Thor 10.463 7 [Thoreau!s] trenchant sense was never stopped by his rules of daily prudence...
    Carl 10.489 11 If you would know precisely how [Carlyle] talks, just suppose Hugh Whelan (the gardener) had found leisure enough in addition to all his daily work to read Plato and Shakspeare...
    HDC 11.43 19 What could the body of freemen, meeting four times a year, at Boston, do for the daily wants of the planters at Musketaquid?
    EWI 11.122 13 [Our] well-being consists in having a sufficiency of coffee and toast, with a daily newspaper;...
    FSLC 11.178 2 The Eternal Rights,/ Victors over daily wrongs:/ Awful victors, they misguide/ Whom they will destroy/...
    ACiv 11.298 9 ...who is this who tosses his empty head at this blessing in disguise...and insults the faithful workman at his daily toil?
    ACiv 11.301 26 Banknotes rob the public, but are such a daily convenience that we silence our scruples...
    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 11.363 22 When, afterwards, five of [George Prescott's] men were prisoners in the Parish Prison in New Orleans, they...wrote a daily or weekly newspaper...
    FRep 11.543 1 ...the cosmic results will be the same, whatever the daily events may be.
    PLT 12.33 21 Right thought...comes daily, like our daily bread, to humble service;...
    PLT 12.43 2 The highest measure of poetic power is such insight and faculty to fuse the circumstances of to-day as shall make transparent the whole web of circumstance and opinion in which the man finds himself, so that he...sees so truly the omnipresence of eternal cause that he can convert the daily and hourly event of New York, of Boston, into universal symbols.
    PLT 12.58 6 The daily history of the Intellect is this alternating of expansions and concentrations.
    II 12.73 8 ...he will instruct and aid us who shows us...how the daily sunshine and sap may be made to feed wheat instead of moss and Canada thistle;...
    CInt 12.123 2 The Understanding is the name we give to the low, limitary power working to short ends, to daily life in house and street.
    CW 12.176 24 A man...should know...the quarter of the moon and the daily tides.
    MLit 12.333 12 When one of these grand monads is incarnated whom Nature seems to design for eternal men and draw to her bosom, we think that...the trivial forms of daily life will now end...
    MLit 12.336 5 Religion will bind again these that were sometime frivolous, customary, enemies...into a joyful reverence for the circumambient Whole, and that which was ecstasy shall become daily bread.
    PPr 12.379 16 ...[Carlyle's Past and Present] is the book of a...thinker, who has looked with naked eyes at the dreadful political signs in England for the last few years...until such daily and nightly meditation has grown into a great connection, if not a system of thoughts;...

daily, adv. (47)

    Nat 1.26 5 Most of the process by which this transformation [from thing to word] is made, is hidden from us in the remote time when language was framed; but the same tendency may be daily observed in children.
    DSA 1.128 17 I shall endeavor to discharge my duty to you on this occasion, by pointing out two errors in [the Christian church's] administration, which daily appear more gross...
    Tran 1.343 10 ...[Transcendentalists] will own...that there are persons whom in their hearts they daily thank for existing...
    YA 1.395 4 ...youth is a fault of which we shall daily mend.
    Hist 2.35 23 ...along with the civil and metaphysical history of man, another history goes daily forward,--that of the external world...
    Fdsp 2.194 3 Shall I not call God the Beautiful, who daily showeth himself so to me in his gifts?
    Hsm1 2.243 8 ...The hero is not fed on sweets,/ Daily his own heart he eats;/...
    Nat2 3.170 8 ...we see what majestic beauties daily wrap us in their bosom.
    Nat2 3.171 16 We go out daily and nightly to feed the eyes on the horizon...
    PPh 4.46 9 The same weakness and want, on a higher plane, occurs daily in the education of ardent young men and women.
    ET4 5.66 13 The bronze monuments of crusaders lying cross-legged in the Temple Church at London...please...mainly by that uncorrupt youth in the face of manhood, which is daily seen in the streets of London.
    ET9 5.149 20 [The English] tell you daily in London the story of the Frenchman and Englishman who quarrelled.
    ET10 5.169 13 What befalls from the violence of financial crises, befalls daily in the violence of artificial legislation.
    ET11 5.176 12 At [Richard Neville's] house in London, six oxen were daily eaten at a breakfast...
    F 6.8 25 ...these shocks and ruins are less destructive to us than the stealthy power of other laws which act on us daily.
    Wth 6.113 11 ...the betrothed maiden by one secure affection is relieved from a system of slaveries,--the daily inculcated necessity of pleasing all...
    Wth 6.120 13 ...how can Cockayne, who has no pastures, and leaves his cottage daily in the cars at business hours, be pothered with fatting and killing oxen?
    CbW 6.260 15 ...what we ask daily, is to be conventional.
    CbW 6.265 13 ...I find the gayest castles in the air that were ever piled, far better for comfort and for use than the dungeons in the air that are daily dug and caverned out by grumbling, discontented people.
    CbW 6.271 24 ...if one comes who can...show [men]...what gifts they have...then...we see the zenith over and the nadir under us. Instead of the tanks and buckets of knowledge to which we are daily confined, we come down to the shore of the sea...
    Civ 7.20 10 In other races [than the Indian and the negro]...the like progress that is made by a boy when he cuts his eye-teeth, as we say,--childish illusions passing daily away...is made by tribes.
    DL 7.105 13 [The boy] walks daily among wonders...
    OA 7.333 23 [John Adams] spoke of Mr. Lechmere, whom he well remembered to have seen come down daily, at great age, to walk in the old town-house...
    PI 8.35 4 American life storms about us daily, and is slow to find a tongue.
    SA 8.82 3 ...trying experiments, and at perfect leisure with these posture-masters and flatterers all day, [the babe] throws himself into all the attitudes that correspond to theirs. ... Are they encroaching? he is dignified and inexorable. And this scene is daily repeated in hovels as well as in high houses.
    Elo2 8.118 8 ...the great and daily growing interests at stake in this country must pay proportional prices to their spokesmen and defenders.
    QO 8.181 23 ...what we daily observe in regard to the bon-mots that circulate in society...the same growth befalls mythology...
    Imtl 8.331 21 [One of the men] said that when he entered the Senate he became in a short time intimate with one of his colleagues, and...they daily returned to each other...
    Dem1 10.13 15 I am content and occupied with such miracles as I know, such as my eyes and ears daily show me...
    Supl 10.169 12 I am daily struck with the forcible understatement of people who have no literary habit.
    Schr 10.285 27 Genius delights only in statements which are themselves true...which...do daily declare fresh war against all falsehood and custom...
    MMEm 10.420 27 Hard to contend for a health which is daily used in petition for a final close.
    Thor 10.454 1 [Thoreau] could easily solve the problems of the surveyor, but he was daily beset with graver questions, which he manfully confronted.
    War 11.164 27 This happens daily, yearly about us, with half thoughts, often with flimsy lies, pieces of policy and speculation. With good nursing they will last three or four years before they will come to nothing.
    ACiv 11.298 4 All honest men are daily striving to earn their bread by their industry.
    SMC 11.364 22 At this time Captain Prescott was daily threatened with sickness...
    RBur 11.442 2 What a love of Nature [in Burns], and, shall I say it? of middle-class Nature. Not like...Moore, in the luxurious East, but in the homely landscape which the poor see around them...birds, hares, field-mice, thistles and heather, which he daily knew.
    ChiE 11.474 2 It is gratifying to know that the advantages of the new intercourse between the two countries [China and the United States] are daily manifest on the Pacific coast.
    FRep 11.515 12 When the cannon is aimed by ideas...when men die for what they live for, and the mainspring that works daily urges them to hazard all...the better code of laws at last records the victory.
    FRep 11.516 24 The humblest [in America] is daily challenged to give his opinion on practical questions...
    PLT 12.33 21 Right thought...comes daily, like our daily bread, to humble service;...
    PLT 12.52 3 I am familiar with cases, we meet them daily, wherein the vital force being insufficient for the constitution, everything is neglected that can be spared;...
    CL 12.141 23 In the English universities, the reading men are daily performing their punctual training in the boat-clubs...
    MAng1 12.236 26 ...[Michelangelo] replies [to the Duke of Tuscany]...that he hoped he should shortly see the execution of his plans [for St. Peter's] brought to such a point that they could no longer be interfered with...if, he adds, I do not commit a great crime by disappointing the cormorants who are daily hoping to get rid of me.
    Milt1 12.260 1 [Milton's] lore of foreign tongues added daily to his consummate skill in the use of his own.
    Milt1 12.268 1 [Milton] returned into his revolutionized country, and assumed an honest and useful task, by which he might serve the state daily...
    MLit 12.329 17 [We can fancy Goethe saying to himself] I have let mischance befall [in Wilhelm Meister] instead of good fortune. [Men] do so daily.

Daily and Yearly Journal [ (1)

    GoW 4.287 1 [Goethe's] Daily and Yearly Journal, his Italian Travels... have the same interest.

Daily Newspaper, n. (1)

    Aris 10.32 25 It will not pain me...if it should turn out, what is true, that I am describing...a chapter of Templars...but so few...that their names and doings are not recorded in...any Court Journal, or even Daily Newspaper of the world.

daimon, n. (1)

    CInt 12.126 19 ...all the youth come out [of Harvard College] decrepit citizens; not a prophet, not a poet, not a daimon, but is gagged and stifled or driven away.

daintily, adv. (1)

    Fdsp 2.201 10 I do not wish to treat friendships daintily...

daintiness, n. (1)

    HDC 11.56 12 We have among us [says Peter Bulkeley] excess and...pride in apparel, daintiness in diet...

dainty, adj. (4)

    MR 1.241 23 ...where there is a fine organization, apt for poetry and philosophy, that individual...is better taught by a moderate and dainty exercise...than by the downright drudgery of the farmer and the smith.
    Lov1 2.179 8 Who can analyze the nameless charm which glances from one and another face and form? We are touched with emotions of tenderness and complacency, but we cannot find whereat this dainty emotion, this wandering gleam, points.
    PI 8.56 2 Perhaps this dainty style of poetry is not producible to-day...
    Mem 12.103 23 ...confined now in populous streets you behold again the green fields, the shadows of the gray birches; by the solitary river...vibrate anew to the tenderness and dainty music of the poetry your boyhood fed upon.

dainty, adv. (1)

    PI 8.55 22 Welcome, folded arms and fixed eyes,/...A midnight bell, a passing groan,/ These are the sounds we feed upon,/ Then stretch our bones in a still, gloomy valley./ Nothing 's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy./

dairy, n. (1)

    Farm 7.137 23 ...the tranquillity and innocence of the countryman, his independence and his pleasing arts,--the care of bees...of cows, the dairy... all men acknowledge.

dais, n. (1)

    Bhr 6.183 8 In Notre Dame, the grandee took his place on the dias with the look of one who is thinking of something else.

daisy, n. (2)

    ET1 5.22 21 [Wordsworth's] third [sonnet on Fingal's Cave] is addressed to the flowers, which, he said, especially the ox-eye daisy, are very abundant on the top of the rock.
    ET16 5.277 16 Within the enclosure [of Stonehenge] grow buttercups, nettles, and all around, wild thyme, daisy, meadowsweet, goldenrod, thistle and the carpeting grass.

dale, n. (3)

    SL 2.137 2 Our society is encumbered by ponderous machinery, which resembles the endless aqueducts which the Romans built over hill and dale...
    ET11 5.180 12 ...[the English lords] rightly wear the token of the glebe that gave them birth, suggesting that...here in London,--the crags of Argyle...the clays of Stafford...know the man who...like the long line of his fathers, had carried that crag, that shore, dale, fen, or woodland, in his blood and manners.
    Thor 10.449 3 A queen rejoices in her peers,/ And wary Nature knows her own,/ By court and city, dale and down,/ And like a lover volunteers/...

Dalton, John. (1)

    ET14 5.238 23 One hint of Franklin, or Watt, or Dalton, or Davy...was worth all [Bacon's] lifetime of exquisite trifles.

Dalton, John, n. (5)

    Nat2 3.183 27 The common sense of Franklin, Dalton, Davy and Black is the same common sense which made the arrangements which now it discovers.
    UGM 4.9 7 Each man is by secret liking connected with some district of nature, whose agent and interpreter he is; as...Dalton, of atomic forms;...
    ET5 5.100 22 The boys [in England] know all that Hutton knew of strata, or Dalton of atoms...
    Clbs 7.238 27 It happened many years ago that an American chemist carried a letter of introduction to Dr. Dalton of Manchester, England...
    Clbs 7.239 4 ...an American chemist carried a letter of introduction to Dr. Dalton of Manchester, England...and was coolly enough received by the doctor in the laboratory where he was engaged. Only Dr. Dalton scratched a formula on a scrap of paper and pushed it towards the guest,--Had he seen that?

Dalton's, John, n. (2)

    ET1 5.24 4 [Wordsworth]...quoted, with evident pleasure, the verses addressed To the Skylark. In this connection he said of the Newtonian theory that it might yet be superseded and forgotten; and Dalton's atomic theory.
    ET14 5.242 18 ...the very announcement...even of Dalton's doctrine of definite proportions, finds a sudden response in the mind...

damage, n. (7)

    Comp 2.123 13 ...Nothing can work me damage except myself;...
    ET2 5.30 6 If [the sea] is capable of these great and secular mischiefs, it is quite as ready at private and local damage;...
    Wth 6.108 26 One might say...that nothing is cheap or dear, and that the apparent disparities that strike us are only a shopman's trick of concealing the damage in your bargain.
    Suc 7.290 7 ...war, cannons and executions are used to clear the ground of bad, lumpish, irreclaimable savages, but always to the damage of the conquerors.
    Insp 8.288 18 ...it is almost impossible for a house-keeper who is in the country a small farmer, to exclude interruptions and even necessary orders, though I...resolutely omit, to my constant damage, all that can be omitted.
    EPro 11.319 2 ...one midsummer day seems to repair the damage of a year of war.
    SMC 11.352 24 ...only that state can live, in which injury to the least member is recognized as damage to the whole.

damaged, v. (1)

    ET7 5.118 11 ...the cause is damaged in the [English] public opinion, on which any paltering can be fixed.

damages, n. (2)

    HDC 11.48 15 In 1795, several town-meetings are called [in Concord], upon the compensation to be made to a few proprietors for land taken in making a bridle-road; and one of them demanding large damages, many offers were made him in town-meeting, and refused;...
    Mem 12.101 8 The damages of forgetting are more than compensated by the large values which new thoughts and knowledge give to what we already know.

damaging, adj. (3)

    ET13 5.227 14 The modes of initiation [in the English Church] are more damaging than custom-house oaths.
    CbW 6.257 18 ...one would say that a good understanding would suffice as well as moral sensibility to keep one erect; the gratifications of the passions are so quickly seen to be damaging...
    PLT 12.13 2 ...just in proportion to the activity of thoughts on the study of outward objects...in that proportion the faculties of the mind had a healthy growth; but a study in the opposite direction had a damaging effect on the mind.

damaging, v. (1)

    ET8 5.139 7 There is an adipocere in [Englishmen's] constitution, as if they...could perform vast amounts of work without damaging themselves.

Damascus, Syria, adj. (2)

    LT 1.266 5 Here is a Damascus blade, such as you may search through nature in vain to parallel...
    PI 8.33 2 Shakspeare is made up of important passages...like Damascus steel made up of old nails.

