Plastic to Plenteous

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

plastic, adj. (20)

    Nat 1.15 5 ...such [is] the plastic power of the human eye, that the primary forms...give us delight in and for themselves;...
    AmS 1.105 6 ...the world was plastic and fluid in the hands of God...
    DSA 1.150 11 ...if once you are alive, you shall find [the old forms] shall become plastic and new.
    SR 2.70 8 ...a man or a company of men, plastic and permeable to principles, by the law of nature must overpower and ride all cities...who are not.
    Lov1 2.179 26 The same fluency may be observed in every work of the plastic arts.
    Art1 2.353 25 ...the whole extant product of the plastic arts has herein its highest value, as history;...
    Art1 2.364 14 ...in the works of our plastic arts...creation is driven into a corner.
    ET1 5.16 11 ...[Carlyle] still thought man the most plastic little fellow in the planet...
    F 6.28 7 Thought dissolves the material universe by carrying the mind up into a sphere where all is plastic.
    DL 7.130 4 ...let the creations of the plastic arts be collected with care in galleries by the piety and taste of the people...
    WD 7.158 10 ...we pity our fathers for dying before...photograph and spectroscope arrived, as cheated out of half their human estate. These arts open great gates of a future, promising to make the world plastic...
    WD 7.171 3 ...the treasures which Nature spent itself to amass...the surrounding plastic natures;...are given immeasurably to all.
    Res 8.137 8 The world is...strings of tension waiting to be struck; the earth sensitive as iodine to light; the most plastic and impressionable medium...
    Res 8.141 4 Ah! what a plastic little creature [man] is!...
    Res 8.142 26 All is ductile and plastic.
    PC 8.223 18 ...[Nature] is hostile to ignorance,-plastic, transparent, delightful, to knowledge.
    LLNE 10.352 10 [Fourier] treats man as a plastic thing...
    PLT 12.6 5 Whilst we converse with truths as thoughts, they exist also as plastic forces;...
    MAng1 12.221 25 Man is the highest, and indeed the only proper object of plastic art.
    Trag 12.415 4 Our human being is wonderfully plastic;...

plate, n. (14)

    Nat 1.33 3 The visible world and the relation of its parts, is the dial plate of the invisible.
    LT 1.264 27 Whilst the Daguerreotypist, with camera-obscura and silver plate, begins now to traverse the land, let us set up our Camera also...
    Mrs1 3.138 4 I pray my companion...if he wishes for sassafras or arsenic, to ask me for them, and not to hold out his plate as if I knew already.
    Nat2 3.180 7 Now we learn what patient periods must round themselves before the rock is formed; then before the rock is broken, and the first lichen race has disintegrated the thinnest external plate into soil...
    ShP 4.214 4 Daguerre learned how to let one flower etch its image on his plate of iodine...
    ET6 5.107 26 [The Englishman] is very fond of silver plate...
    ET6 5.108 2 Incredible amounts of plate are found in good houses [in England]...
    ET11 5.193 2 Dismal anecdotes abound...of [English] dukes served by bailiffs, with all their plate in pawn;...
    ET12 5.200 6 The halls [at Oxford] are rich with oaken wainscoting and ceiling. The pictures of the founders hang from the walls; the tables glitter with plate.
    ET12 5.202 13 It is usual for a nobleman, or indeed for almost every wealthy student [at Oxford], on quitting college to leave behind him some article of plate;...
    FSLC 11.209 6 'T is said [buying the slaves] will cost two thousand millions of dollars. Was there ever any contribution that was so enthusiastically paid as this will be? ... The churches will melt their plate.
    Mem 12.93 20 We figure [memory] as if the mind were a kind of looking-glass, which being carried through the street of time receives on its clear plate every image that passes;...
    Mem 12.93 21 We figure [memory] as if the mind were a kind of looking-glass, which being carried through the street of time receives on its clear plate every image that passes; only with this difference, that our plate is iodized so that every image sinks into it, and is held there.
    Mem 12.93 26 ...in addition to this [photographic] property [the memory] has one more, this, namely, that of all the million images that are imprinted, the very one we want reappears in the centre of the plate in the moment when we want it.

platform, n. (30)

    MN 1.204 25 ...the didactic morals of self-denial and strife with sin, are in the view we are constrained by our constitution to take of the fact seen from the platform of action;...
    MN 1.204 26 ...seen from the platform of intellection there is nothing for us but praise and wonder.
    Con 1.326 2 ...to return from this alternation of partial views to the high platform of universal and necessary history, it is a happiness for mankind that innovation has got on so far...
    Fdsp 2.214 18 ...thus we part only to meet again on a higher platform...
    OS 2.275 26 Those who are capable of humility, of justice, of love, of aspiration, stand already on a platform that commands the sciences and arts...
    Cir 2.312 3 The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life...
    Exp 3.52 21 I thus express the law as it is read from the platform of ordinary life...
    Exp 3.52 24 On the platform of physics we cannot resist the contracting influences of so-called science.
    Exp 3.54 19 On this platform [of science] one lives in a sty of sensualism...
    NR 3.247 19 ...if we did not in any moment shift the platform on which we stand, and look and speak from another!...
    NER 3.270 11 We must go up to a higher platform...
    NER 3.277 8 What [the selfish man] most wishes is to be lifted to some higher platform...
    SwM 4.143 16 ...[Swedenborg] did not rise to the platform of pure genius.
    MoS 4.174 5 How respectable is earnestness on every platform!...
    ET19 5.309 23 On being introduced to the meeting [Manchester Athenaeum Banquet] I said:--Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen: It is pleasant to me to meet this great and brilliant company, and doubly pleasant to see the faces of so many distinguished persons on this platform.
    Wsp 6.201 4 Some of my friends have complained...that we discussed Fate, Power and Wealth on too low a platform;...
    Elo1 7.97 22 The highest platform of eloquence is the moral sentiment.
    Clbs 7.231 1 Conversation in society is found to be on a platform so low as to exclude science, the saint and the poet.
    PI 8.70 20 Every man may be, and at some time a man is, lifted to a platform whence he looks beyond sense to moral and spiritual truth...
    Elo2 8.115 17 [The true orator's] attitude in the rostrum, on the platform, requires that he counterbalance his auditory.
    QO 8.202 18 A phrase or a single word is adduced, with honoring emphasis, from Pindar, Hesiod or Euripides, as precluding all argument, because thus had they said: importing that the bard spoke not his own, but the words of some god. True poets have always ascended to this lofty platform...
    Grts 8.301 23 [Greatness] is...the only platform on which all men can meet.
    Chr2 10.113 21 The pulpit may shake, but this platform [of ethical studies] will not.
    Supl 10.163 2 [The doctrine of temperance] is usually taught on a low platform...
    Plu 10.322 5 It is a service to our Republic to publish a book that can force ambitious young men, before they mount the platform of the county conventions, to read the Laconic Apothegms [of Plutarch]...
    LLNE 10.332 4 [Everett's learning] was so coldly and weightily communicated from so commanding a platform...that...this learning instantly took the highest place to our imagination...
    LLNE 10.336 6 ...the paramount source of the religious revolution was Modern Science; beginning with Copernicus, who destroyed the pagan fictions of the Church, by showing mankind that the earth on which we live was not the centre of the Universe...and thus fitted to be the platform on which the Drama of the Divine Judgment was played before the assembled Angels of Heaven...
    MAng1 12.226 25 When the Sistine Chapel was prepared for him, that he might paint the ceiling, [Michelangelo] found the platform on which he was to work suspended by ropes which passed through the ceiling.
    MAng1 12.227 4 Michael [Angelo] demanded of San Gallo, the pope!s architect, how these holes [in the Sistine Chapel ceiling] were to be repaired in the picture. San Gallo replied: That was for him to consider, for the platform could be constructed in no other way..
    MAng1 12.227 6 Michael [Angelo]...constructed a movable platform to rest and roll upon the floor [of the Sistine Chapel]...

platforms, n. (8)

    PNR 4.81 22 [Plato] represents...the power...of carrying up every fact to successive platforms...
    Wth 6.126 14 [The liquor of life] passes through the sacred fermentations, by that law of nature whereby everything climbs to higher platforms...
    CbW 6.275 6 ...we live with people on other platforms;...
    Elo1 7.79 24 ...there are men of the most peaceful way of life...who are felt wherever they go...and these examples may be found on very humble platforms as well as on high ones.
    Suc 7.311 7 We live on different planes or platforms.
    Chr2 10.113 10 The lines of the religious sects are very shifting; their platforms unstable;...
    FSLN 11.232 26 The events of this month are teaching one thing plain and clear...that official papers are of no use; resolutions of public meetings, platforms of conventions, no, nor laws, nor constitutions, any more.
    Bost 12.201 22 There is a little formula...I 'm as good as you be, which contains the essence of the Massachusetts Bill of Rights and of the American Declaration of Independence. And this...could be heard (by an acute ear) in...the platforms of churches...

Plato, n. (175)

