Drank to Driving
A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson Compiled by Eugene F. Irey
drank, v. (8)
Con 1.315 2 ...[Friar Bernard]...drank of the spring...
Hsm1 2.254 27 John Eliot, the Indian Apostle, drank
water...
ET8 5.140 7 King Harold gave [Haldor] this testimony,
that he, among all
his men, cared least about doubtful circumstances...for whatever turned
up, he...never slept less nor more on account of them, nor ate nor
drank but
according to his custom.
OA 7.323 20 The humorous thief who drank a pot of beer
at the gallows
blew off the froth because he had heard it was unhealthy;...
PPo 8.236 2 God only knew how Saadi dined;/ Roses he
ate, and drank the
wind./
Thor 10.454 9 ...[Thoreau] ate no flesh, he drank no
wine, he never knew
the use of tobacco;...
LS 11.9 8 It appears that the Jews [at Passover] ate
the lamb and the
unleavened bread and drank wine after a prescribed manner.
LS 11.12 17 It appears...in Christian history that the
disciples had very
early taken advantage of these impressive words of Christ [This do in
remembrance of me.] to hold religious meetings, where they broke bread
and drank wine as symbols.
drape, v. (1)
Pow 6.73 4 Michel [Angelo] was wont to draw his figures
first in skeleton, then to clothe them with flesh, and lastly to drape
them.
draped, v. (1)
Art1 2.357 8 ...then is my eye opened to the eternal
picture which nature
paints in the street, with...beggars and fine ladies, draped in red and
green
and blue and gray;...
draperies, n. (4)
Hsm1 2.254 13 The brave soul rates itself too high to
value itself by the
splendor of its table and draperies.
Mrs1 3.134 9 ...what is it that we seek, in so many
visits and hospitalities? Is it your draperies, pictures and
decorations?
Boks 7.213 9 [The great arts] are [man's] becoming
draperies...
Supl 10.169 16 [The citizen's] dress and draperies,
house and stables, occupy him.
drapers, n. (1)
DL 7.110 6 Do not ask [the scholar] to help with his
savings young
drapers...
drapery, n. (4)
Nat 1.21 7 Does not the New World clothe [Columbus's]
form with her
palm-groves and savannahs as fit drapery?
Fdsp 2.203 5 We cover up our thought from [our
fellow-man] under a
hundred folds. I knew a man who under a certain religious frenzy cast
off
this drapery...
Nat2 3.192 15 I have seen the softness and beauty of
the summer clouds
floating feathery overhead...whilst yet they appeared not so much the
drapery of this place and hour, as forelooking to some pavilions and
gardens of festivity beyond.
WD 7.168 18 How the day fits itself to the mind, winds
itself round it like a
fine drapery, clothing all its fancies!
draping, v. (1)
Art2 7.45 22 ...how much is there that is not
original...in...whatever is
national or usual; as...the custom of draping a statue in classical
costume.
drastic, adj. (1)
ET4 5.52 1 ...certain temperaments...by well-managed
contrarieties, develop as drastic a character as the English.
draught, n. (6)
NMW 4.245 1 I know, [Napoleon] said, the depth and
draught of water of
every one of my general.
ET4 5.61 14 The continued draught of the best men in
Norway, Sweden
and Denmark to these piratical expeditions exhausted those countries...
ET16 5.289 7 Just before entering Winchester we stopped
at the Church of
Saint Cross, and after looking through the quaint antiquity, we
demanded a
piece of bread and a draught of beer...
Wth 6.89 25 ...the webs of his loom; the masculine
draught of his
locomotive...are [man's] natural playmates...
Ctr 6.154 8 What is odious but...people...who intrigue
to secure a padded
chair and a corner out of the draught.
OA 7.319 6 ...the surest poison is time. This cup which
Nature puts to our
lips, has a wonderful virtue, surpassing that of any other draught.
draughted, v. (1)
HDC 11.81 24 The General Court...draughted a
constitution, sent it here [to
Concord]...
draught-horse, n. (1)
ET5 5.83 13 The bias of the nation [England] is a
passion for utility. They
love the lever...the Flanders draught-horse...
draughts, n. (8)
Art1 2.356 18 The best pictures are rude draughts of a
few of the
miraculous dots and lines and dyes which make up the everchanging
landscape with figures amidst which we dwell.
Chr1 3.106 12 They are a relief from literature,--these
fresh draughts from
the sources of thought and sentiment;...
Clbs 7.235 8 What is a match at...draughts...to a match
of mother-wit...
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...
OA 7.319 9 ...especially, [the cup of time] creates a
craving for larger
draughts of itself.
OA 7.319 10 ...they who take the larger draughts [of
the cup of time] are
drunk with it...
Schr 10.264 14 [The scholar] is...here to be
sobered...by the depth of his
draughts of the cup of immortality.
FRep 11.522 16 [The American] is easily fed with wheat
and game, with
Ohio wine, but his brain is also pampered by finer draughts...
draughtsman, n. (1)
Hist 2.16 25 I knew a draughtsman employed in a public
survey who found
that he could not sketch the rocks until their geological structure was
first
explained to him.
draughtsmen, n. (1)
Int 2.337 19 ...as soon as we let our will go and let
the unconscious states
ensue, see what cunning draughtsmen we are!
draw, v. (172)
Nat 1.21 21 ...an act of truth or heroism seems at once
to draw to itself the
sky as its temple...
Nat 1.77 5 ...[the advancing spirit] shall draw
beautiful faces...
DSA 1.119 2 In this refulgent summer, it has been a
luxury to draw the
breath of life.
DSA 1.131 24 ...you must...take [Christ's] portrait as
the vulgar draw it.
DSA 1.138 14 Not a line did [the preacher] draw out of
real history.
DSA 1.142 13 ...scarcely in a thousand years does any
man dare to be wise
and good, and so draw after him the tears and blessings of his kind.
LE 1.158 2 The want of the times and the propriety of
this anniversary
concur to draw attention to the doctrine of Literary Ethics.
LE 1.162 7 No more will I dismiss, with haste, the
visions which flash and
sparkle across my sky; but...draw out of the past, genuine life for the
present hour.
LE 1.182 14 [The man of genius] must draw from the
infinite Reason...
LE 1.182 17 From [infinite Reason], [the man of genius]
must draw his
strength;...
MN 1.218 2 ...what is Genius but finer love...a love of
the flower and
perfection of things, and a desire to draw a new picture or copy of the
same?
MN 1.221 18 I draw from nature the lesson of an
intimate divinity.
MN 1.223 26 I draw from this faith courage and hope.
LT 1.264 24 ...why not draw for these times a portrait
gallery?
LT 1.283 12 ...the current literature and poetry with
perverse ingenuity
draw us away from life to solitude and meditation.
Con 1.300 25 ...the solid columnar stem, which lifts
that bank of foliage
into the air, to draw the eye...is the gift and legacy of dead and
buried years.
Con 1.312 26 ...as soon as you put your gift to use,
you shall have acre or
acre's worth according to your exhibition of desert,-acre, if you need
land;-acre's worth, if you prefer to draw...to the tilling of the soil.
YA 1.383 9 Undoubtedly, abundant mistakes will be made
by these first
adventurers [the Communities], which will draw ridicule on their
schemes.
Hist 2.16 18 A painter told me that nobody could draw a
tree without in
some sort becoming a tree;...
Hist 2.16 20 A painter told me that nobody could...draw
a child by studying
the outlines of its form merely...
Hist 2.16 23 ...by watching for a time [a child's]
motions and plays, the
painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at will in every
attitude.
Hist 2.38 7 No man can...guess what faculty or feeling
a new object shall
unlock, any more than he can draw to-day the face of a person whom he
shall see to-morrow for the first time.
Comp 2.95 2 The legitimate inference the disciple would
draw was,--We
are to have such a good time as the sinners have now;...
Comp 2.96 14 I shall attempt...to record some facts
that indicate the path of
the law of Compensation; happy beyond my expectation if I shall truly
draw the smallest arc of this circle.
Comp 2.116 9 [Commit a crime and] You...cannot draw up
the ladder, so
as to leave no inlet or clew.
SL 2.137 10 Let us draw a lesson from nature, which
always works by short
ways.
SL 2.153 6 The effect of any writing on the public mind
is mathematically
measurable by its depth of thought. How much water does it draw?
Fdsp 2.201 19 ...the sweet sincerity of joy and peace
which I draw from
this alliance with my brother's soul is the nut itself whereof all
nature and
all thought is but the husk and shell.
Fdsp 2.204 19 ...we can scarce believe that so much
character can subsist in
another as to draw us by love.
Fdsp 2.213 21 [By persisting in your path] You...draw
to you the first-born
of the world...
Prd1 2.229 16 This property [which gives life to the
figures in a painting] is the hitting, in all the figures we draw, the
right centre of gravity.
Hsm1 2.247 27 ...Scott will sometimes draw a [heroic]
stroke like the
portrait of Lord Evandale given by Balfour of Burley.
OS 2.276 24 ...these other souls, these separated
selves, draw me as nothing
else can.
OS 2.296 6 ...in our lonely hours we draw a new
strength out of [the saints'
and demigods'] memory...
Cir 2.305 4 Lo! on the other side rises also a man and
draws a circle around
the circle we had just pronounced the outline of the sphere. Then
already is
our first speaker not man, but only a first speaker. His only redress
is
forthwith to draw a circle outside of his antagonist.
Cir 2.321 25 The one thing which we seek with
insatiable desire is...to do
something without knowing how or why; in short to draw a new circle.
Int 2.337 10 A child knows...if the attitude [in a
picture] be natural or grand
or mean; though he has never received any instruction in drawing or
heard
any conversation on the subject, nor can himself draw with correctness
a
single feature.
Int 2.337 22 ...the mystic pencil wherewith we...draw
[in unconscious
states] has no awkwardness or inexperience...
Art1 2.357 4 If [the artist] can draw every thing, why
draw any thing?...
Pt1 3.5 13 [The poet] is isolated among his
contemporaries by truth and by
his art, but with this consolation in his pursuits, that they will draw
all men
sooner or later.
Pt1 3.13 20 Every line we can draw in the sand has
expression;...
Pt1 3.26 24 ...beside his privacy of power as an
individual man, there is a
great public power on which [the intellectual man] can draw...
Pt1 3.37 1 He is the poet and shall draw us with love
and terror, who sees
through the flowing vest the firm nature, and can declare it.
Pt1 3.40 12 Stand there, [O poet,]...hissed and hooted,
stand and strive, until at last rage draw out of thee that dream-power
which every night
shows thee is thine own;...
Mrs1 3.130 12 ...come from year to year and see how
permanent [the
distinction of caste or fashion] is, in this Boston or New York life of
man... ... Here are associations whose ties go over and under and
through it, a meeting of merchants...a political, a religious
convention;--the persons
seem to draw inseparably near;...
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...
Nat2 3.171 26 We nestle in nature, and draw our living
as parasites from
her roots and grains...
Pol1 3.216 11 [The wise man] needs...no bribe, or
feast, or palace, to draw
friends to him;...
Pol1 3.216 20 [The wise man] has no personal friends,
for he who has the
spell to draw the prayer and piety of all men unto him needs not
husband
and educate a few to share with him a select and poetic life.
NR 3.227 9 All our poets, heroes and saints...fail to
draw our spontaneous
interest...
NR 3.246 18 There is nothing we cherish and strive to
draw to us but in
some hour we turn and rend it.
NER 3.258 14 The ancient languages...contain wonderful
remains of
genius, which draw, and always will draw, certain like-minded men...
NER 3.258 15 The ancient languages...contain wonderful
remains of
genius, which draw, and always will draw, certain like-minded men...
NER 3.264 15 ...it may easily be questioned whether
such a community
will draw, except in its beginnings, the able and the good;...
UGM 4.11 4 We speak now only of...the way in which [the
sciences] seem
to fascinate and draw to them some genius who occupies himself with one
thing, all his life long.
PPh 4.73 23 [Socrates is] A pitiless disputant...so
careless and ignorant as
to disarm the wariest and draw them, in the pleasantest manner, into
horrible doubts and confusion.
SwM 4.94 5 I have sometimes thought that he would
render the greatest
service to modern criticism, who should draw the line of relation that
subsists between Shakspeare and Swedenborg.
SwM 4.129 9 ...it is only when you leave and lose me by
casting yourself
on a sentiment which is higher than both of us, that I draw near and
find
myself at your side;...
ShP 4.211 14 ...[Shakespeare] could...draw the fine
demarcations of
freedom and of fate...
ShP 4.217 18 [Shakespeare] was master of the revels to
mankind. Is it not
as if one should have...the comets given into his hand...and should
draw
them from their orbits to glare with the municipal fireworks on a
holiday
night...
GoW 4.268 4 ...great action must draw on the spiritual
nature.
GoW 4.271 15 Goethe was the philosopher of this
[modern] multiplicity;... a manly mind...easily able by his
subtlety...to draw his strength from
nature...
GoW 4.290 6 We shall learn to draw rents and revenues
from the immense
patrimony of the old and the recent ages.
ET3 5.35 18 ...an American has more reasons than
another to draw him to
Britain.
ET4 5.44 14 ...you cannot draw the line where a race
begins or ends.
ET5 5.76 15 ...to set [the Saxon] at work and to begin
to draw his
monstrous values out of barren Britain, all dishonor, fret and barrier
must
be removed...
ET7 5.117 20 ...[the English] require plain dealing of
others. We will not
have to do with a man in a mask. Let us know the truth. Draw a straight
line, hit whom and where it will.
ET9 5.149 1 There is also this benefit in brag, that
the speaker is
unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it
all out and hold him to it.
ET12 5.204 15 [The English] know the use of a tutor, as
they know the use
of a horse; and they draw the greatest amount of benefit out of both.
ET14 5.244 13 ...[the English] draw only a bucketful at
the fountain of the
First Philosophy for their occasion, and do not go to the spring-head.
F 6.9 24 How shall a man...draw off from his veins the
black drop which he
drew from his father's or his mother's life?
F 6.49 26 Let us build...to the Necessity which rudely
or softly educates [man] to the perception...that Law rules throughout
existence; a Law
which...solicits the pure in heart to draw on all its omnipotence.
Pow 6.53 10 ...if there be such a tie that wherever the
mind of man goes, nature will accompany him, perhaps there are men
whose magnetisms are
of that force to draw material and elemental powers...
Pow 6.73 2 Michel [Angelo] was wont to draw his figures
first in skeleton...
Wth 6.84 20 ...Still, through [Matter's] motes and
masses, draw/ Electric
thrills and ties of Law/...
Wth 6.87 5 Watt and Stephenson whispered in the ear of
mankind their
secret, that a half-ounce of coal will draw two tons a mile...
Wth 6.88 7 ...by making his wants less or his gains
more, [a man] must
draw himself out of that state of pain and insult in which [nature]
forces the
beggar to lie.
Wth 6.89 8 He is the richest man who knows how to draw
a benefit from
the labors of the greatest number of men...
Wth 6.99 5 If properties of this kind [works of art]
were owned by states, towns and lyceums, they would draw the bonds of
neighborhood closer.
Wth 6.112 23 I think we are entitled here to draw a
straight line and say
that society can never prosper but must always be bankrupt, until every
man
does that which he was created to do.
Wth 6.115 5 ...the pale scholar leaves his desk to draw
a freer breath...in
the garden-walk.
Wth 6.115 19 A garden is like those pernicious
machineries we read of
every month in the newspapers, which catch a man's coat-skirt or his
hand
and draw in his arm, his leg and his whole body to irresistible
destruction.
Ctr 6.133 12 ...we have seen children who finding
themselves of no
account when grown people come in, will cough until they choke, to draw
attention.
Ctr 6.138 9 Draw [the scholar] out of this limbo of
irritability.
Bhr 6.172 2 When we reflect on...how [manners]
recommend, prepare, and
draw people together...we see what range the subject has...
Wsp 6.199 21 Draw, if thou canst, the mystic line,/
Severing rightly [Fate'
s] from thine,/ Which is human, which divine./
Wsp 6.213 23 ...the enginery at work to draw out these
powers [of the
senses and the understanding] in priority, no doubt has its office.
Wsp 6.222 25 The smallest fly will draw blood...
Wsp 6.228 13 ...Philip [Neri] stretched out his leg,
all bespattered with
mud, and desired [the nun] to draw off his boots.
CbW 6.247 20 Is all we have to do to draw the breath in
and blow it out
again?
CbW 6.249 10 I wish not to concede anything to
[masses], but to...draw
individuals out of them.
CbW 6.255 6 ...the glory of character is in affronting
the horrors of
depravity to draw thence new nobilities of power;...
CbW 6.258 10 ...who dares draw out the linchpin from
the wagon-wheel?
Bty 6.283 20 From a great heart secret magnetisms flow
incessantly to
draw great events.
Bty 6.302 6 If a man can cut such a head on his stone
gatepost as shall draw
and keep a crowd about it all day, by its beauty, good nature, and
inscrutable meaning;...this is still the legitimate dominion of beauty.
Bty 6.305 22 ...the fact is familiar that...a phrase of
poetry, plants wings at
our shoulders; as if the Divinity, in his approaches...deigns to draw a
truer
line, which the mind knows and owns.
Elo1 7.65 12 Him we call an artist...who, seeing the
people furious...shall
draw them, when he will, to laughter and to tears.
Elo1 7.92 15 In transcendent eloquence, there was ever
some crisis in
affairs, such as could deeply engage the man to the cause he pleads,
and
draw all this wide power to a point.
DL 7.127 20 Whilst thus Nature and the hints we draw
from man suggest a
true and lofty life...especially we learn the same lesson from those
best
relations to individual men which the heart is always prompting us to
form.
Farm 7.135 3 To these men [farmers]/ The landscape is
an armory of
powers/ Which, one by one, they know to draw and use./
Farm 7.135 7 ...[Farmers] prove the virtues of each bed
of rock/ And, like
the chemist mid his loaded jars,/ Draw from each stratum its adapted
use/
To drug their crops or weapon their arts withal./
Farm 7.144 13 The tree can draw on the whole air...
Farm 7.147 5 Plant fruit-trees by the roadside, and
their fruit will never be
allowed to ripen. Draw a pine fence about them, and for fifty years
they
mature for the owner their delicate fruit.
WD 7.159 22 Lord Chancellor Thurlow thought [steam]
might be made to
draw bills and answers in chancery.
WD 7.173 24 ...as soon as the irrecoverable years have
woven their blue
glory between to-day and us these passing hours shall glitter and draw
us as
the wildest romance and the homes of beauty and poetry?
WD 7.174 7 He is a strong man who can look [these
passing hours] in the
eye...nor permit love, or death, or politics, or money, war or pleasure
to
draw him from his task.
Clbs 7.242 6 I have known persons of rare ability who
were heavy
company to good social men who knew well enough how to draw out
others of retiring habit;...
Clbs 7.249 13 ...l'homme de lettres is...not fond of
giving away his seed-corn; but there is an infallible way to draw him
out, namely, by having as
good as he.
