Revolve to Rigging

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

revolve, v. (8)

    Nat 1.47 23 ...what is the difference, whether...worlds revolve and intermingle without number or end...or whether, without relations of time and space, the same appearances are inscribed in the constant faith of man?
    Nat 1.52 1 [The poet] unfixes the land and the sea, makes them revolve around the axis of his primary thought...
    SR 2.70 4 Round him [who has more obedience] I must revolve by the gravitation of spirits.
    Prd1 2.225 4 There revolve...the sun and moon...
    Exp 3.57 20 The party-colored wheel must revolve very fast to appear white.
    NER 3.272 26 In the circle of the rankest tories...let...a man of great heart and mind act on them, and very quickly...these immovable statues will begin to spin and revolve.
    PC 8.231 1 Around that immovable persistency of yours, statesmen, legislatures, must revolve...
    Imtl 8.336 21 We are driven by instinct to hive innumerable experiences which are of no visible value, and we may revolve through many lives before we shall assimilate or exhaust them.

revolved, v. (1)

    LLNE 10.336 5 ...the paramount source of the religious revolution was Modern Science; beginning with Copernicus, who destroyed the pagan fictions of the Church, by showing mankind that the earth on which we live was not the centre of the Universe, around which the sun and stars revolved every day...

revolver, n. (1)

    AKan 11.262 14 Every man throughout the country [California] was armed with knife and revolver...

revolvers, n. (1)

    MoS 4.153 9 [The men of the senses] believe that mustard bites the tongue...revolvers are to be avoided...

revolves, v. (1)

    MLit 12.312 24 ...[the poet] now revolves, What is the apple to me?...

revolving, adj. (2)

    Exp 3.52 10 ...we look at [men], they seem alive, and we presume there is impulse in them. In the moment it seems impulse; in the year, in the lifetime, it turns out to be a certain uniform tune which the revolving barrel of the music-box must play.
    ET14 5.236 23 The more hearty and sturdy [English] expression may indicate that the savageness of the Norseman was not all gone. Their dynamic brains hurled off their words as the revolving stone hurls off scraps of grit.

revolving, n. (1)

    Edc1 10.131 2 ...what is the charm which every ore...every new fact touching...the secrets of chemical composition and decomposition possess for Humboldt? What but that much revolving of similar facts in his mind has shown him that always the mind contains in its transparent chambers the means of classifying the most refractory phenomena...

revolving, v. (4)

    Hist 2.33 20 Much revolving [his figures Goethe] writes out freely his humor...
    NMW 4.246 3 [Napoleon's] capacious head, revolving and disposing sovereignly trains of affairs...
    ET6 5.108 7 An English family consists of a few persons, who, from youth to age, are found revolving within a few feet of each other...
    Aris 10.31 14 ...the cogent motive with the best young men who are revolving plans and forming resolutions for the future, is the spirit of honor...

Revue des Deux Mondes, n. (1)

    Plu 10.296 25 M. Leveque has given an exposition of [Plutarch's] moral philosophy...in the Revue des Deux Mondes;...

reward, n. (36)

    LE 1.173 24 [The scholar's] own estimate must be measure enough, his own praise reward enough for him.
    LE 1.181 4 Let [the scholar] not, too eager to grasp some badge of reward, omit the work to be done.
    LE 1.181 6 ...though the success of the market is in the reward, true success is the doing;...
    MN 1.208 7 What patron shall [a man] ask for employment and reward?
    MR 1.254 9 I am to see to it that the world is the better for me, and to find my reward in the act.
    Tran 1.337 24 The Buddhist...who, in his conviction that every good deed can by no possibility escape its reward, will not deceive the benefactor by pretending that he has done more than he should, is a Transcendentalist.
    Fdsp 2.212 8 The only reward of virtue is virtue;...
    Pt1 3.42 7 ...this is the reward; that the ideal shall be real to thee [O poet]...
    Gts 3.160 13 If a man should send to me to come a hundred miles to visit him and should set before me a basket of fine summer-fruit, I should think there was some proportion between the labor and the reward.
    NER 3.264 6 [The new communities] aim...to give an equal reward to labor and to talent...
    NER 3.283 20 Work, [the Law] saith to man, in every hour, paid or unpaid, see only that thou work, and thou canst not escape the reward...
    NER 3.283 23 ...whether thy work be fine or coarse...so only it be honest work...it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought...
    NER 3.283 25 The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.
    PPh 4.74 17 When accused before the judges of subverting the popular creed, [Socrates] affirms the immortality of the soul, the future reward and punishment;...
    NMW 4.257 22 ...when men saw...after the destruction of armies, new conscriptions; and they who had toiled so desperately were never nearer to the reward...they deserted [Napoleon].
    GoW 4.278 21 We had an English romance here...in which the only reward of virtue is a seat in Parliament and a peerage.
    ET15 5.269 18 ...I read, among the daily announcements [in the London Times], one offering a reward of fifty pounds to any person who would put a nobleman, described by name and title, late a member of Parliament, into any county jail in England...
    Wsp 6.231 7 What is vulgar...but the avarice of reward?
    Wsp 6.231 13 He is great whose eyes are opened to see that the reward of actions cannot be escaped...
    Cour 7.253 24 [Self-Sacrifice] makes the renown...of Washington, giving his service to the public without salary or reward.
    Suc 7.288 16 Men see the reward which the inventor enjoys, and they think, How shall we win that?
    PPo 8.239 25 Such [amatory] verses...will drive [Persian] warriors to the combat...or prove an ample reward on their return from the dangers of the ghazon, or the fight.
    Grts 8.303 6 The porter or truckman refuses a reward for finding your purse, or for pulling you drowning out of the river. Thereby, with the service, you have got a moral lift.
    Imtl 8.342 4 ...courage or confidence in the mind comes to those who know by use its wonderful forces and inspirations and returns. Belief in its future is a reward kept only for those who use it.
    Aris 10.49 19 I think that the community...will be the best measure and the justest judge of the citizen, or will in the long run give the fairest verdict and reward;...
    Chr2 10.121 2 [Character] indulges no enmity against any, knowing, with Prahlada that the suppression of malignant feeling is itself a reward.
    Schr 10.263 12 A celebrated musician was wont to say, that men knew not how much more he delighted himself with his playing than he did others; for if they knew, his hearers would rather demand of him than give him a reward.
    LLNE 10.347 22 Mr. Owen preached his doctrine of labor and reward, with the fidelity and devotion of a saint...
    Thor 10.469 20 [Thoreau] knew every track in the snow or on the ground, and what creature had taken this path before him. One must submit abjectly to such a guide, and the reward was great.
    GSt 10.503 26 For himself or his friends [George Stearns] asked no reward;...
    JBS 11.280 7 ...the anecdotes preserved [of John Brown] show a far-seeing skill and conduct, which...should secure...an honest reward...
    MAng1 12.235 17 [Michelangelo] required that he should be permitted to accept this work [building St. Peter's] without any fee or reward...
    MAng1 12.235 24 [Michelangelo] required...that he should be absolute master of the whole design [of St. Peter's], free to depart from the plans of San Gallo and to alter what had been already done. This disinterestedness and spirit-no fee and no interference-reminds one of the reward named by the ancient Persian.
    EurB 12.366 23 In the debates on the Copyright Bill...Mr. Sergeant Wakley, the coroner, quoted Wordsworth's poetry in derision, and asked the roaring House of Commons...whether a man should have public reward for writing such stuff.
    EurB 12.375 21 ...this reward granted [the novel of costume or of circumstance] is property, all-excluding property...
    PPr 12.382 4 As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's Past and Present], we are struck with the force given to the plain truths;... These things strike us with a force which reminds us of the morals of the Oriental or early Greek masters, and of no modern book. Truly in these things is great reward.

reward, v. (7)

    Prd1 2.224 17 ...the order of the world and the distribution of affairs and times, being studied with the co-perception of their subordinate place, will reward any degree of attention.
    SwM 4.105 22 Not every man can read [Swedenborg's books], but they will reward him who can.
    ET5 5.76 23 The Scandinavian fancied himself surrounded by Trolls... divine stevedores, carpenters, reapers, smiths and masons, swift to reward every kindness done them...
    Boks 7.220 12 These are a few of the books which the old and the later times have yielded us, which will reward the time spent on them.
    Chr2 10.120 24 Ke Kang, distressed about the number of thieves in the state, inquired of Confucius how to do away with them. Confucius said, If you, sir, were not covetous, although you should reward them to do it, they would not steal.
    ChiE 11.473 7 ...to the governor who complained of thieves, [Confucius] said, If you, sir, were not covetous, though you should reward them for it, they would not steal.
    Bost 12.205 3 [The people of Massachusetts] knew...that reward comes by faithful service;...

rewarded, v. (9)

    Comp 2.102 19 Every secret is told...every virtue rewarded...in silence and certainty.
    SL 2.165 6 Bonaparte...rewarded in one and the same way the good soldier, the good astronomer, the good poet, the good player.
    ET11 5.177 14 The lawyer, the farmer, the silk-mercer lies perdu under the coronet, and winks to the antiquary to say nothing; especially skilful lawyers, nobody's sons, who did some piece of work at a nice moment for government and were rewarded with ermine.
    Wth 6.124 20 ...Hotspur thinks it a superiority in himself, this improvidence, which ought to be rewarded with Furlong's lands.
    Civ 7.23 10 The division of labor...fills the State with useful and happy laborers; and they, creating demand by the very temptation of their productions, are rapidly and surely rewarded by good sale...
    SovE 10.184 25 The poor grub, in the hole of a tree, by yielding itself to Nature, goes blameless through its low part and is rewarded at last...
    SovE 10.197 27 ...every act is not hereafter but instantaneously rewarded according to its quality.
    PLT 12.47 17 Sometimes the patience and love [of intellectual men] are rewarded by the chamber of power being at last opened;...
    Let 12.403 18 From Massachusetts to Illinois...the proofs of thrifty cultivation abound;-a result...owing...to the hard times, which, driving men out of cities and trade, forced them to take off their coats and go to work on the land; which has rewarded them not only with wheat but with habits of labor.

rewarding, adj. (1)

    Schr 10.265 22 Like [the pearl-diver and the diamond-merchant] [the poet] will joyfully lose days and months...in the profound hope that one restoring, all rewarding, immense success will arrive at last...

rewarding, v. (1)

    ET14 5.255 21 ...we have [in England] the factitious instead of the natural;...and the rewarding as an illustrious inventor whosoever will contrive one impediment more to interpose between the man and his objects.

rewards, n. (7)

    Con 1.307 14 [The youth says] Nature has sufficiently provided me with rewards and sharp penalties, to bind me not to transgress.
    Pol1 3.209 3 [Party leaders] reap the rewards of the docility and zeal of the masses which they direct.
    Pol1 3.219 7 The tendencies of the times...leave the individual, for all code, to the rewards and penalties of his own constitution;...
    PNR 4.89 17 It was a high scheme, his absolute privilege for the best...as the premium which [Plato] would set on grandeur. There shall be exempts of two kinds:...secondly, those who by eminence of nature and desert are out of reach of your rewards.
    LLNE 10.329 22 Instead of the social existence which all shared, was now separation. Every one...driven to find all his resources, hopes, rewards, society and deity within himself.
    CInt 12.127 2 ...here [in the college] Imagination should be greeted with the problems in which it delights; the noblest tasks to the Muse proposed and the most cordial and honoring rewards;...
    Bost 12.186 13 What Vasari said...of the republican city of Florence might be said of Boston;...all labor by every means to be foremost. We find...at least an equal freedom in our laws and customs, with as many and as tempting rewards to toil;...

rewards, v. (3)

    MR 1.256 20 The opening of the spiritual senses disposes men ever...to cast all things behind, in the insatiable thirst for divine communications. A purer fame, a greater power rewards the sacrifice.
    Comp 2.102 26 Every act rewards itself...in a twofold manner...
    NER 3.283 16 [The Law] rewards actions after their nature...

Reynolds, Joshua, n. (3)

    Clbs 7.244 2 ...we owe to Boswell our knowledge of the club of Dr. Johnson...Reynolds...
    Insp 8.290 26 ...Sir Joshua Reynolds had no pleasure in Richmond;...
    MAng1 12.232 9 Sir Joshua Reynolds...declared to the British Institution, I feel a self-congratulation in knowing myself capable of such sensations as [Michelangelo] intended to excite.

Rhadamanthus, n. (2)

    SwM 4.142 16 [Swedenborg] goes up and down the world of men, a modern Rhadamanthus in gold-headed cane and peruke...
    Boks 7.195 23 ...[the pamphlet or political chapter] is winnowed by all the winds of opinion, and what terrific selection has not passed on it before it can be reprinted after twenty years;--and reprinted after a century!--it is as if Minos and Rhadamanthus had indorsed the writing.

Rhamnusian, n. (1)

    Elo1 7.63 25 Antiphon the Rhamnusian...advertised in Athens that he would cure distempers of the mind with words.

rhapsodist, n. (2)

    MN 1.213 13 The poet must be a rhapsodist;...
    Pt1 3.38 26 The painter, the sculptor, the composer, the epic rhapsodist, the orator, all partake one desire, namely to express themselves symmetrically and abundantly...

Rhapsodists, n. (1)

    Mem 12.99 13 The Rhapsodists in Athens it seems could recite at once any passage of Homer that was desired.

rhei, v. (1)

    QO 8.200 1 Panta rhei: all things are in flux.

