Muck to Mythus

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

muck, n. (1)

    PerF 10.75 7 [The farmer] put his days into carting from the distant swamp the mountain of muck which has been trundled about until it now makes the cover of fruitful soil.

mud, adj. (1)

    ET1 5.16 1 [Carlyle] had names of his own for all the matters familiar to his discourse. Blackwood's was the sand magazine; Fraser's nearer approach to possibility of life was the mud magazine;...

mud, n. (20)

    MR 1.251 22 [Caliph Omar's] palace was built of mud;...
    SwM 4.98 9 If you will have pure carbon, carbuncle, or diamond, to make the brain transparent, the trunk and organs shall be so much the grosser: instead of porcelain they are potter's earth, clay, or mud.
    NMW 4.244 14 If he felt himself their patron and the founder of their fortunes, as when he said I made my generals out of mud,--[Napoleon] could not hide his satisfaction in receiving from them a seconding and support commensurate with the grandeur of his enterprise.
    ET4 5.51 24 Defoe said in his wrath, the Englishman was the mud of all races.
    F 6.15 19 One leaf [Nature] lays down, a floor of granite;...a thousand ages, and a layer of marl and mud;...
    F 6.37 22 [Man's] food is cooked when he arrives;...the mud of the deluge dried;...
    Bhr 6.181 18 The reason why men do not obey us is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
    Wsp 6.228 7 [St. Philip Neri] threw himself on his mule...and hastened through the mud and mire to the distant convent.
    Wsp 6.228 12 ...Philip [Neri] stretched out his leg, all bespattered with mud, and desired [the nun] to draw off his boots.
    SA 8.94 25 The party in the second coach, on arriving, heard this story with surprise;--of thunder-storm, of steeps, of mud, of danger, they knew nothing;...
    Aris 10.51 16 The day is darkened when the golden river runs down into mud;...
    Thor 10.483 16 How did these beautiful rainbow-tints get into the shell of the fresh-water clam, buried in the mud at the bottom of our dark river?
    SMC 11.360 25 After the first marches [in the Civil War] there is no letter-paper, there are no envelopes, no postage-stamps, for these were wetted into a solid mass in the rains and mud.
    SMC 11.361 2 Some of these [Civil War] letters are...written on the knee, in the mud, with pencil...
    SMC 11.367 20 In McClellan's retreat in the Peninsula, in July, 1862, it is all our men can do to draw their feet out of the mud.
    SMC 11.367 21 In McClellan's retreat in the Peninsula, in July, 1862, it is all our men can do to draw their feet out of the mud. We marched one mile through mud, without exaggeration, one foot deep...
    MAng1 12.222 8 ...not the most swinish compost of mud and blood that was ever misnamed philosophy, can avail to hinder us from doing involuntary reverence to any exhibition of majesty or surpassing beauty in human clay.
    MAng1 12.238 10 ...just here [said Vasari's servant to Michelangelo], before your door, is a spot of soft mud, and [the candles] will stand upright in it very well, and there I will light them all.
    Let 12.395 4 One of the [letter] writers relentingly says, What shall my uncles and aunts do without me? and desires distinctly to be understood not to propose the Indian mode of giving decrepit relatives as much of the mud of holy Ganges as they can swallow, and more...
    Trag 12.415 9 [Our human being] is like a stream of water, which, if dammed up on one bank, overruns the other, and flows equally at its own convenience over sand, or mud, or marble.

mud-bank, n. (1)

    PLT 12.22 5 ...[a muskrat] is only man modified to live in a mud-bank.

muddy, adj. (2)

    Nat 1.54 21 ...the approaching tide/ Will shortly fill the reasonable shores/ That now lie foul and muddy./
    SL 2.156 25 When [a man] has base ends and speaks falsely, the eye is muddy and sometimes asquint.

mud-pies, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.367 15 Don't you see, [Fourier] cried, that nothing so delights the young Caucasian child as dirt? See the mud-pies that all children will make if you will let them.

mudsills, n. (1)

    Bost 12.205 14 ...when within our memory some flippant senator wished to taunt the people of this country by calling them the mudsills of society, he paid them ignorantly a true praise;...

muffin, n. (1)

    F 6.18 24 In a large city...things whose beauty lies in their casualty, are produced as punctually...to order as the baker's muffin for breakfast.

muffins, n. (4)

    ET1 5.18 23 The baker's boy brings muffins to the window at a fixed hour every day, and that is all the Londoner knows or wishes to know on the subject.
    ET6 5.104 5 Nothing but the most serious business could give one any counterweight to these Baresarks [the English], though they were only to order eggs and muffins for their breakfast.
    ET14 5.233 9 [The Englishman] must be treated...with muffins, and not the promise of muffins;...
    ET14 5.233 10 [The Englishman] must be treated...with muffins, and not the promise of muffins;...

muffle, v. (1)

    PI 8.30 18 ...colder moods...insinuate, or, as it were, muffle the fact to suit the poverty or caprice of their expression...

muffled, adj. (2)

    WD 7.155 2 Daughters of Time, the hypocritic days,/ Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes,/ And marching single in an endless file,/ Bring diadems and fagots in their hands./
    WD 7.168 12 [The days] come and go like muffled and veiled figures...

muffled, v. (2)

    SL 2.166 4 Let the great soul incarnated in some woman's form...sweep chambers and scour floors, and its effulgent daybeams cannot be muffled or hid...
    Elo1 7.67 3 There is a tablet [in the audience] for every line [the orator] can inscribe, though he should mount to the highest levels. Humble persons are conscious of new illumination;...delicate spirits...masked and muffled in coarsest fortunes, who now hear their own native language for the first time...

Muggletonians, n. (1)

    CSC 10.374 21 ...Dunkers, Muggletonians, Come-outers...all successively... seized their moment [at the Chardon Street Convention]...

mulberries, n. (1)

    Bost 12.189 24 [John Smith writes (1624)] Here [in New England] are many isles planted with corn, groves, mulberries, salvage gardens and good harbours.

mulberry, adj. (1)

    AmS 1.96 2 A strange process too, this by which experience is converted into thought, as a mulberry leaf is converted into satin.

mule, n. (4)

    Cir 2.315 4 ...he can well spare his mule and panniers who has a winged chariot instead.
    ET10 5.159 11 After a few trials, [Richard Roberts] succeeded, and in 1830 procured a patent for his self-acting mule;...
    Wsp 6.228 5 [St. Philip Neri] threw himself on his mule...and hastened through the mud and mire to the distant convent.
    Wsp 6.228 17 Philip [Neri] ran out of doors, mounted his mule and returned instantly to the Pope;...

mules, n. (1)

    ACri 12.300 23 Pindar when the victor in a race by mules offered him a trifling present, pretended to be hurt at thought of writing on demi-asses.

muleteers, n. (1)

    PPo 8.254 27 The muleteers and camel-drivers, on their way through the desert, sing snatches of [Hafiz's] songs...

mullein, adj. (1)

    ET16 5.285 20 ...I had been more struck with [a cathedral] of no fame, at Coventry, which rises three hundred feet from the ground, with the lightness of a mullein plant...

Muller, Karl Otfried, n. (2)

    WD 7.174 24 What journeys and measurements,--Niebuhr and Muller and Layard,--to identify the plain of Troy and Nimroud town!
    QO 8.191 25 ...we must thank Karl Otfried Muller for the just remark, Poesy, drawing within its circle all that is glorious and inspiring, gave itself but little concern as to where its flowers originally grew.

Muller, Max, n. (2)

    FRO2 11.486 12 We have had not long since presented to us by Max Muller a valuable paragraph from St. Augustine...
    CInt 12.124 16 ...there is a certain shyness of genius...in colleges, which is as old as the rejection...of Bentley by the pedants of his time, and only the other day, of Arago; in Oxford, the recent rejection of Max Muller.

mullusk, n. (1)

    ET14 5.253 14 [English science] isolates the reptile or mullusk it assumes to explain;...

multifarious, adj. (1)

    ET1 5.17 3 [Carlyle's] own reading had been multifarious.

multiform, adj. (3)

    MN 1.204 17 The royal reason, the Grace of God, seems the only description of our multiform but ever identical fact.
    MN 1.210 17 Are there not moments in the history of heaven when the human race was not counted by individuals, but...was...God rushing into multiform benefit?
    Pt1 3.20 24 ...[the poet]...perceives that thought is multiform;...

multiplex, adj. (1)

    Boks 7.211 7 [Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy] is an inventory to remind us how many classes and species of facts exist, in observing into what strange and multiplex byways learning has strayed, to infer our opulence.

multiplication, adj. (1)

    Tran 1.332 12 One thing at least, [the materialist] says, is certain...the multiplication table has been hitherto found unimpeachable truth;...

multiplication, n. (6)

    LE 1.175 16 [Society's] foolish routine, an indefinite multiplication of balls...can teach you no more than a few can.
    Tran 1.350 11 A great man...will leave to those who like it the multiplication of examples.
    Civ 7.23 3 ...the multiplication of the arts of peace...fills the State with useful and happy laborers;...
    DL 7.112 1 ...the wealth and multiplication of conveniences embarrass us...
    Comc 8.169 16 The multiplication of artificial wants and expenses in civilized life, and the exaggeration of all trifling forms, present innumerable occasions for this discrepancy [between the man and his appearance] to expose itself.
    Aris 10.41 8 The multiplication of monarchs...has robbed the title of king of all its romance...

multiplication-table, n. (2)

    Comp 2.102 14 The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself.
    Exp 3.67 7 In the street and in the newspapers, life appears so plain a business that manly resolution and adherence to the multiplication-table through all weathers will insure success.

multiplicity, n. (3)

    SL 2.144 6 [A man] takes only his own out of the multiplicity that sweeps and circles round him.
    GoW 4.271 8 Goethe was the philosopher of this [modern] multiplicity;...
    PI 8.7 25 All multiplicity rushes to be resolved into unity.

multiplied, adj. (1)

    SMC 11.371 11 I must not follow the multiplied details that make the hard work of the next year.

multiplied, v. (3)

    UGM 4.12 16 ...in good faith, we are multiplied by our proxies.
    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.
    FRep 11.538 4 Is it that Nature has only so much vital force, and must dilute it if it is to be multiplied into millions?

multiplies, v. (5)

    NER 3.265 4 [One man]...in his natural and momentary associations, doubles or multiplies himself;...
    Farm 7.150 25 There has been a nightmare bred in England of indigestion and spleen among landlords and loom-lords, namely, the dogma...that men multiply in a geometrical ratio, whilst corn multiplies only in an arithmetical;...
    AKan 11.263 5 ...now, vast property...webs of party, cover the land with a network that immensely multiplies the dangers of war.
    CPL 11.501 26 Everything that gives [a man] a new perception of beauty multiplies his pure enjoyments.
    CL 12.138 23 [Linnaeus] found out that a terrible distemper which sometimes proves fatal in the north of Europe, was occasioned by an animalcule...which falls from the air on the face, or hand, or other uncovered part, burrows into it, multiplies and kills the sufferer.

multiply, v. (11)

    Comp 2.114 11 It is best...to buy...in your agent, good sense applied to accounts and affairs. So do you multiply your presence, or spread yourself throughout your estate.
    UGM 4.13 3 We must extend the area of life and multiply our relations.
    UGM 4.17 11 When [the imagination] wakes, a man seems to multiply ten times or a thousand times his force.
    PPh 4.78 25 [Plato's] sense deepens, his merits multiply, with study.
    NMW 4.224 12 [The democratic class] desires to keep open every avenue to the competition of all, and to multiply avenues...
    CbW 6.249 19 If government knew how, I should like to see it check not multiply the population.
    CbW 6.276 15 ...why multiply these topics...
    Farm 7.150 25 There has been a nightmare bred in England of indigestion and spleen among landlords and loom-lords, namely, the dogma...that men multiply in a geometrical ratio, whilst corn multiplies only in an arithmetical;...
    PI 8.41 9 These fine fruits of judgment, poesy and sentiment...know as well as coarser how to...maintain their stock alive, and multiply;...
    PC 8.214 3 ...if these [romantic European] works still survive and multiply, what shall we say of names more distant...
    Aris 10.45 13 ...the man's associations, fortunes, love, hatred, residence, rank, the books he will buy, the roads he will traverse are predetermined in his organism. Men will need him, and he is rich and eminent by nature. That man cannot be too late or too early. Let him not hurry or hesitate. Though millions are already arrived, his seat is reserved. Though millions attend, they only multiply his friends and agents.

multiplying, v. (4)

    WD 7.162 22 Malthus, when he stated that the mouths went on multiplying geometrically and the food only arithmetically, forgot to say that the human mind was also a factor in political economy...
    SovE 10.185 4 The man down in Nature occupies himself in guarding, in feeding, in warming and multiplying his body...
    HDC 11.77 6 To you [veterans of the battle of Concord] belongs a better badge than stars and ribbons. This prospering country is your ornament, and this expanding nation is multiplying your praise with millions of tongues.
    EdAd 11.393 22 We rely on the talents and industry of good men known to us, but much more on the magnetism of truth, which is multiplying and educating advocates for itself and friends for us.

multis, adj. (1)

    SwM 4.113 21 Ossa videlicet e pauxillis atque minutis/ Ossibus sic et de pauxillis atque minutis/ Visceribus viscus gigni, sanguenque creari/ Sanguinis inter se multis coeuntibus guttis;/...

multitude, n. (58)

    Nat 1.12 2 Whoever considers the final cause of the world will discern a multitude of uses that enter as parts into that result.
    Nat 1.21 12 When Sir Harry Vane was dragged up the Tower-hill, sitting on a sled...one of the multitude cried out to him, You never sate on so glorious a seat!
    Nat 1.21 18 ...the multitude imagined they saw liberty and virtue sitting by [Lord Russell's] side.
    Nat 1.35 22 A new interest surprises us, whilst...we contemplate the fearful extent and multitude of objects;...
    Nat 1.67 14 ...it is less to my purpose to recite correctly the order and superposition of the strata, than to know why all thought of multitude is lost in a tranquil sense of unity.
    AmS 1.89 3 The sluggish and perverted mind of the multitude...having once received this book, stands upon it...
    LE 1.182 13 The man of genius should occupy the whole space between God or pure mind and the multitude of uneducated men.
    MN 1.193 10 ...the multitude of men degrade each other...
    LT 1.268 8 Here is the innumerable multitude of those who accept the state and the church from the last generation...
    YA 1.382 5 Here are Etzlers...who...undoubtingly affirm that the smallest union would make every man rich;-and, on the other side, a multitude of poor men and women seeking work...
    YA 1.387 13 I think I see place and duties for a nobleman in every society; but it is...to guide and adorn life for the multitude by forethought...
    Hist 2.15 3 ...we have [the Greek national mind expressed] once again in sculpture...a multitude of forms in the utmost freedom of action and never transgressing the ideal serenity;...
    Hist 2.36 1 [Man's] power consists in the multitude of his affinities...
    SR 2.56 7 ...the sour faces of the multitude, like their sweet faces, have no deep cause...
    SR 2.56 10 Yet is the discontent of the multitude more formidable than that of the senate and the college.
    SR 2.88 26 ...the reformers summon conventions and vote and resolve in multitude.
    Hsm1 2.261 20 ...to live with some rigor of temperance, or some extremes of generosity, seems to be an asceticism which common good-nature would appoint to those who are at ease and in plenty, in sign that they feel a brotherhood with the great multitude of suffering men.
    OS 2.288 6 Among the multitude of scholars and authors we feel no hallowing presence;...
    Nat2 3.177 24 The multitude of false churches accredits the true religion.
    Nat2 3.187 4 The excess of fear with which the animal frame is hedged round...protects us, through a multitude of groundless alarms, from some one real danger at last.
    UGM 4.21 3 The veneration of mankind selects these [great men] for the highest place. Witness the multitude of statues, pictures and memorials which recall their genius in every city, village, house and ship...
    GoW 4.264 13 ...nature has more splendid endowments for those whom she elects to a superior office; for the class of scholars or writers, who see connection where the multitude see fragments...
    GoW 4.265 15 The ambitious and mercenary bring their last new mumbo-jumbo... and...easily succed in making it seen in a glare; and a multitude go mad about it...
    GoW 4.265 17 The ambitious and mercenary bring their last new mumbo-jumbo... and...easily succed in making it seen in a glare; and a multitude go mad about it, and they are not to be reproved or cured by the opposite multitude who are kept from this particular insanity by an equal frenzy on another crotchet.
    GoW 4.271 6 We conceive...modern life to respect a multitude of things, which is distracting.
    GoW 4.272 10 [Goethe's] Helena...is...the work of one who found himself the master of histories, mythologies, philosophies, sciences and national literatures, in the encyclopaedical manner in which modern erudition... researches into...geology, chemistry, astronomy; and every one of these kingdoms assuming a certain aerial and poetic character, by reason of the multitude.
    ET1 5.10 4 ...year after year the scholar must still go back to Landor for a multitude of elegant sentences;...
    ET3 5.38 27 The constant rain...keeps [England's] multitude of rivers full...
    ET11 5.182 3 A multitude of town palaces [in London] contain inestimable galleries of art.
    ET11 5.198 3 A multitude of English...are every day confronting the peers on a footing of equality...
    Pow 6.54 26 ...the multitude have no habit of self-reliance or original action.
    Wsp 6.212 22 ...the multitude of the sick shall not make us deny the existence of health.
    Elo1 7.61 10 One man is brought to the boiling-point by the excitement of conversation in the parlor. ... Another requires the additional caloric of a multitude and a public debate;...
    Elo1 7.64 26 The orator sees himself the organ of a multitude...
    DL 7.112 5 The shortest enumeration of our wants in this rugged climate appalls us by the multitude of things not easy to be done.
    DL 7.112 6 ...if you look at the multitude of particulars, one would say: Good housekeeping is impossible;...
    DL 7.125 23 ...the multitude do not hasten to be divine.
    Suc 7.293 16 It is the dulness of the multitude that they cannot see the house in the ground-plan;...
    PI 8.70 13 O celestial Bacchus!--drive them mad,--this multitude of vagabonds, hungry for eloquence...
    SA 8.103 12 ...[the American to be proud of] was the best talker...in the company...what with the multitude and distinction of his facts...
    Elo2 8.120 6 ...give [an eloquent man]...the inspiration of a great multitude, and he surprises by new and unlooked-for powers.
    QO 8.193 12 There is...a new charm in such intellectual works as, passing through long time, have had a multitude of authors and improvers.
    PC 8.217 5 I find the single mind equipollent to a multitude of minds...
    Insp 8.281 27 The wealth of the mind in this respect of seeing is like that of a looking-glass, which is never tired or worn by any multitude of objects which it reflects.
    Grts 8.314 16 [Napoleon] has left...a multitude of sayings...
    Dem1 10.14 19 ...while the whole multitude was on the way, an augur called out to them to stand still...
    Edc1 10.133 8 If I have renounced the search of truth...I have died to all use of these new events that are born out of prolific time into multitude of life every hour.
    Edc1 10.141 19 ...because of the disturbing effect of passion and sense, which by a multitude of trifles impede the mind's eye from the quiet search of that fine horizon-line which truth keeps,-the way to knowledge and power has ever been an escape from too much engagement with affairs and possessions;...
    Schr 10.282 21 ...it is the end of eloquence...to persuade a multitude of persons to renounce their opinions, and change the course of life.
    Plu 10.302 19 [Plutarch] has preserved for us a multitude of precious sentences...of authors whose books are lost;...
    ALin 11.333 11 [Lincoln] is the author of a multitude of good sayings...
    CPL 11.501 15 [Literature] is thought to be the harmless entertainment of a few fanciful persons, and not at all to be the interest of the multitude.
    FRep 11.538 9 It is not a question whether we shall be a multitude of people.
    CInt 12.116 17 ...if [colleges] could cause that a mind not profound should become profound,-we should all rush to their gates; instead of contriving inducements to draw students, you would need to set police at the gates to keep order in the in-rushing multitude.
    CInt 12.120 22 You, gentlemen, are selected out of the great multitude of your mates...
    CW 12.177 25 ...the naturalist has no barren places, no winter, and no night, pursuing his researches...in winter, because, remove the snow a little, a multitude of plants live and grow...
    MAng1 12.218 10 The Italian artists sanction this view of Beauty by describing it as il piu nell' uno...or multitude in unity...
    MAng1 12.238 19 Michael Angelo was of that class of men who are too superior to the multitude around them to command a full and perfect sympathy.