Cour 7.273 7 ...it is not the means on which we
draw...that count, but the
aims only.
Suc 7.284 1 Giotto could draw a perfect circle...
Suc 7.305 25 Every man has a history worth knowing...if
we could draw it
from him.
PI 8.23 1 ...Thomson's Seasons and the best parts of
many old and many
new poets are simply enumerations by a person who felt the beauty of
the
common sights and sounds, without any attempt to draw a moral or affix
a
meaning.
PI 8.34 6 No matter what [your subject] is...if it has
a natural prominence to
you, work away until you come to the heart of it: then it will...as
fully
represent the central law and draw all tragic or joyful illustration,
as if it
were the book of Genesis or the book of Doom.
SA 8.93 16 Shenstone gave no bad account of this
influence [of women] in
his description of the French woman:... She will draw wit out of a
fool.
Res 8.151 21 [The art of taking a walk] will draw the
sting out of frost...
Comc 8.170 26 In Raphael's Angel driving Heliodorus
from the Temple, the crest of the helmet is so remarkable, that but for
the extraordinary
energy of the face, it would draw the eye too much;...
QO 8.183 3 A great man...will not draw on his invention
when his memory
serves him with a word as good.
QO 8.201 5 [The individual] must draw the elements into
him for food...
PC 8.212 22 The oldest empires...now that we have true
measures of
duration [in Geology], show like creations of yesterday. It is yet
quite too
early to draw sound conclusions.
PC 8.233 10 ...I draw new hope from the atmosphere we
breathe to-day...
PC 8.233 27 ...[the educated class here] believe in the
succor which the
heart yields to the intellect, and draw greatness from its
inspirations.
PPo 8.246 10 Harems and wine-shops only give [Hafiz] a
new ground of
observation, whence to draw sometimes a deeper moral than regulated
sober life affords...
PPo 8.248 18 Let us draw the cowl through the brook of
wine.
Insp 8.274 8 ...where is the Franklin with kite or rod
for this fluid [inspiration]?-a Franklin who can draw off electricity
from Jove himself...
Insp 8.295 5 ...I find a mitigation or solace by
providing always a good
book for my journeys...some book...from which I draw some lasting
knowledge.
Grts 8.314 7 It is easy to draw traits [of greatness]
from Napoleon...
Imtl 8.340 5 I know not whence we draw the assurance of
prolonged life... by so many claims as from our intellectual history.
PerF 10.81 6 One day I found [the stupid farmer's]
little boy of four years
dragging about after him the prettiest little wooden cart...and learned
that
Papa had made it; that hidden deep in that thick skull was this gentle
art and
taste which the little fingers and caresses of his son had the power to
draw
out into day;...
Chr2 10.115 23 ...in every period of intellectual
expansion, the Church
ceases to draw into its clergy those who best belong there, the largest
and
freest minds...
Edc1 10.129 19 As every wind draws music out of the
Aeolian harp, so
doth every object in Nature draw music out of [man's] mind.
Edc1 10.158 27 According to the depth from which you
draw your life, such is the depth not only of your strenuous effort,
but of your manners and
presence.
SovE 10.210 14 ...to draw [the moral principle] out of
its natural current is
to lose at once all its power.
MoL 10.243 11 It is the perpetual tendency of wealth to
draw on the
spiritual class...
Schr 10.263 19 The scholar is here...to draw all men
after the truth...
Schr 10.278 7 These iron personalities, such as in
Greece and Italy...were
formed to...draw the eager service of thousands, rarely appear [in
America].
Schr 10.278 14 ...when one observes how eagerly our
people entertain and
discuss a new theory...one would draw a favorable inference as to their
intellectual and spiritual tendencies.
LLNE 10.363 5 ...[Charles Newcomb was] a student and
philosopher, who
found his daily enjoyment...with the fine boys who were skating and
playing ball or bird-hunting;...yet was he the chosen counsellor to
whom
the guardians [at Brook Farm] would repair on any hitch or difficulty
that
occurred, and draw from him a wise counsel.
MMEm 10.411 7 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] was...a quite
clannish
instrument...from which none but a native Highlander could draw music.
Thor 10.464 20 ...[Thoreau] said, one day, The other
world is all my art; my pencils will draw no other;...
HDC 11.50 21 The man of the woods might well draw on
himself the
compassion of the planters.
LVB 11.95 23 I will at least...show you [Van Buren] how
plain and humane
people...regard the policy of the government, and what injurious
inferences
they draw as to the minds of the governors.
EWI 11.136 25 One feels very sensibly in all this
history [of emancipation
in the West Indies] that a great heart and soul are behind there...so
that this
cause has had the power to draw to it every particle of talent and of
worth
in England...
FSLC 11.190 2 The laws especially draw their obligation
only from their
concurrence with [the spiritual element].
FSLC 11.194 20 ...unless you can draw a sponge over
those seditious Ten
Commandments which are the root of our European and American
civilization;...your labor [the Fugitive Slave Law] is vain.
FSLN 11.235 1 To make good the cause of Freedom, you
must draw off
from all foolish trust in others.
JBS 11.279 22 Walter Scott would have delighted to draw
[John Brown's] picture...
EPro 11.322 15 ...this taxation, which makes the land
wholesome and
habitable, and will draw all men unto it, is the best investment in
which
property-holder ever lodged his earnings.
SMC 11.367 19 In McClellan's retreat in the Peninsula,
in July, 1862, it is
all our men can do to draw their feet out of the mud.
Koss 11.398 27 As you [Kossuth] see, the love you win
[from Americans] is worth something; for it has been argued
through;...and it will draw all
opinion to itself.
RBur 11.442 17 ...[Burns] had that secret of genius to
draw from the
bottom of society the strength of its speech...
Shak1 11.447 6 We seriously endeavored, besides our
brothers and our
seniors...to draw out of their retirements a few rarer lovers of the
muse...
Shak1 11.450 23 There never was a writer who, seeming
to draw every hint
from outward history, the life of cities and courts, owed them so
little [as
Shakespeare].
FRO1 11.479 21 ...as soon as every man is apprised of
the Divine Presence
within his own mind,-is apprised...that the basis of duty...the
perfection of
taste...draw their essence from this moral sentiment, then we have a
religion
that exalts...
CPL 11.507 5 You meet with...a good thinker or good
wit,-but you do not
know how to draw out of him that which he knows.
FRep 11.511 15 The manufacturers rely on turbines of
hydraulic
perfection;...the calico print, on designers of genius, who draw the
wages of
artists...
FRep 11.543 27 ...our little wherry is taken in tow by
the ship of the great
Admiral which...has the force to draw men and states and planets to
their
good.
II 12.80 22 Nineteen twentieths of their substance do
trees draw from the
air.
II 12.86 15 The old Herschel must...draw on his
night-cap when the sun
rises, and defend his eyes for nocturnal use.
Mem 12.98 27 Only so much iron will the loadstone
draw;...
Mem 12.109 25 If we occupy ourselves long on this
wonderful faculty [memory], and see...the way in which new knowledge
calls upon old
knowledge...we cannot fail to draw thence a sublime hint that thus
there
must be an endless increase in the power of memory only through its
use;...
CInt 12.116 15 ...if [colleges] could cause that a mind
not profound should
become profound,-we should all rush to their gates; instead of
contriving
inducements to draw students, you would need to set police at the gates
to
keep order in the in-rushing multitude.
CInt 12.123 26 ...the idea of a college is an assembly
of such men, obedient
each to this pure light [of thought], and drawing from it illumination
to that
science or art to which his constitution and affections draw him.
CL 12.147 25 ...[the man growing old against his will]
may draw a moral
from the fact that 't is the old trees that have all the beauty and
grandeur.
CL 12.149 23 [The Indian] can draw sugar from the
maple...
CL 12.151 14 ...the oak and maple are red with the same
colors on the new
leaf which they will resume in autumn when it is ripe. In June, the
miracle
works faster, Painting with white and red the moors/ To draw the
nations
out of doors./
MAng1 12.233 9 [Michelangelo] never made but one
portrait...because he
abhorred to draw a likeness unless it were of infinite beauty.
Milt1 12.254 19 Better than any other [Milton] has
discharged the office of
every great man, namely...to draw after Nature a life of man...
MLit 12.315 6 The more [the great] draw us to them, the
farther from them
or more independent of them we are...
MLit 12.333 10 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 old weariness of Europe and Asia, the trivial forms of daily
life will
now end...
EurB 12.370 25 ...[modern painters] will not paint for
their times, agitated
by the spirit which agitates their country; so should their picture
picture us, and draw all men after them;...
EurB 12.373 10 ...we can easily believe that the
behavior of the ball-room
and of the hotel has not failed to draw some addition of dignity and
grace
from the fair ideals with which the imagination of a novelist has
filled the
heads of the most imitative class.
EurB 12.373 18 ...[Bulwer]...does not draw ignorant
caricatures.
drawback, n. (6)
GoW 4.267 15 ...although [the Quaker and the Shaker]
each prates of spirit, there is no spirit, but repetition, which is
anti-spiritual. But where are his
new things of to-day? In actions of enthusiasm this drawback appears...
GoW 4.267 22 ...in...actions that...put a ban on reason
and sentiment, there
is nothing else but drawback and negation.
ET3 5.39 14 The only drawback on this industrial
conveniency [in
England] is the darkness of its sky.
Wth 6.114 13 Only one drawback; proud people are
intolerably selfish, and
the vain are gentle and giving.
Imtl 8.345 19 There is a drawback to the value of all
statements of the
doctrine [of immortality]...
Wom 11.412 7 There is no gift of Nature without some
drawback.
drawers, n. (1)
WD 7.164 26 I saw a brave man...constructing his cabinet
of drawers for
shells, eggs, minerals, and mounted birds.
drawing, n. (8)
Exp 3.66 17 You love the boy...gazing at a drawing or a
cast;...
Exp 3.82 13 In Flaxman's drawing of the Eumenides of
Aeschylus, Orestes
supplicates Apollo, whilst the Furies sleep on the threshold.
GoW 4.287 9 ...the charm of this portion of the book
[Goethe's Thory of
Colors] consists in the simplest statement of the relation betwixt
these
grandees of European scientific history and himself; the mere drawing
of
the lines from Goethe to Kepler, from Goethe to Bacon, from Goethe to
Newton.
ET10 5.158 16 The Life of Sir Robert Peel...very
properly has, for a
frontispiece, a drawing of the spinning-jenny...
QO 8.185 22 Madame de Stael's Architecture is frozen
music is borrowed
from Goethe's dumb music, which is Vitruvius's rule, that the architect
must not only understand drawing, but music.
PLT 12.8 8 Go into the scientific club and harken. Each
savant proves in
his admirable discourse that he, and he only, knows now or ever did
know
anything on the subject: Does the gentleman speak of anatomy? Who
peeped into a box at the Custom House and then published a drawing of
my
rat?
MAng1 12.220 2 ...to the artist it belongs by a better
knowledge of
anatomy, and, within anatomy, of life and thought, to acquire the power
of
true drawing.
MAng1 12.230 24 Of [Michelangelo's] designs, the most
celebrated is the
cartoon representing soldiers coming out of the bath and arming
themselves; an incident of the war of Pisa. The wonderful merit of this
drawing...is conspicuous even in the coarsest prints.
drawing, v. (27)
MN 1.217 17 He who is in love...sees newly every time he
looks at the
object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those
virtues
which it possesses.
MR 1.242 20 ...if a man find in himself any strong bias
to poetry, to art... drawing him to these things with a devotion
incompatible with good
husbandry, that man...ought to ransom himself from the duties of
economy
by a certain rigor and privation in his habits.
LT 1.270 4 The Temperance-question...drawing with it
all the curious
ethics of the Pledge...is a gymnastic training to the casuistry and
conscience
of the time.
Int 2.336 3 The rich inventive genius of the painter
must be smothered and
lost for want of the power of drawing...
Int 2.337 8 A child knows...if the attitude [in a
picture] be natural or grand
or mean; though he has never received any instruction in drawing...
UGM 4.23 9 I like a master standing firm on legs of
iron...drawing all men
by fascination into tributaries and supporters of his power.
PPh 4.55 6 ...[Plato] fortified himself by drawing all
his illustrations from
sources disdained by orators and polite conversers;...
NMW 4.246 10 ...[Napoleon's] inexhaustible
resource:--what events! what
romantic pictures! what strange situations!...drawing up his army for
battle
in sight of the Pyramids...
GoW 4.287 11 ...the charm of this portion of the book
[Goethe's Thory of
Colors] consists in the simplest statement of the relation betwixt
these
grandees of European scientific history and himself; the mere drawing
of
the lines from Goethe to Kepler, from Goethe to Bacon, from Goethe to
Newton. The drawing of the line is, for the time and person, a solution
of
the formidable problem...
GoW 4.289 23 This cheerful laborer [Goethe]...drawing
his motive and his
plan from his own breast, tasked himself with stints for a giant...
ET3 5.36 21 ...we have the same difficulty in making a
social or moral
estimate of England, that the sheriff finds in drawing a jury to try
some
cause which has agitated the whole community...
ET4 5.57 27 [The heroes of the Norse Sagas] are
people...drawing half their
food from the sea and half from the land.
ET5 5.81 13 ...when [English] courts and parliament are
both deaf, the
plaintiff is not silenced. Calm, patient, his weapon of defence from
year to
year is the obstinate reproduction of the grievance, with calculations
and
estimates. But, meantime, he is drawing numbers and money to his
opinion...
ET11 5.198 17 ...the rich Englishman goes over the
world at the present
day, drawing more than all the advantages which the strongest of his
kings
could command.
ET14 5.240 25 [Bacon] complains that he finds this part
of learning [universality] very deficient, the profounder sort of wits
drawing a bucket
now and then for their own use...
F 6.12 1 Now and then one has a new cell or camarilla
opened in his brain... a good hand for drawing...
Elo1 7.71 13 Homer specially delighted in drawing the
same figure [of the
orator].
Res 8.137 19 I am benefited by every observation of a
victory of man over
Nature;...by seeing that every healthy and resolute man is...a method
coming into a confusion and drawing order out of it.
QO 8.191 26 ...Poesy, drawing within its circle all
that is glorious and
inspiring, gave itself but little concern as to where its flowers
originally
grew.
Aris 10.53 24 ...I have seen a man of teeming brain
come among these men [in a village]...and drawing all these men round
him...interested the whole
village...in his facts;...
Aris 10.62 10 ...[the true man] is to know...that there
is a master grace and
dignity communicated by exalted sentiments to a human form, to which
utility and even genius must do homage. And it is the sign and badge of
this
nobility, the drawing his counsel from his own breast.
LLNE 10.340 25 [Channing] found [at Warren's house] a
well-chosen
assembly of gentlemen variously distinguished;...they were...drawing
gently towards their great expectation...
EPro 11.323 25 The [Civil] war...brought with it the
immense benefit of
drawing a line and rallying the free states to fix it impassably...
Koss 11.399 11 We [people of Concord] only see in you
[Kossuth] the
angel of freedom...dividing populations where you go, and drawing to
your
part only the good.
CInt 12.123 25 ...the idea of a college is an assembly
of such men, obedient
each to this pure light [of thought], and drawing from it illumination
to that
science or art to which his constitution and affections draw him.
Milt1 12.268 26 [Milton's] birth fell upon the agitated
years when the
discontents of the English Puritans were fast drawing to a head against
the
tyranny of the Stuarts.
ACri 12.303 9 The art of writing is the highest of
those permitted to man as
drawing directly from the soul...
drawing-master, n. (1)
Int 2.337 3 Who is the first drawing-master?
drawing-room, adj. (1)
Farm 7.153 15 ...the drawing-room heroes put down beside
[the farmer] would shrivel in his presence;...
drawing-room, n. (4)
ET6 5.114 5 The company [at an English dinner] sit one
or two hours
before the ladies leave the table. The gentlemen...rejoin the ladies in
the
drawing-room and take coffee.
ET16 5.284 17 The state drawing-room [at Wilton Hall]
is a double cube...
Bty 6.297 10 ...even the noble crowd in the
drawing-room clambered on
chairs and tables to look at [the Duchess of Hamilton].
Wom 11.419 26 ...bring together a cultivated society of
both sexes, in a
drawing-room, and consult and decide by voices on a question of taste
or on
a question of right, and is there any absurdity or any practical
difficulty in
obtaining their authentic opinions?
drawing-rooms, n. (11)
Mrs1 3.139 11 The person who...converses with heat, puts
whole drawing-rooms
to flight.
Nat2 3.177 13 ...I suppose that such a gazetteer as
wood-cutters and Indians
should furnish facts for, would take place in the most sumptuous
drawing-rooms
of all the Wreaths and Flora's chaplets of the bookshops;...
Ctr 6.163 3 If there is any great and good thing in
store for you, it will not
come...in the shape of fashion, ease, and city drawing-rooms.
Bhr 6.183 25 What is the talent of that character so
common--the
successful man of the world--in all marts, senates and drawing-rooms?
Bhr 6.184 15 The theatre in which this science of
manners has a formal
importance is not with us a court, but dress-circles, wherein, after
the close
of the day's business, men and women meet...in ornamented
drawing-rooms.
Boks 7.216 5 We admire...the homage of drawing-rooms
and parliaments.
Clbs 7.243 5 It was the Marchioness of Rambouillet who
first got the
horses out of and the scholars into the palaces, having constructed her
hotel...with superb suites of drawing-rooms on the same floor...
PI 8.35 18 Every one delights in the felicity
frequently shown in our
drawing-rooms.
SA 8.87 6 It is necessary for the purification of
drawing-rooms that these
entertaining explosions [of laughter] should be under strict control.
Comc 8.171 16 [Personal appearance] is the butt of
those jokes of the Paris
drawing-rooms, which Napoleon reckoned so formidable...
Wom 11.410 25 ...[man] invented majesty and the
etiquette of courts and
drawing-rooms;...
drawings, n. (5)
ET4 5.53 3 ...the figures in Punch's drawings of the
public men or of the
club-houses...are distinctive English...
ET5 5.96 25 [The Board of Trade of England] caused to
be translated from
foreign languages and illustrated by elaborate drawings, the most
approved
works of Munich, Berlin and Paris.
QO 8.196 25 ...it is not rare to find...people who copy
drawings with
admirable skill, but are incapable of any design.
Wom 11.417 14 These [literary jokes on Woman] were all
drawings of
morbid anatomy...
MAng1 12.220 25 ...one of the last drawings in
[Michelangelo's] portfolio
is a sublime hint of his own feeling;...
drawled, v. (2)
Comc 8.168 9 That letter is A, said the teacher; A,
drawled the boy.
Comc 8.168 10 That letter is A, said the teacher; A,
drawled the boy. That
is B, said the teacher; B, drawled the boy, and so on.
drawn, v. (93)
Nat 1.21 15 Charles II., to intimidate the citizens of
London, caused the
patriot Lord Russell to be drawn in an open coach through the principal
streets of the city...
Nat 1.41 6 Prophet and priest...have drawn deeply from
this source [of
nature].
