Seven to Sharpwitted

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

seven, adj. (51)

    Hist 2.2 2 I am owner of the sphere,/ Of the seven stars and the solar year/...
    Exp 3.83 13 I am not the novice I was fourteen, nor yet seven years ago.
    Mrs1 3.152 1 [Lilla] did not study...the books of the seven poets...
    Mrs1 3.152 2 [Lilla] did not study...the books of the seven poets, but all the poems of the seven seemed to be written upon her.
    GoW 4.274 23 [Goethe] treats nature...as the seven wise masters did...
    GoW 4.275 20 In optics again [Goethe] rejected the artificial theory of seven colors...
    ET2 5.28 1 Our ship was registered 750 tons...
    ET4 5.66 7 The bronze monuments of crusaders lying cross-legged in the Temple Church at London, and those in Worcester and in Salisbury cathedrals, which are seven hundred years old, are of the same type as the best youthful heads of men now in England;...
    ET5 5.75 26 ...the banker, with his seven per cent., drives the earl out of his castle.
    ET5 5.89 4 [The English] spend largely on their fabric, and await the slow return. Their leather lies tanning seven years in the vat.
    ET8 5.128 25 The reputation of taciturnity [the English] have enjoyed for six or seven hundred years;...
    ET11 5.182 26 ...before the Reform of 1832, one hundred and fifty-four persons sent three hundred and seven members to Parliament.
    ET11 5.188 9 I look with respect at houses six, seven, eight hundred, or, like Warwick Castle, nine hundred years old.
    ET12 5.202 21 In Sir Thomas Lawrence's collection at London were the cartoons of Raphael and Michael Angelo. This inestimable prize was offered to Oxford University for seven thousand pounds.
    ET12 5.204 21 Seven years' residence [at Oxford] is the theoretic period for a master's degree.
    ET12 5.205 8 At Cambridge, 750 dollars a year is economical...
    ET16 5.289 13 This hospitality of seven hundred years' standing [at the Church of Saint Cross] did not hinder Carlyle from pronouncing a malediction on the priest who receives 2000 pounds a year...
    ET17 5.291 2 In these comments on an old journey [English Traits], now revised after seven busy years have much changed men and things in England, I have abstained from reference to persons...
    ET18 5.308 4 By this general activity and by this sacredness of individuals, [the English] have in seven hundred years evolved the principles of freedom.
    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...
    F 6.10 12 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,-seven or eight ancestors at least;...
    F 6.25 14 We have successive experiences so important that the new forgets the old, and hence the mythology of the seven or the nine heavens.
    Pow 6.78 7 Stumping it through England for seven years made Cobden a consummate debater.
    Pow 6.78 9 Stumping it through New England for twice seven [years] trained Wendell Phillips.
    Ctr 6.147 13 ...of the six or seven teachers whom each man wants among his contemporaries, it often happens that one or two of them live on the other side of the world.
    Bty 6.285 10 The king...conferred the sovereignty on [Tisso], saying, Prince, administer this empire for seven days;...
    Bty 6.285 17 Thou hast ceased to take recreation, saying to thyself, In seven days I shall be put to death.
    Bty 6.297 16 Such crowds, [Walpole] adds elsewhere, flock to see the Duchess of Hamilton, that seven hundred people sat up all night...to see her get into her post-chaise next morning.
    Elo1 7.82 24 ...[Columbus] can say nothing to one party or to the other, but he can show how all Europe can be diminished and reduced under the king, by annexing to Spain a continent as large as six or seven Europes.
    Farm 7.139 22 In the town where I live, farms remain in the same families for seven and eight generations;...
    Boks 7.202 14 If we come down a little [in Greek history] by natural steps from the master to the disciples, we have, six or seven centuries later, the Platonists, who also cannot be skipped...
    Clbs 7.235 21 In the old time conundrums were sent from king to king by ambassadors. The seven wise masters at Periander's banquet spent their time in answering them.
    OA 7.329 1 Our instincts drove us to hive innumerable experiences...which we may keep for twice seven years before they shall be wanted.
    OA 7.329 9 In process of time, [Linnaeus] finds with delight the little white Trientalis, the only plant with seven petals and sometimes seven stamens, which constitutes a seventh class in conformity with his system.
    OA 7.329 10 In process of time, [Linnaeus] finds with delight the little white Trientalis, the only plant with seven petals and sometimes seven stamens, which constitutes a seventh class in conformity with his system.
    PPo 8.237 7 The seven masters of the Persian Parnassus...have ceased to be empty names;...
    PPo 8.242 3 Firdusi...has written in the Shah Nameh the annals...of Jamschid, the binder of demons, whose reign lasted seven hundred years;...
    PPo 8.261 9 Plunge in yon angry waves,/ Renouncing doubt and care;/ The flowing of the seven broad seas/ Shall never wet thy hair./
    Chr2 10.101 22 ...to every serious mind Providence sends from time to time five or six or seven teachers who are of first importance to him...
    Chr2 10.107 5 ...in many a house in country places the poor children found seven sabbaths in a week.
    Prch 10.231 1 There are always plenty of young, ignorant people,-though some of them are seven, and some of them seventy years old,-wanting peremptorily instruction;...
    LLNE 10.368 17 The society at Brook Farm existed, I think, about six or seven years...
    EzRy 10.381 12 The father [Noah Ripley] was born at Hingham [Connecticut], on the farm purchased by his ancestor, William Ripley, of England, at the first settlement of the town; which farm has been occupied by seven or eight generations.
    HDC 11.77 10 On the second day after the affray [battle of Concord], divine service was attended, in this house, by 700 soldiers.
    EWI 11.110 19 ...Slave ships] carried five, six, even seven hundred stowed in a ship built so narrow as to be unsafe...
    SMC 11.363 24 When, afterwards, five of [George Prescott's] men were prisoners in the Parish Prison in New Orleans, they...wrote a daily or weekly newspaper, called it Stars and Stripes. It advertises, prayer-meeting at 7 o'clock, in cell No. 8, second floor...
    SMC 11.368 23 On the second of July [the Thirty-second Regiment] had to cross the famous wheat-field, under fire from the rebels in front and on both flanks. Seventy men were killed or wounded out of seven companies.
    PLT 12.41 26 [Perceptions] are your door to the seven heavens...
    CL 12.136 27 ...[Linnaeus] summoned his class to go with him on excursions on foot into the country, to collect plants and insects, birds and eggs. These parties started at seven in the morning...
    WSL 12.347 26 [Landor] never...uses seven words where one will do.
    Let 12.400 24 Full of love, talent and hope spring up the darlings of the muse among the Germans; some seven years later, and they flit about like ghosts...