multitudes, n. (30)

    AmS 1.83 11 ...this fountain of power, has been so distributed to multitudes...that it is spilled into drops...
    LT 1.276 14 [The Reformers] do not rely on precisely that strength which wins me to their cause;...not on a principle, but...on multitudes...
    Lov1 2.170 18 ...[love] is a fire that kindling its first embers in the narrow nook of a private bosom...glows and enlarges until it warms and beams upon multitudes of men and women...
    Nat2 3.179 13 ...let us not longer omit our homage to the Efficient Nature... itself secret, its works driven before it in flocks and multitudes...
    Pol1 3.205 25 Under the dominion of an idea which possesses the minds of multitudes...the powers of persons are no longer subjects of calculation.
    SwM 4.132 10 ...when [Swedenborg's] visions become the stereotyped language of multitudes of persons of all degrees of age and capacity, they are perverted.
    NMW 4.246 5 [Napoleon's] capacious head...animating such multitudes of agents;...
    NMW 4.258 17 Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.
    ET3 5.37 23 The innumerable details [in England]...the multitudes of rich and of remarkable people...hide all boundaries by the impression of magnificence and endless wealth.
    ET8 5.129 18 Commerce sends abroad multitudes of different classes [of Englishmen].
    ET8 5.133 6 There are multitudes of rude young English who have the self-sufficiency and bluntness of their nation...
    ET14 5.244 1 The later English want the faculty of Plato and Aristotle, of grouping men in natural classes by an insight of general laws, so deep that the rule is deduced with equal precision...from one, as from multitudes of lives.
    ET18 5.300 18 Pauperism incrusts and clogs the [English] state, and in hard times becomes hideous. In bad seasons, the porridge was diluted. Multitudes lived miserably by shell-fish and sea-ware.
    ET18 5.300 26 During the Australian emigration [from England], multitudes were rejected by the commissioners as being too emaciated for useful colonists.
    Pow 6.80 6 Indifferent hacks and mediocrities tower, by pushing their forces to a lucrative point or by working power, over multitudes of superior men...
    Ctr 6.144 20 I knew a leading man in a leading city, who, having set his heart on an education at the university and missed it, could never quite feel himself the equal of his own brothers who had gone thither. His easy superiority to multitudes of professional men could never quite countervail to him this imaginary defect.
    Civ 7.23 20 We see insurmountable multitudes obeying...the restraints of a power which they scarcely perceive...
    DL 7.131 9 ...in the Sistine Chapel I see the grand sibyls and prophets, painted in fresco by Michel Angelo,--which have every day now for three hundred years...exalted the piety of what vast multitudes of men of all nations!
    Cour 7.273 8 ...it is not the means on which we draw, as...multitudes of followers, that count, but the aims only.
    QO 8.188 7 A more subtle and severe criticism might suggest that...that multitudes of men do not live with Nature...
    Dem1 10.3 22 'T is superfluous to think of the dreams of multitudes...
    Aris 10.45 14 It never troubles the Senator what multitudes crack the benches and bend the galleries to hear.
    SovE 10.192 9 The student discovers one day that he lives in enchantment... and through this enchanted gallery he is led by unseen guides to read and learn the laws of Heaven. This discovery may come early...and to multitudes of men wanting in mental activity it never comes...
    War 11.161 14 The star once risen...will mount and mount, until it becomes visible...to multitudes...
    FSLC 11.197 21 ...here are gentlemen whose believed probity was the confidence and fortification of multitudes, who...have been drawn into the support of this foul business [the Fugitive Slave Law].
    TPar 11.291 12 There were...multitudes to censure and defame this truth-speaker [Theodore Parker].
    ALin 11.334 27 If ever a man was fairly tested, [Lincoln] was. There was no lack of resistance, nor of slander, nor of ridicule. The times have allowed no state secrets;...such multitudes had to be trusted, that no secret could be kept.
    Wom 11.418 17 ...there are multitudes of men who live to objects quite out of them...
    SHC 11.434 6 In all the multitudes of woodlands and hillsides, which within a few years have been laid out with a similar design [as a cemetery], I have not known one so fitly named. Sleepy Hollow.
    PPr 12.389 8 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.

multitudinous, adj. (2)

    PPo 8.238 2 Oriental life and society...stand in violent contrast with the multitudinous detail...of the Western nations.
    LLNE 10.339 3 ...the humanity which was the aim of all the multitudinous works of Dickens;...was all on the side of the people.

mumble, v. (2)

    Tran 1.357 11 ...church and old book mumble and ritualize to an unheeding, preoccupied and advancing mind...
    MoS 4.167 3 As I look at [Montaigne's] effigy opposite the title-page, I seem to hear him say...I will rather mumble and prose about what I certainly know...

mumbleth, v. (1)

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

mumbling, n. (1)

    EWI 11.136 19 Out it would come, the God's truth, out it came [in emancipation in the West Indies]...for all the mumbling of the lawyers.

mumbling, v. (1)

    Prd1 2.241 5 ...begin where we will, we are pretty sure in a short space to be mumbling our ten commandments.

mumbo-jumbo, n. (1)

    GoW 4.265 11 The ambitious and mercenary bring their last new mumbo-jumbo... and...easily succed in making it seen in a glare;...

mummeries, n. (2)

    Wsp 6.209 8 ...the churches stagger backward to the mummeries of the Dark Ages.
    PPo 8.248 22 [Hafiz] tells his mistress that...certainly not [the monks' and the dervishes'] cowls and mummeries but her glances can impart to him the fire and virtue needful for such self-denial [of the ascetic and the saint].

mummery, n. (1)

    NR 3.228 26 ...men are steel-filings. Yet we unjustly select a particle, and say, O steel-filing number one!...what prodigious virtues are these of thine!... Whilst we speak the loadstone is withdrawn; down falls our filing in a heap with the rest, and we continue our mummery to the wretched shaving.

mummied, adj. (1)

    Chr2 10.90 2 For what need I of book or priest/ Or Sibyl from the mummied East/ When every star is Bethlehem Star,-/...

Mummies, Fragment on [Thoma (1)

    PI 8.51 7 It would not be easy to refuse to Sir Thomas Browne's Fragment on Mummies the claim of poetry...

mummy, n. (1)

    QO 8.204 1 Only as braveries of too prodigal power can we pardon it, when the life of genius is so redundant that out of petulance it flings its fire into some old mummy, and, lo! it walks and blushes again here in the street.

mummy-case, n. (1)

    ET11 5.188 20 In these [English] manors...the antiquary finds the frailest Roman jar or crumbling Egyptian mummy-case, without so much as a new layer of dust...

mummy-cases, n. (1)

    QO 8.179 13 ...the invention of yesterday of making wood indestructible by means of vapor of coal-oil or paraffine was suggested by the Egyptian method which has preserved its mummy-cases four thousand years.

mummy-pits, n. (2)

    Hist 2.11 11 Belzoni digs and measures in the mummy-pits and pyramids of Thebes until he can see the end of the difference between the monstrous work and himself.
    WD 7.175 10 ...that flexile clay of which these old brothers moulded their admirable symbols...was that clay which thou heldest but now in thy foolish hands, and threwest away to go and seek in vain in sepulchres, mummy-pits and old book-shops of Asia Minor, Egypt and England.

mumps, n. (1)

    SL 2.132 16 These [problems of original sin, origin of evil, predestination and the like] are the soul's mumps and measles and whooping-coughs...

Munchausen, Baron [Rudolph (1)

    QO 8.186 26 The popular incident of Baron Munchausen, who hung his bugle up by the kitchen fire and the frozen tune thawed out, is found in Greece in Plato's time.

mundane, adj. (1)

    Lov1 2.178 21 ...[the maiden] indemnifies [the lover] by carrying out her own being into somewhat impersonal, large, mundane...

Mundt's, Theodore, n. (1)

    Let 12.399 19 ...in Theodore Mundt's account of Frederic Holderlin's Hyperion, we were not a little struck with the following Jeremiad of the despair of Germany...

Mungo, n. (1)

    ET1 5.16 23 [Carlyle] had read in Stewart's book that when he inquired in a New York hotel for the Boots, he had been shown across the street and had found Mungo in his own house dining on roast turkey.

Munich, Germany, n. (3)

    YA 1.367 11 There is no feature of the old countries that strikes an American with more agreeable surprise than the beautiful gardens of Europe; such as...the gardens at Munich and at Frankfort on the Main...
    GoW 4.283 3 ...the [German] professor can not divest himself of the fancy that the truths of philosophy have some application to Berlin and Munich.
    ET5 5.96 26 [The Board of Trade of England] caused to be translated from foreign languages and illustrated by elaborate drawings, the most approved works of Munich, Berlin and Paris.

municipal, adj. (17)

    Nat 1.32 13 Did it need...this host of orbs in heaven, to furnish man with the dictionary and grammar of his municipal speech?
    Fdsp 2.205 16 ...we cannot forgive the poet if he...does not substantiate his romance by the municipal virtues of justice, punctuality, fidelity and pity.
    Gts 3.165 6 There are persons from whom we always expect fairy-tokens; let us not cease to expect them. This is prerogative, and not to be limited by our municipal rules.
    NR 3.232 1 How wise the world appears, when...the completeness of the municipal system is considered!
    ShP 4.201 9 Every book supplies its time with one good word; every municipal law, every trade, every folly of the day;...
    ShP 4.217 19 [Shakespeare] was master of the revels to mankind. Is it not as if one should have...the comets given into his hand...and should draw them from their orbits to glare with the municipal fireworks on a holiday night...
    ET14 5.246 14 The essays, the fiction and the poetry of the day [in England] have the like municipal limits.
    ET15 5.264 14 [The London Times] has entered into each municipal, literary and social question...
    Art2 7.41 2 It was said, in allusion to the great structures of the ancient Romans, the aqueducts and bridges, that their Art was a Nature working to municiple ends.
    DL 7.131 27 Obviously, it would be easy for every town to discharge this truly municipal duty [of a library and museum].
    PI 8.71 22 ...for obvious municipal or parietal uses God has given us a bias or a rest on to-day's forms.
    Supl 10.165 17 The books say, It made my hair stand on end! Who, in our municipal life, ever had such an experience?
    SlHr 10.445 15 ...the vigor of [Samuel Hoar's] understanding was directed on the ordinary domestic and municipal well-being.
    EWI 11.111 2 There is no end to the tragic anecdotes in the municipal records of the [West Indian] colonies.
    FSLC 11.204 15 Not the smallest municipal provision, if it were new, would receive [Webster's] sanction.
    TPar 11.289 25 ...[Theodore Parker] insisted...that the essence of Christianity is its practical morals;...and if you combine it...with ordinary city ambitions to gloze over municipal corruptions...it is a hypocrisy...
    MLit 12.318 4 All over the modern world the educated and susceptible have betrayed their discontent with the limits of our municipal life...

munificence, n. (5)

    NR 3.241 17 ...is not munificence the means of insight?
    SwM 4.111 17 This startling reappearance of Swedenborg...is not the least remarkable fact in his history. Aided it is said by the munificence of Mr. Clissold, and also by his literary skill, this piece of poetic justice is done.
    DL 7.114 4 ...we desire the elegance of munificence;...
    HDC 11.49 24 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 governments of Europe;...
    CPL 11.495 21 In the details of this munificence, we may all anticipate a sudden and lasting prosperity to this ancient town [Concord], in the benefit of a noble library..

muniment, n. (1)

    Wsp 6.222 22 We cannot spare the coarsest muniment of virtue.

muniments, n. (1)

    Con 1.320 23 ...if [the people] are not instructed to sympathize with the intelligent, reading, trading, and governing class;...they will...perhaps lay a hand on the sacred muniments of wealth itself...

munitions, n. (1)

    HCom 11.343 10 ...the infusion of culture and tender humanity from these scholars and idealists who went to the war in their own despite...had its signal and lasting effect. It was found that enthusiasm was a more potent ally than science and munitions of war without it.

Munroe, William, n. (1)

    CPL 11.496 12 ...I am not sure that when Boston learns the good deed of Mr. Munroe [building of Concord Library], it will not be a little envious...

Munroe's, William, n. (1)

    CPL 11.497 21 The chairman of Mr. [William] Munroe's trustees has told you how old is the foundation of our village library...

muove, v. (1)

    Exp 3.55 8 This onward trick of nature is too strong for us: Pero si muove.

Murad [Amurath] IV, of Pe (1)

    GoW 4.263 17 ...if we knew the genesis of fine strokes of eloquence, they might recall the complaisance of Sultan Amurath, who struck off some Persian heads, that his physician, Vesalius, might see the spasms in the muscles of the neck.

Murat, Joachim, n. (1)

    NMW 4.244 11 ...ample acknowledgements are made by [Napoleon] to... Massena, Murat...

murder, n. (15)

    DSA 1.123 7 ...murder will speak out of stone walls.
    DSA 1.150 7 All attempts to contrive a system are as cold as the new worship introduced by the French to the goddess of Reason...ending to-morrow in madness and murder.
    Tran 1.336 13 In the play of Othello, the expiring Desdemona absolves her husband of the murder, to her attendant Emilia.
    Exp 3.78 17 Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it;...
    Chr1 3.98 13 What have I gained...that I do not tremble before...the Calvinistic Judgment-day,--if I quake...at the rumor of revolution, or of murder?
    Dem1 10.20 27 ...the fabled ring of Gyges...is simply mischievous. A new or private language...the steam battery, so fatal as to put an end to war by the threat of universal murder;...are of this kind.
    Aris 10.55 15 ...the thought has...no murder, no envy, no crime...
    Aris 10.63 12 ...the revolution comes, and does [the man of honor] join the standard of Chartist and outlaw? No, for these...are full of murder...
    Carl 10.491 20 [Carlyle] treats [young men] with contempt;...they praise moral suasion, he goes for murder, money, capital punishment and other pretty abominations of English law.
    EWI 11.115 4 Some American captains left the shore and put to sea [at the announcement of emancipation in the West Indies], anticipating insurrection and general murder.
    FSLC 11.187 14 Here is a statute [the Fugitive Slave Law] which enacts the crime of kidnapping,-a crime on one footing with arson and murder.
    FSLC 11.191 4 ...if any human law should allow or enjoin us to commit a crime ([Blackstone's] instance is murder), we are bound to transgress that human law;...
    FSLC 11.195 7 By the law of Congress, March 2, 1807, it is piracy and murder, punishable by death, to enslave a man on the coast of Africa.
    FSLC 11.195 13 By law of Congress September, 1850, it is a high crime and misdemeanor, punishable with fine and imprisonment, to resist the reenslaving a man on the coast of America. Off soundings, it is piracy and murder to enslave him. On soundings, it is fine and prison not to reenslave.
    Bost 12.208 2 I know that this history [of Massachusetts] contains many black lines of cruel injustice; murder, persecution, and execution of women for witchcraft.