Nat 1.44 23 [Every universal truth] is like a great
circle on a sphere, comprising all possible circles; which, however,
may be drawn and
comprise it in like manner.
Nat 1.45 15 [The spirit] says, From such as this [human
form] have I drawn
joy and knowledge;...
DSA 1.128 21 Drawn by [the soul's] severe
harmony...[Jesus Christ] lived
in it...
DSA 1.149 5 ...there are resources in us on which we
have not drawn.
LE 1.178 26 On coming on board the Bellerophon, a file
of English
soldiers drawn up on deck gave [Napoleon] a military salute.
Hist 2.4 13 ...the air I breathe is drawn from the
great repositories of
nature...
SR 2.75 10 The sinew and heart of man seem to be drawn
out...
Comp 2.93 7 The documents...from which the doctrine [of
Compensation] is to be drawn, charmed my fancy...
Fdsp 2.192 27 For long hours we can continue a series
of sincere, graceful, rich communications [with a commended stranger],
drawn from the oldest, secretest experience...
Prd1 2.229 21 Even lifeless figures, as vessels and
stools--let them be
drawn ever so correctly--lose all effect so soon as they lack the
resting upon
their centre of gravity...
Prd1 2.234 9 ...as much wisdom may be expended on a
private economy as
on an empire, and as much wisdom may be drawn from it.
Cir 2.301 15 ...around every circle another can be
drawn;...
Cir 2.314 19 Not through subtle subterranean channels
need friend and fact
be drawn to their counterpart...
Art1 2.353 27 Shall I now add that the whole extant
product of the plastic
arts has herein its highest value...as a stroke drawn in the portrait
of that
fate...according to whose ordinations all beings advance to their
beatitude?
Art1 2.356 5 A dog, drawn by a master...satisfies...
Chr1 3.97 11 The feeble souls are drawn to the south or
negative pole.
NR 3.225 24 ...on seeing the smallest arc we complete
the curve, and when
the curtain is lifted from the diagram which it seemed to veil, we are
vexed
to find that no more was drawn than just that fragment of an arc which
we
first beheld.
NR 3.244 2 When [a man] has exhausted for the time the
nourishment to be
drawn from any one person or thing, that object is withdrawn from his
observation...
UGM 4.27 26 The more we are drawn [to geniuses], the
more we are
repelled.
PNR 4.81 11 [Nature] waited tranquilly...for the hour
to be struck when
man should arrive. Then periods must pass...before the map of the
instincts
and cultivable powers can be drawn.
SwM 4.105 5 ...the largest application of principles,
had been exhibited by
Leibnitz and Christian Wolff, in cosmology; whilst Locke and Grotius
had
drawn the moral argument.
NMW 4.244 22 The characters which [Napoleon] has drawn
of several of
his marshals are discriminating...
GoW 4.277 26 [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] is a book over
which some veil
is still drawn.
GoW 4.279 18 ...[Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] is so
crammed with... knowledge of the world and with knowledge of laws; the
persons so truly
and subtly drawn...that we must...be willing to get what good from it
we
can...
ET3 5.40 24 I have seen a kratometric chart designed to
show that the city
of Philadelphia was in the same thermic belt, and by inference in the
same
belt of empire, as the cities of Athens, Rome and London. It was drawn
by a
patriotic Philadelphian...
ET5 5.92 10 The commercial relations of the world are
so intimately drawn
to London, that every dollar on earth contributes to the strength of
the
English government.
ET5 5.100 13 ...[the English people's] language seems
drawn from the
Bible, the Common Law and the works of Shakspeare, Bacon, Milton, Pope,
Young, Cowper, Burns and Scott.
ET10 5.158 26 ...about 1829-30, much fear was felt [in
England] lest the [textile] trade would be drawn away by these
interruptions [of labor]...
ET11 5.189 22 Shakspeare's portraits of good Duke
Humphrey, of
Warwick, of Northumberland, of Talbot, were drawn in strict consonance
with the traditions.
ET14 5.259 6 Might I [Warren Hastings]...venture to
prescribe bounds to
the latitude of criticism, I should exclude...all rules drawn from the
ancient
or modern literature of Europe...
ET16 5.284 27 ...though there were some good pictures
[at Wilton Hall]... yet the eye was still drawn to the windows...
F 6.10 4 ...sometimes...the family vice is drawn off in
a separate individual
and the others are proportionally relieved.
F 6.17 16 Man is the arch machine of which all these
shifts drawn from
himself are toy models.
Pow 6.66 15 ...in representations of the Deity,
painting, poetry, and popular
religion have ever drawn the wrath from Hell.
Pow 6.71 19 ...the compression and tension of these
stern conditions [of
war] is a training for the finest and softest arts, and can rarely be
compensated in tranquil times, except by some analogous vigor drawn
from
occupations as hardy as war.
Pow 6.80 12 There are sources on which we have not
drawn.
Wth 6.118 8 It is commonly observed that a sudden
wealth, like a prize
drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor family, does not
permanently
enrich.
Bhr 6.174 23 The modern aristocrat...is well drawn in
Titian's Venetian
doges and in Roman coins and statues...
Bty 6.289 15 ...the figure of Cupid is drawn with a
bandage round his eyes.
Bty 6.295 14 Let an artist scrawl a few lines or
figures on the back of a
letter, and that scrap of paper...in proportion to the beauty of the
lines
drawn, will be kept for centuries.
Elo1 7.63 1 Of all the musical instruments on which men
play, a popular
assembly is that...out of which, by genius and study, the most
wonderful
effects can be drawn.
Elo1 7.88 22 [Lord Mansfield's] sentences are involved,
but...a true
distinction is drawn.
Farm 7.148 23 The chemist comes to [the farmer's] aid
every year by
following out some new hint drawn from Nature...
Boks 7.194 20 ...perhaps, the human mind would be a
gainer if all the
secondary writers were lost...through the profounder study so drawn to
those wonderful minds.
Boks 7.201 9 ...Plato's [delineation of Athenian
manners] has merits of
every kind...containing that ironical eulogy of Socrates which is the
source
from which all the portraits of that philosopher current in Europe have
been
drawn.
Boks 7.202 9 The secret of the recent histories in
German and in English is
the discovery...that the sincere Greek history of that period [Age of
Pericles] must be drawn from Demosthenes...and from the comic poets.
Cour 7.261 7 Tender, amiable boys...were suddenly drawn
up to face a
bayonet charge or capture a battery.
Suc 7.304 15 ...it has happened that the artist has
often drawn in his
pictures the face of the future wife whom he had not yet seen.
PI 8.16 6 ...the sole question is...how many diameters
are drawn quite
through from matter to spirit;...
PI 8.26 10 ...when, on rare days, [nature] speaks to
the imagination, we feel
that the huge heaven and earth are but a web drawn around us...
PI 8.26 23 ...all men know the portrait [of the true
poet] when it is drawn...
PI 8.72 12 After the largest circle has been drawn, a
larger can be drawn
around it.
PI 8.72 13 After the largest circle has been drawn, a
larger can be drawn
around it.
SA 8.80 18 ...we for the most part are all drawn into
the charivari;...
SA 8.92 7 A wise man once said to me that all whom he
knew, met:-- meaning that he need not take pains to introduce the
persons whom he
valued to each other:--they were sure to be drawn together as by
gravitation.
QO 8.194 6 Most of the classical citations you shall
hear or read in the
current journals or speeches were not drawn from the originals...
PC 8.216 27 ...in [Michelangelo's] own days...you would
need to hunt him
in a conventicle with the Methodists of the era...superior
souls...drawn to
each other and under some cloud with the rest of the world;...
PPo 8.257 7 By breath of beds of roses drawn,/ I found
the grove in the
morning pure,/ In the concert of the nightingales/ My drunken brain to
cure./
PPo 8.259 26 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./
Insp 8.275 7 There are thoughts beyond the reaches of
our souls; we are not
the less drawn to them.
Insp 8.292 16 A wise man goes to this game [of
conversation]...at least as
curious to know what can be drawn from himself as what can be drawn
from [others].
Grts 8.303 5 The man in the tavern maintains his
opinion, though the
whole crowd takes the other side; we are at once drawn to him.
Imtl 8.337 16 The love of life...seems to indicate...a
conviction of immense
resources and possibilities proper to us, on which we have never drawn.
Aris 10.37 8 ...[the common man] is drawn this way and
that way...
Aris 10.54 3 ...I have seen a man of teeming brain come
among these men [in a village]...and drawing all these men round
him...interested the whole
village...in his facts;...the coldest had found themselves drawn to
their
neighbors by interest in the same things.
SovE 10.210 20 ...is it quite impossible to believe
that men should be
drawn to each other by the simple respect which each man feels for
another
in whom he discovers absolute honesty;...
Prch 10.226 6 ...when we think our feet are planted now
at last on adamant, the slide is drawn out from under us.
MoL 10.241 18 ...[the scholar] has drawn the white lot
in life.
Schr 10.280 19 Society...is dazzled and deceived by the
weapon [of talent], without inquiring into the cause for which it is
drawn;...
Plu 10.301 23 A poet might rhyme all day with hints
drawn from Plutarch...
Plu 10.303 7 ...it is in reading the fragments
[Plutarch] has saved from lost
authors that I have hailed another example of the sacred care
which...has
drawn attention to what an ancient might call the politeness of Fate...
LLNE 10.326 17 This perception [that the individual is
the world] is a
sword such as was never drawn before.
LLNE 10.341 11 Some time afterwards Dr. Channing opened
his mind to
Mr. and Mrs. Ripley, and with some care they invited a limited party of
ladies and gentlemen. I had the honor to be present. Though I recall
the
fact, I do not retain...any connection between [this attempt] and the
new
zeal of the friends who at that time began to be drawn together by
sympathy
of studies and of aspiration.
LLNE 10.366 12 No doubt there was in many [at Brook
Farm] a certain
strength drawn from the fury of dissent.
LLNE 10.369 22 I please myself with the thought that
our American mind... is beginning to show a quiet power, drawn from
wide and abundant
sources...
Thor 10.451 5 [Thoreau's] character exhibited
occasional traits drawn from
this [French] blood...
Thor 10.482 4 Thank God, [Thoreau] said, they cannot
cut down the
clouds! All kinds of figures are drawn on the blue ground with this
fibrous
white paint.
EWI 11.107 12 Public attention...was drawn that way [to
the West Indies], and the methods of the stealing and the
transportation [of slaves] from
Africa became noised abroad.
EWI 11.109 4 Mr. Pitt and Mr. Fox were drawn into the
generous
enterprise [emancipation of West Indian slaves].
FSLC 11.197 24 ...here are gentlemen whose believed
probity was the
confidence and fortification of multitudes, who...have been drawn into
the
support of this foul business [the Fugitive Slave Law].
JBS 11.280 23 All women are drawn to [John Brown] by
their
predominance of sentiment.
SMC 11.352 10 ...after the quarrel [American
Revolution] began, the
Americans took higher ground, and stood for political independence. But
in
the necessities of the hour, they...winked at a practical exception to
the Bill
of Rights they had drawn up.
SMC 11.371 4 After Gettysburg, the Thirty-second
Regiment saw hard
service...at Baltimore, in Virginia, where they were drawn up in battle
order
for ten days successively...
Wom 11.413 5 The instincts of mankind have drawn the
Virgin Mother...
CPL 11.507 21 The imagination...if it has not
had...Homer or Scott, has
drawn equal delight and terror from haunts and passages which you will
hear of with envy.
FRep 11.513 26 ...if this is true in all the useful and
in the fine arts, that the
direction must be drawn from a superior source or there will be no good
work, does it hold less in our social and civil life?
II 12.72 3 No practical rules for the poem, no
working-plan was ever drawn
up.
CW 12.178 7 ...Nineteen twentieths of the timber are
drawn from the
atmosphere.
Milt1 12.261 12 We may even apply to [Milton's]
performance on the
instrument of language, his own description of music:-Notes, with many
a
winding bout/ Of linked sweetness long drawn out,/...
Milt1 12.270 19 ...drawn into the great controversies
of the times, [Milton] is never lost in a party.
PPr 12.379 16 ...[Carlyle's Past and Present] is the
book of a powerful and
accomplished thinker, who has looked with naked eyes at the dreadful
political signs in England for the last few years, has conversed much
on
these topics with such wise men of all ranks and parties as are drawn
to a
scholar's house...
draws, v. (69)
Nat 1.64 11 As a plant upon the earth, so a man...draws
at his need
inexhaustible power.
Nat 1.69 11 The stars have us to bed:/ Night draws the
curtain;.../
Nat 1.69 23 The perception of this class of [spiritual]
truths makes the
attraction which draws men to science...
AmS 1.81 21 ...our long apprenticeship to the learning
of other lands, draws
to a close.
DSA 1.139 12 There is a good ear, in some men, that
draws supplies to
virtue out of very indifferent nutriment.
MN 1.212 7 ...there is a certain infatuating air in
woods and mountains
which draws on the idler to want and misery.
MN 1.218 9 Genius...draws its means and the style of
its architecture from
within...
Comp 2.110 8 With his will or against his will [a man]
draws his portrait to
the eye of his companions by every word.
Cir 2.302 6 Our culture is the predominance of an idea
which draws after it
this train of cities and institutions.
Cir 2.304 27 Lo! on the other side rises also a man and
draws a circle
around the circle we had just pronounced the outline of the sphere.
Cir 2.314 13 ...like draws to like...
Cir 2.315 6 Geoffrey draws on his boots to go through
the woods...
Int 2.332 9 It seems as if the law of the intellect
resembled that law of
nature...by which the heart now draws in, then hurls out the blood...
Int 2.344 8 ...whilst he [in whom the love of truth
predominates] gives
himself up unreservedly to that which draws him...he is to refuse
himself to
that which draws him not...
Int 2.344 9 ...he [in whom the love of truth
predominates] is to refuse
himself to that which draws him not...
Art1 2.356 3 A good ballad draws my ear and heart
whilst I listen...
Pt1 3.4 24 ...this hidden truth, that the fountains
whence all this river of
Time and its creatures floweth are intrinsically ideal and beautiful,
draws us
to the consideration of the nature and functions of the Poet, or the
man of
Beauty;...
Exp 3.55 10 Our love of the real draws us to
permanence...
Exp 3.68 1 We would look about us, but with grand
politeness [God] draws
down before us an inpenetrable screen of purest sky, and another behind
us
of purest sky.
Chr1 3.93 23 This virtue [of character] draws the mind
more when it
appears in action to ends not so mixed.
Chr1 3.113 17 Poetry is joyful and strong as it draws
its inspiration thence [from character].
UGM 4.16 16 Genius is the naturalist or geographer of
the supersensible
regions, and draws their map;...
PPh 4.40 23 Mahometanism draws all its
philosophy...from [Plato].
ShP 4.208 1 ...in [Shakespeare's] drama, as in all
great works of art...the
Genius draws up the ladder after him...
ShP 4.213 24 [Shakespeare]...finishes an eyelash or a
dimple as firmly as
he draws a mountain;...
GoW 4.263 10 [The writer] draws his rents from rage and
pain.
ET6 5.114 21 ...the range of nations from which London
draws, and the
steep contrasts of condition, create the picturesque in society...
ET9 5.145 26 France is, by its natural contrast, a kind
of blackboard on
which English character draws its own traits in chalk.
ET10 5.162 9 Of course [steam] draws the [English]
nobility into the
competition...
ET13 5.226 24 The [English] curates are ill paid, and
the prelates are
overpaid. This abuse draws into the church the children of the nobility
and
other unfit persons who have a taste for expense.
ET15 5.268 10 [The London Times] draws from any number
of learned and
skilful contributors;...
F 6.12 9 The new talent draws off so rapidly the vital
force that not enough
remains for the animal functions...
F 6.33 4 ...whilst art draws out the venom, it commonly
extorts some
benefit from the vanquished enemy.
F 6.35 10 A transcendent talent draws so largely on [a
man's] forces as to
lame him;...
F 6.48 1 ...whatever lames or paralyzes you draws in
with it the divinity...to
repay.
Wth 6.84 7 ...when the quarried means were piled,/ All
is waste and
worthless, till/ Arrives the wise selecting will/ And, out of slime and
chaos, Wit/ Draws the threads of fair and fit./
Ctr 6.148 11 ...let [a man's] own genius be what it
may, it will repel quite
as much of agreeable and valuable talent as it draws...
CbW 6.246 17 ...it is only as [a man]...draws on this
most private wisdom, that any good can come to him.
Art2 7.51 16 ...the contemplation of a work of great
art draws us into a
state of mind which may be called religious.
Elo1 7.70 2 [The right eloquence] draws the children
from their play...
DL 7.128 17 There is no event greater in life than the
appearance of new
persons about our hearth, except it be the progress of the character
which
draws them.
Cour 7.254 19 Men admire...the power of better
combination and
foresight...whether it only plays a game of chess...or
whether...Franklin
draws off the lightning in his hand;...
PI 8.31 11 ...[the amateur] draws the bow with his
fingers and the [poet] with the strength of his body;...
PI 8.67 2 A good poem...goes about the world offering
itself to reasonable
men, who...carry it to their reasonable neighbors. Thus it draws to it
the
wise and generous souls...
PI 8.74 26 The only heart that can help us is one that
draws...from itself, a
counterpoise to society.
SA 8.80 6 He...who draws his determination from within,
and draws it
instantly,--that man rules.
SA 8.80 7 He...who draws his determination from within,
and draws it
instantly,--that man rules.
Res 8.145 4 ...[the old forester] draws his boat
ashore, turns it over in a
twinkling against a clump of alders with cat-briers, which keep up the
lee-side, crawls under it with his comrade, and lies there till the
shower is over, happy in his stout roof.
PC 8.207 9 The heart still beats with the public pulse
of joy that the country
has withstood the rude trial which threatened its existence, and
thrills with
the vast augmentation of strength which it draws from this proof.
PC 8.222 23 ...when [Newton] saw, in the fall of an
apple to the ground, the
fall...of the sun and of all suns to the centre, that perception was
accompanied by the spasm of delight by which the intellect greets a
fact
more immense still...that atom draws to atom throughout Nature...
PC 8.228 11 [The moral sentiment]...draws its own rent
out of every
novelty in science.
Grts 8.318 15 A great style of hero draws equally all
classes...
Dem1 10.19 5 It would be easy in the political history
of every time to
furnish examples of this irregular success, men having a force which
without virtue...yet makes them prevailing. ... A power goes out from
them
which draws all men and events to favor them.
PerF 10.76 5 ...a man draws on all the air for his
occasions, as if there were
no other breather;...
PerF 10.76 10 ...[man] draws on all knowledge as his
province...
Edc1 10.129 18 As every wind draws music out of the
Aeolian harp, so
doth every object in Nature draw music out of [man's] mind.
Edc1 10.130 20 If Newton come and...perceive...that
every atom in Nature
draws to every other atom,-he extends the power of his mind...over
every
cubic atom of his native planet...
