Lowell, Charles to Lysis's

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

Lowell, Charles, n. (1)

    Prch 10.231 12 Buckminster, Channing, Dr. Lowell, Edward Taylor, Parker, Bushnell, Chapin,-it is they who have been necessary...

Lowell, James Russell, n. (4)

    TPar 11.284 14 ...[Theodore Parker's] periods fall on you, stroke after stroke,/ Like the blows of a lumberer felling an oak,/ You forget the man wholly, you 're thankful to meet/ With a preacher who smacks of the field and the street,/ And to hear, you 're not over-particular whence,/ Almost Taylor's profusion, quite Latimer's sense./ Lowell, A Fable for Critics.
    ALin 11.328 28 Here [in Lincoln] was a type of the true elder race,/ And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face./ Lowell, Commemoration Ode.
    HCom 11.340 25 Where faith made whole with deed/ Breathes its awakening breath/ Into the lifeless creed,/ They saw [Truth] plumed and mailed,/ With sweet, stern face unveiled,/ And all-repaying eyes, look proud on them in death/ Lowell, Commemoration Ode.
    SMC 11.348 25 ...manhood is the one immortal thing/ Beneath Time's changeful sky,/ And, where it lightened once, from age to age,/ Men come to learn, in grateful pilgrimage,/ That length of days is knowing when to die./ Lowell, Concord Ode.

Lowell, Massachusetts, n. (4)

    Pt1 3.16 17 In the political processions, Lowell goes in a loom...
    PPh 4.53 16 ...[the Greeks'] perfect works in architecture and sculpture seemed things of course, not more difficult than the completion of...new mills at Lowell.
    F 6.42 26 We know in Massachusetts...who built...Lowell...
    SlHr 10.443 14 ...in his own town, if some important end was to be gained, as, for instance, when the county commissioners refused to rebuild the burned court-house, on the belief that the courts would be transferred from Concord to Lowell,-all parties combined to send Mr. Hoar to the Legislature...

lower, adj. (56)

    Nat 1.57 27 ...religion and ethics...have an analogous effect with all lower culture...
    AmS 1.113 6 Especially did [Swedenborg's] shade-loving muse hover over and interpret the lower parts of nature;...
    DSA 1.148 3 ...slight [the commanders]...by high and universal aims, and they instantly feel...that it is in lower places that they must shine.
    LE 1.178 14 Believing, as in God, in the presence and favor of the grandest influences, let [the scholar] deserve that favor, and learn how to receive and use it, by fidelity also to the lower observances.
    LE 1.181 19 ...the lower faculties of man are subdued to docility; through which as an unobstructed channel the soul now easily and gladly flows?
    MN 1.210 21 ...the wish to be recognized as individuals,-is finite, comes of a lower strain.
    Tran 1.338 17 Only in the instinct of the lower animals we find the suggestion of the methods of [the purely spiritual life]...
    Hist 2.14 4 In man we still trace the remains or hints of all that we esteem badges of servitude in the lower races;...
    SR 2.53 6 I much prefer that [my life] should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal...
    SR 2.70 17 Self-existence...constitutes the measure of good by the degree in which it enters into all lower forms.
    Lov1 2.184 8 ...the step backward from the higher to the lower relations is impossible.
    Cir 2.301 18 ...under every deep a lower deep opens.
    Cir 2.320 11 Of lower states...we can tell somewhat;...
    Exp 3.46 3 We are like millers on the lower levels of a stream...
    Chr1 3.94 2 Higher natures overpower lower ones by affecting them with a certain sleep.
    Chr1 3.94 7 When the high cannot bring up the low to itself, it benumbs it, as man charms down the resistance of the lower animals.
    Chr1 3.95 19 The will of the pure runs down from them into other natures, as water runs down from a higher into a lower vessel.
    UGM 4.31 12 ...bring to each [man] an intelligent person of another experience, and it is as if you let off water from a lake by cutting a lower basin.
    SwM 4.108 10 At the top of the column [the spine] [Nature] puts out another spine, which doubles or loops itself over...into a ball, and forms the skull, with extremities again: the hands being now the upper jaw, the feet the lower jaw...
    SwM 4.108 11 At the top of the column [the spine] [Nature] puts out another spine, which doubles or loops itself over...into a ball, and forms the skull, with extremities again...the fingers and toes being represented this time by upper and lower teeth.
    GoW 4.267 16 ...in those lower activities, which have no higher aim than to make us more comfortable and more cowardly...there is nothing else but drawback and negation.
    ET4 5.63 9 The brutality of the manners in the [English] lower class appears in the boxing, bear-baiting, cock-fighting, love of executions...
    ET5 5.100 7 In Germany there is one speech for the learned, and another for the masses, to that extent that, it is said, no sentiment or phrase from the works of any great German writer is ever heard among the lower classes.
    ET8 5.140 5 King Harold gave [Haldor] this testimony, that he, among all his men, cared least about doubtful circumstances...for whatever turned up, he was never in higher nor in lower spirits...
    ET10 5.155 3 ...Mr. Wortley said, though, in the higher ranks, to cultivate family affections was a good thing, it was not so among the lower orders.
    ET11 5.181 14 In evidence of the wealth amassed by ancient [English] families, the traveller is shown...lower down in the city [London], a few noble houses which still withstand...the encroachment of streets.
    ET13 5.229 16 ...the religion of the day [in England] is a theatrical Sinai, where the thunders are supplied by the property-man. The fanaticism and hypocrisy create satire. ... Nature revenges herself more summarily by the heathenism of the lower classes.
    ET13 5.230 9 False position introduces cant, perjury, simony and ever a lower class of mind and character into the [English] clergy...
    ET14 5.243 14 These heights [of the Elizabethan age] were followed by a meanness and a descent of the mind into lower levels;...
    ET14 5.252 17 [The English] exert every variety of talent on a lower ground...
    F 6.23 24 They who talk much of destiny...are in a lower dangerous plane...
    Pow 6.74 7 Friends, books, pictures, lower duties, talents, flatteries, hopes,-- all are distractions...
    Ctr 6.165 13 The fossil strata show us that Nature began with rudimental forms and rose to the more complex as fast as the earth was fit for their dwelling-place; and that the lower perish as the higher appear.
    Wsp 6.210 23 It is believed by well-dressed proprietors...that life is an affair to put somewhat between the upper and lower mandibles.
    Cour 7.272 18 The hero could not have done the feat...in a lower mood.
    PI 8.8 1 Anatomy, osteology, exhibit arrested or progessive ascent in each kind; the lower pointing to the higher forms...
    Comc 8.157 6 ...the lower nature does not jest...
    Comc 8.170 15 The same astonishment of the intellect at the disappearance of the man out of Nature...is the secret of all the fun...of the gay Rameau of Diderot, who believes...that the sole end of art, virtue and poetry is to put something for mastication between the upper and lower mandibles.
    Chr2 10.103 19 ...the acts which [the moral sentiment] suggests...are the homage we render to this sentiment, as compared with the lower regard we pay to other thoughts...
    SovE 10.184 2 ...this unity exists...from lower type of man to the highest yet attained...
    SovE 10.187 6 The geologic world is chronicled by the growing ripeness of the strata from lower to higher...
    SovE 10.189 12 The excellence of men consists in the completeness with which the lower system is taken up into the higher...
    SovE 10.189 14 The excellence of men consists in the completeness with which the lower system is taken up into the higher-a process...in which no point of the lower should be left untranslated;...
    Prch 10.237 15 The lower eyes see only surfaces and effects...
    Schr 10.268 18 ...I prefer no action to misaction, and I reject the abusive application of the term practical to those lower activities.
    MMEm 10.413 13 Ah! were virtue, and that of dear heavenly meekness attached by any necessity to a lower rank of genteel people, who would sympathize with the exalted with satisfaction?
    War 11.160 6 ...for ages [the human race] have shared so much of the nature of the lower animals...
    ACiv 11.299 1 We have attempted to hold together two states of civilization: a higher state, where labor and the tenure of land and the right of suffrage are democratical; and a lower state, in which the old military tenure of prisoners or slaves, and of power and land in a few hands, makes an oligarchy...
    EdAd 11.388 10 We see that reckless and destructive fury which characterizes the lower classes of American society...
    Wom 11.414 12 ...in the East, where Woman occupies, nationally, a lower sphere...Woman yet occupies the same leading position, as a prophetess, that she has among the ancient Greeks...
    Wom 11.414 23 In barbarous society the position of women is always low-in the Eastern nations lower than in the West.
    FRO2 11.487 17 All education is to accustom [man] to trust himself, discriminate between his higher and lower thoughts...
    FRep 11.525 26 Nature...spends individuals and races prodigally to prepare new individuals and races. The lower kinds are one after one extinguished;...
    PLT 12.21 24 ...there is development from less to more, from lower to superior function...
    PLT 12.36 25 In its lower function, when it deals with the apparent world, [Instinct] is common sense.
    CL 12.158 17 The effect [of viewing the landscape upside down] is remarkable, and perhaps is not explained. An ingenious friend of mine suggested that it was because the upper part of the eye...retains more susceptibility than the lower...

lower, adv. (2)

    MoS 4.182 5 It is vain to complain of the leaf or the berry; cut it off, it will bear another just as bad. You must begin your cure lower down.
    HDC 11.33 9 Sometimes passing through thickets...and [the pilgrims'] feet clambering over the crossed trees, which when they missed, they sunk into an uncertain bottom in water, and wade up to their knees, tumbling sometimes higher, sometimes lower.

lower, v. (2)

    Edc1 10.150 21 [In colleges] You have to work for large classes instead of individuals; you must lower your flag and reef your sails to wait for the dull sailors;...
    MLit 12.326 12 This subtle element of egotism in Goethe certainly does not seem to deform his compositions, but to lower the moral influence of the man.

lowered, v. (1)

    FSLC 11.197 18 Every person who touches this business [the Fugitive Slave Law] is contaminated. There has not been in our lifetime another moment when public men were personally lowered by their political action.

lowering, v. (1)

    CbW 6.257 19 ...one would say that a good understanding would suffice as well as moral sensibility to keep one erect; the gratifications of the passions are so quickly seen to be damaging, and--what men like least--seriously lowering them in social rank.

lowers, v. (2)

