River to Romeo

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

river, adj. (2)

    FRep 11.534 24 In the planters of this country...the conditions of the country...forced them to a wonderful personal independence and to a certain heroic planting and trading. Later this strength appeared in the solitudes of the West, where...neighborhoods must combine against the Indians...or the river rowdies...
    CW 12.169 2 Not many men see beauty in the fogs/ Of close, low pine-woods in a river town;/...

River, Alabama, n. (1)

    Bost 12.186 26 I do not know that Charles River or Merrimac water is more clarifying to the brain than the Savannah or Alabama rivers...

River, Alewife, Massachuset (1)

    HDC 11.41 20 Mr. Bulkeley, by his generosity, spent his estate, and, doubtless in consideration of his charges, the General Court, in 1639, granted him 300 acres towards Cambridge; and to Mr. Spencer, probably for the like reason, 300 acres by the Alewife River.

River, Alph, England, n. (1)

    ET16 5.285 6 We [Emerson and Carlyle] crossed a bridge [at Wilton Hall] built by Inigo Jones, over a stream of which the gardener did not know the name (Qu. Alph?);...

River, Arno, Italy, n. (1)

    MAng1 12.243 9 The city of Florence, on the river Arno, still treasures the fame of this man [Michelangelo].

River, Astaboras, n. (1)

    Hist 2.22 13 In America and Europe the nomadism is of trade and curiosity, a progress certainly, from the gad-fly of Astaboras to the Anglo and Italomania of Boston Bay.

River, Cam, England, n. (2)

    ET11 5.179 9 Cambridge is the bridge of the Cam;...
    ET12 5.207 1 Greek erudition exists on the Isis and Cam...

River, Charles, adj. (1)

    Bost 12.186 24 I do not know that Charles River or Merrimac water is more clarifying to the brain than the Savannah or Alabama rivers...

River, Charles, Massachuset (2)

    Boks 7.204 16 I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.
    HDC 11.32 20 [The pilgrims] could cross the Massachusetts or Charles River, by the ferry at Newtown;...

River, Charles, n. (1)

    Bost 12.187 4 ...they who drink for some little time of the Potomac water lose their relish for the water of the Charles River...

River, Clyde, Scotland, adj (1)

    QQ 8.186 4 The fine verse in the old Scotch ballad of The Drowned Lovers-Thou art roaring ower loud, Clyde water,/ Thy streams are ower strang;/...is a translation of Martial's epigram on Hero and Leander...

River, Connecticut, n. (3)

    Hsm1 2.257 17 Massachusetts, Connecticut River and Boston Bay you think paltry places...
    HDC 11.58 7 From Narragansett to the Connecticut River, the scene of war was shifted as fast as these red hunters could traverse the forest.
    Bost 12.187 5 ...they who drink for some little time of the Potomac water lose their relish for the water...of the Merrimac and the Connecticut...

River, Danube, n. (1)

    Chr1 3.94 13 How often has the influence of a true master realized all the tales of magic! A river of command seemed to run down from his eyes into all those who beheld him, a torrent of strong sad light, like an Ohio or Danube...

River, Dart, England, n. (1)

    ET11 5.179 14 Cambridge is the bridge of the Cam;...Exmouth, Dartmouth, Sidmouth, Teignmouth, the mouths of the Ex, Dart, Sid and Teign rivers.

River, Echo, Mammoth Cave, (1)

    Ill 6.309 13 [In the Mammoth Cave] I...paddled three quarters of a mile in the deep Echo River...

River, Ex, England, n. (2)

    ET11 5.179 13 Cambridge is the bridge of the Cam;...Exeter or Excester, the castra of the Ex;...
    ET11 5.179 14 Cambridge is the bridge of the Cam;...Exmouth, Dartmouth, Sidmouth, Teignmouth, the mouths of the Ex, Dart, Sid and Teign rivers.

River, Gambia, n. (1)

    SMC 11.355 21 ...the common people [in the South], rich or poor, were...as arrogant as the negroes on the Gambia River;...

River, Ganges, n. (1)

    Let 12.395 5 One of the [letter] writers relentingly says, What shall my uncles and aunts do without me? and desires distinctly to be understood not to propose the Indian mode of giving decrepit relatives as much of the mud of holy Ganges as they can swallow, and more...

River, Hudson, n. (2)

    CW 12.171 16 ...because our river is no Hudson or Mississippi I have a problem long waiting for an engineer,-this-to what height I must build a tower in my garden that shall show me the Atlantic Ocean from its top-the ocean twenty miles away.
    Bost 12.187 5 ...they who drink for some little time of the Potomac water lose their relish for the water...of the Merrimac and the Connecticut,-even of the Hudson.

River, Isis, England, n. (1)

    ET12 5.207 1 Greek erudition exists on the Isis and Cam...

River, James, Virginia, n. (1)

    SMC 11.372 26 On the sixteenth of June, [the Thirty-second Regiment] crossed the James River...

River, Lear, Leir, Soar, (1)

    ET11 5.179 11 Cambridge is the bridge of the Cam;...Leicester the castra, or camp, of the Lear, or Leir (now Soar);...

River, Lena, Russia, n. (1)

    Art1 2.369 2 The boat at St. Petersburg, which plies along the Lena by magnetism, needs little to make it sublime.

River, Lethe, Mammoth Cave (1)

    Ill 6.309 15 [In the Mammoth Cave] I...crossed the streams Lethe and Styx;..

River, Lethe, n. [River] (2)

    SR 2.49 14 As soon as [a man] has once acted or spoken with eclat he is... watched by the sympathy or the hatred of hundreds, whose affections must now enter into his account. There is no Lethe for this.
    Mem 12.107 4 ...the true river Lethe is the body of man...

River, Main, Germany, n. (1)

    YA 1.367 12 There is no feature of the old countries that strikes an American with more agreeable surprise than the beautiful gardens of Europe; such as...the gardens at Munich and at Frankfort on the Main...

River, Massachusetts, n. (1)

    HDC 11.32 19 [The pilgrims] could cross the Massachusetts or Charles River, by the ferry at Newtown;...

River, Merrimac, adj. (1)

    Bost 12.186 24 I do not know that Charles River or Merrimac water is more clarifying to the brain than the Savannah or Alabama rivers.

River, Merrimac, n. (1)

    Bost 12.187 4 ...they who drink for some little time of the Potomac water lose their relish for the water...of the Merrimac and the Connecticut...

River, Merrimack, n. (1)

    Thor 10.466 11 The river on whose banks [Thoreau] was born and died he knew from its springs to its confluence with the Merrimack.

River, Mississippi, n. (3)

    Bhr 6.173 22 In the hotels on the banks of the Mississippi they print...that No gentleman can be permitted to come to the public table without his coat;...
    LVB 11.91 22 ...the American President and the Cabinet, the Senate and the House of Representatives...are contracting to put this active nation [the Cherokees] into carts and boats, and to drag them...to a wilderness at a vast distance beyond the Mississippi.
    CW 12.171 16 ...because our river is no Hudson or Mississippi I have a problem long waiting for an engineer,-this-to what height I must build a tower in my garden that shall show me the Atlantic Ocean from its top-the ocean twenty miles away.

River, Missouri, n. (1)

    War 11.166 16 ...the least change in the man will change his circumstances;...if, for example, he...should come to feel that every man was another self with whom he might come to join, as left hand works with right. Every degree of the ascendency of this feeling would cause the most striking changes of external things...the marching regiment would be a caravan of emigrants, peaceful pioneers at the fountains of the Wabash and the Missouri.

River, Musketaquid, Massach (1)

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

river, n. (89)

    Nat 1.5 9 Nature, in the common sense, refers to essences unchanged by man;...the river...
    Nat 1.19 3 In July, the blue pontederia...blooms in large beds in the shallow parts of our pleasant river...
    Nat 1.19 6 ...the river is a perpetual gala...
    Nat 1.26 27 Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour and is not reminded of the flux of all things?
    Nat 1.32 2 At the call of a noble sentiment, again...the river rolls and shines...
    Nat 1.34 22 ...river and storm...preexist in necessary Ideas in the mind of God...
    Nat 1.44 5 The granite is differenced in its laws only by the more or less of heat from the river that wears it away.
    Nat 1.44 6 The river, as it flows, resembles the air that flows over it;...
    DSA 1.119 12 The cool night bathes the world as with a river...
    MN 1.214 15 You cannot bathe twice in the same river, said Heraclitus;...
    MN 1.218 24 ...when Genius arrives, its speech is like a river;...
    Con 1.300 8 ...the superior beauty is with...the river which ever flowing yet is found in the same bed from age to age;...
    YA 1.368 9 ...[the farmer] is so contented with his alleys, woodlands, orchards and river, that Niagara and the Notch of the White Hills...are superfluities.
    Hist 2.7 22 [The true aspirant] hears the commendation...of that character he seeks...in the running river and the rustling corn.
    SL 2.140 27 [Each man] is like a ship in a river;...
    OS 2.268 11 When I watch that flowing river, which, out of regions I see not, pours for a season its streams into me, I see that I am a pensioner;...
    Cir 2.303 13 An orchard, good tillage, good grounds, seem a fixture, like a gold mine, or a river, to a citizen;...
    Pt1 3.4 22 ...the fountains whence all this river of Time and its creatures floweth are intrinsically ideal and beautiful...
    Pt1 3.40 16 Stand there, [O poet,]...hissed and hooted, stand and strive, until at last rage draw out of thee that dream-power which every night shows thee is thine own; a power transcending all limit and privacy, and by virtue of which a man is the conductor of the whole river of electricity.
    Chr1 3.94 11 How often has the influence of a true master realized all the tales of magic! A river of command seemed to run down from his eyes into all those who beheld him...
    Nat2 3.172 26 ...I go with my friend to the shore of our little river...
    Nat2 3.192 19 The pine-tree, the river, the bank of flowers before [the poet] does not seem to be nature.
    UGM 4.7 17 The river makes its own shores...
    UGM 4.20 11 We swim, day by day, on a river of delusions...
    SwM 4.118 1 One would say that as soon as men had the first hint that every sensible object,--animal, rock, river, air...subsists...as a picture-language to tell another story of beings and duties, other science would be put by...
    MoS 4.155 17 ...if we uncover the last facts of our knowledge, you are spinning like bubbles in a river...
    ShP 4.190 9 A great man...finds himself in the river of the thoughts and events...
    NMW 4.228 19 ...the river which was a formidable barrier, winter transforms into the smoothest of roads.
    GoW 4.261 12 The rolling rock leaves its scratches on the mountain; the river its channel in the soil;...
    ET3 5.42 13 In the variety of surface, Britain is a miniature of Europe, having plain, forest, marsh, river...
    ET11 5.175 3 He that will be a head, let him be a bridge, said the Welsh chief Benegridran, when he carried all his men over the river on his back.
    ET12 5.207 4 Greek erudition exists on the Isis and Cam...the atmosphere is loaded with Greek learning; the whole river has reached a certain height...
    F 6.24 14 A man ought to compare advantageously with a river...
    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 6.122 3 Mr. Stephenson...believing that the river knows the way, followed his valley as implicitly as our Western Railroad follows the Westfield River...
    SS 7.4 8 [My new friend] left the city; he hid himself in pastures. The solitary river was not solitary enough;...
    Civ 7.27 22 The farmer had much ill temper, laziness and shirking to endure from his hand-sawyers, until one day he bethought him to put his saw-mill on the edge of a waterfall; and the river never tires of turning his wheel;...
    Civ 7.27 23 The farmer had much ill temper, laziness and shirking to endure from his hand-sawyers, until one day he bethought him to put his saw-mill on the edge of a waterfall;...the river is good-natured, and never hints an objection.
    Elo1 7.68 22 ...listen to a poor Irishwoman recounting some experience of hers. Her speech flows like a river...
    WD 7.172 26 The Hindoos represent Maia, the illusory energy of Vishnu, as one of his principal attributes. As if, in this gale of warring elements which life is, it was necessary to bind souls to human life as mariners in a tempest lash themselves to the mast and bulwarks of a ship, and Nature employed certain illusions as her ties and straps...skates, a river, a boat, a horse, a gun, for the growing boy;...
    Clbs 7.237 22 Wafthrudnir asks [Odin]...what river separates the dwellings of the sons of the giants from those of the gods;...
    Suc 7.309 27 Good will makes insight, as one finds his way to the sea by embarking on a river.
    PI 8.9 7 ...[the student] observes that all things in Nature...the river, the seasons...have a mysterious relation to his thoughts and his life;...
    PI 8.11 21 ...the aptness with which a river, a flower, a bird, fire, day or night, can express [man's] fortunes, is as if the world were only a disguised man...
    Elo2 8.113 27 [Man] finds himself perhaps in the Senate, when the forest has cast out some wild, black-browed bantling to show the same energy in the crowd of officials which he had learned...in scrambling...through the swamp and river for his game.
    QO 8.179 21 ...the practical activity is a river of supply;...
    QO 8.181 3 ...if we knew Rabelais's reading we should see the rill of the Rabelais river.
    PPo 8.247 19 ...a large utterance, a river that makes its own shores...this generosity of ebb and flow satisfies...
    Insp 8.267 1 That flowing river, which, out of regions I see not, pours for a season its streams into me.
    Insp 8.269 24 The hunter on the prairie, at the right season, has no need of choosing his ground; east, west, by the river, by the timber, he is everywhere near his game.
    Grts 8.303 8 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.
    Aris 10.51 16 The day is darkened when the golden river runs down into mud;...
    Aris 10.53 23 ...I have seen a man of teeming brain come among these men [in a village], so full of his facts, so unable to suppress them, that he has poured out a river of knowledge to all comers...
    Thor 10.456 24 ...[Thoreau]...threw himself heartily and childlike into the company of young people...whom he delighted to entertain...with the varied and endless anecdotes of his experiences by field and river...
    Thor 10.466 9 The river on whose banks [Thoreau] was born and died he knew from its springs to its confluence with the Merrimack.
    Thor 10.467 11 [Thoreau] liked to speak of the manners of the river...
    Thor 10.467 13 As [Thoreau] knew the river, so the ponds in this region.
    Thor 10.483 16 How did these beautiful rainbow-tints get into the shell of the fresh-water clam, buried in the mud at the bottom of our dark river?
    HDC 11.29 19 The river...every winter, for ages, has spread its crust of ice over the great meadows which, in ages, it had formed.
    HDC 11.29 23 ...the little society of men who now, for a few years, fish in this river...shortly shall hurry from its banks as did their forefathers.
    HDC 11.32 21 ...[the pilgrims] could go up the [Charles] river as far as Watertown.
    HDC 11.36 17 ...in winter, [the Indians] sat around holes in the ice, catching salmon, pickeral, breams and perch, with which our river abounded.
    HDC 11.42 6 ...the town [Concord]...ordered that the North quarter are to keep and maintain all their highways and bridges over the great river, in their quarter...
    HDC 11.44 8 ...it was the river, or the winter, or famine, or the Pequots, that spoke through [the townsmen] to the Governor and the Council of Massachusetts Bay.
    HDC 11.55 13 The [Concord] river, at this period, seems to have caused some distress...
    HDC 11.73 22 This little battalion [of minute-men]...retreated before the enemy to the high land on the other bank of the river...
    HDC 11.74 14 ...the British fired one or two shots up the river...
    HDC 11.74 25 A head-stone and a foot-stone, on this bank of the river, mark the place where these first victims [of the American Revolution] lie.
    SMC 11.350 5 ...we shall cling affectionately to our houses, our river and pastures...
    SMC 11.353 25 ...when you replace the love of family or clan by a principle, as freedom, instantly that fire runs over the state-line...leaps the mountains, bridges river and lake...
    Wom 11.410 19 ...[the horse and ox] run to the river when thirsty...
    CPL 11.499 17 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] writes in her diary, Life truly resembles a river-ever the same-never the same;...
    CPL 11.501 27 A river of thought is always running out of the invisible world into the mind of man.
    FRep 11.539 25 ...if we have taught the river to make shoes and nails and carpets...let these wonders work for honest humanity...
    PLT 12.5 23 ...when I look at the tree or the river and have not yet definitely made out what they would say to me, they are by no means unimpressive.
    PLT 12.16 14 In my thought I seem to stand on the bank of a river...
    PLT 12.16 20 ...I have a suspicion that, as geologists say every river makes its own valley, so does this mystic stream.
    Mem 12.103 21 ...confined now in populous streets you behold again the green fields, the shadows of the gray birches; by the solitary river hear again the joyful voices of early companions...
    CL 12.142 19 ...a vain talker profanes the river and the forest...
    CW 12.171 8 Neither did I fully consider [when I bought my farm] what an indescribable luxury is our Indian river, the Musketaquid...
    CW 12.171 16 ...because our river is no Hudson or Mississippi I have a problem long waiting for an engineer,-this-to what height I must build a tower in my garden that shall show me the Atlantic Ocean from its top-the ocean twenty miles away.
    Bost 12.190 3 Massachusetts in particular, [John Smith] calls the paradise of these parts, notices its high mountain, and its river...
    Bost 12.191 16 ...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 copious river entered it...
    ACri 12.299 6 ...[in Carlyle's History of Frederick II] we see the eyes of the writer looking into ours, whilst he is humming and chuckling... stereoscoping every figure that passes, and every hill, river, wood, hummock and pebble in the long perspective...
    ACri 12.301 8 I fell in with one of the founders [of New City] who showed its advantages and its river and port and the capabilities...
    ACri 12.301 17 Where is the town [New City]? Was there not, I asked, a river and a harbor there? Oh, yes, there was a guzzle out of a sand-bank.
    MLit 12.315 18 The great lead us...in our age to metaphysical Nature...to moral abstractions, which are not less Nature than is a river...
    EurB 12.369 9 ...the spirit of literature and the modes of living and the conventional theories of the conduct of life were called in question [by Wordsworth] on wholly new grounds...from the lessons which the country muse taught a stout pedestrian...following a river from its parent rill down to the sea.
    Trag 12.411 18 ...the frailest glass bell will support a weight of a thousand pounds of water at the bottom of a river or sea, if filled with the same.