Rhetoric and Oratory, Profe (1)

    Elo2 8.122 27 In the early years of this century, Mr. [John Quincy] Adams... was elected Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory in Harvard College.

rhetoric, n. (53)

    DSA 1.129 14 ...the figures of [Jesus's] rhetoric have usurped the place of his truth;...
    Hist 2.39 18 ...it is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other.
    SR 2.70 5 We fancy it rhetoric when we speak of eminent virtue.
    OS 2.292 25 When we have...ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with his presence.
    Int 2.336 21 ...the power of picture or expression...implies...a certain control over the spontaneous states, without which no production is possible. It is a conversion of all nature into the rhetoric of thought...
    Int 2.346 12 This band of grandees...Synesius and the rest, have somewhat...so primary in their thinking, that it seems antecedent to all the ordinary distinctions of rhetoric and literature...
    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.
    Art1 2.355 2 This rhetoric, or power to fix the momentary eminency of an object...the painter and sculptor exhibit in color and in stone.
    Pt1 3.35 10 ...the mystic must be steadily told,--All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as with it. Let us have a little algebra, instead of this trite rhetoric...and we shall both be gainers.
    PPh 4.39 9 A discipline [Plato] is in logic, arithmetic, taste, symmetry, poetry, language, rhetoric, ontology, morals or practical wisdom.
    PPh 4.59 27 ...[Plato's] finding that word cookery, and adulatory art, for rhetoric, in the Gorgias, does us a substantial service still.
    SwM 4.135 16 The excess of [Hebraic] influence shows itself [in Swedenborg] in the incongruous importation of a foreign rhetoric.
    SwM 4.136 7 Of all absurdities, this of some foreigner proposing to take away my rhetoric and substitute his own...seems the most needless.
    NMW 4.231 14 [Bonaparte's] favorite rhetoric lay in allusion to his star;...
    GoW 4.274 12 [Goethe] had an extreme impatience of conjecture and of rhetoric.
    GoW 4.278 8 I suppose no book of this century can compare with [Goethe' s Wilhelm Meister] in its delicious sweetness...so provoking to the mind, gratifying it with...so many unexpected glimpses into a higher sphere, and never a trace of rhetoric or dulness.
    ET14 5.250 17 Wilkinson...the champion of Hahnemann, has brought to metaphysics and to physiology...a rhetoric like the armory of the invincible knights of old.
    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.
    Wsp 6.217 21 ...the heart is at once aware of the state of health or disease, which is the controlling state, that is, of sanity or of insanity; prior of course to all question of...the elegance of rhetoric.
    Bty 6.294 21 In rhetoric, this art of omission is a chief secret of power...
    Elo1 7.64 17 Plato's definition of rhetoric is, the art of ruling the minds of men.
    Elo1 7.75 3 ...a ruffian touch in his rhetoric, will do [the member of Congress] no harm with his audience.
    Elo1 7.94 5 Fame of voice or of rhetoric will carry people a few times to hear a speaker;...
    DL 7.107 21 Do you think any rhetoric or any romance would get your ear from the wise gypsy who could tell straight on the real fortunes of the man;...
    Boks 7.203 9 ...[in the Platonists] the grand and pleasing figures of gods and daemons and daemoniacal men...and all the rest of the Platonic rhetoric...sail before [the scholar's] eyes.
    PI 8.47 21 The fact is made conspicuous, nay, colossal, by this simple rhetoric [of iterations of phrase]...
    Elo2 8.118 12 It does not surprise us...to learn from Plutarch what great sums were paid at Athens to the teachers of rhetoric;...
    Comc 8.163 17 Men cannot exercise their rhetoric unless they speak...
    Chr2 10.106 11 Our ancestors spoke continually of angels and archangels with the same good faith as they would have spoken of their own parents or their late minister. Now the words...are rhetoric...
    Chr2 10.108 12 I consider theology to be the rhetoric of morals.
    Edc1 10.140 22 ...every one desires that [the boy's] pure vigor of action and wealth of narrative, cheered with so much humor and street rhetoric, should be carried into the habit of the young man...
    Edc1 10.147 11 It is better to teach the child arithmetic and Latin grammar than rhetoric or moral philosophy...
    Supl 10.165 19 ...much of the rhetoric of terror...most men have realized only in dreams and nightmares.
    Supl 10.169 1 'T is a good rule of rhetoric which Schlegel gives,-In good prose, every word is underscored;...
    Plu 10.301 21 I find [Plutarch] a better teacher of rhetoric than any modern.
    LLNE 10.330 18 Germany had created criticism in vain for us until 1820, when Edward Everett...brought to Cambridge his rich results, which no one was so fitted by natural grace and the splendor of his rhetoric to introduce and recommend.
    LLNE 10.333 4 In the pulpit...[Everett] gave the reins to his florid, quaint and affluent fancy. Then was exhibited all the richness of a rhetoric which we have never seen rivalled in this country.
    SlHr 10.441 17 ...[Samuel Hoar] was not adorned with any graces of rhetoric...
    Thor 10.479 9 A certain habit of antagonism defaced [Thoreau's] earlier writings,-a trick of rhetoric not quite outgrown in his later, of substituting for the obvious word and thought its diametrical opposite.
    FSLC 11.204 23 So with the eulogies of liberty in [Webster's] writings,- they are sentimentalism and youthful rhetoric.
    FSLN 11.221 20 I remember [Webster's] appearance at Bunker's Hill. There was the Monument, and here was Webster. He knew well that a little more or less of rhetoric signified nothing...
    FSLN 11.222 5 ...[Webster] was so thoroughly simple and wise in his rhetoric;...
    Wom 11.413 12 This is the victory of Griselda, her supreme humility. And it is when love has reached this height that all our pretty rhetoric begins to have meaning.
    FRep 11.530 27 We must realize our rhetoric and our rituals.
    PLT 12.62 25 ...when a man says I hope, I find, I think, he might properly say, The human race, thinks or finds or hopes. And meantime he shall be able continually to keep sight of his biographical Ego...rhetoric or offset to his grand spiritual ego, without impertinence...
    CInt 12.126 11 Everything will be permitted there [at Harvard College] which goes to adorn Boston Whiggism,-is it...antiquities, art, rhetoric.
    ACri 12.290 7 The next virtue of rhetoric is compression...
    ACri 12.293 17 ...these cardinal rules of rhetoric find best examples in the great masters...
    ACri 12.297 7 In Carlyle as in Byron one is more struck with the rhetoric than with the matter.
    ACri 12.297 12 The best service Carlyle has rendered is to rhetoric...
    ACri 12.299 27 After Low Style and Compression what the books call Metonomy is a principal power of rhetoric.
    ACri 12.300 13 All conversation, as all literature, appears to me the pleasure of rhetoric...
    PPr 12.389 4 That morbid temperament has given [Carlyle's] rhetoric a somewhat bloated character;...

Rhetoric, n. (5)

    Art2 7.43 9 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.
    LLNE 10.334 18 ...boys filled their mouths with arguments to prove that the orator [Everett] had a heart. This was a triumph of Rhetoric.
    MAng1 12.219 7 Since Beauty is thus an abstraction of the harmony and proportion that reigns in all Nature, it is therefore studied in Nature, and not in what does not exist. Hence the celebrated French maxim of Rhetoric, Rien de beau que le vrai; Nothing is beautiful but what is true.
    MAng1 12.219 9 [The French maxim of Rhetoric, Rien de beau que le vrai] has a much wider application than to Rhetoric;...
    ACri 12.283 6 The secondary services of literature may be classed under the name of Rhetoric...

rhetorical, adj. (4)

    OA 7.315 21 [Josiah Quincy's] speech led me to look over at home... Cicero's famous essay [De Senectute], charming by its uniform rhetorical merit;...
    PLT 12.57 3 If a man show...rhetorical skill...people clap their hands without asking more.
    Milt1 12.249 12 [Milton's tracts'] rhetorical excellence must also suffer some deduction.
    Trag 12.410 26 In phlegmatic natures calamity is unaffecting, in shallow natures it is rhetorical.

rhetoricians, n. (2)

    EzRy 10.394 23 Many and many a felicity [Ezra Ripley] had in his prayer... which defied all the rules of all the rhetoricians.
    Milt1 12.261 27 ...[Milton] said...I cannot say that I am utterly untrained in those rules which best rhetoricians have given...

rhetorician's, n. (1)

    Plu 10.305 27 [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.

rheumatic, adj. (1)

    Schr 10.288 3 ...[he that would sacrifice at the Muse's altar] may live on a heath without trees; sometimes hungry, sometimes rheumatic with cold.

rheumatism, n. (2)

    F 6.41 22 In age we put out another sort of perspiration...rheumatism...
    SovE 10.195 18 We do not believe the less in astronomy and vegetation, because we are writhing and roaring in our beds with rheumatism.

Rhine River, n. (2)

    ET9 5.149 16 An English lady on the Rhine hearing a German speaking of her party as foreigners, exclaimed, No, we are not foreigners; we are English; it is you that are foreigners.
    ET11 5.183 19 I was surprised to observe the very small attendance usually in the House of Lords. Out of five hundred and seventy-three peers, on ordinary days only twenty or thirty. Where are they? I asked. At home on their estates...or up the Rhine...

rhinoceros, n. (1)

    Pow 6.69 12 ...when [the young English] have no wars to breathe their riotous valors in, they seek for travels as dangerous as war...hunting lion, rhinoceros, elephant, in South Africa;...

rhinoplastic, adj. (1)

    WD 7.160 1 How excellent are the mechanical aids we have applied to the human body, as...in the rhinoplastic treatment;...

Rhode Island, n. (3)

    HCom 11.343 15 Here in this little Massachusetts, in smaller Rhode Island...[enthusiasm] flamed out when the guilty gun was aimed at Sumter.
    ChiE 11.473 17 I am sure that gentlemen around me bear in mind the bill which the Hon. Mr. Jenckes of Rhode Island has twice attempted to carry through Congress, requiring that candidates for public offices shall first pass examinations on their literary qualifications for the same.
    CL 12.157 9 Can you bring home...the sunny shores of your own bay, and the low Indian hills of Rhode Island?...

rhodomontade, n. (1)

    ET7 5.120 14 ...[Wellington] drudged for years on his military works at Lisbon...believing in his countrymen and their syllogisms above all the rhodomontade of Europe.

rhyme, n. (29)

    Fdsp 2.206 10 [Friendship] should...add rhyme and reason to what was drudgery.
    Int 2.336 5 ...in our happy hours we should be inexhaustible poets if once we could break through the silence into adequate rhyme.
    Pt1 3.25 19 A rhyme in one of our sonnets should not be less pleasing than the iterated nodes of a seashell...
    F 6.46 12 Some people are made up of rhyme, coincidence, omen, periodicity, and presage...
    Bty 6.279 15 [Seyd] heard a voice none else could hear/ From centred and from errant sphere./ The quaking earth did quake in rhyme,/ Seas ebbed and flowed in epic chime./
    PI 8.40 19 ...[the writer] must be at the top of his condition. In that prosperity he is sometimes caught up into a perception...of fairy machineries and funds of power hitherto utterly unknown to him, whereby he can...reduce [his visions] into iambic or trochaic, into lyric or heroic rhyme.
    PI 8.45 9 Music and rhyme are among the earliest pleasures of the child...
    PI 8.45 17 ...no matter what objects are near [water]...they become beautiful by being reflected. It is rhyme to the eye...
    PI 8.45 18 ...no matter what objects are near [water]...they become beautiful by being reflected. It is rhyme to the eye, and explains the charm of rhyme to the ear.
    PI 8.46 4 The universality of this taste [for rhyme] is proved by our habit of casting our facts into rhyme to remember them better...
    PI 8.46 11 We are lovers of rhyme and return...
    PI 8.47 3 Young people like rhyme, drum-beat, tune...
    PI 8.47 12 ...human passion, seizing these constitutional tunes, aims to fill them with appropriate words, or marry music to thought, believing...that for every thought its proper melody or rhyme exists...
    PI 8.47 16 Another form of rhyme is iterations of phrase...
    PI 8.48 18 ...rhyme soars and refines with the growth of the mind.
    PI 8.48 21 ...the people liked an overpowering jewsharp tune. Later they like to transfer that rhyme to life...
    PI 8.49 23 Rhyme is a pretty good measure of the latitude and opulence of a writer.
    PI 8.51 24 Rhyme, being a kind of music, shares this advantage with music, that it has a privilege of speaking truth...
    PI 8.52 18 I know what you say of mediaeval barbarism and sleigh-bell rhyme...
    PI 8.52 19 ...we have not done with music, no, nor with rhyme...so long as boys whistle and girls sing.
    PI 8.52 23 Let Poetry then pass, if it will, into music and rhyme.
    PI 8.52 25 ...rhyme is the transparent frame that allows almost the pure architecture of thought to become visible to the mental eye.
    PI 8.54 12 ...the rhyme is there in the theme, thought and image themselves.
    PI 8.59 19 The Norsemen have no less faith in poetry and its power, when they describe it thus:--Odin spoke everything in rhyme.
    PPo 8.236 8 As Jelaleddin old and gray,/ [Saadi] seemed to bask, to dream and play/ Without remoter hope or fear/ Than still to entertain his ear/ And pass the burning summer-time/ In the palm-grove with a rhyme;/...
    Insp 8.295 22 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.
    CPL 11.504 1 Dr. Johnson hearing that Adam Smith, whom he had once met, relished rhyme, said, If I had known that, I should have hugged him.
    WSL 12.343 7 If rhyme rejoices us, there should be rhyme...
    WSL 12.343 8 If rhyme rejoices us, there should be rhyme...