    Art1 2.366 3 The old tragic Necessity, which lowers on the brows even of the Venuses and the Cupids of the antique...no longer dignifies the chisel or the pencil.
    JBS 11.279 15 [In John Brown's boyhood] was formed a romantic character...living to ideal ends, without any mixture of self-indulgence or compromise, such as lowers the value of benevolent and thoughtful men we know;...

lowest, adj. (31)

    Nat 1.16 16 The influence of the forms and actions in nature is so needful to man, that, in its lowest functions, it seems to lie on the confines of commodity and beauty.
    AmS 1.110 20 ...the same movement which effected the elevation of what was called the lowest class in the state, assumed in literature a very marked...aspect.
    AmS 1.112 3 ...one design unites and animates the farthest pinnacle and the lowest trench.
    MR 1.246 4 ...parched corn and a house with one apartment...that I may be...girt and road-ready for the lowest mission of knowledge or goodwill, is frugality for gods and heroes.
    YA 1.374 8 ...the principle of population is always reducing wages to the lowest pittance on which human life can be sustained.
    SL 2.160 22 Let [your friend] feel that the highest love has come to see him, in thee its lowest organ.
    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.
    OS 2.277 24 There is a certain wisdom of humanity which is common to the greatest men with the lowest...
    Cir 2.315 13 ...the highest prudence is the lowest prudence.
    Mrs1 3.141 2 ...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.
    PPh 4.49 2 ...each [Unity and Variety] so fast slides into the other that we can never say what is one, and what it is not. The Proteus is as nimble in the highest as in the lowest grounds;...
    SwM 4.115 6 Forms ascend in order from the lowest to the highest.
    SwM 4.115 7 The lowest form is angular, or the terrestrial and corporeal.
    NMW 4.227 23 There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics...
    GoW 4.274 15 [Goethe] writes in the plainest and lowest tone...
    ET5 5.89 23 [The Englishman] would rather not do anything at all than not do it well. I suppose no people have such thoroughness;--from the highest to the lowest, every man meaning to be master of his art.
    ET7 5.118 8 The phrase of the lowest of the [English] people is honor-bright...
    Ctr 6.150 22 [The man of the world] calls his employment by its lowest name...
    Elo1 7.67 16 Perhaps it is the lowest of the qualities of an orator, but it is, on so many occasions, of chief importance,--a certain robust and radiant physical health...
    DL 7.128 1 Happy will that house be in which the relations are formed... after the highest, and not after the lowest order;...
    PI 8.72 8 The number of successive saltations the nimble thought can make, measures the difference between the highest and lowest of mankind.
    Res 8.140 5 See...how...every impatient boss who sharply shortens the phrase or the word to give his order quicker, reducing it to the lowest possible terms...improves the national tongue.
    Dem1 10.21 19 The best are never demoniacal or magnetic; leave this limbo to the Prince of the power of the air. The lowest angel is better.
    Plu 10.321 18 there are, no doubt, many vulgar phrases [in the 1718 edition of Plutarch], and many blunders of the printer; but it is the speech of business and conversation, and in every tone, from lowest to highest.
    MMEm 10.429 5 I [Mary Moody Emerson] have given up, the last year or two, the hope of dying. In the lowest ebb of health nothing is ominous;...
    HDC 11.56 14 We have among us [says Peter Bulkeley] excess and...pride in apparel, daintiness in diet, and that in those who, in times past, would have been satisfied with bread. This is the sin of the lowest of the people.
    War 11.154 26 What does all this war, beginning from the lowest races and reaching up to man, signify?
    ACiv 11.297 4 ...it is the mark of nobleness to volunteer the lowest service...
    PLT 12.35 13 ...[Instinct] plays the god in animal nature as in human or as in the angelic, and spends its omniscience on the lowest wants.
    Mem 12.90 15 The lowest life remembers.
    ACri 12.287 20 Not only low style, but the lowest classifying words outvalue arguments;...

lowest, adv. (2)

    SS 7.4 4 [My new friend] coveted Mirabeau's don terrible de la familiarite, believing that he whose sympathy goes lowest is the man from whom kings have the most to fear.
    FRep 11.519 1 ...each aspirant for power vies with his rival which can stoop lowest...

lowest, n. (1)

    PLT 12.21 20 ...the lowest only means incipient form...

lowing, adj. (1)

    ACri 12.305 5 Once in the fields with the lowing cattle...and I cannot tell whether this is Thessaly and Enna, or whether Concord and Acton.

lowland, n. (1)

    LE 1.169 10 ...the broad, cold lowland which forms its coat of vapor with the stillness of subterranean crystallization;...this beauty...has never been recorded by art...

Lowland Scotch, n. (1)

    RBur 11.442 13 ...[Burns] has made the Lowland Scotch a Doric dialect of fame.

lowlands, n. (1)

    Farm 7.152 10 ...when...there is more skill, and tools and roads, the new generations are strong enough to open the lowlands...

lowliest, adj. (2)

    Milt1 12.267 19 ...Milton deserved the apostrophe of Wordsworth;-Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free,/ So didst thou travel on life's common way/ In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart/ The lowliest duties on itself did lay./
    Milt1 12.267 20 [Milton] laid on himself the lowliest duties.

lowliness, n. (6)

    Insp 8.294 5 We esteem nations important, until we discover...later, that it is...at last...the lowliness, the outpouring, the large equality to truth of a single mind...
    Grts 8.300 4 True dignity abides with him alone/ Who, in the silent hour of inward thought,/ Can still suspect, and still revere himself,/ In lowliness of heart./ Wordsworth.
    SovE 10.194 23 Let [a man]...find...the height of lowliness, the immensity of to-day;...
    SovE 10.195 6 The emphasis of that blessed doctrine [of Trust] lay in lowliness.
    Wom 11.413 6 The instincts of mankind have drawn the Virgin Mother- Created beings all in lowliness/ Surpassing, as in height above them all./
    Milt1 12.267 13 ...who is there, almost [wrote Milton], that measures... dignity by lowliness?

lowly, adj. (10)

    AmS 1.99 15 Let the beauty of affection cheer [the great soul's] lowly roof.
    MN 1.221 14 Be the lowly ministers of that pure omniscience [the intellect]...
    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...
    Wsp 6.234 4 Hafiz writes,--At the last day, men shall wear/ On their heads the dust,/ As ensign and as ornament/ Of their lowly trust.
    OA 7.314 5 ...Lowly faithful, banish fear,/ Right onward drive unharmed;/ The port, well worth the cruise, is near,/ And every wave is charmed./
    Elo2 8.114 8 ...you may find [the orator] in some lowly Bethel...
    Grts 8.313 12 No aristocrat...can begin to compare with the self-respect of the saint. Why is he so lowly, but that he knows that he can well afford it, resting on the largeness of God in him?
    SovE 10.208 1 ...the most accomplished culture, or rapt holiness, never exhausted the claim of these lowly duties...
    MAng1 12.237 4 [Michelangelo] shared Dante's deep contempt...not of the simple inhabitants of lowly streets or humble cottages, but of that sordid and abject crowd of all classes and all places who obscure, as much as in them lies, every beam of beauty in the universe.
    Milt1 12.266 21 [Milton] told the bishops that instead of showing the reason of their lowly condition from divine example and command, they seek to prove their high preeminence from human consent and authority.

lowly, adv. (2)

    SL 2.139 12 ...by lowly listening we shall hear the right word.
    OS 2.287 27 ...if a man do not speak from within the veil, where the word is one with that it tells of, let him lowly confess it.

lowly, n. (2)

    OS 2.289 25 [The energy of the soul] comes to the lowly and simple;...
    JBS 11.281 6 ...what is the oath of gentle blood and knighthood? What but to protect the weak and lowly against the strong oppressor?

Lowther, William [Earl of (1)

    ET11 5.182 22 The possessions of the Earl of Lonsdale gave him eight seats in Parliament.

loyal, adj. (21)

    Nat2 3.175 9 To the poor young poet, thus fabulous is his picture of society; he is loyal; he respects the rich;...
    ET6 5.107 13 ...being of an affectionate and loyal temper, [the Englishman] dearly loves his house.
    ET7 5.117 7 In the nobler kinds [of animals], where strength could be afforded, [Nature's] races are loyal to truth...
    ET11 5.172 18 The frame of [English] society is aristocratic, the taste of the people is loyal.
    ET11 5.172 23 In spite of...the devastation of society by the profligacy of the court, we take sides as we read for the loyal England...
    ET14 5.254 1 ...for the most part the natural science in England is out of its loyal alliance with morals...
    ET19 5.311 15 This conscience is one element [which attracts an American to England], and the other is that loyal adhesion...running through all classes...
    Wsp 6.202 25 We are born loyal.
    Wsp 6.204 5 Men are loyal.
    Bty 6.279 22 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 6.302 3 The lives of the Italian artists...prove how loyal men in all times are to a finer brain, a finer method than their own.
    Imtl 8.342 26 [A belief in the laws] communicates...an asylum in temples to the loyal soul.
    EzRy 10.394 26 [Ezra Ripley] was eminently loyal in his nature...
    EzRy 10.395 19 ...in his old age, when all the antique Hebraism and its customs are passing away, it is...most fit that in the fall of laws a loyal man should die.
    FSLC 11.205 12 The people are loyal, law-loving, law-abiding.
    FSLN 11.234 23 Covenants are of no use without honest men to keep them; laws of none but with loyal citizens to obey them.
    FSLN 11.241 14 Let the aid of virtue, intelligence and education be cast where they rightfully belong. They are organically ours. Let them be loyal to their own.
    AKan 11.262 21 ...the Saxon man, when he is well awake, is...a citizen... and links himself naturally to his brothers, as bees hook themselves to one another and to their queen in a loyal swarm.
    SMC 11.350 11 ...the virtues we are met to honor were directed on aims which command the sympathy of every loyal American citizen...
    FRep 11.528 16 The [American] people are loyal, law-abiding.
    FRep 11.540 17 ...the Constitution and the law in America must be written on ethical principles, so that the entire power of the spiritual world shall hold the citizen loyal...

loyal, n. (1)

    Pow 6.63 27 This power [in American politics]...is not clothed in satin. 'T is the power...of soldiers and pirates; and it bullies the peaceable and loyal.

loyally, adv. (2)