    Nat 1.34 16 [The relation between mind and matter] is the standing problem which has exercised the wonder and the study of every fine genius since the world began; from the era of the Egyptians...to that...of Plato...
    Nat 1.55 8 The problem of philosophy, according to Plato, is, for all that exists conditionally, to find a ground unconditioned and absolute.
    Nat 1.69 26 ...we accept the sentence of Plato, that poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.
    AmS 1.93 11 The discerning will read, in his Plato...only that least part...
    LE 1.161 9 ...see how much you would impoverish the world if you could take clean out of history the lives of Milton, Shakspeare, and Plato...
    LE 1.161 16 I console myself...by...seeing that Plato was...
    LE 1.172 12 ...the first word [a man of genius] utters, sets all your so-called knowledge afloat and at large. Then Plato, Bacon, Kant, and the Eclectic Cousin condescend instantly to be men and mere facts.
    LT 1.282 23 We are so sharp-sighted that we can...neither read Plato nor not read him.
    Hist 2.3 5 What Plato has thought, he [that is once admitted to the right of reason] may think;...
    Hist 2.26 27 When a thought of Plato becomes a thought to me...time is no more.
    Hist 2.34 8 ...Plato said that poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
    SR 2.45 15 ...the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton is that they...spoke...what they thought.
    SL 2.146 22 Plato had a secret doctrine, had he?
    SL 2.154 19 There are not in the world at any time more than a dozen persons who read and understand Plato...
    Lov1 2.183 5 Somewhat like this have the truly wise told us of love in all ages. The doctrine is not old, nor is it new. If Plato, Plutarch and Apuleius taught it, so have Petrarch, Angelo and Milton.
    OS 2.273 8 ...produce a volume of Plato or Shakspeare...and instantly we come into a feeling of longevity.
    Cir 2.308 12 Aristotle and Plato are reckoned the respective heads of two schools.
    Int 2.345 8 ...[the philosopher] has not succeeded in rendering back to you your consciousness. He has not succeeded; now let another try. If Plato cannot, perhaps Spinoza will.
    Int 2.346 8 This band of grandees...Plato...and the rest, have somewhat...so primary in their thinking, that it seems antecedent to all the ordinary distinctions of rhetoric and literature...
    Pt1 3.4 14 ...the highest minds of the world have never ceased to explore the...manifold meaning, of every sensuous fact;...Heraclitus, Plato...
    Pt1 3.30 20 ...the metamorphosis once seen, we divine that it does not stop. I will not now consider how much this makes the charm of algebra and the mathematics, which also have their tropes, but it is felt in every definition; as when...Plato defines a line to be a flowing point;...
    Pt1 3.31 3 ...Plato calls the world an animal...
    Chr1 3.109 20 Plato said it was impossible not to believe in the children of the gods...
    Nat2 3.180 13 It is a long way from granite to the oyster; farther yet to Plato and the preaching of the immortality of the soul.
    Pol1 3.199 20 ...society is fluid;...any particle may suddenly become the centre of the movement and compel the system to gyrate round it; as...every man of truth, like Plato or Paul, does forever.
    NR 3.233 10 I read Proclus, and sometimes Plato, as I might read a dictionary...
    NER 3.259 14 Four or five persons I have seen who read Plato.
    NER 3.271 3 I think, according to the good-hearted word of Plato, Unwillingly the soul is deprived of truth.
    UGM 4.17 6 ...we thus [through the acts of the intellect]...learn to choose men by their truest marks, taught, with Plato, to choose those who can, without aid from the eyes or any other sense, proceed to truth and to being.
    UGM 4.18 3 The eyes of Plato, Shakspeare, Swedenborg, Goethe, never shut on either of these laws [of identity and of reaction].
    UGM 4.19 26 When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe this to Plato, but to the idea, to which also Plato was debtor.
    UGM 4.19 27 When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe this to Plato, but to the idea, to which also Plato was debtor.
    UGM 4.25 3 Without Plato we should almost lose our faith in the possibility of a reasonable book.
    PPh 4.39 1 Among secular books, Plato only is entitled to Omar's fanatical compliment to the Koran, when he said, Burn the libraries; for their value is in this book.
    PPh 4.39 11 Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated among men of thought.
    PPh 4.39 21 ...every brisk young man who says in succession fine things to each reluctant generation...is some reader of Plato...
    PPh 4.40 8 Plato is philosophy, and philosophy, Plato...
    PPh 4.40 25 Mysticism finds in Plato all its texts.
    PPh 4.41 4 ...Plato seems to a reader in New England an American genius.
    PPh 4.41 8 This range of Plato instructs us what to think of the vexed question concerning his reputed works...
    PPh 4.41 14 ...wherever we find a man higher by a whole head than any of his contemporaries, it is sure to come into doubt what are his real works. Thus Homer, Plato, Raffaelle, Shakspeare.
    PPh 4.41 23 Plato...like every great man, consumed his own times.
    PPh 4.42 7 When we are praising Plato, it seems we are praising quotations from Solon and Sophron and Philolaus.
    PPh 4.42 15 Plato absorbed the learning of his times...
    PPh 4.43 5 Plato is clothed with the powers of a poet...
    PPh 4.43 17 Plato especially has no external biography.
    PPh 4.44 14 ...the biography of Plato is interior.
    PPh 4.44 22 ...the writings of Plato have preoccupied every school of learning...
    PPh 4.45 6 I am struck...with the extreme modernness of [Plato's] style and spirit. Here is the germ of that Europe we know so well, in its long history of arts and arms; here are all its traits, already discernible in the mind of Plato...
    PPh 4.45 13 How Plato came thus to be Europe, and philosophy, and almost literature, is the problem for us to solve.
    PPh 4.47 17 At last comes Plato, the distributor, who needs no barbaric paint, or tattoo, or whooping;...
    PPh 4.53 23 ...Plato, in Egypt and in Eastern pilgrimages, imbibed the idea of one Deity...
    PPh 4.54 3 ...the infinitude of the Asiatic soul and the defining, result-loving, machine-making, surface-seeking, opera-going Europe,--Plato came to join...
    PPh 4.56 2 ...the experience of poetic creativeness, which is not found in staying at home, nor yet in travelling, but in transitions from one to the other, which must therefore be adroitly managed to present as much transitional surface as possible; this command of two elements must explain the power and the charm of Plato.
    PPh 4.56 6 Plato keeps the two vases, one of aether and one of pigment, at his side, and invariably uses both.
    PPh 4.56 11 Plato turns incessantly the obverse and the reverse of the medal of Jove.
    PPh 4.56 17 ...The physical philosophers had sketched each his theory of the world;...theories mechanical and chemical in their genius. Plato...feels these...to be no theories of the world but bare inventories and lists.
    PPh 4.57 11 The mind of Plato is not to be exhibited by a Chinese catalogue...
    PPh 4.57 23 According to the old sentence, If Jove should descend to the earth, he would speak in the style of Plato.
    PPh 4.58 6 ...the anecdotes that have come down from the times attest [Plato's] manly interference before the people in his master's behalf, since even the savage cry of the assembly to Plato is preserved;...
    PPh 4.59 7 In reading logarithms one is not more secure than in following Plato in his flights.
    PPh 4.59 18 ...Plato, in his plenty, is never restricted, but has the fit word.
    PPh 4.61 20 Plato apprehended the cardinal facts.
    PPh 4.66 13 Those of you who were the worthy ones in the state of ignorance, will be the worthy ones in the state of faith, as soon as you embrace it. Plato was not less firm.
    PPh 4.67 27 Plato, lover of limits, loved the illimitable...
    PPh 4.68 16 A key to the method and completeness of Plato is his twice bisected line.
    PPh 4.70 22 Socrates and Plato are the double star which the most powerful instruments will not entirely separate.
    PPh 4.75 9 The rare coincidence [in Socrates], in one ugly body, of...the keen street and market debater with the sweetest saint known to any history at that time, had forcibly struck the mind of Plato...
    PPh 4.75 18 The strange synthesis in the character of Socrates capped the synthesis in the mind of Plato.
    PPh 4.75 23 ...[Plato] was able...to avail himself of the wit and weight of Socrates, to which unquestionably his own debt was great; and these derived again their principal advantage from the perfect art of Plato.
    PPh 4.75 24 ...the defect of Plato in power is only that which results inevitably from his quality.
    PPh 4.76 5 It is almost the sole deduction from the merit of Plato that his writings have not...the vital authority which the screams of prophets... possess.
    PPh 4.77 4 Plato would willingly have a Platonism, a known and accurate expression for the world...
    PPh 4.77 7 [Plato's Platonism] shall be the world passed through the mind of Plato...
    PPh 4.77 19 ...elements, planet itself, laws of planet and of men, have passed through this man [Plato] as bread into his body, and become no longer bread, but body: so all this mammoth morsel has become Plato.
    PPh 4.77 27 ...the bitten world holds the biter fast by his own teeth. There he perishes: unconquered nature lives on and forgets him. So it fares with all: so must it fare with Plato.
    PPh 4.78 1 In view of eternal nature, Plato turns out of be philosophical exercitations.
    PPh 4.78 8 ...admirable texts can be quoted on both sides of every great question from [Plato]. These things we are forced to say if we must consider the effort of Plato or of any philosopher to dispose of nature,-- which will not be disposed of.
    PPh 4.78 13 No power of genius has ever yet had the smallest success in explaining existence. The perfect enigma remains. But there is an injustice in assuming this ambition for Plato.
    PPh 4.79 7 The great-eyed Plato proportioned the lights and shades after the genius of our life.
    PNR 4.80 2 The publication, in Mr. Bohn's Serial Library, of the excellent translations of Plato...gives us an occasion to take hastily a few more notes of the elevation and bearings of this fixed star;...
    PNR 4.80 7 The publication, in Mr. Bohn's Serial Library, of the excellent translations of Plato...gives us an occasion...to add a bulletin, like the journals, of Plato at the latest dates.
    PNR 4.81 13 ...Plato has the fortune in the history of mankind to mark an epoch.
    PNR 4.82 2 ...the Republic of Plato...may be said to require and so to anticipate the astronomy of Laplace.
    PNR 4.82 7 In ascribing to Plato the merit of announcing [the expansions of facts], we only say, Here was a more complete man, who could apply to nature the whole scale of the senses, the understanding and the reason.
    PNR 4.83 22 Plato affirms the coincidence of science and virtue;...
    PNR 4.83 26 The eye attested that justice was best, as long as it was profitable; Plato affirms that it is profitable throughout;...
    PNR 4.85 13 Ethical science was new and vacant when Plato could write thus:--Of all whose arguments are left to the men of the present time, no one has ever yet condemned injustice, or praised justice, otherwise than as respects the repute, honors, and emoluments arising therefrom;...
    PNR 4.86 6 Plato is so centred that he can well spare all his dogmas.
    PNR 4.86 23 ...[Plato's] forerunners had mapped out each a farm or a district or an island, in intellectual geography, but...Plato first drew the sphere.
    PNR 4.88 24 ...in Plato, intellect is always moral.
    PNR 4.89 25 Plato plays Providence a little with the baser sort...
    SwM 4.96 1 If one should ask the reason of this intuition, the solution would lead us into that property which Plato denoted as Reminiscence...
    SwM 4.113 15 This book [The Animal Kingdom] announces [Swedenborg' s] favorite dogmas. The ancient doctrine...of Leucippus, that the atom may be known by the mass; or, in Plato, the macrocosm by the microcosm;...
    SwM 4.116 27 The fact [of Correspondence] thus explicitly stated [by Swedenborg] is implied...in the structure of language. Plato knew it...
    SwM 4.120 6 [Swedenborg] had borrowed from Plato the fine fable of a most ancient people, men better than we and dwelling nigher to the gods;...
    SwM 4.123 25 Plato is a gownsman;...
    SwM 4.127 5 [Swedenborg's Conjugal Love] came near to be the Hymn of Love, which Plato attempted in the Banquet;...
    MoS 4.150 14 Read the haughty language in which Plato and the Platonists speak of all men who are not devoted to their own shining abstractions...
    MoS 4.165 25 ...I, [says Montaigne,]...am afraid that Plato, in his purest virtue, if he had listened and laid his ear close to himself, would have heard some jarring sound of human mixture;...
    GoW 4.282 22 That a man has spent years on Plato and Proclus, does not afford a presumption that he holds heroic opinions...
    ET1 5.16 25 Plato [Carlyle] does not read...
    ET12 5.203 9 In the Bodleian Library, Dr. Bandinel showed me the manuscript Plato...
    ET14 5.238 7 The influence of Plato tinges the British genius.
    ET14 5.238 15 ...Britain had many disciples of Plato;...
    ET14 5.241 1 Plato had signified the same sense, when he said, All the great arts require a subtle and speculative research into the law of nature...
    ET14 5.241 23 A few generalizations always circulate in the world...and these are in the world constants, like the Copernican and Newtonian theories in physics. In England these...do all have a kind of filial retrospect to Plato and the Greeks.
    ET14 5.243 24 The later English want the faculty of Plato and Aristotle, of grouping men in natural classes by an insight of general laws...
    ET14 5.245 17 ...[Hallam's] eye does not reach to the ideal standards...all new thought must be cast into the old moulds. The expansive element which creates literature is steadily denied. Plato is resisted, and his school.
    Ctr 6.139 14 A boy, says Plato, is the most vicious of all wild beasts;...
    Ctr 6.141 23 The best heads that ever existed, Pericles, Plato...were well-read, universally educated men...
    Ctr 6.142 7 I like people who like Plato.
    Ctr 6.156 11 ...Plato, Plotinus...did not live in a crowd...
    Ctr 6.161 11 ...a wise man who knows not only what Plato, but what Saint John can show him, can easily raise the affair he deals with to a certain majesty.
    Ctr 6.161 13 ...a wise man who knows not only what Plato, but what Saint John can show him, can easily raise the affair he deals with to a certain majesty. Plato says Pericles owed this elevation to the lessons of Anaxagoras.
    Bty 6.306 22 Wherever we begin, thither our steps tend: an ascent from the joy of a horse in his trappings...up to the perception of Plato that globe and universe are rude and early expressions of an all-dissolving Unity,--the first stair on the scale to the temple of the Mind.
    Art2 7.39 13 ...Plato rightly said, Those things which are said to be done by Nature are indeed done by Divine Art.
    Elo1 7.62 14 Plato says that the punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is, to live under the government of worse men;...
    Boks 7.191 17 Whenever any skeptic or bigot claims to be heard on the questions of intellect and morals, we ask if he is familiar with the books of Plato, where all his pert objections have once for all been disposed of.
    Boks 7.198 8 Of Plato I hesitate to speak, lest there should be no end.
    Boks 7.198 14 You find in [Plato] that which you have already found in Homer...as if Homer were the youth and Plato the finished man;...
    Boks 7.198 19 In Plato you explore modern Europe in its causes and seed...
    Boks 7.198 23 The well-informed man finds himself anticipated [by Plato]. Plato is up with him too.
    Boks 7.199 15 ...who can overestimate the images with which Plato has enriched the minds of men...
    Boks 7.200 21 An inestimable trilogy of ancient social pictures are the three Banquets respectively of Plato, Xenophon and Plutarch.
    Boks 7.201 1 Xenophon's delineation of Athenian manners is an accessory to Plato...
    Boks 7.202 18 Of Jamblichus the Emperor Julian said that he was posterior to Plato in time, not in genius.
    Clbs 7.248 9 Plutarch, Xenophon and Plato, who have celebrated each a banquet of their set, have given us next to no data of the viands;...
    Suc 7.296 11 We should know how to praise...Plato...without impoverishing us.
    Suc 7.297 20 ...[the youth] can read Plato, covered to his chin with a cloak in a cold upper chamber...
    PI 8.13 17 I had rather have a good symbol of my thought...than the suffrage of Kant or Plato.
    PI 8.18 14 ...what is life? what is force? Push [the savans] hard and they will not be loquacious. They will come to Plato, Proclus and Swedenborg.
    PI 8.65 5 ...when we speak of the Poet in any high sense, we are driven to such examples as Zoroaster and Plato...with their moral burdens.
    QO 8.180 20 Read in Plato and you shall find Christian dogmas...
    QO 8.193 1 It is no more according to Plato than according to me.
    QO 8.202 10 Plato, Cicero and Plutarch cite the poets in the manner in which Scripture is quoted in our churches.
    PC 8.213 19 We cannot yet afford to drop Homer...nor Plato...
    PC 8.228 24 It was the conviction of Plato...that piety is an essential condition of science...
    Insp 8.274 20 Plato...notes that the perception is only accomplished by long familiarity with the objects of intellect...
    Insp 8.280 2 Plato thought exercise would almost cure a guilty conscience.
    Insp 8.295 11 You may read Plutarch, Plato, Plotinus, Hindoo mythology and ethics.
    Grts 8.311 23 [The scholar's] courage is to weigh Plato...
    Imtl 8.347 3 Read Plato, or any seer of the interior realities.
    Imtl 8.348 5 ...Plato and Cicero had both allowed themselves to overstep the stern limits of the spirit, and gratify the people with that picture [of personal immortality].
    SovE 10.186 27 'T is a long scale...from the gorilla to Plato, Newton, Shakspeare...
    Prch 10.229 22 [The clergy] look into Plato, or into the mind, and then try to make parish mince-meat of the amplitudes and eternities, and the shock is noxious.
    MoL 10.249 15 ...let us have masculine and divine men, formidable lawgivers, Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle...
    Schr 10.271 21 ...[genius and virtue] are the First Good, of which Plato affirms that all things are for its sake...
    Plu 10.297 21 [Plutarch] is...not a metaphysician, like Parmenides, Plato or Aristotle;...
    Plu 10.297 25 [Plutarch] is...not a leader of the mind of a generation, like Plato or Goethe.
    Plu 10.306 11 We are always interested in the man who treats the intellect well. We expect it from the philosopher,-from Plato, Aristotle, Spinoza and Kant;...
    Plu 10.306 26 Plato and Plotinus are enthusiasts, who honor the race;...
    Plu 10.308 6 [Plutarch] wonders with Plato at that nail of pain and pleasure which fastens the body to the mind.
    Plu 10.308 15 Of philosophy he is more interested in the results than in the method. He...prefers to sit as a scholar with Plato, than as a disputant;...
    Plu 10.314 13 I can easily believe that an anxious soul may find in Plutarch' s...Letter to his Wife Timoxena, a more sweet and reassuring argument on the immortality than in the Phaedo of Plato;...
    LLNE 10.341 24 Margaret Fuller, George Ripley...and many others...from time to time spent an afternoon at each other's houses in a serious conversation. With them was always...a man...who read Plato as an equal...
    LLNE 10.353 15 ...it would be better to say, Let us be lovers and servants of that which is just, and straightway every man becomes a centre of a holy and beneficent republic, which he sees to include all men in its law, like that of Plato, and of Christ.
    LLNE 10.363 14 [Charles Newcomb's] reading lay in Aeschylus, Plato, Dante, Calderon, Shakspeare...
    MMEm 10.402 14 [Mary Moody Emerson's] early reading was Milton, Young, Akenside, Samuel Clarke, Jonathan Edwards, and always the Bible. Later, Plato, Plotinus, Marcus Antoninus...
    MMEm 10.402 22 ...Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus,-how venerable and organic as Nature they are in [Mary Moody Emerson's] mind!
    Carl 10.489 12 If you would know precisely how [Carlyle] talks, just suppose Hugh Whelan (the gardener) had found leisure enough in addition to all his daily work to read Plato and Shakspeare...
    Wom 11.406 23 Plato said, Women are the same as men in faculty, only less in degree.
    CPL 11.502 10 Homer and Plato and Pindar and Shakspeare serve many more than have heard their names.
    PLT 12.32 25 What can Plato or Newton teach, if you are deaf or incapable?
    Mem 12.99 11 Plato deplores writing as a barbarous invention which would weaken the memory by disuse.
    Mem 12.103 7 Plato remembered Anaxagoras by one of his sayings.
    CL 12.142 2 ...Plato said of exercise that it would almost cure a guilty conscience.
    CL 12.165 11 Swedenborg or Behman or Plato tried to decipher this hieroglyphic [of Nature]...
    Bost 12.197 21 In the midst of [New England's] laborious and economical and rude and awkward population...you shall not unfrequently meet that refinement...which...nourishes itself on Plato and Dante...
    MAng1 12.240 26 [Condivi wrote] As for me, I am ignorant what Plato has said upon this subject [love]; but this I know very well, that in a long intimacy, I never heard from [Michelangelo's] mouth a single word that was not perfectly decorous...
    ACri 12.286 26 See how Plato managed it, with an imagination so gorgeous, and a taste so patrician, that Jove, if he descended, was to speak in his style.
    MLit 12.311 18 How can the age be a bad one which gives me Plato and Paul and Plutarch...beside its own riches?
    WSL 12.339 7 ...nor will [Landor] persuade us to burn Plato and Xenophon, out of our admiration of Bishop Patrick...
    Pray 12.351 12 In the Phaedrus of Plato, we find this petition in the mouth of Socrates: O gracious Pan!...grant that I may be beautiful within;...
    PPr 12.389 27 Plato is the purple ancient...

platonic, adj. (2)

    MAng1 12.240 3 There is yet one more trait in Michael Angelo's history, which humanizes his character without lessening its loftiness; this is his platonic love.
    MAng1 12.240 25 Condivi, his friend, has left this testimony; I have often heard Michael Angelo reason and discourse upon love, but never heard him speak otherwise than upon platonic love.

Platonic, adj. (7)

    PPh 4.77 8 [Plato's Platonism] shall be the world passed through the mind of Plato,--nothing less. Every atom shall have the Platonic tinge;...
    SwM 4.106 14 The thoughts in which [Swedenborg] lived were, the universality of each law in nature; the Platonic doctrine of the scale or degrees;...
    SwM 4.108 15 This new spine [the skull] is destined to high uses. It is a new man on the shoulders of the last. It can almost shed its trunk and manage to live alone, according to the Platonic idea in the Timaeus.
    SwM 4.127 15 [Swedenborg's Conjugal Love] is a fine Platonic development of the science of marriage;...
    ET14 5.239 22 The Platonic is the poetic tendency;...
    ET14 5.247 13 [Macaulay] thinks it the distinctive merit of the Baconian philosophy in its triumph over the old Platonic, its disentangling the intellect from theories of the all-Fair and all-Good, and pinning it down to the making of a better sick chair and a better wine-whey for an invalid;...
    Boks 7.203 9 ...[in the Platonists] the grand and pleasing figures of gods and daemons and daemoniacal men...and all the rest of the Platonic rhetoric...sail before [the scholar's] eyes.

Platonism, n. (5)

    PPh 4.77 4 Plato would willingly have a Platonism, a known and accurate expression for the world...
    PPh 4.78 4 The acutest German, the lovingest disciple, could never tell what Platonism was;...
    OA 7.316 19 Whilst...our mates are yet youths with even boyish remains, one good fellow in the set prematurely sports a gray or a bald head, which does not impose on us who know how innocent of sanctity or of Platonism he is...
    SovE 10.205 21 If I miss the inspiration of the saints of Calvinism, or of Platonism, or Buddhism, our times are not up to theirs...
    EurB 12.369 6 ...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,-not from Platonism, not from Christianity...

platonist, n. (1)

    ET17 5.295 18 I told [Wordsworth] it was not creditable that no one in all the country knew anything of Thomas Taylor, the Platonist...

Platonist, n. (6)

    UGM 4.29 25 Be another: not thyself, but a Platonist;...
    PNR 4.88 6 Michael Angelo is a Platonist in his sonnets...
    PNR 4.88 7 Shakspeare is a Platonist when he writes,--Nature is made better by no mean,/ But nature makes that mean/...
    PNR 4.88 15 Hamlet is a pure Platonist...
    PNR 4.88 19 Swedenborg, throughout his prose poem of Conjugal Love, is a Platonist.
    PI 8.50 10 Thomas Taylor, the Platonist...is really a better man of imagination, a better poet...than any man between Milton and Wordsworth.

Platonists, n. (10)

    NR 3.225 10 The genius of the Platonists is intoxicating to the student...
    PPh 4.40 16 How many great men Nature is incessantly sending up out of night, to be [Plato's] men,--Platonists!...
    MoS 4.150 14 Read the haughty language in which Plato and the Platonists speak of all men who are not devoted to their own shining abstractions...
    ET13 5.224 3 ...[the Anglican Church's] instinct is hostile to all change in politics, literature, or social arts. The church has not been the founder...of the Free School, of whatever aims at diffusion of knowledge. The Platonists of Oxford are as bitter against this heresy, as Thomas Taylor.
    ET14 5.239 15 Bacon, in the structure of his mind, held...of the idealists, or...Platonists.
    ET14 5.239 21 Locke is as surely the influx of decomposition and of prose, as Bacon and the Platonists of growth.
    ET14 5.239 25 'T is quite certain that Spenser, Burns, Byron and Wordsworth will be Platonists...
    Boks 7.202 14 If we come down a little [in Greek history] by natural steps from the master to the disciples, we have...the Platonists, who also cannot be skipped...
    QO 8.195 24 Hallam...is...able to appreciate poetry unless it becomes deep, being always blind and deaf to imaginative and analogy-loving souls, like the Platonists...
    Schr 10.272 8 Gold and silver, says one of the Platonists, grow in the earth from the celestial gods...

Platonize, v. (1)

    PNR 4.88 5 ...a very well-marked class of souls...are said to Platonize.

platonizes, v. (1)

    Cir 2.308 14 A wise man will see that Aristotle platonizes.

platoon, n. (2)

    LE 1.180 17 ...everything [was] expected from the valor and discipline of every platoon, in flank and centre [in Napoleon's army]...
    LT 1.261 21 If you speak of the age, you mean your own platoon of people...

platoons, n. (1)

    LT 1.261 23 ...Dante and Milton painted in colossal their platoons, and called them Heaven and Hell.