Damascus, Syria, n. (1)

    OA 7.317 26 Saadi found in a mosque at Damascus an old Persian of a hundred and fifty years...

damask, n. (1)

    EurB 12.370 11 In [Tennyson's] boudoirs of damask and alabaster, one is farther off from stern Nature and human life than in Lalla Rookh and the Loves of the Angels.

dame, n. (1)

    ET1 5.17 22 [Carlyle] still returned to English pauperism...the selfish abdication by public men of all that public persons should perform. Government should direct poor men what to do. Poor Irish folk come wandering over these moors. My dame makes it a rule to give to every son of Adam bread to eat...

dames, n. (1)

    Scot 11.464 9 [Scott's] own ear had been charmed by old ballads crooned by Scottish dames at firesides...

dame's, n. (2)

    Comp 2.99 4 Is a man...a morose ruffian...Nature sends him a troop of pretty sons and daughters, who are getting along in the dame's classes at the village school...
    Bost 12.201 14 There is a little formula, couched in pure Saxon, which you may hear...in the yard of the dame's school, from very little republicans: I ' m as good as you be...

dame-school, adj. (1)

    Nat2 3.179 27 Geology has...taught us to disuse our dame-school measures...

dammed, v. (1)

    Trag 12.415 7 [Our human being] is like a stream of water, which, if dammed up on one bank, overruns the other, and flows equally at its own convenience over sand, or mud, or marble.

damn, v. (3)

    UGM 4.27 14 They cry up the virtues of George Washington,--Damn George Washington! is the poor Jacobin's whole speech and confutation.
    ET10 5.154 23 In 1809, the majority in Parliament expressed itself by the language of Mr. Fuller in the House of Commons, If you do not like the country, damn you, you can leave it.
    MLit 12.329 12 [We can fancy Goethe saying to himself] The age, that can damn [Wilhelm Meister] as false and falsifying, will see that it is deeply one with the genius and history of all the centuries.

damnable, adj. (3)

    Con 1.305 23 ...among the lovers of the new I observe...that the seceder from the seceder is as damnable as the pope himself.
    YA 1.388 19 ...the college, the church, the hospital, the theatre, the hotel, the road, the ship of the capitalist...what jeopardizes any of these is damnable.
    EWI 11.131 14 If such a damnable outrage [kidnapping of freeborn negroes] can be committed on the person of a citizen with impunity, let the Governor break the broad seal of the State;...

damnation, n. (1)

    NER 3.252 11 One apostle thought all men should go to farming...another that the mischief was in our diet, that we eat and drink damnation.

damned, adj. (1)

    MoS 4.154 22 I knew a philosopher of this kidney who was accustomed briefly to sum up his experience of human nature in saying, Mankind is a damned rascal...

damned, v. (2)

    NR 3.246 13 Lord Eldon said in his old age that if he were to begin life again, he would be damned but he would begin as agitator.
    Trag 12.415 22 The market-man never damned the lady because she had not paid her bill...

damning, adj. (2)

    Comp 2.116 10 [Commit a crime and] Some damning circumstance always transpires.
    ET4 5.51 8 Everything English is a fusion of distant and antagonistic elements. The language is mixed;...a country of extemes...nothing can be praised in it without damning exceptions...

damns, v. (1)

    FRep 11.523 24 If a customer looks grave at [the peoples'] newspaper, or damns their member of Congress, they take another newspaper, and vote for another man.

damp, adj. (2)

    CbW 6.264 21 'T is a Dutch proverb that paint costs nothing, such are its preserving qualities in damp climates.
    PerF 10.73 27 It is curious to see how a creature so feeble and vulnerable as a man, who, unarmed, is no match for the wild beasts...none for a fog, or a damp air...is yet able to subdue to his will these terrific [natural] forces...

damp, n. (1)

    ShP 4.201 27 Elated with success and piqued by the growing interest of the problem, [the antiquaries] have left...no file of old yellow accounts to decompose in damp and worms, so keen was the hope to discover whether the boy Shakspeare poached or not...

damp, v. (1)

    LE 1.183 18 The scholar regrets to damp the hope of ingenuous boys;...

damped, v. (1)

    OA 7.335 14 [John Adams] received a premature report of his son's election...and told the reporter he had been hoaxed, for it was not yet time for any news to arrive. The informer, something damped in his heart, insisted on repairing to the meeting-house...

damper, adj. (1)

    CL 12.152 15 The leaf in our dry climate gets fully ripe, and...acquires fine color, whilst, in Europe, the damper climate decomposes it too soon.

dams, n. (1)

    Exp 3.46 6 We are like millers on the lower levels of a stream, when the factories above them have exhausted the water. We too fancy that the upper people must have raised their dams.

dams, v. (1)

    Chr2 10.92 10 When a man...insists to do...something absurd or whimsical, only because he will...he dams the incoming ocean with his cane.

Dana, Charles, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.359 20 Mr. George Ripley was the President [of the West Roxbury Association], and I think Mr. Charles Dana...was the Secretary.

Dance, Giants', n. (1)

    ET16 5.281 10 Was [Stonehenge] the Giants' Dance, which Merlin brought from Killaraus, in Ireland...

dance, n. (19)

    MN 1.200 11 ...in balanced beauty, the dance of the hours goes forward still.
    MN 1.206 11 Each individual soul is such in virtue of its being a power to translate the world into some particular language of its own; if not into...a dance,-why, then, into a trade...
    Hist 2.15 6 ...we have [the Greek national mind expressed] once again in sculpture...a multitude of forms...like votaries performing some religious dance before the gods...
    Hist 2.15 8 ...we have [the Greek national mind expressed] once again in sculpture...a multitude of forms...like votaries performing some religious dance before the gods, and, though in convulsive pain or mortal combat, never daring to break the figure and decorum of their dance.
    Hist 2.18 16 A lady with whom I was riding in the forest said to me that the woods always seemed to her to wait, as if the genii who inhabit them suspended their deeds until the wayfarer had passed onward; a thought which poetry has celebrated in the dance of the fairies, which breaks off on the approach of human feet.
    Pt1 3.1 8 A moody child and wildly wise/ Pursued the game with joyful eyes,/ .../ Through man, and woman, and sea, and star/ Saw the dance of nature forward far;/...
    Mrs1 3.125 18 A plentiful fortune is reckoned necessary...to the completion of this man of the world; and it is a material deputy which walks through the dance which [power] has led.
    GoW 4.267 12 ...the Shaker has established his monastery and his dance;...
    Wsp 6.237 20 ...[The Shakers] say, the Spirit will presently manifest to the man himself and to the society what manner of person he is, and whether he belongs among them. They do not receive him, they do not reject him. And not in vain have they...shuffled in their Bruin dance...if they have truly learned thus much wisdom.
    Boks 7.213 24 [The imagination] has a flute which sets the atoms of our frame in a dance...
    Clbs 7.226 15 Especially women use words that are not words,--as steps in a dance are not steps...
    PI 8.18 24 [The act of imagination] has a flute which sets the atoms of our frame in a dance.
    PI 8.70 8 In the dance of God there is not one of the chorus but can and will begin to spin...whenever the music and figure reach his place and duty.
    PPo 8.253 10 When Hafiz sings...Anaitis, leader of the starry host, calls even the Messiah in heaven out to the dance.
    Imtl 8.350 26 Nachiketas said [to Yama], All those [worldly] enjoyments are of yesterday. With thee remain thy horses and elephants, with thee the dance and song.
    Aris 10.39 13 I wish...men who see the dance in men's lives as well as in a ball-room...
    Aris 10.63 21 Let [the man of honor]...say...the music and the dance of liberty will come up to bright and holy ground and will take me in also.
    Prch 10.224 12 The human race are afflicted with a St. Vitus's dance;...
    EWI 11.116 18 Throughout the island [Antigua], [the day after emancipation] there was not a single dance known of...

dance, v. (15)

    Cir 2.311 18 ...literatures, cities, climates, religions, leave their foundations and dance before our eyes.
    Pt1 3.30 6 We seem to be touched by a wand which makes us dance and run about happily, like children.
    Exp 3.71 20 When I converse with a profound mind...I am at first apprised of my vicinity to a new...region of life. By persisting to read or to think, this region gives further sign of itself...in sudden discoveries...as if the clouds that covered it parted...and showed the approaching traveller the inland mountains, with the tranquil eternal meadows spread at their base, whereon...shepherds pipe and dance.
    Mrs1 3.131 23 A sainted soul is always elegant, and, if it will, passes unchallenged into the most guarded ring. But so will Jock the teamster pass...and find favor, as long as...the iron shoes do not wish to dance in waltzes and cotillons.
    SwM 4.99 7 Such a boy [as Swedenborg] could not whistle or dance...
    ET12 5.206 6 If a young American...were offered a home, a table, the walks and the library in one of these academical palaces [at Oxford]...he would dance for joy.
    Bhr 6.178 11 ...by beams of kindness [an eye] can make the heart dance with joy.
    Elo1 7.65 26 [Eloquence] is that despotism which poets have celebrated in the Pied Piper of Hamelin...or that of the minstrel of Meudon, who made the pall-bearers dance around the bier.
    Clbs 7.231 27 ...[the lover of letters] seeks the company of those who have convivial talent. But the moment they meet, to be sure they begin to be something else than they were; they...dance jigs...
    PI 8.25 4 This metonymy, or seeing the same sense in things so diverse, gives a pure pleasure. Every one of a million times we find a charm in the metamorphosis. It makes us dance and sing.
    PI 8.70 7 In a cotillon some persons dance and others await their turn when the music and the figure come to them.
    Dem1 10.4 2 ...the astonishment remains that one should dream; that we should...become the theatre of delirious shows, wherein time, space, persons, cities, animals, should dance before us...
    PerF 10.78 13 What a power [is Imagination], when, combined with the analyzing understanding, it makes Eloquence;...the art of making peoples' hearts dance to his pipe!
    Edc1 10.140 14 ...Caesar in Gaul, Sherman in Savannah, and hazing in Holworthy, dance through [the boy's] narrative in merry confusion, yet the logic is good.
    AKan 11.260 8 ...our poor people, led by the nose by these fine words [Union and Democracy], dance and sing...with every new link of the chain which is forged for their limbs by the plotters in the Capitol.

dance-cellar, n. (1)

    Wom 11.423 16 ...there is contamination enough [in politics], but it rots the men now, and fills the air with stench. Come out of that: it is like a dance-cellar.

danced, v. (3)

    Lov1 2.173 19 The girls may have little beauty, yet plainly do they establish between them and the good boy the most agreeable, confiding relations; what with their fun and their earnest, about...who danced at the dancing-school...
    PC 8.222 13 We are told that in posting his books, after the French had measured on the earth a degree of the meridian, when [Newton] saw that his theoretic results were approximating that empirical one, his hand shook, the figures danced...
    LLNE 10.366 26 The ladies [at Brook Farm] took cold on washing-day; so it was ordained that the gentlemen-shepherds should wring and hang out clothes; which they punctually did. And it would sometimes occur that when they danced in the evening, clothespins dropped plentifully from their pockets.

dancer, n. (3)

    Ctr 6.139 1 A soldier, a locksmith, a bank-clerk and a dancer could not exchange functions.
    PerF 10.80 2 The geometer shows us the true order in figures;...the dancer in grace.
    Bost 12.187 19 Astronomers come [to Paris] because there they can find apparatus and companions. Chemist, geologist, artist, musician, dancer, because there only are grandees and their patronage, appreciators and patrons.

dancers, n. (1)

    FRep 11.533 15 We import trifles, dancers, singers, laces, books of patterns...

dances, n. (1)

    Wom 11.411 19 Society...flowers, dances...are [women's] homes and attendants.

dances, v. (2)

    Bhr 6.167 14 Little [man] says to [graceful women, chosen men]/, So dances his heart in his breast/...
    Boks 7.203 12 [In the Platonists] The acolyte has mounted the tripod over the cave at Delphi; his heart dances, his sight is quickened.

dancing, adj. (3)

    MoS 4.167 21 [I seem to hear Montaigne say] Why should I vapor and play the philosopher, instead of ballasting, the best I can, this dancing balloon?
    ET8 5.127 5 [The English] are sad by comparison with the singing and dancing nations...
    Aris 10.33 16 The terrible aristocracy that is in Nature. Real people dwelling with the real...then, far down, people of taste, people dwelling in a relation...and, far below these, gross and thoughtless, the animal man, billows of chaos, down to the dancing and menial organizations.

dancing, n. (5)

    Int 2.346 14 This band of grandees...Synesius and the rest, have somewhat...so primary in their thinking, that it seems...to be at once poetry and music and dancing and astronomy and mathematics.
    Art1 2.356 22 Painting seems to be to the eye what dancing is to the limbs.
    Ctr 6.143 20 Landor said, I have suffered more from my bad dancing than from all the misfortunes and miseries of my life put together.
    Supl 10.169 18 The poor countryman, having no circumstance of carpets, coaches, dinners, wine and dancing in his head to confuse him, is able to look straight at you...
    Schr 10.263 2 I think the peculiar office of scholars...is to be...affirmers of the one law, yet as those who should affirm it in music and dancing;...

dancing, v. (9)

    Hsm1 2.249 23 Let [a man] hear in season...that the commonwealth and his own well-being require that he should not go dancing in the weeds of peace...
    Pt1 3.27 27 All men avail themselves of such means as they can, to add this extraordinary power to their normal powers; and to this end they prize... dancing...
    F 6.12 2 Now and then one has a new cell or camarilla opened in his brain... a good foot for dancing...
    Ctr 6.142 26 Archery, cricket, gun and fishing-rod, horse and boat, are all educators, liberalizers; and so are dancing, dress and the street talk;...
    Ctr 6.143 3 [The boy] learns chess, whist, dancing and theatricals.
    Ctr 6.143 14 These minor skills and accomplishments, for example, dancing, are tickets of admission to the dress-circle of mankind...
    Bty 6.292 23 This is the theory of dancing, to recover continually in changes the lost equilibrium...
    SS 7.6 14 If [Archimedes and Newton] had been good fellows, fond of dancing, port and clubs, we should have had no Theory of the Sphere and no Principia.
    Res 8.150 20 Games, fishing, bowling, hunting, gymnastics, dancing,--are not these needful to you?

dancing-master, n. (5)

    Art1 2.356 24 When [dancing] has educated the frame...to grace, the steps of the dancing-master are better forgotten;...
    Ctr 6.148 16 In town [a man] can find...the dancing-master, the shooting-gallery...
    Bty 6.290 26 The dancing-master can never teach a badly built man to walk well.
    OA 7.334 13 I...saw [George Whitefield], [John Adams] said, through a window, and distinctly heard all. He had a voice such as I never heard before or since. He cast it out so that you might hear it at the meeting-house... and he had the grace of a dancing-master...
    Wom 11.411 12 There is no grace that is taught by the dancing-master...but was first the whim and the mere action of some brilliant woman...

dancing-school, n. (1)

    Lov1 2.173 19 The girls may have little beauty, yet plainly do they establish between them and the good boy the most agreeable, confiding relations; what with their fun and their earnest, about...who danced at the dancing-school...

Dandamis, n. (1)

    NER 3.280 12 The wise Dandamis, on hearing the lives of Socrates, Pythagoras and Diogenes read, judged them to be great men every way, excepting that they were too much subjected to the reverence of the laws...

dandelion, n. (1)

    Wth 6.115 16 [The pale scholar]...by and by wakes up from his idiot dream of chickweed and red-root, to remember his morning thought, and to find that with his adamantine purposes he has been duped by a dandelion.