Rhyme, n. (1)

    PI 8.45 9 Melody, Rhyme, Form.--Music and rhyme are among the earliest pleasures of the child...

rhyme, v. (1)

    Plu 10.301 22 A poet might rhyme all day with hints drawn from Plutarch...

rhymed, adj. (3)

    ET14 5.255 27 What did Walter Scott write without stint? a rhymed traveller's guide to Scotland.
    PI 8.25 8 When people tell me they do not relish poetry, and bring me...I know not what volumes of rhymed English...I am quite of their mind.
    Scot 11.464 2 Critics have found [Scott's books] to be only rhymed prose.

rhymed, v. (1)

    PI 8.54 5 Poetry will never be a simple means, as when history or philosophy is rhymed...

rhymers, n. (2)

    PI 8.56 20 Newton may be permitted...to wonder at the frivolous taste for rhymers...
    Milt1 12.277 17 What schools and epochs of common rhymers would it need to make a counterbalance to the severe oracles of [Milton's] muse...

rhymes, n. (16)

    AmS 1.104 15 It is a shame to [the scholar]...if he seek a temporary peace by the diversion of his thoughts from politics or vexed questions...turning rhymes...
    Pt1 3.1 10 A moody child and wildly wise/ Pursued the game with joyful eyes,/ .../ Through worlds, and races, and terms, and times/ Saw musical order, and pairing rhymes./
    SwM 4.110 12 These grand rhymes or returns in nature...delighted the prophetic eye of Swedenborg;...
    ET14 5.255 10 No [English] poet dares murmur of beauty out of the precinct of his rhymes.
    PI 8.12 18 Genius thus [through figurative speech]...betrays the rhymes and echoes that pole makes with pole.
    PI 8.45 19 Shadows please us as still finer rhymes.
    PI 8.48 27 ...when [people] apprehend real rhymes, namely, the correspondence of parts in Nature...they do not longer value rattles and ding-dongs...
    PI 8.64 1 The poetic gift we want...not rhymes and sonneteering...
    PI 8.64 14 Bring us...poetry which finds its rhymes and cadences in the rhymes and iterations of Nature...
    PI 8.64 15 Bring us...poetry which finds its rhymes and cadences in the rhymes and iterations of Nature...
    PI 8.64 23 Bring us...poetry which tastes the world and reports of it, upbuilding the world again in the thought;--Not with tickling rhymes,/ But high and noble matter, such as flies/ From brains entranced, and filled with ecstasies./
    PI 8.67 12 The ballad and romance work on the hearts of boys, who recite the rhymes to their hoops or their skates if alone...
    PI 8.69 24 It is not style or rhymes, or a new image more or less that imports, but sanity;...
    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;...
    CL 12.152 5 ...[in October] all the trees are wind-harps, filling the air with music; and all men...walk to the measure of rhymes they make or remember.
    PPr 12.391 14 The other particular of magnificence is in [Carlyle's] rhymes.

rhymes, v. (2)

    Chr1 3.108 7 Nature never rhymes her children...
    Art2 7.53 7 We feel, in seeing a noble building, which rhymes well, as we do in hearing a perfect song, that it is spiritually organic;...

rhyming, n. (1)

    Insp 8.294 13 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.

rhythm, n. (14)

    ShP 4.196 1 The first play [Shakespeare's Henry VIII] was written by a superior, thoughtful man, with a vicious ear. I can mark his lines, and know well their cadence. See Wolsey's soliloquy, and the following scene with Cromwell, where instead of the metre of Shakspeare, whose secret is that the thought constructs the tune, so that reading for the sense will best bring out the rhythm,--here the lines are constructed on a given tune...
    ShP 4.196 9 ...some passages [in Shakespeare's Henry VIII], as the account of the coronation, are like autographs. What is odd, the compliment to Queen Elizabeth is in the bad rhythm.
    ShP 4.204 17 Our ears are educated to music by [Shakespeare's] rhythm.
    Wsp 6.216 1 What a day dawns when we have taken to heart the doctrine of faith! to prefer, as a better investment...logic to rhythm and to display;...
    Art2 7.44 26 A jumble of musical sounds...in which the rhythm of the tune is played without one of the notes being right, gives pleasure to the unskilful ear.
    Elo1 7.99 27 [Eloquence's] great masters...never permitted any talent,-- neither voice, rhythm, poetic power, anecdote, sarcasm--to appear for show;...
    Boks 7.204 6 ...in our Bible...it seems easy and inevitable to render the rhythm and music of the original into phrases of equal melody.
    PI 8.46 19 If you hum or whistle the rhythm of the common English metres...you can easily believe these metres to be organic...
    PI 8.49 22 Every good poem that I know I recall by its rhythm also.
    PI 8.50 3 Now try Spenser, Marlowe, Chapman, and see...how rich and lavish their profusion. In their rhythm is no manufacture...
    PI 8.54 9 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 11 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.
    Milt1 12.253 1 We think we have heard the recitation of [Milton's] verses by genius which found in them that which itself would say; recitation which told...that now first was such perception and enjoyment possible; the perception and enjoyment of all his varied rhythm...
    PPr 12.391 17 ...[Carlyle] is full of rhythm...

rhythmic, adj. (3)

    PNR 4.87 24 [Plato] kindled a fire so truly in the centre that we see the sphere illuminated...a theory so averaged, so modulated, that you would say the winds of ages had swept through this rhythmic structure...
    PI 8.35 20 In a game-party or picnic poem each writer is released from the solemn rhythmic traditions which alarm and suffocate his fancy...
    PI 8.54 1 The prayers of nations are rhythmic...

rhythmical, adj. (2)

    LE 1.166 16 ...[the speaker] finds it just as easy and natural to speak,-to speak...with rhythmical balance of sentences,-as it was to sit silent;...
    PI 8.48 24 Omen and coincidence show the rhythmical structure of man;...

rhythms, n. (4)

    Pt1 3.9 6 I took part in a conversation the other day concerning a recent writer of lyrics...whose head appeared to be a music-box of delicate tunes and rhythms...
    PI 8.46 22 If you hum or whistle the rhythm of the common English metres,--of the octosyllabic with alternate sexisyllabic, or other rhythms,-- you can easily believe these metres to be organic...
    Thor 10.475 3 [Thoreau] would pass by many delicate rhythms [in poetry]...
    PLT 12.29 6 To the poet all sounds and words are melodies and rhythms.

Rialto, Venice, Italy, n. (1)

    MAng1 12.223 22 ...even at Venice, on defective evidence, [Michelangelo] is said to have given the plan of the bridge of the Rialto.

ribald, adj. (1)

    Milt1 12.250 13 There is little poetry or prophecy in this mean and ribald scolding [Milton's Defence of the English People].

ribbon, n. (2)

    Lov1 2.175 14 ...no man ever forgot the visitations of that power to his heart and brain...when the youth becomes...studious of a glove, a veil, a ribbon, or the wheels of a carriage;...
    ACiv 11.296 4 To the mizzen, the main, and the fore/ Up with it once more!-/ The old tri-color,/ The ribbon of power,/ The white, blue and red which the nations adore!/

ribbons, n. (3)

    MN 1.203 15 Why should not then these messieurs of Versailles strut and plot for tabourets and ribbons...
    MMEm 10.410 4 When Mrs. Thoreau called on [Mary Moody Emerson] one day, wearing pink ribbons, she shut her eyes, and so conversed with her for a time.
    HDC 11.77 4 To you [veterans of the battle of Concord] belongs a better badge than stars and ribbons.

Ricardo, David, n. (2)

    Pol1 3.217 5 Malthus and Ricardo quite omit [character];...
    Farm 7.150 13 These [drainage] tiles are political economists, confuters of Malthus and Ricardo;...

rice, n. (3)

    MoS 4.179 11 ...when a man comes into the room it does not appear whether he has been fed on yams or buffalo,--he has contrived to get so much bone and fibre as he wants, out of rice or out of snow.
    HDC 11.35 3 Indian corn, even the coarsest, made as pleasant meal as rice.
    ACiv 11.297 13 ...for two or three ages [slavery] has lasted, and has yielded a certain quantity of rice, cotton and sugar.

rice-swamp, n. (1)

    Ill 6.311 22 ...the farmer in the field, the negro in the rice-swamp...ascribe a certain pleasure to their employment, which they themselves give it.

rice-swamps, n. (1)

    EWI 11.145 14 The civility of the world has reached that pitch that...the quality of this [black] race is to be honored for itself. For this, they have been preserved...in rice-swamps...

rich, adj. (219)

