Gabble to Gazels

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

gabble, n. (1)

    LE 1.181 15 Let [the scholar] know that...in a contempt for the gabble of to-day's opinions the secret of the world is to be learned...

Gabriel, n. (1)

    Nat2 3.172 6 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, and should converse with Gabriel and Uriel, the upper sky would be all that would remain of our furniture.

gadding, v. (1)

    SL 2.164 6 Why need I go gadding into the scenes and philosophy of Greek and Italian history before I have justified myself to my benefactors?

gad-fly, n. (2)

    Hist 2.22 6 The nomads of Africa were constrained to wander, by the attacks of the gad-fly...
    Hist 2.22 13 In America and Europe the nomadism is of trade and curiosity; a progress, certainly, from the gad-fly of Astaboras to the Anglo and Italomania of Boston Bay.

gag, n. (1)

    SL 2.152 22 ...a public oration is...a gag...

gag, v. (2)

    Schr 10.274 21 [The thoughtful man] is not there to defend himself, but to deliver his message;...gag him he can still write it;...
    FSLC 11.194 15 You can commit no crime, for [men] are created in their sentiments conscious of and hostile to it; and unless you can suppress the newspaper, pass a law against book-shops, gag the English tongue in America, all short of this is futile.

Gage, Thomas, n. (1)

    HDC 11.72 26 A large amount of military stores had been deposited in this town [Concord], by order of the Provincial Committee of Safety. It was to destroy those stores that the troops who were attacked in this town, on the 19th April, 1775, were sent hither by General Gage.

gagged, v. (1)

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

gag-laws, n. (1)

    Clbs 7.240 4 What can you do with an eloquent man? No rules of debate... no gag-laws can be contrived that his first syllable will not set aside...

gai [gaie] science, n. [gai] (2)

    Boks 7.220 26 ...how attractive is the whole literature of the Roman de la Rose, the Fabliaux, and the gaie science of the French Troubadours!
    PI 8.37 15 Poetry is the gai science.

gaiety, n. (1)

    Tran 1.357 2 This is no time for gaiety and grace.

gain, n. (30)

    YA 1.389 15 ...the bold face and tardy repentance permitted to this local mischief [Repudiation] reveal a public mind so preoccupied with the love of gain that the common sentiment of indignation at fraud does not act with its natural force.
    Comp 2.122 2 Neither can it be said...that the gain of rectitude must be bought by any loss.
    Comp 2.123 7 The gain [in external goods] is apparent; the tax is certain.
    OS 2.275 10 This is the law of moral and of mental gain.
    ET3 5.43 12 [Nature said] The sea shall disjoin the people [of England] from others, and knit them to a fierce nationality. It shall give them markets on every side. Long time I will keep them on their feet, by...sea-risks and the stimulus of gain.
    ET5 5.76 11 [These Saxons] have...the telescopic appreciation of distant gain.
    ET5 5.77 10 Each vagabond that arrived [in England] bent his neck to the yoke of gain...
    ET10 5.170 20 [England's] success strengthens the hands of base wealth. Who can propose to youth poverty and wisdom, when mean gain has arrived at the conquest of letters and arts;...
    ET14 5.260 12 ...the two complexions, or two styles of mind [in England],-- the perceptive class, and the practical finality class,--are ever in counterpoise, interacting mutually...one studious, contemplative, experimenting; the other, the ungrateful pupil, scornful of the source whilst availing itself of the knowledge for gain;...
    Wth 6.94 5 Is party the madness of many for the gain of a few?
    Wth 6.94 7 This speculative genius is the madness of a few for the gain of the world.
    Wth 6.110 25 The cost of education of the posterity of this great colony [of immigrants], I will not compute. But the gross amount of these costs will begin to pay back what we thought was a net gain from our transatlantic customers of 1800.
    Wth 6.114 5 ...it seems as if it were a great gain to exchange vanity for pride.
    Ctr 6.165 8 ...a considerate man will reckon himself a subject of that secular melioration by which mankind is mollified, cured and refined; and will shun every expenditure of his forces on pleasure or gain which will jeopardize this social and secular accumulation.
    Elo1 7.95 17 ...wherever the fresh moral sentiment, the instinct of freedom and duty, come in direct opposition to fossil conservatism and the thirst of gain, the spark will pass.
    Clbs 7.231 23 [The lover of letters among the men of wit and learning] could not find that he was helped by so much as...one commanding impulse: great was the dazzle, but the gain was small.
    Suc 7.293 14 The fame of each discovery rightly attaches to the mind that made the formula which contains all the details, and not to the manufacturers who now make their gain by it;...
    OA 7.318 27 ...seen from the streets and markets and the haunts of pleasure and gain, the estimate of age is low...
    SA 8.95 23 The great gain is, not to shine...
    Insp 8.274 11 ...where is...a Franklin who can draw off electricity from Jove himself, and convey it into the arts of life, inspire men...withdraw them from the life of trifles and gain and comfort...
    Chr2 10.101 1 When a man is born...preferring truth, justice and the serving of all men to any honors or any gain, men readily feel the superiority.
    MoL 10.258 9 Slavery is broken, and, if we use our advantage, irretrievably. For such a gain...one generation might well be sacrificed;...
    Plu 10.306 6 The plain speaking of Plutarch...has a great gain for brevity...
    EWI 11.101 22 The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right...
    EWI 11.137 20 Every one of these [arguments against emancipation in the West Indies] was built on the narrow ground...of sordid gain...
    EdAd 11.382 15 The injured elements say, Not in us;/ And night and day, ocean and continent,/ Fire, plant and mineral say, Not in us;/ And haughtily return us stare for stare./ For we invade them impiously for gain;/ We devastate them unreligiously,/ And coldly ask their pottage, not their love./
    FRep 11.521 26 The American marches with a careless swagger to the height of power...in his reckless confidence that he can have all he wants, risking all the prized charters of the human race...gambling them all away for a paltry selfish gain.
    PLT 12.9 7 Here [in society]...the solidest merits must exist only for the entertainment of all. We are not in the smallest degree helped. Great is the dazzle, but the gain is small.
    Bost 12.201 10 The future historian will regard the detachment of the Puritans without aristocracy...as great a gain to mankind as the opening of this continent.
    PPr 12.384 8 To atone for this departure from the vows of the scholar and his eternal duties to this secular charity, we have at least this gain, that here [in Carlyle's Past and Present] is a message which those to whom it was addressed cannot choose but hear.

Gain, n. (1)

    Bty 6.279 24 While thus to love [Seyd] gave his days/ In loyal worship, scorning praise,/ How spread their lures for him, in vain,/ Thieving Ambition and paltering Gain!/

gain, v. (34)

    Nat 1.28 22 ...do the seasons gain no grandeur or pathos from that analogy [with man's life]?
    DSA 1.146 21 By trusting your own heart, you shall gain more confidence in other men.
    MR 1.256 13 ...the great man [is] very willing to lose particular powers and talents, so that he gain in the elevation of his life.
    Hist 2.37 26 A mind might ponder its thoughts for ages and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach it in a day.
    SR 2.89 19 Most men gamble with [Fortune], and gain all...as her wheel rolls.
    Comp 2.97 26 What we gain in power is lost in time, and the converse.
    Comp 2.98 15 ...for every thing you gain, you lose something.
    Comp 2.118 20 ...we gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
    Comp 2.120 20 The thoughtless say...What boots it to do well?...if I gain any good I must pay for it;...
    Comp 2.120 21 The thoughtless say...What boots it to do well?...if I lose any good I gain some other;...
    Fdsp 2.213 18 By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little you gain the great.
    UGM 4.29 20 Compromise thy egotism. Who cares for that, so thou gain aught wider and nobler?
    PPh 4.42 20 Plato absorbed the learning of his time...and finding himself still capable of a larger synthesis...he travelled into Italy, to gain what Pythagoras had for him;...
    ET11 5.186 5 These people [English nobility] seem to gain as much as they lose by their position.
    ET15 5.268 1 ...the steadiness of the aim [of the London Times] suggests the belief that this fire is directed and fed by older engineers; as if persons of exact information, and with settled views of policy...availed themselves of [the writers'] younger energy and eloquence to plead the cause. Both the council and the executive departments gain by this division.
    ET15 5.268 19 ...by making the paper everything and those who write it nothing, the character and the awe of the journal [the London Times] gain.
    ET18 5.304 22 Such is their tenacity and such their practical turn, that [the English] hold all they gain.
    F 6.3 19 In our first steps to gain our wishes we come upon immovable limitations.
    Wsp 6.230 8 ...cleave to the truth...and you gain a station from which you cannot be dislodged.
    CbW 6.263 7 No...poverty, nor exercise, that can gain [health], must be grudged.
    Boks 7.201 19 ...we must read the Clouds of Aristophanes, and what more of that master we gain appetite for, to learn our way in the streets of Athens...
    Suc 7.294 7 I gain my point, I gain all points, if I can reach my companion with any statement which teaches him his own worth.
    OA 7.326 4 ...[the old lawyer's] reputation does not gain or suffer from one or a dozen new performances.
    PI 8.70 2 It is not style or rhymes, or a new image more or less that imports, but...that we should lose our wit, but gain our reason.
    Res 8.147 17 Against the terrors of the mob, which...once suffered to gain the ascendant, is diabolic...good sense has many arts of prevention and of relief.
    Insp 8.296 23 'T is the most difficult of tasks to keep/ Heights which the soul is competent to gain./
    Imtl 8.350 18 [Yama said to Nachiketas] All those desires that are difficult to gain in the world of mortals, all those ask thou at thy pleasure;...
    Dem1 10.6 24 We fear lest the poor brute [the dog] should gain one dreadful glimpse of his condition...
    Chr2 10.116 9 ...each inspired master will gain instantly by the separation from the idolatry of ages.
    Edc1 10.129 16 ...if the higher faculties of the individual be from time to time quickened, he will gain wisdom and virtue from his business.
    FRep 11.530 18 ...the great interests of mankind...will always...gain on the adversary and at last win the day.
    II 12.75 3 ...what we call Inspiration is coy and capricious; we must lose many days to gain one;...
    Mem 12.101 12 If new impressions sometimes efface old ones, yet we steadily gain insight;...
    Milt1 12.248 26 ...as writings designed to gain a practical point, [Milton's tracts] fail.

gained, v. (46)

    AmS 1.99 24 What is lost in seemliness is gained in strength.
    Comp 2.95 22 ...our popular theology has gained in decorum, and not in principle...
    Comp 2.98 14 For every thing you have missed, you have gained something else;...
    Comp 2.112 18 Has a man gained any thing who has received a hundred favors and rendered none?
    Comp 2.112 20 Has [a man] gained by borrowing, through indolence or cunning, his neighbor's wares...
    Comp 2.118 2 When [a great man] is pushed, tormented, defeated...he has gained facts;...
    SL 2.153 23 The writer who takes his subject from his ear and not from his heart, should know that he has lost as much as he seems to have gained...
    Pt1 3.19 13 ...in a centred mind, it signifies nothing how many mechanical inventions you exhibit. Though you add millions...the fact of mechanics has not gained a grain's weight.
    Exp 3.85 2 ...I have not found that much was gained by manipular attempts to realize the world of thought.
    Chr1 3.98 5 What have I gained, that I no longer immolate a bull to Jove...
    Nat2 3.195 20 They say that by electro-magnetism your salad shall be grown from the seed whilst your fowl is roasting for dinner; it is a symbol... of our condensation and acceleration of objects;--but nothing is gained;...
    SwM 4.96 9 The soul having been often born...having beheld the things which are here, those which are in heaven and those which are beneath, there is nothing of which she has not gained the knowledge...
    NMW 4.232 18 I have gained some advantages over superior forces and when totally destitute of every thing [Bonaparte writes to the Directory], because...my actions were as prompt as my thoughts.
    NMW 4.242 25 ...even when the majority of the people had begun to ask whether they had really gained any thing under the exhausting levies of men and money of the new master [Napoleon], the whole talent of the country...took his part...
    NMW 4.248 27 Read [Napoleon's] account, too, of the way in which battles are gained.
    NMW 4.249 10 At Arcola [said Napoleon] I won the battle with twenty-five horsemen. I seized that moment of lassitude, gave every man a trumpet, and gained the day with this handful.
    GoW 4.267 27 [The speculative and the practical faculties, say the Hindoos,] are but one, for for...the place which is gained by the followers of the one is gained by the followers of the other.
    GoW 4.268 1 [The speculative and the practical faculties, say the Hindoos,] are but one, for for...the place which is gained by the followers of the one is gained by the followers of the other.
    GoW 4.277 3 ...[Goethe]...looked for [the Devil]...in every shade of coldness, selfishness and unbelief that...darkens over the human thought,-- and found that the portrait gained reality and terror by every thing he added...
    ET11 5.193 9 The historic names of the Buckinghams, Beauforts, Marlboroughs and Hertfords have gained no new lustre...
    ET14 5.258 3 There are all degrees in poetry, and we must be thankful for every beautiful talent. But it is only a first success, when the ear is gained.
    Ctr 6.139 4 The antidotes against this organic egotism are the range and variety of attractions, as gained by acquaintance with the world...
    Bhr 6.192 6 We watched sympathetically [in earlier novels], step by step, [the boy's] climbing, until at last the point is gained...
    Wsp 6.208 12 After [the people's] pepper-corn aims are gained, it seems as if the lime in their bones alone held them together...
    CbW 6.271 6 The success which will content [men] is a bargain...an advantage gained over a competitor...and the like.
    Elo1 7.82 17 The audience [if there be personality in the orator]...follows like a child its preceptor, and hears what he has to say. It is as if, amidst the king's council at Madrid, Ximenes urged that an advantage might be gained of France...
    Elo2 8.111 8 ...all can see and understand the means by which a battle is gained...
    Imtl 8.349 20 For the second boon, Nachiketas asks that the fire by which heaven is gained be made known to him;...
    Imtl 8.350 21 [Yama said to Nachiketas] All those desires that are difficult to gain in the world of mortals, all those ask thou at thy pleasure;-those fair nymphs of heaven...for the like of them are not to be gained by men.
    Imtl 8.352 2 The soul cannot be gained by knowledge...
    Chr2 10.113 26 Some poor soul beheld the Law blazing through such impediments as he had, and yielded himself to humility and joy. What was gained by being told that it was justification by faith?
    SlHr 10.443 11 ...in his own town, if some important end was to be gained... all parties combined to send Mr. Hoar to the Legislature...
    EWI 11.141 15 In 1791, Mr. Wilberforce announced to the House of Commons, We have already gained one victory: we have obtained for these poor creatures [West Indian negroes] the recognition of their human nature...
    EWI 11.142 21 [West Indian negroes] receive hints and advances from the whites that they will be gladly received...as members of this or that committee of trust. They hold back, and say to each other that social position is not to be gained by pushing.
    War 11.159 25 All history is the decline of war, though the slow decline. All that society has yet gained is mitigation...
    EPro 11.321 26 Every acre in the free states gained substantial value on the twenty-second of September.
    Wom 11.408 6 Sappho...in the Olympic Games, gained the crown over Pindar.
    FRep 11.514 9 In our popular politics you may note that each aspirant who rises above the crowd...soon learns that it is by no means by obeying the vulgar weathercock of his party...that real power is gained...
    II 12.72 25 The reformer comes with many plans of melioration, and the basis on which he wishes to build his new world, a great deal of money. But what is gained?
    II 12.73 5 Certain young men or maidens are thus to be screened from the evil influences of trade by force of money. Perhaps that is a benefit, but those who give the money must be just so much more shrewd, and worldly, and hostile, in order to save so much money. I see not how any virtue is thus gained to society.
    Mem 12.98 26 ...you have lost something for everything you have gained, and cannot grow.
    Mem 12.100 23 A man would think twice about...reading a new paragraph, if he believed...that he lost a word or a thought for every word he gained.
    Milt1 12.247 17 ...it is...true that [Milton] has gained, in this age, some increase of permanent praise.
    Milt1 12.263 1 The victories of the conscience in [Milton] are gained by the commanding charm which all the severe and restrictive virtues have for him.
    Milt1 12.278 13 [Milton's plea for freedom of divorce] was a sally of the extravagant spirit of the time, overjoyed...with the sudden victories it had gained...
    ACri 12.286 1 Whitman is our American master, but has not...gained the entree of the sitting-rooms.

gainer, n. (3)

    Wth 6.94 8 This speculative genius is the madness of a few for the gain of the world. The projectors are sacrificed, but the public is the gainer.
    Boks 7.194 17 ...perhaps, the human mind would be a gainer if all the secondary writers were lost...
    ACiv 11.301 7 A democratic statesman said to me...that, if he owned the state of Kentucky, he would manumit all the slaves, and be a gainer by the transaction.

gainers, n. (2)

    Pt1 3.35 11 ...the mystic must be steadily told,--All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as with it. Let us have... universal signs, instead of these village symbols,--and we shall both be gainers.
    UGM 4.13 4 We are as much gainers by finding a new property in the old earth as by acquiring a new planet.

gaining, adj. (1)

    Exp 3.57 23 Something is earned...by conversing with so much folly and defect. In fine, whoever loses, we are always of the gaining party.

gaining, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.355 16 In our free institutions, where...all possible modes of working and gaining are open to [a man], fortunes are easily made...

gaining, v. (3)

    Suc 7.294 6 Cannot we please ourselves with...gaining truth and power, without being praised for it?
    PerF 10.78 27 The power...of enduring defeat and of gaining victory by defeats, is one of these [mental] forces which never loses its charm.
    EWI 11.127 2 ...the West Indian estate was owned or mortgaged in England, and the owner and the mortgagee had very plain intimations that the feeling of English liberty was gaining every hour new mass and velocity...

gains, n. (6)

    Prd1 2.234 20 There is nothing [a man] will not be the better for knowing, were it only...the the prudence which consists in husbanding...particles of stock and small gains.
    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 6.100 16 [The right merchant]...likes small and sure gains.
    Wth 6.124 11 The good merchant [finds] large gains, ships, stocks and money.
    Farm 7.138 25 [The farmer] represents continuous hard labor...and small gains.
    PerF 10.80 25 I knew a stupid young farmer, churlish, living only for his gains...