Dandolo, Enrico, n. (2)

    Cour 7.255 18 There is a Hercules...or a Cid in the mythology of every nation; and in authentic history, a Leonidas...a Doge Dandolo...
    OA 7.322 7 ...if the life be true and noble, we have quite another sort of seniors than the...dotards who are falsely old,--namely, the men...who appearing in any street, the people empty their houses to gaze at and obey them:...as blind old Dandolo, elected doge at eighty-four years...

Dandolo, Vincenzo, n. (1)

    NMW 4.243 18 Good God! [Napoleon] said, how rare men are! There are eighteen millions in Italy, and I have with difficulty found two,--Dandolo and Melzi.

dandy, n. (1)

    EzRy 10.390 15 [Ezra Ripley] was a natural gentleman, no dandy...

Dane, n. (1)

    ET5 5.75 4 ...the Saxon seriously settled in the land [England]...with German truth and adhesiveness. The Dane came and divided with him.

Danes, n. (1)

    ET4 5.61 10 England yielded to the Danes and Northmen in the tenth and eleventh centuries...

danger, n. (69)

    AmS 1.104 16 So is the danger a danger still;...
    MR 1.256 4 It is better that joy should be spread over all the day in the form of strength, than that it should be concentrated into ecstasies, full of danger and followed by reactions.
    Con 1.305 26 On these and the like grounds of general statement, conservatism plants itself without danger of being displaced.
    YA 1.364 5 ...when...the locomotive and the steamboat...shoot every day across the thousand various threads of national descent and employment... there is no danger that local peculiarities and hostilities should be preserved.
    Comp 2.99 22 With every influx of light comes new danger.
    Lov1 2.185 17 ...the lot of humanity is on these children [young lovers]. Danger, sorrow and pain arrive to them as to all.
    Hsm1 2.251 7 [Heroism] is the avowal of the unschooled man that he finds a quality in him that is negligent...of danger...
    Art1 2.359 15 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...
    Pt1 3.42 22 ...wherever is danger, and awe, and love,--there is Beauty... shed for thee [O poet]...
    Exp 3.66 2 ...to carry the danger to the edge of ruin, nature causes each man's peculiarity to superabound.
    Chr1 3.107 1 ...wherever the vein of thought reaches down into the profound, there is no danger from vanity.
    Chr1 3.107 2 ...some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise, and wherever the vein of thought reaches down into the profound, there is no danger from vanity. Solemn friends will warn them of the danger of the head's being turned by the flourish of trumpets, but they can afford to smile.
    Gts 3.162 6 The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.
    Nat2 3.187 5 The excess of fear with which the animal frame is hedged round...protects us...from some one real danger at last.
    UGM 4.5 11 If now we proceed to inquire into the kinds of service we derive from others, let us be warned of the danger of modern studies, and begin low enough.
    UGM 4.27 3 ...a new danger appears in the excess of influence of the great man.
    MoS 4.160 7 [The skeptic] is the considerer...believing...that we cannot give ourselves too many advantages in this unequal conflict, with powers so vast and unweariable ranged on one side, and this little, conceited vulnerable popinjay that a man is, bobbing up and down into every danger, on the other.
    NMW 4.248 22 The winter, says Napoleon, is not the most unfavorable season for the passage of lofty mountains. The snow is then firm...and there is nothing to fear from avalanches, the real and only danger to be apprehended in the Alps.
    ET2 5.27 27 Hour for hour, the risk on a steamboat is greater; but the speed is safety, or twelve days of danger instead of twenty-four.
    ET2 5.30 8 Such discomfort and such danger as the narratives of the captain and mate disclose are bad enough as the costly fee we pay for entrance to Europe;...
    ET4 5.68 19 ...Sir Edward Parry said of Sir John Franklin, that if he found Wellington Sound open, he explored it; for he was a man who never turned his back on a danger...
    ET5 5.80 21 [The English] love men who, like Samuel Johnson...would jump out of his syllogism the instant his major proposition was in danger...
    ET8 5.140 4 King Harold gave [Haldor] this testimony, that he, among all his men, cared least about doubtful circumstances, whether they betokened danger or pleasure;...
    ET11 5.184 25 In the army, the [English] nobility fill a large part of the high commissions, and give to these a tone...of exclusiveness. They have borne their full share of duty and danger in this service...
    F 6.24 20 Go face...what danger lies in the way of duty,-knowing you are guarded by the cherubim of Destiny.
    F 6.49 17 Let us build to the Beautiful Necessity, which makes man brave in believing that he cannot shun a danger that is appointed...
    Wsp 6.232 6 ...man is made equal to every event. He can face danger for the right.
    CbW 6.254 27 Passions, resistance, danger, are educators.
    CbW 6.257 7 ...the friends of a gentleman brought to his notice the follies of his sons, with many hints of their danger...
    CbW 6.261 8 A rich man was never in danger from cold...
    Bty 6.295 12 Let an artist scrawl a few lines or figures on the back of a letter, and that scrap of paper is rescued from danger...
    SS 7.6 21 Even Swedenborg...who reprobates to weariness the danger and vice of pure intellect, is constrained to make an extraordinary exception: There are also angels who do not live consociated...
    Cour 7.261 25 ...[the young soldier] had accustomed himself always to go into whatever place of danger, and do whatever he was afraid to do...
    Cour 7.262 20 The child is as much in danger from a staircase...as the soldier from a cannon...
    Cour 7.263 11 Use makes a better soldier than the most urgent considerations of duty,--familiarity with danger enabling him to estimate the danger.
    Cour 7.263 12 Use makes a better soldier than the most urgent considerations of duty,--familiarity with danger enabling him to estimate the danger.
    Cour 7.264 23 ...the danger of dangers is illusion.
    Cour 7.267 14 It was told of the Prince of Conde that there not being a more furious man in the world, danger in fight never disturbs him more than just to make him civil...
    SA 8.94 21 Sainte-Beuve tells us of the privileged circle at Coppet, that after making an excursion one day, the party returned in two coaches from Chambery to Aix, on the way to Coppet. The first coach had many rueful accidents to relate...danger and gloom to the whole company.
    SA 8.94 25 The party in the second coach, on arriving, heard this story with surprise;--of thunder-storm, of steeps, of mud, of danger, they knew nothing;...
    Res 8.147 8 ...what danger soever there may be, there is still one way or other to get off...
    Comc 8.157 13 Aristotle's definition of the ridiculous is, what is out of time and place, without danger.
    Comc 8.157 14 Aristotle's definition of the ridiculous is, what is out of time and place, without danger. If there be pain and danger, it becomes tragic; if not, comic.
    Imtl 8.341 26 Courage comes naturally to those who have the habit of facing labor and danger...
    Dem1 10.25 17 [Animal Magnetism] seemed to open again that door which was open to the imagination of childhood-of...the travelling cloak, the shoes of swiftness and the sword of sharpness that were to satisfy the uttermost wish of the senses without danger or a drop of sweat.
    Aris 10.39 23 ...we are in danger of forgetting so simple a fact as that the basis of all aristocracy must be truth...
    Aris 10.57 18 ...a soul on which elevated duties are laid will so realize its special and lofty duties as not to be in danger of assuming through a low generosity those which do not belong to it.
    Chr2 10.93 1 ...courage is contempt of danger in the determination to see this good of the whole enacted;...
    Edc1 10.127 12 [Man's] continual tendency, his great danger, is to overlook the fact that the world is only his teacher...
    Edc1 10.136 1 ...if [the moral nature] monopolize the man...he does not yet know his wealth. He is in danger of becoming merely devout...
    Prch 10.230 1 The clergy are always in danger of becoming wards and pensioners of the so-called producing classes.
    Plu 10.306 21 ...the danger is that, when the Muse is wanting, the student is prone to supply its place with microscopic subtleties and logomachy.
    MMEm 10.416 27 If more liberal views of the divine government make me [Mary Moody Emerson] think nothing lost which carries me to His now hidden presence, there may be danger of losing and causing others the loss of that awe and sobriety so indispensable.
    HDC 11.74 4 ...the men of Acton, Bedford, Lincoln and Carlisle... remembering their parent town in the hour of danger, arrived [at Concord] and fell into the ranks so fast, that Major Buttrick found himself superior in number to the enemy's party at the bridge.
    HDC 11.79 25 The great expense of the [Revolutionary] war was borne with cheerfulness [by Concord], whilst the war lasted; but years passed, after the peace, before the debt was paid. As soon as danger and injury ceased, the people were left at leisure to consider their poverty and their debts.
    EWI 11.118 10 We sometimes say...give [the planter] a machine that will yield him as much money as the slaves, and he will thankfully let them go. He has no love of slavery, but he wants luxury, and he will pay even this price of crime and danger for it.
    ACiv 11.306 15 There does exist, perhaps, a popular will...that our trade, and therefore our laws, must have the whole breadth of the continent, and from Canada to the Gulf. But since this is the rooted belief and will of the people, so much the more are they in danger, when impatient of defeats, or impatient of taxes, to go with a rush for some peace;...
    ACiv 11.308 26 What is so foolish as the terror lest the blacks should be made furious by freedom and wages? It is denying these that is the outrage, and makes the danger from the blacks.
    EPro 11.315 5 These [poetic acts] are the jets of thought into affairs, when, roused by danger or inspired by genius, the political leaders of the day break the else insurmountable routine of class and local legislation...
    EPro 11.322 23 [Lincoln] might look wistfully for what variety of courses lay open to him; every line but one was closed up with fire. This one [Emancipation], too, bristled with danger...
    SMC 11.357 26 One [volunteer] wrote to his father these words: You may think it strange that I, who have always naturally rather shrunk from danger, should wish to enter the army;...
    SMC 11.358 18 Before [the youth's] departure [to the Civil War] he confided to his sister...that he had long trained himself by forcing himself, on the suspicion of any near danger, to go directly up to it...
    SMC 11.375 15 ...if danger should ever threaten the homes which you [veterans of the Civil War] guard, the knowledge of your presence will be a wall of fire for their protection.
    Wom 11.421 14 Here are two or three objections [to women's voting]: first, a want of practical wisdom; second, a too purely ideal view; and, third, the danger of contamination.
    FRep 11.522 9 [The American] sits secure in the possession of his vast domain...and feels the security that there can be...no danger from any excess of importation of art or learning into a country of such native strength...
    FRep 11.533 10 If a temperate wise man should look over our American society, I think the first danger that would excite his alarm would be the European influences on this country.
    Milt1 12.267 23 Johnson petulantly taunts Milton...in returning from Italy because his country was in danger, and then opening a private school.
    Milt1 12.279 1 We have offered no apology for expanding to such length our commentary on the character of John Milton;...a man whom labor or danger never deterred from whatever efforts a love of the supreme interests of man prompted.
    ACri 12.290 23 There is hardly danger in America of excess of condensation;...

Danger, n. (1)

    Fdsp 2.202 4 He [who offers himself a candidate for the covenant of friendship] proposes himself for contests where Time, Want, Danger, are in the lists...

dangerous, adj. (47)

    AmS 1.104 8 It is a shame to [the scholar] if his tranquillity, amid dangerous times, arise from the presumption that...his is a protected class;...
    Con 1.322 1 [The sagacious] detect the falsehood of the preaching, but when they say so, all good citizens cry...do not take off the strait jacket from dangerous persons.
    Fdsp 2.195 12 It is almost dangerous to me to crush the sweet poison of misused wine of the affections.
    Prd1 2.237 19 Entire self-possession may make a battle very little more dangerous to life than a match at foils...
    Hsm1 2.249 2 Seen from the nook and chimney-side of prudence, [life] wears a ragged and dangerous front.
    Cir 2.322 9 Dreams and drunkenness, the use of opium and alcohol are the semblance and counterfeit of this oracular genius, and hence their dangerous attraction for men.
    Nat2 3.174 8 I do not wonder that the landed interest should be invincible in the State with these dangerous auxiliaries [of nature].
    Pol1 3.211 24 No forms can have any dangerous importance whilst we are befriended by the laws of things.
    SwM 4.130 20 ...this man [Swedenborg]...early fell into dangerous discord with himself.
    SwM 4.132 5 It is dangerous to sculpture these evanescing images of thought.
    MoS 4.173 27 The first dangerous symptom I report is, the levity of intellect;...
    ET5 5.100 24 The boys [in England] know all that Hutton knew of strata... or Harvey of blood-vessels; and these studies, once dangerous, are in fashion.
    ET11 5.195 2 ...[English nobles] were expert in every species of equitation, to the most dangerous practices...
    ET18 5.304 24 ...we say that only the English race can be trusted with freedom,--freedom which is double-edged and dangerous to any but the wise and robust.
    F 6.23 24 They who talk much of destiny...are in a lower dangerous plane...
    F 6.34 1 [Steam] could be used to...chain and compel other devils far more... dangerous...
    Pow 6.69 10 ...when [the young English] have no wars to breathe their riotous valors in, they seek for travels as dangerous as war...
    Pow 6.71 26 We say...that [success] is of main efficacy in carrying on the world, and though rarely found in the right state for an article of commerce, but oftener in the super-saturate or excess which makes it dangerous and destructive,--yet it cannot be spared...
    Wth 6.92 23 The case of the young lawyer was pitiful to disgust,--a paltry matter of buttons or tweezer-cases; but the determined youth saw in it an aperture to insert his dangerous wedges...
    CbW 6.257 11 ...[the gentleman] replied...that he was not alarmed by the dissipation of boys; 't was dangerous water, but he thought they would soon touch bottom, and then swim to the top.
    Bty 6.297 3 ...the citizens of her native city of Toulouse obtained the aid of the civil authorities to compel [Pauline de Viguier] to appear publicly on the balcony at least twice a week, and as often as she showed herself, the crowd was dangerous to life.
    DL 7.111 27 If we look at this matter [of housekeeping] curiously, it becomes dangerous.
    WD 7.164 17 All tools are in one sense edge-tools, and dangerous.
    Cour 7.268 6 There is a courage of a merchant in dealing with his trade, by which dangerous turns of affairs are met and prevailed over.
    PI 8.31 26 [The poet] affirms the applicability of the ideal law to...the present knot of affairs. Parties, lawyers and men of the world will invariably dispute such an application, as romantic and dangerous;...
    PPo 8.256 18 ...Seek not for faith or for truth in a world of light-minded girls;/ A thousand suitors reckons this dangerous bride./
    Dem1 10.16 1 I have a lucky hand, sir, said Napoleon...those on whom I lay it are fit for anything. This faith is familiar in one form...that children and young persons come off safe from casualties that would have proved dangerous to wiser people.
    Dem1 10.26 4 It is...a most dangerous superstition to raise [Animal Magnetism, Mesmerism] to the lofty place of motives and sanctions.
    Aris 10.62 11 ...to every gentleman grave and dangerous duties are proposed.
    Chr2 10.112 16 ...in America, where are no legal ties to churches, the looseness appears dangerous.
    Chr2 10.118 26 How many people are there in Boston? Some two hundred thousand. Well, then so many sects. Of course, each poor soul loses all his old stays;...no fagot, no penance, no fine, no rebuke. Is not this wrong? is not this dangerous?
    Chr2 10.119 1 [Growth] is not dangerous, any more than the mother's withdrawing her hands from the tottering babe, at his first walk across the nursery-floor...
    Edc1 10.157 7 The will, the male power...makes that military eye which controls boys as it controls men;...only dangerous when it leads the workman to overvalue and overuse it...
    MoL 10.256 2 Sincerity is, in dangerous times, discovered to be an immeasurable advantage.
    Thor 10.478 25 Such dangerous frankness was in [Thoreau's] dealing that his admirers called him that terrible Thoreau...
    HDC 11.32 17 The green meadows of Musketaquid...were...not to be reached without a painful and dangerous journey through an uninterrupted wilderness.
    War 11.173 2 We are affected...by the appearance of a few rich and wilful gentlemen who take their honor into their own keeping...and whose appearance is the arrival of so much life and virtue. In dangerous times they are presently tried...
    FSLC 11.197 22 ...here are gentlemen whose believed probity was the confidence and fortification of multitudes, who, by the fear of public opinion, or through the dangerous ascendency of Southern manners, have been drawn into the support of this foul business [the Fugitive Slave Law].
    FSLC 11.208 14 Why not end this dangerous dispute [over slavery] on some ground of fair compensation on one side, and satisfaction on the other to the conscience of the free states?
    FSLN 11.229 4 ...[the Fugitive Slave Law] discloses the secret of the new times, that Slavery...was become aggressive and dangerous.
    AsSu 11.247 18 In [the slave state]...man is an animal...spending his days in hunting and practising with deadly weapons to defend himself against his slaves and against his companions brought up in the same idle and dangerous way.
    ALin 11.337 4 Easy good nature has been the dangerous foible of the Republic...
    PLT 12.11 7 Let me have your attention to this dangerous subject [the laws and powers of the Intellect]...
    PLT 12.13 3 Metaphysics is dangerous as a single pursuit.
    PLT 12.18 11 There are...[other minds] that deposit their dangerous unripe thoughts here and there to lie still for a time...
    ACri 12.292 15 Dangerous words in like kind are display, improvement, peruse...
    PPr 12.391 13 [Carlyle's] jokes shake down Parliament House and Windsor Castle...and the future shall echo the dangerous peals.