River, Nashua, n. (1)

    HDC 11.60 13 ...at night, whilst [Mary Shepherd's] captors were asleep, she...took a horse...and having girt the saddle on, she mounted, swam across the Nashua River, and rode through the forest to her home.

River, Niagara, n. (1)

    PI 8.6 26 Suppose there were in the ocean certain strong currents which drove a ship, caught in them, with a force that no skill of sailing with the best wind, and no strength of oars, or sails, or steam, could make any head agaanst, any more than against the current of Niagara.

River, Nile, n. (6)

    NER 3.274 23 Caesar, just before the battle of Pharsalia, discourses with the Egyptian priest concerning the fountains of the Nile...
    NER 3.276 18 ...if the secret oracles whose whisper makes the sweetness and dignity of [a man's] life do here withdraw and accompany him no longer,--it is time...with Caesar to take in his hand the army, the empire and Cleopatra, and say, All these will I relinquish, if you will show me the fountains of the Nile.
    Wth 6.94 23 To be rich is...to visit the mountains, Niagara, the Nile, the desert, Rome, Paris, Constantinople;...
    Plu 10.310 13 The explanation of the rainbow, of the floods of the Nile, and of the remora, etc. [in Plutarch], are just;...
    PLT 12.16 26 Who has found the boundaries of human intelligence? Who had made a chart of its channel, or approached the fountain of this wonderful Nile?
    Trag 12.412 6 The Egyptian sphinxes, which sit to-day...with their stony eyes fixed on the East and on the Nile, have countenances expressive of complacency and repose...

River, North Anna, Virgini (1)

    SMC 11.371 4 On the twenty-third, [the Thirty-second Regiment] crossed the North Anna, and achieved a great success.

River, Ohio, n. (1)

    Chr1 3.94 13 How often has the influence of a true master realized all the tales of magic! A river of command seemed to run down from his eyes into all those who beheld him, a torrent of strong sad light, like an Ohio or Danube...

River, Phlegethon, n. (1)

    Bhr 6.194 10 At last the escorting angel returned with his prisoner [the monk Basle] to them that sent him, saying that no phlegethon could be found that would burn him;...

River, Potomac, adj. (2)

    Bost 12.187 3 ...they who drink for some little time of the Potomac water lose their relish for the water of the Charles River...
    Bost 12.187 6 I think the Potomac water is a little acrid...

River, Potomac, n. (2)

    EzRy 10.390 2 To undecieve [Ezra Ripley], I hastened to recall some particulars to show the absurdity of the thing, as the Major [Jack Downing] and the President [Andrew Jackson] going out skating on the Potomac, etc.
    ACiv 11.303 26 The one power that has legs long enough and strong enough to wade across the Potomac offers itself at this hour;...

River, Rapidan, Virginia, n (3)

    SMC 11.371 5 After Gettysburg, the Thirty-second Regiment saw hard service...crossing the Rapidan...
    SMC 11.371 15 On the third of May, [the Thirty-second Regiment] crossed the Rapidan for the fifth time.
    SMC 11.372 7 On the thirtieth, we learn, our regiment [the Thirty-second] has never been in the second line since we crossed the Rapidan, on the third.

River, Rhine, 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...

River, Roch, England, n. (1)

    ET11 5.179 12 Cambridge is the bridge of the Cam;...Leicester the castra, or camp, of the Lear, or Leir (now Soar); Rochdale, of the Roch;...

River, Sacramento, Californ (1)

    UGM 4.4 3 You say...in the hills of the Sacramento there is gold for the gathering.

River, Savannah, n. (1)

    Bost 12.186 26 I do not know that Charles River or Merrimac water is more clarifying to the brain than the Savannah or Alabama rivers...

River, Sheaf, England, n. (1)

    ET11 5.179 10 Cambridge is the bridge of the Cam; Sheffield the field of the river Sheaf;...

River, Sid, England, n. (1)

    ET11 5.179 14 Cambridge is the bridge of the Cam;...Exmouth, Dartmouth, Sidmouth, Teignmouth, the mouths of the Ex, Dart, Sid and Teign rivers.

River, Styx, Mammoth Cave, (1)

    Ill 6.309 15 [In the Mammoth Cave] I...crossed the streams Lethe and Styx;...

River Styx, n. [River,] (2)

    MoL 10.251 3 I wish the youth to be...a man dipped in the Styx of human experience, and made invulnerable so,-self-helping.
    Carl 10.496 5 ...[Carlyle] thinks Oxford and Cambridge education indurates the young men, as the Styx hardened Achilles...

River, Tees, England, n. (1)

    ET11 5.182 8 From Barnard Castle I rode on the highway twenty-three miles from High Force, a fall of the Tees...through the estate of the Duke of Cleveland.

River, Teign, England, n. (1)

    ET11 5.179 15 Cambridge is the bridge of the Cam;...Exmouth, Dartmouth, Sidmouth, Teignmouth, the mouths of the Ex, Dart, Sid and Teign rivers.

River, Teleboas, Arminia, n (1)

    Hist 2.25 4 After the army had crossed the river Teleboas in Armenia, there fell much snow...

River, Thames, England, n. (2)

    ET3 5.41 27 ...to make these [commercial] advantages avail, the river Thames must dig its spacious outlet to the sea from the heart of the kingdom...
    ET3 5.42 10 When James the First declared his purpose of punishing London by removing his Court, the Lord Mayor replied that in removing his royal presence from his lieges, they hoped he would leave them the Thames.

River, Thames, n. (1)

    CInt 12.114 16 Milton congratulates the Parliament that, whilst London is besieged and blocked, the Thames infested...yet then are the people...more than at other times wholly taken up with the study of highest and most important matters to be reformed...

River, Tiber, n. (1)

    MAng1 12.226 3 [Michelangelo] was charged with rebuilding the Pons Palatinus over the Tiber.

River, Wabash, n. (1)

    War 11.166 15 ...the least change in the man will change his circumstances;...if, for example, he...should come to feel that every man was another self with whom he might come to join, as left hand works with right. Every degree of the ascendency of this feeling would cause the most striking changes of external things...the marching regiment would be a caravan of emigrants, peaceful pioneers at the fountains of the Wabash and the Missouri.

River, Westfield, Massachus (1)

    Wth 6.122 5 Mr. Stephenson...believing that the river knows the way, followed his valley as implicitly as our Western Railroad follows the Westfield River...

River, Yellowstone, Wyoming (1)

    Thor 10.465 22 Admiring friends offered to carry [Thoreau] at their own cost to the Yellowstone River...

River, Yosemite, adj. (1)

    PLT 12.43 16 There are times when the cawing of a crow...is more suggestive to the mind than the Yosemite gorge or the Vatican would be in another hour.

river-bank, n. (5)

    SL 2.131 9 The river-bank, the weed at the water-side...have a grace in the past.
    Edc1 10.155 11 ...when [the naturalist] goes to the river-bank, the fish and the reptile swim away...
    Thor 10.473 14 ...on the river-bank, large heaps of clam-shells and ashes mark spots which the savages frequented.
    Thor 10.474 2 Occasionally, a small party of Penobscot Indians would visit Concord, and pitch their tents for a few weeks in summer on the river-bank.
    CW 12.171 12 ...every house on that long street [in Concord] has a back door, which leads down through the garden to the river-bank...

river-pearl, adj. (1)

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

rivers, n. (37)

    MR 1.250 17 ...we cannot make a planet, with atmosphere, rivers, and forests, by means of the best carpenters'...tools...
    SL 2.144 9 [A man] is like one of those booms which are set out from the shore on rivers to catch drift-wood...
    Pt1 3.42 13 ...the woods and the rivers thou shalt own [O poet]...
    Chr1 3.114 18 ...the mind requires...a force of character...which will rule animal and mineral virtues, and blend with the courses of sap, of rivers, of winds, of stars, and of moral agents.
    SwM 4.112 21 [Swedenborg] knows, if he only, the flowing of nature, and how wise was that old answer of Amasis to him who bade him drink up the sea, Yes, willingly, if you will stop the rivers that flow in.
    ShP 4.191 3 The human race has gone out before [the great man], sunk the hills, filled the hollows and bridged the rivers.
    ET2 5.26 17 ...we crept along through the floating drift of boards, logs and chips, which the rivers of Maine and New Brunswick pour into the sea after a freshet.
    ET3 5.34 13 Nothing [in England] is left as it was made. Rivers, hills, valleys, the sea itself, feel the hand of a master.
    ET3 5.35 1 Cushioned and comforted in every manner, the traveller [in England] rides as on a cannon-ball...over rivers and towns...
    ET3 5.38 27 The constant rain...keeps [England's] multitude of rivers full...
    ET3 5.39 7 The rivers [in England] and the surrounding sea spawn with fish;...
    ET5 5.94 12 [England's] short rivers do not afford water-power, but the land shakes under the thunder of the mills.
    ET5 5.95 8 The rivers, lakes and ponds [in England], too much fished, or obstructed by factories, are artificially filled with the eggs of salmon, turbot and herring.
    ET11 5.179 15 Cambridge is the bridge of the Cam;...Exmouth, Dartmouth, Sidmouth, Teignmouth, the mouths of the Ex, Dart, Sid and Teign rivers.
    F 6.7 15 Rivers dry up by opening of the forest.
    Pow 6.57 4 So a broad, healthy, massive understanding seems to lie on the shore of unseen rivers, of unseen oceans...
    Pow 6.62 23 The commerce of rivers...must add an American extension to the pond-hole of admiralty.
    Wth 6.84 13 ...The storm-wind wove, the torrent span,/ Where they were bid the rivers ran;/...
    Wsp 6.218 23 We have learned the manners...of the rivers and the rain...
    CbW 6.255 21 I do not think very respectfully of the designs or the doings of the people who went to California in 1849. It was...in the western country, a general jail delivery of all the rowdies of the rivers.
    Farm 7.144 23 ...the sea is the grand receptacle of all rivers...
    Cour 7.254 5 Men admire...the man...who has the impiety to make the rivers run the way he wants them;...
    Res 8.146 11 [Tissenet] assured [the Indians] that if they should provoke him he would burn up their rivers and their forests;...
    Insp 8.275 21 ...ecstasy will be found...only an example on a higher plane of the same gentle gravitation by which stones fall and rivers run.
    Insp 8.290 16 Certain localities, as...the shores of rivers and rapid brooks... are excitants of the muse.
    Edc1 10.155 9 Do you know how the naturalist learns all the secrets...of the rivers and the sea?
    Thor 10.453 17 A natural skill for mensuration, growing out of...his habit of ascertaining the measures and distances of objects which interested him... the depth and extent of ponds and rivers...and his intimate knowledge of the territory about Concord, made [Thoreau] drift into the profession of land-surveyor.
    HDC 11.51 2 Those [Indians] who dwelled by ponds and rivers had some tincture of civility...
    LVB 11.91 21 ...the American President and the Cabinet, the Senate and the House of Representatives...are contracting to put this active nation [the Cherokees] into carts and boats, and to drag them over mountains and rivers...
    FRep 11.530 5 ...if the prosperity of this country has been merely the obedience of man to the guiding of Nature,-of great rivers and prairies,- yet is there fate above fate, if we choose to spread this language;...
    FRep 11.542 22 ...man seems to play...a certain part that even tells on the general face of the planet...leads rivers into dry countries for their irrigation...
    PLT 12.29 2 To the miller [Nature's] rivers whirl the wheel and weave carpets and broadcloth.
    PLT 12.33 12 In reckoning the sources of our mental power it were fatal to omit...that unknown country in which all the rivers of our knowledge have their fountains...
    II 12.65 4 In reckoning the sources of our mental power, it were fatal to omit...that unknown country in which all the rivers of our knowledge have their fountains...
    Bost 12.186 26 I do not know that Charles River or Merrimac water is more clarifying to the brain than the Savannah or Alabama rivers...
    Bost 12.205 17 ...good men are as the green plain of the earth is, as the rocks, and the beds of river are, the foundation and flooring and sills of the state.
    MLit 12.315 12 The great never hinder us; for their activity is coincident... with the course of the rivers and of the winds...

river-shallows, n. (1)

    Thor 10.466 24 ...the conical heaps of small stones on the river-shallows, the huge nests of small fishes...were all known to [Thoreau]...

river-side, n. (1)

    OA 7.317 15 ...in our old British legends of Arthur and the Round Table, his friend and counsellor, Merlin the Wise, is a babe found exposed in a basket by the river-side...

rivet, n. (1)

    Ctr 6.159 13 A man is a beggar who only lives to the useful, and however he may serve as a pin or rivet in the social machine, cannot be said to have arrived at self-possession.

riveted, v. (2)

    MN 1.220 2 ...let [a man] be filled with awe and dread before the Vast and the Divine...and our eye is riveted to the chain of events.
    EWI 11.111 11 ...iron collars were riveted on [West Indian slaves'] necks with iron prongs ten inches long;...

rivulet, n. (1)

    OS 2.281 5 [Revelation] is an ebb of the individual rivulet before the flowing surges of the sea of life.

road, adj. (1)

    YA 1.363 14 This rage of road building is beneficent for America...

road, n. (76)

    Nat 1.4 14 We are now so far from the road to truth, that religious teachers dispute and hate each other...
    Nat 1.13 23 To diminish friction, [man] paves the road with iron bars...
    Nat 1.14 9 [The private poor man] sets his house upon the road, and the human race go forth every morning, and shovel out the snow, and cut a path for him.
    AmS 1.101 12 For the ease and pleasure of treading the old road...[the scholar] takes the cross of making his own...
    MR 1.228 10 ...I will not dissemble my hope that each person whom I address has felt his own call...to be in his place...a brave and upright man, who must find or cut a straight road to everything excellent in the earth...
    MR 1.238 11 Every species of property is preyed on by its own enemies, as...a road by rain and frost;...
    Con 1.320 26 The contractors who were building a road out of Baltimore... found the Irish laborers quarrelsome...
    Tran 1.357 15 ...[strong spirits] by happiness of greater momentum lose no time, but take the right road at first.
    Tran 1.357 18 ...all these [Transcendentalists] of whom I speak...are novices; they only show the road in which man should travel...
    Tran 1.359 3 ...when every voice is raised for a new road or another statute...will you not tolerate one or two solitary voices in the land, speaking for thoughts and principles not marketable or perishable?
    YA 1.388 17 ...the college, the church, the hospital, the theatre, the hotel, the road, the ship of the capitalist,-whatever goes to secure, adorn, enlarge these is good;...
    Hist 2.20 14 No one can walk in a road cut through pine woods, without being struck with the architectural appearance of the grove...
    SL 2.132 15 Our young people are diseased with the theological problems of original sin, origin of evil, predestination and the like. These...never darkened across any man's road who did not go out of his way to seek them.
    Hsm1 2.262 18 I see not any road of perfect peace which a man can walk, but after the counsel of his own bosom.
    OS 2.276 9 ...the heart which abandons itself to the Supreme Mind...will travel a royal road to particular knowledges and powers.
    Cir 2.321 2 The difference between talents and character is adroitness to keep the old and trodden round, and power and courage to make a new road to new and better goals.
    Pt1 3.27 13 ...the traveller who has lost his way throws his reins on his horse's neck and trusts to the instinct of the animal to find his road...
    Exp 3.60 6 ...to find the journey's end in every step of the road...is wisdom.
    Exp 3.67 18 Power keeps quite another road than the turnpikes of choice and will;...
    Chr1 3.102 21 ...[the hero] is again on his road, adding new powers and honors to his domain...
    Mrs1 3.127 9 [Manners] aid our dealing and conversation as a railway aids travelling, by getting rid of all avoidable obstructions of the road...
    Mrs1 3.136 16 Wherever [Montaigne] goes he pays a visit to whatever prince or gentleman of note resides upon his road...
    Mrs1 3.150 22 ...by the firmness with which she treads her upward path, [woman] convinces the coarsest calculators that another road exists than that which their feet know.
    Nat2 3.175 23 The muse herself betrays her son [the poor young poet], and enhances the gifts of wealth and well-born beauty by a radiation out of the air, and clouds, and forests that skirt the road...
    Pol1 3.216 16 [The wise man] needs...no road, for he is at home where he is;...
    NR 3.243 24 Through solidest eternal things the man finds his road as if they did not subsist...
    UGM 4.4 10 ...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, and put myself on the road to-day.
    MoS 4.169 9 [Montaigne's] writing has no enthusiasms, no aspiration; contented, self-respecting and keeping the middle of the road.
    NMW 4.227 11 ...[a man of Napoleon's stamp] builds the road.
    NMW 4.240 20 When [Napoleon was] walking with Mrs. Balcombe, some servants, carrying heavy boxes, passed by on the road...
    ET1 5.16 2 [Carlyle] had names of his own for all the matters familiar to his discourse. Blackwood's was the sand magazine;...a piece of road near by, that marked some failed enterprise, was the grave of the last sixpence.
    ET3 5.42 2 ...to make these [commercial] advantages avail, the river Thames must dig its spacious outlet to the sea from the heart of the kingdom, giving road and landing to innumerable ships...
    ET8 5.130 2 In every [English] inn is the Commercial-Room, in which travellers, or bagmen who carry patterns and solicit orders for the manufacturers, are wont to be entertained. It easily happens that this class should characterize England to the foreigner, who meets them on the road...
    ET11 5.196 11 ...advantages once confined to men of family are now open to the whole middle class. The road that grandeur levels for his coach, toil can travel in his cart.
    ET16 5.276 19 Far and wide a few shepherds with their flocks sprinkled the [Salisbury] plain, and a bagman drove along the road.
    F 6.8 12 Providence has a wild, rough, incalculable road to its end...
    Wth 6.100 12 [The right merchant] knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound...
    Wth 6.122 27 ...the man who is to level the ground thinks it will take many hundred loads of gravel to fill the hollow to the road.
    Wth 6.123 9 ...the citizen comes to know that his predecessor the farmer built the house in the right spot for...the convenience to the pasture, the garden, the field and the road.
    Wsp 6.235 21 When I went abroad [said Benedict], I kept company with every man on the road...
    CbW 6.243 9 ...wilt thou measure all thy road,/ See thou lift the lightest load./
    Bty 6.282 2 The naturalist is led from the road by the whole distance of his fancied advance.
    Ill 6.322 1 A sudden rise in the road shows us the system of mountains...
    Civ 7.22 5 When the Indian trail gets widened, graded and bridged to a good road, there is a benefactor...
    Civ 7.29 21 It is a peremptory rule with [the heavenly powers] that they never go out of their road.
    DL 7.102 6 I detected many a god/ Forth already on the road,/ Ancestors of beauty come/ In thy breast to make a home./
    Farm 7.151 19 ...[the first planter]...has no road but the trail of the moose or bear;...
    SA 8.106 6 ...[the debauchee of sentiment] believes his disease is blooming health. A rough realist or a phalanx of realists would be prescribed; but that is like proposing to mend your bad road with diamonds.
    Res 8.135 3 ...Where [the wise man's] clear spirit leads him, there 's his road/ By God's own light illumined and foreshowed./
    Res 8.144 6 The commander called for men in the ranks who could rebuild the road.
    Res 8.152 25 ...the cart-wheel in the road may crush [the willows];...
    QO 8.189 8 In literature, quotation is good only when the writer whom I follow goes my way, being better mounted than I, gives me a cast, as we say; but if I like the gay equipage so well as to go out of my road, I had better have gone afoot.
    PPo 8.245 20 Good is what goes on the road of Nature.
    Insp 8.272 11 The toper finds, without asking, the road to the tavern...
    Grts 8.314 13 Napoleon commands our respect by...the habit of seeing with his own eyes, never the surface, but to the heart of the matter, whether it was a road, a cannon, a character, an officer, or a king...
    Dem1 10.5 13 The very landscape and scenery in a dream seem...like a coat or cloak of some other person to overlap and encumber the wearer; so is the ground, the road, the house, in dreams, too long or too short...
    Dem1 10.5 24 In sleep one shall travel certain roads...or shall walk alone in familiar fields and meadows, which road or which meadow in waking hours he never looked upon.
    Aris 10.61 16 ...all comparison with neighboring abilities and reputations, is the road to mediocrity.
    Chr2 10.122 4 [A well-principled man] defends himself against failure in his main design by making every inch of the road to it pleasant.
    LLNE 10.328 13 Are there any brigands on the road? inquired the traveller in France.
    Thor 10.481 9 ...[Thoreau]...never willingly walked in the road...
    Thor 10.483 6 If I wish for a horse-hair for my compass-sight I must go to the stable; but the hair-bird, with her sharp eyes, goes to the road.
    HDC 11.32 24 [The pilgrims] must...with their axes cut a road for their teams...
    HDC 11.38 17 [The Puritans] proceeded to build, under the shelter of the hill that extends for a mile along the north side of the Boston road, their first dwellings.
    HDC 11.49 13 In every winding road...[the people of Concord] read their own power...
    FSLN 11.235 18 The army of unright is encamped from pole to pole, but the road of victory is known to the just.
    SMC 11.371 22 The [Thirty-second] regiment has been in the front and centre since the battle begun...and is now building breastworks on the Fredericksburg road.
    Wom 11.425 2 ...let [new opinions] make their way by the upper road...
    CL 12.155 22 ...after having climbed the Alps, whilst I [Linnaeus], a youth of twenty-five years, was spent and tired...these two old [Lap] men, one fifty, one seventy years...felt none of the inconveniences of the road...
    MAng1 12.220 14 Michael Angelo dedicated himself...to a toilsome observation of Nature. The first anecdote recorded of him shows him to be already on the right road.
    MAng1 12.242 26 ...art was to [Michelangelo] no means of livelihood or road to fame, but the end of living...
    MLit 12.309 18 We go musing into the vault of day and night;...frogs pipe, mice cheep, and wagons creak along the road.
    MLit 12.332 21 Humanity must wait for its physician still at the side of the road...
    AgMs 12.361 6 Our [New England] roads are always changing their direction, and after a man has built at great cost a stone house, a new road is opened, and he finds himself a mile or two from the highway.
    Let 12.392 21 Very unlooked-for political and social effects of the iron road are fast appearing.
    Let 12.393 24 The sea and the iron road are safer toys for such ungrown people;...