gains, v. (15)

    MR 1.243 20 The duty that every man...should call the institutions of society to account...gains in emphasis if we look at our modes of living.
    SR 2.84 13 [Society] recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other.
    Lov1 2.187 6 ...losing in violence what it gains in extent, [love] becomes a thorough good understanding.
    Cir 2.307 15 For every friend whom he loses for truth, [a man] gains a better.
    NER 3.261 14 ...society gains nothing whilst a man, not himself renovated, attempts to renovate things around him;...
    NMW 4.227 9 [A man of Napoleon's stamp] gains the battle;...
    ET10 5.167 1 ...the machine unmans the user. What he gains in making cloth, he loses in general power.
    Ctr 6.158 23 A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste or skill;...
    Wsp 6.218 26 Man has learned to weigh the sun, and its weight neither loses nor gains.
    Elo1 7.89 15 Every fact gains consequence by [the orator's] naming it...
    Elo2 8.117 1 ...[the orator] gains his victory by prophecy, where [the people] expected repetition.
    PerF 10.88 6 ...the cause of right for which we labor...gains by our defeats...
    FRO2 11.489 18 Whoever thinks a story gains by the prodigious...robs it more than he adds.
    CPL 11.505 11 A man, that strives to make himself a different thing from other men by much reading gains this chiefest good, that in all fortunes he hath something to entertain and comfort himself withal.
    Mem 12.99 1 ...[the loadstone] gains new particles all the way as you move it, but one falls off for every one that adheres.

gainsay, v. (2)

    Tran 1.335 15 I do not wish to overlook or to gainsay any reality;...
    FRep 11.521 15 John Quincy Adams was a man of an audacious independence that always kept the public curiosity alive in regard to what he might do. None could predict his word, and a whole congress could not gainsay it when it was spoken.

gainsayers, n. (2)

    SL 2.139 23 Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom...and you are without effort impelled...to right and a perfect contentment. Then you put all gainsayers in the wrong.
    GSt 10.504 3 ...[George Stearns's] plain good sense, courage, adherence, and his romantic generosity disarmed, first or last, all gainsayers.

gait, n. (9)

    AmS 1.111 17 The meal in the firkin;...the form and the gait of the body; - show me the ultimate reason of these matters;...
    DSA 1.140 25 The village blasphemer sees fear in the face, form, and gait of the minister.
    Chr1 3.107 19 ...however pertly our sermons and disciplines would...teach that the laws fashion the citizen, [Nature] goes her own gait and puts the wisest in the wrong.
    Chr1 3.109 18 The Yunani sage, on seeing that chief [Zertusht], said, This form and this gait cannot lie, and nothing but truth can proceed from them.
    ET9 5.149 8 It was said of Louis XIV., that his gait and air were becoming enough in so great a monarch, yet would have been ridiculous in another man;...
    F 6.47 17 ...when a man is the victim of his fate, has...a strut in his gait and a conceit in his affection;...he is to rally on his relation to the Universe...
    Bhr 6.177 6 Wise men read very sharply all your private history in your look and gait and behavior.
    Milt1 12.257 12 Wood, [Milton's] political opponent, relates that his deportment was affable, his gait erect and manly...
    Trag 12.412 25 There is a fire in some men which demands an outlet in some rude action; they betray their impatience of quiet by an irregular Catilinarian gait;...

gaiters, n. (1)

    ET14 5.254 24 ...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.

gala, adj. (1)

    Bhr 6.192 7 We watched sympathetically [in earlier novels], step by step, [the boy's] climbing, until at last...the wedding day is fixed, and we follow the gala procession home to the bannered portal...

gala, n. (1)

    Nat 1.19 6 ...the river is a perpetual gala...

Galatians, Commentary on [M (1)

    Clbs 7.236 9 ...it is not [Luther's] theologic works,--his Commentary on the Galatians, and the rest, but his Table-Talk, which is still read by men.

galaxies, n. (3)

    Lov1 2.188 18 ...in health the mind is presently seen again,--its overarching vault, bright with galaxies of immutable lights...
    UGM 4.17 18 [The imagination]...inspires an audacious mental habit. We are as elastic as the gas of gunpowder, and...a word dropped in conversation, sets free our fancy, and instantly our heads are bathed with galaxies...
    Wth 6.106 12 The sublime laws play indifferently through atoms and galaxies.

galaxy, n. (10)

    Nat 1.48 1 ...what is the difference, whether...worlds revolve and intermingle without number or end...galaxy balancing galaxy...or whether, without relations of time and space, the same appearances are inscribed in the constant faith of man?
    Nat 1.48 2 ...what is the difference, whether...worlds revolve and intermingle without number or end...galaxy balancing galaxy...or whether, without relations of time and space, the same appearances are inscribed in the constant faith of man?
    MN 1.205 25 ...O rich and various Man!...carrying in thy senses the morning and the night and the unfathomable galaxy;...
    Chr1 3.87 3 Fixed on the enormous galaxy,/ Deeper and older seemed his eye:/...
    Ill 6.321 14 ...if we weave a yard of tape in all humility and as well as we can, long hereafter we shall see it was no cotton tape at all but some galaxy which we braided...
    Grts 8.304 1 ...follow the path your genius traces like the galaxy of heaven for you to walk in.
    Supl 10.176 25 ...[Nature] creates in the East the uncontrollable yearning... to use a freedom of fancy which plays with all the works of Nature...galaxy or grain of dust, as toys and words of the mind;...
    ChiE 11.470 4 Nature creates in the East the uncontrollable yearning...to use a freedom of fancy which plays with all works of Nature...galaxy or grain of dust...
    FRO2 11.484 3 ...Thou seek'st in globe and galaxy,/ He hides in pure transparency;/...
    PLT 12.32 23 The sun may shine, or a galaxy of suns; you will get no more light than your eye will hold.

gale, n. (5)

    ET12 5.212 18 The university must be retrospective. The gale that gives direction to the vanes on all its towers blows out of antiquity.
    Pow 6.68 24 I remember a poor Malay cook on board a Liverpool packet, who, when the wind blew a gale, could not contain his joy;...
    WD 7.172 21 The Hindoos represent Maia, the illusory energy of Vishnu, as one of his principal attributes. As if, in this gale of warring elements which life is, it was necessary to bind souls to human life as mariners in a tempest lash themselves to the mast and bulwarks of a ship...
    OA 7.314 1 As the bird trims her to the gale,/ I trim myself to the storm of time,/ I man the rudder, reef the sail,/ Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime/...
    Shak1 11.451 12 The unaffected joy of the comedy,-[Shakespeare] lives in a gale,-contrasted with the grandeur of the tragedy, where he stoops to no contrivance, no pulpiting...

Galen, Claudius, n. (1)

    Boks 7.195 27 ...I know beforehand that Pindar...Galen...More, will be superior to the average intellect.

gales, n. (1)

    Nat 1.13 20 [Man] no longer waits for favoring gales...

Galiani, Fernando, n. (2)

    Clbs 7.233 24 Diderot said of the Abbe Galiani: He was a treasure in rainy days;...
    Elo2 8.122 7 ...there are persons of natural fascination, with...winning manners, almost endearments in their style;...like Galiani, Voltaire...

Galileo, n. (9)

    SR 2.58 2 Pythagoras was misunderstood...and Galileo...
    SR 2.86 18 Galileo, with an opera-glass, discovered a more splendid series of celestial phenomena than any one since.
    GoW 4.287 5 [Goethe's] Daily and Yearly Journal...and the historical part of his Theory of Colors, have the same interest. In the last, he rapidly notices Kepler...Galileo...
    Boks 7.196 1 ...I know beforehand that Pindar...Galileo...More, will be superior to the average intellect.
    OA 7.322 18 We still feel the force...of Galileo...
    Res 8.137 12 ...whether searched by the plough of Adam...the telescope of Galileo...or the submarine telegraph,--to every one of these experiments [the earth] makes a gracious response.
    Shak1 11.452 12 [Shakespeare's] birth marked a great wine year when wonderful grapes ripened in the vintage of God, when Shakspeare and Galileo were born within a few months of each other...
    MAng1 12.244 7 There [in Santa Croce], near the tomb...of Galileo, the great-hearted astronomer;...stands the monument of Michael Angelo Buonarotti.
    Milt1 12.259 18 In Paris, [Milton] became acquainted with Grotius; in Florence or Rome, with Galileo;...

Gall, Franz Joseph, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.337 11 Gall and Spurzheim's Phrenology laid a rough hand on the mysteries of animal and spiritual nature...

gallant, adj. (2)

    Comc 8.165 12 The Society in London...pestered the gallant rover [Capt. John Smith] with frequent solicitations...touching the conversion of the Indians...
    Supl 10.172 3 ...the gallant skipper...complained to his owners that he had pumped the Atlantic Ocean three times through his ship on the passage...

gallantly, adv. (1)

    F 6.29 16 A little whim of will to be free gallantly contending against the universe of chemistry.

gallantry, n. (4)

    Lov1 2.184 19 From exchanging glances, [lovers] advance to acts...of gallantry...
    ET14 5.250 8 ...where impatience of the tricks of men...builds altars to the negative Deity, the inevitable recoil is...the gallantry of the private heart...
    ET15 5.267 19 The daily paper [London Times] is the work...chiefly, it is said, of young men recently from the University, and perhaps reading law in chambers in London. Hence the academic elegance and classic allusion which adorns its columns. Hence, too, the heat and gallantry of its onset.
    Cour 7.268 8 Merchants recognize as much gallantry, well judged too, in the conduct of a wise and upright man of business in difficult times, as soldiers in a soldier.

gallants, n. (1)

    Mrs1 3.143 21 ...a comic disparity would be felt, if we should enter the acknowledged first circles [of fashion] and apply these terrific standards of justice, beauty and benefit to the individuals actually found there. Monarchs and heroes, sages and lovers, these gallants are not.

galleries, n. (17)

    Con 1.311 4 [Existing institutions] have lost no time and spared no expense to collect libraries, museums, galleries, colleges, palaces, hospitals, observatories, cities.
    SL 2.147 21 ...it is not observed that the keepers of Roman galleries or the valets of painters have any elevation of thought...
    Art1 2.359 13 The traveller who visits the Vatican and passes from chamber to chamber through galleries of statues, vases, sarcophagi and candelabra...is in danger of forgetting the simplicity of the principles out of which they all sprung...
    NMW 4.235 11 There shall be no Alps, [Napoleon] said; and he built his perfect roads, climbing by graded galleries their steepest precipices...
    GoW 4.288 11 I suppose the worldly tone of [Goethe's] tales grew out of the calculations of self-culture. It was the infirmity of an admirable scholar...who knew where libraries, galleries, architecture, laboratories, savans and leisure were to be had...
    ET8 5.135 21 Here [in England] was lately a cross-grained miser [Joseph Turner]...yet as true a worshipper of beauty in form and color as ever existed...importing into their galleries every tint and trait of sunnier cities and skies;...
    ET11 5.182 4 A multitude of town palaces [in London] contain inestimable galleries of art.
    ET11 5.188 13 I pardoned high park-fences [in England], when I saw that... these have preserved...Townley galleries...
    Wth 6.94 24 To be rich is...to see galleries, libraries, arsenals, manufactories.
    Wth 6.98 18 ...pictures, engravings, statues and casts, beside their first cost, entail expenses, as of galleries and keepers for the exhibition;...
    Ill 6.309 4 We traversed, through spacious galleries affording a solid masonry foundation for the town and county overhead, the six or eight black miles from the mouth of the cavern [Mammoth Cave] to the innermost recess which tourists visit...
    Ill 6.309 17 [In the Mammoth Cave] I...plied with music and guns the echoes in these alarming galleries;...
    Art2 7.51 23 The galleries of ancient sculpture in Naples and Rome strike no deeper conviction into the mind than the contrast of the purity, the severity expressed in these fine old heads, with the frivolity and grossness of the mob that exhibits and the mob that gazes at them.
    Art2 7.56 18 Who cares, who knows what works of art our government have ordered to be made for the Capitol? They are a mere flourish to please the eye of persons who have associations with books and galleries.
    DL 7.130 5 ...let the creations of the plastic arts be collected with care in galleries by the piety and taste of the people...
    Aris 10.45 15 It never troubles the Senator what multitudes crack the benches and bend the galleries to hear.
    ACri 12.284 4 Chiefly in this country, the common school has added two or three audiences [for the writer]: once, we had only the boxes; now, the galleries and the pit.

gallery, n. (14)

    LT 1.264 25 ...why not draw for these times a portrait gallery?
    Hist 2.17 13 ...a profound nature awakens in us...the same power and beauty that a gallery of sculpture or of pictures addresses.
    Prd1 2.229 25 The Raphael in the Dresden gallery...is the quietest and most passionless piece you can imagine;...
    Art1 2.357 12 A gallery of sculpture teaches more austerely the same lesson [as painting].
    Art1 2.357 24 There is no statue like this living man, with his infinite advantage over all ideal sculpture, of perpetual variety. What a gallery of art have I here!
    Art1 2.364 20 ...the [art] gallery stands at the mercy of our moods...
    NMW 4.226 10 Dumont relates that he sat in the gallery of the Convention and heard Mirabeau make a speech.
    ET1 5.7 25 [Landor] prefers the Venus to everything else, and after that, the head of Alexander, in the gallery here [in Florence].
    ET6 5.107 27 ...though [the Englishman] have no gallery of portraits of his ancestors, he has of their punch-bowls and porringers.
    Wth 6.92 19 The statue is so beautiful that it...makes the market a silent gallery for itself.
    Ctr 6.148 19 In town [a man] can find...the gallery of fine arts;...
    SA 8.83 6 'T is a great point in a gallery, how you hang pictures;...
    SovE 10.192 4 The student discovers one day that he lives in enchantment... and through this enchanted gallery he is led by unseen guides to read and learn the laws of Heaven.
    II 12.68 7 ...if you go to a gallery of pictures, or other works of fine art, the eye is dazzled and embarrassed by many excellences.

Gallery, Randolph, Oxford, (1)

    ET12 5.199 18 My new friends [at Oxford] showed me...the Randolph Gallery...

Gallery, Uffizi, Florence, (1)

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

Gallery, Vatican, Rome, It (1)

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

galley, n. (3)

    ET10 5.157 24 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;...
    Suc 7.284 4 ...Olaf, King of Norway, could run round his galley on the blades of the oars of the rowers when the ship was in motion;...
    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...

galleys, n. (3)

    SwM 4.99 19 [Swedenborg] performed a notable feat of engineering in 1718, at the siege of Frederikshald, by hauling two galleys, five boats and a sloop, some fourteen English miles overland...
    ET4 5.56 5 Charlemagne, halting one day in a town of Narbonnese Gaul, looked out of a window and saw a fleet of Northmen cruising in the Mediterranean. They even entered the port of the town where he was, causing no small alarm and sudden manning and arming of his galleys.
    ET10 5.162 19 Scandinavian Thor, who once...built galleys by lonely fiords, in England has advanced with the times...

Gallienus, Emperor, n. (1)

    Boks 7.202 20 Of Plotinus, we have eulogies by Porphyry and Longinus, and the favor of the Emperor Gallienus...

galling, adj. (1)

    Elo2 8.124 6 In social converse with the mighty dead of ancient days, you will never smart under the galling sense of dependence upon the mighty living of the present age.

gallipots, n. (1)

    ACri 12.287 4 Into the exquisite refinement of his Academy, [Plato] introduces the low-born Socrates, relieving the purple diction by his perverse talk, his gallipots, and cook...

Gallo, San, Antonio di, n. (5)

    MAng1 12.227 1 Michael [Angelo] demanded of San Gallo, the pope!s architect, how these holes [in the Sistine Chapel ceiling] were to be repaired in the picture.
    MAng1 12.227 3 Michael [Angelo] demanded of San Gallo, the pope!s architect, how these holes [in the Sistine Chapel ceiling] were to be repaired in the picture. San Gallo replied: That was for him to consider, for the platform could be constructed in no other way..
    MAng1 12.235 5 On the death of San Gallo, the architect of the church [St. Peter's], Paul III. first entreated, then commanded the aged artist [Michelangelo] to assume the charge of this great work...
    MAng1 12.235 10 On the death of San Gallo...Paul III. first entreated, then commanded the aged artist [Michelangelo] to assume the charge of this great work, which, though commenced forty years before, was only commenced by Bramante, and ill continued by San Gallo.
    MAng1 12.235 20 [Michelangelo] required...that he should be absolute master of the whole design [of St. Peter's], free to depart from the plans of San Gallo and to alter what had been already done.

gallon, n. (1)

    ET4 5.70 4 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.

gallons, n. (3)

    Pt1 3.40 26 All the creatures by pairs and by tribes pour into [the poet's] mind as into a Noah's ark, to come forth again to people a new world. This is like the stock of air for our respiration or for the combustion of our fireplace; not a measure of gallons, but the entire atmosphere if wanted.
    Civ 7.25 3 ...I watched, in crossing the sea, the beautiful skill whereby the engine in its constant working was made to produce two hundred gallons of fresh water out of salt water, every hour...
    Carl 10.496 16 Edwin Chadwick is one of [Carlyle's] heroes,-who proposes to provide every house in London with pure water, sixty gallons to every head...

gallop, n. (2)

    ET12 5.211 9 No doubt much of the power and brilliancy of the reading-men [at Oxford] is merely constitutional or hygienic. With a hardier habit and resolute gymnastics...with a saddle and gallop of twenty miles a day... the American would arrives at as robust exegesis...
    CL 12.141 25 In the English universities, the reading men are daily performing their punctual training in the boat-clubs, or a long gallop of many miles in the saddle...

gallows, n. (2)

    OA 7.323 21 The humorous thief who drank a pot of beer at the gallows blew off the froth because he had heard it was unhealthy;...
    JBB 11.270 2 ...it is the reductio ad absurdum of Slavery, when the governor of Virginia is forced to hang a man [John Brown] whom he declares to be a man of the most integrity, truthfulness and courage he has ever met. Is that the kind of man the gallows is built for?

gallows', n. (1)

    Prd1 2.233 8 The scholar shames us by his bifold life. ... Yesterday, Caesar was not so great; to-day, the felon at the gallows' foot is not more miserable.

galvanic, adj. (7)

    Art1 2.368 17 ...[genius] will raise to a divine use...the galvanic battery...
    Exp 3.80 23 A subject and an object,--it takes so much to make the galvanic circuit complete...
    ET4 5.52 15 Perhaps the ocean serves as a galvanic battery...
    Pow 6.77 10 ...the galvanic stream, slow but continuous, is equal in power to the electric spark...
    Wth 6.84 15 ...New slaves fulfilled the poet's dream,/ Galvanic wire, strong-shouldered steam./
    Wsp 6.208 17 There is faith...in the steam-engine, galvanic battery...but not in divine causes.
    PI 8.73 11 The high poetry which shall...bring in the new thoughts, the sanity and heroic aims of nations, is...longer postponed than was...the finding of steam or of the galvanic battery.

galvanism, n. (8)

    Comp 2.96 25 Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature;...in the electricity, galvanism, and chemical affinity.
    SL 2.134 19 Did the wires generate the galvanism?
    ET5 5.83 21 More than the diamond Koh-i-noor...[the English] prize that dull pebble...whose poles turn themselves to the poles of the world, and whose axis is parallel to the axis of the world. Now, their toys are steam and galvanism.
    Civ 7.29 1 The forces of steam, gravity, galvanism, light, magnets, wind, fire, serve us day by day...
    WD 7.158 6 ...we pity our fathers for dying before steam and galvanism...
    WD 7.164 9 Tantalus begins to think...galvanism no better than it should be.
    PI 8.9 3 ...galvanism, electricity and magnetism are varied forms of the selfsame energy.
    SovE 10.183 1 Since the discovery of Oersted that galvanism and electricity and magnetism are only forms of one and the same force...we have continually suggested to us a larger generalization...

galvanize, v. (1)

    ET5 5.98 5 The [English] Universities galvanize dead languages into a semblance of life.