    Bhr 6.192 26 That is the charm in all good novels...that the heroes...deal loyally and with a profound trust in each other.
    Bost 12.188 17 [Boston] is...a seat...of men of principle, obeying a sentiment, and marching loyally whither that should lead them;...

loyalty, n. (19)

    YA 1.393 20 Something may be pardoned to the spirit of loyalty when it becomes fantastic;...
    SR 2.63 13 The joyful loyalty with which men have everywhere suffered the king...to walk among them by a law of his own...was the hieroglyphic by which they obscurely signified...the right of every man.
    Mrs1 3.120 24 What fact more conspicuous in modern history than the creation of the gentleman? Chivalry is that, and loyalty is that...
    ET5 5.81 5 In the [English] courts the independence of the judges and the loyalty of the suitors are equally excellent.
    ET11 5.186 26 Loyalty is in the English a sub-religion.
    ET13 5.214 4 [People's] loyalty to truth and their labor and expenditure rest on real foundations, and not on a national church.
    ET18 5.302 21 ...what facility and plenteousness of knighthood, lordship, ladyship, royalty, loyalty;...is indicated in Collins's Peerage, through eight hundred years!
    Clbs 7.245 22 We must have loyalty and character.
    PC 8.218 23 Some...Erasmus, Beranger, Bettine von Arnim...is always allowed. Kings feel that this is that which they themselves represent; this is no red-kerchiefed, red-shirted rebel, but loyalty, kingship.
    Aris 10.34 12 If one thinks of the interest which all men have in beauty of character and manners; that it is of the last importance to the imagination and affection, inspiring...that loyalty and worship so essential to the finish of character,-certainly, if culture, if laws...could secure such a result as superior and finished men, it would be the interest of all mankind to see that the steps were taken...
    Aris 10.55 9 What is it that makes the true knight? Loyalty to his thought.
    Aris 10.57 7 I will not protract this discourse by describing the duties of the brave and generous. And yet I will venture to name one...this, namely, loyalty to your own order.
    Chr2 10.112 4 The constitution and law in America must be written on ethical principles, so that the entire power of the spiritual world can be enlisted to hold the loyalty of the citizen...
    Prch 10.224 17 Let [the torpid heart] speak, and all these rebels will fly to their loyalty.
    Shak1 11.451 7 The loyalty and royalty [Shakespeare] drew were all his own.
    FRep 11.538 23 ...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, filled with loyalty to each other...
    FRep 11.539 5 Here is the post where the patriot should plant himself; here the altar where virtuous young men...should bind each other to loyalty;...
    PLT 12.47 15 One meets contemplative men who dwell in a certain feeling and delight which are intellectual but wholly above their expression. They cannot formulate. They impress those who know them by their loyalty to the truth they worship but cannot impart.
    Bost 12.209 12 [Boston] is very willing to be outnumbered and outgrown, so long as [other cities] carry forward its life...of education, of social order, of loyalty to law.

Loyola, Ignatius, n. (1)

    Boks 7.206 11 Ximenes...Loyola...are [Charles V's] contemporaries.

lozenge, n. (1)

    Con 1.320 3 [Conservatism's] religion is just as bad; a lozenge for the sick;...

lubber, n. (1)

    ACri 12.287 22 ...the lowest classifying words outvalue arguments; as... prig, granny, lubber...

lubricated, v. (1)

    ET17 5.292 5 ...[my Manchester correspondent] added to solid virtues an infinite sweetness and bonhommie. There seemed a pool of honey about his heart which lubricated all his speech and action with fine jets of mead.

lubricity, n. (3)

    Prd1 2.221 10 ...I...hate lubricity...
    Exp 3.49 19 I take this evanescence and lubricity of all objects...to be the most unhandsome part of our condition.
    FRep 11.520 23 Parties...exhibit a surprising fugacity in creeping out of one snake-skin into another of equal ignominy and lubricity...

Lucan, n. (1)

    Plu 10.294 9 ...though the contemporary...of Persius, Juvenal, Lucan and Seneca...[Plutarch] does not cite them...

Lucas on Happiness, n. (1)

    ET1 5.8 7 [Landor] thought Degerando indebted to Lucas on Happiness...

Lucas on Holiness, n. (1)

    ET1 5.8 8 [Landor] thought Degerando indebted to...Lucas on Holiness!

Lucas, Richard, n. (2)

    WSL 12.339 8 ...nor will [Landor] persuade us to burn Plato and Xenophon, out of our admiration of...Lucas on Holiness, or Lucas on Happiness...
    WSL 12.339 9 ...nor will [Landor] persuade us to burn Plato and Xenophon, out of our admiration of...Lucas on Happiness, or Lucas on Holiness...

Lucasta, To [Richard Lovel (1)

    PI 8.55 29 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...

Lucia [Dante Alighieri, In (1)

    PI 8.12 25 ...my young scholar does not wish to know what the leopard, the wolf, or Lucia, signify in Dante's Inferno...

Lucian, n. (2)

    QO 8.180 24 Whoso knows Plutarch, Lucian, Rabelais, Montaigne and Bayle will have a key to many supposed originalities.
    Dem1 10.11 24 Lucian has an idle tale that Pancrates...wanting a servant, took a door-bar and pronounced over it magical words...

lucid, adj. (1)

    UGM 4.20 14 In lucid intervals we say, Let there be an entrance opened for me into realities;...

lucifer, adj. (1)

    WD 7.159 3 ...the mowing-machines, gas-light, lucifer matches...are new in this century...

lucifer-matches, n. (1)

    Suc 7.287 26 Newton was a great man, without...lucifer-matches, or ether for his pain;...

Lucifer's, n. (1)

    Chr2 10.102 6 Lucifer's wager in the old drama was, There is no steadfast man on earth.

luck, n. (27)

    LE 1.179 17 [Napoleon] was not a believer in luck;...
    MN 1.191 21 ...the luck of one is the hope of thousands...
    Con 1.308 4 ...I laid my bones to, and drudged for the good I possess; it was not got by fraud, nor by luck, but by work...
    SL 2.154 3 There is no luck in literary reputation.
    Prd1 2.235 16 ...every thing in nature, even motes and feathers, go by law and not by luck...
    MoS 4.149 14 A man is flushed with success, and bethinks himself what this good luck signifies.
    GoW 4.276 8 ...what [Goethe] says...of luck...refuses to be forgotten.
    ET5 5.89 1 [The English] have no running for luck, and no immoderate speed.
    ET5 5.89 7 At Rogers's mills, in Sheffield...I was told there is no luck in making good steel;...
    ET5 5.93 16 Is it [English] luck, or is it in the chambers of their brain,--it is their commercial advantage that whatever light appears in better method or happy invention, breaks out in their race.
    ET9 5.152 17 ...this precious knave [George of Cappadocia] became, in good time, Saint George of England...the pride of the best blood of the modern world. Strange, that the solid truth-speaking Briton should derive from an impostor. Strange, that the New World should have no better luck...
    ET12 5.206 22 Whatever luck there may be in this or that award, an Eton captain can write Latin longs and shorts...
    F 6.42 16 [Man] looks like a piece of luck, but is a piece of causation;...
    Pow 6.54 6 [All successful men] believed that things went not by luck, but by law;...
    Wth 6.100 14 [The right merchant] knows...that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.
    Wsp 6.220 6 Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances...
    Wsp 6.220 14 Strong men believe in cause and effect. The man was born to do it, and his father was born to be the father of him and of his deed; and by looking narrowly you shall see there was no luck in the matter;...
    CbW 6.276 27 Wherever there is failure, there is...some superstition about luck...
    WD 7.170 23 'T is pitiful the things by which we are rich or poor...the fashion of a cloak or hat; like the luck of naked Indians...
    Boks 7.196 15 Now and then, by rarest luck, is some foolish Grub Street is the gem we want.
    Clbs 7.231 12 Among the men of wit and learning, [the lover of letters] could not withhold his homage from the gayety, grasp of memory, luck, splendor and speed;...
    Suc 7.289 12 Our success takes from all what it gives to one. 'T is a haggard, malignant, careworn running for luck.
    Dem1 10.3 2 The name Demonology covers dreams, omens, coincidences, luck, sortilege, magic and other experiences which shun rather than court inquiry...
    Dem1 10.22 20 We may...say of one on whom the sun shines, What luck presides over him!
    Aris 10.59 3 [A grand interest] prospers as well in mistake as in luck...
    Thor 10.463 23 ...those pieces of luck which happen only to good players happened to [Thoreau].
    Bost 12.188 15 [Boston] is...not...an army-barracks grown up by time and luck to a place of wealth;...

luckiest, adj. (1)

    ET11 5.173 26 [The English people] are proud...of the language and symbol of chivalry. Even the word lord is the luckiest style that is used in any language to designate a patrician.

luckily, adv. (1)

    YA 1.369 27 Luckily for us...the nervous, rocky West is intruding a new and continental element into the national mind...

luckless, adj. (1)

    AKan 11.263 19 When [the country] is lost it will be time enough then for any who are luckless enough to remain alive to gather up their clothes and depart to some land where freedom exists.

lucky, adj. (9)

    Nat 1.27 19 ...there is nothing lucky or capricious in these analogies...
    Mrs1 3.141 13 A man who is happy [in the company], finds in every turn of the conversation equally lucky occasions for the introduction of that which he has to say.
    Wth 6.102 4 In the city, where money follows...a lucky rise in exchange, [the dollar] comes to be looked on as light.
    PI 8.57 10 [The early bard's] advantage is that his words are things, each the lucky sound which described the fact...
    Dem1 10.15 22 I have a lucky hand, sir, said Napoleon to his hesitating Chancellor;...
    Dem1 10.16 23 This faith...in the particular of lucky days and fortunate persons, as frequent in America to-day as the faith in incantations and philters was in old Rome...runs athwart the recognized agencies...which science and religion explore.
    Edc1 10.140 9 The young giant, brown from his hunting-tramp, tells his story well, interlarded with lucky allusions to Homer, to Virgil...
    LLNE 10.370 2 ...I am not less aware of that excellent and increasing circle of masters in arts and in song and in science...whose genius is not a lucky accident...
    FSLC 11.204 11 What [Webster] finds already written, he will defend. Lucky that so much had got well written when he came.

lucrative, adj. (20)

