Lot, Day of the to Low-Born

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

Lot, Day of the, n. (1)

    PPo 8.239 2 The religion [of the East] teaches an inexorable Destiny. It distinguishes only two days in each man's history,-his birthday, called the Day of the Lot, and the Day of Judgment.

lot, n. (19)

    SR 2.88 14 Thy lot or portion of life...is seeking after thee;...
    Comp 2.112 15 Experienced men of the world know very well that it is best to pay scot and lot as they go along...
    SL 2.162 20 Epaminondas...would have sat still with joy and peace, if his lot had been mine.
    Lov1 2.185 16 ...the lot of humanity is on these children [young lovers].
    NER 3.256 23 ...is there not a wide disparity between the lot of me and the lot of thee, my poor brother, my poor sister?
    ShP 4.211 18 ...all the sweets and all the terrors of human lot lay in [Shakespeare's] mind...
    ET10 5.165 20 In the social world an Englishman to-day has the best lot.
    Ill 6.315 18 Bare and grim to tears is the lot of the children in the hovel I saw yesterday;...
    PI 8.37 27 [Mortal men] live cabined, cribbed, confined in a narrow and trivial lot...
    PPo 8.246 16 Riot, [Hafiz] thinks, can snatch from the deeply hidden lot the veil that covers it...
    Aris 10.46 9 ...I am not going to argue the merits of gradation in the universe; the existing order of more or less. Neither do I wish to go into a vindication of the justice that disposes the variety of lot.
    Chr2 10.114 10 The soul...finds...the humblest lot exalted.
    Supl 10.177 9 ...[the religion of the Arab] distinguishes only two days in each man's history, the day of his lot, and the day of judgment.
    Prch 10.232 17 We shall not very long have any part or lot in this earth...
    MoL 10.241 19 ...[the scholar] has drawn the white lot in life.
    Schr 10.265 19 ...at a single strain of a bugle out of a grove...the poet replaces all this cowardly Self-denial and God-denial of the literary class with the conviction that to one poetic success the world will surrender on its knees. Instantly he casts in his lot with the pearl-diver and the diamond-merchant.
    Plu 10.306 2 [Plutarch's] poor indignation against Herodotus was perhaps a youthful prize essay...or perhaps, at a rhetorician's school, the subject of Herodotus being the lesson of the day, Plutarch was appointed by lot to take the adverse side.
    SlHr 10.444 9 ...was it only the lot of excellence, that with aims so pure and single, [Samuel Hoar] seemed to pass out of life alone...
    FSLC 11.195 23 ...it is a greater crime to reenslave a man who has shown himself fit for freedom, than to enslave him at first, when it might be pretended to be a mitigation of his lot as a captive in war.

loth, adj. (1)

    SR 2.56 27 ...the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loth to disappoint them.

lots, n. (4)

    WD 7.184 25 Mars shook the lots in his helmet, and that of Apollo leaped out first.
    Dem1 10.23 25 Coincidences, dreams, animal magnetism, omens, sacred lots, have great interest for some minds.
    SHC 11.429 6 Citizens and Friends: The committee to whom was confided the charge of carrying out the wishes of the town [Concord] in opening the [Sleep Hollow] cemetary...having laid off as many lots as are likely to be wanted at present, have thought it fit to call the inhabitants together...
    CL 12.162 17 Sometimes the farmer withstands [the true naturalist] in crossing his lots, but 't is to no purpose;...

lottery, n. (2)

    Wth 6.118 8 It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich.
    Boks 7.192 13 ...it happens in our experience that in this lottery [of books] there are at least fifty or a hundred blanks to a prize.

lotus, n. (1)

    Hist 2.21 15 ...the Persian imitated in the slender shafts and capitals of his architecture the stem and flower of the lotus and palm...

Lotus, n. (1)

    CW 12.174 18 Plant the Banian, the Sandal-tree, the Lotus...

lotus-bud, n. (1)

    QO 8.187 23 ...if we learn how old are...the alternate lotus-bud and leaf-stem of our iron fences,-we shall think very well of the first men, or ill of the latest.

lotus-garden, n. (1)

    ET19 5.312 12 ...I was given to understand in my childhood that the British island from which my forefathers came was no lotus-garden...

loud, adj. (17)

    LT 1.288 13 Over all [the sailors'] speaking-trumpets, the gray sea and the loud winds answer, Not in us; not in Time.
    Hist 2.24 22 The reverence exhibited [in the Grecian period] is for personal qualities; courage...a loud voice...
    SR 2.86 24 It is curious to see the periodical disuse and perishing of means and machinery which were introduced with loud laudation a few years or centuries before.
    ET6 5.104 11 The Englishman is very petulant and precise about his accommodation at inns and on the roads;...and loud and pungent in his expressions of impatience at any neglect.
    ET8 5.134 1 No man can claim...to put upon the company with the loud statement of his crotchets or personalities.
    Ctr 6.165 27 Half engaged in the soil, pawing to get free, man needs all the music that can be brought to disengage him. If Love, red Love, with tears and joy;...by loud taps on the tough chrysalis can break its walls and let the new creature emerge erect and free,--make way and sing paean!
    Elo1 7.66 11 There are many audiences in every public assembly, each one of which rules in turn. If anything comic and coarse is spoken, you shall see the emergence of the boys and rowdies, so loud and vivacious that you might think the house was filled with them.
    PI 8.9 23 The privates of man's heart/ They speken and sound in his ear/ As tho' they loud winds were;/...
    Comc 8.157 22 The essence...of all comedy, seems to be...a non-performance of what is pretended to be performed, at the same time that one is giving loud pledges of performance.
    Schr 10.285 9 ...[men of talent] nourish a small difference into a loud quarrel.
    HDC 11.80 3 [Concord's] instructions to their representatives are full of loud complaints of the disgraceful state of public credit...
    ACiv 11.306 27 There will be a lull after so loud a storm;...
    II 12.67 26 Objection and loud denial not less prove the reality and conquests of an idea than the friends and advocates it finds.
    CL 12.142 17 ...a loud singer...profanes the river and the forest...
    ACri 12.297 17 ...[Carlyle] talks flexibly...in loud emphasis, in undertones...
    ACri 12.301 23 When Samuel Dexter...argued the claims of South Boston Bridge, he had to meet loud complaints of the shutting out of the coasting-trade by the proposed improvements.
    PPr 12.383 9 Time stills the loud noise of opinions...

loud, adv. (8)

    SL 2.156 13 ...your silence answers very loud.
    Bhr 6.174 9 It ought not to need to print in a reading-room a caution to strangers not to speak loud;...
    Cour 7.260 2 Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended. Complaining never so loud and with never so much reason is of no use.
    QO 8.186 4 The fine verse in the old Scotch ballad of The Drowned Lovers-Thou art roaring ower loud, Clyde water,/ Thy streams are ower strang;/...is a translation of Martial's epigram on Hero and Leander...
    Insp 8.287 24 Did you never observe, says Gray, while rocking winds are piping loud, that pause, as the gust is recollecting itself...
    PerF 10.80 20 ...[the prisoner] took his flute out of his pocket and began to play...and the prisoner was by general consent of court and officers allowed to go his way without any money. And I suppose, if he could have played loud enough, we here should have beat time...
    FSLC 11.198 20 These resistances [to the Fugitive Slave Law] appear in the history of the statute, in the retributions which speak so loud in every part of this business...
    CL 12.152 11 The dry leaves rustle so loud, as we go rummaging through them, that we can hear nothing else.

louder, adv. (3)

    Wsp 6.211 25 We were not deceived by the professions of the private adventurer,--the louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons;...
    EWI 11.124 9 If any mention was made of homicide, madness, adultery, and intolerable tortures [of negroes], we would let the church-bells ring louder...
    EWI 11.133 17 There is a scandalous rumor that has been swelling louder of late years...that members [of Congress] are bullied into silence by Southern gentlemen.

loudest, adj. (1)

    YA 1.389 8 It is not often the worst trait that occasions the loudest outcry.

loudly, adv. (5)

    SL 2.150 17 Persons approach us, famous for their beauty...with very imperfect result. To be sure it would be ungrateful in us not to praise them loudly.
    Comc 8.166 11 ...The mighty Tottipottymoy/ Sent to our elders an envoy,/ Complaining loudly of the breach/ Of league held forth by Brother Patch/...
    MoL 10.254 18 The country complains loudly of the inefficiency of the army.
    EPro 11.316 20 [Movement toward liberty]...is as when an orator... announces with vibrating voice the grand human principles involved;-the bravos and wits who greeted him loudly thus far are surprised and overawed;...
    SMC 11.368 10 ...at Fredericksburg...Lieutenant-Colonel Prescott loudly expressed his satisfaction at his comrades...

Loudon, John Claudius, n. (3)

    ET10 5.163 20 The taste and science of thirty peaceful generations;...the taste of foreign and domestic artists, Shenstone, Pope, Brown, Loudon, Paxton,--are in the vast auction [in England]...
    ET11 5.188 27 George Loudon, Quintinye, Evelyn, had taught [British dukes] to make gardens.
    CL 12.146 24 Here [on Estabrook Farm] are varieties of apple not found in Downing or Loudon.

louis d, ors, n. (1)

    ET12 5.203 17 ...one day, being in Venice [Dr. Bandinel] bought a room full of books and manuscripts...for four thousand louis d'ors...

louis, n. (1)

    Grts 8.316 1 A poor scribbler who had written a lampoon against him... came with it in his poverty to Diderot, and Diderot, pitying the creature, wrote the dedication for him, and so raised five-and-twenty louis to save his famishing lampooner alive.

Louis Philippe, of France, (2)

    Carl 10.494 12 ...if, after Guizot had been a tool of Louis Philippe for years, he is now to come and write essays on the character of Washington, on The Beautiful...[Carlyle] thinks that nothing.
    Carl 10.496 23 ...the new French revolution of 1848 was the best thing [Carlyle] had seen, and the teaching this great swindler, Louis Philippe, that there is a God's justice in the Universe, after all, was a great satisfaction.

Louis Quatorze, of France, (1)

    Aris 10.62 1 ...[the true man] is to know...that not Louis Quatorze, not Chesterfield, nor Byron, nor Bonaparte is the model of the Century...

Louis, St., Missouri, n. (2)

    AKan 11.255 17 The testimony of the telegraphs from St. Louis and the border confirm the worst details.
    EPro 11.323 16 Give the Confederacy New Orleans, Charleston, and Richmond, and they would have demanded St. Louis and Baltimore.

Louis XI, of France, n. (1)

    Elo2 8.122 4 ...there are persons of natural fascination, with...winning manners, almost endearments in their style;...like Louis XI. of France, whom Comines praises for the gift of managing all minds by his accent...

Louis XIV, of France, n. (5)

    MN 1.202 5 When we...shorten the sight to look into this court of Louis Quatorze...one can hardly help asking...whether it be quite worth while to... glut the innocent space with so poor an article.
    YA 1.376 1 I am the State, said the French Louis.
    ET9 5.149 8 It was said of Louis XIV., that his gait and air were becoming enough in so great a monarch, yet would have been ridiculous in another man;...
    Aris 10.62 1 ...[the true man] is to know...that not Louis Quatorze, not Chesterfield, nor Byron, nor Bonaparte is the model of the Century...
    Wom 11.415 20 A second epoch for Woman was in France,-entirely civil; the change of sentiment from a rude to a polite character, in the age of Louis XIV...

Louis XVI, of France, n. (1)

    QO 8.184 27 ...[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.

Louises, n. (1)

    Shak1 11.451 9 The real Elizabeths, Jameses and Louises were painted sticks before this magician [Shakespeare].

Louisiana, n. (1)

    EWI 11.130 7 ...I see...poor black men of obscure employment...in ships, yet citizens of this our Commonwealth of Massachusetts,-freeborn as we,-whom the slave-laws of the States of South Carolina and Georgia and Louisiana have arrested in the vessels in which they visited those ports...

lounge, v. (1)

    ET12 5.204 20 The reading men [at Oxford]...two days before the examination...lounge, ride, or run, to be fresh on the college doomsday.

lounger, n. (1)

    Nat 1.50 26 ...the earnest mechanic, the lounger...are unrealized at once [when seen from a coach]...

Louvre, Paris, France, n. (2)

    Exp 3.63 2 ...the Transfiguration...the Communion of Saint Jerome, and what are as transcendent as these, are on the walls of the Vatican, the Uffizi, or the Louvre, where every footman may see them;...
    NMW 4.240 27 The market-place, [Napoleon] said, is the Louvre of the common people.

Louvres, n. (1)

    Wth 6.96 13 It is the interest of all men that there should be Vaticans and Louvres full of noble works of art;...

love, adj. (1)

    GoW 4.286 21 ...certain love affairs [of Goethe] that came to nothing, as people say, have the strangest importance...

Love and Poesy, Parliaments (1)

    MoL 10.244 16 Parliaments of Love and Poesy served [the people of the Middle Ages], instead of the House of Commons, Congress and the newspapers.

Love, Conjugal [Emanuel Sw (3)

    PNR 4.88 19 Swedenborg, throughout his prose poem of Conjugal Love, is a Platonist.
    SwM 4.127 1 In the Conjugal Love, [Swedenborg] has unfolded the science of marriage.
    SwM 4.128 23 Perhaps the true subject of the Conjugal Love [by Swedenborg] is Conversation, whose laws are profoundly set forth.

Love, Court and Parliament (1)

    Lov1 2.170 6 ...I know I incur the imputation of unnecessary hardness and stoicism from those who compose the Court and Parliament of Love.

Love, Fountain of, n. (1)

    LT 1.286 20 [The spiritualists'] fault is...that their will is not yet inspired from the Fountain of Love.

Love, Hymn of, n. (1)

    SwM 4.127 4 [Swedenborg's Conjugal Love] came near to be the Hymn of Love, which Plato attempted in the Banquet;...

love, n. (554)