Schr 10.262 19 Stung by this intellectual conscience,
we go to measure our
tasks as scholars...and our sadness is suddenly overshone by a sympathy
of
blessing. Beauty...which draws by being beautiful...comes in and puts a
new face on the world.
FSLC 11.200 1 When a moral quality comes into
politics...the discussion
draws on deeper sources: general principles are laid bare...
FSLC 11.200 12 ...the Nemesis works underneath again.
It is a power that... draws us on to our undoing;...
EPro 11.319 19 [The Emancipation Proclamation] draws
the fashion to this
side.
PLT 12.12 3 ...he who who contents himself
with...recording only what
facts he has observed...follows...a system as grand as any other,
though he... only draws that arc which he clearly sees...
PLT 12.29 15 Whilst [man] draws on his own he cannot be
overshadowed
or supplanted.
CInt 12.130 22 He that draws on his own talent cannot
be overshadowed or
supplanted.
MAng1 12.244 3 The innumerable pilgrims whom the genius
of Italy draws
to the city [Florence] duly visit this church [Santa Croce]...
ACri 12.303 14 ...there is much in literature that
draws us with a sublime
charm...
ACri 12.304 12 The classic draws its rule from the
genius of that which it
does, and not from by-ends.
WSL 12.344 19 [Landor] draws his own portrait in the
costume of a village
schoolmaster...
WSL 12.344 24 [Landor] draws with evident pleasure the
portrait of a man
who never said anything right and never did anything wrong.
dray, n. (2)
MoS 4.155 11 Am I an ox, or a dray?--you are both in
extremes, [the
skeptic] says.
ET4 5.71 26 The horse has more uses than Buffon noted.
If you go into the
streets, every driver in 'bus or dray is a bully...
drayman, n. (1)
ET4 5.65 16 I remarked the stoutness [of the English] on
my first landing at
Liverpool; porter, drayman, coachman, guard...
drayman's, n. (1)
ACri 12.288 21 What traveller has not listened to the
vigor of...the deep
stomach of an English drayman's execration.
dread, adj. (7)
Nat 1.63 24 We learn...that the dread universal
essence...is that for which
all things exist...
Con 1.302 13 Here is the fact which men call Fate, and
fate in dread
degrees, fate behind fate...
OS 2.280 14 ...the Maker of all things and all
persons...casts his dread
omniscience through us over things.
ET2 5.26 6 I wanted a change and a tonic, and England
was proposed to
me. Besides, there were at least the dread attraction and salutary
influences
of the sea.
OA 7.324 18 [With age] The passions have answered their
purpose: that
slight but dread overweight with which in each instance Nature secures
the
execution of her aim, drops off.
SovE 10.191 5 Humanity sits at the dread loom and
throws the shuttle...
MMEm 10.415 2 Oh, if there be a power superior to
me,-and that there is, my own dread fetters proclaim,-when will He let
my lights go out...
dread, n. (6)
AmS 1.115 23 The dread of man and the love of man shall
be a wall of
defence and a wreath of joy around all.
MN 1.219 27 ...let [a man] be filled with awe and dread
before the Vast and
the Divine...and our eye is riveted to the chain of events.
Hsm1 2.243 5 ...Thunderclouds are Jove's festoons,/
Drooping oft in
wreaths of dread/ Lightning-knotted round his head/...
SwM 4.137 25 One man, you say, dreads erysipelas,--show
him that this
dread is evil...
SwM 4.137 26 ...one [man] dreads hell,--show him that
dread is evil.
ET2 5.29 9 Nobody likes to be treated ignominiously,
upset...suffocated
with bilge, mephitis and stewing oil. We get used to these annoyances
at
last [at sea], but the dread of the sea remains longer.
dread, v. (4)
Comp 2.113 14 If you are wise you will dread a
prosperity which only
loads you with more.
Ctr 6.162 23 He who aims high must dread an easy home
and popular
manners.
FRep 11.536 20 ...I dread to hear of well-born, gifted
and amiable men, that they have this indifference, disposing them to
this despair.
Trag 12.410 1 [People with an appetite for grief]
mis-hear and mis-behold, they suspect and dread.
dreaded, v. (3)
Mrs1 3.135 4 Does it not seem as if man...dreaded
nothing so much as a
full rencontre front to front with his fellow?
F 6.33 17 Steam was till the other day the devil which
we dreaded.
HDC 11.80 12 The operation of a new government was
dreaded [in
Concord], lest it should prove expensive...
dreadful, adj. (19)
MR 1.232 2 The abolitionist has shown us our dreadful
debt to the southern
negro.
SL 2.156 18 Dreadful limits are set in nature to the
powers of dissimulation.
PPh 4.73 20 [Socrates is] A pitiless disputant...whose
dreadful logic was
always leisurely and sportive;...
NMW 4.234 10 Sire, General Clarke can not combine with
General Junot, for the dreadful fire of the Austrian battery.
ET10 5.168 13 Steam from the first hissed and screamed
to warn him; it
was dreadful with its explosion, and crushed the engineer.
ET10 5.169 8 ...in the influx of tons of gold and
silver; amid the chuckle of
chancellors and financiers, it was found [in England]...that...the
dreadful
barometer of the poor-rates was touching the point of ruin.
F 6.20 7 If we are brute and barbarous, the fate takes
a brute and dreadful
shape.
Wsp 6.206 21 King Richard taunts God with forsaking
him. O fie! O how
unwilling should I be to forsake thee, in so forlorn and dreadful a
position, were I thy lord and advocate, as thou art mine.
Cour 7.279 4 The other [bear] on George Nidiver/ Came
on with dreadful
pace:/ The hunter stood unarmed,/ And met him face to face./
QO 8.184 18 ...a lady having expressed in his presence
a passionate wish to
witness a great victory, [Wellington] replied: Madam, there is nothing
so
dreadful as a great victory,-excepting a great defeat.
Insp 8.287 4 Solitary converse with Nature; for thence
are ejaculated sweet
and dreadful words never uttered in libraries.
Imtl 8.328 9 [Sixty years ago] All were under the
shadow of Calvinism and
of the Roman Catholic purgatory, and death was dreadful.
Dem1 10.6 24 We fear lest the poor brute [the dog]
should gain one
dreadful glimpse of his condition...
FSLC 11.194 17 This dreadful English Speech is
saturated with songs, proverbs and speeches that flatly contradict and
defy every line of Mr. Mason's statute [the Fugitive Slave Law].
EPro 11.319 4 ...an event [Emancipation] worth the
dreadful war, worth its
costs and uncertainties, seems now to be close before us.
SMC 11.374 25 Those who went through those dreadful
fields [of the Civil
War] and returned not deserve much more than all the honor we can pay.
II 12.79 26 The thoughts which wander through our mind,
we do not
absorb and make flesh of, but...we retail them as news, to our lovers
and to
all Athenians. At a dreadful loss we play this game;...
MLit 12.331 24 Poetry is with Goethe thus
external...but the Muse never
assays those thunder-tones...which dissipate by dreadful melody all
this
iron network of circumstance...
PPr 12.379 13 ...[Carlyle's Past and Present] is the
book of a powerful and
accomplished thinker, who has looked with naked eyes at the dreadful
political signs in England for the last few years...
dreadfully, adv. (2)
ET13 5.228 27 The English...are dreadfully given to
cant.
TPar 11.284 7 ...There [Theodore Parker] stands,
looking more like a
ploughman than priest,/ If not dreadfully awkward, not graceful at
least;/...
dreading, v. (1)
Hsm1 2.249 25 ...neither defying nor dreading the
thunder, let [a man] take
both reputation and life in his hand...
dreads, v. (3)
AmS 1.110 3 ...a boy dreads the water before he has
learned that he can
swim.
SwM 4.137 24 One man, you say, dreads erysipelas,--show
him that this
dread is evil...
SwM 4.137 26 ...one [man] dreads hell,--show him that
dread is evil.
Dream, A...Night's [Wm. S (1)
ShP 4.207 13 Can any biography shed light on the
localities into which the
Midsummer Night's Dream admits me?
Dream, Midsummer Night's [ (2)
PI 8.43 15 Better examples [of poetry] are
Shakspeare's...fairies in the
Midsummer Night's Dream.
PLT 12.52 20 ...to arrange general reflections in their
natural order, so that
I shall have one homogeneous piece...a Hamlet, a Midsummer Night's
Dream,-this continuity is for the great.
Dream, Midsummer-Night's, n (1)
ShP 4.218 6 ...when the question is, to life and its
materials and its
auxiliaries, how does [Shakespeare] profit me? What does it signify? It
is
but a Twelfth Night, or Midsummer-Night's Dream...
dream, n. (53)
Nat 1.56 19 ...in [Ideas'] presence we feel that the
outward circumstance is
a dream and a shade.
Nat 1.62 26 ...the world is a divine dream...
Nat 1.66 22 ...a dream may let us deeper into the
secret of nature than a
hundred concerted experiments.
Nat 1.77 9 The kingdom of man over nature...a dominion
such as now is
beyond his dream of God, - he shall enter without more wonder than the
blind man feels who is gradually restored to perfect sight.
AmS 1.86 20 ...a dream too wild.
DSA 1.134 18 Somehow [the seer's] dream is told;...
MR 1.230 7 ...the scholar says...behold every solitary
dream of mine is
rushing to fulfilment.
MR 1.244 14 Give [any man's] mind a new image, and
he...is richer with
that dream than the fee of a county could make him.
Con 1.303 10 ...the existing world is not a dream...
Con 1.303 11 ...the existing world is not a dream, and
cannot with impunity
be treated as a dream;...
Tran 1.341 16 ...to [many intelligent and religious
persons'] lofty dream
the writing of Iliads or Hamlets, or the building of cities or empires
seems
drudgery.
Hist 2.33 23 ...although that poem [Goethe's Helena] be
as vague and
fantastic as a dream, yet is it much more attractive than the more
regular
dramatic pieces of the same author...
SL 2.147 10 Our eyes are holden that we cannot see
things that stare us in
the face, until the hour arrives when the mind is ripened; then we
behold
them, and the time when we saw them not is like a dream.
Lov1 2.183 18 ...this dream of love, though beautiful,
is only one scene in
our play.
Prd1 2.231 1 We do not know the properties of plants
and animals and the
laws of nature, through our sympathy with the same; but this remains
the
dream of poets.
Cir 2.305 13 In the thought of to-morrow there is a
power to...marshal thee
to a heaven which no epic dream has yet depicted.
Pt1 3.32 13 If a man is inflamed and carried away by
his thought, to that
degree that he...heeds only this one dream which holds him like an
insanity, let me read his paper, and you may have all the arguments and
histories and
criticism.
Pt1 3.33 4 ...dream delivers us to dream...
Exp 3.50 3 Dream delivers us to dream...
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;...
Chr1 3.113 22 ...we have never seen a man: that divine
form we do not yet
know, but only the dream and prophecy of such...
NR 3.235 13 It seems not worth while to execute with
too much pains some
one intellectual, or aesthetical, or civil feat, when presently the
dream will
scatter...
UGM 4.3 20 The search after the great man is the dream
of youth...
MoS 4.155 27 If you come near [the studious classes]
and see what conceits
they entertain,--they...spend their days and nights in dreaming some
dream;...
ET5 5.76 25 The Scandinavian fancied himself surrounded
by Trolls... divine stevedores, carpenters, reapers, smiths and masons,
swift to reward
every kindness done them, with gifts of gold and silver. In all English
history this dream comes to pass.
ET15 5.272 23 ...[if the London Times would cleave to
the right] it would
have the authority which is claimed for that dream of good men not yet
come to pass...
ET16 5.287 5 My friends asked, whether there were any
Americans?...any
theory of the right future of that country? Thus challenged... ...I
said, Certainly yes;--but those who hold it are fanatics of a dream
which I should
hardly care to relate to your English ears, to which it might be only
ridiculous...
F 6.27 11 ...though we sleep, our dream will come to
pass.
Wth 6.84 14 ...New slaves fulfilled the poet's dream,/
Galvanic wire, strong-shouldered steam./
Wth 6.115 13 [The pale scholar]...by and by wakes up
from his idiot dream
of chickweed and red-root, to remember his morning thought...
Ill 6.313 23 We wake from one dream into another dream.
WD 7.171 18 Could our happiest dream come to pass in
solid fact,--could a
power open our eyes to behold millions of spiritual creatures walk the
earth,--I believe I should find that mid-plain on which they moved
floored
beneath and arched above with the same web of blue depth which weaves
itself over me now...
SA 8.106 25 ...those people, and no others, interest
us...who are absorbed, if
you please to say so, in their own dream.
Grts 8.310 3 As [the Quakers] express [self-respect],
it might be thus...if at
any time I...propose a journey or a course of conduct, I perhaps find a
silent
obstacle in my mind that I cannot account for. ... It is not an oracle,
nor an
angel, nor a dream, nor a law;...
Imtl 8.327 17 We shall pass to the future existence as
we enter into an
agreeable dream.
Dem1 10.5 10 The very landscape and scenery in a dream
seem not to fit
us...
Dem1 10.6 12 In a dream we have the instinctive
obedience, the same
torpidity of the highest power...as these metamorphosed men [animals]
exhibit.
Dem1 10.20 11 The Ego partial makes the dream; the Ego
total the
interpretation.
Dem1 10.20 12 The Ego partial makes the dream; the Ego
total the
interpretation. Life is also a dream on the same terms.
Dem1 10.28 7 Man is the Image of God. Why run after a
ghost or a dream?
MoL 10.253 8 See armies, institutions, literatures,
appearing in the train of
some wild Arabian's dream.
Schr 10.269 25 Why need [the poet] meddle with
politics? His idlest
thought, his yesternight's dream is told already in the Senate.
MMEm 10.404 2 All [Mary Moody Emerson's] language was
happy, but... unattainable by talent, as if caught from some dream.
MMEm 10.426 5 The mystic dream which is shed over the
season.
Thor 10.471 3 [Thoreau] said, What you seek in vain
for, half your life, one day you come full upon, all the family at
dinner. You seek it like a
dream, and as soon as you find it you become its prey.
EWI 11.141 12 On sight of these [African artifacts],
says Clarkson, many
sublime thoughts seemed to rush at once into [William Pitt's] mind,
some
of which he expressed; and hence appeared to arise a project which was
always dear to him, of the civilization of Africa,-a dream which
forever
elevates his fame.
SHC 11.434 19 ...when I think of the mystery of
life...the speed of the
changes of that glittering dream we call existence,-I think sometimes
that
the vault of the sky arching there upward...is only a Sleepy Hollow,
with
path of Suns, insea of foot-paths;...
II 12.81 21 Whether Whiggery, or Chartism, or Church,
or a dream of
Wealth, fashioned all these resolute bankers, merchants, lawyers,
landlords, who administer the world of to-day...an idea fashioned
them...
II 12.83 3 The dream which lately floated before the
eyes of the French
nation-that every man shall do that which of all things he prefers, and
shall have three francs a day for doing that-is the real law of the
world;...
CInt 12.127 18 Ah, gentlemen, it's only a dream of
mine, and perhaps
never will be true,-but I thought a college was a place not to train
talents... but to adorn Genius...
Bost 12.187 14 In...the farthest colonies...a
middle-aged gentleman is just
embarking with all his property to fulfil the dream of his life and
spend his
old age in Paris;...
MAng1 12.213 1 Never did sculptor's dream unfold/ A
form which marble
doth not hold/ In its white block;.../
Let 12.396 14 It is not for nothing...that sincere
persons of all parties are
demanding somewhat vital and poetic of our stagnant society. How
fantastic and unpresentable soever the theory has hitherto seemed...let
us
not lose the warning of that most significant dream.
Dream, n. (1)
Exp 3.43 7 The lords of life, the lords of life/-I saw
them pass,/ In their
own guise,/ .../ Use and Surprise,/ Surface and Dream,/ Succession
swift, and spectral Wrong,/ Temperament without a tongue,/ And the
inventor of
the game/ Omnipresent without name;-
dream, v. (14)
AmS 1.107 16 Men...very naturally seek money or
power;...the spoils, so
called, of office. And why not? for they aspire to the highest, and
this, in
their sleep-walking, they dream is highest.
SR 2.81 24 At home I dream that at Naples...I can be
intoxicated with
beauty...
Prd1 2.227 8 The domestic man...has solaces which
others never dream of.
OS 2.283 17 Men ask concerning...the state of the
sinner, and so forth. They even dream that Jesus has left replies to
precisely these interrogatories.
Pt1 3.6 15 The poet is...the man...who sees and handles
that which others
dream of...
Chr1 3.106 23 How captivating is [children's] devotion
to their favorite
books...as feeling that they have a stake in that book;...and
especially the
total solitude of the critic, the Patmos of thought from which he
writes, in
unconsciousness of any eyes that shall ever read this writing. Could
they
dream on still...and not wake to comparisons and to be flattered!
Nat2 3.172 5 The blue zenith is the point in which
romance and reality
meet. I think if we should be rapt away into all that and dream of
heaven... the upper sky would be all that would remain of our
furniture.
Bhr 6.186 20 ...we sometimes dream that we are in a
well-dressed company
without any coat...
PPo 8.236 4 As Jelaleddin old and gray,/ [Saadi] seemed
to bask, to dream
and play/ Without remoter hope or fear/ Than still to entertain his
ear/...
Dem1 10.3 23 ...the astonishment remains that one should
dream;...
MMEm 10.398 3 On earth I dream;-I die to be:/ Time!
shake not thy bald
head at me./ I challenge thee to hurry past,/ Or for my turn to fly too
fast./
MMEm 10.426 6 The mystic dream which is shed over the
season. O, to
dream more deeply;...
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;/...
Pray 12.354 13 And next in value, which thy kindness
lends,/ That I may
greatly disappoint my friends,/ Howe'er they think or hope that it may
be,/ They may not dream how thou'st distinguished me./
dreamed, v. (12)
Con 1.308 2 I never dreamed about methods;...
Prd1 2.230 11 Let [the figures in this picture of life]
discriminate between
what they remember and what they dreamed...
NER 3.276 24 ...[those who reject us] build a heaven
before us whereof we
had not dreamed...
PPh 4.54 19 ...whether his mother or his father dreamed
that the infant man-child
was the son of Apollo;...a man [Plato] who could see two sides of a
thing was born.
Pow 6.73 7 Ah! said a brave painter to me...if a man
has failed, you will
find he has dreamed instead of working.
Suc 7.298 14 [The city boy in the October woods] is the
king he dreamed
he was;...
Res 8.145 23 Wanting a picket to which to attach my
horse, [Malus] says, I
tied him to my leg. I slept, and dreamed peaceably of the pleasures of
Europe.
PC 8.219 24 Everett dreamed of Webster.
Dem1 10.5 22 In sleep one shall travel certain roads in
stage-coaches or
gigs, which he recognizes as familiar, and has dreamed that ride a
dozen
times;...
Dem1 10.23 27 Coincidences, dreams, animal magnetism,
omens, sacred
lots, have great interest for some minds. They run into this twilight
and say, There 's more than is dreamed of in your philosophy.