road-contractor, n. (1)

    UGM 4.19 20 [The great man's] class is extinguished with him. In some other and quite different field the next man will appear; not Jefferson, not Franklin, but now a great salesman, then a road-contractor...

roaded, v. (1)

    FSLC 11.209 19 By new arts the earth is subdued, roaded, tunnelled, telegraphed, gas-lighted;...

road-makers, n. (1)

    UGM 4.13 1 ...every man, inasmuch as he has any science,--is a definer and map-maker of the latitudes and longitudes of our condition. These road-makers on every hand enrich us.

road-ready, adj. (1)

    MR 1.246 3 ...parched corn and a house with one apartment...that I may be...girt and road-ready for the lowest mission of knowledge or goodwill, is frugality for gods and heroes.

roads, n. (41)

    Con 1.311 22 ...for thee roads have been cut in every direction across the land...
    Con 1.317 11 Rich and fine is your dress, O conservatism!...your roads are well cut and well paved;...
    Hist 2.36 4 In old Rome the public roads beginning at the Forum proceeded north, south, east, west...
    Fdsp 2.206 3 [Friendship] is fit for...country rambles, but also for rough roads and hard fare...
    Cir 2.302 24 See the investment of capital in aqueducts, made useless by hydraulics;...roads and canals, by railways;...
    Exp 3.58 26 A political orator wittily compared our party promises to western roads...
    Pol1 3.219 27 We must not...doubt that roads can be built, letters carried, and the fruit of labor secured, when the government of force is at an end.
    SwM 4.104 8 The robust Aristotelian method...opening, by its terminology and definition, high roads into nature, had trained a race of athletic philosophers.
    ShP 4.217 2 Shakspeare, Homer, Dante, Chaucer...knew that a tree had another use than for apples...and the ball of the earth, than for tillage and roads...
    NMW 4.228 21 ...the river which was a formidable barrier, winter transforms into the smoothest of roads.
    NMW 4.228 26 [Napoleon] is a worker in brass...in roads...
    NMW 4.235 10 There shall be no Alps, [Napoleon] said; and he built his perfect roads...
    NMW 4.241 2 The principal works that have survived [Napoleon] are his magnificent roads.
    ET5 5.75 1 [The Roman] disembarked his legions [in England]...at last, he made a handsome compliment of roads and walls, and departed.
    ET5 5.85 5 [The English] build roads, aqueducts;...
    ET6 5.104 10 The Englishman is very petulant and precise about his accommodation at inns and on the roads;...
    ET10 5.160 26 The wise, versatile, all-giving machinery makes chisels, roads, locomotives, telegraphs.
    ET18 5.304 6 [The English] are expiating the wrongs of India by benefits; first, in works for the irrigation of the peninsula, and roads, and telegraphs;...
    Pow 6.67 19 [Boniface] was active in getting the roads repaired and planted with shade-trees;...
    CbW 6.256 26 What is the benefit done by a good King Alfred...compared with the involuntary blessing wrought on nations by the selfish capitalists who built the...network of the Mississippi Valley roads;...
    Civ 7.27 27 We had letters to send: couriers...foundered their horses; bad roads in spring, snowdrifts in winter, heats in summer;...
    Farm 7.152 9 ...when...there is more skill, and tools and roads, the new generations are strong enough to open the lowlands...
    SA 8.94 21 Sainte-Beuve tells us of the privileged circle at Coppet, that after making an excursion one day, the party returned in two coaches from Chambery to Aix, on the way to Coppet. The first coach had many rueful accidents to relate...shocking roads...
    SA 8.95 5 ...[the party in the second coach] had...breathed a purer air: such a conversation between Madame de Stael and Madame Recamier and Benjamin Constant and Schlegel! they were all in a state of delight. The intoxication of the conversation had made them insensible to all notice of weather or rough roads.
    Dem1 10.5 21 In sleep one shall travel certain roads in stage-coaches or gigs, which he recognizes as familiar...
    Aris 10.45 7 ...the man's associations, fortunes, love, hatred, residence, rank, the books he will buy, the roads he will traverse are predetermined in his organism.
    Supl 10.178 10 The political economist defies us to show any gold-mine country that is traversed by good roads...
    MoL 10.254 16 ...[the scholar] should open all the prizes of success and all the roads of Nature to free competition.
    MMEm 10.428 25 [Mary Moody Emerson] made up her shroud...and she... went out to ride in it, on horseback, in her mountain roads...
    Thor 10.460 2 In every part of Great Britain, [Thoreau] wrote in his diary, are discovered traces of the Romans...their roads...
    HDC 11.43 23 What could the body of freemen, meeting four times a year, at Boston, do for the daily wants of the planters at Musketaquid? The wolf was to be killed;...roads to be cut;...
    EdAd 11.384 24 ...we cannot stave off the ulterior question...the WHERE TO of all this [American] power and population...this taxing and tabulating, mill-privilege, roads, and mines.
    EdAd 11.387 18 ...though it may not be easy to define [America's] influence, the men feel already its emancipating quality...in the direct roads by which grievances are reached and redressed...
    SHC 11.429 5 Citizens and Friends: The committee to whom was confided the charge of carrying out the wishes of the town [Concord] in opening the [Sleep Hollow] cemetary, having proceeded so far as to enclose the ground, and cut the necessary roads...have thought it fit to call the inhabitants together...
    CPL 11.495 7 That town is attractive to its native citizens and to immigrants which has a healthy site, good land, good roads...
    FRep 11.542 24 ...man seems to play...a certain part that even tells on the general face of the planet...perforates forests and stony mountain chains with roads...
    CInt 12.128 7 This, then, is the theory of Education, the happy meeting of the young soul...with the living teacher who has already made the passage from the centre forth...along the intellectual roads to the theory and practice of special science.
    Bost 12.204 14 In Massachusetts [Nature] did not want epic poems and dramas yet, but first...builders of roads...
    AgMs 12.361 4 Our [New England] roads are always changing their direction...
    Let 12.403 5 A friend of ours went five years ago to Illinois to buy a farm for his son. Though there were crowds of emigrants in the roads, the country was open on both sides...
    Trag 12.414 15 Time the consoler...dries the freshest tears by obtruding new figures, new costumes, new roads, on our eye, new voices on our ear.

road-side, n. [roadside,] (7)

    Nat 1.34 18 There sits the Sphinx at the road-side...
    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.
    Art1 2.368 13 ...it is [genius's] instinct to find beauty and holiness...in the field and road-side...
    Farm 7.141 7 He who...plants a grove of trees by the roadside...makes a fortune...which is useful to his country long afterwards.
    Farm 7.147 4 Plant fruit-trees by the roadside, and their fruit will never be allowed to ripen.
    CW 12.169 12 ...unto me not morn's magnificence/.../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./
    WSL 12.337 14 [John Bull] wonders that the Americans should build with wood, whilst all this stone is lying in the roadside;...

roadsides, n. (2)

    Nat 1.18 22 The succession of native plants in the pastures and roadsides... will make even the divisions of the day sensible to a keen observer.
    HDC 11.38 26 The little flower which at this season stars our woods and roadsides with its profuse blooms, might attract even eyes as stern as [the settlers of Concord's] with its humble beauty.

roadster, n. (1)

    Pow 6.77 9 The hack is a better roadster than the Arab barb.

roam, v. (2)

    CbW 6.244 3 ...Fool and foe may harmless roam,/ Loved and lovers bide at home./
    SovE 10.190 8 Community of property is tried, as when a Tartar horde or an Indian tribe roam over a vast tract for pasturage or hunting;...

roaming, v. (1)

    Lov1 2.181 6 ...[the ancient writers] said that the soul of man, embodied here on earth, went roaming up and down in quest of that other world of its own out of which it came into this...

roams, v. (1)

    Hist 2.22 25 A man of rude health and flowing spirits...lives in his wagon and roams through all latitudes as easily as a Calmuc.

roar, n. (4)

    Nat 1.31 21 The poet...bred in the woods...shall not lose their lesson altogether, in the roar of cities...
    LE 1.162 24 ...[the youth's] fancy has brought home to the surrounding woods the faint roar of cannonades in the Milanese...
    ET2 5.29 25 ...'t is no wonder that the history of our race is so recent, if the roar of the ocean is silencing our traditions.
    ET11 5.183 10 All over England...are the paradises of the nobles, where the livelong repose and refinement are heightened by the contrast with the roar of industry and necessity...

roared, v. (1)

    Elo2 8.109 1 He, when the rising storm of party roared,/ Brought his great forehead to the council board,/ There, while hot heads perplexed with fears the state,/ Calm as the morn the manly patriot sate;/...

roaring, adj. (2)

    ET14 5.255 12 The island [England] is a roaring volcano of fate, of material values, of tariffs and laws of repression, glutted markets and low prices.
    EurB 12.366 21 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 what that meant...

Roaring Thunder Indians, n. (1)

    Comc 8.165 9 The Society in London which had contributed their means to convert the savages, hoping doubtless to see the...Roaring Thunders and Tustanuggees...converted into church-wardens and deacons at least, pestered the gallant rover [Capt. John Smith] with frequent solicitations... touching the conversion of the Indians...

roaring, v. (2)

    QO 8.186 4 The fine verse in the old Scotch ballad of The Drowned Lovers-Thou art roaring ower loud, Clyde water,/ Thy streams are ower strang;/...is a translation of Martial's epigram on Hero and Leander...
    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.

roarings, n. (1)

    Comc 8.162 16 So painfully susceptible are some men to these impressions [of halfness], that if a man of wit come into the room where they are, it seems to take them out of themselves with violent convulsions of the face and sides, and obstreperous roarings of the throat.

roars, n. (1)

    FSLC 11.202 4 [Webster] must learn...that he who was their pride in the woods and mountains of New England is now their mortification...they have thrust his speeches into the chimney. No roars of New York mobs can drown this voice in Mr. Webster's ear.

roars, v. (1)

    CL 12.148 27 Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated the winds as the conveying Maruts, traversers of places difficult of access. ... The lightning roars like a parent cow that bellows for its calf, and the rain is set free by the Maruts.

roast, adj. (3)

    MR 1.245 26 Parched corn eaten to-day, that I may have roast fowl to my dinner Sunday, is a baseness;...
    ET1 5.16 24 [Carlyle] had read in Stewart's book that when he inquired in a New York hotel for the Boots, he had been shown across the street and had found Mungo in his own house dining on roast turkey.
    SovE 10.195 15 We need not always be stipulating for our clean shirt and roast joint per diem.

roast, n. (1)

    SA 8.95 12 What a good trait is that recorded of Madame de Maintenon, that, during dinner, the servant slipped to her side, Please, madame, one anecdote more, for there is no roast to-day.

roast, v. (3)

    Nat 1.32 18 We are like travellers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs.
    SwM 4.137 6 [Swedenborg] is like Michael Angelo, who, in his frescoes, put the cardinal who had offended him to roast under a mountain of devils;...
    ET11 5.176 15 At [Richard Neville's] house in London, six oxen were daily eaten at a breakfast...and who had any acquaintance in his family should have as much boiled and roast as he could carry on a long dagger.

roasted, v. (1)

    Wom 11.420 11 On the questions that are important...whether men shall be holden in bondage, or shall be roasted alive and eaten, as in Typee, or shall be hunted with bloodhounds, as in this country...[women] would give, I suppose, as intelligent a vote as the voters of Boston or New York.

roasting, v. (1)

    Nat2 3.195 17 They say that by electro-magnetism your salad shall be grown from the seed whilst your fowl is roasting for dinner;...

roasts, v. (1)

    CPL 11.501 17 [Literature] is thought to be the harmless entertainment of a few fanciful persons, and not at all to be the interest of the multitude. To these objections, which proceed on the cheap notion that nothing but what... roasts mutton...is anything worth, I have little to say.

