Hear to Hearty

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

hear, v. (198)

    AmS 1.91 20 We hear, that we may speak.
    AmS 1.94 16 I have heard it said...that the rough, spontaneous conversation of men [the clergy] do not hear...
    AmS 1.100 3 I hear therefore with joy whatever is beginning to be said of the dignity and necessity of labor to every citizen.
    AmS 1.102 10 ...whatsoever new verdict Reason...pronounces on the passing men and events of to-day, - this [the scholar] shall hear and promulgate.
    DSA 1.131 1 All who hear me, feel that the language that describes Christ... is not the style of friendship...
    DSA 1.136 22 Where shall I hear words such as in elder ages drew men to leave all and follow...
    DSA 1.136 24 Where shall I hear these august laws of moral being so pronounced as to fill my ear...
    LE 1.174 4 If [the scholar] pines in a lonely place, hankering for the crowd...he is not in the lonely place;...he does not hear;...
    LE 1.183 21 Hence the temptation to the scholar...to hear the question, to sit upon it, to make an answer of words in lack of the oracle of things.
    LE 1.185 12 ...I thought that...you would not be sorry to be admonished of those primary duties of the intellect whereof you will seldom hear from the lips of your new companions.
    LE 1.185 13 You will hear every day the maxims of a low prudence.
    LE 1.185 15 You will hear that the first duty is to get land and money, place and name.
    MN 1.191 13 We hear something too much of the results of machinery, commerce, and the useful arts.
    MR 1.228 22 ...now...all things else hear the trumpet, and must rush to judgment...
    Con 1.302 5 For the present...to come at what sum is attainable to us, we must even hear the parties plead as parties.
    Tran 1.344 6 If you do not need to hear my thought, because you can read it in my face... then I will tell it you from sunrise to sunset.
    Tran 1.348 7 The philanthropists...had as lief hear that their friend is dead, as that he is a Transcendentalist;...
    YA 1.386 17 Where is he who seeing a thousand men...making the whole region forlorn by their inaction, and conscious himself of possessing the faculty they want, does not hear his call to go and be their king?
    Hist 2.39 21 Hear the rats in the wall...
    SR 2.49 23 These are the voices which we hear in solitude...
    SR 2.54 19 I hear a preacher announce for his text and topic the expediency of one of the institutions of his church.
    SR 2.60 12 Instead of the gong for dinner, let us hear a whistle from the Spartan fife.
    SR 2.67 22 ...see what strong intellects dare not yet hear God himself...
    SR 2.68 25 ...when you have life in yourself...you shall not hear any name;...
    SR 2.84 2 ...if you can hear what these patriarchs say, surely you can reply to them in the same pitch of voice;...
    Comp 2.96 3 That which [men] hear in schools and pulpits without afterthought, if said in conversation would probably be questioned in silence.
    SL 2.139 13 ...by lowly listening we shall hear the right word.
    Fdsp 2.193 7 ...as soon as the stranger begins to intrude...his defects, into the conversation, it is all over. He has heard the first, the last and best he will ever hear from us.
    Fdsp 2.197 11 I hear what you say of the admirable parts and tried temper of the party you praise...
    Fdsp 2.207 7 Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.
    Fdsp 2.211 25 Let us be silent,--so we may hear the whisper of the gods.
    Hsm1 2.249 20 Let [a man] hear in season that he is born into the state of war...
    Hsm1 2.258 19 ...when we hear [many extraordinary young men] speak of society, of books, of religion, we admire their superiority;...
    OS 2.279 20 Foolish people ask you, when you have spoken what they do not wish to hear, How do you know it is truth, and not an error of your own?
    OS 2.294 2 ...every sound that is spoken over the round world, which thou oughtest to hear, will vibrate on thine ear!
    Cir 2.317 19 ...O circular philosopher, I hear some reader exclaim, you have arrived at a fine Pyrrhonism...
    Int 2.342 19 As long as I hear truth I am bathed by a beautiful element...
    Int 2.342 22 The suggestions are thousand-fold that I hear and see.
    Pt1 3.8 8 ...whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down...
    Pt1 3.9 20 We hear, through all the varied music [of modern poetry], the ground-tone of conventional life.
    Pt1 3.39 23 ...the poet knows well that [what he says] not his; that it is as strange and beautiful to him as to you; he would fain hear the like eloquence at length.
    Exp 3.53 1 I hear the chuckle of the phrenologists.
    Exp 3.84 20 I hear always the law of Adrastia, that every soul which had acquired any truth, should be safe from harm until another period.
    Chr1 3.97 15 Men of character like to hear of their faults;...
    Chr1 3.97 16 Men of character like to hear of their faults; the other class do not like to hear of faults;...
    Mrs1 3.155 1 ...I shall hear without pain that I play the courtier very ill...
    Gts 3.164 17 ...we can seldom hear the acknowledgments of any person who would thank us for a benefit, without some shame and humiliation.
    Nat2 3.183 3 We may easily hear too much of rural influences.
    NR 3.226 12 ...the audience, who have only to hear and not to speak, judge very wisely and superiorly how wrongheaded and unskilful is each of the debaters to his own affair.
    NR 3.233 18 It is a greater joy to see the author's author, than himself. A higher pleasure of the same kind I found lately at a concert, where I went to hear Handel's Messiah.
    NER 3.262 24 If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment I could never stay there five minutes.
    NER 3.272 17 ...they hear music, or when they read poetry, [men] are radicals.
    NER 3.278 8 We wish to hear ourselves confuted.
    UGM 4.14 1 I cannot even hear of personal vigor of any kind...without fresh resolution.
    UGM 4.15 13 Under this head [of the effects of friendship]...falls that homage...which all ranks pay to the hero of the day, from Coriolanus and Gracchus down to...Lamartine. Hear the shouts in the street!
    UGM 4.27 13 ...[Voltaire] said of the good Jesus, even, I pray you, let me never hear that man's name again.
    PPh 4.43 19 If [Plato] had lover, wife, or children, we hear nothing of them.
    PPh 4.74 26 Crito bribed the jailer; but Socrates would not go out by treachery. Whatever inconvenience ensue, nothing is to be preferred before justice. These things I hear like pipes and drums...
    SwM 4.118 10 Why hear I the same sense from countless differing voices...
    SwM 4.131 20 [Swedenborg] was let down through a column that...was formed of angelic spirits, that he might descend safely amongst the unhappy, and witness the vastation of souls and hear there...their lamentations;...
    SwM 4.141 14 ...it is certain that [the scenery and circumstance of the newly parted soul] must tally with what is best in nature. ... In this mood we hear the rumor that the seer has arrived...
    SwM 4.142 1 When [Swedenborg] mounts into the heaven, I do not hear its language.
    MoS 4.166 25 As I look at [Montaigne's] effigy opposite the title-page, I seem to hear him say, You may play old Poz, if you will;...
    ShP 4.193 4 Here [in the Elizabethan drama] is...a shelf full of English history...which men hear eagerly;...
    NMW 4.250 18 ...[Napoleon] would not hear of materialism.
    GoW 4.283 20 [Goethe] has the formidable independence which converse with truth gives: hear you, or forbear, his fact abides;...
    ET1 5.22 14 [Wordsworth] said, If you are interested in my verses perhaps you will like to hear these lines.
    ET1 5.23 8 ...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.
    ET2 5.28 16 In one week [the ship] has made 1467 miles, and now, at night, seems to hear the steamer behind her, which left Boston to-day at two;...
    ET4 5.46 13 Men hear gladly of the power of blood or race.
    ET4 5.52 19 The Scandinavians in [the English] race still hear in every age the murmurs of their mother, the ocean;...
    ET6 5.110 24 As soon as [the English] have rid themselves of some grievance and settled the better practice, they...never wish to hear of alteration more.
    ET11 5.186 7 ...if [English nobility] never hear plain truth from men, they see the best of everything...
    ET13 5.218 12 It was strange to hear the pretty pastoral of the betrothal of Rebecca and Isaac, in the morning of the world, read with circumstantiality in York minster, on the 13th January, 1848...
    ET13 5.219 5 From his infancy, every Englishman is accustomed to hear daily prayers for the Queen...
    ET13 5.229 20 George Borrow summons the Gypsies to hear his discourse on the Hebrews in Egypt...
    ET15 5.263 11 What you read in the morning in that journal [London Times], you shall hear in the evening in all society.
    ET17 5.297 4 ...[in London] you will hear from different literary men that Wordsworth had no personal friend...
    ET19 5.312 6 I seem to hear you say, that for all that is come and gone yet, we will not reduce by one chaplet or one oak-leaf the braveries of our annual feast.
    F 6.26 20 We hear eagerly every thought and word quoted from an intellectual man.
    Wsp 6.216 26 ...we very slowly admit in another man...an ear to hear acuter notes of right and wrong than we can.
    Wsp 6.217 6 ...such persons [of higher moral sentiment] are nearer to the secret of God than others;...they hear notices...where others are vacant.
    Wsp 6.239 6 The son of Antiochus asked his father when he would join battle. Dost thou fear, replied the king, that thou only in all the army wilt not hear the trumpet?
    CbW 6.243 1 Hear what British Merlin sung,/ Of keenest eye and truest tongue./
    Bty 6.279 9 [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 13 [Seyd] heard a voice none else could hear/ From centred and from errant sphere./
    Civ 7.27 2 Hear the definition which Kant gives of moral conduct: Act always so that the immediate motive of thy will may become a universal rule for all intelligent beings.
    Art2 7.50 4 The first time you hear [good poetry], it sounds...as if copied out of some invisible tablet in the Eternal mind...
    Elo1 7.62 19 ...the like regret is suggested to all the auditors, as the penalty of abstaining to speak,--that they shall hear worse orators than themselves.
    Elo1 7.67 4 There is a tablet [in the audience] for every line [the orator] can inscribe, though he should mount to the highest levels. Humble persons are conscious of new illumination;...delicate spirits...who now hear their own native language for the first time...
    Elo1 7.67 6 There is a tablet [in the audience] for every line [the orator] can inscribe, though he should mount to the highest levels. Humble persons are conscious of new illumination;...delicate spirits...who now hear their own native language for the first time, and leap to hear it.
    Elo1 7.94 5 Fame of voice or of rhetoric will carry people a few times to hear a speaker;...
    DL 7.113 9 ...is there any calamity...that more invokes the best good will to remove it, than this?...to hear an endless chatter and blast;...
    DL 7.113 10 ...is there any calamity...that more invokes the best good will to remove it, than this?...to hear only to dissent and to be disgusted;...
    WD 7.180 23 You must hear the bird's song without attempting to render it into nouns and verbs.
    Boks 7.210 2 The bid [for the Valdarfer Boccaccio] stood at five hundred guineas. A thousand guineas, said Earl Spencer. And ten, added the Marquis [of Blandford]. You might hear a pin drop.
    Clbs 7.245 13 There are those who go only to talk, and those who go only to hear: both are bad.
    Cour 7.256 15 How short a time since this whole nation rose every morning to read or hear the traits of courage of its sons and brothers in the field...
    Cour 7.266 14 Hear what women say of doing a task by sheer force of will: it costs them a fit of sickness.
    Cour 7.270 25 [John Brown] said, As soon as I hear one of my men say, Ah, let me only get my eye on such a man, I'll bring him down, I don't expect much aid in the fight from that talker.
    Suc 7.303 8 Who is he...who does not like to hear of those sensibilities which turn curled heads round at church...
    Suc 7.304 19 ...the man of sensibility counts it a delight only to hear a child' s voice fully addressed to him...
    OA 7.334 6 [John Adams] talked of Whitefield, and remembered when he was a Freshman in College to have come into town to the Old South church (I think) to hear him...
    OA 7.334 11 I...saw [George Whitefield], [John Adams] said, through a window, and distinctly heard all. He had a voice such as I never heard before or since. He cast it out so that you might hear it at the meeting-house...
    PI 8.11 12 [Natural objects'] value to the intellect appears only when I hear their meaning made plain in the spiritual truth they cover.
    PI 8.17 27 As soon as a man masters a principle and sees his facts in relation to it, fields, waters, skies, offer to clothe his thoughts in images. Then...Parthian, Mede, Chinese, Spaniard and Indian hear their own tongue.
    PI 8.25 22 ...[people] like to talk and hear of Jove, Apollo, Minerva, Venus and the Nine.
    PI 8.43 18 Barthold Niebuhr said well, There is little merit in inventing a happy idea or attractive situation, so long as it is only the author's voice which we hear.
    PI 8.57 2 ...[Newton] only shows...that the music must rise...up to the largeness of astronomy: at last that great heart will hear in the music beats like its own;...
    PI 8.59 3 [Taliessin says] To another,--When I lapse to a sinful word,/ May neither you, nor others hear./
    SA 8.89 16 ...now and then we say things to our mates, or hear things from them, which seem to put it out of the power of the parties to be strangers again.
    SA 8.92 1 It may happen that each hears from the other a better wisdom than any one else will ever hear from either.
    SA 8.96 19 Don't say things. What you are...thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
    SA 8.102 5 I often hear the business of a little town...discussed with a clearness and thoroughness...that would have satisfied me had it been in one of the larger capitals.
    Elo2 8.115 11 ...I think every one of us can remember when our first experiences made us for a time the victim and worshipper of the first master of this art [of eloquence] whom we happened to hear in the court-house or in the caucus.
    Elo2 8.123 7 I remember, when, long after, I entered college, hearing the story of the numbers of coaches in which his friends came from Boston to hear [John Quincy Adams].
    Elo2 8.127 13 ...when once going to preach the Thursday lecture in Boston (which in those days people walked from Salem to hear), on going up the pulpit-stairs [Dr. Charles Chauncy] was informed that a little boy had fallen into Frog Pond on the Common and was drowned...
    QO 8.183 10 Thirty years ago...you might often hear cited as Mr. Webster' s three rules: first, never to do to-day what he could defer till to-morrow;...
    QO 8.194 5 Most of the classical citations you shall hear or read in the current journals or speeches were not drawn from the originals...
    PC 8.226 15 The inquisitiveness of the child to hear runs to meet the eagerness of the parent to explain.
    PPo 8.265 11 What you see is He not;/ What you hear is He not./ The valleys which you traverse,/ The actions which you perform,/ They lie under our treatment/ And among our properties./
    Insp 8.271 8 Everything which we hear for the first time was expected by the mind;...
    Grts 8.302 1 What anecdotes of any man do we wish to hear or read? Only the best.
    Grts 8.319 14 ...a very common [illusion] is the opinion you hear expressed in every village: O yes, If I lived in New York...there might be fit society;...
    Grts 8.319 19 ...a very common [illusion] is the opinion you hear expressed in every village:...it happens that there are no fine young men, no superior women in my town. You may hear this every day; but it is a shallow remark.
    Imtl 8.330 5 Hear the opinion of Montesquieu: If the immortality of the soul were an error, I should be sorry not to believe it.
    Dem1 10.13 3 Nature...works...by infinite graduation; so that we live embosomed in sounds we do not hear...
    Aris 10.45 15 It never troubles the Senator what multitudes crack the benches and bend the galleries to hear.
    Aris 10.59 12 ...I hear the complaint of the aspirant that we have no prizes offered to the ambition of virtuous young men;...
    PerF 10.69 3 The hero in the fairy-tales has a servant who can eat granite rocks, another who can hear the grass grow...
    PerF 10.81 23 If we hear music we give up all to that;...
    Chr2 10.117 22 Confucius said, If in the morning I hear of the right way, and in the evening die, I can be happy.
    Edc1 10.141 12 ...[the boy] gladly enters a school which...teaches by practice the law of conversation, namely, to hear as well as to speak.
    Edc1 10.143 25 ...I hear the outcry which replies to this suggestion:- Would you verily throw up the reins of public and private discipline;...
    Edc1 10.149 11 One burns to tell the new fact, the other burns to hear it.
    Edc1 10.158 14 If a child [in the school] happens to show that he knows any fact...that interests him and you, hush all the classes and encourage him to tell it so that all may hear.
    Supl 10.166 14 I hear without sympathy the complaint of young and ardent persons that they find life no region of romance...
    SovE 10.185 17 ...in the voice of Genius I hear invariably the moral tone...
    SovE 10.188 8 Nature is a tropical swamp in sunshine, on whose purlieus we hear the song of summer birds...
    Prch 10.218 22 I see movement, I hear aspirations, but I see not how the great God prepares to satisfy the heart in the new order of things.
    Prch 10.230 15 The simple fact...that all over this country the people are waiting to hear a sermon on Sunday, assures that opportunity which is inestimable to young men, students of theology, for those large liberties.
    Schr 10.263 15 The scholar is here...to affirm noble sentiments; to hear them wherever spoken...
    Schr 10.268 19 Let us hear no more of the practical men...
    Schr 10.273 24 If [the scholar] is not kindling his torch or collecting oil...he will not dare to hear the music of a saw or plane;...
    Schr 10.276 21 How many young geniuses we have known, and none but ourselves will ever hear of them for want in them of a little talent!
    EzRy 10.392 21 Mr. N. F. is dead, and I expect to hear of the death of Mr. B. It is cruel to separate old people from their wives in this cold weather.
    MMEm 10.418 8 Weary at times of objects so tedious to hear and see.
    Thor 10.457 11 ...a young girl...sharply asked [Thoreau], Whether his lecture would be a nice, interesting story, such as she wished to hear...
    Thor 10.463 17 [Thoreau] said...Nature knows very well what sounds are worth attending to, and has made up her mind not to hear the railroad-whistle.
    Thor 10.481 3 [Thoreau's] study of Nature...inspired his friends with curiosity to see the world through his eyes, and to hear his adventures.
    Thor 10.481 7 ...[Thoreau] could not bear to hear the sound of his own steps...
    HDC 11.51 22 John Eliot, in October, 1646, preached his first sermon in the Indian language at Noonantum; Waban, Tahattawan, and their sannaps, going thither from Concord to hear him.
    HDC 11.53 7 ...[Tahattawan] was asked, why he desired a town so near, when there was more room for them up in the country? The sachem replied that he knew if the Indians dwelt far from the English, they would not so much care to pray, nor could they be so ready to hear the word of God...
    HDC 11.59 14 ...[the red man] may fire a farm-house, or a village; but...in the first blast of [the white men's] trumpet we already hear the flourish of victory.
    LVB 11.91 18 Almost the entire Cherokee Nation stand up and say, This is not our act. Behold us. Here are we. Do not mistake that handful of deserters for us; and the American President and the Cabinet, the Senate and the House of Representatives, neither hear these men nor see them...
    EWI 11.100 17 ...[the opponent of slavery] feels that none but a stupid or a malignant person can hesitate on a view of the facts. Under such an impulse, I was about to say, If any cannot speak, or cannot hear the words of freedom, let him go hence...
    EWI 11.107 19 ...[the Quakers] were religious, tender-hearted men and women; and they had to hear the news [of slavery] and digest it as they could.
    EWI 11.114 7 ...the bill [for emancipation in the West Indies] required the appointment of magistrates who should hear every complaint of the apprentice and see that justice was done him.
    War 11.164 18 You shall hear, some day, of a wild fancy which some man has in his brain, of the mischief of secret oaths.
    War 11.171 8 ...[peace] is to hear the voice of God...
    FSLC 11.182 18 [The crisis over the Fugitive Slave Law] ended a good deal of nonsense we had been wont to hear and to repeat...
    FSLC 11.193 8 ...it is absurd, what I often hear, to accuse the friends of freedom in the North with being the occasion of the new stringency of the Southern slave-laws.
    FSLC 11.207 25 Since it is agreed by all sane men of all parties...that slavery is mischievous, why does the South itself never offer the smallest counsel of her own? I have never heard in twenty years any project except Mr. Clay's. Let us hear any project with candor and respect.
    AsSu 11.250 7 ...if Mr. Sumner had any vices, we should be likely to hear of them.
    AsSu 11.251 24 Let [Charles Sumner] hear that every man of worth in New England loves his virtues;...
    AKan 11.255 15 We hear the screams of hunted wives and children answered by the howl of the butchers.
    TPar 11.284 12 ...[Theodore Parker's] periods fall on you, stroke after stroke,/ Like the blows of a lumberer felling an oak,/ You forget the man wholly, you 're thankful to meet/ With a preacher who smacks of the field and the street,/ And to hear, you 're not over-particular whence,/ Almost Taylor's profusion, quite Latimer's sense./ Lowell, A Fable for Critics.
    SMC 11.363 4 I [George Prescott] told [the West Point officer] I had a good many young men in my company whose mothers asked me to look after them, and I should do so, and not allow them to hear such language...
    SMC 11.368 5 How would Concord people, [George Prescott] asks, like to pass the night on the battle-field, and hear the dying cry for help, and not be able to go to them.
    SMC 11.376 5 A duty so severe has been discharged [in the Civil War], and with such immense results of good...that, though the cannon volleys have a sound of funeral echoes, [men] can yet hear through them the benedictions of their country and mankind.
    SHC 11.428 7 ...shalt thou pause to hear some funeral-bell/ Slow stealing o' er the heart in this calm place/...
    FRO2 11.490 19 I am glad to hear each sect complain that they do not now hold the opinions they are charged with.
    CPL 11.505 6 Hear the testimony of Seldon, the oracle of the English House of Commons in Cromwell's time.
    CPL 11.507 23 The imagination...if it has not had...Homer or Scott, has drawn equal delight and terror from haunts and passages which you will hear of with envy.
    FRep 11.536 20 ...I dread to hear of well-born, gifted and amiable men, that they have this indifference, disposing them to this despair.
    PLT 12.8 16 ...is it pretended discoveries of new strata that are before the meeting [of the scientific club]? This professor hastens to inform us that he knew it all twenty years ago...and poor Nature and the sublime law, which is all that our student cares to hear of, are quite omitted in this triumphant vindication.
    PLT 12.14 7 I observe with curiosity [the Intellect's] risings and settings... that I may learn to...hear and save its oracles and obey them.
    PLT 12.25 13 I never hear a good speech at caucus or at cattle-show but it helps me...
    PLT 12.32 8 Teach me never so much and I hear or retain only that which I wish to hear...
    PLT 12.32 9 Teach me never so much and I hear or retain only that which I wish to hear...
    PLT 12.38 18 The thought, the doctrine, the right hitherto not affirmed is published...in conversation...of men of the world, and at last in the very choruses of songs. The young hear it, and as they have never fought it...they accept it...
    PLT 12.42 5 ...I hear a whisper, which I dare trust, that [perception] is the thread on which the earth and the heaven of heavens are strung.
    Mem 12.91 16 ...a piece of news I hear, has a value at this moment exactly proportioned to my skill to deal with it.
    Mem 12.103 21 ...confined now in populous streets you behold again the green fields, the shadows of the gray birches; by the solitary river hear again the joyful voices of early companions...
    Mem 12.103 25 At this hour the stream is still flowing, though you hear it not;...
    Mem 12.104 15 ...when late in autumn we hear rarely a bluebird's notes they are sweet by reminding us of the spring.
    CInt 12.131 9 ...'t is very certain that an examination is yonder before us and an examining committee that cannot be escaped or deceived, that every scholar...must hear the questions proposed, and answer them by himself...
    CL 12.148 20 Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated the winds as the conveying Maruts, traversers of places difficult of access. ... Because they drive the clouds, they have harnessed the spotted deer to their chariot; they are coming with weapons, war-cries and decorations. I hear the cracking of the whips in their hands.
    CL 12.152 12 The dry leaves rustle so loud, as we go rummaging through them, that we can hear nothing else.
    CL 12.157 3 Can you hear what the morning says to you, and believe that?
    Bost 12.195 4 How needful is David, Paul, Leighton, Fenelon, to our devotion. Of these writers, of this spirit which deified them, I will say with Confucius, If in the morning I hear of the right way, and in the evening die, I can be happy.
    Bost 12.201 13 There is a little formula, couched in pure Saxon, which you may hear in the corners of streets...I 'm as good as you be...
    ACri 12.289 3 We were educated in horror of Satan, but Goethe remarked that all men like to hear him named.
    EurB 12.369 16 What [Wordsworth] said, [many others] were prepared to hear and confirm.
    PPr 12.384 10 ...here [in Carlyle's Past and Present] is a message which those to whom it was addressed cannot choose but hear.
    Let 12.394 11 [The correspondents] want a friend...from whom they may hear now and then a reasonable word.
    Let 12.397 26 More letters we have on the subject of the position of young men, which accord well enough with what we see and hear.
    Trag 12.413 14 A man should try Time, and his face should wear the expression of a just judge...who puts Nature and fortune on their merits: he will hear the case out, and then decide.

