Plentiful to Poetry

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

plentiful, adj. (9)

    YA 1.389 22 Good nature is plentiful...
    Exp 3.74 11 [The spirit] has plentiful powers and direct effects.
    Mrs1 3.125 15 A plentiful fortune is reckoned necessary...to the completion of this man of the world;...
    NR 3.238 14 Solitude would ripen a plentiful crop of despots.
    NER 3.253 25 No doubt there was plentiful vaporing, and cases of backsliding might occur.
    ET4 5.69 9 [The English] use a plentiful and nutritious diet.
    WD 7.164 7 Can anybody remember when sensible men...were plentiful?
    Imtl 8.324 24 ...among rude men moral judgments were rudely figured under the forms of dogs and whips, or of an easier and more plentiful life after death.
    FRep 11.538 5 The beautiful is never plentiful.

plentifully, adv. (4)

    UGM 4.24 1 Nature never spares the opium or nepenthe, but wherever she mars her creature with some deformity or defect, lays her poppies plentifully on the bruise...
    Pow 6.71 7 Everything good in nature and the world is in that moment of transition, when the swarthy juices still flow plentifully from nature, but their astringency or acridity is got out by ethics and humanity.
    LLNE 10.366 27 The ladies [at Brook Farm] took cold on washing-day; so it was ordained that the gentlemen-shepherds should wring and hang out clothes; which they punctually did. And it would sometimes occur that when they danced in the evening, clothespins dropped plentifully from their pockets.
    CL 12.137 23 In Tornea, [Linnaeus] found the people suffering every spring from the loss of their cattle, which died by some frightful distemper, to the number of fifty or a hundred in a year. Linnaeus walked out to examine the meadow...and found it a bog, where the water-hemlock grew in abundance, and had evidently been cropped plentifully by the animals in feeding.

plenty, n. (44)

    YA 1.366 25 ...this [inclination to withdraw from cities] promised the conquering of the soil, plenty...
    YA 1.373 19 [Nature] flung us out in her plenty...
    Hsm1 2.255 16 [Greatness] does not need plenty...
    Hsm1 2.261 19 ...to live with some rigor of temperance, or some extremes of generosity, seems to be an asceticism which common good-nature would appoint to those who are at ease and in plenty...
    NER 3.253 18 ...the fertile forms of antinomianism among the elder puritans seemed to have their match in the plenty of the new harvest of reform.
    PPh 4.59 19 ...Plato, in his plenty, is never restricted, but has the fit word.
    MoS 4.180 14 Can you not believe that a man of earnest and burly habit may...want a rougher instruction, want men, labor, trade, farming, war, hunger, plenty, love, hatred, doubt and terror to make things plain to him;...
    ET1 5.14 1 [Coleridge said] There were only three things which the government had brought into that garden of delights [Sicily], namely, itch, pox and famine. Whereas in Malta, the force of law and mind was seen, in making that barren rock of semi-Saracen inhabitants the seat of population and plenty.
    ET2 5.33 17 There lay the green shore of Ireland, like some coast of plenty.
    ET3 5.34 7 Alfieri thought Italy and England the only countries worth living in;...the latter because art...transforms a rude, ungenial land into a paradise of comfort and plenty.
    ET3 5.39 2 [England] has plenty of water, of stone...
    ET4 5.48 25 Trades and professions carve their own lines on face and form. Certain circumstances of English life are not less effective; as...plenty of food;...
    ET4 5.54 14 I found plenty of well-marked English types...
    ET13 5.220 2 These [English] minsters were neither built nor filled by atheists. No church has had more learned, industrious or devoted men; plenty of clerks and bishops, who, out of their gowns, would turn their backs on no man.
    ET18 5.303 5 [The English people's] many-headedness is owing to the advantageous position of the middle class, who are always the source of letters and science. Hence the vast plenty of their aesthetic production.
    Wth 6.87 18 Wealth begins...in a good pump that yields you plenty of sweet water;...
    DL 7.128 24 A verse of the old Greek Menander remains, which runs in translation:--Not on the store of sprightly wine,/ Nor plenty of delicious meats,/ Though generous Nature did design/ To court us with perpetual treats,--/ 'T is not on these we for content depend,/ So much as on the shadow of a Friend./
    Farm 7.140 9 ...[the farmer] has...plenty of plain food;...
    Clbs 7.230 19 There is plenty of intelligence, reading, curiosity;...
    Suc 7.285 8 Columbus at Veragua found plenty of gold;...
    Suc 7.307 4 The plenty of the poorest place is too great...
    SA 8.99 24 ...[manners and talk] require...plenty and ease...
    Res 8.143 2 America is such a garden of plenty...that at her shores all the common rules of political economy utterly fail.
    PPo 8.238 14 The prolific sun and the sudden and rank plenty which his heat engenders, make subsistence easy [in the East].
    Aris 10.59 19 We have a rich men's aristocracy, plenty of bribes for those who like them;...
    Edc1 10.141 24 ...the way to knowledge and power has ever been...a way, not through plenty and superfluity, but by denial and renunciation, into solitude and privation;...
    Prch 10.230 27 There are always plenty of young, ignorant people... wanting peremptorily instruction;...
    MoL 10.247 15 The fears and agitations of men who watch...the plenty or scarcity of money...are not for [the scholar].
    MoL 10.248 11 Italy, France-a hundred times those countries have been trampled with armies and burned over: a few summers, and they smile with plenty...
    Schr 10.276 5 There is plenty of air, but it is worth nothing until by gathering it into sails we can get it into shape and service to carry us and our cargo across the sea.
    Schr 10.276 9 [There is] Plenty of water also, sea full, sky full; who cares for it?
    Schr 10.276 13 There is plenty of wild azote and carbon unappropriated, but it is nought till we have made it up into loaves and soup.
    Schr 10.276 16 There is plenty of wild wrath, but it steads not until we can get it racked off...and bottled into persons;...
    Schr 10.287 24 Give me bareness and poverty so that I know them as the sure heralds of the Muse. Not in plenty...she delighteth.
    EzRy 10.391 1 In [Ezra Ripley's] house dwelt order and prudence and plenty.
    MMEm 10.400 15 [Mary Moody Emerson's] aunt and her husband...were getting old, and the husband a shiftless, easy man. There was plenty of work for the little niece to do day by day...
    Carl 10.492 16 [Carlyle says] I think if [Parliament] would give [the money] to me, to provide the poor with labor, and with authority to make them work or shoot them,-and I to be hanged if I did not do it,-I could find them in plenty of Indian meal.
    TPar 11.286 6 Theodore Parker was...a man of study, fit for a man of the world; with decided opinions and plenty of power to state them;...
    EPro 11.318 16 Better is virtue in the sovereign than plenty in the season, say the Chinese.
    Wom 11.417 24 There are plenty of people who believe women to be incapable of anything but to cook...
    Wom 11.417 27 There are plenty of people who believe that the world is governed by men of dark complexions...
    FRep 11.526 25 ...instead of the doleful experience of the European economist, who tells us, In almost all countries the condition of the great body of the people is poor and miserable, here that same great body has arrived at a sloven plenty...
    PLT 12.32 12 A hunter finds plenty of game on the ground you have sauntered over with idle gun.
    WSL 12.337 23 Here [in America] is very good earth and water and plenty of them; that [John Bull] is free to allow;...

plenum, n. (2)

    LE 1.164 12 Concede to [the man of letters] genius, which is a sort of Stoical plenum annulling the comparative, and he is content;...
    NR 3.243 11 As the ancient said, the world is a plenum or solid;...

Plessis, Armand Jean du [R (1)

    Clbs 7.243 9 and piqued the emulation of Cardinal Richelieu to rival assemblies,

pleuro-pneumonia, n. (1)

    OA 7.323 25 When the pleuro-pneumonia of the cows raged, the butchers said that...there never was a time when this disease did not occur among cattle.

pliancy, n. (1)

    MN 1.206 16 ...when the genius comes...it is pliancy...

pliant, adj. (1)

    ET4 5.44 3 An ingenious anatomist [Robert Knox] has written a book to prove that races are imperishable, but nations are pliant political constructions...

plied, v. (1)

    Ill 6.309 16 [In the Mammoth Cave] I...plied with music and guns the echoes in these alarming galleries;...

plies, v. (2)

    AmS 1.100 20 [The scholar] plies the slow, unhonored, and unpaid task of observation.
    Art1 2.369 2 The boat at St. Petersburg, which plies along the Lena by magnetism, needs little to make it sublime.

plight, n. (6)

    MoS 4.167 19 [I seem to hear Montaigne say] Our condition as men is risky and ticklish enough. One cannot be sure of himself and his fortune an hour, but he may be whisked off into some pitiable or ridiculous plight.
    NMW 4.237 3 We are...always in a bad plight...
    Bty 6.288 7 ...everybody knows people...who, with all degrees of ability, never impress us with the air of free agency. They know it too, and peep with their eyes to see if you detect their sad plight.
    Elo1 7.61 24 The plight of these phlegmatic brains is better than that of those who prematurely boil...
    Farm 7.151 1 There has been a nightmare bred in England of indigestion and spleen among landlords and loom-lords, namely, the dogma that...the plight of every new generation is worse than of the foregoing...
    Boks 7.217 13 ...this passion for romance, and this disappointment, show how much we need real elevations and pure poetry: that which shall show us...in all the plight and circumstance of men, the analogons of our own thoughts...

plighting, v. (1)

    Lov1 2.184 20 From exchanging glances, [lovers] advance to acts...of gallantry, then...to plighting troth and marriage.

Plinlimmon, Mount, Wales, n (1)

    Insp 8.287 13 Do you want...Helvellyn, or Plinlimmon, dear to English song, in your closet?

Pliny, The Elder, n. [Pliny,] (3)

    WD 7.179 3 I am of the opinion of Pliny that whilst we are musing on these things, we are adding to the length of our lives.
    Plu 10.294 10 ...though the contemporary...Pliny the Elder and the Younger, [Plutarch] does not cite them...
    Plu 10.297 23 [Plutarch] is...not a naturalist, like Pliny or Linnaeus;...

Pliny, The Younger, n. [Pliny,] (2)

    DL 7.121 23 In many parts of true economy a cheering lesson may be learned from the mode of life and manners of the later Romans, as described to us in the letters of the younger Pliny.
    Plu 10.294 11 ...though the contemporary...Pliny the Elder and the Younger, [Plutarch] does not cite them...

plod, v. (1)

    Ill 6.321 8 ...says the good Heaven; plod and plough...

plot, n. (4)

    SR 2.46 17 ...no kernel of nourishing corn can come to [man] but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.
    Hsm1 2.245 17 ...there is in [the elder English dramatists'] plays a certain heroic cast of character and dialogue...wherein the speaker is...on such deep grounds of character, that the dialogue, on the slightest additional incident in the plot, rises naturally into poetry.
    Pol1 3.215 7 ...if, without carrying [my child] into the thought, I look over into his plot, and, guessing how it is with him, ordain this or that, he will never obey me.
    JBS 11.278 22 ...[John Brown's] enterprise to go into Virginia and run off five hundred or a thousand slaves was not...a plot of two years or of twenty years...

plot, v. (2)

    MN 1.203 15 Why should not then these messieurs of Versailles strut and plot for tabourets and ribbons...
    Comp 2.100 6 It is in vain to build or plot or combine against [Compensation].

Plotinus, n. (22)

    Nat 1.58 19 Some theosophists have arrived at a certain hostility and indignation towards matter, as the Manichean and Plotinus.
    Nat 1.58 21 Plotinus was ashamed of his body.
    LE 1.162 1 Plotinus too, and Spinoza...that which they have written out... makes me bold.
    Hsm1. 2.252 11 Heroism, like Plotinus, is almost ashamed of its body.
    OS 2.282 4 A certain tendency to insanity has always attended the opening of the religious sense in men, as if they had been blasted with excess of light. The trances of Socrates, the union of Plotinus...are of this kind.
    Int 2.346 8 This band of grandees...Plotinus...and the rest, have somewhat... so primary in their thinking, that it seems antecedent to all the ordinary distinctions of rhetoric and literature...
    Exp 3.55 19 Once I took such delight in Montaigne that I thought I should not need any other book; before that, in Shakspeare;...then in Plotinus;...
    SwM 4.97 7 All religious history contains traces of the trance of saints...the flight, Plotinus called it, of the alone to the alone;...
    SwM 4.97 9 All religious history contains traces of the trance of saints... The trances of Socrates, Plotinus...will readily come to mind.
    MoS 4.150 11 Plotinus believes only in philosophers;...
    Ctr 6.156 11 ...Plato, Plotinus...did not live in a crowd...
    Boks 7.202 15 If we come down a little [in Greek history] by natural steps from the master to the disciples, we have...the Platonists...Plotinus, Porphyry, Proclus, Synesius, Jamblichus.
    Boks 7.202 18 Of Plotinus, we have eulogies by Porphyry and Longinus...
    Insp 8.295 12 You may read Plutarch, Plato, Plotinus, Hindoo mythology and ethics.
    Edc1 10.149 25 Happy the natural college thus self-instituted around every natural teacher; the young men...of Alexandria around Plotinus;...
    Schr 10.281 13 Plotinus makes no apologies, he says roundly, the knowledge of the senses is truly ludicrous.
    Plu 10.306 26 Plato and Plotinus are enthusiasts, who honor the race;...
    Plu 10.319 6 What a fruit and fitting monument of [Alexander's] best days was his city Alexandria, to be the birthplace or home of Plotinus, St. Augustine...
    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!
    SlHr 10.445 24 Had you read Swedenborg or Plotinus to [Samuel Hoar], he would have waited till you had done, and answered you out of the Revised Statutes.
    Thor 10.461 3 It was said of Plotinus that he was ashamed of his body...

plots, n. (3)

    Ctr 6.132 4 If [nature] creates a policeman like Fouche, he is made up of suspicions and of plots to circumvent them.
    Boks 7.214 19 These stories [novels] are to the plots of real life what the figures in La Belle Assemblee...are to portraits.
    Scot 11.466 16 From these originals [Scott] drew so genially his Jeanie Deans, his Dinmonts...making these, too, the pivots on which the plots of his stories turn;...

plotters, n. (1)

    AKan 11.260 10 ...our poor people, led by the nose by these fine words [Union and Democracy]...ring bells and fire cannon, with every new link of the chain which is forged for their limbs by the plotters in the Capitol.

plotting, adj. (2)

    Pow 6.81 11 I know no more affecting lesson to our busy, plotting New England brains, than to go into one of the factories with which we have lined all the watercourses in the States.
    EPro 11.319 7 October, November, December will have passed over beating hearts and plotting brains...

plotting, v. (3)

    Pow 6.57 7 So a broad, healthy, massive understanding seems to lie on the shore of unseen rivers, of unseen oceans, which are covered with barks that night and day are drifted to this point. That is poured into its lap which other men lie plotting for.
    Wsp 6.225 1 Here is a low political economy plotting to cut the throat of foreign competition and establish our own;...
    Edc1 10.143 11 Let [the youth]...read Tom Brown at Oxford,-better yet, read Hodson's Life-Hodson who took prisoner the king of Delhi. They teach the same truth,-a trust...in your own worth, and not in tricks, plotting, or patronage.

plough, n. (13)

    Nat 1.38 11 A bell and a plough have each their use...
    AmS 1.111 24 ...let me see...the shop, the plough, and the ledger referred to the like cause by which light undulates...
    NER 3.252 26 The ox must be taken from the plough...
    PPh 4.49 18 ...the ploughman, the plough and the furrow are of one stuff;...
    ET3 5.34 10 ...[English] fields have been combed and rolled till they appear to have been finished with a pencil instead of a plough.
    Civ 7.22 16 There was once a giantess who had a daughter, and the child saw a husbandman ploughing in the field. Then she ran and picked him up... and put him and his plough and his oxen into her apron...
    Elo1 7.96 10 ...[the sturdy countryman] is a graduate of the plough, and the stub-hoe, and the bushwhacker;...
    Farm 7.142 26 Who are the farmer's servants? Not the Irish...but...the quarry of the air...the plough of the frost.
    Res 8.137 10 ...whether searched by the plough of Adam...or the submarine telegraph,--to every one of these experiments [the earth] makes a gracious response.
    Aris 10.45 3 If we see tools in a magazine, as a file, an anchor, a plough... we can predict well enough their destination;...
    HDC 11.62 13 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;/...
    Wom 11.416 11 Was never a University of Oxford or Gottingen that made such students. [Antagonism to Slavery] took a man from the plough and made him acute, eloquent, and wise to the silencing of the doctors.
    AgMs 12.358 4 [The Farmer] was holding the plough, and his son driving the oxen.

plough, v. (12)

    Nat 1.20 12 All those things for which men plough, build, or sail, obey virtue;...
    Hsm1 2.259 3 ...the tough world had its revenge the moment [many extraordinary young men] put their horses of the sun to plough in its furrow.
    NER 3.266 22 Men will...plough, and reap, and govern, as by added ethereal power, when once they are united;...
    ET4 5.67 1 ...[the blonde race's] accession to empire marks a new and finer epoch, wherein the old mineral force shall be subjugated at last by humanity, and shall plough in its furrow henceforward.
    ET5 5.96 2 ...now [Steam] must pump, grind, dig and plough for the farmer.
    Wth 6.121 9 I know...neither how to buy wood, nor what to do with...the wood-lot, when bought. Never fear; it is all settled how it shall be, long beforehand, in the custom of the country...when to plough...
    Ill 6.321 8 ...says the good Heaven; plod and plough...
    Farm 7.151 16 [The first planter] cannot plough, or fell trees, or drain the rich swamp.
    HDC 11.27 7 Where are these men? asleep beneath their grounds:/ And strangers, fond as they, their furrows plough./
    HDC 11.29 24 ...the little society of men who now, for a few years, fish in this river, plough the fields it washes...shortly shall hurry from its banks as did their forefathers.
    HDC 11.85 6 ...in every part of this country...[Concord's sons] plough the earth...
    Let 12.400 12 ...is [a man] driven into a circumstance where the spirit must not live? Let him thrust it from him with scorn, and learn to dig and plough.

ploughboys, n. (1)

    Fdsp 2.205 20 I much prefer the company of ploughboys and tin-peddlers to the silken and perfumed amity which celebrates its days of encounter by a frivolous display...

ploughed, adj. (3)

    Nat 1.76 14 ...you perhaps call [your house]...a hundred acres of ploughed land...
    MR 1.238 24 ...when [a man] comes to give all the goods he has year after year collected, in one estate to his son,-house...ploughed land...the son finds his hands full...
    Wth 6.120 16 [Mr. Cockayne] plants trees; but there must be crops, to keep the trees in ploughed land.

ploughed, v. (7)

    DSA 1.126 21 ...the unique impression of Jesus upon mankind, whose name is not so much written as ploughed into the history of this world, is proof of the subtle virtue of this infusion [of Eastern thought].
    DSA 1.138 9 This man had ploughed and planted and talked and bought and sold;...
    ET13 5.217 6 [The English Church]...has coupled itself with the almanac, that no court can be held, no field ploughed, no horse shod, without some leave from the church.
    Wth 6.120 19 [Cockayne] will have nothing to do with trees, but will have grass. After a year or two the grass must be turned up and ploughed;...
    Farm 7.136 1 [The farmer] planted where the deluge ploughed,/ His hired hands were wind and cloud;/...
    LLNE 10.367 3 The country members [at Brook Farm] naturally were surprised to observe that one man ploughed all day and one looked out of the window all day...and both received at night the same wages.
    AgMs 12.360 1 I walked up and down the field, as [Edmund Hosmer] ploughed his furrow...

ploughing, n. (2)

    Grts 8.311 18 This day-labor of ours...has hitherto a certain emblematic air, like the annual ploughing and sowing of the Emperor of China.
    FSLC 11.189 1 ...men have to to with rectitude, with benefit, with truth, with something that is, independent of appearances: and...this tie makes the substantiality of life, and not their ploughing, or sailing, their trade, or the breeding of families.

ploughing, v. (1)

    Civ 7.22 14 There was once a giantess who had a daughter, and the child saw a husbandman ploughing in the field.

ploughman, n. (3)

    MR 1.237 25 ...now I feel some shame before my wood-chopper, my ploughman...
    PPh 4.49 18 ...the ploughman, the plough and the furrow are of one stuff;...
    TPar 11.284 6 ...There [Theodore Parker] stands, looking more like a ploughman than priest,/ If not dreadfully awkward, not graceful at least;/...

ploughmen, n. (2)

    Wth 6.114 27 We had in this region, twenty years ago...a passionate desire to...unite farming to intellectual pursuits. Many...made the experiment, and some became downright ploughmen;...
    HDC 11.28 3 I will have never a noble,/ No lineage counted great;/ Fishers and choppers and ploughmen/ Shall constitute a state./

ploughs, n. (2)

    Tran 1.358 9 In our Mechanics' Fair, there must be not only...ploughs...but also some few finer instruments...
    ET10 5.158 8 Two centuries ago...the land was tilled by wooden ploughs.

ploughs, v. (1)

    Pol1 3.197 21 When the Muses nine/ With the Virtues meet,/ Find to their design/ An Atlantic seat,/ By green orchard boughs/ Fended from the heat,/ Where the statesman ploughs/ Furrow for the wheat;/ .../ Then the perfect State is come,/ The republican at home./

ploughshare, n. (1)

    AKan 11.261 23 ...I borrow the language of an eminent man...If that be law, let the ploughshare be run under the foundations of the Capitol;...