Seven Champions..., The [R (1)

    DL 7.106 21 ...the Seven Champions of Christendom...what mines of thought and emotion...are in this encyclopaedia of young thinking!

Seven Dials, London, Engla (1)

    ET4 5.69 3 ...the bullies of the costermongers of Shoreditch, Seven Dials and Spitalfield, [the English] know how to wake up.

Seven Sleepers, n. (1)

    QO 8.186 20 There are many fables which...are said to be agreeable to the human mind. Such are The Seven Sleepers, Gyges's Ring...

Seven Stars, n. (2)

    CW 12.175 9 ...a common spy-glass...turned on the Pleiades, or Seven Stars, in which most eyes can only count six,-will show many more...
    CW 12.175 15 How many poems have been written, or, at least attempted, on the lost Pleiad! for though that pretty constellation is called for thousands of years the Seven Stars, most eyes can only count six.

Seven Wise Masters, n. (4)

    PPh 4.47 11 Before Pericles came the Seven Wise Masters, and we have the beginnings of geometry, metaphysics and ethics...
    Civ 7.33 2 The appearance...in Greece, of the Seven Wise Masters, of the acute and upright Socrates...are casual facts which carry forward races to new convictions...
    Boks 7.200 24 ...the meeting of the Seven Wise Masters is a charming portraiture of ancient manners and discourse...
    ALin 11.333 20 I am sure if this man [Lincoln] had ruled in a period of less facility of printing, he would have become mythological in a very few years, like...one of the Seven Wise Masters...

seventeen, adj. (6)

    PPh 4.79 6 ...it is still best that a mile should have seventeen hundred and sixty yards.
    NMW 4.230 27 Such a man [as Bonaparte] was wanted, and such a man was born; a man...capable of sitting on horseback sixteen or seventeen hours...
    NMW 4.245 3 Seventeen men in [Napoleon's] time were raised from common soldiers to the rank of king, marshal, duke, or general;...
    Elo1 7.99 23 [Eloquence's] great masters...resembling the Arabian warrior of fame, who wore seventeen weapons in his belt, and in personal combat used them all occasionally.--yet subordinated all means;...
    EzRy 10.381 4 Seventeen of [Noah Ripley's] nineteen children married...
    SMC 11.372 2 On the twenty-first, [the Thirty-second Regiment] had been, for seventeen days and nights, under arms without rest.

seventeenth, adj. (6)

    Nat 1.68 16 A perception of this mystery inspires the muse of George Herbert, the beautiful psalmist of the seventeenth century.
    ET13 5.220 10 Heats and genial periods arrive in history...as in the eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, and again in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries [in England]...
    ET14 5.236 24 I could cite from the seventeenth century [in England] sentences and phrases of edge not to be matched in the nineteenth.
    FSLC 11.182 19 [The crisis over the Fugitive Slave Law] ended a good deal of nonsense we had been wont to hear and to repeat, on the 19th of April, the 17th of June, the 4th of July.
    Wom 11.415 10 After the deification of Woman in the Catholic Church, in the sixteenth or seventeenth century...the Quakers have the honor of having first established, in their discipline, the equality of the sexes.
    FRep 11.534 14 In the planters of this country, in the seventeenth century, the conditions of the country...forced them to a wonderful personal independence...

seventh, adj. (13)

    SwM 4.102 5 It seems that [Swedenborg] anticipated much science of the nineteenth century; anticipated, in astronomy, the discovery of the seventh planet...
    ET16 5.273 16 On Friday, 7th July, we [Emerson and Carlyle] took the South Western Railway through Hampshire to Salisbury...
    Bty 6.285 12 At the end of the seventh day the king inquired [of Tisso], From what cause hast thou become so emaciated?
    DL 7.125 11 In each the circumstance signalized differs, but in each it is made the coals of an ever-burning egotism. In one, it was his going to sea;... in a sixth, his coming forth from the abolition organizations; and in a seventh, his going into them.
    OA 7.329 7 Linnaeus...lays out his twenty-four classes of plants, before yet he has found in Nature a single plant to justify certain of his classes. His seventh class has not one.
    OA 7.329 11 In process of time, [Linnaeus] finds with delight the little white Trientalis, the only plant with seven petals and sometimes seven stamens, which constitutes a seventh class in conformity with his system.
    PI 8.24 22 ...the beholding and co-energizing mind sees the same refining and ascent to the third, the seventh or the tenth power of the daily accidents which the senses report...
    Prch 10.236 4 ...certainly on this seventh [day] let us be the children of liberty, of reason, of hope;...
    HDC 11.55 24 In 1643, one seventh or one eighth part of the inhabitants [of Concord] went to Connecticut with Reverend Mr. Jones...
    FSLC 11.203 16 ...very unexpectedly to the whole Union, on the 7th March, 1850...[Webster] crossed the line, and became the head of the slavery party in this country.
    FSLN 11.224 25 ...the appeal is sure to be made to [Webster's] physical and mental ability when his character is assailed. His speeches on the seventh of March, and at Albany, at Buffalo, at Syracuse and Boston are cited in justification.
    FSLN 11.225 2 ...Mr. Webster's literary editor believes that it was his wish to rest his fame on the speech of the seventh of March.
    FSLN 11.225 4 ...I have my own opinions on [Webster's] seventh of March discourse and those others...

Seventh Day, n. (1)

    WD 7.169 12 The old Sabbath, or Seventh Day...when this hallowed hour dawns out of the deep...the cathedral music of history breathes through it a psalm to our solitude.

Seventh Epistle [Plato], n. (1)

    Insp 8.274 20 Plato, in his seventh Epistle, notes that the perception is only accomplished by long familiarity with the objects of intellect...