dangerously, adv. (2)

    ET13 5.215 5 [Prudent men say] Better find some niche or crevice in this mountain of stone which religious ages have quarried and carved...than attempt anything ridiculously and dangerously above your strength, like removing it.
    ACiv 11.303 4 Better the war should more dangerously threaten us...and so...exasperate our nationality.

dangers, n. (24)

    Hsm1 2.261 25 ...it behooves the wise man to look with a bold eye into those rarer dangers which sometimes invade men...
    NR 3.238 8 Great dangers undoubtedly accrue from this incarnation and distribution of the godhead...
    PPh 4.52 9 A too rapid unification, and an excessive appliance to parts and particulars, are the twin dangers of speculation.
    ET2 5.27 21 ...in hurrying over these abysses [of the sea], whatever dangers we are running into, we are certainly running out of the risks of hundreds of miles every day...
    Ctr 6.137 8 Culture...warns [a man] of the dangers of solitude and repulsion.
    Cour 7.257 20 Every moment as long as [the child] is awake he studies the use of his eyes, ears, hands and feet, learning how to meet and avoid his dangers...
    Cour 7.264 23 ...the danger of dangers is illusion.
    OA 7.323 16 It were strange if a man should turn his sixtieth year without a feeling of immense relief from the number of dangers he has escaped.
    PPo 8.239 25 Such [amatory] verses...will drive [Persian] warriors to the combat...or prove an ample reward on their return from the dangers of the ghazon, or the fight.
    Insp 8.278 26 Bonaparte said: There is no man more pusillanimous than I, when I make a military plan. I magnify all the dangers...
    Aris 10.57 15 It was objected to Gustavus that he...exposed himself to all dangers...
    Plu 10.306 14 ...we know that metaphysical studies in any but minds of large horizon and incessant inspiration have their dangers.
    LLNE 10.359 12 ...the architect, acting under a necessity to build the house for its purpose, finds himself...steering clear, though in the dark, of those dangers which might have shipwrecked him.
    EWI 11.110 14 In consequence of the dangers of the [slave] trade growing out of the act of abolition, ships were built sharp for swiftness...
    EWI 11.132 25 As for dangers to the Union, from such demands [on the South]!-the Union already is at an end when the first citizen of Massachusetts is thus outraged.
    FSLN 11.240 23 ...mountains of difficulty must be surmounted...dangers, healed by a quarantine of calamities to measure his strength, before [man] dare say, I am free.
    AKan 11.263 5 ...now, vast property...webs of party, cover the land with a network that immensely multiplies the dangers of war.
    SMC 11.358 2 One [volunteer] wrote to his father these words: You may think it strange that I, who have always naturally rather shrunk from danger, should wish to enter the army; but there is a higher Power that... enables [men] to see their duty, and gives them courage to face the dangers with which those duties are attended.
    Koss 11.399 14 We [people of Concord] are afraid that you [Kossuth] are growing popular, Sir; you may be called to the dangers of prosperity.
    FRep 11.539 13 It is not by heads reverted...to George Washington, that you can combat the dangers and dragons that beset the United States at this time.
    PLT 12.61 7 Ideal and practical...are never parallel. Each has...its proper dangers...
    Bost 12.192 17 Any geologist or engineer is accustomed to face more serious dangers than any enumerated [by the Massachusetts colonists], excepting the hostile Indians.
    Bost 12.192 23 ...the awe [of the Massachusetts colonists] was real and overpowering in the superstition with which every new object was magnified. The superstition which hung over the new ocean had not yet been scattered;...the dangers of the wilderness were unexplored;...
    PPr 12.387 25 ...the manifold and increasing dangers of the English State, may easily excuse some over-coloring of the picture;...

danger's, n. (1)

    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./

dangler, n. (1)

    GoW 4.282 11 In the learned journal, in the influential newspaper, I discern no form; only some irresponsible shadow; oftener...some dangler...

danglers, n. (1)

    NMW 4.244 5 [Napoleon] could not confound Fox and Pitt, Carnot, Lafayette and Bernadotte, with the danglers of his court;...

Daniel, Samuel, n. (1)

    Civ 7.30 5 A puny creature, walled in on every side, as Daniel wrote,-- Unless above himself he can/ Erect himself, how poor a thing is man!/...

Danish, adj. (5)

    ET4 5.62 2 It was a tardy recoil of these invasions [of Northmen], when, in 1801, the British government sent Nelson to bombard the Danish forts in the Sound...
    ET4 5.62 4 It was a tardy recoil of these invasions [of Northmen], when...in 1807, Lord Cathcart, at Copenhagen, took the entire Danish fleet...
    ET4 5.72 13 In the Danish invasions the marauders seized upon horses where they landed...
    ET5 5.86 12 Before the bombardment of the Danish forts in the Baltic, Nelson spent day after day, himself, in the boats, on the exhausting service of sounding the channel.
    ET5 5.100 1 The Danish poet Oehlenschlager complains that who writes in Danish writes to two hundred readers.

Danish, n. (1)

    ET5 5.100 2 The Danish poet Oehlenschlager complains that who writes in Danish writes to two hundred readers.

Dante Alghieri's, n. (1)

    PLT 12.49 3 As a talent Dante's imagination is the nearest to hands and feet that we have seen.

Dante Alighieri, n. [Dante,] (45)

    LT 1.261 22 ...Dante and Milton painted in colossal their platoons, and called them Heaven and Hell.
    SR 2.83 25 There is at this moment for you an utterance brave and grand as that of...the pen of Moses or Dante...
    Comp 2.108 23 We are to see that which man was tending to do in a given period, and was hindered, or...modified in doing, by the interfering volitions...of Dante...the organ whereby man at the moment wrought.
    Pt1 3.4 15 ...the highest minds of the world have never ceased to explore the...manifold meaning, of every sensuous fact;...Plutarch, Dante, Swedenborg...
    Exp 3.63 13 I think I will never read any but the commonest books,--The Bible, Homer, Dante, Shakspeare and Milton.
    Chr1 3.106 17 How captivating is [children's] devotion to their favorite books, whether Aeschylus, Dante, Shakspeare, or Scott...
    SwM 4.127 6 [Swedenborg's Conjugal Love] came near to be the Hymn of Love, which Plato attempted in the Banquet; the love, which, Dante says, Casella sang among the angels in Paradise;...
    SwM 4.137 7 [Swedenborg] is...like Dante, who avenged, in vindictive melodies, all his private wrongs;...
    ShP 4.216 24 Shakspeare, Homer, Dante, Chaucer, saw the splendor of meaning that plays over the visible world;...
    ET14 5.233 20 What [the Englishman] relishes in Dante is the vise-like tenacity with which he holds a mental image before the eyes...
    F 6.38 7 Of what changes then in sky and earth, and in finer skies and earths, does the appearance of some Dante or Columbus apprise us!
    F 6.39 8 Dante and Columbus were Italians, in their time;...
    Bhr 6.182 2 The nose of Julius Caesar, of Dante, and of Pitt, suggest the terrors of the beak.
    Bty 6.282 1 ...the skin or skeleton you show me is no more a heron than a heap of ashes or a bottle of gases into which his body has been reduced, is Dante or Washington.
    SS 7.7 19 Dante was very bad company...
    SS 7.8 2 If I stay, said Dante, when there was question of going to Rome, who will go? and if I go, who will stay?
    WD 7.174 26 ...your homage to Dante costs you so much sailing;...
    Boks 7.205 24 There is...Dante's Vita Nuova, to explain Dante and Beatrice;...
    Boks 7.218 1 The Greek fables...the poem of Dante...have this enlargement [the imaginative element]...
    Suc 7.302 20 The great doctors of this science [of sensibility] are the greatest men,--Dante, Petrarch, Michel Angelo and Shakspeare.
    PI 8.21 21 Pindar, Dante, yes, and the gray and timeworn sentences of Zoroaster, may all be parsed...
    PI 8.27 12 ...this power [the perception of the symbolic character of things] appears in Dante and Shakspeare.
    PI 8.40 8 ...a new verse comes once in a hundred years; therefore Pindar, Hafiz, Dante, speak so proudly of what seems to the clown a jingle.
    PI 8.65 20 Dante was faithful [to Nature] when not carried away by his fierce hatreds.
    PI 8.67 21 We are a little civil, it must be owned...to Dante and Shakspeare...
    PI 8.72 18 ...Dante was free imagination...yet he wrote like Euclid.
    QO 8.181 13 Albert...St. Buonaventura...Thomas Aquinas...Dante absorbed, and he survives for us.
    PC 8.214 19 [The Middle Ages'] Dante and Alfred and Wickliffe and Abelard and Bacon;...are the delight and tuition of ours.
    PC 8.217 4 ...in [Michelangelo's] own days...you would need to hunt him in a conventicle with the Methodists of the era...the radicals of the hour... and as lonely and as hated as Dante before them.
    PC 8.218 17 Some Dante or Angelo...is always allowed.
    Prch 10.234 6 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 10.288 27 [The scholar] is here to know the secret of Genius; to become, not a reader of poetry, but Homer, Dante, Milton...
    LLNE 10.363 14 [Charles Newcomb's] reading lay in Aeschylus, Plato, Dante, Calderon, Shakspeare...
    MMEm 10.402 25 When I read Dante, the other day, and his paraphrases to signify with more adequateness Christ or Jehovah, whom do you think I was reminded of? Whom but Mary Emerson and her eloquent theology?
    SlHr 10.443 21 [Samuel Hoar's] head...had a resemblance to the bust of Dante.
    Wom 11.413 8 The instincts of mankind have drawn the Virgin Mother- Created beings all in lowliness/ Surpassing, as in height above them all./ This is the Divine Person whom Dante and Milton saw in vision.
    PLT 12.49 9 I once found Page the painter modelling his figures in clay... before he painted them on canvas. Dante, one would say, did the same thing before he wrote the verses.
    CInt 12.129 24 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 12.197 21 In the midst of [New England's] laborious and economical and rude and awkward population...you shall not unfrequently meet that refinement...which...nourishes itself on Plato and Dante...
    MAng1 12.237 1 A natural fruit of the nobility of [Michelangelo's] spirit is his admiration for Dante...
    MAng1 12.240 13 [Vittoria Colonna]...came to Rome repeatedly to see [Michelangelo]. To her his sonnets are addressed; and they all breathe a chaste and divine regard, unparalleled in any amatory poetry except that of Dante and Petrarch.
    ACri 12.290 3 Dante is the professor that shall teach both the noble low style...also the sculpture of compression.
    MLit 12.329 4 [All great men] knew that the intelligent reader...would thank them. So did Dante, so did Macchiavel.
    EurB 12.365 23 The Pindar, the Shakspeare, the Dante, whilst they have the just and open soul, have also the eye to see the dimmest star that glimmers in the Milky Way...
    EurB 12.368 11 [Wordsworth] sat at the foot of Helvellyn and on the margin of Windermere, and took their lustrous mornings and their sublime midnights for his theme, and...not Horace nor Milton nor Dante.

Dante Alighieri's, n. (7)

    Pt1 3.37 12 Dante's praise is that he dared to write his autobiography in colossal cipher...
    Boks 7.205 22 There is Dante's poem, to open the Italian Republics of the Middle Age;...
    Boks 7.205 24 There is...Dante's Vita Nuova, to explain Dante and Beatrice;...
    PI 8.12 25 ...my young scholar does not wish to know what the leopard, the wolf, or Lucia, signify in Dante's Inferno...
    Prch 10.227 25 ...my discontent is with [Cudworth's, More's, Bunyan's] limitations and surface and language. Their statement is grown as fabulous as Dante's Inferno.
    Prch 10.227 26 [Cudworth's, More's, Bunyan's] purpose is as real as Dante's sentiment and hatred of vice.
    MAng1 12.237 2 [Michelangelo] shared Dante's deep contempt of the vulgar...

Dante, Life of [Giovanni B (1)

    Boks 7.205 25 There is...Boccaccio's Life of Dante, a great man to describe a greater.