heard, v. (193)

    Nat 1.32 3 At the call of a noble sentiment, again the woods wave, the pines murmur...as [the poet] saw and heard them in his infancy.
    Nat 1.58 13 The uniform language that may be heard in the churches of the most ignorant sects is, - Contemn the unsubstantial shows of the world;...
    AmS 1.94 12 I have heard it said that the clergy...are addressed as women;...
    DSA 1.136 9 ...this ill-suppressed murmur of all thoughtful men against the famine of our churches...should be heard through the sleep of indolence...
    DSA 1.137 19 I once heard a preacher who sorely tempted me to say I would go to church no more.
    DSA 1.139 16 There is poetic truth concealed in all the commonplaces of prayer and of sermons, and though foolishly spoken, they may be wisely heard;...
    DSA 1.143 5 I have heard a devout person...say...On Sundays, it seems wicked to go to church.
    DSA 1.146 26 ...[all men] love to be heard;...
    MN 1.209 13 In all the millions who have heard the voice, none ever saw the face.
    Tran 1.336 16 Afterwards, when Emilia charges him with the crime, Othello exclaims, You heard her say herself it was not I./
    Hist 2.18 10 The trivial experience of every day is always...converting into things the words and signs which we had heard and seen without heed.
    Hist 2.38 3 Who knows himself before he...has heard an eloquent tongue...
    SR 2.60 9 I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency.
    SR 2.78 2 The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are true prayers heard throughout nature...
    SL 2.156 27 I have heard an experienced counsellor say that he never feared the effect upon a jury of a lawyer who does not believe in his heart that his client ought to have a verdict.
    SL 2.163 14 I will not meanly decline the immensity of good, because I have heard that it has come to others in another shape.
    Fdsp 2.192 17 Of a commended stranger, only the good report is told by others, only the good and new is heard by us.
    Fdsp 2.193 6 ...as soon as the stranger begins to intrude...his defects, into the conversation, it is all over. He has heard the first, the last and best he will ever hear from us.
    Hsm1 2.258 16 We have seen or heard of many extraordinary young men who never ripened...
    Hsm1 2.260 21 It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person...
    Int 2.337 9 A child knows...if the attitude [in a picture] be natural or grand or mean; though he has never received any instruction in drawing or heard any conversation on the subject...
    Art1 2.360 25 I remember when in my younger days I had heard of the wonders of Italian painting, I fancied the great pictures would be great strangers;...
    Pt1 3.10 26 ...Homer no more should be heard of.
    Gts 3.159 19 ...[flowers] are like music heard out of a work-house.
    Nat2 3.169 7 There are days which occur in this climate...when, in these bleak upper sides of the planet, nothing is to desire that we have heard of the happiest latitudes...
    Nat2 3.174 11 We heard what the rich man said...
    NER 3.262 20 No man deserves to be heard against property.
    NER 3.273 9 Berkeley, having listened to the many lively things [Lord Bathurst's guests] had to say, begged to be heard in his turn...
    NER 3.282 15 ...although I have never expressed the truth, and although I have never heard the expression of it from any other, I know that the whole truth is here for me.
    UGM 4.14 18 ...A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages. When the manners of Loo are heard of, the stupid become intelligent...
    PPh 4.54 18 ...whether voices were heard in the sky, or not;...a man [Plato] who could see two sides of a thing was born.
    SwM 4.119 9 ...whatever [Swedenborg] saw...he saw not abstractly, but in pictures, heard it in dialogues...
    MoS 4.163 14 I heard with pleasure that one of the newly-discovered autographs of William Shakspeare was in a copy of Florio's translation of Montaigne.
    MoS 4.165 26 ...I, [says Montaigne,]...am afraid that Plato, in his purest virtue, if he had listened and laid his ear close to himself, would have heard some jarring sound of human mixture;...
    ShP 4.206 26 ...I went once to see the Hamlet of a famed performer...and all I then heard and all I now remember of the tragedian was that in which the tragedian had no part; simply Hamlet's question to the ghost...
    NMW 4.226 10 Dumont relates that he sat in the gallery of the Convention and heard Mirabeau make a speech.
    NMW 4.254 18 A great reputation is a great noise [said Napoleon]: the more there is made, the farther off it is heard.
    GoW 4.276 16 Goethe would have no word that does not cover a thing. The same measure will still serve [with the Devil]: I have never heard of any crime which I might not have committed.
    ET1 5.9 7 ...[Landor] professed never to have heard of Herschel...
    ET5 5.74 22 [The Roman] disembarked his legions [in England]...presently he heard bad news from Italy...
    ET5 5.100 7 In Germany there is one speech for the learned, and another for the masses, to that extent that, it is said, no sentiment or phrase from the works of any great German writer is ever heard among the lower classes.
    ET6 5.102 9 On the day of my arrival at Liverpool, a gentleman, in describing to me the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, happened to say, Lord Clarendon has pluck like a cock and will fight till he dies; and what I heard first I heard last...
    ET7 5.124 19 ...when the Rochester rappings began to be heard of in England, a man deposited 100 pounds in a sealed box in the Dublin Bank, and then advertised in the newspapers to all somnambulists, mesmerizers and others, that whoever could tell him the number of his note should have the money.
    ET7 5.125 3 It is told of a good Sir John that he heard a case stated by counsel...
    ET8 5.141 26 Glory, a career, and ambition, the words familiar to the longitude of Paris, are seldom heard in English speech.
    ET12 5.202 6 I do not know whether this learned body [at Oxford] have yet heard of the Declaration of American Independence...
    ET13 5.218 10 In York minster...I heard the service of evening prayer read and chanted in the choir.
    ET14 5.258 23 For a self-conceited modish life...there is no remedy like the Oriental largeness. That astonishes and disconcerts English decorum. For once, there is thunder it never heard...
    ET14 5.259 26 I can well believe what I have often heard, that there are two nations in England;...
    ET16 5.283 26 ...I heard afterwards that it is not an economy to cultivate this land [Salisbury Plain]...
    Ctr 6.135 22 Have you heard Everett, Garrison, Father Taylor, Theodore Parker?
    Ctr 6.148 25 Aubrey writes, I have heard Thomas Hobbes say, that, in the Earl of Devon's house, in Derbyshire, there was a good library...
    Ctr 6.151 12 I have heard that throughout this country a certain respect is paid to good broadcloth;...
    Ctr 6.160 11 I have heard that stiff people lose something of their awkwardness under high ceilings and in spacious halls.
    Wsp 6.227 4 [Another] has heard from me what I never spoke.
    Wsp 6.238 11 The great class...the rapt, the lost, the fools of ideas...suggest what they cannot execute. They speak to the ages, and are heard from afar.
    Bty 6.279 13 [Seyd] heard a voice none else could hear/ From centred and from errant sphere./
    Bty 6.295 18 ...the flute is heard farther than the cart...
    Ill 6.309 12 [In the Mammoth Cave] I...heard the voice of unseen waterfalls;...
    Ill 6.316 24 I, who have all my life heard any number of orations and debates...am still the victim of any new page;...
    SS 7.12 2 A backwoodsman...told me that when he heard the best-bred young men at the law-school talk together, he reckoned himself a boor; but whenever he caught them apart, and had one to himself alone, then they were the boors and he the better man.
    Elo1 7.73 23 [Pleasing speech] is heard like a band of music passing through the streets...
    Elo1 7.79 20 ...there are men of the most peaceful way of life...who are felt wherever they go...men who, if they speak, are heard...
    Elo1 7.80 10 A barrister in England is reputed to have made thirty or forty thousand pounds per annum in representing the claims of railroad companies before committees of the House of Commons. His clients pay not so much for legal as for manly accomplishments,--for courage, conduct and a commanding social position, which enable him to make their claims heard and respected.
    Elo1 7.83 18 I have heard it reported of an eloquent preacher...that, on occasions of death or tragic disaster which overspread the congregation with gloom, he ascended the pulpit with more than his usual alacrity...
    DL 7.106 13 [The child] has heard of wild horses and of bad boys...
    Farm 7.153 14 ...living or dying, [the farmer] never shall be heard of in [palaces];...
    Boks 7.191 16 Whenever any skeptic or bigot claims to be heard on the questions of intellect and morals, we ask if he is familiar with the books of Plato, where all his pert objections have once for all been disposed of.
    Boks 7.210 23 The tap of [the auctioneer's] hammer was heard in the libraries of Rome, Milan and Venice.
    Cour 7.260 3 One heard much cant of peace-parties long ago in Kansas and elsewhere...
    Cour 7.270 4 ...I remember the old professor, whose searching mind engraved every word he spoke on the memory of the class, when we asked if he had read this or that shining novelty, No, I have never read that book; instantly the book lost credit, and was not to be heard of again.
    Suc 7.288 27 I have heard that Nelson used to say, Never mind the justice or the impudence, only let me succeed.
    Suc 7.301 25 ...I am more interested to know that when at last [Aristotle or Bacon or Kant] have hurled out their grand word, it is only some familiar experience of every man in the street. If it be not, it will never be heard of again.
    Suc 7.306 19 The old trouveur, Pons Capdueil, wrote,--Oft have I heard, and deem the witness true,/ Whom man delights in, God delights in too./
    OA 7.315 18 [Josiah Quincy's] was a discourse full of dignity, honoring him who spoke and those who heard.
    OA 7.320 27 ...he who has accomplished something in any department alone deserves to be heard on that subject.
    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;...
    OA 7.334 9 I...saw [George Whitefield], [John Adams] said, through a window, and distinctly heard all.
    OA 7.334 10 I...saw [George Whitefield], [John Adams] said, through a window, and distinctly heard all. He had a voice such as I never heard before or since.
    OA 7.335 26 I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old.
    OA 7.336 2 I have heard that whenever the name of man is spoken, the doctrine of immortality is announced;...
    PI 8.26 12 Who has heard our hymn in the churches without accepting the truth,--As o'er our heads the seasons roll,/ And soothe with change of bliss the soul/?
    PI 8.37 23 As one of the old Minnesingers sung,--Oft have I heard, and now believe it true,/ Whom man delights in, God delights in too./
    PI 8.43 8 I have heard that the Germans think the creator of Trim and Uncle Toby...a greater poet than Cowper...
    PI 8.60 20 Presently [Sir Gawaine] heard the voice of one groaning on his right hand;...
    PI 8.60 25 Presently [Sir Gawaine] heard a voice which said, Gawain, Gawain, be not out of heart...
    PI 8.61 2 ...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?
    PI 8.61 12 When Sir Gawain heard the voice which spoke to him thus, he thought it was Merlin...
    PI 8.61 15 When Sir Gawain heard the voice which spoke to him thus, he thought it was Merlin, and he answered, Sir, certes I ought to know you well, for many times I have heard your words.
    PI 8.66 13 I have heard that there is a hope which precedes and must precede all science of the visible or the invisible world;...
    SA 8.78 1 I have heard my master say that a man cannot fully exhaust the abilities of his nature.--Confucius.
    SA 8.87 11 ...[Lord Chesterfield] says, I am sure that since I had the use of my reason, no human being has ever heard me laugh.
    SA 8.88 23 ...I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being perfectly well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity
    SA 8.94 23 The party in the second coach, on arriving, heard this story with surprise;...
    Elo2 8.109 14 Self-centred; when [the patriot] launched the genuine word/ It shook or captivated all who heard/...
    Elo2 8.120 24 I have heard an eminent preacher say that he learns from the first tones of his voice on a Sunday morning whether he is to have a successful day.
    Elo2 8.122 15 I have heard that no man could read the Bible with such powerful effect [as John Quincy Adams].
    Elo2 8.122 17 ...I never heard [John Quincy Adams] speak in public until his fine voice was much broken by age.
    Elo2 8.123 2 When [John Quincy Adams] read his first lectures in 1806, not only the students heard him with delight...
    Elo2 8.127 6 Something which any boy would tell with color and vivacity [some men] can only...say it in the very words they heard, and no other.
    Res 8.151 1 I do not know that the treatise of Brillat-Savarin on the Physiology of Taste deserves its fame. I know its repute, and I have heard it called the France of France.
    Comc 8.167 16 I chanced the other day to fall in with an odd illustration of the remark I had heard...
    QO 8.183 20 ...we find in Grimm's Memoires that Sheridan got [his rules] from the witty D'Argenson; who, no doubt, if we could consult him, could tell of whom he first heard them told.
    QO 8.184 13 I remember to have heard Mr. Samuel Rogers...relate...that a lady having expressed...a passionate wish to witness a great victory, [Wellington] replied: Madam, there is nothing so dreadful as a great victory,-excepting a great defeat.
    QO 8.187 8 Antiphanes, one of Plato's friends, laughingly compared his writings to a city where the words froze in the air as soon as they were pronounced, and the next summer, when they were warmed and melted by the sun, the people heard what had been spoken in the winter.
    QO 8.192 6 Wordsworth, as soon as he heard a good thing, caught it up...
    QO 8.197 5 You have had the like experience in conversation: the wit was in what you heard, not in what the speakers said.
    QO 8.197 6 Our best thought came from others. We heard in their words a deeper sense than the speakers put into them...
    QO 8.199 8 ...[Swedenborg] noticed that, when in his bed...sleeping again, he saw and heard the speakers as before...
    PC 8.216 13 ...every one has heard the remark...that the philosopher was above his audience.
    PPo 8.240 24 By [Simorg] Solomon was taught the language of birds, so that he heard secrets whenever he went into his gardens.
    PPo 8.244 23 [Hafiz] says to the Shah, Thou who rulest after words and thoughts which no ear has heard and no mind has thought, abide firm until thy young destiny tears off his blue coat from the old graybeard of the sky.
    PPo 8.253 1 This morning heard I how the lyre of the stars resounded,/ Sweeter tones have we heard from Hafiz!/
    PPo 8.253 2 This morning heard I how the lyre of the stars resounded,/ Sweeter tones have we heard from Hafiz!/
    PPo 8.253 4 ...I heard the harp of the planet Venus, and it said in the early morning, I am the disciple of the sweet-voiced Hafiz!