Seventh-day Baptists, n. (1)

    CSC 10.374 22 ...Groaners, Agrarians, Seventh-day Baptists...all successively...seized their moment [at the Chardon Street Convention]...

sevenths, n. (1)

    YA 1.392 23 Would [our youths and maidens] like...sevenths to the government...

seventy, adj. (23)

    Cir 2.319 16 ...the man and woman of seventy assume to know all...
    Nat2 3.195 22 ...man's life is but seventy salads long, grow they swift or grow they slow.
    ET11 5.198 10 It is computed that, with titles and without, there are seventy thousand of these people coming and going in London, who make up what is called high society.
    ET12 5.205 6 ...the expenses of private tuition [at Oxford] are reckoned at from 50 pounds to 70 pounds a year...
    Ctr 6.140 14 There are people who...remain literalists, after hearing the music and poetry and rhetoric and wit of seventy or eighty years.
    CbW 6.254 4 ...the cruel wars which followed the march of Alexander introduced the civility, language and arts of Greece into the savage East;... built seventy cities...
    OA 7.318 14 ...if we did not find the reflection of ourselves in the eyes of the young people, we could not know that the century-clock had struck seventy instead of twenty.
    OA 7.319 21 At seventy it was hinted to [the Massachusetts judge] that it was time to retire;...
    OA 7.321 7 A man of great employments and excellent performance used to assure me that he did not think a man worth anything until he was sixty; although this smacks a little of the resolution of a certain Young Men's Republican Club, that all men should be held eligible who are under seventy.
    PI 8.17 18 The poet squanders on the hour an amount of life that would more than furnish the seventy years of the man that stands next him.
    SovE 10.204 5 The religion of seventy years ago was an iron belt to the mind...
    Prch 10.231 2 There are always plenty of young, ignorant people,-though some of them are seven, and some of them seventy years old,-wanting peremptorily instruction;...
    LLNE 10.346 24 [Robert Owen] was then seventy years old...
    HDC 11.57 15 In 1654, the four united New England Colonies agreed to raise 270 foot and 40 horse, to reduce Ninigret, Sachem of the Niantics...
    HDC 11.58 3 Philip surrendered seventy guns to the Commissioners in Taunton Meeting-house...
    HDC 11.78 23 Whilst Boston was occupied by the British troops, Concord contributed to the relief of the inhabitants, 70 pounds, in money;...
    EWI 11.133 12 To what purpose have we clothed each of those representatives with the power of seventy thousand persons...if they are to sit dumb at their desks and see their constituents captured and sold;...
    War 11.154 2 [Alexander's conquest of the East] built seventy cities...
    EPro 11.324 19 This is an odd thing for an Englishman, a Frenchman, or an Austrian to say, who remembers Europe of the last seventy years...
    SMC 11.368 22 On the second of July [the Thirty-second Regiment] had to cross the famous wheat-field, under fire from the rebels in front and on both flanks. Seventy men were killed or wounded out of seven companies.
    Mem 12.109 7 The opium-eater says, I sometimes seemed to have lived seventy or a hundred years in one night.
    CL 12.155 21 ...after having climbed the Alps, whilst I [Linnaeus], a youth of twenty-five years, was spent and tired...these two old [Lap] men, one fifty, one seventy years...felt none of the inconveniences of the road...
    CL 12.155 24 I [Linnaeus] saw [Lap] men more than seventy years old put their heel on their own neck, without any exertion.

seventy-five, adj. (2)

    MoS 4.169 27 This book of Montaigne the world has endorsed by translating it into all tongues and printing seventy-five editions of it in Europe;...
    SMC 11.371 18 On the twelfth [of May], at Laurel Hill, the [Thirty-second] regiment had twenty-one killed and seventy-five wounded...

seventy-four, adj. (2)

    HDC 11.79 2 In the year 1775, [Concord] raised 100 minute-men, and 74 soldiers to serve at Cambridge.
    SMC 11.374 2 At Dabney's Mills...[the Thirty-second Regiment] lost seventy-four killed, wounded and missing.

seventy-seven, adj. (1)

    SMC 11.370 9 When Colonel Gurney, of the Ninth [Regiment], came to him the next day to tell him that folks are just beginning to appreciate the Thirty-second Regiment...Colonel Prescott notes in his journal,-Pity they have not found it out before it was all gone. We have a hundred and seventy-seven guns this morning.

seventy-third, adj. (1)

    MAng1 12.235 3 Not until he was in the seventy-third year of his age, [Michelangelo] undertook the building of Saint Peter's.

seventy-three, adj. (1)

    ET11 5.183 15 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.

seventy-two, adj. (1)

    SMC 11.368 16 At the battle of Gettysburg, in July, 1863, the brigade of which the Thirty-second Regiment formed a part, was in line of battle seventy-two hours...

sever, v. (8)

    DSA 1.121 27 The moral traits which are all globed into every virtuous act and thought, - in speech we must sever, and describe or suggest by painful enumeration of many particulars.
    MR 1.241 5 ...every man ought to stand in primary relations with the work of the world; ought...not to suffer the accident of...his having been bred to some dishonorable and injurious craft, to sever him from those duties;...
    Comp 2.103 21 ...to gratify the senses we sever the pleasure of the senses from the needs of the character.
    OS 2.284 1 It was left to [Christ's] disciples to sever duration from the moral elements...
    DL 7.108 1 Do you think any rhetoric or any romance would get your ear from the wise gypsy...who could explain...your habits of thought, your tastes, and in every explanation, not sever you from the whole, but unite you to it?
    Dem1 10.17 25 I believed that I discovered in nature...somewhat which manifested itself only in contradiction, and therefore could not be grasped by a conception, much less by a word. ... This, which seemed to insert itself between all other things, to sever them, to bind them, I named the Demoniacal...
    Aris 10.42 22 The [ancient] chief is taller by a head than any of his tribe. Douglas can throw the bar a greater cast. Richard can sever the iron bolt with his sword.
    Edc1 10.128 16 Here [in the household] is the sincere thing, the wondrous composition for which day and night go round. In that routine are the sacred relations, the passions that bind and sever.

several, adj. (76)