    MR 1.230 19 The young man...finds the way to lucrative employments blocked with abuses.
    MR 1.233 21 The trail of the serpent reaches into all the lucrative professions and practices of man.
    MR 1.234 11 Suppose a man is so unhappy as to be born a saint...and he is to get his living in the world; he finds himself excluded from all lucrative works;...
    Chr1 3.104 2 ...it was droll in the good Riemer, who has written memoirs of Goethe, to make out a list of his donations and good deeds, as...a lucrative place found for Professor Voss...
    Pol1 3.217 26 ...each of us...can do somewhat useful, or graceful, or formidable, or amusing, or lucrative.
    ET5 5.75 16 The island [England] is lucrative to free labor...
    ET5 5.80 5 [The English] are jealous of minds that have much facility of association, from an instinctive fear that the seeing many relations to their thought might impair this serial continuity and lucrative concentration.
    ET9 5.152 2 George of Cappadocia...was a low parasite who got a lucrative contract to supply the army with bacon.
    Pow 6.80 5 Indifferent hacks and mediocrities tower, by pushing their forces to a lucrative point...
    Wsp 6.218 13 The moment of your...acceptance of the lucrative standard will be marked in the pause or solstice of genius...
    CbW 6.271 5 The success which will content [men] is a bargain, a lucrative employment...and the like.
    Art2 7.57 3 Popular institutions...and the immense harvest of economical inventions, are the fruit of the equality and the boundless liberty of lucrative callings.
    DL 7.114 12 ...we desire to play the benefactor and the prince...with the man or woman of worth who alights at our door. How can we do this, if the wants of each day imprison us in lucrative labors...
    Suc 7.288 15 The public sees in [an invention] a lucrative secret.
    SA 8.107 8 These are the bases of civil and polite society; namely, manners, conversation, lucrative labor and public action;...
    LLNE 10.358 19 It chanced that here in one family were two brothers, one a brilliant and fertile inventor, and close by him his own brother, a man of business, who knew how to direct his faculty and make it instantly and permanently lucrative.
    LLNE 10.360 4 There were many employments more or less lucrative found for, or brought hither by these members [of Brook Farm]...
    Thor 10.452 13 ...whilst all his companions were...eager to begin some lucrative employment, it was inevitable that [Thoreau's] thoughts should be exercised on the same question...
    PLT 12.57 9 ...society seems to be in conspiracy to...pull down genius to lucrative talent.
    ACri 12.304 20 The Augsburg Allgemeine Zeitung deprecates an observatory founded for the benefit of navigation. Nor can we promise that our School of Design will secure a lucrative post to the pupils.

lucre, n. (2)

    Fdsp 2.204 16 We are holden to men by every sort of tie...by lucre...
    Suc 7.308 11 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;...

Lucretius, n. (5)

    SwM 4.104 19 Malpighi, following the high doctrines of Hippocrates, Leucippus and Lucretius, had given emphasis to the dogma that nature works in leasts...
    SwM 4.113 16 This book [The Animal Kingdom] announces [Swedenborg' s] favorite dogmas. The ancient doctrine...of Leucippus, that the atom may be known by the mass; or...in the verses of Lucretius...The principle of all things, entrails made/ Of smallest entrails;.../
    ET1 5.21 7 Lucretius [Wordsworth] esteems a far higher poet than Virgil;...
    WD 7.176 9 'T is the very principle of science that Nature shows herself best in leasts; it was the maxim of Aristotle and Lucretius;...
    Plu 10.297 1 M. Leveque has given an exposition of [Plutarch's] moral philosophy...in the Revue des Deux Mondes; and M. C. Martha, chapters on the genius of Marcus Aurelius, of Persius and Lucretius, in the same journal;...

Lucrezia Floriani [George (1)

    Boks 7.214 12 Lucrezia Floriani, Le Peche de M. Antoine...are great steps from the novel of one termination...

Lucullus, n. (1)

    ET11 5.193 16 The respectable Duke of Devonshire, willing to be the Maecenas and Lucullus of his island, is reported to have said that he cannot live at Chatsworth but one month in the year.

ludicrous, adj. (3)

    MR 1.242 15 Better that the book should not be quite so good, and the book-maker...not himself often a ludicrous contrast to all that he has written.
    Comc 8.160 21 ...all falsehoods, all vices...seen from the point where our moral sympathies do not interfere, become ludicrous.
    Schr 10.281 15 ...[Plotinus] says roundly, the knowledge of the senses is truly ludicrous.

ludicrous, n. (3)

    Comc 8.159 7 Separate any object...and contemplate it alone, standing there in absolute nature, it becomes at once comic;...no respectable qualities can rescue it from the ludicrous.
    Comc 8.162 5 A rogue alive to the ludicrous is still convertible.
    Comc 8.162 8 ...the sensibility to the ludicrous may run into excess.

ludicrously, adv. (2)

    NER 3.259 8 Four, or six, or ten years, the pupil is parsing Greek and Latin, and as soon as he leaves the University, as it is ludicrously styled, he shuts those books for the last time.
    MAng1 12.234 21 As [Michelangelo] refused to undo his work [The Last Judgment], Daniel di Volterra was employed to clothe the figures; hence ludicrously called Il Braghettone.

Ludlow Castle, England, n. (1)

    ET11 5.190 15 I must hold Ludlow Castle an honest house, for which Milton's Comus was written...

lugged, v. (1)

    Bty 6.295 9 In a house that I know, I have noticed a block of spermaceti lying about closets and mantelpieces, for twenty years together, simply because the tallow-man gave it the form of a rabbit; and I suppose it may continue to be lugged about unchanged for a century.

Luke, St., n. (6)

    LS 11.5 8 An account of the Last Supper of Christ with his disciples is given by the four Evangelists, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
    LS 11.5 16 St. Luke (Luke xxii. 19), after relating the breaking of the bread [at the Last Supper], has these words: This do in remembrance of me.
    LS 11.6 8 This material fact, that the occasion [the Last Supper] was to be remembered, is found in Luke alone, who was not present.
    LS 11.6 10 This material fact, that the occasion [the Last Supper] was to be remembered, is found in Luke alone, who was not present. There is no reason, however, that we know, for rejecting the account of Luke.
    LS 11.6 26 ...we must suppose that the expression, This do in remembrance of me, had come to the ear of Luke from some disciple who was present.
    LS 11.22 10 In the midst of considerations as to what Paul thought, and why he so thought, I cannot help feeling that it is time misspent to argue to or from his convictions, or those of Luke and John, respecting any form.

Luke xxii. 19, n. (1)

    LS 11.5 16 St. Luke (Luke xxii. 19) after relating the breaking of the bread [at the Last Supper], has these words: This do in remembrance of me.

lukewarm, adj. (1)

    FSLN 11.242 8 ...[scholars and literary men] are lukewarm lovers of the liberty of America in 1854.

lull, n. (1)

    ACiv 11.306 27 There will be a lull after so loud a storm;...

lull, v. (2)

    Ctr 6.147 23 ...a man witnessing the admirable effect of ether to lull pain... rejoices in Dr. Jackson's benign discovery...
    MMEm 10.397 14 But O, these waves and leaves,-/ When happy, stoic Nature grieves,-/ No human speech so beautiful/ As their murmurs, mine to lull./

lulled, v. (3)

    Wsp 6.227 8 As men get on in life, they acquire...somewhat less solicitude to be lulled or amused.
    OA 7.324 15 ...be it as it may with the sick-headache,--'t is certain that graver headaches and heart-aches are lulled once for all as we come up with certain goals of time.
    PI 8.46 12 The babe is lulled to sleep by the nurse's song.

lulls, v. (1)

    Lov1 2.180 10 ...of poetry the success is not attained when it lulls and satisfies...

lumber, n. (2)

    Cir 2.313 2 [Some Petrarch or Ariosto] claps wings to the sides of all the solid old lumber of the world...
    HDC 11.56 20 The people on the [Massachusetts] bay...found the way to the West Indies, with pipe-staves, lumber and fish;...

lumberer, n. (2)

    TPar 11.284 9 ...[Theodore Parker's] periods fall on you, stroke after stroke,/ Like the blows of a lumberer felling an oak/...
    FRep 11.526 17 In Maine, nearly every man is a lumberer.

lumberman, n. (1)

    SS 7.4 1 [My new friend] envied every drover and lumberman in the tavern their manly speech.

lumbermen, n. (1)

    Carl 10.493 12 If a scholar goes into a camp of lumbermen or a gang of riggers, those men will quickly detect any fault of character.

lumber-room, n. (1)

    AmS 1.111 27 ...the world lies no longer a dull miscellany and lumber-room...

luminaries, n. (1)

    SR 2.80 8 ...the luminaries of heaven seem to [the unbalanced mind] hung on the arch their master built.

luminary, n. (1)

    Dem1 10.10 15 ...under every tree in the speckled sunshine and shade no man notices that every spot of light is a perfect image of the sun, until in some hour the moon eclipses the luminary;...

luminous, adj. (9)

    Nat 1.31 3 A man conversing in earnest...will find that a material image more or less luminous arises in his mind...
    AmS 1.93 5 ...the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion.
    LE 1.183 13 They [whom the student's thoughts have entertained or inflamed] find that he is a poor, ignorant man...now and then [emitting] a jet of luminous thought...
    Insp 8.280 21 Sleep is like death, and after sleep/ The world seems new begun;/ White thoughts stand luminous and firm,/ Like statues in the sun;/...
    Edc1 10.130 9 Why does [man] track in the midnight heaven a pure spark, a luminous patch wandering from age to age...
    Supl 10.173 18 ...the luminous object wastes itself by its shining...
    Supl 10.173 19 ...the luminous object...is luminous because it is burning up;...
    HDC 11.84 6 These soiled and musty books [the Concord Town Records] are luminous and electric within.
    MAng1 12.239 10 [Michelangelo] said of his predecessor, the architect Bramante, that he laid the first stone of Saint Peter's, clear, insulated, luminous, with fit design for a vast structure.

lump, n. (4)

    UGM 4.11 13 ...the chemic lump arrives at the plant, and grows;...
    UGM 4.25 24 Nature abhors these complaisances which threaten to melt the world into a lump...
    II 12.69 20 Where is the yeast that will leaven this lump [Instinct]?
    Mem 12.90 11 ...[memory] is the cohesion which keeps things from falling into a lump...