Gambia River, n. (1)

    SMC 11.355 21 ...the common people [in the South], rich or poor, were...as arrogant as the negroes on the Gambia River;...

gamble, v. (1)

    SR 2.89 19 Most men gamble with [Fortune]...

gambler, n. (1)

    Comp 2.114 24 The cheat, the defaulter, the gambler, cannot extort the knowledge of material and moral nature which his honest care and pains yield to the operative.

gambling, adj. (1)

    MN 1.202 7 When we...shorten the sight to look into this court of Louis Quatorze, and see the game that is played there...a gambling table where each is laying traps for the other...one can hardly help asking...whether it be quite worth while to...glut the innocent space with so poor an article.

gambling, n. (1)

    Supl 10.174 4 I am a coward at gambling.

gambling, v. (2)

    Ctr 6.141 1 What we call our root-and-branch reforms, of slavery, war, gambling, intemperance, is only medicating the symptoms.
    FRep 11.521 25 The American marches with a careless swagger to the height of power...in his reckless confidence that he can have all he wants, risking all the prized charters of the human race...gambling them all away for a paltry selfish gain.

game, adj. (2)

    ET4 5.67 25 I apply to Britannia...the words in which her latest novelist portrays his heroine; She is as mild as she is game, and as game as she is mild.
    ET8 5.131 14 [Englishmen's] looks bespeak an invincible stoutness: they... will die game.

game, n. (78)

    DSA 1.121 14 ...this homely game of life we play, covers...principles that astonish.
    DSA 1.121 18 ...in the game of human life, love, fear, justice, appetite, man, and God, interact.
    MN 1.202 6 When we...shorten the sight to look into this court of Louis Quatorze, and see the game that is played there...one can hardly help asking...whether it be quite worth while to...glut the innocent space with so poor an article.
    LT 1.283 27 ...we begin to doubt if that great revolution in the art of war, which has made it a game of posts instead of a game of battles, has not operated on Reform;...
    Con 1.322 7 ...wherever he sees anything that will keep men amused... [every honest fellow] must cry Hist-a-boy, and urge the game on.
    SR 2.54 18 A man must consider what a blind-man's-buff is this game of conformity.
    Lov1 2.186 15 ...as life wears on, it proves a game of permutation and combination of all possible positions of the parties...
    Hsm1 2.256 22 Simple hearts...play their own game...
    Cir 2.307 18 ...why should I play with [my friends] this game of idolatry?
    Cir 2.310 13 Conversation is a game of circles.
    Art1 2.364 9 ...[sculpture] is the game of a rude and youthful people...
    Pt1 3.1 2 A moody child and wildly wise/ Pursued the game with joyful eyes/...
    Exp 3.43 10 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;--/...
    Chr1 3.92 15 In the new objects we recognize the old game...
    Mrs1 3.127 3 ...the youth finds himself in a more transparent atmosphere, wherein life is a less troublesome game...
    Mrs1 3.140 19 Society loves...sleepy languishing manners, so that they cover...the air of drowsy strength...perhaps because such a person seems to reserve himself for the best of the game...
    Nat2 3.185 15 ...when now and then comes along some sad, sharp-eyed man, who sees how paltry a game is played, and refuses to play but blabs the secret;--how then?
    Nat2 3.185 23 ...the wary Nature sends a new troop of fairer forms, of lordlier youths...and on goes the game again with a new whirl...
    NR 3.241 21 ...in the contest we are now considering, the players are also the game...
    NR 3.242 18 Your turn now, my turn next, is the rule of the game.
    NR 3.245 2 The end and the means, the gamester and the game,--life is made up of the intermixture and reaction of these two amicable powers...
    NER 3.262 8 Do you complain of the laws of Property? It is a pedantry to give such importance to them. Can we not play the game of life with these counters, as well as those?...
    NER 3.274 18 The heroes of ancient and modern fame...have treated life and fortune as a game to be well and skilfully played...
    MoS 4.149 3 The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides [sensation and morals], to find the other...
    MoS 4.149 9 Nothing so thin but has these two faces [sensation and morals], and when the observer has seen the obverse, he turns it over to see the reverse. Life is a pitching of this penny,--heads or tails. We never tire of this game...
    MoS 4.157 6 [The skeptic says] Why pretend that life is so simple a game, when we know how subtle and elusive the Proteus is?
    MoS 4.161 6 The wise skeptic wishes to have a near view of the best game and the chief players;...
    NMW 4.229 24 The art of war was the game in which [Bonaparte] exerted his arithmetic.
    GoW 4.288 26 ...this man [Goethe] was entirely at home and happy in his century and the world. None was so fit to live, or more heartily enjoyed the game.
    ET3 5.39 4 The land [in England] naturally abounds with game;...
    ET4 5.71 2 The more vigorous [Englishmen] run out of the island...to Africa and Australia, to hunt with fury...all the game that is in nature.
    ET4 5.73 6 William the Conqueror being, says Camden, better affected to beasts than to men, imposed heavy fines and punishments on those that should meddle with his game.
    ET5 5.78 8 The English game is main force to main force...
    ET11 5.191 3 War is a foul game, yet war is not the worst part of aristocratic history.
    ET16 5.275 20 I told Carlyle that...I like the [English] people;...but meantime, I surely know that as soon as I return to Massachusetts I shall lapse at once into the feeling, which the geography of America inevitably inspires, that we play the game with immense advantage;...
    Pow 6.55 27 With adults, as with children, one class enter cordially into the game...
    Pow 6.61 4 When [children] are hurt by us...or are beaten in the game...they have a serious check.
    Wth 6.99 19 Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness and patience in the players.
    Wth 6.100 1 Commerce is a game of skill...
    Ctr 6.143 10 [The boy] is infatuated for weeks with whist and chess; but presently will find out...that when he rises from the game too long played, he is vacant and forlorn and despises himself.
    Ctr 6.148 23 In the country [a man] can find...moors for game...
    Wsp 6.220 1 ...look where we will, in a boy's game, or in the strifes of races, a perfect reaction, a perpetual judgment keeps watch and ward.
    Ill 6.315 12 When the boys come into my yard for leave to gather horse-chestnuts, I own I enter into nature's game...
    Elo1 7.79 6 Men and women are [Caesar's] game.
    Elo1 7.87 23 The parts [in the court-room trial] were so well cast and discriminated that it was an interesting game to watch.
    DL 7.106 18 The first ride into the country...the first game out of doors in moonlight...are new chapters of joy [to the child].
    Clbs 7.235 1 All that man can do for man is to be found in that market [of right company]. There are great prizes in this game.
    Clbs 7.238 12 The startled giant [Wafthrudnir] replies...with Odin contended I in wise words. Thou must ever the wisest be. And still the gods and giants are so known, and still they play the same game in all the million mansions of heaven and of earth;...
    Cour 7.254 13 Men admire...the power of better combination and foresight, however exhibited, whether it only plays a game of chess, or whether...a cunning mathematician...predicts the planet which eyes had never seen;...
    Cour 7.269 7 Morphy played a daring game in chess...
    SA 8.87 12 I know that there go two to this game [of laughter], and, in the presence of certain formidable wits, savage nature must sometimes rush out in some disorder.
    Elo2 8.113 27 [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 scrambling...through the swamp and river for his game.
    Res 8.148 22 See the dexterity of the good aunt in keeping the young people all the weary holiday busy and diverted without knowing it...the ballad, the game...
    Comc 8.158 22 The perpetual game of humor is to look with considerate good nature at every object in existence, aloof...
    PC 8.232 25 We have suffered our young men of ambition to play the game of politics and take the immoral side without loss of caste...
    PPo 8.238 9 The rich [in the East] feed on fruits and game,-the poor, on a watermelon's peel.
    Insp 8.270 1 The hunter on the prairie, at the right season, has no need of choosing his ground;...he is everywhere near his game.
    Insp 8.292 14 A wise man goes to this game [of conversation] to play upon others and to be played upon...
    Aris 10.37 5 The game of the world is a perpetual trial of strength between man and events.
    Aris 10.47 24 Whoever wants more power than is the legitimate attraction of his faculty, is a politician, and must pay for that excess; must truckle for it. This is the whole game of society and the politics of the world.
    PerF 10.81 24 ...if we fall in with a cricket-club and see the game masterly played, the best player is the first of men;...
    Edc1 10.139 25 Everybody delights in the energy with which boys deal and talk with each other; the mixture of...love and wrath, with which the game is played;...
    Prch 10.220 23 ...the sober eye finds something ghastly in this [religious] empiricism. At first, delighted with the triumph of the intellect...we are like...soldiers who rush to battle; but when the game is run down...we are alarmed at our solitude;...
    LLNE 10.355 7 As soon as our people got wind of the doctrine of Marriage held by this master [Fourier], it would fall at once into the hands of a lawless crew who would flock in troops to so fair a game...
    Thor 10.472 1 [Thoreau] confessed that he...if born among Indians, would have been a fell hunter. But, restrained by his Massachusetts culture, he played out the game in this mild form of botany and ichthyology.
    War 11.170 11 How is [this new aspiration of the human mind towards peace] to pass out of thoughts into things? Not, certainly...in the way of routine and mere forms...not by...going through a course of resolutions and public manifestoes, and being thus formally accredited to the public and to the civility of the newspapers. We have played this game to tediousness.
    FSLC 11.212 1 The great game of the government has been to win the sanction of Massachusetts to the crime [the Fugitive Slave Law].
    AsSu 11.248 11 The very conditions of the game must always be,-the worst life staked against the best.
    FRep 11.522 15 [The American] is easily fed with wheat and game...
    FRep 11.532 27 Young men at thirty and even earlier...if they fail in their first enterprise throw up the game.
    PLT 12.9 8 Here [in society] they play the game of conversation, as they play billiards, for pastime and credit.
    PLT 12.32 12 A hunter finds plenty of game on the ground you have sauntered over with idle gun.
    PLT 12.40 18 The game of Intellect is the perception that whatever befalls or can be stated is a universal proposition;...
    PLT 12.59 2 The children have only the instinct of the universe, in which becoming somewhat else is the perpetual game of Nature...
    II 12.79 27 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;...
    ACri 12.302 25 ...this is the game that goes on every day in all companies;...by sovereignty of thought to make facts and men obey our present humor or belief.
    PPr 12.389 19 ...[Carlyle] does yet, ever and anon, as if catching the glance of one wise man in the crowd...lance at him in clear level tone the very word, and then with new glee return to his game.
    Trag 12.406 14 Men and women at thirty years, and even earlier...if they fail in their first enterprises, they throw up the game.

game-books, n. (1)

    ET4 5.71 3 The more vigorous [Englishmen] run out of the island...to Africa and Australia, to hunt with fury...all the game that is in nature. These men have written the game-books of all countries...

game-fowl, n. (1)

    MR 1.246 12 Sofas, ottomans, stoves, wine, game-fowl, spices, perfumes, rides, the theatre, entertainments,-all these [infirm people] want...

game-laws, n. (3)

    ET4 5.73 13 The severity of the [English] game-laws certainly indicates an extravagant sympathy of the nation with horses and hunters.
    ET18 5.300 14 The [English] game-laws are a proverb of oppression.
    PC 8.232 5 In England, it was the game-laws which exasperated the farmers to carry the Reform Bill.

game-party, adj. (1)

    PI 8.35 19 In a game-party or picnic poem each writer is released from the solemn rhythmic traditions which alarm and suffocate his fancy...

game-preserves, n. (2)

    ET4 5.73 11 ...rich Englishmen have followed [William the Conqueror's] example...n encroaching on the tillage and commons with their game-preserves.
    ET11 5.189 9 The Dukes of Athol, Sutherland, Buccleugh and the Marquis of Breadalbane have introduced...the renting of game-preserves.

Games, Isthmian, n. (1)

    Boks 7.200 13 [Plutarch's] memory is like the Isthmian Games...

games, n. (28)

    AmS 1.81 4 We do not meet for games of strength or skill...
    Comp 2.108 2 ...when the Thasians erected a statue to Theagenes, a victor in the games, one of his rivals went to it by night and endeavored to throw it down...
    Fdsp 2.202 1 He who offers himself a candidate for that covenant [of friendship] comes up, like an Olympian, to the great games where the first-born of the world are the competitors.
    Pt1 3.5 16 In love...in games, we study to utter our painful secret.
    NER 3.269 7 Is it strange that society should be devoured by a secret melancholy which breaks through all its smiles and all its gayety and games?
    ET7 5.120 7 If war do not bring in its sequel new trade, better agriculture and manufactures, but only games, fireworks and spectacles,--no prosperity could support it;...
    ET8 5.128 15 [The English] are...not so easily amused as the southerners, and are among them as grown people among children, requiring war, or trade...instead of frivolous games.
    ET12 5.201 16 Here indeed [at Oxford] was the Olympia of all Antony Wood's and Aubrey's games and heroes...
    Wth 6.90 15 No reliance for bread and games on the government;...suits [the Saxons];...
    Ctr 6.143 6 ...the first boy has acquired much more than these poor games along with them.
    Ill 6.318 13 You play with...bowls, horse and gun, estates and politics; but there are finer games before you.
    Ill 6.322 22 Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves...
    Ill 6.322 23 Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves...
    Clbs 7.241 1 Conversation is the Olympic games whither every superior gift resorts to assert and approve itself...
    OA 7.328 12 [The veteran] beholds the feats of the juniors with complacency, but as one who having long ago known these games, has refined them into results and morals.
    SA 8.82 9 The attitudes of children are gentle, persuasive, royal, in their games and in their house-talk and in the street...
    Elo2 8.128 14 This unmanliness [lack of eloquence] is so common a result of our half-education...allowing [a youth] to skulk from the games of ball and skates...that I wish his guardians to consider that they are thus preparing him to play a contemptible part when he is full-grown.
    Res 8.150 19 Games, fishing, bowling, hunting, gymnastics, dancing,--are not these needful to you?
    Res 8.150 22 There are better games than billiards and whist.
    Imtl 8.325 20 [The Greek]...made [death] bright with games of strength and skill...
    Edc1 10.140 2 How we envy in later life the happy youths to whom their boisterous games and rough exercise furnish the precise element which frames and sets off their school and college tasks...
    Edc1 10.141 2 That stormy genius of [the boy's] needs a little direction to games, charades...
    MoL 10.253 23 Pytheas of Aegina was victor in the Pancratium of the boys, at the Isthmian games.
    Plu 10.308 2 [Plutarch] thinks that he who has ideas of his own is a bad judge of another man's, it being true that the Eleans would be most proper judges of the Olympic games, were no Eleans gamesters.
    HCom 11.342 5 It is a rule in games of chance that the cards beat all the players...
    SMC 11.363 14 [George Prescott's] next point is to keep [his men] cheerful. 'T is better than medicine. He has games of baseball, and pitching quoits, and euchre...
    SHC 11.433 8 On the other side of the ridge [in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery], towards the town, a portion of the land is in full view of the cheer of the village...it admits of being reserved...for games,-not such as the Greeks honored the dead with, but for games of education;...
    SHC 11.433 9 On the other side of the ridge [in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery], towards the town, a portion of the land is in full view of the cheer of the village...it admits of being reserved...for games of education;...