    Nat 1.12 19 What angels invented...these rich conveniences...
    Nat 1.67 11 When I behold a rich landscape, it is less to my purpose to recite correctly the order and superposition of the strata, than to know why all thought of multitude is lost in a tranquil sense of unity.
    AmS 1.110 10 If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not...when the historic glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era?
    DSA 1.119 20 How wide; how rich; what invitation from every property [the world] gives to every faculty of man!
    DSA 1.132 21 ...a great and rich soul...names the world.
    DSA 1.141 25 What a cruel injustice it is to that Law...which alone can make thought dear and rich;...that it is travestied and depreciated...
    MN 1.205 22 The great Pan of old...the firmament, his coat of stars,-was but the representative of thee, O rich and various Man!...
    MN 1.208 13 God is rich...
    MN 1.224 5 ...[the soul] is...rich as love.
    MR 1.240 5 ...we have now a puny, protected person, guarded by walls and curtains...and he is now what is called a rich man...
    MR 1.244 9 Why needs any man be rich?
    MR 1.244 17 We are first sensual, and then must be rich.
    MR 1.245 8 We shall be rich to great purposes; poor only for selfish ones.
    MR 1.249 7 I ought not to allow any man, because he has broad lands, to feel that he is rich in my presence.
    MR 1.253 5 In every knot of laborers the rich man does not feel himself among his friends...
    MR 1.254 6 ...no one should take more than his share, let him be ever so rich.
    LT 1.275 26 Here is great variety and richness of mysticism, [which]... when it shall be taken up as the garniture of some profound and all-reconciling thinker, will appear the rich and appropriate decoration of his robes.
    Con 1.315 15 ...[Friar Bernard]...talked with gentle mothers...who told him how much love they bore their children, and how they were perplexed...lest they should fail in their duty to them. What! he said, and this on rich embroidered carpets...
    Con 1.315 17 ...[Friar Bernard]...talked with gentle mothers...who told him how much love they bore their children, and how they were perplexed...lest they should fail in their duty to them. What! he said, and this...on marble floors, with...rich pictures...about you?
    Con 1.317 9 Rich and fine is your dress, O conservatism!...
    Con 1.325 24 ...if they could give their verdict, [mankind] would say that [the intemperate and covetous person's] self-indulgence and his oppression deserved punishment from society, and not that rich board and lodging he now enjoys.
    Tran 1.348 26 On the part of these children it is replied that life and their faculty seem to them gifts too rich to be squandered on such trifles as you propose to them.
    YA 1.382 4 Here are Etzlers and mechanical projectors, who...undoubtingly affirm that the smallest union would make every man rich;...
    YA 1.386 13 How can our young men complain of the poverty of things in New England, and not feel that poverty as a demand on their charity to make New England rich?
    SR 2.70 10 ...a man or a company of men, plastic and permeable to principles, by the law of nature must overpower and ride all...rich men... who are not.
    SR 2.83 27 Not possibly will the soul, all rich, all eloquent...deign to repeat itself;...
    SR 2.84 15 ...[society] is rich...
    SL 2.160 16 Let us...learn that truth alone makes rich and great.
    SL 2.163 25 The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature.
    Lov1 2.178 17 ...[the maiden] teaches [the lover's] eye why Beauty was pictured with Loves and Graces attending her steps. Her existence makes the world rich.
    Fdsp 2.192 26 For long hours we can continue a series of sincere, graceful, rich communications [with a commended stranger]...
    Cir 2.303 9 A rich estate appears to women a firm and lasting fact;...
    Cir 2.307 20 Rich, noble and great [persons called high and worthy] are by the liberality of our speech...
    Int 2.334 13 It is long ere we discover how rich we are.
    Int 2.336 1 The rich inventive genius of the painter must be smothered and lost for want of the power of drawing...
    Pt1 3.18 5 The poorest experience is rich enough for all the purposes of expressing thought.
    Pt1 3.40 27 ...the rich poets, as Homer, Chaucer, Shakspeare, and Raphael, have obviously no limits to their works except the limits of their lifetime...
    Exp 3.47 1 Yonder uplands are rich pasturage...but my field, says the querulous farmer, only holds the world together.
    Chr1 3.105 4 How death-cold is literary genius before this fire of life [character]! These are the touches that...give [my soul] eyes to pierce the dark of nature. I find, where I thought myself poor, there was I most rich.
    Mrs1 3.136 2 ...emperors and rich men are by no means the most skilful masters of good manners.
    Mrs1 3.141 21 England, which is rich in gentlemen, furnished, in the beginning of the present century, a good model of that genius which the world loves, in Mr. Fox...
    Mrs1 3.153 22 What is rich? Are you rich enough to help anybody?...
    Mrs1 3.153 24 Are you...rich enough to make the Canadian in his wagon... feel the noble exception of your presence and your house from the general bleakness and stoniness;...
    Mrs1 3.154 11 Without the rich heart, wealth is a ugly beggar.
    Mrs1 3.154 26 ...it seemed as if the instinct of all sufferers drew them to [Osman's] side. And the madness which he harbored he did not share. Is not this to be rich?...
    Mrs1 3.154 27 ...it seemed as if the instinct of all sufferers drew them to [Osman's] side. And the madness which he harbored he did not share. Is not this to be rich? this only to be rightly rich?
    Gts 3.161 24 This is fit for kings, and rich men who represent kings...to make presents of gold and silver stuffs, as a kind of symbolical sin-offering...
    Nat2 3.173 27 He who knows the most; he who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the waters, the plants, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments,--is the rich and royal man.
    Nat2 3.174 12 We heard what the rich man said...
    Nat2 3.174 24 Ah! if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches!
    Nat2 3.175 10 To the poor young poet, thus fabulous is his picture of society; he is loyal; he respects the rich; they are rich for the sake of his imagination;...
    Nat2 3.175 12 To the poor young poet, thus fabulous is his picture of society; he is loyal; he respects the rich; they are rich for the sake of his imagination; how poor his fancy would be, if they were not rich!
    Nat2 3.191 18 ...it was known that men of thought and virtue...could lose good time whilst the room was getting warm in winter days. Unluckily, in the exertions necessary to remove these inconveniences...to remove friction has come to be the end. That is the ridicule of rich men;...
    Nat2 3.191 22 ...the masses are not men, but poor men, that is, men who would be rich;...
    NR 3.230 6 In the parliament, in the play-house, at dinner-tables [in England], I might see a great number of rich, ignorant, book-read, conventional, proud men...
    NR 3.233 14 I read Proclus...for a mechanical help to the fancy and the imagination. I read for the lustres, as if one should use a fine picture in a chromatic experiment, for its rich colors.
    NR 3.246 8 The rabid democrat, as soon as he is senator and rich man, has ripened beyond the possibility of sincere radicalism...
    NER 3.264 9 The scheme [of the new communities] offers...to make every member rich, on the same amount of property that, in separate families, would leave every member poor.
    UGM 4.4 5 ...I do not travel to find comfortable, rich and hospitable people...
    UGM 4.4 9 ...if there were any magnet that would point to the countries and houses where are the persons who are intrinsically rich and powerful, I would sell all and buy it...
    UGM 4.7 6 Certain men affect us as rich possibilities...
    UGM 4.20 22 ...there have been sane men, who enjoyed a rich and related existence.
    UGM 4.23 8 I like a master standing firm on legs of iron, well-born, rich, handsome, eloquent...
    PPh 4.59 14 ...the rich man wears no more garments...than the poor...
    SwM 4.123 12 ...[Swedenborg] is a rich discoverer...
    NMW 4.224 27 [Napoleon] had [the middle classes'] virtues and their vices; above all, he had their spirit or aim. That tendency is material... subordinating all intellectual and spiritual forces into means to a material success. To be the rich man, is the end.
    NMW 4.252 16 I call Napoleon the agent or attorney...of the throng who fill the markets, shops, counting-houses, manufactories, ships, of the modern world, aiming to be rich.
    NMW 4.252 20 Of course the rich and aristocratic did not like [Napoleon].
    GoW 4.268 16 It is not from men excellent in any kind that disparagement of any other is to be looked for. With such, Talleyrand's question is ever the main one; not, is he rich?...but...does he stand for something?
    GoW 4.274 2 [Goethe]...showed that the dulness and prose we ascribe to the age was only another of [Proteus's] masks...that he...was not a whit less vivacious or rich in Liverpool or the Hague than once in Rome or Antioch.
    ET1 5.18 1 [Carlyle] still returned to English pauperism...the selfish abdication by public men of all that public persons should perform. Government should direct poor men what to do. Poor Irish folk come wandering over these moors. ... They burned the stacks and so found a way to force the rich people to attend to them.
    ET3 5.37 24 The innumerable details [in England]...the multitudes of rich and of remarkable people...hide all boundaries by the impression of magnificence and endless wealth.
    ET4 5.73 8 ...rich Englishmen have followed [William the Conqueror's] example...in encroaching on the tillage and commons with their game-preserves.
    ET5 5.77 23 A man of that [English] brain thinks and acts thus; and his neighbor, being afflicted with the same kind of brain, though he is rich... thinks the same thing...
    ET6 5.107 14 ...[the Englishman] dearly loves his house. If he is rich, he buys a demesne and builds a hall;...
    ET7 5.119 16 Plain rich clothes, plain rich equipage, plain rich finish throughout their house and belongings mark the English truth.
    ET7 5.119 17 Plain rich clothes, plain rich equipage, plain rich finish throughout their house and belongings mark the English truth.
    ET8 5.135 12 Here [in England] was lately a cross-grained miser [Joseph Turner]...rich by his own industry;...
    ET8 5.139 14 No nation was ever so rich in able men [as England];...
    ET9 5.152 4 A rogue and informer, [George of Cappadocia] got rich and was forced to run from justice.
    ET10 5.155 26 During the war from 1789 to 1815...the English were growing rich every year faster than any people ever grew before.
    ET10 5.159 23 England already had this laborious race, rich soil, water, wood, coal, iron...
    ET10 5.159 26 Eight hundred years ago commerce had made [England] rich...
    ET10 5.166 18 The English are so rich...because they are constitutionally fertile and creative.
    ET11 5.173 14 Every man who becomes rich [in England] buys land...
    ET11 5.192 15 The sycophancy and sale of votes and honor, for place and title;...the splendor of the titles, and the apathy of the nation; are instructive, and make the reader pause and explore the firm bounds which [in England] confined these vices to a handful of rich men.
    ET11 5.198 15 ...the rich Englishman goes over the world at the present day, drawing more than all the advantages which the strongest of his kings could command.
    ET12 5.200 4 The halls [at Oxford] are rich with oaken wainscoting and ceiling.
    ET12 5.201 1 ...[Oxford] is, in British story, rich with great names...
    ET12 5.204 8 This rich library [the Bodleian] spent during the last year (1847)...1668 pounds.
    ET12 5.211 26 ...the rich libraries collected at every one of many thousands of houses [in England], give an advantage not to be attained by a youth in this country...
    ET14 5.246 7 ...in Hallam, or in the firmer intellectual nerve of Mackintosh, one still finds the same type of English genius. It is wise and rich, but it lives on its capital.
    ET14 5.257 17 Color, like the dawn, flows over the horizon from [Tennyson's] pencil, in waves so rich that we do not miss the central form.
    ET18 5.300 13 A bitter class-legislation gives power [in England] to those who are rich enough to buy a law.
    Wth 6.85 16 [A man] is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
    Wth 6.86 6 ...the art of getting rich consists not in industry...but in a better order...
    Wth 6.86 12 One man has stronger arms or longer legs; another sees by the course of streams and the growth of markets where land will be wanted, makes a clearing to the river, goes to sleep and wakes up rich.
    Wth 6.88 23 [A man] is born to be rich.
    Wth 6.89 6 He is the rich man who can avail himself of all men's faculties.
    Wth 6.94 20 To be rich is to have a ticket of admission to the master-works and chief men of each race.
    Wth 6.95 5 The rich man, says Saadi, is everywhere expected and at home.
    Wth 6.95 23 Is not then the demand to be rich legitimate?
    Wth 6.95 24 ...I have never seen a rich man.
    Wth 6.95 25 I have never seen a man as rich as all men ought to be...
    Wth 6.96 3 ...if men should...leave off aiming to be rich, the moralists would rush to rekindle at all hazards this love of power in the people, lest civilization should be undone.
    Wth 6.97 6 Goethe said well, Nobody should be rich but those who understand it.
    Wth 6.97 16 ...he is the rich man in whom the people are rich...
    Wth 6.99 16 Man was born to be rich...
    Wth 6.99 17 Man was born to be rich, or inevitably grows rich by the use of his faculties;...
    Wth 6.110 2 ...the Americans grew rich and great. But the pay-day comes round.
    Bhr 6.169 22 [Manners] form at last a rich varnish with which the routine of life is washed and its details adorned.
    Wsp 6.230 16 I am well assured that the Questioner who brings me so many problems will bring the answers also in due time. Very rich, very potent, very cheerful Giver that he is, he shall have it all his own way, for me.
    CbW 6.261 6 A rich man was never insulted in his life;...
    CbW 6.261 7 A rich man was never in danger from cold...
    CbW 6.262 7 As we go gladly to Faneuil Hall to be played upon by the stormy winds and strong fingers of enraged patriotism, so is...national bankruptcy or revolution more rich in the central tones than languid years of prosperity.
    Bty 6.302 26 Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.
    Ill 6.312 19 [The dreariest alderman] pays a debt quicker to a rich man than to a poor man.
    Art2 7.53 2 The plumage of the bird...has a reaon for its rich colors in the constitution of the animal.
    Elo1 7.76 14 ...eloquence is attractive as an example of the magic of personal ascendency,--a total and resultant power, and rare, because it requires a rich coincidence of powers, intellect, will, sympathy, organs and...good fortune in the cause.
    DL 7.114 19 Men are not born rich;...
    DL 7.118 11 The rich, as we reckon them, and among them the very rich, in a true scale would be found very indigent...
    DL 7.118 24 I pray you, O excellent wife, not to cumber yourself and me to get a rich dinner for this man or this woman who has alighted at our gate...
    DL 7.129 7 ...when men shall meet as they should...each a benefactor...so rich with deeds...it shall be the festival of Nature...
    Farm 7.141 24 We commonly say that the rich man can speak the truth...
    Farm 7.141 27 We commonly say that the rich man...can afford independence of opinion and action;--and that is the theory of nobility. But it is the rich man in a true sense...
    Farm 7.151 17 [The first planter] cannot plough, or fell trees, or drain the rich swamp.
    WD 7.168 7 He only is rich who owns the day.
    WD 7.168 8 He only is rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy or demon who possesses such power as that.
    WD 7.170 20 'T is pitiful the things by which we are rich or poor...
    WD 7.171 26 It is singular that our rich English language should have no word to denote the face of the world.
    WD 7.175 13 [That flexile clay of which these old brothers moulded their admirable symbols] was the deep to-day which all men scorn; the rich poverty which men hate;...
    Boks 7.213 2 What private heavens can we not open, by yielding to all the suggestion of rich music!
    Boks 7.217 18 If our times are sterile in genius, we must cheer us with books of rich and believing men...
    Clbs 7.232 8 ...it is only on natural ground that conversation can be rich.
    Clbs 7.247 3 [Manufacturers, merchants and shipmasters] have found virtue in the strangest homes; and in the rich store of their adventures are instances and examples which you have been seeking in vain for years...
    Suc 7.290 10 I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit...
    PI 8.22 16 [Man] wishes to be rich, to be old, to be young, that things may obey him.
    PI 8.50 2 Now try Spenser, Marlowe, Chapman, and see...how rich and lavish their profusion.
    PI 8.65 8 The Muse [of Poetry] shall be the counterpart of Nature, and equally rich.
    SA 8.100 13 Every one must seek to secure his independence; but he need not be rich.
    Elo2 8.113 13 ...recall the delight that sudden eloquence gives,--the surprise that the moment is so rich.
    Res 8.143 26 The whole history of our civil war is rich in a thousand anecdotes attesting the fertility of resource...of our people.
    PC 8.234 8 ...when I...consider the sound material of which the cultivated class here is made up,-what high personal worth, what love of men, what hope, is joined with rich information and practical power...I cannot distrust this great knighthood of virtue...
    PPo 8.237 13 That for which mainly books exist is communicated in these rich extracts [from Persian poetry].
    PPo 8.241 26 Firdusi...has written in the Shah Nameh the annals...of Karun (the Persian Croesus), the immeasurably rich gold-maker...
    PPo 8.253 22 I have no hoarded treasure,/ Yet have I rich content;/ The first from Allah to the Shah,/ The last to Hafiz went./
    PPo 8.262 18 A painter in China once painted a hall;/ Such a web never hung on an emperor's wall;-/ One half from his brush with rich colors did run,/ The other he touched with a beam of the sun;/...
    Imtl 8.325 6 Every [Egyptian] palace was a door to a pyramid: a king or rich man was a pyramidaire.
    Aris 10.44 8 ...the philosopher may well say, Let me see his brain, and I will tell you if he shall be...rich, magnetic...
    Aris 10.45 9 ...the man's associations, fortunes, love, hatred, residence, rank, the books he will buy, the roads he will traverse are predetermined in his organism. Men will need him, and he is rich and eminent by nature.
    Aris 10.45 27 Dull people think it Fortune that makes one rich and another poor.
    Aris 10.59 18 We have a rich men's aristocracy...
    PerF 10.81 21 See how rich life is; rich in private talents...
    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...
    SovE 10.198 10 Life is always rich...
    SovE 10.208 6 ...by poverty we are rich...
    Prch 10.218 3 I see in those classes and those persons in whom I am accustomed to look...for what is most positive and most rich in human nature...character, but skepticism;...
    Prch 10.227 18 The Catholic Church has been immensely rich in men and influences.
    Prch 10.228 21 ...Is a rich rogue made to feel his roguery among divines or literary men? No? Then 't is rogue again under the cassock.
    MoL 10.247 24 Nature is rich, exuberant...
    Schr 10.267 6 Young men, I warn you...against chattering, meddlesome, rich and official people.
    Schr 10.282 5 ...a true orator will make us feel that the states and kingdoms, the senators, lawyers and rich men are caterpillars' webs and caterpillars...
    LLNE 10.330 17 Germany had created criticism in vain for us until 1820, when Edward Everett...brought to Cambridge his rich results...
    LLNE 10.331 11 If any of my readers were at that period [1820] in Boston or Cambridge, they will easily remember [Everett's] radiant beauty of person...a voice of such rich tones...that...it was the most mellow and beautiful and correct of all the instruments of the time.
    LLNE 10.364 3 No friend who knew Margaret Fuller could recognize her rich and brilliant genius under the dismal mask which the public fancied was meant for her in that disagreeable story [Blithedale Romance].
    CSC 10.374 9 The composition of the assembly [at the Chardon Street Convention] was rich and various.
    EzRy 10.383 25 I am sure all who remember both will associate [Ezra Ripley's] form with whatever was grave and droll in the old...meeting-house... with long prayers, rich with the diction of ages;...
    MMEm 10.411 20 What a rich day, so fully occupied in pursuing truth that I [Mary Moody Emerson] scorned to touch a novel which for so many years I have wanted.
    MMEm 10.414 20 [Mary Moody Emerson] alludes to the early days of her solitude...speaking sadly the thoughts suggested by the rich autumn landscape around her...
    MMEm 10.415 22 This morning rich in existence;...
    MMEm 10.430 14 Had I [Mary Moody Emerson] the highest place of acquisition and diffusing virtue here, the principle of human sympathy would be too strong...for that kind of obscure virtue which is so rich to lay at the feet of the Author of morality.
    SlHr 10.440 7 Though rich, [Samuel Hoar was] of a plainness and almost poverty of personal expenditure...
    Thor 10.455 16 [Thoreau] chose to be rich by making his wants few...
    Thor 10.482 25 I put on some hemlock-boughs, and the rich salt crackling of their leaves was like mustard to the ear...
    EWI 11.104 24 ...a good man or woman...once in a while saw these injuries [to West Indian slaves] and had the indiscretion to tell of them. The horrid story ran and flew; the winds blew it all over the world. They who heard it asked their rich and great friends if it was true...
    EWI 11.107 16 [The Quakers] were rich: they owned, for debt or by inheritance, [West Indian] island property;...
    EWI 11.131 23 The rich men may walk in State Street, but they walk without honor;...
    EWI 11.135 2 ...government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party; the rich and the strong can better take care of themselves.
    War 11.158 17 The celebrated Cavendish...wrote thus...on his return from a voyage round the world: Sept. 1588. It hath pleased Almighty God to suffer me to circumpass the whole globe of the world...in which voyage, I have either discovered or brought certain intelligence of all the rich places of the world...
    War 11.172 24 We are affected...by the appearance of a few rich and wilful gentlemen who take their honor into their own keeping...
    FSLC 11.194 8 ...the womb conceives and the breasts give suck to thousands and millions of hairy babes formed not in the image of your statute, but in the image of the Universe;...too many than they can be rich, and therefore peaceable;...
    FSLN 11.235 27 I conceive that thus to detach a man and make him feel that he is to owe all to himself is the way to make him strong and rich;...
    ALin 11.332 26 ...[Lincoln's] broad good humor...was a rich gift to this wise man.
    SMC 11.349 15 We are glad and proud that we have no monopoly of merit. We are thankful that other towns and cities are as rich;...
    SMC 11.355 19 ...the common people [in the South], rich or poor, were the narrowest and most conceited of mankind...
    EdAd 11.382 21 ...[the elements] shove us from them, yield to us/ Only what to our griping toil is due;/ But the sweet affluence of love and song,/ The rich results of the divine consents/ Of man and earth, of world beloved and loved,/ The nectar and ambrosia are withheld./
    EdAd 11.384 17 A man [in America] who has a hundred dollars to dispose of...is rich beyond the dreams of the Caesars.
    FRep 11.522 1 [The American] sits secure in the possession of his vast domain, rich beyond all experience in resources...
    FRep 11.526 10 ...here is the human race poured out over the continent to do itself justice;...not grimacing like poor rich men in cities, pretending to be rich, but unmistakably taking off its coat to hard work...
    FRep 11.526 11 ...here is the human race poured out over the continent to do itself justice;...not grimacing like poor rich men in cities, pretending to be rich, but unmistakably taking off its coat to hard work...
    FRep 11.526 15 ...really, though you see wealth in the capitals, it is only a sprinkling of rich men in the cities and at sparse points;...
    PLT 12.28 19 [Nature] is immensely rich;...
    II 12.85 14 Each must be rich, but not only in money or lands...
    CL 12.136 18 Linnaeus, early in life, read a discourse at the University of Upsala on the necessity of travelling in one's own country, based on the conviction that Nature was inexhaustibly rich...
    CL 12.140 11 In summer, we have...scores of days when the heat is so rich, and yet so tempered, that it is delicious to live.
    CL 12.151 25 The world has nothing to offer more rich or entertaining than the days which October always brings us...
    CW 12.169 6 ...unto me not morn's magnificence/.../Nor Rome, nor joyful Paris, nor the halls/ Of rich men, blazing hospitable light,/.../Hath such a soul, such divine influence,/ Such resurrection of the happy past,/ As is to me when I behold the morn/ Ope in such low, moist roadside, and beneath/ Peep the blue violets out of the black loam./
    Bost 12.191 18 ...the next colony planted itself at Salem, and the next at Weymouth; another at Medford; before these men...wisely judged that the best point for a city was at the bottom of a deep and islanded bay...where a bold shore was bounded by a country of rich undulating woodland.
    Bost 12.194 5 Who can read the fiery ejaculations of Saint Augustine...of Milton, of Bunyan even, without feeling how rich and expansive a culture... they owed to the promptings of this [Christian] sentiment;...
    Bost 12.195 23 Many and rich are the fruits of that simple statute [establishing schools in Massachusetts].
    MAng1 12.234 27 When the Pope suggested to him that the [Sistine] chapel would be enriched if the figures were ornamented with gold, Michael Angelo replied, In those days, gold was not worn; and the characters I have painted were neither rich nor desirous of wealth...
    MAng1 12.237 18 Although he was rich, [Michelangelo] lived like a poor man...
    MAng1 12.238 17 ...[Michelangelo] was liberal to profusion to his old domestic Urbino...and made him rich in his service.
    Milt1 12.248 24 [Milton's tracts] are...rich with allusion...
    WSL 12.340 15 ...when we remember [Landor's] rich and ample page...we wish to thank a benefactor of the reading world.
    WSL 12.344 16 ...there is a noble nature within [Landor] which instructs him that he is so rich that he can well spare all his trappings...
    WSL 12.345 15 What is the quality of the persons who, without being public men, or literary men, or rich men, or active men...have a certain salutary omnipresence in all our life's history...
    Pray 12.350 2 Not with fond shekels of the tested gold,/ Nor gems whose rates are either rich or poor/ As fancy values them; but with true prayers,/...
    Pray 12.351 19 In the Phaedrus of Plato, we find this petition in the mouth of Socrates: O gracious Pan!...grant...that I may account him to be rich, who is wise and just.
    AgMs 12.359 7 No rich father or father-in-law left [Edmund Hosmer] any inheritance of land or money.
    AgMs 12.362 16 ...as for the Major [Abel Moore], he never got rich by his skill in making land produce, but in making men produce.
    AgMs 12.362 19 ...a farm will not make an honest man rich in money.
    AgMs 12.362 21 I [Edmund Hosmer] do not know of a single instance in which a man has honestly got rich by farming alone.
    AgMs 12.362 23 The way in which men who have farms grow rich is either by other resources, or by trade...
    EurB 12.370 4 The elegance, the wit and subtlety of this writer [Tennyson], his rich fancy...discriminate the musky poet of gardens and conservatories...
    PPr 12.381 10 As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's Past and Present], we are struck with the force given to the plain truths; the picture of the English nation all sitting enchanted,-the poor, enchanted so that they cannot work, the rich, enchanted so that they cannot enjoy, and are rich in vain;...
    PPr 12.382 26 ...[a man's] acts should be representative of the human race, as one who makes them rich in his having...
    Trag 12.414 13 Time the consoler, Time the rich carrier of all changes, dries the freshest tears by obtruding new figures...on our eye, new voices on our ear.
    Trag 12.417 1 [The intellect] yields the joys of conversation, of letters and of science. Hence also the torments of life become tuneful tragedy, solemn and soft with music, and garnished with rich dark pictures.