plover, n. (1)

    CL 12.162 11 [Is it not an eminent convenience to have in your town a person who knows]...where the Wilson's plover can be seen and heard?

pluck, n. (3)

    ET6 5.102 7 On the day of my arrival at Liverpool, a gentleman, in describing to me the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, happened to say, Lord Clarendon has pluck like a cock and will fight till he dies;...
    ET6 5.102 10 ...the one thing the English value is pluck.
    ET17 5.296 22 [Harriet Martineau] said that in [Wordsworth's] early house-keeping at the cottage where he first lived, he was accustomed to offer his friends bread and plainest fare; if they wanted anything more, they must pay him for their board. It was the rule of the house. I replied that it evinced English pluck more than any anecdote I knew.

pluck, v. (9)

    AmS 1.105 19 They are the kings of the world who...persuade men...that this thing which they do is the apple which the ages have desired to pluck...
    Con 1.309 19 Yonder sun in heaven you would pluck down from shining on the universe, and make him a property and privacy, if you could;...
    Tran 1.337 7 I, [Jacobi] says, am...that godless person who, in opposition to an imaginary doctrine of calculation...would perjure myself like Epaminondas and John de Witt;...I would commit sacrilege with David; yea, and pluck ears of corn on the Sabbath, for no other reason than that I was fainting for lack of food.
    Cir 2.310 14 In conversation we pluck up the termini which bound the common of silence on every side.
    ET12 5.212 26 ...I should as soon think of quarrelling with the janitor for not magnifying his office by hostile sallies into the street...as of quarrelling with the professors for not admiring the young neologists who pluck the beards of Euclid and Aristotle...
    Wth 6.95 20 ...every man...should pluck his living, his instruments, his power and his knowing, from the sun, moon and stars.
    Ill 6.316 1 ...how dare any one, if he could, pluck away the coulisses, stage effects and ceremonies, by which [women] live.
    PPo 8.260 17 They strew in the path of kings and czars/ Jewels and gems of price:/ But for thy head I will pluck down stars,/ And pave thy way with eyes./
    HDC 11.74 11 The English beginning to pluck up some of the planks of the [Concord] bridge, the Americans quickened their pace...

plucked, v. (3)

    Nat 1.54 5 Ariel. The strong based promontory/ Have I made shake, and by the spurs plucked up/ The pine and cedar./
    HDC 11.60 10 ...at night, whilst [Mary Shepherd's] captors were asleep, she plucked a saddle from under the head of one of them, took a horse...and rode through the forest to her home.
    PLT 12.9 14 ...'t is a great vice in all countries, the sacrifice of scholars...to talk for the amusement of those who wish to be amused, though the stars of heaven must be plucked down and packed into rockets to this end.

pluckiest, adj. (1)

    ET6 5.102 15 ...the Times newspaper they say is the pluckiest thing in England...

plucks, v. (3)

    MR 1.233 4 The sins of our trade belong...to no individual. One plucks, one distributes, one eats.
    YA 1.393 15 It is a questionable compensation to the embittered feeling of a proud commoner, the reflection that a fop, who, by the magic of title... plucks from him half the graces and rights of a man, is himself also an aspirant excluded with the same ruthlessness from higher circles...
    Boks 7.216 15 ...the novelist plucks this event here and that fortune there, and ties them rashly to his figures...

plum, n. (3)

    Farm 7.135 21 ...The cordial quality of pear or plum/ Ascends as gladly in a single tree/ As in broad orchards resonant with bees;/...
    CL 12.160 16 ...the zones of plants, the...plum, linnaea and the various lichens and grapes are all thermometers which cannot be deceived...
    CW 12.170 2 ...The cordial quality of pear or plum/ Ascends as gladly in the single tree/ As in broad orchards resonant with bees;/...

plumage, n. (2)

    Art2 7.52 27 The plumage of the bird...has a reason for its rich colors in the constitution of the animal.
    Art2 7.53 1 The plumage of the bird, the mimic plumage of the insect, has a reason for its rich colors in the constitution of the animal.

plumb, n. (1)

    Comp 2.115 19 ...the high laws which each man sees implicated in those processes with which he is conversant, the stern ethics...which are measured out by his plumb and foot-rule...do recommend to him his trade...

plumbago, n. (3)

    ET5 5.84 1 [The English] apply themselves...to fishery, to manufacture of indispensable staples,--salt, plumbago, leather, wool, glass, pottery and brick...
    ET11 5.187 27 He who keeps the door of a mine, whether of cobalt...or plumbago, securely knows that the world cannot do without him.
    PLT 12.29 4 ...to the painter [Nature's] plumbago and marl are pencils and chromes.

plumb-line, n. (2)

    MN 1.196 3 Here comes by a great inquisitor with auger and plumb-line...
    MN 1.196 6 ...as soon as [the grand inquisitor] probes the crust, behold gimlet, plumb-line, and philosopher take a lateral direction...

plume, n. (2)

    YA 1.387 1 The chief is the chief all the world over, only not his cap and his plume.
    F 6.32 7 ...trim your bark, and the wave which drowned it will...carry it like its own foam, a plume and a power.

plume, v. (1)

    SR 2.84 10 All men plume themselves on the improvement of society...

plumed, v. (1)

    HCom 11.340 22 Where faith made whole with deed/ Breathes its awakening breath/ Into the lifeless creed,/ They saw [Truth] plumed and mailed,/ With sweet, stern face unveiled,/ And all-repaying eyes, look proud on them in death/ Lowell, Commemoration Ode.

plumes, n. (3)

    Ctr 6.152 20 The Italians are fond of red clothes, peacock plumes and embroidery;...
    Carl 10.495 11 In proportion to the peals of laughter amid which [Carlyle] strips the plumes of a pretender...does he worship whatever enthusiasm, fortitude, love or other sign of a good nature is in a man.
    SHC 11.428 5 ...Here the green pines delight, the aspen droops/ Along the modest pathways, and those fair/ Pale asters of the season spread their plumes/ Around this field, fit garden for our tombs./

plump, adj. (2)

    ET4 5.54 15 I found plenty of well-marked English types, the ruddy complexion fair and plump...
    OA 7.327 27 In old persons...we often observe a fair, plump, perennial, waxen complexion...

plump, adv. (1)

    Pt1 3.24 1 The songs...are pursued by clamorous flights of censures, which swarm in far greater numbers and threaten to devour them; but these last are not winged. At the end of a very short leap they fall plump down and rot...

plums, n. (1)

    EurB 12.371 23 ...[Ben Jonson] is a countryman at a harvest-home, attending his ox-cart from the fields, loaded...with grapes and plumbs...

plunder, n. (3)

    Hist 2.25 11 [Xenophon's army] quarrel for plunder...
    Elo1 7.77 8 Face to face with a highwayman who has every temptation and opportunity for violence and plunder, can you bring yourself off safe by your wit exercised through speech?...
    Milt1 12.265 27 When [Milton] had cut down his opponents, he left the details of death and plunder to meaner partisans.

plunder, v. (1)

    War 11.162 4 ...if a foreign nation should wantonly insult or plunder our commerce, or, worse yet, should land on our shores to rob and kill, you would not have us sit, and be robbed and killed?

plundered, adj. (2)

    ET11 5.177 4 ...Henry VIII...liking [John Russell's] company, gave him a large share of the plundered church lands.
    AKan 11.261 7 ...of Kansas, the President says; Let the complainants go to the courts; though he knows that when the poor plundered farmer comes to the court, he finds the ringleader who has robbed him dismounting from his own horse, and unbuckling his knife to sit as his judge.

plundered, v. (1)

    War 11.168 20 ...no man, it may be presumed, ever embraced the cause of peace and philanthropy for the sole end and satisfaction of being plundered and slain.

plundering, adj. (2)

    HDC 11.74 1 The British following [the minute-men] across the bridge, posted two companies...to guard the bridge, and secure the return of the plundering party.
    HDC 11.75 9 The British, as soon as they were rejoined by the plundering detachment, began that disastrous retreat to Boston...

plunge, n. (1)

    Elo2 8.118 22 We have all attended meetings called for some object in which no one had beforehand any warm interest. Every speaker rose unwillingly, and even his speech was a bad excuse; but it is only the first plunge which is formidable;...

plunge, v. (3)

    PPo 8.261 7 Plunge in yon angry waves,/ Renouncing doubt and care;/ The flowing of the seven broad seas/ Shall never wet thy hair./
    HDC 11.32 23 ...the Indian paths leading up and down the country were a foot broad. [The Pilgrims] must then plunge into the thicket...
    Milt1 12.264 5 ...[Milton] declares that a certain niceness of nature, an honest haughtiness and self-esteem...and a modesty, kept me still above those low descents of mind beneath which he must deject and plunge himself that can agree to such degradation.

plunged, v. (1)

    Prch 10.230 12 [The man of practice or worldly force] is sincere and ardent in his vocation, and plunged in it. Let priest or poet be as good in theirs.

plunges, v. (2)

    PI 8.15 12 As the bird alights on the bough, then plunges into the air again, so the thoughts of God pause but for a moment in any form.
    WSL 12.339 23 Before a well-dressed company [Landor] plunges his fingers into a cesspool...

plunging, v. (1)

    EPro 11.325 25 [The Emancipation Proclamation] will be an insurance to the ship as it goes plunging through the sea with glad tidings to all people.

plural, adj. (2)

    Pol1 3.221 21 ...there are now men,--if indeed I can speak in the plural number...to whom no weight of adverse experience will make it for a moment appear impossible that thousands of human beings might exercise towards each other the grandest and simplest sentiments...
    FRep 11.538 2 Ours is the age...of the third person plural...

plus, adj. (7)

    Pow 6.58 3 Each plus man represents his set...
    Pow 6.61 11 One comes to value this plus health when he sees that all difficulties vanish before it.
    Pow 6.71 21 We say that success...depends on a plus condition of mind and body...
    Pow 6.73 12 Success goes...invariably with a certain plus or positive power...
    CbW 6.278 14 I prefer to say...what was said of a Spanish prince, The more you took from him the greater he looked. Plus on lui ote, plus il est grand.
    Grts 8.314 2 The populace will say, with Horne Tooke, If you would be powerful, pretend to be powerful. I prefer to say...what was said of the Spanish prince, The more you took from him, the greater he appeared, Plus on lui ote, plus il est grand.
    Grts 8.314 3 The populace will say, with Horne Tooke, If you would be powerful, pretend to be powerful. I prefer to say...what was said of the Spanish prince, The more you took from him, the greater he appeared, Plus on lui ote, plus il est grand.

plus, adv. (3)

    F 6.29 21 As Voltaire said...un des plus grand malheurs des honnetes gens c'est qu'ils sont des laches.
    CbW 6.278 15 I prefer to say...what was said of a Spanish prince, The more you took from him the greater he looked. Plus on lui ote, plus il est grand.
    QO 8.185 26 Wordsworth's hero acting on the plan which pleased his childish thought, is Schiller's Tell him to reverence the dreams of his youth, and earlier, Bacon's Consilia juventutis plus divinitatis habent.

plus, n. (1)

    Pow 6.68 9 The rule for this whole class of [natural] agencies is,--all plus is good; only put it in the right place.

Plutarch, Modern, n. (1)

    ShP 4.206 9 We tell the chronicle of parentage...celebrity, death; and when we have come to an end of this gossip...it seems as if, had we dipped at random into the Modern Plutarch and read any other life there, it would have fitted [Shakespeare's] poems as well.

Plutarch, n. (84)

    Hist 2.14 19 We have the civil history of [the Greek] people, as Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, and Plutarch have given it;...
    SL 2.133 26 Timoleon's victories are the best victories, which ran and flowed like Homer's verses, Plutarch said.
    Lov1 2.175 22 ...the figures, the motions, the words of the beloved object are...as Plutarch said, enamelled in fire...
    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.
    Hsm1 2.248 15 ...if we explore the literature of Heroism we shall quickly come to Plutarch...
    Int 2.332 18 Inspect what delights you in Plutarch...
    Pt1 3.4 14 ...the highest minds of the world have never ceased to explore the...manifold meaning, of every sensuous fact;...Plutarch, Dante, Swedenborg...
    Pt1 3.10 25 Plutarch and Shakspeare were in the yellow leaf...
    Exp 3.55 19 Once I took such delight in Montaigne that I thought I should not need any other book; before that, in Shakspeare; then in Plutarch;...
    UGM 4.14 14 We cannot read Plutarch without a tingling of the blood;...
    ShP 4.193 1 Here [in the Elizabethan drama] is...the Death of Julius Caesar, and other stories out of Plutarch, which [the audience] never tire of;...
    ShP 4.200 21 The translation of Plutarch gets its excellence by being translation on translation.
    F 6.41 26 We go to Herodotus and Plutarch for examples of Fate;...
    Pow 6.75 8 ...if you will have a text from politics [concerning concentration], take this from Plutarch...
    CbW 6.253 27 Plutarch affirms that the cruel wars which followed the march of Alexander introduced the civility, language and arts of Greece into the savage East;...
    Ill 6.312 11 [The boy] has no better friend or influence than Scott, Shakspeare, Plutarch and Homer.
    Elo1 7.73 2 Plutarch tells us that Thucydides, when Archidamus, king of Sparta, asked him which was the best wrestler, Pericles or he, replied, When I throw him, he says he was never down, and he persuades the very spectators to believe him.
    DL 7.116 4 Aristides was made general receiver of Greece, to collect the tribute which each state was to furnish against the barbarian. Poor, says Plutarch, when he set about it, poorer when he had finished it.
    DL 7.120 6 ...who can see unmoved...the eager, blushing boys...stealing time to read one chapter more of the novel hardly smuggled into the tolerance of father and mother,--atoning for the same by some pages of Plutarch or Goldsmith;...
    Boks 7.191 1 ...read Plutarch, and the world is a proud place...
    Boks 7.199 19 Plutarch cannot be spared from the smallest library;...
    Boks 7.200 9 Plutarch charms by the facility of his associations;...
    Boks 7.200 22 An inestimable trilogy of ancient social pictures are the three Banquets respectively of Plato, Xenophon and Plutarch.
    Boks 7.202 23 If any one who had read with interest the Isis and Osiris of Plutarch should then read a chapter called Providence, by Synesius...he will find it one of the majestic remains of literature...
    Boks 7.204 25 If [the student] can read Livy, he has a good book; but one of the short English compends, some Goldsmith or Ferguson, should be used, that will place in the cycle [of Roman history] the bright stars of Plutarch.
    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;...
    Cour 7.266 16 Plutarch relates that the Pythoness who tried to prophesy without command in the Temple at Delphi...fell into convulsions and died.
    Elo2 8.118 11 It does not surprise us...to learn from Plutarch what great sums were paid at Athens to the teachers of rhetoric;...
    Elo2 8.121 5 Plutarch, in his enumeration of the ten Greek orators, is careful to mention their excellent voices...
    Comc 8.163 15 Plutarch happily expresses the value of the jest as a legitimate weapon of the philosopher.
    QO 8.180 24 Whoso knows Plutarch, Lucian, Rabelais, Montaigne and Bayle will have a key to many supposed originalities.
    QO 8.202 10 Plato, Cicero and Plutarch cite the poets in the manner in which Scripture is quoted in our churches.
    Insp 8.284 6 Plutarch affirms that souls are naturally endowed with the faculty of prediction...
    Insp 8.295 11 You may read Plutarch, Plato, Plotinus, Hindoo mythology and ethics.
    Imtl 8.330 1 Plutarch, in Greece, has a deep faith that the doctrine of the Divine Providence and that of the immortality of the soul rest on one and the same basis.
    Dem1 10.14 4 Swans, horses, dogs and dragons, says Plutarch, we distinguish as sacred...
    Edc1 10.157 27 ...if one [pupil] has brought in a Plutarch or Shakspeare or Don Quixote or Goldsmith or any other good book, and understands what he reads, put him at once at the head of the class.
    Schr 10.281 19 Matter, says Plutarch, is a privation.
    Plu 10.293 2 It is remarkable that of an author so familiar as Plutarch...not even the dates of his birth and death, should have come down to us.
    Plu 10.295 12 [Henry IV wrote] Plutarch always delights me with a fresh novelty.
    Plu 10.296 3 Montesquieu...in his Pensees, declares, I am always charmed with Plutarch;...
    Plu 10.296 6 Saint-Evremond read Plutarch to the great Conde under a tent.
    Plu 10.296 17 ...recently, there has been a remarkable revival, in France, in the taste for Plutarch...
    Plu 10.296 22 M. Octave Greard...has...constructed from the works of Plutarch himself his true biography.
    Plu 10.297 6 Plutarch occupies a unique place in literature as an encyclopaedia of Greek and Roman antiquity.
    Plu 10.298 10 Plutarch was well-born, well-taught, well-conditioned;...
    Plu 10.299 25 Plutarch had a religion which Montaigne wanted...
    Plu 10.300 1 ...though Plutarch is as plain-spoken [as Montaigne], his moral sentiment is always pure.
    Plu 10.300 12 Montaigne, whilst he grasps Etienne de la Boece with one hand, reaches back the other to Plutarch.
    Plu 10.301 23 A poet might rhyme all day with hints drawn from Plutarch...
    Plu 10.302 9 We sail on [Plutarch's] memory into the ports of every nation, enter into every private property, and do not stop to discriminate owners, but give him the praise of all. 'T is all Plutarch...
    Plu 10.302 18 ...I suppose [Plutarch] has a hundred readers where Thucydides finds one, and Thucydides must often thank Plutarch for that one.
    Plu 10.305 9 ...I had rather a great deal that men should say, There was no such man at all as Plutarch, than that they should say that there was one Plutarch that would eat up his children as soon as they were born, as the poets speak of Saturn.
    Plu 10.305 11 ...I had rather a great deal that men should say, There was no such man at all as Plutarch, than that they should say that there was one Plutarch that would eat up his children as soon as they were born, as the poets speak of Saturn.
    Plu 10.306 1 [Plutarch's] poor indignation against Herodotus was perhaps a youthful prize essay...or perhaps, at a rhetorician's school, the subject of Herodotus being the lesson of the day, Plutarch was appointed by lot to take the adverse side.
    Plu 10.306 4 The plain speaking of Plutarch...has a great gain for brevity...
    Plu 10.307 7 Whilst we expect this awe and reverence of the spiritual power from the philosopher in his closet, we praise it in...the man who lives on quiet terms with existing institutions, yet indicates his perception of these high oracles; as do Plutarch, Montaigne, Hume and Goethe.
    Plu 10.307 13 Plutarch is uniformly true to this [spiritual] centre.
    Plu 10.309 11 ...Plutarch thought, with Ariston, that neither a bath nor a lecture served any purpose, unless they were purgative.
    Plu 10.309 13 Plutarch has such a keen pleasure in realities that he has none in verbal disputes;...
    Plu 10.309 27 Except as historical curiosities, little can be said in behalf of the scientific value of [Plutarch's] Opinions of the Philosophers, the Questions and the Symposiacs. They are...very crude opinions; many of them so puerile that one would believe that Plutarch in his haste adopted the notes of his younger auditors...
    Plu 10.311 7 La Harpe said that Plutarch is the genius the most naturally moral that ever existed.
    Plu 10.311 9 'T is almost inevitable to compare Plutarch with Seneca...
    Plu 10.311 13 Plutarch is genial...
    Plu 10.311 21 [Seneca] lacks the sympathy of Plutarch.
    Plu 10.311 27 Seneca was still more a man of the world than Plutarch;...
    Plu 10.312 21 Plutarch...with every virtue under heaven, thought it the top of wisdom to philosophize yet not appear to do it...
    Plu 10.312 26 Plutarch thought truth to be the greatest good that man can receive...
    Plu 10.314 13 ...Plutarch always addresses the question [of immortality] on the human side...
    Plu 10.317 6 In his dedication of the work [Plutarch's Morals] to the Archbishop of Canterbury...[Morgan] tells the Primate that Plutarch was the wisest man of his age, and, if he had been a Christian, one of the best too;...
    Plu 10.317 19 I know that the chapter of Apothegms of Noble Commanders is rejected by some critics as not a genuine work of Plutarch;...
    Plu 10.318 10 ...wherever the Cid is relished, the legends of...Bonaparte, and Walter Scott's Chronicles in prose or verse,-there will Plutarch...sit as...laureate of the ancient world.
    Plu 10.318 22 The union in Alexander of sublime courage with the refinement of his pure tastes...endeared him to Plutarch.
    Plu 10.319 10 If Plutarch delighted in heroes...his humanity shines not less in his intercourse with his personal friends.
    Plu 10.320 18 ...in recent reading of the old text [of Plutarch's Morals], on coming on anything absurd or unintelligible, I referred to the new text and found a clear and accurate statement in its place. It is the vindication of Plutarch.
    Plu 10.322 23 ...Plutarch will be perpetually rediscovered from time to time as long as books last.
    War 11.153 12 Plutarch...considers the invasion and conquest of the East by Alexander as one of the most bright and pleasing pages in history;...
    CL 12.141 5 Plutarch thought [the air] contained the knowledge of the future.
    Milt1 12.263 3 [Milton's] virtues remind us of what Plutarch said of Timoleon's victories, that they resembled Homer's verses, they ran so easy and natural.
    ACri 12.298 24 ...[Carlyle's History of Frederick II is] a book...with new heroes, things unvoiced before-the German Plutarch...
    ACri 12.304 22 When I read Plutarch, or look at a Greek vase, I incline to accept the common opinion of scholars, that the Greeks had clearer wits than any other people.
    MLit 12.309 19 We...take up Plutarch or Augustine, and read a few sentences or pages, and lo! the air swims with life...
    MLit 12.311 19 How can the age be a bad one which gives me Plato and Paul and Plutarch...beside its own riches?
    WSL 12.341 11 When we pronounce the names of...Horace, Ovid and Plutarch;...we...enter into a region of the purest pleasure accessible to human nature.