Murder, n. (1)

    Trag 12.409 10 Hark! what sounds on the night wind, the cry of Murder in that friendly house;...

murder, v. (1)

    ET4 5.58 20 ...[the Norsemen's] chief end of man is to murder or to be murdered;...

murdered, v. (2)

    ET4 5.58 20 ...[the Norsemen's] chief end of man is to murder or to be murdered;...
    AKan 11.256 16 Do the Committee of Investigation say that the outrages [in Kansas] have been overstated? Does their dismal catalogue of private tragedies show it? Do the private letters? Is it an exaggeration, that...Mr. Jennison of Groton, Mr. Phillips of Berkshire, have been murdered?

murderer, n. (1)

    Exp 3.78 17 Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it;...

murderer's, n. (1)

    AsSu 11.251 16 ...this noble head [Charles Sumner]...must be the target for a pair of bullies to beat with clubs. The murderer's brand shall stamp their foreheads wherever they may wander in the earth.

murderous, adj. (1)

    War 11.157 27 ...the art of war...has made...battles less frequent and less murderous.

murders, v. (1)

    PPo 8.245 19 The earth is a host who murders his guests.

murder-stroke, n. (1)

    FSLN 11.239 14 ...For evil word shall evil word be said,/ For murder-stroke a murder-stroke be paid./ Who smites must smart./

murex, n. (1)

    ET6 5.111 18 The Englishman is finished like a cowry or a murex.

murmur, n. (3)

    DSA 1.136 4 ...this ill-suppressed murmur of all thoughtful men against the famine of our churches;...should be heard...
    SR 2.68 14 When a man lives with God, his voice shall be as sweet as the murmur of the brook...
    Farm 7.150 3 ...in this very year, a large quantity of land has been discovered and added to the town [of Concord] without a murmur of complaint from any quarter.

murmur, v. (4)

    Nat 1.32 2 At the call of a noble sentiment, again...the pines murmur...
    ET14 5.255 9 No [English] poet dares murmur of beauty out of the precinct of his rhymes.
    FSLC 11.196 22 But worse, not the officials alone are bribed [by the Fugitive Slave Law], but the whole community is solicited. The scowl of the community is attempted to be averted by the mischievous whisper, Tariff and Southern market, if you will be quiet: no tariff and loss of Southern market, if you dare to murmur.
    TPar 11.292 11 ...you [Theodore Parker] will already be consoled in the transfer of your genius, knowing well that the nature of the world will affirm...that which for twenty-five years you valiantly spoke; that the winds of Italy murmur the same truth over your grave;...

murmured, v. (1)

    PI 8.4 25 ...somewhat was murmured in our ear that dwindled astronomy into a toy;...

murmuring, v. (1)

    RBur 11.443 3 The west winds are murmuring [the memory of Burns].

murmurs, n. (2)

    ET4 5.52 19 The Scandinavians in [the English] race still hear in every age the murmurs of their mother, the ocean;...
    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./

murmurs, v. (2)

    Exp 3.56 20 ...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.
    ET16 5.288 23 There, in that great sloven continent [America]...still sleeps and murmurs and hides the great mother...

Murray, John [Duke of Atho (1)

    ET11 5.189 4 The Dukes of Athol, Sutherland, Buccleugh and the Marquis of Breadalbane have introduced the rape-culture...

Murray, John, n. (1)

    ET4 5.71 4 The more vigorous [Englishmen] run out of the island...to Africa and Australia, to hunt with fury...all the game that is in nature. These men have written the game-books of all countries, as Hawker, Scrope, Murray...

Murray, William [Lord Mans [Murray,] (10)

    ET5 5.90 17 They are excellent judges in England of a good worker, and when they find one, like...Mansfield, Pitt, Eldon...there is nothing too good or too high for him.
    ET15 5.262 2 So your grace likes the comfort of reading the newspapers, said Lord Mansfield to the Duke of Northumberland; mark my words;... these newspapers will most assuredly write the Dukes of Northumberland out of their titles...
    EWI 11.105 27 [Granville] Sharpe protected the [West Indian] slave. In consulting with the lawyers, they told Sharpe the laws were against him. Sharpe would not believe it; no prescription on earth could ever render such iniquities legal. But the decisions are against you, and Lord Mansfield, now Chief Justice of England, leans to the decisions.
    EWI 11.106 11 ...when [Granville Sharpe] brought the case of George Somerset, another slave, before Lord Mansfield, the slavish decisions were set aside, and equity affirmed.
    EWI 11.106 22 ...[George Somerset's] case was adjourned again and again, and judgment delayed. At last judgment was demanded, and on the 22d June, 1772, Lord Mansfield is reported to have decided...
    EWI 11.140 19 In the case of the ship Zong, in 1781, whose master had thrown one hundred and thirty-two slaves alive into the sea...the first jury gave a verdict in favor of the master and owners: they had a right to do what they had done. Lord Mansfield is reported to have said on the bench, The matter left to the jury is,-Was it from necessity?
    FSLC 11.191 11 Lord Coke held that where an Act of Parliament is against common right and reason, the common law shall control it, and adjudge it to be void. Chief Justice Hobart, Chief Justice Holt, and Chief Justice Mansfield held the same.
    FSLC 11.191 12 Lord Mansfield...said, I care not for the supposed dicta of judges, however eminent, if they be contrary to all principle.
    FSLC 11 214 5 ...one, two, three occasions have just now occurred, and past, in either of which, if one man had felt the spirit of Coke or Mansfield or Parsons, and read the law with the eye of freedom, the dishonor of Massachusetts had been prevented...
    FSLN 11.225 23 There was the same law in England for Jeffries and Talbot and Yorke to read slavery out of, and for Lord Mansfield to read freedom.

Murray's, William [Earl of [Murray's] (2)

    Elo1 7.88 12 Lord Mansfield's merit is the merit of common sense.
    Elo1 7.88 17 Each of Mansfield's famous decisions contains a level sentence or two which hit the mark.

Murray's, William [Lord Ma (1)

    EWI 11.106 13 ...when [Granville Sharpe] brought the case of George Somerset, another slave, before Lord Mansfield, the slavish decisions were set aside, and equity affirmed. There is a sparkle of God's righteousness in Lord Mansfield's judgment, which does the heart good.

Musagetes, n. (1)

    Insp 8.286 9 ...I thank the annoying insect/ For many a golden hour./ Stand, then, for me, ye tormenting creatures,/ Highly praised by the poet/ As the true Musagetes./

muscle, n. (6)

    SR 2.85 7 [The civilized man] is supported on crutches, but lacks so much support of muscle.
    ET4 5.46 22 We anticipate in the doctrine of race something like that law of physiology that whatever bone, muscle, or essential organ is found in one healthy individual, the same part or organ may be found in or near the same place in its congener;...
    ET8 5.139 10 Even the scale of expense on which people live...proves the tension of [English] muscle...
    Pow 6.66 17 It is an esoteric doctrine of society that a little wickedness is good to make muscle;...
    Comc 8.163 1 The peace of society and the decorum of tables seem to require that next to a notable wit should always be posted a phlegmatic bolt-upright man, able to stand without movement of muscle whole broadsides of this Greek fire.
    Aris 10.56 8 Others I meet...who denude and strip one of all attributes but material values. As much health and muscle as you have...avails.

muscles, n. (12)

    SR 2.55 23 The muscles...grow tight about the outline of the face...
    MoS 4.153 1 Spence relates that Mr. Pope was with Sir Godfrey Kneller one day, when his nephew, a Guinea trader, came in. Nephew, said Sir Godfrey, you have the honor of seeing the two greatest men in the world. I don't know how great men you may be, said the Guinea man, but I don't like your looks. I have often bought a man much better than both of you, all muscles and bones, for ten guineas.
    NMW 4.258 2 [Napoleon's egotism] resembled the torpedo, which inflicts a succession of shocks on any one who takes hold of it, producing spasms which contract the muscles of the hand, so that the man can not open his fingers;...
    GoW 4.263 19 ...if we knew the genesis of fine strokes of eloquence, they might recall the complaisance of Sultan Amurath, who struck off some Persian heads, that his physician, Vesalius, might see the spasms in the muscles of the neck.
    ET4 5.71 9 I suppose the dogs and horses [in England] must be thanked for the fact that the men have muscles almost as tough and supple as their own.
    Wth 6.121 19 How often we must remember the art of the surgeon, which, in replacing the broken bone, contents itself with releasing the parts from false position; they fly into place by the action of the muscles.
    Civ 7.27 16 ...see [the carpenter] on the ground, dressing his timber under him. Now, not his feeble muscles but the force of gravity brings down the axe;...
    Dem1 10.24 21 While the dilettanti have been prying into the humors and muscles of the eye, simple men will have helped themselves and the world by using their eyes.
    Bost 12.196 19 New England lies in the cold and hostile latitude, which by shutting men up in houses and tight and heated rooms a large part of the year...takes from the muscles their suppleness...
    MAng1 12.220 4 The human form, says Goethe, cannot be comprehended through seeing its surface. It must be stripped of the muscles...
    MAng1 12.221 14 When Michael Angelo would begin a statue, he made first on paper the skeleton; afterwards, upon another paper, the same figure clothed with muscles.
    Milt1 12.256 19 The muscles, the nerves and the flesh with which this skeleton is to be filled out and covered exist in [Milton's] works and must be sought there.

muscular, adj. (9)

    DSA 1.121 18 The child amidst his baubles is learning the action of... muscular force;...
    Exp 3.58 16 Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity.
    Art2 7.42 20 ...in our handiwork, we do few things by muscular force...
    Art2 7.49 5 ...we do not dig, or grind, or hew, by our muscular strength...
    OA 7.335 21 When life has been well spent, age is a loss of what it can well spare,--muscular strength, organic instincts, gross bulk...
    Comc 8.159 17 We have a primary association between perfectness and this [human] form. But the facts that occur when actual men enter do not make good this anticipation; a discrepancy which is at once detected by the intellect, and the outward sign is the muscular irritation of laughter.
    PerF 10.72 23 The husbandry learned in the economy of heat or light or steam or muscular fibre applies precisely to the use of wit.
    EWI 11.147 16 The genius of the Saxon race, friendly to liberty; the enterprise, the very muscular vigor of this nation, are inconsistent with slavery.
    WSL 12.337 2 We sometimes meet in a stage-coach in New England an erect, muscular man...whose nervous speech instantly betrays the English traveller;...

muse, n. (44)

    Nat 1.52 16 [Shakspeare's] imperial muse tosses the creation like a bauble from hand to hand...
    Nat 1.68 15 A perception of this mystery inspires the muse of George Herbert...
    AmS 1.113 5 Especially did [Swedenborg's] shade-loving muse hover over and interpret the lower parts of nature;...
    LE 1.176 5 We...talk of muse and prophet...
    SR 2.47 10 A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace. It is a deliverance which does not deliver. In the attempt...no muse befriends;...
    Pt1 3.38 19 ...I am not wise enough for a national criticism, and must use the old largeness a little longer, to discharge my errand from the muse to the poet concerning his art.
    Pt1 3.41 10 [O poet] Thou shalt leave the world, and know the muse only.
    Pt1 3.41 12 [O poet] Thou shalt not know any longer the times, customs, graces, politics, or opinions of men, but shalt take all from the muse.
    Nat2 3.175 20 The muse herself betrays her son [the poor young poet]...
    SwM 4.134 24 That Hebrew muse, which taught the lore of right and wrong to men, had the same excess of influence for [Swedenborg] it has had for the nations.
    SwM 4.141 17 The sad muse [Swedenborg] loves night and death and the pit.
    GoW 4.271 25 ...there is no trace of provincial limitation in [Goethe's] muse.
    ET14 5.232 22 The English muse loves the farmyard, the lane and market.
    ET14 5.251 23 The voice of [Englishmen's] modern muse has a slight hint of the steam-whistle...
    ET17 5.298 10 New means were employed, and new realms added to the empire of the muse, by [Wordsworth's] courage.
    Pow 6.74 27 The poet Campbell said...that, for himself, necessity, not inspiration, was the prompter of his muse.
    CbW 6.265 21 ...despair is no muse...
    Art2 7.50 9 [Good poets] found the verse, not made it. The muse brought it to them.
    QO 8.203 24 ...no man suspects the superior merit of [Cook's or Henry's] description, until...the artist arrive, and mix so much art with their picture that the incomparable advantage of the first narrative appears. For the same reason we dislike that the poet should choose an antique or far-fetched subject for his muse...
    PC 8.225 18 The highest flight to which the muse of Horace ascended was in that triplet of lines in which he described the souls which can calmly confront the sublimity of Nature...
    PPo 8.251 9 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...
    Insp 8.279 25 Health is the first muse...
    Insp 8.280 7 I honor health as the first muse...
    Insp 8.282 16 [Herbert's] health had broken down early, he had lost his muse...
    Insp 8.290 19 Certain localities...are excitants of the muse.
    Dem1 10.26 20 [Adepts in occult facts] are...by laws of kind,-dunces seeking dunces in the dark of what they call the spiritual world,-preferring snores and gastric noises to the voice of any muse.
    Supl 10.179 7 There is no writing which has more electric power to unbind and animate the torpid intellect than the bold Eastern muse.
    SovE 10.187 26 Montaigne kills off bigots as cowhage kills worms; but there is a higher muse there sitting where he durst not soar...
    Plu 10.320 4 [Plutarch] thought it wonderful that a man having a muse in his own breast...would have pipes and harps play...
    Thor 10.464 22 ...[Thoreau] said, one day, The other world is all my art;...I do not use it as a means. This was the muse and genius that ruled his opinions, conversation, studies, work and course of life.
    RBur 11.440 18 [Burns's] muse and teaching was common sense...
    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...
    II 12.71 27 The muse may be defined, Supervoluntary ends effected by supervoluntary means.
    II 12.78 26 ...despair is no muse...
    Milt1 12.269 21 [Milton's] muse was brave and humane, as well as sweet.
    Milt1 12.277 18 What schools and epochs of common rhymers would it need to make a counterbalance to the severe oracles of [Milton's] muse...
    Milt1 12.277 23 The lover of Milton reads one sense in his prose and in his metrical compositions, and sometimes the muse soars highest in the former, because the thought is more sincere.
    ACri 12.294 12 [Shakespeare's] muse is moral simply from its depth...
    MLit 12.309 15 We go musing into the vault of day and night;...no muse descends...
    MLit 12.319 17 [Shelley's] muse is uniformly imitative;...
    MLit 12.321 7 Here [in the First Book of Wordsworth's The Excursion] was...a sure index where the subtle muse was about to pitch her tent and find the argument of her song.
    MLit 12.327 6 It is all design with [Goethe]...but of Shakspeare and the transcendent muse, no syllable.
    EurB 12.369 8 ...the spirit of literature and the modes of living and the conventional theories of the conduct of life were called in question [by Wordsworth] on wholly new grounds...from the lessons which the country muse taught a stout pedestrian climbing a mountain...
    Let 12.400 24 Full of love, talent and hope spring up the darlings of the muse among the Germans;...

Muse, n. (18)

    Hist 2.8 4 The student is...to esteem his own life the text [of history], and books the commentary. Thus compelled, the Muse of history will utter oracles, as never to those who do not respect themselves.
    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.
    Int 2.338 13 ...the kingdom of thought has no inclosures, but the Muse makes us free of her city.
    Exp 3.72 21 Fortune, Minerva, Muse, Holy Ghost,--these are quaint names, too narrow to cover this unbounded substance.
    Ctr 6.161 25 Ben Jonson specifies in his address to the Muse:--Get him the time's long grudge, the court's ill-will,/ And, reconciled, keep him suspected still./ Make him lose all his friends, and what is worse,/ Almost all ways to any better course;/ With me thou leav'st a better Muse than thee,/ And which thou brought'st me, blessed Poverty./
    Ctr 6.162 3 Ben Jonson specifies in his address to the Muse:--...Make him lose all his friends, and what is worse,/ Almost all ways to any better course;/ With me thou leav'st a better Muse than thee,/ And which thou brought'st me, blessed Poverty./
    CbW 6.243 17 The richest of all lords is Use,/ And ruddy Health the loftiest Muse./
    PI 8.2 3 For Fancy's gift/ Can mountains lift;/ The Muse can knit/ What is past, what is done,/ With the web that 's just begun;/...
    PI 8.65 7 The Muse [of Poetry] shall be the counterpart of Nature...
    PI 8.66 6 The poet must let Humanity sit with the Muse in his head...
    Schr 10.262 3 ...in the worldly habits which harden us, we find with some surprise...that those excellent influences which men in all ages have called the Muse, or by some kindred name, come in to keep us warm and true;...
    Schr 10.287 23 Give me bareness and poverty so that I know them as the sure heralds of the Muse.
    Plu 10.306 20 The central fact is the superhuman intelligence, pouring into us from its unknown fountain, to be...defended from any mixture of our will. But this high Muse comes and goes;...
    Plu 10.306 21 ...the danger is that, when the Muse is wanting, the student is prone to supply its place with microscopic subtleties and logomachy.
    MMEm 10.404 20 Destitution is the Muse of [Mary Moody Emerson's] genius,-Destitution and Death.
    FSLN 11.242 12 [American universities] have forgotten their allegiance to the Muse...
    CInt 12.127 1 ...here [in the college] Imagination should be greeted with the problems in which it delights; the noblest tasks to the Muse proposed...
    MLit 12.331 21 Poetry is with Goethe thus external...but the Muse never assays those thunder-tones which cause to vibrate the sun and the moon...

muse, v. (1)

    SS 7.9 1 ...we sit and muse and are serene and complete;...

mused, v. (1)

    Cir 2.307 16 I thought as I...mused on my friends, why should I play with them this game of idolatry?