SovE 10.197 1 ...I have never until now dreamed that
this undertaking the
entire management of my own affairs was not commendable.
HDC 11.75 22 [The minute-men] never dreamed their
children would
contend who had done the most.
dreamers, n. (2)
Tran 1.331 13 The materialist...mocks...at star-gazers
and dreamers...
SwM 4.107 1 ...[Swedenborg] was a believer in the
Identity-philosophy, which he held not idly, as the dreamers of Berlin
or Boston...
dreaming, adj. (3)
MoS 4.151 15 Having at some time seen that the happy
soul will carry all
the arts in power...like dreaming beggars [men predisposed to morals]
assume to speak and act as if these values were already substantiated.
PI 8.42 6 Better men saw heavens and earths; saw noble
instruments of
noble souls. We see railroads, mills and banks, and we pity the poverty
of
these dreaming Buddhists.
MMEm 10.422 6 We call [Time] by every name of fleeting,
dreaming, vaporing imagery.
dreaming, n. (1)
GoW 4.280 14 The wonderful in [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister]
is expressly
treated as fiction and enthusiastic dreaming...
dreaming, v. (4)
SwM 4.141 23 [Swedenborg's spiritual world] is...very
like...to the
phenomena of dreaming...
MoS 4.155 27 If you come near [the studious classes]
and see what conceits
they entertain,--they...spend their days and nights in dreaming some
dream;...
Dem1 10.6 4 This feature of dreams deserves the more
attention from its
singular resemblance to that obscure yet startling experience which
almost
every person confesses in daylight, that particular passages of
conversation
and action have occurred to him in the same order before, whether
dreaming or waking;...
PLT 12.46 4 Wishing is castle-building; the dreaming
about things
agreeable to the senses, but to which we have no right.
dream-like, adj. (2)
Nat2 3.181 3 ...so poor is nature with all her craft,
that from the beginning
to the end of the universe she has but one stuff...to serve up all her
dream-like
variety.
Suc 7.300 11 How that element [color] washes the
universe with its
enchanting waves! The sculptor had ended his work, and behold a new
world of dream-like glory.
dream-power, n. (1)
Pt1 3.40 13 Stand there, [O poet,]...hissed and hooted,
stand and strive, until at last rage draw out of thee that dream-power
which every night
shows thee is thine own;...
dreams, n. (77)
Nat 1.4 22 Now many [phenomena] are thought not only
unexplained but
inexplicable; as...dreams...
Nat 1.17 18 ...the night shall be my Germany of mystic
philosophy and
dreams.
Nat 1.27 22 These [analogies] are not the dreams of a
few poets...
Nat 1.37 13 ...good thoughts are no better than good
dreams, unless they be
executed!
Nat 1.58 15 ...Contemn the unsubstantial shows of the
world; they are... dreams...
Nat 1.71 6 When men are innocent, life...shall pass
into the immortal as
gently as we awake from dreams.
LE 1.178 11 Let [the scholar] endeavor...to solve the
problem of that life
which is set before him. And this...not by promises or dreams.
MR 1.231 7 ...if [the young man] would thrive in [the
employments of
commerce], he must sacrifice all the brilliant dreams of boyhood and
youth
as dreams;...
MR 1.231 8 ...if [the young man] would thrive in [the
employments of
commerce], he must sacrifice all the brilliant dreams of boyhood and
youth
as dreams;...
LT 1.262 26 How [persons]...lap us in Elysium to
soothing dreams and
castles in the air!
SL 2.148 1 Our dreams are the sequel of our waking
knowledge.
SL 2.148 4 Hideous dreams are exaggerations of the sins
of the day.
SL 2.148 13 As in dreams, so in the scarcely less fluid
events of the world
every man sees himself in colossal...
Fdsp 2.199 2 Our friendships hurry to short and poor
conclusions, because
we have made them a texture of wine and dreams...
Fdsp 2.213 4 Friends such as we desire are dreams and
fables.
OS 2.270 10 If we consider what happens...in the
instructions of dreams... we shall catch many hints that will broaden
and lighten into knowledge of
the secret of nature.
Cir 2.322 6 Dreams and drunkenness...are the semblance
and counterfeit of
this oracular genius...
Int 2.337 16 We may owe to dreams some light on the
fountain of this skill [of drawing];...
Exp 3.84 15 Life wears to me a visionary face. Hardest
roughest action is
visionary also. It is but a choice between soft and turbulent dreams.
PPh 4.47 7 [Philosophy's] early records...are of the
immigrations from
Asia, bringing with them the dreams of barbarians;...
PPh 4.61 7 ...men see in [Plato] their own dreams and
glimpses are made
available and made to pass for what they are.
SwM 4.122 20 Instead of a religion which visited
[Swedenborg] diplomatically three or four times...here was a teaching
which accompanied
him all day, accompanied him even into sleep and dreams;...
SwM 4.132 22 Genius is ever haunted by similar dreams
[to those of
Swedenborg], when the hells and the heavens are opened to it.
SwM 4.141 21 [Swedenborg's] spiritual world bears the
same relation to
the generosities and joys of truth of which human souls have already
made
us cognizant, as a man's bad dreams bear to his ideal life.
SwM 4.145 12 ...with a tenacity that never swerved in
all his studies, inventions, dreams, [Swedenborg] adheres to this brave
choice [of
goodness].
NMW 4.250 7 ...[Napoleon] proposed to consider the
probability of the
destruction of the globe, either by water or by fire: at another
time...the
interpretation of dreams.
F 6.41 12 ...as we do in dreams, with equanimity, the
most absurd acts, so a
drop more of wine in our cup of life will reconcile us to strange
company
and work.
CbW 6.265 10 I know how easy it is to men of the world
to look grave and
sneer at your sanguine youth and its glittering dreams.
Ill 6.322 6 If life seem a succession of dreams, yet
poetic justice is done in
dreams also.
Ill 6.322 7 ...poetic justice is done in dreams also.
Boks 7.214 8 ...books that...distribute things...with
as daring a freedom as
we use in dreams, put us on our feet again...
Suc 7.298 13 [The city boy in the October woods] is
suddenly initiated into
a pomp and glory that brings to pass for him the dreams of romance.
Suc 7.299 16 Is...the college where you first knew the
dreams of fancy and
joys of thought, only boards or brick and mortar?
OA 7.319 7 [The cup of time]...fills us with exalted
dreams...
OA 7.327 3 Michel Angelo's head is full...of
architectural dreams, until a
hundred stone-masons can lay them in courses of travertine.
PI 8.44 24 We all have one key to this miracle of the
poet...one key, namely, dreams.
PI 8.44 24 In dreams we are true poets;...
PI 8.51 19 Time...is now dominant and...looketh unto
Memphis and old
Thebes, while his sister Oblivion reclineth semi-somnous on a
pyramid... turning old glories into dreams.
PI 8.73 7 The high poetry which shall...dissipate the
dreams under which
men reel and stagger...is deeper hid...
QO 8.185 25 Wordsworth's hero acting on the plan which
pleased his
childish thought, is Schiller's Tell him to reverence the dreams of his
youth...
PC 8.205 4 ...as through dreams in watches of the
night,/ So through all
creatures in their form and ways/ Some mystic hint accosts the
vigilant/...
PC 8.227 11 The dreams of the night supplement by their
divination the
imperfect experiments of the day.
Insp 8.280 10 Sleep benefits...incidentally...by
dreams...
Dem1 10.3 1 The name Demonology covers dreams, omens,
coincidences, luck, sortilege, magic and other experiences which shun
rather than court
inquiry...
Dem1 10.3 13 There lies a sleeping city, God of
dreams!/ What an unreal
and fantastic world/ Is going on below!/
Dem1 10.3 21 'T is superfluous to think of the dreams
of multitudes...
Dem1 10.4 20 Dreams are jealous of being remembered;...
Dem1 10.4 23 When newly awaked from lively
dreams...give us one
syllable...and we should repossess the whole;...
Dem1 10.5 6 A dislocation seems to be the foremost
trait of dreams.
Dem1 10.5 13 The very landscape and scenery in a dream
seem...like a coat
or cloak of some other person to overlap and encumber the wearer; so is
the
ground, the road, the house, in dreams, too long or too short...
Dem1 10.5 18 In our dreams the same scenes and fancies
are many times
associated...
Dem1 10.5 26 In sleep one shall travel certain
roads...or shall walk alone in
familiar fields and meadows, which road or which meadow in waking hours
he never looked upon. This feature of dreams deserves the more
attention
from its singular resemblance to that obscure yet startling experience
which
almost every person confesses in daylight...
Dem1 10.6 9 Animals have been called the dreams of
Nature.
Dem1 10.6 11 Animals have been called the dreams of
Nature. Perhaps for
a conception of their consciousness we may go to our own dreams.
Dem1 10.6 17 Our thoughts in a stable or in a
menagerie...may well remind
us of our dreams.
Dem1 10.7 19 Dreams have a poetic integrity and truth.
Dem1 10.7 27 ...we...owe to dreams a kind of divination
and wisdom.
Dem1 10.8 1 My dreams are not me; they are not Nature,
or the Not-me: they are both.
Dem1 10.8 22 In dreams I see [Rupert] engaged in
certain actions which
seem preposterous...
Dem1 10.8 27 In dreams I see [Rupert] engaged in
certain actions which
seem...out of all fitness. He is hostile...he is a poltroon. It turns
out
prophecy a year later. But it was already in my mind as character, and
the
sibyl dreams merely embodied it in fact.
Dem1 10.9 11 A skilful man reads his dreams for his
self-knowledge;...
Dem1 10.9 27 It is no wonder that particular dreams and
presentiments
should fall out and be prophetic.
Dem1 10.20 8 Dreams retain the infirmities of our
character.
Dem1 10.23 24 Coincidences, dreams, animal magnetism,
omens, sacred
lots, have great interest for some minds.
Supl 10.165 21 ...much of the rhetoric of terror...most
men have realized
only in dreams and nightmares.
Supl 10.166 6 A little fact is worth a whole limbo of
dreams...
Schr 10.259 7 For thought, and not praise,/ Thought is
the wages/ For
which I sell days,/ Will gladly sell ages,/ And willing grow old,/ Deaf
and
dumb, blind and cold,/ Melting matter into dreams,/ Panoramas which I
saw,/ And whatever glows or seems/ Into substance, into Law./
Plu 10.300 25 [Plutarch's] style is realistic,
picturesque and varied; his
sharp objective eyes seeing everything that moves, shines or threatens
in
nature or art, or thought or dreams.
LLNE 10.355 8 ...like the dreams of poetic people on
the first outbreak of
the old French Revolution, so [the Fourierist community] would
disappear
in a slime of mire and blood.
EWI 11.103 12 ...when [the negro] sank in the
furrow...he went down to
death with dusky dreams of African shadow-catchers and Obeahs hunting
him.
EWI 11.143 12 Who cares for oppressing whites, or
oppressed blacks, twenty centuries ago, more than for bad dreams?
TPar 11.290 6 ...[Theodore Parker] insisted...that the
essence of
Christianity is its practical morals;...and if you combine it...with
ordinary
city ambitions...the truth is not in you; and no love...of dreams of
Swedenborg...can save you from the Satan which you are.
ACiv 11.310 8 ...ideas must work through the brains and
the arms of good
and brave men, or they are no better than dreams.
EdAd 11.384 18 A man [in America] who has a hundred
dollars to dispose
of...is rich beyond the dreams of the Caesars.
Mem 12.108 27 In dreams a rush of many thoughts...and
when we start up
and look at the watch, instead of a long night we are surprised to find
it was
a short nap.
ACri 12.301 14 [The founder of New City] had
transferred to that city [Chicago] the magnificent dreams which he had
once communicated to me...
MLit 12.329 8 We can fancy [Goethe] saying to himself:
There are poets
enough of the Ideal; let me paint the Actual, as, after years of
dreams, it
will still appear and reappear to wise men.
dreams, v. (2)
Pol1 3.201 7 What the tender poetic youth dreams, and
prays, and paints to-day... shall presently be the resolutions of
public bodies;...
NR 3.237 21 [Nature] loves better a wheelwright who
dreams all night of
wheels...
dreamy, adj. (1)
MMEm 10.424 27 When the dreamy pages of life seem all
turned and
folded down to very weariness, even this idea of those who fill the
hour
with crowded virtues, lifts the spectator to other worlds...
dreariest, adj. (1)
Ill 6.312 15 In the life of the dreariest alderman,
fancy enters into all
details...
dreariness, n. (1)
Res 8.151 21 [The art of taking a walk] will draw
the...dreariness out of
November and March...
dreary, adj. (12)
DSA 1.147 2 We mark with light in the memory the few
interviews we
have had, in the dreary years of routine and sin, with souls that made
our
souls wiser;...
Cir 2.306 24 ...yesterday I saw a dreary vacuity in
this direction in which
now I see so much;...
Ctr 6.159 5 ...if in travelling in the dreary
wildernesses of Arkansas or
Texas we should observe on the next seat a man reading Horace...we
should
wish to hug him.
Farm 7.148 24 The chemist...now affirms that this
dreary space occupied
by the farmer is needless;...
Imtl 8.323 17 Whilst [the sparrow] stays in our
mansion, it feels not the
winter storm; but when this short moment of happiness has been enjoyed,
it
is forced again into the same dreary tempest from which it had
escaped...
Chr2 10.92 15 ...all that is dreary and repels, is not
power but the absence
of power.
SovE 10.188 22 The wars which make history so dreary
have served the
cause of truth and virtue.
MoL 10.245 10 ...those who would check and guide have a
dreary feeling
that in the change and decay of the old creeds and motives there was no
offset to supply their place.
MMEm 10.404 8 [Mary Moody Emerson] writes to her nephew
Charles
Emerson, in 1833... If I had been in aught but dreary deserts, I should
have
idolized my friends, despised the world and been haughty.
MMEm 10.411 16 [Mary Moody Emerson] speaks of her
attempts in
Malden, to wake up the soul amid the dreary scenes of monotonous
Sabbaths...
MMEm 10.424 16 ...in the weary womb [of Time] are
prolific numbers of
the same sad hour, colored...by the prophecy of others, more dreary,
blind
and sickly.
PLT 12.58 3 [People] are as much alike as their barns
and pantries, and are
as soon musty and dreary.
dregs, n. (2)
ET10 5.164 19 Whatever surly sweetness possession can
give, is tasted in
England to the dregs.
MMEm 10.426 19 Number the waste places of the
journey...the bitter
dregs of the cup,-and all are sweetened by the purpose of Him I [Mary
Moody Emerson] love.
drench, n. (1)
ET13 5.222 9 [The English] value a philosopher as they
value an
apothecary who brings bark or a drench;...
Dresden, Germany, adj. (1)
Prd1 2.229 24 The Raphael in the Dresden gallery...is
the quietest and most
passionless piece you can imagine;...
Dresden, Germany, n. (2)
Prd1 2.229 12 The last Grand Duke of Weimar...said,--I
have sometimes
remarked in the presence of great works of art, and just now especially
in
Dresden, how much a certain property contributes to the effect which
gives
life to the figures, and to the life an irresistible truth.
SwM 4.100 9 [Swedenborg]...devoted himself to the
writing and
publication of his voluminous theological works, which were
printed...at
Dresden, Leipsic, London, or Amsterdam.
dress, n. (51)
Con 1.317 10 Rich and fine is your dress, O
conservatism!...
Tran 1.359 4 ...when every voice is raised...for an
improvement in dress, or
in dentistry;...will you not tolerate one or two solitary voices in the
land, speaking for thoughts and principles not marketable or
perishable?
Comp 2.94 19 What did the preacher mean by saying that
the good are
miserable in the present life? Was it that houses and lands, offices,
wine, horses, dress, luxury, are had by unprincipled men...
SL 2.150 26 We foolishly think in our days of sin that
we must court
friends by compliance to the customs of society, to its dress...
SL 2.158 7 A stranger comes from a distant school, with
better dress...
Fdsp 2.193 10 Now, when [the stranger] comes, he may
get the order, the
dress and the dinner...
Fdsp 2.195 27 Every thing that is [our friend's],--his
name, his form, his
dress, books and instruments,--fancy enhances.
PPh 4.59 17 ...the rich man...has that one dress, or
equipage, or instrument, which is fit for the hour and the need;...
SwM 4.101 14 [Swedenborg] wore a sword when in full
velvet dress...
NMW 4.225 22 [The man in the street] finds [Napoleon],
like himself, by
birth a citizen, who, by very intelligible merits, arrived as such a
commanding position that he could indulge all those tastes which the
common man possesses but is obliged to conceal and deny:...dress,
dinners, servants without number...
GoW 4.274 1 [Goethe]...showed that the dulness and
prose we ascribe to
the age was only another of [Proteus's] masks...that he had put off a
gay
uniform for a fatigue dress...
ET5 5.84 14 [The English] study use and fitness...in
their dress.
ET5 5.84 22 [The English] think him the best dressed
man whose dress is
so fit for his use that you cannot notice or remember to describe it.
ET6 5.107 9 A certain order and complete propriety is
found in [the
Englishman's] dress and in his belongings.
ET6 5.112 27 Pretension and vaporing are once for all
distasteful [in
England]. They keep to the other extreme of low tone in dress and
manners.
ET6 5.113 5 Even Brummel, [the Englishmen's] fop, was
marked by the
severest simplicity in dress.
ET9 5.147 23 ...[the Englishman] hides no defect of his
form, features, dress, connection, or birthplace...
F 6.33 8 ...the wild beasts [man] makes useful
for...dress...
F 6.41 11 ...insane persons are indifferent to their
dress, diet, and other
accommodations...
Wth 6.87 19 Wealth begins...in two suits of clothes, so
to change your
dress when you are wet;...
Wth 6.113 16 Montaigne said, When he was a younger
brother, he went
brave in dress and equipage...
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 6.151 14 ...dress makes a little restraint;...
Ctr 6.154 23 How can you mind diet, bed, dress, or
salutes or
compliments...when you think how paltry are the machinery and the
workers?
Ctr 6.163 18 Bettine replies to Goethe's mother, who
chides her disregard
of dress,--If I cannot do as I have a mind in our poor Frankfort, I
shall not
carry things far.
Bhr 6.175 12 Claverhouse is a fop, and under the finish
of dress and levity
of behavior hides the terror of his war.
SS 7.1 11 ...nor loved [Seyd] less/ Stately lords in
palaces/ Princely women
hard to please,/ Fenced by form and ceremony,/ Decked by courtly rites
and
dress/...
SS 7.5 1 [My friend] went to Vienna, to Smyrna, to
London. In all the
variety of costumes...to his horror he could never discover a man in
the
street who wore anything like his own dress.
Farm 7.153 11 Plain in manners as in dress, [the
farmer] would not shine
in palaces;...
PI 8.13 1 When some familiar truth or fact appears in a
new dress...we
cannot enough testify our surprise and pleasure.
SA 8.80 27 ...he who has not this fine garment of
behavior is studious of
dress...