Plato's, n. (17)

    Nat 1.55 17 Is not the charm of one of Plato's or Aristotle's definitions strictly like that of the Antigone of Sophocles?
    AmS 1.93 14 The discerning will read, in his Plato or Shakspeare...only the authentic utterances of the oracle; - all the rest he rejects, were it never so many times Plato's and Shakspeare's.
    Hist 2.2 3 I am owner of the sphere,/ .../ Of Caesar's hand, and Plato's brain/...
    PPh 4.70 22 ...[Plato] constantly affirms...that the greatest goods...are assigned to us by a divine gift. This leads me to that central figure...whose biography he has likewise so labored that the historic facts are lost in the light of Plato's mind.
    PPh 4.70 26 Socrates again, in his traits and genius, is the best example of that synthesis which constitutes Plato's extraordinary power.
    PNR 4.81 15 Plato's fame does not stand on a syllogism...
    ShP 4.211 27 A good reader can, in a sort, nestle into Plato's brain and think from thence; but not into Shakspeare's.
    ET17 5.295 20 I said, if Plato's Republic were published in England as a new book to-day, do you think it would find any readers?--[Wordsworth] confessed it would not...
    Elo1 7.64 16 Plato's definition of rhetoric is, the art of ruling the minds of men.
    DL 7.110 10 How could such a book as Plato's Dialogues have come down, but for the sacred savings of scholars...
    WD 7.169 27 The scholar must look long for the right hour for Plato's Timaeus.
    Boks 7.201 2 ...Plato's [delineation of Athenian manners] has merits of every kind...
    QO 8.177 13 He who has once known [a book's] satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity. Like Plato's disciple who has perceived a truth, he is preserved from harm until another period.
    QO 8.187 3 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.
    QO 8.187 3 Antiphanes, one of Plato's friends, laughingly compared his writings to a city where the words froze in the air as soon as they were pronounced...
    QO 8.191 8 We may like well to know what is Plato's and what is Montesquieu's or Goethe's part, and what thought was always dear to the writer himself;...
    Wom 11.407 26 As for Plato's opinion [of women], it is true that, up to recent times, in no art or science, nor in painting, poetry or music, have they produced a masterpiece.

platter, n. (1)

    MR 1.251 25 ...when [Caliph Omar] left Medina to go to the conquest of Jerusalem, he rode on a red camel, with a wooden platter hanging at his saddle...

plausibility, n. (1)

    PPr 12.379 23 ...the topic of English politics becomes the best vehicle for the expression of [Carlyle's] recent thinking, recommended to him by the desire...to strip the worst mischiefs of their plausibility.

plausible, adj. (7)

    LE 1.176 4 We live in the sun and on the surface,-a thin, plausible, superficial existence...
    ET12 5.205 2 The whole expense, says Professor Sewel, of ordinary college tuition at Oxford, is about sixteen guineas a year. But this plausible statement may deceive a reader unacquainted with the fact that the principal teaching relied on is private tuition.
    F 6.45 24 Such an one [a strong, astringent, billious nature] has curculios, borers, knife-worms; a swindler ate him first...then smooth, plausible gentlemen...
    Imtl 8.329 9 A man of affairs is afraid to die...because he...is the victim of those who have moulded the religious doctrines into some neat and plausible system...
    MoL 10.243 12 It is the perpetual tendency of wealth to draw on the spiritual class...in plausible and covert ways.
    FSLN 11.225 11 Nobody doubts that there were good and plausible things to be said on the part of the South.
    CInt 12.120 7 ...I value [talent] more...when the talent is...in harmony with the public sentiment of mankind. Such is the patriotism of Demosthenes, of Patrick Henry...not the making a plausible case...

plausibly, adv. (1)

    Shak1 11.449 17 ...we have already seen the most fantastic theories plausibly urged, that Raleigh and Bacon were the authors of [Shakespeare' s] plays.

plausive, adj. (1)

    WD 7.169 9 In college terms, and in years that followed, the young graduate, when the Commencement anniversary returned, though he were in a swamp, would...find the air faintly echoing with plausive academic thunders.

play, n. (69)

    MN 1.205 16 See the play of thoughts!...
    MN 1.209 15 As children in their play run behind each other, and seize one by the ears and make him walk before them, so is the spirit our unseen pilot.
    LT 1.261 15 The reason and influence of wealth...the fuller development and the freer play of Character as a social and political agent;-these and other related topics will in turn come to be considered.
    Con 1.318 12 ...beside that charity which should...engage [adult persons] to see that [the youth] has a free field and fair play on his entrance into life, we are bound to see that the society of which we compose a part, does not permit the formation...of views...injurious to the honor and welfare of mankind.
    Tran 1.336 12 In the play of Othello, the expiring Desdemona absolves her husband of the murder, to her attendant Emilia.
    Lov1 2.183 19 ...this dream of love, though beautiful, is only one scene in our play.
    Lov1 2.187 16 At last [lovers] discover that all which at first drew them together...that magical play of charms,--was deciduous...
    Hsm1 2.247 20 I do not readily remember any poem, play, sermon, novel or oration that our press vents in the last few years, which goes to the same [heroic] tune.
    Cir 2.312 20 All the argument and all the wisdom is...in the sonnet or the play.
    Mrs1 3.135 10 We call together many friends who keep each other in play...
    UGM 4.10 21 The table of logarithms is one thing, and its vital play in botany, music, optics and architecture another.
    UGM 4.31 25 Fair play and an open field and freshest laurels to all who have won them!
    PPh 4.74 14 This hard-headed humorist [Socrates]...turns out...to be either insane, or at least, under cover of this play, enthusiastic in his religion.
    ShP 4.193 27 The rude warm blood of the living England circulated in the play...
    ShP 4.195 21 The first play [Shakespeare's Henry VIII] was written by a superior, thoughtful man, with a vicious ear.
    ShP 4.196 4 ...the play [Henry VIII] contains through all its length unmistakable traits of Shakspeare's hand...
    NMW 4.252 6 [Napoleon] could enjoy every play of invention...as well as a stratagem in a campaign.
    ET3 5.36 14 Every book we read, every biography, play, romance, in whatever form, is still English history and manners.
    ET5 5.78 10 The English game is...fair play and open field...
    ET5 5.81 21 Into this English logic...an infusion of justice enters, not so apparent in other races;--a belief in the existence of two sides, and the resolution to see fair play.
    ET5 5.99 14 An electric touch by any of their national ideas, melts [the English] into one family, and brings the hoards of power which their individuality is always hiving, into use and play for all.
    ET14 5.254 3 ...for the most part the natural science in England...is as void of imagination and free play of thought as conveyancing.
    F 6.13 16 In England there is always some man of wealth and large connection...who, as soon as he begins to die, checks his forward play...
    F 6.26 24 ...in [the intellectual man's] presence...we forget very fast what he says, much more interested in the new play of our own thought than in any thought of his.
    Pow 6.61 25 ...[a timid man] discovers that the enormous elements of strength which are here in play make our politics unimportant.
    Pow 6.78 1 John Kemble said that the worst provincial company of actors would go through a play better than the best amateur company.
    Wth 6.103 18 A dollar...is worth more...in a temperate, schooled, law-abiding community than in some sink of crime, where dice, knives and arsenic are in constant play.
    Ctr 6.158 20 ...[Bonaparte] could criticise a play...and give a just opinion.
    Wsp 6.239 19 [Immortality] must be proved, if at all, from our own activity and designs, which imply an interminable future for their play.
    Bty 6.301 19 There are faces...so flushed and rippled by the play of thought, that we can hardly find what the mere features really are.
    Ill 6.317 17 'T is the charm of practical men that outside of their practicality are a certain poetry and play...
    Ill 6.318 21 What if you shall come to discern that the play and playground of all this pompous history are radiations from yourself...
    Art2 7.44 4 Eloquence...is modified how much by the material organization of the orator...the play of the eye and countenance.
    Art2 7.46 4 [The temple] is exalted by...the play of the clouds...
    Art2 7.46 14 The effect of music belongs how much...if on the stage, to what went before in the play...
    Art2 7.50 20 ...every work of art, in proportion to its excellence, partakes of the precision of fate: no room was there for choice, no play for fancy;...
    Elo1 7.70 2 [The right eloquence] draws the children from their play...
    Clbs 7.240 14 What can you do with Beaumarchais, who converts the censor whom the court has appointed to stifle his play into an ardent advocate?
    Clbs 7.240 20 The court successively appoints three more severe inquisitors; Beaumarchais converts them all into triumphant vindicators of the play which is to bring in the Revolution.
    Cour 7.260 26 ...the only title I can have to your help is when I have manfully put forth all the means I possess to keep me, and being overborne by odds, the by-standers have a natural wish to interfere and see fair play.
    Cour 7.261 5 Tender, amiable boys, who had never encountered any rougher play than a base-ball match...were suddenly drawn up to face a bayonet charge or capture a battery.
    PI 8.29 2 ...fancy [is] a play as with dolls and puppets...
    PI 8.36 3 The writer in the parlor has more presence of mind, more wit and fancy, more play of thought, on the incidents that occur at table or about the house, than in the politics of Germany or Rome.
    PI 8.45 4 ...I doubt if the best poet has yet written any five-act play that can compare in thoroughness of invention with this unwritten play in fifty acts, composed by the dullest snorer on the floor of the watch-house.
    PI 8.45 6 ...I doubt if the best poet has yet written any five-act play that can compare in thoroughness of invention with this unwritten play in fifty acts, composed by the dullest snorer on the floor of the watch-house.
    PC 8.224 15 As language is in the alphabet, so is entire Nature, the play of all its laws, in one atom.
    PPo 8.250 7 ...it is the play of wit and the joy of song that [Hafiz] loves;...
    Dem1 10.19 13 ...I find...some play at blindman's-buff, when men as wise as Goethe talk mysteriously of the demonological.
    PerF 10.85 2 A man...has the fancy and invention of a poet, and says, I will write a play that shall be repeated in London a hundred nights;...
    Schr 10.268 4 ...I rather wish you to...give play to your energies...
    Schr 10.277 3 These shrewd faculties belong to man. I love to see them in play...
    Plu 10.309 6 In many of these chapters [in Plutarch] it is easy to infer the relation between the Greek philosophers and those who came to them for instruction. This teaching was no play nor routine...
    LLNE 10.332 24 In the lecture-room, [Everett]...pleased himself with the play of detailing erudition in a style of perfect simplicity.
    MMEm 10.424 7 [Time] Hasten to finish thy motley work, on which frightful Gorgons are at play...
    JBS 11.277 22 [John Brown] said that he loved rough play, could never have rough play enough;...
    JBS 11.277 23 [John Brown] said that he loved rough play, could never have rough play enough;...
    SMC 11.356 19 All sorts of men went to the [Civil] war,-the roughs, men who liked harsh play and violence...
    SMC 11.358 25 The older among us can well remember [George Prescott] at school, at play and at work...
    Wom 11.408 27 Conversation is our account of ourselves. All we have, all we can, all we know, is brought into play...
    SHC 11.436 3 Our use [of Sleepy Hollow] will not displace the old tenants. The well-beloved birds will not sing one song the less...and in the grass, and by the pond, the locust, the cricket and the hyla, shall shrilly play.
    PLT 12.11 17 I confine my ambition to true reporting of [intellect's] play in natural action...
    PLT 12.50 5 Shakspeare astonishes by his equality in every play, act, scene or line.
    II 12.85 1 ...all parties acquiesce, at last, each in a private box, with the whole play performed before himself solus.
    CL 12.153 22 On the seashore the play of the Atlantic with the coast! What wealth is here!
    Bost 12.200 19 ...a gold-mine, a new country...offer swing and play to the confined powers.
    ACri 12.294 1 ...in the conduct of the play, and the speech of the heroes, [Shakespeare] keeps the level tone which is the tone of high and low alike...
    WSL 12.338 7 Add to this proud blindness [of John Bull] the better quality of...the love of fair play, on all occasions...
    WSL 12.345 1 ...in the character of Pericles [Landor] has found full play for beauty and greatness of behavior...
    EurB 12.365 5 It was a brighter day than we have often known in our literary calendar, when within a twelvemonth a single London advertisement announced a new volume of poems by Wordsworth, poems by Tennyson, and a play by Henry Taylor.

play, v. (94)

    DSA 1.121 15 ...this homely game of life we play, covers...principles that astonish.
    LT 1.266 25 A little while this interval of wonder and comparison is permitted us, but to the end that we shall play a manly part.
    Con 1.302 17 Here is the fact which men call Fate...necessitating the question whether the faculties of man will play him true in resisting the facts of universal experience?
    Con 1.318 25 ...[the conservative party] makes so many additions and supplements to the machine of society that it will play smoothly and softly, but will no longer grind any grist.
    Hist 2.13 6 Why should we make account of time, or of magnitude, or of figure? The soul knows them not, and genius, obeying its law, knows how to play with them...
    Hist 2.36 20 Put Napoleon in an island prison, let his faculties find...no stake to play for, and he would beat the air, and appear stupid.
    SR 2.48 12 ...one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it.
    SL 2.159 16 A man may play the fool in the drifts of a desert, but every grain of sand shall seem to see.
    Fdsp 2.199 14 We are armed all over with subtle antagonisms, which, as soon as we meet, begin to play...
    Fdsp 2.199 26 Our faculties do not play us true...
    Hsm1 2.256 21 Simple hearts...play their own game...
    Cir 2.307 17 ...why should I play with [my friends] this game of idolatry?
    Cir 2.309 18 We learn first to play with [idealism] academically...
    Art1 2.349 20 'T is the privilege of Art/ Thus to play its cheerful part/...
    Art1 2.361 3 ...in my younger days...I fancied the great pictures would be... a foreign wonder, barbaric pearl and gold, like the spontoons and standards of the militia, which play such pranks in the eyes and imaginations of school-boys.
    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.
    Mrs1 3.155 1 ...I shall hear without pain that I play the courtier very ill...
    Nat2 3.174 25 A boy hears a military band play on the field at night, and he has kings and queens and famous chivalry palpably before him.
    Nat2 3.185 16 ...when now and then comes along some sad, sharp-eyed man, who sees how paltry a game is played, and refuses to play but blabs the secret;--how then?
    NR 3.231 16 ...morning and night, solstice and equinox, geometry, astronomy and all the lovely accidents of nature play through [the day-laborer's] mind.
    NR 3.236 24 Nick Bottom cannot play all the parts, work it how he may;...
    NER 3.262 8 Do you complain of the laws of Property? It is a pedantry to give such importance to them. Can we not play the game of life with these counters, as well as those?...
    PNR 4.84 16 [Plato affirms that] The right punishment of one out of tune is to make him play in tune;...
    SwM 4.120 25 This design of exhibiting such correpondences [between heaven and earth], which, if adequately executed, would be the poem of the world, in which all history and science would play an essential part, was narrowed and defeated by the exclusively theologic direction which [Swedenborg's] inquiries took.
    MoS 4.161 11 Every thing that is excellent in mankind...every one skilful to play and win,--[the wise skeptic] will see and judge.
    MoS 4.166 25 As I look at [Montaigne's] effigy opposite the title-page, I seem to hear him say, You may play old Poz, if you will;...
    MoS 4.167 20 [I seem to hear Montaigne say] Why should I vapor and play the philosopher...
    MoS 4.168 27 Montaigne...does not wish to...play any antics...
    MoS 4.173 6 [The wise skeptic] does not wish...to play the part of devil's attorney...
    MoS 4.175 21 ...as soon as each man attains the poise and vivacity which allow the whole machinery to play, he will not need extreme examples...
    MoS 4.183 10 I play with the miscellany of facts, and take those superficial views which we call skepticism;...
    ET1 5.5 1 It is probable you left some obscure comrade...when you crossed sea and land to play bo-peep with celebrated scribes.
    ET5 5.76 18 ...to set [the Saxon] at work and to begin to draw his monstrous values out of barren Britain, all dishonor, fret and barrier must be removed, and then his energies begin to play.
    ET12 5.210 27 The diet and rough exercise [at Oxford] secure a certain amount of old Norse power. A fop will fight, and in exigent circumstances will play the manly part.
    ET16 5.275 20 I told Carlyle that...I like the [English] people;...but meantime, I surely know that as soon as I return to Massachusetts I shall lapse at once into the feeling, which the geography of America inevitably inspires, that we play the game with immense advantage;...
    ET18 5.307 7 ...we must not play Providence and balance the chances of producing ten great men against the comfort of ten thousand mean men...
    F 6.9 22 Find the part which black eyes and which blue eyes play severally in the company.
    F 6.40 14 All the toys that infatuate men and which they play for...are the selfsame thing...
    Pow 6.68 13 Men of this surcharge of arterial blood...cannot read novels and play whist;...
    Wth 6.100 2 Commerce is a game of skill, which every man cannot play, which few men can play well.
    Wth 6.106 5 The laws of nature play through trade...
    Wth 6.106 11 The sublime laws play indifferently through atoms and galaxies.
    Wth 6.106 27 ...however wary we are of the falsehoods and petty tricks which we suicidally play off on each other, every man has a certain satisfaction whenever his dealing touches on the inevitable facts;...
    Ctr 6.162 6 We wish to...play at heroism.
    Wsp 6.201 9 I have no fears of being forced in my own despite to play as we say the devil's attorney.
    Wsp 6.203 9 Men as naturally make a state, or a church, as caterpillars a web. If they were more refined...it would be nervous, like that of the Shakers, who...it is said are affected in the same way and the same time, to work and to play;...
    Ill 6.318 11 You play with jackstraws, balls...estates and politics; but there are finer games before you.
    Ill 6.322 23 Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves...
    Civ 7.25 21 In bird and beast the organs are released and begin to play.
    Art2 7.42 17 ...we build a mill in such position as to set the north wind to play upon our instrument...
    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...
    Elo1 7.65 9 Him we call an artist who shall play on an assembly of men as a master on the keys of the piano...
    Elo1 7.78 22 [Caesar]...declaimed to [the pirates]; if they did not applaud his speeches, he threatened them with hanging...and in a short time, was master of all on board. A man this is who...can never play his last card...
    DL 7.114 7 ...we desire to play the benefactor and the prince with our townsmen...
    WD 7.181 5 The savages in the islands...delight to play with the surf...
    Clbs 7.231 27 ...[the lover of letters] seeks the company of those who have convivial talent. But the moment they meet, to be sure they begin to be something else than they were; they play pranks...
    Clbs 7.238 12 The startled giant [Wafthrudnir] replies...with Odin contended I in wise words. Thou must ever the wisest be. And still the gods and giants are so known, and still they play the same game in all the million mansions of heaven and of earth;...
    Cour 7.255 12 The third excellence is courage, the perfect will...which...is never quite itself until the hazard is extreme; then...all its powers play well.
    Suc 7.295 7 ...it is a nice point to discriminate this self-trust...from the disease to which it is allied,--the exaggeration of the part which we can play;...
    OA 7.328 4 The compensations of Nature play in age as in youth.
    Elo2 8.128 20 This unmanliness [lack of eloquence] is so common a result of our half-education...that I wish [a boy's] guardians to consider that they are thus preparing him to play a contemptible part when he is full-grown.
    QO 8.195 13 A man hears a fine sentence out of Swedenborg...and is very merry at heart that he has now got so fine a thing. Translate it out of the new words into his own usual phrase, and he will wonder again at his own simplicity, such tricks do fine words play with us.
    PC 8.229 12 When [a man] does not play a part...he communicates himself, and not his vanity.
    PC 8.232 25 We have suffered our young men of ambition to play the game of politics and take the immoral side without loss of caste...
    PPo 8.236 4 As Jelaleddin old and gray,/ [Saadi] seemed to bask, to dream and play/ Without remoter hope or fear/ Than still to entertain his ear/...
    Insp 8.292 14 A wise man goes to this game [of conversation] to play upon others and to be played upon...
    Dem1 10.9 13 A skilful man reads his dreams for his self-knowledge; yet not the details, but the quality. What part does he play in them...
    Aris 10.63 2 Pay [money], and you may play the tyrant at discretion...
    PerF 10.80 14 ...[the prisoner] took his flute out of his pocket and began to play...
    PerF 10.87 2 ...a sensitive politician suffers his ideas of the part New York or Pennsylvania or Ohio is to play in the future of the Union, to be fashioned by the election of rogues in some counties.
    Prch 10.224 26 ...when [a man] shall act from one motive, and all his faculties play true, it is clear mathematically...that this will tell in the result...
    Schr 10.273 18 Other men are...heaving and carrying, each that he may peacefully execute the fine function by which they all are helped. Shall [the scholar] play, whilst their eyes follow him from far with reverence...
    Plu 10.320 7 [Plutarch] thought it wonderful that a man having a muse in his own breast...would have pipes and harps play...
    MMEm 10.411 4 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] was no whistle that every mouth could play on...
    EWI 11.144 7 ...if the black man carries in his bosom an indispensable element of a new and coming civilization; for the sake of that element...he will survive and play his part.
    FSLC 11.210 25 ......still the question recurs, What must we do [about slavery]? One thing is plain, we cannot answer for the Union, but we must keep Massachusetts true. It is of unspeakable importance that she play her honest part.
    TPar 11.291 7 There are men of good powers who have so much sympathy that they must be silent when they are not in sympathy. If you don't agree with them, they know they only injure the truth by speaking. Their faculties will not play them true...
    SMC 11.360 19 These letters [from soldiers] play a great part in the [Civil] war.
    Wom 11.408 11 The part [women] play in education...is their organic office in the world.
    RBur 11.443 17 ...the music-boxes at Geneva are framed and toothed to play [Burns's songs];...
    FRep 11.535 27 [The class of which I speak] sit in decorated club-houses in the cities, and burn tobacco and play whist;...
    FRep 11.542 19 ...man seems to play...a certain part that even tells on the general face of the planet...
    PLT 12.9 7 Here [in society] they play the game of conversation, as they play billiards, for pastime and credit.
    PLT 12.9 8 Here [in society] they play the game of conversation, as they play billiards, for pastime and credit.
    PLT 12.45 12 There is indeed this vice about men of thought, that you cannot quite trust them;...because they have a hankering to play Providence...
    PLT 12.47 3 A man tries to speak [the truth] and his voice is...rude and chiding. The truth is not spoken but injured. The same thing happens in power to do the right. His rectitude is ridiculous. His organs do not play him true.
    PLT 12.58 23 No wonder the children...play horse, play soldier, play school, play bear...
    PLT 12.58 24 No wonder the children...play horse, play soldier, play school, play bear...
    II 12.79 26 The thoughts which wander through our mind, we do not absorb and make flesh of, but...we retail them as news, to our lovers and to all Athenians. At a dreadful loss we play this game;...
    II 12.89 8 ...the universe understands itself, and all the parts play with a sure harmony.
    Mem 12.97 21 A knife with a good spring...a watch, the teeth or jaws of which fit and play perfectly...describe to us the difference between a person of quick and strong perception...and a heavy man who witnesses the same facts...
    CInt 12.122 22 [A man] looks at all men as his representatives, and is glad to see that his wit can work at that problem as it ought to be done, and better than he could do it; whether it be to build...or play chess, or ride, or swim.
    CInt 12.129 9 Do not the electricities and the imponderable influences play with all their magic undulations?
    ACri 12.291 13 Resolute blotting rids you of all those phrases that sound like something and mean nothing, with which scriptural forms play a large part.