Muses, Leader of the, n. (1)

    Insp 8.284 19 Goethe acknowledges [the fine influences of the morning] in the poem in which he dislodges the nightingale from her place as Leader of the Muses...

muses, n. (12)

    AmS 1.114 10 We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe.
    Hsm1 2.257 15 Where the heart is, there the muses...
    Pt1 3.21 26 ...language is...a sort of tomb of the muses.
    Exp 3.80 27 ...all the muses and love and religion hate these [intellectual] developments...
    Mrs1 3.150 25 ...besides those who make good in our imagination the place of muses and of Delphic Sibyls, are there not women who fill our vase with wine and roses to the brim...
    ET16 5.278 23 The chief mystery [of Stonehenge] is, that any mystery should have been allowed to settle on so remarkable a monument, in a country on which all the muses have kept their eyes now for eighteen hundred years.
    PPo 8.259 13 ...the celerity of flight and allusion which our colder muses forbid, is habitual to [Hafiz].
    Insp 8.281 10 ...I fancy that my logs...are a kind of muses.
    Insp 8.284 22 Often in deep midnights/ I called on the sweet muses./
    Insp 8.291 23 ...the delicate muses lose their head if their attention is once diverted.
    Supl 10.166 18 I hear without sympathy the complaint of young and ardent persons that they find life no region of romance, with no enchanter, no giant, no fairies, nor even muses.
    II 12.77 24 ...one day, though far off, you will attain the control of these [higher] states;...you will do what now the muses only sing.

Muses, n. (10)

    Lov1 2.171 25 With thought, with the ideal, is...the rose of joy. Round it all the Muses sing.
    Fdsp 2.195 2 High thanks I owe you, excellent lovers, who...enlarge the meaning of all my thoughts. These are...Apollo and the Muses chanting still.
    Pol1 3.197 15 When the Muses nine/ With the Virtues meet,/ Find to their design/ An Atlantic seat,/ By green orchard boughs/ Fended from the heat,/ Where the statesman ploughs/ Furrow for the wheat;/ .../ Then the perfect State is come,/ The republican at home./
    Wth 6.109 10 [The New Hampshire youth in the city] will perhaps find by and by that he left the Muses at the door of the hotel, and found the Furies inside.
    Ctr 6.166 18 [Man] will convert the Furies into Muses...
    SS 7.3 7 I fell in with a humorist on my travels, who had in his chamber a cast of the Rondanini Medusa, and who assured me that...he was convinced that the sculptor who carved it intended it for Memory, the mother of the Muses.
    Elo1 7.59 1 For whom the Muses smile upon,/ And touch with soft persuasion,/ His words, like a storm-wind, can bring/ Terror and beauty on their wing;/...
    Insp 8.268 2 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 8.286 2 Vigorous, I spring from my couch,/ Seek the beloved Muses/...
    Mem 12.95 22 ...the poets represented the Muses as the daughters of Memory...

muses', n. (1)

    PI 8.72 26 The inexorable rule in the muses' court, either inspiration or silence, compels the bard to report only his supreme moments.

Muses', n. (1)

    Lov1 2.170 26 ...it is to be hoped that by patience and the Muses' aid we may attain to that inward view of the law which shall describe a truth ever young and beautiful...

muses, v. (1)

    Nat 1.72 3 ...sometimes [man]...muses strangely at the resemblance betwixt himself and [his house].

Museum, Agassiz's, Harvard (1)

    Res 8.151 26 ...how hungry I found myself, the other day, at Agassiz's Museum, for [shells'] names!

Museum, Ashmolean, Oxford, (1)

    ET12 5.201 13 I saw [at Oxford] the Ashmolean Museum...

Museum, British, n. (8)

    MoS 4.163 20 ...the duplicate copy of Florio, which the British Museum purchased with a view of protecting the Shakspeare autograph...turned out to have the autograph of Ben Jonson in the fly-leaf.
    MoS 4.163 23 ...the duplicate copy of Florio, which the British Museum purchased with a view of protecting the Shakspeare autograph (as I was informed in the Museum), turned out to have the autograph of Ben Jonson in the fly-leaf.
    ET11 5.181 18 The Duke of Bedford includes or included a mile square in the heart of London, where the British Museum, once Montague House, now stands...
    ET16 5.274 15 [Carlyle] wishes to go through the British Museum in silence...
    ET17 5.293 19 Among the privileges of London, I recall with pleasure two or three signal days...one at the Museum, where Sir Charles Fellowes explained in detail the history of his Ionic trophy-monument;...
    Boks 7.193 6 We look over with a sigh the monumental libraries of Paris, of the Vatican and the British Museum.
    Edc1 10.146 14 ...[Fellowes] was able to reconstruct, in the British perfect model of the Ionic trophy-monument...
    PLT 12.22 12 If we go through the British Museum...or any cabinet where is some representation of all the kingdoms of Nature, we are surprised with occult sympathies;...

Museum, Cambridge, England, (1)

    ET16 5.278 14 I, who had just come from Professor Sedgwick's Cambridge Museum of megatheria and mastodons, was ready to maintain that some cleverer elephants or mylodonta had borne off and laid these rocks [of Stonehenge] one on another.

Museum, Hunterian, London, (1)

    ET17 5.293 24 Among the privileges of London, I recall with pleasure two or three signal days...one at the Museum...and still another, on which Mr. [Richard] Owen accompanied my countryman Mr. H[illard]. and myself through the Hunterian Museum.

museum, n. (11)

    LE 1.177 24 [The scholar's] needs...are keys that open to him the beautiful museum of human life.
    ET5 5.94 9 ...from first to last [England] is a museum of anomalies.
    ET6 5.107 24 ...with the national tendency to sit fast in the same spot for many generations, [the Englishman's house] comes to be, in the course of time, a museum of heirlooms...
    ET11 5.188 5 ...[the English nobility] are they who make England that strongbox and museum it is;...
    Ctr 6.148 18 In town [a man] can find...the museum of natural history;...
    DL 7.130 2 ...let [a man] not...seek to turn his house into a museum.
    DL 7.130 27 ...I think the public museum in each town will one day relieve the private house of this charge of owning and exhibiting [statues and pictures].
    DL 7.131 15 I wish to find in my own town a library and museum which is the property of the town, where I can deposit this precious treasure [engravings of Michelangelo's sibyls and prophets]...
    Cour 7.275 27 The Medical College piles up in its museum its grim monsters of morbid anatomy...
    PI 8.8 5 Anatomy, osteology, exhibit arrested or progessive ascent in each kind; the lower pointing to the higher forms, the higher to the highest...as if the whole animal world were only a Hunterian museum to exhibit the genesis of mankind.
    Supl 10.163 19 We talk, sometimes, with people whose conversation would lead you to suppose that they had lived in a museum...

Museum, Sir John Soane's, (1)

    ET3 5.38 5 ...what they told me was the merit of Sir John Soane's Museum, in London,--that it was well packed and well saved,--is the merit of England;...

Museums, British, n. (1)

    Wth 6.96 14 It is the interest of all men that there should be...British Museums...

museums, n. (7)

    Con 1.311 4 [Existing institutions] have lost no time and spared no expense to collect libraries, museums, galleries, colleges, palaces, hospitals, observatories, cities.
    Pol1 3.220 15 ...when [men] are pure enough to abjure the code of force they will be wise enough to see how these public ends...of museums and libraries...can be answered.
    ET16 5.274 5 I thought it natural that [travelling Americans] should give...a little [time] to scientific clubs and museums, which, at this moment, make London very attractive.
    War 11.166 22 ...bayonet and sword...will be transferred to the museums of the curious...
    SHC 11.433 15 Here [at Sleepy Hollow] we may establish that most agreeable of all museums...
    FRep 11.511 18 Wedgwood, the eminent potter, bravely took the sculptor Flaxman to counsel, who said, Send to Italy, search the museums for the forms of old Etruscan vases...
    CInt 12.122 6 ...it happens often that the wellbred and refined...dwelling amidst colleges, churches, and scientific museums...are more vicious and malignant than the rude country people...

mush, n. (3)

    MR 1.254 22 Have you not seen in the woods...a poor fungus or mushroom,-a plant...that seemed nothing but a soft mush or jelly,-by its... gentle pushing, manage to break its way up through the frosty ground...
    Fdsp 2.208 23 I hate, where I looked for...at least a manly resistance, to find a mush of concession.
    SA 8.107 6 Any other affection between men than this geometric one of relation to the same thing, is a mere mush of materialism.

mushroom, adj. (1)

    PC 8.212 18 Geology...has had the effect to throw an air of novelty and mushroom speed over entire history.

mushroom, n. (2)

    MR 1.254 20 Have you not seen in the woods...a poor fungus or mushroom...by its...gentle pushing, manage to break its way up through the frosty ground...
    SHC 11.436 20 The being that can share a thought and feeling so sublime as confidence in truth is no mushroom.

mushrooms, n. (1)

    ET5 5.84 8 You dine with a gentleman [in England] on venison, pheasant, quail, pigeons, poultry, mushrooms and pine-apples, all the growth of his estate.

Music, Cave of, n. (1)

    ET1 5.22 24 [Wordsworth's] second [sonnet on Fingal's Cave] alludes to the name of the cave, which is Cave of Music;...

Music, Doctor of, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.363 19 There [at Brook Farm] was the accomplished Doctor of Music [John S. Dwight]...

Music Hall, Boston Massach (1)

    TPar 11.288 14 ...[it will be] in the plain lessons of Theodore Parker in this Music Hall...that the true temper and the authentic record of these days will be read.

music, n. (158)