    PPo 8.264 22 [The birds] saw themselves all as Simorg,/ Themselves in the eternal Simorg./ When to the Simorg up they looked,/ They beheld him among themselves;/ And when they looked on each other,/ They saw themselves in the Simorg./ A single look grouped the two parties,/ The Simorg emerged, the Simorg vanished,/ This in that and that in this, As the world has never heard./
    Insp 8.294 12 I have heard from persons who had practice in rhyming, that it was sufficient to set them on writing verses, to read any original poetry.
    Grts 8.307 9 ...none of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
    Imtl 8.328 6 Sixty years ago...the sermons and prayers heard...were all directed on death.
    Dem1 10.6 7 This feature of dreams deserves the more attention from its singular resemblance to that obscure yet startling experience which almost every person confesses in daylight...a suspicion that they have been with precisely these persons in precisely this room, and heard precisely this dialogue...
    Aris 10.31 13 ...the word gentleman is gladly heard in all companies;...
    Aris 10.42 23 The horn of Roland, in the romance, is heard sixty miles.
    Aris 10.58 12 I have heard that in horsemanship he is not the good rider who never was thrown...
    Chr2 10.100 1 Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought. Yes, because I perceive that we have heard the same truth...
    Chr2 10.100 2 Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought. Yes, because I perceive that we have heard the same truth, but they have heard it better.
    SovE 10.196 27 I have heard prayers, I have prayed even...
    LLNE 10.333 23 ...whatever [Everett] has quoted will be remembered by any who heard him...
    LLNE 10.334 6 ...he [Everett] who was heard with such throbbing hearts and sparkling eyes in the lighted and crowded churches, did not let go his hearers when the church was dismissed...
    EzRy 10.387 10 ...the minister of Sudbury...being at the Thursday lecture in Boston, heard the officiating clergyman praying for rain.
    MMEm 10.411 11 In her solitude of twenty years, with fewest books and those only sermons, and a copy of Paradise Lost, without covers or title-page, so that later, when she heard much of Milton and sought his work, she found it was her very book which she knew so well,-[Mary Moody Emerson] was driven to find Nature her companion and solace.
    MMEm 10.428 11 Constantly offer myself [Mary Moody Emerson] to continue the obscurest and loneliest thing ever heard of, with one proviso,- [God's] agency.
    MMEm 10.430 26 I [Mary Moody Emerson] have heard that the greatest geniuses have died ignorant of their power and influence on the arts and sciences.
    SlHr 10.448 5 ...I have heard that the only verse that [Samuel Hoar] was ever known to quote was the Indian rule: When the oaks are in the gray,/ Then, farmers, plant away./
    Thor 10.460 27 The hall was filled at an early hour by people of all parties, and [Thoreau's] earnest eulogy of the hero [John Brown] was heard by all respectfully...
    Thor 10.470 19 Presently [Thoreau] heard a note which he called that of the night-warbler...
    Thor 10.471 15 [Thoreau] saw as with microscope, heard as with ear-trumpet...
    Thor 10.471 17 ...[Thoreau's] memory was a photographic register of all he saw and heard.
    Thor 10.476 14 I have met one or two who have heard the hound, and the tramp of the horse, and even seen the dove disappear behind a cloud;...
    Thor 10.481 24 ...[Thoreau]...said [echoes] were almost the only kind of kindred voices that he heard.
    GSt 10.504 12 I have heard...that [George Stearns] had great executive skill...
    GSt 10.504 19 I have heard something of [George Stearns's] quick temper...
    HDC 11.33 25 Johnson, relating undoubtedly what he had himself heard from the pilgrims, intimates that they consumed many days in exploring the country, to select the best place for the town.
    HDC 11.44 6 [The colonists'] wants, their poverty, their manifest convenience made them bold to ask of the Governor and of the General Court...to certain purposes, sovereign powers. The townsmen's words were heard and weighed...
    HDC 11.47 19 In these assemblies [New England town-meetings], the public weal; the call of interest, duty, religion, were heard;...
    HDC 11.51 23 John Eliot, in October, 1646, preached his first sermon in the Indian language at Noonantum; Waban, Tahattawan, and their sannaps, going thither from Concord to hear him. There under the rubbish and ruins of barbarous life, the human heart heard the voice of love, and awoke as from a sleep.
    HDC 11.66 9 Mr. Bliss heard that great orator [George Whitefield] with delight...
    HDC 11.73 3 In these peaceful fields [of Concord], for the first time since a hundred years, the drum and alarm-gun were heard...
    LVB 11.92 18 The piety, the principle that is left in the United States... forbid us to entertain [the relocation of the Cherokees] as a fact. Such a dereliction of all faith and virtue, such a denial of justice...were never heard of in times of peace...
    EWI 11.104 24 ...a good man or woman...once in a while saw these injuries [to West Indian slaves] and had the indiscretion to tell of them. The horrid story ran and flew; the winds blew it all over the world. They who heard it asked their rich and great friends if it was true...
    FSLC 11.190 9 I had often heard that the Bible constituted a part of every technical law library...
    FSLC 11.207 24 Since it is agreed by all sane men of all parties...that slavery is mischievous, why does the South itself never offer the smallest counsel of her own? I have never heard in twenty years any project except Mr. Clay's.
    FSLN 11.219 3 I have lived all my life without suffering any known inconvenience from American Slavery. I never saw it; I never heard the whip;...
    FSLN 11.232 18 Events roll...the result is the enforcing of some of those first commandments which we heard in the nursery.
    AsSu 11.249 27 I have heard that some of [Charles Sumner's] political friends tax him with indolence or negligence in refusing to make electioneering speeches...
    AKan 11.260 25 Are there no women in that [Southern] country,-women, who always carry the conscience of a people? Yet we have not heard one discordant whisper.
    JBB 11.268 12 ...every one who has heard [John Brown] speak has been impressed alike by his simple, artless goodness, joined with his sublime courage.
    TPar 11.285 20 He whose voice will not be heard here again [Theodore Parker] could well afford to tell his experiences;...
    TPar 11.286 12 [Theodore Parker] elected his part of duty, or accepted nobly that assigned him in his rare constitution. Wonderful acquisition of knowledge, a rapid wit that heard all...
    ALin 11.331 2 ...when the new and comparatively unknown name of Lincoln was announced [for President]...we heard the result coldly and sadly.
    HCom 11.344 16 One mother said, when her son was offered the command of the first negro regiment, If he accepts it, I shall be as proud as if I had heard that he was shot.
    SMC 11.355 15 ...we have all heard passages of generous and exceptional behavior exhibited by individuals there [in the South] to our officers and men...
    SMC 11.366 22 ...a very good account has been heard, not only of the [Fortieth] regiment, but of the talents and virtues of these men.
    EdAd 11.385 12 There is no speech heard but that of auctioneers, newsboys, and the caucus.
    SHC 11.432 19 ...I have heard it said here that we would gladly spend for a park for the living, but not for a cemetery;...
    SHC 11.436 7 I have heard that death takes us away from ill things, not from good.
    SHC 11.436 8 I have heard that when we pronounce the name of man, we pronounce the belief of immortality.
    ChiE 11.472 20 When Socrates heard that the oracle declared that he was the wisest of men, he said, it must mean that other men held that they were wise, but that he knew that he knew nothing.
    ChiE 11.474 11 I cannot help adding, after what I have heard to-night, that I have read in the journals a statement from an English source, that Sir Frederic Bruce attributed to Mr. Burlingame the merit of the happy reform in the relations of foreign governments to China.
    ChiE 11.474 16 ...Sir Frederic Bruce attributed to Mr. Burlingame the merit of the happy reform in the relations of foreign governments to China. I am quite sure that I heard from Mr. Burlingame in New York...that the whole merit of it belonged to Sir Frederic Bruce.
    FRO1 11.477 10 I have listened with great pleasure to the lessons which we have heard.
    CPL 11.502 12 Homer and Plato and Pindar and Shakspeare serve many more than have heard their names.
    PLT 12.36 8 [Pan] could intoxicate by the strain of his shepherd's pipe,- silent yet to most, for his pipes make the music of the spheres,, which, because it sounds eternally, is not heard at all by the dull, but only by the mind.
    PLT 12.48 24 I have heard that idiot children are known from their birth by the circumstance that their hands do not close round anything.
    Mem 12.97 14 Is [Memory] some old aunt who goes in and out of the house, and occasionally recites anecdotes of old times and persons which I recognize as having heard before...
    Mem 12.101 26 Who, [can judge] the new assertion? He who has heard many the like.
    CL 12.144 23 ...'t is a commonplace, which I have frequently heard spoken in Illinois, that it was a manifest leading of the Divine Providence that the New England states should have been first settled before the Western country was known, or they would never have been settled at all.
    CL 12.161 22 What the dog knows, and how he knows it, piques us more than all we heard from the chair of metaphysics.
    CL 12.162 11 [Is it not an eminent convenience to have in your town a person who knows]...where trout, woodcocks, wild bees, pigeons, where the bittern (stake-driver) can be seen and heard...
    CL 12.162 12 [Is it not an eminent convenience to have in your town a person who knows]...where the Wilson's plover can be seen and heard?
    Bost 12.201 20 There is a little formula...I 'm as good as you be, which contains the essence of the Massachusetts Bill of Rights and of the American Declaration of Independence. And this...could be heard (by an acute ear) in the Petitions to the King...
    MAng1 12.240 22 Condivi, his friend, has left this testimony; I have often heard Michael Angelo reason and discourse upon love, but never heard him speak otherwise than upon platonic love.
    MAng1 12.240 24 Condivi, his friend, has left this testimony; I have often heard Michael Angelo reason and discourse upon love, but never heard him speak otherwise than upon platonic love.
    MAng1 12.240 27 [Condivi wrote] As for me...this I know very well, that in a long intimacy, I never heard from [Michelangelo's] mouth a single word that was not perfectly decorous...
    Milt1 12.252 13 We think we have seen and heard criticism upon [Milton' s] poems, which the bard himself would have more valued than the recorded praise of Dryden, Addison and Johnson...
    Milt1 12.252 22 We think we have heard the recitation of [Milton's] verses by genius which found in them that which itself would say;...
    ACri 12.287 11 I heard, when a great bank president was expounding the virtues of his party and of the government to a silent circle of bank pensioners, a grave Methodist exclaimed, Fiddlesticks!
    ACri 12.288 1 Who has not heard in the street how forcible is bosh, gammon and gas.
    MLit 12.320 22 The Excursion awakened in every lover of Nature the right feeling. We saw stars shine...we heard the rustle of the wind in the grass...
    AgMs 12.364 3 I believe that my friend [Edmund Hosmer] is a little stiff and inconvertible in his own opinions, and that there is another side to be heard;...
    EurB 12.373 3 We have heard it alleged with some evidence that the prominence given to intellectual power in Bulwer's romances has proved a main stimulus to mental culture in thousands of young men in England and America.
    Trag 12.411 6 ...a terror of freezing to death that seizes a man in a winter midnight on the moors; a fright at uncertain sounds heard by a family at night in the cellar or on the stairs...are no tragedy...

hearer, n. (12)

    DSA 1.139 3 The good hearer is sure he has been touched sometimes;...
    Hist 2.27 24 ...men of God have from time to time...made their commission felt in the heart and soul of the commonest hearer.
    Comp 2.96 9 If a man dogmatize in a mixed company on Providence and the divine laws, he is answered by a silence which conveys well enough to an observer the dissatisfaction of the hearer, but his incapacity to make his own statement.
    Cir 2.311 23 The length of the discourse indicates the distance of thought betwixt the speaker and the hearer.
    Pt1 3.22 3 ...each word...obtained currency because for the moment it symbolized the world to the first speaker and to the hearer.
    Nat2 3.187 23 The poet, the prophet, has a higher value for what he utters than any hearer...
    NR 3.247 6 If...the hearer who is ready to sell all and join the crusade could have any certificate that to-morrow his prophet shall not unsay his testimony!
    Elo1 7.70 4 ...[the right eloquence] holds the hearer fast;...
    Elo1 7.97 25 [The moral sentiment]...has the property of invigorating the hearer;...
    PI 8.15 9 ...the value of a trope is that the hearer is one...
    LLNE 10.335 7 In every public discourse there was nothing left for the indulgence of [Everett's] hearer...
    CInt 12.119 13 I value dearly the poet who knows his art so well that, when his voice vibrates, it fills the hearer with sympathetic song...

hearers, n. (8)

    AmS 1.103 20 ...[the orator] finds that he is the complement of his hearers;...
    ShP 4.193 19 ...so many rising geniuses have enlarged or altered [Elizabethan plays]...that no man can any longer claim copyright in this work of numbers. Happily, no man wishes to. They are not yet desired in that way. We have few readers, many spectators and hearers.
    Elo1 7.89 12 The orator possesses no information which his hearers have not...
    Schr 10.263 10 A celebrated musician was wont to say, that men knew not how much more he delighted himself with his playing than he did others; for if they knew, his hearers would rather demand of him than give him a reward.
    Plu 10.304 14 ...[Plutarch] says:-Do you not observe, some one will say, what a grace there is in Sappho's measures, and how they delight and tickle the ears and fancies of the hearers?
    LLNE 10.334 8 ...he [Everett] who was heard with such throbbing hearts and sparkling eyes in the lighted and crowded churches, did not let go his hearers when the church was dismissed...
    SlHr 10.442 2 ...a plain way [Samuel Hoar] had of putting his statement with all his might, and now and then borrowing the aid of...a farmer's phrase, whose force had imprinted it on his memory, and, by the same token, his hearers were bound to remember his point.
    MLit 12.326 1 The fair hearers [says Wieland] were enthusiastic at the nature in this piece [Goethe's journal];...

heareth, v. (1)

    PI 8.51 22 The traveller as he paceth through those deserts asketh of [Oblivion], who builded [Memphis and Thebes]? and she mumbleth something, but what it is he heareth not.

hearing, adj. (2)

    Int 2.342 18 Happy is the hearing man;...
    ET4 5.47 16 The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue...

hearing, n. (13)