lumped, v. (1)

    Nat 1.38 10 Therefore is Space, and therefore Time, that man may know that things are not huddled and lumped...

lumpish, adj. (2)

    Suc 7.290 6 ...war, cannons and executions are used to clear the ground of bad, lumpish, irreclaimable savages, but always to the damage of the conquerors.
    Milt1 12.265 5 In like spirit, [Milton] replies to the suspicious calumny respecting his morning haunts. Those morning haunts are where they should be, at home;...up and stirring...with useful and generous labors preserving the body's health and hardiness, to render lightsome, clear and not lumpish obedience to the mind...

lumps, n. (3)

    PPh 4.46 3 As soon as, with culture...[men and women] see [things] no longer in lumps and masses but accurately distributed, they desist from that weak vehemence and explain their meaning in detail.
    EWI 11.125 18 [The planters] were full of vices; their children were lumps of pride, sloth, sensuality and rottenness.
    PLT 12.38 5 These [spiritual] facts, this essence [Truth], are not new; they are old and eternal, but our seeing of them is new. Having seen them we are no longer brute lumps whirled by Fate...

lunar, adj. (2)

    Hist 2.14 9 ...Io, in Aeschylus, transformed to a cow, offends the imagination; but how changed when as Isis in Egypt she meets Osiris-Jove, a beautiful woman with nothing of the metamorphosis left but the lunar horns as the splendid ornament of her brows!
    Civ 7.24 20 The ship, in its latest complete equipment, is an abridgment and compend of a nation's arts: the ship...longitude reckoned by lunar observation and by chronometer...

lunatic, n. (1)

    Nat2 3.186 7 The child...delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic.

Lundy's Lane, Canada, n. (1)

    Mrs1 3.124 11 The courage which girls exhibit is like a battle of Lundy's Lane...

lunettes, n. (1)

    MAng1 12.230 11 [Michelangelo's paintings are in the Sistine Chapel, of which he first covered the ceiling with the story of the Creation, in successive compartments...and a series of greater and smaller fancy pieces in the lunettes.

lungs, n. (12)

    SR 2.64 20 Here are the lungs of that inspiration which giveth man wisdom...
    Pol1 3.212 2 It makes no difference how many tons' weight of atmosphere presses on our heads, so long as the same pressure resists it within the lungs.
    SwM 4.102 12 It seems that [Swedenborg] anticipated much science of the nineteenth century;...and first demonstrated the office of the lungs.
    NMW 4.223 10 It is Swedenborg's theory that...the lungs are composed of infinitely small lungs;...
    NMW 4.223 11 It is Swedenborg's theory that...the lungs are composed of infinitely small lungs;...
    F 6.25 21 If the air come to our lungs, we breathe and live;...
    Art2 7.48 23 The artist who is to produce a work which is to be admired... by all men...must...be...one through whom the soul of all men circulates as the common air through his lungs.
    WD 7.175 8 ...that flexile clay of which these old brothers moulded their admirable symbols...was...the heat of the blood and the heaving of the lungs;...
    PI 8.46 18 ...the length of lines in songs and poems is determined by the inhalation and exhalation of the lungs.
    PPo 8.247 15 We absorb elements enough, but have not leaves and lungs for healthy perspiration and growth.
    Dem1 10.21 27 Great men feel that they are so by...falling back on what is humane; in renouncing...each exclusive and local connection, to beat with the pulse and breathe with the lungs of nations.
    LLNE 10.344 24 I habitually apply to [Theodore Parker] the words of a French philosopher who speaks of the man of Nature who abominates the steam-engine and the factory. His vast lungs breathe independence with the air of the mountains and the woods.

lurch, n. (1)

    FRO1 11.476 9 The great Idea baffles wit,/ Language falters under it,/ It leaves the learned in the lurch;/ Nor art, nor power, nor toil can find/ The measure of the eternal Mind,/ Nor hymn nor prayer nor church./

lured, v. (2)

    UGM 4.13 13 Looking where others look, and conversing with the same things, we catch the charm which lured them.
    ALin 11.328 14 How beautiful to see/ Once more a shepherd of mankind indeed,/ Who loved his charge, but never loved to lead;/ One whose meek flock the people joyed to be,/ Not lured by any cheat of birth,/ But by his clear-grained human worth,/ And brave old wisdom of sincerity!/

lures, n. (2)

    Wsp 6.219 3 ...to [man]...the lures of passion and the commandments of duty are opened;...
    Bty 6.279 23 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!/

lures, v. (1)

    ET19 5.310 27 That which lures a solitary American in the woods with the wish to see England, is the moral peculiarity of the Saxon race...

lurid, adj. (3)

    SwM 4.131 9 There is an air of infinite grief and the sound of wailing all over and through [Swedenborg's] lurid universe.
    SwM 4.141 23 [Swedenborg's spiritual world] is...very like, in its endless power of lurid pictures, to the phenomena of dreaming...
    PPr 12.386 7 ...everything [in Carlyle] is seen in lurid storm-lights.

lurk, v. (3)

    AmS 1.111 21 ...show me the sublime presence of the highest spiritual cause lurking, as always it does lurk, in these suburbs and extremities of nature;...
    ET6 5.109 24 The Middle Ages still lurk in the streets of London.
    Insp 8.292 11 ...[conversation is] the college where you learn what thoughts are, what powers lurk in those fugitive gleams...

lurked, v. (2)

    DL 7.127 2 ...let the hearts [our friends] have agitated witness what power has lurked in the traits of these structures of clay that pass and repass us!
    SovE 10.191 16 An Eastern poet...said that God had made justice so dear to the heart of Nature that, if any injustice lurked anywhere under the sky, the blue vault would shrivel to a snake-skin and cast it out by spasms.

lurketh, v. (1)

    Elo1 7.59 6 For whom the Muses smile upon,/ .../ In his every syllable/ Lurketh nature veritable;/...

lurking, adj. (7)

    GoW 4.274 6 ...in the solidest kingdom of routine and the senses, [Goethe] showed the lurking daemonic power;...
    GoW 4.285 2 The lurking daemons sat to [Goethe], and the saint who saw the daemons;...
    ET14 5.249 12 But for Coleridge, and a lurking taciturn minority uttering itself in occasional criticism...one would say that in Germany and in America is the best mind in England rightly respected.
    PI 8.5 24 ...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.
    LVB 11.88 3 Say, what is honour? 'T is the finest sense/ Of justice which the human mind can frame,/ Intent each lurking frailty to disclaim,/ And guard the way of life from all offence/...
    FSLN 11.239 5 There has come, too, one to whom lurking warfare is dear, Retribution, with a soul full of wiles;...
    Let 12.398 27 ...companies of the best-educated young men in the Atlantic states every week take their departure for Europe;...simply because they shall so be...agreeably entertained for one or two years, with some lurking hope...that something may turn up to give them a decided direction.

lurking, v. (5)

    AmS 1.111 20 ...show me the sublime presence of the highest spiritual cause lurking...in these suburbs and extremities of nature;...
    Ill 6.314 9 ...the scientific whim is lurking in all corners.
    Dem1 10.2 2 In the chamber, on the stairs,/ Lurking dumb,/ Go and come/ Lemurs and Lars./
    SHC 11.431 18 You can almost see behind these pines the Indian with bow and arrow lurking...
    PLT 12.35 6 Instinct is a shapeless giant in the cave...Behemoth...lurking, surly, invincible...

lurks, v. (10)

    LT 1.289 9 To a true scholar the attraction of...the passages of his experience, is simply the information they yield him of this supreme nature which lurks within all.
    SL 2.129 8 The living Heaven thy prayers respect,/ House at once and architect,/ .../ And, by the famous might that lurks/ In reaction and recoil,/ Makes flame to freeze and ice to boil;/...
    Nat2 3.167 7 Spirit that lurks each form within/ Beckons to spirit of its kin;/...
    ET14 5.254 25 ...having attempted to domesticate and dress the Blessed Soul itself in English broadcloth and gaiters, [the English] are tormented with fear that herein lurks a force that will sweep their system away.
    Farm 7.146 20 ...[the farmer]...is taught the power that lurks in petty things.
    WD 7.175 15 [That flexile clay of which these old brothers moulded their admirable symbols] was the deep to-day which all men scorn;...the populous, all-loving solitude which men quit for the tattle of towns. HE lurks, he hides, he who is success, reality, joy and power.
    SovE 10.203 10 [Our religion] visits us only on some exceptional and ceremonial occasion...perhaps on a sublime national victory or a peace. But that, be sure, is not the religion of the universal, unsleeping providence, which lurks in trifles...

Lusby, adj. (1)

    ET12 5.210 12 I looked over the Examination Papers of the year 1848, for the various scholarships and fellowships [at Oxford], the Lusby, the Hertford, the Dean-Ireland and the University...

luscious, adj. (1)

    ACri 12.287 7 Into the exquisite refinement of his Academy, [Plato] introduces the low-born Socrates, relieving the purple diction by his perverse talk...and steadily kept this coarseness to flavor a dish else too luscious.

lust, n. (11)

    LE 1.176 24 Fatal to the man of letters, fatal to man, is the lust of display...
    MN 1.210 19 ...this lust of imparting as from us...is finite, comes of a lower strain.
    Fdsp 2.204 16 We are holden to men by every sort of tie...by lust...
    Elo1 7.62 21 ...this lust to speak marks the universal feeling of the energy of the engine...
    OA 7.326 11 ...[the old lawyer] may go below his mark with impunity, and people will say...He lost his sleep for two nights. What a lust of appearance...that once degraded him he is thus rid of!
    Dem1 10.25 27 [Mesmerism] is a low curiosity or lust of structure...
    Dem1 10.27 9 ...far be from me the lust of explaining away all which appeals to the imagination...
    SovE 10.191 3 These threads [of Necessity] are Nature's pernicious elements...the orphan's tears, the vices of men, lust, cruelty and pitiless avarice.
    Prch 10.224 5 The health and welfare of man consist in ascent...from self-activity of talents, which lose their way by the lust of display, to the controlling and reinforcing of talents...
    MMEm 10.413 22 The feverish lust of notice perhaps in all these cases would injure the heart of common refinement and virtue.
    PLT 12.56 24 We are continually tempted to sacrifice...the hope and promise of insight to the lust of a freer demonstration of those gifts we have;...