rich, n. (36)

    DSA 1.143 11 What was once a mere circumstance, that...the poor and the rich...should meet one day as fellows in one house...has come to be a paramount motive for going thither.
    MR 1.254 2 Let the amelioration in our laws of property proceed from the concession of the rich...
    Con 1.295 10 The battle...of the rich and the poor, reappears in all countries and times.
    Con 1.311 6 The ages have not been idle...nor the rich niggardly.
    Con 1.315 9 ...[Friar Bernard's] piety and good will easily introduced him to many families of the rich...
    Hist 2.7 4 We honor the rich because they have externally the freedom, power, and grace which we feel to be proper to man, proper to us.
    Comp 2.98 25 There is always some levelling circumstance that puts down...the rich...substantially on the same ground with all others.
    Cir 2.316 9 ...that second man...asks himself Which debt must I pay first, the debt to the rich, or the debt to the poor?...
    Mrs1 3.153 20 [Love] impoverishes the rich, suffering no grandeur but its own.
    Nat2 3.174 20 When the rich tax the poor with servility and obsequiousness, they should consider the effect of men reputed to be the possessors of nature, on imaginative minds.
    Nat2 3.174 24 Ah! if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches!
    Nat2 3.175 10 To the poor young poet, thus fabulous is his picture of society; he is loyal; he respects the rich;...
    Nat2 3.191 20 ...Boston, London, Vienna, and now the governments generally of the world, are cities and governments of the rich;...
    Pol1 3.204 3 ...doubts have arisen whether too much weight had not been allowed in the laws to property, and such a structure given to our usages as allowed the rich to encroach on the poor...
    Pol1 3.206 25 When the rich are outvoted...it is the joint treasury of the poor which exceeds their accumulations.
    UGM 4.19 4 ...[a wise man] would...calm us with assurances that we could not be cheated; as every one would discern the checks and guaranties of condition. The rich would see their mistakes and poverty...
    UGM 4.22 13 Here is great competition of rich and poor.
    ET3 5.39 9 The rivers [in England] and the surrounding sea spawn with fish; there are salmon for the rich and sprats and herrings for the poor.
    ET8 5.133 4 The Saxon melancholy in the vulgar rich and poor appears as gushes of ill-humor...
    ET13 5.217 13 ...the gradation of the clergy [in England],--prelates for the rich and curates for the poor,--with the fact that a classical education has been secured to the clergyman, makes them the link which unites the sequestered peasantry with the intellectual advancement of the age.
    Wth 6.95 7 The rich take up something more of the world into man's life.
    CbW 6.266 8 There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich...that of the sick...and that of the traveller...
    DL 7.111 15 The houses of the rich are confectioners' shops...
    DL 7.118 10 The rich, as we reckon them...in a true scale would be found very indigent...
    SA 8.100 4 The consideration the rich possess in all societies is not without meaning or right.
    PPo 8.238 8 The rich [in the East] feed on fruits and game,-the poor, on a watermelon's peel.
    Aris 10.63 13 ...the revolution comes, and does [the man of honor] join the standard of Chartist and outlaw? No, for these...are full of murder, and the student recoils,-and joins the rich.
    Aris 10.63 17 Let [the man of honor] accept the position of armed neutrality...abhorring the selfishness of the rich...
    SovE 10.190 18 For my part, said Napoleon, it is not the mystery of the incarnation which I discover in religion, but the mystery of social order, which associates with heaven that idea of equality which prevents the rich from destroying the poor.
    MMEm 10.423 1 Channing paints [war's] miseries, but does he know those of a worse war...the cruel oppression of the poor by the rich...
    HDC 11.47 4 Here [in the town-meeting] the rich gave counsel, but the poor also;...
    FSLC 11.196 10 No government ever found it hard to pick up tools for base actions. If you cannot find them in the huts of the poor, you shall find them in the palaces of the rich.
    JBB 11.269 10 You remember [John Brown's] words: If I had interfered in behalf of the rich, the powerful...it would all have been right.
    Bost 12.203 20 ...there is always [in Boston]...always a heresiarch, whom the governor and deputies labor with but cannot silence. Some new light... some champion of first principles of humanity against the rich and luxurious;...
    AgMs 12.363 19 These [poor farmers] should be holden up to imitation, and their methods detailed; yet their houses are very uninviting and inconspicuous to State Commissioners. So with these premiums to farms, and premiums at cattle-shows. The class that I describe must pay the premium which is awarded to the rich.
    PPr 12.381 9 As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's Past and Present], we are struck with the force given to the plain truths; the picture of the English nation all sitting enchanted,-the poor, enchanted so that they cannot work, the rich, enchanted so that they cannot enjoy, and are rich in vain;...

Rich, n. (1)

    ET14 5.259 27 I can well believe what I have often heard, that there are two nations in England; but it is not the Poor and the Rich...

Richard [Earl of Cornwall], (1)

    ET4 5.64 8 Henry III. mortgaged all the Jews in the kingdom to his brother the Earl of Cornwall...

Richard I, of England, n. (6)

    ET13 5.224 16 [The English] put up no Socratic prayer, much less any saintly prayer for the Queen's mind;...but say bluntly, Grant her in health and wealth long to live. And one traces this Jewish prayer in all English private history, from the prayers of King Richard...to those in the diaries of Sir Samuel Romilly and of Haydon the painter.
    Wsp 6.206 18 King Richard taunts God with forsaking him.
    Wsp 6.206 27 King Richard taunts God with forsaking him. ...in sooth not through any cowardice of my warfare art thou thyself, my king and my God, conquered this day, and not Richard thy vassal.
    SS 7.12 23 The recluse witnesses what others perform by their aid, with a kind of fear. It is as much out of his possibility as the prowess of Coeur-de-Lion...
    Cour 7.255 16 There is a Hercules...or a Cid in the mythology of every nation; and in authentic history, a Leonidas...a Richard Coeur de Lion...
    Cour 7.271 22 ...Richard and Saladin...become aware that they are nearer and more alike than any other two...

Richard III, of England, (2)

    Prd1 2.232 16 It does not seem to me so genuine grief when some tyrannous Richard the Third oppresses and slays a score of innocent persons, as when Antonio and Tasso, both apparently right, wrong each other.
    ET11 5.178 21 Wraxall says that in 1781, Lord Surrey, afterwards Duke of Norfolk, told him that when the year 1783 should arrive, he meant to give a grand festival...to mark the day when the dukedom should have remained three hundred years in their house, since its creation by Richard III.

Richard III [William Sha (1)

    PI 8.25 15 Lear and Macbeth and Richard III. [people] know pretty well without guide.

Richard I's, of England, n. (1)

    Wsp 6.206 17 What Gothic mixtures the Christian creed drew from the pagan sources, Richard of Devizes' chronicle of Richard I.'s crusade, in the twelfth century, may show.

Richard, n. (2)

    OS 2.274 25 The growths of genius are of a certain total character, that does not advance the elect individual first over John, then Adam, then Richard...
    Aris 10.42 21 The [ancient] chief is taller by a head than any of his tribe. Douglas can throw the bar a greater cast. Richard can sever the iron bolt with his sword.

Richard of Devizes, n. (1)

    ET13 5.216 2 The power of the religious sentiment [in England]...inspired the English Bible, the liturgy, the monkish histories, the chronicle of Richard of Devizes.

Richard of Devizes', n. (2)

    ET13 5.224 16 [The English] put up no Socratic prayer, much less any saintly prayer for the Queen's mind;...but say bluntly, Grant her in health and wealth long to live. And one traces this Jewish prayer in all English private history, from the prayers of King Richard, in Richard of Devizes' Chronicle, to those in the diaries of Sir Samuel Romilly and of Haydon the painter.
    Wsp 6.206 16 What Gothic mixtures the Christian creed drew from the pagan sources, Richard of Devizes' chronicle of Richard I.'s crusade, in the twelfth century, may show.

Richard Plantagenet, n. (1)

    UGM 4.23 4 I like...Richard Plantagenet;...

Richard, Poor, n. (1)

    Prd1 2.234 13 There is nothing [a man] will not be the better for knowing, were it only the wisdom of Poor Richard...

Richard the Lion-Hearted, n (1)

    Plu 10.318 6 ...wherever the Cid is relished, the legends of Arthur...and Richard the Lion-Hearted...there will Plutarch...sit as...laureate of the ancient world.

Richardson, Samuel, n. (1)

    Scot 11.466 23 In the number and variety of his characters [Scott] approaches Shakspeare. Other painters in verse or prose have thrown into literature a few type-figures; as...Richardson, Goldsmith...

Richardsons, n. (1)

    Wth 6.96 20 It is the interest of all that there should be...Rosses, Franklins, Richardsons and Kanes, to find the magnetic and the geographic poles.