Danube River, n. (1)

    Chr1 3.94 13 How often has the influence of a true master realized all the tales of magic! A river of command seemed to run down from his eyes into all those who beheld him, a torrent of strong sad light, like an Ohio or Danube...

dapper, adj. (5)

    F 6.34 24 Who likes to have a dapper phrenologist pronouncing on his fortunes?
    Civ 7.29 22 We are dapper little busybodies...
    WD 7.160 7 What of this dapper caoutchouc and gutta-percha...
    SovE 10.204 4 There was in the last century a serious habitual reference to the spiritual world...compared with which our liberation looks a little foppish and dapper.
    MoL 10.249 12 Down with these dapper trimmers and sycophants!...

dapperness, n. (1)

    MR 1.233 26 Each [lucrative profession] requires of the practitioner...a certain dapperness and compliance...

dare, v. (75)

    AmS 1.114 6 ...it is for you to dare all.
    DSA 1.131 18 ...you shall not dare and live after the infinite Law that is in you...
    DSA 1.142 12 ...scarcely in a thousand years does any man dare to be wise and good...
    DSA 1.145 20 ...dare to love God without mediator or veil.
    LE 1.161 18 I console myself...by...seeing that Plato was, and Shakspeare, and Milton,-three irrefragable facts. Then I dare;...
    MN 1.223 1 Who shall dare think he has come late into nature...who seeth the admirable stars of possibility...glittering...in the vast West?
    MR 1.244 18 We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend...
    SR 2.67 22 ...see what strong intellects dare not yet hear God himself...
    SR 2.83 22 ...you cannot hope too much or dare too much.
    Comp 2.92 6 Fear not, then, thou child infirm,/ There 's no god dare wrong a worm./
    SL 2.164 9 How dare I read Washington's campaigns when I have not answered the letters of my own correspondents?
    Fdsp 2.198 19 ...dare I not presume in thee a perfect intelligence of me...
    Prd1 2.230 14 ...what man shall dare task another with imprudence?
    Hsm1 2.249 27 ...let [a man]...with perfect urbanity dare the gibbet and the mob by the absolute truth of his speech...
    Hsm1 2.255 21 It is a height to which common duty can very well attain, to suffer and to dare with solemnity.
    OS 2.269 25 Every man's words who speaks from that [inner] life must sound vain to those who do not dwell in the same thought on their own part. I dare not speak for it.
    OS 2.295 6 When I sit in that presence [of God], who shall dare to come in?
    Pt1 3.37 6 We do not with sufficient plainness or sufficient profoundness address ourselves to life, nor dare we chaunt our own times and social circumstance.
    Exp 3.83 2 Illusion, Temperament, Succession, Surface, Surprise, Reality, Subjectiveness...these are the lords of life. I dare not assume to give their order...
    Mrs1 3.138 10 The flower of courtesy does not very well bide handling, but if we dare to open another leaf and explore what parts go to its conformation, we shall find also an intellectual quality.
    Gts 3.162 4 It is not the office of a man to receive gifts. How dare you give them?
    Pol1 3.221 14 I do not call to mind a single human being who has steadily denied the authority of the laws, on the simple ground of his own moral nature. Such designs...are not entertained except avowedly as air-pictures. If the individual who exhibits them dare to think them practicable, he disgusts scholars and churchmen;...
    PPh 4.51 24 ...if we dare carry these generalizations a step higher, and name the last tendency of both [unity and diversity], we might say, that the end of the one is escape from organization...and the end of the other is the highest instrumentality...
    NMW 4.248 3 I think all men...know that the institutions we so volubly commend are go-carts and baubles; but they dare not trust their presentiments.
    GoW 4.284 1 I dare not say that Goethe ascended to the highest grounds from which genius has spoken.
    ET6 5.102 20 [The English] require you to dare to be of your own opinion...
    ET6 5.102 23 [The English] dare to displease...
    ET8 5.131 1 ...you shall find in the common [English] people a surly indifference, sometimes gruffness and ill temper; and in minds of more power, magazines of inexhaustible war, challenging The ruggedest hour that time and spite dare bring/ To frown upon the enraged Northumberland./
    ET8 5.136 5 [The English] dare to displease...
    ET9 5.147 3 Lord Chatham goes for liberty and no taxation without representation;--for that is British law; but not a hobnail shall they dare make in America, but buy their nails in England;--for that also is British law;...
    ET11 5.196 19 Here [in England] at last were climate and condition friendly to the working faculty. Who now will work and dare, will rule.
    ET15 5.271 23 [The London Times's] existence honors the people who dare to print all they know...
    ET15 5.271 24 [The London Times's] existence honors the people who... dare to know all the facts...
    Pow 6.81 20 Let a man dare go to a loom and see if he be equal to it.
    Wth 6.93 20 Columbus...looks on all kings and peoples as cowardly landsmen until they dare fit him out.
    Wth 6.115 24 If a man own land, the land owns him. Now let him leave home, if he dare.
    Wth 6.124 4 ...'t is very well that the poor husband reads in a book of a new way of living, and resolves to adopt it at home; let him go home and try it, if he dare.
    Ctr 6.166 15 ...we shall dare affirm that there is nothing [the human being] will not overcome and convert...
    Bhr 6.176 18 Every man...looks with confidence for some traits and talents in his own child which he would not dare to presume in the child of a stranger.
    Bhr 6.197 11 Who dare assume to guide a youth, a maid, to perfect manners?...
    Wsp 6.215 17 Let us...dare to uncover those simple and terrible laws which...pervade and govern.
    Wsp 6.225 23 In every variety of human employment...there are, among the numbers who do their task...just to pass, and as badly as they dare...the working men, on whom the burden of the business falls;...
    Ill 6.312 12 [The boy] has no better friend or influence than Scott, Shakspeare, Plutarch and Homer. The man lives to other objects, but who dare affirm that they are more real?
    Ill 6.315 27 ...how dare any one, if he could, pluck away the coulisses, stage effects and ceremonies, by which [women] live.
    SS 7.9 16 ...how insular and pathetically solitary are all the people we know! Nor dare they tell what they think of each other when they meet in the street.
    Civ 7.20 21 The occasion of one of these starts of growth is always some novelty that astounds the mind and provokes it to dare to change.
    WD 7.170 4 The scholar must look long for the right hour for Plato's Timaeus. At last the elect morning arrives, the early dawn...and in its wide leisures we dare open that book.
    WD 7.181 11 I dare not go out of doors and see the moon and stars, but they seem to measure my tasks...
    Boks 7.196 20 If you should transfer the amount of your reading day by day from the newspaper to the standard authors----But who dare speak of such a thing?
    Clbs 7.249 17 If...[l'homme de lettres] dare not speak of fairy gold, he will yet tell what new books he has found...
    Cour 7.262 15 Lieutenant Ball...whispered, Courage, my dear boy! you will recover in a minute or so; I was just the same when I first went out in this way. It was as if an angel spoke to me. ... But I dare not think what would have become of me, if, at that moment, he had scoffed and exposed me.
    Suc 7.291 20 ...[every man] is to dare to do what he can do best;...
    Aris 10.39 18 I wish...men who are charmed by the beautiful Nemesis as well as by the dire Nemesis, and dare trust their inspiration for their welcome;...
    Aris 10.47 12 There are men who may dare much and will be justified in their daring.
    PerF 10.88 2 Every new asserter of the right surprises us...and we hardly dare believe he is in earnest.
    Chr2 10.98 10 ...I may easily speak of that adorable nature, there where only I behold it in my dim experiences, in such terms as shall seem to the frivolous, who dare not fathom their consciousness, as profane.
    Edc1 10.151 14 Is it not manifest...that wise men...heartily seeking the good of mankind...should dare to arouse the young to a just and heroic life;...
    SovE 10.196 13 ...we are never without a pilot. When we know not how to steer, and dare not hoist a sail, we can drift.
    Schr 10.268 14 Love, Rectitude, everlasting Fame, will come to each of you in loneliest places with their grand alternatives, and Honor watches to see whether you dare seize the palms.
    Schr 10.273 24 If [the scholar] is not kindling his torch or collecting oil...he will not dare to hear the music of a saw or plane;...
    Plu 10.295 26 Montaigne, in 1589, says: We dunces had been lost, had not this book [Plutarch] raised us out of the dirt. By this favor of his we dare now speak and write.
    MMEm 10.418 20 The evening is fine, but I [Mary Moody Emerson] dare not enjoy it.
    MMEm 10.419 19 ...so poor are some of those allotted to join me [Mary Moody Emerson] on the weary needy path, that 't is benevolence enjoins self-denial. Could I but dare it in the bread-and-water diet!
    MMEm 10.432 15 ...[Mary Moody Emerson's] friends feared they might, at her funeral, not dare to look at each other, lest they should forget the serious proprieties of the hour.
    Thor 10.484 12 There is a flower known to botanists...which grows on the most inaccessible cliffs of the Tyrolese mountains, where the chamois dare hardly venture...
    FSLC 11.192 4 Those governors of places who bravely refused to execute the barbarous orders of Charles IX. for the famous Massacre of St. Bartholomew, have been universally praised; and the court did not dare to punish them, at least openly.
    FSLC 11.196 21 But worse, not the officials alone are bribed [by the Fugitive Slave Law], but the whole community is solicited. The scowl of the community is attempted to be averted by the mischievous whisper, Tariff and Southern market, if you will be quiet: no tariff and loss of Southern market, if you dare to murmur.
    FSLN 11.234 10 Of course [slave-owners] will not dare to read the Bible?
    FSLN 11.240 25 ...mountains of difficulty must be surmounted...before [man] dare say, I am free.
    FSLN 11.243 21 [Robert Winthrop] denounced every name and aspect under which liberty and progress dare show themselves in this age and country...
    HCom 11.340 14 Many in sad faith sought for [Truth],/ Many with crossed hands sighed for her;/ But these, our brothers, fought for her,/ At life's dear peril wrought for her,/ So loved her that they died for her,/ Tasting the raptured fleetness/ Of her divine completeness:/ Their higher instinct knew/ Those love her best who to themselves are true;/ And what they dare to dream of, dare to do;/...
    FRep 11.524 24 These [the good and wise] we just join to wake, for these are of the strain/ That justice dare defend, and will the age maintain./
    PLT 12.17 8 I dare not deal with this element [Intellect] in its pure essence.
    PLT 12.42 5 ...I hear a whisper, which I dare trust, that [perception] is the thread on which the earth and the heaven of heavens are strung.
    PLT 12.46 8 Will is the advance to that...to which the inward magnet ever points, and which we dare to make ours.

dared, v. (9)

    Pt1 3.37 12 Dante's praise is that he dared to write his autobiography in colossal cipher...
    ET15 5.270 4 Who would care for [the London Times], if it surmised, or dared to confess...
    ET15 5.272 10 If only [the London Times] dared to cleave to the right...
    F 6.23 15 ...nothing is more disgusting than...the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble...by those who have never dared to think or to act...
    Wsp 6.201 21 I have no sympathy with a poor man I knew, who, when suicides abounded, told me he dared not look at his razor.
    SlHr 10.437 10 ...[Samuel Hoar] dared to do all that might beseem a man...
    HDC 11.31 10 Hindered from speaking, some of these [suspended ministers] dared to print the reasons of their dissent...
    EPro 11.319 3 A day which most of us dared not hope to see...seems now to be close before us.
    SMC 11.359 14 ...[George Prescott] knew that his men...neither dared nor wished to disobey him.

Dares Phrygius, n. (1)

    ShP 4.197 25 Chaucer, it seems, drew continually...from Guido di Colonna, whose Latin romance of the Trojan war was in turn a compilation from Dares Phrygius, Ovid and Statius.

dares, v. (14)

    DSA 1.140 19 Will [the poor preacher] invite [people] privately to the Lord' s Supper? He dares not.
    SR 2.67 2 Man...dares not say I think...
    Prd1 2.238 14 ...the peace of society is often kept, because, as children say, one is afraid and the other dares not.
    ET14 5.255 8 No [English] poet dares murmur of beauty out of the precinct of his rhymes.
    ET14 5.255 10 No [English] priest dares hint at a Providence which does not respect English utility.
    Ctr 6.164 4 Who wishes to resist the eminent and polite, in behalf of the poor, and low, and impolite? And who that dares do it can keep his temper sweet...
    CbW 6.258 10 ...who dares draw out the linchpin from the wagon-wheel?
    Cour 7.268 4 There is...a courage which enables one man to speak masterly to a hostile company, whilst another man who can easily face a cannon's mouth dares not open his own.
    Cour 7.268 23 The beautiful voice at church...covers up in its volume...all the defects of the choir. The singers...all yield to it, and so the fair singer indulges her instinct, and dares, and dares...
    PC 8.214 15 In modern Europe, the Middle Ages were called the Dark Ages. Who dares to call them so now?
    Prch 10.230 26 ...over all, let [the young preacher] value the sensibility that receives, that loves, that dares, that affirms.
    FSLC 11.181 15 ...presidents of colleges...importers, manufacturers...not so much as a snatch of an old song for freedom, dares intrude on their passive obedience [to the Fugitive Slave Law].
    ACiv 11.302 7 In this national crisis, it is not argument that we want, but that rare courage which dares commit itself to a principle...
    MLit 12.331 15 [Goethe] is like a banker or a weaver with a passion for the country; he steals out of the hot streets...to get a draft of sweet air...but dares not break from his slavery...

darest, v. (1)

    MN 1.208 21 ...darest thou think meanly of thyself whom the stalwart Fate brought forth to unite his ragged sides...

daring, adj. (18)

    LT 1.275 16 See how daring is the reading...of the time.
    LT 1.287 11 Is there not something comprehensive in the grasp of a society which to great mechanical invention and the best institutions of property adds the most daring theories;...
    Tran 1.337 16 ...if there is anything grand and daring in human thought or virtue...the spiritualist adopts it as most in nature.
    Hsm1 2.248 1 Thomas Carlyle, with his natural taste for what is manly and daring in character, has suffered no heroic trait in his favorites to drop from his biographical and historical pictures.
    Cir 2.312 25 ...some Petrarch or Ariosto...writes me an ode or a brisk romance, full of daring thought and action.
    PPh 4.57 15 [Plato's] daring imagination gives him the more solid grasp of facts;...
    SwM 4.112 15 It is remarkable that this sublime genius [Swedenborg]...in a book [The Animal Kingdom] whose genius is a daring poetic synthesis, claims to confine himself to a rigid experience.
    F 6.13 1 I find the coincidence of the extremes of Eastern and Western speculation in the daring statement of Schelling...
    Boks 7.214 8 ...books that...distribute things...with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again...
    Cour 7.269 7 Morphy played a daring game in chess...
    PC 8.211 20 We have been taught...to wont ourselves to daring conjectures.
    PPo 8.249 13 Love is a leveller, and Allah becomes a groom, and heaven a closet, in [Hafiz's] daring hymns to his mistress or to his cupbearer.
    Insp 8.280 18 A man is spent by his work, starved, prostrate;...he can never think more. He sinks into deep sleep and wakes...keen for daring adventure.
    SovE 10.207 26 The most daring heroism...never exhausted the claim of these lowly duties...
    LLNE 10.333 10 [Everett] abounded...in daring imagery, in parable...
    CSC 10.374 27 The most daring innovators and the champions-until-death of the old cause sat side by side [at the Chardon Street Convention].
    EWI 11.138 13 It is notorious that the political, religious and social schemes, with which the minds of men are now most occupied, have been matured, or at least broached, in the free and daring discussions of these assemblies [on emancipation].
    PLT 12.49 21 The difference is obvious enough in Talent between the speed of one man's action above another's. In debate, in legislature, not less in action; in war or in affairs, alike daring and effective.

daring, n. (7)

    Cour 7.267 8 Swedenborg has left this record of his king: Charles XII. of Sweden did not know...what that spurious valor and daring [was] that is excited by inebriating draughts...
    Cour 7.269 7 Morphy played a daring game in chess: the daring was only an illusion of the spectator, for the player sees his move to be well fortified and safe.
    Insp 8.275 5 What is a man good for without enthusiasm? and what is enthusiasm but this daring of ruin for its object?
    Grts 8.316 16 ...in the lives of soldiers, sailors and men of large adventure, many of the stays and guards of our household life are wanting, and yet the opportunities and incentives to sublime daring and performance are often close at hand.
    Aris 10.47 12 There are men who may dare much and will be justified in their daring.
    Prch 10.223 23 I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world were of one religion,-the religion of well-doing and daring...
    PPr 12.387 18 The revelation of Reason is this of the unchangeableness of the fact of humanity under all its subjective aspects; that to the cowering it always cowers, to the daring it opens great avenues.

daring, v. (3)

    Hist 2.15 7 ...we have [the Greek national mind expressed] once again in sculpture...a multitude of forms...like votaries performing some religious dance before the gods, and, though in convulsive pain or mortal combat, never daring to break the figure and decorum of their dance.
    Fdsp 2.213 7 ...a sublime hope cheers ever the faithful heart, that elsewhere...souls are now acting, enduring and daring, which can love us and which we can love.
    ET19 5.313 19 I see [England] in her old age...still daring to believe in her power of endurance and expansion.

darings, n. (1)

    War 11.175 9 ...if the rising generation...shall feel the generous darings of austerity and virtue, then war has a short day...

dark, adj. (43)