    YA 1.395 12 ...we shall quickly enough advance out of all hearing of others' censures...
    Exp 3.53 17 What notions do [physicians] attach to love! what to religion! One would not willingly pronounce these words in their hearing...
    ET5 5.88 15 Heavy fellows, steeped in beer and fleshpots, [the English] are hard of hearing and dim of sight.
    ET16 5.287 11 ...I opened the dogma of no-government and non-resistance... and procured a kind of hearing for it.
    Suc 7.301 14 ...the great hearing and sympathy of men is more true and wise than their speaking is wont to be.
    OA 7.329 20 An old scholar finds keen delight in verifying the impressive anecdotes and citations he has met with in miscellaneous reading and hearing, in all the years of youth.
    QO 8.178 19 Our debt to tradition through reading and conversation is so massive, our protest or private addition so rare and insignificant,-and this commonly on the ground of other reading or hearing,-that...one would say there is no pure originality.
    Insp 8.270 8 We are very glad that [the aboriginal man] ate his fishes and snails and marrow-bones out of our sight and hearing...
    SovE 10.210 7 ...there are the new conventions of social science, before which the questions of...regulation of labor, come for a hearing.
    SovE 10.213 17 [The man of this age] must not be one who can be surprised and shipwrecked by every bold or subtile word which malignant and acute men may utter in his hearing...
    LLNE 10.345 13 There was a pilgrim in those days walking in the country who stopped at every door where he hoped to find hearing for his doctrine, which was, Never to give or receive money.
    Thor 10.477 4 I hearing get, who had but ears,/ And sight, who had but eyes before;/ I moments live, who lived but years,/ And truth discern, who knew but learning's lore./
    LVB 11.89 14 ...at the instance of a few of my friends and neighbors, I crave of your [Van Buren's] patience a short hearing for their sentiments and my own...

hearing, v. (28)

    DSA 1.149 6 There are men who rise refreshed on hearing a threat;...
    Comp 2.94 4 I was lately confirmed in these desires [to write on Compensation] by hearing a sermon at church.
    Comp 2.120 17 The thoughtless say, on hearing these representations,-- What boots it to do well?...
    Int 2.342 17 The circle of the green earth he [in whom the love of truth predominates] must measure with his shoes to find the man who can yield him truth. He shall then know that there is somewhat more blessed and great in hearing than in speaking.
    NER 3.280 13 The wise Dandamis, on hearing the lives of Socrates, Pythagoras and Diogenes read, judged them to be great men every way, excepting that they were too much subjected to the reverence of the laws...
    PPh 4.64 24 The whole of life, O Socrates, said Glauco, is, with the wise, the measure of hearing such discourses as these.
    ShP 4.192 26 Here [in the Elizabethan drama] is the Tale of Troy, which the audience will bear hearing some part of, every week;...
    ET9 5.149 16 An English lady on the Rhine hearing a German speaking of her party as foreigners, exclaimed, No, we are not foreigners; we are English; it is you that are foreigners.
    ET11 5.180 16 A susceptible man could not wear a name which represented in a strict sense a city or a county of England, without hearing in it a challenge to duty and honor.
    ET12 5.212 4 ...the rich libraries collected at every one of many thousands of houses [in England], give an advantage not to be attained by a youth in this country, when one thinks how much more and better may be learned by a scholar who, immediately on hearing of a book, can consult it...
    Ctr 6.140 13 There are people who...remain literalists, after hearing the music and poetry and rhetoric and wit of seventy or eighty years.
    Art2 7.53 7 We feel, in seeing a noble building, which rhymes well, as we do in hearing a perfect song, that it is spiritually organic;...
    Elo1 7.73 8 Philip of Macedon said of Demosthenes, on hearing the report of one of his orations, Had I been there, he would have persuaded me to take up arms against myself;...
    Elo1 7.82 8 ...the commonest populace is flattered by hearing its low mind returned to it with every ornament which happy talent can add.
    DL 7.113 23 Give me the means, says the wife, and your house shall not... waste your time. On hearing this we understand how these Means have come to be so omnipotent on earth.
    WD 7.179 7 I am of the opinion of Glauco, who said, The measure of life, O Socrates, is, with the wise, the speaking and hearing such discourses as yours.
    Elo2 8.123 5 I remember, when, long after, I entered college, hearing the story of the numbers of coaches in which his friends came from Boston to hear [John Quincy Adams].
    QO 8.183 21 In our own college days we remember hearing other pieces of Mr. Webster's advice to students...
    QO 8.185 1 ...[Grimm] says that Louis XVI., going out of chapel after hearing a sermon from the Abbe Maury, said, Si l'Abbe nous avait parle un peu de religion, il nous aurait parle de tout.
    Grts 8.306 6 In 1848 I had the privilege of hearing Professor Faraday deliver...a lecture on what he called Diamagnetism...
    Chr2 10.100 9 ...it is only as fast as this hearing [of these high communications] from another is authorized by its consent with [a man's] own, that it is pure and safe to each;...
    Edc1 10.138 23 I like...boys...putting nobody on his guard, but seeing the inside of the show,-hearing all the asides.
    Edc1 10.148 22 The joy of our childhood in hearing beautiful stories from some skilful aunt who loves to tell them, must be repeated in youth.
    MMEm 10.397 18 ...Nor me can Hope or Passion urge,/ Hearing as now the lofty dirge/ Which blasts of Northern mountains hymn,/ Nature's funeral high and dim,-/ Sable pageantry of clouds,/ Mourning summer laid in shrouds./
    Thor 10.456 7 It seemed as if [Thoreau's] first instinct on hearing a proposition was to controvert it...
    FSLC 11.190 6 A few months ago, in my dismay at hearing that the Higher Law was reckoned a good joke in the courts, I took pains to look into a few law-books.
    CPL 11.503 27 Dr. Johnson hearing that Adam Smith, whom he had once met, relished rhyme, said, If I had known that, I should have hugged him.
    Mem 12.94 4 On hearing a fact told I am aware that I knew it already.

hearken, v. (9)

    LE 1.181 12 Let [the scholar] know that...most in the reverence of the humble commerce and humble needs of life,-to hearken what they say... the secret of the world is to be learned...
    MoS 4.170 22 We hearken to the man of science, because we anticipate the sequence in natural phenomena which he uncovers.
    Comc 8.172 18 ...said Timur to Chodscha, Hearken! I have looked in the mirror, and seen myself ugly.
    PPo 8.253 8 When Hafiz sings, the angels hearken...
    PPo 8.256 11 O high-flying falcon! the Tree of Life is thy perch;/ This nook of grief fits thee ill for a nest./ Hearken! they call to thee down from the ramparts of heaven;/ I cannot divine what holds thee here in a net./
    Aris 10.41 3 Do not hearken to the men, but to the Destiny in the institutions.
    Schr 10.269 19 ...what alone in the history of this world interests all men in proportion as they are men? What but truth...and brave obedience to it in right action? Every man or woman who can voluntarily or involuntarily give them any insight or suggestion on these secrets they will hearken after.
    EdAd 11.385 25 We hearken in vain for any profound voice speaking to the American heart...
    RBur 11.443 4 ...hearken for the incoming tide, what the waves say of [the memory of Burns].

hearkening, v. (1)

    Grts 8.307 24 ...in this self-respect or hearkening to the privatest oracle, [a man] consults his ease...

hearkens, v. (3)

    LE 1.170 4 ...not less is there a relation of beauty between my soul and the dim crags of Agiochook up there in the clouds. Every man, when this is told, hearkens with joy...
    Chr1 3.91 26 The constituency at home hearkens to [men of characters'] words...
    Ctr 6.157 21 The poet, as a craftsman, is only interested in the praise accorded to him, and not in the censure, though it be just. And the poor little poet hearkens only to that...

hears, v. (37)

    DSA 1.137 18 We are fain to...secure, as best we can, a solitude that hears not.
    MR 1.230 1 There is not the most bronzed and sharpened money-catcher who does not...quail and shake the moment he hears a question prompted by the new ideas.
    Tran 1.333 25 ...[the idealist] does not respect...the church, nor charities, nor arts, for themselves; but hears, as at a vast distance, what they say...
    Hist 2.7 18 [The true aspirant] hears the commendation, not of himself, but, more sweet, of that character he seeks, in every word that is said concerning character...
    SR 2.45 3 The soul always hears an admonition in such [original] lines...
    SL 2.138 12 [Every man] hears and feels what you say of the seraphim, and of the tin-peddler.
    Fdsp 2.194 8 Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine...
    Fdsp 2.195 23 I feel as warmly when [my friend] is praised, as the lover when he hears applause of his engaged maiden.
    Pt1 3.39 8 [The artist] hears a voice, he sees a beckoning.
    Exp 3.52 24 ...temperament is a power which no man willingly hears any one praise but himself.
    Nat2 3.174 25 A boy hears a military band play on the field at night, and he has kings and queens and famous chivalry palpably before him.
    Nat2 3.175 1 [A boy] hears the echoes of a horn in a hill country...
    NR 3.226 10 ...no one of [the speakers in a debate] hears much that another says, such is the preoccupation of mind of each;...
    PPh 4.58 19 ...[Plato] hears the doom of the judge...
    PPh 4.58 21 ...[Plato] beholds...the Fates...and hears the intoxicating hum of their spindle.
    ET2 5.28 14 The conscious ship hears all the praise.
    ET10 5.165 1 An Englishman hears that the Queen Dowager wishes to establish some claim to put her park paling a rod forward into his grounds...
    ET15 5.266 23 One hears anecdotes of the rise of [the London Times's] servants, as of the functionaries of the India House.
    ET19 5.310 18 ...as for Dombey...there is...no man who can read, that does not read it, and, if he cannot, he finds some charitable pair of eyes that can, and hears it.
    Wsp 6.221 16 Law it is...which hears without ears, sees without eyes, moves without feet and seizes without hands.
    Wsp 6.227 17 [As we grow older] We have...an ear which hears not what men say, but hears what they do not say.
    Civ 7.17 11 Witness the mute all hail/ The joyful traveller gives, when on the verge/ Of craggy Indian wilderness he hears/ From a log cabin stream Beethoven's notes/ On the piano, played with master's hand./
    Elo1 7.82 14 The audience [if there be personality in the orator]...follows like a child its preceptor, and hears what he has to say.
    DL 7.126 9 One is struck in every company...with the riches of Nature, when he hears so many new tones, all musical...
    Clbs 7.230 3 [Men] kindle each other; and such is the power of suggestion that each sprightly story calls out more; and sometimes a fact that had long slept in the recesses of memory hears the voice, is welcomed to daylight, and proves of rare value.
    SA 8.91 27 It may happen that each hears from the other a better wisdom than any one else will ever hear from either.
    Res 8.146 23 ...they can conquer who believe they can. Every one hears gladly that cheerful voice.
    QO 8.195 8 A man hears a fine sentence out of Swedenborg, and wonders at the wisdom...
    Chr2 10.97 6 In all ages, to all men, [the moral force] saith, I am; and he who hears it feels the impiety of wandering from this revelation to any record or to any rival.
    Chr2 10.121 4 In a sensible family, nobody ever hears the words shall and shan't;...
    Edc1 10.144 21 Somewhat [the child] sees in forms or hears in music or apprehends in mathematics...which no one else sees or hears or believes.
    Edc1 10.144 24 Somewhat [the child] sees in forms...or believes practicable in mechanics or possible in political society, which no one else sees or hears or believes.
    Prch 10.222 1 To see men pursuing in faith their varied action...what are they to...the man who hears only the sound of his own footsteps in God's resplendent creation?
    FSLC 11.205 6 The scraps of morality to be gleaned from [Webster's] speeches are reflections of the mind of others; he says what he hears said...
    II 12.82 15 [A man] is strong by his genius, gets all his knowledge only through that aperture. Society is unanimous against his project. He never hears it as he knows it.
    Mem 12.106 8 ...I come to a bright school-girl who remembers all she hears...
    CL 12.148 26 Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated the winds as the conveying Maruts, traversers of places difficult of access. ... Wherever they pass, they fill the way with clamor. Every one hears their noise.

heart, adj. (1)

    MMEm 10.413 4 I [Mary Moody Emerson] walked yesterday five or more miles, lost to mental or heart existence, through fatigue...

heart, n. (496)