SA 8.87 16 ...one word or two in regard to dress...
SA 8.87 26 ...quite another class of our own youth I
should remind, of dress
in general, that some people need it and others need it not.
SA 8.88 8 It is only when mind and character slumber
that the dress can be
seen.
SA 8.88 11 If the intellect were always awake...the man
might go in
huckaback or mats, and his dress would be admired...
Comc 8.171 4 ...among the women in the street, you
shall see one whose
bonnet and dress are one thing, and the lady herself quite another...
Comc 8.171 7 ...among the women in the street, you
shall see one...wearing
withal an expression of meek submission to her bonnet and dress;...
Comc 8.171 8 ...among the women in the street, you
shall see one...wearing
withal an expression of meek submission to her bonnet and dress; and
another whose dress obeys and heightens the expression of her form.
PerF 10.75 21 [Labor] is in dress, in pictures, in
ships, in cannon;...
Supl 10.169 15 [The citizen's] dress and draperies,
house and stables, occupy him.
Supl 10.174 17 We are fond of dress, of ornament, of
accomplishments, of
talents...
Schr 10.286 17 [The scholar] is to eat insult, drink
insult, be clothed and
shod in insult until he has learned that this bitter bread and shameful
dress
is also wholesome and warm...
LLNE 10.345 9 The clergyman who would live in the city
may have piety, but must have taste, whilst there was often coming,
among these, some
John the Baptist, wild from the woods, rude, hairy, careless of
dress...
MMEm 10.408 25 [Mary Moody Emerson] writes...My
oddities were
never designed,-effect of an uncalculating constitution, at first, then
through isolation; and as to dress, from duty.
MMEm 10.410 11 By and by [Mary Moody Emerson] said,
Mrs. Thoreau, I don't know whether you have observed that my eyes are
shut. Yes, Madam, I have observed it. Perhaps you would like to know
the reasons? Yes, I should. I don't like to see a person of your age
guilty of such levity
in her dress.
Thor 10.454 24 A fine house, dress, the manners and
talk of highly
cultivated people were all thrown away on [Thoreau].
EWI 11.116 15 We were told that the dress of the
negroes [in Antigua] on
that occasion [of emancipation in the West Indies] was uncommonly
simple
and modest.
Wom 11.410 26 ...[man] invented...architecture,
curtains, dress...
FRep 11.533 21 See the secondariness and aping of
foreign and English
life, that runs through this country, in building, in dress...
FRep 11.534 10 [A man's life] is manufactured for him.
The tailor makes
your dress; the baker your bread...
Mem 12.96 25 This thread or order of remembering, this
classification, distributes men, one remembering by shop-rule or
interest;...one by trifling
external marks, as dress or money.
dress, v. (16)
Comp 2.104 16 The particular man aims...in
particulars...to dress that he
may be dressed;...
Exp 3.76 11 ...the fop contrived to dress his bailiffs
in his livery...
Exp 3.85 20 We dress our garden, eat our dinners...and
these things make
no impression...
GoW 4.276 19 ...[Goethe] flies at the throat of this
imp [the Devil]. He
shall be real;...he shall dress like a gentleman...
ET14 5.246 11 How can [English genius] discern and
hail...new and
gigantic thoughts which cannot dress themselves out of any old wardrobe
of
the past?
ET14 5.254 23 ...having attempted to domesticate and
dress the Blessed
Soul itself in English broadcloth and gaiters, [the English] are
tormented
with fear that herein lurks a force that will sweep their system away.
F 6.8 14 ...it is of no use...to dress up that terrific
benefactor [Providence] in a clean shirt...
Wth 6.121 9 I know...neither how to buy wood, nor what
to do with...the
wood-lot, when bought. Never fear; it is all settled how it shall be,
long
beforehand, in the custom of the country...how to dress, whether to
grass or
to corn;...
Ctr 6.154 15 Let us learn to...dress plainly...
DL 7.106 24 ...Pilgrim's Progress...what a wardrobe to
dress the whole
world withal, are in this encyclopaedia of young thinking!
SA 8.88 6 If a man have manners and talent he may dress
roughly and
carelessly.
SA 8.88 16 If...a man has not firm nerves...it is
perhaps a wise economy to
go to a good shop and dress himself irreproachably.
SovE 10.196 24 Have you said to yourself ever: I
abdicate all choice, I see
it is not for me to interfere. I see...that I have been a pitiful
person, because
I have wished...to dress and order my whole way and system of living.
JBS 11.277 20 When [John Brown] was five years old his
father emigrated
to Ohio, and the boy was there set...to look after cattle and dress
skins;...
SMC 11.356 11 ...when the Border raids were let loose
on [Kansas] villages, these people, who turned pale at home if called
to dress a cut
finger...were so beside themselves with rage, that they became on the
instant the bravest soldiers and the most determined avengers.
Pray 12.353 15 Are they only the valuable members of
society who labor
to dress and feed it?
dress-circle, n. (1)
Ctr 6.143 15 These minor skills and
accomplishments...are tickets of
admission to the dress-circle of mankind...
dress-circles, n. (1)
Bhr 6.184 13 The theatre in which this science of
manners has a formal
importance is not with us a court, but dress-circles...
dress-dinner, n. (2)
ET6 5.114 6 The [English] dress-dinner generates a
talent of table-talk
which reaches great perfection...
ET6 5.114 25 ...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].
dress-dinners, n. (1)
ET10 5.164 5 [The English] have...drowsy habitude, daily
dress-dinners, wine and ale and beer and gin and sleep.
dressed, adj. (2)
ET5 5.84 21 [The English] think him the best dressed man
whose dress is
so fit for his use that you cannot notice or remember to describe it.
Aris 10.52 7 ...if the dressed and perfumed gentleman,
who serves the
people in no wise...go about to set ill examples and corrupt them, who
shall
blame them if they burn his barns...
dressed, v. (22)
Nat 1.9 27 Within these plantations of God...a perennial
festival is dressed...
MN 1.214 11 Does the sunset landscape seem to you the
place of
Friendship,-those purple skies and lovely waters the amphitheatre
dressed
and garnished only for the exchange of thought and love of the purest
souls? It is that.
SR 2.62 14 That popular fable of the sot...washed and
dressed and laid in
the duke's bed ...symbolizes...the state of man...
Comp 2.104 17 The particular man aims...in
particulars...to dress that he
may be dressed;...
UGM 4.28 5 It seems as if the Deity dressed each soul
which he sends into
nature in certain virtues and powers not communicable to other men...
ET2 5.30 16 ...here on the second day of our voyage,
stepped out a little
boy in his shirt-sleeves, who had hid himself whilst the ship was in
port... having no money and wishing to go to England. The sailors have
dressed
him in Guernsey frock, with a knife in his belt...
ET11 5.193 23 [English noblemen]...keep [their houses]
empty, aired, and
the grounds mown and dressed, at a cost of four or five thousand pounds
a
year.
ET16 5.289 1 There, in that great sloven continent
[America]...still sleeps
and murmurs and hides the great mother, long since driven away from the
trim hedge-rows and over-cultivated garden of England. And, in England,
I
am quite too sensible of this. Every one is on his good behavior and
must
be dressed for dinner at six.
CbW 6.274 2 It makes no difference, in looking back
five years, how you
have been dieted or dressed;...
Ill 6.317 3 ...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...
SS 7.10 15 [A man] is to be dressed in arts and
institutions...
DL 7.112 12 If the children...are considered,
dressed...then does the
hospitality of the house suffer;...
DL 7.119 8 Certainly, let the board be spread and let
the bed be dressed for
the traveller;...
WD 7.170 18 [The days] are majestically dressed...
Boks 7.192 6 ...as the enchanter has dressed [books],
like battalions of
infantry, in coat and jacket of one cut, by the thousand and ten
thousand, your chance of hitting on the right one is to be computed by
the arithmetical
rule of Permutation and Combination...
Cour 7.267 2 In every school there are certain fighting
boys;...in every
town, bravoes and bullies, better or worse dressed...
OA 7.332 12 The old President [John Adams] sat in a
large stuffed arm-chair, dressed in a blue coat...
SA 8.87 17 No nation is dressed with more good sense
than ours.
SA 8.87 24 [The young European emigrant's] good and
becoming clothes
put him on thinking that he must behave like people who are so
dressed;...
SA 8.88 25 ...I have heard with admiring submission the
experience of the
lady who declared that the sense of being perfectly well dressed gives
a
feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow.
PPo 8.246 1 The world is a bride superbly dressed;-/
Who weds her for
dowry must pay his soul./
EWI 11.116 12 At Grace Bay, [the day following
emancipation in the West
Indies] the people, all dressed in white, formed a procession...
dressers, n. (1)
PPh 4.53 6 [The Greeks] saw before them...no pitiless
subdivision of
classes,--the doom of the pin-makers, the doom of...dressers...
dresses, n. (3)
NMW 4.255 21 ...[Napoleon]...interfered with the cutting
the dresses of the
women;...
Supl 10.165 8 Horace Walpole relates that in the
expectation, current in
London a century ago, of a great earthquake, some people provided
themselves with dresses for the occasion.
Supl 10.165 9 ...one would not wear earthquake dresses
or resurrection
robes for a working jacket...
dresses, v. (10)
Nat 1.58 25 ...[external beauty] is the frail and weary
weed, in which God
dresses the soul which he has called into time.
Hsm1 2.254 24 A great man scarcely knows how he dines,
how he
dresses;...
Chr1 3.91 27 The constituency at home hearkens to [men
of characters'] words, watches the color of their cheek, and therein,
as in a glass, dresses
its own.
ET5 5.84 18 The Englishman wears a sensible coat...of
rough but solid and
lasting texture. If he is a lord, he dresses a little worse than a
commoner.
ET6 5.104 25 Each man [in England] walks, eats, drinks,
shaves, dresses, gesticulates...in his own fashion...
ET6 5.113 22 [In London] Every one dresses for
dinner...
Ctr 6.150 19 ...[the man of the world]...dresses
plainly...
Bty 6.293 12 I suppose the Parisian milliner who
dresses the world from
her imperious boudoir will know how to reconcile the Bloomer costume to
the eye of mankind...by interposing the just gradations.
DL 7.106 11 [The child's] imaginative life dresses all
things in their best.
MAng1 12.233 20 [Michelangelo] called external grace
the frail and weary
weed, in which God dresses the soul which he has called into Time.
dressing, v. (4)
ET11 5.194 6 Campbell says, Acquaintance with the
nobility, I could never
keep up. It requires a life of idleness, dressing and attendance on
their
parties.
Civ 7.27 15 ...see [the carpenter] on the ground,
dressing his timber under
him.
Suc 7.294 21 The time your rival spends in dressing up
his work for effect... you spend in study and experiments towards real
knowledge and efficiency.
FRep 11.542 25 ...man seems to play...a certain part
that even tells on the
general face of the planet...as if dressing the globe for happier
races.
drew, v. (65)
DSA 1.136 22 Where shall I hear words such as in elder
ages drew men to
leave all and follow...
Hist 2.19 6 ...the Greeks drew from nature when they
painted the
thunderbolt in the hand of Jove.
Lov1 2.186 8 ...that which drew [lovers] to each other
was signs of
loveliness, signs of virtue;...
Lov1 2.187 15 At last [lovers] discover that all which
at first drew them
together...was deciduous...
Exp 3.69 25 [The individual] designed many things, and
drew in other
persons as coadjutors, quarreled with some or all, blundered much, and
something is done;...
Mrs1 3.145 26 The epitaph of Sir Jenkin Grout is not
wholly unintelligible
to the present age: Here lies Sir Jenkin Grout...whoso touched his
finger, drew after it his whole body.
Mrs1 3.154 24 ...it seemed as if the instinct of all
sufferers drew them to [Osman's] side.
NR 3.226 22 ...the power which drew my respect is not
supported by the
total symphony of [a man's] talents.
NER 3.271 27 How sinks the song in the waves of melody
which the
universe pours over [the master's] soul! Before that gracious Infinite
out of
which he drew these few strokes, how mean they look...
UGM 4.34 12 Once [our teachers] were angels of
knowledge, and their
figures touched the sky. Then we drew near, saw their means, culture
and
limits;...
PPh 4.44 11 Returning to Athens, [Plato] gave lessons
in the Academy to
those whom his fame drew thither;...
PNR 4.86 23 ...[Plato's] forerunners had mapped out
each a farm or a
district or an island, in intellectual geography, but...Plato first
drew the
sphere.
SwM 4.100 23 [Swedenborg's] rare science and practical
skill, and the
added fame...of extraordinary religious knowledge and gifts, drew to
him
queens, nobles, clergy...
MoS 4.166 22 Over his name [Montaigne] drew an
emblematic pair of
scales, and wrote Que scais je? under it.
ShP 4.197 22 Chaucer, it seems, drew continually...from
Guido di
Colonna...
ShP 4.199 7 ...there were fountains around Homer, Menu,
Saadi, or Milton, from which they drew;...
ShP 4.211 5 ...[Shakespeare] drew the man of England
and Europe;...
ShP 4.211 7 ...[Shakespeare] drew the man, and
described the day, and
what is done in it;...
ET2 5.32 13 Reckoned from the time when we left
soundings, our speed
was such that the captain [of the Washington Irving] drew the line of
his
course in red ink on his chart...
ET11 5.179 26 'T is an old sneer that the Irish peerage
drew their names
from playbooks.
ET13 5.215 17 England felt the full heat of the
Christianity which
fermented Europe, and drew, like the chemistry of fire, a firm line
between
barbarism and culture.
ET16 5.282 10 Hercules, in the legend, drew his bow at
the sun, and the
sun-god gave him a golden cup, with which he sailed over the ocean.
ET17 5.297 13 [A London gentleman] said he once showed
[Milton's
watch] to Wordsworth, who took it in one hand, then drew out his own
watch and held it up with the other, before the company...
F 6.9 25 How shall a man...draw off from his veins the
black drop which he
drew from his father's or his mother's life?
F 6.20 24 When the gods in the Norse heaven were unable
to bind the
Fenris Wolf with steel...they put round his foot a limp band...and this
held
him; the more he spurned it the stiffer it drew.
Pow 6.62 8 The same energy in the Greek Demos drew the
remark that the
evils of popular government appear greater than they are;...
Wth 6.83 13 From air the creeping centuries drew/ The
matted thicket low
and wide/...
Wsp 6.206 15 What Gothic mixtures the Christian creed
drew from the
pagan sources, Richard of Devizes' chronicle of Richard I.'s crusade,
in the
twelfth century, may show.
Wsp 6.228 15 ...Philip [Neri] stretched out his leg,
all bespattered with
mud, and desired [the nun] to draw off his boots. The young nun...drew
back with anger...
Bty 6.291 25 In the midst of...a festal procession gay
with banners, I saw a
boy seize an old tin pan...and poising it on the top of a stick, he set
it
turning and made it describe the most elegant imaginable curves, and
drew
away attention from the decorated procession by this startling beauty.
Elo1 7.65 23 [Eloquence] is that despotism which poets
have celebrated in
the Pied Piper of Hamelin, whose music drew like the power of
gravitation,--drew soldiers and priests...
Elo1 7.95 20 The natural connection by which [the
resistance to slavery] drew to itself a train of moral
reforms...reinforced the city with new blood
from the woods and mountains.
DL 7.123 11 [The women of Arthur's court]...said that
the devil was in the
mantle, for really the truth was in the mantle, and was exposing the
ugliness
which each would fain conceal. All drew back with terror from the
garment.
Farm 7.147 23 The roots that shot deepest, and the
stems of happiest
exposure, drew the nourishment from the rest...
Farm 7.149 13 [Peaches and grapes]...never tell on your
table whence they
drew their sunset complexion or their delicate flavors.
WD 7.185 4 ...Zeus rose, and with one stride cleared
the whole distance, and said, Where shall I shoot? there is no space
left. So the bowman's prize
was adjudged to him who drew no bow.
Elo2 8.109 9 ...No mimic; from [the patriot's] breast
his counsel drew,/ Believed the eloquent was aye the true;/...
Elo2 8.129 11 ...[Lord Ashley] drew such an argument
from his own
confusion as more advantaged his cause that all the powers of eloquence
could have done.
Res 8.146 17 ...taking up a chip of dry pine,
[Tissenet] drew a burning-glass
from his pocket and set the chip on fire.
QO 8.184 11 ...[the Earl of Strafford] drew all that
ran in the author more
strictly...
Imtl 8.332 14 ...the impulse which drew these minds to
this inquiry [concerning immortality] through so many years was a
better affirmative
evidence than their failure to find a confirmation was negative.
Imtl 8.340 24 ...Van Helmont...drew his sufficient
proof [of immortality] purely from the action of the intellect.
Dem1 10.25 5 The peculiarity of the history of Animal
Magnetism is that it
drew in as inquirers and students a class of persons never on any other
occasion known as students and inquirers.
Aris 10.66 6 ...the American who would serve his
country must...revisit the
margin of that well from which his fathers drew waters of life and
enthusiasm...
Prch 10.228 16 Of course a hero so attractive to the
hearts of millions [as
Jesus] drew the hypocrite and the ambitious into his train...
MoL 10.243 25 The Egyptian built Thebes and Karnak on a
scale which
dwarfs our art, and by the paintings on their interior walls invited us
into
the secret of the religious belief whence he drew such power.
Plu 10.296 1 Montesquieu drew from [Plutarch] his
definition of law...
Plu 10.296 8 Rollin, so long the historian of antiquity
for France, drew
unhesitatingly his history from [Plutarch].
Plu 10.297 11 Whatever is eminent in fact or in
fiction...or in memorable
sayings, drew [Plutarch's] attention...
LLNE 10.341 16 Margaret Fuller, George Ripley, Dr.
Convers Francis, Theodore Parker, Dr. Hedge, Mr. Brownson, James
Freeman Clarke, William H. Channing and many others, gradually drew
together...
LLNE 10.358 1 The large cities are phalansteries; and
the theorists drew all
their argument from facts already taking place in our experience.
LLNE 10.363 27 Hawthorne drew some sketches [of Brook
Farm], not
happily, as I think;...
LLNE 10.367 4 The country members [at Brook Farm]
naturally were
surprised to observe that one man ploughed all day and one looked out
of
the window all day, and perhaps drew his picture, and both received at
night the same wages.
CSC 10.374 11 The singularity and latitude of the
summons [to the
Chardon Street Convention] drew together...men of every shade of
opinion...
Thor 10.470 6 [Thoreau] drew out of his breast-pocket
his diary...
EWI 11.137 12 ...every liberal mind...had had the
fortune to appear
somewhere for this cause [emancipation in the West Indies]. On the
other
part, appeared...a resistance which drew from Mr. Huddlestone in
Parliament the observation, That a curse attended this trade even in
the
mode of defending it.
FSLN 11.221 9 ...[Webster's] arrival in any place was
an event which drew
crowds of people...
SMC 11.372 20 June fourth is marked in [George
Prescott's] diary as An
awful day;-two hundred men lost to the command; and not until the fifth
of June comes at last a respite for a short space, during which the men
drew
shoes and socks...