    LE 1.183 8 [They whom the student's thoughts have entertained or inflamed] seek him, that he may turn his lamp on the dark riddles whose solution they think is inscribed on the walls of their being.
    LE 1.183 17 They [whom the student's thoughts have entertained or inflamed] find...that he cannot make of his infrequent illumination a portable taper to carry whither he would, and explain now this dark riddle, now that.
    Comp 2.93 24 ...if this doctrine [Compensation] could be stated in terms with any resemblance to those bright intuitions in which this truth is sometimes revealed to us, it would be a star in many dark hours...
    SL 2.148 11 My children, said an old man to his boys scared by a figure in the dark entry, my children, you will never see anything worse than yourselves.
    Int 2.334 10 So lies the whole series of natural images with which your life has made you acquainted, in your memory, though you know it not; and a thrill of passion flashes light on their dark chamber...
    Pt1 3.15 4 ...if any phenomenon remains brute and dark it is because the corresponding faculty in the observer is not yet active.
    PPh 4.68 23 ...Let there be a line cut in two unequal parts. Cut again each of these two main parts,--one representing the visible, the other the intelligible world,--and let these two new sections represent the bright part and the dark part of each of these worlds.
    SwM 4.117 6 Behmen, and all mystics, imply this law [of Correspondence] in their dark riddle-writing.
    ET1 5.3 5 In 1833...I crossed from Boulogne and landed in London at the Tower stairs. It was a dark Sunday morning;...
    ET4 5.54 24 ...the Roman has implanted his dark complexion in the trinity or quaternity of bloods [in England].
    ET16 5.280 15 The grass grows rank and dark in the showery England.
    ET19 5.313 13 I see [England]...well remembering that she has seen dark days before;...
    Ctr 6.153 2 [The English] have piqued themselves on governing the whole world in the poor, plain, dark Committee-room which the House of Commons sat in, before the fire.
    Wsp 6.199 12 This is he men miscall Fate,/ Threading dark ways, arriving late/...
    CbW 6.271 12 ...if one comes who can illuminate this dark house with thoughts...he wakes in [men] the feeling of worth...
    Elo1 7.59 7 For whom the Muses smile upon/ .../ ...though he speak in midnight dark;/ In heaven no star, on earth no spark,--/ Yet before the listener's eye/ Swims the world in ecstasy/...
    DL 7.106 12 [The child's] imaginative life dresses all things in their best. His fears adorn the dark parts with poetry.
    Boks 7.192 20 It seems...as if some charitable soul...would do a right act in naming those [books] which have been bridges or ships to carry him safely over dark morasses and barren oceans...
    PI 8.12 8 God himself...communicates with us by...dark resemblances in objects lying all around us.
    PI 8.48 10 A little onward lend thy guiding hand,/ To these dark steps a little farther on./ Samson.
    PPo 8.258 2 Presently we have [in Hafiz's poetry],-All day the rain/ Bathed the dark hyacinths in vain,/ The flood may pour from morn to night/ Nor wash the pretty Indians white./
    Aris 10.59 22 A grand style of culture, which, without injury, an ardent youth can propose to himself as a Pharos through long dark years, does not exist...
    PerF 10.85 14 I find the survey of these cosmical powers a doctrine of consolation in the dark hours of private or public fortune.
    Supl 10.165 2 Every favorite is not a cherub...nor each unpleasing person a dark, diabolical intriguer;...
    SovE 10.190 23 Shall I say then it were truer to see Necessity...stretching her dark warp across the universe?
    Prch 10.219 7 It is certain that many dark hours...will occur.
    MoL 10.258 1 The times are dark, but heroic.
    Schr 10.287 4 ...[the scholar] has his dark days...
    MMEm 10.418 16 Not a prospect but is dark on earth, as to knowledge and joy from externals...
    Thor 10.483 16 How did these beautiful rainbow-tints get into the shell of the fresh-water clam, buried in the mud at the bottom of our dark river?
    War 11.149 3 The archangel Hope/ Looks to the azure cope,/ Waits through dark ages for the morn,/ Defeated day by day, but unto Victory born./
    FSLC 11.200 12 ...the Nemesis works underneath again. It is a power that makes noonday dark...
    EPro 11.318 19 'T is wonderful what power is...and how its ill use makes... the sunshine dark.
    Wom 11.410 3 Position, Wren said, is essential to the perfecting of beauty;-a fine building is lost in a dark lane;...
    Wom 11.418 1 There are plenty of people who believe that the world is governed by men of dark complexions...
    SHC 11.428 1 No abbey's gloom, nor dark cathedral stoops,/ No winding torches paint the midnight air;/...
    CPL 11.499 22 [Mary Moody Emerson writes] Is the melancholy bird of night, covered with the dark foliage of the willow and cypress, less gratified than the gay lark...
    PLT 12.34 8 We feel as if one man wrote all the books, painted, built, in dark ages;...
    CInt 12.122 23 We feel as if one man wrote all the books...in dark ages...
    EurB 12.366 11 The poet, like the electric rod, must reach from a point nearer the sky than all surrounding objects, down to the earth, and into the dark wet soil, or neither is of use.
    Trag 12.405 8 In the dark hours, our existence seems to be a defensive war...
    Trag 12.414 22 As the west wind...combs out the matted and dishevelled grass as it lay in night-locks on the ground, so we let in Time as a drying wind into the seed-field of thoughts which are dark and wet and low bent.
    Trag 12.417 1 [The intellect] yields the joys of conversation, of letters and of science. Hence also the torments of life become tuneful tragedy, solemn and soft with music, and garnished with rich dark pictures.

Dark Ages, n. (3)

    Hist 2.39 8 I shall find in [a man] the Foreworld; in his childhood...the... Dark Ages...
    Wsp 6.209 8 ...the churches stagger backward to the mummeries of the Dark Ages.
    PC 8.214 15 In modern Europe, the Middle Ages were called the Dark Ages.

dark, n. (22)

    LT 1.267 18 We...stand in the light of Ideas, whose rays stream through us to those younger and more in the dark.
    Pt1 3.1 4 A moody child and wildly wise/ Pursued the game with joyful eyes,/ Which chose, like meteors, their way,/ And rived the dark with private ray/...
    Chr1 3.105 3 How death-cold is literary genius before this fire of life [character]! These are the touches that...give [my soul] eyes to pierce the dark of nature.
    Chr1 3.114 1 We shall one day see...that...grandeur of character acts in the dark...
    ET6 5.114 26 ...the usage of a dress-dinner every day at dark has a tendency to hive and produce to advantage every thing good [in table-talk].
    ET8 5.135 5 [The English] hide virtues under vices, or the semblance of them. It is the misshapen hairy Scandinavian troll again, who lifts the cart out of the mire...but it is done in the dark and with muttered maledictions.
    ET9 5.149 24 ...at last it was agreed that [the Frenchman and the Englishman] should fight alone, in the dark...
    ET14 5.235 17 When the Gothic nations came into Europe they found it lighted with the sun and moon of Hebrew and of Greek genius. The tablets of their brain, long kept in the dark, were finely sensible to the double glory.
    Bhr 6.189 11 The things of a man for which we visit him were done in the dark and cold.
    Wsp 6.231 19 The genius of life is friendly to the noble, and in the dark brings them friends from far.
    Wsp 6.233 24 [The faithful student] shall work in the dark, work against failure...
    CbW 6.255 8 ...Art lives and thrills in...mining into the dark evermore for blacker pits of night.
    Bty 6.279 19 In dens of passion, and pits of woe, [Seyd] saw strong Eros struggling through,/ To sun the dark and solve the curse,/ And beam to the bounds of the universe./
    Ill 6.309 24 We...examined all the masterpieces which the four combined engineers, water, limestone, gravitation and time, could make in the dark [of the Mammoth Cave].
    Boks 7.193 17 It is easy...to demonstrate that though [a man] should read from dawn till dark, for sixty years, he must die in the first alcoves [of the libraries].
    Dem1 10.16 7 The young man takes a leap in the dark and alights safe.
    Dem1 10.19 19 The insinuation [of belief in the demonological] is that the known eternal laws of morals and matter are sometimes corrupted or evaded by this gypsy principle, which chooses favorites and works in the dark for their behoof;...
    Dem1 10.26 18 [Adepts in occult facts] are...by laws of kind,-dunces seeking dunces in the dark of what they call the spiritual world,-preferring snores and gastric noises to the voice of any muse.
    LLNE 10.359 12 ...the architect, acting under a necessity to build the house for its purpose, finds himself...steering clear, though in the dark, of those dangers which might have shipwrecked him.
    HDC 11.60 26 ...[King Philip] was at last shot down by an Indian deserter, as he fled alone in the dark of the morning...
    EPro 11.314 22 My will fulfilled shall be,/ For in daylight or in dark,/ My thunderbolt has eyes to see/ His way home to the mark./
    Bost 12.202 26 The theology and the instinct of freedom that grew here [in Massachusetts] in the dark in serious men furnished a certain rancor which consumed all opposition...

Dark, n. (2)

    SR 2.47 27 ...we are...guides, redeemers and benefactors...advancing on Chaos and the Dark.
    Comp 2.91 14 The lonely Earth amid the balls/ That hurry through the eternal halls,/ A makeweight flying to the void,/ Supplemental asteroid,/ Or compensatory spark,/ Shoots across the neutral Dark./

Dark, Reverend, n. (1)

    Plu 10.321 27 Were there not a sun, we might, for all the other stars, pass our days in the Reverend Dark, as Heraclitus calls it.

darken, v. (4)

    ET3 5.39 19 In the manufacturing towns [of England], the fine soot or blacks darken the day...
    MoL 10.241 11 ...before the shadows of these times darken over your youthful sensibility and candor, let me use the occasion...to offer you some counsels...
    EWI 11.135 9 ...I do not wish to darken the hours of this day by crimination;...
    Trag 12.409 15 ...suspicions, half-knowledge and mistakes, darken the brow and chill the heart of men.

darkened, v. (3)

    SL 2.132 14 Our young people are diseased with the theological problems of original sin, origin of evil, predestination and the like. These...never darkened across any man's road who did not go out of his way to seek them.
    OA 7.322 19 We still feel the force...of Galileo, of whose blindness Castelli said, The noblest eye is darkened that Nature ever made...
    Aris 10.51 15 The day is darkened when the golden river runs down into mud;...

darkening, v. (1)

    Insp 8.282 9 ...it sometimes if rarely happens that after a season of decay or eclipse, darkening months or years, the faculties revive to their fullest force.

darkens, v. (3)

    MoS 4.173 8 [The wise skeptic] does not wish to...blazon every doubt and sneer that darkens the sun for him.
    GoW 4.277 2 ...[Goethe]...looked for [the Devil]...in every shade of coldness, selfishness and unbelief that...darkens over the human thought...
    ALin 11.329 2 We meet under the gloom of a calamity [death of Lincoln] which darkens down over the minds of good men in all civil society...

darker, adj. (2)

    AmS 1.106 5 For this self-trust, the reason is...darker than can be enlightened.
    ET11 5.193 10 The historic names of the Buckinghams, Beauforts, Marlboroughs and Hertfords have gained no new lustre, and now and then darker scandals break out...

darkest, adj. (4)

    Pt1 3.31 15 ...Chaucer, in his praise of Gentilesse, compares good blood in mean condition to fire, which, though carried to the darkest house betwixt this and the mount of Caucasus, will yet hold its natural office and burn as bright as if twenty thousand men did it behold;...
    GoW 4.290 12 Genius hovers with [Goethe's] sunshine and music close by the darkest and deafest eras.
    MMEm 10.416 3 ...joy, hope and resignation unite me [Mary Moody Emerson] to Him whose mysterious Will adjusts everything, and the darkest and lightest are alike welcome.
    FSLN 11.229 9 The way in which the country was dragged to consent to this [Fugitive Slave Law]...was the darkest passage in the history.

darkling, adj. (3)

    LT 1.288 2 Here we drift, like white sail across the wild ocean, now bright on the wave, now darkling in the trough of the sea;...
    Tran 1.332 6 The sturdy capitalist...must set [his banking-house], at last... on a mass of unknown materials and solidity...which...goes spinning away... a bit of bullet, now glimmering, now darkling through a small cubic space...
    ET12 5.213 7 Genius exists there [in the college] also, but will not answer a call of a committee of the House of Commons. It is rare, precarious, eccentric and darkling.

darkly, adv. (3)

    Bhr 6.181 1 The military eye I meet, now darkly sparkling under clerical, now under rustic brows.
    Insp 8.296 12 ...now one, now another landscape, form, color, or companion...strikes the electric chain with which we are darkly bound...
    CL 12.166 19 ...the imagination...does not impart its secret to inquisitive persons. Sometimes a parlor in which fine persons are found...answers our purpose still better. Striking the electric chain with which we are darkly bound...

darkness, n. (41)

    Nat 1.26 22 Light and darkness are our familiar expression for knowledge and ignorance;...
    Nat 1.54 15 The charm dissolves apace/ And, as the morning steals upon the night,/ Melting the darkness, so their rising senses/ Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle/ Their clearer reason./
    Nat 1.72 24 ...in the thick darkness, there are not wanting gleams of a better light...
    AmS 1.91 15 ...when the intervals of darkness come...we repair to the lamps...to guide our steps to the East again, where the dawn is.
    DSA 1.119 8 Through the transparent darkness the stars pour their almost spiritual rays.
    LE 1.169 3 The noonday darkness of the American forest...this beauty...has never been recorded by art...
    LE 1.176 15 Silence, seclusion, austerity, may...bring up out of secular darkness the sublimities of the moral constitution.
    LE 1.183 14 They [whom the student's thoughts have entertained or inflamed] find that he is a poor, ignorant man...now and then [emitting] a jet of luminous thought followed by total darkness;...
    LT 1.271 4 There is a perfect chain...of reforms emerging from the surrounding darkness...
    Comp 2.96 17 Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature; in darkness and light;...
    Comp 2.115 14 ...the doctrine...that it is impossible to get anything without its price,--is not less sublime in the columns of a leger than...in the laws of light and darkness...
    Comp 2.122 8 ...in a virtuous act I add to the world; I...see the darkness receding on the limits of the horizon.
    Int 2.327 23 Out of darkness [the mind] came insensibly into the marvellous light of to-day.
    Pt1 3.36 3 The men in one of [Swedenborg's] visions, seen in heavenly light, appeared like dragons, and seemed in darkness;...
    Pt1 3.36 6 The men in one of [Swedenborg's] visions, seen in heavenly light, appeared like dragons, and seemed in darkness; but to each other they appeared as men, and when the light from heaven shone into their cabin, they complained of the darkness...
    Nat2 3.189 3 Days and nights...of communion with angels of darkness and of light have engraved their shadowy characters on that tear-stained book.
    NER 3.261 6 ...in the assault on the kingdom of darkness [many reformers] expend all their energy on some accidental evil...
    UGM 4.10 9 Light and darkness...circle us round in a wreath of pleasures...
    MoS 4.183 1 George Fox saw that there was an ocean of darkness and death;...
    MoS 4.183 3 George Fox saw that there was an ocean of darkness and death; but withal an infinite ocean of light and love which flowed over that of darkness.
    GoW 4.275 21 ...[Goethe]...considered that every color was the mixture of light and darkness in new proportions.
    ET3 5.39 15 The only drawback on this industrial conveniency [in England] is the darkness of its sky.
    F 6.14 21 ...a vesicle lodged in darkness, Oken thought, became animal;...
    Civ 7.30 26 If we can thus ride in Olympian chariots by putting our works in the path of the celestial circuits, we can harness also...the powers of darkness...
    DL 7.105 14 [The boy] walks daily among wonders: fire, light, darkness, the moon, the stars...
    Farm 7.141 4 The men in cities who are the centres of energy...and the women of beauty and genius, are the children or grandchildren of farmers, and are spending the energies which their fathers' hardy, silent life accumulated...in poverty, necessity and darkness.
    Cour 7.275 18 ...the rack, the fire...appear trials beyond the endurance of common humanity; but to the hero whose intellect is aggrandized by the soul...these terrors vanish as darkness at sunrise.
    PI 8.41 14 ...dewdrop and haze and the pencil of light are as long-lived as chaos and darkness.
    Insp 8.273 2 'T is with us a flash of light, then a long darkness, then a flash again.
    PerF 10.70 16 ...the marble column, the brazen statue...would soon decompose if their molecular structure, disturbed by the raging sunlight, were not restored by the darkness of the night.
    PerF 10.84 22 [Men]...would like to have Aladdin's lamp to compel darkness, and iron-bound doors, and hostile armies, and lions and serpents to serve them like footmen.
    SovE 10.195 5 The fiery soul said: Let me be a blot on this fair world, the obscurest, the loneliest sufferer, with one proviso,-that I know it is his agency. I will love him, though he shed frost and darkness on every way of mine.
    MMEm 10.428 14 Constantly offer myself [Mary Moody Emerson] to continue the obscurest and loneliest thing ever heard of, with one proviso,- [God's] agency. Yes, love Thee, and all Thou dost, while Thou sheddest frost and darkness on every path of mine.
    EWI 11.138 16 Men have become aware, through the emancipation [in the West Indies] and kindred events, of the presence of powers which, in their days of darkness, they had overlooked.
    ACiv 11.309 22 This is the consolation on which we rest in the darkness of the future and the afflictions of to-day, that the government of the world is moral...
    EPro 11.314 14 Up! and the dusky race/ That sat in darkness long,-/ Be swift their feet as antelopes,/ And as behemoth strong./
    PLT 12.53 1 'T is with us a flash of light, then a long darkness, then a flash again.
    Mem 12.103 17 In solitude, in darkness, we tread over again the sunny walks of youth;...
    Mem 12.107 7 ...the true river Lethe is the body of man, with its belly and uproar of appetite and mountains of indigestion and bad humors and quality of darkness.
    MLit 12.314 7 Every form under the whole heaven [the narrow-minded] behold in this most partial light or darkness of intense selfishness...
    MLit 12.317 27 There are...sentiments...which are soothed by silence, by darkness...