Richelieu [Armand Jean du (1)

    Clbs 7.243 9 It was the Marchioness of Rambouillet who first...piqued the emulation of Cardinal Richelieu to rival assemblies...

richer, adj. (16)

    AmS 1.94 4 ...our American colleges will recede in their public importance, whilst they grow richer every year.
    AmS 1.110 27 That which had been negligently trodden under foot...is suddenly found to be richer than all foreign parts.
    MN 1.209 24 If [a man] listen with insatiable ears, richer and greater wisdom is taught him;...
    MR 1.244 14 Give [any man's] mind a new image, and he...is richer with that dream than the fee of a county could make him.
    Lov1 2.175 17 ...no man ever forgot the visitations of that power to his heart and brain...when no place is too solitary...for him who has richer company and sweeter conversation in his new thoughts than any old friends...can give him;...
    Fdsp 2.192 24 We talk better [with the commended stranger] than we are wont. We have...a richer memory...
    Int 2.331 2 This instinctive action...becomes richer and more frequent in its informations through all states of culture.
    Int 2.336 26 [The imaginative vocabulary] does not flow from experience only or mainly, but from a richer source.
    Pt1 3.10 8 ...[the poet] will tell us how it was with him, and all men will be the richer in his fortune.
    ET8 5.136 16 There is an English hero superior to the French, the German, the Italian, or the Greek. When he is brought to the strife with fate, he sacrifices a richer material possession...
    Wth 6.96 21 We are all richer for the measurement of a degree of latitude on the earth's surface.
    Boks 7.197 4 ...I find certain books vital and spermatic, not leaving the reader what he was: he shuts the book a richer man.
    PI 8.75 10 Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.
    EWI 11.143 15 Eaters and food are in the harmony of Nature; and there too is the germ forever protected, unfolding...a richer fruit...
    Shak1 11.447 2 'T is not our fault if we have not made this evening's circle still richer than it is.
    Shak1 11.448 12 ...Shakspeare taught us that the little world of the heart is vaster, deeper and richer than the spaces of astronomy.

riches, n. (48)

    Nat 1.30 3 When...the sovereignty of ideas is broken up by the prevalence of...the desire of riches...the power over nature as an interpreter of the will is in a degree lost;...
    Nat 1.41 4 ...Nature...lends all her pomp and riches to the religious sentiment.
    LE 1.166 25 The view I have taken of the resources of the scholar, presupposes a subject as broad. We do not seem to have imagined its riches.
    MR 1.236 25 The advantage of riches remains with him who procured them...
    MR 1.240 6 ...we have now a puny, protected person, guarded by walls and curtains...and he is now what is called a rich man,-the menial and runner of his riches.
    MR 1.245 17 Immense wisdom and riches are in [going without the conveniences of life].
    MR 1.249 8 I ought not to allow any man, because he has broad lands, to feel that he is rich in my presence. I ought to make him feel that I can do without his riches...
    Con 1.316 12 ...there is a cunning juggle in riches.
    YA 1.365 12 ...the mineral riches are explored;...
    SR 2.67 16 ...man...heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future.
    SR 2.69 21 This one fact the world hates; that the soul becomes; for that... turns all riches to poverty...
    SR 2.71 13 Let...our docility to our own law demonstrate the poverty of nature and fortune beside our native riches.
    Comp 2.98 15 If riches increase, they are increased that use them.
    Comp 2.125 21 We do not believe in the riches of the soul...
    OS 2.291 5 The simplest utterances are worthiest to be written, yet are they so cheap and so things of course, that in the infinite riches of the soul it is like gathering a few pebbles off the ground...
    Chr1 3.99 12 I revere the person who is riches;...
    Nat2 3.174 25 Ah! if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches!
    NMW 4.258 22 As long as our civilization is essentially one of property...it will be mocked by delusions. Our riches will leave us sick;...
    ET9 5.150 21 In a tract on Corn, a most amiable...gentleman [William Spence] writes thus:--Though Britain, according to Bishop Berkeley's idea, were surrounded by a wall of brass ten thousand cubits in height, still she would as far excel the rest of the globe in riches, as she now does both in this secondary quality...
    ET17 5.293 18 Among the privileges of London, I recall with pleasure two or three signal days, one at Kew, where Sir William Hooker showed me all the riches of the vast botanic garden;...
    Bhr 6.179 3 ...[eyes] respect neither poverty nor riches...
    CbW 6.271 13 ...if one comes who can...show [men] their native riches...he wakes in them the feeling of worth...
    Ill 6.323 14 One would think from the talk of men that riches and poverty were a great matter;...
    Ill 6.323 22 Riches and poverty are a thick or thin costume;...
    DL 7.126 9 One is struck in every company...with the riches of Nature...
    WD 7.180 3 That interpreter [of time] shall guide us from a menial and eleemosynary existence into riches and stability.
    PI 8.74 16 I doubt never the riches of Nature...
    SA 8.100 15 ...If the search for riches were sure to be successful, though I should become a groom with whip in hand to get them, I will do so.
    Res 8.137 22 We like to see the inexhaustible riches of Nature...
    PerF 10.69 19 Show [a man] the riches of the poor...
    Edc1 10.128 10 Here is a world...fenced and planted with civil partitions and properties, which all put new restraints on the young inhabitant. He too must come into this magic circle of relations, and know...the charm of riches, the charm of power.
    SovE 10.194 21 Let [a man]...find the riches of love which possesses that which it adores;...
    SovE 10.194 22 Let [a man]...find...the riches of poverty;....
    LLNE 10.364 21 There is agreement in the testimony that [Brook Farm] was...to many, the most important period of their life...their first acquaintance with the riches of conversation...
    HDC 11.40 9 [The Concord settler's pastor said] If we look to number, we are the fewest;...if to wealth and riches, we are the poorest of all the people of God through the whole world.
    HDC 11.84 26 ...without mineral riches...the natural increase of [Concord' s] population is drained by the constant emigration of the youth.
    War 11.175 2 ...if the disposition to rely more, in study and in action, on the unexplored riches of the human constitution...proceed;...then war has a short day...
    ALin 11.331 12 The profound good opinion which the people of Illinois and of the West had conceived of [Lincoln]...was not rash, though they did not begin to know the riches of his worth.
    FRO2 11.490 12 ...you cannot bring me...too penetrating an insight from the Jews. I hail every one with delight, as showing the riches of my brother...
    CPL 11.498 10 [Peter Bulkeley said] If we look to number, we are the fewest;...if to wealth and riches, we are the poorest of all the people of God through the whole world.
    PLT 12.30 2 ...our deep conviction of the riches proper to every mind does not allow us to admit of much looking over into one another's virtues.
    II 12.85 16 Each must be rich, but not only in money or lands, he may have instead the riches of riches,-creative supplying power.
    Mem 12.90 13 ...we like signs of riches and extent of nature in an individual.
    CInt 12.112 8 I know the mighty bards,/ I listen when they sing,/ And now I know/ The secret store/ Which these explore/ When they with torch of genius pierce/ The tenfold clouds that cover/ The riches of the universe/ From God's adoring lover./
    Milt1 12.258 10 [Milton says] In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against Nature not to go out and see her riches...
    MLit 12.311 20 How can the age be a bad one which gives me...Beaumont and Fletcher, Donne and Sir Thomas Browne, beside its own riches?
    MLit 12.334 9 The very depth of the sentiment...is guarantee for the riches of science and of song in the age to come.
    Trag 12.406 1 The riches of body or of mind which we do not need to-day are the reserved fund against the calamity that may arrive to-morrow.

richesse, n. (1)

    Aris 10.29 2 But for ye speken of such gentillesse/ As is descended out of old richesse,/ That therfore shullen ye be gentilmen,-/ Such arrogance n' is not worth a hen./

richest, adj. (19)

    Nat 1.45 21 ...the eye...is always accompanied by these forms, male and female; and these are incomparably the richest informations of the power and order that lie at the heart of things.
    AmS 1.97 11 ...he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions has the richest return of wisdom.
    LE 1.177 10 The scholar will feel that the richest romance...lies enclosed in human life.
    LE 1.177 13 ...[human life] is also the richest material for [the scholar's] creations.
    Con 1.314 4 Under the richest robes...the strong heart will beat with love of mankind...
    Art1 2.359 15 The traveller who visits the Vatican and passes from chamber to chamber...through all forms of beauty cut in the richest materials, is in danger of forgetting the simplicity of the principles out of which they all sprung...
    SwM 4.136 22 The Lutheran bishop's son, for whom the heavens are opened, so that he sees with eyes and in the richest symbolic forms the awful truth of things...with all these grandeurs resting upon him, remains the Lutheran bishop's son;...
    MoS 4.152 12 In England, the richest country that ever existed, property stands for more, compared with personal ability, than in any other.
    NMW 4.224 22 [Napoleon] had [the middle classes'] virtues and their vices; above all, he had their spirit or aim. That tendency is material, pointing at a sensual success and employing the richest and most various means to that end;...
    ET10 5.159 27 Eight hundred years ago...it was recorded, England is the richest of all the northern nations.
    Wth 6.89 7 He is the richest man who knows how to draw a benefit from the labors of the greatest number of men...
    Wth 6.109 7 A youth coming into the city from his native New Hampshire farm...boards at a first-class hotel, and believes he must somehow have outwitted Dr. Franklin and Malthus, for luxuries are cheap. But he pays for the one convenience of a better dinner, by the loss of some of the richest social and educational advantages.
    Wth 6.117 14 In England, the richest country in the universe, I was assured...that great lords and ladies had no more guineas to give away than other people;...
    CbW 6.243 16 The richest of all lords is Use/...
    Boks 7.207 1 ...in the Elizabethan era [the scholar] is at the richest period of the English mind...
    EWI 11.104 26 The richest and greatest, the prime minister of England, the king's privy council were obliged to say that [the story of West Indian slaves] was too true.
    CL 12.140 9 In summer, we have for weeks a sky of Calcutta, yielding the richest growth...
    MAng1 12.238 26 It has been the defect of some great men that they did not duly appreciate or did not confess the talents and virtues of others, and so lacked one of the richest sources of happiness...
    PPr 12.390 1 Plato is the purple ancient, and Bacon and Milton the moderns of the richest strains.

richly, adv. (3)

    MR 1.247 5 It is more elegant to answer one's own needs than to be richly served;...
    Tran 1.345 2 ...the richly accomplished [nature] will have some capital absurdity;...
    SL 2.137 7 [Our society] is a graduated, titled, richly appointed empire...

Richmond, Duke of [Charles (1)

    ET11 5.182 17 The Duke of Richmond has 40,000 acres at Goodwood and 300,000 at Gordon Castle.

Richmond, England, n. (1)

    Insp 8.290 27 ...Sir Joshua Reynolds had no pleasure in Richmond;...

Richmond, Virginia, n. (3)

    EPro 11.323 15 Give the Confederacy New Orleans, Charleston, and Richmond, and they would have demanded St. Louis and Baltimore.
    ALin 11.336 12 [Lincoln] had seen Savannah, Charleston and Richmond surrendered;...
    SMC 11.374 10 On the first of April, the [Thirty-second] regiment connected with Sheridan's cavalry, near the Five Forks, and took an important part in that battle which opened Petersburg and Richmond...

rich-natured, adj. (1)

    Pol1 3.218 23 If a man found himself so rich-natured that he could enter into strict relations with the best persons...could he...covet relations so hollow and pompous as those of a politician?

richness, n. (5)

    MN 1.195 16 We demand of men a richness and universality we do not find.
    LT 1.275 21 Here is great variety and richness of mysticism...
    ET14 5.243 6 Such richness of genius had not existed more than once before [the Elizabethan age].
    Chr2 10.113 4 Morals is the incorruptible essence, very heedless in its richness of any past teacher or witness...
    LLNE 10.333 4 In the pulpit...[Everett] gave the reins to his florid, quaint and affluent fancy. Then was exhibited all the richness of a rhetoric which we have never seen rivalled in this country.

Richter, Jean Paul, n. (4)

    Lov1 2.179 21 What else did Jean Paul Richter signify, when he said to music, Away! away! thou speakest to me of things which in all my endless life I have not found and shall not find.
    DL 7.116 9 What kind of a house was kept...by...Jean Paul Richter at Baireuth?
    SMC 11.350 26 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.
    MLit 12.319 23 [Shelley]...shares with Richter, Chateaubriand, Manzoni and Wordsworth the feeling of the Infinite...

rid, v. (25)

    DSA 1.127 17 ...the indwelling Supreme Spirit cannot wholly be got rid of...
    Fdsp 2.216 25 True love transcends the unworthy object...and when the poor interposed mask crumbles, it...feels rid of so much earth and feels its independency the surer.
    Mrs1 3.127 5 Manners aim...to get rid of impediments...
    Mrs1 3.127 8 [Manners] aid our dealing and conversation as a railway aids travelling, by getting rid of all avoidable obstructions of the road...
    Pol1 3.200 11 ...the strongest usurper is quickly got rid of;...
    NR 3.236 14 You have not got rid of parts by denying them...
    NER 3.260 26 ...much was to be resisted, much was to be got rid of by those who were reared in the old, before they could begin to affirm and to construct.
    NMW 4.227 24 There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.
    ET4 5.59 11 Never was a poor gentleman so surfeited with life, so furious to be rid of it, as the Northman.
    ET6 5.110 21 As soon as [the English] have rid themselves of some grievance and settled the better practice, they make haste to fix it as a finality...
    F 6.20 27 Neither brandy...nor genius, can get rid of this limp band [of Fate].
    Wth 6.110 27 We cannot get rid of these [immigrant] people...
    Wth 6.111 1 We cannot get rid of these [immigrant] people, and we cannot get rid of their will to be supported.
    OA 7.326 13 ...[the old lawyer] may go below his mark with impunity, and people will say...He lost his sleep for two nights. What a lust of appearance...that once degraded him he is thus rid of!
    Aris 10.56 1 I am acquainted with persons who go attended with this ambient cloud. ... They seem to have arrived at the fact, to have got rid of the show, and to be serene.
    Edc1 10.136 13 One fact...inspires all my trust, viz., this perpetual youth, which, as long as there is any good in us, we cannot get rid of.
    SovE 10.191 12 Nature is not so helpless but it can rid itself at last of every crime.
    Prch 10.232 23 ...the gigantic evils which seem to us so mischievous and so incurable will at last end themselves and rid the world of their presence...
    Thor 10.470 18 The redstart was flying about, and presently the fine grosbeaks...whose fine clear note Thoreau compared to that of a tanager which has got rid of its hoarseness.
    EWI 11.106 18 Very unwilling had that great lawyer [Lord Mansfield] been to reverse the late decisions [on slavery]; he suggested twice from the bench, in the course of the trial [of George Somerset], how the question might be got rid of...
    EWI 11.118 20 It is vain to get rid of [spoiled children] by not minding them...
    FSLN 11.238 22 ...Nature is not so helpless but it can rid itself at last of every wrong.
    AsSu 11.247 7 I think we must get rid of slavery, or we must get rid of freedom.
    AsSu 11.247 8 I think we must get rid of slavery, or we must get rid of freedom.
    MAng1 12.236 26 ...[Michelangelo] replies [to the Duke of Tuscany]...that he hoped he should shortly see the execution of his plans [for St. Peter's] brought to such a point that they could no longer be interfered with...if, he adds, I do not commit a great crime by disappointing the cormorants who are daily hoping to get rid of me.

ridden, adj. (1)

    SL 2.131 24 No man ever stated his griefs as lightly as he might. Allow for exaggeration in the most patient and sorely ridden hack that ever was driven.

ridden, v. (6)