Rob Roy's Grave [William (1)

    LLNE 10.323 5 Of old things all are over old,/ Of good things none are good enough;-/ We 'll show that we can help to frame/ A world of other stuff./ Rob Roy's Grave. Wordsworth.

rob, v. (8)

    LE 1.177 4 ...literary men...dealing with the organ of language...rob it of its almightiness by failing to work with it.
    Fdsp 2.214 3 Whatever correction of our popular views we make from insight, nature...though it seem to rob us of some joy, will repay us with a greater.
    ET18 5.300 20 In [English] cities, the children are trained to beg, until they shall be old enough to rob.
    LLNE 10.328 17 Are there any brigands on the road? inquired the traveller in France. Oh, no...said the landlord;...what should these fellows keep the highway for, when they can rob just as effectually, and much more at their ease, in the bureaus of office?
    HDC 11.68 12 ...in answer to letters received from the united committees of correspondence...the town [of Concord] say: We cannot possibly view with indifference the...endeavors of the enemies of this...country, to rob us of those rights, that are the distinguishing glory and felicity of this land;...
    War 11.162 5 ...if a foreign nation should wantonly insult or plunder our commerce, or, worse yet, should land on our shores to rob and kill, you would not have us sit, and be robbed and killed?
    ACiv 11.301 25 Banknotes rob the public...
    EurB 12.374 22 ...Zanoni pains us and the author loses our respect... because the power with which his hero is armed is a toy, inasmuch as the power...is a power for London; a divine power converted into...a highwayman's pistol to rob and kill with.

robbed, v. (7)

    Mrs1 3.145 23 The epitaph of Sir Jenkin Grout is not wholly unintelligible to the present age: Here lies Sir Jenkin Grout...what his servants robbed, he restored...
    UGM 4.34 16 Happy, if a few names remain so high that...age and comparison have not robbed them of a ray.
    Wth 6.116 8 The smell of the plants has drugged [the land-owner] and robbed him of energy.
    Dem1 10.20 1 ...[belief in the demonological] extends the popular idea of success to the very gods;...that fortunate men, fortunate youths exist, whose good is not virtue or the public good, but a private good, robbed from the rest.
    Aris 10.41 11 ...the effect of freer institutions in England and America, has robbed the title of king of all its romance...
    War 11.162 6 ...if a foreign nation should wantonly insult or plunder our commerce, or, worse yet, should land on our shores to rob and kill, you would not have us sit, and be robbed and killed?
    AKan 11.261 8 ...of Kansas, the President says; Let the complainants go to the courts; though he knows that when the poor plundered farmer comes to the court, he finds the ringleader who has robbed him dismounting from his own horse, and unbuckling his knife to sit as his judge.

robber, n. (6)

    SR 2.88 8 Especially [the cultivated man] hates what he has if he see that it...came to him by...crime; then he feels that...it...merely lies there because...no robber takes it away.
    SL 2.138 17 We side with the hero, as we read or paint, against the coward and the robber;...
    SL 2.138 18 ...we have been ourselves that coward and robber, and shall be again...
    LLNE 10.356 11 ...a pent-house to fend the sun and rain is the house which lays no tax on the owner's time and thoughts, and which he can leave...and defy the robber.
    War 11.168 9 Will you stick to your principle of non-resistance...when your wife and babes are insulted and slaughtered in your sight? If you say yes, you only invite the robber and assassin;...
    PLT 12.22 21 The robber, as the police reports say, must have been intimately acquainted with the premises.

robbers, n. (3)

    SwM 4.131 24 [Swedenborg] was let down through a column that...was formed of angelic spirits, that he might descend safely amongst the unhappy, and witness the vastation of souls and hear there...their lamentations;...he saw...the hell of robbers, who kill and boil men;...
    ET11 5.173 4 ...we take sides as we read for the loyal England, and King Charles's return to his right with his Cavaliers,--knowing what a heartless trifler he is, and what a crew of Godforsaken robbers they are.
    EWI 11.125 20 ...like other robbers, [the planters] could not sleep in security.

robbers', n. (1)

    CbW 6.256 5 ...out of Sabine rapes, and out of robbers' forays, real Romes and their heroisms come in fulness of time.

robber-troops, n. (1)

    PPo 8.245 16 On every side is an ambush laid by the robber-troops of circumstance;...

robbery, n. (2)

    LVB 11.94 24 On the broaching of this question [of the moral character of government], a general expression of despondency, of disbelief that any good will accrue from a remonstrance on an act of fraud and robbery, appeared in those men to whom we naturally turn for aid and counsel.
    TPar 11.290 1 ...[Theodore Parker] insisted...that the essence of Christianity is its practical morals;...and if you combine it...with ordinary city ambitions to gloze over...the robbery of frontier nations...it is a hypocrisy...

robbing, n. (2)

    EWI 11.101 9 If there be any man...who would not so much as part with his ice-cream, to save [a race of men] from rapine and manacles, I think I must not hesitate to satisfy that man that also his cream and vanilla are safer and cheaper by placing the negro nation on a fair footing than by robbing them.
    FSLN 11.233 11 You relied on the constitution. It has not the word slave in it; and very good argument has shown...that, with provisions so vague for an object not named...the robbing of a man and of all his posterity is effected.

robe, n. (7)

    DSA 1.149 16 ...[Massena] put on terror and victory as a robe.
    Hist 2.38 27 [A man] shall walk...in a robe painted all over with wonderful events and experiences;...
    OS 2.274 14 ...the web of events is the flowing robe in which [the soul] is clothed.
    SwM 4.123 27 Plato is a gownsman; his garment...is an academic robe...
    MoS 4.166 11 ...[Montaigne] has seen too much of gentlemen of the long robe, until he wishes for cannibals;...
    PI 8.36 24 [The poet's] wreath and robe is to do what he enjoys;...
    MLit 12.332 18 Life for [Goethe]...has a gem or two more on its robe; but its old eternal burden is not relieved;...

robed, adj. (1)

    PPh 4.75 14 It was a rare fortune that this Aesop of the mob [Socrates] and this robed scholar [Plato] should meet...

Robert, n. (1)

    YA 1.391 27 After all the deductions which are to be made for our pitiful politics, which stake every gravest national question on the silly die whether James or whether Robert shall sit in the chair and hold the purse;... there still remains an organic simplicity and liberty...

Robert of Gloucester, n. (1)

    Boks 7.221 9 Another member [of the literary club] meantime shall as honestly search, sift and as truly report on British mythology...the histories of Brut, Merlin and Welsh poetry; a third on the Saxon Chronicles, Robert of Gloucester and William of Malmsbury;......

Roberts, Richard, n. (3)

    ET5 5.93 7 The steam-chamber of Watt, the locomotive of Stephenson, the cotton-mule of Roberts, perform the labor of the world.
    ET10 5.159 6 Iron and steel are very obedient. Whether it were not possible to make a spinner that would not rebel...nor emigrate? At the solicitation of the masters...Mr. Roberts of Manchester undertook to create this peaceful fellow...
    ET10 5.159 16 As Arkwright had destroyed domestic spinning, so Roberts destroyed the factory spinner.

Robertson, William, n. (3)

    ET17 5.294 23 [Wordsworth] detailed the two models, on one or the other of which all the sentences of the historian Robertson are framed.
    Boks 7.206 10 The Life of the Emperor Charles V., by the useful Robertson, is still the key of the following age.
    Milt1 12.250 23 ...as an historical argument, [Milton's Defence of the English People] cannot be valued with similar disquisitions of Robertson and Hallam...

Robertson's, William, n. (1)

    ET1 5.17 4 Tristram Shandy was one of [Carlyle's] first books after Robinson Crusoe, and Robertson's America an early favorite.

robes, n. (8)

    MN 1.224 8 Pusillanimity and fear [the soul] refuses with a beautiful scorn; they are not for her who puts on her coronation robes, and goes out through universal love to universal power.
    LT 1.275 27 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 1.314 4 Under the richest robes...the strong heart will beat with love of mankind...
    GoW 4.282 12 In the learned journal, in the influential newspaper, I discern no form; only some irresponsible shadow; oftener...some dangler who hopes, in the mask and robes of his paragraph, to pass for somebody.
    PPo 8.241 14 ...when the Queen of Sheba came to visit Solomon, he had built...a palace, of which the floor or pavement was of glass, laid over running water, in which fish were swimming. The Queen of Sheba...raised her robes, thinking she was to pass through the water.
    Supl 10.165 9 ...one would not wear earthquake dresses or resurrection robes for a working jacket...
    CW 12.173 8 I [Linnaeus] possess here [in the Academy Garden]...unless I am very much mistaken, what is far more beautiful than Babylonian robes...
    ACri 12.286 4 Bacon, if he could out-cant a London chirurgeon, must have possessed the Romany under his brocade robes.

Robespierre's, Maximilien de (1)

    Elo2 8.130 15 It was said of Robespierre's audience, that though they understood not the words, they understood a fury in the words, and caught the contagion.

robin, n. (2)

    SwM 4.136 9 Of all absurdities, this of some foreigner proposing to take away my rhetoric and substitute his own, and amuse me with pelican and stork, instead of thrush and robin;...seems the most needless.
    SHC 11.435 24 Our use [of Sleepy Hollow] will not displace the old tenants. The well-beloved birds will not sing one song the less...the oriole, robin, purple finch, bluebird, thrush...will find out the hospitality and protection from the gun of this asylum...

Robinson Crusoe [Daniel De (3)

    ET1 5.17 4 Tristram Shandy was one of [Carlyle's] first books after Robinson Crusoe...
    DL 7.106 21 ...Robinson Crusoe...what mines of thought and emotion...are in this encyclopaedia of young thinking!
    Thor 10.457 2 I said [to Thoreau], Who would not like to write something which all can read, like Robinson Crusoe?...

Robinson, Henry Crabb, n. (1)

    ET10 5.168 20 ...Pitt, Peel and Robinson and their Parliaments...went to their graves in the belief that they were enriching the country which they were impoverishing.

Robinson, John, n. (1)

    LT 1.269 12 The leaders of the crusades against War, Negro slavery...are the right successors of Luther...Robinson...

Robinson, Marmaduke, n. (1)

    Hist 2.10 23 We must in ourselves see the necessary reason of every fact,-- see how it could and must be. So stand...before a martyrdom...of Marmaduke Robinson;...

Robinson, Mr., n. (1)

    AKan 11.256 16 Do the Committee of Investigation say that the outrages [in Kansas] have been overstated? ... Is it an exaggeration, that...Mr. Jennison of Groton, Mr. Phillips of Berkshire, have been murdered? That Mr. Robinson of Fitchburg has been imprisoned?

Robinson, William, n. (1)

    Bost 12.206 23 From Roger Williams and Eliot and Robinson...down to Abner Kneeland...there never was wanting [in Boston] some thorn of dissent and innovation and heresy to prick the sides of conservatism.

robs, v. (4)

    ET10 5.167 10 The incessant repetition of the same hand-work dwarfs the man, robs him of his strength, wit and versatility...
    MMEm 10.420 7 Better anything than dishonest dependence, which robs the poorer...
    FSLC 11.179 14 I wake in the morning with a painful sensation...which, when traced home, is the odious remembrance of that ignominy which has fallen on Massachusetts, which robs the landscape of beauty...
    FRO2 11.489 19 Whoever thinks a story gains...by adding something out of nature, robs it more than he adds.

robust, adj. (26)

    SwM 4.104 2 The robust Aristotelian method...had trained a race of athletic philosophers.
    MoS 4.159 13 Let us have a robust, manly life;...
    GoW 4.268 9 The robust gentlemen who stand at the head of the practical class, share the ideas of the time...
    ET4 5.47 8 In race, it is not the broad shoulders, or litheness, or stature that give advantage, but a symmetry that reaches as far as to the wit. Then the miracle and renown begin. Then first we care to...copy heedfully the training...which resulted in this...robust wisdom.
    ET4 5.54 15 I found plenty of well-marked English types...robust men, with faces cut like a die...
    ET6 5.106 15 ...in my lectures [in England] I hesitated to read and threw out for its impertinence many a disparaging phrase which I had been accustomed to spin, about poor, thin, unable mortals;--so much had the fine physique and the personal vigor of this robust race worked on my imagination.
    ET8 5.134 21 ...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...a race to which their fortunes flow, as if they alone had the elastic organization at once fine and robust enough for dominion;...
    ET10 5.167 5 The robust rural Saxon degenerates in the mills to the Leicester stockinger...
    ET12 5.211 11 No doubt much of the power and brilliancy of the reading-men [at Oxford] is merely constitutional or hygienic. With a hardier habit and resolute gymnastics...the American would arrives at as robust exegesis...
    ET14 5.238 1 The manner in which [the English] learned Greek and Latin... by lectures of a professor, followed by their own searchings,--required a more robust memory, and cooperation of all the faculties;...
    ET19 5.312 15 ...I was given to understand in my childhood that the British island from which my forefathers came was...a cold, foggy, mournful country, where nothing grew well in the open air but robust men and virtuous women...
    Pow 6.55 16 If Eric is in robust health...at his departure from Greenland he will steer west, and his ships will reach Newfoundland.
    Elo1 7.67 18 Perhaps it is the lowest of the qualities of an orator, but it is, on so many occasions, of chief importance,--a certain robust and radiant physical health...
    Cour 7.276 10 ...[the hideous facts in history] require of us a patience as robust as the energy that attacks us...
    OA 7.319 23 At seventy it was hinted to [the Massachusetts judge] that it was time to retire; but he now replied that he thought his judgment as robust and all his faculties as good as ever they were.
    OA 7.331 26 ...we have had robust centenarians...
    PC 8.223 6 There is no use in Copernicus if the robust periodicity of the solar system does not show its equal perfection in the mental sphere...
    Insp 8.290 3 ...I remember that Thoreau, with his robust will, yet found certain trifles disturbing the delicacy of that health which composition exacted...
    PerF 10.70 5 See what your robust neighbor, who never feared to live in [the air], has got from it;...
    Prch 10.222 17 [Religion] does not grow thin or robust with the health of the votary.
    Thor 10.464 6 [Thoreau's] robust common sense, armed with stout hands, keen perceptions and strong will, cannot yet account for the superiority which shone in his simple and hidden life.
    Thor 10.480 26 ...these foibles [of Thoreau], real or apparent, were fast vanishing in the incessant growth of a spirit so robust and wise...
    Shak1 11.450 18 ...[Shakespeare] is the most robust and potent thinker that ever was.
    FRO2 11.487 19 All education is to accustom [man] to trust himself...exert the timid faculties until they are robust...
    Mem 12.105 3 The memory of all men is robust on the subject of a debt due to them...
    EurB 12.371 19 [Jonson's beauty] is a natural manly grace of a robust workman.

robust, n. (1)

    ET18 5.304 25 ...we say that only the English race can be trusted with freedom,--freedom which is double-edged and dangerous to any but the wise and robust.

Roch River, England, n. (1)

    ET11 5.179 12 Cambridge is the bridge of the Cam;...Leicester the castra, or camp, of the Lear, or Leir (now Soar); Rochdale, of the Roch;...

Rochdale, England, n. (1)

    ET11 5.179 11 Cambridge is the bridge of the Cam;...Leicester the castra, or camp, of the Lear, or Leir (now Soar); Rochdale, of the Roch;...

Rochester [Bronte, Jane Ey (1)

    Boks 7.215 23 The question there [in Jane Eyre] answered in regard to a vicious marriage will always be treated according to the habit of the party. A person of commanding individualism will answer it as Rochester does...

Rochester, Earl of [Lawrenc (1)

    Clbs 7.239 14 Hyde, Earl of Rochester, asked Lord-Keeper Guilford, Do you not think I could understand any business in England in a month?

Rochester, New York, adj. (1)

    ET7 5.124 19 ...when the Rochester rappings began to be heard of in England, a man deposited 100 pounds in a sealed box in the Dublin Bank, and then advertised in the newspapers to all somnambulists, mesmerizers and others, that whoever could tell him the number of his note should have the money.

rock, adj. (1)

    Bost 12.183 12 An aerial fluid streams all day, all night...from every rock ledge;...

Rock, Minot, Lighthouse, M (1)

    Art2 7.38 25 ...from [the child's] first pile of toys or chip bridge to the masonry of Minot Rock Lighthouse or the Pacific Railroad;...Art is the spirit's voluntary use and combination of things to serve its end.

rock, n. (43)

    Nat 1.26 19 ...a firm man is a rock...
    Nat 1.42 21 Who can guess how much firmness the sea-beaten rock has taught the fisherman?...
    LE 1.174 22 ...it is only as...the forest, and the rock, are a sort of mechanical aids to [independence of spirit], that they are of value.
    Con 1.300 3 Nature does not give the crown of its approbation, namely, beauty...to the rock which resists the waves from age to age...
    Con 1.300 5 Nature does not give the crown of its approbation, namely, beauty...to the wave which lashes incessantly the rock...
    Hist 2.16 5 I have seen the head of an old sachem of the forest which at once reminded the eye of a bald mountain summit, and the furrows of the brow suggested the strata of the rock.
    Hist 2.19 22 The custom of making houses and tombs in the living rock, says Heeren...determined very naturally the principal character of the Nubian Egyptian architecture to the colossal form which it assumed.
    OS 2.289 17 ...we...feel that the splendid works which [Shakspeare] has created...take no stronger hold of real nature than the shadow of a passing traveller on the rock.
    Nat2 3.171 8 ...as water to our thirst, so is the rock, the ground, to our eyes and hands and feet.
    Nat2 3.180 4 Now we learn what patient periods must round themselves before the rock is formed;...
    Nat2 3.180 5 Now we learn what patient periods must round themselves before the rock is formed; then before the rock is broken...
    Pol1 3.211 21 Fisher Ames expressed the popular security more wisely... saying that a monarchy is a merchantman, which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock and go to the bottom;...
    PPh 4.58 21 ...[Plato] beholds...the Fates, with the rock and shears...
    SwM 4.118 1 One would say that as soon as men had the first hint that every sensible object,--animal, rock, river, air...subsists...as a picture-language to tell another story of beings and duties, other science would be put by...
    ShP 4.195 20 In Henry VIII. I think I see plainly the cropping out of the original rock on which [Shakespeare's] own finer stratum was laid.
    GoW 4.261 11 The rolling rock leaves its scratches on the mountain;...
    ET1 5.13 26 [Coleridge said] There were only three things which the government had brought into that garden of delights [Sicily], namely, itch, pox and famine. Whereas in Malta, the force of law and mind was seen, in making that barren rock of semi-Saracen inhabitants the seat of population and plenty.
    ET1 5.22 22 [Wordsworth's] third [sonnet on Fingal's Cave] is addressed to the flowers, which, he said...are very abundant on the top of the rock.
    ET3 5.34 18 The long habitation of a powerful and ingenious race has turned every rood of land [in England] to its best use, has found all the capabilities...the quarriable rock...
    ET5 5.91 19 Lord Elgin, at Athens, saw the imminent ruin of the Greek remains, set up his scaffoldings...and, after five years' labor to collect them, got his marbles on ship-board. The ship struck a rock and went to the bottom.
    Wth 6.83 8 Wings of what wind the lichen bore,/ Wafting the puny seeds of power,/ Which, lodged in rock, the rock abrade?/
    Wth 6.89 21 ...ledges of rock, mines of iron, lead, quicksilver, tin and gold;...are [man's] natural playmates...
    Wsp 6.199 5 Sprung harmless up, refreshed by blows:/ He to captivity was sold,/ But him no prison-bars would hold:/ Though they sealed him in a rock,/ Mountain chains he can unlock/...
    SS 7.1 3 ...[Seyd] Loved harebells nodding on a rock/...
    Art2 7.54 19 ...[Goethe] suggested, we may see in any stone wall, on a fragment of rock, the projecting veins of harder stone which have resisted the action of frost and water which has decomposed the rest.
    Elo1 7.59 14 For whom the Muses smile upon,/ .../ In his every syllable/ Lurketh nature veritable;/ .../ The forest waves, the morning breaks,/ The pastures sleep, ripple the lakes,/ Leaves twinkle, flowers like persons be/ And life pulsates in rock or tree./
    Farm 7.135 5 ...[Farmers] prove the virtues of each bed of rock/...
    Farm 7.146 10 Water...transports vast boulders of rock in its iceberg a thousand miles.
    PI 8.12 1 Note our incessant use of the word like,--like fire, like a rock...
    PI 8.24 18 The atoms of the body were once nebulae, then rock, then loam...
    PI 8.40 6 [Poetry] must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.
    PI 8.41 3 Now at this rare elevation above his usual sphere...[the poet] is permitted to dip his brush into the old paint-pot with which...the human cheek, the living rock...were painted.
    PI 8.45 15 ...no matter what objects are near [water],--a gray rock, a grass-patch... they become beautiful by being reflected.
    Insp 8.284 14 ...I am...glad to find the dull rock itself to be deluged with Deity...
    Dem1 10.3 18 Within the sweep of yon encircling wall/ How many a large creation of the night,/ Wide wilderness and mountain, rock and sea,/ Peopled with busy, transitory groups,/ Finds room to rise, and never feels the crowd./
    Edc1 10.132 23 ...presently the aroused intellect finds gold and gems in one of these scorned facts,-then finds that the day of facts is a rock of diamonds;...
    Thor 10.469 9 [Thoreau] knew how to sit immovable, a part of the rock he rested on...
    SHC 11.435 7 The morning, the moonlight, the spring day...can glorify a meadow or a rock.
    PLT 12.51 21 Nature having for capital this rill [of thought], drop by drop, as it trickles from the rock of ages...she husbands and hives...
    CL 12.154 8 The sea is the chemist that dissolves the mountain and the rock;...
    CL 12.165 12 Swedenborg or Behman or Plato tried...to explain what rock, what sand, what wood, what fire signified in regard to man.
    CL 12.165 19 If we believed that Nature was...some rock on which souls wandering in the Universe were shipwrecked, we should think all exploration of it frivolous waste of time.
    MLit 12.312 19 The poetry and speculation of the age are marked by a certain philosophic turn, which discriminates them from the works of earlier times. The poet is not content to see how Fair hangs the apple from the rock...