Games, Olympic, n. (1)

    Wom 11.408 6 Sappho...in the Olympic Games, gained the crown over Pindar.

gamesome, adj. (1)

    WSL 12.348 4 The dense writer has...even a gamesome mood often between his valid words.

gamester, n. (1)

    NR 3.245 1 The end and the means, the gamester and the game,--life is made up of the intermixture and reaction of these two amicable powers...

gamesters, n. (2)

    NR 3.241 18 ...gamesters say that the cards beat all the players...
    Plu 10.308 3 [Plutarch] thinks that he who has ideas of his own is a bad judge of another man's, it being true that the Eleans would be most proper judges of the Olympic games, were no Eleans gamesters.

gaming, n. (2)

    Cir 2.322 10 ...[men] ask the aid of wild passions, as in gaming and war, to ape in some manner these flames and generosities of the heart.
    Aris 10.52 2 To a right aristocracy...everything will be permitted and pardoned,-gaming, drinking, fighting, luxury.

gaming, v. (3)

    Pt1 3.28 1 All men avail themselves of such means as they can, to add this extraordinary power to their normal powers; and to this end they prize... gaming...
    ET11 5.192 8 The sycophancy and sale of votes and honor, for place and title; lewdness, gaming, smuggling, bribery and cheating;...make the reader pause and explore the firm bounds which [in England] confined these vices to a handful of rich men.
    ET11 5.192 24 ...gaming, racing, drinking and mistresses bring [the English aristocracy] down...

Gammer Gurton's Needle [Wm (1)

    ShP 4.201 20 We have to thank the researches of antiquaries, and the Shakspeare Society, for ascertaining the steps of the English drama, from the Mysteries...from Ferrex and Porrex, and Gammer Gurton's Needle, down to the possession of the stage by the very pieces which Shakspeare altered, remodelled and finally made his own.

gammon, n. (1)

    ACri 12.288 2 Who has not heard in the street how forcible is bosh, gammon and gas.

gamut, n. (1)

    PPo 8.259 9 [Hafiz] has run through the whole gamut of passion...

gang, n. (7)

    Hist 2.25 15 Who does not see that [Xenophon's army] is a gang of great boys...
    Chr1 3.94 25 Suppose a slaver on the coast of Guinea should take on board a gang of negroes which should contain persons of the stamp of Toussaint L'Ouverture...
    Chr1 3.95 1 Suppose a slaver on the coast of Guinea should take on board a gang of negroes which should contain persons of the stamp of Toussaint L' Ouverture: let us fancy, under these swarthy masks he has a gang of Washingtons in chains.
    WD 7.176 20 We owe to genius always the same debt, of...showing us that divinities are sitting disguised in the seeming gang of gypsies and pedlers.
    PC 8.232 17 ...wherever high society exists it is very well able to exclude pretenders. The intruder finds himself uncomfortable, and quickly departs to his own gang.
    PerF 10.69 5 The hero in the fairy-tales has a servant who can eat granite rocks...and a third who can run a hundred leagues in half an hour; so man in Nature is surrounded by a gang of friendly giants who can accept harder stints than these...
    Carl 10.493 13 If a scholar goes into a camp of lumbermen or a gang of riggers, those men will quickly detect any fault of character.

gang, v. (1)

    QO 8.186 7 The fine verse in the old Scotch ballad of The Drowned Lovers-Thou art roaring ower loud, Clyde water,/ Thy streams are ower strang;/ Make me thy wrack when I come back,/ But spare me when I gang/-is a translation of Martial's epigram on Hero and Leander...

Ganges River, n. (1)

    Let 12.395 5 One of the [letter] writers relentingly says, What shall my uncles and aunts do without me? and desires distinctly to be understood not to propose the Indian mode of giving decrepit relatives as much of the mud of holy Ganges as they can swallow, and more...

Gangrader, n. (1)

    Clbs 7.237 17 Odin comes to the threshold of the Jotun Wafthrudnir in disguise, calling himself Gangrader;...

gap, n. (2)

    F 6.42 17 [Man] looks like a piece of luck, but is...the mosaic, angulated and ground to fit into the gap he fills.
    Wth 6.118 22 A farm is a good thing when it...does not need a salary or a shop to eke it out. Thus, the cattle are a main link in the chain-ring. If the non-conformist or aesthetic farmer leaves out the cattle and does not also leave out the want which the cattle must supply, he must fill the gap by begging or stealing.

gaps, n. (2)

    SA 8.95 8 Conversation fills all gaps...
    ChiE 11.472 16 ...[China] has...historic records of forgotten time, that have supplied important gaps in the ancient history of the western nations.

garb, n. (5)

    Hsm1 2.256 27 Simple hearts...would appear, could we see the human race assembled in vision, like little children frolicking together, though to the eyes of mankind at large they wear a stately and solemn garb of works and influences.
    SS 7.14 1 Conversation will not corrupt us if we come to the assembly in our own garb and speech...
    Boks 7.189 7 In Plato's Gorgias, Socrates says: The shipmaster walks in a modest garb near the sea, after bringing his passengers from Aegina or from Pontus;...
    Chr2 10.107 22 [The clergy] have dropped, with the sacerdotal garb and manners of the last century, many doctrines and practices once esteemed indispensable to their order.
    II 12.71 7 The divine energy...casts its old garb, and reappears, another creature;...

Garbett, Edward Lacy, n. (1)

    CL 12.157 25 The facts disclosed by...Greenough, Ruskin, Garbett, Penrose, are joyful possessions...

Garden, Academy, Upsala, S (1)

    CW 12.173 3 You know [said Linnaeus]...that I live entirely in the Academy Garden;...

garden, adj. (3)

    PPo 8.257 1 The cedar, the cypress, the palm, the olive and fig-tree, the birds that inhabit them, and the garden flowers, are never wanting in these musky verses [of Hafiz]...
    PPo 8.258 8 O'er the garden water goes the wind alone/ To rasp and to polish the cheek of the wave;/ The fire is quenched on the dear hearthstone,/ But it burns again on the tulips brave./
    HDC 11.35 3 All kinds of garden fruits grew well...

Garden, Covent, Theatre, L (1)

    ShP 4.206 15 Malone, Warburton, Dyce and Collier have wasted their oil. The famed theatres, Covent Garden, Drury Lane, the Park and Tremont have vainly assisted.

garden, n. (64)

    Nat 1.13 4 The field is at once [man's] floor, his work-yard, his play-ground, his garden, and his bed.
    LE 1.170 1 Undoubtedly the changes of geology have a relation to the prosperous sprouting of the corn and peas in my kitchen garden;...
    LE 1.174 22 ...it is only as the garden, the cottage...are a sort of mechanical aids to [independence of spirit], that they are of value.
    MR 1.236 27 When I go into my garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration...that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.
    MR 1.244 13 Give [any man's] mind a new image, and he flees into a solitary garden...to enjoy it...
    Con 1.319 3 The conservative party in the universe concedes that the radical would talk sufficiently to the purpose, if we were still in the garden of Eden;...
    YA 1.364 26 Our garden is the immeasurable earth.../
    YA 1.367 25 A garden has this advantage, that it makes it indifferent where you live.
    YA 1.367 27 A well-laid garden makes the face of the country of no account;...
    YA 1.368 3 If the landscape is pleasing, the garden shows it...
    YA 1.370 5 How much better when the whole land is a garden...
    Fdsp 2.199 8 We snatch at the slowest fruit in the whole garden of God...
    Prd1 2.221 8 ...whosoever sees my garden discovers that I must have some other garden.
    Prd1 2.221 9 ...whosoever sees my garden discovers that I must have some other garden.
    Prd1 2.227 23 [The good husband's] garden or his poultry-yard tells him many pleasant anecdotes.
    Art1 2.355 18 Presently we pass to some other object, which rounds itself into a whole as did the first; for example a well-laid garden;...
    Pt1 3.18 8 Day and night, house and garden, a few books, a few actions, serve us as well as would all trades and all spectacles.
    Pt1 3.24 11 I knew in my younger days the sculptor who made the statue of the youth which stands in the public garden.
    Exp 3.65 7 Right to hold land, right of property, is disputed...and before the vote is taken, dig away in your garden...
    Exp 3.85 21 We dress our garden, eat our dinners...and these things make no impression...
    Mrs1 3.135 16 ...if perchance a searching realist comes to our gate...then again we run to our curtain, and hide ourselves as Adam at the voice of the Lord God in the garden.
    Nat2 3.190 15 The hunger for wealth, which reduces the planet to a garden, fools the eager pursuer.
    UGM 4.21 14 If I work in my garden and prune an apple-tree, I am well enough entertained...
    SwM 4.101 6 ...[Swedenborg] lived in a house situated in a large garden;...
    ET1 5.13 23 [Coleridge said] There were only three things which the government had brought into that garden of delights [Sicily], namely, itch, pox and famine.
    ET1 5.22 3 [Wordsworth] led me out into his garden...
    ET3 5.34 7 England is a garden.
    ET8 5.128 17 [The English]...even if disposed to recreation, will avoid an open garden.
    ET10 5.163 12 Whatever is excellent and beautiful...in fountain, garden, or grounds,--the English noble crosses sea and land to see and to copy at home.
    ET16 5.285 9 We [Emerson and Carlyle] crossed a bridge [at Wilton Hall] built by Inigo Jones...came down into the Italian garden and into a French pavilion garnished with French busts;...
    ET16 5.288 25 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.
    ET17 5.293 19 Among the privileges of London, I recall with pleasure two or three signal days, one at Kew, where Sir William Hooker showed me all the riches of the vast botanic garden;...
    F 6.48 16 There is no need for foolish amateurs to fetch me to admire a garden of flowers...
    Wth 6.115 16 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.
    Wth 6.116 6 [The land-owner] believes he composes easily on the hills. But this pottering in a few square yards of garden is dispiriting and drivelling.
    Wth 6.123 9 ...the citizen comes to know that his predecessor the farmer built the house in the right spot for...the convenience to the pasture, the garden, the field and the road.
    DL 7.105 23 ...the garden full of flowers is Eden over again to the small Adam;...
    DL 7.112 20 If the children...are...schooled and at home fostered by the parents,--then does the hospitality of the house suffer;... ... If the linens and hangings are clean and fine and the furniture good, the yard, the garden, the fences are neglected.
    Farm 7.148 5 In September, when the pears hang heaviest...comes usually a gusty day which shakes the whole garden and throws down the heaviest fruit in bruised heaps.
    Farm 7.148 18 The high wall reflecting the heat back on the soil gives that acre a quadruple share of sunshine,--Enclosing in the garden square/ A dead and standing pool of air/...
    Farm 7.149 4 The smaller [the farmer's] garden, the better he can feed it...
    Farm 7.150 17 [The farmer's tiles] drain the land, make it sweet and friable; have made English Chat Moss a garden...
    WD 7.155 7 I, in my pleached garden, watched the pomp,/ Forgot my morning wishes, hastily/ Took a few herbs and apples, and the Day/ Turned and departed silent./
    PI 8.31 21 [The poet] is a true re-commencer, or Adam in the garden again.
    Res 8.143 2 America is such a garden of plenty...that at her shores all the common rules of political economy utterly fail.
    Res 8.153 26 The tropics are one vast garden;...
    Imtl 8.338 9 I have a house, a closet which holds my books, a table, a garden, a field...
    PerF 10.75 19 ...[labor] keeps the cow out of the garden...
    Edc1 10.137 6 A new Adam in the garden, [the new man] is to name all the beasts in the field, all the gods in the sky.
    EzRy 10.393 1 [Ezra Ripley] watched with interest the garden, the field...
    MMEm 10.404 8 [Mary Moody Emerson] writes to her nephew Charles Emerson, in 1833: I could never have adorned a garden.
    Thor 10.462 20 [Thoreau] could plan a garden or a house or a barn;...
    EPro 11.322 2 Every man's house-lot and garden are relieved of the malaria [slavery]...
    SHC 11.428 6 ...Here the green pines delight, the aspen droops/ Along the modest pathways, and those fair/ Pale asters of the season spread their plumes/ Around this field, fit garden for our tombs./
    SHC 11.432 21 ...I have heard it said here that we would gladly spend for a park for the living, but not for a cemetery; a garden for the living...
    CL 12.152 17 ...the pleasures of garden, orchard and wood must be alternated.
    CW 12.171 12 ...every house on that long street [in Concord] has a back door, which leads down through the garden to the river-bank...
    CW 12.171 18 ...I have a problem long waiting for an engineer,-this-to what height I must build a tower in my garden that shall show me the Atlantic Ocean from its top-the ocean twenty miles away.
    CW 12.172 13 Little joy has he who has no garden, said Saadi.
    CW 12.172 18 ...our people are vain, when abroad, of having the freedom of foreign cities presented to them in a gold box. I much prefer to have the freedom of a garden presented me.
    CW 12.172 19 When I go into a good garden, I think, if it were mine, I should never go out of it.
    CW 12.173 20 ...without going into the proud niceties of an European garden, there is happiness all the year round to be had from the square fruit-gardens which we plant in the front or rear of every farmhouse.
    CW 12.174 10 If you can add to the garden a noble luxury, let it be an arboretum.
    Let 12.403 27 Apathies and total want of work...never will obtain any sympathy if there is...an unweeded patch in the garden;...

Garden of Eden, n. (2)

    Hist 2.9 10 The Garden of Eden, the sun standing still in Gibeon, is poetry thenceforward to all nations.
    Res 8.142 11 Here [in America] is man in the Garden of Eden;...

Garden of the Hesperides, n. (1)

    CL 12.154 26 It was said of [Samuel Johnson] that he preferred the Strand to the Garden of the Hesperides.

Garden, Royal, Upsala, Swe (1)

    CW 12.172 25 Linnaeus, who was professor of the Royal Gardens at Upsala, took the occasion of a public ceremony to say, I thank God, who has ordered my fate, that I live in this time...

garden-beds, n. (1)

    Prd1 2.240 23 ...strawberries lose their flavor in garden-beds.

gardener, n. (11)

    MN 1.203 21 The gardener aims to produce a fine peach or pear...
    Comp 2.114 6 It is best to pay in your land a skilful gardener...
    Comp 2.127 3 ...the man or woman who would have remained a sunny garden-flower...by the falling of the walls and the neglect of the gardener is made the banian of the forest...
    Pt1 3.34 27 The morning-redness happens to be the favorite meteor to the eyes of Jacob Behmen, and comes to stand to him for truth and faith; and, he believes, should stand for the same realities to every reader. But the first reader prefers as naturally the symbol of...a gardener and his bulb...
    GoW 4.262 20 The gardener saves every slip and seed and peach-stone...
    ET6 5.110 15 The [English] ship-carpenter in the public yards, my lord's gardener and porter, have been there for more than a hundred years, grandfather, father, and son.
    ET16 5.285 5 We [Emerson and Carlyle] crossed a bridge [at Wilton Hall] built by Inigo Jones, over a stream of which the gardener did not know the name...
    Pow 6.73 20 ...the gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap of the tree into one or two vigorous limbs...
    PerF 10.71 9 Take up a spadeful or a buck-load of loam, who can guess what it holds? But a gardener knows that it is full of peaches...
    Carl 10.489 10 If you would know precisely how [Carlyle] talks, just suppose Hugh Whelan (the gardener) had found leisure enough in addition to all his daily work to read Plato and Shakspeare...
    PLT 12.28 27 To the gardener [Nature's] loam is all strawberries, pears, pineapples.

garden-fences, n. (1)

    ET8 5.128 20 ...I suppose never nation built their party-walls so thick, or their garden-fences so high [as the English].

garden-flower, n. (1)

    Comp 2.126 27 ...the man or woman who would have remained a sunny garden-flower...by the falling of the walls and the neglect of the gardener is made the banian of the forest...

garden-gates, n. (1)

    ET10 5.164 23 High stone fences and padlocked garden-gates announce the absolute will of the [English] owner to be alone.

garden-houses, n. (1)

    Nat2 3.174 4 Only as far as the masters of the world have called in nature to their aid, can they reach the height of magnificence. This is the meaning of their...garden-houses...to back their faulty personality with these strong accessories.

gardening, n. (2)

    YA 1.367 3 ...with cheap land...everything invites to the arts...of gardening...
    Milt1 12.265 15 [Milton's native honor] refined his amusements, which consisted in gardening, in exercise with the sword, and in playing on the organ.

gardening, v. (4)

    YA 1.368 17 ...the culture of years will never make the most painstaking apprentice [the man of genius's] equal: no more will gardening give the advantage of a happy site to a house in a hole...
    Comp 2.114 7 It is best to pay in your land a skilful gardener, or to buy good sense applied to gardening;...
    Wth 6.116 11 The genius of reading and of gardening are antagonistic...
    Wsp 6.223 15 If you spend for show, on building or gardening...it will so appear.

Gardens, Boboli, Florence, (2)

    YA 1.367 9 There is no feature of the old countries that strikes an American with more agreeable surprise than the beautiful gardens of Europe; such as the Boboli in Florence...
    CW 12.173 15 ...nothing in Europe is more elaborately luxurious than the costly gardens,-as the Boboli at Florence...