play-bill, n. (1)

    ET19 5.310 11 ...when I came to sea, I found the History of Europe, by Sir A. Alison, on the ship's cabin table, the property of the captain;--a sort of programme or play-bill to tell the seafaring New Englander what he shall find on his landing here.

playbook, n. (1)

    PI 8.56 18 Newton may be permitted to call Terence a playbook...

playbooks, n. (2)

    ET11 5.179 27 'T is an old sneer that the Irish peerage drew their names from playbooks.
    Pow 6.58 21 ...Shakspeare was theatre-manager and used the labor of many young men, as well as the playbooks.

played, v. (33)

    MN 1.202 6 When we...shorten the sight to look into this court of Louis Quatorze, and see the game that is played there...one can hardly help asking...whether it be quite worth while to...glut the innocent space with so poor an article.
    LT 1.278 4 You have on some occasion played a bold part.
    Tran 1.352 17 ...[the Transcendentalist says, my faith] is a certain brief experience, which...made me aware that I had played the fool with fools all this time...
    Nat2 3.185 16 ...when now and then comes along some sad, sharp-eyed man, who sees how paltry a game is played, and refuses to play but blabs the secret;--how then?
    NR 3.242 13 ...care is taken that the whole tune shall be played.
    NER 3.274 18 The heroes of ancient and modern fame...have treated life and fortune as a game to be well and skilfully played...
    MoS 4.161 17 The terms of admission to this spectacle [of life] are, that [the wise skeptic] have...proof that he has played with skill and success;...
    GoW 4.271 19 ...[Goethe] lived...in a time when Germany played no such leading part in the world's affairs as to swell the bosom of her sons with any metropolitan pride...
    GoW 4.276 12 The Devil had played an important part in mythology in all times.
    ET11 5.176 2 [French and English nobles] were looked on as men who played high for a great stake.
    ET13 5.218 27 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.
    Ctr 6.143 10 [The boy] is infatuated for weeks with whist and chess; but presently will find out...that when he rises from the game too long played, he is vacant and forlorn and despises himself.
    CbW 6.262 3 ...we go gladly to Faneuil Hall to be played upon by the stormy winds and strong fingers of enraged patriotism...
    Ill 6.322 22 Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves...
    Civ 7.17 13 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./
    Art2 7.44 26 A jumble of musical sounds...in which the rhythm of the tune is played without one of the notes being right, gives pleasure to the unskilful ear.
    Elo1 7.84 9 Pepys says of Lord Clarendon...though he spoke indeed excellent well, yet his manner and freedom of doing it, as if he played with it, and was informing only all the rest of the company, was mighty pretty.
    Cour 7.269 7 Morphy played a daring game in chess...
    QO 8.182 11 The Bible itself is like an old Cremona [violin]; it has been played upon by the devotion of thousands of years until every word and particle is public and tunable.
    PC 8.218 1 ...a sentence, has played its part in great events.
    Insp 8.292 14 A wise man goes to this game [of conversation] to play upon others and to be played upon...
    PerF 10.80 20 ...[the prisoner] took his flute out of his pocket and began to play...and the prisoner was by general consent of court and officers allowed to go his way without any money. And I suppose, if he could have played loud enough, we here should have beat time...
    PerF 10.81 25 ...if we fall in with a cricket-club and see the game masterly played, the best player is the first of men;...
    Edc1 10.139 25 Everybody delights in the energy with which boys deal and talk with each other; the mixture of...love and wrath, with which the game is played;...
    LLNE 10.336 7 ...the paramount source of the religious revolution was Modern Science; beginning with Copernicus, who destroyed the pagan fictions of the Church, by showing mankind that the earth on which we live was not the centre of the Universe...and thus fitted to be the platform on which the Drama of the Divine Judgment was played before the assembled Angels of Heaven...
    Thor 10.471 27 [Thoreau] confessed that he...if born among Indians, would have been a fell hunter. But, restrained by his Massachusetts culture, he played out the game in this mild form of botany and ichthyology.
    HDC 11.82 8 ...in 1788, the town [Concord], by its delegate, accepted the new Constitution of the United States, and this event closed the whole series of important public events in which this town played a part.
    EWI 11.116 20 Throughout the island [Antigua], [the day after emancipation] there was not a single dance known of...nor so much as a fiddle played.
    War 11.170 11 How is [this new aspiration of the human mind towards peace] to pass out of thoughts into things? Not, certainly...in the way of routine and mere forms...not by...going through a course of resolutions and public manifestoes, and being thus formally accredited to the public and to the civility of the newspapers. We have played this game to tediousness.
    Wom 11.415 25 ...another important step [for Woman] was made by the doctrine of Swedenborg, a sublime genius who gave a scientific exposition of the part played severally by man and woman in the world...
    Scot 11.467 3 [Scott] played ever a manly part.
    CInt 12.116 27 ...[the scholars]...played the sycophant to presidents and generals and members of Congress...
    CL 12.152 10 The witch-hazel blooms to mark the last hour arrived, and that Nature has played out her summer score.

player, n. (8)

    SL 2.165 9 Bonaparte...rewarded in one and the same way the good soldier, the good astronomer, the good poet, the good player.
    SL 2.165 15 If the poet write a true drama, then he is Caesar, and not the player of Caesar;...
    UGM 4.22 5 ...if there should appear in the company some gentle soul who...certifies me of the equity which checkmates every false player...that man liberates me;...
    ShP 4.202 20 A popular player;--nobody suspected [Shakespeare] was the poet of the human race;...
    ShP 4.219 15 The world still wants its poet-priest, a reconciler, who shall not trifle, with Shakspeare the player...
    Boks 7.215 1 ...the player in Consuelo insists that he and his colleagues on the boards have taught princes the fine etiquette and strokes of grace and dignity which they practise with so much effect in their villas...
    Cour 7.269 8 Morphy played a daring game in chess: the daring was only an illusion of the spectator, for the player sees his move to be well fortified and safe.
    PerF 10.81 25 ...if we fall in with a cricket-club and see the game masterly played, the best player is the first of men;...

players, n. (11)

    Mrs1 3.127 4 ...the youth finds himself in a more transparent atmosphere, wherein life is a less troublesome game, and not a misunderstanding rises between the players.
    NR 3.241 19 ...gamesters say that the cards beat all the players...
    NR 3.241 20 ...in the contest we are now considering, the players are also the game...
    PPh 4.71 6 The players personated [Socrates] on the stage;...
    MoS 4.161 7 The wise skeptic wishes to have a near view of the best game and the chief players;...
    ShP 4.191 24 ...extemporaneous enclosures at country fairs were the ready theatres of strolling players.
    ET13 5.220 21 The spirit that dwelt in this [English] church has glided away to animate other activities, and they who come to the old shrines find apes and players rustling the old garments.
    Wth 6.99 21 Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness and patience in the players.
    Plu 10.309 9 The part of each of the class [of the Greek philosophers] is as important as that of the master. They are like the baseball players, to whom the pitcher, the bat, the catcher and the scout are equally important.
    Thor 10.463 23 ...those pieces of luck which happen only to good players happened to [Thoreau].
    HCom 11.342 6 It is a rule in games of chance that the cards beat all the players...

Playfair, John, n. (3)

    ET1 5.4 1 Like most young men at that time, I was much indebted to the men of Edinburgh...to Scott, Playfair and DeQuincey;...
    PI 8.8 17 In geology, what a useful hint was given to the early inquirers on seeing in the possession of Professor Playfair a bough of a fossil tree which was perfect wood at one end and perfect mineral coal at the other.
    Scot 11.467 23 [Scott] found himself in his youth and manhood and age in the society of...Playfair, Dugald Stewart, Sydney Smith...

playfellow, n. (1)

    Chr1 3.93 19 I see [in the natural merchant]...the consciousness of being an agent and playfellow of the original laws of the world.

playful, adj. (4)

    Clbs 7.233 16 How delightful after these disturbers is the radiant, playful wit of--one whom I need not name...
    PPo 8.252 17 [Self-naming in poetry] gives [Hafiz] the opportunity of the most playful self-assertion...
    Thor 10.468 26 I think [Thoreau's] fancy for referring everything to the meridian of Concord...was...a playful expression of his conviction of the indifferency of all places...
    CPL 11.494 1 The bishop of Cavaillon, Petrarch's friend, in a playful experiment locked up the poet's library...

playfully, adv. (3)

    ET1 5.15 16 [Carlyle's] talk playfully exalting the familiar objects, put the companion at once into an acquaintance with his Lars and Lemurs...
    Comc 8.169 26 ...[Astley's] comrades playfully forced off his coat...
    PLT 12.42 14 Each soul...walking in its own path walks firmly; and to the astonishment of all other souls, who see not its path, it goes as softly and playfully on its way as if...it were a wide prairie.

playfulness, n. (1)

    Hsm1 2.256 6 Socrates's condemnation of himself to be maintained in all honor in the Prytaneum, during his life, and Sir Thomas More's playfulness at the scaffold, are of the same strain.

play-ground, n. [playground,] (4)

    Nat 1.13 3 The field is at once [man's] floor, his work-yard, his play-ground, his garden, and his bed.
    AmS 1.97 3 ...school and playground...are gone already;...
    Ill 6.318 21 What if you shall come to discern that the play and playground of all this pompous history are radiations from yourself...
    Edc1 10.138 14 I like boys, the masters of the playground and of the street...

playgrounds, n. (1)

    ET12 5.208 8 It is contended by those who have been bred at Eton, Harrow, Rugby and Westminster...that, in their playgrounds, courage is universally admired...

playhouse, n. [play-house,] (3)

    SR 2.48 27 A boy is in the parlor what the pit is in the playhouse;...
    NR 3.230 4 In the parliament, in the play-house, at dinner-tables [in England], I might see a great number of rich, ignorant, book-read, conventional, proud men...
    EWI 11.131 19 The Governor of Massachusetts is a trifler; the State-House in Boston is a play-house;...if they make laws which they cannot execute.

playing, n. (2)

    Schr 10.263 9 A celebrated musician was wont to say, that men knew not how much more he delighted himself with his playing than he did others;...
    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.

playing, v. (15)

    LE 1.177 4 ...literary men...dealing with the organ of language...learn to enjoy the pride of playing with this splendid engine...
    Pt1 3.16 1 No imitation or playing of these things [of nature] would content [the coachman or the hunter];...
    Mrs1 3.151 6 ...are there not women...who anoint our eyes and we see? We say things we never thought to have said;...we were children playing with children in a wide field of flowers.
    Gts 3.161 2 I can think of many parts I should prefer playing to that of the Furies.
    PPh 4.59 9 Nothing can be colder than [Plato's] head, when the lightnings of his imagination are playing in the sky.
    Pow 6.64 9 The same elements are always present, only sometimes these conspicuous, and sometimes those; what was yesterday foreground, being to-day background;--what was surface, playing now a not less effective part as basis.
    PI 8.28 19 ...[Lear] becomes fanciful with Tom, playing with the superficial resemblances of objects.
    Dem1 10.25 26 Mesmerism is...Momus playing Jove in the kitchens of Olympus.
    Prch 10.232 25 ...the gigantic evils which seem to us so mischievous and so incurable will at last end themselves and rid the world of their presence, as all crime sooner or later must. But be that event for us soon or late, we are not excused from playing our short part in the best manner we can...
    Schr 10.279 4 The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride.
    LLNE 10.362 27 ...[Charles Newcomb was] a student and philosopher, who found his daily enjoyment not with the elders or his exact contemporaries so much as with the fine boys who were skating and playing ball or bird-hunting;...
    EWI 11.145 6 ...in the great anthem which we call history...after playing a long time a very low and subdued accompaniment, [the black race] perceive the time arrived when they can strike in with effect...
    CL 12.155 21 ...after having climbed the Alps, whilst I [Linnaeus], a youth of twenty-five years, was spent and tired...these two old [Lap] men, one fifty, one seventy years, running and playing like boys, felt none of the inconveniences of the road...
    Milt1 12.265 16 [Milton's native honor] refined his amusements, which consisted in gardening, in exercise with the sword, and in playing on the organ.
    PPr 12.389 12 ...in all his fun of...playing of tunes with a whiplash... [Carlyle] does yet, ever and anon, as if catching the glance of one wise man in the crowd...lance at him in clear level tone the very word...

playmates, n. (3)

    Exp 3.49 24 [Nature]...likes that we should be her fools and playmates.
    Wth 6.90 2 ...all grand and subtile things, minerals, gases, ethers, passions, war, trade, government,--are [man's] natural playmates...
    JBS 11.278 1 ...for [rough play] it needed that the playmates should be equal;...

plays, n. (15)

    Hist 2.16 22 ...by watching for a time [a child's] motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at will in every attitude.
    Hsm1 2.245 2 In the elder English dramatists, and mainly in the plays of Beaumont and Fletcher, there is a constant recognition of gentility...
    Hsm1 2.245 12 In harmony with this delight in personal advantages [in the elder English dramatists] there is in their plays a certain heroic cast of character and dialogue...
    Exp 3.57 24 The plays of children are nonsense, but very educative nonsense.
    ShP 4.193 22 Shakspeare...esteemed the mass of old plays waste stock...
    ShP 4.201 19 We have to thank the researches of antiquaries, and the Shakspeare Society, for ascertaining the steps of the English drama, from the Mysteries...and the completion of secular plays...down to the possession of the stage by the very pieces which Shakspeare altered, remodelled and finally made his own.
    ShP 4.214 21 ...the speeches in [Shakespeare's] plays, and single lines, have a beauty which tempts the ear to pause on them for their euphuism...
    Art2 7.53 19 The Iliad of Homer...the plays of Shakspeare...were made...in grave earnest...
    OA 7.334 14 I...saw [George Whitefield], [John Adams] said, through a window, and distinctly heard all. He had a voice such as I never heard before or since. He cast it out so that you might hear it at the meeting-house... and he had the grace...of an actor of plays.
    QO 8.197 25 The bold theory of Delia Bacon, that Shakspeare's plays were written by a society of wits...had plainly for her the charm of the superior meaning they would acquire when read under this light;...
    Plu 10.296 14 In England, Sir Thomas North translated [Plutarch's] Lives in 1579, and Holland the Morals in 1603, in time to be used by Shakspeare in his plays...
    War 11.172 14 What makes the attractiveness of that romantic style of living which is the material of ten thousand plays and romances...
    Shak1 11.449 19 ...we have already seen the most fantastic theories plausibly urged, that Raleigh and Bacon were the authors of [Shakespeare' s] plays.
    Shak1 11.450 17 Young men of a contemplative turn carry [Shakespeare's] sonnets in the pocket. With that book, the shade of any tree, a room in any inn, becomes a chapel or oratory in which to sit out their happiest hours. Later they find riper and manlier lessons in the plays.
    Shak1 11.453 14 The Pilgrims came to Plymouth in 1620. The plays of Shakspeare were not published until three years later.