Rock of Ages, n. (1)

    CL 12.141 16 We might say, the Rock of Ages dissolves himself into the mineral air to build up this mystic constitution of man's mind and body.

Rock, Plymouth, n. (2)

    JBB 11.268 16 [John Brown] joins that perfect Puritan faith which brought his fifth ancestor to Plymouth Rock with his grandfather's ardor in the Revolution.
    Bost 12.201 19 There is a little formula...I 'm as good as you be, which contains the essence of the Massachusetts Bill of Rights and of the American Declaration of Independence. And this was at the bottom of Plymouth Rock...

rocked, v. (1)

    FSLN 11.236 19 The Persian Saadi said, Beware of hurting the orphan. When the orphan sets a-crying, the throne of the Almighty is rocked from side to side.

rocket, n. (1)

    MN 1.196 18 The wedge turns out to be a rocket.

rockets, n. (1)

    PLT 12.9 14 ...'t is a great vice in all countries, the sacrifice of scholars...to talk for the amusement of those who wish to be amused, though the stars of heaven must be plucked down and packed into rockets to this end.

rocking, adj. (2)

    Insp 8.287 23 Did you never observe, says Gray, while rocking winds are piping loud, that pause, as the gust is recollecting itself...
    EdAd 11.392 27 The health which we call Virtue...resembles those rocking stones which a child's finger can move, and a weight of many hundred tons cannot overthrow.

rock-ledges, n. (1)

    F 6.22 22 On one side elemental order...rock-ledges...and on the other part thought...

rock-like, adj. (1)

    F 6.15 7 Nature is the tyrannous circumstance...the ponderous, rock-like jaw;...

rock-maple, n. (1)

    MN 1.220 8 A [New England] man was born...to suffer for the benefit of others like the noble rock-maple...

rocks, n. (33)

    MN 1.195 27 ...our soils and rocks lie in strata, concentric strata...
    MN 1.205 9 Confine [the ocean] by granite rocks...and it is filled with expression;...
    MN 1.218 19 Behold! there is the sun, and the rain, and the rocks;...
    Hist 2.16 27 I knew a draughtsman employed in a public survey who found that he could not sketch the rocks until their geological structure was first explained to him.
    Hist 2.26 19 I admire the love of nature in the Philoctetes. In reading those fine apostrophes...to the stars, rocks, mountains and waves, I feel time passing away as an ebbing sea.
    SR 2.44 1 Cast the bantling on the rocks.../
    SL 2.147 16 The vale of Tempe, Tivoli and Rome are earth and water, rocks and sky.
    Exp 3.81 7 ...yet is the God the native of these bleak rocks.
    ET16 5.278 17 I, who had just come from Professor Sedgwick's Cambridge Museum of megatheria and mastodons, was ready to maintain that some cleverer elephants or mylodonta had borne off and laid these rocks [of Stonehenge] one on another.
    ET16 5.281 9 ...at the summer solstice, the sun rises exactly over the top of that [astronomical] stone [at Stonehenge], at the Druidical temple at Abury, there is also an astronomical stone, in the same relative position. In the silence of tradition, this one relation to science becomes an important clew; but we [Emerson and Carlyle] were content to leave the problem with the rocks.
    Wsp 6.232 4 ...a beautiful atmosphere is generated from the planet by the averaged emanations from all its rocks and soils.
    SS 7.10 7 ...this banishment to the rocks and echoes no metaphysics can make right or tolerable.
    Farm 7.139 21 [The farmer]...clings to his land as the rocks do.
    Farm 7.142 27 Long before [the farmer] was born, the sun of ages decomposed the rocks...
    Farm 7.143 24 The eternal rocks...have held their oxygen or lime undiminished...
    Farm 7.144 1 The good rocks...say to [the farmer]: We have the sacred power as we received it.
    Res 8.151 19 The first care of a man settling in the country should be to open the face of the earth to himself by a little knowledge of Nature, or a great deal, if he can; of birds, plants, rocks, astronomy;...
    Comc 8.157 3 The rocks, the plants, the beasts, the birds, neither do anything ridiculous, nor betray a perception of anything absurd done in their presence.
    Comc 8.170 1 ...on the back of [Astley's] waistcoat a gay cascade was thundering down the rocks with foam and rainbow...
    PC 8.213 1 ...the rocks of Nahant or the dikes of the White Hills disclose that the world is a crystal...
    Grts 8.305 4 There are to each function and department of Nature supplementary men: to geology, sinewy, out-of-doors men, with a taste for mountains and rocks...
    Imtl 8.334 25 The mind delights in immense time; delights in rocks...
    PerF 10.69 2 The hero in the fairy-tales has a servant who can eat granite rocks...
    PerF 10.70 10 One half the avoirdupois of the rocks which compose the solid crust of the globe consists of oxygen.
    Edc1 10.158 12 If a child [in the school] happens to show that he knows any fact about...rocks...that interests him and you, hush all the classes and encourage him to tell it so that all may hear.
    MoL 10.244 7 ...[the Hebrew nation's] poems and histories cling to the soil of this globe like the primitive rocks.
    Schr 10.271 25 ...the solidest rocks are made up of invisible gases...
    HDC 11.33 18 [The pilgrims] slept on the rocks, wherever night found them.
    II 12.87 20 ...the plants, the rocks...keep their word.
    CL 12.136 19 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 in every district were swamps, or beaches, or rocks, or mountains, which...were capable of yielding immense benefit.
    CL 12.153 15 [The sea] is great and formidable, when you lie down in it, among the rocks.
    Bost 12.205 16 ...good men are as the green plain of the earth is, as the rocks, and the beds of river are, the foundation and flooring and sills of the state.
    Bost 12.211 11 Here stands to-day, as of yore, our little city of the rocks [Boston];...

rocks, v. (1)

    MN 1.193 27 ...everything tilts and rocks.

rock-stratum, n. (1)

    SwM 4.118 16 ...there is no comet, rock-stratum...that, for itself, does not interest more scholars and classifiers than the meaning and upshot of the frame of things.

rock-Tibboos, n. (1)

    Mrs1 3.119 21 In the deserts of Borgoo the rock-Tibboos still dwell in caves...

rocky, adj. (5)

    YA 1.370 1 ...the nervous, rocky West is intruding a new and continental element into the national mind...
    Ill 6.310 21 ...on looking upwards [in the Mammoth Cave], I saw or seemed to see the night heaven thick with stars... ... ...I sat down on the rocky floor to enjoy the serene picture.
    CL 12.144 11 In Massachusetts, our land...is...not like some towns in the more broken country of New Hampshire, built on three or four hills...so that if you go a mile, you have only the choice whether you will climb the hill on your way out or on your way back. The more reason we have to be content with the felicity of our slopes in Massachusetts, undulating, rocky, broken and surprising...
    Bost 12.182 1 The rocky nook with hilltops three/ Looked eastward from the farms,/ And twice each day the flowing sea/ Took Boston in its arms./
    Pray 12.353 29 If but this tedious battle could be fought,/ Like Sparta's heroes at one rocky pass,/ One day be spent in dying, men had sought/ The spot, and been cut down like mower's grass./

Rocky Hills, n. (1)

    PPr 12.390 21 Carlyle's style is the first emergence of all this wealth and labor with which the world has gone with child so long. London and Europe...and America, with the Rocky Hills in the horizon, have never before been conquered in literature.

Rocky Mountains, n. (2)

    Wsp 6.204 3 The stern old faiths have all pulverized. ... 'T is as flat anarchy in our ecclesiastic realms as that...which prevails now on the slope of the Rocky Mountains...
    Thor 10.473 24 [Thoreau] was inquisitive about the making of the stone arrow-head, and in his last days charged a youth setting out for the Rocky Mountains to find an Indian who could tell him that...

rococo, adj. (1)

    CbW 6.266 16 My countrymen are not less infatuated with the rococo toy of Italy.

rod, n. (9)

    YA 1.364 19 Railroad iron is a magician's rod...
    ET2 5.27 13 Our good master...by incessant straight steering, never loses a rod of way.
    ET10 5.165 3 An Englishman hears that the Queen Dowager wishes to establish some claim to put her park paling a rod forward into his grounds...
    Bhr 6.189 18 ...no rod and chain will measure the dimensions of any house or house-lot;...
    PC 8.224 2 The immeasurableness of Nature is not more astounding than [man's] power to gather all her omnipotence into a manageable rod or wedge...
    Insp 8.274 7 ...where is the Franklin with kite or rod for this fluid [inspiration]?...
    Thor 10.461 18 [Thoreau] could pace sixteen rods more accurately than another man could measure them with rod and chain.
    EurB 12.366 8 The poet, like the electric rod, must reach from a point nearer the sky than all surrounding objects, down to the earth, and into the dark wet soil, or neither is of use.
    Trag 12.413 1 [Some men] treat trifles with a tragic air. This is not beautiful. Could they not lay a rod or two of stone wall, and work off this superabundant irritability?

rode, v. (9)

    Nat 1.40 6 [Nature] receives the dominion of man as meekly as the ass on which the Saviour rode.
    MR 1.251 24 ...when [Caliph Omar] left Medina to go to the conquest of Jerusalem, he rode on a red camel...
    ET11 5.182 6 From Barnard Castle I rode on the highway twenty-three miles...through the estate of the Duke of Cleveland.
    ET13 5.224 20 Abroad with my wife, writes Pepys piously, the first time that ever I rode in my own coach; which do make my heart rejoice and praise God...
    ET18 5.303 21 ...who would see...the explosion of their well-husbanded forces, must follow the swarms which pouring out now for two hundred years from the British islands, have sailed and rode and traded and planted through all climates...
    EzRy 10.385 12 16th May [1735] [Joseph Emerson wrote]: My wife and I rode together to Rumney Marsh.
    EzRy 10.387 16 I once rode with [Ezra Ripley] to a house at Nine Acre Corner to attend the funeral of the father of a family.
    HDC 11.60 14 ...at night, whilst [Mary Shepherd's] captors were asleep, she...took a horse...and having girt the saddle on, she mounted, swam across the Nashua River, and rode through the forest to her home.
    ACiv 11.301 15 Here is a woman who has no other property [but slaves],- like a lady in Charleston I knew of, who owned fifteen sweeps and rode in her carriage.

Rodney's, George Brydges, n (1)

    ET4 5.68 7 Admiral Rodney's figure approached to delicacy and effeminacy...

Rodrigo, n. (1)

    Hsm1 2.245 6 When any Rodrigo, Pedro or Valerio enters [in the plays of the elder English dramatists]...the duke or governor exclaims, This is a gentleman...

rods, n. (5)

    Pt1 3.23 7 This atom of seed is thrown into a new place, not subject to the accidents which destroyed its parent two rods off.
    Farm 7.148 26 ...[the farmer] will concentrate his kitchen-garden into a box of one or two rods square...
    WD 7.157 17 ...a good surveyor will pace sixteen rods more accurately than another man can measure them by tape.
    Thor 10.461 17 [Thoreau] could pace sixteen rods more accurately than another man could measure them with rod and chain.
    EWI 11.119 7 Sir Lionel Smith defended the poor negro girls, prey to the licentiousness of the [Jamaican] planters; they shall not be whipped with tamarind rods if they do not comply with their master's will;...

rod's, n. (1)

    CL 12.153 15 ...on the shore, at one rod's distance, [the sea] is changed into a beauty as of gems and clouds.

Roederer, Pierre Louis, n. (1)

    Bhr 6.182 24 A calm and resolute bearing...and the art of hiding all uncomfortable feeling, are essential to the courtier; and Saint Simon and Cardinal de Retz and Roederer and an encyclopaedia of Memoires will instruct you...in those potent secrets.

Rogers, Philip, n. (1)

    ShP 4.205 13 About the time when [Shakespeare] was writing Macbeth, he sues Philip Rogers...for thirty-five shillings, ten pence, for corn delivered to him at different times;...

Rogers, Samuel, n. (2)

    ET17 5.292 22 Every day in London gave me new opportunities of meeting men and women who give splendor to society. I saw Rogers, Hallam, Macaulay...
    QO 8.184 14 I remember to have heard Mr. Samuel Rogers...relate...that a lady having expressed...a passionate wish to witness a great victory, [Wellington] replied: Madam, there is nothing so dreadful as a great victory,-excepting a great defeat.

Rogers's, n. (1)

    ET5 5.89 5 At Rogers's mills, in Sheffield...I was told there is no luck in making good steel;...

rogue, n. (13)

    SR 2.69 22 This one fact the world hates; that the soul becomes; for that... confounds the saint with the rogue...
    Comp 2.116 3 ...there is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue.
    NMW 4.256 7 ...when you have penetrated through all the circles of power and splendor [of Napoleon], you were not dealing with a gentleman, at last; but with an impostor and a rogue;...
    ET9 5.152 3 A rogue and informer, [George of Cappadocia] got rich and was forced to run from justice.
    Wsp 6.211 18 ...the same gentlemen who agree to discountenance the private rogue will be forward to show civilities and marks of respect to the public one;...
    CbW 6.269 26 ...a virulent, aggressive fool taints the reason of a household. I have seen a whole family of quiet, sensible people unhinged and beside themselves, victims of such a rogue.
    Elo1 7.87 21 ...the lawyers saved their rogue under the fog of a definition.
    Comc 8.162 4 A rogue alive to the ludicrous is still convertible.
    Edc1 10.153 9 A sure proportion of rogue and dunce finds its way into every school...
    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.
    Prch 10.228 23 ...Is a rich rogue made to feel his roguery among divines or literary men? No? Then 't is rogue again under the cassock.
    FRep 11.519 4 The partisan on moral...questions, will choose a proven rogue who can answer the tests, over an honest, affectionate, noble gentleman;...
    FRep 11.524 8 The record of the election now and then alarms people by the all but unanimous choice of a rogue and a brawler.

roguery, n. (2)

    Prch 10.228 22 ...Is a rich rogue made to feel his roguery among divines or literary men? No? Then 't is rogue again under the cassock.
    FSLC 11.197 12 Nothing remains in this race of roguery but to coax Connecticut or Maine to outbid us all by adopting slavery into its constitution.

rogues, n. (9)

    Pt1 3.38 1 Our log-rolling...the wrath of rogues and the pusillanimity of honest men...are yet unsung.
    Mrs1 3.155 12 I overheard Jove, one day, said Silenus, talking of destroying the earth; he said it had failed; they were all rogues and vixens...
    MoS 4.173 15 We must do with [doubts and negations] as the police do with old rogues...
    MoS 4.185 13 Things seem...to promote rogues...
    Pow 6.66 23 It is an esoteric doctrine of society...that as there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues;...
    Civ 7.25 12 The skill that pervades complex details;...the very prison compelled to maintain itself...and better still, made a reform school and a manufactory of honest men out of rogues...these are examples of that tendency to combine antagonisms...which is the index of high civilization.
    PerF 10.87 3 ...a sensitive politician suffers his ideas of the part New York or Pennsylvania or Ohio is to play in the future of the Union, to be fashioned by the election of rogues in some counties.
    PerF 10.87 4 ...a sensitive politician suffers his ideas of the part New York or Pennsylvania or Ohio is to play in the future of the Union, to be fashioned by the election of rogues in some counties. But we must not gratify the rogues so deeply.
    LLNE 10.366 2 Good people are as bad as rogues if steady performance is claimed;...

roguish, adj. (1)

    Wth 6.104 2 If you take out of State Street the ten honestest merchants and put in ten roguish persons controlling the same amount of capital, the rates of insurance will indicate it;...

roisters, n. (2)

    Pow 6.69 1 The roisters who are destined for infamy at home, if sent to Mexico will cover you with glory...
    Elo1 7.66 14 There are many audiences in every public assembly, each one of which rules in turn. If anything comic and coarse is spoken, you shall see the emergence of the boys and rowdies, so loud and vivacious that you might think the house was filled with them. If new topics are started, graver and higher, these roisters recede;...