    AmS 1.83 26 The tradesman...is ridden by the routine of his craft...
    Comp 2.113 3 [The borrower] may soon come to see that he had better have broken his own bones than to have ridden in his neighbor's coach...
    ET8 5.129 5 A Yorkshire mill-owner told me he had ridden more than once all the way from London to Leeds, in the first-class carriage, with the same persons, and no word exchanged.
    ET19 5.313 3 Is it not true, sir, that the wise ancients did not praise the ship parting with flying colors from the port, but only that brave sailor which came back...stript of her banners, but having ridden out the storm?
    EWI 11.134 10 ...the reader of Congressional debates, in New England, is perplexed to see with what admirable sweetness and patience the majority of the free States are schooled and ridden by the minority of slave-holders.
    FSLN 11.233 18 You relied on the Missouri Compromise. That is ridden over.

riddle, n. (12)

    Nat 1.34 19 There sits the Sphinx at the road-side, and...as each prophet comes by, he tries his fortune at reading her riddle.
    LE 1.183 17 They [whom the student's thoughts have entertained or inflamed] find...that he cannot make of his infrequent illumination a portable taper to carry whither he would, and explain now this dark riddle, now that.
    Hist 2.4 9 The Sphinx must solve her own riddle.
    Hist 2.31 22 The power of music, the power of poetry, to unfix and...clap wings to solid nature, interprets the riddle of Orpheus.
    Hist 2.32 23 As near and proper to us is also that old fable of the Sphinx, who was said to sit in the road-side and put riddles to every passenger. If the man could not answer, she swallowed him alive. If he could solve the riddle, the Sphinx was slain.
    F 6.4 19 The riddle of the age has for each a private solution.
    Wsp 6.230 12 Why should I hasten to solve every riddle which life offers me?
    Ill 6.313 20 All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.
    Ill 6.313 21 All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.
    Comc 8.155 1 The glory, jest and riddle of the world. Pope.
    Insp 8.283 25 To the persevering mortal the blessed immortals are swift. Yes, for they know how to give you in one moment the solution of the riddle you have pondered for months.
    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...

riddles, n. (5)

    LE 1.183 8 [They whom the student's thoughts have entertained or inflamed] seek him, that he may turn his lamp on the dark riddles whose solution they think is inscribed on the walls of their being.
    Hist 2.32 21 As near and proper to us is also that old fable of the Sphinx, who was said to sit in the road-side and put riddles to every passenger.
    OS 2.293 7 [God's presence] inspires in man an infallible trust. He has...the sight, that the best is the true, and may in that thought...adjourn to the sure revelation of time the solution of his private riddles.
    MMEm 10.424 3 In Eternity, no deceitful promises, no fantastic illusions, no riddles concealed by thy [Time's] shrouds...
    Thor 10.476 18 [Thoreau's] riddles were worth the reading...

riddle-writing, n. (1)

    SwM 4.117 7 Behmen, and all mystics, imply this law [of Correspondence] in their dark riddle-writing.

Ride, Lord, n. (1)

    Mrs1 3.144 4 ...that is my Lord Ride, who came yesterday from Bagdat;...

ride, n. (4)

    Wsp 6.203 11 ...as [the Shakers] go with perfect sympathy to their tasks in the field or shop, so are they inclined for a ride or a journey at the same instant...
    DL 7.106 16 The first ride into the country, the first bath in running water... are new chapters of joy [to the child].
    Insp 8.289 17 ...the mixture of lie in truth, and the experience of poetic creativeness...these are the types or conditions of this power [of novelty]. A ride near the sea, a sail near the shore, said the ancient.
    Dem1 10.5 23 In sleep one shall travel certain roads in stage-coaches or gigs, which he recognizes as familiar, and has dreamed that ride a dozen times;...

ride, v. (41)

    Con 1.308 8 ...you must show me a warrant like these stubborn facts in your own fidelity and labor, before I suffer you...to ride into my estate, and claim to scatter it as your own.
    Tran 1.353 18 So little skill enters into these works, so little do they mix with the divine life, that it really signifies little...whether we turn a grindstone, or ride, or run...or govern the state.
    YA 1.387 11 I think I see place and duties for a nobleman in every society; but it is not to drink wine and ride in a fine coach...
    SR 2.70 10 ...a man or a company of men, plastic and permeable to principles, by the law of nature must overpower and ride all cities...who are not.
    Comp 2.104 16 The particular man aims...in particulars, to ride that he may ride;...
    ET4 5.58 26 Another pair [of Norse kings] ride out on a morning for a frolic, and finding no weapon near, will take the bits out of their horses' mouths and crush each other's heads with them...
    ET4 5.70 11 [The English] box, run, shoot, ride, row, and sail from pole to pole.
    ET4 5.70 15 [The English] walk and ride as fast as they can...
    ET10 5.156 17 Gentlemen do not hesitate to ride in the second-class cars [in England]...
    ET12 5.204 20 The reading men [at Oxford]...two days before the examination...lounge, ride, or run, to be fresh on the college doomsday.
    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.
    ET15 5.262 25 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 shoot and ride.
    F 6.30 24 Every brave youth is in training to ride and rule this dragon.
    F 6.47 9 A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature...
    F 6.48 4 When a god wishes to ride, any chip...will...serve him for a horse.
    Bty 6.306 21 Wherever we begin, thither our steps tend: an ascent from the joy of a horse in his trappings, up to the perception of Newton that the globe on which we ride is only a larger apple falling from a larger tree...the first stair on the scale to the temple of the Mind.
    Ill 6.317 19 'T is the charm of practical men that outside of their practicality are a certain poetry and play, as if they led the good horse Power by the bridle, and preferred to walk, though they can ride so fiercely.
    SS 7.8 16 Like President Tyler...we must ride in a sulky at last.
    Civ 7.30 23 If we can thus ride in Olympian chariots by putting our works in the path of the celestial circuits, we can harness also evil agents...
    DL 7.104 21 Mistrusting the cunning of his small legs, [the young American] wishes to ride on the necks and shoulders of all flesh.
    WD 7.163 2 ...we have a pretty artillery of tools now in our social arrangements: we ride four times as fast as our fathers did;...
    Cour 7.263 7 It is the groom who knows the jumping horse well who can safely ride him.
    Suc 7.311 12 There is an external life, which is...taught to grasp all the boy can get, urging him...to ride, run, argue and contend...
    PI 8.5 2 ...somewhat was murmured in our ear...that under chemistry was power and purpose: power and purpose ride on matter to the last atom.
    SA 8.96 5 The great gain is...to find a companion who knows what you do not; to tilt with him and be overthrown...with utter destruction of all your logic and learning. ... You will ride to battle horsed on the very logic which you found irresistible.
    SA 8.103 8 It is of course that [the American to be proud of] should ride well, shoot well, sail well, keep house well, administer affairs well;...
    Aris 10.45 21 Men are born to command, and...come into the world booted and spurred to ride.
    Aris 10.58 17 I have heard that in horsemanship...a man never will be a good rider until he is thrown; then he will not be haunted any longer by the terror that he shall tumble, and will ride;...
    Aris 10.58 17 ...that is [the horseman's] business,-to ride...
    Aris 10.58 18 ...that is [the horseman's] business,-to ride...to ride unto the place whither he is bound.
    Edc1 10.139 3 ...[boys] know everything that befalls in the fire-company... so too the merits of every locomotive on the rails, and will coax the engineer to let them ride with him...
    Edc1 10.149 12 See how far a young doctor will ride or walk to witness a new surgical operation.
    Supl 10.165 11 ...one would not...make a codicil to his will whenever he goes out to ride;...
    Schr 10.281 25 ...as we see the effrontery with which money and power carry their ends and ride over honesty and good meaning, patriotism and religion seem to shriek like ghosts.
    Schr 10.286 10 [The scholar] must...ride at anchor and vanquish every enemy whom his small arms cannot reach, by the grand resistance of submission...
    MMEm 10.428 25 [Mary Moody Emerson] made up her shroud...and she... went out to ride in it...
    Thor 10.466 1 Admiring friends offered to carry [Thoreau] at their own cost...to South America. But though nothing could be more grave or considered than his refusals, they remind one...of that fop Brummel's reply to the gentleman who offered him his carriage in a shower, But where will you ride, then?...
    EWI 11.123 13 ...we...have acquired the vices and virtues that belong to trade. We peddle...we ride in cars...to market, and for the sale of goods.
    SMC 11.359 12 The army officers were welcome to their jest on [George Prescott]...as the colonel who got off his horse when he saw one of his men limp on the march, and told him to ride.
    CInt 12.122 22 [A man] looks at all men as his representatives, and is glad to see that his wit can work at that problem as it ought to be done, and better than he could do it; whether it be to build...or play chess, or ride, or swim.
    MAng1 12.226 15 ...one day riding over [the Pons Palatinus] on horseback, with his friend Vasari, [Michelangelo] cried, George, this bridge trembles under us; let us ride faster lest it fall whilst we are upon it.

rider, n. (8)

    ET12 5.207 27 ...[English students] make those eupeptic studying-mills... and when it happens that a superior brain puts a rider on this admirable horse, we obtain those masters of the world who combine the highest energy in affairs with a supreme culture.
    Ctr 6.144 1 ...Lord Herbert of Cherbury said, A good rider on a good horse is as much above himself and others as the world can make him.
    Bty 6.288 9 We fancy, could we pronounce the solving word and disenchant [beridden people]...the little rider would be discovered and unseated...
    Suc 7.287 8 The Norseman was a restless rider, fighter, free-booter.
    Aris 10.58 13 I have heard that in horsemanship he is not the good rider who never was thrown...
    Aris 10.58 14 I have heard that in horsemanship...a man never will be a good rider until he is thrown;...
    CL 12.167 9 ...as soon as man knows himself as [Nature's] interpreter... then is there a rider to the horse, an organized will...
    ACri 12.296 7 We can't afford to take the horse out of [Montaigne's] Essays; it would take the rider too.

riders, n. (6)

    NER 3.274 12 ...Rousseau...Byron,--and I could easily add names nearer home, of raging riders, who drive their steeds so hard, in the violence of living to forget its illusion: they would know the worst...
    MoS 4.150 11 Each of these riders [men of Sensation and men of Morals] drives too fast.
    ET4 5.72 3 Add a certain degree of refinement to the vivacity of these [English] riders, and you obtain the precise quality which makes the men and women of polite society formidable.
    Pow 6.63 2 ...let these rough riders...drive as they may, and the disposition of territories and public lands...will bestow promptness, address and reason, at last, on our buffalo-hunter, and authority and majesty of manners.
    DL 7.125 18 ...[the men we see] all seem the hacks of some invisible riders.
    SMC 11.356 12 ...when the Border raids were let loose on [Kansas] villages, these people...on witnessing the butchery done by the Missouri riders on women and babes, were so beside themselves with rage, that they became on the instant the bravest soldiers and the most determined avengers.

rides, n. (5)

    LE 1.175 17 [Society's] foolish routine, an indefinite multiplication of... rides...can teach you no more than a few can.
    MR 1.246 13 Sofas, ottomans, stoves, wine, game-fowl, spices, perfumes, rides, the theatre, entertainments,-all these [infirm people] want...
    Fdsp 2.205 22 I much prefer the company of ploughboys and tin-peddlers to the silken and perfumed amity which celebrates its days of encounter...by rides in a curricle...
    DL 7.121 13 ...[the eager, blushing boys] sigh...for rides...
    EWI 11.122 15 [Our] well-being consists in having...the excitement of a few parties and a few rides in a year.

rides, v. (20)

    Nat 1.44 9 ...the light resembles the heat which rides with it through Space.
    Nat 1.50 22 A man who seldom rides, needs only to get into a coach and traverse his own town, to turn the street into a puppet-show.
    LT 1.270 1 The Temperance-question, which rides the conversation of ten thousand circles...is a gymnastic training to the casuistry and conscience of the time.
    LT 1.290 6 ...[the Moral Sentiment] rides the stormy eloquence of the senate, sole victor;...
    Con 1.312 12 The king on the throne governs for thee...the postman rides.
    Pt1 3.21 16 [The poet] knows...why the great deep is adorned with animals, with men, and gods; for in every word he speaks he rides on them as the horses of thought.
    ShP 4.215 5 [Shakespeare] is not reduced to dismount and walk because his horses are running off with him in some distant direction: he always rides.
    ET3 5.34 23 Cushioned and comforted in every manner, the traveller [in England] rides as on a cannon-ball...
    ET11 5.182 10 The Marquis of Breadalbane rides out of his house a hundred miles in a straight line to the sea...
    F 6.33 10 [The torrent, the beasts, the chemic explosions] are now the steeds on which [man] rides.
    Bty 6.294 7 ...Beauty rides on a lion.
    Bty 6.301 25 Still, Beauty rides on her lion, as before.
    DL 7.105 1 On the strongest shoulders [the child] rides...
    PI 8.45 12 Every one may see, as he rides on the highway through an uninteresting landscape, how a little water instantly relieves the monotony...
    Res 8.150 14 In England everybody rides in the saddle;...
    Insp 8.293 24 By sympathy, each [party in good conversation] opens to the eloquence, and begins to see with the eyes of his mind. We were all lonely, thoughtless; and now...we see new relations, many truths;...each catches by the mane one of these strong coursers...and rides up and down in the world of the intellect.
    Schr 10.269 27 What the Genius whispered [the poet] at night he reported to the young men at dawn. He rides in them, he traverses sea and land.
    FRep 11.536 14 A man for success...must obey ideas, or he might as well be the horse he rides on.
    CL 12.143 20 In Illinois, everybody rides.
    WSL 12.337 9 When Mr. Bull rides in an American coach, he speaks quick and strong;...

ridest, v. (1)

    Ill 6.308 11 When thou dost return/ .../ Beholding.../ ...out of endeavor/ To change and to flow,/ The gas become solid,/ And phantoms and nothings/ Return to be things,/ And endless imbroglio/ Is law and the world,--/Then first shalt thou know,/ That in the wild turmoil,/ Horsed on the Proteus,/ Thou ridest to power,/ And to endurance./

ridge, n. (5)

    SR 2.87 14 The same particle does not rise from the valley [of the wave] to the ridge.
    Cir 2.304 11 ...it is the inert effort of each thought, having formed itself into a circular wave of circumstance...to heap itself on that ridge...
    Wth 6.122 13 ...travellers and Indians know the value of a buffalo-trail, which is sure to be the easiest possible pass through the ridge.
    Farm 7.147 17 [The tree] did not grow on a ridge, but in a basin...
    SHC 11.433 4 On the other side of the ridge [in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery], towards the town, a portion of the land is in full view of the cheer of the village...

ridicule, n. (16)