    Nat 1.8 27 The sun...shines into the eye and the heart of the child.
    Nat 1.25 20 We say the heart to express emotion...
    Nat 1.28 27 ...the moment a ray of relation is seen to extend from [the ant] to man, and the little drudge is seen to be...a little body with a mighty heart, then all its habits...become sublime.
    Nat 1.45 22 ...the eye...is always accompanied by these forms, male and female; and these are incomparably the richest informations of the power and order that lie at the heart of things.
    Nat 1.63 7 [If Idealism only deny the existence of matter] It leaves me in the splendid labyrinth of my perceptions, to wander without end. Then the heart resists it...
    Nat 1.68 10 Nor has science sufficient humanity, so long as the naturalist overlooks that wonderful congruity which subsists between man and the world; of which he is lord...because he is its head and heart...
    AmS 1.101 15 ...[the scholar] takes...the self-accusation, the faint heart... which are the nettles...in the way of the self-relying...
    AmS 1.101 26 [The scholar] is the world's heart.
    AmS 1.102 5 Whatsoever oracles the human heart...has uttered...these [the scholar] shall receive and impart.
    AmS 1.107 10 [The poor and the low]...will perish to add one drop of blood to make that great heart beat...
    DSA 1.119 7 Night brings no gloom to the heart with its welcome shade.
    DSA 1.120 3 ...[the world] is well worth the pith and heart of great men to subdue and enjoy it.
    DSA 1.120 22 A more...overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.
    DSA 1.122 16 If a man is at heart just, then in so far is he God;...
    DSA 1.125 7 ...the dawn of the sentiment of virtue on the heart, gives and is the assurance that Law is sovereign over all natures;...
    DSA 1.130 2 [Jesus] felt...no unfit tenderness at postponing [the prophets'] initial revelations...to the eternal revelation in the heart.
    DSA 1.130 6 Boldly, with hand, with heart, and life, [Jesus] declared [the inner law] was God.
    DSA 1.131 4 ...the language that describes Christ...is not the style of... enthusiasm to a good and noble heart...
    DSA 1.136 6 ...this moaning of the heart because it is bereaved of the consolation, the hope...that come alone out of the culture of the moral nature, - should be heard...
    DSA 1.136 20 Where now sounds the persuasion, that...imparadises my heart...
    DSA 1.138 11 ...[this man's] heart throbs;...
    DSA 1.140 19 If no heart warm this rite [the Lord's Supper], the hollow, dry, creaking formality is too plain...
    DSA 1.141 8 What life the public worship retains, it owes to the scattered company of pious men...who...have not accepted from others, but from their own heart, the genuine impulses of virtue...
    DSA 1.143 6 I have heard a devout person...say in bitterness of heart, On Sundays, it seems wicked to go to church.
    DSA 1.146 21 By trusting your own heart, you shall gain more confidence in other men.
    DSA 1.149 3 The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world, is the highest applause. Such souls...are...the dictators of fortune. One needs not praise their courage, - they are the heart and soul of nature.
    DSA 1.151 21 I look for the new Teacher that shall follow so far those shining laws that he...shall see the identity of the law of gravitation with purity of heart;...
    LE 1.165 18 The hero is great by means of the predominance of the universal nature;...he has only to be forced to act, and it acts. All men... embrace the deed, with the heart...
    LE 1.169 19 All men are poets at heart.
    LE 1.174 3 If [the scholar] pines in a lonely place, hankering for the crowd...he is not in the lonely place; his heart is in the market;...
    LE 1.176 22 How mean to go blazing...in fashionable or political salons... forfeiting...the privacy, and the true and warm heart of the citizen!
    LE 1.177 11 The scholar will feel that...the heart and soul of beauty, lies enclosed in human life.
    LE 1.178 7 Let [the scholar] not slur his lesson; let him learn it by heart.
    LE 1.182 16 [The man of genius] must draw from the infinite Reason, on one side; and he must penetrate into the heart and sense of the crowd, on the other.
    LE 1.186 10 Bend to the persuasion which is flowing to you from every object in nature, to be its tongue to the heart of man...
    MN 1.194 6 ...come...hither, thou tender, doubting heart...
    MN 1.195 5 In the bottom of the heart it is said; I am, and by me, O child! this fair body and world of thine stands and grows.
    MN 1.205 26 ...O rich and various Man!...carrying...in thy heart, the bower of love and the realms of right and wrong.
    MN 1.207 7 Follow the great man, and you shall see what the world has at heart in these ages.
    MN 1.208 8 Hereto was [a man] born, to deliver the thought of his heart from the universe to the universe;...
    MR 1.229 17 The demon of reform has a secret door into the heart of every lawmaker...
    MR 1.239 16 ...instead of...that mighty and prevailing heart, which the father had...we have now a puny, protected person...
    MR 1.244 7 ...it is...not the heart...that costs so much.
    MR 1.254 12 ...it would warm the heart to see how fast the vain diplomacy of statesmen...would be superseded by this unarmed child [Love].
    LT 1.262 18 [Persons] are the pungent instructors who thrill the heart of each of us...
    LT 1.262 20 How I follow [persons] with aching heart, with pining desire!
    LT 1.265 23 ...souls of as lofty a port as any in Greek or Roman fame might appear; men of great heart...
    LT 1.267 13 Slowly...it steals on us, the new fact, that we who were pupils or aspirants...do compose a portion of that head and heart we are wont to think worthy of all reverence and heed.
    LT 1.278 5 You have set your heart and face against society when you thought it wrong...
    LT 1.279 7 ...the friends of the heart are phantasms and unreal beside the sanctuary of the heart.
    LT 1.279 9 ...the friends of the heart are phantasms and unreal beside the sanctuary of the heart.
    Con 1.308 10 Now you touch the heart of the matter, replies the reformer.
    Con 1.313 16 Thank the rude foster-mother [Necessity], though she has... set hopes in your heart which shall be history in the next ages.
    Con 1.314 6 Under the richest robes...the strong heart will beat with love of mankind...
    Con 1.322 15 ...if it still be asked in this necessity of partial organization, which party, on the whole, has the highest claims on our sympathy,-I bring it home to the private heart...
    Con 1.324 25 I am primarily engaged to myself...to demonstrate to all men that there is intelligence and good will at the heart of things...
    Tran 1.357 8 ...[the strong spirits] surrender themselves with glad heart to the heavenly guide...
    Tran 1.357 21 [The Transcendentalists'] heart is the ark in which the fire is concealed which shall burn in a broader and universal flame.
    YA 1.375 5 /Man's heart the Almighty to the Future set/ By secret and inviolable springs./
    YA 1.387 18 I call upon you, young men, to obey your heart and be the nobility of this land.
    YA 1.389 23 ...we want justice, with heart of steel, to fight down the proud.
    Hist 2.2 4 I am owner of the sphere,/ .../ Of Lord Christ's heart, and Shakspeare's strain./
    Hist 2.26 23 The sun and moon, water and fire, met [the Greek's] heart precisely as they meet mine.
    Hist 2.27 23 ...men of God have from time to time...made their commission felt in the heart and soul of the commonest hearer.
    Hist 2.36 9 ...out of the human heart go as it were highways to the heart of every object in nature...
    Hist 2.36 10 ...out of the human heart go as it were highways to the heart of every object in nature...
    SR 2.45 8 ...to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men,-that is genius.
    SR 2.47 6 A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best;...
    SR 2.47 12 Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
    SR 2.47 19 Great men have always...confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart...
    SR 2.57 13 ...when the devout motions of the soul come, yield to them heart and life...
    SR 2.73 15 ...I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever...the heart appoints.
    SR 2.75 2 ...it demands something godlike in him who...has ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster. High be his heart...
    SR 2.75 9 The sinew and heart of man seem to be drawn out...
    SR 2.75 26 If our young men miscarry in their first enterprises they lose all heart.
    SR 2.84 6 ...obey thy heart...
    Comp 2.93 17 ...the heart of man might be bathed by an inundation of eternal love...
    Comp 2.96 22 Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature;...in the systole and diastole of the heart;...
    Comp 2.110 27 Treat men as pawns and ninepins and you shall suffer as well as they. If you leave out their heart, you shall lose your own.
    Comp 2.112 13 The terror of cloudless noon...the instinct which leads every generous soul to impose on itself tasks of a noble asceticism and vicarious virtue, are the tremblings of the balance of justice through the heart and mind of man.
    Comp 2.113 9 A wise man will...know that it is the part of prudence to... pay every just demand on your time, your talents, or your heart.
    Comp 2.123 1 ...all the good of nature is the soul's, and may be had if paid for...by labor which the heart and the head allow.
    Comp 2.124 2 The heart and soul of all men being one, this bitterness of His and Mine ceases.
    SL 2.131 20 All loss, all pain, is particular; the universe remains to the heart unhurt.
    SL 2.140 4 If we would not be mar-plots with our miserable interferences... the heaven...still predicted from the bottom of the heart, would organize itself...
    SL 2.145 3 What your heart thinks great, is great.
    SL 2.148 19 Every quality of [a man's] mind is magnified in some one acquaintance, and every emotion of his heart in some one.
    SL 2.150 2 ...Gertrude has Guy; but what now avails...how Roman his mien and manners, if his heart and aims are in the senate...
    SL 2.153 16 ...take Sidney's maxim:--Look in thy heart, and write.
    SL 2.153 22 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...
    SL 2.157 2 I have heard an experienced counsellor say that he never feared the effect upon a jury of a lawyer who does not believe in his heart that his client ought to have a verdict.
    SL 2.159 1 Never a magnanimity fell to the ground, but there is some heart to greet and accept it unexpectedly.
    SL 2.165 18 If the poet write a true drama, then he is Caesar...then the selfsame strain of thought...and a heart as great, self-sufficing, dauntless... these all are his...
    Lov1 2.170 16 ...[love] is a fire that kindling its first embers in the narrow nook of a private bosom, caught from a wandering spark out of another private heart, glows and enlarges...
    Lov1 2.170 19 ...[love] is a fire that kindling its first embers in the narrow nook of a private bosom...glows and enlarges until it warms and beams... upon the universal heart of all...
    Lov1 2.175 3 ...no man ever forgot the visitations of that power to his heart and brain, which created all things anew;...
    Lov1 2.175 8 ...no man ever forgot the visitations of that power to his heart and brain...when a single tone of one voice could make the heart bound...
    Lov1 2.175 26 Thou are not gone being gone, where'er thou art,/ Thou leav' st in him thy watchful eyes, in him thy loving heart./
    Lov1 2.176 18 Every bird on the boughs of the tree sings now to [the lover' s] heart and soul.
    Lov1 2.177 22 ...[love] makes the clown gentle and gives the coward heart.
    Lov1 2.177 24 Into the most pitiful and abject [love] will infuse a heart and courage to defy the world...
    Lov1 2.185 27 Not always can...even home in another heart, content the awful soul that dwells in clay.
    Lov1 2.187 19 ...the purification of the intellect and the heart from year to year is the real marriage...
    Lov1 2.187 27 ...I do not wonder at the emphasis with which the heart prophesies this crisis from early infancy...
    Fdsp 2.189 9 ...My careful heart was free again,--/ O friend, my bosom said,/ Through thee alone the sky is arched,/...
    Fdsp 2.191 11 Read the language of these wandering eye-beams. The heart knoweth.
    Fdsp 2.193 11 Now, when [the stranger] comes, he may get the order, the dress and the dinner,--but the throbbing of the heart and the communications of the soul, no more.
    Fdsp 2.193 17 How beautiful, on their approach to this beating heart, the steps and forms of the gifted and the true!
    Fdsp 2.196 3 ...the systole and diastole of the heart are not without their analogy in the ebb and flow of love.
    Fdsp 2.199 3 Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams, instead of the tough fibre of the human heart.
    Fdsp 2.201 1 ...let us approach our friend with an audacious trust in the truth of his heart...
    Fdsp 2.204 24 I find very little written directly to the heart of this matter [of friendship] in books.
    Fdsp 2.206 20 [Friendship] cannot subsist in its perfection, say some who are learned in this warm lore of the heart, betwixt more than two.
    Fdsp 2.209 21 To a great heart [your friend] will still be a stranger in a thousand particulars...
    Fdsp 2.211 6 To my friend I write a letter and from him I receive a letter. That seems to you a little. It suffices me. It is a spiritual gift... ... In these warm lines the heart will trust itself...
    Fdsp 2.212 5 Wait, and thy heart shall speak.
    Fdsp 2.213 5 ...a sublime hope cheers ever the faithful heart...
    Prd1 2.225 23 ...the tax, and an affair to be transacted with a man without heart or brains...these eat up the hours.
    Prd1 2.238 2 In the occurrence of unpleasant things among neighbors, fear comes readily to heart and magnifies the consequence of the other party;...
    Prd1 2.239 27 ...really and underneath their external diversities, all men are of one heart and mind.
    Hsm1 2.243 8 ...The hero is not fed on sweets,/ Daily his own heart he eats;/...
    Hsm1 2.246 30 Mar. Strike, strike, Valerius,/ Or Martius' heart will leap out at his mouth./
    Hsm1 2.247 3 Treacherous heart,/ My hand shall cast thee quick into my urn,/ Ere thou transgress this knot of piety./
    Hsm1. 2.252 23 ...the little man...is born red, and dies gray...setting his heart on a horse or a rifle...
    Hsm1 2.257 15 Where the heart is, there the muses...
    Hsm1 2.259 4 [Many extraordinary young men] found no example and no companion, and their heart fainted.
    Hsm1 2.259 26 The fair girl who repels interference by a decided and proud choice of influences...inspires every beholder with somewhat of her own nobleness. The silent heart encourages her;...
    Hsm1 2.263 12 It may calm the apprehension of calamity in the most susceptible heart to see how quick a bound Nature has set to the utmost infliction of malice.
    OS 2.268 24 The Supreme Critic on the errors of the past and the present... is...that common heart of which all sincere conversation is the worship...
    OS 2.275 21 Speak to his heart, and the man becomes suddenly virtuous.
    OS 2.276 7 ...the heart which abandons itself to the Supreme Mind finds itself related to all its works...
    OS 2.277 19 ...in groups where debate is earnest...the company become aware...that all have a spiritual property in what was said, as well as the sayer. They all become wiser than they were. It arches over them like a temple, this unity of thought in which every heart beats with nobler sense of power and duty...
    OS 2.281 11 A thrill passes through all men...at the performance of a great action, which comes out of the heart of nature.
    OS 2.288 18 [Genius] is a larger imbibing of the common heart.
    OS 2.292 26 When we have...ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with his presence.
    OS 2.292 27 [God's presence] is the doubling of the heart itself...
    OS 2.293 1 [God's presence] is...the infinite enlargement of the heart with a power of growth to a new infinity on every side.
    OS 2.293 8 [God's presence] inspires in man an infallible trust. ... He is sure that his welfare is dear to the heart of being.
    OS 2.294 7 Every friend whom not thy fantastic will but the great and tender heart in thee craveth, shall lock thee in his embrace.
    OS 2.294 9 Every friend whom not thy fantastic will but the great and tender heart in thee craveth, shall lock thee in his embrace. And this because the heart in thee is the heart of all;...
    OS 2.294 16 Let man then learn the revelation of all nature and all thought to his heart;...
    OS 2.297 16 [Man] will calmly front the morrow in the negligency of that trust which carries God with it and so hath already the whole future in the bottom of the heart.
    Cir 2.304 16 ...the heart refuses to be imprisoned;...
    Cir 2.309 1 The very hopes of man, the thoughts of his heart...are...at the mercy of a new generalization.
    Cir 2.322 12 ...[men] ask the aid of wild passions...to ape in some manner these flames and generosities of the heart.
    Int 2.332 9 It seems as if the law of the intellect resembled that law of nature...by which the heart now draws in, then hurls out the blood...
    Art1 2.356 3 A good ballad draws my ear and heart whilst I listen...
    Art1 2.360 4 [Personal relations] were [the artist's] inspirations, and these are the effects he carries home to your heart and mind.
    Art1 2.362 11 A calm benignant beauty shines over all this picture [Raphael, Transfiguration], and goes directly to the heart.
    Art1 2.362 18 The knowledge of picture dealers has its value, but listen not to their criticism when your heart is touched by genius.
    Art1 2.368 14 Proceeding from a religious heart [genius] will raise to a divine use the railroad...
    Exp 3.54 25 The intellect, seeker of absolute truth, or the heart, lover of absolute good, intervenes for our succor...
    Exp 3.61 6 ...we should...do broad justice where we are...accepting our actual companions and circumstances...as the mystic officials to whom the universe has delegated its whole pleasure for us. If these are mean and malignant, their contentment, which is the last victory of justice, is a more satisfying echo to the heart than the voice of poets...
    Exp 3.69 15 ...I have set my heart on honesty in this chapter...
    Exp 3.72 2 I feel a new heart beating with the love of the new beauty.
    Exp 3.76 13 ...the chagrins which the bad heart gives off as bubbles, at once take form as ladies and gentlemen in the street...
    Exp 3.86 1 ...in the solitude to which every man is always returning, he has a sanity and revelations which in his passage into new worlds he will carry with him. Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat; up again, old heart!--it seems to say...
    Chr1 3.102 23 ...[the hero] is again on his road, adding...new claims on your heart...
    Chr1 3.104 26 A word warm from the heart enriches me.
    Chr1 3.113 10 ...if suddenly we encounter a friend, we pause;...now pause, now possession is required, and the power to swell the moment from the resources of the heart.
    Chr1 3.113 13 ...a friend is the hope of the heart.
    Mrs1 3.138 14 To the leaders of men, the brain as well as the flesh and the heart must furnish a proportion.
    Mrs1 3.146 19 The beautiful and the generous are, in the theory, the doctors and apostles of this church [of Fashion]: Scipio...and Washington, and every pure and valiant heart who worshipped Beauty by word and by deed.
    Mrs1 3.152 6 ...the bias of [Lilla's] nature was not to thought, but to sympathy, yet was she so perfect in her own nature as to meet intellectual persons by the fulness of her heart...
    Mrs1 3.153 16 Everything that is called fashion and courtesy humbles itself before...the heart of love.
    Mrs1 3.154 10 Are you...rich enough to make...even the poor insane or besotted wreck of man or woman, feel the noble exception of your presence and your house from the general bleakness and stoniness;... What is gentle, but to allow [their claim], and give their heart and yours a holiday from the national caution?
    Mrs1 3.154 11 Without the rich heart, wealth is a ugly beggar.
    Mrs1 3.154 22 ...[Osman's] great heart lay there so sunny and hospitable in the centre of the country, that it seemed as if the instinct of all sufferers drew them to his side.
    Gts 3.163 1 ...if the gift pleases me overmuch, then I should be ashamed that the donor should read my heart, and see that I love his commodity, and not him.
    Nat2 3.167 4 Though baffled seers cannot impart/ The secret of [world's] laboring heart,/ Throb thine with Nature's throbbing breast,/ And all is clear from east to west./
    Nat2 3.187 16 ...each [man] has a vein of folly in his composition...to make sure of holding him hard to some one point which nature had taken to heart.
    Nat2 3.189 6 [The young person] suspects the intelligence or the heart of his friend.
    Pol1 3.210 9 [Party representatives] have not at heart the ends which give to the name of democracy what hope and virtue are in it.
    Pol1 3.221 19 Not the less does nature continue to fill the heart of youth with suggestions of this enthusiasm...
    NR 3.239 9 ...Nature, who abhors mannerism, has set her heart on breaking up all styles and tricks...
    NR 3.246 23 We keep a running fire of sarcasm at ignorance and the life of the senses; then goes by, perchance, a fair girl...making the commonest offices beautiful by the energy and heart with which she does them;...
    NER 3.263 8 In the midst of abuses...in the heart of cities...wherever, namely, a just and heroic soul finds itself, there it will do what is next at hand...
    NER 3.267 19 I pass to the indication in some particulars of that faith in man, which the heart is preaching to us in these days...
    NER 3.272 21 In the circle of the rankest tories...let...a man of great heart and mind act on them, and very quickly these frozen conservators will yield to the friendly influence...