Plutarchs, n. (1)

    LE 1.160 18 The whole value...of biography, is to increase my self-trust, by demonstrating what man can be and do. This is the moral of the Plutarchs... who give us the story of men or of opinions.

Plutarch's, n. (14)

    SR 2.86 5 ...nor can all the science, art, religion, and philosophy of the nineteenth century avail to educate greater men than Plutarch's heroes...
    Chr1 3.89 8 The Gracchi, Agis, Cleomenes, and others of Plutarch's heroes, do not in the record of facts equal their own fame.
    MoS 4.159 1 ...once let [the savage] read in the book, and he is no longer able not to think of Plutarch's heroes.
    Elo1 7.63 25 Antiphon the Rhamnusian, one of Plutarch's ten orators, advertised in Athens that he would cure distempers of the mind with words.
    Boks 7.200 2 ...Plutarch's Morals is less known...
    Boks 7.200 22 An inestimable trilogy of ancient social pictures are the three Banquets respectively of Plato, Xenophon and Plutarch. Plutarch's has the least approach to historical accuracy;...
    PC 8.213 17 ...we have not on the instant better men to show than Plutarch' s heroes.
    Plu 10.298 22 The reason of Plutarch's vast popularity is his humanity.
    Plu 10.299 7 Plutarch's memory is full, and his horizon wide.
    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;...
    Plu 10.320 23 One proof of Plutarch's skill as a writer is that he bears translation so well.
    Plu 10.322 16 Plutarch's popularity will return in rapid cycles.
    TPar 11.285 9 In Plutarch's lives of Alexander and Pericles, you have the secret whispers of their confidence to their lovers and trusty friends.
    ALin 11.328 27 Here [in Lincoln] was a type of the true elder race,/ And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face./ Lowell, Commemoration Ode.

Pluto, n. (1)

    Pt1 3.6 23 ...the Universe has three children...which reappear under different names in every system of thought, whether they be called cause, operation and effect; or, more poetically, Jove, Pluto, Neptune;...

Plymouth, England, n. (1)

    Bost 12.189 8 On the 3d of November, 1620, King James incorporated forty of his subjects...the council established at Plymouth in the county of Devon, for the planting, ruling, ordering and governing of New England in America.

Plymouth, Massachusetts, adj (1)

    ET5 5.87 25 ...Popery, Plymouth colony, American Revolution, are all questions involving a yeoman's right to his dinner...

Plymouth, Massachusetts, n. (5)

    LLNE 10.361 27 Mr. Ichabod Morton of Plymouth...came and built a house on [Brook] farm...
    HDC 11.37 15 The faithful dealing and brave good will, which, during the life of the friendly Massasoit, [the English] uniformly experienced at Plymouth and at Boston, went to their hearts.
    JBB 11.267 19 Captain John Brown is...the fifth in descent from Peter Brown, who came to Plymouth in the Mayflower, in 1620.
    Shak1 11.453 13 The Pilgrims came to Plymouth in 1620.
    Bost 12.191 5 The colony of 1620 had landed at Plymouth.

Plymouth, New, Massachusett (1)

    Bost 12.199 14 John Smith says, Thirty, forty, or fifty sail went yearly in America...but nothing would be done for a plantation, till about some hundred of your Brownists of England, Amsterdam and Leyden went to New Plymouth;...

Plymouth Rock, n. (2)

    JBB 11.268 16 [John Brown] joins that perfect Puritan faith which brought his fifth ancestor to Plymouth Rock with his grandfather's ardor in the Revolution.
    Bost 12.201 19 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 was at the bottom of Plymouth Rock...

Plymouth Sands, n. (1)

    Bost 12.191 3 In our beautiful [Boston] bay...a good boatman can...wonder that Governor Carver had not better eyes than to stop on the Plymouth Sands.

poached, v. (1)

    ShP 4.202 2 ...[the antiquaries] have left no bookstall unsearched...so keen was the hope to discover whether the boy Shakspeare poached or not...

poaching, v. (1)

    ET5 5.97 20 The crimes [in England] are factitious; as smuggling, poaching, nonconformity, heresy and treason.

pocket, adj. (1)

    ET3 5.42 17 In the variety of surface, Britain is a miniature of Europe, having...in Westmoreland and Cumberland a pocket Switzerland...

pocket, n. (18)

    MR 1.241 3 ...every man ought to stand in primary relations with the work of the world; ought...not to suffer the accident of his having a purse in his pocket...to sever him from those duties;...
    SR 2.84 21 What a contrast between the...American, with a...bill of exchange in his pocket, and the naked New Zealander...
    ET7 5.120 9 If war do not bring in its sequel new trade, better agriculture and manufactures...no prosperity could support it; much less a nation decimated for conscripts and out of pocket, like France.
    ET11 5.184 9 ...why need [English peers] sit out the debate? Has not the Duke of Wellington, at this moment, their proxies...in his pocket...
    ET11 5.191 24 In logical sequence of these dignified revels, Pepys can tell the beggarly shifts to which the king was reduced, who could not find paper at his council table...and the linen-draper and the stationer were out of pocket and refusing to trust him...
    Wth 6.102 9 ...the clerk's [dollar] is light and nimble; leaps out of his pocket;...
    Wsp 6.234 7 [The moral] is the coin which buys all, and which all find in their pocket.
    Elo1 7.96 19 [The sturdy countryman] has not only the documents in his pocket to answer all cavils and to prove all his positions...
    Clbs 7.227 19 ...money does not more burn in a boy's pocket than a piece of news burns in our memory until we can tell it.
    Res 8.146 18 ...taking up a chip of dry pine, [Tissenet] drew a burning-glass from his pocket and set the chip on fire.
    PerF 10.80 13 ...[the prisoner] took his flute out of his pocket and began to play...
    Edc1 10.125 19 ...the poor man...is allowed to put his hand into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall educate me...
    Thor 10.469 22 Under his arm [Thoreau] carried an old music-book to press plants; in his pocket, his diary and pencil...
    SMC 11.359 7 The older among us can well remember [George Prescott]... tender as a woman in his care for a cough or a chilblain in his men; had troches and arnica in his pocket for them.
    Shak1 11.450 13 Young men of a contemplative turn carry [Shakespeare's] sonnets in the pocket.
    Mem 12.92 23 Memory is not a pocket...
    CW 12.175 7 ...a common spy-glass, which you carry in your pocket, will show the satellites of Jupiter...
    CW 12.178 10 ...the top of the tree is also a tap-root thrust into the public pocket of the atmosphere.

pocket, v. (1)

    PerF 10.84 19 [Men] wish to pocket land and water and fire and air and all fruits of these, for property...

pocket-book, n. (1)

    Bty 6.284 13 The formulas of science are like the papers in your pocket-book, of no value to any but the owner.

pocket-diary, n. (1)

    Mem 12.96 14 In the minds of most men memory is nothing but a farm-book or a pocket-diary.

pocket-knife, n. (1)

    PI 8.13 6 When some familiar truth or fact appears in a new dress...we cannot enough testify our surprise and pleasure. It is like the new virtue shown in some unprized old property, as when a boy finds that his pocket-knife will attract steel filings...

pocket-mirror, n. (1)

    Res 8.146 8 ...[Tissenet] opened his shirt a little and showed to each of the savages in turn the reflection of his own eyeball in a small pocket-mirror which he had hung next to his skin.

pockets, n. (5)

    SL 2.158 7 A stranger comes from a distant school...with trinkets in his pockets...
    Civ 7.28 9 Only one doubt occurred, one staggering objection,-- [Electricity] had...no visible pockets...
    Civ 7.28 14 ...we managed...to fold up the letter in such invisible compact form as [Electricity] could carry in those invisible pockets of his...
    Edc1 10.138 20 I like...boys...known to have no money in their pockets, and themselves not suspecting the value of this poverty;...
    LLNE 10.367 1 The ladies [at Brook Farm] took cold on washing-day; so it was ordained that the gentlemen-shepherds should wring and hang out clothes; which they punctually did. And it would sometimes occur that when they danced in the evening, clothespins dropped plentifully from their pockets.

poem, n. (93)

    Nat 1.68 17 The following lines are part of [Herbert's] little poem on Man.
    DSA 1.133 18 ...when I vibrate to the melody and fancy of a poem; I see beauty that is to be desired.
    Hist 2.17 25 The true poem is the poet's mind;...
    Hist 2.33 22 ...although that poem [Goethe's Helena] be as vague and fantastic as a dream, yet is it much more attractive than the more regular dramatic pieces of the same author...
    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.
    Art1 2.365 18 Life may be lyric or epic, as well as a poem or a romance.
    Pt1 3.8 11 ...whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word or a verse and substitute something of our own and thus miswrite the poem.
    Pt1 3.9 26 ...it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem...
    Pt1 3.12 1 With what joy I begin to read a poem which I confide in as an inspiration!
    Pt1 3.18 13 It does not need that a poem should be long.
    Pt1 3.18 14 Every word was once a poem.
    Pt1 3.38 4 ...America is a poem in our eyes;...
    Exp 3.50 14 It depends on the mood of the man whether he shall see the sunset or the fine poem.
    Gts 3.161 13 The only gift is a portion of thyself. ... Therefore the poet brings his poem;...
    PNR 4.88 19 Swedenborg, throughout his prose poem of Conjugal Love, is a Platonist.
    SwM 4.94 16 ...the instincts presently teach that the problem of essence must take precedence of all others;--the questions of Whence? What? and Whither? and the solution of these must be in a life, and not in a book. A drama or poem is a proximate or oblique reply;...
    SwM 4.120 24 This design of exhibiting such correpondences [between heaven and earth], which, if adequately executed, would be the poem of the world...was narrowed and defeated by the exclusively theologic direction which [Swedenborg's] inquiries took.
    SwM 4.125 14 [To Swedenborg] We have come into a world which is a living poem.
    SwM 4.133 11 The universe, in [Swedenborg's] poem, suffers under a magnetic sleep...
    ShP 4.214 20 ...like the tone of voice of some incomparable person, so [are Shakespeare's sonnets] a speech of poetic beings, and any clause as unproducible now as a whole poem.
    ShP 4.215 2 ...every subordinate invention, by which [Shakespeare] helps himself to connect some irreconcilable opposites, is a poem too.
    GoW 4.272 17 This reflective and critical wisdom makes the poem [Goethe's Helena] more truly the flower of this time.
    ET1 5.23 16 I said Tinturn Abbey appeared to be the favorite poem with the public...
    ET14 5.251 24 The voice of [Englishmen's] modern muse has a slight hint of the steam-whistle, and the poem is created as an ornament and finish of their monarchy...
    ET14 5.257 6 [Wordsworth] wrote a poem, says Landor, without the aid of war.
    F 6.45 14 If a man has a see-saw in his voice, it will run...into his poem...
    Ctr 6.157 14 Here is a new poem, which elicits a good many comments in the journals and in conversation.
    SS 7.3 13 Do you not see, [my new friend] said...that each of these scholars whom you have met at S---, though he were to be the last man, would, like the executioner in Hood's poem, guillotine the last but one?
    Art2 7.40 8 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 7.45 18 ...how much is there that is not original...in every tune, painting, poem or harangue!...
    Art2 7.46 20 The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight which a verse gives in happy quotation than in the poem.
    WD 7.167 10 Hesiod wrote a poem which he called Works and Days...
    WD 7.167 20 The poem [Hesiod's Works and Days] is full of piety as well as prudence...
    Boks 7.198 6 The Prometheus [of Aeschylus] is a poem of the like dignity and scope as the Book of Job...
    Boks 7.205 22 There is Dante's poem, to open the Italian Republics of the Middle Age;...
    Boks 7.212 26 The youth asks for a poem.
    Boks 7.218 1 The Greek fables...the poem of Dante...have this enlargement [the imaginative element]...
    PI 8.32 15 I require that the poem should impress me so that after I have shut the book it shall recall me to itself...
    PI 8.33 18 Great design belongs to a poem...
    PI 8.35 19 In a game-party or picnic poem each writer is released from the solemn rhythmic traditions which alarm and suffocate his fancy...
    PI 8.35 22 In a game-party or picnic poem each writer is released from the solemn rhythmic traditions which alarm and suffocate his fancy, and the result is that one of the partners offers a poem in a new style that hints at a new literature.
    PI 8.40 4 The reason we set so high a value on any poetry,--as often on a line or a phrase as on a poem,--is that it is a new work of Nature...
    PI 8.49 22 Every good poem that I know I recall by its rhythm also.
    PI 8.54 22 ...the poem is made up of lines each of which fills the ear of the poet in its turn...
    PI 8.60 10 There is in every poem a height which attracts more than other parts...
    PI 8.66 25 A good poem...goes about the world offering itself to reasonable men...
    PI 8.74 13 Poems!--we have no poem.
    QO 8.181 15 Renard the Fox, a German poem of the thirteenth century, was long supposed to be the original work...
    QO 8.190 4 Each man of thought is surrounded by wiser men than he, if they cannot write as well. Cannot he and they combine? Cannot they...call their poem Beaumont and Fletcher...
    QO 8.193 18 We admire that poetry which no man wrote...which is to be read...in the effect of a fixed or national style...of sculptures...or sciences, on us. Such a poem also is language.
    PPo 8.243 10 Gnomic verses...were always current in the East; and if the poem is long, it is only a string of unconnected verses.
    PPo 8.244 5 Here is a poem on a melon, by Adsched of Meru...
    PPo 8.255 7 In the following poem the soul is figured as the Phoenix alighting on Tuba, the Tree of Life...
    PPo 8.258 23 Ibn Jemin writes thus:-Whilst I disdain the populace,/ I find no peer in higher place./ Friend is a word of royal tone,/ Friend is a poem all alone./
    PPo 8.263 19 From this poem [Ferideddin Attar's Bird Conversations], written five hundred years ago, we cite the following passage...
    Insp 8.282 15 One of the best facts I know in metaphysical science is Neibuhr's joyful record that after his genius for interpreting history had failed him for several years, this divination returned to him. As this rejoiced me, so does Herbert's poem The Flower.
    Insp 8.282 17 ...in this poem [The Flower] [Herbert] says:-And now in age I bud again,/ After so many deaths I live and write;/...
    Insp 8.282 25 [Herbert's] poem called The Forerunners also has supreme interest.
    Insp 8.284 18 Goethe acknowledges [the fine influences of the morning] in the poem in which he dislodges the nightingale from her place as Leader of the Muses...
    MoL 10.245 1 The great poem of the age is the disagreeable poem of Faust...
    MoL 10.245 2 The great poem of the age is the disagreeable poem of Faust...
    MoL 10.245 19 Ernest Renan finds that Europe has thrice assembled for exhibitions of industry, and not a poem graced the occasion;...
    MoL 10.253 26 [Pytheas] came to the poet Pindar and wished him to write an ode in his praise, and inquired what was the price of a poem.
    MoL 10.254 5 ...[Pytheas] returned and paid [Pindar] for the poem.
    LLNE 10.328 22 The most remarkable literary work of the age has for its hero and subject precisely this introversion: I mean the poem of Faust.
    MMEm 10.408 3 As by seeing a high tragedy, reading a true poem...by society with [Mary Moody Emerson], one's mind is electrified and purged.
    Thor 10.476 22 [Thoreau's] poem entitled Sympathy reveals the tenderness under that triple steel of stoicism...
    Thor 10.476 25 [Thoreau's] classic poem on Smoke suggests Simonides...
    Thor 10.476 26 [Thoreau's] classic poem on Smoke suggests Simonides, but is better than any poem of Simonides.
    SMC 11.350 27 I shall say of this obelisk [the Concord Monument]...what Richter says of the volcano in the fair landscape of Naples: Vesuvius stands in this poem of Nature, and exalts everything, as war does the age.
    Scot 11.464 18 Just so much thought, so much picturesque detail in dialogue or description as the old ballad required...[Scott] would keep and use, but without any ambition to write a high poem after a classic model.
    CPL 11.496 24 If you consider what has befallen you when reading a poem, or a history...you will easily admit the wonderful property of books to make all towns equal...
    II 12.71 15 How incomparable beyond all price seems to us a new poem...
    II 12.71 25 The poet works to an end above his will, and by means, too, which are out of his will. Every part of the poem is therefore a true surprise to the reader...
    II 12.72 2 No practical rules for the poem, no working-plan was ever drawn up.
    Milt1 12.248 19 [Milton's] poem fell unregarded among his countrymen.
    Milt1 12.256 10 [Milton] declared that he who would aspire to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem;...
    Milt1 12.263 8 [Milton] tells us, in a Latin poem, that the lyrist may indulge in wine and in a freer life;...
    Milt1 12.270 10 At one time [Milton] meditated writing a poem on the settlement of Britain...
    Milt1 12.274 2 Was there not a fitness in the undertaking of such a person [as Milton] to write a poem on the subject of Adam...
    Milt1 12.276 25 ...the genius and office of Milton were...to ascend by the aids of his learning and his religion...to a higher insight and more lively delineation of the heroic life of man. This was his poem;...
    Milt1 12.278 15 [Milton's plea for freedom of divorce] is to be regarded as a poem on one of the griefs of man's condition...
    ACri 12.300 27 Pindar when the victor in a race by mules offered him a trifling present, pretended to be hurt at thought of writing on demi-asses. When, however, he offered a sufficient present, he composed the poem...
    MLit 12.310 10 Over every true poem lingers a certain wild beauty, immeasurable;...
    MLit 12.320 26 ...the interest of the poem [Wordsworth's The Excursion] ended almost with the narrative of the influences of Nature on the mind of the Boy, in the First Book.
    MLit 12.321 2 ...the interest of the poem [Wordsworth's The Excursion] ended almost with the narrative of the influences of Nature on the mind of the Boy, in the First Book. Obviously for that passage the poem was written...
    MLit 12.321 5 ...the interest of the poem [Wordsworth's The Excursion] ended almost with the narrative of the influences of Nature on the mind of the Boy, in the First Book. Obviously for that passage the poem was written, and with the exception of this and of a few strains of the like character in the sequel, the whole poem was dull.
    MLit 12.321 6 Here [in Wordsworth's The Excursion] was no poem, but here was poetry...
    MLit 12.326 4 The fair hearers [says Wieland] were enthusiastic at the nature in this piece [Goethe's journal]; I liked the sly art in the composition...still better. It is a true poem...
    EurB 12.372 4 Godiva is a noble poem...
    EurB 12.372 5 The poem of all the poetry of the present age for which we predict the longest term is Abou ben Adhem, of Leigh Hunt.
    PPr 12.379 1 Here is Carlyle's new poem [Past and Present]...
    PPr 12.379 2 Here is Carlyle's new poem [Past and Present], his Iliad of English woes, to follow his poem on France...

poems, n. (74)