Roland, Chanson de, n. (1)

    PC 8.213 26 ...each European nation...had its romantic era, and the productions of that era in each rose to about the same height. Take for an example in literature the Romance of Arthur, in Britain, or in the opposite province of Britanny; the Chanson de Roland, in France;...

Roland [Chanson de Roland], (1)

    Aris 10.42 23 The horn of Roland, in the romance, is heard sixty miles.

Roland, n. (1)

    Bhr 6.187 18 Here comes to me Roland...

roll, n. (6)

    SL 2.141 19 The pretence that [a man] has another call, a summons by... outward signs that mark him extraordinary and not in the roll of common men, is fanaticism...
    ET11 5.190 19 In the roll of [English] nobles are found poets, philosophers, chemists, astronomers...
    ET14 5.250 19 There is in the action of [James Wilkinson's] mind a long Atlantic roll not known except in deepest waters...
    Res 8.153 16 Resources of Man,--it is...the roll of arts and sciences;...
    Dem1 10.22 7 A Highland chief, an Indian sachem or a feudal baron may fancy...that he is not in the roll of common men...
    Thor 10.456 3 [Thoreau]...required a little sense of victory, a roll of the drum, to call his powers into full exercise.

roll, v. (19)

    Comp 2.116 26 Winds blow and waters roll/ Strength to the brave and power and deity,/ Yet in themselves are nothing./
    Prd1 2.239 15 ...in the flow of wit and love roll out your paradoxes...
    Art1 2.365 3 ...the statue will look cold and false before that new activity which needs to roll through all things...
    Pt1 3.16 15 See the great ball which they roll from Baltimore to Bunker Hill!
    Pt1 3.26 25 ...there is a great public power on which [the intellectual man] can draw, by unlocking, at all risks, his human doors, and suffering the ethereal tides to roll and circulate through him;...
    Bty 6.288 9 We fancy, could we pronounce the solving word and disenchant [beridden people], the cloud would roll up, the little rider would be discovered and unseated...
    Civ 7.28 22 I admire still more than the saw-mill the skill which, on the seashore, makes the tides drive the wheels and grind corn, and which thus engages the assistance of the moon...to...split stone, and roll iron.
    PI 8.21 4 The poet contemplates the central identity, sees it undulate and roll this way and that...
    PI 8.26 15 Who has heard our hymn in the churches without accepting the truth,--As o'er our heads the seasons roll,/ And soothe with change of bliss the soul/?
    PI 8.70 4 ...when life is true to the poles of Nature, the streams of truth will roll through us in song.
    PPo 8.255 26 Either world inhabits [the phoenix],/ Sees oft below him planets roll;/ His body is all of air compact,/ Of Allah's love his soul./
    Chr2 10.101 13 When Omar prayed and loved,/ Where Syrian waters roll,/ Aloft the ninth heaven glowed and moved/ To the tread of the jubilant soul./
    SovE 10.202 4 [A man] may throw himself upon...some verbal creed, with such concentration as to hide the universe from him: but the stars roll above;...
    SovE 10.209 20 [The moral law] has not yet its first hymn. But, that every line and word may be coals of true fire, ages must roll...
    Schr 10.265 14 ...[poets] sit white over their stoves, and talk themselves hoarse over the...the effeminacy of book-makers. But at a single strain of a bugle out of a grove...the worlds roll to music...
    War 11.164 25 You shall hear, some day, of a wild fancy which some man has in his brain, of the mischief of secret oaths. Come again one or two years afterwards, and you shall see it has built great houses of solid wood and brick and mortar. You shall see a hundred presses printing a million sheets; you shall see men and horses and wheels made to walk, run and roll for it...
    FSLN 11.232 16 Events roll...and the result is the enforcing of some of those first commandments which we heard in the nursery.
    SMC 11.351 22 'T is certain that a plain stone like this [the Concord Monument]...mixes with surrounding nature,-by day with the changing seasons, by night the stars roll over it gladly...
    MAng1 12.227 6 Michael [Angelo]...constructed a movable platform to rest and roll upon the floor [of the Sistine Chapel]...

rolled, v. (11)

    Nat2 3.184 19 Nature, meanwhile, had not waited for the discussion, but, right or wrong, bestowed the impulse, and the balls rolled.
    NMW 4.234 26 In vain several officers and myself were placed on the slope of a hill to produce the effect: their balls and mine rolled upon the ice without breaking it up.
    ET2 5.29 7 Nobody likes to be treated ignominiously, upset...rolled over...
    ET3 5.34 9 ...[English] fields have been combed and rolled till they appear to have been finished with a pencil instead of a plough.
    ET4 5.63 20 Medwin, in the Life of Shelley, relates that at a military school they rolled up a young man in a snowball, and left him in his room...
    F 6.10 11 In different hours a man represents each of several of his ancestors, as if there were seven or eight of us rolled up in each man's skin...
    Wth 6.83 18 What smiths, and in what furnace, rolled/ .../ Copper and iron, lead, and gold?/
    Boks 7.217 4 Money, and killing, and the Wandering Jew, and persuading the lover that his mistress is betrothed to another, these are the main-springs [of the novel]; new names, but no new qualities in the men and women. Hence the vain endeavor to keep any bit of this fairy gold which has rolled like a brook through our hands.
    Grts 8.315 17 How many men, detested in contemporary hostile history, of whom, now that the mists have rolled away, we have learned...to see them as, on the whole, instruments of great benefit.
    MoL 10.251 13 I chanced lately to be at West Point, and, after attending the examination in scientific classes, I went into the barracks. The chamber was in perfect order; the mattress on the iron camp-bed rolled up, as if ready for removal.
    EWI 11.103 26 ...the crude element of good in human affairs must work and ripen, spite of whips and plantation laws and West Indian interest. Conscience rolled on its pillow, and could not sleep.

rollers, n. (1)

    WD 7.181 6 The savages in the islands...delight to play with the surf, coming in on the top of the rollers...

Rollin, Charles, n. (1)

    Plu 10.296 7 Rollin, so long the historian of antiquity for France, drew unhesitatingly his history from [Plutarch].

rolling, adj. (10)

    Nat 1.33 16 ...A rolling stone gathers no moss;...
    GoW 4.261 10 The rolling rock leaves its scratches on the mountain;...
    GoW 4.271 10 Goethe was the philosopher of this [modern] multiplicity;... able and happy to cope with this rolling miscellany of facts and sciences...
    ET5 5.94 8 The foundations of [England's] greatness are the rolling waves;...
    Farm 7.144 15 The tree can draw on the whole air, the whole earth, on all the rolling main.
    Farm 7.145 3 Our senses...do not believe the chemical fact that these huge mountain chains are made up of gases and rolling wind.
    PPo 8.242 12 The crocodile in the rolling stream had no safety from Afrasiyab.
    Imtl 8.348 15 Here are people who cannot dispose of a day;...and will you offer them rolling ages without end?
    Mem 12.98 16 We gathered up what a rolling snow-ball as we came along...
    CL 12.154 3 ...[the sea] is one vast rolling bed of life...

rolling, v. (1)

    WD 7.173 9 Hume's doctrine was...that the beggar cracking fleas in the sunshine under a hedge, and the duke rolling by in his chariot;...had different means, but the same quantity of pleasant excitement.

rolls, v. (14)

    Nat 1.32 2 At the call of a noble sentiment, again...the river rolls and shines...
    Con 1.295 15 On rolls the old world meantime...
    SR 2.89 20 Most men gamble with [Fortune], and gain all, and lose all, as her wheel rolls.
    Lov1 2.186 26 The world rolls;...
    OS 2.294 11 ...one blood rolls uninterruptedly an endless circulation through all men...
    UGM 4.9 12 The earth rolls;...
    SwM 4.141 12 Melodious poets shall be hoarse as street ballads when once the penetrating key-note of nature and spirit is sounded,--the earth-beat... which makes the tune to which the sun rolls...
    Ill 6.312 25 The world rolls...
    Ill 6.321 25 From day to day the capital facts of human life are hidden from our eyes. Suddenly the mist rolls up and reveals them...
    Res 8.144 20 The hunter, the soldier, rolls himself in his blanket, and the falling snow...is his eider-down...
    Res 8.145 12 The boat is full of water, and resists all your strength to drag it ashore and empty it. The fisherman looks about him, puts a round stick of wood underneath, and it rolls as on wheels at once.
    PPo 8.244 28 [Hafiz] says,-I batter the wheel of heaven/ When it rolls not rightly by;/ I am not one of the snivellers/ Who fall thereon and die./
    Supl 10.179 10 ...there is no question that the star of empire rolls West...
    EWI 11.134 3 ...you will not suffer me to forget one eloquent old man [John Quincy Adams], in whose veins the blood of Massachusetts rolls...

Roma, Campagna di, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.349 22 The Desert of Sahara, the Campagna di Roma...accuse man.

Roman, adj. (52)

    LE 1.170 14 Since the birth of Niebuhr and Wolf, Roman and Greek history have been written anew.
    LE 1.170 22 The moment a man of genius pronounces the name...of the Roman people, we see their state under a new aspect.
    MR 1.251 11 The naked Derar, horsed on an idea, was found an overmatch for a troop of Roman cavalry.
    MR 1.251 12 The [Arab] women fought like men, and conquered the Roman men.
    LT 1.265 22 ...souls of as lofty a port as any in Greek or Roman fame might appear;...
    LT 1.282 16 We do not find the same trait [of perplexity]...in the Greek, Roman, Norman, English periods;...
    Tran 1.339 14 This [Transcendental] way of thinking, falling on Roman times, made Stoic philosophers;...
    SR 2.87 7 The Emperor held it impossible to make a perfect army, says Las Casas, without abolishing our arms...until, in imitation of the Roman custom, the soldier should receive his supply of corn...and bake his bread himself.
    SL 2.147 21 ...it is not observed that the keepers of Roman galleries or the valets of painters have any elevation of thought...
    SL 2.149 23 Gertrude is enamored of Guy; how high, how aristocratic, how Roman his mien and manners!...
    SL 2.150 1 ...Gertrude has Guy; but what now avails...how Roman his mien and manners, if his heart and aims are in the senate...
    Hsm1 2.257 7 If we dilate in beholding...the Roman pride, it is that we are already domesticating the same sentiment.
    Cir 2.312 7 We...install ourselves the best we can...in Roman houses, only that we may wiselier see French, English and American houses and modes of living.
    NER 3.257 22 The Roman rule was to teach a boy nothing that he could not learn standing.
    NER 3.258 16 The ancient languages...contain wonderful remains of genius, which draw, and always will draw, certain like-minded men,--Greek men, and Roman men...
    NER 3.271 22 The Iliad...the Roman arch...when they are ended, the master casts behind him.
    PPh 4.41 2 An Englishman reads [Plato] and says, how English!...an Italian,--how Roman and how Greek!
    PPh 4.53 17 The Roman legion, Byzantine legislation...may all be seen in perspective;...
    NMW 4.252 26 The consternation of the dull and conservative classes, the terror of the foolish old men and old women of the Roman conclave...make [Napoleon's] history bright and commanding.
    GoW 4.271 4 We conceive Greek or Roman life...to be a simple and comprehensible affair;...
    GoW 4.271 23 ...[Goethe] lived...in a time when Germany played no such leading part in the world's affairs as to swell the bosom of her sons with any metropolitan pride, such as might have cheered...once, a Roman or Attic genius.
    ET9 5.144 16 British citizenship is as omnipotent as Roman was.
    ET11 5.188 19 In these [English] manors...the antiquary finds the frailest Roman jar...without so much as a new layer of dust...
    ET14 5.235 2 It is a tacit rule of the [English] language to make the frame or skeleton of Saxon words, and, when elevation or ornament is sought, to interweave Roman, but sparingly;...
    ET14 5.235 3 It is a tacit rule of the [English] language to make the frame or skeleton of Saxon words, and, when elevation or ornament is sought, to interweave Roman, but sparingly; nor is a sentence made of Roman words alone, without loss of strength.
    ET14 5.235 11 A good [English] writer, if he has indulged in a Roman roundness, makes haste to chasten and nerve his period by English monosyllables.
    ET16 5.281 14 ...was [Stonehenge] a Roman work, as Inigo Jones explained to King James;...
    F 6.18 13 The Roman mile probably rested on a measure of a degree of the meridian.
    Wth 6.96 8 Ages derive a culture from the wealth of Roman Caesars...or whatever great proprietors.
    Wth 6.103 8 A dollar is rated for the corn it will buy, or to speak strictly, not for the corn or house-room, but for Athenian corn, and Roman house-room...
    Bhr 6.174 23 The modern aristocrat...is well drawn in Titian's Venetian doges and in Roman coins and statues...
    Bhr 6.195 8 Here is a lesson...which ranks with the best of Roman anecdotes.
    Civ 7.26 20 There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name, but sometimes...patriotism, as in the Spartan and Roman republics;...
    Art2 7.45 20 ...how much is there that is not original...in...whatever is national or usual; as the usage of building all Roman churches in the form of a cross...
    Elo1 7.78 11 Julius Caesar said to Metellus, when that tribune interfered to hinder him from entering the Roman treasury, Young man, it is easier for me to put you to death than to say that I will;...
    Boks 7.205 1 The poet Horace is the eye of the Augustan age;...and Martial will give [the student] Roman manners...
    Cour 7.270 10 Every creature has a courage of his constitution fit for his duties:--Archimedes, the courage of a geometer to stick to his diagram, heedless of the siege and sack of the city; and the Roman soldier his faculty to strike at Archimedes.
    OA 7.315 22 [Josiah Quincy's] speech led me to look over at home... Cicero's famous essay [De Senectute]...heroic with Stoical precepts, with a Roman eye to the claims of the State;...
    Res 8.149 21 ...the guide kindled a Roman candle, and held it here and there shooting its fireballs successively into each crypt of the groined roof [of the Mammoth Cave]...
    QO 8.198 11 We once knew a man overjoyed at the notice of his pamphlet in a leading newspaper. What range he gave his imagination! Who could have written it? Was it not...at the least, Professor Maximilian? Yes, he could detect in the style that fine Roman hand.
    Grts 8.318 7 The Greeks surpass all men till they face the Romans, when Roman character prevails over Greek genius.
    Aris 10.40 22 ...the conclusion which Roman Senators, Indian Brahmins... inculcate...is, that the radical and essential distinctions of every aristocracy are moral.
    Aris 10.41 14 ...the effect of freer institutions in England and America, has robbed the title of king of all its romance, as that of our commercial consuls as compared with the ancient Roman.
    Plu 10.294 12 ...[Plutarch's] name is never mentioned by any Roman writer.
    Plu 10.297 3 ...M. Fustel de Coulanges has explored from its roots in the Aryan race, then in their Greek and Roman descendants, the primaeval religion of the household.
    Plu 10.297 7 Plutarch occupies a unique place in literature as an encyclopaedia of Greek and Roman antiquity.
    Thor 10.460 3 In every part of Great Britain, [Thoreau] wrote in his diary, are discovered traces of the Romans...their dwellings. But New England, at least, is not based on any Roman ruins.
    War 11.172 12 What makes to us the attractiveness of the Greek heroes? of the Roman?
    CInt 12.114 7 ...when the Roman soldier, at the sack of Syracuse, broke into his study, the philosopher [Archimedes] could not rise from his chair and his diagram...
    Bost 12.188 3 It was said of Rome in its proudest days, looking at the vast radiation of the privilege of Roman citizenship through the then-known world,-the extent of the city and of the world is the same...
    Milt1 12.266 1 [Milton] said, he had learned the prudence of the Roman soldier, not to stand breaking of legs, when the breath was quite out of the body.
    ACri 12.298 25 ...[Carlyle's History of Frederick II is] a book...with new heroes, things unvoiced before-the German Plutarch, now that we have exhausted the Greek and Roman and British biography...

Roman Age, n. (2)

    Clbs 7.242 20 ...there was liberal and refined conversation in the Greek, in the Roman and in the Middle Age.
    Clbs 7.243 16 ...a history of clubs from early antiquity...through the Greek and Roman to the Middle Age...would be an important chapter in history.

Roman Catholic, adj. (1)

    Imtl 8.328 8 [Sixty years ago] All were under the shadow of Calvinism and of the Roman Catholic purgatory...

Roman Church, n. (1)

    Prch 10.217 11 ...a restlessness and dissatisfaction in the religious world marks that we are in a moment of transition; as when the Roman Church broke into Protestant and Catholic...

Roman de la Rose, n. (1)

    Boks 7.220 25 ...how attractive is the whole literature of the Roman de la Rose, the Fabliaux, and the gaie science of the French Troubadours!

Roman Empire, n. (4)

    SR 2.61 12 A man Caesar is born, and for ages after we have a Roman Empire.
    CbW 6.254 7 The barbarians who broke up the Roman Empire did not arrive a day too soon.
    Boks 7.205 2 The poet Horace is the eye of the Augustan age;...and Martial will give [the student] Roman manners,--and some very bad ones,--in the early days of the Empire...
    PC 8.213 21 ...each European nation, after the breaking up of the Roman Empire, had its romantic era...