    Nat 1.15 2 A nobler want of man is served by nature, namely, the love of Beauty.
    Nat 1.23 11 This love of beauty is Taste.
    Nat 1.23 12 Others have the same love [of nature] in such excess, that... they seek to embody it in new forms.
    Nat 1.24 9 The poet...the architect, seek...each in his several work to satisfy the love of beauty which stimulates him to produce.
    Nat 1.26 24 Light and darkness are our familiar expression for knowledge and ignorance; and heat for love.
    Nat 1.29 25 A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol... depends...upon his love of truth and his desire to communicate it without loss.
    Nat 1.35 14 ...the love of truth and of virtue, will purge the eyes to understand [Nature's] text.
    Nat 1.53 15 The freshness of youth and love dazzles [Shakspeare] with its resemblance to morning;...
    Nat 1.59 7 I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it.
    Nat 1.63 25 ...the dread universal essence, which is not wisdom, or love, or beauty, or power, but all in one...is that for which all things exist...
    Nat 1.69 20 Oh mighty love! Man is one world, and hath/ Another to attend him./
    Nat 1.74 4 Love is as much [the spirit's] demand as perception.
    AmS 1.81 6 We do not meet...for parliaments of love and poesy, like the Troubadours;...
    AmS 1.81 11 ...our holiday has been simply a friendly sign of the survival of the love of letters...
    AmS 1.88 26 ...love of the hero corrupts into worship of his statue.
    AmS 1.92 16 I would not be hurried by any love of system...to underrate the Book.
    AmS 1.97 4 ...the fear of boys, and dogs, and ferules, the love of little maids and berries...are gone already;...
    AmS 1.115 23 The dread of man and the love of man shall be a wall of defence and a wreath of joy around all.
    DSA 1.121 19 ...in the game of human life, love, fear, justice, appetite, man, and God, interact.
    DSA 1.124 10 ...all things proceed out of this same spirit, which is differently named love, justice, temperance...
    DSA 1.125 20 ...when love warms him;...deep melodies wander through [man's] soul from Supreme Wisdom.
    DSA 1.125 27 In the sublimest flights of the soul...love is never outgrown.
    DSA 1.130 21 [The soul]...will have no preferences but those of spontaneous love.
    DSA 1.130 26 ...[Jesus's] name is surrounded with expressions which were once sallies of admiration and love...
    DSA 1.134 16 ...it is the effect of conversation with the beauty of the soul, to beget a desire and need to impart to others the same knowledge and love.
    DSA 1.135 7 Courage, piety, love, wisdom, can teach;...
    DSA 1.138 2 [The preacher] had no one word intimating that he...was married or in love...
    DSA 1.141 9 What life the public worship retains, it owes to the scattered company of pious men...who...have...accepted...from their own heart, the genuine impulses of virtue, and so still command our love and awe...
    DSA 1.147 8 Discharge to men the priestly office, and...you shall be followed with their love...
    DSA 1.150 22 Let [the Sabbath] stand forevermore, a temple which new love, new faith, new sight shall restore...
    LE 1.156 27 Men looked...that nature...should reimburse itself by a brood of Titans, who should...run up the mountains of the West with the errand of genius and love.
    LE 1.159 22 If any person have less love of liberty...shall he therefore dictate to you and me?
    LE 1.164 24 ...we must...pass...by assiduous love and watching, into the visions of absolute truth.
    LE 1.175 13 [The ingenious soul] repudiates the false, out of love of the true.
    LE 1.177 27 Out of love and hatred...comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.
    LE 1.187 12 [Thought] will impledge you to truth by the love and expectation of generous minds.
    MN 1.194 9 ...come...hither, thou tender, doubting heart, which hast not yet found...any wares which thou couldst buy or sell,-so large is thy love and ambition...
    MN 1.197 17 When man curses, nature still testifies to truth and love.
    MN 1.205 27 ...O rich and various Man!...carrying...in thy heart, the bower of love and the realms of right and wrong.
    MN 1.214 12 Does the sunset landscape seem to you the place of Friendship,-those purple skies and lovely waters the amphitheatre dressed and garnished only for the exchange of thought and love of the purest souls? It is that.
    MN 1.215 25 Tell me not how great your project is...laws of love for laws of property;...
    MN 1.216 8 A man adorns himself with prayer and love...
    MN 1.217 14 ...is not he only unhappy who is not in love?...
    MN 1.217 16 He who is in love is wise...
    MN 1.217 21 ...if the object [beloved] be not itself a living and expanding soul, [the lover] presently exhausts it. But the love remains in his mind...
    MN 1.217 24 ...the reason why all men honor love is because it looks up and not down;...
    MN 1.217 27 ...what is Genius but finer love, a love impersonal...
    MN 1.218 1 ...what is Genius but finer love...a love of the flower and perfection of things...
    MN 1.224 5 ...[the soul] is...rich as love.
    MN 1.224 8 Pusillanimity and fear [the soul] refuses with a beautiful scorn; they are not for her who...goes out through universal love to universal power.
    MR 1.232 19 ...the general system of our trade...is not measured by the exact law of reciprocity, much less by the sentiments of love and heroism...
    MR 1.232 24 [The general system of our trade] is not that which a man... meditates on with joy and self-approval in his hour of love and aspiration;...
    MR 1.234 1 Each [lucrative profession] requires of the practitioner...a sequestration from the sentiments of generosity and love...
    MR 1.234 6 ...our laws which establish and protect [property] seem not to be the issue of love and reason...
    MR 1.234 9 Suppose a man is so unhappy as to be born a saint...with the conscience and love of an angel, and he is to get his living in the world;...
    MR 1.240 1 ...we have now a puny, protected person, guarded by walls and curtains...who...is forced to spend so much time in guarding them, that he has quite lost sight of their original use, namely, to help him...to the prosecution of his love;...
    MR 1.245 22 Economy is...a sacrament...when it is practised for...love...
    MR 1.252 3 ...there will dawn ere long...on our modes of living, a nobler morning than that Arabian faith, in the sentiment of love.
    MR 1.252 13 An acceptance of the sentiment of love throughout Christendom for a season would bring the felon and the outcast to our side in tears...
    MR 1.254 9 Love would put a new face on this weary old world in which we dwell as pagans and enemies too long...
    MR 1.254 15 Love will creep where it cannot go...
    LT 1.259 19 The Times...are to be studied...as sacred leaves, whereon a weighty sense is inscribed, if we have the wit and the love to search it out.
    LT 1.262 27 By tones of triumph, of dear love...[persons] have the skill to make the world look bleak and inhospitable, or seem the nest of tenderness and joy.
    LT 1.276 13 [The Reformers] do not rely on precisely that strength which wins me to their cause; not on love...
    LT 1.276 16 The love which lifted men to the sight of these better ends was the true and best distinction of this time...
    LT 1.282 9 Out of love of the true, we repudiate the false;...
    LT 1.285 15 ...truly we shall find much to console us, when we consider the cause of [the speculators'] uneasiness. It is the love of greatness...
    LT 1.285 26 The revolutions that impend over society are...from new modes of thinking...which shall animate labor by love and science...
    Con 1.297 2 I see, rejoins Saturns [to Uranus]...thou art become an evil eye; thou spakest from love; now thy words smite me with hatred.
    Con 1.313 20 [This manner of living] nourished you with care and love on its breast...
    Con 1.314 2 A strong person makes the law and custom null before his own will. Then the principle of love and truth reappears in the strictest courts of fashion and property.
    Con 1.314 7 Under the richest robes...the strong heart will beat with love of mankind...
    Con 1.315 12 ...[Friar Bernard]...talked with gentle mothers with their babes at their breasts, who told him how much love they bore their children...
    Con 1.318 5 ...an army encamps in a desert, and...creates a white city in an hour...a place for feasting, for conversation, and for love.
    Con 1.318 18 The objection to conservatism, when embodied in a party, is that in its love of acts it hates principles;...
    Con 1.325 5 Wherever there are men, are the objects of my study and love.
    Con 1.325 19 To the intemperate and covetous person no love flows;...
    Tran 1.343 7 Like the young Mozart, [Transcendentalists] are rather ready to cry ten times a day, But are you sure you love me?
    Tran 1.343 8 ...[Transcendentalists] will own that love seems to them the last and highest gift of nature;...
    Tran 1.343 20 ...to behold in another the expression of a love so high that it assures itself,-assures itself also to me against every possible casualty except my unworthiness;-these are degrees on the scale of human happiness to which [Transcendentalists] have ascended;...
    Tran 1.344 13 ...it seems as if this loneliness, and not this love, would prevail in [the Transcendentalists'] circumstances...
    Tran 1.350 1 ...[Transcendentalists] have...found that from the liberal professions to the coarsest manual labor...there is a spirit of cowardly compromise and seeming which intimates...a life without love...
    YA 1.372 2 ...it turns out that love and good are inevitable...
    YA 1.375 21 Fathers...behold with impatience a new character and way of thinking presuming to show itself in their own son or daughter. This feeling, which all their love and pride in the powers of their children cannot subdue, becomes petulance and tyranny when the head of the clan...deals with the same difference of opinion in his subjects.
    YA 1.381 10 The farmer, after sacrificing pleasure, taste, freedom, thought, love, to his work, turns out often a bankrupt, like the merchant.
    YA 1.382 12 [The Associations] were founded in love and in labor.
    YA 1.384 21 The actual differences of men must be...met with love and wisdom.
    YA 1.386 25 In every society some men are born to rule and some to advise. Let the powers be well directed, directed by love, and they would everywhere be greeted with joy and honor.
    YA 1.389 15 ...the bold face and tardy repentance permitted to this local mischief [Repudiation] reveal a public mind so preoccupied with the love of gain that the common sentiment of indignation at fraud does not act with its natural force.
    Hist 2.6 10 Property also holds of the soul... The obscure consciousness of this fact is...the foundation of friendship and love...
    Hist 2.7 23 Praise is looked, homage tendered, love flows, from mute nature...
    Hist 2.22 22 The antagonism of the two tendencies [Nomadism and Agriculture] is not less active in individuals, as the love of adventure or the love of repose happens to predominate.
    Hist 2.26 16 A person of childlike genius and inborn energy is still a Greek, and revives our love of the Muse of Hellas.
    Hist 2.26 17 I admire the love of nature in the Philoctetes.
    Hist 2.37 27 A mind might ponder its thoughts for ages and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach it in a day.
    SR 2.51 18 Thy love afar is spite at home.
    SR 2.51 21 ...truth is handsomer than the affectation of love.
    SR 2.51 24 The doctrine of hatred must be preached, as the counteraction of the doctrine of love...
    SR 2.60 5 We love [honor] and pay it homage because it is not a trap for our love and homage...
    SR 2.72 14 What we love that we have, but by desire we bereave ourselves of the love.
    SR 2.78 22 Our love goes out to [the self-helping man] and embraces him...
    SR 2.82 26 ...if the American artist will study with...love the precise thing to be done by him...he will create a house in which [beauty, convenience, grandeur of thought] will find themselves fitted...
    Comp 2.93 18 ...the heart of man might be bathed by an inundation of eternal love...
    Comp 2.99 5 Is a man...a morose ruffian...Nature sends him a troop of pretty sons and daughters...and love and fear for them smooths his grim scowl to courtesy.
    Comp 2.109 16 ...love for love.
    Comp 2.111 6 All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are speedily punished.
    Comp 2.116 16 All love is mathematically just...
    Comp 2.122 9 There can be no excess to love...
    Comp 2.124 1 ...see the facts nearly and these mountainous inequalities vanish. Love reduces them as the sun melts the iceberg in the sea.
    Comp 2.124 14 Jesus and Shakspeare are fragments of the soul, and by love I conquer and incorporate them in my own conscious domain.
    SL 2.136 2 Love should make joy;...
    SL 2.139 1 Belief and love,--a believing love will relieve us of a vast load of care.
    SL 2.151 11 Let [the scholar] be great, and love shall follow him.
    SL 2.160 21 Let [your friend] feel that the highest love has come to see him, in thee its lowest organ.
    SL 2.162 22 Heaven...affords space for all modes of love and fortitude.
    SL 2.165 20 If the poet write a true drama, then he is Caesar...then the selfsame strain of thought...and a heart...which on the waves of its love and hope can uplift all that is reckoned solid and precious in the world...these all are his...
    Lov1 2.169 20 The natural association of the sentiment of love with the heyday of the blood seems to require that in order to portray it in vivid tints...one must not be too old.
    Lov1 2.173 11 In the village [girls and boys] are on a perfect equality, which love delights in...
    Lov1 2.174 7 ...the coldest philosopher cannot recount the debt of the young soul wandering here in nature to the power of love...
    Lov1 2.176 4 ...he touched the secret of the matter who said of love,--All other pleasures are not worth its pains/...
    Lov1 2.179 12 Who can analyze the nameless charm which glances from one and another face and form? ... It is destroyed for the imagination by any attempt to refer it to organization. Nor does it point to any relations of friendship or love known and described in society...
    Lov1 2.182 5 ...if...the soul passes through the body and falls to admire strokes of character, and the lovers contemplate one another in their discourses and their actions, then they pass to the true palace of beauty, more and more inflame their love of it...
    Lov1 2.182 6 ...by this love [of beauty] extinguishing the base affection... [the lovers] become pure and hallowed.
    Lov1 2.182 11 By conversation with that which is in itself excellent, magnanimous, lowly, and just, the lover comes to a warmer love of these nobilities...
    Lov1 2.182 27 ...separating in each soul that which is divine from the taint which it has contracted in the world, the lover ascends...to the love and knowledge of the Divinity...
    Lov1 2.183 4 Somewhat like this have the truly wise told us of love in all ages.
    Lov1 2.183 18 ...this dream of love, though beautiful, is only one scene in our play.
    Lov1 2.184 9 ...even love...must become more impersonal every day.
    Lov1 2.185 5 The lovers delight...in avowals of love...
    Lov1 2.185 18 Love prays.
    Lov1 2.186 24 The person love does to us fit,/ Like manna, has the taste of all in it./
    Lov1 2.188 5 Thus are we put in training for a love which knows not sex, nor person, nor partiality...
    Fdsp 2.191 5 ...the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether.
    Fdsp 2.191 20 From the highest degree of passionate love to the lowest degree of good-will, [the emotions of benevolence and complacency] make the sweetness of life.
    Fdsp 2.196 5 ...the systole and diastole of the heart are not without their analogy in the ebb and flow of love.
    Fdsp 2.196 17 Shall we fear to cool our love by mining for the metaphysical foundation of this Elysian temple?
    Fdsp 2.198 12 ...if [a man] should record his true sentiment, he might write a letter like this to each new candidate for his love...
    Fdsp 2.200 23 Love...is not for levity...
    Fdsp 2.201 7 ...I leave, for the time, all account of subordinate social benefit [of friendship], to speak of that select and sacred relation...which even leaves the language of love suspicious and common...
    Fdsp 2.203 18 No man would think...of putting [a man I knew] off with any chat of markets or reading-rooms. But every man was constrained by so much sincerity to the like plaindealing, and what love of nature...he had, he did certainly show him.
    Fdsp 2.204 19 ...we can scarce believe that so much character can subsist in another as to draw us by love.
    Fdsp 2.205 7 We chide the citizen because he makes love a commodity.
    Fdsp 2.206 15 Friendship may be said to require natures...each so well tempered and so happily adapted, and withal so circumstanced (for even in that particular, a poet says, love demands that the parties be altogether paired), that its satisfaction can very seldom be assured.
    Fdsp 2.212 23 ...love is only the reflection of a man's own worthiness from other men.
    Fdsp 2.214 1 It is foolish to be afraid of making our ties too spiritual, as if so we could lose any genuine love.
    Fdsp 2.216 21 ...the great will see that true love cannot be unrequited.
    Fdsp 2.216 22 True love transcends the unworthy object...
    Prd1 2.219 3 [Prudence] Theme no poet gladly sung,/ Fair to old and foul to young;/ Scorn not thou the love of parts,/ And the articles of arts./
    Prd1 2.227 21 In the rainy day [the good husband]...gets his tool-box... stored with nails, gimlet, pincers, screwdriver and chisel. Herein he tastes... the cat-like love of garrets, presses and corn-chambers...
    Prd1 2.231 24 Genius is always ascetic, and piety, and love.
    Prd1 2.232 6 [The man of talent's] art never taught him...the love of wine...
    Prd1 2.238 18 ...calculation might come to value love for its profit.
    Prd1 2.238 19 Love is fabled to be blind...
    Prd1 2.238 20 ...love is not a hood, but an eye-water.
    Prd1 2.239 15 ...in the flow of wit and love roll out your paradoxes...
    Prd1 2.240 24 ...truth, frankness, courage, love, humility and all the virtues range themselves on the side of prudence...
    Hsm1 2.247 2 O love! thou doubly hast afflicted me/ With virtue and with beauty..../
    Hsm1 2.253 1 ...the little man takes the great hoax [the world] so innocently...that the great soul cannot choose but laugh at such earnest nonsense. Indeed, these humble considerations make me out of love with greatness.
    Hsm1 2.254 2 ...they who give time, or money, or shelter, to the stranger,-- so it be done for love and not for ostentation,--do, as it were, put God under obligation to them...
    Hsm1 2.254 8 These [magnanimous] men fan the flame of human love...
    Hsm1 2.264 4 ...the love that will be annihilated sooner than treacherous has already made death impossible...
    OS 2.271 11 ...when [the soul] flows through [man's] affection, it is love.
    OS 2.272 27 Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.
    OS 2.275 26 Those who are capable of humility, of justice, of love, of aspiration, stand already on a platform that commands the sciences and arts...
    OS 2.276 26 ...these other souls, these separated selves, draw me as nothing else can. They stir in me the new emotions we call passion; of love, hatred, fear, admiration, pity;...
    OS 2.283 20 To truth, justice, love...the idea of immutableness is essentially associated.
    OS 2.284 6 In the flowing of love...there is no question of continuance.
    OS 2.293 24 You are preparing with eagerness to go and render a service to which your talent and your taste invite you, the love of men and the hope of fame.
    OS 2.295 8 ...when I burn with pure love, what can Calvin or Swedenborg say?
    Cir 2.307 8 The sweet of nature is love;...
    Cir 2.307 10 The love of me accuses the other party.
    Cir 2.316 13 For me...love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred;...
    Cir 2.320 2 No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love.
    Cir 2.320 3 No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love.
    Int 2.341 27 He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed...he meets...
    Int 2.342 5 He in whom the love of truth predominates will keep himself aloof from all moorings, and afloat.
    Art1 2.352 9 What is a man but a finer and compacter landscape than the horizon figures...and what is...his love of painting...but a still finer success...
    Art1 2.352 10 What is a man but a finer and compacter landscape than the horizon figures...and what is...his love of nature, but a still finer success...
    Art1 2.354 19 Love and all the passions concentrate all existence around a single form.
    Art1 2.359 8 ...in the pictures of the Tuscan and Venetian masters, the highest charm is the universal language they speak. A confession of moral nature, of purity, love, and hope, breathes from them all.
    Art1 2.366 23 As soon as beauty is sought, not from religion and love but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
    Art1 2.369 4 When science is learned in love, and its powers are wielded by love, they will appear the supplements and continuations of the material creation.
    Pt1 3.5 15 In love, in art...we study to utter our painful secret.
    Pt1 3.6 27 ...the Universe has three children...which reappear under different names in every system of thought...but which we will call here the Knower, the Doer and the Sayer. These stand respectively for the love of truth, for the love of good, and for the love of beauty.
    Pt1 3.7 1 ...the Universe has three children...which reappear under different names in every system of thought...but which we will call here the Knower, the Doer and the Sayer. These stand respectively for the love of truth, for the love of good, and for the love of beauty.
    Pt1 3.28 1 All men avail themselves of such means as they can, to add this extraordinary power to their normal powers; and to this end they prize... love...
    Pt1 3.37 2 He is the poet and shall draw us with love and terror, who sees through the flowing vest the firm nature, and can declare it.
    Pt1 3.42 3 ...thou [O poet] shalt be known only to thine own, and they shall console thee with tenderest love.
    Pt1 3.42 22 ...wherever is danger, and awe, and love,--there is Beauty... shed for thee [O poet]...
    Exp 3.53 15 What notions do [physicians] attach to love!...
    Exp 3.55 10 Our love of the real draws us to permanence...
    Exp 3.56 21 ...thou wert born to a whole and this story is a particular? The reason of the pain this discovery causes us...is the plaint of tragedy which murmurs from it in regard to persons, to friendship and love.
    Exp 3.71 26 I clap my hands in infantine joy and amazement before the first opening to me of this august magnificence, old with the love and homage of innumerable ages...
    Exp 3.72 3 I feel a new heart beating with the love of the new beauty.
    Exp 3.73 3 The baffled intellect must still kneel before this...ineffable cause, which every fine genius has essayed to represent by some emphatic symbol, as...Jesus and the moderns by love;...
    Exp 3.76 24 By love on one part and by forbearance to press objection on the other part, it is for a time settled that we will look at [Jesus] in the centre of the horizon...
    Exp 3.77 2 ...the longest love or aversion has a speedy term.
    Exp 3.77 6 The great and crescive self...ruins the kingdom of mortal friendship and love.
    Exp 3.77 16 Never can love make consciousness and ascription equal in force.
    Exp 3.78 24 Especially the crimes that spring from love seem right and fair from the actor's point of view...
    Exp 3.80 27 ...all the muses and love and religion hate these [intellectual] developments...
    Chr1 3.95 5 Is there nothing but rope and iron? Is there no love, no reverence.
    Chr1 3.101 24 I knew an amiable and accomplished person who undertook a practical reform, yet I was never able to find in him the enterprise of love he took in hand.
    Chr1 3.103 9 Love is inexhaustible...
    Chr1 3.111 21 ...when men shall meet as they ought, each a benefactor...it should be a festival of nature which all things announce. Of such friendship, love in the sexes is the first symbol...
    Chr1 3.111 22 ...when men shall meet as they ought, each a benefactor...it should be a festival of nature which all things announce. Of such friendship, love in the sexes is the first symbol, as all other things are symbols of love.
    Chr1 3.115 21 ...when that love which is all-suffering, all-abstaining, all-aspiring... comes into our streets and houses,--only the pure and aspiring can know its face...
    Mrs1 3.123 6 ...that is a natural result of personal force and love, that they should possess and dispense the goods of the world.
    Mrs1 3.139 8 The love of beauty is mainly the love of measure or proportion.
    Mrs1 3.141 4 ...society demands in its patrician class another element... which it significantly terms good-nature,--expressing all degrees of generosity, from the lowest willingness and faculty to oblige, up to the heights of magnanimity and love.
    Mrs1 3.141 25 England...furnished, in the beginning of the present century, a good model of that genius which the world loves, in Mr. Fox, who added to his great abilities the most social disposition and real love of men.
    Mrs1 3.143 1 ...I will neither be driven from some allowance to Fashion as a symbolic institution, nor from the belief that love is the basis of courtesy.
    Mrs1 3.143 15 ...the respect which these mysteries [of fashion] inspire in the most rude and sylvan characters, and the curiosity with which the details of high life are read, betray the universality of the love of cultivated manners.
    Mrs1 3.147 19 ...within the ethnical circle of good society there is a narrower and higher circle...to which there is always a tacit appeal of pride and reference, as to its inner and imperial court; the parliament of love and chivalry.
    Mrs1 3.147 22 ...within the ethnical circle of good society there is a narrower and higher circle...to which there is always a tacit appeal of pride and reference... And this is constituted of those persons in whom heroic dispositions are native; with the love of beauty, the delight in society and the power to embellish the passing day.
    Mrs1 3.150 2 Woman, with her instinct of behavior, instantly detects in man a love of trifles...
    Mrs1 3.153 16 Everything that is called fashion and courtesy humbles itself before...the heart of love.
    Gts 3.159 24 ...these delicate flowers look like the frolic and interference of love and beauty.
    Gts 3.161 9 ...our tokens of compliment and love are for the most part barbarous.
    Gts 3.162 7 We can receive anything from love, for that is a way of receiving it from ourselves;...
    Gts 3.162 18 We arraign society if it do not give us...opportunity, love, reverence and objects of veneration.
    Gts 3.164 27 I fear to breathe any treason against the majesty of love...
    Pol1 3.214 13 ...whenever I find my dominion over myself not sufficient for me, and undertake the direction of [my neighbor] also, I...come into false relations to him. ... Love and nature cannot maintain the assumption;...
    Pol1 3.219 22 The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.
    Pol1 3.221 5 ...there never was in any man sufficient faith in the power of rectitude to inspire him with the broad design of renovating the State on the principle of right and love.
    NR 3.228 4 The men of fine parts protect themselves by solitude...or by an acid worldly manner; each concealing as he best can his incapacity for useful association, but they want either love or self-reliance.
    NR 3.228 6 Our native love of reality joins with this [disillusioning] experience to teach us a little reserve...
    NR 3.244 21 Love shows me the opulence of nature...
    NER 3.262 11 Let into it the new and renewing principle of love, and property will be universality.
    NER 3.274 3 We crave a sense of reality, though it comes in strokes of pain. I explain so,--by this manlike love of truth,--those excesses and errors into which souls of great vigor, but not equal insight, often fall.
    UGM 4.4 18 Our religion is the love and cherishing of these patrons [great men].
    UGM 4.5 13 We must not contend against love...
    UGM 4.14 27 There is a power in love to divine another's destiny better than that other can...
    UGM 4.30 2 Be another:...not a poet, but a Shaksperian. In vain, the wheels of tendency will not stop, nor will all the forces of inertia, fear, or of love itself hold thee there.
    UGM 4.30 25 Why are the masses...food for knives and powder? The idea dignifies a few leaders, who have sentiment, opinion, love, self-devotion; and they make war and death sacred;...
    UGM 4.32 17 ...there is true ascension in our love.
    UGM 4.35 12 It is for man...on every side, whilst he lives, to scatter the seeds of science and of song, that...the germs of love and benefit may be multiplied.
    PPh 4.59 5 [Plato's] strength is like the momentum of a falling planet, and his discretion the return of its due and perfect curve,--so excellent is his Greek love of boundary and his skill in definition.
    PPh 4.62 9 ...the Asia in [Plato's] mind was first heartily honored,--the ocean of love and power...
    PPh 4.67 14 As if [Socrates] had said... ... If there is love between us, inconceivably delicious and profitable will our intercourse be;...
    PPh 4.70 6 ...the Banquet [of Plato] is a teaching in the same spirit [of ascension]...that the love of the sexes is initial, and symbolizes at a distance the passion of the soul for that immense lake of beauty it exists to seek.
    PPh 4.76 2 ...expounding...the passion of love...[Plato] is literary, and never otherwise.
    PNR 4.83 5 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His...love of the apologue, and his apologues themselves;...
    SwM 4.93 7 A higher class, in the estimation and love of this city-building market-going race of mankind, are the poets...
    SwM 4.125 2 [To Swedenborg] All things in the universe arrange themselves to each person anew, according to his ruling love.
    SwM 4.126 12 [Swedenborg] delivers golden sayings which express with singular beauty the ethical laws;...The perfection of man is the love of use...
    SwM 4.126 25 [To Swedenborg] The angels, from the sound of the voice, know a man's love;...
    SwM 4.127 6 [Swedenborg's Conjugal Love] came near to be the Hymn of Love, which Plato attempted in the Banquet; the love, which, Dante says, Casella sang among the angels in Paradise;...
    SwM 4.128 12 I know how delicious is this cup of love...
    SwM 4.129 11 ...I am repelled if you fix your eye on me and demand love.
    SwM 4.129 14 You love the worth in me; then I am your husband; but it is not me, but the worth, that fixes the love;...
    SwM 4.131 3 Beauty is disgraced, love is unlovely, when truth...is denied...
    SwM 4.132 20 An ardent and contemplative young man...might read once these books of Swedenborg, these mysteries of love and conscience, and then throw them aside for ever.
    SwM 4.139 2 Every thing is superficial and perishes but love and truth only.
    SwM 4.139 7 ...we feel the more generous spirit of the Indian Vishnu,--I am the same to all mankind. There is not one who is worthy of my love or hatred.
    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 4.162 13 ...I will...offer...a word or two to explain how my love began and grew for this admirable gossip [Montaigne].
    MoS 4.163 6 ...in prosecuting my correspondence [with John Sterling], I found that, from a love of Montaigne, he had made a pilgrimage to his chateau...
    MoS 4.169 10 [Montaigne's] writing has no enthusiasms, no aspiration; contented, self-respecting and keeping the middle of the road. There is but one exception,--in his love for Socrates.
    MoS 4.172 24 [The wise skeptic's] politics are those...of Krishna, in the Bhagavat, There is none who is worthy of my love or hatred;...
    MoS 4.180 14 Can you not believe that a man of earnest and burly habit may...want a rougher instruction, want men, labor, trade, farming, war, hunger, plenty, love, hatred, doubt and terror to make things plain to him;...
    MoS 4.181 16 ...presently the unbeliever, for love of belief, burns the believer.
    MoS 4.183 3 George Fox saw that there was an ocean of darkness and death; but withal an infinite ocean of light and love which flowed over that of darkness.
    ShP 4.190 24 ...[every master's] power lay...in his love of the materials he wrought in.
    ShP 4.209 2 We have [Shakespeare's] recorded convictions on those questions which knock for answer at every heart...on love...
    ShP 4.209 12 Who ever read the volume of [Shakespeare's] Sonnets without finding that the poet had there revealed...the lore of friendship and of love;...
    ShP 4.219 19 ...love is compatible with universal wisdom.
    NMW 4.254 11 [Napoleon's] star, his love of glory, his doctrine of the immortality of the soul, are all French.
    NMW 4.254 23 Love is a silly infatuation, depend upon it [said Napoleon].
    ET1 5.9 16 Mr. Landor carries to its height the love of freak which the English delight to indulge...
    ET4 5.63 10 The brutality of the manners in the [English] lower class appears in the boxing, bear-baiting, cock-fighting, love of executions...
    ET4 5.67 6 On the English face are combined decision and nerve with the fair complexion, blue eyes and open and florid aspect. Hence the love of truth...
    ET4 5.68 2 Nelson, dying at Trafalgar, sends his love to Lord Collingwood...
    ET11 5.177 24 ...[the English aristocracy] concentrate the love and labor of many generations on the building, planting and decoration of their homesteads.
    ET13 5.216 9 [Christianity] lived by the love of the people.
    ET14 5.246 1 Hallam inspires respect...by his manifest love of good books...
    ET14 5.255 16 In the absence...of the pure love of knowledge and the surrender to nature, there is [in England] the suppression of the imagination...
    ET16 5.287 19 ...'t is certain as God liveth, the gun that does not need another gun, the law of love and justice alone, can effect a clean revolution.
    ET17 5.291 17 ...what is nowhere better found than in England, a cultivated person fitly surrounded by a happy home, with Honor, love, obedience, troops of friends,/ is of all institutions the best.
    ET19 5.311 4 That which lures a solitary American in the woods with the wish to see England, is the moral peculiarity of the Saxon race,--its commanding sense of right and wrong, the love and devotion to that...
    F 6.6 7 For certainly, our appetites here,/ Be it of warre, or pees, or hate, or love,/ All this is ruled by the sight above./
    F 6.31 6 [Men] are under one dominion...in love...
    F 6.36 2 ...the love and praise [man] extorts from his fellows, are certificates of advance out of fate into freedom.
    F 6.37 24 [Man's] food is cooked when he arrives;...his companions arrived...awaiting him with love...
    F 6.41 9 We know what madness belongs to love...
    Wth 6.96 4 ...if men should...leave off aiming to be rich, the moralists would rush to rekindle at all hazards this love of power in the people, lest civilization should be undone.
    Ctr 6.142 8 I like people who like Plato. Because this love does not consist with self-conceit.
    Ctr 6.152 18 Can it be that the American forest has refreshed some weeds of old Pictish barbarism just ready to die out,--the love of the scarlet feather...
    Bhr 6.169 21 Manners are the happy way of doing things; each, once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage.
    Bhr 6.189 7 ...what is done for love is felt to be done for love.
    Bhr 6.189 8 ...what is done for love is felt to be done for love.
    Wsp 6.202 5 If the Divine Providence...has stated itself out...in trade, in the love of power and pleasure...let us not be so nice that we cannot write these facts down coarsely...