    Nat 1.24 9 The poet...the architect, seek...each in his several work to satisfy the love of beauty which stimulates him to produce.
    Nat 1.39 25 From the child's successive possession of his several senses... he is learning the secret that he can...conform all facts to his character.
    Nat 1.42 10 ...the sailor, the shepherd, the miner, the merchant, in their several resorts, have each an experience precisely parallel...
    DSA 1.124 13 ...the ocean receives different names on the several shores which it washes.
    MR 1.241 21 ...where there is a fine organization, apt for poetry and philosophy, that individual finds himself compelled...to waste several days that he may enhance and glorify one;...
    YA 1.380 19 Witness too the spectacle of three Communities which have within a very short time sprung up within this Commonwealth, besides several others undertaken by citizens of Massachusetts within the territory of other States.
    Lov1 2.174 25 In looking backward [many men] may find that several things which were not the charm have more reality to this groping memory than the charm itself which embalmed them.
    Fdsp 2.194 10 Nor is Nature so poor but she gives me this joy [of friendship] several times...
    Fdsp 2.207 4 You shall have very useful and cheering discourse at several times with two several men...
    Fdsp 2.207 14 In good company the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present.
    Prd1 2.223 24 [Culture] sees prudence not to be a several faculty...
    OS 2.285 8 Who can tell the grounds of his knowledge of the character of the several individuals in his circle of friends?
    Cir 2.305 20 Every several result is threatened and judged by that which follows.
    Pt1 3.28 2 All men avail themselves of such means as they can, to add this extraordinary power to their normal powers; and to this end they prize conversation...animal intoxication,--which are several coarser or finer quasi-mechanical substitutes for the true nectar...
    Mrs1 3.119 15 If the house do not please [the inhabitants of Gournou], they walk out and enter another, as there are several hundreds at their command.
    Nat2 3.185 21 ...the wary Nature sends a new troop of fairer forms, of lordlier youths, with a little more excess of direction to hold them fast to their several aim;...
    NER 3.254 11 ...it was directly in the spirit and genius of the age, what happened in one instance when a church censured and threatened to excommunicate one of its members...the threatened individual immediately excommunicated the church, in a public and formal process. This has been several times repeated...
    PPh 4.41 18 ...these [great] men magnetize their contemporaries, so that their companions can do for them what they can never do for themselves; and the great man does thus live in several bodies...
    PPh 4.57 25 With the palatial air there is [in Plato], for the direct aim of several of his works...a certain earnestness...
    PPh 4.65 2 [Plato] called the several faculties, gods...
    SwM 4.98 22 As happens in great men, [Swedenborg] seemed...to be a composition of several persons...
    SwM 4.101 6 ...[Swedenborg] went several times to England...
    SwM 4.112 27 [Swedenborg] noted that in [nature] proceeding from first principles through her several subordinations, there was no state through which she did not pass...
    SwM 4.121 7 [Swedenborg...poorly tethers every symbol to a several ecclesiastic sense.
    NMW 4.234 24 In vain several officers and myself were placed on the slope of a hill to produce the effect...
    NMW 4.236 16 [Napoleon] came, several times, within an inch of ruin;...
    NMW 4.244 22 The characters which [Napoleon] has drawn of several of his marshals are discriminating...
    ET5 5.81 1 All the steps [the English] orderly take;...keeping their eye on their aim, in all the complicity and delay incident to the several series of means they employ.
    ET6 5.105 13 An Englishman...wears a wig, or a shawl, or a saddle, or stands on his head, and no remark is made. And as he has been doing this for several generations, it is now in the blood.
    ET8 5.133 21 It was no bad description of the Briton generically, what was said two hundred years ago of one particular Oxford scholar: He was a very bold man...and would often speak his mind of particular persons then accidentally present, without examining the company he was in; for which he was...several times threatened to be kicked and beaten.
    ET9 5.148 20 I remember a shrewd politician...told me that he had known several successful statesmen made by their foible.
    ET12 5.199 19 I saw several faithful, high-minded young men [at Oxford]...
    ET12 5.204 4 [The Bodleian Library's] catalogue is the standard catalogue on the desk of every library in Oxford. In each several college they underscore in red ink on this catalogue the titles of books contained in the library of that college...
    ET12 5.209 18 Oxford, which equals in wealth several of the smaller European states, shuts up the lectureships which were made public for all men thereunto to have concourse;...
    ET14 5.251 15 ...literary reputations have been achieved [in England] by forcible men...who were driven by tastes and modes they found in vogue into their several careers.
    F 6.10 1 It often appears in a family as if all the qualities of the progenitors were potted in several jars...
    F 6.10 10 In different hours a man represents each of several of his ancestors...
    Wsp 6.222 18 ...for each offence a several vengeance;...
    Elo1 7.67 6 ...all these several audiences...are really composed out of the same persons;...
    Elo1 7.85 1 The several talents which the orator employs...deserve a special enumeration.