    LE 1.167 6 We assume that all thought is already long ago adequately set down in books, -all imaginations in poems;...
    LE 1.167 18 By Latin and English poetry we were born and bred in an oratorio of praises of nature...yet the naturalist of this hour finds that he knows nothing, by all their poems, of any of these fine things;...
    Hist 2.14 24 We have the same national mind expressed for us again in [Greek] literature, in epic and lyric poems...
    Int 2.335 1 The constructive intellect produces thoughts, sentences, poems, plans, designs, systems.
    Pt1 3.4 8 ...even the poets are contented...to write poems from the fancy...
    Pt1 3.23 15 ...when the soul of the poet has come to ripeness of thought, [nature] detaches and sends away from it its poems or songs...
    Pt1 3.25 17 ...herein is the legitimation of criticism, in the mind's faith that the poems are a corrupt version of some text in nature with which they ought to be made to tally.
    Mrs1 3.152 2 [Lilla] did not study...the books of the seven poets, but all the poems of the seven seemed to be written upon her.
    ShP 4.206 10 We tell the chronicle of parentage...celebrity, death; and when we have come to an end of this gossip...it seems as if, had we dipped at random into the Modern Plutarch and read any other life there, it would have fitted [Shakespeare's] poems as well.
    ShP 4.215 10 Cultivated men often attain a good degree of skill in writing verses; but it is easy to read, through their poems, their personal history...
    GoW 4.277 17 [Goethe's works] consist of translations, criticism, dramas, lyric and every other description of poems, literary journals and portraits of distinguished men.
    GoW 4.287 21 [Goethe] is...a writer of occasional poems and of an encyclopaedia of sentences.
    ET1 5.22 19 ...[Wordsworth] recollected himself for a few moments and then stood forth and repeated...the three entire sonnets with great animation. I fancied the second and third more beautiful than his poems are wont to be.
    ET1 5.23 6 ...recollecting myself, that I had come thus far to see a poet and he was chanting poems to me, I saw that [Wordsworth] was right and I was wrong...
    ET1 5.23 10 I told [Wordsworth] how much the few printed extracts had quickened the desire to possess his unpublished poems.
    ET1 5.23 19 [Wordsworth] preferred such of his poems as touched the affections, to any others;...
    ET4 5.55 10 [The Celts] planted Britain, and gave to the seas and mountains names which are poems...
    ET11 5.190 14 At Wilton House the Arcadia was written, amidst conversations with Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke, a man of no vulgar mind, as his own poems declare him.
    ET14 5.237 14 A man must think that age well taught and thoughtful, by which masques and poems, like those of Ben Jonson...were received with favor.
    ET15 5.262 23 Hundreds of clever Praeds and Freres and Froudes and Hoods and Hooks and Maginns and Mills and Macaulays, make poems, or short essays for a journal, as they make speeches in Parliament and on the hustings...
    Bhr 6.191 2 We parade our nobilities in poems and orations...
    Wsp 6.216 13 ...when poems were made,--the human soul was in earnest...
    CbW 6.276 18 ...whatever art you select...architecture, poems...all are attainable...on the same terms of selecting that for which you are apt;...
    Ill 6.316 25 I, who have all my life...read poems and miscellaneous books... am still the victim of any new page;...
    Elo1 7.78 27 ...histories, poems and new philosophies arise to account for [Caesar].
    WD 7.181 24 We do not want factitious men, who can do any literary or professional feat, as, to write poems...for money;...
    WD 7.182 4 Poems have been written between sleeping and waking, irresponsibly.
    Boks 7.207 23 ...what with so many occasional poems...[Jonson] has really illustrated the England of his time...
    Boks 7.211 11 ...[a dictionary] is full of suggestion,--the raw material of possible poems and histories.
    Boks 7.218 5 ...in our time the Ode of Wordsworth, and the poems and the prose of Goethe, have this enlargement [the imaginative element]...
    PI 8.17 13 [Poetry's] essential mark is that it betrays in every word instant activity of mind, shown...in preternatural quickness or perception of relations. All its words are poems.
    PI 8.33 20 I find [great design] in the poems of Wordsworth...
    PI 8.35 16 The use of occasional poems is to give leave to originality.
    PI 8.36 6 Many of the fine poems of Herrick, Jonson and their contemporaries had this casual origin.
    PI 8.46 17 ...the length of lines in songs and poems is determined by the inhalation and exhalation of the lungs.
    PI 8.57 17 ...the direct smell of the earth or the sea, is in these ancient poems...
    PI 8.58 22 In one of his poems [Taliessin] asks:--Is there but one course to the wind?/ But one to the water of the sea?/ Is there but one spark in the fire of boundless energy?/
    PI 8.74 12 Poems!--we have no poem.
    Comc 8.173 18 All our plans, managements, houses, poems...are equally imperfect and ridiculous.
    QO 8.197 19 ...James Hogg (except in his poems Kilmeny and The Witch of Fife) is but a third-rate author...
    PC 8.214 12 ...if these [romantic European] works still survive and multiply, what shall we say of...names of men who have left remains that certify a height of genius...which men in proportion to their wisdom still cherish,-as...the grand scriptures...of...the poems of the Mahabarat and the Ramayana?
    PPo 8.243 6 ...for the most part, [the Persians] affect short poems and epigrams.
    PPo 8.252 6 The [Persian] law of the ghaselle, or shorter ode, requires that the poet insert his name in the last stanza. Almost every one of several hundreds of poems of Hafiz contains his name thus interwoven more or less closely with the subject of the piece.
    PPo 8.255 3 ...the cultivated Persians know [Hafiz's] poems by heart.
    Insp 8.277 13 ...a religious poet once told me that he valued his poems, not because they were his, but because they were not.
    MoL 10.243 27 The Greek was so perfect in action and in imagination, his poems...so charming in form and so true to the human mind, that we cannot forget or outgrow their mythology.
    MoL 10.244 5 ...[the Hebrew nation's] poems and histories cling to the soil of this globe like the primitive rocks.
    Plu 10.318 23 That prince [Alexander] kept Homer's poems not only for himself under his pillow in his tent, but carried these for the delight of the Persian youth...
    Thor 10.475 8 [Thoreau] was so enamoured of the spiritual beauty that he held all actual written poems in very light esteem in the comparison.
    Shak1 11.449 11 Men were so astonished and occupied by [Shakespeare's] poems that they have not been able to see his face and condition...
    Scot 11.464 7 It is easy to see the origin of [Scott's] poems.
    Scot 11.465 7 If the success of [Scott's] poems, however large, was partial, that of his novels was complete.
    CW 12.175 12 How many poems have been written, or, at least attempted, on the lost Pleiad!...
    Bost 12.204 12 In Massachusetts [Nature] did not want epic poems and dramas yet, but first, planters of towns...
    MAng1 12.241 5 [Michelangelo's] poems themselves cannot be read without awakening sentiments of virtue.
    MAng1 12.241 12 An eloquent vindication of [Michelangelo's poems'] philosophy may be found in a paper...by the Italian scholar, in the Discourse of Benedetto Varchi upon one sonnet of Michael Angelo, contained in the volume of his poems published by Biagioli...
    Milt1 12.252 13 We think we have seen and heard criticism upon [Milton' s] poems, which the bard himself would have more valued than the recorded praise of Dryden, Addison and Johnson...
    Milt1 12.275 3 ...throughout [Milton's] poems, one may see, under a thin veil, the opinions, the feelings, even the incidents of the poet's life...
    Milt1 12.275 6 [Milton's] sonnets are all occasional poems.
    Milt1 12.275 27 It is true of Homer and Shakspeare that they do not appear in their poems;...
    Milt1 12.276 5 Shall we say that in our admiration and joy in these wonderful poems [of Homer and Shakespeare] we have even a feeling of regret that the men knew not what they did;...
    Milt1 12.278 17 as many poems have been written upon unfit society...yet have not been proceeded against...so should [Milton's plea for freedom of divorce] receive that charity which an angelic soul...is entitled to.
    ACri 12.284 23 ...many of [Goethe's] poems are so idiomatic...that they are the terror of translators...
    MLit 12.310 5 I have just been reading poems which now in memory shine with a certain steady, warm, autumnal light.
    MLit 12.319 12 Nothing certifies the prevalence of this [subjective] taste in the people more than the circulation of the poems...of Coleridge, Shelley and Keats.
    MLit 12.319 18 [Shelley's] muse is uniformly imitative; all his poems composite.
    MLit 12.328 24 The spirit of [Goethe's] biography, of his poems, of his tales, is identical...
    EurB 12.365 4 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.
    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.
    EurB 12.365 14 Many of [Wordsworth's] poems...might be all improvised.
    EurB 12.367 12 ...[Wordsworth's] poems evince a power of diction that is no more rivalled by his contemporaries than is his poetic insight.
    EurB 12.371 3 Tennyson's compositions are not so much poems as studies in poetry...
    EurB 12.372 10 ...it is strange that one of the best poems [Abou ben Adhem] should be written by a man [Leigh Hunt] who has hardly written any other.
    EurB 12.372 13 Locksley Hall and The Two Voices are meditative poems, which were slowly written to be slowly read.

poesy, n. (6)

    AmS 1.81 7 We do not meet...for parliaments of love and poesy, like the Troubadours;...
    Comp 2.107 10 It would seem there is always this vindictive circumstance stealing in at unawares even into the wild poesy in which the human fancy attempted to make bold holiday...
    PI 8.41 5 These fine fruits of judgment, poesy and sentiment...know as well as coarser how to feed and replenish themselves;...
    PI 8.53 9 Lord Bacon, we are told, loved not to see poesy go on other feet than poetical dactyls and spondees;...
    QO 8.191 25 ...Poesy, drawing within its circle all that is glorious and inspiring, gave itself but little concern as to where its flowers originally grew.
    RBur 11.439 19 At the first announcement...that the 25th of January [1859] was the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns, a sudden consent warmed the great English race...to keep the festival. We are here to hold our parliament with love and poesy...

Poesy, Parliaments of Love (1)

    MoL 10.244 17 Parliaments of Love and Poesy served [the people of the Middle Ages], instead of the House of Commons, Congress and the newspapers.

poet, n. (366)