    Wsp 6.206 10 Hengist had verament/ A daughter both fair and gent,/ But she was heathen Sarazine,/ And Vortigern for love fine/ Her took to fere and to wife,/ And was cursed in all his life;/...
    Wsp 6.207 8 [Dido] was so fair,/ So young, so lusty, with her eyen glad,/ That if that God that heaven and earthe made/ Would have a love for beauty and goodness,/ And womanhede, truth, and seemliness,/ Whom should he loven but this lady sweet?/ There n' is no woman to him half so meet./
    Wsp 6.218 3 ...the cure of crime, is love.
    Wsp 6.218 4 As much love, so much mind, said the Latin proverb.
    Wsp 6.218 7 ...the redeemer and instructor of souls, as it is their primal essence, is love.
    Wsp 6.219 2 ...to [man] the book of history, the book of love...are opened;...
    Wsp 6.227 6 As men get on in life, they acquire a love for sincerity...
    Wsp 6.231 23 ...I look on those sentiments which make the glory of the human being, love, humility, faith, as being also the intimacy of Divinity in the atoms;...
    CbW 6.247 24 The babe in arms is a channel through which the energies we call fate, love and reason, visibly stream.
    CbW 6.273 14 There is a pudency about friendship as about love...
    CbW 6.278 21 The secret of culture is to learn that a few great points steadily reappear...and that these few are alone to be regarded;...love of what is simple and beautiful;...
    Bty 6.279 21 While thus to love [Seyd] gave his days/ In loyal worship, scorning praise,/ How spread their lures for him, in vain,/ Thieving Ambition and paltering Gain!/
    Bty 6.283 18 A deep man believes...that love can exalt talent;...
    Bty 6.284 15 Science in England, in America...hates the name of love and moral purpose.
    Bty 6.289 14 We say love is blind...
    Bty 6.299 26 A Greek epigram intimates that the force of love is not shown by the courting of beauty...
    Ill 6.319 7 There is the illusion of love...
    SS 7.7 14 ...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 7.11 3 A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light.
    SS 7.13 22 ...[men] adjust themselves by their demerits,--by their love of gossip...
    SS 7.14 15 ...[people in conversation] separate...without love or hatred in the matter...
    Civ 7.30 22 Work...for those interests which the divinities honor and promote,--justice, love, freedom, knowledge, utility.
    Civ 7.31 9 Was it Bonaparte who said that he found vices very good patriots?--he got five millions from the love of brandy...
    Art2 7.56 2 These arts have their origin always in some enthusiasm, as love, patriotism or religion.
    Art2 7.56 7 The Gothic cathedrals were built when the builder and the priest and the people were overpowered by their faith. Love and fear laid every stone.
    Elo1 7.84 3 Pepys says of Lord Clarendon (with whom he is mad in love)... I did never observe how much easier a man do speak when he knows all the company to be below him, than in him;...
    Elo1 7.97 18 It is not the people that are in fault for not being convinced, but he that cannot convince them. He should mould them, armed as he is with the reason and love which are also the core of their nature.
    DL 7.106 27 ...by beautiful traits...provoking the love that watches and educates him, the little pilgrim prosecutes the journey through Nature which he has thus gayly begun.
    DL 7.109 11 There should be...the genius and love of the man so conspicuously marked in all his estate that the eye that knew him should read his character in his property...
    DL 7.113 25 ...the love of wealth seems to grow chiefly out of the root of the love of the Beautiful.
    DL 7.113 27 ...the love of wealth seems to grow chiefly out of the root of the love of the Beautiful.
    DL 7.114 1 The desire of gold is not for gold. It is not the love of much wheat and wool and household stuff.
    DL 7.117 5 [The reform that applies itself to the household] must come in connection with a true acceptance by each man of his vocation,--not chosen by his parents or friends, but by his genius, with earnestness and love.
    DL 7.119 14 Honor to the house where they are simple to the verge of hardship, so that there...the soul worships truth and love...
    DL 7.124 2 To each occurs, soon after the age of puberty, some event or society or way of living, which becomes...the chief fact in their history. In woman, it is love and marriage...
    DL 7.129 12 ...perhaps Love is only the highest symbol of Friendship, as all other things seem symbols of love.
    DL 7.130 17 If by love and nobleness we take up into ourselves the beauty we admire, we shall spend it again on all around us.
    WD 7.174 6 He is a strong man who can look [these passing hours] in the eye...nor permit love, or death, or politics, or money, war or pleasure to draw him from his task.
    WD 7.181 17 The days at Belleisle were all different, and only joined by a perfect love of the same object.
    Boks 7.193 1 ...private readers, reading purely for love of the book, would serve us by leaving each the shortest note of what he found.
    Boks 7.201 4 ...Plato's [delineation of Athenian manners] has merits of every kind,--being a repertory of the wisdom of the ancients on the subject of love;...
    Boks 7.215 14 ...'t is pity [people] should not read novels a little more, to import the fine generosities and the clear, firm conduct, which are as becoming in the unions and separations which love effects under shingle roofs as in palaces and among illustrious personages.
    Boks 7.216 25 Great is the poverty of [novelists'] inventions. She was beautiful and he fell in love.
    Boks 7.217 22 Every good fable...every passage of love, and even philosophy and science, when they proceed from an intellectual integrity... have the imaginative element.
    Clbs 7.226 3 ...the staple of conversation is widely unlike in its circles. Sometimes it is facts...sometimes it is love...
    Clbs 7.234 13 [Yonder man's] dissent from me is the veriest affectation. This conclusion is at once the logic of persecution and of love.
    Clbs 7.240 27 Every variety of gift--science, religion, politics, letters, art, prudence, war or love--has its vent and exchange in conversation.
    Cour 7.269 15 ...out of love of the reality [the scholar] is an expert judge how far the book has approached it...
    Suc 7.300 14 ...life is made up, not of knowledge only, but of love also.
    Suc 7.302 19 Fontenelle said: There are three things about which I have curiosity, though I know nothing of them,--music, poetry and love.
    Suc 7.302 26 I am always, [Socrates] says, asserting that I happen to know... nothing but a mere trifle relating to matters of love;...
    Suc 7.303 21 ...what is specially true of love is that it is a state of extreme impressionability;...
    Suc 7.308 12 I fear the popular notion of success stands in direct opposition in all points to the real and wholesome success. One adores public opinion, the other private opinion;...one lucre, the other love;...
    Suc 7.309 22 The affirmative of affirmatives is love.
    Suc 7.309 23 As much love, so much perception.
    Suc 7.309 24 As caloric to matter, so is love to mind;...
    OA 7.319 8 [The cup of time]...fills us with exalted dreams, which we call hope, love, ambition, science...
    PI 8.18 4 ...a painter, a sculptor, a musician, can in their several ways express the same sentiment of anger, or love, or religion.
    PI 8.37 4 ...[the poet] is...silent, uncommitted or in love, as his heart leads him.
    PI 8.55 25 Keats disclosed by certain lines in his Hyperion this inward skill; and Coleridge showed at least his love and appetency for it.
    PI 8.57 20 I find or fancy more true poetry, the love of the vast and the ideal, in the Welsh and bardic fragments of Taliessin and his successors, than in many volumes of British Classics.
    SA 8.90 2 ...to the company I am now considering, were no terrors, no vulgarity. All topics were broached,--life, love, marriage...
    SA 8.104 25 The consolation and happy moment of life...is...a flame of affection or delight in the heart, burning up suddenly for its object;--as the love of the mother for her child;...
    SA 8.105 15 [Sentimentalists] have, they tell you, an intense love of Nature;...
    SA 8.106 17 Temperance, courage, love, are made up of the same jewels.
    Elo2 8.110 2 True eloquence I find to be none but the serious and hearty love of truth;...
    Elo2 8.123 25 At no hour of your life will the love of letters ever oppress you as a burden...
    Elo2 8.124 17 ...in your struggles with the world...seek refuge...in the precepts and example of Him whose law is love...
    Comc 8.159 22 ...a prophet...or a philosopher, in whom the love of truth predominates, these do not joke...
    Comc 8.173 19 All our plans, managements, houses, poems, if compared with the wisdom and love which man represents, are equally imperfect and ridiculous.
    QO 8.190 3 Each man of thought is surrounded by wiser men than he, if they cannot write as well. Cannot he and they combine? Cannot they sink their jealousies in God's love...
    PC 8.225 2 ...the new day is purple with the bloom of youth and love.
    PC 8.226 24 There is anything but humiliation in the homage men pay to a great man; it is sympathy, love of the same things...
    PC 8.228 22 Great love is the inventor and expander of the frozen powers...
    PC 8.234 7 ...when I...consider the sound material of which the cultivated class here is made up,-what high personal worth, what love of men, what hope, is joined with rich information and practical power...I cannot distrust this great knighthood of virtue...
    PPo 8.245 25 The understanding's copper coin/ Counts not with the gold of love./
    PPo 8.249 12 Love is a leveller, and Allah becomes a groom, and heaven a closet, in [Hafiz's] daring hymns to his mistress or to his cupbearer.
    PPo 8.249 23 ...the love or the wine of Hafiz is not to be confounded with vulgar debauch.
    PPo 8.255 28 Either world inhabits [the phoenix],/ Sees oft below him planets roll;/ His body is all of air compact,/ Of Allah's love his soul./
    PPo 8.259 15 From the plain text-The chemist of love/ Will this perishing mould,/ Were it made out of mire,/ Transmute into gold./-[Hafiz] proceeds to the celebration of his passion;...
    PPo 8.261 5 ...sometimes [Hafiz's] love rises to a religious sentiment...
    PPo 8.261 12 Is Allah's face on thee/ Bending with love benign,/ And thou not less on Allah's eye/ O fairest! turnest thine./
    Insp 8.268 3 If with light head erect I sing,/ Though all the Muses lend their force,/ From my poor love of anything,/ The verse is weak and shallow as its source./
    Insp 8.276 27 See how the passions augment our force,-anger, love, ambition!...
    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./
    Imtl 8.330 26 The healthy state of mind is the love of life.
    Imtl 8.337 11 The love of life is out of all proportion to the value set on a single day...
    Imtl 8.341 16 Montesquieu said, The love of study is in us almost the only eternal passion.
    Imtl 8.346 20 ...only by rare integrity, by a man permeated and perfumed with airs of heaven,-with manliest or womanliest enduring love,-can the vision [of immortality] be clear to a use the most sublime.
    Imtl 8.347 25 ...an admiration, a deep love, a strong will, arms us above fear.
    Imtl 8.349 18 Yama said [to Nachiketas], Through my favor, Gautama will remember thee with love as before.
    Dem1 10.26 1 [Mesmerism]...is separated by celestial diameters from the love of spiritual truths.
    Aris 10.36 19 ...all the deference of modern society to this idea of the Gentleman...is a secret homage to reality and love...
    Aris 10.44 2 ...when the well-mixed man is born...he brings with him fortune, followers, love, power.
    Aris 10.45 6 ...the man's associations, fortunes, love, hatred, residence, rank, the books he will buy, the roads he will traverse are predetermined in his organism.
    Aris 10.45 23 [The blood royal] obtains service, gifts, supplies, furtherance of all kinds from the love and joy of those who feel themselves honored by the service they render.
    Aris 10.48 2 Every Frenchman would have a career. We English are not any better with our love of making a figure.
    PerF 10.78 15 ...not less [than Memory, Fancy, Imagination, Eloquence], method, patience, self-trust, perseverance, love, desire of knowledge, the passion for truth. These are the angels that take us by the hand...
    PerF 10.83 7 And so, one step higher, when [the susceptible man] comes into the realm of sentiment and will. He sees...the victory of love...
    Chr2 10.93 2 ...love is delight in the preference of that benefit redounding to another over the securing of our own share;...
    Chr2 10.113 19 ...whoever feels any love or skill for ethical studies may safely lay out all his strength and genius in working in that mine.
    Chr2 10.117 10 There will always be a class of imaginative youths, whom poetry, whom the love of beauty, lead to the adoration of the moral sentiment...
    Chr2 10.119 27 Whenever the sublimities of character shall be incarnated in a man, we may rely that awe and love and insatiable curiosity will follow his steps.
    Edc1 10.129 24 [Is it not true] That poverty, love, authority, anger...all work actively upon our being...
    Edc1 10.135 17 A man is a little thing whilst he works by and for himself, but, when he gives voice to the rules of love and justice, is godlike...
    Edc1 10.139 24 Everybody delights in the energy with which boys deal and talk with each other; the mixture of...love and wrath, with which the game is played;...
    Edc1 10.152 14 Each [pupil] requires so much consideration, that the morning hope of the teacher, of a day of love and progress, is often closed at evening by despair.
    Edc1 10.153 14 ...[the gentle teacher, who wished to be a Providence to youth's]...love of learning is lost in the routine of grammars and books of elements.
    Edc1 10.154 20 ...only to think of using [simple discipline and the following of nature] implies character and profoundness; to enter on this course of discipline is to be good and great. It is precisely analogous to the difference between the use of corporal punishment and the methods of love.
    SovE 10.187 12 The civil history of men might be traced by the successive meliorations as marked in higher moral generalizations;-virtue meaning physical courage, then chastity and temperance, then justice and love;...
    SovE 10.191 10 Humanity sits at the dread loom and throws the shuttle and fills it with joyful rainbows, until the sable ground is flowered all over with a woof of human industry and wisdom...with beauty and pure love...
    SovE 10.194 21 Let [a man]...find the riches of love which possesses that which it adores;...
    SovE 10.194 27 Wondrous state of man! never so happy as when he...exists only in obedience and love of the Author.
    SovE 10.211 9 'T is very shallow to say that cotton, or iron, or silver and gold are kings of the world; there are rulers that will at any moment make these forgotten. Fear will. Love will. Character will.
    SovE 10.211 27 The mind as it opens transfers very fast its choice...from courtesy to love...
    SovE 10.212 17 ...all the religion we have is the ethics of one or another holy person; as soon as character appears, be sure love will, and veneration...
    Prch 10.223 6 The next age will behold God in the ethical laws...and will regard natural history, private fortunes and politics, not for themselves, as we have done, but as illustrations of those laws, of that beatitude and love.
    Prch 10.228 14 Mankind have been subdued to the acceptance of [Jesus's] doctrine, and cannot spare the benefit of so pure a servant of truth and love.
    Prch 10.231 24 We come to church properly...for approach to principles to see how it stands with us, with the deep and dear facts of right and love.
    Prch 10.236 23 That should be the use of the Sabbath,-to...put us in possession of ourselves once more, for love or for shame.
    Prch 10.237 7 Here is thought and love and truth and duty, new as on the first day of Adam and of angels.
    Schr 10.261 18 ...in coming among strange faces we find that the love of letters makes us friends...
    Schr 10.263 13 The scholar is here to fill others with love and courage...
    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 10.269 21 The poet writes his verse on a scrap of paper, and instantly the desire and love of all mankind take charge of it...
    Schr 10.287 22 I invite you [scholars]...to the society of the great, and to love.
    Plu 10.301 13 [Plutarch] gossips...of love and fate and empires.
    Plu 10.311 5 ...[Plutarch's] extreme interest in every trait of character and his broad humanity, lead him constantly...to the study of the Beautiful and Good. Hence his love of heroes...
    Plu 10.314 21 [Plutarch's] grand perceptions of duty lead him...to...his love of Sparta...
    LLNE 10.328 9 The nobles...now, in another shape, as capitalists, shall in all love and peace eat [the churls] up as before.
    LLNE 10.347 7 [Robert Owen's] love of men made us forget his Three Errors.
    CSC 10.375 25 If there was not parliamentary order [at the Chardon Street Convention], there was...assurance of that constitutional love for religion and religious liberty which...characterizes the inhabitants of this part of America.
    EzRy 10.389 1 [Ezra Ripley] had a reverence and love of society...
    EzRy 10.394 7 In all such passages [with people] [Ezra Ripley] justified himself to the conscience, and commonly to the love, of the persons concerned.
    EzRy 10.395 4 ...devout, but with an extreme love of order, [Ezra Ripley] adopted heartily...the creed and catechism of the fathers...
    MMEm 10.405 3 ...the love of superior virtue is mine own gift from God.
    MMEm 10.408 10 [Mary Moody Emerson] is...a Bible...wherein are sentences of condemnation, promises and covenants of love that make foolish the wisdom of the world with the power of God.
    MMEm 10.423 15 ...if you tell me [Mary Moody Emerson] of the miseries of the battle-field, with the sensitive Channing (of whose love of life I am ashamed), what of a few days of agony...compared to the long years of sticking on a bed and wished away?
    SlHr 10.448 5 [Samuel Hoar] had no love of poetry;...
    SlHr 10.448 17 ...I find an elegance in...[Samuel Hoar's] self-dedication... to such political activities as a strong sense of duty and the love of order and of freedom urged him to forward.
    Thor 10.466 6 Mr. Thoreau dedicated his genius with such entire love to the fields, hills and waters of his native town, that he made them known and interesting to all reading Americans...
    Thor 10.473 19 [Thoreau's] visits to Maine were chiefly for love of the Indian.
    Thor 10.477 11 Now chiefly is my natal hour,/ And only now my prime of life;/ I will not doubt the love untold,/ Which not my worth nor want have bought,/ Which wooed me young, and wooes me old,/ And to this evening hath me brought./
    Thor 10.484 13 There is a flower known to botanists...which grows on the most inaccessible cliffs of the Tyrolese mountains...and which the hunter, tempted...by his love (for it is immensely valued by the Swiss maidens), climbs the cliffs to gather...
    Carl 10.495 13 In proportion to the peals of laughter amid which [Carlyle] strips the plumes of a pretender...does he worship whatever enthusiasm, fortitude, love or other sign of a good nature is in a man.
    GSt 10.506 10 There [George Stearns] sat in the council...an enthusiast only in his love of freedom and the good of men;...
    LS 11.20 8 ...any act or meeting which tends to awaken a pure thought, a flow of love, an original design of virtue, I call a worthy, a true commemoration [of Jesus].
    LS 11.23 9 ...now...Christians must contend that it is...really a duty, to commemorate [Jesus] by a certain form [the Lord's Supper], whether that form be agreeable to their understandings or not. ... Is not this to make men,-to make ourselves,-forget that...not names, but righteousness and love are enjoined;...
    HDC 11.45 14 The bands of love and reverence, held fast the little state [the Massachusetts Bay Colony]...
    HDC 11.45 23 The Governor [of the Massachusetts Bay Colony] conspires with [the settlers] in limiting his claims to their obedience, and values much more their love than his chartered authority.
    HDC 11.47 22 Wrath and love came up to town-meeting in company.
    HDC 11.50 3 The British government has recently presented to the several public libraries of this country, copies of the splendid edition of the Domesday Book, and other ancient public records of England. I cannot but think that it would be a suitable acknowledgment of this national munificence, if the records of one of our towns...should be printed, and presented...to the Continental nations as a lesson of humanity and love.
    HDC 11.51 24 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 11.82 26 Two religious societies, of differing creed, dwell together [in Concord] in good understanding, both promoting, we hope, the cause of righteousness and love.
    HDC 11.83 25 [The Concord Town Records] exhibit a pleasing picture...of a community of great simplicity of manners, and of a manifest love of justice.
    HDC 11.86 1 On the village green [of Concord] have been the steps...of John Eliot...who had a courage that intimidated those savages whom his love could not melt;...
    LVB 11.90 23 ...it is not to be doubted that it is the good pleasure and the understanding of all humane persons in the Republic...that [the Indians] shall taste justice and love from all to whom we have delegated the office of dealing with them.
    LVB 11.92 24 Sir [Van Buren], does this government think that the people of the United States are become savage and mad? From their mind are the sentiments of love and a good nature wiped clean out?
    LVB 11.93 21 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.
    LVB 11.95 21 I will at least...show you [Van Buren] how plain and humane people, whose love would be honor, regard the policy of the government...
    EWI 11.118 8 We sometimes say...give [the planter] a machine that will yield him as much money as the slaves, and he will thankfully let them go. He has no love of slavery, but he wants luxury...
    EWI 11.118 13 ...experience...shows the existence, beside the covetousness, of a bitterer element [in slavery], the love of power...
    EWI 11.124 20 ...unhappily, most unhappily, gentlemen, man is born with intellect, as well as with a love of sugar;...
    War 11.160 17 The sublime question has startled one and another happy soul in different quarters of the globe,-Cannot love be, as well as hate?
    War 11.160 18 The sublime question has startled one and another happy soul in different quarters of the globe,-Cannot love be, as well as hate? Would not love answer the same end...
    War 11.168 23 A man does not come the length of the spirit of martyrdom without...some flaming love.
    War 11.169 4 If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms...you have a nation...of true, great and able men. Let me know more of that nation;... I shall find them men of love...
    War 11.171 2 This [aspiration towards peace] is not to be carried by public opinion, but...by private, dear and earnest love.
    War 11.173 18 ...another age comes...and a man puts himself under the dominion of principles. I see him to be the servant of truth, of love and of freedom...
    FSLC 11.186 10 There is always something in the very advantages of a condition which hurts it. Africa has its malformation;...France its love of gunpowder;...
    FSLN 11.230 7 ...it is...the essence...of love, to prefer another...
    AsSu 11.249 19 [Charles Sumner] meekly bore...the pity of the indifferent, cheered by the love and respect of good men with whom he acted;...
    JBS 11.280 21 ...it is impossible to see courage, and disinterestedness, and the love that casts out fear, without sympathy.
    TPar 11.286 20 [Theodore Parker] had...a love for facts...
    TPar 11.287 27 ...those came to [Theodore Parker] who found themselves expressed by him. And had they not met this enlightened mind, in which they beheld their own opinions combined with zeal in every cause of love and humanity, they would have suspected their opinions and suppressed them...
    TPar 11.290 5 ...[Theodore Parker] insisted...that the essence of Christianity is its practical morals;...and if you combine it...with ordinary city ambitions...the truth is not in you; and no love of religious music...can save you from the Satan which you are.
    ALin 11.332 5 In a host of young men that start together and promise so many brilliant leaders for the next age, each fails on trial; one by bad health, one by...love of pleasure...
    SMC 11.353 21 ...when you replace the love of family or clan by a principle, as freedom, instantly that fire runs over the state-line...
    SMC 11.358 6 ...the captain [George Prescott] writes home of another of his men, B[owers] comes from a sense of duty and love of country...
    EdAd 11.382 17 The injured elements say, Not in us;/ And night and day, ocean and continent,/ Fire, plant and mineral say, Not in us;/ And haughtily return us stare for stare./ For we invade them impiously for gain;/ We devastate them unreligiously,/ And coldly ask their pottage, not their love./
    EdAd 11.382 20 ...[the elements] shove us from them, yield to us/ Only what to our griping toil is due;/ But the sweet affluence of love and song,/ The rich results of the divine consents/ Of man and earth, of world beloved and loved,/ The nectar and ambrosia are withheld./
    Koss 11.398 12 We [people of Concord] please ourselves that in you [Kossuth] we meet...a man so truly in love with the greatest future, that he cannot be diverted to any less.
    Koss 11.398 23 As you [Kossuth] see, the love you win [from Americans] is worth something;...
    Wom 11.408 17 ...[women's] fine organization, their taste and love of details, makes the knowledge they give better in their hands.
    Wom 11.412 22 Beautiful is the passion of love...
    Wom 11.413 11 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.
    Wom 11.413 26 The first thing men think of, when they love, is to exhibit their usefulness and advantages to the object of their affection. Women make light of these, asking only love.
    SHC 11.430 20 We will not jealously guard a few atoms under immense marbles, selfishly and impossibly sequestering it from the vast circulations of Nature, but, at the same time, fully admitting the divine hope and love which belong to our nature, wishing to make one spot tender to our children...
    SHC 11.436 18 The evidence [of immortality] from intellect is as valid as the evidence from love.
    RBur 11.439 19 At the first announcement...that the 25th of January [1859] was the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns, a sudden consent warmed the great English race...to keep the festival. We are here to hold our parliament with love and poesy...
    RBur 11.441 22 What a love of Nature [in Burns]...
    Scot 11.465 22 By nature, by his reading and taste an aristocrat, in a time and country which easily gave him that bias, [Scott] had the virtues and graces of that class, and by his eminent humanity and his love of labor escaped its harm.
    CPL 11.504 27 Montesquieu...writes: The love of study is in us almost the only eternal passion.
    FRep 11.530 9 ...the largest thought and the widest love are born to victory...
    FRep 11.531 7 If we never put on the liberty-cap until we were freemen by love and self-denial, the liberty-cap would mean something.
    PLT 12.22 2 If man has organs...for reproduction and love and care of his young, you shall find all the same in the muskrat.
    PLT 12.30 20 When, moved by love, a man teaches his child...it is not done for others, but to fulfil a high necessity of his proper character.
    PLT 12.44 26 ...we love but are not love.
    PLT 12.47 17 Sometimes the patience and love [of intellectual men] are rewarded by the chamber of power being at last opened;...
    PLT 12.57 5 We have a juvenile love of smartness...
    PLT 12.60 25 The spiritual power of man is twofold...Intellect and morals; one respecting truth, the other the will. One is the man, the other the woman in spiritual nature. One is power, the other is love.
    PLT 12.61 24 ...the affirmative of affirmatives is love.
    PLT 12.62 6 The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere, good and order, analogy, health and benefit,-the love of truth...
    PLT 12.64 12 [The hints of the Intellect] overcome us like perfumes from a far-off shore of sweetness, and their meaning is...that by casting ourselves on it and being its voice it rushes each moment to positive commands...and ties the will of a child to the love of the First Cause.
    Mem 12.104 25 A souvenir is a token of love.
    CL 12.135 3 The Teutonic race have been marked in all ages by a trait which has received the name of Earth-hunger, a love of possessing land.
    CL 12.135 17 The avarice of real estate native to us all covers...all that is called the love of Nature...
    CL 12.142 13 If a man tells me that he has an intense love of Nature, I know, of course, that he has none.
    CL 12.152 24 The influence of the ocean on the love of liberty, I have mentioned elsewhere.
    CW 12.170 7 The gentle deities/ Showed me the love of color and of sounds,/...
    CW 12.176 13 ...if one is so happy as to find the company of a true artist, he...ought only to be used like an oriflamme or a garland, for...parliaments of wit and love.
    Bost 12.207 7 With all their love of his person, [the people of Boston] took immense pleasure in turning out the governor and deputy and assistants...
    MAng1 12.223 7 The love of beauty which never passes beyond outline and color was too slight an object to occupy the powers of [Michelangelo's] genius.
    MAng1 12.223 13 ...[Michelangelo's] love of beauty is made solid and perfect by his deep understanding of the mechanic arts.
    MAng1 12.232 23 ...contemplating ever with love the idea of absolute beauty, [Michelangelo] was still dissatisfied with his own work.
    MAng1 12.237 9 ...[Michelangelo] possessed an intense love of solitude.
    MAng1 12.240 4 There is yet one more trait in Michael Angelo's history, which humanizes his character without lessening its loftiness; this is his platonic love.
    MAng1 12.240 19 [Michelangelo's sonnets] are founded on the thought... that a beautiful person is sent into the world...not to provoke but to purify the sensual into an intellectual and divine love.
    MAng1 12.240 23 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 25 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 12.242 22 ...this man [Michelangelo] was penetrated with the love of the highest beauty, that is, goodness;...
    Milt1 12.250 11 The lover of [Milton's] genius will always regret that he should [when writing the Defence of the English People] not...have written from the deep convictions of love and right...
    Milt1 12.252 11 ...[Milton] kindles a love and emulation in us which he did not in foregoing generations.
    Milt1 12.257 19 [Milton's] ear for music was so acute that he was not only enthusiastic in his love, but a skilful performer himself;...
    Milt1 12.257 25 With these keen perceptions, [Milton] naturally received a love of Nature...
    Milt1 12.262 4 ...[Milton] said...true eloquence I find to be none but the serious and hearty love of truth;...
    Milt1 12.263 13 [Milton] serves from love, not from fear.
    Milt1 12.268 3 [Milton] felt the heats of that love which esteems no office mean.
    Milt1 12.269 7 Questions that involve all social and personal rights...were searched by eyes to which the love of freedom, civil and religious, lent new illumination.
    Milt1 12.269 23 [Milton] felt the dear love of native land and native language.
    Milt1 12.270 23 That which drew [Milton] to the party was his love of liberty, ideal liberty;...
    Milt1 12.279 2 We have offered no apology for expanding to such length our commentary on the character of John Milton;...a man whom labor or danger never deterred from whatever efforts a love of the supreme interests of man prompted.
    ACri 12.299 22 ...the secret interior wits and hearts of men take note of [Carlyle's History of Frederick II], not the less surely. They have said nothing lately in praise of the air, or of fire, or of the blessing of love, and yet, I suppose, they are sensible of these...
    ACri 12.305 9 A man of genius or a work of love or beauty will not come to order...
    MLit 12.316 3 Has [the writer] led thee to Nature because his own soul was too happy in beholding her power and love?
    MLit 12.318 22 This new love of the vast, always native in Germany... finds a most genial climate in the American mind.
    MLit 12.323 17 [Goethe's] love of Nature has seemed to give a new meaning to that word.
    MLit 12.327 21 Let [Goethe] have the praise of the love of truth.
    MLit 12.334 21 Are we not evermore whipped by thoughts? In sorrow steeped, and steeped in love/ Of thoughts not yet incarnated./
    MLit 12.335 3 ...a love that fainteth at the sight of its object, is new to-day.
    MLit 12.335 23 [The Genius of the time] will...record the descent of principles into practice, of love into Government, of love into Trade.
    MLit 12.335 24 [The Genius of the time] will...record the descent of principles into practice, of love into Government, of love into Trade.
    WSL 12.338 7 Add to this proud blindness [of John Bull] the better quality of...the love of fair play, on all occasions...
    WSL 12.341 9 In these busy days...a faithful scholar, receiving from past ages the treasures of wit and enlarging them by his own love, is a friend and consoler of mankind.
    WSL 12.343 17 Whoever writes for the love of truth and beauty...belongs to this sacred class;...
    WSL 12.343 25 [Landor's] love of beauty is passionate...
    WSL 12.344 1 ...beyond his delight in genius and his love of individual and civil liberty, Mr. Landor has a perception that is much more rare, the appreciation of character.
    Pray 12.354 24 The last of the four orisons...contains this petition;-My Father: I now come to thee with a desire to thank thee for the continuance of our love...
    Pray 12.354 25 I feel that without thy love in me I should be alone here in the flesh.
    Pray 12.355 19 I thank thee...especially for him who brought me so perfect a type of thy goodness and love to men.
    Pray 12.357 4 ...thou [God] didst beat back my weak sight upon myself, shooting out beams upon me after a vehement manner; and I even trembled between love and horror...
    EurB 12.377 19 [The Vivian Greys] discuss sun and planets, liberty and fate, love and death, over the soup.
    PPr 12.384 5 ...[Carlyle] has added to his love whatever honor his opinions may forfeit.
    PPr 12.385 13 Worst of all for the party attacked, [Carlyle's Past and Present] bereaves them beforehand of all sympathy, by...impressing the reader with the conviction that the satirist himself has the truest love for everything old and excellent in English land and institutions...
    PPr 12.386 21 It was perhaps inseparable from the attempt to write a book of wit and imagination on English politics that a certain local emphasis and love of effect...should appear...
    PPr 12.388 3 ...we at this distance are not so far removed from any of the specific evils [of the English State], and are deeply participant in too many, not to share the gloom and thank the love and courage of the counsellor [Carlyle].
    Let 12.400 8 ...in good earnest, and in all love, let [a man] be that which he is;...
    Let 12.400 23 Full of love, talent and hope spring up the darlings of the muse among the Germans;...
    Let 12.401 14 On earth all is imperfect! is an old proverb of the German. Aye, but if one should say to these God-forsaken...that with them, truly, life is shallow and anxious and full of discord because they despise genius, which brings...love and brotherhood into towns and houses.
    Trag 12.410 24 Few are capable of love.
    Trag 12.412 21 All that life demands of us through the greater part of the day is...open eyes and ears, and free hands. Society asks this, and truth, and love, and the genius of our life.