Darkness, n. (2)

    Mrs1 3.147 5 ...As Heaven and Earth are fairer far/ Than Chaos and blank Darkness, though once chiefs/ .../ So on our heels a fresh perfection treads/...
    Mrs1 3.147 11 ...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, born of us/ And fated to excel us, as we pass/ In glory that old Darkness.../

darling, adj. (4)

    Nat 1.21 27 Willingly does [nature]...bend her lines of grandeur and grace to the decoration of her darling child.
    LT 1.277 15 [The Reforms] mix the fire of the moral sentiment, with...the blindness that prefers some darling measure to justice and truth.
    Bost 12.182 20 A blessing through the ages thus/ Shield all thy roofs and towers!/ GOD WITH THE FATHERS, SO WITH US,/ Thou darling town of ours [Boston]1/
    ACri 12.284 27 ...many of [Goethe's] poems are so idiomatic...that they are the terror of translators, who say they cannot be rendered into any other language without loss of vigor, as we say of any darling passage of our own masters.

darling, n. (5)

    Exp 3.43 19 The lords of life, the lords of life,--/ I saw them pass,/ In their own guise,/ .../ Dearest Nature, strong and kind,/ Whispered, Darling, never mind!/ To-morrow they will wear another face,/ The founder thou! these are thy race!/
    Exp 3.65 12 Life itself is...a sleep within a sleep. Grant it, and as much more as they will,--but thou, God's darling! heed thy private dream;...
    Bty 6.300 24 Sir Philip Sidney, the darling of mankind, Ben Jonson tells us, was no pleasant man in countenance...
    WD 7.165 23 ...Trade, that pride and darling of our ocean...ends in shameful defaulting, bubble and bankruptcy...
    Cour 7.256 8 ...any man who puts his life in peril in a cause which is esteemed becomes the darling of all men.

darlings, n. (5)

    Con 1.314 4 ...in the darlings of the selectest circles of European or American aristocracy, the strong heart will beat with love of mankind...
    Exp 3.64 8 [Nature's] darlings, the great, the strong, the beautiful, are not children of our law;...
    PI 8.1 13 [The people of the sky] turn his heart from lovely maids,/ And make the darlings of the earth/ Swainish, coarse and nothing worth/...
    Res 8.136 1 Day by day for her darlings to her much [Nature] added more;/ In her hundred-gated Thebes every chamber was a door,/ A door to something grander,--loftier walls, and vaster floor./
    Let 12.400 23 Full of love, talent and hope spring up the darlings of the muse among the Germans;...

Darlings, n. (1)

    UGM 4.23 1 ...I like...Scourges of God, and Darlings of the human race.

darling's, n. (1)

    PPo 8.259 27 And since round lines are drawn/ My darling's lips about,/ The very Moon looks puzzled on,/ And hesitates in doubt/ If the sweet curve that rounds thy mouth/ Be not her true way to the South./

Darlington, England, n. (1)

    ET11 5.182 8 From Barnard Castle I rode on the highway twenty-three miles...towards Darlington...through the estate of the Duke of Cleveland.

Dart River, England, n. (1)

    ET11 5.179 14 Cambridge is the bridge of the Cam;...Exmouth, Dartmouth, Sidmouth, Teignmouth, the mouths of the Ex, Dart, Sid and Teign rivers.

dart, v. (2)

    Insp 8.294 20 Words used in a new sense and figuratively, dart a delightful lustre;...
    SlHr 10.448 26 With beams December planets dart,/ [Samuel Hoar's] cold eye truth and conduct scanned;/ July was in his sunny heart,/ October in his liberal hand./

darting, v. (1)

    SR 2.69 18 Power...resides...in the darting to an aim.

Dartmouth, England, n. (1)

    ET11 5.179 13 Cambridge is the bridge of the Cam;...Exmouth, Dartmouth, Sidmouth, Teignmouth, the mouths of the Ex, Dart, Sid and Teign rivers.

darts, n. (2)

    SR 2.49 21 [The self-reliant individual] would utter opinions on all passing affairs, which...would sink like darts into the ear of men...
    QO 8.202 25 Pindar uses this haughty defiance, as if it were impossible to find his sources: There are many swift darts within my quiver which have a voice for those with understanding;...

darts, v. (3)

    Nat 1.13 25 ...[man] paves the road with iron bars, and mounting a coach with a ship-load of men, animals, and merchandise behind him, he darts through the country...
    ET2 5.26 23 The good ship darts through the water all day, all night, like a fish;...
    EdAd 11.384 1 ...the train...darts away into the interior...

Darwin, Charles, n. (1)

    Grts 8.311 24 [The scholar's] courage is to...judge of Darwin...

Darwin, Erasmus, n. (1)

    PI 8.7 18 The electric word pronounced by John Hunter a hundred years ago, arrested and progressive development...gave the poetic key to Natural Science, of which the theories...of Agassiz and Owen and Darwin in zoology and botany, are the fruits...

Darwin's, Erasmus, n. (1)

    Insp 8.270 5 The aboriginal man...in the dim lights of Darwin's microscope, is not an engaging figure.

dash, n. (1)

    Comp 2.99 2 Is a man...a morose ruffian, with a dash of the pirate in him?-- Nature sends him a troop of pretty sons and daughters...

dashed, v. (1)

    Elo1 7.76 21 We believe that there may be a man who is a match for events...against whom other men being dashed are broken...

dashes, n. (1)

    GoW 4.282 16 ...through every clause and part of speech of a right book I meet the eyes of the most determined of men;...the commas and dashes are alive;...

dashing, v. (1)

    Schr 10.265 8 ...[poets] sit white over their stoves, and talk themselves hoarse over the...the effeminacy of book-makers. But...at the dashing among the stones of a brook from the hills;...this grave conclusion is blown out of memory;...

dastard, n. (1)

    Edc1 10.158 7 ...if a boy [in the school] runs from his bench, or a girl...to check some injury that a little dastard is inflicting behind his desk on some helpless sufferer, take away the medal from the head of the class and give it on the instant to the brave rescuer.

dastardly, adj. (3)

    ET4 5.62 18 Many a mean, dastardly boy is, at the age of puberty, transformed into a serious and generous youth.
    CbW 6.248 23 Franklin said, Mankind are very superficial and dastardly...
    Cour 7.258 3 Mankind, said Franklin, are dastardly when they meet with opposition.

data, n. (6)

    AmS 1.109 3 ...there are data for marking the genius of the Classic, of the Romantic, and now of the Reflective or Philosophical age.
    LE 1.172 1 ...the first observation you make...may open a new view of nature and of man, that...shall take up Greece, Rome, Stoicism, Eclecticism...as mere data and food for analysis...
    Tran 1.329 17 As thinkers, mankind have ever divided into two sects, Materialists and Idealists;...the first class beginning to think from the data of the senses...
    SR 2.56 26 ...the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts...
    Clbs 7.248 11 Plutarch, Xenophon and Plato, who have celebrated each a banquet of their set, have given us next to no data of the viands;...
    EdAd 11.386 12 Conceding these unfavorable appearances, it would yet be a poor pedantry to read the fates of this country from these narrow data.

date, n. (17)

    SL 2.154 13 ...presentation-copies to all the libraries will not preserve a book in circulation beyond its intrinsic date.
    ET12 5.203 9 In the Bodleian Library, Dr. Bandinel showed me the manuscript Plato, of the date of A.D. 896...
    ET15 5.265 21 The statistics [on the London Times] are now quite out of date...
    ET16 5.283 6 On hints like these, Stukeley...bravely assigns the year 406 before Christ for the date of the temple [Stonehenge].
    F 6.17 13 'T is frivolous to fix pedantically the date of particular inventions.
    Bhr 6.186 8 Society...if you do not belong to it, resists and sneers at you, or quietly drops you. The first weapon enrages the party attacked; the second... is not to be resisted, as the date of the transaction is not easily found.
    Clbs 7.243 13 The history of the Hotel Rambouillet and its brilliant circles makes an important date in French civilization.
    Imtl 8.335 22 A candle a mile long or a hundred miles long does not help the imagination; only a self-feeding fire, an inextinguishable lamp, like the sun and the star, that we have not yet found date and origin for.
    PerF 10.71 17 The Vedas of India, which have a date older than Homer, are hymns to the winds, to the clouds, and to fire.
    PerF 10.88 10 ...[wrath and petulance] quickly reach their brief date and decompose...
    Chr2 10.111 25 ...how many sentences and books we owe to unknown authors,-to writers who were not careful to set down name or date or titles or cities or postmarks in these illuminations!
    HDC 11.41 1 We have records of marriages and deaths, beginning nineteen years after the settlement [of Concord]; and copies of some of the doings of the town in regard to territory, of the same date.
    HDC 11.42 1 At the same date, in 1654, the town [Concord] having divided itself into three districts...ordered that the North quarter are to keep and maintain all their highways and bridges over the great river, in their quarter...
    JBS 11.278 27 ...I incline to accept [John Brown's] own account of the matter at Charlestown, which makes the date a little older, when he said, This was all settled millions of years before the world was made.
    SMC 11.349 16 We are thankful...that the heroes of old and of recent date, who made and kept America free and united, were not rare or solitary growths...
    Mem 12.108 12 The universal sense of fables and anecdotes is marked by our tendency to forget name and date and geography.
    Mem 12.108 14 How in the right are children, said Margaret Fuller, to forget name and date and place.

date, v. (5)

    SR 2.66 4 It must be that when God speaketh he should...new date and new create the whole.
    ET12 5.200 21 [Oxford's] foundations date from Alfred...
    DL 7.124 4 ...it is pitiful to date and measure all the facts and sequel of an unfolding life from such a youthful and generally inconsiderate period as the age of courtship and marriage.
    LLNE 10.325 17 It is not easy to date these eras of activity with any precision...
    MMEm 10.421 26 ...a few lamps held out in the firmament enable us...to date the revelations of God to man.

dated, adj. (1)

    Exp 3.46 17 We never got [wisdom, poetry, virtue] on any dated calendar day.

dated, v. (3)

    ET13 5.217 9 All maxims of prudence or shop or farm are fixed and dated by the [English] church.
    ET14 5.245 14 ...[Hallam's] eye does not reach to the ideal standards: the verdicts are all dated from London;...
    Wom 11.415 21 A second epoch for Woman was in France,-entirely civil; the change of sentiment from a rude to a polite character, in the age of Louis XIV,-commonly dated from the building of the Hotel de Rambouillet.

dates, n. (13)

    Comp 2.125 7 ...in some happier mind [these revolutions] are incessant, and all worldly relations hang very loosely about him, becoming as it were a transparent fluid membrane through which the living form is seen, and not, as in most men, an indurated heterogeneous fabric of many dates and no settled character...
    OS 2.274 11 [The soul] has no dates...
    OS 2.283 7 In past oracles of the soul the understanding...undertakes to tell from God how long men shall exist...who shall be their company, adding names and dates and places.
    Mrs1 3.120 5 ...the salt, the dates, the ivory, and the gold, for which these horrible regions are visited, find their way into countries where the purchaser and consumer can hardly be ranked in one race with these cannibals and man-stealers;...
    PNR 4.80 8 The publication, in Mr. Bohn's Serial Library, of the excellent translations of Plato...gives us an occasion...to add a bulletin, like the journals, of Plato at the latest dates.
    ShP 4.192 23 At the time when [Shakespeare] left Stratford and went up to London, a great body of stage-plays of all dates and writers existed in manuscript...
    NMW 4.254 7 ...[Napoleon] sat...in his lonely island, coldly falsifying facts and dates and characters...
    GoW 4.286 16 Of course the book [Goethe's Dichtung und Wahrheit] affords slender materials for what would be reckoned with us a Life of Goethe;--few dates...
    Bhr 6.176 25 Take a thorn-bush, said the emir Abdel-Kader, and sprinkle it for a whole year with rose-water;--it will yield nothing but thorns. Take a date-tree, leave it without water, without culture, and it will always produce dates.
    Supl 10.166 9 Among these glorifiers, the coldest stickler for names and dates and measures cannot lament his criticism and coldness of fancy.
    Plu 10.293 5 It is remarkable that of an author so familiar as Plutarch...not even the dates of his birth and death, should have come down to us.
    TPar 11.288 22 ...[the next generation] will read very intelligently in [Theodore Parker's] rough story...precise with names and dates, what part was taken by each actor [in Boston];...
    SHC 11.430 23 We will not jealously guard a few atoms under immense marbles, selfishly and impossibly sequestering it from the vast circulations of Nature, but, at the same time...wishing to make one spot tender to our children, who shall come hither in the next century to read the dates of these lives.

dates, v. (6)

    SwM 4.107 6 This theory [Identity-philosophy] dates from the oldest philosophers...
    GoW 4.272 18 This reflective and critical wisdom makes the poem [Goethe's Helena] more truly the flower of this time. It dates itself.
    ET4 5.62 14 It took many generations to trim and comb and perfume the first boat-load of Norse pirates into...most noble Knights of the Garter; but every sparkle of ornament dates back to the Norse boat.
    ET5 5.98 19 The rapid doubling of the population [in England] dates from Watt's steam-engine.
    F 6.26 12 [The mind] dates from itself;...
    Scot 11.465 3 [Scott] apprehended in advance the immense enlargement of the reading public, which almost dates from the era of his books...

date-tree, n. (3)

    Prd1 2.226 12 ...wherever a wild date-tree grows, nature has...spread a table for [the islander's] morning meal.
    Bhr 6.176 23 Take a thorn-bush, said the emir Abdel-Kader, and sprinkle it for a whole year with rose-water;--it will yield nothing but thorns. Take a date-tree, leave it without water, without culture, and it will always produce dates.
    Bhr 6.176 25 Take a date-tree [said the emir Abdel-Kader], leave it without water, without culture, and it will always produce dates. Nobility is the date-tree...

daub, v. (2)

    Ill 6.317 4 ...if...Moosehead, or any other, invent a new style or mythology, I fancy that the world will be all brave and right if dressed in these colors, which I had not thought of. Then at once I will daub with this new paint; but it will not stick.
    Suc 7.309 10 ...do not daub with sables and glooms in your conversation.