Gardens, Borghese, Rome, I (1)

    CW 12.173 15 ...nothing in Europe is more elaborately luxurious than the costly gardens,-as...the Borghese, the Orsini at Rome...

gardens, n. (41)

    YA 1.367 4 Public gardens...are now unknown to us.
    YA 1.367 8 There is no feature of the old countries that strikes an American with more agreeable surprise than the beautiful gardens of Europe;...
    YA 1.367 11 There is no feature of the old countries that strikes an American with more agreeable surprise than the beautiful gardens of Europe; such as...the gardens at Munich and at Frankfort on the Main...
    SL 2.165 21 If the poet write a true drama, then he is Caesar...then the selfsame strain of thought...and a heart...which on the waves of its love and hope can uplift all that is reckoned solid and precious in the world,-- palaces, gardens, money, navies, kingdoms...these all are his...
    Int 2.337 21 ...as soon as we let our will go and let the unconscious states ensue, see what cunning draughtsmen we are! We entertain ourselves with wonderful forms...of gardens...
    Art1 2.349 6 ...On the city's paved street/ Plant gardens lined with lilac sweet/...
    Art1 2.355 20 Presently we pass to some other object, which rounds itself into a whole as did the first; for example a well-laid garden; and nothing seems worth doing but the laying out of gardens.
    Mrs1 3.135 1 Everybody we know surrounds himself with a fine house, fine books, conservatory, gardens, equipage and all manner of toys...
    Nat2 3.192 16 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.
    SwM 4.98 23 ...[Swedenborg] seemed...to be a composition of several persons,--like the giant fruits which are matured in gardens by the union of four or five single blossoms.
    SwM 4.144 11 No bird ever sang in all [Swedenborg's] gardens of the dead.
    ET10 5.163 15 The taste and science of thirty peaceful generations; the gardens which Evelyn planted;...are in the vast auction [in England]...
    ET11 5.189 1 George Loudon, Quintinye, Evelyn, had taught [British dukes] to make gardens.
    ET12 5.199 7 I regret that I had but a single day wherein to see...the beautiful lawns and gardens of the colleges [at Cambridge]...
    F 6.19 23 We cannot trifle with...this cropping-out in our planted gardens of the core of the world.
    F 6.43 12 By and by [man] will...have his gardens and vineyards in the beautiful order...of his thought.
    Pow 6.53 23 If [a man] have secured the elixir, he can spare the wide gardens from which it was distilled.
    Pow 6.72 19 ...[Michel Angelo] went down into the Pope's gardens behind the Vatican, and with a shovel dug out ochres, red and yellow...
    CbW 6.274 4 It makes no difference, in looking back five years...whether you have gardens and baths...
    OA 7.324 12 At fifty years, 't is said, afflicted citizens lose their sick-headaches. I hope this hegira is not as movable a feast as that one I annually look for, when the horticulturists assure me that the rose-bugs in our gardens disappear on the tenth of July;...
    PI 8.45 22 Architecture gives the like pleasure [of rhyme] by the repetition of equal parts...in a row of windows, or in wings; gardens by the symmetric contrasts of the beds and walks.
    SA 8.81 2 ...he who has not this fine garment of behavior is studious of dress, and then not less of house and furniture and pictures and gardens...
    Res 8.151 7 [Taste] should be extended to gardens and grounds...
    PPo 8.240 25 By [Simorg] Solomon was taught the language of birds, so that he heard secrets whenever he went into his gardens.
    Supl 10.173 24 Gardens of roses must be stripped to make a few drops of otto.
    Schr 10.288 1 ...[he that would sacrifice at the Muse's altar] must relinquish orchards and gardens...
    LLNE 10.324 2 For Joy and Beauty planted it/ With faerie gardens cheered,/ And boding Fancy haunted it/ With men and women weird./
    LLNE 10.351 4 ...fancy the earth planted with fifties and hundreds of these [Fourierist] phalanxes side by side...what gardens, what baths!
    Thor 10.468 17 See these weeds, [Thoreau] said, which have been hoed at by a million farmers...and just now come out triumphant over all lanes, pastures, fields and gardens...
    Wom 11.422 14 ...one [man] wishes schools, another armies, one gunboats, another public gardens.
    SHC 11.430 27 Our people accepting this lesson from science, yet touched by the tenderness which Christianity breathes, have found a mean in the consecration of gardens.
    II 12.66 26 I know, of course, all the grounds on which any man affirms the immortality of the Soul. Fed from one spring, the water-tank is equally full in all the gardens...
    CL 12.139 4 ...if...we would, manlike, see what grows, or might grow, in Massachusetts, stock its gardens, drain its bogs...we were better patriots and happier men.
    CL 12.145 3 The privilege of the countryman is...the laying out of grounds and gardens...
    CW 12.173 14 ...nothing in Europe is more elaborately luxurious than the costly gardens...
    Bost 12.189 25 [John Smith writes (1624)] Here [in New England] are many isles planted with corn, groves, mulberries, salvage gardens and good harbours.
    Bost 12.194 25 These ancient men, like great gardens with great banks of flowers, send out their perfumed breath across the great tracts of time.
    Bost 12.200 1 What should hinder that this America...what should hinder that this New Atlantis should have...its gardens fit for human abode...
    MLit 12.317 22 There are facts...which drive young men into gardens and solitary places...
    EurB 12.370 8 The elegance, the wit and subtlety of this writer [Tennyson]...discriminate the musky poet of gardens and conservatories...
    Let 12.404 22 The pruning in the wild gardens of Nature is never forborne.

Gardens of Plants, n. (1)

    Wth 6.96 14 It is the interest of all men that there should be...French Gardens of Plants...

Gardens, Orsini, Rome, Ita (1)

    CW 12.173 15 ...nothing in Europe is more elaborately luxurious than the costly gardens,-as...the Borghese, the Orsini at Rome...

garden-walk, n. (2)

    ET1 5.23 2 This recitation [of his sonnets by Wordsworth] was so unlooked for and surprising,--he, the old Wordsworth, standing apart, and reciting to me in a garden-walk, like a school-boy declaiming,--that I at first was near to laugh;...
    Wth 6.115 6 ...the pale scholar leaves his desk to...get a juster statement of his thought, in the garden-walk.

garden-yard, n. (1)

    ET15 5.265 14 I went one day with a good friend to The [London] Times office, which was entered through a pretty garden-yard in Printing-House Square.

Gardiner, John Sylvester, n (1)

    EzRy 10.391 12 The late Dr. Gardiner, in a funeral sermon on some parishioner whose virtues did not readily come to mind, honestly said, He was good at fires.

Garibaldi, Guiseppe, n. (1)

    CInt 12.113 20 You shall not put up in your Academy the statue...of Washington or Napoleon, of Garibaldi...

Garibaldi's, Guiseppe, n. (1)

    CInt 12.118 9 Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense and of simple justice, as at a wonderful discovery. Thus, at... Garibaldi's emancipation of Italy for Italy's sake;...

garland, n. (4)

    MN 1.201 16 Nature knows neither palm nor oak, but only vegetable life, which...festoons the globe with a garland of grasses and vines.
    Hist 2.34 25 In Perceforest and Amadis de Gaul a garland and a rose bloom on the head of her who is faithful...
    PI 8.36 19 What are [the poet's] garland and singing-robes? What but a sensibility so keen that the scent of an elder-blow...is event enough for him...
    CW 12.176 12 ...if one is so happy as to find the company of a true artist, he...ought only to be used like an oriflamme or a garland, for feasts and May-days...

garlanded, v. (1)

    Suc 7.298 17 [The city boy in the October woods] is the king he dreamed he was; he walks...through bowers of crimson, porphyry and topaz... garlanded with vines, flowers and sunbeams...

garlands, n. (2)

    Hsm1 2.246 22 ...Thou thyself must part/ At last from all thy garlands, pleasures, triumphs,/ And prove thy fortitude what then 't will do./
    MAng1 12.244 10 Three significant garlands are sculptured on [Michelangelo's] tomb;...

garment, n. (14)

    Nat 1.30 17 Hundreds of writers may be found...who do not of themselves clothe one thought in its natural garment...
    Nat 1.35 8 ...the images of garment, scoriae, mirror, etc., may stimulate the fancy...
    Nat 1.44 16 So intimate is this Unity, that...it lies under the undermost garment of Nature...
    Fdsp 2.214 11 We go to Europe, or we pursue persons, or we read books, in the instinctive faith that these will...reveal us to ourselves. Beggars all. The persons are such as we; the Europe, an old faded garment of dead persons;...
    PPh 4.72 23 [Socrates] wore no under garment;...
    PPh 4.72 24 [Socrates] wore no under garment; his upper garment was the same for summer and winter...
    SwM 4.123 26 Plato is a gownsman; his garment...is an academic robe...
    DL 7.123 12 [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.
    PI 8.47 23 ...all of them shall wax old like a garment;...
    SA 8.80 22 I think Hans Andersen's story of the cobweb cloth woven so fine that it was invisible--woven for the king's garment--must mean manners...
    SA 8.80 27 ...he who has not this fine garment of behavior is studious of dress...
    Imtl 8.348 27 ...the man puts off the ignorance and tumultuous passions of youth; proceeding thence puts off the egotism of manhood, and becomes at last a public and universal soul. He is...rising to realities; the outer relations and circumstances dying out, he entering deeper into God, God into him, until the last garment of egotism falls, and he is with God...
    Chr2 10.98 18 In the ever-returning hour of reflection, [a man] says: I stand here glad at heart of all the sympathies I can awaken and share, clothing myself with them as with a garment of shelter and beauty...
    FRep 11.520 19 We feel toward [politicians] as the minister about the Cape Cod farm...the good pastor being brought to the spot, stopped short: No, this land does not want a prayer, this land wants manure. 'T is virtue which they want, and wanting it,/ Honor no garment to their backs can fit./

garments, n. (8)

    MR 1.244 9 Why must [any man] have...fine garments...
    Fdsp 2.202 18 [Before a friend] I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought...
    UGM 4.28 10 It seems as if the Deity dressed each soul which he sends into nature in certain virtues and powers not communicable to other men, and sending it to perform one more turn through the circle of beings, wrote, Not transferable and Good for this trip only, on these garments of the soul.
    PPh 4.59 14 ...the rich man wears no more garments...than the poor...
    ET13 5.220 22 The spirit that dwelt in this [English] church has glided away to animate other activities, and they who come to the old shrines find apes and players rustling the old garments.
    SS 7.10 16 [A man] is to be dressed in arts and institutions, as well as in body garments.
    Res 8.144 14 ...the woodsman knows how to make warm garments out of cold and wet themselves.
    Pray 12.352 17 When I go to visit my friends, I must put on my best garments...

garment's, n. (1)

    Milt1 12.255 17 The man of Lord Chesterfield is unworthy to touch [Milton's man's] garment's hem.

garnished, v. (5)

    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 2.82 14 ...our shelves are garnished with foreign ornaments;...
    ET16 5.285 9 We [Emerson and Carlyle] crossed a bridge [at Wilton Hall] built by Inigo Jones...came down into the Italian garden and into a French pavilion garnished with French busts;...
    DL 7.117 15 ...a house should bear witness in all its economy that human culture is the end to which it is built and garnished.
    Trag 12.417 1 [The intellect] yields the joys of conversation, of letters and of science. Hence also the torments of life become tuneful tragedy, solemn and soft with music, and garnished with rich dark pictures.

garniture, n. (1)

    LT 1.275 24 Here is great variety and richness of mysticism, [which]... when it shall be taken up as the garniture of some profound and all-reconciling thinker, will appear the rich and appropriate decoration of his robes.

garret, n. (6)

    Nat 1.76 14 ...you perhaps call [your house]...a scholar's garret.
    DSA 1.150 18 Two inestimable advantages Christianity has given us; first the Sabbath...whose light dawns welcome alike into the closet of the philosopher, into the garret of toil...
    MR 1.244 13 Give [any man's] mind a new image, and he flees into a solitary...garret to enjoy it...
    Int 2.332 23 Each truth that a writer acquires is a lantern which he turns full on what facts and thoughts lay already in his mind, and behold, all the mats and rubbish which had littered his garret become precious.
    ShP 4.201 26 Elated with success and piqued by the growing interest of the problem, [the antiquaries] have left...no chest in a garret unopened...so keen was the hope to discover whether the boy Shakspeare poached or not...
    Res 8.138 26 I like the sentiment of the poor woman who, coming from a wretched garret...for the first time to the seashore...said she was glad for once in her life to see something which there was enough of.

garrets, n. (1)

    Prd1 2.227 21 In the rainy day [the good husband]...gets his tool-box... stored with nails, gimlet, pincers, screwdriver and chisel. Herein he tastes... the cat-like love of garrets, presses and corn-chambers...

Garrick, David, n. (3)

    ShP 4.206 17 Betterton, Garrick, Kemble, Kean and Macready dedicate their lives to this genius [Shakespeare];...
    Clbs 7.244 3 ...we owe to Boswell our knowledge of the club of Dr. Johnson...Garrick...
    Insp 8.277 1 Garrick said that on the stage his great paroxysms surprised himself as much as his audience.

garrison, n. (1)

    FSLC 11.192 9 Sire, said the brave Orte, governor of Bayonne, in his letter, I have communicated your majesty's command to your faithful inhabitants and warriors in the garrison, and I have found there only good citizens, and brave soldiers; not one hangman...

Garrison, William Lloyd, n. (3)

    Ctr 6.135 22 Have you heard Everett, Garrison, Father Taylor, Theodore Parker?
    CSC 10.375 12 ...Mr. Garrison, Mr. May, Theodore Parker,...and many other persons of a mystical or sectarian or philanthropic renown, were present [at the Chardon Street Convention]...
    Bost 12.207 4 From Roger Williams...down to Abner Kneeland, and Father Lamson, and William Garrison, there never was wanting [in Boston] some thorn of dissent and innovation and heresy to prick the sides of conservatism.

garrisons, n. (1)

    F 6.34 12 The opinion of the million was the terror of the world, and it was attempted...to pile it over with strata of society...with clamps and hoops of... garrisons...

garrulity, n. (1)

    CbW 6.245 1 ...this garrulity of advising is born with us...

Garrulity, On [Plutarch], n (1)

    Boks 7.200 6 [The reader] will read in [Plutarch's Morals] the essays On the Daemon of Socrates...On Garrulity...

garrulous, adj. (2)

    Insp 8.273 27 Sometimes the Aeolian harp is dumb all day in the window, and again it is garrulous...
    Supl 10.173 4 We are a garrulous, demonstrative kind of creatures...

Garter, Knights of the, n. (1)

    ET4 5.62 13 It took many generations to trim and comb and perfume the first boat-load of Norse pirates into...most noble Knights of the Garter;...

gas, n. (22)

    Nat2 3.183 23 ...moon, plant, gas, crystal, are concrete geometry and numbers.
    Nat2 3.196 11 Nature is the incarnation of a thought, and turns to a thought again, as ice becomes water and gas.
    Pol1 3.205 13 Cover up a pound of earth never so cunningly...convert it to gas; it will always weigh a pound;...
    UGM 4.10 11 ...solid, liquid, and gas, circle us round in a wreath of pleasures...
    UGM 4.17 15 [The imagination]...inspires an audacious mental habit. We are as elastic as the gas of gunpowder...
    ET13 5.229 19 Lord Shaftesbury calls the poor thieves together and reads sermons to them, and they call it gas.
    F 6.33 12 Man moves in all modes...by gas of balloon...
    Pow 6.67 21 ...[Boniface] subscribed for the fountains, the gas, and the telegraph;...
    Wth 6.126 3 The merchant has but one rule, absorb and invest;...the gas and smoke must be burned...
    Ctr 6.152 2 It is odd that our people should have--not water on the brain, but a little gas there.
    Ill 6.308 3 When thou dost return/ .../ Beholding.../ ...out of endeavor/ To change and to flow,/ The gas become solid,/ And phantoms and nothings/ Return to be things,/ And endless imbroglio/ Is law and the world,--/Then first shalt thou know,/ That in the wild turmoil,/ Horsed on the Proteus,/ Thou ridest to power,/ And to endurance./
    Elo1 7.62 6 Our county conventions often exhibit a small-pot-soon-hot style of eloquence. We are too much reminded of a medical experiment where a series of patients are taking nitrous-oxide gas.
    Farm 7.144 5 The good rocks...say to [the farmer]: We have the sacred power as we received it. We have not failed of our trust, and now...take the gas we have hoarded, mingle it with water, and let it be free to grow in plants and animals and obey the thought of man.
    Suc 7.287 25 Newton was a great man, without telegraph, or gas...
    PI 8.4 17 First innuendos, then broad hints, then smart taps are given, suggesting...that matter is not what it appears;--that chemistry can blow it all into gas.
    Res 8.149 8 It is a law of chemistry that every gas is a vacuum to every other gas;...
    Res 8.149 9 It is a law of chemistry that every gas is a vacuum to every other gas;...
    Imtl 8.325 15 [The Greek] set his wit and taste, like elastic gas, under these mountains of stone [the pyramids], and lifted them.
    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.
    LLNE 10.329 5 ...chemistry, which is the analysis of matter, has taught us that we eat gas, drink gas, tread on gas, and are gas.
    LLNE 10.352 12 [Fourier] treats man as...something that may be...made into solid or fluid or gas, at the will of the leader;...
    ACri 12.288 2 Who has not heard in the street how forcible is bosh, gammon and gas.

gas-burners, n. (1)

    ET5 5.96 10 Gas-burners are cheaper than daylight in numberless floors in the cities [of England].

Gascoigne, George, n. (1)

    Ctr 6.139 16 ...the old English poet Gascoigne says, A boy is better unborn than untaught.

Gascon, n. (1)

    MoS 4.164 2 Other coincidences...concurred to make this old Gascon [Montaigne] still new and immortal for me.

gases, n. (16)

    MN 1.222 24 Do what you know, and perception is converted into character...as these forest leaves absorb light, electricity, and volatile gases...
    YA 1.373 1 The population of the world is a conditional population; these are not the best, but the best that could live in the existing state of soils, gases, animals, and morals...
    Mrs1 3.121 17 An element which unites all the most forcible persons of every country...must be an average result of the character and faculties universally found in men. It seems a certain permanent average; as the atmosphere is a permanent composition, whilst so many gases are combined only to be decompounded.
    UGM 4.11 12 The gases gather to the solid firmament...
    SwM 4.130 17 Success, or a fortunate genius, seems to depend...on a due proportion...of moral and mental power, which perhaps obeys the law of those chemical ratios which make a proportion in volumes necessary to combination, as when gases will combine in certain fixed rates, but not at any rate.
    Pow 6.80 22 ...[spirit] is as much a subject of exact law and arithmetic as fluids and gases are;...
    Wth 6.89 27 ...all grand and subtile things, minerals, gases, ethers, passions, war, trade, government,--are [man's] natural playmates...
    CbW 6.247 27 See what a cometary train of auxiliaries man carries with him, of animals, plants, stones, gases and imponderable elements.
    Bty 6.281 24 ...the skin or skeleton you show me is no more a heron than a heap of ashes or a bottle of gases into which his body has been reduced, is Dante or Washington.
    Farm 7.145 2 Our senses...do not believe the chemical fact that these huge mountain chains are made up of gases and rolling wind.
    Boks 7.195 4 [Nature] does the same thing by books as by her gases and plants.
    Grts 8.306 11 ...[Faraday] showed us various experiments on certain gases...
    Grts 8.306 13 ...whilst ordinarily magnetism of steel is from north to south, in other substances, gases, it acts from east to west.
    Prch 10.226 3 ...the earth we stand upon...is chemically resolvable into gases and nebulae...
    Schr 10.271 26 ...the solidest rocks are made up of invisible gases...
    FRep 11.513 20 Our sleepy civilization...has built its whole art of war...on that one compound [gunpowder]...and reckons Greeks and Romans and Middle Ages little better than Indians and bow-and-arrow times. As if the earth, water, gases, lightning and caloric had not a million energies, the discovery of any one of which could change the art of war again...

gas-light, n. (4)

    Wsp 6.224 15 ...gas-light is found to be the best nocturnal police...
    Civ 7.33 11 ...in Judaea, the advent of Jesus, and, in modern Christendom, of the realists Huss, Savonarola and Luther,--are casual facts which... elevate the rule of life. In the presence of these agencies it is frivolous to insist on the invention...of steam-power or gas-light...
    WD 7.159 2 ...the mowing-machines, gas-light, lucifer matches...are new in this century...
    LLNE 10.355 22 ...the men of science, art, intellect, are pretty sure to degenerate into selfish housekeepers, dependent on wine, coffee, furnace-heat, gas-light and fine furniture.

gas-lighted, v. (1)

    FSLC 11.209 20 By new arts the earth is subdued, roaded, tunnelled, telegraphed, gas-lighted;...

gas-pipes, n. (1)

    Res 8.142 22 ...the walls of a modern house are perforated with water-pipes, sound-pipes, gas-pipes, heat-pipes...

gastric, adj. (1)

    Dem1 10.26 19 [Adepts in occult facts] are...by laws of kind,-dunces seeking dunces in the dark of what they call the spiritual world,-preferring snores and gastric noises to the voice of any muse.