Roman, n. (14)

    YA 1.391 9 Every great and memorable community has consisted of formidable individuals, who, like the Roman or the Spartan, lent his own spirit to the State and made it great.
    Hsm1 2.245 19 The Roman Martius has conquered Athens...
    Hsm1 2.257 13 Why should these words, Athenian, Roman, Asia and England, so tingle in the ear?
    PPh 4.40 10 Plato is philosophy, and philosophy, Plato,--at once the glory and the shame of mankind, since neither Saxon nor Roman have availed to add any idea to his categories.
    SwM 4.134 2 Only when Cicero comes by, our gentle seer [Swedenborg] sticks a little at saying he talked with Cicero, and with a touch of human relenting remarks, one whom it was given me to believe was Cicero; and when the soi disant Roman opens his mouth, Rome and eloquence have ebbed away...
    ET4 5.50 4 It need not puzzle us that...Celt and Roman...should mix...
    ET4 5.54 23 ...the Roman has implanted his dark complexion in the trinity or quaternity of bloods [in England].
    ET5 5.74 17 The Roman came [to England], but in the very day when his fortune culminated.
    F 6.44 10 The quality of the thought differences the Egyptian and the Roman...
    WD 7.174 15 An everlasting Now reigns in Nature, which hangs the same roses on our bushes which charmed the Roman and the Chaldaean in their hanging-gardens.
    SlHr 10.437 4 ...this is the pregnant season, when our old Roman, Samuel Hoar, has chosen to quit this world.
    FSLC 11.212 25 Every Roman reckoned himself at least a match for a Province.
    PLT 12.26 8 The Briton, the Pict, is nothing until the Roman, the Saxon, the Norman, arrives.
    Trag 12.412 1 The Egyptian sphinxes, which sit to-day as they sat...when the Roman came and saw them and departed...have countenances expressive of complacency and repose...

Romanae, Questiones [Plutar (1)

    Plu 10.309 24 Except as historical curiosities, little can be said in behalf of the scientific value of [Plutarch's] Opinions of the Philosophers, the Questions and the Symposiacs.

Romance, adj. (1)

    ET4 5.60 18 [The Normans] had lost their own language and learned the Romance or barbarous Latin of the Gauls...

romance, n. (53)

    LE 1.177 10 The scholar will feel that the richest romance...lies enclosed in human life.
    Hist 2.31 9 The Prometheus Vinctus is the romance of skepticism.
    Hist 2.34 7 ...when [the bard] seems to vent a mere caprice and wild romance, the issue is an exact allegory.
    Hist 2.35 11 ...all the postulates of elfin annals...I find true in Concord, however they might be in Cornwall or Bretagne. Is it otherwise in the newest romance?
    Lov1 2.172 17 Perhaps we never saw [the lovers] before and never shall meet them again. But we see them...betray a deep emotion, and we are no longer strangers. We...take the warmest interest in the development of the romance.
    Fdsp 2.205 15 ...we cannot forgive the poet if he...does not substantiate his romance by the municipal virtues of justice, punctuality, fidelity and pity.
    Hsm1 2.257 2 ...the power of a romance over the boy who grasps the forbidden book under his bench at school, our delight in the hero, is the main fact to our purpose.
    Cir 2.312 25 ...some Petrarch or Ariosto...writes me an ode or a brisk romance...
    Art1 2.349 2 Give to barrows, trays, and pans/ Grace and glimmer of romance/...
    Art1 2.365 19 Life may be lyric or epic, as well as a poem or a romance.
    Exp 3.46 23 Embark, and the romance quits our vessel...
    Exp 3.86 3 ...the true romance which the world exists to realize will be the transformation of genius into practical power.
    Mrs1 3.148 5 There must be romance of character, or the most fastidious exclusion of impertinencies will not avail.
    Mrs1 3.151 10 Steep us, we cried [to women], in these influences, for days, for weeks, and we shall be sunny poets and will write out in many-colored words the romance that you are.
    Nat2 3.172 3 The blue zenith is the point in which romance and reality meet.
    Nat2 3.175 18 That [the rich] have some high-fenced grove which they call a park; that they...go in coaches...to watering-places and to distant cities,-- these make the groundwork from which [the poor young poet] has delineated estates of romance...
    NER 3.285 7 The life of man is the true romance...
    MoS 4.167 9 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...than I will write, with a fine crow-quill, a fine romance.
    ShP 4.197 24 Chaucer, it seems, drew continually...from Guido di Colonna, whose Latin romance of the Trojan war was in turn a compilation from Dares Phrygius, Ovid and Statius.
    NMW 4.252 6 [Napoleon] could enjoy every play of invention, a romance, a bon mot, as well as a stratagem in a campaign.
    GoW 4.278 13 ...those who look in [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] for the entertainment they find in a romance, are disappointed.
    GoW 4.278 18 We had an English romance here, not long ago...in which the only reward of virtue is a seat in Parliament and a peerage.
    GoW 4.278 22 We had an English romance here...in which the only reward of virtue is a seat in Parliament and a peerage. Goethe's romance [Wilhelm Meister] has a conclusion as lame and immoral.
    ET3 5.36 14 Every book we read, every biography, play, romance, in whatever form, is still English history and manners.
    ET5 5.99 26 These private, reserved, mute family-men [of England] can adopt a public end with all their heat, and this strength of affection makes the romance of their heroes.
    ET6 5.108 22 The romance does not exceed the height of noble passion in Mrs. Lucy Hutchinson, or in Lady Russell, or even as one discerns through the plain prose of Pepys's Diary, the sacred habit of an English wife.
    ET11 5.187 9 [English nobility] is a romance adorning English life with a larger horizon;...
    Bhr 6.170 4 Consuelo, in the romance, boasts of the lessons she had given the nobles in manners, on the stage;...
    Bty 6.283 23 ...we...deprecate any romance of character;...
    Ill 6.315 20 Bare and grim to tears is the lot of the children in the hovel I saw yesterday; yet not the less they hung it round with frippery romance...
    SS 7.11 22 ...the one event which never loses its romance is the encounter with superior persons on terms allowing the happiest intercourse.
    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;...
    WD 7.173 24 ...as soon as the irrecoverable years have woven their blue glory between to-day and us these passing hours shall glitter and draw us as the wildest romance and the homes of beauty and poetry?
    Boks 7.217 9 ...this passion for romance, and this disappointment, show how much we need real elevations and pure poetry...
    Suc 7.298 13 [The city boy in the October woods] is suddenly initiated into a pomp and glory that brings to pass for him the dreams of romance.
    PI 8.67 11 The ballad and romance work on the hearts of boys...
    Res 8.150 23 It was a pleasing trait in Goethe's romance, that Makaria retires from society to astronomy and her correspondence.
    PC 8.217 14 [Culture] is ever the romance of history in all dynasties...
    Aris 10.41 12 ...the effect of freer institutions in England and America, has robbed the title of king of all its romance...
    Aris 10.42 23 The horn of Roland, in the romance, is heard sixty miles.
    PerF 10.78 8 It would be easy to awake wonder by sketching the performance of each of these mental forces; as...of the Fancy, which sends its gay balloon aloft into the sky to catch every tint and gleam of romance;...
    Edc1 10.144 24 This is the perpetual romance of new life, the invasion of God into the old dead world...
    Supl 10.166 17 I hear without sympathy the complaint of young and ardent persons that they find life no region of romance...
    MMEm 10.401 24 Every word [Mary Moody Emerson] writes about this farm (Elm Vale, Waterford)...interest like a romance...
    MMEm 10.404 12 [Mary Moody Emerson] writes to her nephew Charles Emerson, in 1833... I never expected connections and matrimony. My taste was formed in romance, and I knew I was not destined to please.
    Thor 10.462 9 [Thoreau] had a strong common sense, like that which Rose Flammock, the weaver's daughter in Scott's romance [The Betrothed], commends in her father...
    HDC 11.35 18 The hardships of the journey and of the first encampment are certainly related by [the pilgrims'] contemporary with some air of romance...
    ACiv 11.308 4 Why should not America be capable...of an affirmative step in the interests of human civility, urged on her, not by any romance of sentiment, but by her own extreme perils?
    FRO1 11.478 12 ...[the church] cannot inspire the enthusiasm...which makes the romance of history.
    FRep 11.536 4 [The class of which I speak] complain of the flatness of American life; America has no illusions, no romance.
    CInt 12.119 16 I value dearly...the novelist with his romance...
    CInt 12.125 10 In the romance Spiridion a few years ago, we had what it seems was a piece of accurate autobiography...
    EurB 12.375 1 ...the obvious division of modern romance is into two kinds...

Romance, n. (2)

    Boks 7.212 10 Poetry, with its aids of Mythology and Romance, must be well allowed for an imaginative creature.
    OA 7.330 27 In Goethe's Romance, Makaria, the central figure for wisdom and influence, pleases herself with withdrawing into solitude to astronomy and epistolary correspondence.

Romance of Arthur, n. (1)

    PC 8.213 24 ...each European nation...had its romantic era, and the productions of that era in each rose to about the same height. Take for an example in literature the Romance of Arthur, in Britain, or in the opposite province of Britanny; the Chanson de Roland, in France;...

romancer, n. (1)

    ShP 4.197 10 Each romancer was heir and dispenser of all the hundred tales of the world...

romancers, n. (4)

    Hist 2.6 14 Universal history, the poets, the romancers, do not in their stateliest pictures...anywhere make us feel...that this is for better men;...
    Exp 3.78 19 Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it;...
    Bty 6.281 7 ...poets and romancers talk of herbs of grace and healing...
    PI 8.63 16 There is something...the eminent scholars of England, historians and reviewers, romancers and poets included, might deny and blaspheme it,--which is setting us and them aside...and planting itself.

Romances, Metrical [George (1)

    Boks 7.206 24 [The scholar] can look back for the legends and mythology... to Ellis's Metrical Romances...

romances, n. (16)

    Chr1 3.111 24 Those relations to the best men, which, at one time, we reckoned the romances of youth, become, in the progress of the character, the most solid enjoyment.
    ET10 5.154 7 ...one of [England's] recent writers speaks...of the grave moral deterioration which follows an empty exchequer. You shall find this sentiment...deeply implied in the novels and romances of the present century...
    ET11 5.173 21 ...the national music, the popular romances, conspire to uphold the heraldry which the current politics of the day [in England] are sapping.
    ET14 5.246 25 Bulwer...appeals to the worldly ambition of the student. His romances tend to fan these low flames.
    SS 7.9 4 ...the stuff of tragedy and of romances is in a moral union of two superior persons...
    DL 7.129 14 In the progress of each man's character, his relations to the best men, which at first seem only the romances of youth, acquire a graver importance;...
    Cour 7.256 9 ...any man who puts his life in peril in a cause which is esteemed becomes the darling of all men. The very nursery-books...the romances which delight men...may testify.
    SA 8.82 18 It is a commonplace of romances to show the ungainly manners of the pedant who has lived too long in college.
    PPo 8.242 22 These legends [of Persian kings], with...the romances of the loves of Leila and Medschnun...make the staple imagery of Persian odes.
    LLNE 10.348 19 [Fourier's] ciphering goes...into stars, atmospheres and animals, and men and women, and classes of every character. It was the most entertaining of French romances...
    LLNE 10.363 15 [Charles Newcomb's] reading lay in Aeschylus, Plato, Dante, Calderon, Shakspeare, and in modern novels and romances of merit.
    War 11.172 15 What makes the attractiveness of that romantic style of living which is the material of ten thousand plays and romances...
    Scot 11.465 12 The tone of strength in Waverley...was more than justified by the superior genius of the following romances...
    EurB 12.373 5 We have heard it alleged with some evidence that the prominence given to intellectual power in Bulwer's romances has proved a main stimulus to mental culture in thousands of young men in England and America.
    EurB 12.375 9 ...[the hero of a novel of costume or of circumstance] is greatly in want of a fortune or of a wife, and usually of both, and the business of the piece is to provide him suitably. This is the problem to be solved in thousands of English romances...
    EurB 12.375 12 ...[the hero of a novel of costume or of circumstance] is greatly in want of a fortune or of a wife, and usually of both, and the business of the piece is to provide him suitably. This is the problem to be solved in thousands of English romances, including the Porter novels and the more splendid examples of the Edgeworth and Scott romances.

romancing, adj. (1)

    Supl 10.172 2 'T is very different, this weak and wearisome lie, from the stimulus to the fancy which is given by a romancing talker who does not mean to be exactly taken...

Romanism, n. (5)

    GoW 4.265 12 The ambitious and mercenary bring their last new mumbo-jumbo, whether tariff, Texas, railroad, Romanism...and...easily succed in making it seen in a glare;...
    ET13 5.228 14 The English Church, undermined by German criticism...was led logically back to Romanism.
    Wsp 6.203 21 I and my neighbors have been bred in the notion that unless we came soon to some good church,--Calvinism, or Behmenism, or Romanism, or Mormonism,--there would be a universal thaw and dissolution.
    Imtl 8.329 10 A man of affairs is afraid to die...because he...is the victim of those who have moulded the religious doctrines into some neat and plausible system, as Calvinism, Romanism or Swedenborgism...
    Chr2 10.112 8 Romanism in Europe does not represent the real opinion of enlightened men.

Romanist, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.346 14 These [19th Century] reformers were a new class. Instead of the fiery souls of the Puritans, bent on...banishing the Romanist, these were gentle souls...

Romanorum, Gesta, n. (1)

    Boks 7.221 11 Another member [of the literary club] meantime shall as honestly search, sift and as truly report on British mythology...the histories of Brut, Merlin and Welsh poetry;...a fourth, on Mysteries, Early Drama, Gesta Romanorum, Collier, and Dyce, and the Camden Society.

Romans, n. (22)

    MR 1.240 13 Only such persons interest us...Romans...who have stood in the jaws of need, and have by their own wit and might extricated themselves...
    MR 1.245 4 ...we shall dwell like the ancient Romans in narrow tenements...
    Con 1.316 4 ...the Friar Bernard went home swiftly...saying...these Romans, whom I prayed God to destroy, are lovers, they are lovers;...
    Hist 2.5 6 We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks...
    SL 2.137 1 Our society is encumbered by ponderous machinery, which resembles the endless aqueducts which the Romans built over hill and dale...
    Hsm1 2.246 13 ...Never one object underneath the sun/ Will I behold before my Sophocles:/ Farewell; now teach the Romans how to die./
    Art1 2.359 5 In the sculptures of the Greeks, the masonry of the Romans... the highest charm is the universal language they speak.
    ET3 5.42 26 Nature held counsel with herself and said, My Romans are gone. To build my new empire, I will choose a rude race, all masculine, with brutish strength.
    ET4 5.55 4 Some peoples are deciduous or transitory. Where are the Greeks? Where the Etrurians? Where the Romans?
    ET4 5.55 21 The English come mainly from the Germans, whom the Romans found hard to conquer in two hundred and ten years...
    Bhr 6.195 16 ...[Marcus Scaurus], full of firmness and gravity, defended himself in this manner:--Quintus Varius Hispanus alleges that Marcus Scaurus...excited the allies to arms: Marcus Scaurus...denies it. There is no witness. Which do you believe, Romans?
    Art2 7.40 27 It was said, in allusion to the great structures of the ancient Romans, the aqueducts and bridges, that their Art was a Nature working to municiple ends.
    Art2 7.54 24 The amphitheatre of the old Romans,--any one may see its origin who looks at the crowd running together to see any fight, sickness, or odd appearance in the street.
    DL 7.121 22 In many parts of true economy a cheering lesson may be learned from the mode of life and manners of the later Romans...
    Suc 7.305 2 To-day at the school examination the professor interrogates Sylvina in the history class about Odoacer and Alaric. Sylvina can't remember, but suggests that Odoacer was defeated; and the professor tartly replies, No, he defeated the Romans.
    OA 7.322 15 We still feel the force...of Archimedes, holding Syracuse against the Romans by his wit...
    SA 8.104 5 If [a people is] occupied in its own affairs and thoughts and men, with a heat which excludes almost the notice of any other people,--as... the Persians, the Romans...at their best times have been,--they are sublime;...
    Grts 8.318 7 The Greeks surpass all men till they face the Romans...
    Plu 10.316 23 ...[Plutarch] praises the Romans, who, when the feast was over, dealt well with the lamps...
    Thor 10.460 1 In every part of Great Britain, [Thoreau] wrote in his diary, are discovered traces of the Romans...
    FRep 11.513 17 Our sleepy civilization, ever since Roger Bacon and Monk Schwartz invented gunpowder, has built its whole art of war...on that one compound...and reckons Greeks and Romans and Middle Ages little better than Indians and bow-and-arrow times.
    CInt 12.114 5 ...[Archimedes] was willing to show [the king] that he was quite able in rude matters, if he could condescend to them, and he conducted the defence of Syracuse against the Romans.

Romans xiv. 17, n. (1)

    LS 11.3 2 The Kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.-Romans xiv. 17.

romantic, adj. (29)

    AmS 1.109 10 The boy is a Greek; the youth, romantic; the adult, reflective.
    LE 1.185 23 When you shall say...I must eat the good of the land and let learning and romantic expectations go...then dies the man in you;...
    Con 1.315 22 These are stories of...romantic sacrifices...
    OS 2.290 19 The more cultivated, in their account of their own experience, cull out the pleasing, poetic circumstance...and so seek to throw a romantic color over their life.
    Exp 3.46 22 Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in.
    NMW 4.246 8 ...[Napoleon's] inexhaustible resource:--what events! what romantic pictures! what strange situations!...
    ET11 5.190 9 A sketch of the Earl of Shrewsbury, from the pen of Queen Elizabeth's archbishop Parker;...down to Aubrey's passages of the life of Hobbes in the house of the Earl of Devon, are favorable pictures of a romantic style of manners.
    ET14 5.248 2 The critic [in England] hides his skepticism under the English cant of practical. To convince the reason, to touch the conscience, is romantic pretension.
    Ctr 6.144 24 Balls, riding, wine-parties and billiards pass to a poor boy for something fine and romantic...
    Ctr 6.150 10 The best bribe which London offers to-day to the imagination is that in such a vast variety of people and conditions one can believe there is room for persons of romantic character to exist...
    Wsp 6.206 1 Christianity, in the romantic ages, signified European culture...
    Art2 7.47 18 Our arts are happy hits. We are...like a traveller surprised by a mountain echo, whose trivial word returns to him in romantic thunders.
    PI 8.31 26 [The poet] affirms the applicability of the ideal law to...the present knot of affairs. Parties, lawyers and men of the world will invariably dispute such an application, as romantic and dangerous;...
    SA 8.105 4 The consolation and happy moment of life...is...a flame of affection or delight in the heart, burning up suddenly for its object;--as the love...in the tender-hearted philanthropist to spend and be spent for some romantic charity...
    QO 8.186 1 In romantic literature examples of this vamping abound.
    PC 8.213 22 ...each European nation, after the breaking up of the Roman Empire, had its romantic era...
    LLNE 10.369 12 ...the lady or the romantic scholar [at Brook Farm] saw the continuous strength and faculty in people who would have disgusted them but that these powers were now spent in the direction of their own theory of life.
    GSt 10.504 2 ...[George Stearns's] plain good sense, courage, adherence, and his romantic generosity disarmed...all gainsayers.
    War 11.172 13 What makes the attractiveness of that romantic style of living which is the material of ten thousand plays and romances...
    JBS 11.279 12 [In John Brown's boyhood] was formed a romantic character absolutely without any vulgar trait;...
    JBS 11.279 20 ...as happens usually to men of romantic character, [John Brown's] fortunes were romantic.
    JBS 11.279 21 ...as happens usually to men of romantic character, [John Brown's] fortunes were romantic.
    ChiE 11.471 6 All share the surprise and pleasure when the venerable Oriental dynasty,-hitherto a romantic legend to most of us-suddenly steps into the fellowship of nations.
    Mem 12.104 18 Of the most romantic fact the memory is more romantic;...
    Mem 12.104 19 Of the most romantic fact the memory is more romantic;...
    CInt 12.128 26 When you say the times, the persons are prosaic...where [are] the romantic manners?...you expose your atheism.
    Milt1 12.261 2 ...[Milton] scattered, in tones of prolonged and delicate melody, his pastoral and romantic fancies;...
    ACri 12.303 25 Classic art is the art of necessity; organic; modern or romantic bears the stamp of caprice or chance.
    ACri 12.304 6 The politics of monarchy, when all hangs on the accidents of life and temper of a single person, may be called romantic politics.