    Nat 1.18 7 ...every withered stem and stubble rimed with frost, contribute something to the mute music.
    Nat 1.43 21 ...architecture is called frozen music, by De Stael and Goethe.
    Nat 1.54 7 Prospero calls for music to soothe the frantic Alonzo...
    Nat 1.69 12 Music and light attend our head./
    AmS 1.103 27 ...the deeper [the orator] dives into his privatest, secretest presentiment, to his wonder he finds this is the most...universally true. The people delight in it; the better part of every man feels, This is my music; this is myself.
    DSA 1.133 21 ...with yet more entire consent of my human being, sounds in my ear the severe music of the bards that have sung of the true God in all ages.
    DSA 1.134 23 ...somehow [the seer] publishes [his dream] with solemn joy...sometimes in anthems of indefinite music;...
    LE 1.177 17 How can [the scholar] catch and keep the strain of upper music that peals from [human life]?
    MN 1.192 6 I love the music of the water-wheel;...
    MN 1.200 14 ...like a strain of music...[the dance of the hours] is inexact and boundless.
    MN 1.209 26 If [a man] listen with insatiable ears...the sound swells to a ravishing music...
    MN 1.219 5 [Genius] is sun and moon and wave and fire in music...
    MR 1.245 7 ...we shall dwell like the ancient Romans in narrow tenements, whilst our public edifices, like theirs, will be worthy...for music...
    LT 1.263 4 I do not wonder at the miracles which poetry attributes to the music of Orpheus...
    LT 1.264 7 ...I find the Age walking about...in strong eyes and pleasant thoughts, and think I read it nearer and truer so, than...in the investments of capital, which rather celebrate with mournful music the obsequies of the last age.
    Con 1.322 6 ...wherever he sees anything that will keep men amused... music, or what not, [every honest fellow] must cry Hist-a-boy, and urge the game on.
    Hist 2.12 8 When we have gone through this process, and added thereto the Catholic Church...its music...we have as it were been the man that made the minster;...
    Hist 2.31 20 The power of music, the power of poetry, to unfix and...clap wings to solid nature, interprets the riddle of Orpheus.
    Lov1 2.175 5 ...no man ever forgot the visitations of that power to his heart and brain...which was the dawn in him of music, poetry, and art;...
    Lov1 2.177 15 The heats that have opened [the lover's] perceptions of natural beauty have made him love music and verse.
    Lov1 2.179 22 What else did Jean Paul Richter signify, when he said to music, Away! away! thou speakest to me of things which in all my endless life I have not found and shall not find.
    Prd1 2.227 6 The domestic man, who loves no music so well as his kitchen clock...has solaces which others never dream of.
    Hsm1 2.247 27 ...Wordsworth's Laodamia, and the ode of Dion, and some sonnets, have a certain noble music;...
    Hsm1 2.250 15 ...pleasantly and as it were merrily [the hero] advances to his own music...
    Int 2.346 13 This band of grandees...Synesius and the rest, have somewhat...so primary in their thinking, that it seems...to be at once poetry and music and dancing and astronomy and mathematics.
    Art1 2.365 8 The sweetest music is...in the human voice...
    Pt1 3.8 8 ...whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down...
    Pt1 3.9 20 We hear, through all the varied music [of modern poetry], the ground-tone of conventional life.
    Pt1 3.9 22 Our poets are men of talents who sing, and not the children of music.
    Pt1 3.27 26 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... music...
    Gts 3.159 19 ...[flowers] are like music heard out of a work-house.
    Nat2 3.172 22 The fall of snowflakes in a still air...the crackling and spurting of hemlock in the flames, or of pine logs, which yield glory to the walls and faces in the sitting-room;--these are the music and pictures of the most ancient religion.
    Nat2 3.190 12 Our music, our poetry, our language itself are not satisfactions...
    NER 3.272 17 ...they hear music, or when they read poetry, [men] are radicals.
    UGM 4.10 21 The table of logarithms is one thing, and its vital play in botany, music, optics and architecture another.
    UGM 4.20 19 ...if persons and things are scores of a celestial music, let us read off the strains.
    PPh 4.59 22 There is indeed no weapon in all the armory of wit which [Plato] did not possess and use,--epic, analysis, mania, intuition, music, satire and irony...
    PPh 4.65 5 What value [Plato] gives to the art of gymnastic in education;... what to music;...
    SwM 4.143 24 [Swedenborg] knew the grammar and rudiments of the Mother-Tongue,--how could he not read off one strain into music?
    ShP 4.190 15 The Church has reared [a great man] amidst rites and pomps, and he carries out the advice which her music gave him, and builds a cathedral needed by her chants and processions.
    ShP 4.199 27 Our English Bible is a wonderful specimen of the strength and music of the English language.
    ShP 4.204 17 Our ears are educated to music by [Shakespeare's] rhythm.
    ShP 4.211 4 [Shakespeare] wrote the airs for all our modern music...
    ShP 4.213 12 This power...of transferring the inmost truth of things into music and verse, makes [Shakespeare] the type of the poet...
    NMW 4.225 26 [The man in the street] finds [Napoleon], like himself, by birth a citizen, who, by very intelligible merits, arrived as such a commanding position that he could indulge all those tastes which the common man possesses but is obliged to conceal and deny:...the refined enjoyments of...music, palaces...
    GoW 4.290 12 Genius hovers with [Goethe's] sunshine and music close by the darkest and deafest eras.
    ET11 5.173 20 ...the national music, the popular romances, conspire to uphold the heraldry which the current politics of the day [in England] are sapping.
    ET13 5.219 2 Another part of the same service [at York Minster] on this occasion was not insignificant. Handel's coronation anthem, God save the King, was played by Dr. Camidge on the organ, with sublime effect. The minster and the music were made for each other.
    ET13 5.223 18 [The Anglican Church]...spends a world of money in music and building...
    ET16 5.286 8 Whilst we listened to the organ [at Salisbury Cathedral], my friend [Carlyle] remarked, the music is good, and yet not quite religious...
    ET19 5.312 13 ...I was given to understand in my childhood that the British island from which my forefathers came was...no paradise of serene sky and roses and music and merriment all the year round...
    F 6.10 14 In different hours a man represents each of several of his ancestors...and they constitute the variety of notes for that new piece of music which his life is.
    Pow 6.51 1 His tongue was framed to music,/ And his hand was armed with skill;/...
    Pow 6.74 3 ...the one evil [in life] is dissipation; and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are...politics, or music, or feasting.
    Pow 6.79 15 The masters say that they know a master in music, only by seeing the pose of the hands on the keys;...
    Wth 6.89 4 Wealth requires...the benefits of science, music and fine arts...
    Wth 6.98 15 There is a refining influence from the arts of Design on a prepared mind which is as positive as that of music...
    Wth 6.98 26 I think sometimes, could I only have music on my own terms; could I live in a great city and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves,--that were a bath and a medicine.
    Wth 6.114 17 ...if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider...
    Ctr 6.140 13 There are people who...remain literalists, after hearing the music and poetry and rhetoric and wit of seventy or eighty years.
    Ctr 6.165 20 Half engaged in the soil, pawing to get free, man needs all the music that can be brought to disengage him.
    Wsp 6.209 4 In creeds never was such levity;... The architecture, the music, the prayer, partake of the madness;...
    Wsp 6.241 17 There will be a new church founded on moral science;...it will fast enough gather beauty, music, picture, poetry.
    CbW 6.243 22 The music that can deepest reach,/ And cure all ill, is cordial speech/...
    Bty 6.279 10 [Seyd] smote the lake to feed his eye/ With the beryl beam of the broken wave./ He flung in pebbles well to hear/ The moment's music which they gave./
    Bty 6.283 27 ...we prize very humble utilities, a prudent husband, a good son...and perhaps reckon only his money value...as a sort of bill of exchange easily convertible into fine chambers, pictures, music and wine.
    Bty 6.293 6 It is necessary in music, when you strike a discord, to let down the ear by an intermediate note or two to the accord again;...
    Bty 6.305 8 Into every beautiful object there enters somewhat immeasurable and divine, and just as much into form bounded by outlines... as into tones of music or depths of space.
    Ill 6.309 16 [In the Mammoth Cave] I...plied with music and guns the echoes in these alarming galleries;...
    Ill 6.314 2 ...everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours, with music and banner and badge.
    Art2 7.35 1 I framed his tongue to music,/ I armed his hand with skill,/ I moulded his face to beauty/ And his heart the throne of Will./
    Art2 7.43 22 The basis of music is the qualities of the air and the vibrations of sonorous bodies.
    Art2 7.46 11 The effect of music belongs how much to the place...
    Art2 7.56 11 The Madonnas of Raphael and Titian were made to be worshipped. Tragedy was instituted for the like purpose, and the miracles of music...
    Elo1 7.65 23 [Eloquence] is that despotism which poets have celebrated in the Pied Piper of Hamelin, whose music drew like the power of gravitation...
    Elo1 7.73 24 [Pleasing speech] is heard like a band of music passing through the streets...
    WD 7.169 17 The old Sabbath...when this hallowed hour dawns out of the deep...the cathedral music of history breathes through it a psalm to our solitude.
    Boks 7.204 7 ...in our Bible...it seems easy and inevitable to render the rhythm and music of the original into phrases of equal melody.
    Boks 7.213 2 What private heavens can we not open, by yielding to all the suggestion of rich music!
    Boks 7.213 26 [The imagination] has a flute which sets the atoms of our frame in a dance, like planets; and once so liberated, the whole man reeling drunk to the music, they never quite subside to their old stony state.
    Suc 7.284 13 ...Evelyn writes from Rome: Bernini...gave a public opera, wherein he...invented the engines, composed the music...
    Suc 7.298 18 [The city boy in the October woods] is the king he dreamed he was; he walks...through bowers of crimson, porphyry and topaz...with incense and music...
    Suc 7.302 18 Fontenelle said: There are three things about which I have curiosity, though I know nothing of them,--music, poetry and love.
    Suc 7.307 6 Every sound ends in music.
    PI 8.45 9 Music and rhyme are among the earliest pleasures of the child...
    PI 8.47 5 ...in higher degrees, we know the instant power of music upon our temperaments to change our mood...
    PI 8.47 9 ...human passion, seizing these constitutional tunes, aims to fill them with appropriate words, or marry music to thought...
    PI 8.51 24 Rhyme, being a kind of music, shares this advantage with music, that it has a privilege of speaking truth...
    PI 8.51 25 Rhyme, being a kind of music, shares this advantage with music, that it has a privilege of speaking truth...
    PI 8.51 27 Music is the poor man's Parnassus.
    PI 8.52 10 The best thoughts run into the best words; imaginative and affectionate thoughts into music and metre.
    PI 8.52 18 ...we have not done with music...so long as boys whistle and girls sing.
    PI 8.52 22 Let Poetry then pass, if it will, into music and rhyme.
    PI 8.54 18 ...the verse must be...inseparable from its contents...and we measure the inspiration by the music.
    PI 8.56 25 ...[Newton] only shows...that the music must rise to a loftier strain...
    PI 8.57 2 ...[Newton] only shows...that the music must rise...up to the largeness of astronomy: at last that great heart will hear in the music beats like its own;...
    PI 8.70 7 In a cotillon some persons dance and others await their turn when the music and the figure come to them.
    PI 8.70 11 In the dance of God there is not one of the chorus but can and will begin to spin...whenever the music and figure reach his place and duty.
    PI 8.72 16 Music seems to you sufficient...
    SA 8.79 11 [Fine manners] is music and sculpture and picture to many who do not pretend to appreciation of those arts.
    Elo2 8.120 18 Many people have no ear for music...
    Elo2 8.121 12 In moments of clearer thought or deeper sympathy, the voice will attain a music and penetration which surprises the speaker as much as the auditor;...
    QO 8.185 19 Madame de Stael's Architecture is frozen music is borrowed from Goethe's dumb music...
    QO 8.185 20 Madame de Stael's Architecture is frozen music is borrowed from Goethe's dumb music...
    QO 8.185 22 Madame de Stael's Architecture is frozen music is borrowed from Goethe's dumb music, which is Vitruvius's rule, that the architect must not only understand drawing, but music.
    PPo 8.250 1 Hafiz praises...birds, mornings and music, to give vent to his immense hilarity and sympathy with every form of beauty and joy;...
    Aris 10.63 21 Let [the man of honor]...say...the music and the dance of liberty will come up to bright and holy ground and will take me in also.
    PerF 10.81 23 If we hear music we give up all to that;...
    PerF 10.82 9 Every one knows what are the effects of music to put people in gay or mournful or martial mood.
    Edc1 10.129 18 As every wind draws music out of the Aeolian harp, so doth every object in Nature draw music out of [man's] mind.
    Edc1 10.129 19 As every wind draws music out of the Aeolian harp, so doth every object in Nature draw music out of [man's] mind.
    Edc1 10.144 21 Somewhat [the child] sees in forms or hears in music or apprehends in mathematics...which no one else sees or hears or believes.
    Schr 10.263 1 I think the peculiar office of scholars...is to be...affirmers of the one law, yet as those who should affirm it in music and dancing;...
    Schr 10.265 15 ...[poets] sit white over their stoves, and talk themselves hoarse over the...the effeminacy of book-makers. But at a single strain of a bugle out of a grove...the worlds roll to music...
    Schr 10.273 24 If [the scholar] is not kindling his torch or collecting oil...he will not dare to hear the music of a saw or plane;...
    Plu 10.320 3 [Plutarch] has an objection to the introduction of music at feasts.
    LLNE 10.333 17 All [Everett's] speech was music...
    LLNE 10.364 14 It is certain that...variety of work, variety of means of thought and instruction, art, music, poetry, reading, masquerade, did not permit sluggishness or despondency [at Brook Farm]...
    LLNE 10.365 17 It was a curious experience of the patrons and leaders of this noted community [Brook Farm], in which the agreement with many parties was that they should give so many hours of instruction, in mathematics, in music, in moral and intellectual philosophy, and so forth,- that in every instance the newcomers showed themselves keenly alive to the advantages of the society...
    MMEm 10.411 7 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] was...a quite clannish instrument...from which none but a native Highlander could draw music.
    MMEm 10.418 12 Could I [Mary Moody Emerson] at times be regaled with music, it would remind me that there are sounds.
    MMEm 10.424 25 ...He who formed thy [Time's] web, who stretched thy warp from long ages...has attuned [man's] mind in such unison with the harp of the universe, that he is never without some chord of hope's music.
    MMEm 10.425 20 ...there is a sombre music in the whirl of times so long gone by.
    Thor 10.474 16 [Thoreau's] eye was open to beauty, and his ear to music.
    Thor 10.474 18 [Thoreau] thought the best of music was in single strains;...
    EWI 11.122 26 [The civility] of Athens...lay in an intellect dedicated to beauty. That of Asia Minor in poetry, music and arts;...
    EWI 11.145 9 ...in the great anthem which we call history...[the black race] perceive the time arrived when they can...take a master's part in the music.
    War 11.163 20 This vast apparatus of artillery,...this martial music and endless playing of marches and singing of military and naval songs seem to us to constitute an imposing actual, which will not yield in centuries to the feeble, deprecatory voices of a handful of friends of peace.
    TPar 11.290 6 ...[Theodore Parker] insisted...that the essence of Christianity is its practical morals;...and if you combine it...with ordinary city ambitions...the truth is not in you; and no love of religious music...can save you from the Satan which you are.
    EPro 11.326 14 ...that ill-fated, much-injured race which the [Emancipation] Proclamation respects will lose somewhat of the dejection... uttered in the wailing of their plaintive music...
    Wom 11.408 1 ...up to recent times, in no art or science, nor in painting, poetry or music, have [women] produced a masterpiece.
    Wom 11.408 20 ...there is an art which is better than painting, poetry, music, or architecture...namely Conversation.
    Wom 11.413 14 This is the victory of Griselda, her supreme humility. And it is when love has reached this height that all our pretty rhetoric begins to have meaning. When we see that...it is music in the ear...
    RBur 11.438 1 He was the music to whose tone/ The common pulse of man keeps time/ In cot or castle's mirth or moan,/ In cold or sunny clime./
    Shak1 11.448 6 Wherever there are men, and in the degree in which they are civil-have...sensibility to beauty, music, the secrets of passion, and the liquid expression of thought, [Shakespeare] has risen to his place as the first poet of the world.
    CPL 11.503 9 ...if you can kindle the imagination by a new thought... instantly you expand...and become wise, and even prophetic. Music works this miracle for those who have a good ear;...
    CPL 11.503 11 ...what omniscience has music!...
    PLT 12.26 21 ...no wine, music or exhilarating aids...avail at all to resist the palsy of mis-association.
    PLT 12.36 6 [Pan] could intoxicate by the strain of his shepherd's pipe,- silent yet to most, for his pipes make the music of the spheres...
    II 12.73 22 What a revelation of power is music!
    II 12.73 24 ...when we consider who and what the professors of that art usually are, does it not seem as if music falls accidentally and superficially on its artists?
    II 12.84 19 If you speak to the man, he turns his eyes from his own scene, and, slower or faster, endeavors to comprehend what you say. When you have done speaking, he returns to his private music.
    Mem 12.103 23 ...confined now in populous streets you behold again the green fields, the shadows of the gray birches; by the solitary river...vibrate anew to the tenderness and dainty music of the poetry your boyhood fed upon.
    CL 12.137 5 ...the Professor [Linnaeus] was generally attended by two hundred students, and, when they returned, they marched through the streets of Upsala in a festive procession...to the music of drums and trumpets...
    CL 12.152 3 ...[in October] all the trees are wind-harps, filling the air with music;...
    Bost 12.197 25 In the midst of [New England's] laborious and economical and rude and awkward population...you shall not unfrequently meet that refinement...which...gave a hospitality in this country to the spirit of Coleridge and Wordsworth, and to the music of Beethoven, before yet their genius had found a hearty welcome in Great Britain.
    Milt1 12.245 1 I framed his tongue to music,/ I armed his hand with skill,/ I moulded his face to beauty,/ And his heart the throne of will./
    Milt1 12.257 18 [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 22 [Milton] insists that music shall make a part of a generous education.
    Milt1 12.261 10 We may even apply to [Milton's] performance on the instrument of language, his own description of music...
    ACri 12.287 18 ...when a great bank president was expounding the virtues of his party and of the government to a silent circle of bank pensioners, a grave Methodist exclaimed, Fiddlesticks! The whole party were surprised and cheered...though it would be difficult to explain the propriety of the expression, as no music or fiddle was so much as thought of.
    ACri 12.303 22 ...literature resounds with the music of united vast ideas of affirmation and of moral truth.
    MLit 12.312 19 The poetry and speculation of the age are marked by a certain philosophic turn, which discriminates them from the works of earlier times. The poet is not content to see...What music a sunbeam awoke in the groves...
    MLit 12.318 17 The music of Beethoven is said...to labor with vaster conceptions and aspirations than music has attempted before.
    MLit 12.318 20 The music of Beethoven is said...to labor with vaster conceptions and aspirations than music has attempted before.
    MLit 12.325 2 It was with [Goethe] a favorite task to find a theory of every institution, custom, art, work of art, which he observed. Witness his explanation...of the Venetian music of the gondolier...
    PPr 12.391 19 ...[Carlyle] is full of rhythm, not only in the perpetual melody of his periods, but in the burdens, refrains, and grand returns of his sense and music.
    Trag 12.416 26 [The intellect] yields the joys of conversation, of letters and of science. Hence also the torments of life become tuneful tragedy, solemn and soft with music...

Music, n. (3)

    Art2 7.43 7 Music, Eloquence, Poetry, Painting, Sculpture, Architecture. This is a rough enumeration of the Fine Arts.
    Supl 10.162 1 For Art, for Music overthrilled,/ The wine-cup shakes, the wine is spilled./
    LLNE 10.362 21 ...[Charles Newcomb's] mind [was] fed and overfed by whatever is exalted in genius, whether...in Drama or Music...

musical, adj. (35)

    LT 1.272 26 The new voices in the wilderness...have revived a hope...that the thoughts of the mind may yet...be executed by the hands. ... For some ages, these ideas have been consigned to the poet and musical composer...
    Art1 2.352 13 What is a man but a finer and compacter landscape than the horizon figures...and what is...his love of painting, his love of nature, but a still finer success...the spirit or moral of it contracted into a musical word, or the most cunning stroke of the pencil?
    Art1 2.358 27 The best of beauty is...a wonderful expression through stone, or canvas, or musical sound, of the deepest and simplest attributes of our nature...
    Pt1 3.1 10 A moody child and wildly wise/ Pursued the game with joyful eyes,/ .../ Through worlds, and races, and terms, and times/ Saw musical order, and pairing rhymes./
    Pt1 3.11 21 ...the phrase will be the fittest, most musical, and the unerring voice of the world for that time.
    Pt1 3.13 15 ...the carpenter's stretched cord, if you hold your ear close enough, is musical in the breeze.
    Exp 3.71 3 Underneath the inharmonious and trivial particulars, is a musical perfection;...
    Mrs1 3.150 15 ...I confide so entirely in [woman's] inspiring and musical nature, that I believe only herself can show us how she shall be served.
    Nat2 3.172 17 The fall of snowflakes in a still air...the musical, steaming, odorous south wind...these are the music and pictures of the most ancient religion.
    Nat2 3.175 7 [A boy] hears the echoes of a horn in a hill country...which converts the mountains into an Aeolian harp,--and this supernatural tiralira restores to him...Apollo, Diana, and all divine hunters and huntresses. Can a musical note be so lofty, so haughtily beautiful!
    SwM 4.109 10 Creative force, like a musical composer, goes on unweariedly repeating a simple air or theme...
    ET11 5.194 17 With the tribe of artistes, including the musical tribe, the patrician morgue [in England] keeps no terms, but excludes them.
    ET14 5.257 10 One regrets that [Wordsworth's] temperament was not more liquid and musical.
    F 6.11 25 Now and then one has a new cell or camarilla opened in his brain,-an architectural, a musical, or a philological knack;...
    F 6.26 15 Where [the mind] shines...all things make a musical or pictorial impression.
    Wth 6.99 2 I think sometimes, could I only have music on my own terms; could I live in a great city and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves,--that were a bath and a medicine.
    Ctr 6.129 3 Can rules or tutors educate/ The semigod whom we await?/ He must be musical/...
    Ctr 6.132 12 I saw a man who believed the principal mischiefs in the English state were derived from the devotion to musical concerts.
    Bty 6.303 22 Every natural feature--sea, sky, rainbow, flowers, musical tone--has in it somewhat which is not private but universal...
    Ill 6.310 18 ...on looking upwards [in the Mammoth Cave], I saw or seemed to see the night heaven thick with stars...and even what seemed a comet flaming among them. ... Our musical friends sung with much feeling a pretty song, The stars are in the quiet sky...
    Art2 7.44 25 A jumble of musical sounds...gives pleasure to the unskilful ear.
    Elo1 7.62 24 Of all the musical instruments on which men play, a popular assembly is that which has the largest compass and variety...
    DL 7.126 10 One is struck in every company...with the riches of Nature, when he hears so many new tones, all musical...
    WD 7.179 16 ...if a man is at once acquainted with the geometric foundations of things and with their festal splendor, his poetry is exact and his arithmetic musical.
    WD 7.180 15 ...life is good only when it is magical and musical...
    Boks 7.198 13 You find in [Plato] that which you have already found in Homer...the poet converted to a philosopher, with loftier strains of musical wisdom than Homer reached;...
    Clbs 7.242 11 Does it never occur that we perhaps live with people too superior to be seen,--as there are musical notes too high for the scale of most ears?
    Suc 7.283 22 Men are made each with some triumphant superiority, which, through some adaptation of...ciphering or pugilistic or musical or literary craft, enriches the community with a new art;...
    PI 8.46 12 We are lovers of...period and musical reflection.
    PI 8.50 4 Now try Spenser, Marlowe, Chapman, and see...how rich and lavish their profusion. In their rhythm is...a vortex, or musical tornado...
    PI 8.56 8 As the imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man, so also is this joy of musical expression.
    Imtl 8.350 20 [Yama said to Nachiketas] All those desires that are difficult to gain in the world of mortals, all those ask thou at thy pleasure;-those fair nymphs of heaven with their chariots, with their musical instruments;...
    Schr 10.279 27 What is the use of...musical voice...to a maniac?
    Schr 10.283 16 ...[Mother-wit's] grand Ay and its grand No are more musical than all eloquence.
    RBur 11.440 27 [Burns's] musical arrows yet sing through the air.