    NER 3.275 7 [A man]...gives his days and nights, his talents and his heart, to strike a good stroke...
    NER 3.276 27 ...every man at heart wishes the best and not inferior society...
    NER 3.277 22 ...surely the greatest good fortune that could befall me is precisely to be so moved by you that I should say, Take me and all mine, and use me and mine freely to your ends! for I could not say it otherwise than because a great enlargement had come to my heart and mind...
    NER 3.283 1 If the auguries of the prophesying heart shall make themselves good in time, the man who shall be born...is one who shall enjoy his connection with a higher life...
    NER 3.285 18 Shall not the heart which has received so much, trust the Power by which it lives?
    SwM 4.107 3 ...[Swedenborg] was a believer in the Identity-philosophy... which he experimented with and established through years of labor, with the heart and strength of the rudest Viking that his rough Sweden ever sent to battle.
    SwM 4.110 22 ...[Swedenborg] must be reckoned a leader in that revolution, which, by giving to science an idea, has given to an aimless accumulation of experiments, guidance and form and a beating heart.
    SwM 4.114 16 ...the unities of the tongue are little tongues;...those of the heart, little hearts.
    SwM 4.130 12 Success, or a fortunate genius, seems to depend on a happy adjustment of heart and brain;...
    SwM 4.130 19 ...this man [Swedenborg], profusely endowed in heart and mind, early fell into dangerous discord with himself.
    SwM 4.142 26 ...when [Behmen] asserts that, in some sort, love is greater than God, his heart beats so high that the thumping against his leathern coat is audible across the centuries.
    MoS 4.184 26 ...in the heart of each maiden and of each boy...this chasm is found,--between the largest promise of ideal power, and the shabby experience.
    ShP 4.189 15 A poet is...a heart in unison with his time and country.
    ShP 4.209 1 We have [Shakespeare's] recorded convictions on those questions which knock for answer at every heart...
    ShP 4.209 22 ...let Antonio the merchant answer for [Shakespeare's] great heart.
    ShP 4.215 20 We say, from the truth and closeness of [Shakespeare's] pictures, that he knows the lesson by heart.
    ShP 4.216 11 [Shakespeare's] name suggests joy and emancipation to the heart of men.
    ShP 4.219 10 ...other men...beheld the same objects [as Shakespeare]: they also saw through them that which was contained. And to what purpose? The beauty straightway vanished;...and life became...a probation...with doomsdays and purgatorial and penal fires before us; and the heart of the seer and the heart of the listener sank in them.
    ShP 4.219 11 ...other men...beheld the same objects [as Shakespeare]: they also saw through them that which was contained. And to what purpose? The beauty straightway vanished;...and life became...a probation...with doomsdays and purgatorial and penal fires before us; and the heart of the seer and the heart of the listener sank in them.
    NMW 4.226 1 ...precisely what is agreeable to the heart of every man in the nineteenth century, this powerful man [Napoleon] possessed.
    NMW 4.255 8 ...men should be firm in heart and purpose [said Napoleon], or they should have nothing to do with war and government.
    GoW 4.262 16 ...that which is for [a man] to say lies as a load on his heart until it is delivered.
    GoW 4.264 17 Nature has dearly at heart the formation of the speculative man, or scholar.
    GoW 4.284 8 There are nobler strains in poetry than any [Goethe] has sounded. There are writers poorer in talent, whose tone...more touches the heart.
    ET1 5.15 5 I found the house [Craigenputtock] amid desolate heathery hills, where the lonely scholar [Carlyle] nourished his mighty heart.
    ET1 5.18 20 London is the heart of the world, [Carlyle] said...
    ET2 5.31 10 A great mind is a good sailor, as a great heart is.
    ET3 5.41 5 ...England is anchored...right in the heart of the modern world.
    ET3 5.42 1 ...to make these [commercial] advantages avail, the river Thames must dig its spacious outlet to the sea from the heart of the kingdom...
    ET4 5.48 9 I chanced to read Tacitus On the Manners of the Germans...in Missouri and the heart of Illinois...
    ET4 5.63 7 Dear to the English heart is a fair stand-up fight.
    ET5 5.90 8 Sir Robert Peel knew the Blue Books by heart.
    ET5 5.100 1 The difference of rank [in England] does not divide the national heart.
    ET6 5.113 1 [The English] avoid pretension and go right to the heart of the thing.
    ET7 5.116 2 The Teutonic tribes have a national singleness of heart...
    ET7 5.122 19 In February, 1848, [the English] said, Look, the French king and his party fell for want of a shot; they had not conscience to shoot, so entirely was the pith and heart of monarchy eaten out.
    ET8 5.127 9 [The English], too, believe...that your merry heart goes all the way, your sad one tires in a mile.
    ET8 5.135 7 [The Englishman] is a churl with a soft place in his heart...
    ET8 5.135 26 [The English] do not wear their heart in their sleeve for daws to peck at.
    ET8 5.138 13 ...nothing mean resides in the English heart.
    ET10 5.153 22 An Englishman who has lost his fortune is said to have died of a broken heart.
    ET11 5.181 17 The Duke of Bedford includes or included a mile square in the heart of London...
    ET11 5.185 8 In general, all that is required of [English nobility] is...to give the example of that decorum so dear to the British heart.
    ET12 5.213 11 ...when you have settled it that the universities are moribund, out comes a poetic influence from the heart of Oxford...
    ET13 5.224 21 Abroad with my wife, writes Pepys piously, the first time that ever I rode in my own coach; which do make my heart rejoice and praise God...
    ET14 5.246 26 [English] novelists despair of the heart.
    ET14 5.250 9 ...where impatience of the tricks of men...builds altars to the negative Deity, the inevitable recoil is...the gallantry of the private heart...
    ET14 5.253 10 The eye of the naturalist must have...a susceptibility...alive to the heart as well as to the logic of creation.
    ET15 5.272 13 If only [the London Times] dared to...feed its batteries from the central heart of humanity...
    ET17 5.292 5 ...[my Manchester correspondent] added to solid virtues an infinite sweetness and bonhommie. There seemed a pool of honey about his heart...
    ET18 5.305 22 These poor tortoises [the English] must hold hard, for they feel no wings sprouting at their shoulders. Yet somewhat divine warms at their heart and waits a happier hour.
    ET19 5.313 24 I see [England] in her old age...still daring to believe in her power of endurance and expansion. Seeing this, I say, All hail! mother of nations...still wise to entertain and swift to execute the policy which the mind and heart of mankind requires in the present hour...
    F 6.29 5 Each pulse from that heart [the moral sentiment] is an oath from the Most High.
    F 6.49 26 Let us build...to the Necessity which rudely or softly educates [man] to the perception...that Law rules throughout existence; a Law which...solicits the pure in heart to draw on all its omnipotence.
    Pow 6.51 4 His tongue was framed to music,/ And his hand was armed with skill;/ His face was the mould of beauty,/ And his heart the throne of will./
    Pow 6.61 5 When [children] are hurt by us...or are beaten in the game,--if they lose heart and remember the mischance in their chamber at home, they have a serious check.
    Pow 6.75 20 ...I hope, said a good man to Rothschild, your children are not too fond of money and business; I am sure you would not wish that.--I am sure I should wish that; I wish them to give mind, soul, heart and body to business,--that is the way to be happy.
    Pow 6.78 13 The way to learn German is to read the same dozen pages over and over a hundred times, till you...can pronounce and repeat them by heart.
    Wth 6.92 14 The mechanic at his bench carries a quiet heart and assured manners...
    Ctr 6.144 17 I knew a leading man in a leading city, who, having set his heart on an education at the university and missed it, could never quite feel himself the equal of his own brothers who had gone thither.
    Ctr 6.163 24 ...every brave heart must treat society as a child...
    Ctr 6.166 5 ...the age of the brain and of the heart is to come in.
    Bhr 6.167 14 Little [man] says to [graceful women, chosen men]/, So dances his heart in his breast/...
    Bhr 6.178 11 ...by beams of kindness [an eye] can make the heart dance with joy.
    Bhr 6.184 19 ...to youths or maidens who have great objects at heart, we cannot extol [dress circles] highly.
    Bhr 6.185 18 Here are the sweet following eyes of Cecile; it seemed always that she demanded the heart.
    Bhr 6.196 4 ...[beautiful manners] must be inspired by the good heart.
    Wsp 6.201 23 ...we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth.
    Wsp 6.204 18 God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions.
    Wsp 6.215 25 What a day dawns when we have taken to heart the doctrine of faith!...
    Wsp 6.217 15 The heart has its arguments, with which the understanding is not acquainted.
    Wsp 6.217 17 ...the heart is at once aware of the state of health or disease...
    Wsp 6.217 22 So intimate is this alliance of mind and heart, that talent uniformly sinks with character.
    Wsp 6.240 20 When [man's] mind is illuminated, when his heart is kind, he throws himself joyfully into the sublime order...
    Wsp 6.241 6 There is surely enough for the heart and imagination in the religion itself.
    CbW 6.246 24 We have a debt to every great heart...
    CbW 6.252 14 To say then, the majority are wicked, means no malice, no bad heart in the observer...
    CbW 6.260 1 ...all great men come out of the middle classes. 'T is better for the head; 't is better for the heart.
    CbW 6.274 18 ...all those who are native, congenial, and by many an oath of the heart sacramented to you, are gradually and totally lost.
    Bty 6.282 24 The human heart concerns us more than the poring into microscopes...
    Bty 6.283 20 From a great heart secret magnetisms flow incessantly to draw great events.
    Ill 6.316 14 We find a delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
    SS 7.6 9 ...there are metals...which, to be kept pure, must be kept under naphtha. Such are the talents determined on some specialty, which a culminating civilization fosters in the heart of great cities...
    SS 7.7 10 ...there is no remedy that can reach the heart of the disease but either habits of self-reliance that should go in practice to making the man independent of the human race, or else a religion of love.
    SS 7.8 17 Dear heart! take it sadly home to thee,--there is no cooperation.
    Civ 7.24 23 The ship, in its latest complete equipment, is an abridgment and compend of a nation's arts: the ship...driven by steam; and in wildest sea-mountains, at vast distances from home,--The pulses of her iron heart/ Go beating through the storm./
    Art2 7.35 4 I framed his tongue to music,/ I armed his hand with skill,/ I moulded his face to beauty/ And his heart the throne of Will./
    Elo1 7.83 9 ...if one of [the debaters] have anything of commanding necessity in his heart, how speedily he will find vent for it...
    Elo1 7.90 27 ...if we come to the heart of the mystery, perhaps we should say that the truly eloquent man is a sane man with power to communicate his sanity.
    Elo1 7.95 26 Wild men...utter the savage sentiment of Nature in the heart of commercial capitals.
    DL 7.115 23 The great depend on their heart, not on their purse.
    DL 7.119 3 ...let this stranger...in your looks, in your accent and behavior, read your heart and earnessness...
    DL 7.126 4 ...Certainly this was not the intention of Nature, to produce...so cheap and humble a result. The aspirations in the heart after the good and true teach us better...
    DL 7.127 25 Whilst thus Nature and the hints we draw from man suggest... a household equal to the beauty and grandeur of this world, especially we learn the same lesson from those best relations to individual men which the heart is always prompting us to form.
    DL 7.130 11 The fountain of beauty is the heart...
    DL 7.130 24 The man, the woman, needs not the embellishment of canvas and marble...for they know by heart the whole instinct of majesty.
    DL 7.132 16 Will [man] not see...that Law prevails for ever and ever;...that its home is in his own unsounded heart;...
    WD 7.166 20 Look up the inventors. Each has his own knack; his genius is in veins and spots. But the great, equal, symmetrical brain, fed from a great heart, you shall not find.
    WD 7.175 19 Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
    WD 7.183 15 ...in seeking to find what is the heart of the day, we come to the quality of the moment...
    Boks 7.192 21 It seems...as if some charitable soul...would do a right act in naming those [books] which have been bridges or ships to carry him safely... into the heart of sacred cities...
    Boks 7.203 12 [In the Platonists] The acolyte has mounted the tripod over the cave at Delphi; his heart dances, his sight is quickened.
    Boks 7.219 12 [The sacred books'] communications are not to be given or taken with the lips and the end of the tongue, but out of the glow of the cheek, and with the throbbing heart.
    Clbs 7.226 6 ...the staple of conversation is widely unlike in its circles. Sometimes it is facts...sometimes a singing, as if the heart poured out all like a bird;...
    Clbs 7.236 14 ...having a large heart, mother-wit and good sense...[Dr. Johnson's] conversation...has a lasting charm.
    Cour 7.258 23 Cowardice...chills the heart.
    Cour 7.263 1 Knowledge is the encourager, knowledge that takes fear out of the heart...
    Cour 7.266 3 ...there is no separate essence called courage...no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue;...
    Cour 7.272 13 Everything feels the new breath [of courage] except the old doting nigh-dead politicians, whose heart the trumpet of resurrection could not wake.
    Cour 7.273 4 ...the sacred courage is connected with the heart.
    Cour 7.279 16 Still firm the hunter stood,/ Although his heart beat high;/ Again the creature stopped,/ And gazed with wondering eye./
    Cour 7.280 4 But sure that rifle's aim,/ Swift choice of generous part,/ Showed in its passing gleam/ The depths of a brave heart./
    Suc 7.286 10 We have seen an American woman write a novel...which had one merit, of speaking to the universal heart...
    Suc 7.306 17 There was never poet who had not the heart in the right place.
    Suc 7.306 21 All beauty warms the heart...
    Suc 7.306 27 ...the heart at the centre of the universe with every throb hurls the flood of happiness into every artery, vein and veinlet...
    OA 7.316 26 Nature...now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then a young heart beating under fourscore winters.
    OA 7.325 7 We live in youth amidst this rabble of passions, quite too tender, quite too hungry and irritable. Later, the interiors of mind and heart open, and supply grander motives.
    OA 7.335 15 [John Adams] received a premature report of his son's election...and told the reporter he had been hoaxed, for it was not yet time for any news to arrive. The informer, something damped in his heart, insisted on repairing to the meeting-house...
    PI 8.1 12 [The people of the sky] turn his heart from lovely maids,/ And make the darlings of the earth/ Swainish, coarse and nothing worth/...
    PI 8.9 21 The privates of man's heart/ They speken and sound in his ear/ As tho' they loud winds were;/...
    PI 8.34 4 No matter what [your subject] is...if it has a natural prominence to you, work away until you come to the heart of it...
    PI 8.37 2 [The poet] does not give his hand, but in sign of giving his heart;...
    PI 8.37 4 ...[the poet] is...silent, uncommitted or in love, as his heart leads him.
    PI 8.57 2 ...[Newton] only shows...that the music must rise...up to the largeness of astronomy: at last that great heart will hear in the music beats like its own;...
    PI 8.60 8 [The Crusades brought out the genius of France, in the twelfth century, when] Pons de Capdeuil declares,--Since the air renews itself and softens, so must my heart renew itself...
    PI 8.60 26 Presently [Sir Gawaine] heard a voice which said, Gawain, Gawain, be not out of heart...
    PI 8.71 27 ...for obvious municipal or parietal uses God has given us a bias or a rest on to-day's forms. Hence the shudder of joy with which in each clear moment we recognize the metamorphosis, because it is always a conquest, a surprise from the heart of things.
    PI 8.74 25 The only heart that can help us is one that draws...from itself, a counterpoise to society.
    SA 8.86 21 The attitude is the main point, assuring your companion that... you remain in good heart and good mind...
    SA 8.89 4 We want real relations of the mind and the heart;...
    SA 8.104 24 The consolation and happy moment of life...is...a flame of affection or delight in the heart...
    SA 8.105 8 [This flame of desire] reinforces the heart that feels it...
    Elo2 8.123 27 In the vain and foolish exultation of the heart...the pensive portress of Science shall call you to the sober pleasures of her holy cell.
    Res 8.143 6 Here [in America] is bread, and wealth, and power, and education for every man who has the heart to use his opportunity.
    Res 8.146 6 [Tissenet]...explained to [the Indians]...that they did great wrong in wishing to harm him, who carried them all in his heart.
    Res 8.153 23 ...all these acquisitions are victories of the good brain and brave heart;...
    QO 8.186 16 Hafiz...furnished Moore with the original of the piece,- When in death I shall calm recline,/ Oh, bear my heart to my mistress dear,/ etc.
    QO 8.194 1 ...people quote so differently: one finding only what is gaudy and popular; another, the heart of the author...
    QO 8.194 22 The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.
    QO 8.195 10 A man hears a fine sentence out of Swedenborg...and is very merry at heart that he has now got so fine a thing.
    PC 8.207 5 The heart still beats with the public pulse of joy that the country has withstood the rude trial which threatened its existence...
    PC 8.227 6 No angel in his heart acknowledges any one superior to himself but the Lord alone.
    PC 8.227 27 To know in each social crisis how men feel in Kansas, in California, the wise man waits for no mails, reads no telegrams. He asks his own heart.
    PC 8.228 27 It was the conviction of Plato...that great thoughts come from the heart.
    PC 8.231 15 The great heart will no more complain of the obstructions that make success hard, than of the iron walls of the gun which hinder the shot from scattering.
    PC 8.233 26 ...it honorably distinguishes the educated class here, that they believe in the succor which the heart yields to the intellect...
    PPo 8.242 9 Firdusi...has written in the Shah Nameh the annals...of Afrasiyab...whose heart was bounteous as the ocean...
    PPo 8.246 3 Loose the knots of the heart; never think on thy fate:/ No Euclid has yet disentangled that snarl./
    PPo 8.247 13 Loose the knots of the heart, [Hafiz] says.
    PPo 8.248 20 [Hafiz] tells his mistress that not the dervish, or the monk, but the lover, has in his heart the spirit which makes the ascetic and the saint;...
    PPo 8.251 18 Take my heart in thy hand, O beautiful boy of Shiraz!/ I would give for the mole on thy cheek Samarcand and Buchara!/
    PPo 8.253 26 High heart, O Hafiz! though not thine/ Fine gold and silver ore;/ More worth to thee the gift of song,/ And the clear insight more./
    PPo 8.255 3 ...the cultivated Persians know [Hafiz's] poems by heart.
    PPo 8.257 17 [The rose] was of her beauty proud,/ And prouder of her youth,/ The while unto her flaming heart/ The bulbul gave his truth./
    PPo 8.260 9 [Hafiz's ingenuity]...plays in a thousand pretty courtesies:- Fair fall thy soft heart!/ A good work wilt thou do?/ O, pray for the dead/ Whom thy eyelashes slew!/
    PPo 8.261 4 In the midnight of thy locks,/ I renounce the day;/ In the ring of thy rose-lips,/ My heart forgets to pray./
    Insp 8.268 10 ...if with bended head I grope/ Listening behind me for my wit,/ With faith superior to hope,/ More anxious to keep back than forward it,/ Making my soul accomplice there/ Unto the flame my heart has lit,/ Then will the verse forever wear,/ Time cannot bend a line which God hath writ./ Inspiration, H. Thoreau.
    Insp 8.282 4 Another consideration...will cheer the heart of older scholars, namely that there is diurnal and secular rest.
    Insp 8.294 7 We esteem nations important, until we discover...later, that it is...at last...the lowliness, the outpouring, the large equality to truth of a single mind,-as if in the narrow walls of a human heart the whole realm of truth...found room to exist.
    Grts 8.300 4 True dignity abides with him alone/ Who, in the silent hour of inward thought,/ Can still suspect, and still revere himself,/ In lowliness of heart./ Wordsworth.
    Grts 8.302 17 'T is...not Alexander, or Bonaparte or Count Moltke surely, who represent the highest force of mankind; not the strong hand, but...the creation of laws, institutions, letters and art. These...and not the strong arm and brave heart...
    Grts 8.314 12 Napoleon commands our respect by...the habit of seeing with his own eyes, never the surface, but to the heart of the matter...
    Grts 8.318 27 [Lincoln's] heart was as great as the world...
    Imtl 8.321 1 Wilt thou not ope thy heart to know/ What rainbows teach, and sunsets show?/
    Imtl 8.333 4 When Bonaparte insisted that the heart is one of the entrails... do we thank him for the gracious instruction?