Shak1 11.451 8 The loyalty and royalty [Shakespeare]
drew were all his
own.
Scot 11.466 10 In his own household and neighbors
[Scott] found
characters and pets of humble class...came with these into real ties of
mutual help and good will. From these originals he drew so genially his
Jeanie Deans, his Dinmonts and Edie Ochiltrees...
Milt1 12.247 3 The discovery of the lost work of
Milton, the treatise Of the
Christian Doctrine, in 1823, drew a sudden attention to his name.
Milt1 12.256 18 Nor is there in literature a more noble
outline of a wise
external education than that which [Milton] drew up, at the age of
thirty-six, in his Letter to Samuel Hartlib.
Milt1 12.270 22 That which drew [Milton] to the party
was his love of
liberty, ideal liberty;...
ACri 12.288 24 What traveller has not listened to the
vigor of...the deep
stomach of an English drayman's execration. I remember an occasion when
a proficient in this style came from North Street to Cambridge and drew
a
crowd of young critics in the college yard...
AgMs 12.358 17 As I drew near this brave laborer
[Edmund Hosmer] in the
midst of his own acres, I could not help feeling for him the highest
respect.
dried, adj. (4)
MR 1.251 27 ...when [Caliph Omar] left Medina to go to
the conquest of
Jerusalem, he rode on a red camel...with a bottle of water and two
sacks, one holding barley and the other dried fruits.
Wth 6.88 23 ...will a man content himself with a hut
and a handful of dried
pease?
PC 8.211 23 The creeds of [the sectarian's] church
shrivel like dried leaves
at the door of the observatory...
Thor 10.455 12 [Thoreau] said,-I have a faint
recollection of pleasure
derived from smoking dried lily-stems, before I was a man.
dried, v. (4)
Art1 2.365 25 The fountains of invention and beauty in
modern society are
all but dried up.
F 6.37 23 [Man's] food is cooked when he arrives;...the
mud of the deluge
dried;...
Bty 6.284 20 The collector has dried all the plants in
his herbal, but he has
lost weight and humor.
CL 12.137 24 [Linneaus] found the plant [water-hemlock]
also dried in [the
people of Tornea's] cut hay.
drier, adj. (1)
ET5 5.95 19 By cylindrical tiles and gutta-percha tubes,
five millions of
acres of bad land [in England] have been drained, and put on equality
with
the best, for rape-culture and grass. The climate too, which was
already
believed to have become milder and drier by the enormous consumption of
coal, is so far reached by this new action, that fogs and storms are
said to
disappear.
dries, v. (3)
F 6.15 25 The face of the planet cools and dries...
Wth 6.120 5 ...the cow that [Mr. Cockayne] buys gives
milk for three
months; then her bag dries up.
Trag 12.414 14 Time the consoler...dries the freshest
tears by obtruding
new figures...on our eye, new voices on our ear.
drift, adj. (1)
PPh 4.39 15 Great havoc makes [Plato] among our
originalities. We have
reached the mountain from which all these drift boulders were detached.
drift, n. (3)
Pt1 3.33 11 The fate of the poor shepherd, who, blinded
and lost in the
snow-storm, perishes in a drift within a few feet of his cottage door,
is an
emblem of the state of man.
ET2 5.26 16 ...we crept along through the floating
drift of boards, logs and
chips, which the rivers of Maine and New Brunswick pour into the sea
after
a freshet.
Schr 10.288 13 ...you will see the drift of all my
thoughts, this, namely-
that the scholar must be much more than a scholar...
drift, v. (3)
LT 1.287 27 Here we drift...
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.
Thor 10.453 20 A natural skill for mensuration...and
his intimate
knowledge of the territory about Concord, made [Thoreau] drift into the
profession of land-surveyor.
drifted, v. (1)
Pow 6.57 5 So a broad, healthy, massive understanding
seems to lie on the
shore of unseen rivers, of unseen oceans, which are covered with barks
that
night and day are drifted to this point.
drifting, v. (3)
GoW 4.286 8 ...the clouds of egotists drifting about
[the intellectual man] are only interested in a low success.
ET2 5.29 12 Look, what egg-shells are drifting all over
[the sea]...
PLT 12.39 24 ...the cloud of egotists drifting about
are only interested in a
success to their egotism.
drifts, n. (2)
Nat 1.37 26 ...Property, which has been well compared to
snow, - if it fall
level to-day, it will be blown into drifts to-morrow, - is the surface
action
of internal machinery...
SL 2.159 17 A man may play the fool in the drifts of a
desert, but every
grain of sand shall seem to see.
drift-wood, n. (1)
SL 2.144 9 [A man] is like one of those booms which are
set out from the
shore on rivers to catch drift-wood...
drill, n. (17)
LE 1.182 6 If [the scholar] have this twofold
goodness,-the drill and the
inspiration,-then he has health;...
Int 2.330 27 Every man...finds his curiosity inflamed
concerning the modes
of living and thinking of other men, and especially of those classes
whose
minds have not been subdued by the drill of school education.
GoW 4.273 14 [Goethe] was the soul of his century. If
that...had become, by population, compact organization and drill of
parts, one great Exploring
Expedition...this man's mind had ample chambers for the distribution of
all.
ET6 5.103 11 ...drill of regiments, drill of
police...have operated [in
England] to give a mechanical regularity to all the habit and action of
men.
ET12 5.206 19 The effect of this drill [at Oxford] is
the radical knowledge
of Greek and Latin and of mathematics...
Pow 6.77 8 The second substitute for temperament is
drill...
Pow 6.77 14 ...in human action, against the spasm of
energy we offset the
continuity of drill.
Pow 6.77 26 Diligence passe sens, Henry VIII. was wont
to say, or great is
drill.
Pow 6.79 10 It is not question to express our thought,
to elect our way, but
to overcome resistances of the medium and material in everything we do.
Hence the use of drill...
Elo1 7.96 14 [The sturdy countryman's] hard head went
through, in
childhood, the drill of Calvinism...
Elo2 8.114 15 ...you may find [the orator] in some
lowly Bethel, by the
seaside...a man whom college drill or patronage never made...
Elo2 8.128 27 It is this wise mixture of good drill in
Latin grammar with
good drill in cricket, boating and wrestling, that is the boast of
English
education...
Elo2 8.129 1 It is this wise mixture of good drill in
Latin grammar with
good drill in cricket, boating and wrestling, that is the boast of
English
education...
Edc1 10.147 1 Nor are the two elements, enthusiasm and
drill, incompatible.
SMC 11.363 11 [The West Point officer] looked rather
ashamed, but went
through the drill without an oath.
FRep 11.513 14 Our sleepy civilization, ever since
Roger Bacon and Monk
Schwartz invented gunpowder, has built its whole art of war...all drill
and
military education, on that one compound...
CInt 12.126 21 All that is sought in the instruction
[at Harvard College] is
drill; tutors, not inspirers.
Drill, n. (1)
Edc1 10.144 18 Here are the two capital facts [of
education], Genius and
Drill.
drill, v. (5)
AmS 1.93 21 ...[colleges] can only highly serve us when
they aim not to
drill, but to create;...
CbW 6.249 9 I wish not to concede anything to [masses],
but to tame, drill, divide and break them up...
Edc1 10.150 17 ...the youth of genius...won't drill...
SMC 11.362 22 [George Prescott writes] This lieutenant
seems to think that
these men, who never saw a gun, can drill as well as he, who has been
at
West Point four years.
PLT 12.45 18 [Thoughts] are the oracle; we are not to
poke and drill and
force, but to follow them.
drilled, n. (1)
Bost 12.200 23 The American idea, Emancipation...has, of
course, its
sinister side, which is most felt by the drilled and scholastic...
drilled, v. (1)
NER 3.258 27 ...the Good Spirit never cared for the
colleges, and though
all men and boys were now drilled in Latin, Greek and Mathematics, it
had
quite left these shells high and dry on the beach...
drilling, v. (1)
SMC 11.362 16 One day [George Prescott] writes, I expect
to have a time
this forenoon with the officer from West Point who drills us. He is
very
profane, and I will not stand it. If he does not stop it, I will march
my men
right away when he is drilling them.
drills, v. (1)
SMC 11.362 14 One day [George Prescott] writes, I expect
to have a time
this forenoon with the officer from West Point who drills us.
drink, n. (8)
MR 1.251 22 [Caliph Omar's] drink was water.
ET4 5.69 19 ...Tacitus found the English beer already
in use among the
Germans: They make from barley or wheat a drink corrupted into some
resemblance to wine.
ET4 5.70 3 Wood the antiquary, in describing the
poverty and maceration
of Father Lacey, an English Jesuit, does not deny him beer. He
says...his
fare was coarse; his drink, a penny a gawn, or gallon.
ET14 5.237 2 The country gentlemen [in England] had a
posset or drink
they called October;...
Ctr 6.137 27 In the Norse legend, All-fadir did not get
a drink of Mimir's
spring (the fountain of wisdom) until he left his eye in pledge.
LS 11.3 1 The Kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but
righteousness
and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.-Romans xiv. 17.
LS 11.20 19 ...the Apostle well assures us that the
kingdom of God is not
meat and drink, but righteousness, and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost.
EWI 11.124 22 ...unhappily, most unhappily, gentlemen,
man is born...with
a sense of justice, as well as a taste for strong drink.
drink, v. (40)
Nat 1.38 13 Water is good to drink...
AmS 1.103 21 ...[the orator] finds...that [his hearers]
drink his words
because he fulfils for them their own nature;...
AmS 1.109 24 Do we fear lest we should...drink truth
dry?
MR 1.231 18 ...we eat and drink and wear perjury and
fraud in a hundred
commodities.
MR 1.247 14 If we...say,-I will neither eat nor drink
nor wear nor touch
any food or fabric which I do not know to be innocent...we shall stand
still.
LT 1.274 13 Religion was not invited to eat or drink or
sleep with us...
Tran 1.347 4 ...what if [these youths] eat clouds, and
drink wind...
YA 1.387 11 I think I see place and duties for a
nobleman in every society; but it is not to drink wine and ride in a
fine coach...
Hsm1 2.255 6 Better still is the temperance of King
David, who poured out
on the ground unto the Lord the water which three of his warriors had
brought him to drink...
Art1 2.367 14 [Men] eat and drink, that they may
afterwards execute the
ideal.
Art1 2.367 21 Would it not be better...to serve the
ideal before [men] eat
and drink;...
Pt1 3.29 1 Milton says that the lyric poet may drink
wine and live
generously...
Pt1 3.29 4 Milton says that...the epic poet...must
drink water out of a
wooden bowl.
Exp 3.45 9 ...the Genius which...gives us the lethe to
drink, that we may tell
no tales, mixed the cup too strongly...
Exp 3.71 10 ...if at any time being alone I have good
thoughts, I do not at
once arrive at satisfactions, as when, being thirsty, I drink water;...
Chr1 3.100 15 ...[the uncivil, unavailable
man]...destroys the scepticism
which says, Man is a doll, let us eat and drink, 't is the best we can
do...
Gts 3.160 20 ...it is always pleasing to see a man eat
bread, or drink water, in the house or out of doors...
Nat2 3.190 9 Hunger and thirst lead us on to eat and to
drink;...
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.
NER 3.284 24 We wish to escape from subjection and a
sense of
inferiority, and we make self-denying ordinances, we drink water...
PPh 4.71 15 [Socrates] can drink, too;...
SwM 4.112 20 [Swedenborg] knows, if he only, the
flowing of nature, and
how wise was that old answer of Amasis to him who bade him drink up the
sea, Yes, willingly, if you will stop the rivers that flow in.
ET4 5.69 21 Lord Chief Justice Fortescue, in Henry
VI.'s time, says, The
inhabitants of England drink no water...
ET4 5.70 13 [The English] eat and drink, and live jolly
in the open air...
ET8 5.132 8 [Young Englishmen] drink brandy like
water...
ET14 5.258 10 It was no Oxonian, but Hafiz, who said,
Let us be crowned
with roses, let us drink wine...
CbW 6.243 19 Live in the sunshine, swim the sea,/ Drink
the wild air's
salubrity/...
Clbs 7.245 24 The poet Marvell was wont to say that he
would not drink
wine with any one with whom he could not trust his life.
Res 8.150 12 In England men of letters drink wine;...
Edc1 10.128 23 ...here [in the household] the secrets
of character are told... the compensations which, like angels of
justice, pay every debt: the opium
of custom, whereof all drink and many go mad.
Schr 10.275 27 We cannot eat the granite nor drink
hydrogen.
Schr 10.286 15 [The scholar] is to eat insult, drink
insult, be clothed and
shod in insult...
LLNE 10.329 4 ...chemistry, which is the analysis of
matter, has taught us
that we eat gas, drink gas, tread on gas, and are gas.
Carl 10.491 14 [Carlyle] treats [young men] with
contempt;...they will eat
vegetables and drink water, and he is a Scotchman who thinks English
national character has a pure enthusiasm for beef and mutton...
LS 11.9 24 ...still it may be asked, Why did Jesus make
expressions so
extraordinary and emphatic as these-This is my body which is broken for
you. Take; eat. This is my blood which is shed for you. Drink it?...
LS 11.10 19 [Jesus] there [at Capernaum] tells the
Jews, Except ye eat the
flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.
Bost 12.186 27 I do not know that Charles River or
Merrimac water is more
clarifying to the brain than the Savannah or Alabama rivers, yet the
men
that drink it get up earlier...
Bost 12.187 2 ...they who drink for some little time of
the Potomac water
lose their relish for the water of the Charles River...
Milt1 12.263 11 [Milton] tells us...that he who would
write an epic to the
nations must eat beans and drink water.
MLit 12.309 11 Our souls...do eat and drink of chemical
water and wheat.
drinketh, v. (1)
ACiv 11.309 6 Time, say the Indian Scriptures, drinketh
up the essence of
every great and noble action which ought to be performed, and which is
delayed in the execution.
drinking, adj. (1)
OS 2.271 3 What we commonly call man, the eating,
drinking, planting, counting man, does not...represent himself, but
misrepresents himself.
drinking, n. (3)
ET12 5.204 18 The reading men [at Oxford] are kept, by
hard walking, hard riding and measured eating and drinking, at the top
of their condition...
Aris 10.52 2 To a right aristocracy...everything will
be permitted and
pardoned,-gaming, drinking, fighting, luxury.
LS 11.8 19 ...many persons are apt to imagine that the
very striking and
personal manner in which the eating and drinking [at the Last Supper]
is
described, indicates a striking and formal purpose to found a festival.
drinking, v. (9)
DSA 1.136 18 In how many churches...is man made
sensible...that he is
drinking forever the soul of God?
Hist 2.32 6 Tantalus means the impossibility of
drinking the waters of
thought which are always gleaming and waving within sight of the soul.
Art1 2.367 22 Would it not be better...to serve the
ideal in eating and
drinking...
Exp 3.64 8 [Nature] comes eating and drinking and
sinning.
PPh 4.75 2 The fame of this prison [of Socrates], the
fame of the discourses
there and the drinking of the hemlock are one of the most precious
passages
in the history of the world.
ET11 5.192 25 ...gaming, racing, drinking and
mistresses bring [the
English aristocracy] down...
Ill 6.320 26 That story of Thor, who was set to drain
the drinking-horn in
Asgard and to wrestle with the old woman and to run with the runner
Lok, and presently found that he had been drinking up the sea, and
wrestling
with Time, and racing with Thought,--describes us...
Insp 8.290 7 ...I remember that Thoreau, with his
robust will, yet found
certain trifles disturbing the delicacy of that health which
composition
exacted,-namely, the slightest irregularity, even to the drinking too
much
water on the preceding day.
Mem 12.103 26 At this hour the stream is still flowing,
though you hear it
not; the plants are still drinking their accustomed life...
drinking-horn, n. (1)
Ill 6.320 23 That story of Thor, who was set to drain
the drinking-horn in
Asgard and to wrestle with the old woman and to run with the runner
Lok, and presently found that he had been drinking up the sea, and
wrestling
with Time, and racing with Thought,--describes us...
drinks, n. (3)
SL 2.148 27 [A man] cleaves to one person and avoids
another, according
to their likeness or unlikeness to himself truly seeking himself...in
his trade
and habits and gestures and meats and drinks...
MoS 4.167 7 As I look at [Montaigne's] effigy opposite
the title-page, I
seem to hear him say...I will rather mumble and prose about what I
certainly know...what meats I eat and what drinks I prefer...
Supl 10.163 4 [The doctrine of temperance] is usually
taught on a low
platform, but one of great necessity,-that of meats and drinks...
drinks, v. (4)
ET6 5.104 25 Each man [in England] walks, eats, drinks,
shaves...in his
own fashion...
ET10 5.157 7 An Englishman, while he eats and drinks no
more or not
much more than another man, labors three times as many hours in the
course of a year as another European;...
ET14 5.238 26 ...[Bacon] drinks of a diviner stream,
and marks the influx
of idealism into England.
Farm 7.144 19 The atmosphere, a sharp solvent, drinks
the essence and
spirit of every solid on the globe...
dripping, v. (1)
Ill 6.311 19 ...the fisherman dripping all day over a
cold pond, the
switchman at the railway intersection...ascribe a certain pleasure to
their
employment, which they themselves give it.
drive, n. (1)
Insp 8.291 6 Allston rarely left his studio by day. An
old friend took him, one fine afternoon, a spacious circuit into the
country, and he painted two
or three pictures as the fruits of that drive.
drive, v. (46)
Nat 1.42 24 Who can guess...how much tranquillity has
been reflected to
man from the azure sky, over whose unspotted deeps the winds
forevermore
drive flocks of stormy clouds...
MR 1.243 13 ...attempting to drive along the ecliptic
with one horse of the
heavens and one horse of the earth, there is only discord and ruin and
downfall to chariot and charioteer.
LT 1.269 26 The fury with which the slave-trader
defends every inch of... his howling auction-platform, is a
trumpet...to...drive all neutrals to take
sides...
YA 1.382 26 ...agricultural association must, sooner or
later, fix the price of
bread, and drive single farmers into association in self-defence;...
Hist 2.22 8 The nomads of Africa were constrained to
wander, by the
attacks of the gad-fly, which drives the cattle mad, and so compels the
tribe...to drive off the cattle to the higher sandy regions.
Comp 2.105 6 Drive out Nature with a fork, she comes
running back.
Prd1 2.236 6 ...let [a man]...feel the admonition
to...keep a slender human
word among the storms , distances and accidents that drive us hither
and
thither...
Pt1 3.16 10 The inwardness and mystery of this
attachment [to nature] drive men of every class to the use of emblems.
Chr1 3.95 21 We can drive a stone upward for a moment
into the air...
Pol1 3.202 13 Laban, who has flocks and herds, wishes
them looked after
by an officer on the frontiers, lest the Midianites shall drive them
off;...
NER 3.274 12 ...Rousseau...Byron,--and I could easily
add names nearer
home, of raging riders, who drive their steeds so hard, in the violence
of
living to forget its illusion: they would know the worst...