    Nat 1.8 13 It is this [integrity of impression] which distinguishes the stick of timber of the wood-cutter from the tree of the poet.
    Nat 1.8 20 There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts, that is, the poet.
    Nat 1.24 6 The poet, the painter...seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point...
    Nat 1.31 17 The poet...bred in the woods...shall not lose their lesson altogether...
    Nat 1.34 1 This relation between the mind and matter is not fancied by some poet...
    Nat 1.51 22 In a higher manner the poet communicates the same pleasure.
    Nat 1.52 6 ...the poet conforms things to his thoughts.
    Nat 1.52 24 ...all objects shrink and expand to serve the passion of the poet.
    Nat 1.53 25 This transfiguration which all material objects undergo through the passion of the poet...might be illustrated by a thousand examples from [Shakspeare's] Plays.
    Nat 1.54 24 The perception of real affinities between events...enables the poet...to assert the predominance of the soul.
    Nat 1.55 1 ...thus the poet animates nature with his own thoughts...
    Nat 1.55 5 ...the philosopher, not less than the poet, postpones the apparent order and relations of things to the empire of thought.
    Nat 1.55 15 The true philosopher and the true poet are one...
    Nat 1.65 20 The poet finds something ridiculous in his delight until he is out of the sight of men.
    Nat 1.70 13 I shall...conclude this essay with some traditions of man and nature, which a certain poet sang to me;...
    Nat 1.72 8 Thus my Orphic poet sang.
    Nat 1.76 1 Then shall come to pass what my poet said...
    AmS 1.88 23 The poet chanting was felt to be a divine man...
    AmS 1.92 5 There is some awe mixed with the joy of our surprise, when this poet...says that which lies close to my own soul...
    AmS 1.103 13 The poet...is found to have recorded that which men...find true for them also.
    AmS 1.106 19 All the rest behold in the hero or the poet their own green and crude being...
    DSA 1.134 26 The man enamored of this excellency [of the soul] becomes its priest or poet.
    DSA 1.144 24 All men go in flocks to this saint or that poet...
    LE 1.182 4 Let [the scholar]...serve the world as a true and noble man; never forgetting to worship the immortal divinities who whisper to the poet...
    MN 1.194 5 ...come...hither, thou loving, all-hoping poet!...
    MN 1.211 5 It was always the theory of literature that the word of a poet was authoritative and final.
    MN 1.213 13 The poet must be a rhapsodist;...
    MR 1.241 11 Neither would I shut my ears to the plea...of the poet, the priest...
    MR 1.250 4 Now if I talk...with a poet...I see at once how paltry is all this generation of unbelievers...
    MR 1.255 13 An Arabian poet describes his hero by saying, Sunshine was he/ In the winter day;/ And in the midsummer/ Coolness and shade./
    LT 1.272 26 The new voices in the wilderness...have revived a hope...that the thoughts of the mind may yet...be executed by the hands. ... For some ages, these ideas have been consigned to the poet and musical composer...
    Con 1.313 22 [This manner of living] nourished you with care and love on its breast, as it had nourished many a lover of the right and many a poet...
    Tran 1.347 2 ...if [these youths] only stand fast in this watch-tower, and persist in demanding unto the end, and without end, then are they terrible friends, whereof poet and priest cannot choose but stand in awe;...
    Hist 2.12 19 To the poet...all things are friendly and sacred...
    Hist 2.13 22 ...a poet makes twenty fables with one moral.
    Hist 2.29 26 [The advancing man] finds that the poet was no odd fellow who described strange and impossible situations...
    SL 2.161 6 We call the poet inactive, because he is not a president...
    SL 2.165 8 Bonaparte...rewarded in one and the same way the good soldier, the good astronomer, the good poet, the good player.
    SL 2.165 9 The poet uses the names of Caesar, of Tamerlane...
    SL 2.165 14 If the poet write a true drama, then he is Caesar...
    Fdsp 2.205 14 ...we cannot forgive the poet if he spins his thread too fine...
    Fdsp 2.206 15 Friendship may be said to require natures...each so well tempered and so happily adapted, and withal so circumstanced (for even in that particular, a poet says, love demands that the parties be altogether paired), that its satisfaction can very seldom be assured.
    Prd1 2.219 1 [Prudence] Theme no poet gladly sung,/ Fair to old and foul to young;/...
    Prd1 2.221 15 The poet admires the man of energy and tactics;...
    Prd1 2.222 24 Another class live above this mark to the beauty of the symbol, as the poet and artist and the naturalist and man of science.
    OS 2.289 7 The great poet makes us feel our own wealth...
    Cir 2.312 16 Therefore we value the poet. All the argument and all the wisdom is...in the sonnet or the play.
    Int 2.340 27 ...the poet...is one whom Nature cannot deceive...
    Art1 2.355 1 The power to detach and to magnify by detaching is the essence of rhetoric in the hands of the orator and the poet.
    Pt1 3.5 2 ...the poet is representative.
    Pt1 3.5 10 Nature enhances her beauty, to the eye of loving men, from their belief that the poet is beholding her shows at the same time.
    Pt1 3.6 12 ...in our experience, the rays or appulses have sufficient force to arrive at the senses, but not enough to...compel the reproduction of themselves in speech. The poet is the person in whom these powers are in balance...
    Pt1 3.7 6 The poet is the sayer...
    Pt1 3.7 12 ...the poet is not any permissive potentate...
    Pt1 3.7 24 The poet does not wait for the hero or the sage...
    Pt1 3.8 21 The sign and credentials of the poet are that he announces that which no man foretold.
    Pt1 3.9 2 ...we do not speak now of men...of industry and skill in metre, but of the true poet.
    Pt1 3.9 9 ...the question arose whether [a recent writer of lyrics] was not only a lyrist but a poet...
    Pt1 3.10 5 The poet has a new thought;...
    Pt1 3.10 10 ...the world seems always waiting for its poet.
    Pt1 3.11 8 Every one has some interest in the advent of the poet...
    Pt1 3.11 24 ...the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology.
    Pt1 3.15 10 The beauty of the fable proves the importance of the sense; to the poet, and to all others;...
    Pt1 3.15 11 ...if you please, every man is so far a poet as to be susceptible of these enchantments of nature;...
    Pt1 3.18 23 ...the poet, who re-attaches things to nature and the Whole... disposes very easily of the most disagreeable facts.
    Pt1 3.19 5 ...the poet sees [the factory-village and the railway] fall within the great Order not less than the beehive or the spider's geometrical web.
    Pt1 3.19 22 A shrewd country-boy goes to the city for the first time, and the complacent citizen is not satisfied with his little wonder. It is not that he does not see all the fine houses...but he disposes of them as easily as the poet finds place for the railway.
    Pt1 3.20 2 The world being thus put under the mind for verb and noun, the poet is he who can articulate it.
    Pt1 3.20 12 The poet...gives [things] a power which makes their old use forgotten...
    Pt1 3.20 19 ...the poet turns the world to glass...
    Pt1 3.21 8 The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation and animation...
    Pt1 3.21 18 ...the poet is the Namer or Language-maker...
    Pt1 3.22 11 ...the poet names the thing because he sees it...
    Pt1 3.22 20 ...nature...does not leave another to baptize her but baptizes herself; and this through the metamorphosis again. I remember that a certain poet described it to me thus...
    Pt1 3.23 13 ...when the soul of the poet has come to ripeness of thought, [nature] detaches and sends away from it its poems or songs...
    Pt1 3.24 3 ...the melodies of the poet ascend and leap and pierce into the deeps of infinite time.
    Pt1 3.24 22 The poet also resigns himself to his mood...
    Pt1 3.26 12 A spy [things] will not suffer; a lover, a poet, is the transcendency of their own nature,--him they will suffer.
    Pt1 3.27 2 The poet knows that he speaks adequately then only when he speaks somewhat wildly...
    Pt1 3.29 1 Milton says that the lyric poet may drink wine and live generously...
    Pt1 3.29 2 Milton says that...the epic poet...must drink water out of a wooden bowl.
    Pt1 3.30 1 If the imagination intoxicates the poet, it is not inactive in other men.
    Pt1 3.33 19 ...we love the poet, the inventor, who in any form...has yielded us a new thought.
    Pt1 3.34 8 The poet did not stop at the color or the form, but read their meaning;...
    Pt1 3.34 13 Here is the difference betwixt the poet and the mystic, that the last nails a symbol to one sense, which was a true sense for a moment, but soon becomes old and false.
    Pt1 3.36 9 There was this perception in [Swedenborg] which makes the poet or seer an object of awe and terror...
    Pt1 3.36 24 ...if any poet has witnessed the transformation he doubtless found it in harmony with various experiences.
    Pt1 3.37 1 He is the poet and shall draw us with love and terror, who sees through the flowing vest the firm nature, and can declare it.
    Pt1 3.37 4 I look in vain for the poet whom I describe.
    Pt1 3.38 9 If I have not found that excellent combination of gifts in my countrymen which I seek, neither could I aid myself to fix the idea of the poet by reading now and then in Chalmers's collection of five centuries of English poets.
    Pt1 3.38 14 ...when we adhere to the ideal of the poet, we have our difficulties even with Milton and Homer.
    Pt1 3.38 20 ...I am not wise enough for a national criticism, and must use the old largeness a little longer, to discharge my errand from the muse to the poet concerning his art.
    Pt1 3.39 14 The poet pours out verses in every solitude.
    Pt1 3.39 20 ...the poet knows well that [what he says] not his;...
    Pt1 3.40 9 Doubt not, O poet, but persist.
    Pt1 3.41 6 O poet! a new nobility is conferred in groves and pastures...
    Exp 3.66 8 You who see the artist, the orator, the poet, too near...conclude very reasonably that these arts are not for man, but are disease.
    Gts 3.161 12 The only gift is a portion of thyself. ... Therefore the poet brings his poem;...
    Nat2 3.175 8 To the poor young poet, thus fabulous is his picture of society; he is loyal; he respects the rich;...
    Nat2 3.187 22 The poet, the prophet, has a higher value for what he utters than any hearer...
    Nat2 3.192 18 ...the poet finds himself not near enough to his object.
    Pol1 3.209 27 The philosopher, the poet, or the religious man, will of course wish to cast his vote with the democrat...
    NR 3.240 10 A new poet has appeared;...why should we refuse to eat bread until we have found his regiment and section in our old army-files?
    NR 3.241 24 If you criticise a fine genius, the odds are that you...instead of the poet, are censuring your own caricature of him.
    NER 3.281 7 Let a clear, apprehensive mind...converse with the most commanding poetic genius, I think...the poet would confess that his creative imagination gave him no deep advantage...
    UGM 4.9 17 Each plant has its parasite, and each created thing its lover and poet.
    UGM 4.29 26 Be another:...not a poet, but a Shaksperian.
    PPh 4.43 6 Plato is clothed with the powers of a poet...
    PPh 4.43 7 Plato...stands upon the highest place of the poet...
    PPh 4.43 9 Plato...mainly is not a poet because he chose to use the poetic gift to an ulterior purpose.
    PPh 4.44 24 ...the writings of Plato have preoccupied...every church, every poet...
    PNR 4.89 2 As the poet...[Plato] is only contemplative.
    SwM 4.95 11 ...the Persian poet exclaims to a soul of this kind [of goodness],--Go boldly forth, and feast on being's banquet;/ Thou art the called,--the rest admitted with thee./
    MoS 4.151 20 On the other part, the men of toil and trade and luxury,--the animal world, including the animal in the philosopher and poet also, and the practical world...weigh heavily on the other side.
    MoS 4.151 22 On the other part, the men of toil and trade and luxury,--the animal world...and the practical world, including the painful drudgeries which are never excused to philosopher or poet any more than to the rest,-- weigh heavily on the other side.
    MoS 4.163 4 ...I became acquainted with an accomplished English poet, John Sterling;...
    ShP 4.189 12 A poet is no rattle-brain...
    ShP 4.192 18 The secure possession, by the stage, of the public mind, is of the first importance to the poet who works for it.
    ShP 4.194 2 The poet needs a ground in popular tradition on which he may work...
    ShP 4.194 9 ...the poet owes to his legend what sculpture owed to the temple.
    ShP 4.196 17 A great poet who appears in illiterate times, absorbs into his sphere all the light which is any where radiating.
    ShP 4.202 20 A popular player;--nobody suspected [Shakespeare] was the poet of the human race;...
    ShP 4.203 4 [Jonson] no doubt thought the praise he has conceded to [Shakespeare] generous, and esteemed himself...the better poet of the two.
    ShP 4.205 3 ...[the Shakspeare Society] have gleaned a few facts touching the property, and dealings in regard to property, of the poet [Shakespeare].
    ShP 4.209 10 Who ever read the volume of [Shakespeare's] Sonnets without finding that the poet had there revealed...the lore of friendship and of love;...
    ShP 4.210 12 Some able and appreciating critics think...that [Shakespeare] is falsely judged as poet and philosopher.
    ShP 4.213 13 This power...of transferring the inmost truth of things into music and verse, makes [Shakespeare] the type of the poet...
    ShP 4.215 22 One more royal trait properly belongs to the poet.
    ShP 4.215 23 One more royal trait properly belongs to the poet. I mean his cheerfulness, without which no man can be a poet...
    ShP 4.218 23 ...it must even go into the world's history that the best poet [Shakespeare] led an obscure and profane life, using his genius for the public amusement.
    GoW 4.263 8 ...as our German poet said, Some god gave me the power to paint what I suffer.
    GoW 4.270 9 I described Bonaparte as a representative of the popular external life and aims of the nineteenth century. Its other half, its poet, is Goethe...
    GoW 4.270 20 [Goethe] appears at a time...when, in the absence of heroic characters, a social comfort and cooperation have come in. There is no poet, but scores of poetic writers;...
    GoW 4.272 15 [Goethe's Helena] are...elaborate forms to which the poet has confided the results of eighty years of observation.
    GoW 4.272 19 Still [Goethe] is a poet,--poet of a prouder laurel than any contemporary...
    GoW 4.282 20 In England and America, one may be an adept in the writings of a Greek or Latin poet, without any poetic taste or fire.
    ET1 5.21 8 Lucretius [Wordsworth] esteems a far higher poet than Virgil;...
    ET1 5.23 5 ...recollecting myself, that I had come thus far to see a poet and he was chanting poems to me, I saw that [Wordsworth] was right and I was wrong...
    ET5 5.100 1 The Danish poet Oehlenschlager complains that who writes in Danish writes to two hundred readers.
    ET14 5.232 20 The [English] poet nimbly recovers himself from every sally of the imagination.
    ET14 5.233 14 When [the Englishman] is intellectual, and a poet or a philosopher, he carries the same hard truth and the same keen machinery into the mental sphere.
    ET14 5.253 16 The poet only sees [the reptile or the mollusk] as an inevitable step in the path of the Creator.
    ET14 5.255 8 No [English] poet dares murmur of beauty out of the precinct of his rhymes.
    ET14 5.257 21 ...he who aspires to be the English poet must be as large as London...
    ET16 5.284 9 We [Emerson and Carlyle] came to Wilton and to Wilton Hall...the frequent home of Sir Philip Sidney...where he conversed with Lord Brooke, a man of deep thought, and a poet...
    ET17 5.295 9 [Wordsworth] had thought an elder brother of Tennyson at first the better poet...
    F 6.1 6 Well might then the poet scorn/ To learn of scribe or courtier/ Hints writ in vaster character;/...
    F 6.11 6 ...all the legislation of the world cannot meddle or help to make a poet or a prince of [a man].
    F 6.18 4 Doubtless in every million there will be...a comic poet...
    Pow 6.74 23 The poet Campbell said that a man accustomed to work, was equal to any achievement he resolved on...
    Wth 6.108 6 We must have joiner, locksmith, planter, priest, poet, doctor, cook, weaver, ostler; each in turn, through the year.
    Wth 6.109 13 The ancient poet said, The gods sell all things at a fair price.
    Wth 6.124 12 The good poet [finds] fame and literary credit;...
    Ctr 6.139 16 ...the old English poet Gascoigne says, A boy is better unborn than untaught.
    Ctr 6.150 11 The best bribe which London offers to-day to the imagination is that in such a vast variety of people and conditions one can believe...that the poet, the mystic and the hero may hope to confront their counterparts.
    Ctr 6.151 18 An old poet says,--Go far and go sparing/...
    Ctr 6.157 10 The saint and poet seek privacy to ends the most public and universal...
    Ctr 6.157 18 The poet, as a craftsman, is only interested in the praise accorded to him...
    Ctr 6.157 21 The poet, as a craftsman, is only interested in the praise accorded to him, and not in the censure, though it be just. And the poor little poet hearkens only to that...
    Ctr 6.157 23 ...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...
    CbW 6.255 10 What would painter do, or what would poet or saint, but for crucifixions and hells?
    CbW 6.273 1 An Eastern poet...writes with sad truth:--He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,/ And he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere./
    Bty 6.296 11 A beautiful woman is a practical poet...
    Art2 7.43 21 ...[language] is not new-created by the poet for his own ends.
    Art2 7.46 17 In poetry, It is tradition more than invention that helps the poet to a good fable.
    Art2 7.49 15 The poet aims at getting observations without aim;...
    Art2 7.50 6 The first time you hear [good poetry], it sounds rather as if copied out of some invisible tablet in the Eternal mind than as if arbitrarily composed by the poet.
    Elo1 7.71 18 See with what care and pleasure the poet [Homer] brings [Ulysses] on the stage.
    Elo1 7.77 26 A greater power of carrying the thing loftily and with perfect assurance, would confound...poet and president...
    Elo1 7.90 2 The orator must be, to a certain extent, a poet.
    DL 7.122 17 I honor that man whose ambition it is...not to be a poet or a commander, but to be a master of living well...
    Farm 7.153 20 [The farmer] is a person whom a poet of any clime...would appreciate as being really a piece of the old Nature...
    WD 7.178 27 I am of the opinion of the poet Wordsworth, that there is no real happiness in this life but in intellect and virtue.
    WD 7.179 12 ...we do not listen with the best regard to the verses of a man who is only a poet...
    WD 7.182 17 The masters of English lyric wrote their songs [for joy]. It was a fine efflorescence of fine powers; as was said of the letters of the Frenchwoman,--the charming accident of their more charming existence. Then the poet is never the poorer for his song.
    Boks 7.198 11 You find in [Plato] that which you have already found in Homer...the poet converted to a philosopher...
    Boks 7.204 25 The poet Horace is the eye of the Augustan age;...
    Boks 7.212 19 ...in this rag-fair neither the Imagination...nor the Morals... are addressed. But though orator and poet be of this hunger party, the capacities remain.
    Boks 7.212 24 The man asks for a novel,--that is, asks leave for a few hours to be a poet...
    Clbs 7.231 3 Conversation in society is found to be on a platform so low as to exclude science, the saint and the poet.
    Clbs 7.245 23 The poet Marvell was wont to say that he would not drink wine with any one with whom he could not trust his life.
    Suc 7.284 10 ...Evelyn writes from Rome: Bernini, the Florentine sculptor, architect, painter and poet...gave a public opera, wherein he painted the scenes, cut the statues...
    Suc 7.306 17 There was never poet who had not the heart in the right place.
    OA 7.323 5 We still feel the force...of Goethe, the all-knowing poet;...
    OA 7.325 17 When I chanced to meet the poet Wordsworth...he told me that he had just had a fall and lost a tooth...
    OA 7.330 12 The day comes...when the admirable verse finds the poet to whom it belongs;...
    PI 8.8 23 Natural objects...are really parts of a symmetrical universe, like words of a sentence; and if their true order is found, the poet can read their divine significance orderly as in a Bible.
    PI 8.10 2 The poet who plays with [the law of correspondence] with most boldness best justifies himself;...
    PI 8.10 14 The metaphysician, the poet, only sees each animal form as an inevitable step in the path of the creating mind.
    PI 8.10 19 The poet knows the missing link by the joy it gives.
    PI 8.10 20 The poet gives us the eminent experiences only...
    PI 8.15 20 The poet accounts all productions and changes of Nature as the nouns of language...
    PI 8.17 1 ...the poet listens to conversation and beholds all objects in Nature, to give back, not them, but a new and transcendent whole.
    PI 8.17 16 The poet squanders on the hour an amount of life that would more than furnish the seventy years of the man that stands next him.
    PI 8.19 1 In the presence and conversation of a true poet, teeming with images to express his enlarging thought, his person, his form, grows larger to our fascinated eyes.
    PI 8.21 2 The poet contemplates the central identity...
    PI 8.21 15 I think the use or value of poetry to be the suggestion it affords of the flux or fugaciousness of the poet.
    PI 8.21 24 The poet has a logic, though it be subtile.
    PI 8.23 3 The poet discovers that what men value as substances have a higher value as symbols;...
    PI 8.26 17 ...when we describe man as poet...we speak of the potential or ideal man...
    PI 8.26 22 You must...find one faculty here, one there, to build the true poet withal.
    PI 8.27 9 ...as a talent [poetry] is a magnetic tenaciousness of an image, and by the treatment demonstrating that this pigment of thought is as palpable and objective to the poet as is the ground on which he stands...
    PI 8.29 15 I do not wish...to find that my poet is not partaker of the feast he spreads...
    PI 8.30 4 The only teller of news is the poet.
    PI 8.31 9 The poet writes from a real experience...
    PI 8.31 18 To the poet the world is virgin soil;...
    PI 8.32 13 ...the poet affirms the laws, prose busies itself with exceptions...
    PI 8.32 24 Later, the thought, the happy image which expressed it and which was a true experience of the poet, recurs to mind...
    PI 8.32 26 Later, the thought, the happy image which expressed it and which was a true experience of the poet, recurs to mind, and sends me back in search of the book. And I wish that the poet should foresee this habit of readers, and omit all but the important passages.
    PI 8.35 7 ...every man would be a poet if his intellectual digestion were perfect.
    PI 8.35 9 The test of the poet is the power to take the passing day...and hold it up to a divine reason...
    PI 8.36 10 ...there is entertainment and room for talent in the artist's selection of ancient or remote subjects; as when the poet goes to India, or to Rome, or to Persia, for his fable.
    PI 8.36 19 [The poet] is very well convinced that the great moments of life are those in which...the tritest and nearest ways and words and things have been illuminated into prophets and teachers. What else is it to be a poet?
    PI 8.37 12 ...we shall never understand political economy until Burns or Beranger or some poet shall teach it in songs...
    PI 8.37 16 The trait and test of the poet is that he builds, adds and affirms.
    PI 8.37 17 ...the poet says nothing but what helps somebody;...
    PI 8.38 4 A poet comes who lifts the veil;...
    PI 8.39 1 ...there is a third step which poetry takes...namely, creation... when the poet invents the fable, and invents the language which his heroes speak.
    PI 8.39 8 ...poetry is science, and the poet a truer logician.
    PI 8.39 10 Men in the courts or in the street think themselves logical and the poet whimsical.
    PI 8.40 20 These successes are not less admirable and astonishing to the poet than they are to his audience.
    PI 8.41 22 ...the poet sees the horizon...
    PI 8.42 10 The poet is enamoured of thoughts and laws.
    PI 8.43 10 I have heard that the Germans think the creator of Trim and Uncle Toby...a greater poet than Cowper...
    PI 8.43 21 ...the poet creates his persons, and then watches and relates what they do and say.
    PI 8.43 26 The gushing fulness of speech belongs to the poet...
    PI 8.44 22 We all have one key to this miracle of the poet...one key, namely, dreams.
    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 8.49 12 [The elemental forces] furnish the poet with grander pairs and alternations...
    PI 8.50 11 Thomas Taylor...is really...a better poet...than any man between Milton and Wordsworth.
    PI 8.50 12 Thomas Taylor...is really...a better poet, or perhaps I should say a better feeder to a poet, than any man between Milton and Wordsworth.
    PI 8.53 2 The poet, like a delighted boy, brings you heaps of rainbow-bubbles... instead of a few drops of soap and water.
    PI 8.54 24 ...the poem is made up of lines each of which fills the ear of the poet in its turn...
    PI 8.56 11 The critic, the philosopher, is a failed poet.
    PI 8.65 1 The poet who shall use Nature as his hieroglyphic must have an adequate message to convey thereby.
    PI 8.66 6 The poet must let Humanity sit with the Muse in his head...
    PI 8.68 14 The poet should rejoice if he has taught us to despise his song;...
    PI 8.70 25 The poet is rare because he must be exquisitely vital and sympathetic, and, at the same time, immovably centred.
    PI 8.71 9 ...the poet complains that the solid men leave out the sky.
    PI 8.71 14 ...you must have the vivacity of the poet to perceive in the thought its futurities.
    PI 8.71 15 The poet is representative...
    PI 8.72 13 The problem of the poet is to unite freedom with precision;...
    PI 8.72 25 Let the poet, of all men, stop with his inspiration.
    Elo2 8.114 11 ...you may find [the orator] in some lowly Bethel, by the seaside, where a hard-featured, scarred and wrinkled Methodist becomes the poet of the sailor and the fisherman...
    Elo2 8.121 17 The Persian poet Saadi tells us that a person with a disagreeable voice was reading the Koran aloud...
    Res 8.139 27 [Nature] shows us only surfaces, but she is million fathoms deep. What spaces! what durations!...in humanity...millions of lives to add only sentiments and guesses, which at last, gathered in by an ear of sensibility, make the furniture of the poet.
    QO 8.182 1 ...what we daily observe in regard to the bon-mots that circulate in society...the same growth befalls mythology: the legend is tossed from believer to poet, from poet to believer...
    QO 8.182 2 ...what we daily observe in regard to the bon-mots that circulate in society...the same growth befalls mythology: the legend is tossed from believer to poet, from poet to believer...
    QO 8.193 14 We admire that poetry which no man wrote,-no poet less than the genius of humanity itself...
    QO 8.203 22 ...no man suspects the superior merit of [Cook's or Henry's] description, until...the artist arrive, and mix so much art with their picture that the incomparable advantage of the first narrative appears. For the same reason we dislike that the poet should choose an antique or far-fetched subject for his muse...
    PC 8.220 17 How much more are...the wise and good souls...Alfred the king, Shakspeare the poet, Newton the philosopher...than the foolish and sensual millions around them!
    PC 8.226 11 The poet Wordsworth asked, What one is, why may not millions be? Why not?
    PPo 8.247 6 That hardihood and self-equality of every sound nature...which entitle the poet to speak with authority...are in Hafiz...
    PPo 8.248 2 What is pent and smouldered in the dumb actor, is not pent in the poet...
    PPo 8.251 1 ...Hafiz is a poet for poets...
    PPo 8.252 4 The [Persian] law of the ghaselle, or shorter ode, requires that the poet insert his name in the last stanza.
    Insp 8.271 3 The poet cannot see a natural phenomenon which does not express to him a correspondent fact in his mental experience;...
    Insp 8.271 20 Every real step is by what a poet called lyrical glances...
    Insp 8.272 12 The toper finds, without asking, the road to the tavern, but the poet does not know the pitcher that holds his nectar.
    Insp 8.277 13 ...a religious poet once told me that he valued his poems, not because they were his, but because they were not.
    Insp 8.286 8 ...I thank the annoying insect/ For many a golden hour./ Stand, then, for me, ye tormenting creatures,/ Highly praised by the poet/ As the true Musagetes./
    Grts 8.305 25 ...there is not a piece of Nature in any kind but a man is born who...aims...to dedicate himself to that. Then there is the poet, the philosopher...
    Imtl 8.325 25 [The Greek]...built his beautiful tombs at Pompeii. The poet Shelley says of these delicately carved white marble cells, They seem not so much hiding places of that which must decay, as voluptuous chambers for immortal spirits.
    Imtl 8.339 10 Every really able man...a poet, a painter,-considers his work...as far short of what it should be.
    Imtl 8.347 2 You shall not say, O my bishop, O my pastor, is there any resurrection? What do you think? Did Dr. Channing believe that we should know each other? Did Wesley? did Butler? did Fenelon? What questions are these! Go read Milton, Shakspeare or any truly ideal poet.
    Aris 10.44 8 ...the philosopher may well say, Let me see his brain, and I will tell you if he shall be poet, king...
    Aris 10.44 23 If I bring another [man into an estate], he sees what he should do with it. He appreciates the...land fit for...pasturage, wood-lot, cranberry-meadow; but just as easily he...could lay his hand as readily on one as on another point in that series which opens the capability to the last point. The poet sees wishfully enough the result;...
    Aris 10.52 20 Genius...the power to affect the Imagination, as possessed by the orator, the poet, the novelist or the artist,-has a royal right in all possessions and privileges...
    Aris 10.53 11 Like a great general, or a great poet...[the eloquent man] may wear his coat out at elbows...if he will.
    Aris 10.64 3 ...shame to the fop of learning and philosophy...who abandons his right position of being priest and poet of these impious and unpoetic doers of God's work.
    PerF 10.85 1 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;...
    Edc1 10.150 27 What poet will [the college] breed to sing to the human race?
    Edc1 10.154 6 The advantages of this system of emulation and display are so prompt and obvious...it...is of so easy application, needing no sage or poet...that it is not strange that this calomel of culture should be a popular medicine.
    SovE 10.185 21 The finer the sense of justice, the better poet.
    SovE 10.191 13 An Eastern poet...said that God had made justice so dear to the heart of Nature that, if any injustice lurked anywhere under the sky, the blue vault would shrivel to a snake-skin and cast it out by spasms.
    Prch 10.226 9 The poet Wordsworth greeted even the steam-engine and railroads;...
    Prch 10.230 12 [The man of practice or worldly force] is sincere and ardent in his vocation, and plunged in it. Let priest or poet be as good in theirs.
    MoL 10.253 24 [Pytheas] came to the poet Pindar and wished him to write an ode in his praise...
    Schr 10.264 22 The men committed by profession as well as by bias to study, the clergyman, the chemist, the astronomer, the metaphysician, the poet, talk hard and worldly...
    Schr 10.264 24 The poet and the citizen perfectly agree in conversation on the wise life.
    Schr 10.264 25 The poet counsels his own son as if he were a merchant.
    Schr 10.264 26 The poet with poets betrays no amiable weakness.
    Schr 10.265 13 ...[poets] sit white over their stoves, and talk themselves hoarse over the...the effeminacy of book-makers. But...at the reading in solitude of some moving image of a wise poet, this grave conclusion is blown out of memory;...
    Schr 10.265 15 ...at a single strain of a bugle out of a grove...the poet replaces all this cowardly Self-denial and God-denial of the literary class with the conviction that to one poetic success the world will surrender on its knees.
    Schr 10.266 9 [Nature]...comes in with a new ravishing experience and makes the old time ridiculous. Every poet knows the unspeakable hope...
    Schr 10.269 19 The poet writes his verse on a scrap of paper, and instantly the desire and love of all mankind take charge of it...
    Plu 10.298 2 ...though [Plutarch] never used verse, he had many qualities of the poet...
    Plu 10.299 5 A poet in verse or prose must have a sensuous eye...
    Plu 10.300 20 No poet could illustrate his thought with more novel or striking similes or happier anecdotes [than does Plutarch].
    Plu 10.301 22 A poet might rhyme all day with hints drawn from Plutarch...
    Plu 10.303 19 [Plutarch's] delight in poetry makes him cite with joy the speech of Gorgias, that the tragic poet who deceived was juster than he who deceived not...
    Plu 10.304 4 Many examples might be cited [in Plutarch] of nervous expression and happy allusion, that indicate a poet and an orator...
    Plu 10.310 17 [Plutarch's] Natural History is that of a lover and poet...
    LLNE 10.338 8 The German poet Goethe revolted against the science of the day...
    LLNE 10.350 21 It takes sixteen hundred and eighty men to make one Man, complete in all the faculties; that is, to be sure that you have got...a barber, a poet, a judge...and so on.
    EWI 11.137 3 All the great geniuses of the British senate...ranged themselves on [emancipation's] side; the poet Cowper wrote for it...
    EWI 11.137 8 ...every liberal mind, poet, preacher, moralist, statesman, has had the fortune to appear somewhere for this cause [emancipation in the West Indies].
    FSLC 11.198 21 These resistances [to the Fugitive Slave Law] appear...in the retributions which speak so loud in every part of this business, that I think a tragic poet will know how to make it a lesson for all ages.
    EPro 11.320 19 The government has assured itself of the best constituency in the world...every poet, every philosopher...all rally to its support.
    SMC 11.351 23 'T is certain that a plain stone like this [the Concord Monument]...becomes a sentiment, a poet, a prophet, an orator...
    SMC 11.353 10 War, says the poet,...is the arduous strife,/ To which the triumph of all good is given./
    Wom 11.416 8 ...that Cause [antagonism to Slavery] turned out to be a great scholar. He was a terrible metaphysician. He was a jurist, a poet, a divine.
    RBur 11.440 4 ...Robert Burns, the poet of the middle class, represents in the mind of men to-day that great uprising of the middle class...
    RBur 11.441 12 ...how true a poet is [Burns]! And the poet, too, of poor men...
    RBur 11.442 9 ...as he was thus the poet of the poor, anxious, cheerful, working humanity, so had [Burns] the language of low life.
    Shak1 11.448 9 Wherever there are men, and in the degree in which they are civil...[Shakespeare] has risen to his place as the first poet of the world.
    Shak1 11.448 26 [Shakespeare] fulfilled the famous prophecy of Socrates, that the poet most excellent in tragedy would be most excellent in comedy...
    Scot 11.467 13 What an ornament and safeguard is humor! Far better than wit for a poet and writer.
    CPL 11.503 25 Every one of us is always in search of his friend, and when unexpectedly he finds a stranger enjoying the rare poet or thinker who is dear to his own solitude,-it is like finding a brother.
    FRep 11.512 9 The theatre avails itself of the best talent of poet, of painter, and of amateur of taste, to make the ensemble of dramatic effect.
    PLT 12.14 14 The poet sees wholes and avoids analysis;...
    PLT 12.14 22 The poet is in the natural attitude;...
    PLT 12.29 5 To the poet all sounds and words are melodies and rhythms.
    II 12.71 21 The poet is incredible, inexplicable.
    II 12.71 23 The poet works to an end above his will...
    II 12.86 11 His art shall suffice this artist...his inspiration this poet.
    Mem 12.92 9 [Memory] is the companion, this the tutor, the poet, the library, with which you travel.
    Mem 12.102 25 The poet, the philosopher, lamed, old, blind, sick, yet disputing the ground inch by inch against fortune, finds a strength against the wrecks and decays sometimes more invulnerable than the heyday of youth and talent.
    CInt 12.119 11 I value dearly the poet who knows his art so well that, when his voice vibrates, it fills the hearer with sympathetic song...
    CInt 12.122 11 The poet does not believe in his poetry.
    CInt 12.125 5 ...unless...the professor...takes care to interpose a certain relief and cherishing and reverence for the wild poet and dawning philosopher he has detected in his classes, that will happen which has happened so often, that the best scholar, he for whom colleges exist, finds himself a stranger and an orphan therein.
    CInt 12.126 18 ...all the youth come out [of Harvard College] decrepit citizens; not a prophet, not a poet, not a daimon, but is gagged and stifled or driven away.
    CL 12.154 24 Dr. Johnson said of the Scotch mountains, The appearance is that of matter...dismissed by Nature from her care. The poor blear-eyed doctor was no poet.
    CL 12.160 4 I hold all these opinions on the power of the air to be substantially true. The poet affirms them;...
    Milt1 12.247 10 ...the new-found book having in itself less attraction than any other work of Milton, the curiosity of the public as quickly subsided, and left the poet to the enjoyment of his permanent fame...
    Milt1 12.247 16 ...if the new and temporary renown of the poet is silent again, it is nevertheless true that [Milton] has gained, in this age, some increase of permanent praise.
    Milt1 12.248 11 ...the new criticism indicated a change in the public taste, and a change which the poet [Milton] himself might claim to have wrought.
    Milt1 12.248 16 In his lifetime, [Milton] was little or not at all known as a poet...
    Milt1 12.252 19 We think we have seen and heard criticism upon [Milton' s] poems, which the bard himself would have more valued than the recorded praise of Dryden, Addison and Johnson, because it...was...more welcome to the poet than the general and vague acknowledgment of his genius by those able but unsympathizing critics.
    Milt1 12.253 23 As a poet, Shakspeare undoubtedly transcends, and far surpasses [Milton] in his popularity with foreign nations;...
    Milt1 12.254 21 Better than any other [Milton] has discharged the office of every great man, namely...to draw after Nature a life of man, exhibiting such a composition of grace, of strength and of virtue, as poet had not described nor hero lived.
    Milt1 12.274 23 The perception we have attributed to Milton, of a purer ideal of humanity, modifies his poetic genius. The man is paramount to the poet.
    Milt1 12.275 25 ...in Paradise Regained, we have the most distinct marks of the progress of the poet's mind, in the revision and enlargement of his religious opinions. This may be thought to abridge his praise as a poet.
    Milt1 12.276 2 It is true of Homer and Shakspeare...that...the poet towers to the sky, whilst the man quite disappears.
    Milt1 12.276 15 Like prophets, [Homer and Shakespeare] seem but imperfectly aware of the import of their own utterances. We hesitate to say such things, and say them only to the unpleasing dualism, when the man and the poet show like a double consciousness.
    ACri 12.283 9 An enumeration of the few principal weapons of the poet or writer will at once suggest their value.
    ACri 12.288 12 ...some men swear with genius. I knew a poet in whose talent Nature carried this freak so far that his only graceful verses were pretty blasphemies.
    ACri 12.290 16 What the poet omits exalts every syllable that he writes.
    ACri 12.300 4 The power of the poet is in controlling these symbols;...
    ACri 12.305 15 Criticism is an art when it does not stop at the words of the poet...
    ACri 12.305 17 Criticism is an art when it...looks at...the essential quality of [the poet's] mind. Then the critic is poet.
    MLit 12.312 18 The poetry and speculation of the age are marked by a certain philosophic turn, which discriminates them from the works of earlier times. The poet is not content to see how Fair hangs the apple from the rock...
    MLit 12.319 17 Shelley, though a poetic mind, is never a poet.
    MLit 12.320 5 ...whilst every line of the true poet will be genuine, he is in a boundless power and freedom to say a million things.
    MLit 12.320 16 More than any poet [Wordsworth's] success has been not his own but that of the idea which he shared with his coevals...
    MLit 12.322 12 ...of all men he who has united in himself...the tendencies of the era, is the German poet, naturalist and philosopher, Goethe.
    MLit 12.330 24 The vicious conventions...which the poet should explode at his touch, stand [in Wilhelm Meister] for all they are worth in the newspaper.
    MLit 12.331 4 Goethe...must be set down as the poet of the Actual, not of the Ideal;...
    MLit 12.331 5 Goethe...must be set down as...the poet of limitation, not of possibility;...
    MLit 12.331 8 Goethe...must be set down as...the poet...of this world, and not of religion and hope; in short, if we may say so, the poet of prose, and not of poetry.
    MLit 12.333 16 What is Austria? What is England? What is our graduated and petrified social scale of ranks and employments? Shall not a poet redeem us from these idolatries...
    MLit 12.335 21 [The Genius of the time] will write in a higher spirit and a wider knowledge and with a grander practical aim than ever yet guided the pen of poet.
    WSL 12.346 15 [Landor] was one of the first to pronounce Wordsworth the great poet of the age...
    WSL 12.346 20 ...[Landor] is not a poet or a philosopher.
    EurB 12.366 6 The poet demands all gifts...
    EurB 12.366 8 The poet, like the electric rod, must reach from a point nearer the sky than all surrounding objects, down to the earth, and into the dark wet soil, or neither is of use.
    EurB 12.366 11 The poet must not only converse with pure thought, but he must demonstrate it almost to the senses.
    EurB 12.367 23 ...[Wordsworth] accepted the call to be a poet...
    EurB 12.369 13 ...the Court Journals and Literary Gazettes were not well pleased, and voted the poet [Wordsworth] a bore.
    EurB 12.370 8 The elegance, the wit and subtlety of this writer [Tennyson]...discriminate the musky poet of gardens and conservatories...
    EurB 12.371 15 The best songs in English poetry are by that heavy, hard, pedantic poet, Ben Jonson.
    PPr 12.383 7 ...the poet knows well that a little time will do more than the most puissant genius.
    PPr 12.383 20 The poet cannot descend into the turbid present without injury to his rarest gifts.
    PPr 12.383 27 ...when the political aspects are so calamitous that the sympathies of the man overpower the habits of the poet, a higher than literary inspiration may succor him.
    PPr 12.391 15 Carlyle is a poet who is altogether too burly in his frame and habit to submit to the limits of metre.
    Let 12.400 15 It is heartrending to see your [German] poet, your artist, and all who still revere genius...