Gataker, Thomas, n. (1)

    ET14 5.238 4 ...[English] scholars...Mede, Gataker, Hooker...acquired the solidity and method of engineers.

gate, n. (20)

    Fdsp 2.194 8 ...I am not so ungrateful as not to see the wise, the lovely and the noble-minded, as from time to time they pass my gate.
    Mrs1 3.135 13 ...if perchance a searching realist comes to our gate...then again we run to our curtain, and hide ourselves...
    Mrs1 3.154 14 The king of Schiraz could not afford to be so bountiful as the poor Osman who dwelt at his gate.
    PPh 4.58 26 One would say [Plato] had read the inscription on the gates of Busyrane,--Be bold; and on the second gate,--Be bold, be bold, and evermore be bold; and then again had paused well at the third gate,--Be not too bold.
    PPh 4.59 1 One would say [Plato] had read the inscription on the gates of Busyrane,--Be bold; and on the second gate,--Be bold, be bold, and evermore be bold; and then again had paused well at the third gate,--Be not too bold.
    MoS 4.176 8 ...common sense resumes its tyranny; we say, Well, the army, after all, is the gate to fame, manners and poetry...
    ET16 5.289 10 Just before entering Winchester we stopped at the Church of Saint Cross, and...we demanded a piece of bread and a draught of beer, which the founder, Henry de Blois, in 1136, commanded should be given to every one who should ask it at the gate.
    F 6.10 27 When each comes forth from his mother's womb, the gate of gifts closes behind him.
    F 6.29 11 ...'T is written on the gate of Heaven, Woe unto him who suffers himself to be betrayed by Fate!
    Wth 6.116 1 Every tree and graft [on a man's land]...stand in his way like duns, when he would go out of his gate.
    CbW 6.246 10 We accompany the youth with sympathy and manifold old sayings of the wise to the gate of the arena...
    DL 7.106 14 [The child] has heard of wild horses and of bad boys, and with a pleasing terror he watches at his gate for the passing of those varieties of each species.
    DL 7.114 8 ...we desire to play the benefactor and the prince...with the stranger at the gate...
    DL 7.118 25 I pray you, O excellent wife, not to cumber yourself and me to get a rich dinner for this man or this woman who has alighted at our gate...
    PPo 8.243 24 The secret that should not be blown/ Not one of thy nation must know;/ You may padlock the gate of a town,/ But never the mouth of a foe./
    PPo 8.245 26 'T is writ on Paradise's gate,/ Woe to the dupe that yields to Fate!/
    Imtl 8.326 21 I read at Melrose Abbey the inscription on the ruined gate...
    EzRy 10.390 21 We remember the remark made by the old farmer who used to travel hither from Maine, that no horse from the Eastern country would go by the Doctor's [Ezra Ripley's] gate.
    War 11.173 27 [The man of principle] is willing to be hanged at his own gate, rather than consent to any compromise of his freedom...
    MAng1 12.238 14 ...just here [said Vasari's servant to Michelangelo], before your door, is a spot of soft mud, and [the candles] will stand upright in it very well, and there I will light them all. Put them down, then, returned Michael, since you shall not make a bonfire at my gate.

gatepost, n. (1)

    Bty 6.302 5 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.

gates, n. (21)

    Con 1.323 7 In the civil wars of France, Montaigne alone, among all the French gentry, kept his castle gates unbarred...
    YA 1.371 1 A heterogeneous population crowding...to the great gates of North America...it cannot be doubted that the legislation of this country should become more catholic and cosmopolitan than that of any other.
    Hsm1 2.253 17 When I was in Sogd I saw a great building, like a palace, the gates of which were open...
    Mrs1 3.145 3 Let there be grotesque sculpture about the gates and offices of temples.
    Mrs1 3.152 21 [Youth] have yet to learn that [ our society's] seeming grandeur is shadowy and relative...its proudest gates will fly open at the approach of their courage and virtue.
    Nat2 3.169 20 At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small...
    PPh 4.58 25 One would say [Plato] had read the inscription on the gates of Busyrane,--Be bold; and on the second gate,--Be bold, be bold, and evermore be bold; and then again had paused well at the third gate,--Be not too bold.
    MoS 4.164 16 In the civil wars of the League...Montaigne kept his gates open and his house without defence.
    ET12 5.201 23 [Oxford's] gates shut of themselves against modern innovation.
    ET16 5.278 2 ...the situation [of Stonehenge is] fixed astronomically,--the grand entrances...being placed exactly northeast, as all the gates of the old cavern temples are.
    CbW 6.267 3 ...who provoke pity like that excellent family party just arriving in their well-appointed carriage, as far from home and any honest end as ever? Each nation has asked successively, What are they here for? until at last the party...anticipate the question at the gates of each town.
    Art2 7.38 8 Always in proportion to the depth of its sense does [the thought] knock importunately at the gates of the soul, to be spoken, to be done.
    WD 7.158 9 ...we pity our fathers for dying before...photograph and spectroscope arrived, as cheated out of half their human estate. These arts open great gates of a future...
    Res 8.137 6 The world is all gates...
    PLT 12.38 10 The point of interest is here, that these gates [spiritual facts], once opened, never swing back.
    CInt 12.116 14 ...if [colleges] could cause that a mind not profound should become profound,-we should all rush to their gates;...
    CInt 12.116 16 ...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.
    MAng1 12.243 17 ...there [in Florence], the tradition of [Michelangelo's] opinions meets the traveller in every spot. ... Look at these bronze gates of the Baptistery, with their high reliefs, cast by Ghiberti five hundred years ago. Michael Angelo said, they were fit to be the gates of Paradise.
    MAng1 12.243 20 ...there [in Florence], the tradition of [Michelangelo's] opinions meets the traveller in every spot. ... Look at these bronze gates of the Baptistery...cast by Ghiberti five hundred years ago. Michael Angelo said, they were fit to be the gates of Paradise.

gather, v. (23)

    AmS 1.83 21 The planter, who is Man sent out into the field to gather food, is seldom cheered by any idea of the true dignity of his ministry.
    AmS 1.93 22 ...[colleges] can only highly serve us...when they gather from far every ray of various genius to their hospitable halls...
    SR 2.50 8 He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness...
    Int 2.333 25 If you gather apples in the sunshine...and then retire within doors, and shut your eyes and press them with your hand, you shall still see apples hanging in the bright light...
    UGM 4.11 12 The gases gather to the solid firmament...
    SwM 4.133 24 All [Swedenborg's] interlocutors Swedenborgize. Be they who they may, to this complexion must they come at last. This Charon ferries them all over in his boat;...and all gather one grimness of hue and style.
    ET11 5.188 5 ...[the English nobility] are they...who gather and protect works of art...
    ET11 5.192 26 ...gaming, racing, drinking and mistresses bring [the English aristocracy] down, and the democrat can still gather scandals, if he will.
    Ctr 6.157 16 Here is a new poem, which elicits a good many comments in the journals and in conversation. From these it is easy at last to gather the verdict which readers passed upon it;...
    Wsp 6.241 17 There will be a new church founded on moral science;...it will fast enough gather beauty, music, picture, poetry.
    Ill 6.315 11 When the boys come into my yard for leave to gather horse-chestnuts, I own I enter into nature's game...
    Civ 7.22 2 'T is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log hut on the frontier. ... With it comes a Latin grammar,--and one of those tow-head boys has written a hymn on Sunday. Now let colleges, now let senates take heed! for here is one who opening these fine tastes on the basis of the pioneer's iron constitution, will gather all their laurels in his strong hands.
    Art2 7.54 27 The amphitheatre of the old Romans,--any one may see its origin who looks at the crowd running together to see any fight...in the street. The first comers gather round in a circle...
    Elo1 7.66 4 ...in our experience we are forced to gather up the figure [of the orator] in fragments...
    WD 7.167 14 Hesiod wrote a poem which he called Works and Days... instructing the husbandman...when to gather wood...
    Cour 7.259 5 Those political parties which gather in the well-disposed portion of the community,--how infirm and ignoble!...
    PC 8.224 1 The immeasurableness of Nature is not more astounding than [man's] power to gather all her omnipotence into a manageable rod or wedge...
    Imtl 8.328 13 [Sixty years ago] We were all taught that we were born to die; and over that, all the terrors that theology could gather from savage nations were added to increase the gloom.
    Thor 10.484 15 There is a flower known to botanists...which grows on the most inaccessible cliffs of the Tyrolese mountains...and which the hunter... climbs the cliffs to gather...
    Thor 10.484 20 Thoreau seemed to me living in the hope to gather this plant [the Edelweisse]...
    AKan 11.263 19 When [the country] is lost it will be time enough then for any who are luckless enough to remain alive to gather up their clothes and depart to some land where freedom exists.
    CPL 11.504 11 Julius Caesar, when shipwrecked, and forced to swim for life, did not gather his gold, but took his Commentaries between his teeth and swam for the shore.
    Bost 12.204 25 The seed of prosperity was planted [in Massachusetts]. The people did not gather where they had not sown.

gathered, v. (22)

    AmS 1.83 13 ...this fountain of power...has been so minutely subdivided and peddled out, that it...cannot be gathered.
    SL 2.153 24 ...when the empty book has gathered all its praise...it still needs fuel to make fire.
    Wth 6.126 2 The merchant has but one rule, absorb and invest;...the scraps and filings must be gathered back into the crucible;...
    Suc 7.307 5 The plenty of the poorest place is too great: the harvest cannot be gathered.
    Elo2 8.111 20 Who knows before the debate begins...what the means are of the combatants? The facts, the reasons, the logic,--above all, the flame of passion and the continuous energy of will which is presently to be let loose...on this miscellaneous assembly gathered from the streets,--all are invisible and unknown.
    Res 8.139 26 [Nature] shows us only surfaces, but she is million fathoms deep. What spaces! what durations!...in humanity...millions of lives to add only sentiments and guesses, which at last, gathered in by an ear of sensibility, make the furniture of the poet.
    QO 8.182 7 ...the psalms and liturgies of churches, are...of this slow growth,-a fagot of selections gathered through ages...
    Aris 10.60 6 ...there is an order of men, never quite absent, who enroll no names in their archives but such as are capable of truth. They are gathered in no one chamber;...
    SovE 10.209 21 [The moral law] has not yet its first hymn. But, that every line and word may be coals of true fire, ages must roll, ere these casual wide-falling cinders can be gathered into broad and steady altar-flame.
    Plu 10.293 4 It is remarkable that of an author so familiar as Plutarch... whose history is so easily gathered from his works...not even the dates of his birth and death, should have come down to us.
    EzRy 10.383 8 To these facts, gathered chiefly from [Ezra Ripley's] own diary...I can only add a few traits from memory.
    HDC 11.56 23 The college had been already gathered [at Concord] in 1638.
    SMC 11.351 13 ...the memories of these martyrs, the noble names which yet have gathered only their first fame...will go on clothing this shaft [the Concord Monument] with daily beauty and spiritual life.
    ChiE 11.472 19 Confucius has not yet gathered all his fame.
    FRO1 11.480 27 I wish...that within this little band that has gathered here to-day [Free Religious Association], should grow friendship.
    CPL 11.500 17 Henry Thoreau we all remember as a man...more widely known as the writer of some of the best books which have been written in this country, and which, I am persuaded, have not yet gathered half their fame.
    PLT 12.55 4 The natural remedy against...this desultory universality of ours, this immense ground-juniper falling abroad and not gathered up into any columnar tree, is to substitute realism for sentimentalism;...
    Mem 12.98 15 We gathered up what a rolling snow-ball as we came along...
    Mem 12.102 12 Some days are bright with thought and sentiment, and we live a year in a day. Yet these best days are not always those which memory can retain. This water once spilled cannot be gathered.
    CL 12.162 25 ...sometimes [my naturalist] brought [the farmers] ostentatiously gifts of flowers, fruit or rare shrubs they would gladly have paid a price for, and did not tell them that he gathered them in their own woods.
    ACri 12.284 20 ...there is a conversation above grossness and below refinement...where Shakspeare seems to have gathered his comic dialogue.
    EurB 12.371 26 ...[Ben Jonson] is a countryman at a harvest-home, attending his ox-cart from the fields...stuck...with ferns and pond-lilies which the children have gathered.

gatherer, n. (1)

    Comp 2.98 17 If the gatherer gathers too much, Nature takes out of the man what she puts into his chest;...

gathering, v. (11)

    SL 2.144 4 A man is...a selecting principle, gathering his like to him wherever he goes.
    OS 2.291 6 The simplest utterances are worthiest to be written, yet are they so cheap and so things of course, that in the infinite riches of the soul it is like gathering a few pebbles off the ground...
    NR 3.238 3 ...our economical mother...gathering up into some man every property in the universe, establishes thousand-fold occult mutual attractions among her offspring...
    UGM 4.4 4 You say...in the hills of the Sacramento there is gold for the gathering.
    ET11 5.195 13 Already...the English noble and squire were preparing for the career of the country-gentleman and his peaceable expense. They went from city to city...gathering seeds, gems, coins and divers curiosities, preparing for a private life thereafter...
    ET19 5.313 6 Is it not true, sir, that the wise ancients did not praise the ship parting with flying colors from the port, but only that brave sailor which came back...stript of her banners, but having ridden out the storm? And so... I feel in regard to this aged England...with the infirmities of a thousand years gathering around her...
    PerF 10.76 24 ...the health of man is an equality of inlet and outlet, gathering and giving.
    Schr 10.276 6 There is plenty of air, but it is worth nothing until by gathering it into sails we can get it into shape and service to carry us and our cargo across the sea.
    SMC 11.348 19 Yea, many a tie, through iteration sweet,/ Strove to detain their fatal feet;/ And yet the enduring half they chose,/ Whose choice decides a man life's slave or king,/ The invisible things of God before the seen and known:/ Therefore their memory inspiration blows/ With echoes gathering on from zone to zone;/...
    Humb 11.457 19 The wonderful Humboldt...marches an army, gathering all things as he goes.
    PPr 12.383 5 It requires great courage in a man of letters to handle the contemporary practical questions;...because of...the waste of strength in gathering unripe fruits.

gathers, v. (13)

    Nat 1.20 23 ...when Arnold Winkelried...gathers in his side a sheaf of Austrian spears to break the line for his comrades; are not these heroes entitled to add the beauty of the scene to the beauty of the deed?
    Nat 1.33 16 ...A rolling stone gathers no moss;...
    Tran 1.338 21 The squirrel hoards nuts and the bee gathers honey, without knowing what they do...
    Comp 2.98 17 If the gatherer gathers too much, Nature takes out of the man what she puts into his chest;...
    PNR 4.87 13 [Plato's] thoughts, in sparkles of light, had appeared often to pious and to poetic souls; but this well-bred, all-knowing Greek geometer... gathers them all up into rank and gradation...
    PerF 10.81 13 See in a circle of school-girls one with...no special vivacity,-but she can so recite her adventures that she is never alone, but at night or at morning wherever she sits the inevitable circle gathers around her...
    SovE 10.195 23 Truth gathers itself spotless and unhurt after all our surrenders and concealments and partisanship...
    Schr 10.261 9 ...the society of lettered men is a university which...gathers in the distant and solitary student into its strictest amity.
    Carl 10.492 10 Here, [Carlyle] says, the Parliament gathers up six millions of pounds every year to give the poor, and yet the people starve.
    SMC 11.375 23 There are people who can hardly read the names on yonder bronze tablet [Concord Monument], the mist so gathers in their eyes.
    SMC 11.375 24 A gloom gathers on this assembly...
    Shak1 11.449 4 ...Shakspeare is the one resource of our life on which no gloom gathers;...
    Bost 12.187 23 Each great city gathers these values and delights for mankind...

gaucheries, n. (1)

    SS 7.5 12 [My friend] had a remorse running to despair of his social gaucheries...

gaudier, adj. (1)

    SR 2.62 24 ...power and estate, are a gaudier vocabulary than private John and Edward...

gauds, n. (1)

    SL 2.165 24 If the poet write a true drama, then he is Caesar...then the selfsame strain of thought...and a heart...which on the waves of its love and hope can uplift all that is reckoned solid and precious in the world... marking its own incomparable worth by the slight it casts on these gauds of men;--these all are his...

gaudy, adj. (4)

    Nat 1.75 7 ...when the fact is seen under the light of an idea, the gaudy fable fades and shrivels.
    LE 1.176 17 How mean to go blazing, a gaudy butterfly, in fashionable or political salons.
    QO 8.193 27 ...people quote so differently: one finding only what is gaudy and popular;...
    Milt1 12.266 27 [Milton wrote] For notwithstanding the gaudy superstition of some still devoted ignorantly to temples, we may be well assured that he who disdained not to be born in a manger disdains not to be preached in a barn.

gauge, n. (2)

    Comp 2.91 7 Gauge of more and less through space/ Electric star and pencil plays./
    WD 7.166 5 ...if, with all his arts, [man] is a felon, we cannot assume the mechanical skill or chemical resources as the measure of worth. Let us try another gauge.

gauge, v. (1)

    SR 2.58 9 Nor does it matter how you gauge and try [a man].

gauged, v. (2)

    SL 2.157 27 ...into every assembly that a man enters, in every action he attempts, he is gauged and stamped.
    PPh 4.61 23 [Plato] could prostrate himself on the earth and cover his eyes whilst he adored that which cannot be...gauged...

gauges, n. (2)

    Tran 1.358 15 ...in society...there must be a few persons of purer fire kept specially as gauges and meters of character;...
    ET14 5.248 11 It is because [Bacon]...basked in an element of contemplation out of all modern English atmospheric gauges, that he is impressive...