Love, n. (20)

    Nat 1.27 7 Man is conscious of a universal soul within or behind his individual life, wherein...the natures of Justice, Truth, Love, Freedom, arise and shine.
    MN 1.216 25 From the poisonous tree, the world, say the Brahmins, two species of fruit are produced, sweet as the waters of life; Love or the society of beautiful souls, and Poetry...
    MN 1.217 1 What is Love, and why is it the chief good, but because it is an overpowering enthusiasm?
    LT 1.260 25 Meantime...arises Reform...and offers the sentiment of Love as an overmatch to this material might [of Conservatism].
    Prd1 2.221 21 ...it would be hardly honest in me not to balance these fine lyric words of Love and Friendship with words of coarser sound...
    OS 2.272 4 Justice we see and know, Love, Freedom, Power.
    Int 2.340 1 When we are young we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art...
    Int 2.345 16 I will not...speak to the open question between Truth and Love.
    NER 3.262 20 Only Love, only an Idea, is against property as we hold it.
    MoS 4.177 8 We paint...Love and Fortune, blind;...
    Ctr 6.165 21 Half engaged in the soil, pawing to get free, man needs all the music that can be brought to disengage him. If Love, red Love, with tears and joy;...can set his dull nerves throbbing...make way and sing paean!
    Bty 6.289 18 ...the sharpest-sighted hunter in the universe is Love...
    Bty 6.289 22 In the true mythology Love is an immortal child...
    DL 7.129 10 ...perhaps Love is only the highest symbol of Friendship...
    PI 8.2 12 ...[Fancy] can knit/ What is past, what is done,/ With the web that 's just begun;/ Making free with time and size,/ Dwindles here, there magnifies,/ Swells a rain-drop to a tun;/ So to repeat/ No word or feat/ Crowds in a day the sum of ages,/ And blushing Love outwits the sages./
    Chr2 10.96 18 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./
    Schr 10.268 11 Love, Rectitude, everlasting Fame, will come to each of you in loneliest places...
    MMEm 10.398 17 Of Love freely will [Lucy Percy] discourse...
    JBS 11.281 22 ...the arch-abolitionist, older than [John] Brown, and older than the Shenandoah Mountains, is Love...
    Wom 11.413 17 Far have I clambered in my mind,/ But nought so great as Love I find./

Love of Brothers [Plutarch] (1)

    Plu 10.315 17 [Plutarch] has a tenderness almost to tears when he writes... on the Love of Brothers.