Romantic, adj. (1)

    Hist 2.26 26 ...the vaunted distinction...between Classic and Romantic schools, seems superficial and pedantic.

Romantic age, n. (1)

    AmS 1.109 4 ...there are data for marking the genius of the Classic, of the Romantic, and now of the Reflective or Philosophical age.

romantic, n. (4)

    AmS 1.111 8 I ask not for...the romantic;...
    GoW 4.280 9 The ardent and holy Novalis characterized the book [Goethe' s Wilhelm Meister] as thoroughly modern and prosaic; the romantic is completely levelled in it;...
    ACri 12.304 9 The classic unfolds, the romantic adds.
    ACri 12.304 11 The classic is healthy, the romantic is sick.

Romantic, n. (1)

    ACri 12.303 6 I designed to speak of one point more, the touching a principal question in criticism in recent times-the Classic and Romantic, or what is classic?

Romany, n. (4)

    ET13 5.229 21 George Borrow...reads to [the Gypsies] the Apostles' Creed in Romany.
    ACri 12.285 19 [George Borrow]...mastered the patois of the gypsies, called Romany...
    ACri 12.285 25 Rabelais and Montaigne are masters of this Romany...
    ACri 12.286 4 Bacon, if he could out-cant a London chirurgeon, must have possessed the Romany under his brocade robes.

Romaunt of the Rose [Geoffr (1)

    ShP 4.197 1 ...the Romaunt of the Rose is only judicious translation from William of Lorris and John of Meung...

Rome, Church of, n. (3)

    SovE 10.203 17 The Church of Rome had its saints, and inspired the conscience of Europe...
    LS 11.4 7 ...more important controversies have arisen respecting [the Lord' s Supper's] nature. The famous question of the Real Presence was the main controversy between the Church of England and the Church of Rome.
    LS 11.11 26 That rite [washing of the feet] is used by the Church of Rome...

Rome, Italy, n. (110)

    Nat 1.68 2 The American who has been confined...to the sight of buildings designed after foreign models, is surprised on entering York Minster or St. Peter's at Rome, by the feeling that these structures are...faint copies of an invisible archetype.
    Nat 1.76 12 ...Caesar called his house, Rome;...
    DSA 1.142 20 The Puritans in England and America found...in the dogmas inherited from Rome, scope for their austere piety...
    LE 1.159 9 Every presentiment of the mind is executed somewhere in a gigantic fact. What else is Greece, Rome, England, France, St. Helena?
    LE 1.160 4 ...neither Greece nor Rome...is to command any longer.
    LE 1.171 27 ...the first observation you make...may open a new view of nature and of man, that...shall take up Greece, Rome, Stoicism, Eclecticism...as mere data and food for analysis...
    MR 1.251 8 Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of some enthusiasm. The victories of the Arabs after Mahomet, who...established a larger empire than that of Rome, is an example.
    LT 1.261 8 The fact of aristocracy...is as commanding a feature of...the American republic as of old Rome...
    Con 1.311 15 Would you have...preferred your freedom on a heath...to this world of Rome and Memphis...
    Con 1.315 2 ...[Friar Bernard]...set forth to go to Rome to reform the corruption of mankind.
    Con 1.315 7 When he came at last to Rome, [Friar Bernard's] piety and good will easily introduced him to many families of the rich...
    YA 1.367 10 There is no feature of the old countries that strikes an American with more agreeable surprise than the beautiful gardens of Europe; such as...the Villa Borghese in Rome...
    Hist 2.4 2 ...Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.
    Hist 2.8 23 ...[each man] must transfer the point of view from which history is commonly read, from Rome and Athens and London, to himself...
    Hist 2.9 9 Babylon, Troy, Tyre, Palestine, and even early Rome are passing already into fiction.
    Hist 2.36 4 In old Rome the public roads beginning at the Forum proceeded north, south, east, west...
    Hist 2.40 13 How many times we must say Rome, and Paris, and Constantinople!
    Hist 2.40 14 What does Rome know of rat and lizard?
    SR 2.61 20 Scipio, Milton called the height of Rome;...
    SR 2.81 24 At home I dream that...at Rome, I can be intoxicated with beauty...
    SL 2.147 16 The vale of Tempe, Tivoli and Rome are earth and water, rocks and sky.
    Hsm1 2.247 9 Dor. O star of Rome! what gratitude can speak/ Fit words to follow such a deed as this?/
    OS 2.290 14 The more cultivated, in their account of their own experience, cull out the pleasing, poetic circumstance,--the visit to Rome...
    Art1 2.360 14 [The artist] need not...ask what is the mode in Rome or in Paris....
    Art1 2.361 5 When I came at last to Rome and saw with eyes the pictures, I found that genius left to novices the gay and fantastic and ostentatious...
    Art1 2.361 22 [At Naples] I saw that nothing was changed with me but the place... That fact I saw again in the Academmia at Naples...and yet again when I came to Rome...
    Pt1 3.10 24 Rome,--what was Rome?
    SwM 4.134 3 Only when Cicero comes by, our gentle seer [Swedenborg] sticks a little at saying he talked with Cicero, and with a touch of human relenting remarks, one whom it was given me to believe was Cicero; and when the soi disant Roman opens his mouth, Rome and eloquence have ebbed away...
    MoS 4.175 5 What flutters the Church of Rome...may yet be very far from touching any principle of faith.
    NMW 4.252 22 ...Rome and Austria, centres of tradition and genealogy, opposed [Napoleon].
    GoW 4.274 3 [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 5.10 19 [Coleridge]...spoke warmly of [Allston's] merits and doings when he knew him in Rome;...
    ET1 5.14 25 ...being intent on delivering a letter which I had brought from Rome, inquired for Craigenputtock.
    ET3 5.40 24 I have seen a kratometric chart designed to show that the city of Philadelphia was in the same thermic belt, and by inference in the same belt of empire, as the cities of Athens, Rome and London.
    ET4 5.66 17 The anecdote of the handsome captives which Saint Gregory found at Rome, A. D. 600, is matched by the testimony of the Norman chroniclers, five centuries later...
    ET5 5.94 5 Bacon said, Rome was a state not subject to paradoxes;...
    ET8 5.138 12 If anatomy is reformed according to national tendencies, I suppose the spleen will hereafter be found in the Englishman, not found in the American, and differencing the one from the other. I anticipate another anatomical discovery, that this organ will be found to be cortical and caducous; that they are superficially morose, but at last tender-hearted, herein differing from Rome and the Latin nations.
    ET18 5.299 6 London is...the Rome of to-day.
    ET18 5.299 13 England is tender-hearted. Rome was not.
    ET18 5.299 20 The history of Rome and Greece, when written by [English] scholars, degenerates into English party pamphlets.
    ET18 5.301 12 ...[the foreign policy of England] betrayed Genoa, Sicily, Parma, Greece, Turkey, Rome and Hungary.
    Wth 6.94 23 To be rich is...to visit the mountains, Niagara, the Nile, the desert, Rome, Paris, Constantinople;...
    Wth 6.102 21 In Rome [the dollar] will buy beauty and magnificence.
    Wsp 6.227 22 There was a wise, devout man who is called in the Catholic Church, St. Philip Neri, of whom many anecdotes touching his discernment and benevolence are told at Naples and Rome.
    Wsp 6.227 24 Among the nuns in a convent not far from Rome, one had appeared who laid claim to certain rare gifts of inspiration and prophecy...
    SS 7.8 3 If I stay, said Dante, when there was question of going to Rome, who will go? and if I go, who will stay?
    Art2 7.51 24 The galleries of ancient sculpture in Naples and Rome strike no deeper conviction into the mind than the contrast of the purity, the severity expressed in these fine old heads, with the frivolity and grossness of the mob that exhibits and the mob that gazes at them.
    Art2 7.55 15 The College of Cardinals were originally the parish priests of Rome.
    DL 7.115 27 The greatest man in history was the poorest. How was it with the captains and sages of Greece and Rome...
    DL 7.131 2 I go to Rome and see on the walls of the Vatican the Transfiguration, painted by Raphael...
    WD 7.180 6 ...this curious, peering, itinerant, imitative America, studious of Greece and Rome...will take off its dusty shoes...
    Boks 7.204 21 For history there is great choice of ways to bring the student through early Rome.
    Boks 7.210 23 The tap of [the auctioneer's] hammer was heard in the libraries of Rome, Milan and Venice.
    Cour 7.253 19 [Self-Sacrifice] makes the renown of the heroes of Greece and Rome...
    Suc 7.284 8 ...Evelyn writes from Rome: Bernini...gave a public opera, wherein he painted the scenes, cut the statues...
    Suc 7.284 10 ...Evelyn writes from Rome: Bernini...a little before my coming to Rome, gave a public opera, wherein he painted the scenes, cut the statues...
    OA 7.329 23 We have a heroic speech from Rome or Greece, but cannot fix it on the man who said it.
    PI 8.36 5 The writer in the parlor has more presence of mind, more wit and fancy, more play of thought, on the incidents that occur at table or about the house, than in the politics of Germany or Rome.
    PI 8.36 11 ...there is entertainment and room for talent in the artist's selection of ancient or remote subjects; as when the poet goes to India, or to Rome, or to Persia, for his fable.
    Elo2 8.132 2 The historian Paterculus says of Cicero, that only in Cicero's lifetime was any great eloquence in Rome;...
    Comc 8.169 21 ...the painter Astley...going out of Rome one day with a party for a ramble in the Campagna and the weather proving hot, refused to take off his coat...
    QO 8.179 8 ...if we have arts which Rome wanted, so also Rome had arts which we have lost;...
    QO 8.179 9 ...if we have arts which Rome wanted, so also Rome had arts which we have lost;...
    QO 8.182 20 What divines had assumed as the distinctive revelations of Christianity, theologic criticism has matched by exact parallelisms from the Stoics and poets of Greece and Rome.
    QO 8.182 26 ...the surprising results of the new researches into the history of Egypt have opened to us the deep debt of the churches of Rome and England to the Egyptian hierology.
    PC 8.217 3 ...in [Michelangelo's] own days...you would need to hunt him in a conventicle with the Methodists of the era...the radicals of the hour, banded against the corruptions of Rome...
    PC 8.220 15 How much more are...the wise and good souls, the Stoics in Greece and Rome...than the foolish and sensual millions around them!
    Imtl 8.325 24 [The Greek] carried his arts to Rome, and built his beautiful tombs at Pompeii.
    Dem1 10.16 26 This faith...in the particular of lucky days and fortunate persons, as frequent in America to-day as the faith in incantations and philters was in old Rome...runs athwart the recognized agencies...which science and religion explore.
    Dem1 10.16 27 This faith...in the particular of lucky days and fortunate persons, as frequent in America to-day as the faith in...the wholesome potency of the sign of the cross in modern Rome...runs athwart the recognized agencies...which science and religion explore.
    Aris 10.44 3 I think he'll be to Rome/ As is the osprey to the fish, who takes it/ By sovereignty of nature./
    Aris 10.48 24 In Rome or Greece what sums would not be paid for a superior slave...
    Chr2 10.104 12 Every nation is degraded by the goblins it worships instead of this Deity. The Dionysia and Saturnalia of Greece and Rome...are examples of this perversion.
    MoL 10.245 6 We run to Paris, to London, to Rome...as if for the want of thought...
    Plu 10.291 4 ...Be great, be true, and all the Scipios,/ The Catos, the wise patriots of Rome,/ Shall flock to you and tarry by your side/ And comfort you with their high company./
    Plu 10.293 12 [Plutarch] has been represented...as living long in Rome in great esteem...
    Plu 10.293 19 ...[Plutarch]...was not consul in Rome...
    Plu 10.294 1 ...[Plutarch]...appears never to have been in Rome but on two occasions...
    Plu 10.294 3 ...though [Plutarch] found or made friends at Rome...he did not know or learn the Latin language there;...
    Plu 10.294 25 ...[Plutarch's] Lives were translated in Rome in 1470...
    Plu 10.302 1 Thebes, Sparta, Athens and Rome charm us away from the disgust of the passing hour.
    Plu 10.315 1 At Rome [Plutarch] thinks [Fortune's] wings were clipped...
    Plu 10.322 13 ...as it was the desire of these old patriots to fill with their majestic spirit all Sparta or Rome...we hasten to offer them to the American people.
    Thor 10.479 15 ...[Thoreau]...commended the wilderness for resembling Rome and Paris.
    Thor 10.480 7 ...the blockheads were not born in Concord; but who said they were? It was their unspeakable misfortune to be born in London, or Paris, or Rome;...
    EWI 11.122 27 ...[the civility] of Rome [lay] in military arts and virtues...
    FSLN 11.242 6 [Scholars and literary men] are lovers of liberty in Greece and Rome and in the English Commonwealth...
    EdAd 11.383 18 A scholar who has been reading of the fabulous magnificence...of Rome and Constantinople...takes his seat in a railroad-car, where he is importuned by newsboys with journals still wet from Liverpool and Havre...
    CPL 11.497 3 ...that Concord Library makes Concord as good as Rome, Paris or London, for the hour;...
    CL 12.133 5 What boots it here of Thebes or Rome,/ Or lands of Eastern day?/ In forests I am still at home/ And there I cannot stray./
    CW 12.169 5 ...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./
    CW 12.172 15 Montaigne took much pains to be made a citizen of Rome;...
    CW 12.173 16 ...nothing in Europe is more elaborately luxurious than the costly gardens,-as...the Borghese, the Orsini at Rome...
    Bost 12.185 1 There is great testimony of discriminating persons to the effect that Rome is endowed with the enchanting property of inspiring a longing in men there to live and there to die.
    Bost 12.188 2 It was said of Rome in its proudest days...the extent of the city and of the world is the same...
    MAng1 12.221 16 When Michael Angelo would begin a statue, he made first on paper the skeleton; afterwards, upon another paper, the same figure clothed with muscles. The studies of the statue of Christ in the Church of Minerva in Rome, made in this manner, were long preserved.
    MAng1 12.222 25 Goethe says that he is but half himself who has never seen the Juno in the Rondanini Palace at Rome.
    MAng1 12.223 20 [Michelangelo's] Titanic handwriting in marble and travertine is to be found in every part of Rome and Florence;...
    MAng1 12.225 23 In Rome, Michael Angelo was consulted by Pope Paul III. in building the fortifications of San Borgo.
    MAng1 12.227 8 Michael [Angelo]...constructed a movable platform to rest and roll upon the floor [of the Sistine Chapel], which is believed to be the same simple contrivance which is used in Rome, at this day, to repair the walls of churches.
    MAng1 12.229 14 In sculpture, [Michelangelo's] greatest work is the statue of Moses in the Church of Pietro in Vincolo, in Rome.
    MAng1 12.229 22 In the church called the Minerva, at Rome, is [Michelangelo's] Christ;...
    MAng1 12.230 5 Several statues [by Michelangelo] of less fame, and bas-reliefs, are in Rome and Florence and Paris.
    MAng1 12.231 26 Benedict XIV., during one of these panics, sent for the architect Marchese Polini to come to Rome and examine [St. Peter's dome].
    MAng1 12.237 15 ...[Michelangelo] says he is only half in Rome, since, truly, peace is only to be found in the woods.
    MAng1 12.239 15 ...it is said that when [Michelangelo] left Florence to go to Rome...he turned his horse's head on the last hill from which the noble dome of the cathedral (built by Brunelleschi) was visible, and said, Like you, I will not build; better than you I cannot.
    MAng1 12.240 10 [Vittoria Colonna]...came to Rome repeatedly to see [Michelangelo].
    Milt1 12.258 16 The form and the voice of Leonora Baroni seemed to have captivated [Milton] in Rome...
    Milt1 12.259 18 In Paris, [Milton] became acquainted with Grotius; in Florence or Rome, with Galileo;...
    MLit 12.325 10 It was with [Goethe] a favorite task to find a theory of every institution, custom, art, work of art, which he observed. Witness his explanation...of the Carnival at Rome;...

Romeo [Shakespeare, Romeo a (2)

    Lov1 2.184 26 Romeo, if dead, should be cut up into little stars to make the heavens fine.
    Lov1 2.185 2 Life, with this pair [Romeo and Juliet], has no other aim, asks no more, than Juliet,--than Romeo.

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