Gaul, Amadis de, n. (1)

    Hist 2.34 25 In Perceforest and Amadis de Gaul a garland and a rose bloom on the head of her who is faithful...

Gaul, n. (4)

    Hist 2.4 2 ...Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.
    Hist 2.9 18 This life of ours is stuck round with...Gaul, England...as with so many flowers...
    ET10 5.160 4 The Norman historians recite that in 1067, William carried with him into Normandy, from England, more gold and silver than had ever before been seen in Gaul.
    Edc1 10.140 13 ...Caesar in Gaul, Sherman in Savannah, and hazing in Holworthy, dance through [the boy's] narrative in merry confusion, yet the logic is good.

Gaul, Narbonnese, n. (1)

    ET4 5.56 1 Charlemagne, halting one day in a town of Narbonnese Gaul, looked out of a window and saw a fleet of Northmen cruising in the Mediterranean.

Gauls, n. (2)

    ET4 5.60 19 [The Normans] had lost their own language and learned the Romance or barbarous Latin of the Gauls...
    Chr2 10.106 3 ...in the hands...of fierce Gauls, [Christianity's] creeds were tainted with their barbarism.

gaunt, adj. (1)

    ET1 5.15 10 [Carlyle] was tall and gaunt...

gauntlet, n. (3)

    Pow 6.64 25 ...the 'bruisers,' who have run the gauntlet of caucus and tavern through the county or the state,--have their own vices, but they have the good nature of strength and courage.
    Elo1 7.97 1 ...the best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mobs.
    FSLC 11.188 3 ...this man who has run the gauntlet of a thousand miles for his freedom, the statute says, you men of Massachusetts shall hunt, and catch...

Gaur, Choir [Cor Gawr], n. (1)

    ET16 5.279 3 Some diligent Fellowes or Layard will arrive...at the whole history [of Stonehenge], by that exhaustive British sense and perseverance... which leaves its own Stonehenge or Choir Gaur to the rabbits, whilst it opens pyramids and uncovers Nineveh.

Gauss, Karl Friedrich, n. (1)

    PC 8.220 3 The names of the masters at the head of each department of science, art or function are...always known to the adepts; as Robert Brown in botany, and Gauss in mathematics.

Gautama, n. (6)

    UGM 4.3 7 In the legends of the Gautama, the first men ate the earth and found it deliciously sweet.
    Imtl 8.349 12 Yama, the lord of Death, promised Nachiketas, the son of Gautama, to grant him three boons at his own choice.
    Imtl 8.349 14 Nachiketas, knowing that his father Gautama was offended with him, said, O Death! let Gautama be appeased in mind...
    Imtl 8.349 15 Nachiketas...said, O Death! let Gautama be appeased in mind...
    Imtl 8.349 18 Yama said [to Nachiketas], Through my favor, Gautama will remember thee with love as before.
    PLT 12.35 14 The old Hindoo Gautama says, Like the approach of the iron to the loadstone is the approach of the new-born child to the breast.

gauze, n. (2)

    F 6.40 15 All the toys that infatuate men...are the selfsame thing, with a new gauze or two of illusion overlaid.
    Aris 10.36 21 ...all the deference of modern society to this idea of the Gentleman...is a secret homage to reality and love which ought to reside in every man. This is the steel that is hid under gauze and lace...

gave, v. (151)

    Nat 1.35 12 Every scripture is to be interpreted by the same spirit which gave it forth...
    AmS 1.87 21 The scholar of the first age received into him the world around;...gave it the new arrangement of his own mind...
    DSA 1.147 5 We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had...with souls...that gave us leave to be what we inly were.
    LE 1.160 13 ...God gave me this crown...
    LE 1.178 26 On coming on board the Bellerophon, a file of English soldiers drawn up on deck gave [Napoleon] a military salute.
    LT 1.285 2 What has checked in this age the animal spirits which gave to our forefathers their bounding pulse?
    Tran 1.345 27 ...Where are they who represented genius, virtue, the invisible and heavenly world, to these? ... ...did the high idea die out of them, and leave their unperfumed body as its tomb and tablet, announcing to all that the celestial inhabitant, who once gave them beauty, had departed?
    Hist 2.19 9 I have seen a snow-drift along the sides of the stone wall which obviously gave the idea of the common architectural scroll to abut a tower.
    Hist 2.21 16 ...the Persian court in its magnificent era never gave over the nomadism of its barbarous tribes...
    Comp 2.107 24 ...the belt which Ajax gave Hector dragged the Trojan hero over the fields at the wheels of the car of Achilles...
    Comp 2.107 26 ...the sword which Hector gave Ajax was that on whose point Ajax fell.
    SL 2.133 1 My will never gave the images in my mind the rank they now take.
    Fdsp 2.194 17 My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me.
    Hsm1 2.259 5 The lesson [many extraordinary young men] gave in their first aspirations is yet true;...
    Hsm1 2.262 15 It is but the other day that the brave Lovejoy gave his breast to the bullets of a mob...
    Exp 3.49 27 Direct strokes [nature] never gave us power to make;...
    Chr1 3.104 12 The true charity of Goethe is to be inferred from the account he gave Dr. Eckermann of the way in which he had spent his fortune.
    Chr1 3.110 27 The coldest precisian cannot go abroad without encountering inexplicable influences. One man fastens an eye on him and... the secrets that make him wretched either to keep or to betray must be yielded;...and there are persons he cannot choose but remember, who gave a transcendent expansion to his thought...
    Mrs1 3.145 23 The epitaph of Sir Jenkin Grout is not wholly unintelligible to the present age: Here lies Sir Jenkin Grout...if a woman gave him pleasure, he supported her in pain...
    NER 3.256 7 Who gave me the money with which I bought my coat?
    NER 3.270 2 [A canine appetite for knowledge] gave the scholar certain powers of expression...
    NER 3.278 26 I remember standing at the polls one day when the anger of the political contest gave a certain grimness to the faces of the independent electors...
    NER 3.281 8 Let a clear, apprehensive mind...converse with the most commanding poetic genius, I think...the poet would confess that his creative imagination gave him no deep advantage...
    PPh 4.44 10 Returning to Athens, [Plato] gave lessons in the Academy...
    PPh 4.65 26 [Plato] said, Culture; but he first admitted its basis, and gave immeasurably the first place to advantages of nature.
    SwM 4.136 3 My learning is such as God gave me in my birth and habit...
    SwM 4.144 23 ...[Swedenborg] gave a verdict.
    MoS 4.169 23 [Montaigne says] Most of my actions are guided by example, not choice. In the hour of death, he gave the same weight to custom.
    MoS 4.184 20 Each man woke in the morning with...a spirit for action and passion without bounds...but, on the first motion to prove his strength,-- hands, feet, senses, gave way and would not serve him.
    ShP 4.190 15 The Church has reared [a great man] amidst rites and pomps, and he carries out the advice which her music gave him, and builds a cathedral needed by her chants and processions.
    ShP 4.194 1 The rude warm blood of the living England circulated in the play, as in street-ballads, and gave body which [Shakespeare] wanted to his airy and majestic fancy.
    ShP 4.210 26 ...the occasion which gave the saint's meaning the form of a conversation...is immaterial compared with the universality of its application.
    ShP 4.218 18 ...that this man of men [Shakespeare], he who gave to the science of the mind a new and larger subject than had ever existed...that he should not be wise for himself;--it must even go into the world's history that the best poet led an obscure and profane life, using his genius for the public amusement.
    NMW 4.226 27 ...Mirabeau...felt that these things which his presence inspired were as much his own as if he had said them, and that his adoption of them gave them their weight.
    NMW 4.249 9 At Arcola [said Napoleon] I won the battle with twenty-five horsemen. I seized that moment of lassitude, gave every man a trumpet, and gained the day with this handful.
    NMW 4.249 26 On the voyage to Egypt [Napoleon] liked, after dinner, to fix on three or four persons to support a proposition, and as many to oppose it. He gave a subject, and the discussions turned on questions of religion, the different kinds of government, and the art of war.
    GoW 4.263 9 ...as our German poet said, Some god gave me the power to paint what I suffer.
    ET1 5.19 15 [Wordsworth] had much to say of America, the more that it gave occasion for his favorite topic,--that society is being enlightened by a superficial tuition, out of all proportion to its being restrained by moral culture.
    ET1 5.23 7 ...recollecting myself, that I had come thus far to see a poet and he was chanting poems to me, I saw that [Wordsworth] was right and I was wrong, and gladly gave myself up to hear.
    ET3 5.41 13 It is not down in the books...that fortunate day when a wave of the German Ocean burst the old isthmus which joined Kent and Cornwall to France, and gave to this fragment of Europe [England] its impregnable sea-wall...
    ET4 5.55 9 [The Celts] planted Britain, and gave to the seas and mountains names which are poems...
    ET7 5.121 2 On the king's birthday, when each bishop was expected to offer the king a purse of gold, Latimer gave Henry VIII. a copy of the Vulgate, with a mark at the passage, Whoremongers and adulterers God will judge;...
    ET8 5.135 14 Here [in England] was lately a cross-grained miser [Joseph Turner]...who never gave a dinner to any man...
    ET8 5.140 1 King Harold gave [Haldor] this testimony, that he, among all his men, cared least about doubtful circumstances...
    ET11 5.174 14 Piracy and war gave place [in England] to trade, politics and letters;...
    ET11 5.176 18 ...the virtues of pirates gave way [in England] to those of planters, merchants, senators and scholars.
    ET11 5.177 4 ...Henry VIII...liking [John Russell's] company, gave him a large share of the plundered church lands.
    ET11 5.180 4 ...[the English lords] rightly wear the token of the glebe that gave them birth...
    ET11 5.182 22 The possessions of the Earl of Lonsdale gave him eight seats in Parliament.
    ET11 5.195 7 ...Sir Philip Sidney in his letter to his brother...gave plain and hearty counsel.
    ET12 5.202 17 My friend Doctor J. gave me the following anecdote.
    ET15 5.265 10 The proprietors [of the London Times]...gave [John Walter] whatever he wished.
    ET16 5.282 11 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 5.292 20 Every day in London gave me new opportunities of meeting men and women who give splendor to society.
    ET19 5.309 3 A few days after my arrival at Manchester, in November, 1847, the Manchester Athenaeum gave its annual Banquet...
    Wth 6.92 25 The case of the young lawyer was pitiful to disgust,--a paltry matter of buttons or tweezer-cases; but the determined youth...gave fame by his sense and energy to the name and affairs of the Tittleton snuff-box factory.
    Wth 6.118 27 The farm yielded no money, and the farmer got on without it. If he fell sick, his neighbors came in to his aid; each gave a day's work, or a half day;...
    Wsp 6.201 4 Some of my friends have complained...that we...gave too much line to the evil spirit of the times;...
    Wsp 6.202 24 Heaven kindly gave our blood a moral flow./
    Bty 6.279 10 [Seyd] smote the lake to feed his eye/ With the beryl beam of the broken wave./ He flung in pebbles well to hear/ The moment's music which they gave./
    Bty 6.279 21 While thus to love [Seyd] gave his days/ In loyal worship, scorning praise,/ How spread their lures for him, in vain,/ Thieving Ambition and paltering Gain!/
    Bty 6.295 8 In a house that I know, I have noticed a block of spermaceti lying about closets and mantelpieces, for twenty years together, simply because the tallow-man gave it the form of a rabbit;...
    Bty 6.296 10 To Eve, say the Mahometans, God gave two thirds of all beauty.
    Art2 7.54 22 ...[Goethe] suggested, we may see in any stone wall, on a fragment of rock, the projecting veins of harder stone which have resisted the action of frost and water which has decomposed the rest. This appearance certainly gave the hint of the hieroglyphics inscribed on [the Egyptians'] obelisk.
    Cour 7.253 22 [Self-Sacrifice] makes the renown...of Chatham, whose scornful magnanimity gave him immense popularity;...
    Cour 7.279 20 The hunter met [the bear's] gaze,/ Nor yet an inch gave way;/ The bear turned slowly round,/ And slowly moved away./
    Suc 7.284 10 ...Evelyn writes from Rome: Bernini...gave a public opera, wherein he painted the scenes, cut the statues...
    Suc 7.299 14 Is the old church which gave you the first lessons of religious life...only boards or brick and mortar?
    OA 7.315 15 ...the naivete of [Josiah Quincy's] eager preference of Cicero' s opinions to King David's, gave unusual interest to the College festival.
    PI 8.7 16 The electric word pronounced by John Hunter a hundred years ago, arrested and progressive development...gave the poetic key to Natural Science...
    PI 8.11 2 [Goethe] was himself conscious of [imagination's] help, which made him a prophet among the doctors. From this vision he gave brave hints to the zoologist, the botanist and the optician.
    PI 8.14 7 Saint John gave us the Christian figure of souls washed in the blood of Christ.
    SA 8.93 12 Shenstone gave no bad account of this influence [of women] in his description of the French woman...
    SA 8.101 26 In America, the necessity of...building every house and barn and fence, then church and town-house...made the whole population poor; and the like necessity is still found in each new settlement in the Territories. These needs gave their character to the public debates in every village and state.
    Comc 8.172 8 Whilst [Timur] was shaven, the barber gave him a looking-glass in his hand.
    QO 8.191 27 ...Poesy, drawing within its circle all that is glorious and inspiring, gave itself but little concern as to where its flowers originally grew.
    QO 8.198 7 We once knew a man overjoyed at the notice of his pamphlet in a leading newspaper. What range he gave his imagination!
    QO 8.199 19 ...does it not look...as if we stood...in a circle of intelligences that reached...back to the first negro, who...gave a shriller sound or name for the thing he saw and dealt with?
    PC 8.208 22 The war gave us the abolition of slavery...
    PPo 8.257 18 [The rose] was of her beauty proud,/ And prouder of her youth,/ The while unto her flaming heart/ The bulbul gave his truth./
    PPo 8.263 24 In the fable [Ferideddin Attar's Bird Conversations], the birds were soon weary of the length and difficulties of the way, and at last almost all gave out.
    Imtl 8.327 1 ...the true disciples saw, through the letter, the doctrine of eternity, which...gave grandeur to the passing hour.
    Imtl 8.331 16 [Both men] were men of intellect, and one of them, at a later period, gave to a friend this anecdote.
    Imtl 8.332 11 Slowly [the two men]...at last met,-said nothing, but shook hands long and cordially. At last his friend said, Any light, Albert? None, replied Albert. Any light, Lewis? None, replied he. They...gave one more shake each to the hand he held...
    Supl 10.171 8 ...the [agricultural] discourse, to say the truth, was bad; and one of our village fathers gave at the dinner this toast: The orator of the day: his subject deserves the attention of every farmer.
    Plu 10.310 5 [Some of Plutarch's works] are...very crude opinions; many of them so puerile that one would believe that Plutarch in his haste adopted the notes of his younger auditors, some of them jocosely misreporting the dogma of the professor, who laid them aside as memoranda for future revision, which he never gave...
    LLNE 10.331 9 If any of my readers were at that period [1820] in Boston or Cambridge, they will easily remember [Everett's] radiant beauty of person...his heavy large eye, marble lids, which gave the impression of mass which the slightness of his form needed;...
    LLNE 10.333 2 In the pulpit...[Everett] gave the reins to his florid, quaint and affluent fancy.
    LLNE 10.335 24 In the pulpit Dr. Frothingham...had already made us acquainted...with the genius of Eichhorn's theologic criticism. And Professor Norton a little later gave form and method to the like studies in the then infant Divinity School.
    LLNE 10.343 19 ...the intelligence and character and varied ability of the company gave it some notoriety...
    LLNE 10.356 14 ...Thoreau gave in flesh and blood and pertinacious Saxon belief the purest ethics.
    LLNE 10.362 10 Many ladies...gave character and varied attraction to the place [Brook Farm].
    CSC 10.376 20 By no means the least value of this [Chardon Street] Convention, in our eye, was the scope it gave to the genius of Mr. Alcott...
    CSC 10.377 2 ...the [Chardon Street] Convention...gave occasion to memorable interviews and conversations...
    EzRy 10.386 2 ...[Ezra Ripley] gave me anecdotes of the nine church members who had made a division in the church in the time of his predecessor...
    EzRy 10.394 19 This intimate knowledge of families...and still more, his sympathy, made [Ezra Ripley] incomparable...in his exhortations and prayers. He gave himself up to his feelings...
    MMEm 10.401 10 [Mary Moody Emerson's aunt] would leave the farm to her by will. This promise was kept; she came into possession of the property many years after, and her dealings with it gave her no small trouble...
    MMEm 10.405 27 None but was attracted or piqued by [Mary Moody Emerson's] interest and wit and wide acquaintance with books and with eminent names. She said she gave herself full swing in these sudden intimacies...
    MMEm 10.417 5 [Mary Moody Emerson] was addressed and offered marriage by a man...whom she respected. The proposal gave her pause and much to think...
    MMEm 10.419 6 It was the choice of the Eternal that gave the glowing seraph his joys, and to me [Mary Moody Emerson] my vile imprisonment.
    MMEm 10.432 18 [Mary Moody Emerson] gave high counsels.
    SlHr 10.439 11 [Samuel Hoar] was...a man...of a strong understanding, precise and methodical, which gave him great eminence in the legal profession.
    Thor 10.465 3 At first glance [Thoreau] measured his companion, and... could very well report his weight and calibre. And this made the impression of genius which his conversation sometimes gave.
    GSt 10.502 22 [George Stearns] never asked any one to give so much as he himself gave...
    GSt 10.503 23 [George Stearns] gave to each [patriotic measure] his strong support...
    LS 11.4 18 ...it is now near two hundred years since the Society of Quakers denied the authority of the rite [the Lord's Supper] altogether, and gave good reasons for disusing it.
    LS 11.22 13 ...that for which Jesus gave himself to be crucified;...was to redeem us from a formal religion...
    HDC 11.36 2 ...the rough welcome which the new land gave [the pilgrims] was a fit introduction to the life they must lead in it.
    HDC 11.42 26 The charter gave to the freemen of the Company of Massachusetts Bay the election of the Governor and Council of Assistants.
    HDC 11.43 2 [The Charter of the Company of Massachusetts Bay]...gave [the freemen] the power of prescribing the manner in which freemen should be elected;...
    HDC 11.47 4 Here [in the town-meeting] the rich gave counsel, but the poor also;...
    HDC 11.52 2 At a meeting which Eliot gave to the squaws apart, the wife of Wampooas propounded the question, Whether do I pray when my husband prays, if I speak nothing as he doth, yet if I like what he saith?...
    HDC 11.64 14 The public charity seems to have been bestowed in a manner now obsolete [in Concord]. The town...being informed of the great present want of Thomas Pellit, gave order to Stephen Hosmer to deliver a town cow...unto said Pellit, for his present supply.
    HDC 11.66 11 Mr. [Daniel] Bliss...by his earnest sympathy with [George Whitefield], in opinion and practice, gave offence to a part of his people.
    HDC 11.67 17 In 1764, [George] Whitfield preached again at Concord, on Sunday afternoon; Mr. [Daniel] Bliss preached in the morning, and the Concord people thought their minister gave them the better sermon of the two.
    HDC 11.74 21 Major Buttrick leaped from the ground, and gave the command to fire...
    EWI 11.99 6 We are met to exchange congratulations on the anniversary of an event singular in the history of civilization;...a day which gave the immense fortification of a fact, of gross history, to ethical abstractions.
    EWI 11.106 2 [Granville] Sharpe instantly sat down and gave himself to the study of English law for more than two years...
    EWI 11.108 6 [John Woolman] gave his testimony against the [slave] traffic, in Maryland and Virginia.
    EWI 11.137 25 This moral force perpetually reinforces and dignifies the friends of this cause [emancipation in the West Indies]. It gave that tenacity to their point which has insured ultimate triumph...
    EWI 11.137 26 This moral force perpetually reinforces and dignifies the friends of this cause [emancipation in the West Indies]. It...gave that superiority in reason, in imagery, in eloquence, which makes in all countries anti-slavery meetings so attractive...
    EWI 11.140 17 In the case of the ship Zong, in 1781, whose master had thrown one hundred and thirty-two slaves alive into the sea, to cheat the underwriters, the first jury gave a verdict in favor of the master and owners...
    FSLN 11.219 10 I say Mr. Webster, for though the [Fugitive Slave] Bill was not his, it is yet notorious...that he gave it all he had;...
    FSLN 11.234 26 The teachings of the Spirit can be apprehended only by the same spirit that gave them forth.
    JBB 11.271 15 ...the government, the judges...give...such protection as they gave to their own Commodore Paulding, when he was simple enough to mistake the formal instructions of his government for their real meaning.
    HCom 11.339 5 Old classmate, say/ Do you remember our Commencement Day?/ Were we such boys as these at twenty? Nay,/ God called them to a nobler task than ours,/ And gave them holier thoughts and manlier powers,-/ This is the day of fruits and not of flowers!/
    HCom 11.342 13 The war gave back integrity to this erring and immoral nation.
    HCom 11.344 12 A single company in the Forty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment contained thirty-five sons of Harvard. You all know as well as I the story of these dedicated men...whose fathers and mothers said of each slaughtered son, We gave him up when he enlisted.
    SMC 11.356 16 ...when the Border raids were let loose on [Kansas] villages, these people...were so beside themselves with rage, that they became on the instant the bravest soldiers and the most determined avengers. And the first events of the war of the Rebellion gave the like training to the new recruits.
    SMC 11.369 26 [George Prescott writes] We laid [Lieutenant Barrow] in two double blankets, and then sent off a long distance and got boards off a barn to make the best coffin we could, and gave him burial.
    Wom 11.415 11 After the deification of Woman in the Catholic Church, in the sixteenth or seventeenth century,-when her religious nature gave her, of course, new importance,-the Quakers have the honor of having first established, in their discipline, the equality of the sexes.
    Wom 11.415 24 ...another important step [for Woman] was made by the doctrine of Swedenborg, a sublime genius who gave a scientific exposition of the part played severally by man and woman in the world...
    Shak1 11.446 3 England's genius filled all measure/ Of heart and soul, of strength and pleasure,/ Gave to mind its emperor/ And life was larger than before;/...
    Shak1 11.450 20 ...it was not history, courts and affairs that gave [Shakespeare] lessons...
    Shak1 11.450 21 ...it was not history, courts and affairs that gave [Shakespeare] lessons, but he that gave grandeur and prestige to them.
    Scot 11.465 20 By nature, by his reading and taste an aristocrat, in a time and country which easily gave him that bias, [Scott] had the virtues and graces of that class...
    CPL 11.497 11 The sedge Papyrus, which gave its name to our word paper, is of more importance to history than cotton, or silver, or gold.
    CPL 11.501 7 Nathaniel Hawthorne's residence in the Manse gave new interest to that house...
    CPL 11.505 15 I have found several humble men and women who gave as affectionate, if not as judicious testimony to their readings.
    FRep 11.532 22 It seems as if history gave no account of any society in which despondency came so readily to heart as we see it and feel it in ours.
    CInt 12.114 10 Michael Angelo gave himself to art...
    CInt 12.117 1 ...[the scholars]...gave degrees and literary and social honors to those whom they ought to have rebuked and exposed...
    CL 12.153 13 At Niagara, I have noticed, that, as quick as I got out of the wetting of the Fall, all the grandeur changed into beauty. You cannot keep it grand, 't is so quickly beautiful; and the sea gave me the same experience.
    Bost 12.197 24 In the midst of [New England's] laborious and economical and rude and awkward population...you shall not unfrequently meet that refinement...which...gave a hospitality in this country to the spirit of Coleridge and Wordsworth...before yet their genius had found a hearty welcome in Great Britain.
    Bost 12.198 22 The religious sentiment gave the iron purpose and arm.
    MAng1 12.227 10 [Michelangelo] gave this model [of a movable platform] to a carpenter...
    MAng1 12.237 21 ...it seemed to [Michelangelo] that if a man gave him anything, he was always obligated to that individual.
    MAng1 12.238 16 ...[Michelangelo] was liberal to profusion to his old domestic Urbino, to whom he gave at one time two thousand crowns...
    Milt1 12.264 6 His mind gave him, [Milton] said, that every free and gentle spirit, without that oath of chastity, ought to be born a knight;...
    EurB 12.376 13 [Wilhelm Meister] gave the hint of a cultivated society which we found nowhere else.
    Trag 12.406 6 ...one would say that history gave no record of any society in which despondency came so readily to heart as we see it and feel it in ours.