Love, On [Plutarch], n. (1)

    Boks 7.200 7 [The reader] will read in [Plutarch's Morals] the essays On the Daemon of Socrates...On Love;...

love, v. (142)

    Nat 1.46 12 We cannot choose but love [our friends].
    DSA 1.121 5 When...[man] attains to say, - I love the Right...then...God is well pleased.
    DSA 1.132 13 [The divine bards] admonish me that...they were not disobedient to the heavenly vision. So I love them.
    DSA 1.144 25 ...[men] love to be blind in public.
    DSA 1.145 21 ...dare to love God without mediator or veil.
    DSA 1.146 26 ...[all men] love to be heard;...
    DSA 1.146 27 ...[all men] love to be caught up into the vision of principles.
    DSA 1.147 11 Can we not leave, to such as love it, the virtue that glitters for the commendation of society...
    DSA 1.148 13 ...let us study the grand strokes of rectitude:...an independence of friends, so that not the unjust wishes of those who love us shall impair our freedom...
    LE 1.176 12 Let us...suffer, and weep, and drudge, with eyes and hearts that love the Lord.
    MN 1.192 6 I love the music of the water-wheel;...
    MN 1.194 11 ...come...hither, thou tender, doubting heart...thine and not theirs is the hour. Smooth thy brow, and hope and love on...
    MN 1.200 20 ...thou must feel [nature] and love it...
    MN 1.210 18 It is sublime to receive, sublime to love...
    MN 1.215 17 You shall love rectitude...
    LT 1.264 20 I think that only is real which men love and rejoice in;...
    Con 1.307 20 [The youth says] I shall seek those whom I love, and shun those whom I love not...
    Con 1.309 10 I cannot then spare you the whole world. I love you better.
    Con 1.325 16 ...if I...become idle and dissolute, I quickly come to love the protection of a strong law...
    Tran 1.344 4 Love me, [Transcendentalists] say, but do not ask who is my cousin and my uncle.
    Tran 1.350 5 I do not love routine.
    SR 2.51 13 ...why should I not say to [the angry Abolitionist], Go love thy infant;...
    SR 2.51 14 ...love thy wood-chopper;...
    SR 2.60 4 We love [honor] and pay it homage because it is not a trap for our love and homage...
    SR 2.72 13 What we love that we have...
    SR 2.73 9 If you can love me for what I am, we shall be the happier.
    SR 2.73 15 If you are noble, I will love you;...
    SR 2.73 24 You will soon love what is dictated by your nature as well as mine...
    SR 2.78 27 The gods love [the self-helping man] because men hated him.
    Comp 2.94 27 Is it that [the good] are to have leave to pray and praise, to love and serve men? Why, that they can do now.
    Comp 2.116 15 Love, and you shall be loved.
    Comp 2.124 7 If I feel overshadowed and outdone by great neighbors, I can yet love;...
    SL 2.133 21 We love characters in proportion as they are impulsive and spontaneous.
    SL 2.150 6 We can love nothing but nature.
    SL 2.162 11 I love and honor Epaminondas, but I do not wish to be Epaminondas.
    SL 2.162 13 I hold it more just to love the world of this hour than the world of [Epaminondas's] hour.
    Lov1 2.172 17 All mankind love a lover.
    Lov1 2.177 15 The heats that have opened [the lover's] perceptions of natural beauty have made him love music and verse.
    Lov1 2.180 25 ...personal beauty is then first charming and itself...when... [the beholder] cannot feel more right to it than to the firmament and the splendors of a sunset. Hence arose the saying, If I love you, what is that to you?
    Lov1 2.180 27 ...we feel that what we love is not in your will, but above it.
    Fdsp 2.211 17 To those whom we admire and love, at first we cannot [speak on even terms].
    Fdsp 2.213 8 ...a sublime hope cheers ever the faithful heart, that elsewhere...souls are now acting...which can love us and which we can love.
    Fdsp 2.216 20 It is thought a disgrace to love unrequited.
    Prd1 2.221 9 ...I love facts...
    OS 2.277 27 ...the best minds, who love truth for its own sake, think much less of property in truth.
    Cir 2.307 12 If [my friend] were high enough to slight me, then could I love him...
    Cir 2.320 26 The simplest words,--we do not know what they mean except when we love and aspire.
    Int 2.345 19 I shall not presume to interfere in the old politics of the skies;-- The cherubim know most; the seraphim love most.
    Pt1 3.27 20 ...if in any manner we can stimulate this instinct...the mind flows into and through things hardest and highest, and the metamorphosis is possible. This is the reason why bards love wine...
    Pt1 3.33 19 ...we love the poet, the inventor, who in any form...has yielded us a new thought.
    Exp 3.66 16 You love the boy reading in a book...
    Exp 3.69 13 I would gladly be moral and keep due metes and bounds, which I dearly love...
    Mrs1 3.139 12 If you wish to be loved, love measure.
    Gts 3.157 3 Gifts of one who loved me,--/ 'T was high time they came;/ When he ceased to love me,/ Time they stopped for shame./
    Gts 3.160 1 Men use to tell us that we love flattery...because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted.
    Gts 3.163 2 ...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.
    Gts 3.165 17 ...love [men], and they feel you and delight in you all the time.
    NR 3.246 24 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; and seeing this we admire and love her and them...
    NER 3.271 18 What is it men love in Genius, but its infinite hope...
    NER 3.272 25 In the circle of the rankest tories...let...a man of great heart and mind act on them, and very quickly...these haters will begin to love...
    NER 3.276 19 Dear to us are those who love us;...
    UGM 4.25 1 ...in the midst of this chuckle of self-gratulation, some figure goes by which Thersites too can love and admire.
    UGM 4.25 6 We love to associate with heroic persons...
    SwM 4.109 5 We are hard to please, and love nothing which ends;...
    SwM 4.128 6 Do you love me? means [to Swedenborg], Do you see the same truth?
    SwM 4.129 6 So far from there being anything divine in the low and proprietary sense of Do you love me? it is only when you leave and lose me by casting yourself on a sentiment which is higher than both of us, that I draw near and find myself at your side;...
    SwM 4.129 12 You love the worth in me; then I am your husband;...
    MoS 4.170 24 We love whatever affirms, connects, preserves;...
    NMW 4.254 25 I love nobody [said Napoleon].
    NMW 4.254 25 I do not even love my brothers [said Napoleon]...
    NMW 4.254 27 I do not even love my brothers [said Napoleon]: perhaps Joseph a little...and Duroc, I love him too;...
    ET1 5.11 26 ...I tell you, sir [said Coleridge], that...it is a far greater virtue to love the true for itself alone, than to love the good for itself alone.
    ET4 5.47 26 Race avails much, if that be true which is alleged...that Celts love unity of power, and Saxons the representative principle.
    ET5 5.80 18 [The English] love men who, like Samuel Johnson...would jump out of his syllogism the instant his major proposition was in danger...
    ET5 5.83 12 The bias of the nation [England] is a passion for utility. They love the lever, the screw and pulley...
    ET7 5.119 1 [The English] love reality in wealth, power, hospitality...
    ET7 5.122 22 [The English] love stoutness in standing for your right...
    ET7 5.123 13 [The English] have given the parliamentary nickname of Trimmers to the timeservers, whom English character does not love.
    ET14 5.254 5 [Natural science in England] stands in strong contrast with the genius of the Germans, those semi-Greeks, who love analogy...
    Bhr 6.196 25 Love the day.
    Wsp 6.225 25 In every variety of human employment...there are...those who love work, and love to see it rightly done;...
    Wsp 6.238 12 The Spirit does not love cripples and malformations.
    Bty 6.296 15 A beautiful woman is a practical poet...planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches. Some favors of condition must go with it, since a certain serenity is essential, but we love its reproofs and superiorities.
    Bty 6.300 11 We love any forms, however ugly, from which great qualities shine.
    Bty 6.304 3 ...in chosen men and women I find somewhat in form, speech and manners, which is...of a humane, catholic and spiritual character, and we love them as the sky.
    Ill 6.313 7 Society does not love its unmaskers.
    Civ 7.24 1 Poverty and industry with a healthy mind read very easily the laws of humanity, and love them...
    Elo1 7.81 13 A man who has tastes like mine, but in greater power, will rule me any day, and make me love my ruler.
    DL 7.131 25 A collection of this kind [a library and museum]...would dignify the town, and we should love and respect our neighbors more.
    WD 7.158 1 Men love to wonder...
    WD 7.184 1 There are people...who love at first sight and hate at first sight;...
    Clbs 7.232 12 Some men love only to talk where they are masters.
    Suc 7.282 5 But if thou do thy best,/ Without remission, without rest,/ And invite the sunbeam,/ And abhor to feign or seem/ Even to those who thee should love/ And thy behavior approve;/...
    PI 8.62 9 ...said Merlin...I have been fool enough to love another more than myself...
    SA 8.100 19 As the search [for riches] may not be successful, I will follow after that which I love.
    SA 8.105 17 ...[sentimentalists] love liberty, dear liberty!...
    Dem1 10.24 12 They who love [occult facts] say they are to reveal to us a world of unknown, unsuspected truths.
    Aris 10.35 22 ...not the hardest utilitarian will question the value of an aristocracy if he love himself.
    Aris 10.39 11 I wish...men...who...are not too learned to love the Imagination...
    Supl 10.167 16 [The English mind] does not love the superlative but the positive degree.
    SovE 10.193 1 If you love and serve men, you cannot by any hiding or stratagem, escape the remuneration.
    SovE 10.195 4 The fiery soul said: Let me be a blot on this fair world, the obscurest, the loneliest sufferer, with one proviso,-that I know it is his agency. I will love him, though he shed frost and darkness on every way of mine.
    SovE 10.195 22 Cripples and invalids, we doubt not there are bounding fawns in the forest, and lilies with graceful, springing stem; so neither do we doubt or fail to love the eternal law, of which we are such shabby practisers.
    SovE 10.209 9 It accuses us...that pure ethics is not now formulated and concreted into a cultus, a fraternity...with brick and stone. Why have not those who believe in it and love it left all for this...
    Prch 10.228 6 Christianity taught the capacity, the element, to love the All-perfect without a stingy bargain for personal happiness.
    Prch 10.228 7 Christianity taught the capacity, the element, to love the All-perfect without a stingy bargain for personal happiness. It taught that to love him was happiness...
    Prch 10.228 8 Christianity taught the capacity, the element, to love the All-perfect without a stingy bargain for personal happiness. It taught that to love him was happiness,-to love him in other's virtues.
    Prch 10.231 17 I do not love sensation preaching...
    Schr 10.276 23 ...I own I love talents and accomplishments;...
    Schr 10.277 2 These shrewd faculties belong to man. I love to see them in play...
    Plu 10.295 13 [Henry IV wrote] To love [Plutarch] is to love me; for he has been long time the instructor of my youth.
    Plu 10.295 14 [Henry IV wrote] To love [Plutarch] is to love me; for he has been long time the instructor of my youth.
    LLNE 10.357 8 [Thoreau said] I love best to have each thing in its season only...
    EzRy 10.379 1 We love the venerable house/ Our fathers built to God/...
    MMEm 10.404 13 [Mary Moody Emerson] writes to her nephew Charles Emerson, in 1833... I never expected connections and matrimony. My taste was formed in romance, and I knew I was not destined to please. I love God and his creation as I never else could.
    MMEm 10.426 21 Number the waste places of the journey...the bitter dregs of the cup,-and all are sweetened by the purpose of Him I [Mary Moody Emerson] love.
    MMEm 10.428 12 Constantly offer myself [Mary Moody Emerson] to continue the obscurest and loneliest thing ever heard of, with one proviso,- [God's] agency. Yes, love Thee, and all Thou dost, while Thou sheddest frost and darkness on every path of mine.
    MMEm 10.431 7 That greatest of all gifts, however small my [Mary Moody Emerson's] power of receiving,-the capacity, the element to love the All-perfect, without regard to personal happiness:-happiness?-'t is itself.
    Thor 10.456 14 I love Henry, said one of [Thoreau's] friends, but I cannot like him;...
    Thor 10.482 27 Dead trees love the fire.
    LS 11.19 11 To eat bread is one thing; to love the precepts of Christ and resolve to obey them is quite another.
    LS 11.20 2 I will love [Jesus] as a glorified friend...
    EWI 11.125 25 ...[slavery] does not love the whistle of the railroad;...
    EWI 11.125 26 ...[slavery] does not love the newspaper, the mail-bag, a college...
    EWI 11.126 11 It was very easy for manufacturers...to see that...if the slaves [in the West Indies] had wages, the slaves would be clothed...and negro women love fine clothes as well as white women.
    War 11.157 8 ...trade...gives the parties the knowledge that these enemies over sea or over the mountain are such men as we;...who love and fear, as we do.
    War 11.170 14 Men who love that bloated vanity called public opinion think all is well if they have once got their bantling through a sufficient course of speeches and cheerings...
    FSLN 11.232 13 ...if we are Whigs, let us be Whigs of nature and science, and so for all the necessities. Let us know that, over and above all the musts of poverty and appetite, is the instinct of man to rise, and the instinct to love and help his brother.
    HCom 11.340 13 Many in sad faith sought for [Truth],/ Many with crossed hands sighed for her;/ But these, our brothers, fought for her,/ At life's dear peril wrought for her,/ So loved her that they died for her,/ Tasting the raptured fleetness/ Of her divine completeness:/ Their higher instinct knew/ Those love her best who to themselves are true;/ And what they dare to dream of, dare to do;/...
    Wom 11.413 23 The first thing men think of, when they love, is to exhibit their usefulness and advantages to the object of their affection.
    CPL 11.502 16 Once brought into the world, [thought] runs over the vessel which received it into all minds that love it.
    PLT 12.44 25 ...we love but are not love.
    PLT 12.58 22 No wonder the children love masks and costumes...
    Mem 12.104 26 Remember me means, Do not cease to love me.
    Mem 12.105 1 We remember those things which we love and those things which we hate.
    CInt 12.119 8 I love results and hate abortions.
    ACri 12.305 1 A clear or natural expression by word or deed is that which we mean when we love and praise the antique.
    WSL 12.339 10 ...a man may love a paradox without either losing his wit or his honesty.
    WSL 12.340 8 ...we love the man [Landor], from sympathy as well as for reasons to be assigned;...
    Pray 12.355 11 ...thou art my Father, and I will love thee...
    Pray 12.355 12 ...thou art my Father, and I will love thee, for thou didst first love me, and lovest me still.
    Let 12.400 16 It is heartrending to see your [German] poet, your artist, and all who still revere genius, who love and foster the Beautiful. The Good!

loved, adj. (2)

    SA 8.92 12 ...we are easily great with the loved and honored associate.
    SHC 11.428 13 Learn from the loved one's rest serenity;/ To-morrow that soft bell for thee shall sound,/ And thou repose beneath the whispering tree,/ One tribute more to this submissive ground;-/...

loved, n. (2)

    ET11 5.187 6 [English noblemen] have been a social church proper to inspire sentiments mutually honoring the lover and the loved.
    CbW 6.244 4 ...Fool and foe may harmless roam,/ Loved and lovers bide at home./

loved, v. (63)