plays, v. (29)

    Tran 1.353 7 To him who looks at his life from these moments of illumination, it will seem that he skulks and plays a mean, shiftless and subaltern part in the world.
    Hist 2.13 7 Why should we make account of time, or of magnitude, or of figure? The soul knows them not, and genius, obeying its law, knows how to play with them as a young child plays with graybeards and in churches.
    SR 2.62 23 In history our imagination plays us false.
    Comp 2.91 8 Gauge of more and less through space/ Electric star and pencil plays./
    Pt1 3.35 20 Before [Swedenborg] the metamorphosis continually plays.
    Exp 3.48 15 [Grief], like all the rest, plays about the surface...
    Nat2 3.186 13 ...this opaline lustre plays round the top of every toy to [the child's] eye to insure his fidelity...
    UGM 4.11 10 Each material thing...has its translation, through humanity, into the spiritual and necessary sphere where it plays a part as indestructible as any other.
    PPh 4.60 15 ...[Plato] plays with the doubt, and makes the most of it...
    PNR 4.89 25 Plato plays Providence a little with the baser sort...
    SwM 4.121 10 In nature, each individual symbol plays innumerable parts...
    ShP 4.216 25 Shakspeare, Homer, Dante, Chaucer, saw the splendor of meaning that plays over the visible world;...
    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.
    ET13 5.219 3 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. It was a hint of the part the church plays as a political engine.
    F 6.42 13 As once [man] found himself among toys, so now he plays a part in colossal systems...
    Ill 6.311 8 ...rainbows and Northern Lights are not quite so spheral as our childhood thought them, and the part our organization plays in them is too large.
    WD 7.169 21 A thousand tunes the variable wind plays...
    Clbs 7.227 2 ...a child will long for his companions, but among them plays by himself.
    Cour 7.254 13 Men admire...the power of better combination and foresight, however exhibited, whether it only plays a game of chess, or whether...a cunning mathematician...predicts the planet which eyes had never seen;...
    PI 8.10 2 The poet who plays with [the law of correspondence] with most boldness best justifies himself;...
    PI 8.28 11 ...as soon as this [inspired] soul...at leisure plays with the resemblances and types, for amusement, and not for its moral end, we call its action Fancy.
    PPo 8.260 8 [Hafiz's ingenuity]...plays in a thousand pretty courtesies...
    Supl 10.176 24 ...[Nature] creates in the East the uncontrollable yearning... to use a freedom of fancy which plays with all the works of Nature...as toys and words of the mind;...
    JBB 11.269 17 It is easy to see what a favorite [John Brown] will be with history, which plays such pranks with temporary reputations.
    Wom 11.414 27 When a daughter is born, says the Shiking, the old Sacred Book of China, she sleeps on the ground...she plays with a tile;...
    ChiE 11.470 3 Nature creates in the East the uncontrollable yearning...to use a freedom of fancy which plays with all works of Nature...
    PLT 12.35 11 ...[Instinct] plays the god in animal nature as in human or as in the angelic...
    Mem 12.95 16 The memory plays a great part in settling the intellectual rank of men.
    MAng1 12.226 7 ...this work [rebuilding the Pons Palatinus] was taken from [Michelangelo]...and intrusted to Nanni di Bacio Bigio, who plays but a pitiful part in Michael's history.

Plays [William Shakespeare] (1)

    Nat 1.54 1 ...this power which [the poet] exerts to dwarf the great, to magnify the small, - might be illustrated by a thousand examples from [Shakspeare's] Plays.

plaything, n. (3)

    Tran 1.353 11 ...[the Transcendentalist] lies by, or occupies his hands with some plaything, until his hour comes again.
    Pow 6.74 5 Everything is good which takes away one plaything and delusion more...
    Res 8.149 25 ...the guide kindled a Roman candle, and held it here and there shooting its fireballs successively into each crypt of the groined roof [of the Mammoth Cave], disclosing its starry splendor, and showing for the first time what that plaything was good for.

playthings, n. (2)

    ET4 5.64 22 From childhood, [the English] dabbled in water...their playthings were boats.
    PC 8.213 10 ...the child is in his playthings working incessantly at problems of natural philosophy...

playwright, n. (2)

    ShP 4.193 8 Here [in the Elizabethan drama] is...a shelf full of English history...and a string of doleful tragedies, merry Italian tales and Spanish voyages, which all the London 'prentices know. All the mass has been treated, with more or less skill, by every playwright...
    WSL 12.341 22 The existence of the poorest playwright and the humblest scrivener is a good omen.

plea, n. (10)

    DSA 1.140 26 Let me not taint the sincerity of this plea by any oversight of the claims of good men.
    MR 1.241 10 Neither would I shut my ears to the plea of the learned professions...
    LT 1.270 27 ...each of these aspirations and attempts of the people for the Better is magnified by the natural exaggeration of its advocates, until it... repels discreet persons by the unfairness of the plea...
    Hist 2.6 9 Property also holds of the soul... The obscure consciousness of this fact is...the plea for education, for justice, for charity;...
    ET2 5.32 26 When their privilege was disputed by the Dutch and other junior marines, on the plea that you could never anchor on the same wave... the English did not stick to claim the channel, or the bottom of all the main...
    LVB 11.93 24 We will not have this great and solemn claim upon national and human justice [the relocation of the Cherokees] huddled aside under the flimsy plea of its being a party act.
    FSLN 11.230 17 The plea on which freedom was resisted was Union.
    FSLN 11.238 10 The plea in the mouth of a slave-holder that the negro is an inferior race sounds very oddly in my ear.
    Milt1 12.278 8 ...according to Lord Bacon's definition of poetry...Poetry... seeks...to create an ideal world better than the world of experience. Such certainly is the explanation of Milton's tracts. Such is the apology to be entered for the plea for freedom of divorce;...
    PPr 12.385 11 Worst of all for the party attacked, [Carlyle's Past and Present] bereaves them beforehand of all sympathy, by anticipating the plea of poetic and humane conservatism...

pleached, adj. (1)

    WD 7.155 7 I, in my pleached garden, watched the pomp,/ Forgot my morning wishes, hastily/ Took a few herbs and apples, and the Day/ Turned and departed silent./

plead, v. (9)

    Con 1.302 5 For the present...to come at what sum is attainable to us, we must even hear the parties plead as parties.
    ET15 5.267 26 ...the steadiness of the aim [of the London Times] suggests the belief that this fire is directed and fed by older engineers; as if persons of exact information, and with settled views of policy...availed themselves of [the writers'] younger energy and eloquence to plead the cause.
    Bhr 6.173 27 ...in the same country [on the banks of the Mississippi], in the pews of the churches little placards plead with the worshipper against the fury of expectoration.
    Wsp 6.230 11 ...the part you took continues to plead for you.
    Clbs 7.239 23 When Henry III. (1217) plead duress against his people demanding confirmation and execution of the Charter, the reply was: If this were admitted, civil wars could never close but by the extirpation of one of the contending parties.
    Clbs 7.247 24 ...it was explained to me, in a Southern city, that it was impossible to set any public charity on foot unless through a tavern dinner. I do not think our metropolitan charities would plead the same necessity;...
    Comc 8.163 11 [Wit] is like ice, on which no beauty of form, no majesty of carriage can plead any immunity...
    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.
    Koss 11.399 4 We [people of Concord] have seen that you [Kossuth] are organically in that cause you plead.

pleaded, v. (3)

    ET18 5.306 23 It was pleaded in mitigation of the rotten borough [in England], that it worked well...
    Elo1 7.87 15 ...the horrible shark of the district attorney being still there, grimly awaiting with his The court must define,--the poor court pleaded its inferiority.
    EWI 11.140 1 The tendency of things runs steadily to this point, namely... to give [every man] so much power as he naturally exerts,-no more, no less. Of course, the timid and base persons...would fain...lock up every house where liberty and innovation can be pleaded for.

pleader, n. (1)

    Bost 12.203 21 ...there is always [in Boston]...always a heresiarch, whom the governor and deputies labor with but cannot silence. Some new light... some pleader for peace;...

pleaders, n. (1)

    Farm 7.138 9 All men keep the farm in reserve as an asylum...or a solitude, if they do not succeed in society. And who knows how many glances of remorse are turned this way...from mortified pleaders in courts and senates...

pleading, adj. (2)

    EzRy 10.386 27 ...I well remember [Ezra Ripley's] his pleading, almost reproachful looks at the sky, when the thunder-gust was coming up to spoil his hay.
    Wom 11.403 8 ...there in the parlor sits/ Some figure in noble guise,-/ Our Angel in a stranger's form;/ Or Woman's pleading eyes./

pleading, n. (2)

    JBB 11.269 8 [John Brown's] own speeches to the court have interested the nation in him. What magnanimity, what innocent pleading, as of childhood!
    CInt 12.120 6 ...I value [talent] more...when the talent is...in harmony with the public sentiment of mankind. Such is the patriotism of Demosthenes, of Patrick Henry...not an ingenious special pleading...

pleading, v. (3)

    Con 1.298 6 ...conservatism...is always...pleading a necessity, pleading that to change would be to deteriorate...
    OA 7.325 27 Thirty years ago it was a serious concern to [the lawyer] whether his pleading was good and effective.
    CPL 11.508 21 ...I am pleading a cause which in the event of this day [opening of the Concord Library] has already won...

pleads, v. (5)

    Nat 1.71 11 Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise.
    Con 1.312 11 The king on the throne governs for thee...the barrister pleads...
    Chr1 3.88 3 Work of his hand/ He nor commends nor grieves:/ Pleads for itself the fact;/ As unrepenting Nature leaves/ Her every act./
    Elo1 7.92 15 In transcendent eloquence, there was ever some crisis in affairs, such as could deeply engage the man to the cause he pleads...
    Shak1 11.447 19 ...it is to us [The Saturday Club] a painful disappointment...that...Mr. Charles Sprague,-pleads the infirmities of age as an absolute bar to his presence with us.

Pleas, Common, Court of, n. (1)

    HDC 11.81 9 In 1786...a large party of armed insurgents arrived in this town [Concord]...to hinder the sitting of the Court of Common Pleas.

pleasant, adj. (42)

    Nat 1.18 9 The inhabitants of cities suppose that the country landscape is pleasant only half the year.
    Nat 1.19 3 In July, the blue pontederia...blooms in large beds in the shallow parts of our pleasant river...
    Nat 1.46 3 It were a pleasant inquiry to follow into detail [the human forms'] ministry to our education...
    MR 1.244 19 We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend...
    LT 1.264 4 ...I find the Age walking about...in strong eyes and pleasant thoughts...
    Con 1.306 19 ...[the youth] says, If I am born in the earth...have the goodness, gentlemen of this world, to show me...my pleasant ground where to build my cabin.
    Comp 2.104 27 Pleasure is taken out of pleasant things...as soon as we seek to separate them from the whole.
    SL 2.133 27 When we see a soul whose acts are all regal, graceful and pleasant as roses, we must thank God that such things can be and are...
    Fdsp 2.193 13 What is so pleasant as these jets of affection which make a young world for me again?
    Prd1 2.227 24 [The good husband's] garden or his poultry-yard tells him many pleasant anecdotes.
    Prd1 2.228 25 A gay and pleasant sound is the whetting of the scythe in the mornings of June...
    Mrs1 3.152 14 ...this Byzantine pile of chivalry or Fashion...is not equally pleasant to all spectators.
    Gts 3.159 9 ...it is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts.
    ET1 5.15 19 [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.
    ET11 5.176 26 [The Duke of Bedford's] ancestor...a lively, pleasant man, became the companion of a foreign prince wrecked on the Dorsetshire coast, where Mr. [John] Russell lived.
    ET16 5.277 4 It was pleasant to see that just this simplest of all simple structures [Stonehenge]...had long outstood all later churches...
    ET19 5.309 20 On being introduced to the meeting [Manchester Athenaeum Banquet] I said:--Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen: It is pleasant to me to meet this great and brilliant company...
    ET19 5.309 22 On being introduced to the meeting [Manchester Athenaeum Banquet] I said:--Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen: It is pleasant to me to meet this great and brilliant company, and doubly pleasant to see the faces of so many distinguished persons on this platform.
    Bhr 6.196 24 ...if you have headache...or thunderstroke, I beseech you...to hold your peace, and not pollute the morning, to which all the housemates bring serene and pleasant thoughts...
    Wsp 6.240 12 ...as far as [immortality] is a question of fact respecting the government of the universe, Marcus Antoninus summed the whole in a word, It is pleasant to die if there be gods, and sad to live if there be none.
    Bty 6.300 25 Sir Philip Sidney...Ben Jonson tells us, was no pleasant man in countenance...
    Civ 7.31 2 ...a wise government puts fines and penalties on pleasant vices.
    WD 7.173 12 Hume's doctrine was that...the girl equipped for her first ball, and the orator returning triumphant from the debate, had different means, but the same quantity of pleasant excitement.
    WD 7.177 6 That work is ever the more pleasant to the imagination which is not now required.
    Comc 8.158 1 ...the break of continuity in the intellect, is comedy, and it announces itself physically in the pleasant spasms we call laughter.
    Comc 8.172 1 The Persians have a pleasant story of Tamerlane...
    Imtl 8.351 3 Yama said [to Nachiketas], One thing is good, another is pleasant.
    Imtl 8.351 4 Yama said [to Nachiketas], One thing is good, another is pleasant. Blessed is he who takes the good, but he who chooses the pleasant loses the object of man.
    Imtl 8.351 7 These two, ignorance (whose object is what is pleasant) and knowledge (whose object is what is good) are known to be far asunder...
    Chr2 10.122 4 [A well-principled man] defends himself against failure in his main design by making every inch of the road to it pleasant.
    Supl 10.164 12 Especially we note this tendency to extremes in the pleasant excitement of horror-mongers.
    HDC 11.35 2 Indian corn, even the coarsest, made as pleasant meal as rice.
    HDC 11.62 16 Alas! for [the Indians]-their day is o'er,/ Their fires are out from hill and shore,/ No more for them the wild deer bounds,/ The plough is on their hunting grounds;/ The pale man's axe rings in their woods,/ The pale man's sail skims o'er their floods,/ Their pleasant springs are dry./
    EWI 11.104 15 ...if we saw the runaways hunted with bloodhounds into swamps and hills; and, in cases of passion, a planter throwing his negro into a copper of boiling cane-juice,-if we saw these things with eyes, we too should wince. They are not pleasant sights.
    AKan 11.257 8 I think we are to give largely, lavishly, to these [Kansas] men. And we must prepare to do it. We must...sell our apple-trees, our acres, our pleasant houses.
    TPar 11.292 16 ...the polished and pleasant traitors to human rights...rot and are forgotten...
    ACiv 11.298 22 All the little hopes that heretofore made the year pleasant are deferred.
    SHC 11.431 3 A simultaneous movement has, in a hundred cities and towns in this country, selected some convenient piece of undulating ground with pleasant woods and waters;...and we lay the corpse in these leafy colonnades.
    PLT 12.56 13 There are two theories of life;... One is activity...the following of that practical talent which we have, in the belief that what is so natural, easy and pleasant to us...will surely lead us out safely;...
    Milt1 12.258 9 [Milton says] In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against Nature not to go out and see her riches...
    Pray 12.355 2 When nought on earth seemeth pleasant to me, thou dost make thyself known to me...
    EurB 12.378 1 [The Vivian Greys]...could write an Iliad any rainy morning, if fame were not such a bore. Men, women...are stupid things; but a rifle, and a mild pleasant gunpowder, a spaniel, and a cheroot, are themes for Olympus.

pleasantest, adj. (2)

    PPh 4.73 23 [Socrates is] A pitiless disputant...so careless and ignorant as to disarm the wariest and draw them, in the pleasantest manner, into horrible doubts and confusion.
    LLNE 10.364 11 All comers...found [Brook Farm] the pleasantest of residences.

pleasantly, adv. (2)

    Hsm1 2.250 14 ...pleasantly and as it were merrily [the hero] advances to his own music...
    Int 2.337 11 A good form strikes all eyes pleasantly...

pleasantness, n. (1)

    Plu 10.320 5 [Plutarch] thought it wonderful that a man having a muse in his own breast, and all the pleasantness that would fit an entertainment, would have pipes and harps play...

pleasantries, n. (2)

    EPro 11.316 14 [Movement toward liberty]...is as when an orator, having ended the compliments and pleasantries with which he conciliated attention...announces with vibrating voice the grand human principles involved;...
    ALin 11.333 12 [Lincoln] is the author of a multitude of good sayings, so disguised as pleasantries that it is certain they had no reputation at first but as jests;...

pleasantry, n. (1)

    QO 8.185 3 A pleasantry which ran through all the newspapers a few years since...was only a theft of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's mot of a hundred years ago...

please, v. (62)