lust, v. (1)

    OS 2.284 13 These questions which we lust to ask about the future are a confession of sin.

lustre, n. (23)

    Nat 1.31 25 Long hereafter...these solemn images shall reappear in their morning lustre...
    SR 2.45 20 A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages.
    SR 2.63 7 When private men shall act with original views, the lustre will be transferred from the actions of kings to those of gentlemen.
    Exp 3.57 4 A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no lustre as you turn it in your hand until you come to a particular angle;...
    Mrs1 3.128 10 Fashion is made up...of those who through the value and virtue of somebody, have acquired lustre to their name...
    Nat2 3.186 13 ...this opaline lustre plays round the top of every toy to [the child's] eye to insure his fidelity...
    Nat2 3.196 3 ...the knowledge that we traverse the whole scale of being... and have some stake in every possibility, lends that sublime lustre to death, which philosophy and religion have too outwardly and literally striven to express in the popular doctrine of the immortality of the soul.
    NER 3.275 15 ...a naval and military honor...the acknowledgment of eminent merit,--have this lustre for each candidate that they enable him to walk erect and unashamed in the presence of some persons before whom he felt himself inferior.
    SwM 4.134 18 Though the agency of the Lord is in every line referred to by name [by Swedenborg], it never becomes alive. There is no lustre in that eye which gazes from the centre and which should vivify the immense dependency of beings.
    ET11 5.178 13 Sir Henry Wotton says of the first Duke of Buckingham, He was born at Brookeby in Leicestershire, where his ancestors had chiefly continued about the space of four hundred years, rather without obscurity, than with any great lustre.
    ET11 5.193 9 The historic names of the Buckinghams, Beauforts, Marlboroughs and Hertfords have gained no new lustre...
    ET12 5.201 17 Here indeed [at Oxford] was the Olympia of all Antony Wood's and Aubrey's games and heroes, and every inch of ground has its lustre.
    Clbs 7.248 8 No doubt the suppers of wits and philosophers acquire much lustre by time and renown.
    QO 8.175 4 All things wear a lustre which is the gift of the present, and a tarnish of time.
    Insp 8.294 20 Words used in a new sense and figuratively, dart a delightful lustre;...
    Dem1 10.12 13 One moment of a man's life is a fact so stupendous as to take the lustre out of all fiction.
    Chr2 10.121 21 Goethe...maintained his belief that pure loveliness and right good will are the highest manly prerogatives, before which all energetic heroism, with its lustre and renown, must recede.
    Schr 10.278 22 ...I chiefly wish to infer the dignity of [the scholar's] work by the lustre of his appointments.
    MMEm 10.412 18 ...in dead of night, nearer morning, when the eastern stars glow or appear to glow with more indescribable lustre, a lustre which penetrates the spirit with wonder and curiosity,-then, however awed, who can fear?
    MMEm 10.418 18 Not a prospect but is dark on earth, as to knowledge and joy from externals: but the prospect of a dying bed reflects lustre on all the rest.
    EPro 11.322 6 The territory of the Union shines to-day with a lustre which every European emigrant can discern from far;...
    ACri 12.295 4 We cannot...give any account of [Shakespeare's] existence, but only the fact that there was a wonderful symbolizer and expressor...who has thrown an accidental lustre over his time and subject.
    MLit 12.333 18 What is Austria? What is England? What is our graduated and petrified social scale of ranks and employments? Shall not a poet redeem us from these idolatries, and pale their legendary lustre before the fires of the Divine Wisdom which burn in his heart?

lustres, n. (6)

    Lov1 2.179 17 [Beauty's] nature is like opaline doves'-neck lustres...
    Fdsp 2.215 24 ...if you come, perhaps you will fill my mind...not with yourself but with your lustres...
    NR 3.233 12 I read Proclus...for a mechanical help to the fancy and the imagination. I read for the lustres...
    Bty 6.291 1 ...the lustres of the sea-shell begin with its existence.
    OA 7.313 8 I know ye [clouds] skilful to convoy/ The total freight of hope and joy/ Into rude and homely nooks,/ Shed mocking lustres on shelf of books,/ On farmer's byre, on pasture rude,/ And stony pathway to the wood./
    TPar 11.286 22 [Theodore Parker] had...a love for facts, a rapid eye for their historic relations, and a skill in stripping them of traditional lustres.

lustrous, adj. (4)

    SwM 4.106 3 [Swedenborg's] varied and solid knowledge makes his style lustrous with points and shooting spiculae of thought...
    Bhr 6.187 24 ...through this lustrous varnish the reality is ever shining.
    CL 12.142 25 [DeQuincey said] [Wordsworth's] eyes are not under any circumstances bright, lustrous or piercing...
    EurB 12.368 9 [Wordsworth] sat at the foot of Helvellyn and on the margin of Windermere, and took their lustrous mornings and their sublime midnights for his theme...

lustrum, n. (1)

    LE 1.176 10 Let us sit with our hands on our mouths, a long, austere, Pythagorean lustrum.

lusts, n. (1)

    Aris 10.55 13 ...the thought has...no lusts...

lusty, adj. (2)

    ET4 5.71 21 Their young boiling clerks and lusty collegians [in England] like the company of horses better than the company of professors.
    Wsp 6.207 6 [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./

Luther, Martin, n. (35)

    LT 1.269 12 The leaders of the crusades against War, Negro slavery...are the right successors of Luther, Knox...
    Hist 2.29 17 How many times in the history of the world has the Luther of the day had to lament the decay of piety in his own household!
    Hist 2.29 20 Doctor, said his wife to Martin Luther, one day, how is it that whilst subject to papacy we prayed so often and with such fervor, whilst now we pray with utmost coldness and very seldom?
    SR 2.58 1 Pythagoras was misunderstood...and Luther...
    SR 2.61 17 An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as...the Reformation, of Luther;...
    Nat2 3.187 24 The strong, self-complacent Luther declares with an emphasis not to be mistaken, that God himself cannot do without wise men.
    UGM 4.18 13 Especially when a mind of powerful method has instructed men, we find the examples of oppression. The dominion of Aristotle...the credit of Luther...are in point.
    SwM 4.136 16 The parish disputes in the Swedish church between the friends and foes of Luther and Melancthon...intrude themselves into [Swedenborg's] speculations...
    SwM 4.137 14 [Swedenborg] is...like Montaigne's parish priest, who, if a hail-storm passes over the village, thinks the day of doom is come, and the cannibals already have got the pip. Swedenborg confounds us not less with the pains of Melancthon and Luther and Wolfius...
    MoS 4.153 15 [The men of the senses] hold that Luther had milk in him when he said, Wer nicht liebt Wein, Weiber, Gesang,/ Der bleibt ein Narr sein Leben lang;/...
    GoW 4.263 13 ...as the good Luther writes, When I am angry, I can pray well and preach well...
    Civ 7.33 6 ...in Judaea, the advent of Jesus, and, in modern Christendom, of the realists Huss, Savonarola and Luther,--are casual facts which carry forward races to new convictions...
    Art2 7.52 16 Raphael paints wisdom...Luther preaches it...
    Elo1 7.79 8 Whoso can speak well, said Luther, is a man.
    Elo1 7.94 25 The power of Chatham, of Pericles, of Luther, rested on this strength of character...
    Boks 7.206 11 Ximenes...Luther...are [Charles V's] contemporaries.
    Clbs 7.236 7 Jesus spent his life in discoursing with humble people...and at least silencing those who were not generous enough to accept his thoughts. Luther spent his life so;...
    Clbs 7.240 22 Who can stop the mouth of Luther...
    PI 8.3 13 The restraining grace of common sense is the mark of all the valid minds,--of...Alfred, Luther...
    SA 8.93 22 ...Luther commends that accomplishment of pure German speech of his wife.
    PC 8.218 11 If a theologian of deep convictions and strong understanding carries his country with him, like Luther, the state becomes Lutheran, in spite of the Emperor;...
    Grts 8.303 22 There is something...in Luther...that needs no protection.
    SovE 10.195 27 Truth gathers itself spotless and unhurt...never hurt by the treachery or ruin of its best defenders, whether Luther, or William Penn, or Saint Paul.
    SovE 10.196 2 We answer, when they tell us of the bad behavior of Luther or Paul: Well, what if he did?
    SovE 10.196 3 We answer, when they tell us of the bad behavior of Luther or Paul: Well, what if he did? Who was more pained than Luther or Paul?
    SovE 10.204 16 Luther would cut his hand off sooner than write theses against the pope if he suspected that he was bringing on with all his might the pale negations of Boston Unitarianism.
    Prch 10.234 24 That gray deacon or respectable matron with Calvinistic antecedents...could not have presented any obstacle to the march...of Luther...
    LS 11.4 8 The doctrine of the Consubstantiation taught by Luther was denied by Calvin.
    TPar 11.289 7 It was [Theodore Parker's] merit, like Luther, Knox and Latimer...to speak tart truth...
    RBur 11.440 20 Not Latimer, nor Luther struck more telling blows against false theology than did this brave singer [Burns].
    RBur 11.442 21 It seemed odious to Luther that the devil should have all the best tunes;...
    FRep 11.537 8 Columbus was no backward-creeping crab, nor was Martin Luther...
    FRep 11.539 11 It is not by heads reverted...to Luther...that you can combat the dangers and dragons that beset the United States at this time.
    Milt1 12.251 7 [Milton's Areopagitica] is, as Luther said of one of Melancthon's writings, alive, hath hands and feet...
    ACri 12.286 4 Luther said, I preach coarsely; that giveth content to all.

Lutheran, adj. (3)

    SwM 4.136 20 The Lutheran bishop's son, for whom the heavens are opened...with all these grandeurs resting upon him, remains the Lutheran bishop's son;...
    SwM 4.136 27 The Lutheran bishop's son, for whom the heavens are opened...with all these grandeurs resting upon him, remains the Lutheran bishop's son;...
    PC 8.218 12 If a theologian of deep convictions and strong understanding carries his country with him, like Luther, the state becomes Lutheran, in spite of the Emperor;...