    Nat 1.19 23 The high and divine beauty which can be loved without effeminacy, is that which is found in combination with the human will.
    MN 1.210 20 ...this desire to be loved...is finite, comes of a lower strain.
    MR 1.239 16 ...instead of...that mighty and prevailing heart, which the father had, whom nature loved and feared...we have now a puny, protected person...
    LT 1.284 10 I think men never loved life less.
    Con 1.304 16 The ancients tell us that the gods loved the Ethiopians for their stable customs;...
    Tran 1.343 4 ...[Transcendentalists] have even more than others a great wish to be loved.
    Comp 2.116 16 Love, and you shall be loved.
    Fdsp 2.212 27 Men have sometimes exchanged names with their friends, as if they would signify that in their friend each loved his own soul.
    Hsm1 2.246 26 Soph. Why should I grieve or vex for being sent/ To them I ever loved the best?.../
    Chr1 3.97 15 [The feeble souls] do not wish to be lovely, but to be loved.
    Mrs1 3.139 12 If you wish to be loved, love measure.
    Mrs1 3.145 20 The epitaph of Sir Jenkin Grout is not wholly unintelligible to the present age: Here lies Sir Jenkin Grout, who loved his friend and persuaded his enemy;...
    Gts 3.157 1 Gifts of one who loved me,--/ 'T was high time they came;/ When he ceased to love me,/ Time they stopped for shame./
    Nat2 3.178 2 Nature is loved by what is best in us.
    Nat2 3.178 3 [Nature] is loved as the city of God...
    Pol1 3.219 21 A man has a right...to be loved...
    NR 3.247 2 We keep a running fire of sarcasm at ignorance and the life of the senses; then goes by, perchance, a fair girl...and...we admire and love her...and say, Lo! a genuine creature of the fair earth...insinuating a treachery and contempt for all we had so long loved and wrought in ourselves and others.
    NR 3.248 13 ...I endeavored to show my good men...that I loved the centre, but doated on the superficies;...
    NR 3.248 14 ...I endeavored to show my good men...that I loved man, if men seemed to me mice and rats;...
    NR 3.248 20 Could [my good men] but once understand that I loved to know that they existed...yet...had no word or welcome for them when they came to see me...it would be a great satisfaction.
    PPh 4.52 20 If the East loved infinity, the West delighted in boundaries.
    PPh 4.55 1 If he loved abstract truth, [Plato] saved himself by propounding the most popular of all principles, the absolute good...
    PPh 4.68 1 Plato, lover of limits, loved the illimitable...
    SwM 4.130 22 In his Animal Kingdom [Swedenborg] surprised us by declaring that he loved analysis, and not synthesis;...
    MoS 4.164 8 ...[Montaigne] loved the compass, staidness and independence of the country gentleman's life.
    GoW 4.288 9 I suppose the worldly tone of [Goethe's] tales grew out of the calculations of self-culture. It was the infirmity of an admirable scholar, who loved the world out of gratitude;...
    GoW 4.288 14 Socrates loved Athens;...
    ET1 5.11 21 When [Coleridge] saw Dr. Channing he had hinted to him that he was afraid he loved Christianity for what was lovely and excellent...
    ET1 5.11 22 When [Coleridge] saw Dr. Channing he had hinted to him that he was afraid he loved Christianity for what was lovely and excellent,--he loved the good in it, and not the true;...
    ET1 5.11 24 ...I tell you, sir [said Coleridge], that I have known ten persons who loved the good, for one person who loved the true;...
    ET1 5.11 25 ...I tell you, sir [said Coleridge], that I have known ten persons who loved the good, for one person who loved the true;...
    ET4 5.73 7 William the Conqueror being, says Camden, better affected to beasts than to men, imposed heavy fines and punishments on those that should meddle with his game. The Saxon Chronicle says he loved the tall deer as if he were their father.
    ET14 5.238 8 [British] minds loved analogy;...
    SS 7.1 3 ...[Seyd] Loved harebells nodding on a rock/...
    SS 7.1 7 ...nor loved [Seyd] less/ Stately lords in palaces/...
    Civ 7.25 26 The highest civility has never loved the hot zones.
    Clbs 7.223 1 Yet Saadi loved the race of men,--/ No churl, immured in cave or den;/...
    PI 8.53 8 Lord Bacon, we are told, loved not to see poesy go on other feet than poetical dactyls and spondees;...
    SA 8.93 11 Steele said of his mistress, that to have loved her was a liberal education.
    Imtl 8.325 14 [The Greek] loved life and delighted in beauty.
    Chr2 10.101 12 When Omar prayed and loved,/ Where Syrian waters roll,/ Aloft the ninth heaven glowed and moved/ To the tread of the jubilant soul./
    Plu 10.310 19 [Plutarch's] humanity stooped affectionately to trace the virtues which he loved in the animals also.
    EzRy 10.390 23 ...[Ezra Ripley] loved men...
    EzRy 10.391 8 ...[Ezra Ripley] loved to buy dearer and sell cheaper than others.
    MMEm 10.408 21 ...the whim and petulance in which by diseased habit [Mary Moody Emerson] had grown to indulge without suspecting it, was burned up in the glow of her pure and poetic spirit, which dearly loved the Infinite.
    MMEm 10.426 22 The idea of being no mate for those intellectualists I've [Mary Moody Emerson] loved to admire, is no pain.
    SlHr 10.447 3 [Samuel Hoar] loved the dogmas and the simple usages of his church;...
    Thor 10.456 21 ...[Thoreau]...threw himself heartily and childlike into the company of young people whom he loved...
    Thor 10.481 24 [Thoreau] loved Nature so well...that he became very jealous of cities...
    LS 11.19 6 ...the use of the elements [of the Lord's Supper]...is foreign and unsuited to affect us. Whatever long usage and strong association may have done in some individuals to deaden this repulsion, I apprehend that their use is rather tolerated than loved by any of us.
    HDC 11.45 13 [The settlers of Concord] bore to John Winthrop, the Governor, a grave but hearty kindness. For the first time, men examined the powers of the chief whom they loved and revered.
    HDC 11.86 18 ...I believe this town [Concord] to have been the dwelling-place... of pious and excellent persons...who served God, and loved man...
    EWI 11.103 16 Very sad was the negro tradition, that the Great Spirit, in the beginning offered the black man, whom he loved better than the buckra, or white, his choice of two boxes...
    FSLC 11.183 15 The popular assumption that all men loved freedom, and believed in the Christian religion, was found hollow American brag;...
    FSLN 11.215 1 Of all we loved and honored, naught/ Save power remains,-/ A fallen angel's pride of thought,/ Still strong in chains./
    FSLN 11.216 1 We that had loved him so, followed him, honoured him,/ Lived in his mild and magnificent eye,/ Learned his great language, caught his clear accents,/ Made him our pattern to live and to die!/
    JBS 11.277 22 [John Brown] said that he loved rough play...
    ALin 11.328 12 How beautiful to see/ Once more a shepherd of mankind indeed,/ Who loved his charge, but never loved to lead;/...
    HCom 11.340 1 Many loved Truth, and lavished life's best oil/ Amid the dust of books to find her,/ Content at last, for guerdon of their toil,/ With the cast mantle she hath left behind her./
    HCom 11.340 9 Many in sad faith sought for [Truth],/ Many with crossed hands sighed for her;/ But these, our brothers, fought for her,/ At life's dear peril wrought for her,/ So loved her that they died for her,/ Tasting the raptured fleetness/ Of her divine completeness/...
    EdAd 11.382 22 ...[the elements] shove us from them, yield to us/ Only what to our griping toil is due;/ But the sweet affluence of love and song,/ The rich results of the divine consents/ Of man and earth, of world beloved and loved,/ The nectar and ambrosia are withheld./
    CL 12.154 24 ...[Samuel Johnson] loved the sweet security of streets.
    MAng1 12.239 12 [Michelangelo] loved to express admiration of Titian...

love-filled, adj. (1)

    Insp 8.285 13 ...the love-filled singers [nightingales]/ Poured by night before my window/ Their sweet melodies,-/...

love-glance, n. (1)

    LT 1.264 12 ...in the love-glance of a girl;...is to be found that which shall constitute the times to come...

Lovejoy, Elijah, n. (1)

    Hsm1 2.262 15 It is but the other day that the brave Lovejoy gave his breast to the bullets of a mob...

Lovejoy, Sylvester, n. (1)

    SMC 11.366 18 In August, 1862...mainly through the personal example and influence of Mr. Sylvester Lovejoy, twelve men, including himself, were enlisted for three years...

Lovelace, Richard, n. (1)

    Insp 8.295 7 A Greek epigram out of the anthology, a verse of Herrick or Lovelace, are in harmony both with sense and spirit.

Lovelaces, n. (1)

    Insp 8.283 4 ...[In The Harbingers, Herbert] signalizes his delight in this skill [of writing verse], and his pain that the Herricks, Lovelaces and Marlowes...should use the like genius in language to sensual purpose...

Lovelace's, Richard, n. (1)

    PI 8.55 28 Keats disclosed by certain lines in his Hyperion this inward skill; and Coleridge showed at least his love and appetency for it. It appears in...Lovelace's lines To Althea and To Lucasta...

love-lane, n. (1)

    PPo 8.260 25 I know this perilous love-lane/ No whither the traveller leads,/ Yet my fancy the sweet scent of/ Thy tangled tresses feeds./

lovelier, adj. (1)

    PPo 8.251 11 In general what is more tedious than dedications or panegyrics addressed to grandees? Yet in the Divan you would not skip them, since [Hafiz's] muse seldom supports him better:-What lovelier forms things wear,/ Now that the Shah comes back!/...

loveliest, adj. (2)

    Wsp 6.236 7 If [the thought] can spare me [said Benedict], I am sure I can spare it. It shall be the same with my friends. I will never woo the loveliest.
    FRep 11.512 1 Flaxman, with his Greek taste, selected and combined the loveliest forms, which were executed in English clay [by Wedgewood];...

loveliness, n. (7)

    Nat 1.17 1 ...in other hours, Nature satisfies by its loveliness...
    LE 1.169 20 [All men] serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.
    Lov1 2.178 14 The lover cannot paint his maiden to his fancy poor and solitary. Like a tree in flower, so much soft, budding, informing loveliness is society for itself;...
    Lov1 2.186 9 ...that which drew [lovers] to each other was signs of loveliness, signs of virtue;...
    Nat2 3.193 3 ...what recesses of ineffable pomp and loveliness in the sunset!
    Cour 7.257 14 The terrors of the child are quite reasonable, and add to his loveliness;...
    Chr2 10.121 18 Goethe...maintained his belief that pure loveliness and right good will are the highest manly prerogatives...

lovely, adj. (26)

    DSA 1.131 21 ...you shall not dare and live...in company with the infinite Beauty which heaven and earth reflect to you in all lovely forms;...
    DSA 1.133 19 ...so lovely...sounds in my ear the severe music of the bards that have sung of the true God in all ages.
    LE 1.159 15 The sense of spiritual independence is like the lovely varnish of the dew...
    MN 1.214 10 Does the sunset landscape seem to you the place of Friendship,-those purple skies and lovely waters the amphitheatre dressed and garnished only for the exchange of thought and love of the purest souls? It is that.
    Hist 2.37 22 Do not the lovely attributes of the maiden child predict the refinements and decorations of civil society?
    Chr1 3.97 14 [The feeble souls] do not wish to be lovely, but to be loved.
    NR 3.231 16 ...morning and night, solstice and equinox, geometry, astronomy and all the lovely accidents of nature play through [the day-laborer's] mind.
    PPh 4.69 13 ...beauty is the most lovely of all things...
    ShP 4.215 26 ...[the poet] delights in the world, in man, in woman, for the lovely light that sparkles from them.
    ET1 5.11 21 When [Coleridge] saw Dr. Channing he had hinted to him that he was afraid he loved Christianity for what was lovely and excellent...
    ET19 5.311 20 This conscience is one element [which attracts an American to England], and the other is...that homage of man to man, running through all classes...which is alike lovely and honorable to those who render and those who receive it;...
    CbW 6.249 15 I do not wish any mass at all, but honest men only, lovely, sweet, accomplished women only...
    Bty 6.303 9 The sea is lovely, but when we bathe in it the beauty forsakes all the near water.
    Farm 7.141 10 He who...so much as puts a stone seat by the wayside, makes the land so far lovely and desirable...
    Farm 7.154 8 What possesses interest for us is...[each man's] constitutional excellence. This is forever a surprise, engaging and lovely;...
    Boks 7.199 13 Here [in Plato] is...the picture of the best persons, sentiments and manners...portraits of...Protagoras, Anaxagoras and Socrates, with the lovely background of the Athenian and suburban landscape.
    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 8.55 22 Welcome, folded arms and fixed eyes,/...A midnight bell, a passing groan,/ These are the sounds we feed upon,/ Then stretch our bones in a still, gloomy valley./ Nothing 's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy./
    SA 8.103 5 ...I have seen examples of new grace and power in address that honor the country. It was my fortune not long ago...to fall in with an American to be proud of. I said never was such...good action, combined with such domestic lovely behavior...
    PC 8.205 2 Nature spoke/ To each apart, lifting her lovely shows/ To spiritual lessons pointed home/...
    EWI 11.144 23 ...a compassion for that which is not and cannot be useful or lovely, is degrading and futile.
    Wom 11.419 4 The answer that lies, silent or spoken, in the minds of well-meaning persons, to the new claims [for women's rights], is this:...that, if the laws and customs were modified in the manner proposed, it would embarrass and pain gentle and lovely persons with duties which they would find irksome and distasteful.
    CInt 12.127 25 ...I thought...a college was to teach you geometry, or the lovely laws of space and figure;...
    CL 12.163 23 This [principle of levity] is forever a surprise, and engaging, and lovely.
    CW 12.179 2 What alone possesses interest for us is the naturel of each, that which is constitutional to him only. This is forever a surprise, and engaging, and lovely;...
    CW 12.179 8 ...when [the man] sees this annual reappearance of beautiful forms, the lovely carpet, the lovely tapestry of June, he may well ask himself the special meaning of the hieroglyphic...

lovely, n. (1)

    Fdsp 2.194 6 ...I am not so ungrateful as not to see the wise, the lovely and the noble-minded, as from time to time they pass my gate.

Lovely Rose, Go, [Edmund (1)

    PI 8.55 27 Keats disclosed by certain lines in his Hyperion this inward skill; and Coleridge showed at least his love and appetency for it. It appears in...Waller's Go, Lovely Rose!...

loven, v. (1)

    Wsp 6.207 10 [Dido] was so fair,/ So young, so lusty, with her eyen glad,/ That if that God that heaven and earthe made/ Would have a love for beauty and goodness,/ And womanhede, truth, and seemliness,/ Whom should he loven but this lady sweet?/ There n' is no woman to him half so meet./

Lover, Mad, The [John Fle (1)

    Hsm1 2.245 13 In harmony with this delight in personal advantages [in the elder English dramatists] there is in their plays a certain heroic cast of character and dialogue,--as in Bonduca, Sophocles, the Mad Lover, the Double Marriage...

lover, n. (64)

    Nat 1.9 1 The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other;...
    Nat 1.10 15 I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty.
    MN 1.213 21 ...we have...in the oracles ascribed to the half fabulous Zoroaster, a statement of this fact which every lover and seeker of truth will recognize.
    MR 1.254 7 Let me feel that I am to be a lover.
    MR 1.255 6 This great, overgrown, dead Christendom of ours still keeps alive at least the name of a lover of mankind.
    Con 1.313 21 [This manner of living] nourished you with care and love on its breast, as it had nourished many a lover of the right and many a poet...
    YA 1.378 18 The philosopher and lover of man have much harm to say of trade;...
    Hist 2.20 23 Nor can any lover of nature enter the old piles of Oxford and the English cathedrals, without feeling that the forest overpowered the mind of the builder...
    Comp 2.106 27 Aurora forgot to ask youth for her lover, and though Tithonus is immortal, he is old.
    Comp 2.126 14 The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide or genius;...
    Lov1 2.172 17 All mankind love a lover.
    Lov1 2.178 11 The lover cannot paint his maiden to his fancy poor and solitary.
    Lov1 2.178 23 ...the maiden stands to [the lover] for a representative of all select things and virtues. For that reason the lover never sees personal resemblances in his mistress to her kindred or to others.
    Lov1 2.178 27 [The lover's] friends find in [his mistress] a likeness to her mother, or her sisters, or to persons not of her blood. The lover sees no resemblance except to summer evenings and diamond mornings...
    Lov1 2.182 10 By conversation with that which is in itself excellent, magnanimous, lowly, and just, the lover comes to a warmer love of these nobilities...
    Lov1 2.182 26 ...separating in each soul that which is divine from the taint which it has contracted in the world, the lover ascends to the highest beauty...
    Fdsp 2.189 4 ...The world uncertain comes and goes,/ The lover rooted stays./
    Fdsp 2.195 22 I feel as warmly when [my friend] is praised, as the lover when he hears applause of his engaged maiden.
    Fdsp 2.196 6 The lover, beholding his maiden, half knows that she is not verily that which he worships;...
    OS 2.276 4 The lover has no talent, no skill, which passes for quite nothing with his enamored maiden...
    Pt1 3.26 12 A spy [things] will not suffer; a lover, a poet, is the transcendency of their own nature,--him they will suffer.
    Exp 3.54 25 The intellect, seeker of absolute truth, or the heart, lover of absolute good, intervenes for our succor...
    Mrs1 3.142 16 Lover of liberty...[Charles James Fox] possessed a great personal popularity;...
    Nat2 3.187 5 The lover seeks in marriage his private felicity and perfection...
    Nat2 3.193 12 The accepted and betrothed lover has lost the wildest charm of his maiden in her acceptance of him.
    NER 3.278 15 Nothing shall warp me from the belief that every man is a lover of truth.
    UGM 4.9 16 Each plant has its parasite, and each created thing its lover and poet.
    PPh 4.43 18 If [Plato] had lover, wife, or children, we hear nothing of them.
    PPh 4.44 23 ...the writings of Plato have preoccupied...every lover of thought...
    PPh 4.68 1 Plato, lover of limits, loved the illimitable...
    MoS 4.165 23 ...I, [says Montaigne,] who am as sincere and perfect a lover of virtue of that stamp as any other whatever, 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 4.210 5 What lover has [Shakespeare] not outloved?
    ShP 4.216 2 Epicurus relates that poetry hath such charms that a lover might forsake his mistress to partake of them.
    NMW 4.257 1 The counter-revolution...still waits for its organ and representative, in a lover and a man of truly public and universal aims.
    ET4 5.60 5 History rarely yields us better passages than the conversation between King Sigurd the Crusader and King Eystein his brother, on their respective merits,--one the soldier, and the other a lover of the arts of peace.
    ET11 5.187 6 [English noblemen] have been a social church proper to inspire sentiments mutually honoring the lover and the loved.
    ET14 5.245 25 [Hallam] passes in silence, or dismisses with a kind of contempt, the profounder masters: a lover of ideas is not only uncongenial, but unintelligible.
    Wsp 6.208 2 The lover of the old religion complains that our contemporaries...succumb to a great despair...
    CbW 6.256 22 What is the benefit done by a good King Alfred...or Florence Nightingale, or any lover, less or larger, compared with the involuntary blessing wrought on nations by the selfish capitalists who built the Illinois...roads;...
    Ill 6.319 11 There is the illusion of love, which attributes to the beloved person all which that person shares with his or her family, sex, age or condition, nay, with the human mind itself. 'T is these which the lover loves...
    SS 7.11 19 ...it is...so easy to come up to an existing standard;--as easy as it is to the lover to swim to his maiden through waves so grim before.
    Boks 7.216 27 Money, and killing, and the Wandering Jew, and persuading the lover that his mistress is betrothed to another, these are the main-springs [of the novel];...
    Clbs 7.231 9 The lover of letters loves power too.
    Clbs 7.241 21 ...the simple lover of truth...finds himself a stranger and alien.
    Suc 7.303 22 ...the lover has more senses and finer senses than others;...
    PI 8.11 16 The lover sees reminders of his mistress in every beautiful object;...
    PI 8.28 25 The lover is rightly said to fancy the hair, eyes, complexion of the maid.
    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;...
    Edc1 10.144 7 Be...the lover of [the child's] virtue...
    Plu 10.310 16 [Plutarch's] Natural History is that of a lover and poet...
    Plu 10.311 23 Cannot the simple lover of truth enjoy the virtues of those he meets...
    SlHr 10.447 10 It seemed as if the New England church had formed [Samuel Hoar] to be...the lover and assured friend of its parish by-laws...
    Thor 10.449 4 A queen rejoices in her peers,/ And wary Nature knows her own,/ By court and city, dale and down,/ And like a lover volunteers/...
    Carl 10.494 7 ...a lover who will live and die for that which he speaks for... [Carlyle] respects;...
    HDC 11.65 1 ...in 1711, it was propounded at the [Concord] town-meeting, whether one of the three gentlemen lately improved here in preaching... shall be now chosen in the work of the ministry? Voted affirmatively. Mr. Whiting, who was chosen, was, we are told in his epitaph, a universal lover of mankind.
    EdAd 11.393 18 We entreat the aid of every lover of truth and right...
    II 12.86 10 His art shall suffice this artist, his flame this lover...
    CInt 12.112 9 I know the mighty bards,/ I listen when they sing,/ And now I know/ The secret store/ Which these explore/ When they with torch of genius pierce/ The tenfold clouds that cover/ The riches of the universe/ From God's adoring lover./
    CL 12.163 16 ...the lover of Nature cannot tell the best thing he knows.
    Milt1 12.250 7 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 12.277 21 The lover of Milton reads one sense in his prose and in his metrical compositions;...
    MLit 12.320 20 The Excursion awakened in every lover of Nature the right feeling.
    EurB 12.377 18 [The Vivian Greys] would quiz their father and mother and lover and friend.
    PPr 12.389 20 [Carlyle] is like a lover or an outlaw who wraps up his message in a serenade, which is nonsense to the sentinel, but salvation to the ear for which it is meant.