musically, adv. (1)

    MN 1.219 3 Genius...advertises us...that it knows so deeply and speaks so musically, because it is itself a mutation of the thing it describes.

music-book, n. (1)

    Thor 10.469 21 Under his arm [Thoreau] carried an old music-book to press plants;...

music-box, n. (3)

    Pt1 3.9 5 I took part in a conversation the other day concerning a recent writer of lyrics...whose head appeared to be a music-box of delicate tunes and rhythms...
    Exp 3.52 11 ...we look at [men], they seem alive, and we presume there is impulse in them. In the moment it seems impulse; in the year, in the lifetime, it turns out to be a certain uniform tune which the revolving barrel of the music-box must play.
    ET12 5.207 24 When born with good constitutions, [English students] make those eupeptic studying-mills...whose powers of performance compare with ours as the steam-hammer with the music-box;...

music-boxes, n. (1)

    RBur 11.443 16 ...the music-boxes at Geneva are framed and toothed to play [Burns's songs];...

musician, n. (10)

    Nat 1.24 7 The...sculptor, the musician...seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point...
    Nat 1.43 22 Vitruvius thought an architect should be a musician.
    UGM 4.9 1 ...the makers of tools;...the musician,--severally make an easy way for all, through unknown and impossible confusions.
    ET8 5.141 20 Does the early history of each tribe show the permanent bias, which...is masked as the tribe spreads its activity into colonies, commerce, codes, arts, letters? The early history shows it, as the musician plays the air which he proceeds to conceal in a tempest of variations.
    Art2 7.43 26 The pulsation of a stretched string or wire gives the ear the pleasure of sweet sound, before yet the musician has enhanced this pleasure by concords and combinations.
    Art2 7.47 14 Our arts are happy hits. We are like the musician on the lake, whose melody is sweeter than he knows...
    PI 8.18 3 ...a painter, a sculptor, a musician, can in their several ways express the same sentiment of anger, or love, or religion.
    PerF 10.74 23 [Man] is...a machinist, a musician, a steam-engine...and each of these by dint of a wonderful method or series that resides in him and enables him to work on the material elements.
    Schr 10.263 7 A celebrated musician was wont to say, that men knew not how much more he delighted himself with his playing than he did others;...
    Bost 12.187 18 Astronomers come [to Paris] because there they can find apparatus and companions. Chemist, geologist, artist, musician, dancer, because there only are grandees and their patronage, appreciators and patrons.

musicians, n. (1)

    Pt1 3.28 12 ...a great number of such as were professionally expressers of Beauty, as painters, poets, musicians and actors, have been more than others wont to lead a life of pleasure and indulgence;...

music-masters, n. (1)

    Elo1 7.61 1 It is the doctrine of the popular music-masters that whoever can speak can sing.

musing, v. (3)

    WD 7.179 3 I am of the opinion of Pliny that whilst we are musing on these things, we are adding to the length of our lives.
    II 12.84 14 Men go through the world each musing on a great fable dramatically pictured and rehearsed before him.
    MLit 12.309 14 We go musing into the vault of day and night;...

musk, n. (3)

    PI 8.18 16 Why changes not the violet earth into musk?
    PPo 8.243 1 These legends [of Persian kings], with...the cohol, a cosmetic by which pearls and eyebrows are indelibly stained black, the bladder in which musk is brought, the down of the lip, the mole on the cheek, the eyelash;...make the staple imagery of Persian odes.
    PPo 8.244 7 Here is a poem on a melon, by Adsched of Meru:-Color, taste and smell, smaragdus, sugar and musk,/ Amber for the tongue, for the eye a picture rare,/ If you cut the fruit in slices, every slice a crescent fair,/ If you leave it whole, the full harvest moon is there./

musk-bladder, n. (1)

    PPo 8.254 13 To the vizier returning from Mecca [Hafiz] says,-Boast not rashly, prince of pilgrims, of thy fortune. Thou hast indeed seen the temple; but I, the Lord of the temple. Nor has any man inhaled from the musk-bladder of the merchant...that sweet air which I am permitted to breathe every hour of the day.

musket, n. (2)

    Wsp 6.224 20 Each must be armed--not necessarily with musket and pike.
    War 11.162 12 You forget that the quiet...which lets the wagon go unguarded and the farmhouse unbolted, rests on the perfect understanding of all men that the musket, the halter and the jail stand behind there...

Musketaquid, Massachusetts, (6)

    HDC 11.32 2 Mr. Bulkeley, having turned his estate into money and set his face towards New England, was easily able to persuade a good number of planters to join him. They arrived in Boston in 1634. Probably there had been a previous correspondence with Governor Winthrop, and an agreement that they should settle at Musketaquid.
    HDC 11.32 9 ...on the 2d of September, 1635...leave to begin a plantation at Musketaquid was given to Peter Bulkeley, Simon Willard, and about twelve families more.
    HDC 11.32 15 The green meadows of Musketaquid or Grassy Brook were far up in the woods...
    HDC 11.36 4 ...what was [the pilgrims'] reception at Musketaquid?
    HDC 11.37 19 ...the peace was made, and the ear of the savage already secured, before the pilgrims arrived at his seat of Musketaquid...
    HDC 11.43 19 What could the body of freemen, meeting four times a year, at Boston, do for the daily wants of the planters at Musketaquid?

Musketaquid River, Massachu (1)

    CW 12.171 9 Neither did I fully consider [when I bought my farm] what an indescribable luxury is our Indian river, the Musketaquid...

musket-ball, n. (1)

    SMC 11.373 9 ...[George Prescott] was struck...by a musket-ball...

musketry, n. (3)

    Cour 7.262 6 Coleridge has preserved an anecdote of an officer in the British Navy who told him that when he...accompanied Sir Alexander Ball, as we were rowing up to the vessel we were to attack, amid a discharge of musketry, I was overpowered with fear...
    Elo2 8.111 9 ...all can see and understand the means by which a battle is gained...they see the cannon, the musketry, the cavalry...
    EzRy 10.383 27 I am sure all who remember both will associate [Ezra Ripley's] form with whatever was grave and droll in the old...meeting-house... with long prayers...and not less with the report like musketry from the movable seats.

muskets, n. (5)

    Con 1.306 26 Touch any wood, or field, or house-lot, on your peril, cry all the gentlemen of this world;... And what is that peril? Knives and muskets, if we meet you in the act;...
    Pow 6.72 11 The men whom in peaceful communities we hold if we can with iron at their legs, in prisons, under the muskets of sentinels,--this man [Napoleon] dealt with hand to hand...
    Wsp 6.224 21 Each must be armed--not necessarily with musket and pike. Happy, if seeing these, he can feel that he has better muskets and pikes in his energy and constancy.
    PerF 10.70 2 ...I find it wholesome and invigorating to enumerate the resources we can command, to look a little into this arsenal, and see...what muskets...we can bring to bear.
    PerF 10.70 3 ...I find it wholesome and invigorating to enumerate the resources we can command, to look a little into this arsenal, and see...how many arms better than Springfield muskets, we can bring to bear.

musket-worship, n. (1)

    ET16 5.287 16 I can easily see the bankruptcy of the vulgar musket-worship...

musket-worshippers, n. (1)

    ET16 5.287 17 I can easily see the bankruptcy of the vulgar musket-worship,-- though great men be musket-worshippers;...

muskrat, n. (2)

    Thor 10.467 1 ...the snake, muskrat, otter, woodchuck and fox, on the banks [of the Concord River];...were all known to [Thoreau]...
    PLT 12.22 4 If man has organs...for reproduction and love and care of his young, you shall find all the same in the muskrat.

musky, adj. (3)

    PPo 8.254 14 To the vizier returning from Mecca [Hafiz] says,-Boast not rashly, prince of pilgrims, of thy fortune. Thou hast indeed seen the temple; but I, the Lord of the temple. Nor has any man inhaled...from the musky morning wind that sweet air which I am permitted to breathe every hour of the day.
    PPo 8.257 2 The cedar, the cypress, the palm, the olive and fig-tree, the birds that inhabit them, and the garden flowers, are never wanting in these musky verses [of Hafiz]...
    EurB 12.370 8 The elegance, the wit and subtlety of this writer [Tennyson]...discriminate the musky poet of gardens and conservatories...

muslin, n. (2)

    Pow 6.81 9 Success has no more eccentricity than the gingham and muslin we weave in our mills.
    Pow 6.82 6 A day is a more magnificent cloth than any muslin...

mussel, n. (1)

    CL 12.138 17 [Linnaeus] learned the secret of making pearls in the river-pearl mussel.

Must, n. (1)

    FSLN 11.231 23 May and Must, and the sense of right and duty, on the one hand, and the material necessities on the other: May and Must.

Must, v. (1)

    FSLN 11.231 25 May and Must, and the sense of right and duty, on the one hand, and the material necessities on the other: May and Must.

mustache, n. (1)

    Pow 6.58 9 ...if [the plus man] have the accidental advantage of personal ascendency,--which implies...merely the temperamental or taming eye of a soldier or a schoolmaster (which one has and one has not, as one has a black mustache and one a blond),--then quite easily...all his coadjutors and feeders will admit his right to absorb them.

mustard, n. (2)

    MoS 4.153 8 [The men of the senses] believe that mustard bites the tongue...
    Thor 10.482 25 I put on some hemlock-boughs, and the rich salt crackling of their leaves was like mustard to the ear...

mustard-seed, n. (1)

    Grts 8.310 4 As [the Quakers] express [self-respect], it might be thus...if at any time I...propose a journey or a course of conduct, I perhaps find a silent obstacle in my mind that I cannot account for. ... It is not an oracle...it is too simple to be described, it is but a grain of mustard-seed...

muster, n. (2)

    ACiv 11.300 15 If the war brought any surprise to the North, it was not the fault of sentinels on the watch-tower, who had furnished full details of the designs, the muster and the means of the enemy.
    EdAd 11.386 24 ...who can see the continent...without putting new queries to Destiny as to the purpose for which this muster of nations...is made?

muster, v. (1)

    Con 1.321 15 ...if priest and church-member should fail...the very innholders and landlords of the county, would muster with fury to [religious institutions'] support.

mustered, v. (4)

    NMW 4.248 7 The world treated [Napoleon's] novelties just as it treats everybody's novelties...mustered all the impediments;...
    FSLN 11.224 10 Four years ago to-night, on one of those high critical moments in history...when the powers of right and wrong are mustered for conflict...Mr. Webster, most unexpectedly, threw his whole weight on the side of Slavery...
    SMC 11.355 8 The armies mustered in the North were as much missionaries to the mind of the country as they were carriers of material force...
    SMC 11.374 18 ...the [Thirty-second] regiment was mustered out in the field, at Washington, on the twenty-eighth of June...

must-have-the-money, adj. (1)

    FRep 11.523 22 ...it is useless to rely on [the people] to go to a meeting, or to give a vote, if any check from this must-have-the-money side arises.

musts, n. (2)

    FSLN 11.232 7 I too think the musts are a safe company to follow...
    FSLN 11.232 11 ...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...

Musts, n. (1)

    FSLN 11.231 27 In vulgar politics the Whig goes...for the old necessities,- the Musts.

musty, adj. (5)

    MoS 4.171 13 ...though the town and state and way of living, which our counsellor contemplated, might be a very modest or musty prosperity, yet men rightly go for him...
    ET11 5.197 24 Whilst the privileges of nobility are passing to the middle class [in England]...the titles of lordship are getting musty and cumbersome.
    LLNE 10.348 12 A man is entitled...to the air of good conversation in his bringing up, and not, as we or so many of us, to the poor-smell and musty chambers...
    HDC 11.84 6 These soiled and musty books [the Concord Town Records] are luminous and electric within.
    PLT 12.58 2 [People] are as much alike as their barns and pantries, and are as soon musty and dreary.

mutable, adj. (4)

    Nat 1.48 27 ...we resist with indignation any hint that nature is more short-lived or mutable than spirit.
    Hist 2.13 19 Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
    ET8 5.141 6 If the English race were as mutable as the French, what reliance?
    SovE 10.213 23 A man who has accustomed himself to look at all his circumstances as very mutable...has put himself out of the reach of all skepticism;...

mutable, n. (1)

    MoS 4.186 5 Let a man learn to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting;...

mutari, v. (1)

    ET6 5.111 3 The favorite phrase of [the Englishmen's] law is, a custom whereof the memory of man runneth not back to the contrary. The barons say, Nolumus mutari;...

mutation, n. (3)

    MN 1.219 3 Genius...advertises us...that it knows so deeply and speaks so musically, because it is itself a mutation of the thing it describes.
    SR 2.89 7 ...in the endless mutation, thou only firm column must presently appear the upholder of all that surrounds thee.
    Chr2 10.113 18 ...the science of ethics has no mutation;...

mutations, n. (2)

    Hist 2.31 24 The philosophical perception of identity through endless mutations of form makes [man] know the Proteus.
    Ill 6.307 3 Flow, flow the waves hated,/ Accursed, adored,/ The waves of mutations:/ No anchorage is./

mute, adj. (14)

    Nat 1.18 7 ...every withered stem and stubble rimed with frost, contribute something to the mute music.
    Nat 1.42 4 What is a farm but a mute gospel?
    Hist 2.7 24 Praise is looked, homage tendered, love flows, from mute nature...
    ShP 4.217 6 Shakspeare, Homer, Dante, Chaucer...knew that a tree had another use than for apples...and the ball of the earth, than for tillage and roads: that these things bore a second and finer harvest to the mind... conveying in all their natural history a certain mute commentary on human life.
    ET5 5.99 24 These private, reserved, mute family-men [of England] can adopt a public end with all their heat...
    ET8 5.134 22 ...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...as if the burly inexpressive, now mute and contumacious, now fierce and sharp-tongued dragon, which once made the island light with his fiery breath, had bequeathed his ferocity to his conqueror.
    Wth 6.83 19 What smiths, and in what furnace, rolled/ (In dizzy aeons dim and mute/ The reeling brain can ill compute)/ Copper and iron, lead, and gold?/
    Civ 7.17 9 Witness the mute all hail/ The joyful traveller gives, when on the verge/ Of craggy Indian wilderness he hears/ From a log cabin stream Beethoven's notes/ On the piano, played with master's hand./
    Elo1 7.63 10 No one can survey the face of an excited assembly, without... being agitated to agitate. How many orators sit mute there below!
    PI 8.18 10 ...hold [the savans] hard to principle and definition, and they become mute and near-sighted.
    Imtl 8.322 1 Mute orator! well skilled to plead,/ And send conviction without phrase,/ Thou dost succor and remede/ The shortness of our days,/ And promise, on thy Founder's truth,/ Long morrow to this mortal youth./ Monadnoc.
    PerF 10.80 4 Bonaparte, with his celerity of combination, mute, unfathomable, reads the geography of Europe as if his eyes were telescopes;...
    SHC 11.435 12 ...when these acorns, that are falling at our feet, are oaks overshadowing our children in a remote century, this mute green bank [Sleepy Hollow] will be full of history...
    PLT 12.26 24 ...no wine, music or exhilarating aids...avail at all to resist the palsy of mis-association. Genius is mute, is dull;...

mute, n. (4)

    MN 1.218 21 Nature is a mute...
    MN 1.218 23 Nature is a mute, and man, her articulate, speaking brother, lo! he also is a mute.
    Elo1 7.61 16 ...every man is an orator, how long soever he may have been a mute...
    Pray 12.352 28 The next [prayer] is a voice out of a solitude as strict and sacred as that in which Nature had isolated this eloquent mute...

mutely, adv. (1)

    Schr 10.284 19 Happy if you can answer [life's questions] mutely in the order and disposition of your life!

mutes, n. (1)

    Pt1 3.5 24 ...the great majority of men seem to be...mutes, who cannot report the conversation they have had with nature.

mutilate, v. (1)

    Schr 10.274 22 [The thoughtful man] is not there to defend himself, but to deliver his message;...bruise him, mutilate him, cut off his hands and feet, he can still crawl towards his object on his stumps.

mutilated, adj. (1)

    MMEm 10.430 4 If one could choose, and without crime be gibbeted,- were it not altogether better than the long drooping away by age without mentality or devotion? The vulture and crow...unconscious of any deformity in the mutilated body, would relish their meal...

mutilated, v. (1)

    Mrs1 3.154 20 Osman had a humanity so broad and deep that although his speech was so bold and free with the Koran as to disgust all the dervishes, yet was there never...some fool...who had been mutilated under a vow...but fled at once to him;...

mutilation, n. (6)