    Tran 1.355 17 ...we are tempted to smile, and we flee from the working to the speculative reformer, to escape that same slight ridicule.
    YA 1.383 9 Undoubtedly, abundant mistakes will be made by these first adventurers [the Communities], which will draw ridicule on their schemes.
    Exp 3.85 27 ...in the solitude to which every man is always returning, he has a sanity and revelations which in his passage into new worlds he will carry with him. Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat; up again, old heart!--it seems to say...
    Nat2 3.191 18 ...it was known that men of thought and virtue...could lose good time whilst the room was getting warm in winter days. Unluckily, in the exertions necessary to remove these inconveniences...to remove friction has come to be the end. That is the ridicule of rich men;...
    Nat2 3.191 22 ...this is the ridicule of the [wealthy] class, that they arrive with pains and sweat and fury nowhere;...
    Pol1 3.201 8 What the tender poetic youth dreams, and prays, and paints to-day, but shuns the ridicule of saying aloud, shall presently be the resolutions of public bodies;...
    GoW 4.266 1 ...there is a certain ridicule...thrown on the scholars or clerisy...
    Elo1 7.90 22 ...tenacity of memory, power of dealing with facts...of sinking them by ridicule or by diversion of the mind...are keys which the orator holds;...
    SA 8.98 8 ...On the day of resurrection, those who have indulged in ridicule will be called to the door of Paradise, and have it shut in their faces when they reach it.
    Res 8.147 23 The natural offset of terror is ridicule.
    Comc 8.164 22 ...the oldest gibe of literature is the ridicule of false religion.
    CSC 10.376 14 ...[these men and women at the Chardon Street Convention] found what they sought, or the pledge of it...in...the prophetic dignity and transfiguration which accompanies, even amidst opposition and ridicule, a man whose mind is made up to obey the great inward Commander...
    Thor 10.458 14 No opposition or ridicule had any weight with [Thoreau].
    Carl 10.495 12 In proportion to the peals of laughter amid which [Carlyle] strips the plumes of a pretender, and shows the lean hypocrisy to every vantage of ridicule, does he worship whatever enthusiasm, fortitude, love or other sign of a good nature is in a man.
    ALin 11.334 25 If ever a man was fairly tested, [Lincoln] was. There was no lack of resistance, nor of slander, nor of ridicule.
    EurB 12.367 4 Coleridge excellently said of poetry, that poetry must first be good sense; as a palace might well be magnificent, but first it must be a house. Wordsworth is open to ridicule of this kind.

ridicules, v. (1)

    Bty 6.298 24 Martial ridicules a gentleman of his day whose countenance resembled the face of a swimmer seen under water.

ridiculous, adj. (43)

    Nat 1.17 13 Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.
    Nat 1.65 20 The poet finds something ridiculous in his delight until he is out of the sight of men.
    DSA 1.127 26 ...poetry, the ideal life, the holy life...when suggested, seem ridiculous.
    LT 1.285 8 By the side of these men [of the intellectual class], the hot agitators have a certain cheap and ridiculous air;...
    Tran 1.354 26 A reference to Beauty in action sounds...a little hollow and ridiculous in the ears of the old church.
    Tran 1.356 3 ...as ridiculous stories will be to be told of [Transcendentalists] as of any.
    SR 2.60 11 Let the words [conformity, consistency] be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.
    Hsm1 2.259 1 The magic [many extraordinary young men] used was the ideal tendencies, which always make the Actual ridiculous;...
    Hsm1 2.261 6 Has nature covenanted with me that I should...never make a ridiculous figure?
    Art1 2.362 1 ...that which I fancied I had left in Boston was here in the Vatican...and made all travelling ridiculous as a treadmill.
    Exp 3.67 21 It is ridiculous that we are diplomatists...
    Exp 3.85 5 ...I have not found that much was gained by manipular attempts to realize the world of thought. Many eager persons successively make an experiment in this way, and make themselves ridiculous.
    Mrs1 3.142 22 We may easily seem ridiculous in our eulogy of courtesy...
    Mrs1 3.155 15 Minerva said...[men] were only ridiculous little creatures...
    Nat2 3.182 8 The flowers jilt us, and we are old bachelors with our ridiculous tenderness.
    MoS 4.165 16 Five or six as ridiculous stories, too, [Montaigne] says, can be told of me, as of any man living.
    MoS 4.167 8 As I look at [Montaigne's] effigy opposite the title-page, I seem to hear him say...I will rather mumble and prose about what I certainly know...what meats I eat and what drinks I prefer, and a hundred straws just as ridiculous...
    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.
    GoW 4.282 25 ...the German nation have the most ridiculous good faith on these [philosophical] subjects...
    ET9 5.144 13 There is no freak so ridiculous but some Englishman has attempted to immortalize by money and law.
    ET9 5.149 3 Their culture generally enables the travelled English to avoid any ridiculous extremes of this self-pleasing...
    ET9 5.149 10 It was said of Louis XIV., that his gait and air were becoming enough in so great a monarch, yet would have been ridiculous in another man;...
    ET15 5.264 10 [The London Times] denounced and discredited the French Republic of 1848, and checked every sympathy with it in England, until it had enrolled 200,000 special constables to watch the Chartists and make them ridiculous on the 10th April.
    ET16 5.287 7 My friends asked, whether there were any Americans?...any theory of the right future of that country? Thus challenged... ...I said, Certainly yes;--but those who hold it are fanatics of a dream which I should hardly care to relate to your English ears, to which it might be only ridiculous...
    CbW 6.270 11 ...resistance only exasperates the acrid fool, who believes that...he only is right. Hence all the dozen inmates [of his household] are soon perverted...into...repairers of this one malefactor; like a boat about to be overset, or a carriage run away with...everybody on board is forced to assume strange and ridiculous attitudes, to balance the vehicle and prevent the upsetting.
    CbW 6.274 6 It makes no difference, in looking back five years...whether you...have been carried in a neat equipage or in a ridiculous truck...
    OA 7.317 3 ...if the essence of age is not present, these signs, whether of Art or Nature, are counterfeit and ridiculous;...
    Comc 8.157 4 The rocks, the plants, the beasts, the birds, neither do anything ridiculous, nor betray a perception of anything absurd done in their presence.
    Comc 8.165 4 ...the more overgrown the particular form is, the more ridiculous to the intellect.
    Comc 8.168 27 ...according to Latin poetry and English doggerel,--Poverty does nothing worse/ Than to make man ridiculous./
    Comc 8.173 20 All our plans, managements, houses, poems...are equally imperfect and ridiculous.
    QO 8.192 26 Whoever expresses to us a just thought makes ridiculous the pains of the critic who should tell him where such a word had been said before.
    Imtl 8.336 8 Our passions, our endeavors, have something ridiculous and mocking, if we come to so hasty an end.
    Chr2 10.99 13 The aid which others give us is like that of the mother to the child...but on [a man's] arrival at a certain maturity, it...would be hurtful and ridiculous if prolonged.
    Schr 10.266 8 [Nature]...comes in with a new ravishing experience and makes the old time ridiculous.
    Schr 10.281 11 The astronomer is not ridiculous inasmuch as he is an astronomer, but inasmuch as he is not an astronomer.
    LLNE 10.329 10 Experiment is credible; antiquity is grown ridiculous.
    MMEm 10.408 27 To be singular of choice, without singular talents and virtues, is as ridiculous as ungrateful.
    MMEm 10.417 26 My [Mary Moody Emerson's] uncle has been the means of lessening my property. Ridiculous to wound him for that.
    Thor 10.459 11 ...the President [of Harvard University] found...the rules [of the Harvard Library] getting to look so ridiculous, that he ended by giving [Thoreau] a privilege which in his hands proved unlimited thereafter.
    HDC 11.84 1 I find [in Concord annals] no ridiculous laws...
    PLT 12.47 2 A man tries to speak [the truth] and his voice is...rude and chiding. The truth is not spoken but injured. The same thing happens in power to do the right. His rectitude is ridiculous.
    Bost 12.200 26 European and American are each ridiculous out of his sphere.

ridiculous, n. (2)

    Comc 8.157 12 Aristotle's definition of the ridiculous is, what is out of time and place, without danger.
    Comc 8.158 22 ...separate any part of Nature and attempt to look at it as a whole by itself, and the feeling of the ridiculous begins.

ridiculously, adv. (3)

    ET13 5.215 4 [Prudent men say] Better find some niche or crevice in this mountain of stone which religious ages have quarried and carved...than attempt anything ridiculously and dangerously above your strength, like removing it.
    F 6.19 11 The force with which we resist these torrents of tendency looks so ridiculously inadequate...
    PLT 12.50 25 Every man has his theory, true, but ridiculously overstated.

riding, n. (2)

    ET12 5.204 18 The reading men [at Oxford] are kept, by hard walking, hard riding and measured eating and drinking, at the top of their condition...
    PLT 12.26 23 ...no wine, music or exhilarating aids, neither warm fireside nor fresh air, walking or riding, avail at all to resist the palsy of mis-association.

riding, v. (13)

    Hist 2.18 11 A lady with whom I was riding in the forest said to me that the woods always seemed to her to wait...
    Pt1 3.15 22 The writer wonders what the coachman or the hunter values in riding, in horses and dogs.
    NMW 4.234 20 ...the Emperor Napoleon came riding at full speed toward the artillery.
    ET8 5.132 10 [Young Englishmen]...cannot expend their quantities of waste strength on riding, hunting, swimming and fencing...
    F 6.22 27 ...here they are, side by side, god and devil...riding peacefully together in the eye and brain of every man.
    Pow 6.69 14 ...when [the young English] have no wars to breathe their riotous valors in, they seek for travels as dangerous as war...riding alligators in South America with Waterton;...
    Ctr 6.143 25 ...fencing, riding, are lessons in the art of power...
    Ctr 6.143 26 ...fencing, riding, are lessons in the art of power, which it is [the boy's] main business to learn;--riding, specially...
    Ctr 6.144 22 Balls, riding, wine-parties and billiards pass to a poor boy for something fine and romantic...
    CbW 6.265 16 I know those miserable fellows...who see a black star always riding through the light and colored clouds in the sky overhead;...
    Bty 6.285 2 An Indian prince, Tisso, one day riding in the forest, saw a herd of elk sporting.
    PI 8.31 9 ...skates allow the good skater far more grace than his best walking would show, or sails more than riding.
    MAng1 12.226 13 ...one day riding over [the Pons Palatinus] on horseback, with his friend Vasari, [Michelangelo] cried, George, this bridge trembles under us;...

riding-school, n. (1)

    Bhr 6.170 27 We send girls of a timid, retreating disposition...to the riding-school... or wheresoever they can come into acquaintance and nearness of leading persons of their own sex;...

rids, v. (3)

    ET15 5.261 16 A relentless inquisition [the newspaper] drags every secret to the day...and no weakness can be taken advantage of by an enemy, since the whole people are already forewarned. Thus England rids herself of those incrustations which have been the ruin of old states.
    ACiv 11.308 18 ...this action [emancipation]...rids the world, at one stroke, of this degrading nuisance [slavery]...
    ACri 12.291 11 Resolute blotting rids you of all those phrases that sound like something and mean nothing...

Riemer, Friedrich Wilhelm, (1)

    Chr1 3.103 25 ...it was droll in the good Riemer, who has written the memoirs of Goethe, to make out a list of his donations and good deeds...

rien, n. (4)

    Bhr 6.192 19 'T is a French definition of friendship, rien que s'entendre, good understanding.
    Bty 6.294 25 Rien de beau que le vrai.
    Suc 7.289 6 Rien ne reussit mieux que le succes.
    MAng1 12.219 7 Since Beauty is thus an abstraction of the harmony and proportion that reigns in all Nature, it is therefore studied in Nature, and not in what does not exist. Hence the celebrated French maxim of Rhetoric, Rien de beau que le vrai; Nothing is beautiful but what is true.

rifle, adj. (1)

    Cour 7.279 9 I say unarmed [the hunter] stood./ Against those frightful paws/ The rifle butt, or club of wood,/ Could stand no more than straws./

rifle, n. (9)

    Prd1 2.229 1 ...what is more lonesome and sad than the sound of a whetstone or mower's rifle when it is too late in the season to make hay?
    Hsm1. 2.252 24 ...the little man...is born red, and dies gray...setting his heart on a horse or a rifle...
    Pow 6.61 18 A timid man...observing...sectional interests...with a mind made up to desperate extremities, ballot in one hand and rifle in the other,-- might easily believe that he and his country have seen their best days...
    Cour 7.263 18 ...the frontiersman [loses fear], when he has a perfect rifle and has acquired a sure aim.
    Schr 10.274 5 I cannot manage sword and rifle; can I not therefore be brave?
    JBB 11.266 13 Then [John Brown] grasped his trusty rifle, and boldly fought for Freedom;/ Smote from border unto border the fierce invading band/...
    FRep 11.515 14 When the cannon is aimed by ideas...when men die for what they live for...then the cannon articulates its explosions with the voice of a man, then the rifle seconds the cannon...and the better code of laws at last records the victory.
    FRep 11.515 15 When the cannon is aimed by ideas...when men die for what they live for...then the cannon articulates its explosions with the voice of a man, then the rifle seconds the cannon and the fowling-piece the rifle... and the better code of laws at last records the victory.
    EurB 12.377 27 [The Vivian Greys]...could write an Iliad any rainy morning, if fame were not such a bore. Men, women...are stupid things; but a rifle, and a mild pleasant gunpowder, a spaniel, and a cheroot, are themes for Olympus.

rifled, v. (1)

    Schr 10.278 24 The universe was rifled to furnish [the scholar].

rifle's, n. (1)

    Cour 7.280 1 But sure that rifle's aim,/ Swift choice of generous part,/ Showed in its passing gleam/ The depths of a brave heart./

rig, n. (3)

    ET4 5.56 12 The men who have built a ship and invented the rig, cordage, sail, compass and pump;...have acquired much more than a ship.
    ET5 5.87 5 [The English] adopt every improvement in rig, in motor, in weapons...
    FRep 11.537 21 The new times need a new man...whom plainly this country must furnish. Freer swing his arms;...more forward and forthright his whole build and rig than the Englishman's...

riggers, n. (1)

    Carl 10.493 13 If a scholar goes into a camp of lumbermen or a gang of riggers, those men will quickly detect any fault of character.

rigging, n. (1)

    SwM 4.145 1 In the shipwreck, some cling to running rigging, some to cask and barrel...

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