Lutheran Church, n. (1)

    Chr2 10.112 10 The Lutheran Church does not represent in Germany the opinions of the universities.

Lutheran, n. (1)

    Wsp 6.222 6 In a new nation and language, [the countryman's] sect, as Quaker, or Lutheran, is lost.

Lutherans, n. (1)

    MR 1.228 16 Lutherans, Herrnhutters, Jesuits, Monks, Quakers, Knox, Wesley, Swedenborg, Bentham...all respected something...

Luther's, Martin, n. (1)

    Boks 7.208 17 Another class of books closely allied to these [Autobiographies]...are those which may be called Table-Talks: of which the best are Saadi's Gulistan; Luther's Table-Talk;...

Lutzen, Prussia, n. (1)

    Hsm1 2.248 7 In the Harleian Miscellanies there is an account of the battle of Lutzen which deserves to be read.

luxuriance, n. (1)

    Supl 10.179 2 The Northern genius finds itself singularly refreshed and stimulated by the breadth and luxuriance of Eastern imagery and modes of thinking...

luxuries, n. (10)

    MR 1.235 17 ...I should not be pained at a change which threatened a loss of some of the luxuries or conveniences of society...
    Mrs1 3.135 10 ...by luxuries and ornaments we amuse the young people...
    ET11 5.186 23 [The English upper classes] have...the power to command, among their other luxuries, the presence of the most accomplished men in their festive meetings.
    Wth 6.109 5 A youth coming into the city from his native New Hampshire farm...boards at a first-class hotel, and believes he must somehow have outwitted Dr. Franklin and Malthus, for luxuries are cheap.
    Clbs 7.225 15 ...our tonics, our luxuries, are force-pumps which exhaust the strength they pretend to supply;...
    Res 8.143 17 ...it turns out that [the Chinaman] has sent home to China American food and tools and luxuries...
    EWI 11.118 5 We sometimes say, the planter...only wants the immunities and luxuries which the slaves yield him;...
    FSLN 11.236 6 ...our education is not conducted by toys and luxuries...
    JBS 11.279 17 [In John Brown's boyhood] was formed a romantic character...abstemious, refusing luxuries...
    Wom 11.410 26 ...[man] invented...all luxuries and adornments, and the elegance of privacy, to increase the joys of society.

luxurious, adj. (11)

    NER 3.272 13 Men are conservatives...when they are most luxurious.
    ET5 5.98 12 The manners and customs of [English] society are artificial;... and we have a nation whose existence is a work of art;--a cold, barren, almost arctic isle being made the most fruitful, luxurious and imperial land in the whole earth.
    ET14 5.248 3 The critic [in England] hides his skepticism under the English cant of practical. To convince the reason, to touch the conscience, is romantic pretension. The fine arts fall to the ground. Beauty, except as luxurious commodity, does not exist.
    Wth 6.95 15 The world is his who has money to go over it. He arrives at the seashore and a sumptuous ship has floored and carpeted for him the stormy Atlantic, and made it a luxurious hotel, amid the horrors of the tempests.
    Elo2 8.128 23 In England they send the most delicate and protected child from his luxurious home to learn to rough it with boys in the public schools.
    Chr2 10.106 3 ...in the hands...of luxurious Byzantines...[Christianity's] creeds were tainted with their barbarism.
    SovE 10.192 23 The strength of the animal to eat and to be luxurious and to usurp is rudeness and imbecility.
    EWI 11.119 3 The planter...has contracted in his indolent and luxurious climate the need of excitement by irritating and tormenting his slave.
    RBur 11.441 25 What a love of Nature [in Burns], and, shall I say it? of middle-class Nature. Not like...Moore, in the luxurious East...
    CW 12.173 14 ...nothing in Europe is more elaborately luxurious than the costly gardens...
    Bost 12.185 19 [Boston] is not a country of luxury or of pictures; of snows rather, of east winds and changing skies; visited by icebergs, which, floating by, nip with their cool breath our blossoms. Not a luxurious climate...

luxurious, n. (2)

    War 11.174 8 If peace is sought to be defended or preserved for the safety of the luxurious and the timid, it is a sham...
    Bost 12.203 20 ...there is always [in Boston]...always a heresiarch, whom the governor and deputies labor with but cannot silence. Some new light... some champion of first principles of humanity against the rich and luxurious;...

luxury, n. (43)

    DSA 1.119 1 In this refulgent summer, it has been a luxury to draw the breath of life.
    LE 1.182 1 The good scholar will not refuse...to make his own hands acquainted with...the sweat that goes before comfort and luxury.
    MR 1.243 12 [The man with a strong bias to the contemplative life] must... postpone his self-indulgence, forewarned and forearmed against that frequent misfortune of men of genius,-the taste for luxury.
    MR 1.246 10 [Infirm people] contrive everywhere to exhaust for their single comfort the entire means and appliances of that luxury to which our invention has yet attained.
    Con 1.311 25 ...for thee...fleets of floating palaces with every...provision for luxury, swim by sail and by steam through all the waters of this world.
    Tran 1.333 3 The materialist respects sensible masses...social art and luxury...
    YA 1.377 9 The luxury and necessity of the noble fostered [Trade].
    Hist 2.24 22 Luxury and elegance are not known [in the Grecian period].
    Comp 2.94 20 What did the preacher mean by saying that the good are miserable in the present life? Was it that houses and lands, offices, wine, horses, dress, luxury, are had by unprincipled men...
    Fdsp 2.200 25 Let us not have this childish luxury in our regards...
    Fdsp 2.202 22 Sincerity is the luxury allowed...only to the highest rank;...
    Prd1 2.231 22 ...society is officered by men of parts, as they are properly called, and not by divine men. These use their gift to refine luxury, not to abolish it.
    Mrs1 3.134 13 I may easily go into a great household where there is... excellent provision for comfort, luxury and taste, and yet not encounter there any Amphitryon who shall subordinate these appendages.
    Nat2 3.173 16 Art and luxury have early learned that they must work as enhancement and sequel to this original beauty [of nature].
    NER 3.257 5 I begin to suspect myself to be a prisoner, though treated with all this courtesy and luxury.
    MoS 4.151 19 On the other part, the men of toil and trade and luxury,--the animal world...and the practical world...weigh heavily on the other side.
    F 6.13 20 [Conservatives] have been...born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents...
    F 6.40 14 All the toys that infatuate men...houses, land, money, luxury, power, fame, are the selfsame thing...
    Pow 6.70 19 The luxury of ice is in tropical countries and midsummer days.
    Pow 6.70 21 The luxury of fire is to have a little on our hearth;...
    Wth 6.91 11 ...when one observes in the hotels and palaces of our Atlantic capitals, the habit of expense...he feels that when a man or a woman is driven to the wall, the chances of integrity are frightfully diminished; as if virtue were coming to be a luxury which few could afford...
    Art2 7.52 5 These [ancient sculptures] are...the face of man in the morning of the world. No mark is on these lofty features of sloth or luxury or meanness...
    DL 7.118 16 [The great]...subdue the low habits of comfort and luxury;...
    SA 8.95 13 Politics, war, party, luxury, avarice, fashion, are all asses with loaded panniers to serve the kitchen of Intellect, the king.
    Aris 10.52 3 To a right aristocracy...everything will be permitted and pardoned,-gaming, drinking, fighting, luxury.
    MoL 10.245 13 Our industrial skill, arts ministering to convenience and luxury, have made life expensive...
    HDC 11.56 7 Even this check which befell [the people of Concord] acquaints us with the rapidity of their growth, for the good man [Peter Bulkeley], in dealing with his people, taxes them with luxury.
    EWI 11.101 10 If the Virginian piques himself on the picturesque luxury of his vassalage...I shall not refuse to show him that when their free-papers are made out, it will still be their interest to remain on his estate...
    EWI 11.102 6 From the earliest time, the negro has been an article of luxury to the commercial nations.
    EWI 11.102 16 These men [negro slaves]...producers of comfort and luxury for the civilized world...I am heart-sick when I read how they came there, and how they are kept there.
    EWI 11.118 9 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...
    ChiE 11.472 12 I need not mention [China's] useful arts...the luxury of silks...
    FRO2 11.490 23 I am glad to believe society contains a class of humble souls who enjoy the luxury of a religion that does not degrade;...
    FRep 11.536 7 The felon is the logical extreme of the epicure and coxcomb. Selfish luxury is the end of both...
    CL 12.147 15 When Nero advertised for a new luxury, a walk in the woods should have been offered.
    CW 12.171 8 Neither did I fully consider [when I bought my farm] what an indescribable luxury is our Indian river, the Musketaquid...
    CW 12.174 10 If you can add to the garden a noble luxury, let it be an arboretum.
    Bost 12.185 15 [Boston] is not a country of luxury or of pictures;...
    Bost 12.208 12 ...there is yet in every city a certain permanent tone;...labor or luxury;...
    MLit 12.315 21 ...the weak and wicked, led also to analyze, saw nothing in thought but luxury.
    WSL 12.342 25 It is vain to call [the literary spirit] a luxury...
    PPr 12.389 5 That morbid temperament has given [Carlyle's] rhetoric a somewhat bloated character; a luxury to many imaginative and learned persons...
    Let 12.397 8 ...discontent and the luxury of tears will bring nothing to pass.

lyceum, n. (1)

    Bost 12.195 27 The universality of an elementary education in New England is her praise and her power in the whole world. To the schools succeeds the village lyceum...

Lyceum, n. (3)

    EzRy 10.392 1 In debate, in the vestry of the Lyceum, the structure of [Ezra Ripley's] sentences was admirable;...
    EzRy 10.392 19 The society will meet after the Lyceum, as it is difficult to bring people together in the evening,-and no moon.
    Thor 10.457 9 ...a young girl, understanding that [Thoreau] was to lecture at the Lyceum, sharply asked him, Whether his lecture would be a nice, interesting story...

lyceums, n. (2)

    YA 1.388 9 I find no expression...in our lyceums or churches...of a high national feeling...
    Wth 6.99 5 If properties of this kind [works of art] were owned by states, towns and lyceums, they would draw the bonds of neighborhood closer.

Lyceums, n. (1)

    ET2 5.25 5 The occasion of my second visit to England was an invitation from some Mechanics' Institutes in Lancashire and Yorkshire, which separately are organized much in the same way as our New England Lyceums...