    Comp 2.126 9 ...a mutilation...seems at the moment unpaid loss, and unpayable.
    Chr1 3.98 12 What have I gained...that I do not tremble before...the Calvinistic Judgment-day,--if I quake...at the threat of...mutilation...
    ET6 5.113 26 The guests [at dinner in London] are expected to arrive within half an hour of the time fixed by card of invitation, and nothing but death or mutilation is permitted to detain them.
    HDC 11.31 12 Hindered from speaking, some of these [suspended ministers] dared to print the reasons of their dissent, and were punished with imprisonment or mutilation.
    EWI 11.111 9 [The West Indian slave] suffered insult, stripes, mutilation at the humor of the master...
    Trag 12.408 25 After we have enumerated...mutilation, rack, madness and loss of friends, we have not yet included the proper tragic element, which is Terror...

mutineers, n. (1)

    Dem1 10.8 5 We call the phantoms that rise [in dreams], the creation of our fancy, but they act like mutineers...

mutter, v. (1)

    ET10 5.159 4 Iron and steel are very obedient. Whether it were not possible to make a spinner that would not rebel, nor mutter, nor scowl...

muttered, adj. (1)

    ET8 5.135 5 [The English] hide virtues under vices, or the semblance of them. It is the misshapen hairy Scandinavian troll again, who lifts the cart out of the mire...but it is done in the dark and with muttered maledictions.

muttering, v. (1)

    Bost 12.193 9 ...[the savage] goes muttering his rude ritual or mythology, which yet conceals some grand commandment;...

mutters, v. (1)

    MLit 12.317 17 There is that in us which mutters, and that which groans, and that which triumphs, and that which aspires.

mutton, n. (4)

    ET4 5.48 26 Trades and professions carve their own lines on face and form. Certain circumstances of English life are not less effective; as...good ale and mutton;...
    ET4 5.69 11 Beef, mutton, wheat-bread and malt-liquors are universal among the first-class laborers [in England].
    Carl 10.491 17 [Carlyle] treats [young men] with contempt;...they will eat vegetables and drink water, and he is a Scotchman who thinks English national character has a pure enthusiasm for beef and mutton...
    CPL 11.501 18 [Literature] is thought to be the harmless entertainment of a few fanciful persons, and not at all to be the interest of the multitude. To these objections, which proceed on the cheap notion that nothing but what... roasts mutton...is anything worth, I have little to say.

mutton-chop, n. (1)

    ET16 5.287 25 ...I insisted...that as to our secure tenure of our mutton-chop and spinach in London or in Boston, the soul might quote Talleyrand, Monsieur, je n'en vois pas la necessite.

mutual, adj. (35)

    Nat 1.15 11 By the mutual action of [the eye's] structure and of the laws of light, perspective is produced...
    LE 1.181 13 Let [the scholar] know...by mutual reaction of thought and life, to make thought solid, and life wise;...
    SR 2.63 12 [The world] has been taught by this colossal symbol [of kings] the mutual reverence that is due from man to man.
    Lov1 2.182 19 In the particular society of his mate [the lover] attains a clearer sight of any spot, any taint which her beauty has contracted from this world, and is able to point it out, and this with mutual joy that they are now able, without offence, to indicate blemishes and hindrances in each other...
    Lov1 2.184 14 Little think the youth and maiden who are glancing at each other...with eyes so full of mutual intelligence, of the precious fruit long hereafter to proceed from this new, quite external stimulus.
    Fdsp 2.211 21 There can never be deep peace between two spirits, never mutual respect, until in their dialogue each stands for the whole world.
    Prd1 2.240 19 Every man's imagination hath its friends; and life would be dearer with such companions. But if you cannot have them on good mutual terms, you cannot have them
    OS 2.291 20 ...what rebuke [simple souls'] plain fraternal bearing casts on the mutual flattery with which authors solace each other...
    Mrs1 3.129 8 Aristocracy and fashion are certain inevitable results. These mutual selections are indestructible.
    NR 3.238 5 ...our economical mother...gathering up into some man every property in the universe, establishes thousand-fold occult mutual attractions among her offspring...
    PPh 4.75 15 It was a rare fortune that this Aesop of the mob [Socrates] and this robed scholar [Plato] should meet, to make each other immortal in their mutual faculty.
    ET5 5.99 4 One secret of [the Englishmen's] power is their mutual good understanding.
    ET6 5.108 17 ...nothing [can be] more firm and based in nature and sentiment than the courtship and mutual carriage of the sexes [in England].
    F 6.37 16 Eyes are found in light;...and each creature where it was meant to be, with a mutual fitness.
    Bhr 6.184 15 The theatre in which this science of manners has a formal importance is not with us a court, but dress-circles, wherein, after the close of the day's business, men and women meet...for mutual entertainment...
    Ill 6.316 17 Teague and his jade get some just relations of mutual respect...
    Civ 7.24 2 ...place the sexes in right relations of mutual respect, and a severe morality gives that essential charm to woman which educates all that is delicate, poetic and self-sacrificing;...
    Boks 7.207 17 The [scholar's] task is aided by the strong mutual light which these [Elizabethan] men shed on each other.
    Clbs 7.244 12 Every scholar is surrounded by wiser men than he--if they cannot write as well. Cannot they meet and exchange results to their mutual benefit and delight?
    Clbs 7.244 22 Now this want of adapted society is mutual.
    Clbs 7.249 22 A principal purpose also is the hospitality of the club, as a means of receiving a worthy foreigner with mutual advantage.
    Aris 10.55 18 The service we receive from the great is a mutual deference.
    PerF 10.83 24 ...[the world's energies] work together on a system of mutual aid...
    Edc1 10.148 21 The child is as hot to learn as the mother is to impart. There is mutual delight.
    Edc1 10.149 2 Not less delightful is the mutual pleasure of teaching and learning the secret of algebra...
    MoL 10.249 9 ...the Church clung to ritual, and the scholar clung to joy... and thus the separation was a mutual fault.
    LLNE 10.340 23 [Channing] found [at Warren's house] a well-chosen assembly of gentlemen variously distinguished; there was mutual greeting and introduction...
    LLNE 10.368 13 Few people can live together on their merits. There must be kindred, or mutual economy...
    LLNE 10.369 2 ...what accumulated culture many of the members owed to [Brook Farm]! What mutual measure they took of each other!
    HDC 11.66 12 Mr. [Daniel] Bliss...by his earnest sympathy with [George Whitefield], in opinion and practice, gave offence to a part of his people. Party and mutual councils were called...
    Scot 11.466 9 In his own household and neighbors [Scott] found characters and pets of humble class...came with these into real ties of mutual help and good will.
    FRep 11.540 13 We...shall proceed like William Penn...on principles of honest trade and mutual advantage.
    FRep 11.543 20 ...north and south, east and west will be present to our minds, and our vote will be as if they voted, and we shall know that our vote secures...mutual increase of good will in the great interests.
    CL 12.141 1 The power of the air was the first explanation offered by the early philosophers of the mutual understanding that men have.
    PPr 12.381 15 As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's Past and Present], we are struck with the force given to the plain truths;...the proposition...that the principle of permanence shall be admitted into all contracts of mutual service;...

Mutual Faith, n. (1)

    DL 7.121 19 The angels that dwell with [the eager, blushing boys] and are weaving laurels of life for their youthful brows, are Toil and Want, and Truth, and Mutual Faith.

mutually, adv. (12)

    Fdsp 2.209 2 Let [friendship] be an alliance of two large, formidable natures, mutually beheld, mutually feared...
    Fdsp 2.209 3 Let [friendship] be an alliance of two large, formidable natures, mutually beheld, mutually feared...
    Mrs1 3.126 18 The manners of this class [of doers] are observed and caught with devotion by men of taste. The association of these masters with each other and with men intelligent of their merits, is mutually agreeable and stimulating.
    PPh 4.48 25 [Unity's and Variety's] existence is mutually contradictory and exclusive;...
    MoS 4.154 26 The abstractionist and the materialist thus mutually exasperating each other, and the scoffer expressing the worst of materialism, there arises a third party to occupy the middle ground between these two, the skeptic, namely.
    ET11 5.187 5 [English noblemen] have been a social church proper to inspire sentiments mutually honoring the lover and the loved.
    ET14 5.260 7 ...the two complexions, or two styles of mind [in England],-- the perceptive class, and the practical finality class,--are ever in counterpoise, interacting mutually...
    Bhr 6.192 25 That is the charm in all good novels, as it is the charm in all good histories, that the heroes mutually understand, from the first...
    Clbs 7.249 7 ...in the sections of the British Association more information is mutually and effectually communicated, in a few hours, than in many months of ordinary correspondence...
    LLNE 10.343 9 ...perhaps those persons who were mutually the best friends were the most private...
    PLT 12.61 18 ...all great minds and all great hearts have mutually allowed the absolute necessity of the twain.
    Mem 12.101 5 So is it with every fact in a new science: they are mutually explaining...

Myesis, n. (1)

    SwM 4.97 8 All religious history contains traces of the trance of saints... Myesis, the closing of the eyes...

mylodonta, n. (1)

    ET16 5.278 16 I, who had just come from Professor Sedgwick's Cambridge Museum of megatheria and mastodons, was ready to maintain that some cleverer elephants or mylodonta had borne off and laid these rocks [of Stonehenge] one on another.

myriad, adj. (2)

    ET10 5.160 6 ...when, to this labor and trade and these native resources [of England] was added this goblin of steam, with his myriad arms...the amassing of property has run out of all figures.
    ET18 5.303 2 [the English] is a people of myriad personalities.

myriad, n. (1)

    Pt1 3.35 2 Either of these [symbols], or of a myriad more, are equally good to the person to whom they are significant.

myriads, n. (4)

    Hist 2.37 8 Newton and Laplace need myriads of age and thick-strewn celestial areas.
    Int 2.333 2 ...[men] have myriads of facts just as good [as the writer's]...
    ET14 5.244 8 ...a bad general wants myriads of men and miles of redoubts to compensate the inspirations of courage and conduct.
    MMEm 10.430 7 I [Mary Moody Emerson] pray to die, though happier myriads and mine own companions press nearer to the throne.

myrmidons, n. (3)

    Ctr 6.153 25 'T is heavy odds/ Against the gods,/ When they will match with myrmidons./
    Ctr 6.153 26 We spawning, spawning myrmidons,/ Our turn to-day! we take command,/ Jove gives the globe into the hand/ Of myrmidons, of myrmidons./
    Ctr 6.154 2 We spawning, spawning myrmidons,/ Our turn to-day! we take command,/ Jove gives the globe into the hand/ Of myrmidons, of myrmidons./

myrrh, n. (3)

    DSA 1.124 27 [The religious sentiment] is myrrh and storax, and chlorine and rosemary.
    Mrs1 3.137 13 Let us sit apart as the gods, talking from peak to peak all round Olympus. No degree of affection need invade this religion. This is myrrh and rosemary to keep the other sweet.
    Pol1 3.216 24 [The wise man's] relation to men is angelic; his memory is myrrh to them; his presence, frankincense and flowers.

mysteries, n. (16)

    MR 1.241 27 I would not quite forget the venerable counsel of the Egyptian mysteries...
    LT 1.273 10 A wealthy man...finds religion to be a traffic...of so many piddling accounts, that of all mysteries he cannot skill to keep a stock going upon that trade.
    Hist 2.40 6 What light does [history] shed on those mysteries which we hide under the names Death and Immortality?
    Mrs1 3.143 12 ...the respect which these mysteries [of fashion] inspire in the most rude and sylvan characters...betray[s] the universality of the love of cultivated manners.
    NR 3.232 9 The Eleusinian mysteries...show that there always were seeing and knowing men in the planet.
    SwM 4.132 15 The wise people of the Greek race were accustomed to lead the most intelligent and virtuous young men...through the Eleusinian mysteries...
    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.
    F 6.47 5 One key, one solution to the mysteries of human condition... exists;...
    Bty 6.304 10 Facts which had never before left their stark common sense suddenly figure as Eleusinian mysteries.
    Bty 6.306 17 ...there is a climbing scale of culture...up through...signs and tokens of thought and character in manners, up to the ineffable mysteries of the intellect.
    Ill 6.310 1 The mysteries and scenery of the [Mammoth] cave had the same dignity that belongs to all natural objects...
    Civ 7.17 22 Now speed the gay celerities of art,/ What in the desert was impossible/ Within four walls is possible again,/--Culture and libraries, mysteries of skill/...
    MoL 10.244 15 Dramatic mysteries were the entertainment of the people [in the Middle Ages].
    Schr 10.289 4 ...if I could prevail to communicate the incommunicable mysteries, you [scholars] should see the breadth of your realm;...
    Plu 10.304 25 ...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...
    LLNE 10.337 12 Gall and Spurzheim's Phrenology laid a rough hand on the mysteries of animal and spiritual nature...

Mysteries, n. (2)

    ShP 4.201 17 We have to thank the researches of antiquaries, and the Shakspeare Society, for ascertaining the steps of the English drama, from the Mysteries...down to the possession of the stage by the very pieces which Shakspeare altered, remodelled and finally made his own.
    Boks 7.221 10 Another member [of the literary club] meantime shall as honestly search, sift and as truly report on British mythology...the histories of Brut, Merlin and Welsh poetry;...a fourth, on Mysteries, Early Drama, Gesta Romanorum, Collier, and Dyce, and the Camden Society.

mysterious, adj. (23)

    AmS 1.113 7 ...[Swedenborg] showed the mysterious bond that allies moral evil to the foul material forms...
    MN 1.200 5 In all animal and vegetable forms, the physiologist concedes that...a mysterious principle of life must be assumed...
    MR 1.248 24 ...it would be like dying of perfumes to sink in the effort to re-attach the deeds of every day to the holy and mysterious recesses of life.
    LT 1.272 12 ...the origin of all reform is in that mysterious fountain of the moral sentiment in man...
    Con 1.304 7 ...[the system of property and law] is the fruit of the same mysterious cause as the mineral or animal world.
    Hist 2.5 26 Human life, as containing [the universal nature], is mysterious and inviolable...
    Cir 2.305 18 Step by step we scale this mysterious ladder;...
    NER 3.274 25 Caesar, just before the battle of Pharsalia...offers to quit the army, the empire, and Cleopatra, if [the Egyptian priest] will show him those mysterious sources [of the Nile].
    ShP 4.209 6 We have [Shakespeare's] recorded convictions on those questions which knock for answer at every heart...on those mysterious and demoniacal powers which defy our science...
    Bhr 6.179 8 The mysterious communication established across a house between two entire strangers, moves all the springs of wonder.
    Civ 7.20 1 The term [Civilization] imports a mysterious progress.
    PI 8.9 8 ...[the student] observes that all things in Nature...have a mysterious relation to his thoughts and his life;...
    PI 8.20 6 ...Swedenborg [expressed the same sense], when he said, There is nothing existing in human thought, even though relating to the most mysterious tenet of faith, but has combined with it a natural and sensuous image.
    MMEm 10.403 13 My opinion, [Mary Moody Emerson] writes, [is]...that the fiery depths of Calvinism, with its high and mysterious elections to eternal bliss...would have alone been fitted to fix [Byron's] imagination.
    MMEm 10.416 2 ...joy, hope and resignation unite me [Mary Moody Emerson] to Him whose mysterious Will adjusts everything...
    ALin 11.329 12 ...I doubt if any death has caused so much pain to mankind as this [of Lincoln] has caused, or will cause, on its announcement; and this...because of the mysterious hopes and fears which, in the present day, are connected with the name and institutions of America.
    PLT 12.4 10 ...in the order of Nature [the higher laws] lie higher and are nearer to the mysterious seat of power and creation.
    Mem 12.93 14 There is no book like the memory, none with such a good index, and that of every kind...arranged...by all sorts of mysterious hooks and eyes to catch and hold...
    Mem 12.95 9 Never was truer fable than that of the Sibyl's writing on leaves which the wind scatters. The difference between men is that in one the memory with inconceivable swiftness flies after and recollects the flying leaves,-flies on wing as fast as that mysterious whirlwind...
    Mem 12.97 5 ...this mysterious power [memory] that binds our life together has its own vagaries and interruptions.
    Mem 12.107 8 ...observing some mysterious continuity of mental operation during sleep...'t is an old rule of scholars...'T is best knocking in the nail overnight and clinching it next morning.
    Milt1 12.261 22 ...[Milton] knew that this mastery of language was a secondary power, and he respected the mysterious source whence it had its spring;...
    Trag 12.416 7 The individual who suffers has a mysterious counterbalance to that condition...

mysteriously, adv. (1)

    Dem1 10.19 15 ...I find...some play at blindman's-buff, when men as wise as Goethe talk mysteriously of the demonological.

mystery, n. (32)