NER 3.278 7 If...we start objections to your project, O
friend of the slave... understand well that it is because we wish to
drive you to drive us into your
measures.
SwM 4.125 24 [To Swedenborg] Such as have deprived
themselves of
charity, wander and flee: the societies which they approach discover
their
quality and drive them away.
NMW 4.236 11 To a regiment of horse-chasseurs at
Lobenstein...Napoleon
said, My lads, you must not fear death; when soldiers brave death, they
drive him into the enemy's ranks.
NMW 4.253 27 [Napoleon] is unjust to his
generals;...intriguing to involve
his faithful Junot in hopeless bankruptcy, in order to drive him to a
distance
from Paris...
ET5 5.89 1 I know not from which of the tribes and
temperaments that
went to the composition of the people [of England] this tenacity was
supplied, but they clinch every nail they drive.
ET10 5.157 23 Six hundred years ago, Roger
Bacon...announced...that
machines can be constructed to drive ships more rapidly than a whole
galley of rowers could do;...
ET15 5.264 19 ...[the London Times] attacks its rivals
by perfecting its
printing machinery, and will drive them out of circulation...
Pow 6.63 7 ...let these rough riders...drive as they
may, and the disposition
of territories and public lands...will bestow promptness, address and
reason, at last, on our buffalo-hunter, and authority and majesty of
manners.
Wth 6.123 3 ...the baker doubts he shall never like to
drive up to the door;...
Bty 6.293 23 ...the circumstances may be easily
imagined in which woman
may speak, vote, argue causes, legislate and drive a coach...if only it
come
by degrees.
Civ 7.28 18 I admire still more than the saw-mill the
skill which, on the
seashore, makes the tides drive the wheels and grind corn...
Elo1 7.91 11 ...people always perceive whether you
drive or whether the
horses take the bits in their teeth and run.
WD 7.159 19 ...[steam] must drive our gigs;...
OA 7.314 6 ...Lowly faithful, banish fear,/ Right
onward drive unharmed;/ The port, well worth the cruise, is near,/ And
every wave is charmed./
PI 8.70 12 O celestial Bacchus!--drive them mad,--this
multitude of
vagabonds, hungry for eloquence...
Res 8.143 15 The disgust of California has not been
able to drive nor kick
the Chinaman back to his home;...
PC 8.215 3 ...[Roger Bacon] announced that machines can
be constructed
to drive ships more rapidly than a whole galley of rowers could do...
PPo 8.239 23 Such [amatory] verses...will drive
[Persian] warriors to the
combat...
Insp 8.276 17 Pit-coal,-where to find it? 'T is of no
use that your engine
is made like a watch,-that you are a good workman, and know how to
drive it, if there is no coal.
Chr2 10.111 27 We...want power to drive the ponderous
State.
Chr2 10.114 16 Men will learn...to make morals the
absolute test, and so
uncover and drive out the false religions.
LLNE 10.358 8 One merchant to whom I described the
Fourier project, thought it must not only succeed, but that
agricultural association must
presently fix the price of bread, and drive single farmers into
association in
self-defence...
FSLC 11.200 25 The words of John Randolph, wiser than
he knew, have
been ringing ominously in all echoes for thirty years, words spoken in
the
heat of the Missouri debate. ... Ay, we will drive you to the wall, and
when
we have you there once more, we will keep you there and nail you down
like base money.
FSLN 11.220 23 ...of course, [vulgar politicians] can
drive out from the
contest any honorable man.
JBS 11.279 27 ...[John Brown] learned to drive his
flock through thickets
all but impassable;...
ACiv 11.305 9 Then comes the summer, and the fever will
drive the
soldiers home;...
ALin 11.337 6 Easy good nature has been the dangerous
foible of the
Republic, and it was necessary that its enemies should...drive us to
unwonted firmness, to secure the salvation of this country in the next
ages.
EdAd 11.388 12 The young intriguers who drive in
bar-rooms and town-meetings
the trade of politics...have put the country into the position of an
overgrown bully...
Mem 12.107 14 ...'t is an old rule of scholars...'T is
best knocking in the
nail overnight and clinching it next morning. Only I should give
extension
to this rule and say, Yes, drive the nail this week and clinch it the
next...
Mem 12.107 15 ...'t is an old rule of scholars...'T is
best knocking in the
nail overnight and clinching it next morning. Only I should give
extension
to this rule and say, Yes, drive the nail this week and clinch it the
next, and
drive it this year and clinch it the next.
CInt 12.119 21 I wish to see that Mirabeau who knows
how to seize the
heart-strings of the people, and drive their hands and feet in the way
he
wishes them to go...
CL 12.148 17 Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated
the winds as the
conveying Maruts, traversers of places difficult of access. ... Because
they
drive the clouds, they have harnessed the spotted deer to their
chariot;...
CL 12.148 23 Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated
the winds as the
conveying Maruts, traversers of places difficult of access. ... They
drive
before them in their course the long, vast, uninjurable, rain-retaining
cloud.
CL 12.154 15 We may well yield us for a time to [the
sea's] lessons. But
the nomad instinct...persists to drive us to fresh fields and pastures
new.
MLit 12.317 21 There are facts...which drive young men
into gardens and
solitary places...
drivel, n. (1)
Dem1 10.26 9 These adepts [in occult facts] have
mistaken flatulency for
inspiration. Were this drivel which they report as the voice of spirits
really
such, we must find out a more decisive suicide.
driveller, n. (2)
SL 2.151 22 Hero or driveller, [the world] meddles not
in the matter.
Aris 10.44 11 ...the philosopher may well say, Let me
see his brain, and I
will tell you...whether he shall be a bungler, driveller, unlucky,
heavy and
tedious.
drivellers, n. (1)
Prd1 2.233 13 [The scholar] resembles the pitiful
drivellers whom
travellers describe as frequenting the bazaars of Constantinople...
drivelling, adj. (1)
Dem1 10.9 14 A skilful man reads his dreams for his
self-knowledge; yet
not the details, but the quality. What part does he play in them,-a
cheerful, manly part, or a poor drivelling part?
drivelling, v. (2)
Wth 6.116 7 [The land-owner] believes he composes easily
on the hills. But this pottering in a few square yards of garden is
dispiriting and
drivelling.
FRep 11.519 17 We have seen the great party of property
and education in
the country drivelling and huckstering away...every principle of
humanity...
driven, adj. (1)
Nat2 3.179 12 ...let us not longer omit our homage to
the Efficient Nature... the quick cause before which all forms flee as
the driven snows;...
driven, v. (35)
MR 1.229 4 What if...the reformers tend to idealism?
That only shows the
extravagance of the abuses which have driven the mind into the opposite
extreme.
Comp 2.117 17 Has [a man] a defect of temper that
unfits him to live in
society? Thereby he is driven to entertain himself alone...
SL 2.131 24 No man ever stated his griefs as lightly as
he might. Allow for
exaggeration in the most patient and sorely ridden hack that ever was
driven.
Art1 2.364 15 ...in the works of our plastic arts and
especially of sculpture, creation is driven into a corner.
Mrs1 3.142 26 ...I will neither be driven from some
allowance to Fashion
as a symbolic institution, nor from the belief that love is the basis
of
courtesy.
Nat2 3.179 13 ...let us not longer omit our homage to
the Efficient Nature... itself secret, its works driven before it in
flocks and multitudes...
MoS 4.181 20 The spiritualist finds himself driven to
express his faith by a
series of skepticisms.
MoS 4.182 9 the people's questions are not [the
spiritualist's]; their
methods are not his; and against all the dictates of good nature he is
driven
to say he has no pleasure in them.
NMW 4.242 22 ...those who smarted under the immediate
rigors of the new
monarch [Napoleon], pardoned them as the necessary severities of the
military system which had driven out the oppressor.
ET13 5.226 21 ...when wealth accrues to a chaplaincy, a
bishopric, or
rectorship, it requires moneyed men for its stewards, who will give it
another direction than to the mystics of their day. Of course,
money...will
steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was
bequeathed. The class certain to be excluded from all preferment are
the
religious,--and driven to other churches;...
ET13 5.228 21 Religious persons are driven out of the
Established Church
into sects...
ET14 5.249 20 ...Carlyle was driven by his disgust at
the pettiness and the
cant, into the preaching of Fate.
ET14 5.251 14 ...literary reputations have been
achieved [in England] by
forcible men...who were driven by tastes and modes they found in vogue
into their several careers.
ET16 5.288 24 There, in that great sloven continent
[America]...still sleeps
and murmurs and hides the great mother, long since driven away from the
trim hedge-rows and over-cultivated garden of England.
F 6.19 16 I seemed in the height of a tempest to see
men overboard
struggling in the waves, and driven about here and there.
Pow 6.59 7 When a new boy comes into school...that
happens which befalls
when a strange ox is driven into a pen or pasture where cattle are
kept; there
is at once a trial of strength between the best pair of horns and the
new-comer...
Wth 6.91 9 ...when one observes in the hotels and
palaces of our Atlantic
capitals, the habit of expense...he feels that when a man or a woman is
driven to the wall, the chances of integrity are frightfully
diminished;...
Ctr 6.148 1 ...a man who looks...at London, says, If I
should be driven from
my own home, here at least my thoughts can be consoled by the most
prodigal amusement and occupation which the human race in ages could
contrive and accumulate.
Ctr 6.154 18 The least habit of dominion over the
palate has certain good
effects not easily estimated. Neither will we be driven into a
quiddling
abstemiousness.
SS 7.15 19 These wonderful horses [independence and
sympathy] need to
be driven by fine hands.
Civ 7.24 21 The ship, in its latest complete equipment,
is an abridgment
and compend of a nation's arts: the ship...driven by steam;...
Farm 7.141 18 If it be true that...by the eternal laws
of political economy, slaves are driven out of a slave state as fast as
it is surrounded by free
states, then the true abolitionist is the farmer, who...stands all day
in the
field...making a product with which no forced labor can compete.
Farm 7.151 5 There has been a nightmare bred in England
of indigestion
and spleen among the landlords and loom-lords, namely, the dogma
that... the plight of every new generation is worse than of the
foregoing, because
the first comers take up the best lands; the next, the second best; and
each
succeeding wave of population is driven to poorer...
PI 8.28 9 [Imagination] is the vision of an inspired
soul reading arguments
and affirmations in all Nature of that which it is driven to say.
PI 8.65 5 ...when we speak of the Poet in any high
sense, we are driven to
such examples as Zoroaster and Plato...with their moral burdens.
Imtl 8.323 11 Driven by the chilling tempest, a little
sparrow enters at one
door...
Imtl 8.336 19 We are driven by instinct to hive
innumerable experiences
which are of no visible value...
Imtl 8.341 4 A farmer, a laborer, a mechanic, is driven
by his work all day, but it ends at night;...
LLNE 10.329 22 Instead of the social existence which
all shared, was now
separation. Every one...driven to find all his resources, hopes,
rewards, society and deity within himself.
MMEm 10.411 13 In her solitude of twenty years...[Mary
Moody
Emerson] was driven to find Nature her companion and solace.
FSLN 11.233 20 You relied on State sovereignty in the
Free States to
protect their citizens. They are driven with contempt out of the courts
and
out of the territory of the Slave States...
AKan 11.257 22 ...I submit that, in a case like this,
where citizens of
Massachusetts...have emigrated to national territory...and are
then...driven
from their new homes...I submit that the governor and legislature
should
neither slumber nor sleep till they have found out how to send
effectual aid
and comfort to these poor farmers [in Kansas]...
RBur 11.438 5 Praise to the bard! his words are
driven,/ Like flower-seeds
by the far winds sown,/ Where'er, beneath the sky of heaven,/ The birds
of
fame have flown./ Halleck.
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.
Let 12.400 10 ...is [a man] driven into a circumstance
where the spirit must
not live? Let him thrust it from him with scorn, and learn to dig and
plough.
driver, n. (4)
ET4 5.71 26 The horse has more uses than Buffon noted.
If you go into the
streets, every driver in 'bus or dray is a bully...
Wsp 6.234 8 Under the whip of the driver, the slave
shall feel his equality
with saints and heroes.
CbW 6.270 10 ...resistance only exasperates the acrid
fool, who believes
that...he only is right. Hence all the dozen inmates [of his household]
are
soon perverted...into...repairers of this one malefactor; like a boat
about to
be overset, or a carriage run away with,--not only the foolish pilot or
driver, but everybody on board is forced to assume strange and
ridiculous attitudes, to balance the vehicle and prevent the upsetting.
FSLC 11.188 3 ...[resistance to the Fugitive Slave Law]
is befriending...on
our own farms, a man who has taken the risk of being shot...to get away
from his driver...
drivers, n. (2)
Wsp 6.202 22 We may well give skepticism as much line as
we can. The
spirit will return and fill us. It drives the drivers.
EWI 11.146 14 I doubt not that sometimes the negro's
friend, in the face of
scornful and brutal hundreds of traders and drivers, has felt his heart
sink.
drives, v. (22)
LT 1.262 9 They indicate,-these...figures of the only
race in which there
are individuals or changes, how far on the Fate has gone, and what it
drives
at.
LT 1.287 20 ...every new thought drives us to the deep
fact that the Time is
the child of the Eternity.
Hist 2.22 6 The nomads of Africa were constrained to
wander, by the
attacks of the gad-fly, which drives the cattle mad...
Art1 2.365 17 A beautiful woman is a picture which
drives all beholders
nobly mad.
NR 3.236 6 ...[the divine man] sees [persons] as...a
fleet of ripples which
the wind drives over the surface of the water.
PPh 4.59 15 ...the rich man...drives no more
horses...than the poor...
PPh 4.73 26 No escape; [Socrates] drives [his
opponents] to terrible
choices by his dilemmas...
SwM 4.97 17 All religious history contains traces of
the trance of saints... The trances of Socrates...Swedenborg, will
readily come to mind. But what
as readily comes to mind is the accompaniment of disease. This
beatitude
comes...with shocks to the mind of the receiver. It o'erinforms the
tenement
of clay,/ and drives the man mad;...
MoS 4.149 14 [A man] drives his bargain in the street;
but it occurs that he
also is bought and sold.
MoS 4.150 11 Each of these riders [men of Sensation and
men of Morals] drives too fast.
ET5 5.75 26 ...the banker...drives the earl out of his
castle.
Pow 6.64 22 ...conservatism, ever more timorous and
narrow, disgusts the
children and drives them for a mouthful of fresh air into radicalism.
Pow 6.74 5 Everything is good which...drives us home to
add one stroke of
faithful work.
Wth 6.99 21 Cultivated labor drives out brute labor.
Wsp 6.202 22 We may well give skepticism as much line
as we can. The
spirit will return and fill us. It drives the drivers.
Ill 6.325 18 The mad crowd drives hither and thither...
Elo1 7.91 17 ...we...might well go round the world, to
see a man who
drives, and is not run away with,--a man who, in prosecuting great
designs, has an absolute command of the means of representing his
ideas...
OA 7.327 8 Every faculty new to each man thus...drives
him out into
doleful deserts until it finds proper vent.
Insp 8.285 28 At last it has become summer,/ And at the
first glimpse of
morning/ The busy early fly stings me/ Out of my sweet slumber./
Unmerciful she returns again:/ When often the half-awake victim/
Impatiently drives her off,/ She calls hither the unscrupulous
sisters,/ And
from my eyelids/ Sweet sleep must depart./
Chr2 10.119 9 ...this rude stripping [the infant soul]
of all support drives
him inward, and he finds himself unhurt;...
Prch 10.236 17 It is true that which they say of our
New England oestrum, which...drives us like mad through the world.
CL 12.154 18 ...the sea drives us back to the hills.
driving, adj. (3)
ET15 5.262 12 The tendency in England towards social and
political
institutions like those of America, is inevitable, and the ability of
its
journals is the driving force.
F 6.29 25 There can be no driving force except through
the conversion of
the man into his will...
Trag 12.413 27 ...in truth [the man not grounded in the
divine life] was
already a driving wreck before the wind arose...
driving, v. (18)
LT 1.274 27 Grimly the same spirit [of Reform]...accuses
men of driving a
trade in the great boundless providence which had given the air, the
water, and the land to men...
Con 1.302 24 The reformer, the partisan, loses himself
in driving to the
utmost some specialty of right conduct...
ET4 5.64 27 In the case of the ship-money, the judges
delivered it for law, that England being an island, the very midland
shires therein are all to be
accounted maritime; and Fuller adds, the genius even of landlocked
counties driving the natives with a maritime dexterity.
ET5 5.85 13 The spirit of system, attention to details,
and the subordination
of details, or the not driving things too finely...constitute that
dispatch of
business which makes the mercantile power of England.
ET11 5.194 8 I suppose...that a feeling of self-respect
is driving cultivated
men out of this society [of English noblemen]...
SS 7.9 23 Such is the tragic necessity which strict
science finds underneath
our domestic and neighborly life, irresistibly driving each adult soul
as with
whips into the desert...
Elo1 7.94 7 ...[people] soon begin to ask, What is [the
speaker] driving at?...
Boks 7.213 4 We must have...some swing and verge for
the creative
power...driving ardent natures to insanity and crime if it do not find
vent.
Elo2 8.113 25 [Man] finds himself perhaps in the
Senate, when the forest
has cast out some wild, black-browed bantling to show the same energy
in
the crowd of officials which he had learned in driving cattle to the
hills...
Comc 8.170 23 In Raphael's Angel driving Heliodorus
from the Temple, the crest of the helmet is so remarkable, that but for
the extraordinary
energy of the face, it would draw the eye too much;...
Plu 10.312 10 ...we owe to that wonderful moralist
[Seneca] illustrious
maxims; as if the scarlet vices of the times of Nero had the natural
effect of
driving virtue to its loftiest antagonisms.
EzRy 10.385 27 I remember, when a boy, driving about
Concord with [Ezra Ripley]...
EWI 11.147 13 There is a blessed necessity by which the
interest of men is
always driving them to the right;...
SMC 11.373 6 After driving the enemy from the
railroad...[George
Prescott] was struck...by a musket-ball...
CL 12.135 10 The land, the care of land, seems to be
the calling of the
people of this new country, of those, at least, who have not some
decided
bias, driving them to a particular craft...
CL 12.165 6 [Agassiz] pretends to be only busy with the
foldings of the
yolk of a turtle's egg. I can see very well what he is driving at; he
means
men and women.
AgMs 12.358 5 [The Farmer] was holding the plough, and
his son driving
the oxen.
Let 12.403 16 From Massachusetts to Illinois...the
proofs of thrifty
cultivation abound;-a result...owing...to the hard times, which,
driving
men out of cities and trade, forced them to take off their coats and go
to
work on the land;...
driving-wheels, n. (2)
Ctr 6.150 3 The head of a commercial house...is brought
into daily contact
with...the driving-wheels, the business men of each section...
Farm 7.140 25 The men in cities who are...the
driving-wheels of trade, or
politics or practical arts...are the children or grandchildren of
farmers...
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