Poet, n. (2)

    Pt1 3.4 25 ...this hidden truth, that the fountains whence all this river of Time and its creatures floweth are intrinsically ideal and beautiful, draws us to the consideration of the nature and functions of the Poet, or the man of Beauty;...
    PI 8.65 4 ...when we speak of the Poet in any high sense, we are driven to such examples as Zoroaster and Plato...with their moral burdens.

Poetarum, Corpus, n. (1)

    ET12 5.206 26 ...it is certain that a Senior Classic [at Eton] can quote correctly from the Corpus Poetarum...

poetic, adj. (113)

    DSA 1.129 17 Christianity became a Mythus, as the poetic teaching of Greece and of Egypt, before.
    DSA 1.139 14 There is poetic truth concealed in all the commonplaces of prayer and of sermons...
    MN 1.201 13 When we behold the landscape in a poetic spirit, we do not reckon individuals.
    MR 1.229 10 ...let life be fair and poetic, and the scholars will gladly be lovers...
    LT 1.271 27 Why should [the manner of life we lead] not be poetic...
    LT 1.277 11 [The Reforms]...present no more poetic image to the mind than the evil tradition which they reprobated.
    YA 1.369 12 Whatever events in progress shall go to disgust men with cities...will further the most poetic of all the occupations of real life...
    Fdsp 2.210 13 Should not the society of my friend be to me poetic...
    Hsm1 2.254 26 ...without railing or precision [the great man's] living is natural and poetic.
    OS 2.290 13 The more cultivated, in their account of their own experience, cull out the pleasing, poetic circumstance...
    Art1 2.367 12 [Men] reject life as prosaic, and create a death which they call poetic.
    Pt1 3.22 10 ...language is made up of images or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin.
    Pt1 3.30 10 We are like persons who come out of a cave or cellar into the open air. This is the effect on us of tropes, fables, oracles and all poetic forms.
    Nat2 3.174 10 These bribe and invite; not kings, not palaces, not men, not women, but these tender and poetic stars, eloquent of secret promises.
    Pol1 3.201 6 What the tender poetic youth dreams, and prays, and paints to-day... shall presently be the resolutions of public bodies;...
    Pol1 3.216 23 [The wise man] has no personal friends, for he who has the spell to draw the prayer and piety of all men unto him needs not husband and educate a few to share with him a select and poetic life.
    NER 3.281 3 Let a clear, apprehensive mind...converse with the most commanding poetic genius, I think it would appear that there was no inequality such as men fancy, between them;...
    UGM 4.3 6 All mythology opens with demigods, and the circumstance is high and poetic;...
    PPh 4.43 9 Plato...mainly is not a poet because he chose to use the poetic gift to an ulterior purpose.
    PPh 4.55 23 ...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...this command of two elements must explain the power and the charm of Plato.
    PPh 4.61 11 [Plato] has reason, as all the philosophic and poetic class have...
    PPh 4.61 19 [Plato] never...catches us up into poetic raptures.
    PNR 4.87 11 [Plato's] thoughts, in sparkles of light, had appeared often to pious and to poetic souls;...
    SwM 4.107 22 A poetic anatomist, in our own day, teaches that a snake, being a horizontal line, and man, being an erect line, constitute a right angle;...
    SwM 4.111 19 This startling reappearance of Swedenborg...is not the least remarkable fact in his history. Aided it is said by the munificence of Mr. Clissold, and also by his literary skill, this piece of poetic justice is done.
    SwM 4.112 16 It is remarkable that this sublime genius [Swedenborg]...in a book [The Animal Kingdom] whose genius is a daring poetic synthesis, claims to confine himself to a rigid experience.
    SwM 4.125 13 [To Swedenborg] Nothing can resist states: every thing gravitates: like will to like: what we call poetic justice takes effect on the spot.
    SwM 4.126 15 [Swedenborg] delivers golden sayings which express with singular beauty the ethical laws;...Ends always ascend as nature descends. And the truly poetic account of the writing in the inmost heaven, which, as it consists of inflexions according to the form of heaven, can be read without instruction.
    SwM 4.143 18 It is remarkable that this man [Swedenborg], who, by his perception of symbols, saw the poetic construction of things...remained entirely devoid of the whole apparatus of poetic expression...
    SwM 4.143 21 It is remarkable that this man [Swedenborg]...remained entirely devoid of the whole apparatus of poetic expression...
    ShP 4.195 1 This balance-wheel, which the sculptor found in architecture, the perilous irritability of poetic talent found in the accumulated dramatic materials to which the people were already wonted...
    ShP 4.214 19 ...like the tone of voice of some incomparable person, so [are Shakespeare's sonnets] a speech of poetic beings...
    NMW 4.256 24 Bonaparte may be said to represent the whole history of this [democrat] party, its youth and its age; yes, and with poetic justice its fate, in his own.
    GoW 4.270 20 [Goethe] appears at a time...when, in the absence of heroic characters, a social comfort and cooperation have come in. There is no poet, but scores of poetic writers;...
    GoW 4.272 10 [Goethe's] Helena...is...the work of one who found himself the master of histories, mythologies, philosophies, sciences and national literatures, in the encyclopaedical manner in which modern erudition... researches into...geology, chemistry, astronomy; and every one of these kingdoms assuming a certain aerial and poetic character, by reason of the multitude.
    GoW 4.282 21 In England and America, one may be an adept in the writings of a Greek or Latin poet, without any poetic taste or fire.
    GoW 4.289 3 In this aim of culture, which is the genius of [Goethe's] works, is their power. ... The surrender to the torrent of poetic inspiration is higher;...
    ET4 5.67 8 On the English face are combined decision and nerve with the fair complexion, blue eyes and open and florid aspect. Hence the love of truth, hence the sensibility, the fine perception and poetic construction.
    ET8 5.130 17 [The English] are full of coarse strength, rude exercise, butcher's meat and sound sleep; and suspect any poetic insinuation or any hint for the conduct of life which reflects on this animal existence...
    ET12 5.213 10 ...when you have settled it that the universities are moribund, out comes a poetic influence from the heart of Oxford...
    ET14 5.235 24 For two centuries England was philosophic, religious, poetic.
    ET14 5.239 18 Whoever...requires heaps of facts before any theories can be attempted, has no poetic power...
    ET14 5.239 22 The Platonic is the poetic tendency;...
    ET14 5.253 13 [English science] wants the connection which is the test of genius. The science is false by not being poetic.
    ET14 5.258 8 That expansiveness which is the essence of the poetic element, [modern English poets] have not.
    ET17 5.295 6 Tennyson [Wordsworth] thinks a right poetic genius, though with some affectation.
    ET17 5.298 6 [Wordsworth's] adherence to his poetic creed rested on real inspirations.
    F 6.12 22 It was a poetic attempt to lift this mountain of Fate...which led the Hindoos to say, Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
    F 6.32 11 ...learn to skate, and the ice will give you a graceful, sweet, and poetic motion.
    Ill 6.322 7 ...poetic justice is done in dreams also.
    Civ 7.24 4 ...a severe morality gives that essential charm to woman which educates all that is delicate, poetic and self-sacrificing;...
    Elo1 7.93 24 Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative. Afterwards, it may warm itself until it...speaks only through the most poetic forms;...
    Elo1 7.99 27 [Eloquence's] great masters...never permitted any talent,-- neither voice, rhythm, poetic power, anecdote, sarcasm--to appear for show;...
    PI 8.7 16 The electric word pronounced by John Hunter a hundred years ago, arrested and progressive development...gave the poetic key to Natural Science...
    PI 8.7 24 ...the severest analyzer...is forced to keep the poetic curve of Nature...
    PI 8.8 10 In botany we have...the poetic perception of metamorphosis...
    PI 8.30 7 The right poetic mood is or makes a more complete sensibility...
    PI 8.31 16 ...if your verse has not a necessary and autobiographic basis, though under whatever gay poetic veils, it shall not waste my time.
    PI 8.34 11 ...every word in language...becomes poetic in the hands of a higher thought.
    PI 8.34 12 The...measure of poetic genius is the power to read the poetry of affairs...
    PI 8.53 24 Outside of the nursery the beginning of literature is the prayers of a people, and they are always hymns, poetic...
    PI 8.63 26 The poetic gift we want...
    PI 8.68 22 In proportion as a man's life comes into union with truth, his thoughts approach to a parallelism with the currents of natural laws, so that he easily...uses the ecstatic or poetic speech.
    Elo2 8.112 11 There are not only the wants of the intellectual and learned and poetic men and women to be met...
    PC 8.211 18 The correlation of forces and the polarization of light...have affected an imaginative race like poetic inspirations.
    PPo 8.253 15 ...we must try to give some of [Hafiz's] poetic flourishes the metrical form which they seem to require...
    Insp 8.284 15 ...I am...glad to find the dull rock itself to be deluged with Deity,-to be theist, Christian, poetic.
    Insp 8.289 11 ...the mixture of lie in truth, and the experience of poetic creativeness...these are the types or conditions of this power [of novelty].
    Imtl 8.339 19 ...a higher poetic use must be made of the legend [of the Wandering Jew].
    Dem1 10.7 19 Dreams have a poetic integrity and truth.
    Dem1 10.19 12 ...however poetic these twilights of thought, I like daylight...
    Chr2 10.101 5 [The man of profound moral sentiment's] actions are poetic and miraculous in [men's] eyes.
    Supl 10.176 19 ...in the East [the superlative] is animated, it is pertinent, pleasing, poetic.
    SovE 10.213 2 ...to [innocence] come grandeur of situation and poetic perception...
    Prch 10.226 11 ...when [the railroads] came into his poetic Westmoreland... [Wordsworth] yet manned himself to say,-In spite of all that Beauty may disown/ In your harsh features, Nature doth embrace/ Her lawful offspring in man's art/...
    Prch 10.228 2 Always put the best interpretation on a tenet. Why not on Christianity, wholesome, sweet and poetic?
    Schr 10.265 17 ...at a single strain of a bugle out of a grove...the poet replaces all this cowardly Self-denial and God-denial of the literary class with the conviction that to one poetic success the world will surrender on its knees.
    Plu 10.301 22 [Plutarch's] superstitions are poetic, aspiring, affirmative.
    Plu 10.303 23 It is a consequence of this poetic trait in his mind, that I confess that, in reading [Plutarch], I embrace the particulars...
    LLNE 10.333 19 Especially beautiful were [Everett's] poetic quotations.
    LLNE 10.355 8 ...like the dreams of poetic people on the first outbreak of the old French Revolution, so [the Fourierist community] would disappear in a slime of mire and blood.
    MMEm 10.408 20 ...the whim and petulance in which by diseased habit [Mary Moody Emerson] had grown to indulge without suspecting it, was burned up in the glow of her pure and poetic spirit, which dearly loved the Infinite.
    Thor 10.474 19 ...[Thoreau] found poetic suggestion in the humming of the telegraph-wire.
    Thor 10.474 27 [Thoreau] could not be deceived as to the presence or absence of the poetic element in any composition...
    Thor 10.475 6 ...[Thoreau] would have detected every live stanza or line in a volume [of poetry] and knew very well where to find an equal poetic charm in prose.
    Thor 10.475 21 ...[Thoreau] have not the poetic temperament, he never lacks the causal thought...
    Thor 10.476 1 [Thoreau]...liked to throw every thought into a symbol. The fact you tell is of no value, but only the impression. For this reason his presence was poetic...
    Thor 10.476 5 [Thoreau]...knew well how to throw a poetic veil over his experience.
    FSLN 11.243 26 ...I put it...to every poetic, every heroic, every religious heart, that not so is our learning...to be declared.
    TPar 11.286 26 ...we can hardly ascribe to [Theodore Parker's] mind the poetic element...
    TPar 11.287 1 A little more feeling of the poetic significance of his facts would have disqualified [Theodore Parker] for some of his severer offices to his generation.
    EPro 11.315 3 In so many arid forms which states encrust themselves with, once in a century...a poetic act and record occur.
    EdAd 11.392 1 Is the age we live in unfriendly...to that blending of the affections with the poetic faculty which has distinguished the Religious Ages?
    PLT 12.39 12 To us [a fact] had economic, but to the universe it has poetic relations...
    PLT 12.42 21 The highest measure of poetic power is such insight and faculty to fuse the circumstances of to-day as shall make transparent the whole web of circumstance and opinion in which the man finds himself...
    II 12.72 4 The poetic state given, a little more or a good deal more or less performance seems indifferent.
    CInt 12.113 4 The brute noise of cannon has...a most poetic echo in these days when it is an intrument of freedom...
    MAng1 12.231 11 ...is there not something affecting in the spectacle of an old man [Michelangelo], on the verge of ninety years, carrying steadily onward...his poetic conceptions into progressive execution...
    Milt1 12.258 3 ...[Milton] believed, his poetic vein only flowed from the autumnal to the vernal equinox;...
    Milt1 12.268 15 ...the invocations of the Eternal Spirit in the commencement of [Milton's] books are not poetic forms, but are thoughts...
    Milt1 12.274 22 The perception we have attributed to Milton, of a purer ideal of humanity, modifies his poetic genius.
    Milt1 12.277 26 Of [Milton's] prose in general, not the style alone but the argument also is poetic;...
    MLit 12.312 8 [The influence of Shakespeare] almost alone has called out the genius of the German nation into an activity which, spreading from the poetic into the scientific, religious and philosophical domains, has made theirs now at last the paramount intellectual influence of the world...
    MLit 12.319 16 Shelley, though a poetic mind, is never a poet.
    MLit 12.320 14 The fame of Wordsworth is a leading fact in modern literature, when it is considered...with what limited poetic talents his great and steadily growing dominion has been established.
    EurB 12.365 12 [Wordsworth] has the merit of just moral perception, but not that of deft poetic execution.
    EurB 12.367 14 ...[Wordsworth's] poems evince a power of diction that is no more rivalled by his contemporaries than is his poetic insight.
    EurB 12.372 17 The Talking Oak, though a little hurt by its wit and ingenuity, is beautiful, and the most poetic of the volume.
    EurB 12.374 1 Many of the details of this novel [Zanoni] preserve a poetic truth.
    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...
    PPr 12.387 9 ...if you should ask the contemporary, he would tell you, with pride or with regret (according as he was practical or poetic), that he had [no superstitions].
    PPr 12.387 12 ...[each age's] limitation assumes the poetic form of a beautiful superstition, as the dimness of our sight clothes the objects in the horizon with mist and color.
    Let 12.396 10 It is not for nothing, we assure ourselves...that sincere persons of all parties are demanding somewhat vital and poetic of our stagnant society.

poetical, adj. (9)

    Nat 1.8 9 When we speak of nature in this manner, we have a distinct but most poetical sense in the mind.
    Pt1 3.9 1 ...we do not speak now of men of poetical talents...
    Bhr 6.191 11 ...poets have often nothing poetical about them except their verses.
    PI 8.53 9 Lord Bacon, we are told, loved not to see poesy go on other feet than poetical dactyls and spondees;...
    Insp 8.287 11 Are you poetical, impatient of trade...
    LLNE 10.350 16 All these [the hyaena, the jackal, the gnat, the bug, the flea] shall be redressed by human culture, and the useful goat and dog and innocent poetical moth, or the wood-tick to consume decomposing wood, shall take their place.
    SlHr 10.445 19 The useful and practical super-abounded in [Samuel Hoar' s] mind, and to a degree which might be even comic to young and poetical persons.
    Shak1 11.453 16 Had [Shakespeare's plays] been published earlier, our forefathers, or the most poetical among them, might have stayed at home to read them.
    PLT 12.40 22 The game of Intellect is the perception that whatever befalls or can be stated is a universal proposition; and contrariwise, that every general statement is poetical again by being particularized or impersonated.

poetically, adv. (2)

    Pt1 3.6 23 ...the Universe has three children...which reappear under different names in every system of thought, whether they be called cause, operation and effect; or, more poetically, Jove, Pluto, Neptune;...
    MMEm 10.404 24 ...wonderfully as [Mary Moody Emerson] varies and poetically repeats that image [of the angel of Death] in every page and day, yet not less fondly and sublimely she returns to the other,-the grandeur of humility and privation...

poeticized, adj. (1)

    GoW 4.280 12 ...[Goethe's Milhelm Meister] is a poeticized civic and domestic story.

poetized, v. (1)

    AmS 1.110 24 ...the near, the low, the common, was explored and poetized.

poet-priest, n. (1)

    ShP 4.219 13 The world still wants its poet-priest...