Daubeny, Charles Giles, n. (1)

    ET12 5.199 11 ...I availed myself of some repeated invitations to Oxford, where I had introductions to Dr. Daubeny...and to the Regius Professor of Divinity [William Jacobson]...

dauber, n. (1)

    CInt 12.131 15 When the great painter was told by a dauber, I have painted five pictures whilst you have made one, he replied, Pingo in aeternitatem.

daughter, n. (16)

    YA 1.375 20 Fathers...behold with impatience a new character and way of thinking presuming to show itself in their own son or daughter.
    ShP 4.206 12 It is the essence of poetry to spring, like the rainbow daughter of Wonder, from the invisible...
    F 6.10 2 It often appears in a family as if all the qualities of the progenitors were potted in several jars,-some ruling quality in each son or daughter of the house;...
    Wsp 6.206 8 Hengist had verament/ A daughter both fair and gent,/ But she was heathen Sarazine,/ And Vortigern for love fine/ Her took to fere and to wife,/ And was cursed in all his life;/...
    Civ 7.22 13 There was once a giantess who had a daughter...
    Elo1 7.71 27 [Priam] answered Helen, daughter of Jove, This is the wise Ulysses...
    EzRy 10.388 12 I can remember a little speech [Ezra Ripley] made to me, when the last tie of blood which held me and my brothers to his house was broken by the death of his daughter.
    MMEm 10.400 5 [Mary Moody Emerson's] father...went as chaplain to the the American army at Ticonderoga: he carried his infant daughter, before he went, to his mother in Malden...
    MMEm 10.401 6 Her aunt became strongly attached to Mary [Moody Emerson], and persuaded the family to give the child up to her as a daughter...
    Thor 10.462 8 [Thoreau] had a strong common sense, like that which Rose Flammock, the weaver's daughter in Scott's romance [The Betrothed], commends in her father...
    Wom 11.414 24 When a daughter is born, says the Shiking, the old Sacred Book of China, she sleeps on the ground...
    Wom 11.425 20 Every woman being the wife or the daughter of a man... she can never be very far from his ear...
    Wom 11.425 21 Every woman being the...wife, daughter, sister, mother, of a man, she can never be very far from his ear...
    Wom 11.426 7 ...there are always a certain number of passionately loving fathers, brothers, husbands and sons who put their might into the endeavor to make a daughter, a wife, or a mother happy in the way that suits best.
    Milt1 12.263 22 [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.
    AgMs 12.360 26 The story [in the Agricultural Survey] of the farmer's daughter, whom education had spoiled for everything useful on a farm,- that is good, too...

daughters, n. (13)

    Comp 2.99 4 Is a man...a morose ruffian...Nature sends him a troop of pretty sons and daughters...
    ET1 5.19 5 [Wordsworth's] daughters called in their father...
    ET10 5.153 17 [The English] are under the Jewish law, and read with sonorous emphasis that...they shall have sons and daughters, flocks and herds, wine and oil.
    CbW 6.263 10 ...sickness...absorbs its own sons and daughters.
    Art2 7.56 23 In this country, at this time...the arts, the daughters of enthusiasm, do not flourish.
    WD 7.155 1 Daughters of Time, the hypocritic days,/ Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes,/ And marching single in an endless file,/ Bring diadems and fagots in their hands./
    PI 8.28 16 Lear...thinks every man who suffers must have the like cause with his own. What, have his daughters brought him to this pass?
    LLNE 10.369 5 [Brook Farm] was a close union...of clergymen, young collegians, merchants, mechanics, farmers' sons and daughters...
    HDC 11.60 2 The historian of Concord [Lemuel Shattuck] has preserved an instance of the resolution of one of the daughters of the town.
    PLT 12.19 5 ...presently, antagonized by other thoughts which [the perceptions of the soul] first aroused, or by thoughts which are sons and daughters of these, the thought buries itself in the new thought of larger scope...
    Mem 12.95 22 ...the poets represented the Muses as the daughters of Memory...
    MAng1 12.227 12 [Michelangelo] gave this model [of a movable platform] to a carpenter, who made it so profitable as to furnish a dowry for his two daughters.
    ACri 12.301 1 Pindar when the victor in a race by mules offered him a trifling present, pretended to be hurt at thought of writing on demi-asses. When, however, he offered a sufficient present, he composed the poem:- Hail, daughters of the tempest-footed horse,/ That skims like wind along the course./

Daumas, E., n. (1)

    Cour 7.271 23 ...General Daumas and Abdel-Kader, become aware that they are nearer and more alike than any other two...

daunt, v. (2)

    Mrs1 3.124 7 In a good lord there must first be a good animal, at least to the extent of yielding the incomparable advantage of animal spirits. The ruling class must have more, but they must have these, giving in every company the sense of power, which makes things easy to be done which daunt the wise.
    Bhr 6.171 5 The power of a woman of fashion to lead and also to daunt and repel, derives from [timid girls'] belief that she knows resources and behaviors not known to them;...

daunted, v. (8)

    Nat 1.39 13 ...we are impressed and even daunted by the immense Universe to be explored.
    Ill 6.320 3 Though the world exist from thought, thought is daunted in presence of the world.
    Cour 7.264 10 The school-boy is daunted before his tutor by a question of arithmetic...
    Cour 7.264 24 The eye is easily daunted;...
    Suc 7.295 26 Feel yourself, and be not daunted by things.
    LLNE 10.349 9 [Brisbane's plan] was not daunted by distance...
    War 11.163 25 ...always we are daunted by the appearances;...
    War 11.172 5 The attractiveness of war shows one thing...this namely, the conviction of man universally, that...that [a man]...should be himself a kingdom and a state;...nothing daunted, and not really poorer if government, law and order went by the board;...

daunting, v. (1)

    PC 8.224 6 Here stretches...out of conception even, this vast Nature, daunting, bewildering, but all penetrable...

dauntless, adj. (1)

    SL 2.165 19 If the poet write a true drama, then he is Caesar...then the selfsame strain of thought...and a heart as great, self-sufficing, dauntless... these all are his...

daunts, v. (1)

    MAng1 12.229 19 [Michelangelo's Moses]...is designed to embody the Hebrew Law. The law-giver is supposed to gaze upon the worshippers of the golden calf. The majestic wrath of the figure daunts the beholder.

Davalos, Fernando [Marquis (1)

    MAng1 12.240 6 [Michelangelo] was deeply enamoured of the most accomplished lady of the time, Vittoria Colonna, the widow of the Marquis di Pescara...

David, King, n. (8)

    Nat 1.41 5 Prophet and priest, David, Isaiah, Jesus, have drawn deeply from this source [of nature].
    Tran 1.337 7 I, [Jacobi] says, am...that godless person who, in opposition to an imaginary doctrine of calculation...would perjure myself like Epaminondas and John de Witt;...I would commit sacrilege with David;...
    SR 2.67 24 ...see what strong intellects dare not yet hear God himself unless he speak the phraseology of I know not what David...
    Hsm1 2.255 4 Better still is the temperance of King David...
    Art2 7.53 17 The Iliad of Homer, the songs of David...were made...in grave earnest...
    PerF 10.69 21 ...King David had no good from making his census out of vainglory...
    EzRy 10.384 5 [Ezra Ripley] and his contemporaries...were believers in what is called a particular providence...following the narrowness of King David and the Jews...
    Bost 12.194 27 How needful is David, Paul, Leighton, Fenelon, to our devotion.

David [Michelangelo], n. (1)

    MAng1 12.229 21 In the Piazza del Gran Duca at Florence, stands, in the open air, [Michelangelo's] David...

David's, King, n. (1)

    OA 7.315 15 ...the naivete of [Josiah Quincy's] eager preference of Cicero' s opinions to King David's, gave unusual interest to the College festival.

Davies, Edward, n. (1)

    ET16 5.281 17 ...was [Stonehenge]...identical in design and style with the East Indian temples of the sun, as Davies in the Celtic Researches maintains?

Davis, Isaac, n. (1)

    HDC 11.74 19 ...the British fired one or two shots up the river...then a single gun...then a volley, by which Captain Isaac Davis and Abner Hosmer of Acton were instantly killed.

Davis, Marshall, n. (1)

    SMC 11.369 9 [George Prescott writes] Our colors had several holes made, and were badly torn. One bullet hit the staff which the bearer had in his hand. The color-bearer is brave as a lion;...his name is Marshall Davis.

Davy, Humphrey, n. (1)

    Edc1 10.146 9 ...[Fellowes] read history and studied ancient art to explain his stones;...he called in the succor of Sir Humphrey Davy to analyze the pigments;...

Davy, Humphry, n. (6)

    AmS 1.105 25 Linnaeus makes botany the most alluring of studies...Davy, chemistry;...
    Hist 2.37 12 One may say a gravitating solar system is already prophesied in the nature of Newton's mind. Not less does the brain of Davy or of Gay-Lussac... anticipate the laws of organization.
    Nat2 3.183 27 The common sense of Franklin, Dalton, Davy and Black is the same common sense which made the arrangements which now it discovers.
    ET14 5.238 24 One hint of Franklin, or Watt, or Dalton, or Davy...was worth all [Bacon's] lifetime of exquisite trifles.
    Grts 8.306 4 ...Sir Humphry Davy said...my best discovery was Michael Faraday.
    EdAd 11.391 19 Here is the balance to be adjusted between the exact French school of Cuvier, and the genial catholic theorists, Geoffroy St.-Hilaire, Goethe, Davy and Agassiz.

Davys, n. (1)

    UGM 4.12 6 Shall we say that...the laboratory of the atmosphere holds in solution I know not what Berzeliuses and Davys?

dawdling, v. (1)

    CbW 6.269 21 ...fooling or dawdling can easily be borne;...

dawn, n. (19)

    Nat 1.17 14 The dawn is my Assyria;...
    AmS 1.85 25 ...since the dawn of history there has been a constant accumulation and classifying of facts.
    AmS 1.91 20 ...when the sun is hid and the stars withdraw their shining, - we repair to the lamps...to guide our steps to the East again, where the dawn is.
    DSA 1.119 13 The cool night...prepares [man's] eyes again for the crimson dawn.
    DSA 1.125 6 ...the dawn of the sentiment of virtue on the heart, gives and is the assurance that Law is sovereign over all natures;...
    Lov1 2.172 20 [Love] is the dawn of civility and grace in the coarse and rustic.
    Lov1 2.175 4 ...no man ever forgot the visitations of that power to his heart and brain...which was the dawn in him of music, poetry, and art;...
    Hsm1 2.259 21 Let the maiden, with erect soul...search in turn all the objects that solicit her eye, that she may learn the power and the charm of her new-born being, which is the kindling of a new dawn in the recesses of space.
    Cir 2.301 17 ...there is always another dawn risen on mid-noon...
    Pt1 3.24 15 [The sculptor] rose one day, according to his habit, before dawn...
    UGM 4.30 22 Why are the masses, from the dawn of history down, food for knives and powder?
    ET14 5.257 16 Color, like the dawn, flows over the horizon from [Tennyson's] pencil...
    F 6.1 9 ...on [the poet's] mind, at dawn of day,/ Soft shadows of the evening lay./
    WD 7.170 1 The scholar must look long for the right hour for Plato's Timaeus. At last the elect morning arrives, the early dawn...
    Boks 7.193 17 It is easy...to demonstrate that though [a man] should read from dawn till dark, for sixty years, he must die in the first alcoves [of the libraries].
    PI 8.73 24 ...even partial ascents to poetry and ideas are forerunners, and announce the dawn.
    Insp 8.284 23 Often in deep midnights/ I called on the sweet muses./ No dawn shines,/ And no day will appear:/ But at the right hour/ The lamp brings me pious light,/ That it, instead of Aurora or Phoebus,/ May enliven my quiet industry./
    Schr 10.269 27 What the Genius whispered [the poet] at night he reported to the young men at dawn.
    CPL 11.506 3 ...[Kepler] writes, It is now eighteen months since I got the first glimpse of light,-three months since the dawn...

dawn, v. (3)

    MR 1.252 1 ...there will dawn ere long on our politics...a nobler morning than that Arabian faith...
    MoL 10.258 13 Slavery is broken, and, if we use our advantage, irretrievably. For such a gain...one generation might well be sacrificed; perhaps it will; that...a new era of equal rights dawn on the universe.
    MMEm 10.397 23 Many a day shall dawn and die,/ Many an angel wander by,/ And passing, light my sunken turf,/ Moist perhaps by ocean surf,/ Forgotten amid splendid tombs,/ Yet wreathed and hid by summer blooms./

dawned, v. (3)

    MR 1.229 20 The fact that a new thought and hope have dawned in your breast, should apprize you that in the same hour a new light broke in upon a thousand private hearts.
    PI 8.24 4 Slowly, by comparing thousands of observations, there dawned on some mind a theory of the sun...
    EWI 11.102 8 From the earliest time, the negro has been an article of luxury to the commercial nations. So it had been, down to the day that has just dawned on the world.

dawning, adj. (1)

    CInt 12.125 5 ...unless...the professor...takes care to interpose a certain relief and cherishing and reverence for the wild poet and dawning philosopher he has detected in his classes, that will happen which has happened so often, that the best scholar, he for whom colleges exist, finds himself a stranger and an orphan therein.

dawning, n. (1)

    EzRy 10.386 11 [Ezra Ripley's] prayers...against sickness and insanity; that we have not been tossed to and fro until the dawning of the day...are well remembered...

dawning, v. (1)

    YA 1.379 24 ...Trade is also but for a time, and must give way to somewhat broader and better, whose signs are already dawning in the sky.

dawnings, n. (1)

    War 11.152 8 ...in the first dawnings of the religious sentiment, that blends itself with [savages'] passions...

dawns, n. (1)

    Insp 8.287 6 Ah! the spring days, the summer dawns, the October woods!

dawns, v. (4)

    DSA 1.150 17 Two inestimable advantages Christianity has given us; first the Sabbath...whose light dawns welcome alike into the closet of the philosopher, into the garret of toil...
    GoW 4.265 2 There is a certain heat in the breast...which is the shining of the spiritual sun down into the shaft of the mine. Every thought which dawns on the mine, in the moment of its emergence announces its own rank...
    Wsp 6.215 25 What a day dawns when we have taken to heart the doctrine of faith!...
    WD 7.169 14 The old Sabbath...when this hallowed hour dawns out of the deep...the cathedral music of history breathes through it a psalm to our solitude.

daws, n. (1)

    ET8 5.135 27 [The English] do not wear their heart in their sleeve for daws to peck at.

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