    Imtl 8.344 15 Man's heart the Almighty to the Future set/ By secret but inviolable springs./
    Imtl 8.344 19 The revelation that is true is written on the palms of the hands, the thought of our mind, the desire of our heart, or nowhere.
    Dem1 10.18 17 [Demonic individuals] seldom recommend themselves through goodness of heart.
    Aris 10.58 24 ...I know no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind, as that tenacity of purpose which...bates no jot of heart or hope...
    Aris 10.61 27 ...[the true man] is to know that the distinction of a royal nature is a great heart;...
    Aris 10.64 6 You must, for wisdom, for sanity, have some access to the mind and heart of the common humanity.
    Aris 10.64 9 No great man has existed who did not rely on the sense and heart of mankind as represented by the good sense of the people...
    Chr2 10.95 19 [The moral sentiment] puts us at the heart of Nature, where we belong...
    Chr2 10.96 2 Truth, Power, Goodness, Beauty, are...faces of one substance, the heart of all.
    Chr2 10.96 16 ...under the action of this sentiment of the Right, [a man's] heart and mind expand above himself, and above Nature.
    Chr2 10.96 22 Though Love repine, and Reason chafe,/ There came a voice without reply,/ 'T is man's perdition to be safe,/ When for the truth he ought to die./ Such is the difference of the action of the heart within and of the senses without.
    Chr2 10.98 16 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...
    Chr2 10.98 25 We pretend not to define the way of [the moral sentiment's] access to the private heart.
    Chr2 10.120 15 That which I hate and fear is really in myself, and no knife is long enough to reach to its heart.
    Edc1 10.158 21 ...to whatsoever beating heart I speak, to you it is committed to educate men.
    SovE 10.181 1 These rules were writ in human heart/ By Him who built the day;/ The columns of the universe/ Not firmer based than they./
    SovE 10.189 1 ...a sublime confidence is fed at the bottom of the heart that...an eternal, beneficent necessity is always bringing things right;...
    SovE 10.191 15 An Eastern poet...said that God had made justice so dear to the heart of Nature that, if any injustice lurked anywhere under the sky, the blue vault would shrivel to a snake-skin and cast it out by spasms.
    SovE 10.193 18 ...the habit of respecting that great order which certainly contains and will dispose of our little system, will take all fear from the heart.
    SovE 10.199 27 When we ask simply, What is true in thought? what is just in action? it is the yielding of the private heart to the Divine mind...
    SovE 10.203 11 [Our religion] visits us only on some exceptional and ceremonial occasion...perhaps on a sublime national victory or a peace. But that, be sure, is not the religion of the universal, unsleeping providence, which lurks...in...the secrets of the heart...
    SovE 10.204 24 I will not now go into the metaphysics of that reaction by which in history a period of belief is followed by an age of criticism, in which...an excessive respect for forms out of which the heart has departed becomes more obvious in the least religious minds.
    SovE 10.208 25 ...a new crop of geniuses like those of the Elizabethan age, may be born in this age, and, with happy heart and a bias for theism, bring asceticism, duty and magnanimity into vogue again.
    SovE 10.212 3 The mind as it opens transfers very fast its choice...from all that talent executes to the sentiment that fills the heart and dictates the future of nations.
    Prch 10.218 8 I see in those classes and those persons...who contain the activity of to-day and the assurance of to-morrow...a clear enough perception of the inadequacy of the popular religious statement to the wants of their heart and intellect...
    Prch 10.218 23 ...I see not how the great God prepares to satisfy the heart in the new order of things.
    Prch 10.222 11 I cannot keep the sun in heaven, if you take away the purpose that animates him. The ball...is there, but his power...to illuminate the heart as well as the atmosphere, is gone forever.
    Prch 10.224 15 The human race are afflicted with a St. Vitus's dance;... their senses, their talents, are superfluously active, while the torpid heart gives no oracle.
    Prch 10.227 22 Augustine, a Kempis, Fenelon, breathe the very spirit which now fires you. So with Cudworth, More, Bunyan. I agree with them more than I disagree. I agree with their heart and motive;...
    Prch 10.229 8 ...anything but losing hold of the moral intuitions, as betrayed in the clinging to a form of devotion or a theological dogma; as if it was the liturgy, or the chapel that was sacred, and not...the loving heart and serving hand.
    Prch 10.236 21 We want some intercalated days, to bethink us and to derive order to our life from the heart.
    Prch 10.237 2 The old heart remains as ever with its old human duties.
    MoL 10.255 9 ...in the narrow walls of a human heart, the wide realm of truth...found room to exist.
    Schr 10.263 14 The scholar is here to fill others with love and courage by confirming their trust in the love and wisdom which are at the heart of all things;...
    Schr 10.267 10 Action is legitimate and good; forever be it honored! right, original, private, necessary action, proceeding new from the heart of man...
    Schr 10.281 22 Have you a thought in your heart?
    LLNE 10.328 14 Are there any brigands on the road? inquired the traveller in France. Oh, no, set your heart at rest on that point, said the landlord;...
    LLNE 10.334 17 ...boys filled their mouths with arguments to prove that the orator [Everett] had a heart.
    LLNE 10.360 21 [The projectors of Brook Farm] had the feeling that our ways of living were too conventional and expensive...not permitting men to combine cultivation of mind and heart with a reasonable amount of daily labor.
    MMEm 10.412 13 ...when Nature beams with such excess of beauty, when the heart thrills with hope in its Author...it exults, too fondly perhaps for a state of trial.
    MMEm 10.413 19 A mediocrity does seem to me [Mary Moody Emerson] more distant from eminent virtue than the extremes of station; though after all it must depend on the nature of the heart.
    MMEm 10.413 23 The feverish lust of notice perhaps in all these cases would injure the heart of common refinement and virtue.
    MMEm 10.414 10 [Mary Moody Emerson writes] Could [my aunt's] own temper in childhood or age have been subdued, how happy for herself, who had a warm heart;...
    MMEm 10.415 19 ...I [Nature]...fed thee with my mallows, on the first young day of bread failing. More, I...from the solitary heart taught thee to say, at first womanhood, Alive with God is enough,-'t is rapture.
    MMEm 10.422 27 Channing paints [war's] miseries, but does he know those of a worse war,-private animosities, pinching, bitter warfare of the human heart...
    MMEm 10.425 19 ...[the earth's] youthful charms as decked by the hand of Moses' Cosmogony, will linger about the heart, while Poetry succumbs to Science.
    SlHr 10.448 24 ...[Samuel Hoar's] heart was all gentleness, gratitude and bounty.
    SlHr 10.448 28 With beams December planets dart,/ [Samuel Hoar's] cold eye truth and conduct scanned;/ July was in his sunny heart,/ October in his liberal hand./
    Thor 10.478 11 A truth-speaker [Thoreau]...a friend...almost worshipped by those few persons who...knew the deep value of his mind and great heart.
    Carl 10.493 4 If a tory takes heart at [Carlyle's] hatred of stump-oratory and model republics, he replies, Yes, the idea of a pig-headed soldier who will obey orders, and fire on his own father at the command of his officer, is a great comfort to the aristocratic mind.
    Carl 10.497 27 This aplomb [of Carlyle] cannot be mimicked; it is the speaking to the heart of the thing.
    GSt 10.503 5 ...[George Stearns] did not give money to excuse his entire preoccupation in his own pursuits, but as an earnest of the dedication of his heart and hand to the interests of the sufferers [in Kansas]...
    GSt 10.506 27 ...when I consider that [George Stearns] lived long enough to see with his own eyes the salvation of his country, to which he had given all his heart;...I count him happy among men.
    LS 11.22 23 ...the Almighty God was pleased to qualify and send forth a man to teach men that they must serve him with the heart;...
    LS 11.24 10 ...It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart.
    HDC 11.51 23 John Eliot, in October, 1646, preached his first sermon in the Indian language at Noonantum; Waban, Tahattawan, and their sannaps, going thither from Concord to hear him. There under the rubbish and ruins of barbarous life, the human heart heard the voice of love, and awoke as from a sleep.
    HDC 11.59 5 ...when [King Philip] he was told that his sentence was death, he said he liked it well that he was to die before his heart was soft...
    HDC 11.62 4 For [the Indians] the heart of charity, of humanity, was stone.
    HDC 11.77 15 The cause of the Colonies was so much in [William Emerson's] heart that he did not cease to make it the subject of his preaching and his prayers...
    LVB 11.92 26 ...the justice, the mercy that is in the heart's heart of all men...does abhor this business [the relocation of the Cherokees].
    EWI 11.102 20 [The negro slaves'] case was left out of the mind and out of the heart of their brothers.
    EWI 11.106 14 ...when [Granville Sharpe] brought the case of George Somerset, another slave, before Lord Mansfield, the slavish decisions were set aside, and equity affirmed. There is a sparkle of God's righteousness in Lord Mansfield's judgment, which does the heart good.
    EWI 11.125 4 ...that which the head and the heart demand is found to be, in the long run, for what the grossest calculator calls his advantage.
    EWI 11.136 2 The lives of the advocates [of emancipation in the West Indies] are pages of greatness, and the connection of the eminent senators with this question constitutes the immortalizing moments of those men's lives. The bare enunciation of the theses at which the lawyers and legislators arrived, gives a glow to the heart of the reader.
    EWI 11.136 20 One feels very sensibly in all this history [of emancipation in the West Indies] that a great heart and soul are behind there...
    EWI 11.146 14 I doubt not that sometimes the negro's friend, in the face of scornful and brutal hundreds of traders and drivers, has felt his heart sink.
    EWI 11.147 24 The sentiment of Right...pronounces Freedom. The Power that built this fabric of things affirms it in the heart;...
    War 11.152 4 ...in the infancy of society...when hunger, thirst, ague and frozen limbs universally take precedence of the wants of the mind and the heart, the necessities of the strong will certainly be satisfied at the cost of the weak...
    War 11.155 2 Is it not manifest that [war] covers a great and beneficent principle, which Nature had deeply at heart?
    War 11.165 24 He who loves the bristle of bayonets only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his heart.
    War 11.167 3 At a certain stage of his progress, the man fights, if he be of sound body and mind. At a certain higher stage, he...is alert to repel injury, and of an unconquerable heart.
    War 11.169 13 Whenever we see the doctrine of peace embraced by a nation, we may be assured it will...be...one...which has a friend in the bottom of the heart of every man...
    FSLC 11.182 12 Just now a friend came into my house and said, If this [Fugitive Slave] law shall be repealed I shall be glad that I have lived; if not I shall be sorry that I was born. What kind of law is that which extorts language like this from the heart of a free and civilized people?
    FSLC 11.194 10 ...the womb conceives and the breasts give suck to thousands and millions of hairy babes formed not in the image of your statute, but in the image of the Universe;...necessitated to express first or last every feeling of the heart.
    FSLC 11.210 10 ...grant that the heart of financiers...shrinks within them at these colossal amounts, and the embarrassments which complicate the problem [abolition];...
    FSLC 11.211 11 ...these two, Greece and Judaea, furnish the mind and the heart by which the rest of the world is sustained;...
    FSLN 11.223 22 It is a law of our nature that great thoughts come from the heart.
    FSLN 11.234 20 There is no help but in the head and heart and hamstrings of a man.
    FSLN 11.234 24 To interpret Christ it needs Christ in the heart.
    FSLN 11.243 27 ...I put it...to every poetic, every heroic, every religious heart, that not so is our learning...to be declared.
    FSLN 11.244 12 I respect the Anti-Slavery Society. It is the Cassandra that has foretold all that has befallen...years ago; foretold all, and no man laid it to heart.
    JBB 11.272 13 A Vermont judge, Hutchinson, who has the Declaration of Independence in his heart;...is worth a court-house full of lawyers so idolatrous of forms as to let go the substance.
    JBS 11.277 11 ...as soon as [people] read [John Brown's] own speeches and letters they are heartily contented,-such is the singleness of purpose which justifies him to the head and the heart of all.
    TPar 11.291 18 ...[Theodore Parker's] great hospitable heart was the sanctuary to which every soul conscious of an earnest opinion came for sympathy...
    TPar 11.291 23 ...every sound heart loves a responsible person...
    ACiv 11.311 7 More and better than the President has spoken shall, perhaps, the effect of this message [proposal for gradual abolition] be,- but...not more or better than he hoped in his heart...
    EPro 11.316 22 [Movement toward liberty]...is as when an orator... announces with vibrating voice the grand human principles involved;...a new audience is found in the heart of the assembly...
    EPro 11.320 18 The government has assured itself of the best constituency in the world...every religious heart, every man of honor...all rally to its support.
    EPro 11.321 16 With this blot [slavery] removed from our national honor, this heavy load lifted off the national heart, we shall not fear henceforward to show our faces among mankind.
    EPro 11.326 5 Do not let the dying die: hold them back to this world, until you have charged their ear and heart with this message to other spiritual societies...
    ALin 11.335 19 Step by step [Lincoln] walked before [the American people];...the pulse of twenty millions throbbing in his heart...
    SMC 11.350 24 ...the roots of events [the Concord Monument] appropriately marks are in the heart of the universe.
    SMC 11.351 10 The art of the architect and the sense of the town have made these dumb stones [of the Concord Monument] speak;...have given them a meaning for the imagination and the heart.
    SMC 11.355 1 ...it was found, contrary to all popular belief, that the country was at heart abolitionist...
    SMC 11.361 21 [George Prescott] writes, You don't know how one gets attached to a company by living with them and sleeping with them all the time. I know every man by heart.
    SMC 11.373 10 ...[George Prescott] was struck...by a musket-ball which entered his breast near the heart.
    EdAd 11.385 26 We hearken in vain for any profound voice speaking to the American heart...
    EdAd 11.388 16 The young intriguers who drive in bar-rooms and town-meetings the trade of politics...have put the country into the position of an overgrown bully, and Massachusetts finds no heart or head to give weight and efficacy to her contrary judgment.
    Koss 11.399 16 ...hitherto, you [Kossuth] have had in all centuries and in all parties only the men of heart.
    Wom 11.413 15 This is the victory of Griselda, her supreme humility. And it is when love has reached this height that all our pretty rhetoric begins to have meaning. When we see that...it is balsam in the heart.
    Wom 11.425 12 Let us have the true woman...the hospitable, the religious heart...
    Wom 11.426 18 ...whatever the woman's heart is prompted to desire, the man's mind is simultaneously prompted to accomplish.
    SHC 11.428 8 ...shalt thou pause to hear some funeral-bell/ Slow stealing o' er the heart in this calm place/...
    RBur 11.443 11 The memory of Burns,-every man's, every boy's and girl' s head carries snatches of his songs, and they say them by heart...
    Shak1 11.446 2 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 11.448 12 ...Shakspeare taught us that the little world of the heart is vaster, deeper and richer than the spaces of astronomy.
    Shak1 11.450 10 ...[Shakespeare] still agitates the heart in age as in youth...
    Shak1 11.451 14 The unaffected joy of the comedy...contrasted with the grandeur of the tragedy, where...[Shakespeare] flies an eagle at the heart of the problem;...
    Shak1 11.451 17 What a great heart of equity is [Shakespeare]!
    FRep 11.532 23 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.
    PLT 12.60 22 The spiritual power of man is twofold, mind and heart...
    II 12.80 3 ...[the secret Power] frowns on moths and puppets, passes by us, and seeks a solitary and religious heart.
    II 12.86 12 Take it sadly home to thy heart,-the artist must pay for his learning and doing with his life.
    II 12.87 7 I will speak the truth in my heart...
    II 12.88 26 ...there is surely enough for the heart and the imagination in the [universal] religion itself.
    II 12.89 4 The joy of knowledge, the late discovery that the veil which hid all things from him is really transparent, transparent everywhere to...the heart of trust which every perception fortifies,-renew life for [a man].
    CInt 12.127 6 The College should hold the profound thought, and the Church the great heart to which the nation should turn...
    CInt 12.130 4 My friend, stretch a few threads over a common Aeolian harp, and put it in your window, and listen to what it says of times and the heart of Nature.
    CW 12.172 12 I did not know [when I bought my farm] what groups of interesting school-boys and fair school-girls were...to take hold of one's heart at the School Exhibitions.
    CW 12.175 19 I could not find it in my heart to chide the citizen who should ruin himself to buy a patch of heavy oak timber.
    Bost 12.182 8 The sea returning day by day/ Restores the world-wide mart;/ So let each dweller on the Bay/ Fold Boston in his heart./
    Bost 12.206 5 When men saw that these people [of Boston], besides their industry and thrift, had a heart and soul...they desired to come and live here.
    Milt1 12.245 4 I framed his tongue to music,/ I armed his hand with skill,/ I moulded his face to beauty,/ And his heart the throne of will./
    Milt1 12.250 9 The lover of [Milton's] genius will always regret that he should [when writing the Defence of the English People] not have taken counsel of his own lofty heart at this, as at other times...
    Milt1 12.261 24 ...[Milton] knew that this mastery of language was a secondary power, and he respected the mysterious source whence it had its spring; namely, clear conceptions and a devoted heart.
    Milt1 12.267 18 ...Milton deserved the apostrophe of Wordsworth;-Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free,/ So didst thou travel on life's common way/ In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart/ The lowliest duties on itself did lay./
    Milt1 12.272 22 ...with his whole heart [Milton] abhors licentiousness and loves chastity.
    Milt1 12.277 15 If out of the heart [Milton's strain] came, to the heart it must go.
    MLit 12.310 12 Over every true poem lingers a certain wild beauty, immeasurable; a happiness lightsome and delicious fills the heart and brain...
    MLit 12.316 1 Do gladness and hope and fortitude flow from [the writer's] page into thy heart?
    MLit 12.326 16 Who saw Milton, who saw Shakspeare, saw them...utter their whole heart manlike among their brethren.
    MLit 12.333 19 What is Austria? What is England? What is our graduated and petrified social scale of ranks and employments? Shall not a poet redeem us from these idolatries, and pale their legendary lustre before the fires of the Divine Wisdom which burn in his heart?
    MLit 12.334 6 There is nothing in the heart but comes presently to the lips.
    MLit 12.334 23 The heart beats in this age as of old...
    MLit 12.335 14 In [man's] heart he knows the ache of spiritual pain...
    Pray 12.352 11 ...thou, O my Father, knowest I always delight to commune with thee in my lone and silent heart;...
    Pray 12.352 21 ...O my Father...my heart is cheered and at rest with thy presence...
    Pray 12.352 24 ...O my Father...thou dost not steal my time by foolishness. I always ask in my heart, where can I find thee?
    Pray 12.356 2 Might [these prayers] be suggestion to many a heart of yet higher secret experiences which are ineffable!
    EurB 12.369 15 ...that which rose in [Wordsworth] so high as to the lips, rose in many others as high as to the heart.
    EurB 12.375 18 Had...one sentiment from the heart of God been spoken by [the novel of costume or of circumstance] the reader had been made a participator of their triumph;...
    PPr 12.379 9 [Carlyle's Past and Present] grapples honestly with the facts lying before all men...and, with a heart full of manly tenderness, offers his best counsel to his brothers.
    Let 12.393 15 Our friend suggests so many inconveniences from piracy out of the high air to orchards and lone houses...that we have not the heart to break the sleep of the good public by the repetition of these details.
    Let 12.400 5 Let every man mind his own, you say, and I say the same. Only let him mind it with all his heart...
    Let 12.404 8 ...every man knows in his heart the cure for the disease he so ostentatiously bewails.
    Trag 12.406 8 ...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.
    Trag 12.409 15 ...suspicions, half-knowledge and mistakes, darken the brow and chill the heart of men.
    Trag 12.410 12 Tragedy is in the eye of the observer, and not in the heart of the sufferer.