    Clbs 7.249 1 I need only hint the value of the club for bringing masters in their several arts to compare and expand their views...
    PI 8.13 21 ...if crystals, if alkalies, in their several fashions say what I say, it must be true.
    PI 8.18 3 ...a painter, a sculptor, a musician, can in their several ways express the same sentiment of anger, or love, or religion.
    PI 8.69 7 I find Faust a little too modern and intelligible. We can find such a fabric at several mills...
    SA 8.86 27 It seems to require several generations of education to train a squeaking or a shouting habit out of a man.
    SA 8.98 4 Mahomet seems to have borrowed by anticipation of several centuries a leaf from the mind of Swedenborg...
    PC 8.210 13 Consider...what masters, each in his several province, the railroad, the telegraph...have evoked!...
    PC 8.214 7 ...if these [romantic European] works still survive and multiply, what shall we say of...names of men who have left remains that certify a height of genius in their several directions not since surpassed...
    PPo 8.252 6 The [Persian] law of the ghaselle, or shorter ode, requires that the poet insert his name in the last stanza. Almost every one of several hundreds of poems of Hafiz contains his name thus interwoven more or less closely with the subject of the piece.
    Insp 8.282 13 ...after [Niebuhr's] genius for interpreting history had failed him for several years, this divination returned to him.
    Imtl 8.336 16 Will you...educate your children to be adepts in their several arts, and, as soon as they are ready to produce a masterpiece, call out a file of soldiers to shoot them down?
    Dem1 10.18 14 ...this demonic element appears most fruitful when it shows itself as the determining characteristic in an individual. In the course of my life I have been able to observe several such...
    Supl 10.168 22 [The old head thinks] I will be as moderate as the fact, and will use the same expression, without color, which I received; and rather repeat it several times, word for word, than vary it ever so little.
    Plu 10.313 17 [Plutarch] reminds his friends that the Delphic oracles have given several answers the same in substance as that formerly given to Corax the Naxian: It sounds profane impiety/ To teach that human souls e'er die./
    CSC 10.375 4 The still-living merit of the oldest New England families, glowing yet after several generations, encountered [at the Chardon Street Convention] the founders of families, fresh merit...
    EzRy 10.385 14 16th May [1735] [Joseph Emerson wrote]: My wife and I rode together to Rumney Marsh. The beast frighted several times.
    Thor 10.466 17 The result of the recent survey of the Water Commissioners appointed by the State of Massachusetts [Thoreau] had reached by his private experiments, several years earlier.
    HDC 11.48 12 In 1795, several town-meetings are called [in Concord], upon the compensation to be made to a few proprietors for land taken in making a bridle-road;...
    HDC 11.49 19 The British government has recently presented to the several public libraries of this country, copies of the splendid edition of the Domesday Book...
    HDC 11.57 9 ...Concord...in 1653, subscribed a sum for several years to the support of Harvard College.
    HDC 11.79 13 The numbers [of of men for the Continental army], say [the General Assembly of Massachusetts], are large, but this Court has the fullest assurance that their brethren...will...fill up the numbers proportioned to the several towns.
    EWI 11.130 25 ...the private interference of two excellent citizens of Boston has...rescued several natives of this State from these Southern prisons.
    EWI 11.131 14 ...the fourth article of the Constitution of the United States ordains in terms, that, The citizens of each State shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States.
    ACiv 11.304 12 I shall not attempt to unfold the details of the project of emancipation. It has been stated with great ability by several of its leading advocates.
    SMC 11.369 4 [George Prescott writes] Our colors had several holes made, and were badly torn.
    SMC 11.372 14 If those writers could be here and fight all day, and sleep in the trenches, and be called up several times in the night by picket-firing, they would not call [the Army of the Potomac] inactive.
    Humb 11.456 1 If a life prolonged to an advanced period bring with it several inconveniences to the individual, there is a compensation in the delight of being able to compare older states of knowledge with that which now exists...
    CPL 11.505 14 I have found several humble men and women who gave as affectionate, if not as judicious testimony to their readings.
    II 12.81 11 The men are all drugged with this liquor of thought, and thereby secured to their several works.
    Mem 12.108 5 I have several times forgotten the name of Flamsteed, never that of Newton;...
    MAng1 12.230 4 Several statues [by Michelangelo] of less fame, and bas-reliefs, are in Rome and Florence and Paris.
    Milt1 12.249 2 [Milton's tracts] are not effective...like what became also controversial tracts, several masterly speeches in the history of the American Congress.
    WSL 12.347 13 [Landor's] picture of Demosthenes in three several Dialogues is new and adequate.
    Let 12.392 8 ...we have thought that we might clear our account [of correspondence] by writing a quarterly catholic letter to all and several who have honored us...with their confidence...
    Let 12.397 15 ...there is no chance for the aesthetic village. Every one of the villagers has committed his several blunder;...
    Trag 12.407 22 ...universally, in uneducated and unreflecting persons...we discover traits of the same superstition [belief in Fate]...a several penalty, nowise grounded in the nature of the thing, but on an arbitrary will.