    Nat 1.18 10 I please myself with the graces of the winter scenery...
    Nat 1.19 15 ...[the moon] will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey.
    Nat 1.51 7 ...the most wonted objects, (make a very slight change in the point of vision,) please us most.
    AmS 1.115 18 Is it not the chief disgrace in the world...to be reckoned in the gross...of the section, to which we belong; and our opinion predicted geographically, as the north, or the south? Not so...please God, ours shall not be so.
    LE 1.160 10 Please himself with complaisance who will...
    LE 1.178 20 Bonaparte represents truly a great recent revolution, which we in this country, please God, shall carry to its farthest consummation.
    Con 1.305 13 However men please to style themselves, I see no other than a conservative party.
    Tran 1.354 11 ...it will please us to reflect that though we had few virtues or consolations, we bore with our indigence...
    YA 1.373 3 The population of the world is a conditional population; these are not the best, but...the best that could yet live; there shall be a better, please God.
    SR 2.60 15 A great man is coming to eat at my house. I do not wish to please him;...
    SR 2.60 16 ...I wish that [the great man] should wish to please me.
    SL 2.136 5 We pain ourselves to please nobody.
    Fdsp 2.206 23 I please my imagination more with a circle of godlike men and women variously related to each other...
    Hsm1 2.263 8 Coarse slander, fire, tar and feathers and the gibbet, the youth may freely bring home to his mind...and inquire how fast he can fix his sense of duty, braving such penalties, whenever it may please the next newspaper and a sufficient number of his neighbors to pronounce his opinions incendiary.
    OS 2.279 11 If I am wilful, [my child] sets his will against mine...and leaves me, if I please, the degradation of beating him by my superiority of strength.
    Cir 2.306 20 To-day I am full of thoughts and can write what I please.
    Int 2.341 25 God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please,--you can never have both.
    Art1 2.351 19 ...[the painter] will come to value the expression of nature and not nature itself, and so exalt in his copy the features that please him.
    Pt1 3.15 11 ...if you please, every man is so far a poet as to be susceptible of these enchantments of nature;...
    Mrs1 3.119 14 If the house do not please [the inhabitants of Gournou], they walk out and enter another...
    Mrs1 3.148 19 ...[Scott's] dialogue is in costume, and does not please on the second reading...
    Mrs1 3.151 24 [Lilla] had too much sympathy and desire to please, than that you could say her manners were marked with dignity...
    Nat2 3.173 20 ...I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle I...pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight... ... I am over-instructed for my return. Henceforth I shall be hard to please.
    Nat2 3.186 17 Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living...
    PPh 4.67 7 Such, O Theages, is the association with me [said Socrates]; for, if it pleases the God, you will make great and rapid proficiency: you will not, if he does not please.
    SwM 4.109 5 We are hard to please, and love nothing which ends;...
    NMW 4.250 21 ...Bonaparte pointed to the stars, and said, You may talk as long as you please, gentlemen, but who made all that?
    NMW 4.255 6 As long as I continue to be what I am [said Napoleon], I may have as many pretended friends as I please.
    ET4 5.66 9 The bronze monuments of crusaders lying cross-legged in the Temple Church at London...please by beauty of the same character...which is daily seen in the streets of London.
    ET8 5.137 27 [The English] are...churlish as men sometimes please to be who do not forget a debt...
    ET8 5.140 10 Haldor...told his opinion bluntly and was obstinate and hard: and this could not please the king...
    ET11 5.196 27 The fiction with which the noble and the bystander equally please themselves [in England] is that the former is of unbroken descent from the Norman...
    ET15 5.265 4 ...when [John Walter] demanded a small share in the proprietary [of the London Times] and was refused, he said, As you please, gentlemen; and you may take away The Times from this office when you will;...
    F 6.23 5 If you please to plant yourself on the side of Fate...then we say, a part of Fate is the freedom of man.
    Bhr 6.187 10 ...[Aspasia] adds good-humoredly, the movers and masters of our souls have surely a right to throw out their limbs as carelessly as they please...
    Wsp 6.228 21 We need not much mind what people please to say, but what they must say;...
    CbW 6.246 20 What we have...to say of life, is rather description, or if you please, celebration, than available rules.
    Bty 6.300 15 If command...exist in the most deformed person, all the accidents that usually displease, please...
    SS 7.1 9 ...nor loved [Seyd] less/ Stately lords in palaces/ Princely women hard to please/...
    Art2 7.55 27 [The arts] come to serve [man's] actual wants, never to please his fancy.
    Art2 7.56 17 Who cares, who knows what works of art our government have ordered to be made for the Capitol? They are a mere flourish to please the eye of persons who have associations with books and galleries.
    Clbs 7.232 16 Some men love only to talk where they are masters. They like to go...into the shops where the sauntering people gladly lend an ear to any one. On these terms they...please themselves by sallies and chat...
    Suc 7.294 5 Cannot we please ourselves with performing our work...
    Suc 7.310 20 Which of [the most sanguine] has not failed to please where they most wished it?...
    PI 8.45 19 Shadows please us as still finer rhymes.
    SA 8.95 11 What a good trait is that recorded of Madame de Maintenon, that, during dinner, the servant slipped to her side, Please, madame, one anecdote more, for there is no roast to-day.
    SA 8.105 11 Now society in towns is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them.
    SA 8.106 24 ...those people, and no others, interest us...who are absorbed, if you please to say so, in their own dream.
    Grts 8.304 4 A sensible person will soon see the folly and wickedness of thinking to please.
    Grts 8.315 11 It is difficult to find greatness pure. Well, I please myself with its diffusion;...
    Edc1 10.153 8 ...[the teacher] cannot delight in personal relations with young friends, when...twenty classes are to be dealt with before the day is done. Besides, how can he please himself with genius, and foster modest virtue?
    Plu 10.301 1 [Plutarch] believes...in demons and ghosts,-but prefers, if you please, to talk of these in the morning.
    LLNE 10.369 19 I please myself with the thought that our American mind is not now eccentric or rude in its strength...
    MMEm 10.404 13 [Mary Moody Emerson] writes to her nephew Charles Emerson, in 1833... I never expected connections and matrimony. My taste was formed in romance, and I knew I was not destined to please.
    LS 11.24 18 I am content that [the Lord's Supper] stand to the end of the world, if it please men and please Heaven...
    LS 11.24 19 I am content that [the Lord's Supper] stand to the end of the world, if it please men and please Heaven...
    Koss 11.398 9 We [people of Concord] please ourselves that in you [Kossuth] we meet one whose temper was long since tried in the fire...
    Wom 11.410 23 ...man invents and adorns all he does with delays and degrees, paints it all over with forms, to please himself better;...
    CInt 12.120 15 [Demosthenes said] If it please you to note it, my counsels to you are not such whereby I should grow great among you...
    CInt 12.127 22 ...I thought a college was a place not to train talents, not to train attorneys, and those who say what they please, but to adorn Genius...
    ACri 12.304 16 Don't set out to please; you will displease.
    Pray 12.352 18 When I go to visit my friends...I must think of my manner to please them.

pleased, adj. (1)

    Elo1 7.74 24 ...whoever can say off currently, sentence by sentence, matter neither better nor worse than what is there [in the country newspaper] printed, will be very impressive to our easily pleased population.

pleased, v. (49)

    DSA 1.121 11 When...[man] attains to say...Virtue, I am thine;...thee will I serve...that I may be not virtuous, but virtue; - then...God is well pleased.
    Art1 2.366 13 Men are not well pleased with the figure they make in their own imaginations, and they flee to art...
    Exp 3.55 26 ...each [picture] will bear an emphasis of attention once, which it cannot retain, though we fain would continue to be pleased in that manner.
    NER 3.273 22 What is it we heartily wish of each other? Is it to be pleased and flattered?
    PPh 4.73 14 ...[Socrates] is...a man who was willingly confuted if he did not speak the truth, and who willingly confuted others asserting what was false; and not less pleased when confuted than when confuting;...
    ShP 4.209 18 One can discern, in [Shakespeare's] ample pictures of the gentleman and the king, what forms and humanities pleased him;...
    NMW 4.231 15 ...[Bonaparte] pleased himself, as well as the people, when he styled himself the Child of Destiny.
    NMW 4.245 11 When a natural king becomes a titular king, every body is pleased and satisfied.
    NMW 4.246 23 Perhaps it is a little puerile, the pleasure [Napoleon] took in making these contrasts glaring; as when he pleased himself with making kings wait in his antechambers...
    ET3 5.40 13 The old Venetians pleased themselves with the flattery that Venice was in 45 degrees, midway between the poles and the line;...
    ET14 5.232 7 [The English]...never are surprised into a covert or witty word, such as pleased the Athenians and Italians...
    ET16 5.273 5 It had been agreed between my friend Mr. Carlyle and me, that before I left England we should make an excursion together to Stonehenge, which neither of us had seen; and the project pleased my fancy with the double attraction of the monument and the companion.
    CbW 6.264 12 Whenever you are sincerely pleased, you are nourished.
    Ill 6.311 2 ...we must be content to be pleased without too curiously analyzing the occasions.
    Elo1 7.65 15 Bring [the master orator] to his audience, and, be they... pleased or displeased...he will have them pleased and humored as he chooses;...
    Elo1 7.65 18 Bring [the master orator] to his audience, and...he will have them pleased and humored as he chooses;...
    Elo1 7.84 18 It is well with [the audience] only when [the orator's] influence is complete; then only they are well pleased.
    DL 7.124 22 I have seen finely endowed men at college festivals... returning, as it seemed, the same boys who went away. The same jokes pleased, the same straws tickled;...
    DL 7.125 12 We are too easily pleased.
    Cour 7.256 23 Men are so charmed with valor that they have pleased themselves with being called lions...
    OA 7.334 16 [John Adams said] I went [to hear George Whitefield] with Jonathan Sewall.--And you were pleased with him, sir?--Pleased! I was delighted beyond measure.
    OA 7.334 17 [John Adams said] I went [to hear George Whitefield] with Jonathan Sewall.--And you were pleased with him, sir?--Pleased! I was delighted beyond measure.
    PI 8.15 23 The poet accounts all productions and changes of Nature as the nouns of language, uses them representatively, too well pleased with their ulterior to value much their primary meaning.
    PI 8.68 13 Better not to be easily pleased.
    QO 8.185 23 Wordsworth's hero acting on the plan which pleased his childish thought, is Schiller's Tell him to reverence the dreams of his youth...
    QO 8.198 19 ...what dismay when the good Matilda, pleased with [the author's] pleasure, confessed she had written the criticism...
    PPo 8.241 6 When all [the troops and spirits] were in order, the east wind, at [Solomon's] command, took up the carpet and transported with all that were upon it, whither he pleased...
    Insp 8.286 4 Vigorous, I spring from my couch,/ Seek the beloved Muses,/ Find them in the beech grove,/ Pleased to receive me;/...
    Grts 8.317 11 Bret Harte has pleased himself with noting and recording the sudden virtue blazing in the wild reprobates of the ranches and mines of California.
    Edc1 10.149 1 The boy wishes to learn to skate, to coast...and a boy a little older is just as well pleased to teach him these sciences.
    Prch 10.221 13 The understanding...because it has found absurdities to which the sentiment of veneration is attached, sneers at veneration; so that analysis has run to seed in unbelief. There is no faith left. We laugh and hiss, pleased with our power in making heaven and earth a howling wilderness.
    Prch 10.226 18 ...when [the railroads] came into his poetic Westmoreland... [Wordsworth] yet manned himself to say,-...Time,/ Pleased with your triumphs o'er his brother brother Space,/ Accepts from your bold hands the proffered crown/ Of hope and smiles on you with cheer sublime./
    LLNE 10.332 24 In the lecture-room, [Everett]...pleased himself with the play of detailing erudition in a style of perfect simplicity.
    MMEm 10.398 9 They whom [Lucy Percy] is pleased to choose are such as are of the most eminent condition...
    MMEm 10.402 9 [Mary Moody Emerson's] sympathy for young people who pleased her was almost passionate...
    LS 11.22 21 ...the Almighty God was pleased to qualify and send forth a man to teach men that they must serve him with the heart;...
    HDC 11.34 23 ...the Lord is pleased to provide for [the pilgrims] great store of fish in the spring-time...
    HDC 11.35 7 ...let no man, writes our pious chronicler [Edward Johnson]... make a jest of pumpkins, for with this fruit the Lord was pleased to feed his people until their corn and cattle were increased.
    EWI 11.105 14 Granville Sharpe was accidentally made acquainted with the sufferings of a slave, whom a West Indian planter had brought with him to London, and had beaten with a pistol on his head, so badly that his whole body became diseased, and the man useless to his master, who left him to go whither he pleased.
    War 11.158 12 The celebrated Cavendish...wrote thus...on his return from a voyage round the world: Sept. 1588. It hath pleased Almighty God to suffer me to circumpass the whole globe of the world...
    War 11.159 1 ...the good [Thomas] Cavendish piously begins this statement,-It hath pleased Almighty God.
    War 11.159 14 When [Assacombuit] appeared at court, he lifted up his hand and said, This hand has slain a hundred and fifty of your majesty's enemies within the territories of New England. This so pleased the king that he knighted him...
    FSLC 11.192 12 Sire, said the brave Orte, governor of Bayonne, in his letter...both [the inhabitants and soldiers] and I must humbly entreat your majesty to be pleased to employ your arms and lives in things that are possible...
    FSLC 11.209 7 'T is said [buying the slaves] will cost two thousand millions of dollars. Was there ever any contribution that was so enthusiastically paid as this will be? ... The father of his country shall wait, well pleased, a little longer for his monument;...
    SMC 11.370 26 Being informed that he misunderstood the order, which was only to inform him how to retire when it became necessary, [George Prescott] was satisfied, and he and his command held their ground manfully. It was said that Colonel Prescott's reply, when reported, pleased the Acting-Brigadier-General Sweitzer mightily.
    EdAd 11.389 19 ...we...should be sincerely pleased if we could give a direction to the Federal politics...
    Wom 11.422 12 ...one [man] would change nothing, and the other is pleased with nothing;...
    Mem 12.105 12 Michael Angelo, after having once seen a work of any other artist, would remember it so perfectly that if it pleased him to make use of any portion thereof, he could do so...
    EurB 12.369 12 ...the Court Journals and Literary Gazettes were not well pleased, and voted the poet [Wordsworth] a bore.

pleases, v. (17)

    Lov1 2.178 9 Beauty...welcome as the sun wherever it pleases to shine... seems sufficient to itself.
    Lov1 2.178 9 Beauty...which pleases everybody with it and with themselves, seems sufficient to itself.
    OS 2.280 1 ...It is no proof of a man's understanding to be able to affirm whatever he pleases;...
    Gts 3.162 27 ...if the gift pleases me overmuch, then I should be ashamed that the donor should read my heart, and see that I love his commodity, and not him.
    PPh 4.67 5 Such, O Theages, is the association with me [said Socrates]; for, if it pleases the God, you will make great and rapid proficiency...
    NMW 4.255 2 I do not even love my brothers [said Napoleon]: perhaps Joseph a little...and Duroc, I love him too; but why?--because his character pleases me...
    ET9 5.144 18 The pursy man [in England] means by freedom the right to do as he pleases...
    F 6.36 14 The whole circle of animal life...until at last...the whole chemical mass is mellowed and refined for higher use-pleases at a sufficient perspective.
    Wth 6.91 15 [A man] may fix his inventory of necessities and of enjoyments on what scale he pleases...
    Bty 6.291 8 Every necessary or organic action pleases the beholder.
    DL 7.128 20 It has been finely added by Landor to his definition of the great man, It is he who can call together the most select company when it pleases him.
    Clbs 7.232 20 Some men love only to talk where they are masters. They like to go...into the shops where the sauntering people gladly lend an ear to any one. On these terms...the talker is at his ease and jolly, for he can walk out without ceremony when he pleases.
    OA 7.331 1 In Goethe's Romance, Makaria, the central figure for wisdom and influence, pleases herself with withdrawing into solitude to astronomy and epistolary correspondence.
    Imtl 8.335 12 What lasts a century pleases us in comparison with what lasts an hour.
    PLT 12.52 14 ...because [men] know one thing, we defer to them in another, and find them really contemptible. We can't make a half bow and say, I honor and despise you. But Nature can; she whistles with all her winds, and does as she pleases.
    MAng1 12.242 7 In conversing upon this subject [death] with one of his friends, that person remarked that Michael [Angelo] might well grieve that one who was incessant in his creative labors should have no restoration. No, replied Michael...if life pleases us, death, being a work of the same master, ought not to displease us.
    MLit 12.327 25 We think, when we contemplate the stupendous glory of the world, that it were life enough for one man merely to lift his hands and cry with Saint Augustine, Wrangle who pleases, I will wonder.

pleasest, v. (1)

    Imtl 8.351 1 Nachiketas said [to Yama], All those [worldly] enjoyments are of yesterday. With thee remain thy horses and elephants, with thee the dance and song. If we should obtain wealth, we live only as long as thou pleasest.

pleaseth, v. (1)

    PI 8.62 1 Ah, sir, said Merlin [to Sir Gawaine]...there is no such strong tower as this wherein I am confined;...neither can I go out, nor can any one come in, save she...who keeps me company when it pleaseth her...

pleasing, adj. (30)