Gawain, Sir [Malory, Morte (7)

    PI 8.60 17 ...many knights set out in search of [Merlin]. Among others was Sir Gawain...
    PI 8.60 26 Presently [Sir Gawaine] heard a voice which said, Gawain, Gawain, be not out of heart...
    PI 8.61 4 ...when [Sir Gawaine] heard the voice which thus called him by his right name, he replied, Who can this be who hath spoken to me? How, said the voice, Sir Gawain, know you me not?
    PI 8.61 12 When Sir Gawain heard the voice which spoke to him thus, he thought it was Merlin...
    PI 8.62 3 How, Merlin, my good friend, said Sir Gawain, are you restrained so strongly...
    PI 8.62 12 ...said Merlin...I taught my mistress that whereby she hath imprisoned me in such a manner that none can set me free. Certes, Merlin, replied Sir Gawain, of that I am right sorrowful...
    PI 8.62 28 ...Sir Gawain departed joyful and sorrowful;...

Gawain's, Sir [Malory, Mor (1)

    PI 8.60 13 ...in Morte d'Arthur, I remember nothing so well as Sir Gawain' s parley with Merlin in his wonderful prison...

gawn, n. (1)

    ET4 5.70 4 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.

Gawr, Cor [Choir Gaur], n. (1)

    ET16 5.279 3 Some diligent Fellowes or Layard will arrive...at the whole history [of Stonehenge], by that exhaustive British sense and perseverance... which leaves its own Stonehenge or Choir Gaur to the rabbits, whilst it opens pyramids and uncovers Nineveh.

gay, adj. (31)

    Nat 1.15 22 ...the stimulus [light] affords to the sense, and a sort of infinitude which it hath...make all matter gay.
    Hist 2.9 21 This life of ours is stuck round with...Church, Court and Commerce, as with so many flowers and wild ornaments grave and gay.
    SR 2.47 6 A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best;...
    SR 2.62 6 To [the man in the street] a palace, a statue, or a costly book have an alien and forbidding air, much like a gay equipage...
    Prd1 2.228 25 A gay and pleasant sound is the whetting of the scythe in the mornings of June...
    Hsm1 2.256 16 The great will not condescend to take any thing seriously; all must be as gay as the song of a canary...
    Gts 3.159 17 These gay natures [flowers] contrast with the somewhat stern countenance of ordinary nature...
    NR 3.246 21 We keep a running fire of sarcasm at ignorance and the life of the senses; then goes by, perchance, a fair girl, a piece of life, gay and happy...
    GoW 4.273 27 [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...
    ET8 5.127 15 This trait of gloom has been fixed on [the English] by French travellers, who...have spent their wit on the solemnity of their neighbors. The French say, gay conversation is unknown in their island.
    Pow 6.75 12 [Pericles] declined...all gay assemblies and company.
    CbW 6.243 21 ...Where the star Canope shines in May,/ Shepherds are thankful, and nations gay./
    CbW 6.245 20 The lawyer...is as gay and as much relieved as the client if it turns out that he has a verdict.
    Bty 6.291 21 In the midst of...a festal procession gay with banners, I saw a boy seize an old tin pan that lay rusting under a wall, 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.
    Civ 7.17 19 Now speed the gay celerities of art,/ What in the desert was impossible/ Within four walls is possible again/...
    Farm 7.148 4 In September, when the pears hang heaviest and are taking from the sun their gay colors, comes usually a gusty day which...throws down the heaviest fruit in bruised heaps.
    Boks 7.216 10 I remember when some peering eyes of boys discovered that the oranges hanging on the boughs of an orange-tree in a gay piazza were tied to the twigs by thread.
    Clbs 7.231 3 Amidst all the gay banter, sentiment cannot profane itself and venture out.
    PI 8.31 16 ...if your verse has not a necessary and autobiographic basis, though under whatever gay poetic veils, it shall not waste my time.
    PI 8.34 2 No matter what [your subject] is, grand or gay, national or private, if it has a natural prominence to you, work away until you come to the heart of it...
    Comc 8.169 27 ...on the back of [Astley's] waistcoat a gay cascade was thundering down the rocks with foam and rainbow...
    Comc 8.170 12 The same astonishment of the intellect at the disappearance of the man out of Nature...is the secret of all the fun...of the gay Rameau of Diderot...
    QO 8.189 7 In literature, quotation is good only when the writer whom I follow goes my way, being better mounted than I, gives me a cast, as we say; but if I like the gay equipage so well as to go out of my road, I had better have gone afoot.
    Dem1 10.4 10 They come, in dim procession led,/ The cold, the faithless, and the dead,/ As warm each hand, each brow as gay,/ As if they parted yesterday./
    PerF 10.78 6 It would be easy to awake wonder by sketching the performance of each of these mental forces; as...of the Fancy, which sends its gay balloon aloft into the sky...
    PerF 10.82 10 Every one knows what are the effects of music to put people in gay or mournful or martial mood.
    LLNE 10.351 19 Certainly we listened with great pleasure to such gay and magnificent pictures [as Fourier's].
    HDC 11.39 3 The maple, which is already making the forest gay with its orange hues, reddened over those houseless men [the settlers of Concord].
    CPL 11.499 23 [Mary Moody Emerson writes] Is the melancholy bird of night...less gratified than the gay lark...
    MLit 12.335 10 In the gay saloon [man] laments that these figures are not what Raphael and Guercino painted.
    EurB 12.371 16 Jonson is rude, and only on rare occasions gay.

gay, n. (1)

    Art1 2.361 7 When I came at last to Rome and saw with eyes the pictures, I found that genius left to novices the gay and fantastic and ostentatious...

gayer, adj. (2)

    Elo1 7.69 6 The traveller in Sicily needs no gayer melodramatic exhibition [of eloquence] than the table d'hote of his inn will afford him in the conversation of the joyous guests.
    Aris 10.32 13 In the sketches which I have to offer [on Aristocracy] I shall not be surprised if my readers should fancy that I am giving them, under a gayer title, a chapter on Education.

gayest, adj. (2)

    CbW 6.265 10 ...I find the gayest castles in the air that were ever piled, far better for comfort and for use than the dungeons in the air that are daily dug and caverned out by grumbling, discontented people.
    Art2 7.53 15 The gayest charm of beauty has a root in the constitution of things.

gayeties, n. (2)

    ET19 5.310 5 The gayeties and genius...of Punch go duly every fortnight to every boy and girl in Boston and New York.
    Wom 11.418 8 [Women] have tears, and gayeties, and faintings, and glooms and devotion to trifles.

gayety, n. (4)

    NER 3.269 7 Is it strange that society should be devoured by a secret melancholy which breaks through all its smiles and all its gayety and games?
    ET8 5.128 2 [The police in England] thinks itself bound in duty to respect the pleasures and rare gayety of this inconsolable nation;...
    Clbs 7.231 12 Among the men of wit and learning, [the lover of letters] could not withhold his homage from the gayety, grasp of memory, luck, splendor and speed;...
    EWI 11.116 17 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. There was not the least disposition to gayety.

Gay-Lussac, Joseph Louis, (1)

    Hist 2.37 12 One may say a gravitating solar system is already prophesied in the nature of Newton's mind. Not less does the brain of Davy or of Gay-Lussac... anticipate the laws of organization.

gayly, adv. (2)

    DL 7.107 3 ...by beautiful traits...the little pilgrim prosecutes the journey through Nature which he has thus gayly begun.
    SA 8.88 21 If...a man has not firm nerves...it is perhaps a wise economy to go to a good shop and dress himself irreproachably. He...may easily find that performance...a fortification that...allows him to go gayly into conversations where else he had been dry and embarrassed.

gaze, n. (5)

    Mrs1 3.149 23 I have seen an individual...who shook off the captivity of etiquette, with happy, spirited bearing, good-natured and free as Robin Hood;,--yet with the port of an emperor, if need be,--calm, serious and fit to stand the gaze of millions.
    Civ 7.20 18 [The Indian] is overpowered by the gaze of the white...
    Cour 7.279 19 The hunter met [the bear's] gaze,/ Nor yet an inch gave way;/ The bear turned slowly round,/ And slowly moved away./
    Elo2 8.116 24 [the orator]...surprises [the people]...with...his steady gaze at the new and future event...
    MLit 12.331 14 [Goethe] is like a banker or a weaver with a passion for the country; he steals out of the hot streets...to get a draft of sweet air and a gaze at the magnificence of summer, but dares not break from his slavery...

gaze, v. (8)

    MN 1.197 19 We may...safely study the mind in nature, because we cannot steadily gaze on it in mind;...
    SL 2.164 13 It is a pusillanimous desertion of our work to gaze after our neighbors.
    Int 2.329 2 We are the prisoners of ideas. They...so fully engage us that we...gaze like children...
    OA 7.322 4 ...if the life be true and noble, we have quite another sort of seniors than the frowzy, timorous, peevish dotards who are falsely old,-- namely, the men...who appearing in any street, the people empty their houses to gaze at and obey them...
    PI 8.26 4 ...a cow does not gaze at the rainbow...
    Carl 10.491 18 [Carlyle] treats [young men] with contempt;...they will eat vegetables and drink water, and he...describes with gusto the crowds of people who gaze at the sirloins in the dealer's shop-window...
    CPL 11.506 4 ...[Kepler] writes, It is now eighteen months since I got the first glimpse of light...very few days since the unveiled sun, most admirable to gaze on, burst upon me.
    MAng1 12.229 17 [Michelangelo's Moses]...is designed to embody the Hebrew Law. The law-giver is supposed to gaze upon the worshippers of the golden calf.

gazed, v. (3)

    ET4 5.56 6 As [the Northmen] put out to sea again, the emperor [Charlemagne] gazed long after them...
    Bty 6.282 4 The boy had juster views when he gazed at the shells on the beach or the flowers in the meadow, unable to call them by their names, than the man in the pride of his nomenclature.
    Cour 7.279 18 Still firm the hunter stood,/ Although his heart beat high;/ Again the creature stopped,/ And gazed with wondering eye./

gazelles, n. (1)

    CL 12.159 17 In [the Persians'] belief, wild beasts, especially gazelles, collect around an insane person...

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