Poetry and Truth out of my (1)

    GoW 4.285 21 [Goethe's] autobiography, under the title of Poetry and Truth out of my Life, is the expression of the idea...that a man exists for culture;...

Poetry, Epic, n. (1)

    FSLN 11.244 4 ...Liberty is...the Epic Poetry, the new religion, the chivalry of all gentlemen.

poetry, n. (354)

    Nat 1.3 7 Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition...
    Nat 1.29 8 As we go back in history, language becomes more picturesque, until its infancy, when it is all poetry;...
    Nat 1.58 27 It appears that motion, poetry...all tend to affect our convictions of the reality of the external world.
    Nat 1.69 26 ...poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.
    Nat 1.75 9 To the wise...a fact is true poetry...
    AmS 1.82 5 Who can doubt that poetry will revive and lead in a new age...
    AmS 1.87 26 [Nature] came to [the scholar] business; it went from him poetry.
    AmS 1.110 16 I read with some joy of the auspicious signs of the coming days, as they glimmer already through poetry and art...
    DSA 1.127 23 ...poetry, the ideal life, the holy life, exist as ancient history merely;...
    LE 1.157 1 ...the mark of American merit...in poetry...seems to be a certain grace without grandeur...
    LE 1.166 3 ...the moment [men] desert the tradition for a spontaneous thought, then poetry, wit, hope...all flock to their aid.
    LE 1.167 10 Poetry has scarce chanted its first song.
    LE 1.167 14 By Latin and English poetry we were born and bred in an oratorio of praises of nature...
    LE 1.170 23 As in poetry and history, so in the other departments.
    LE 1.185 26 When you shall say...I must eat the good of the land and let learning and romantic expectations go...then once more perish the buds of... poetry...
    MN 1.211 22 [This ecstatic state] respects...poetry, and not experiment;...
    MR 1.236 20 We must have a basis for...our delicate entertainments of poetry and philosophy, in the work of our hands.
    MR 1.241 19 ...where there is a fine organization, apt for poetry and philosophy, that individual finds himself compelled to wait on his thoughts;...
    MR 1.242 19 ...if a man find in himself any strong bias to poetry...that man...ought to ransom himself from the duties of economy by a certain rigor and privation in his habits.
    LT 1.261 13 The reason and influence of wealth...the tendencies which have acquired the name of Transcendentalism in Old and New England; the aspect of poetry, as the exponent and interpretation of these things;...these and other related topics will in turn come to be considered.
    LT 1.263 4 I do not wonder at the miracles which poetry attributes to the music of Orpheus...
    LT 1.283 11 ...the current literature and poetry with perverse ingenuity draw us away from life to solitude and meditation.
    LT 1.286 24 We have come to that which is the spring...of art and poetry;...
    Con 1.299 1 Conservatism makes no poetry...
    Con 1.322 5 ...wherever he sees anything that will keep men amused... poetry...or what not, [every honest fellow] must cry Hist-a-boy, and urge the game on.
    Tran 1.340 20 ...the tendency to respect the intuitions and to give them, at least in our creed, all authority over our experience, has deeply colored the conversation and poetry of the present day;...
    Hist 2.9 3 [Each man] must attain and maintain that lofty sight where... poetry and annals are alike.
    Hist 2.9 11 The Garden of Eden, the sun standing still in Gibeon, is poetry thenceforward to all nations.
    Hist 2.18 15 A lady with whom I was riding in the forest said to me that the woods always seemed to her to wait, as if the genii who inhabit them suspended their deeds until the wayfarer had passed onward; a thought which poetry has celebrated in the dance of the fairies, which breaks off on the approach of human feet.
    Hist 2.23 27 What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek... art and poetry...
    Hist 2.31 20 The power of music, the power of poetry, to unfix and...clap wings to solid nature, interprets the riddle of Orpheus.
    SL 2.143 9 What we call obscure condition or vulgar society is that condition and society whose poetry is not yet written...
    SL 2.153 25 ...when the empty book has gathered all its praise, and half the people say, What poetry! what genius! it still needs fuel to make fire.
    Lov1 2.175 5 ...no man ever forgot the visitations of that power to his heart and brain...which was the dawn in him of music, poetry, and art;...
    Lov1 2.180 9 ...of poetry the success is not attained when it lulls and satisfies...
    Lov1 2.185 26 Not always can...poetry...content the awful soul that dwells in clay.
    Fdsp 2.191 14 In poetry and in common speech the emotions of benevolence and complacency which are felt towards others are likened to the material effects of fire;...
    Fdsp 2.194 27 High thanks I owe you, excellent lovers, who...enlarge the meaning of all my thoughts. These are new poetry of the first Bard...
    Fdsp 2.195 1 High thanks I owe you, excellent lovers, who...enlarge the meaning of all my thoughts. These are...poetry without stop...
    Fdsp 2.195 2 High thanks I owe you, excellent lovers, who...enlarge the meaning of all my thoughts. These are...hymn, ode and epic, poetry still flowing...
    Fdsp 2.199 14 We are armed all over with subtle antagonisms, which, as soon as we meet...translate all poetry into stale prose.
    Fdsp 2.203 19 No man would think...of putting [a man I knew] off with any chat of markets or reading-rooms. But every man was constrained by so much sincerity to the like plaindealing, and...what poetry...he had, he did certainly show him.
    Prd1 2.221 12 ...I have the same title to write on prudence that I have to write on poetry or holiness.
    Prd1 2.231 1 Poetry and prudence should be coincident.
    Hsm1 2.245 18 ...there is in [the elder English dramatists'] plays a certain heroic cast of character and dialogue...wherein the speaker is...on such deep grounds of character, that the dialogue, on the slightest additional incident in the plot, rises naturally into poetry.
    OS 2.273 6 ...in languor, give us a strain of poetry...and we are refreshed;...
    OS 2.276 1 Those who are capable of humility, of justice, of love, of aspiration, stand already on a platform that commands...speech and poetry...
    OS 2.289 16 ...we...feel that the splendid works which [Shakspeare] has created, and which in other hours we extol as a sort of self-existent poetry, take no stronger hold of real nature than the shadow of a passing traveller on the rock.
    Cir 2.309 20 ...we see in the heyday of youth and poetry that [idealism] may be true...
    Int 2.346 13 This band of grandees...Synesius and the rest, have somewhat...so primary in their thinking, that it seems...to be at once poetry and music and dancing and astronomy and mathematics.
    Pt1 3.4 16 ...the highest minds of the world have never ceased to explore the...manifold meaning, of every sensuous fact;...Plutarch, Dante, Swedenborg, and the masters of sculpture, picture and poetry.
    Pt1 3.8 5 ...poetry was all written before time was...
    Pt1 3.10 27 It is much to know that poetry has been written this very day, under this very roof, by your side.
    Pt1 3.17 1 The people fancy they hate poetry...
    Pt1 3.17 20 The circumcision is an example of the power of poetry to raise the low and offensive.
    Pt1 3.19 1 Readers of poetry see the factory-village and the railway, and fancy that the poetry of the landscape is broken up by these;...
    Pt1 3.19 2 Readers of poetry see the factory-village and the railway, and fancy that the poetry of the landscape is broken up by these;...
    Pt1 3.22 6 Language is fossil poetry.
    Pt1 3.29 5 ...poetry is not Devil's wine, but God's wine.
    Exp 3.46 16 All our days are so unprofitable while they pass, that 't is wonderful where or when we ever got anything of this which we call wisdom, poetry, virtue.
    Exp 3.62 21 We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry and lifeless science, or sink into that of sensation. Between these extremes is the equator of life, of thought, of spirit, of poetry...
    Chr1 3.113 16 Poetry is joyful and strong as it draws its inspiration thence [from character].
    Nat2 3.177 26 Literature, poetry, science are the homage of man to this unfathomed secret [nature]...
    Nat2 3.190 13 Our music, our poetry, our language itself are not satisfactions...
    NR 3.231 11 Our proclivity to details cannot quite degrade our life and divest it of poetry.
    NR 3.234 10 In modern sculpture, picture and poetry, the beauty is miscellaneous;...
    NER 3.270 4 [A canine appetite for knowledge] gave the scholar...the power of poetry...
    NER 3.272 18 ...they hear music, or when they read poetry, [men] are radicals.
    PPh 4.39 8 A discipline [Plato] is in logic, arithmetic, taste, symmetry, poetry, language, rhetoric, ontology, morals or practical wisdom.
    PPh 4.56 4 Thought seeks to know unity in unity; poetry to show it by variety;...
    PPh 4.58 12 ...[Plato] believes that poetry, prophecy and the high insight are from a wisdom of which man is not master;...
    PPh 4.59 24 [Plato's] illustrations are poetry...
    PPh 4.61 13 [Plato] has reason, as all the philosophic and poetic class have: but he has also what they have not,--this strong solving sense to reconcile his poetry with the appearances of the world...
    PPh 4.70 5 ...the Banquet [of Plato] is a teaching in the same spirit [of ascension], familiar now to all the poetry and to all the sermons of the world, that the love of the sexes is initial, and symbolizes at a distance the passion of the soul for that immense lake of beauty it exists to seek.
    PNR 4.85 22 Ethical science was new and vacant when Plato could write thus:...no one has yet sufficiently investigated, either in poetry or prose writings,--how, namely, that injustice is the greatest of all the evils that the soul has within it, and justice the greatest good.
    PNR 4.88 26 [Plato's] writings have...the sempiternal youth of poetry.
    PNR 4.88 27 ...poetry has never soared higher than in the Timaeus and the Phaedrus.
    SwM 4.94 1 For other things, I make poetry of them; but the moral sentiment makes poetry of me.
    SwM 4.94 2 For other things, I make poetry of them; but the moral sentiment makes poetry of me.
    SwM 4.112 3 [Swedenborg's Animal Kingdom] was an anatomist's account of the human body, in the highest style of poetry.
    SwM 4.116 25 The fact [of Correspondence] thus explicitly stated [by Swedenborg] is implied in all poetry...
    SwM 4.144 12 The entire want of poetry in so transcendent a mind [as Swedenborg's] betokens the disease...
    MoS 4.176 9 ...common sense resumes its tyranny; we say, Well, the army, after all, is the gate to fame, manners and poetry...
    ShP 4.206 11 It is the essence of poetry to spring...from the invisible...
    ShP 4.213 18 Things were mirrored in [Shakespeare's] poetry without loss or blur...
    ShP 4.215 6 The finest poetry was first experience;...
    ShP 4.216 2 Epicurus relates that poetry hath such charms that a lover might forsake his mistress to partake of them.
    GoW 4.272 1 [Goethe's] Helena...is a philosophy of literature set in poetry;...
    GoW 4.273 21 [Goethe] has clothed our modern existence with poetry.
    GoW 4.274 24 [Goethe] treats nature...as the seven wise masters did,--and, with whatever loss of French tabulation and dissection, poetry and humanity remain to us;...
    GoW 4.280 10 The ardent and holy Novalis characterized the book [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] as thoroughly modern and prosaic; the romantic is completely levelled in it; so is the poetry of nature; the wonderful.
    GoW 4.284 5 There are nobler strains in poetry than any [Goethe] has sounded.
    ET1 5.13 7 When I rose to go, [Coleridge] said, I do not know whether you care about poetry...
    ET1 5.22 7 ...of poetry [Wordsworth] carries even hundreds of lines in his head before writing them.
    ET8 5.132 4 Of that constitutional force which yields the supplies of the day, [the English] have more than enough; the excess which creates...genius in poetry...
    ET11 5.187 12 [English nobility] is a romance adorning English life with a larger horizon; a midway heaven, fulfilling to their sense their fairy tales and poetry.
    ET12 5.213 15 ...the best poetry of England of this age, in the old forms, comes from two graduates at Cambridge.
    ET14 5.234 10 [The hard English mentality] is not less seen in poetry.
    ET14 5.234 23 Even in its elevations materialistic, [England's] poetry is common sense inspired;...
    ET14 5.239 1 Where [idealism] goes, is poetry, health and progress.
    ET14 5.239 11 ...wherever the mind takes a step, it is to put itself at one with a larger class, discerned beyond the lesser class with which it has been conversant. Hence, all poetry and all affirmative action comes.
    ET14 5.241 25 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. Of this kind is...[Bacon's] doctrine of poetry, which accommodates the shows of things to the desires of the mind...
    ET14 5.242 1 In England these [generalizations]...do all have a kind of filial retrospect to Plato and the Greeks. Of this kind is...the Zoroastrian definition of poetry, mystical, yet exact, apparent pictures of unapparent natures;...
    ET14 5.244 21 Milton...used this privilege [of generalization] sometimes in poetry, more rarely in prose.
    ET14 5.246 13 The essays, the fiction and the poetry of the day [in England] have the like municipal limits.
    ET14 5.254 21 ...[the English] fear the hostility of ideas, of poetry, or religion...
    ET14 5.255 8 The practical and comfortable oppress [the English] with inexorable claims, and the smallest fraction of power remains for heroism and poetry.
    ET14 5.255 24 ...poetry [in England] is degraded and made ornamental.
    ET14 5.255 25 Pope and his school wrote poetry fit to put round frosted cake.
    ET14 5.256 8 The poetry [of England] of course is low and prosaic;...
    ET14 5.256 17 Where is great design in modern English poetry?
    ET14 5.256 18 The English have lost sight of the fact that poetry exists to speak the spiritual law...
    ET14 5.256 27 ...if this religion is in the poetry, it raises us to some purpose...
    ET14 5.258 1 There are all degrees in poetry...
    ET15 5.262 19 The English do this [write for journals], as they write poetry, as they ride and box, by being educated to it.
    ET17 5.296 12 Miss Martineau...praised [Wordsworth] to me not for his poetry, but for thrift and economy;...
    ET17 5.297 26 ...there is something hard and sterile in [Wordsworth's] poetry...
    F 6.10 21 You may as well ask a loom which weaves huckabuck why it does not make cashmere, as expect poetry from this engineer...
    F 6.20 27 Neither brandy...nor poetry...can get rid of this limp band [of Fate].
    Pow 6.66 14 ...in representations of the Deity, painting, poetry, and popular religion have ever drawn the wrath from Hell.
    Wth 6.114 17 ...if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider...
    Ctr 6.140 14 There are people who...remain literalists, after hearing the music and poetry and rhetoric and wit of seventy or eighty years.
    Ctr 6.149 24 ...it requires a great many cultivated women...accustomed...to spectacles, pictures, sculpture, poetry...in order that you should have one Madame de Stael.
    Ctr 6.159 3 A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste or skill; as when we learn...of a living banker, his success in poetry;...
    Bhr 6.191 8 ...when a man does not write his poetry it escapes by other vents through him, instead of the one vent of writing;...
    Wsp 6.241 17 There will be a new church founded on moral science;...it will fast enough gather beauty, music, picture, poetry.
    CbW 6.271 16 ...if one comes who can...show [men]...what gifts they have...what access to poetry, religion...he wakes in them the feeling of worth...
    Bty 6.294 21 ...our art...reaches beauty by taking every superfluous ounce that can be spared from a wall, and keeping all its strength in the poetry of columns.
    Bty 6.305 19 ...the fact is familiar that...a phrase of poetry, plants wings at our shoulders;...
    Ill 6.317 17 'T is the charm of practical men that outside of their practicality are a certain poetry and play...
    Ill 6.323 6 I prefer...to be what cannot be skipped, or dissipated, or undermined, to all the eclat in the universe. This reality is the foundation of friendship, religion, poetry and art.
    Civ 7.24 14 Scraps of science, of thought, of poetry are in the coarsest sheet, so that in every house we hesitate to burn a newspaper until we have looked it through.
    Art2 7.43 10 Music, Eloquence, Poetry, Painting, Sculpture, Architecture. This is a rough enumeration of the Fine Arts. I omit Rhetoric, which only respects the form of eloquence and poetry.
    Art2 7.43 17 The basis of poetry is language...
    Art2 7.46 16 In poetry, It is tradition more than invention that helps the poet to a good fable.
    Art2 7.46 18 The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight which a verse gives in happy quotation than in the poem.
    Art2 7.50 1 In poetry, where every word is free, every word is necessary.
    Art2 7.50 2 Good poetry could not have been otherwise written than it is.
    Art2 7.52 18 Painting was called silent poetry, and poetry speaking painting.
    DL 7.106 12 [The child's] imaginative life dresses all things in their best. His fears adorn the dark parts with poetry.
    DL 7.120 9 ...who can see unmoved...the warm sympathy with which [the eager, blushing boys] kindle each other...with scraps of poetry or song...
    DL 7.127 16 We see on the lip of our companion the presence or absence of the great masters of thought and poetry to his mind.
    WD 7.173 25 ...as soon as the irrecoverable years have woven their blue glory between to-day and us these passing hours shall glitter and draw us as the wildest romance and the homes of beauty and poetry?
    WD 7.179 16 ...if a man is at once acquainted with the geometric foundations of things and with their festal splendor, his poetry is exact and his arithmetic musical.
    Boks 7.191 6 ...only poetry inspires poetry.
    Boks 7.197 16 It holds through all literature that our best history is still poetry.
    Boks 7.217 11 ...this passion for romance, and this disappointment, show how much we need real elevations and pure poetry...
    Boks 7.221 8 Another member [of the literary club] meantime shall as honestly search, sift and as truly report on British mythology...the histories of Brut, Merlin and Welsh poetry;...
    Cour 7.268 13 There is a courage in the treatment of every art by a master in architecture...in painting or in poetry...
    Cour 7.272 9 Poetry and eloquence catch the hint [of courage]...
    Suc 7.297 12 ...has [the scholar or writer] never found that there is a better poetry hinted in a boy's whistle of a tune...than in all his literary results?
    Suc 7.301 12 We bring a welcome to the highest lessons of religion and of poetry out of all proportion beyond our skill to teach.
    Suc 7.302 19 Fontenelle said: There are three things about which I have curiosity, though I know nothing of them,--music, poetry and love.
    OA 7.322 18 We still feel the force...of Michel Angelo, wearing the four crowns of architecture, sculpture, painting and poetry;...
    PI 8.16 22 In poetry we say we require the miracle.
    PI 8.17 4 Poetry is the perpetual endeavor to express the spirit of the thing...
    PI 8.19 9 Whilst common sense looks at things or visible Nature as real and final facts, poetry, or the imagination which dictates it, is a second sight...
    PI 8.19 15 Our best definition of poetry is one of the oldest sentences...
    PI 8.20 2 Bacon expressed the same sense in his definition, Poetry accommodates the shows of things to the desires of the mind;...
    PI 8.20 13 A symbol always stimulates the intellect; therefore is poetry ever the best reading.
    PI 8.20 25 Poetry, if perfected, is the only verity;...
    PI 8.21 14 I think the use or value of poetry to be the suggestion it affords of the flux or fugaciousness of the poet.
    PI 8.21 26 Poetry must first be good sense, though it is something better.
    PI 8.22 10 Charles James Fox thought Poetry the great refreshment of the human mind...
    PI 8.22 13 Charles James Fox thought...that men first found out they had minds, by making and tasting poetry.
    PI 8.23 11 ...good poetry is always personification...
    PI 8.25 6 When people tell me they do not relish poetry, and bring me Shelley...I am quite of their mind.
    PI 8.25 10 When people tell me they do not relish poetry, and bring me Shelley...to show that it has no charm, I am quite of their mind. But this dislike of the books only proves their liking of poetry.
    PI 8.25 24 [People] like poetry without knowing it as such.
    PI 8.27 2 ...poetry is the only verity...
    PI 8.29 18 [My poet] must believe in his poetry.
    PI 8.30 2 ...the fault of our popular poetry is that it is not sincere.
    PI 8.30 14 ...in poetry, the master rushes to deliver his thought, and the words and images fly to him to express it;...
    PI 8.31 6 ...high poetry exceeds the fact...
    PI 8.31 18 ...poetry is faith.
    PI 8.34 13 The...measure of poetic genius is the power to read the poetry of affairs...
    PI 8.37 8 There is no subject that does not belong to [the poet],--politics, economy, manufactures and stock-brokerage...only these things, placed in their true order, are poetry;...
    PI 8.37 15 Poetry is the gai science.
    PI 8.37 25 Poetry is the consolation of mortal men.
    PI 8.38 22 Ben Jonson said, The principal end of poetry is to inform men in the just reason of living.
    PI 8.38 25 ...there is a third step which poetry takes...namely, creation...
    PI 8.39 8 ...poetry is science...
    PI 8.40 3 The reason we set so high a value on any poetry...is that it is a new work of Nature...
    PI 8.41 16 Our science is always abreast of our self-knowledge. Poetry begins...
    PI 8.41 16 ...all becomes poetry, when we look from the centre outward...
    PI 8.42 22 [Everything] suggests that there is higher poetry than we write or read.
    PI 8.42 24 Rightly, poetry is organic.
    PI 8.43 23 ...the poet creates his persons, and then watches and relates what they do and say. Such creation is poetry...
    PI 8.45 11 in the history of literature, poetry precedes prose.