    LE 1.169 14 ...the broad, cold lowland...where the traveller...thinks with pleasing terror of the distant town; this beauty...has never been recorded by art...
    YA 1.368 3 If the landscape is pleasing, the garden shows it...
    SR 2.58 13 In this pleasing contrite wood-life which God allows me, let me record day by day my honest thought without prospect or retrospect...
    SL 2.131 5 Behind us, as we go, all things assume pleasing forms...
    Lov1 2.176 10 In the noon and the afternoon of life we still throb at the recollection of days...when the moonlight was a pleasing fever...
    Fdsp 2.196 27 ...I must hazard the production of the bald fact amidst these pleasing reveries...
    OS 2.290 13 The more cultivated, in their account of their own experience, cull out the pleasing, poetic circumstance...
    Art1 2.354 16 The infant lies in a pleasing trance...
    Pt1 3.25 20 A rhyme in one of our sonnets should not be less pleasing than the iterated nodes of a seashell...
    Gts 3.160 19 ...it is always pleasing to see a man eat bread, or drink water, in the house or out of doors...
    Gts 3.161 17 The only gift is a portion of thyself. ... Therefore the poet brings his poem;...the girl, a handkerchief of her own sewing. This is right and pleasing...
    ET11 5.173 10 ...the fair idea of a settled government [in England] connecting itself with heraldic names...was too pleasing a vision to be shattered by a few offensive realities...
    Bty 6.298 5 [Women]...teach [the most serious student] to put a pleasing method into what is dry and difficult.
    Elo1 7.73 18 ...the power of detaining the ear by pleasing speech...often exists without higher merits.
    DL 7.106 14 [The child] has heard of wild horses and of bad boys, and with a pleasing terror he watches at his gate for the passing of those varieties of each species.
    Farm 7.137 22 ...the tranquillity and innocence of the countryman, his independence and his pleasing arts...all men acknowledge.
    Boks 7.203 5 ...[in the Platonists] the grand and pleasing figures of gods and daemons and daemoniacal men...sail before [the scholar's] eyes.
    Res 8.150 23 It was a pleasing trait in Goethe's romance, that Makaria retires from society to astronomy and her correspondence.
    Aris 10.51 9 We do not expect [public representatives] to be saints, and it is very pleasing to see the instinct of mankind on this matter...
    Supl 10.176 19 ...in the East [the superlative] is animated, it is pertinent, pleasing, poetic.
    LLNE 10.333 7 In the pulpit...[Everett] gave the reins to his florid, quaint and affluent fancy. Then was exhibited all the richness of a rhetoric which we have never seen rivalled in this country. Wonderful how memorable were words made which were only pleasing pictures...
    CSC 10.375 20 ...there was no want of female speakers [at the Chardon Street Convention]; Mrs. Little and Mrs. Lucy Sessions took a pleasing and memorable part in the debate...
    MMEm 10.409 17 ...from the highway hedges where I [Mary Moody Emerson] get lodging...I get a pleasing vision which is an earnest of the interminable skies where the mansions are prepared for the poor.
    LS 11.20 1 ...I choose that my remembrances of [Jesus] should be pleasing, affecting, religious.
    HDC 11.38 22 ...[the settlers of Concord] beheld, with curiosity, all the pleasing features of the American forest.
    HDC 11.45 2 ...[the settlers of Concord]...very early assessed taxes; a power at first resisted, but speedily confirmed to them. Meantime, to this paramount necessity, a milder and more pleasing influence was joined.
    HDC 11.83 21 [The Concord Town Records] exhibit a pleasing picture of a community almost exclusively agricultural...
    War 11.153 15 Plutarch...considers the invasion and conquest of the East by Alexander as one of the most bright and pleasing pages in history;...
    MAng1 12.218 14 A beautiful person...appears to have truer conformity to all pleasing objects in external Nature than another.
    Milt1 12.254 3 There is something pleasing in the affection with which we can regard a man [Milton] who died a hundred and sixty years ago...

pleasing, v. (2)

    Hsm1 2.259 24 The fair girl who repels interference by a decided and proud choice of influences, so careless of pleasing...inspires every beholder with somewhat of her own nobleness.
    Wth 6.113 12 ...the betrothed maiden by one secure affection is relieved from a system of slaveries,--the daily inculcated necessity of pleasing all...

pleasure, n. (178)

    Nat 1.15 8 ...the primary forms...give us...a pleasure arising from outline, color, motion, and grouping.
    Nat 1.30 3 When...the sovereignty of ideas is broken up by the prevalence of...the desire of...pleasure...the power over nature as an interpreter of the will is in a degree lost;...
    Nat 1.51 17 Hence arises a pleasure mixed with awe;...a low degree of the sublime is felt, from the fact...that man is hereby apprized that...something in himself is stable.
    Nat 1.51 23 In a higher manner the poet communicates the same pleasure.
    Nat 1.69 9 The whole is either our cupboard of food,/ Or cabinet of pleasure./
    AmS 1.91 23 It is remarkable, the character of the pleasure we derive from the best books.
    AmS 1.92 2 We read the verses of one of the great English poets...with a pleasure...which is in great part caused by the abstraction of all time from their verses.
    AmS 1.101 12 For the ease and pleasure of treading the old road...[the scholar] takes the cross of making his own...
    AmS 1.109 18 ...we cannot enjoy any thing for hankering to know whereof the pleasure consists;...
    DSA 1.137 4 The test of the true faith...should be its power to charm...the soul...so commanding that we find pleasure and honor in obeying.
    DSA 1.146 8 Look to it...that fashion, custom, authority, pleasure, and money, are nothing to you...
    MN 1.212 5 ...is [man's work in the world] for pleasure? he is mocked;...
    LT 1.273 7 A wealthy man, addicted to his pleasure...finds religion to be a traffic so entangled...that of all mysteries he cannot skill to keep a stock going upon that trade.
    LT 1.277 26 I cannot feel any pleasure in sacrifices which display to me such partiality of character.
    YA 1.381 9 The farmer, after sacrificing pleasure, taste, freedom, thought, love, to his work, turns out often a bankrupt, like the merchant.
    YA 1.390 27 ...as if the Union had any other real basis than the good pleasure of a majority of the citizens to be united.
    Hist 2.35 3 In the story of the Boy and the Mantle even a mature reader may be surprised with a glow of virtuous pleasure at the triumph of the gentle Genelas;...
    Comp 2.98 10 Every faculty which is a receiver of pleasure has an equal penalty put on its abuse.
    Comp 2.103 13 Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens with the flower of the pleasure which concealed it.
    Comp 2.103 21 ...to gratify the senses we sever the pleasure of the senses from the needs of the character.
    Comp 2.104 12 [The soul] would be the only fact. All things shall be added unto it,--power, pleasure, knowledge, beauty.
    Comp 2.104 26 Pleasure is taken out of pleasant things...as soon as we seek to separate them from the whole.
    Fdsp 2.192 9 A commended stranger is expected and announced, and an uneasiness betwixt pleasure and pain invades all the hearts of a household.
    Fdsp 2.209 25 Leave it to girls and boys to regard a friend as property, and to suck a short and all-confounding pleasure...
    Prd1 2.227 26 One might find argument for optimism in the abundant flow of this saccharine element of pleasure in every suburb and extremity of the good world.
    Cir 2.307 26 We sell the thrones of angels for a short and turbulent pleasure.
    Cir 2.315 3 ...it behooves each to see, when he sacrifices prudence, to what god he devotes it; if to ease and pleasure, he had better be prudent still;...
    Cir 2.320 9 We do not guess to-day...the pleasure...of to-morrow...
    Int 2.338 12 ...when we write with ease...we seem to be assured that nothing is easier than to continue this communication at pleasure.
    Art1 2.355 27 A squirrel leaping from bough to bough and making the wood but one wide tree for his pleasure...is beautiful...
    Art1 2.366 24 As soon as beauty is sought...for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
    Pt1 3.28 14 ...a great number of such as were professionally expressers of Beauty...have been more than others wont to lead a life of pleasure and indulgence;...
    Exp 3.51 8 Of what use [is genius]...if the web is...too irritable by pleasure and pain...
    Exp 3.61 3 ...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.
    Chr1 3.103 7 We have no pleasure in thinking of a benevolence that is only measured by its works.
    Mrs1 3.145 23 The epitaph of Sir Jenkin Grout is not wholly unintelligible to the present age: Here lies Sir Jenkin Grout...if a woman gave him pleasure, he supported her in pain...
    Mrs1 3.149 5 ...[a beautiful behavior] gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures;...
    Gts 3.160 4 Men use to tell us that we love flattery...because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted. Something like that pleasure, the flowers give us...
    Nat2 3.196 25 ...wisdom is infused into every form. It has been poured into us as blood;...it slid into us as pleasure;...
    NR 3.233 8 I find the most pleasure in reading a book in a manner least flattering to the author.
    NR 3.233 17 It is a greater joy to see the author's author, than himself. A higher pleasure of the same kind I found lately at a concert, where I went to hear Handel's Messiah.
    UGM 4.15 18 This pleasure of full expression to that which, [in the people' s] private experience, is usually cramped and obstructed, runs...much higher...
    UGM 4.16 23 We go to the gymnasium and the swimming-school to see the power and beauty of the body; there is the like pleasure and a higher benefit from witnessing intellectual feats of all kinds;...
    PPh 4.51 19 These two principles [unity and diversity] reappear and interpenetrate all things, all thought; the one, the many. One is...strength; the other, pleasure...
    PPh 4.64 14 [Plato] secures a position not to be commanded, by his passion for reality; valuing philosophy only as it is the pleasure of conversing with real being.
    PPh 4.72 26 ...it is said that to procure the pleasure, which he loves, of talking at his ease all day with the most elegant and cultivated young men, [Socrates] will now and then return to his shop and carve statues, good or bad, for sale.
    SwM 4.103 14 Our books are false by being fragmentary: their sentences are...childish expressions of surprise or pleasure in nature;...
    SwM 4.144 8 In [Swedenborg's] profuse and accurate imagery is no pleasure, for there is no beauty.
    MoS 4.163 14 I heard with pleasure that one of the newly-discovered autographs of William Shakspeare was in a copy of Florio's translation of Montaigne.
    MoS 4.164 7 Though [Montaigne] had been a man of pleasure and sometimes a courtier, his studious habits now grew on him...
    MoS 4.168 13 One has the same pleasure in [Montaigne's language] that he feels in listening to the necessary speech of men about their work...
    MoS 4.182 9 the people's questions are not [the spiritualist's]; their methods are not his; and against all the dictates of good nature he is driven to say he has no pleasure in them.
    NMW 4.246 21 Perhaps it is a little puerile, the pleasure [Napoleon] took in making these contrasts glaring;...
    GoW 4.287 13 ...the charm of this portion of the book [Goethe's Thory of Colors] consists in the simplest statement of the relation betwixt these grandees of European scientific history and himself; the mere drawing of the lines from Goethe to Kepler, from Goethe to Bacon, from Goethe to Newton. The drawing of the line...gives pleasure when Iphigenia and Faust do not...
    ET1 5.3 6 ...I remember the pleasure of that first walk on English ground...
    ET1 5.24 1 [Wordsworth]...quoted, with evident pleasure, the verses addressed To the Skylark.
    ET3 5.40 25 I have seen a kratometric chart designed to show that the city of Philadelphia was in the same thermic belt, and by inference in the same belt of empire, as the cities of Athens, Rome and London. It was drawn by a patriotic Philadelphian, and was examined with pleasure, under his showing, by the inhabitants of Chestnut Street.
    ET5 5.76 9 [These Saxons] have the taste for toil, a distaste for pleasure or repose...
    ET8 5.140 4 King Harold gave [Haldor] this testimony, that he, among all his men, cared least about doubtful circumstances, whether they betokened danger or pleasure;...
    ET11 5.191 10 Grammont, Pepys and Evelyn show the kennels to which the king and court went in quest of pleasure.
    ET11 5.195 15 Already...the English noble and squire were preparing for the career of the country-gentleman and his peaceable expense. They went from city to city...gathering seeds, gems, coins and divers curiosities, preparing for a private life thereafter, in which they should take pleasure in these recreations.
    ET13 5.222 12 I suspect that there is in an Englishman's brain a valve that can be closed at pleasure...
    ET17 5.293 16 Among the privileges of London, I recall with pleasure two or three signal days, one at Kew, where Sir William Hooker showed me all the riches of the vast botanic garden;...
    F 6.41 5 The pleasure of life is according to the man that lives it...
    Pow 6.66 10 The most amiable of country gentlemen has a certain pleasure in the teeth of the bull-dog which guards his orchard.
    Pow 6.72 14 This aboriginal might gives a surprising pleasure when it appears under conditions of supreme refinement...
    Wth 6.93 1 The life of pleasure is so ostentatious that a shallow observer must believe that this is the agreed best use of wealth...
    Wth 6.109 12 ...power and pleasure are not cheap.
    Wth 6.121 27 Of the two eminent engineers in the recent construction of railways in England, Mr. Brunel went straight...and so arriving at his end, at great pleasure to geometers, but with cost to his company.
    Wth 6.125 23 The merchant's economy is a coarse symbol of the soul's economy. It is to spend for power and not for pleasure.
    Wth 6.126 10 [A man's] body is a jar in which the liquor of life is stored. Will he spend for pleasure?
    Ctr 6.158 2 ...the poor little poet hearkens only to [praise], and rejects the censure as proving incapacity in the critic. But the poet cultivated becomes a stockholder in both companies,--say Mr. Curfew in the Curfew stock, and in the humanity stock,--and, in the last, exults as much in the demonstration of the unsoundness of Curfew, as his interest in the former gives him pleasure in the currency of Curfew.
    Ctr 6.165 7 ...a considerate man will reckon himself a subject of that secular melioration by which mankind is mollified, cured and refined; and will shun every expenditure of his forces on pleasure or gain which will jeopardize this social and secular accumulation.
    Wsp 6.202 6 If the Divine Providence...has stated itself out...in trade, in the love of power and pleasure...let us not be so nice that we cannot write these facts down coarsely...
    CbW 6.247 19 Now we reckon [days]...by...some pleasure we are to taste.
    CbW 6.266 19 ...we shall not always traverse seas and lands...for pleasure, as we say.
    CbW 6.272 3 ...if one comes who can...show [men]...what gifts they have... he wakes in them the feeling of worth... ... 'T is wonderful the effect on the company. They are not the men they were. ... There is no book and no pleasure in life comparable to it.
    Bty 6.292 6 The pleasure a palace or a temple gives the eye is, that an order and method has been communicated to stones...
    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. All the party were touched with astonishment and pleasure.
    Ill 6.311 15 The same interference from our organization creates the most of our pleasure and pain.
    Ill 6.311 24 ...the barrister with the jury, the belle at the ball...ascribe a certain pleasure to their employment, which they themselves give it.
    Civ 7.29 20 ...if we will only choose our jobs in directions in which [the heavenly powers] travel, they will undertake them with the greatest pleasure.
    Art2 7.38 10 Speech is a great pleasure...
    Art2 7.38 11 ...action [is] a great pleasure;...
    Art2 7.40 5 When we reflect on the pleasure we receive from a ship, a railroad, a dry-dock; or from a picture, a dramatic representation, a statue, a poem,--we find that these have not a quite simple, but a blended origin.
    Art2 7.43 25 The pulsation of a stretched string or wire gives the ear the pleasure of sweet sound...
    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 7.44 6 Eloquence...is modified how much by the material organization of the orator...the play of the eye and countenance. All this is so much deduction from the purely spiritual pleasure...
    Art2 7.44 12 In sculpture and in architecture the material...and in architecture the mass, are sources of great pleasure quite independent of the artificial arrangement.
    Art2 7.44 27 A jumble of musical sounds...gives pleasure to the unskilful ear.
    Art2 7.45 7 A very coarse imitation of the human form on canvas, or in wax-work;...these things give...to the uncultured...almost as much pleasure as a statue of Canova or a picture of Titian.
    Art2 7.45 10 A very coarse imitation of the human form on canvas, or in wax-work;...these things give...to the uncultured...almost as much pleasure as a statue of Canova or a picture of Titian. And in the statue of Canova or the picture of Titian, these give the great part of the pleasure;...
    Art2 7.46 2 ...the pleasure that a noble temple gives us is only in part owing to the temple.
    Art2 7.46 6 The pleasure of eloquence is in greatest part owing often to the stimulus of the occasion which produces it...
    Elo1 7.71 18 See with what care and pleasure the poet [Homer] brings [Ulysses] on the stage.
    DL 7.111 7 ...what idea predominates in our houses? Thrift first, then convenience and pleasure.
    Farm 7.138 10 All men keep the farm in reserve as an asylum...or a solitude, if they do not succeed in society. And who knows how many glances of remorse are turned this way...from the victims of idleness and pleasure?
    Farm 7.153 4 We see the farmer with pleasure and respect when we think what powers and utilities are so meekly worn.
    WD 7.174 7 He is a strong man who can look [these passing hours] in the eye...nor permit love, or death, or politics, or money, war or pleasure to draw him from his task.
    Boks 7.196 26 ...Never read any [books] but what you like;, or, in Shakspeare's phrase, No profit goes where is no pleasure te'en:/ In brief, sir, study what you most affect./
    Boks 7.197 1 Montaigne says, Books are a languid pleasure;...
    Clbs 7.225 3 We...require nice treatment to get from us the maximum of power and pleasure.
    Clbs 7.227 22 ...in higher activity of mind, every new perception is attended with a thrill of pleasure...
    Clbs 7.227 24 ...in higher activity of mind, every new perception is attended with a thrill of pleasure, and the imparting of it to others is also attended with pleasure.
    OA 7.318 26 ...seen from the streets and markets and the haunts of pleasure and gain, the estimate of age is low...
    OA 7.328 19 ...age...finishes its works, which to every artist is a supreme pleasure.
    OA 7.331 13 Much wider is spread the pleasure which old men take in completing their secular affairs...
    PI 8.8 13 In botany we have...the poetic perception of metamorphosis,--that the same vegetable point or eye which is the unit of the plant can be transformed at pleasure into every part...
    PI 8.13 4 When some familiar truth or fact appears in a new dress...we cannot enough testify our surprise and pleasure.
    PI 8.25 2 This metonymy, or seeing the same sense in things so diverse, gives a pure pleasure.
    PI 8.37 21 All [others'] pleasures are tinged with pain. All [the poet's] pains are edged with pleasure.
    PI 8.45 20 Architecture gives the like pleasure [of rhyme] by the repetition of equal parts in a colonnade...
    PI 8.50 20 ...every good reader will easily recall expressions or passages in works of pure science which have given him the same pleasure which he seeks in professed poets.
    PI 8.72 14 The problem of the poet is...to give the pleasure of color, and be not less the most powerful of sculptors.
    Elo2 8.113 6 ...[the eloquent man] makes [the people] glad or angry or penitent at his pleasure;...
    Res 8.153 7 When I see in these brave plants [the willows] this vigor and immortality in weakness, I find a sudden relief and pleasure in observing the mighty law of vegetation...
    Comc 8.161 10 Prince Hal stands by, as the acute understanding, who sees the Right, and sympathizes with it, and in the heyday of youth feels also the full attractions of pleasure...
    QO 8.198 19 ...what dismay when the good Matilda, pleased with [the author's] pleasure, confessed she had written the criticism...
    QO 8.203 4 Our pleasure in seeing each mind take the subject to which it has a proper right is seen in mere fitness in time.
    PC 8.233 3 [A man] cannot go from the good to the evil at pleasure, and then back again to the good.
    Insp 8.290 27 ...Sir Joshua Reynolds had no pleasure in Richmond;...
    Imtl 8.329 26 A friend of Michel Angelo saying to him that his constant labor for art must make him think of death with regret,-By no means, he said; for if life be a pleasure, yet since death also is sent by the hand of the same Master, neither should that displease us.
    Imtl 8.350 19 [Yama said to Nachiketas] All those desires that are difficult to gain in the world of mortals, all those ask thou at thy pleasure;...
    Dem1 10.17 20 I believed that I discovered in nature...somewhat which manifested itself only in contradiction, and therefore could not be grasped by a conception, much less by a word. ... It seemed to deal at pleasure with the necessary elements of our constitution;...
    Aris 10.58 3 ...All that depends on another gives pain; all that depends on himself gives pleasure;...
    Aris 10.58 4 ...All that depends on another gives pain; all that depends on himself gives pleasure; in these few words is the definition of pleasure and pain.
    Edc1 10.149 2 Not less delightful is the mutual pleasure of teaching and learning the secret of algebra...
    Plu 10.295 11 King Henry IV. wrote to his wife...you could not have sent me anything which could be more agreeable than the news of the pleasure you have taken in this reading [of Plutarch].
    Plu 10.296 5 Montesquieu...in his Pensees, declares, I am always charmed with Plutarch; in his writings are circumstances attached to persons, which give great pleasure;...
    Plu 10.301 14 It is for his pleasure that [Plutarch] recites all that is best in his reading...
    Plu 10.308 6 [Plutarch] wonders with Plato at that nail of pain and pleasure which fastens the body to the mind.
    Plu 10.308 8 The mathematics give [Plutarch] unspeakable pleasure...
    Plu 10.309 14 Plutarch has such a keen pleasure in realities that he has none in verbal disputes;...
    LLNE 10.342 24 ...there was no concert, and only here and there two or three men or women who read and wrote, each alone, with unusual vivacity. Perhaps they only agreed in having fallen upon Coleridge and Wordsworth and Goethe, then on Carlyle, with pleasure and sympathy.
    LLNE 10.350 2 By concert and the allowing each laborer to choose his own work, it becomes pleasure.
    LLNE 10.351 18 Certainly we listened with great pleasure to such gay and magnificent pictures [as Fourier's].
    LLNE 10.354 10 ...abstinence from pleasure appeared to [Fourier] a great sin.
    MMEm 10.409 20 [Mary Moody Emerson writes] To live to give pain rather than pleasure (the latter so delicious) seems the spider-like necessity of my being on earth...
    MMEm 10.412 7 There is a sweet pleasure in bending to circumstances while superior to them.
    MMEm 10.413 2 ...I [Mary Moody Emerson] shall delight to return to God. His name my fullest confidence. His sole presence ineffable pleasure.
    MMEm 10.413 11 [I, Mary Moody Emerson] Met a lady in the morning walk, a foreigner,-conversed on the accomplishments of Miss T. My mind expanded with novel and innocent pleasure.
    SlHr 10.438 22 ...when the mob of Charleston was assembled in the streets before his hotel...[Samuel Hoar] considered his duty discharged to the last point of possibility. The force was apparent and irresistible;...and he said, Well, gentlemen, since it is your pleasure to use force, I must go.
    Thor 10.455 12 [Thoreau] said,-I have a faint recollection of pleasure derived from smoking dried lily-stems, before I was a man.
    Thor 10.468 11 [Thoreau]...noticed, with pleasure, that the willow bean-poles of his neighbor had grown more than his beans.
    Thor 10.469 14 It was a pleasure and a privilege to walk with [Thoreau].
    HDC 11.52 16 ...said [Tahattawan], all the time you have lived after the Indian fashion, under the power of the higher sachems, what did they care for you? They took away your skins, your kettles and your wampum, at their own pleasure...
    LVB 11.90 18 ...it is not to be doubted that it is the good pleasure and the understanding of all humane persons in the Republic...that [the Indians] shall be duly cared for;...
    AsSu 11.247 14 In [the slave state]...man is an animal, given to pleasure...
    ACiv 11.310 25 The message [Lincoln's proposal of gradual abolition] has been received throughout the country...we doubt not, with more pleasure than has been spoken.
    ALin 11.332 5 In a host of young men that start together and promise so many brilliant leaders for the next age, each fails on trial; one by bad health, one by...love of pleasure...
    HCom 11.341 4 ...I think it is not in man to see, without a feeling of pride and pleasure, a tried soldier...
    SMC 11.356 20 All sorts of men went to the [Civil] war,-the roughs...men for whom pleasure was not strong enough, but who wanted pain...
    SMC 11.369 9 The Colonel [George Prescott] took evident pleasure in the fact that he could account for all his men.
    Koss 11.399 1 We [people of Concord] have seen, with great pleasure, that there is nothing accidental in your [Kossuth's] attitude.
    SHC 11.432 18 I suppose all of us will readily admit the value of parks and cultivated grounds to the pleasure and education of the people...
    Shak1 11.446 2 England's genius filled all measure/ Of heart and soul, of strength and pleasure,/ Gave to mind its emperor/ And life was larger than before;/...
    Shak1 11.449 6 ...[Shakespeare] is...pleasure without repentance;...
    ChiE 11.471 5 All share the surprise and pleasure when the venerable Oriental dynasty...suddenly steps into the fellowship of nations.
    FRO1 11.477 9 I have listened with great pleasure to the lessons which we have heard.
    CPL 11.506 25 You say, [reading] is a languid pleasure.
    FRep 11.540 21 [The Constitution and the law in America] should be mankind's...Royal Proclamation of the Intellect...announcing its good pleasure that now...the world shall be governed by common sense and law of morals.
    Mem 12.104 22 ...this power of sinking the pain of any experience and of recalling the saddest with tranquillity, and even with a wise pleasure, is familiar.
    CL 12.164 8 Every new perception of the method and beauty of Nature gives a new shock of surprise and pleasure;...
    CW 12.172 1 Still less did I know [when I bought my farm] what good and true neighbors I was buying...some of them now known the country through...but whom I had the pleasure of knowing long before the Country did;...
    CW 12.177 11 ...the farmers seldom walk for pleasure.
    Bost 12.205 11 [The people of Massachusetts] accepted the divine ordination that man is for use;...and that his ruin is to live for pleasure and for show.
    Bost 12.207 8 With all their love of his person, [the people of Boston] took immense pleasure in turning out the governor and deputy and assistants...
    MAng1 12.218 23 ...all men have...a power of deriving pleasure from Beauty.
    MAng1 12.237 12 ...[Michelangelo]...in old age speaks with extreme pleasure of his residence with the hermits in the mountains of Spoleto;...
    ACri 12.295 17 ...if the English island had been larger and the Straits of Dover wider, to keep it at pleasure a little out of the imbroglio of Europe, they might have managed to feed on Shakspeare for some ages yet;...
    ACri 12.300 13 All conversation, as all literature, appears to me the pleasure of rhetoric...
    WSL 12.341 15 When we pronounce the names of...Ben Jonson and Isaak Walton; Dryden and Pope,-we...enter into a region of the purest pleasure accessible to human nature.
    WSL 12.344 25 [Landor] draws with evident pleasure the portrait of a man who never said anything right and never did anything wrong.
    Pray 12.352 5 When my long-attached friend comes to me, I have pleasure to converse with him...
    EurB 12.369 27 ...notwithstanding all Wordsworth's grand merits, it was a great pleasure to know that Alfred Tennyson's two volumes were coming out in the same ship;...
    EurB 12.370 2 ...notwithstanding all Wordsworth's grand merits, it was a great pleasure to know that Alfred Tennyson's two volumes were coming out in the same ship; it was a great pleasure to receive them.
    EurB 12.374 1 We read Zanoni with pleasure, because the magic is natural.
    Trag 12.409 23 There are people who have an appetite for grief, pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain...