severally, adv. (6)

    Lov1 2.187 9 [Lovers] resign each other without complaint to the good offices which man and woman are severally appointed to discharge in time...
    UGM 4.9 1 ...the makers of tools;...the musician,--severally make an easy way for all, through unknown and impossible confusions.
    GoW 4.289 19 I join Napoleon with [Goethe], as being...two stern realists, who, with their scholars, have severally set the axe at the root of the tree of cant and seeming, for this and for all time.
    ET4 5.61 9 ...decent and dignified men now existing boast their descent from these filthy thieves [the Normans], who showed a far juster conviction of their own merits, by assuming for their types the...leopard, wolf and snake, which they severally resembled.
    F 6.9 22 Find the part which black eyes and which blue eyes play severally in the company.
    Wom 11.415 25 ...another important step [for Woman] was made by the doctrine of Swedenborg, a sublime genius who gave a scientific exposition of the part played severally by man and woman in the world...

severalties, n. (1)

    PPr 12.387 3 ...the splendor of wit cannot outdazzle the calm daylight, which always shows every individual man in balance with his age, and able to work out his own salvation from all the follies of that, and no such glaring contrasts or severalties in that or this.

severance, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.326 19 It is the age of severance...

severe, adj. (47)

    AmS 1.102 27 ...in severe abstraction, let [the scholar] hold by himself;...
    DSA 1.128 21 Drawn by [the soul's] severe harmony...[Jesus Christ] lived in it...
    DSA 1.133 21 ...with yet more entire consent of my human being, sounds in my ear the severe music of the bards that have sung of the true God in all ages.
    Gts 3.159 23 ...everything is dealt to us without fear or favor, after severe universal laws.
    UGM 4.14 12 Cecil's saying of Sir Walter Raleigh, I know that he can toil terribly, is an electric touch. So are Clarendon's portraits,--of Hampden...of Falkland, who was so severe an adorer of truth, that he could as easily have given himself leave to steal, as to dissemble.
    ET6 5.105 21 [Englishmen] have all been trained in one severe school of manners...
    ET6 5.112 11 A severe decorum rules the court and the cottage [in England].
    ET12 5.210 17 I looked over the Examination Papers of the year 1848, for the various scholarships and fellowships [at Oxford]...and I believed they would prove too severe tests for the candidates for a Bachelor's degree in Yale or Harvard.
    ET16 5.273 15 I was glad...to exchange a few reasonable words on the aspects of England with a man...who had as much penetration and as severe a theory of duty as any person in it [Carlyle].
    Pow 6.73 20 ...the gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap of the tree into one or two vigorous limbs...
    Ctr 6.163 26 All that class of the severe and restrictive virtues, said Burke, are almost too costly for humanity.
    Ctr 6.164 1 Who wishes to be severe?
    Ill 6.322 20 In this kingdom of illusions we grope eagerly for stays and foundations. There is none but a strict and faithful dealing at home and a severe barring out of all duplicity or illusion there.
    Civ 7.24 2 ...a severe morality gives that essential charm to woman which educates all that is delicate, poetic and self-sacrificing;...
    Clbs 7.240 18 The court successively appoints three more severe inquisitors; Beaumarchais converts them all into triumphant vindicators of the play which is to bring in the Revolution.
    QO 8.188 5 A more subtle and severe criticism might suggest that some dislocation has befallen the race;...
    Edc1 10.142 20 ...the most genial and amiable of men must alternate society with solitude, and learn its severe lessons.
    Prch 10.227 4 What is essential to the theologian is, that whilst he is... severe in his search for truth, he shall be broad in his sympathies,-not to allow himself to be excluded from any church.
    Plu 10.308 24 'T is a temperance, not an eclecticism, which makes [Plutarch] adverse to the severe Stoic, or the Gymnosophist, or Diogenes, or any other extremist.
    Plu 10.317 9 ...it was [Plutarch's] severe fate to flourish in those days of ignorance...
    Plu 10.319 11 If Plutarch...held the balance between the severe Stoic and the indulgent Epicurean, his humanity shines not less in his intercourse with his personal friends.
    LLNE 10.329 27 The popular religion of our fathers had received many severe shocks from the new times;...
    LLNE 10.361 9 ...impulse was the rule in the society [at Brook Farm], without centripetal balance; perhaps it would not be severe to say, intellectual sans-culottism...
    EzRy 10.385 19 [Ezra Ripley] was a perfectly sincere man, punctual, severe...
    EzRy 10.386 16 Some of those around me will remember one occasion of severe drought in this vicinity...
    MMEm 10.418 14 Shut up in this severe weather with careful, infirm, afflicted age, it is wonderful, my [Mary Moody Emerson's] spirits...
    MMEm 10.430 13 Had I [Mary Moody Emerson] the highest place of acquisition and diffusing virtue here, the principle of human sympathy would be too strong for that rapt emotion, that severe delight which I crave;...
    SlHr 10.439 12 It was rather his reputation for severe method in his intellect than any special direction in his studies that caused [Samuel Hoar] to be offered the mathematical chair in Harvard University...
    SlHr 10.448 20 ...[Samuel Hoar] was severe only with himself.
    GSt 10.506 17 ...these public benefits were purchased [by George Stearns] at a severe cost.
    JBS 11.279 4 [John Brown] grew up a religious and manly person, in severe poverty;...
    ALin 11.333 6 ...[good humor] is to a man of severe labor, in anxious and exhausting crises, the natural resorative...
    SMC 11.364 6 It looked very much like a severe thunder-storm, writes the captain [George Prescott] and I knew the men would all have to sleep out of doors, unless we carried [tent-poles].
    SMC 11.367 9 ...though suffering at first some disadvantage from change of commanders, and from severe losses, [the Thirty-second Regiment] grew at last...to an excellent reputation...
    SMC 11.376 2 A duty so severe has been discharged [in the Civil War], and with such immense results of good...that, though the cannon volleys have a sound of funeral echoes, [men] can yet hear through them the benedictions of their country and mankind.
    PLT 12.45 24 There are men...who easily entertain ideas, but are not exact, severe with themselves...
    Mem 12.107 20 We must be severe with ourselves...
    CInt 12.117 23 I presently know...whether [my companion's] sense of duty is more or less severe...than mine;...
    CInt 12.127 15 You all well know...the facility with which men renounce their youthful aims and say, the labor is too severe, the prize too high for me;...
    CInt 12.131 2 ...the examination for admission and the examination for degrees and honors may be lax in this college and severe in that...but 't is very certain than an examination is yonder before us...
    CL 12.136 14 ...in the country, Nature is always inviting to the compromise of walking as soon as we are released from severe labor.
    CL 12.138 12 When Kalm returned from America, Linnaeus was laid up with severe gout.
    MAng1 12.215 21 A purity severe and even terrible goes out from the lofty productions of [Michelangelo's] pencil and his chisel...
    MAng1 12.227 20 ...not only was this discoverer of Beauty [Michelangelo]...rooted and grounded in those severe laws of practical skill, which genius can never teach...but he was one of the most industrious men that ever lived.
    Milt1 12.263 2 The victories of the conscience in [Milton] are gained by the commanding charm which all the severe and restrictive virtues have for him.
    Milt1 12.277 18 What schools and epochs of common rhymers would it need to make a counterbalance to the severe oracles of [Milton's] muse...
    ACri 12.285 23 ...one must learn from Burke how to be severe without being unparliamentary.

severed, v. (4)

    Comp 2.103 15 ...seed and fruit, cannot be severed;...
    Mrs1 3.133 8 If you could see Vich Ian Vohr with his tail on!-But Vich Ian Vohr must always carry his belongings in some fashion, if not added as honor, then severed as disgrace.
    F 6.27 17 [Our thought] apprises us of its sovereignty and godhead, which refuse to be severed from it.
    PLT 12.44 16 If you cut or break in two a block or stone and press the two parts closely together, you can indeed bring the particles very near, but never again so near that they shall attract each other so that you can take up the block as one. That indescribably small interval...has forever severed the practical unity.

severely, adv. (3)

    Tran 1.346 26 ...[these youths] aspire, they severely exact...
    CbW 6.263 16 Dr. Johnson said severely, Every man is a rascal as soon as he is sick.
    SMC 11.368 17 At the battle of Gettysburg, in July, 1863, the brigade of which the Thirty-second Regiment formed a part...suffered severely.

severer, adj. (3)

    ET8 5.142 9 ...[the English] hold in esteem the barrister engaged in the severer studies of the law.
    Plu 10.321 24 We owe to these translators [of Plutarch] many sharp perceptions of the wit and humor of their author, sometimes even to the adding of the point. I notice one, which...the severer criticism of the Editor has not retained.
    TPar 11.287 3 A little more feeling of the poetic significance of his facts would have disqualified [Theodore Parker] for some of his severer offices to his generation.

severest, adj. (7)

    SL 2.131 15 If in the hours of clear reason we should speak the severest truth, we should say that we had never made a sacrifice.
    ET2 5.32 6 ...under the best conditions, a voyage [at sea] is one of the severest tests to try a man.
    ET6 5.113 5 Even Brummel, [the Englishmen's] fop, was marked by the severest simplicity in dress.
    PI 8.7 22 ...the severest analyzer...is forced to keep the poetic curve of Nature...
    EWI 11.125 14 It was shown to the planters...that they needed the severest monopoly laws at home to keep them from bankruptcy.
    ALin 11.333 2 [Lincoln's good humor] enabled him...to take off the edge of the severest decisions;...
    MAng1 12.243 7 ...are we not authorized to say that...here was a man [Michelangelo] who lived to demonstrate that to the human faculties, on every hand, worlds of grandeur and grace are opened...which, to see and enjoy, demands the severest discipline of all the physical, intellectual and moral faculties of the individual?