    Nat 1.23 16 The production of a work of art throws a light upon the mystery of humanity.
    Nat 1.68 14 A perception of this mystery inspires the muse of George Herbert...
    DSA 1.119 13 The mystery of nature was never displayed more happily.
    DSA 1.128 20 [Jesus Christ] saw with open eye the mystery of the soul.
    MN 1.222 2 If you say, The acceptance of the vision is also the act of God:-I shall not seek to penetrate the mystery...
    LT 1.262 12 ...persons are the world to persons,-a cunning mystery by which the Great Desert of thoughts and of planets takes this engaging form, to bring...its meanings nearer to the mind.
    Art1 2.354 9 We carve and paint...as students of the mystery of Form.
    Pt1 3.16 9 The inwardness and mystery of this attachment [to nature] drive men of every class to the use of emblems.
    Nat2 3.167 2 The rounded world is fair to see,/ Nine times folded in mystery/...
    Nat2 3.194 2 [Nature's] secret is untold. Many and many an Oedipus arrives; he has the whole mystery teeming in his brain.
    SwM 4.108 25 Here again [in the brain] is the mystery of generation repeated.
    ShP 4.209 27 What mystery has [Shakespeare] not signified his knowledge of?
    ET16 5.278 20 The chief mystery [of Stonehenge] is, that any mystery should have been allowed to settle on so remarkable a monument...
    ET16 5.278 21 The chief mystery [of Stonehenge] is, that any mystery should have been allowed to settle on so remarkable a monument...
    Elo1 7.90 27 ...if we come to the heart of the mystery, perhaps we should say that the truly eloquent man is a sane man with power to communicate his sanity.
    PI 8.67 10 If [the readers of a good poem] build ships, they write Ariel or Prospero or Ophelia on the ship's stern, and impart a tenderness and mystery to matters of fact.
    Aris 10.39 9 I wish...men...whom the mystery of botany allures, and the mineral laws;...
    PerF 10.72 17 ...in the impenetrable mystery which hides...the mental nature, I await the insight which our advancing knowledge of material laws shall furnish.
    SovE 10.190 15 For my part, said Napoleon, it is not the mystery of the incarnation which I discover in religion, but the mystery of social order...
    SovE 10.190 16 For my part, said Napoleon, it is not the mystery of the incarnation which I discover in religion, but the mystery of social order...
    Prch 10.234 2 ...new shop, or old cathedral, it is all one to [the deep observer]. He will find...as deep a cloud of mystery on the cause...
    Prch 10.238 1 We [in the Church] come...to open the upper eyes to the deep mystery of cause and effect...
    FSLC 11.189 16 I thought it was this fair mystery, whose foundations are hidden in eternity, which made the basis of human society, and of law;...
    SHC 11.434 16 ...when I think of the mystery of life...I think sometimes that the vault of the sky arching there upward...is only a Sleepyy Hollow, with path of Suns, insead of foot-paths;...
    FRep 11.509 1 There is a mystery in the soul of state/ Which hath an operation more divine/ Than breath or pen can give expression to./
    PLT 12.5 16 ...in the impenetrable mystery which hides...the mental nature, I await the insight which our advancing knowledge of material laws shall furnish.
    II 12.74 25 ...this wonderful source of knowledge [Inspiration] remains a mystery;...
    II 12.74 26 ...[Inspiration's] arts and methods of working remain a mystery...
    CInt 12.129 18 Only bring a deep observer, and he will make light of the new shop or old cathedral...or new circumstances that afflict you. He will find the circumstances not altered; as deep a cloud of mystery on the cause...

mystic, adj. (18)

    Nat 1.17 18 ...the night shall be my Germany of mystic philosophy and dreams.
    Int 2.337 22 ...the mystic pencil wherewith we...draw [in unconscious states] has no awkwardness or inexperience...
    Exp 3.61 2 ...we should...do broad justice where we are...accepting our actual companions and circumstances...as the mystic officials to whom the universe has delegated its whole pleasure for us.
    Wsp 6.199 21 Draw, if thou canst, the mystic line,/ Severing rightly [Fate' s] from thine,/ Which is human, which divine./
    Wsp 6.209 11 The dogma of the mystic offices of Christ being dropped...it is impossible to maintain the old emphasis of his personality;...
    WD 7.185 9 ...this is the progress of every earnest mind;...from a respect to the works to a wise wonder at this mystic element of time in which he is conditioned;...
    PI 8.16 5 ...the sole question is how many strokes vibrate on this mystic string,--how many diameters are drawn quite through from matter to spirit;...
    Comc 8.163 4 [Wit]...unless it encounter a mystic or a dumpish soul, goes everywhere heralded and harbingered by smiles and greetings.
    PC 8.205 6 ...as through dreams in watches of the night,/ So through all creatures in their form and ways/ Some mystic hint accosts the vigilant/...
    PPo 8.263 8 What need, cries the mystic Feisi, of palaces and tapestry?
    Chr2 10.109 16 Fontenelle said: If the Deity should lay bare to the eyes of men the secret system of Nature...and they finding no magic, no mystic numbers, no fatalities...I am persuaded they...would exclaim, with disappointment, Is that all?
    SovE 10.185 6 ...presently a mystic change is wrought...and [the man down in Nature] is made a citizen of the world of souls...
    Plu 10.304 20 Another [sentence] gives an insight into [Plutarch's] mystic tendencies...
    MMEm 10.426 5 The mystic dream which is shed over the season.
    MMEm 10.426 27 Never do the feelings of the Infinite and the consciousness of finite frailty and ignorance harmonize so well as at this mystic season in the deserts of life.
    EdAd 11.382 9 Our eyes/ Are armed, but we are strangers to the stars,/ And strangers to the mystic beast and bird,/ And strangers to the plant and to the mine./
    PLT 12.16 21 ...I have a suspicion that, as geologists say every river makes its own valley, so does this mystic stream.
    CL 12.141 17 We might say, the Rock of Ages dissolves himself into the mineral air to build up this mystic constitution of man's mind and body.

Mystic, Connecticut (?), n. (1)

    HDC 11.51 12 In 1644, Squaw Sachem, the widow of Nanepashemet, the great Sachem of Concord and Mystic, with two sachems of Wachusett... intimated their desire...to learn to read God's word and know God aright;...

mystic, n. (10)

    OS 2.287 12 The great distinction...between men of the world who are reckoned accomplished talkers...and a fervent mystic...is that one class speak from within...and the other class from without...
    Pt1 3.34 13 Here is the difference betwixt the poet and the mystic, that the last nails a symbol to one sense, which was a true sense for a moment, but soon becomes old and false.
    Pt1 3.35 6 ...the mystic must be steadily told,--All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as with it.
    SwM 4.95 21 The Arabians say, that Abul Khain, the mystic, and Abu Ali Seena, the philosopher, conferred together;...
    SwM 4.95 24 The Arabians say, that Abul Khain, the mystic, and Abu Ali Seena, the philosopher, conferred together; and, on parting, the philosopher said, All that he sees, I know; and the mystic said, All that he knows, I see.
    SwM 4.124 2 ...this mystic [Swedenborg] is awful to Caesar.
    F 6.18 5 Doubtless in every million there will be...a mystic.
    Ctr 6.150 11 The best bribe which London offers to-day to the imagination is that in such a vast variety of people and conditions one can believe...that the poet, the mystic and the hero may hope to confront their counterparts.
    PPo 8.244 14 Hafiz...adds to some of the attributes of Pindar, Anacreon, Horace and Burns, the insight of a mystic...
    SovE 10.207 19 The mystic or theist is never scared by any startling materialism.

Mystic, n. (1)

    SwM 4.97 9 All religious history contains traces of the trance of saints... Myesis, the closing of the eyes,--whence our word, Mystic.

mystical, adj. (8)

    SwM 4.107 25 A poetic anatomist, in our own day, teaches that a snake, being a horizontal line, and man, being an erect line, constitute a right angle; and between the lines of this mystical quadrant all animated beings find their place...
    SwM 4.121 2 [Swedenborg's] perception of nature...is mystical and Hebraic.
    SwM 4.132 24 Genius is ever haunted by similar dreams [to those of Swedenborg], when the hells and the heavens are opened to it. But these pictures are to be held as mystical...
    SwM 4.143 3 Behmen is healthily and beautifully wise, notwithstanding the mystical narrowness and incommunicableness.
    ET14 5.242 1 In England these [generalizations]...do all have a kind of filial retrospect to Plato and the Greeks. Of this kind is...the Zoroastrian definition of poetry, mystical, yet exact, apparent pictures of unapparent natures;...
    PPo 8.249 17 We do not wish to...try to make mystical divinity out of the Song of Solomon...
    PPo 8.263 16 Ferideddin Attar wrote the Bird Conversations, a mystical tale...
    CSC 10.375 16 ...Edward, Palmer, Jones Very, Maria W. Chapman and many other persons of a mystical or sectarian or philanthropic renown, were present [at the Chardon Street Convention]...

mysticism, n. (5)

    LT 1.275 21 Here is great variety and richness of mysticism...
    Pt1 3.34 19 Mysticism consists in the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.
    PPh 4.40 24 Mysticism finds in Plato all its texts.
    PPo 8.263 21 From this poem [Ferideddin Attar's Bird Conversations], written five hundred years ago, we cite the following passage, as a proof of the identity of mysticism in all periods.
    MLit 12.318 14 The very child in the nursery prattles mysticism...

mystics, n. (6)

    Pt1 3.17 2 ...[the people] are all poets and mystics!
    SwM 4.117 6 Behmen, and all mystics, imply this law [of Correspondence] in their dark riddle-writing.
    ET13 5.226 16 ...when wealth accrues to a chaplaincy, a bishopric, or rectorship, it requires moneyed men for its stewards, who will give it another direction than to the mystics of their day.
    ET14 5.245 20 Hallam...is unconscious of the deep worth which lies in the mystics...
    Suc 7.305 18 An Englishman of marked character and talent, who had brought with him hither one or two friends and a library of mystics, assured me that nobody and nothing of possible interest was left in England...
    SovE 10.203 22 The Church of Rome had its saints, and inspired the conscience of Europe...the mystics, Behmen and Swedenborg;...

mystify, v. (2)

    LE 1.183 21 Hence the temptation to the scholar to mystify...
    Mrs1 3.131 8 ...to exclude and mystify pretenders and send them into everlasting Coventry, is [fashion's] delight.

myth, n. (1)

    PI 8.7 25 ...the severest analyzer...is forced to keep the poetic curve of Nature, and his result is like a myth of Theocritus.

Myth, n. (1)

    ACri 12.293 10 We are now offended with Standpoint, Myth, Subjective, the Good and the True and the Cause.

mythical, adj. (4)

    PNR 4.89 5 All [Plato's] painting in the Republic must be esteemed mythical...
    Pow 6.55 4 Courage, the old physicians taught (and their meaning holds, if their physiology is a little mythical)...is as the degree of circulation of the blood in the arteries.
    Thor 10.476 7 All readers of Walden will remember [Thoreau's] mythical record of his disappointments...
    Shak1 11.449 15 ...at the short distance of three hundred years [Shakespeare] is mythical...

mythically, adv. (1)

    ET5 5.74 12 ...we are forced to use the names [Saxon and Norman] a little mythically...

mythologic, adj. (2)

    PPh 4.47 16 Before Pericles came the Seven Wise Masters, and we have the beginnings of geometry, metaphysics and ethics: then the partialists,-- deducing the origin of things from flux or water, or from air, or from fire, or from mind. All mix with these causes mythologic pictures.
    GoW 4.276 23 ...[Goethe] stripped [the Devil] of mythologic gear...

mythological, adj. (2)

    PC 8.220 23 ...[the true man] is the only great event, and it is easy to lift him into a mythological personage.
    ALin 11.333 18 I am sure if this man [Lincoln] had ruled in a period of less facility of printing, he would have become mythological in a very few years...

mythologies, n. (5)

    Con 1.296 5 There is a fragment of old fable which seems somehow to have been dropped from the current mythologies...
    GoW 4.272 3 [Goethe's] Helena...is...the work of one who found himself the master of histories, mythologies, philosophies, sciences and national literatures...
    GoW 4.273 2 What new mythologies sail through [Goethe's] head!
    Boks 7.213 2 We must have idolatries, mythologies...
    PI 8.64 19 Bring us...poetry...that shall...mould itself into religions and mythologies...

mythologists, n. (4)

    Pt1 3.18 18 In the old mythology, mythologists observe, defects are ascribed to divine natures...to signify exuberances.
    Bty 6.289 19 ...the mythologists tell us that Vulcan was painted lame and Cupid blind, to call attention to the fact that one was all limbs, and the other all eyes.
    Bty 6.292 1 Another text from the mythologists.
    Bty 6.294 6 One more text from the mythologists is to the same purpose...

mythologizes, v. (1)

    SovE 10.203 3 Our religion...respects and mythologizes some one time and place and person and people.

mythology, n. (39)

    MN 1.206 3 The history of the genesis or the old mythology repeats itself in the experience of every child.
    Hist 2.30 16 Beside its primary value as the first chapter of the history of Europe (the mythology thinly veiling authentic facts, the invention of the mechanic arts and the migration of colonies,) [the story of Prometheus] gives the history of religion...
    Hist 2.30 21 Prometheus is the Jesus of the old mythology.
    Comp 2.106 23 [Jove] cannot get his own thunders; Minerva keeps the key of them... A plain confession of the in-working of the All and of its moral aim. The Indian mythology ends in the same ethics;...
    Pt1 3.18 18 In the old mythology...defects are ascribed to divine natures...to signify exuberances.
    Mrs1 3.155 8 ...[society] reminds us of a tradition of the pagan mythology, in any attempt to settle its character.
    Nat2 3.175 5 [A boy] hears the echoes of a horn in a hill country...which converts the mountains into an Aeolian harp,--and this supernatural tiralira restores to him the Dorian mythology...
    Nat2 3.177 20 Frivolity is a most unfit tribute to Pan, who ought to be represented in the mythology as the most continent of gods.
    UGM 4.3 4 All mythology opens with demigods...
    SwM 4.124 22 That metempsychosis which is familiar in the old mythology of the Greeks...in Swedenborg's mind has a more philosophic character.
    GoW 4.274 8 ...[Goethe] showed...that, in actions of routine, a thread of mythology and fable spins itself...
    GoW 4.276 13 The Devil had played an important part in mythology in all times.
    ET1 5.15 20 [Carlyle's] talk playfully exalting the familiar objects, put the companion at once into an acquaintance with his Lars and Lemurs, and it was very pleasant to learn what was predestined to be a pretty mythology.
    ET4 5.55 19 ...[The Celts] made the best popular literature of the Middle Ages in the songs of Merlin and the tender and delicious mythology of Arthur.
    F 6.25 13 We have successive experiences so important that the new forgets the old, and hence the mythology of the seven or the nine heavens.
    Bty 6.289 22 In the true mythology Love is an immortal child...
    Ill 6.317 2 ...if...Moosehead, or any other, invent a new style or mythology, I fancy that the world will be all brave and right if dressed in these colors...
    Boks 7.206 21 [The scholar] can look back for the legends and mythology to the Younger Edda and the Heimskringla of Snorro Sturleson...
    Boks 7.217 20 Every good fable, every mythology...when they proceed from an intellectual integrity...have the imaginative element.
    Boks 7.221 6 Another member [of the literary club] meantime shall as honestly search, sift and as truly report on British mythology...
    Cour 7.255 14 There is a Hercules...or a Cid in the mythology of every nation;...
    PI 8.14 4 ...the Greek mythology called the sea the tear of Saturn.
    PI 8.34 18 'T is easy to repaint the mythology of the Greeks...
    PI 8.74 18 O yes, poets we shall have, mythology, symbols, religion, of our own.
    QO 8.181 22 Mythology is no man's work;...
    QO 8.181 27 ...what we daily observe in regard to the bon-mots that circulate in society,-that every talker helps a story in repeating it, until, at last, from the slenderest filament of fact a good fable is constructed,-the same growth befalls mythology...
    QO 8.193 15 We admire that poetry which no man wrote...which is to be read in a mythology...
    PC 8.207 20 Science surpasses the old miracles of mythology...
    PC 8.216 5 All the transcendent writers and artists of the world,-'t is doubtful who they were, they are lifted so fast into mythology;...
    PPo 8.240 8 The Persian poetry rests on a mythology whose few legends are connected with the Jewish history and the anterior traditions of the Pentateuch.
    Insp 8.295 12 You may read Plutarch, Plato, Plotinus, Hindoo mythology and ethics.
    Insp 8.295 16 ...read Hafiz and the Trouveurs; nay, Welsh and British mythology of Arthur...
    Imtl 8.347 13 He has [immortality], and he alone, who gives life to all names, persons, things, where he comes. No religion, not the wildest mythology dies for him;...
    Chr2 10.104 16 Every nation is degraded by the goblins it worships instead of this Deity. The Dionysia and Saturnalia of Greece and Rome...the vindictive mythology of Calvinism, are examples of this perversion.
    MoL 10.244 2 The Greek was so perfect in action and in imagination, his poems...so charming in form and so true to the human mind, that we cannot forget or outgrow their mythology.
    PLT 12.35 23 The mythology cleaves close to Nature;...
    Bost 12.193 9 ...[the savage] goes muttering his rude ritual or mythology, which yet conceals some grand commandment;...
    ACri 12.290 26 In the Hindoo mythology, Viswaharman placed the sun on his lathe to grind off some of his effulgence, and in this manner reduced it to an eighth,-more was inseparable.
    Trag 12.407 11 The same idea [of Fate] makes the paralyzing terror with which the East Indian mythology haunts the imagination.

Mythology, n. (1)

    Boks 7.212 9 Poetry, with its aids of Mythology and Romance, must be well allowed for an imaginative creature.

myths, n. (1)

    Chr2 10.110 15 The time will come, says Varnhagen von Ense, when we shall treat the jokes and sallies against the myths and church-rituals of Christianity...good-naturedly...

Mythus, n. (1)

    DSA 1.129 17 Christianity became a Mythus...

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