Pleasure...Epicurus [Plutar (1)

    Plu 10.314 9 I can easily believe that an anxious soul may find in Plutarch' s chapter called Pleasure not attainable by Epicurus...a more sweet and reassuring argument on the immortality than in the Phaedo of Plato;...

pleasure-houses, n. (1)

    ET10 5.163 17 The taste and science of thirty peaceful generations;...the temples and pleasure-houses which Inigo Jones and Christopher Wren built;...are in the vast auction [in England]...

pleasure-hunters, n. (1)

    ET5 5.77 12 Even the pleasure-hunters and sots of England are of a tougher texture.

pleasures, n. (26)

    Nat 1.11 7 It is necessary to use these pleasures [of nature] with great temperance.
    YA 1.369 10 Whatever events in progress shall go to...infuse into [men] the passion for country life and country pleasures, will render a service to the whole face of this continent...
    Lov1 2.176 5 ...he touched the secret of the matter who said of love,--All other pleasures are not worth its pains/...
    Fdsp 2.198 23 ...these uneasy pleasures and fine pains [of friendship] are for curiosity...
    Prd1 2.224 5 If a man...immerse himself in any trades or pleasures for their own sake, he may be a good wheel or pin, but he is not a cultivated man.
    Prd1 2.228 3 There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
    Prd1 2.232 22 ...[Goethe's] Antonio and Tasso, both apparently right, wrong each other. One living after the maxims of this world and consistent and true to them, the other fired with all divine sentiments, yet grasping also at the pleasures of sense, without submitting to their law. That is a grief we all feel...
    Hsm1 2.246 22 ...Thou thyself must part/ At last from all thy garlands, pleasures, triumphs,/ And prove thy fortitude what then 't will do./
    Nat2 3.171 2 These enchantments [of nature]...sober and heal us. These are plain pleasures, kindly and native to us.
    UGM 4.10 11 ...solid, liquid, and gas, circle us round in a wreath of pleasures...
    ET8 5.128 1 [The police in England] thinks itself bound in duty to respect the pleasures and rare gayety of this inconsolable nation;...
    Wth 6.127 2 Nor is the man enriched...unless through new powers and ascending pleasures he knows himself by the actual experience of higher good to be already on the way to the highest.
    Clbs 7.250 9 ...while we look complacently at these obvious pleasures and values of good companions, I do not forget that Nature is always very much in earnest...
    PI 8.1 16 ...[The people of the sky] Teach him gladly to postpone/ Pleasures to another stage/ Beyond the scope of human age,/ Freely as task at eve undone/ Waits unblamed to-morrow's sun.
    PI 8.37 19 All [others'] pleasures are tinged with pain. All [the poet's] pains are edged with pleasure.
    PI 8.45 10 Music and rhyme are among the earliest pleasures of the child...
    Elo2 8.124 2 In the vain and foolish exultation of the heart...the pensive portress of Science shall call you to the sober pleasures of her holy cell.
    Res 8.145 23 Wanting a picket to which to attach my horse, [Malus] says, I tied him to my leg. I slept, and dreamed peaceably of the pleasures of Europe.
    Res 8.151 3 ...the subject [the physiology of taste] is so large and exigent that a few particulars, and those the pleasures of the epicure, cannot satisfy.
    PPo 8.239 13 The Persians and the Arabs...are exquisitely sensible to the pleasures of poetry.
    Chr2 10.96 11 ...there is no man who will bargain to sell his life, say at the end of a year, for...any temporary pleasures...
    MoL 10.249 3 Every man...does not need any one good so much as this of right thought. Calm pleasures here abide, majestic pains./
    MMEm 10.427 27 Oh how weary in youth-more so scarcely now, not whenever I [Mary Moody Emerson] can breathe, as it seems, the atmosphere of the Omnipresence: then...honors, pleasures, labors, I always refuse...
    CL 12.152 17 ...the pleasures of garden, orchard and wood must be alternated.
    CL 12.166 23 ...[a parlor in which fine persons are found] again is Nature, and there we have again the charm which landscape gives us, in a finer form; but the persons...must know [Nature's] simple, cheap pleasures...
    MAng1 12.217 2 ...in proportion as man rises above the servitude to wealth and a pursuit of mean pleasures, he perceives that what is most real is most beautiful...

plebeian, n. (2)

    Con 1.295 8 The battle of patrician and plebeian...reappears in all countries and times.
    ET11 5.194 16 A man of wit [in England]...confessed to his friend that he could not enter [noblemen's] houses without being made to feel that they were great lords, and he a low plebeian.

pledge, n. (17)

    SL 2.157 23 If a man know that he can do any thing...he has a pledge of the acknowledgement of that fact by all persons.
    Prd1 2.236 8 ...let [a man]...feel the admonition to...keep a slender human word among the storms , distances and accidents that drive us hither and thither, and, by persistency, make the paltry force of one man reappear to redeem its pledge after months and years in the most distant climates.
    NER 3.265 20 I have not been able either to persuade my brother or to prevail on myself to disuse the traffic or the potation of brandy, but perhaps a pledge of total abstinence might effectually restrain us.
    Ctr 6.138 2 In the Norse legend, All-fadir did not get a drink of Mimir's spring (the fountain of wisdom) until he left his eye in pledge.
    Ctr 6.138 12 Cleanse with healthy blood [the scholar's] parchment skin. You restore to him his eyes which he left in pledge at Mimir's spring.
    Wsp 6.212 16 Only those can help in counsel or conduct who did not make a party pledge to defend this or that...
    CbW 6.277 3 [The happy conditions of life's] attraction for you is the pledge that they are within your reach.
    Ill 6.315 6 ...I have known gentlemen of great stake in the community...who held themselves bound to sign every temperance pledge...
    Suc 7.295 4 ...it is a nice point to discriminate this self-trust, which is the pledge of all mental vigor and performance, from the disease to which it is allied,--the exaggeration of the part which we can play;...
    Comc 8.159 9 ...the human form is a pledge of wholeness...
    Comc 8.162 1 The perception of the Comic is...a pledge of sanity...
    PC 8.207 11 The storm which has been resisted is a crown of honor and a pledge of strength to the ship.
    CSC 10.376 9 ...[these men and women at the Chardon Street Convention] found what they sought, or the pledge of it, in the attitude taken by the individuals of their number of resistance to the insane routine of parliamentary usage;...
    GSt 10.503 6 ...[George Stearns] did not give money to excuse his entire preoccupation in his own pursuits, but as an earnest of the dedication of his heart and hand to the interests of the sufferers [in Kansas],-a pledge kept until the success he wrought and prayed for was consummated.
    HDC 11.78 5 In the whole course of the [Revolutionary] war the town [Concord] did not depart from this pledge it had given.
    MAng1 12.223 17 Architecture is the bond that unites the elegant and the economical arts, and [Michelangelo's] skill in this is a pledge of his capacity in both kinds.
    MAng1 12.231 4 [Michelangelo] said he would hang the Pantheon in the air; and he redeemed his pledge by suspending that vast cupola [of St. Peter' s], without offence to grace or to stability, over the astonished beholder.

Pledge, n. (1)

    LT 1.270 5 The Temperance-question...drawing with it all the curious ethics of the Pledge...is a gymnastic training to the casuistry and conscience of the time.

pledged, v. (7)

    SR 2.54 26 ...[the preacher] is pledged to himself not to look but at one side...
    SL 2.160 2 ...the hero fears not that if he withhold the avowal of a just and brave act it will go unwitnessed and unloved. One knows it,--himself,--and is pledged by it to sweetness of peace...
    GoW 4.281 15 There must be a man behind the book; a personality which by birth and quality is pledged to the doctrines there set forth...
    PC 8.230 22 Here you are set down, scholars and idealists...amongst angry politicians...pledged to parties...
    PC 8.230 23 Here you are set down, scholars and idealists...amongst angry politicians...pledged to parties, pledged to clients...
    EWI 11.109 23 In 1791, three hundred thousand persons in Britain pledged themselves to abstain from all articles of [West Indian] island produce.
    FSLC 11.203 10 [Webster] indulged occasionally in excellent expression of the known feeling of the New England people [on slavery]: but, when expected and when pledged, he omitted to speak...

pledges, n. (4)

    SR 2.49 16 Who can thus avoid all pledges...must always be formidable.
    Comc 8.157 22 The essence...of all comedy, seems to be...a non-performance of what is pretended to be performed, at the same time that one is giving loud pledges of performance.
    FSLC 11.183 1 [The crisis over the Fugitive Slave Law]...showed...that the resolutions of public bodies, or the pledges never so often given and put on record of public men, will not bind them.
    FSLC 11.203 23 I suppose [Webster's] pledges were not quite natural to him.

pledges, v. (1)

    Lov1 2.169 12 The introduction to this felicity [of Nature] is in a private and tender relation of one to one, which...seizes on man at one period...and... pledges him to the domestic and civic relations...

Pleiad, n. (1)

    CW 12.175 13 How many poems have been written, or, at least attempted, on the lost Pleiad!...

Pleiades, n. (2)

    PPo 8.265 7 Ants see not the Pleiades./ Can the gnat grasp with his teeth/ The body of the elephant?/
    CW 12.175 8 ...a common spy-glass...turned on the Pleiades, or Seven Stars, in which most eyes can only count six,-will show many more...

Pleiads', n. (1)

    PPo 8.253 18 Fit for the Pleiads' azure chord/ The songs I sung, the pearls I bored./

plenitude, n. (4)

    Hsm1 2.250 11 [Heroism] is a self-trust which slights the restraints of prudence, in the plenitude of its energy and power to repair the harms it may suffer.
    NMW 4.235 8 In the plenitude of [Napoleon's] resources, every obstacle seemed to vanish.
    ET18 5.302 18 ...the wealth of the source is seen in the plenitude of English nature.
    Res 8.153 21 ...the one fact that shines through all this plenitude of [man's] powers is, that as is the receiver, so is the gift;...

plenitudes, n. (1)

    ET13 5.220 6 Heats and genial periods arrive in history, or, shall we say, plenitudes of Divine Presence...

plenteous, adj. (4)

    Pt1 3.42 23 ...wherever is danger, and awe, and love,--there is Beauty, plenteous as rain, shed for thee [O poet]...
    Mrs1 3.124 25 ...only that plenteous nature is rightful master which is the complement of whatever person it converses with.
    ET10 5.166 12 The cause and spring of [England's wealth] is the wealth of temperament in the people. The wonder of Britain is this plenteous nature.
    PLT 12.49 16 The pace of Nature is so slow. Why not from strength to strength...and not as now with this retardation...and plenteous stopping at little stations?

plenteousness, n. (1)

    ET18 5.302 20 ...what facility and plenteousness of knighthood, lordship, ladyship, royalty, loyalty;...is indicated in Collins's Peerage, through eight hundred years!

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