severing, v. (1)

    Wsp 6.199 22 Draw, if thou canst, the mystic line,/ Severing rightly [Fate' s] from thine,/ Which is human, which divine./

severities, n. (1)

    NMW 4.242 21 ...those who smarted under the immediate rigors of the new monarch [Napoleon], pardoned them as the necessary severities of the military system which had driven out the oppressor.

severity, n. (11)

    Pol1 3.208 5 What satire on government can equal the severity of censure conveyed in the word politic, which now for ages has signified cunning...
    ET4 5.73 13 The severity of the [English] game-laws certainly indicates an extravagant sympathy of the nation with horses and hunters.
    ET12 5.207 13 [The Englishman]...is indisposed from writing or speaking, by the fulness of his mind and the new severity of his taste.
    Art2 7.51 26 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.
    SlHr 10.439 16 The severity of [Samuel Hoar's] logic might have inspired fear, had it not been restrained by his natural reverence...
    Thor 10.479 2 I think the severity of [Thoreau's] ideal interfered to deprive him of a healthy sufficiency of human society.
    Carl 10.495 8 ...pointing all his satire, is the severity of [Carlyle's] moral sentiment.
    HDC 11.31 12 ...some of these [suspended ministers]...were punished with imprisonment or mutilation. This severity brought some of the best men in England to overcome that natural repugnance to emigration which holds the serious and moderate of every nation to their own soil.
    EWI 11.114 3 ...every provision of the bill [for emancipation in the West Indies] was criticised with severity.
    Milt1 12.263 12 ...in [Milton's] severity is no grimace or effort.
    Let 12.403 22 Perhaps the adversities of our commerce have not yet been pushed to the wholesomest degree of severity.

severs, v. (4)

    PerF 10.83 14 The last revelation of intellect and of sentiment is that in a manner it severs the man from all other men;...
    FSLC 11.206 5 It is not slavery that severs [the North and the South], it is climate and temperament.
    NHI 12.2 3 Power that by obedience grows,/ Knowledge that its source not knows,/ Wave which severs whom it bears/ From the things which he compares./
    PLT 12.44 20 ...the fact of intellectual perception severs once for all the man from the things with which he converses.

Sevigne, Marquise de, n. (1)

    Hsm1 2.259 10 ...why should a woman...think, because Sappho, or Sevigne, or De Stael...do not satisfy the imagination and the serene Themis, none can,--certainly not she?

Seville, Spain, n. (1)

    ET9 5.152 20 Amerigo Vespucci, the pickle-dealer at Seville...managed in this lying world to supplant Columbus...

sew, v. (2)

    SL 2.136 14 We [country folk] have not dollars, merchants have; let them give them. Farmers will give corn;...women will sew;...
    WD 7.159 18 [Steam] must sew our shirts...

Sewall, Jonathan, n. (1)

    OA 7.334 16 [John Adams said] I went [to hear George Whitefield] with Jonathan Sewall.

Sewall, Samuel, n. (1)

    EzRy 10.382 23 There were an unusually large number of distinguished men in this [Harvard] class of 1776...Samuel Sewell, Chief Justice of Massachusetts;...

Sewall, William (?), n. (1)

    ET12 5.204 27 The whole expense, says Professor Sewel, of ordinary college tuition at Oxford, is about sixteen guineas a year.

Seward, William Henry, n. (1)

    ALin 11.330 23 Mr. Seward...was the favorite of the Eastern States.

Sewell, James Edward (?), n (1)

    ET12 5.204 27 The whole expense, says Professor Sewel, of ordinary college tuition at Oxford, is about sixteen guineas a year.

Sewel's, William, n. (1)

    Cour 7.274 11 There are ever appearing in the world men who, almost as soon as they are born, take a bee-line to...the axe of the tyrant, like...Jesus and Socrates. Look at...Sewel's History of the Quakers...

sewing, n. (1)

    Gts 3.161 16 The only gift is a portion of thyself. ... Therefore the poet brings his poem;...the girl, a handkerchief of her own sewing.

sewing, v. (1)

    Comp 2.114 9 It is best...to buy...in the house, good sense applied to cooking, sewing, serving;...

sewing-machine, n. (1)

    WD 7.159 1 ...the sewing-machine, the power-loom, the McCormick reaper...are new in this century...

sewing-machines, n. (1)

    Wsp 6.208 18 There is faith...in turbine-wheels, sewing-machines...but not in divine causes.

sex, n. (21)

    Nat 1.4 22 Now many [phenomena] are thought not only unexplained but inexplicable; as...sex.
    Nat 1.28 3 All the facts in natural history taken by themselves...are barren, like a single sex.
    Lov1 2.181 16 ...the man beholding such a [beautiful] person in the female sex runs to her and finds the highest joy in contemplating the form, movement and intelligence of this person...
    Lov1 2.188 6 Thus are we put in training for a love which knows not sex, nor person, nor partiality...
    Fdsp 2.194 22 ...by the divine affinity of virtue with itself, I find [my friends], or rather not I, but the Deity in me and in them derides and cancels the thick walls of individual character, relation, age, sex, circumstance...
    Pt1 3.21 3 All the facts of...sex...are symbols of the passage of the world into the soul of man...
    Chr1 3.98 15 Our proper vice takes form in one or another shape, according to the sex, age, or temperament of the person...
    SwM 4.127 16 [Swedenborg's Conjugal Love] is a fine Platonic development of the science of marriage; teaching that sex is universal...
    MoS 4.165 1 In [Montaigne's] times, books were written to one sex only...
    F 6.9 4 ...so is sex; so is climate; so is the reaction of talents imprisoning the vital power in certain directions.
    F 6.11 15 In certain men digestion and sex absorb the vital force...
    Pow 6.57 26 In every company there is not only the active and passive sex...
    Pow 6.58 1 ...in both men and women [there is] a deeper and more important sex of mind, namely the inventive or creative class of both men and women, and the uninventive or accepting class.
    Bhr 6.171 3 We send girls of a timid, retreating disposition...to the ball-room, or wheresoever they can come into acquaintance and nearness of leading persons of their own sex;...
    Bhr 6.179 4 ...[eyes] respect...neither learning nor power nor virtue nor sex;...
    Ill 6.319 9 There is the illusion of love, which attributes to the beloved person all which that person shares with his or her family, sex, age or condition...
    Suc 7.304 21 ...the man of sensibility counts it a delight...to see the beautiful manners of the youth of either sex.
    SA 8.90 3 ...to the company I am now considering, were no terrors, no vulgarity. All topics were broached...sex, hatred, suicide...
    Plu 10.306 6 The plain speaking of Plutarch, as of the ancient writers generally, coming from the habit of writing for one sex only, has a great gain for brevity...
    Wom 11.415 27 ...another important step [for Woman] was made by the doctrine of Swedenborg, a sublime genius who...showed the difference of sex to run through nature and through thought.
    EurB 12.378 14 [The English fashionist's] highest triumph is...to invert the relation in which our sex stand to women, so that they appear the attacking, and he the passive or defensive party.