Lovers, Drowned, The [Scot (1)

    QO 8.186 3 The fine verse in the old Scotch ballad of The Drowned Lovers...is a translation of Martial's epigram on Hero and Leander...

lovers, n. (51)

    MN 1.221 7 The lovers of goodness have been one class...
    MR 1.229 11 ...let life be fair and poetic, and the scholars will gladly be lovers...
    MR 1.252 5 We must be lovers, and at once the impossible becomes possible.
    MR 1.255 7 ...one day all men will be lovers;...
    Con 1.305 20 ...among the lovers of the new I observe that there is a jealousy of the newest...
    Con 1.316 5 ...the Friar Bernard went home swiftly...saying...these Romans, whom I prayed God to destroy, are lovers, they are lovers;...
    Con 1.316 6 ...the Friar Bernard went home swiftly...saying...these Romans, whom I prayed God to destroy, are lovers, they are lovers;...
    Tran 1.354 17 ...this class [Transcendentalists] are not sufficiently characterized if we omit to add that they are lovers and worshippers of Beauty.
    Tran 1.355 22 [Transcendentalists] are lovers of nature also...
    Lov1 2.182 2 ...if...the soul passes through the body and falls to admire strokes of character, and the lovers contemplate one another in their discourses and their actions, then they pass to the true palace of beauty...
    Lov1 2.185 4 The lovers delight in endearments...
    Fdsp 2.194 24 High thanks I owe you, excellent lovers...
    Cir 2.319 21 ...let [the man and woman of seventy] be lovers;...and their eyes are uplifted;...
    Exp 3.48 18 [Grief], like all the rest...never introduces me into the reality, for contact with which we would even pay the costly price of sons and lovers.
    Mrs1 3.132 17 We are such lovers of self-reliance that we excuse in a man many sins if he will show us a complete satisfaction in his position...
    Mrs1 3.137 14 Lovers should guard their strangeness.
    Mrs1 3.143 21 ...a comic disparity would be felt, if we should enter the acknowledged first circles [of fashion] and apply these terrific standards of justice, beauty and benefit to the individuals actually found there. Monarchs and heroes, sages and lovers, these gallants are not.
    Pol1 3.221 28 ...there are now men...to whom no weight of adverse experience will make it for a moment appear impossible that thousands of human beings might exercise towards each other the grandest and simplest sentiments, as well as...a pair of lovers.
    NER 3.281 13 Let a clear, apprehensive mind...converse with the most commanding poetic genius, I think...the poet would confess...that his advantage was a knack, which might impose on indolent men but could not impose on lovers of truth;...
    ShP 4.199 8 ...there were fountains around Homer, Menu, Saadi, or Milton, from which they drew;--friends, lovers, books, traditions, proverbs,--all perished...
    GoW 4.278 11 Lovers of light reading, those who look in [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] for the entertainment they find in a romance, are disappointed.
    ET8 5.130 8 [The English] are good lovers, good haters...
    ET9 5.145 12 A much older traveller...says:--The English are great lovers of themselves and of every thing belonging to them.
    ET19 5.312 20 ...I was given to understand in my childhood...that [Englishmen were]...good lovers, good haters...
    CbW 6.244 4 ...Fool and foe may harmless roam,/ Loved and lovers bide at home./
    Bty 6.296 6 All men are [the human form's] lovers.
    Bty 6.302 21 The radiance of the human form, though sometimes astonishing...in most, rapidly declines. But we remain lovers of it...
    Boks 7.190 4 ...there are books which are of that importance in a man's private experience as to verify for him the fables...of the old Orpheus of Thrace,--books which take rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences...
    Boks 7.209 5 Many men are as tender and irritable as lovers in reference to these predilections [toward favorite books].
    PI 8.10 5 Sonnets of lovers are mad enough...
    PI 8.46 11 We are lovers of rhyme and return...
    SA 8.99 1 Lovers abstain from caresses and haters from insults whilst they sit in one parlor with common friends.
    Imtl 8.333 27 All great natures are lovers of stability and permanence...
    Dem1 10.12 13 The lovers of marvels...need not reproach us with incredulity because we are slow to accept their statement.
    Edc1 10.145 18 Happy this child...with a thought which...leads him, now into deserts, now into cities, the fool of an idea. Let him follow it in good and in evil report...it will lead him at last into the illustrious society of the lovers of truth.
    LLNE 10.353 12 ...it would be better to say, Let us be lovers and servants of that which is just...
    SlHr 10.445 20 If [Samuel Hoar] spoke of the engagement of two lovers, he called it a contract.
    HDC 11.66 18 The charges seem to have been made by the lovers of order and moderation against Mr. [Daniel] Bliss, as a favorer of religious excitements.
    War 11.168 27 If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms...you have a nation of lovers...of true, great and able men.
    FSLN 11.242 3 ...the lovers of liberty may with reason tax the coldness and indifferentism of scholars and literary men.
    FSLN 11.242 6 [Scholars and literary men] are lovers of liberty in Greece and Rome and in the English Commonwealth...
    FSLN 11.242 8 ...[scholars and literary men] are lukewarm lovers of the liberty of America in 1854.
    TPar 11.285 11 In Plutarch's lives of Alexander and Pericles, you have the secret whispers of their confidence to their lovers and trusty friends.
    EdAd 11.387 25 Lovers of our country...we should certainly be glad to give good advice in politics.
    Shak1 11.447 7 We seriously endeavored, besides our brothers and our seniors...to draw out of their retirements a few rarer lovers of the muse...
    Shak1 11.449 24 I see, among the lovers of this catholic genius [Shakespeare], here present, a few, whose deeper knowledge invites me to hazard an article of my literary creed;...
    FRep 11.538 22 ...if the spirit which...put forth such gigantic energy in the charity of the Sanitary Commission, could be waked to the conserving and creating duty of making the laws just and humane, it were to enroll a great constituency of...faithful...lovers of men...
    PLT 12.61 26 Lovers of men are as safe as the sun.
    II 12.79 25 The thoughts which wander through our mind, we do not absorb and make flesh of, but...we retail them as news, to our lovers and to all Athenians.
    PPr 12.389 9 That morbid temperament has given [Carlyle's] rhetoric a somewhat bloated character; a luxury to many imaginative and learned persons...and yet its offensiveness to multitudes of reluctant lovers makes us often wish some concession were possible on the part of the humorist.
    Let 12.396 2 But to be...prudent to secure to ourselves an injurious society, temptations to folly and despair, degrading examples, and enemies; and only abstinent when it is proposed to provide ourselves with guides, examples, lovers!

loves, n. (9)

    Lov1 2.188 19 ...the warm loves and fears, that swept over us as clouds, must lose their finite character and blend with God, to attain their own perfection.
    SwM 4.128 5 ...of progressive souls, all loves and friendships are [to Swedenborg] momentary.
    ET2 5.33 10 As we neared the land [England], its genius was felt. This was inevitably the British side. In every man's thought arises now a new system...English loves and fears, English history and social modes.
    Boks 7.215 10 ...when one observes how ill and ugly people make their loves and quarrels, 't is pity they should not read novels a little more...
    PPo 8.242 23 These legends [of Persian kings], with...the romances of the loves of Leila and Medschnun...make the staple imagery of Persian odes.
    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 8.334 15 ...never to know the Cause, the Giver, and infer his character and will! Of what import this vacant sky...these insignificant lives full of selfish loves and quarrels and ennui?
    MLit 12.335 1 ...he that loves must utter his desires.
    Trag 12.412 17 ...in life, actions are few, opinions even few, prayers few; loves, hatreds, or any emissions of the soul.

Loves, n. (1)

    Lov1 2.178 15 ...[the maiden] teaches [the lover's] eye why Beauty was pictured with Loves and Graces attending her steps.

love's, n. (1)

    Lov1 2.174 5 ...persons are love's world...

Love's, n. (1)

    PPo 8.260 22 I have sought for thee a costlier dome/ Than Mahmoud's palace high,/ And thou, returning, find thy home/ In the apple of Love's eye./

Loves of the Angels [Thomas (1)

    EurB 12.370 13 In [Tennyson's] boudoirs of damask and alabaster, one is farther off from stern Nature and human life than in Lalla Rookh and the Loves of the Angels.

loves, v. (66)

    SR 2.50 5 [Society] loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.
    Comp 2.100 1 Has [the man of genius] all that the world loves and admires and covets?...
    Comp 2.124 8 ...he that loveth maketh his own the grandeur he loves.
    Lov1 2.177 2 Fountain-heads and pathless groves,/ Places which pale passion loves,/ Moonlight walks, when all the fowls/ Are safely housed, save bats and owls,/ A midnight bell, a passing groan,--/ These are the sounds we [lovers] feed upon./
    Prd1 2.227 5 The domestic man, who loves no music so well as his kitchen clock...has solaces which others never dream of.
    Prd1 2.236 13 Human nature loves no contradictions, but is symmetrical.
    Hsm1 2.254 19 ...[the hero] loves [his temperance] for its elegancy, not for its austerity.
    Hsm1 2.257 18 ...the ear loves names of foreign and classic topography.
    OS 2.279 15 ...if I renounce my will and act for the soul...out of [my child' s] young eyes looks the same soul; he reveres and loves with me.
    Int 2.343 1 [Socrates] likewise defers to [Lysis and Menexenus], loves them, whilst he speaks.
    Pt1 3.15 15 Who loves nature? Who does not?
    Pt1 3.16 2 ...[the coachman or the hunter] loves the earnest of the north wind, of rain...
    Pt1 3.19 9 Nature adopts [the factory-village and the railway] very fast into her vital circles, and the gliding train of cars she loves like her own.
    Mrs1 3.139 18 ...being in its nature a convention, [society] loves what is conventional...
    Mrs1 3.140 14 Society loves creole natures...
    Mrs1 3.141 23 England...furnished, in the beginning of the present century, a good model of that genius which the world loves, in Mr. Fox...
    Mrs1 3.144 1 ...Fashion loves lions...
    Nat2 3.171 7 We come to our own [in the woods], and make friends with matter, which the ambitious chatter of the schools would persuade us to despise. We never can part with it; the mind loves its old home...
    Pol1 3.216 10 [The wise man] needs no army, fort, or navy,--he loves men too well;...
    NR 3.237 20 [Nature] loves better a wheelwright who dreams all night of wheels...
    NER 3.252 15 It was in vain urged by the housewife that God made yeast... and loves fermentation just as dearly as he loves vegetation;...
    NER 3.252 16 It was in vain urged by the housewife that God made yeast... and loves fermentation just as dearly as he loves vegetation;...
    PPh 4.72 26 ...it is said that to procure the pleasure, which he loves, of talking at his ease all day with the most elegant and cultivated young men, [Socrates] will now and then return to his shop and carve statues, good or bad, for sale.
    SwM 4.137 27 He who loves goodness, harbors angels...
    SwM 4.141 17 The sad muse [Swedenborg] loves night and death and the pit.
    MoS 4.157 26 Nobody loves [the State];...
    ShP 4.215 24 [The poet] loves virtue, not for its obligation but for its grace...
    GoW 4.262 15 [The man] loves to communicate;...
    ET1 5.7 22 In art, [Landor] loves the Greeks...
    ET4 5.50 13 ...nature loves inoculation.
    ET6 5.107 14 ...[the Englishman] dearly loves his house.
    ET8 5.135 8 [The Englishman] is a churl with a soft place in his heart... who loves to help you at a pinch.
    ET14 5.232 22 The English muse loves the farmyard, the lane and market.
    ET14 5.233 5 [The Englishman] loves the axe, the spade, the oar, the gun, the steam-pipe;...
    ET16 5.288 19 There, I thought, in America, lies nature sleeping...too much by half for man in the picture, and so giving a certain tristesse, like the rank vegetation of swamps and forests seen at night, steeped in dews and rains, which it loves;...
    Ctr 6.142 20 [Your boy] hates the grammar and Gradus, and loves guns, fishing-rods, horses and boats.
    Ill 6.319 11 There is the illusion of love, which attributes to the beloved person all which that person shares with his or her family, sex, age or condition, nay, with the human mind itself. 'T is these which the lover loves...
    WD 7.162 12 Nature loves to cross her stocks...
    Clbs 7.231 9 The lover of letters loves power too.
    Cour 7.266 22 Undoubtedly there is...a warlike blood, which loves a fight...
    Cour 7.274 23 Sacred courage indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world;...
    Suc 7.297 18 What is so admirable as the health of youth?--with his long days because...he loves books that speak to the imagination;...
    Suc 7.311 17 [The inner life] loves truth...
    Suc 7.311 18 ...[the inner live] loves right...
    OA 7.336 1 I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old.
    PI 8.55 16 Welcome, folded arms and fixed eyes,/...Fountain-heads and pathless groves,/ Places which pale Passion loves/...
    PPo 8.250 7 ...it is the play of wit and the joy of song that [Hafiz] loves;...
    Grts 8.312 16 The great man loves the conversation or the book that convicts him...
    Chr2 10.111 7 A true nation loves its vernacular tongue.
    Edc1 10.143 22 Nature loves analogies, but not repetitions.
    Edc1 10.148 24 The joy of our childhood in hearing beautiful stories from some skilful aunt who loves to tell them, must be repeated in youth.
    Supl 10.171 23 If man loves the conditioned, he also loves the unconditioned.
    Supl 10.171 24 If man loves the conditioned, he also loves the unconditioned.
    Supl 10.178 24 ...Nature, who loves crosses and mixtures, makes these two tendencies [of the East and the West] necessary each to the other...
    SovE 10.195 14 ...a man may go to ruin gladly, if he see that thereby no shade falls on that he loves and adores.
    Prch 10.230 25 ...over all, let [the young preacher] value the sensibility that receives, that loves, that dares, that affirms.
    War 11.152 21 On its own scale, on the virtues it loves, [war] endures no counterfeit...
    War 11.165 22 He who loves the bristle of bayonets only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his heart.
    AsSu 11.251 25 Let [Charles Sumner] hear that every man of worth in New England loves his virtues;...
    JBB 11.270 14 ...we are here to think of relief for the family of John Brown. To my eyes, that family looks very large and very needy of relief. It comprises...almost every man who loves the Golden Rule and the Declaration of Independence, like him...
    TPar 11.291 23 ...every sound heart loves a responsible person...
    FRep 11.518 20 We do not choose our own candidate...only the available candidate, whom, perhaps, no man loves.
    PLT 12.26 1 The botanist discovered long ago that Nature loves mixtures...
    Milt1 12.272 23 ...with his whole heart [Milton] abhors licentiousness and loves chastity.
    WSL 12.344 12 [Landor]...loves all his advantages...
    WSL 12.346 16 [Landor] loves Pindar, Aeschylus, Euripides...

love-songs, n. (2)

    ShP 4.213 8 ...[Shakespeare] is strong, as nature is strong, who lifts the land into mountain slopes without effort and by the same rule as she floats a bubble in the air, and likes as well to do the one as the other. This makes that equality of power in farce, tragedy, narrative, and love-songs;...
    RBur 11.442 6 ...[Burns's] love-songs still woo and melt the youths and maids;...

lovest, v. (1)

    Pray 12.355 12 ...thou art my Father, and I will love thee, for thou didst first love me, and lovest me still.

loveth, v. (1)

    Comp 2.124 8 ...he that loveth maketh his own the grandeur he loves.

loving, adj. (13)

    MN 1.194 5 ...come...hither, thou loving, all-hoping poet!...
    Lov1 2.175 25 Thou are not gone being gone, where'er thou art,/ Thou leav' st in him thy watchful eyes, in him thy loving heart./
    Pt1 3.5 9 Nature enhances her beauty, to the eye of loving men, from their belief that the poet is beholding her shows at the same time.
    Pol1 3.210 12 The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless: it is not loving;...
    F 6.24 1 I cited the instinctive and heroic races as proud believers in Destiny. They conspire with it; a loving resignation is with the event.
    Art2 7.53 21 The Iliad of Homer...the plays of Shakspeare...were made...in tears and smiles of suffering and loving men.
    PPo 8.256 26 The loving nightingale mourns;-cause enow for mourning;-/ Why envies the bird the streaming verses of Hafiz?/ Know that a god bestowed on him eloquent speech./
    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.
    Plu 10.302 22 [Plutarch] has preserved for us a multitude of precious sentences...of authors whose books are lost; and these embalmed fragments, through his loving selection alone, have come to be proverbs of later mankind.
    HDC 11.45 27 The disputes between that forbearing man [John Winthrop] and the deputies are like the quarrels of girls, so much do they turn into complaints of unkindness, and end in such loving reconciliations.
    HDC 11.46 15 ...Concord and the other plantations found themselves separate and independent of Boston...enjoying, at the same time, a strict and loving fellowship with Boston...
    HDC 11.57 23 ...Major [Simon] Willard...incurred the censure of the Commissioners, who write to their loving friend Major Willard, that they leave to his consideration the inconveniences arising from his non-attendance to his commission.
    Wom 11.426 4 ...there are always a certain number of passionately loving fathers, brothers, husbands and sons who put their might into the endeavor to make a daughter, a wife, or a mother happy in the way that suits best.

loving, v. (12)

    Lov1 2.182 13 By conversation with that which is in itself excellent, magnanimous, lowly, and just, the lover comes to a warmer love of these nobilities, and a quicker apprehension of them. Then he passes from loving them in one to loving them in all...
    NR 3.234 4 Art, in the artist, is...a habitual respect to the whole by an eye loving beauty in details.
    ET1 5.24 26 It is not very rare to find persons loving sympathy and ease, who expatiate their departure from the common in one direction, by their conformity in every other.
    ET6 5.107 1 [The English] are positive, methodical, cleanly and formal, loving routine and conventional ways;...
    ET6 5.107 2 [The English] are positive, methodical, cleanly and formal... loving truth and religion, to be sure, but inexorable on points of form.
    ET12 5.206 2 If a young American, loving learning...were offered a home, a table, the walks and the library in one of these academical palaces [at Oxford]...he would dance for joy.
    Suc 7.294 3 Is there no loving of knowledge...for itself alone?
    Prch 10.221 25 To see men pursuing in faith their varied action, warm-hearted... loving their friends...what are they to...the man who hears only the sound of his own footsteps in God's resplendent creation?
    MoL 10.250 25 ...what does the scholar represent? The organ of ideas... imparting pulses of light and shocks of electricity, guidance and courage. So let his habits be formed, and all his economies heroic;...a stoic...loving labor...
    MMEm 10.414 14 Had I [Mary Moody Emerson] prospered in life, what a proud, excited being, even to feverishness, I might have been. Loving to shine...
    JBS 11.279 11 Our farmers...had learned that life...was to be spent in loving and serving mankind.
    MLit 12.334 26 From the necessity of loving none are exempt...

lovingest, adj. (1)

    PPh 4.78 3 The acutest German, the lovingest disciple, could never tell what Platonism was;...

low, adj. (151)