    PI 8.50 17 Thomas Moore had the magnanimity to say, If Burke and Bacon were not poets...he did not know what poetry meant.
    PI 8.51 8 It would not be easy to refuse to Sir Thomas Browne's Fragment on Mummies the claim of poetry...
    PI 8.52 7 With...the first strain of a song,...we pour contempt on the prose you so magnify; yet the sturdiest Philistine is silent. The like allowance is the prescriptive right of poetry.
    PI 8.53 13 Poetry...runs into fable, personifies every fact...
    PI 8.54 4 Poetry will never be a simple means...
    PI 8.54 8 The difference between poetry and stock poetry is this, that in the latter the rhythm is given and the sense adapted to it; while in the former the sense dictates the rhythm.
    PI 8.54 20 In reading prose, I am sensitive as soon as a sentence drags; but in poetry, as soon as one word drags.
    PI 8.56 2 Perhaps this dainty style of poetry is not producible to-day...
    PI 8.56 21 ...[Newton] only predicts, one would say, a grander poetry...
    PI 8.56 22 ...[Newton] only shows...that the poetry which satisfies more youthful souls is not such to a mind like his...
    PI 8.57 20 I find or fancy more true poetry...in the Welsh and bardic fragments of Taliessin and his successors, than in many volumes of British Classics.
    PI 8.59 17 The Norsemen have no less faith in poetry and its power...
    PI 8.63 20 To true poetry we shall sit down as the result and justification of the age in which it appears...
    PI 8.64 4 Is not poetry the little chamber in the brain where is generated the explosive force which, by gentle shocks, sets in action the intellectual world?
    PI 8.64 9 Bring us...poetry which, like the verses inscribed on Balder's columns in Breidablik, is capable of restoring the dead to life;...
    PI 8.64 12 Bring us...poetry like that verse of Saadi, which the angels testified met the approbation of Allah in Heaven;...
    PI 8.64 14 Bring us...poetry which finds its rhymes and cadences in the rhymes and iterations of Nature...
    PI 8.64 20 Bring us...poetry which tastes the world and reports of it...
    PI 8.64 26 Poetry must be affirmative.
    PI 8.65 22 ...in so many alcoves of English poetry I can count only nine or ten authors who are still inspirers and lawgivers to their race.
    PI 8.65 25 The supreme value of poetry is to educate us to a height beyond itself...
    PI 8.66 2 In poetry, said Goethe, only the really great and pure advances us...
    PI 8.66 9 Show me, said Sarona in the novel, one wicked man who has written poetry, and I will show you where his poetry is not poetry;...
    PI 8.66 10 Show me, said Sarona in the novel, one wicked man who has written poetry, and I will show you where his poetry is not poetry;...
    PI 8.66 11 Show me, said Sarona in the novel, one wicked man who has written poetry, and I will show you where his poetry is not poetry;...
    PI 8.66 11 Show me, said Sarona in the novel, one wicked man who has written poetry, and...I will show you in his poetry no poetry at all.
    PI 8.66 12 Show me, said Sarona in the novel, one wicked man who has written poetry, and...I will show you in his poetry no poetry at all.
    PI 8.66 19 I count the genius of Swedenborg and Wordsworth as the agents of a reform in philosophy, the bringing poetry back to Nature...
    PI 8.66 21 I count the genius of Swedenborg and Wordsworth as the agents of a reform in philosophy, the bringing poetry back...to the marrying of Nature and mind, undoing the old divorce in which poetry had been famished and false...
    PI 8.66 24 The philosophy which a nation receives, rules its religion, poetry, politics, arts, trades and whole history.
    PI 8.68 10 What we once admired as poetry has long since come to be a sound of tin pans;...
    PI 8.70 14 O celestial Bacchus!--drive them mad,--this multitude of vagabonds...hungry for poetry...
    PI 8.73 4 Much that we call poetry is but polite verse.
    PI 8.73 5 The high poetry which shall thrill and agitate mankind...is deeper hid...
    PI 8.73 12 We must not conclude against poetry from the defects of poets.
    PI 8.73 23 ...even partial ascents to poetry and ideas are forerunners, and announce the dawn.
    PI 8.74 3 Poetry is inestimable as a lonely faith...
    PI 8.75 9 Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry...
    SA 8.80 17 Napoleon is the type of this class [of men of aplomb] in modern history; Byron's heroes in poetry.
    SA 8.90 4 ...to the company I am now considering, were no terrors, no vulgarity. All topics were broached...poetry, religion...
    SA 8.105 15 [Sentimentalists] have, they tell you, an intense love of Nature; poetry,--O, they adore poetry...
    SA 8.105 16 [Sentimentalists] have, they tell you, an intense love of Nature; poetry,--O, they adore poetry...
    Elo2 8.121 4 In the church I call him only a good reader who can read sense and poetry into any hymn in the hymn-book.
    Elo2 8.125 23 ...all poetry is written in the oldest and simplest English words.
    Comc 8.168 24 ...according to Latin poetry and English doggerel,--Poverty does nothing worse/ Than to make man ridiculous./
    Comc 8.170 14 The same astonishment of the intellect at the disappearance of the man out of Nature...is the secret of all the fun...of the gay Rameau of Diderot, who believes...that the sole end of art, virtue and poetry is to put something for mastication between the upper and lower mandibles.
    QO 8.179 25 In a hundred years, millions of men, and not a hundred lines of poetry...
    QO 8.191 3 If an author give us...inspiring lessons, or imaginative poetry, it is not so important to us whose they are.
    QO 8.193 13 We admire that poetry which no man wrote...
    QO 8.194 27 Every one...remembers his friends by their favorite poetry or other reading.
    QO 8.195 22 Hallam...is...able to appreciate poetry unless it becomes deep...
    PC 8.229 2 It happens sometimes that poets do not believe their own poetry;...
    PPo 8.238 25 The temperament of the people [in the East] agrees with this life in extremes. Religion and poetry are all their civilization.
    PPo 8.239 13 The Persians and the Arabs...are exquisitely sensible to the pleasures of poetry.
    PPo 8.240 5 Elsewhere [Layard] adds, Poetry and flowers are the wine and spirits of the Arab;...
    PPo 8.240 8 The Persian poetry rests on a mythology whose few legends are connected with the Jewish history and the anterior traditions of the Pentateuch.
    PPo 8.240 12 The principal figure in the allusions of Eastern poetry is Solomon.
    PPo 8.250 26 In all poetry, Pindar's rule holds...it speaks to the intelligent;...
    PPo 8.252 10 ...this self-naming [in poetry] is not quite easy. We remember but two or three examples in English poetry...
    PPo 8.252 13 ...this self-naming [in poetry] is not quite easy. We remember but two or three examples in English poetry...Jonson's epitaph on his son,- Ben Jonson his best piece of poetry;...
    PPo 8.259 6 Of the amatory poetry of Hafiz we must be very sparing in our citations...
    PPo 8.262 13 The following passages exhibit the strong tendency of the Persian poets to contemplative and religious poetry and to allegory.
    Insp 8.275 1 [Plato] said again, The man who is his own master knocks in vain at the doors of poetry.
    Insp 8.281 13 Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.
    Insp 8.294 11 [Another source of inspiration is] New poetry; by which I mean chiefly, old poetry that is new to the reader.
    Insp 8.294 12 [Another source of inspiration is] New poetry; by which I mean chiefly, old poetry that is new to the reader.
    Insp 8.294 15 I have heard from persons who had practice in rhyming, that it was sufficient to set them on writing verses, to read any original poetry.
    Insp 8.294 17 Only that is poetry which cleanses and mans me.
    Insp 8.295 19 ...read...fact-books, which all geniuses prize...as antidote to verbiage and false poetry.
    Insp 8.295 21 Fact-books, if the facts be well and thoroughly told, are much more nearly allied to poetry than many books are that are written in rhyme.
    Grts 8.320 11 ...the difference of level...makes eloquence, indignation, poetry, in him who finds there is much to communicate.
    Dem1 10.18 8 ...[the demonaical property]...forms in the moral world...a transverse element, so that the former may be called the warp, the latter the woof. For the phenomena which hence originate there are countless names, since all philosophies and religions have attempted in prose or in poetry to solve this riddle...
    Aris 10.32 4 A reference to society is part of the idea of culture; science of a gentleman; art of a gentleman; poetry in a gentleman...
    Aris 10.34 23 The old French Revolution attracted to its first movement all the liberality, virtue, hope and poetry in Europe.
    PerF 10.78 9 It would be easy to awake wonder by sketching the performance of each of these mental forces; as...of the Imagination, which turns every dull fact into pictures and poetry...
    PerF 10.82 3 ...when the soldier comes home from the fight, he fills all eyes. But the soldier has the same admiration of the great parliamentary debater. And poetry and literature are disdainful of all these claims beside their own.
    Chr2 10.103 10 [The moral sentiment] is not only insight...or an entertainment, as friendship and poetry are; but it is a sovereign rule...
    Chr2 10.105 3 We use in our idlest poetry and discourse the words Jove, Neptune, Mercury, as mere colors...
    Chr2 10.116 1 This charm in the Pagan moralists, of suggestion, the charm of poetry...the New Testament loses by its connection with a church.
    Chr2 10.117 10 There will always be a class of imaginative youths, whom poetry, whom the love of beauty, lead to the adoration of the moral sentiment...
    Edc1 10.134 16 Why always coast on the surface and never open the interior of Nature, not by science, which is surface still, but by poetry?
    Edc1 10.142 23 There comes the period of the imagination to each, a later youth; the power of beauty, the power of books, of poetry.
    Edc1 10.143 3 Do not spare to put novels into the hands of young people as an occasional holiday and experiment; but, above all, good poetry in all kinds...
    Edc1 10.149 5 Not less delightful is the mutual pleasure of teaching and learning the secret...of good reading and good recitation of poetry or of prose...
    Edc1 10.149 17 ...in literature,the young man who has taste for poetry...is insatiable for this nourishment...
    Supl 10.177 3 Religion and poetry are all the civilization of the Arab.
    Supl 10.177 6 Religion and poetry: the religion [of the Arab] teaches an inexorable destiny;...
    Supl 10.177 27 ...the Orientals excel in costly arts...things which are the poetry and superlative of commerce.
    SovE 10.187 3 'T is a long scale...from the gorilla...to the sanctities of religion...the summits of science, art and poetry.
    SovE 10.192 11 The student discovers one day that he lives in enchantment...and through this enchanted gallery he is led by unseen guides to read and learn the laws of Heaven. This discovery may come early...and to multitudes of men wanting in mental activity it never comes-any more than poetry or art.
    MoL 10.241 9 You go to be teachers...I hope, some of you, to be the men of letters, critics, philosophers; perhaps the rare gift of poetry already sparkles...
    MoL 10.244 10 On the south and east shores of the Mediterranean Mahomet impressed his fierce genius how deeply into the manners, language and poetry of Arabia and Persia!
    Schr 10.279 10 Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character... so that presently...talent is mistaken for genius...ingenuity for poetry...
    Schr 10.284 23 Happy for more than yourself, a benefactor of men, if you can answer [life's questions] in works of wisdom, art or poetry;...
    Schr 10.288 27 [The scholar] is here to know the secret of Genius; to become, not a reader of poetry, but Homer, Dante, Milton...
    Plu 10.303 18 [Plutarch's] delight in poetry makes him cite with joy the speech of Gorgias...
    LLNE 10.364 14 It is certain that...variety of work, variety of means of thought and instruction, art, music, poetry, reading, masquerade, did not permit sluggishness or despondency [at Brook Farm]...
    MMEm 10.421 17 Our civilization is not always mending our poetry.
    MMEm 10.422 15 ...the gray-headed god [Time] throws his shadows all around, and his slaves catch...at the halo he throws around poetry, or pebbles, bugs, or bubbles.
    SlHr 10.448 5 [Samuel Hoar] had no love of poetry;...
    Thor 10.474 21 [Thoreau's] poetry might be bad or good;...
    Thor 10.474 23 ...[Thoreau] had the source of poetry in his spiritual perception.
    Thor 10.474 25 ...[Thoreau's] judgment on poetry was to the ground of it.
    Thor 10.477 1 [Thoreau's] habitual thought makes all his poetry a hymn to the Cause of causes...
    Carl 10.497 13 [Carlyle] thinks it the only question for wise men, instead of art and fine fancies and poetry and such things, to address themselves to the problem of society.
    EWI 11.122 26 [The civility] of Athens...lay in an intellect dedicated to beauty. That of Asia Minor in poetry, music and arts;...
    EWI 11.124 24 ...you could not get any poetry, any wisdom, and beauty in woman, any strong and commanding character in man, but these absurdities would still come flashing out,-these absurdities of a demand for justice, a generosity for the weak and oppressed.
    FSLN 11.244 1 ...I put it...to every poetic, every heroic, every religious heart, that not so is...our poetry...to be declared.
    Wom 11.408 1 ...up to recent times, in no art or science, nor in painting, poetry or music, have [women] produced a masterpiece.
    Wom 11.408 20 ...there is an art which is better than painting, poetry, music, or architecture...namely Conversation.
    Wom 11.412 14 [Women] are poets who believe their own poetry.
    Wom 11.412 26 The passion [of love], with all its grace and poetry, is profane to that which follows it.
    RBur 11.441 8 The people who care nothing for literature and poetry care for Burns.
    Shak1 11.449 7 ...[Shakespeare] is...the genius which, in upoetic ages, keeps poetry in honor...
    Scot 11.463 22 ...we still claim that [Scott's] poetry is the delight of boys.
    CPL 11.498 22 The religious bias of our founders had its usual effect to secure an education to read their Bible and hymn-book, and thence the step was easy for active minds to an acquaintance with history and with poetry.
    CPL 11.503 7 ...if you can kindle the imagination...by uplifting poetry, instantly you expand...
    PLT 12.64 3 We wish to sum up the conflicting impressions [of Intellect] by saying that all point at last to a unity which inspires all. Our poetry, our religion are its skirts and penumbrae.
    II 12.73 26 ...when we consider who and what the professors of that art usually are, does it not seem as if music falls accidentally and superficially on its artists? Is it otherwise with poetry?
    II 12.76 3 ...the moral sense reappears forever with the same angelic newness that has been from of old the fountain of poetry and beauty and strength.
    Mem 12.103 23 ...confined now in populous streets you behold again the green fields, the shadows of the gray birches; by the solitary river...vibrate anew to the tenderness and dainty music of the poetry your boyhood fed upon.
    Mem 12.106 9 ...I come to a bright school-girl who...carries thousands of nursery rhymes and all the poetry in all the readers, hymn-books, and pictorial ballads in her mind;...
    CInt 12.122 12 The poet does not believe in his poetry.
    CInt 12.126 10 Everything will be permitted there [at Harvard College] which goes to adorn Boston Whiggism,-is it geology, astronomy, poetry...
    CInt 12.129 1 When you say the times, the persons are prosaic...where [is] the Romish or the Calvinistic religion, which made a kind of poetry in the air for Milton, or Byron, or Belzoni?...you expose your atheism.
    CL 12.156 14 If you wish to know the shortcomings of poetry and language, try to reproduce the October picture to a city company...
    CL 12.164 14 ...it is the best part of poetry, merely to name natural objects well.
    MAng1 12.216 11 [Michelangelo] is an eminent master in the four fine arts, Painting, Sculpture, Architecture and Poetry. In three of them by visible means, and in poetry by words, he strove to express the Idea of Beauty.
    MAng1 12.229 12 The style of [Michelangelo's] paintings is monumental; and even his poetry partakes of that character.
    MAng1 12.240 8 [Michelangelo] was deeply enamoured of the most accomplished lady of the time, Vittoria Colonna...who, after the death of her husband, devoted herself to letters, and to the writing of religious poetry.
    MAng1 12.240 13 [Vittoria Colonna]...came to Rome repeatedly to see [Michelangelo]. To her his sonnets are addressed; and they all breathe a chaste and divine regard, unparalleled in any amatory poetry except that of Dante and Petrarch.
    Milt1 12.250 13 There is little poetry or prophecy in this mean and ribald scolding [Milton's Defence of the English People].
    Milt1 12.255 11 The man of Locke is virtuous...intelligent without poetry.
    Milt1 12.277 1 It was plainly needful that [Milton's] poetry should be a version of his own life...
    Milt1 12.277 27 ...according to Lord Bacon's definition of poetry...Poetry... seeks to accommodate the shows of things to the desires of the mind...
    Milt1 12.278 1 ...according to Lord Bacon's definition of poetry...Poetry... seeks to accommodate the shows of things to the desires of the mind...
    ACri 12.285 2 ...Goethe said, Poetry here, poetry there, I have learned to speak German.
    ACri 12.285 3 ...Goethe said, Poetry here, poetry there, I have learned to speak German.
    ACri 12.291 6 In architecture the beauty is increased in the degree in which the material is safely diminished; as when you break up a prose wall, and leave all the strength in the poetry of columns.
    ACri 12.300 16 To make of motes mountains, and of mountains motes, Isocrates said, was the orator's office. Well, that is what poetry and thinking do.
    MLit 12.312 15 The poetry and speculation of the age are marked by a certain philosophic turn...
    MLit 12.316 17 Another element of the modern poetry akin to this subjective tendency...is the Feeling of the Infinite.
    MLit 12.318 21 This feeling of the Infinite has deeply colored the poetry of the period.
    MLit 12.319 2 Scott and Crabbe, who formed themselves on the past, had none of this [subjective] tendency; their poetry is objective.
    MLit 12.320 1 When we read poetry, the mind asks,-Was this verse one of twenty which the author might have written as well;...
    MLit 12.321 6 Here [in Wordsworth's The Excursion] was no poem, but here was poetry...
    MLit 12.327 2 ...the great felicities, the miracles of poetry, [Goethe] has never.
    MLit 12.331 8 Goethe...must be set down as...the poet...of this world, and not of religion and hope; in short, if we may say so, the poet of prose, and not of poetry.
    MLit 12.331 19 Poetry is with Goethe thus external...
    MLit 12.334 14 Has the power of poetry ceased, or the need?
    EurB 12.366 20 In the debates on the Copyright Bill, in the English Parliament, Mr. Sergeant Wakley, the coroner, quoted Wordsworth's poetry in derision...
    EurB 12.367 1 Coleridge excellently said of poetry, that poetry must first be good sense;...
    EurB 12.367 11 ...Wordsworth...though...taking the public to task for not admiring his poetry, is really a master of the English language...
    EurB 12.368 1 We have poets who write the poetry of society...
    EurB 12.368 4 We have poets who write the poetry of society...and others who, like Byron and Bulwer, write the poetry of vice and disease.
    EurB 12.369 1 ...with a complete satisfaction [Wordsworth]...celebrated his own [life] with the religion of a true priest. Hence the antagonism which was immediately felt between his poetry and the spirit of the age...
    EurB 12.369 21 The influence [of Wordsworth]...was wafted up and down into lone and into populous places...and soon came to be felt in poetry, in criticism, in plans of life, and at last in legislation.
    EurB 12.369 24 ...[Wordsworth's influence's] effect may be traced on all the poetry both of England and America.
    EurB 12.371 2 ...[modern painters]...paint for their predecessors' public. It seems as if the same vice had worked in poetry.
    EurB 12.371 3 Tennyson's compositions are not so much poems as studies in poetry...
    EurB 12.371 14 The best songs in English poetry are by that heavy, hard, pedantic poet, Ben Jonson.
    EurB 12.372 5 The poem of all the poetry of the present age for which we predict the longest term is Abou ben Adhem, of Leigh Hunt.
    EurB 12.372 18 Ulysses [Tennyson] belongs to a high class of poetry...
    EurB 12.372 25 Next to the poetry, the novels, which come to us in every ship from England, have an importance increased by the immense extension of their circulation through the new cheap press...
    Trag 12.416 23 The intellect is a consoler, which delights in detaching or putting an interval between a man and his fortune, and so converts the sufferer into a spectator and his pain into poetry.

Poetry, n. (10)

    MN 1.216 26 From the poisonous tree, the world, say the Brahmins, two species of fruit are produced, sweet as the waters of life; Love...and Poetry, whose taste is like the immortal juice of Vishnu.
    Int 2.340 1 When we are young we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art...
    Art2 7.43 7 Music, Eloquence, Poetry, Painting, Sculpture, Architecture. This is a rough enumeration of the Fine Arts.
    Boks 7.212 9 Poetry...must be well allowed for an imaginative creature.
    PI 8.11 4 Poetry.--The primary use of a fact is low;...
    PI 8.52 22 Let Poetry then pass, if it will, into music and rhyme.
    PerF 10.82 23 The imagination enriches [the man], as if there were no other; the memory opens all her cabinets and archives;...Poetry her splendor and joy and the august circles of eternal law.
    LLNE 10.362 21 ...[Charles Newcomb's] mind [was] fed and overfed by whatever is exalted in genius, whether in Poetry or Art...
    MMEm 10.425 19 ...[the earth's] youthful charms as decked by the hand of Moses' Cosmogony, will linger about the heart, while Poetry succumbs to Science.
    MAng1 12.216 10 [Michelangelo] is an eminent master in the four fine arts, Painting, Sculpture, Architecture and Poetry.

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