Heart, n. (1)

    Wsp 6.241 25 ...the super-personal Heart,--[man] shall repose alone on that.

heart-aches, n. (1)

    OA 7.324 15 ...be it as it may with the sick-headache,--'t is certain that graver headaches and heart-aches are lulled once for all as we come up with certain goals of time.

heart-beat, n. (1)

    SwM 4.141 11 Melodious poets shall be hoarse as street ballads when once the penetrating key-note of nature and spirit is sounded,--the earth-beat, sea-beat, heart-beat, which makes the tune to which the sun rolls...

heart-beatings, n. (1)

    Pt1 3.40 6 ...hence these throbs and heart-beatings in the orator...to the end namely that thought may be ejaculated as Logos, or Word.

heart-burn, n. (1)

    Ctr 6.144 10 There is also a negative value in these [minor] arts. Their chief use to the youth is...to be known for what they are, and not to remain to him occasions of heart-burn.

heart-burning, n. (1)

    Gts 3.163 22 It is a great happiness to get off without injury and heart-burning from one who has had the ill-luck to be served by you.

heart-cheering, adj. (1)

    GoW 4.273 7 There is a heart-cheering freedom in [Goethe's] speculation.

heart-drawings, n. (1)

    NR 3.228 21 The magnetism which arranges tribes and races in one polarity is alone to be respected; the men are steel-filings. Yet we unjustly select a particle, and say, O steel-filing number one! what heart-drawings I feel to thee!...

hearted, adj. (1)

    Wsp 6.217 14 Given the equality of two intellects,--which will form the most reliable judgments, the good, or the bad hearted?

hearth, n. (10)

    SR 2.71 26 Why should we assume the faults of our friend...or child, because they sit around our hearth...
    Lov1 2.182 7 ...by this love [of beauty] extinguishing the base affection, as the sun puts out fire by shining on the hearth, [the lovers] become pure and hallowed.
    Prd1 2.227 8 The domestic man, who loves no music so well as...the airs which the logs sing to him as they burn on the hearth, has solaces which others never dream of.
    Pol1 3.197 24 When the Church is social worth,/ When the state-house is the hearth,/ Then the perfect State is come,/ The republican at home./
    Pow 6.70 22 The luxury of fire is to have a little on our hearth;...
    Bhr 6.173 11 I have seen...the overbold, who make their own invitation to your hearth;...
    DL 7.128 16 There is no event greater in life than the appearance of new persons about our hearth...
    Res 8.135 2 Go where he will, the wise man is at home,/ His hearth the earth,--his hall the azure dome;/...
    Imtl 8.323 8 The hearth blazes in the middle and a grateful heat is spread around...
    CPL 11.502 8 It was the symbolical custom of the ancient Mexican priests... to procure in the temple fire from the sun, and thence distribute it as a sacred gift to every hearth in the nation.

hearthstone, n. [hearth-stone,] (2)

    PPo 8.258 10 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./
    SMC 11.375 27 A gloom gathers on this assembly...for, in many houses, the dearet and noblest is gone from their hearth-stone.

heartily, adv. (27)

    Nat 1.74 17 No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
    Lov1 2.173 23 By and by that boy wants a wife, and very truly and heartily will he know where to find a sincere and sweet mate...
    Int 2.343 26 Take thankfully and heartily all [new doctrines] can give.
    Exp 3.61 25 ...leave me alone and I should relish every hour, and what it brought me, the potluck of the day, as heartily as the oldest gossip in the bar-room.
    NR 3.248 21 Could [my good men] but once understand that I...heartily wished them God-speed, yet...had no word or welcome for them when they came to see me...it would be a great satisfaction.
    NER 3.273 21 What is it we heartily wish of each other?
    PPh 4.62 8 ...the Asia in [Plato's] mind was first heartily honored...
    GoW 4.288 25 ...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.
    ET1 5.21 18 [Wordsworth] proceeded to abuse Goethe's Wilhelm Meister heartily.
    Pow 6.76 26 The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency...but who throws himself on your part so heartily that he can get you out of a scrape.
    DL 7.110 20 We must not make believe with our money, but spend heartily...
    PI 8.29 20 ...Herbert, Swedenborg, Wordsworth, are heartily enamoured of their sweet thoughts.
    PC 8.221 25 To this material essence [centrality] answers Truth, in the intellectual world...Truth, on whose side we always heartily are.
    Edc1 10.151 12 Is it not manifest...that wise men...heartily seeking the good of mankind...should dare to arouse the young to a just and heroic life;...
    Supl 10.171 19 Whenever the true objects of action appear, they are to be heartily sought.
    EzRy 10.395 5 ...[Ezra Ripley] adopted heartily...the creed and catechism of the fathers...
    Thor 10.456 19 ...[Thoreau]...threw himself heartily and childlike into the company of young people whom he loved...
    Carl 10.493 22 The literary, the fashionable, the political man...comes eagerly to see this man [Carlyle], whose fun they have heartily enjoyed... and are struck with despair at the first onset.
    AsSu 11.247 1 Mr. Chairman: I sympathize heartily with the spirit of the resolutions.
    JBS 11.277 9 ...as soon as [people] read [John Brown's] own speeches and letters they are heartily contented...
    JBS 11.278 7 ...in Pennsylvania...[John Brown] fell in with a boy whom he heartily liked...
    SMC 11.363 17 [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, whilst part of the military discipline is sham fights. The best men heartily second him...
    Koss 11.397 20 ...now, Sir [Kossuth], we are heartily glad to see you, at last, in these fields [of Concord].
    Wom 11.421 18 For their want of intimate knowledge of affairs, I do not think this ought to disqualify [women] from voting at any town-meeting which I ever attended. I could heartily wish the objection were sound.
    RBur 11.439 12 ...I heartily feel the singular claims of the occasion [the Burns Festival].
    FRep 11.544 10 I could heartily wish that our will and endeavor were more active parties to the work.
    CInt 12.124 10 I could heartily wish it were otherwise, but there is a certain shyness of genius...in colleges...

heartiness, n. (2)

    Mrs1 3.141 7 The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy.
    PerF 10.70 8 See what your robust neighbor, who never feared to live in [the air], has got from it;...heartiness and equality to each event.

heartless, adj. (5)

    ET11 5.173 3 ...we take sides as we read for the loyal England, and King Charles's return to his right with his Cavaliers,--knowing what a heartless trifler he is...
    ET13 5.229 14 Thackeray exposes the heartless high life.
    CbW 6.260 3 Marcus Antoninus says that Fronto told him that the so-called high-born are for the most part heartless;...
    PPo 8.265 17 You as three birds are amazed,/ Impatient, heartless, confused:/ Far over you am I raised,/ Since I am in act Simorg./
    Supl 10.175 25 ...[Nature] brings the most heartless trifler to determined purpose presently.

heartlessness, n. (1)

    Tran 1.355 21 We call the Beautiful the highest, because it appears to us the golden mean, escaping the dowdiness of the good and the heartlessness of the true.

heart-rejoicing, adj. (1)

    Nat2 3.173 9 ...I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle I...pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight... A holiday...the proudest, most heart-rejoicing festival that valor and beauty, power and taste, ever decked and enjoyed, establishes itself on the instant.

heart-rending, adj. [heartrending,] (2)

    II 12.84 25 Men generally attempt, early in life, to make their brothers, afterwards their wives, acquainted with what is going forward in their private theatre; but they soon desist from the attempt, in finding that they also have some farce, or, perhaps, some ear-and heart-rending tragedy forward on their secret boards, on which they are intent;...
    Let 12.400 15 It is heartrending to see your [German] poet, your artist, and all who still revere genius...

hearts, n. (48)

    Nat 1.77 5 ...[the advancing spirit] shall draw...warm hearts...
    AmS 1.93 24 ...[colleges] can only highly serve us...when they...set the hearts of their youth on flame.
    DSA 1.151 5 What hinders that now...you speak the very truth...and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men...
    LE 1.176 12 Let us...suffer, and weep, and drudge, with eyes and hearts that love the Lord.
    MR 1.229 22 The fact that a new thought and hope have dawned in your breast, should apprize you that in the same hour a new light broke in upon a thousand private hearts.
    Tran 1.343 10 ...[Transcendentalists] will own...that there are persons whom in their hearts they daily thank for existing...
    Fdsp 2.192 10 A commended stranger is expected and announced, and an uneasiness betwixt pleasure and pain invades all the hearts of a household.
    Fdsp 2.192 11 [The stranger's] arrival almost brings fear to the good hearts that would welcome him.
    Hsm1 2.256 20 Simple hearts put all the history and customs of this world behind them...
    Int 2.337 13 ...a beautiful face sets twenty hearts in palpitation...
    Art1 2.360 1 [The traveller who visits the Vatican galleries] studies the technical rules [of art] on these wonderful remains, but forgets...that each [work] came out of the solitary workshop of one artist, who...created his work without other model save life...and the sweet and smart...of beating hearts, and meeting eyes;...
    Pt1 3.23 21 ...when the soul of the poet has come to ripeness of thought, [nature] detaches and sends away from it its poems or songs...a fearless, vivacious offspring, clad with wings...which carry them fast and far, and infix them irrecoverably into the hearts of men.
    Pt1 3.29 17 That spirit which suffices quiet hearts...comes forth to the poor and hungry...
    Nat2 3.194 20 ...if, instead of identifying ourselves with the work, we feel that the soul of the Workman streams through us, we shall find the peace of the morning dwelling first in our hearts...
    SwM 4.114 17 ...the unities of the tongue are little tongues;...those of the heart, little hearts.
    ShP 4.211 9 ...[Shakespeare] read the hearts of men and women...
    ET8 5.141 27 Nelson wrote from [English] hearts his homely telegraph, England expects every man to do his duty.
    CbW 6.260 26 ...good hearts and sound minds are of no condition...
    CbW 6.268 1 The young people do not like the town, do not like the sea-shore, they will...find a dear cottage deep in the mountains, secret as their hearts.
    DL 7.103 18 [The nestler's] unaffected lamentations when he lifts up his voice on high...soften all hearts to pity...
    DL 7.127 1 ...let the hearts [our friends] have agitated witness what power has lurked in the traits of these structures of clay that pass and repass us!
    PI 8.26 1 [People] like to go...to Faneuil Hall, and be taught by Otis, Webster, or Kossuth...what great hearts they have...
    PI 8.33 6 Homer has his own [important passages],--One omen is best, to fight for one's country;/ and again,--They heal their griefs, for curable are the hearts of the noble./
    PI 8.67 11 The ballad and romance work on the hearts of boys...
    Elo2 8.109 16 Self-centred; when [the patriot] launched the genuine word/ It shook or captivated all who heard/ Ran from his mouth to mountains and the sea,/ And burned in noble hearts proverb and prophecy./
    Imtl 8.321 9 ...What is excellent,/ As God lives, is permanent;/ Hearts are dust, hearts' loves remain;/ Heart's love will meet thee again./
    PerF 10.78 13 What a power [is Imagination], when, combined with the analyzing understanding, it makes Eloquence;...the art of making peoples' hearts dance to his pipe!
    SovE 10.203 15 Far be it from me to underrate the men or the churches that have fixed the hearts of men...
    Prch 10.228 15 Of course a hero so attractive to the hearts of millions [as Jesus] drew the hypocrite and the ambitious into his train...
    LLNE 10.334 6 ...he [Everett] who was heard with such throbbing hearts and sparkling eyes in the lighted and crowded churches, did not let go his hearers when the church was dismissed...
    LLNE 10.347 16 ...Ah, [Robert Owen] said...there are as tender hearts and as much good will to serve men, in palaces, as in colleges.
    MMEm 10.423 21 For the widows and orphans--Oh, I [Mary Moody Emerson] could give facts of the long-drawn years of imprisoned minds and hearts, which uneducated orphans endure!
    LS 11.15 11 Elsewhere [St. Paul] tells [the primitive Church] that at that time [the second coming of Christ], the world would be burnt up with fire... so slow were the disciples...to receive the idea which we receive, that his second coming was...the dominion of his religion in the hearts of men...
    HDC 11.37 16 The faithful dealing and brave good will, which, during the life of the friendly Massasoit, [the English] uniformly experienced at Plymouth and at Boston, went to their hearts.
    HDC 11.40 17 The sermon [to the settlers of Concord] fell into good and tender hearts;...
    LVB 11.93 20 You [Van Buren] will not do us the injustice of connecting this remonstrance [against the relocation of the Cherokees] with any sectional and party feeling. It is in our hearts the simplest commandment of brotherly love.
    EWI 11.106 9 ...[Granville Sharpe] so filled the heads and hearts of his advocates that when he brought the case of George Somerset, another slave, before Lord Mansfield, the slavish decisions were set aside, and equity affirmed.
    FSLN 11.240 1 To faint hearts the times offer no invitation...
    ACiv 11.303 9 There are Scriptures written invisibly on men's hearts...
    EPro 11.319 7 October, November, December will have passed over beating hearts and plotting brains...
    EPro 11.325 21 The malignant cry of the Secession press within the free states, and the recent action of the Confederate Congress, are decisive as to [the Emancipation Proclamation's] efficiency and correctness of aim. Not less so is the silent joy which has greeted it in all generous hearts...
    SMC 11.358 1 One [volunteer] wrote to his father these words: You may think it strange that I, who have always naturally rather shrunk from danger, should wish to enter the army; but there is a higher Power that tunes the hearts of men...
    PLT 12.61 17 ...all great minds and all great hearts have mutually allowed the absolute necessity of the twain.
    Milt1 12.265 8 ...[Milton] replies to the...calumny respecting his morning haunts. Those morning haunts are where they should be, at home;...up and stirring...with...labors preserving the body's health and hardiness, to render...obedience to the mind, to the cause of religion and our country's liberty, when it shall require firm hearts in sound bodies to stand and cover their stations.
    ACri 12.299 19 ...the secret interior wits and hearts of men take note of [Carlyle's History of Frederick II]...
    MLit 12.332 24 ...they have served [humanity] better, who assured it out of the innocent hope in their hearts that a Physician will come, than this majestic Artist [Goethe]...
    WSL 12.343 4 Whatever can make for itself...the most profound and permanent existence in the hearts and heads of millions of men, must have a reason for its being.
    Let 12.401 18 Where a people honors genius in its artists, there breathes like an atmosphere a universal soul...all hearts become pious and great...

heart's, n. [hearts',] (5)

    Bty 6.283 18 A deep man...believes that the evil eye can wither, that the heart's blessing can heal;...
    Imtl 8.321 9 ...What is excellent,/ As God lives, is permanent;/ Hearts are dust, hearts' loves remain;/ Heart's love will meet thee again./
    Imtl 8.321 10 ...What is excellent,/ As God lives, is permanent;/ Hearts are dust, hearts' loves remain;/ Heart's love will meet thee again./
    MMEm 10.397 10 Ah me! it was my childhood's thought,/ If He should make my web a blot/ On life's fair picture of delight,/ My heart's content would find it right./
    LVB 11.92 26 ...the justice, the mercy that is in the heart's heart of all men...does abhor this business [the relocation of the Cherokees].

heart-sick, adj. (1)

    EWI 11.102 18 These men [negro slaves]...producers of comfort and luxury for the civilized world,-there seated in the finest climates of the globe, children of the sun,-I am heart-sick when I read how they came there, and how they are kept there.

heart-stirring, adj. (1)

    FRO2 11.489 21 Whoever thinks a story gains...by adding something out of nature, robs it more than he adds. It is no longer an example, a model; no longer a heart-stirring hero...

heart-strings, n. (1)

    CInt 12.119 20 I wish to see that Mirabeau who knows how to seize the heart-strings of the people...

hearty, adj. (14)

    MR 1.247 21 ...we must clear ourselves each one by the interrogation, whether we have earned our bread to-day by the hearty contribution of our energies to the common benefit;...
    SL 2.142 3 Somewhere, not only every orator but every man...should find or make a frank and hearty expression of what force and meaning is in him.
    Fdsp 2.207 6 You shall have very useful and cheering discourse at several times with two several men, but let all three of you come together and you shall not have one new and hearty word.
    ET7 5.118 17 Even Lord Chesterfield...when he came to define a gentleman, declared that truth made his distinction; and nothing ever spoken by him would find so hearty a suffrage from his nation.
    ET11 5.195 7 ...Sir Philip Sidney in his letter to his brother...gave plain and hearty counsel.
    ET14 5.236 20 The more hearty and sturdy [English] expression may indicate that the savageness of the Norseman was not all gone.
    Elo2 8.110 2 True eloquence I find to be none but the serious and hearty love of truth;...
    GSt 10.504 23 I have heard...that [George Stearns] was indignant at this or that man's behavior, but never that his anger...ever stood in the way of his hearty cooperation with the offenders when they returned to the path of public duty.
    HDC 11.45 11 [The settlers of Concord] bore to John Winthrop, the Governor, a grave but hearty kindness.
    HDC 11.70 11 ...we think it our duty...to return our hearty thanks to the town of Boston...
    EWI 11.116 7 The [West Indian] planters informed us that [the day after emancipation] they went to the chapels where their own people were assembled...and exchanged the most hearty good wishes.
    JBS 11.278 3 ...for [rough play] it needed that the playmates should be equal;...not one his own master, hale and hearty, and the other watched and whipped.
    Bost 12.197 27 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.
    Milt1 12.262 4 ...[Milton] said...true eloquence I find to be none but the serious and hearty love of truth;...

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