Lycidas [John Milton], n. (1)

    PLT 12.52 19 ...to arrange general reflections in their natural order, so that I shall have one homogeneous piece,-a Lycidas, an Allegro...this continuity is for the great.

Lycurgus, n. (4)

    SwM 4.124 2 ...this mystic [Swedenborg] is awful to Caesar. Lycurgus himself would bow.
    Boks 7.199 23 Plutarch cannot be spared from the smallest library; first because he is so readable, which is much; then that he is medicinal and invigorating. The lives of Cimon, Lycurgus...are what history has of best.
    Plu 10.297 19 [Plutarch] is...not a lawgiver, like Lycurgus or Solon;...
    JBS 11.281 24 ...the arch-abolitionist...is Love, whose other name is Justice, which was before Alfred, before Lycurgus, before slavery, and will be after it.

Lydgate, John, n. (1)

    ShP 4.197 23 Chaucer, it seems, drew continually, through Lydgate and Caxton, from Guido di Colonna...

lyed, adj. (1)

    Wth 6.114 8 Pride...can eat potato, purslain, beans, lyed corn...

Lyell, Charles, n. (1)

    ET17 5.293 1 Every day in London gave me new opportunities of meeting men and women who give splendor to society. I saw...among the men of science...Faraday, Buckland, Lyell...

lying, adj. (5)

    SR 2.72 21 Check this lying hospitality and lying affection.
    ET9 5.152 23 Amerigo Vespucci, the pickle-dealer at Seville...managed in this lying world to supplant Columbus...
    Comc 8.160 9 ...[the man of the world's] eye wandering perpetually from the rule to the crooked, lying, thieving fact, makes the eyes run over with laughter.
    Carl 10.496 1 [Carlyle] says, There is properly no religion in England. These idle nobles at Tattersall's-there is no work or word of serious purpose in them; they have this great lying Church; and life is a humbug.
    FRep 11.530 23 We have...a great deal of lying vanity.

lying, n. (2)

    Tran 1.357 1 ...it is well if [the Transcendentalist] can keep from lying, injustice, and suicide.
    FSLN 11.234 13 If slavery is good, then is lying, theft, arson, homicide, each and all good...

lying, v. (19)

    Exp 3.47 22 ...in this great society wide lying around us, a critical analysis would find very few spontaneous actions.
    Exp 3.82 22 The man at [Apollo's] feet asks for his interest in turmoils of the earth, into which his nature cannot enter. And the Eumenides there lying express pictorially this disparity.
    ET4 5.66 4 The bronze monuments of crusaders lying cross-legged in the Temple Church at London...are of the same type as the best youthful heads of men now in England;...
    ET7 5.118 27 An Englishman...checks himself in compliments, alleging that in the French language one cannot speak without lying.
    Bhr 6.189 9 A man inspires affection and honor because he was not lying in wait for these.
    Wsp 6.221 4 ...cant and lying and the attempt to secure a good which does not belong to us, are, once for all, balked and vain.
    Bty 6.295 6 In a house that I know, I have noticed a block of spermaceti lying about closets and mantelpieces, for twenty years together...
    Boks 7.213 4 We must have...some swing and verge for the creative power lying coiled and cramped here...
    PI 8.12 8 God himself...communicates with us by...dark resemblances in objects lying all around us.
    PI 8.41 23 ...the poet sees...the shores of matter lying on the sky...
    PC 8.226 14 Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
    Insp 8.285 3 ...at the right hour/ The lamp brings me pious light,/ That it, instead of Aurora or Phoebus,/ May enliven my quiet industry./ But they left me lying in sleep/ Dull, and not to be enlivened/...
    Dem1 10.3 10 This soft enchantress [sleep] visits two children lying locked in each other's arms...
    LLNE 10.354 6 It argued singular courage, the adoption of Fourier's system, to even a limited extent, with his books lying before the world only defended by the thin veil of the French language.
    HDC 11.54 3 At the instance of [John] Eliot, in 1651, [the Indians'] desire was granted by the General Court, and Nashobah, lying near Nagog Pond... became an Indian town...
    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./
    PLT 12.36 2 [Pan's] habit was to dwell in mountains, lying on the ground...
    WSL 12.337 14 [John Bull] wonders that the Americans should build with wood, whilst all this stone is lying in the roadside;...
    PPr 12.379 7 [Carlyle's Past and Present] grapples honestly with the facts lying before all men...

lymph, n. (1)

    MoS 4.177 15 What can I do...against scrofula, lymph, impotence?...

Lyncaeus, n. (1)

    Pt1 3.20 18 ...the eyes of Lyncaeus were said to see through the earth...

lynch, adj. (1)

    FRep 11.528 1 Our institutions, of which the town is the unit, are educational... ... The result appears...in the voice of the public even when irregular and vicious,-the voice of mobs, the voice of lynch law...

Lynch law, n. (1)

    Pow 6.63 26 This power [in American politics]...is not clothed in satin. 'T is the power of Lynch law...

lynched, v. (1)

    ET9 5.152 10 When Julian came, A. D. 361, George [of Cappadocia] was dragged to prison; the prison was burst open by the mob and George was lynched...

lynch-law, n. (1)

    Pol1 3.212 9 Lynch-law prevails only where there is greater hardihood and self-subsistency in the leaders.

Lynn, Massachusetts, n. (2)

    Pt1 3.16 18 In the political processions, Lowell goes in a loom, and Lynn in a shoe...
    F 6.42 26 We know in Massachusetts...who built Lynn...

lynx, n. (1)

    Civ 7.17 15 ...The lynx, the rattlesnake, the flood, the fire:/ All the fierce enemies, ague, hunger, cold,/ This thin spruce roof, this clayed log wall,/ This wild plantation will suffice to chase./

lyre, n. (1)

    PPo 8.253 1 This morning heard I how the lyre of the stars resounded,/ Sweeter tones have we heard from Hafiz!/

lyric, adj. (15)

    Hist 2.14 23 We have the same national mind expressed for us again in [Greek] literature, in epic and lyric poems...
    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...
    Prd1 2.231 3 ...the boldest lyric inspiration should not chide and insult...
    Art1 2.365 18 Life may be lyric or epic...
    Pt1 3.29 1 Milton says that the lyric poet may drink wine and live generously...
    PPh 4.43 8 Plato...(though I doubt he wanted the decisive gift of lyric expression), mainly is not a poet because he chose to use the poetic gift to an ulterior purpose.
    ShP 4.212 9 With [Shakespeare's] wisdom of life is the equal endowment of imaginative and of lyric power.
    ShP 4.214 13 [Shakespeare's] lyric power lies in the genius of the piece.
    GoW 4.277 16 [Goethe's works] consist of translations, criticism, dramas, lyric and every other description of poems, literary journals and portraits of distinguished men.
    Boks 7.200 15 [Plutarch's] memory is like the Isthmian Games...and you are stimulated and recruited by lyric verses...
    PI 8.40 19 ...[the writer] must be at the top of his condition. In that prosperity he is sometimes caught up into a perception...of fairy machineries and funds of power hitherto utterly unknown to him, whereby he can...reduce [his visions] into iambic or trochaic, into lyric or heroic rhyme.
    PI 8.49 19 A right ode (however nearly it may adopt conventional metre, as the...one of the fixed lyric metres) will by any sprightliness be at once lifted out of conventionality...
    Thor 10.474 22 [Thoreau's] poetry might be bad or good; he no doubt wanted a lyric facility and technical skill...
    Thor 10.475 20 ...if [Thoreau] want lyric fineness and technical merits [in his poetry]...he never lacks the causal thought...
    ACri 12.296 27 [Herrick] has, and knows that he has...a perfect, plain style, from which he can soar to a fine, lyric delicacy, or descend to coarsest sarcasm, without losing his firm footing.

lyric, n. (3)

    WD 7.182 13 The masters of English lyric wrote their songs [for joy].
    QO 8.195 27 ...Hallam...distinguishes a lyric of Edwards or Vaux, and straightway it commends itself to us...
    Edc1 10.143 3 Do not spare to put novels into the hands of young people as an occasional holiday and experiment; but, above all, good poetry in all kinds, epic, tragedy, lyric.

lyrical, adj. (5)

    OS 2.270 2 Only [the soul] can inspire whom it will, and behold! their speech shall be lyrical, and sweet, and universal as the rising of the wind.
    Art1 2.366 26 As soon as beauty is sought...for pleasure, it degrades the seeker. High beauty is no longer attainable by him...in sound, or in lyrical construction;...
    PI 8.53 27 Outside of the nursery the beginning of literature is the prayers of a people...the mind allowing itself range, and therewith is ever a corresponding freedom in the style, which becomes lyrical.
    Insp 8.271 20 Every real step is by what a poet called lyrical glances...
    Insp 8.271 21 Every real step is...by lyrical facility...

lyrics, n. (2)

    Pt1 3.9 4 I took part in a conversation the other day concerning a recent writer of lyrics...
    MLit 12.311 24 Our presses groan every year with new editions of all the select pieces of the first of mankind...opinions, epics, lyrics...

lyrist, n. (3)

    Pt1 3.9 9 ...the question arose whether [a recent writer of lyrics] was not only a lyrist but a poet...
    Milt1 12.263 9 [Milton] tells us...that the lyrist may indulge in wine and in a freer life;...
    EurB 12.372 3 It is long since we have had as good a lyrist [as Tennyson];...

Lysias, n. (1)

    MoL 10.256 21 ...this big-mouthed talker, among his dictionaries and Leipzig editions of Lysias, had lost his knowledge.

Lysis, n. (3)

    Int 2.342 26 When Socrates speaks, Lysis and Menexenus are afflicted by no shame that they do not speak.
    Plu 10.304 24 ...asking Epaminondas about the manner of Lysis's burial, I found that Lysis had taught him as far as the incommunicable mysteries of our sect...
    Plu 10.304 26 ...asking Epaminondas about the manner of Lysis's burial, I found that Lysis had taught him as far as the incommunicable mysteries of our sect, and that the same Daemon that waited on Lysis, presided over him...

Lysis's, n. (1)

    Plu 10.304 23 Early this morning, asking Epaminondas about the manner of Lysis's burial, I found that Lysis had taught him as far as the incommunicable mysteries of our sect...

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