    Nat 1.12 11 Yet although low, [Commodity] is perfect in its kind...
    Nat 1.51 18 ...a low degree of the sublime is felt, from the fact...that man is hereby apprized that...something in himself is stable.
    AmS 1.114 17 The mind of this country, taught to aim at low objects, eats upon itself.
    DSA 1.133 1 It is a low benefit to give me something;...
    LE 1.182 22 If [the man of genius] be defective at either extreme of the scale, his philosophy will seem low and utilitarian...
    LE 1.185 14 You will hear every day the maxims of a low prudence.
    LT 1.277 10 [The Reforms] are quickly organized in some low, inadequate form...
    LT 1.286 17 The excellence of this class [spiritualists] consists in this... that, affirming the need of new and higher modes of living and action, they have abstained from the recommendation of low methods.
    Con 1.320 1 Conservatism takes as low a view of every part of human action and passion.
    Con 1.321 23 Religion among the low becomes low.
    Tran 1.346 4 We easily predict a fair future to each new candidate who enters the lists, but...by low aims and ill example do what we can to defeat this hope.
    YA 1.368 1 A well-laid garden makes the face of the country of no account; let that be low or high...you have made a beautiful abode worthy of man.
    Hist 2.20 17 No one can walk in a road cut through pine woods, without being struck with the architectural appearance of the grove, especially in winter, when the barrenness of all other trees shows the low arch of the Saxons.
    SR 2.55 24 The muscles, not spontaneously moved but moved by a low usurping wilfulness, grow tight about the outline of the face...
    SR 2.69 3 There is somewhat low even in hope.
    SR 2.80 17 If [unbalanced minds] are honest and do well, presently their neat new pinfold will be too strait and low...
    SL 2.138 19 ...we have been ourselves that coward and robber, and shall be again,--not in the low circumstance, but in comparison with the grandeurs possible to the soul.
    Prd1 2.239 2 What low, poor, paltry, hypocritical people an argument on religion will make of the pure and chosen souls!
    OS 2.283 8 In past oracles of the soul the understanding...undertakes to tell from God how long men shall exist...who shall be their company, adding names and dates and places. But we must pick no locks. We must check this low curiosity.
    OS 2.284 24 The only mode of obtaining an answer to these questions of the senses is to forego all low curiosity...
    Art1 2.366 2 ...a ball-room makes us feel that we are all paupers in the almshouse of this world...without skill or industry. Art is as poor and low.
    Pt1 3.9 12 [A recent writer of lyrics] does not stand out of our low limitations...
    Pt1 3.17 11 ...the distinctions which we make in events and in affairs, of low and high...disappear when nature is used as a symbol.
    Pt1 3.29 13 ...the poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him.
    Chr1 3.103 16 It is only low merits that can be enumerated.
    Chr1 3.112 25 Society is spoiled...if the associates are brought a mile to meet. And if it be not society, it is a mischievous, low, degrading jangle...
    Mrs1 3.137 23 Not less I dislike a low sympathy of each with his neighbor' s needs.
    Nat2 3.172 23 My house stands in low land...
    Pol1 3.220 18 We live in a very low state of the world...
    UGM 4.31 3 It is as real a loss that others should be low as that we should be low; for we must have society.
    UGM 4.31 4 It is as real a loss that others should be low as that we should be low; for we must have society.
    PPh 4.71 27 [Socrates]...affected low phrases...
    SwM 4.109 11 Creative force, like a musical composer, goes on unweariedly repeating a simple air or theme, now high, now low...
    SwM 4.129 5 So far from there being anything divine in the low and proprietary sense of Do you love me? it is only when you leave and lose me by casting yourself on a sentiment which is higher than both of us, that I draw near and find myself at your side;...
    MoS 4.160 12 ...when we build a house, the rule is to set it not too high nor too low...
    MoS 4.185 27 ...throughout history, heaven seems to affect low and poor means.
    NMW 4.255 24 [Napoleon] treated women with low familiarity.
    GoW 4.286 9 ...the clouds of egotists drifting about [the intellectual man] are only interested in a low success.
    ET4 5.50 10 The low organizations are simplest;...
    ET6 5.112 26 Pretension and vaporing are once for all distasteful [in England]. They keep to the other extreme of low tone in dress and manners.
    ET7 5.121 27 [The English] require the same adherence, thorough conviction and reality, in public men. It is the want of character which makes the low reputation of the Irish members.
    ET8 5.139 3 High and low, [the English] are of an unctuous texture.
    ET9 5.152 2 George of Cappadocia...was a low parasite...
    ET11 5.194 15 A man of wit [in England]...confessed to his friend that he could not enter [noblemen's] houses without being made to feel that they were great lords, and he a low plebeian.
    ET14 5.246 25 Bulwer...appeals to the worldly ambition of the student. His romances tend to fan these low flames.
    ET14 5.255 14 The island [England] is a roaring volcano of fate, of material values, of tariffs and laws of repression, glutted markets and low prices.
    ET14 5.256 9 The poetry [of England] of course is low and prosaic;...
    ET14 5.258 4 The best office of the best poets has been to show how low and uninspired was their general style...
    Pow 6.55 14 Where [the arteries] pour [the blood] unrestrained into the veins, the spirit is low and feeble.
    Pow 6.80 1 I remarked in England...that in literary circles, the men of trust and consideration...were...usually of a low and ordinary intellectuality...
    Wth 6.83 14 From air the creeping centuries drew/ The matted thicket low and wide/...
    Ctr 6.150 18 ...[the man of the world] takes a low business-tone...
    Bhr 6.172 13 [Manners'] first service is very low...
    Bhr 6.179 18 The confession of a low, usurping devil is there made [in the eyes]...
    Wsp 6.201 3 Some of my friends have complained...that we discussed Fate, Power and Wealth on too low a platform;...
    Wsp 6.210 25 How prompt the suggestion of a low motive!
    Wsp 6.223 2 From these low external penalties the scale ascends.
    Wsp 6.224 27 Here is a low political economy plotting to cut the throat of foreign competition and establish our own;...
    Wsp 6.231 12 The man whose eyes are nailed, not on the nature of his act but on the wages, whether it be money, or office, or fame, is almost equally low.
    Ill 6.321 4 We fancy we have fallen into bad company and squalid condition, low debts, shoe-bills...
    SS 7.9 13 ...though there be for heroes this moral union, yet they too are as far off as ever from an intellectual union, and the moral union is for comparatively low and external purposes...
    Elo1 7.82 9 ...the commonest populace is flattered by hearing its low mind returned to it with every ornament which happy talent can add.
    DL 7.111 14 [Our houses] are arranged for low benefits.
    DL 7.118 16 [The great]...subdue the low habits of comfort and luxury;...
    DL 7.118 18 ...only the low habits need palaces and banquets.
    DL 7.119 26 ...who can see unmoved, under a low roof, the eager, blushing boys discharging as they can their household chores...
    DL 7.123 22 ...every man is provided in his thought with a measure of man which he applies to every passenger. Unhappily, not one in many thousands comes up to the stature and proportions of the model. Neither does the measurer himself;...neither do...the heroes of the race. When he inspects them critically, he discovers that their aims are low...
    WD 7.175 22 'T is the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises.
    WD 7.179 26 These passing fifteen minutes, men think...are low and subaltern...
    Clbs 7.231 2 Conversation in society is found to be on a platform so low as to exclude science, the saint and the poet.
    Clbs 7.246 4 [A man of irreproachable behavior and excellent sense] confessed he liked low company.
    OA 7.318 27 ...seen from the streets and markets and the haunts of pleasure and gain, the estimate of age is low...
    PI 8.6 2 ...we see...that the secret cords or laws show their well-known virtue through every variety...and the interest is gradually transferred from the forms to the lurking method. This hint...upsets...the common sense side of religion and literature, which are all founded on low nature...
    PI 8.11 4 The primary use of a fact is low;...
    PI 8.73 16 [Poets] are, in our experience, men of every degree of skill,-- some of them only once or twice receivers of an inspiration, and presently falling back on a low life.
    PI 8.74 23 We too shall know how to take up...this Western civilization, into thought...but not by holding it high, but by holding it low.
    Elo2 8.124 21 The orator must command the whole scale of the language, from the most elegant to the most low and vile.
    Res 8.138 1 A low, hopeless spirit puts out the eyes;...
    Res 8.151 9 [Taste] should be extended to gardens and grounds, and mainly one thing should be illustrated: that life in the country wants all things on a low tone...
    QO 8.204 15 ...the words overheard at unawares by the free mind, are trustworthy and fertile when obeyed and not perverted to low and selfish account.
    PC 8.227 18 In our daily intercourse, we...lend ourselves to low fears and hopes...
    PPo 8.249 10 Nothing is too high, nothing too low for [Hafiz's] occasion.
    PPo 8.250 8 ...if you mistake [Hafiz] for a low rioter, he turns short on you with verses which express the poverty of sensual joys...
    Insp 8.277 4 Garrick said that on the stage his great paroxysms surprised himself as much as his audience. If this is true on this low plane, it is true on the higher.
    Insp 8.283 18 Goethe said to Eckermann, I work more easily when the barometer is high than when it is low.
    Insp 8.283 19 Goethe said to Eckermann, I work more easily when the barometer is high than when it is low. Since I know this, I endeavor, when the barometer is low, to counteract the injurious effect by greater exertion...
    Grts 8.299 1 No fate, save by the victim's fault, is low,/ For God hath writ all dooms magnificent,/ So guilt not traverses his tender will./
    Dem1 10.20 24 ...the fabled ring of Gyges...is simply mischievous. A new or private language, used to serve only low or political purposes, the transfusion of the blood...are of this kind.
    Dem1 10.23 6 ...the so-called fortunate man is one...who, in actions of a low or common pitch, relies on his instincts...
    Dem1 10.25 8 Of course the inquiry [into Animal Magnetism] is pursued on low principles.
    Dem1 10.25 27 [Mesmerism] is a low curiosity or lust of structure...
    Aris 10.55 13 ...the thought has...no low obligations or relations...
    Aris 10.57 19 ...a soul on which elevated duties are laid will so realize its special and lofty duties as not to be in danger of assuming through a low generosity those which do not belong to it.
    Aris 10.61 6 In the presence of the Chapter it is easy for each member to carry himself royally and well; but in the absence of his colleagues and in the presence of mean people he is tempted to accept the low customs of towns.
    Chr2 10.117 8 In the worst times, men of organic virtue are born...and indifferently in high and low conditions.
    Edc1 10.137 17 A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune;...
    Edc1 10.155 16 These creatures [in nature] have no value for their time, and [the naturalist] must put as low a rate on his.
    Supl 10.163 2 [The doctrine of temperance] is usually taught on a low platform...
    Supl 10.166 26 Our measure of success is the moderation and low level of an individual's judgment.
    Supl 10.168 7 Ever a low style is best.
    Supl 10.169 14 The low expression is strong and agreeable.
    SovE 10.184 25 The poor grub, in the hole of a tree, by yielding itself to Nature, goes blameless through its low part...
    SovE 10.198 25 ...it is...our negligence...of these world-embracing sentiments, that makes religion cold and life low.
    SovE 10.204 12 A sleep creeps over the great functions of man. Enthusiasm goes out. In its stead a low prudence seeks to hold society stanch...
    MoL 10.244 24 Now it is agreed...that with universal cheap education we have stringent theology, but religion is low.
    MoL 10.249 8 ...the Church clung to ritual, and the scholar clung to joy, low as well as high...
    MoL 10.252 4 There is a very low feeling of duty...
    Plu 10.314 19 [Plutarch's] grand perceptions of duty lead him to...a stoic resistance to low indulgence;...
    LLNE 10.326 25 ...veneration is low;...
    MMEm 10.420 21 The difficulty of getting places of low board for a lady, is obvious.
    MMEm 10.423 23 O Time! thou loiterer. Thou, whose might has laid low the vastest and crushed the worm, restest on thy hoary throne...
    Thor 10.468 18 See these weeds, [Thoreau] said, which have been hoed at by a million farmers...and just now come out triumphant over all lanes, pastures, fields and gardens, such is their vigor. We have insulted them with low names, too...
    HDC 11.39 11 The land [at Concord] was low but healthy;...
    EWI 11.145 6 ...in the great anthem which we call history...after playing a long time a very low and subdued accompaniment, [the black race] perceive the time arrived when they can strike in with effect...
    EWI 11.147 21 The sentiment of Right, once very low and indistinct... pronounces Freedom.
    FSLC 11.196 6 To serve [the Fugitive Slave Law], low and mean people are found by the groping of the government.
    FSLN 11.228 9 [Webster] did as immoral men usually do, made very low bows to the Christian Church...
    FSLN 11.242 19 The low bows to all the crockery gods of the day were duly made...
    TPar 11.290 20 Two days...the days of the rendition of Sims and Burns, made the occasion of [Theodore Parker's] most remarkable discourses. He kept nothing back. In terrible earnest he...meted out to every official, high and low, his due portion.
    Wom 11.414 23 In barbarous society the position of women is always low...
    Wom 11.415 2 When a daughter is born, says the Shiking, the old Sacred Book of China, she sleeps on the ground...she is incapable of evil or of good. And something like that position, in all low society, is the position of woman;...
    RBur 11.440 13 ...[Robert Burns's] birth, breeding and fortunes were low.
    RBur 11.442 11 ...as he was thus the poet of the poor, anxious, cheerful, working humanity, so had [Burns] the language of low life.
    Shak1 11.452 23 ...there are some men so born to live well that, in whatever company they fall,-high or low,-they fit well, and lead it!...
    FRep 11.519 8 The spirit of our political economy is low and degrading.
    PLT 12.35 18 The Instinct begins at this low point, at the surface of the earth...
    PLT 12.40 6 The animal, the low degrees of intellect, know only individuals.
    PLT 12.44 26 If we converse with low things...we are not compromised.
    PLT 12.56 15 There are two theories of life;... One is activity...in this direction lie usefulness, comfort, society, low power of all sorts.
    II 12.68 16 The Instinct begins at this low point at the surface of the earth...
    Mem 12.104 3 In low or bad company you fold yourself in your cloak... recall and surround yourself with the best associates and fairest hours of your life...
    CInt 12.123 1 The Understanding is the name we give to the low, limitary power working to short ends...
    CL 12.155 8 ...says Linnaeus...as soon as I got upon the Norway Alps I seemed to have acquired a new existence. I felt as if relieved from a heavy burden. Then, spending a few days in the low country of Norway...my languor or heaviness returned.
    CL 12.157 8 Can you bring home...the sunny shores of your own bay, and the low Indian hills of Rhode Island?...
    CW 12.169 2 Not many men see beauty in the fogs/ Of close, low pine-woods in a river town;/...
    CW 12.169 12 ...unto me not morn's magnificence/.../Hath such a soul, such divine influence,/ Such resurrection of the happy past,/ As is to me when I behold the morn/ Ope in such low, moist roadside, and beneath/ Peep the blue violets out of the black loam./
    CW 12.173 27 If [a thoughtful man] suffer from accident or low spirits, his spirits rise when he enters [his wood-lot].
    Milt1 12.264 3 ...[Milton] declares that a certain niceness of nature, an honest haughtiness and self-esteem...and a modesty, kept me still above those low descents of mind beneath which he must deject and plunge himself that can agree to such degradation.
    Milt1 12.266 13 The indifferency of a wise mind to what is called high and low, and the fact that true greatness is a perfect humility, are revelations of Christianity which Milton well understood.
    Milt1 12.273 17 [Milton] thought nothing honest was low.
    ACri 12.287 20 Not only low style, but the lowest classifying words outvalue arguments;...
    ACri 12.290 4 Dante is the professor that shall teach both the noble low style...also the sculpture of compression.
    ACri 12.293 22 There is no such master of low style as [Shakespeare]...
    ACri 12.295 24 Montaigne must have the credit of giving to literature that which we listen for in bar-rooms, the low speech...
    ACri 12.296 8 Herrick is a remarkable example of the low style.
    ACri 12.300 1 [Metonomy] is a low idealism.
    MLit 12.309 8 When we flout all particular books as initial merely, we truly express the privilege of spiritual nature, but, alas, not the fact and fortune of this low Massachusetts and Boston...
    MLit 12.317 15 ...these low customary ways are not all that survives in human beings.
    Pray 12.354 16 That my weak hand may equal my firm faith,/ And my life practise more than my tongue saith;/ That my low conduct may not show,/ Nor my relenting lines,/ That I thy purpose did not know,/ Or overrated thy designs./
    Trag 12.409 5 A low, haggard sprite sits by our side...
    Trag 12.410 9 ...all sorrow dwells in a low region.

low, adv. (14)

    DSA 1.120 26 [Man] learns...that to the good, to the perfect, he is born, low as he now lies in evil and weakness.
    SL 2.160 15 Let us lie low in the Lord's power...
    UGM 4.5 12 If now we proceed to inquire into the kinds of service we derive from others, let us be warned of the danger of modern studies, and begin low enough.
    ET3 5.35 1 Cushioned and comforted in every manner, the traveller [in England] rides as on a cannon-ball, high and low...
    Ill 6.318 4 We begin low with coarse masks and rise to the most subtle and beautiful.
    Cour 7.251 3 So nigh is grandeur to our dust,/ So near is God to man,/ When Duty whispers low, Thou must,/ The youth replies, I can./
    EWI 11.138 21 Up to this day...we bow low to [statesmen] as to the great.
    War 11.165 21 The standing army, the arsenal, the camp and the gibbet do not appertain to man. They only serve as an index to show where man is now;...how low his hope lies.
    AsSu 11.246 3 His erring foe,/ Self-assured that he prevails,/ Looks from his victim lying low,/ And sees aloft the red right arm/ Redress the eternal scales./
    II 12.70 6 The star climbs for a time the heaven, but never reaches its zenith; it culminates low...
    CInt 12.130 11 Sit low and wait long;...
    CL 12.151 7 The next day the Hylas were piping in every pool...and the first northward flight of the geese...who...fly low over the farms.
    ACri 12.297 17 ...[Carlyle] talks flexibly, now high, now low...
    Trag 12.414 22 As the west wind...combs out the matted and dishevelled grass as it lay in night-locks on the ground, so we let in Time as a drying wind into the seed-field of thoughts which are dark and wet and low bent.

low, n. (16)

    AmS 1.106 25 The poor and the low find some amends to their immense moral capacity...
    AmS 1.110 23 ...the near, the low, the common, was explored and poetized.
    AmS 1.111 12 ...I explore and sit at the feet of...the low.
    Con 1.321 23 Religion among the low becomes low.
    Cir 2.315 21 The poor and the low have their way of expressing the last facts of philosophy as well as you.
    Pt1 3.17 21 The circumcision is an example of the power of poetry to raise the low and offensive.
    Chr1 3.94 6 When the high cannot bring up the low to itself, it benumbs it...
    F 6.21 8 ...high over thought, in the world of morals, Fate appears as vindicator, levelling the high, lifting the low...
    Ctr 6.164 3 Who wishes to resist the eminent and polite, in behalf of the poor, and low, and impolite?
    SS 7.1 2 Seyd melted the days like cups of pearl,/ Served high and low, the lord and churl/...
    PPo 8.259 11 The same confusion of high and low...is habitual to [Hafiz].
    FSLN 11.220 24 The low can best win the low...
    FSLN 11.220 25 The low can best win the low...
    FRep 11.518 26 The low can best win the low...
    FRep 11.518 27 The low can best win the low...
    ACri 12.294 3 ...in the conduct of the play, and the speech of the heroes, [Shakespeare] keeps the level tone which is the tone of high and low alike...

Low Style, n. (1)

    ACri 12.299 25 After Low Style and Compression what the books call Metonomy is a principal power of rhetoric.

low, v. (1)

    Nat 1.32 3 At the call of a noble sentiment, again...the cattle low upon the mountains...

low-born, adj. (1)

    ACri 12.287 3 Into the exquisite refinement of his Academy, [Plato] introduces the low-born Socrates, relieving the purple diction by his perverse talk...

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