sexed, adj. (1)

    Hsm1 2.246 9 Let not soft nature so transformed be,/ And lose her gentler sexed humanity,/ to make me see my lord bleed. So, 't is well;/...

sexes, n. (18)

    YA 1.368 22 ...the flower of the youth, of both sexes, goes into the towns...
    YA 1.372 18 The census of the population is found to keep an invariable equality in the sexes...
    Chr1 3.111 21 ...when men shall meet as they ought, each a benefactor...it should be a festival of nature which all things announce. Of such friendship, love in the sexes is the first symbol...
    PPh 4.70 7 ...the Banquet [of Plato] is a teaching in the same spirit [of ascension]...that the love of the sexes is initial, and symbolizes at a distance the passion of the soul for that immense lake of beauty it exists to seek.
    SwM 4.129 12 In fact, in the spiritual world we change sexes every moment.
    MoS 4.165 5 In [Montaigne's] times, books were written to one sex only... so that in a humorist a certain nakedness of statement was permitted, which our manners, of a literature addressed equally to both sexes, do not allow.
    ET4 5.67 21 The two sexes are co-present in the English mind.
    ET6 5.108 18 ...nothing [can be] more firm and based in nature and sentiment than the courtship and mutual carriage of the sexes [in England].
    ET13 5.214 13 A youth marries in haste; afterwards...he is asked what he thinks...of the right relations of the sexes?
    F 6.39 26 The same fitness must be presumed between a man and the time and event, as between the sexes...
    CbW 6.248 15 What quantities of fribbles, paupers, invalids, epicures, antiquaries, politicians, thieves and triflers of both sexes might be advantageously spared!
    Civ 7.24 1 ...place the sexes in right relations of mutual respect, and a severe morality gives that essential charm to woman which educates all that is delicate, poetic and self-sacrificing;...
    Elo1 7.74 11 There is the glib tongue and cool self-possession of the salesman in a large shop, which...overpower the prudence and resolution of housekeepers of both sexes.
    LLNE 10.368 4 [The members of Brook Farm] expressed...the conviction that plain dealing was the best defence of manners and moral between the sexes.
    Wom 11.411 3 [Man] invented marriage; and surrounded by religion...the union of the sexes.
    Wom 11.415 14 After the deification of Woman in the Catholic Church, in the sixteenth or seventeenth century...the Quakers have the honor of having first established, in their discipline, the equality of the sexes.
    Wom 11.419 25 ...bring together a cultivated society of both sexes, in a drawing-room, and consult and decide by voices on a question of taste or on a question of right, and is there any absurdity or any practical difficulty in obtaining their authentic opinions?
    Wom 11.425 18 ...I think it impossible to separate the interests and education of the sexes.

sexisyllabic, adj. (1)

    PI 8.46 21 If you hum or whistle the rhythm of the common English metres,--of the octosyllabic with alternate sexisyllabic, or other rhythms,-- you can easily believe these metres to be organic...

sexton, n. (2)

    Thor 10.483 25 A little thought is sexton to all the world.
    Mem 12.107 19 Thoreau said, Of what significance are the things you can forget. A little thought is sexton to all the world.

sextons, n. (1)

    Imtl 8.325 5 ...the polity of the Egyptians...respected burial. It made...the priesthood a senate of sextons.

sexton's, n. (1)

    Con 1.320 1 If any man resist and set up a foolish hope he has entertained as good against the general despair, Society...will serve him a sexton's turn.

sexual, adj. (2)

    Ctr 6.134 6 This goitre of egotism is so frequent among notable persons that we must infer some strong necessity in nature which it subserves; such as we see in the sexual attraction.
    OA 7.324 25 To insure the existence of the race, [Nature] reinforces the sexual instinct...

Seyd, n. (2)

    Bty 6.279 2 Was never form and never face/ So sweet to Seyd as only grace/ Which did not slumber like a stone/ But hovered gleaming and was gone./
    SS 7.1 1 Seyd melted the days like cups of pearl/...

Sforzas, n. (1)

    Aris 10.38 2 How sturdy seem to us in the history, those...Dorias, Sforzas... of the old warlike ages!

shabbily, adv. (1)

    TPar 11.288 20 ...[the next generation] will care little for fine gentlemen who behaved shabbily;...

shabby, adj. (5)

    Pol1 3.216 1 The antidote to this abuse of formal government is...the growth of the Individual;...of whom the existing government is, it must be owned, but a shabby imitation.
    MoS 4.185 2 In every house...this chasm is found,--between the largest promise of ideal power, and the shabby experience.
    SovE 10.195 23 Cripples and invalids, we doubt not there are bounding fawns in the forest, and lilies with graceful, springing stem; so neither do we doubt or fail to love the eternal law, of which we are such shabby practisers.
    Shak1 11.451 3 The palaces [Englishmen] compass earth and sea to enter, the magnificence and personages of royal and imperial abodes, are shabby imitations and caricatures of [Shakespeare's]...
    AgMs 12.363 11 The true men of skill, the poor farmers, who...have... reduced a stubborn soil to a good farm, although their buildings are many of them shabby, are the only right subjects of this Report [Agricultural Survey of the Commonwealth];...

shackles, n. (1)

    EWI 11.120 6 ...on the 1st August, 1838, the shackles dropped from every British slave.

Shad-blossom, n. (1)

    Thor 10.468 20 See these weeds, [Thoreau] said, which have been hoed at by a million farmers...and just now come out triumphant over all lanes, pastures, fields and gardens, such is their vigor. We have insulted them with low names, too,-as Pigweed, Wormwood, Chickweed, Shad-blossom.

shade, n. (28)

    Nat 1.56 19 ...in [Ideas'] presence we feel that the outward circumstance is a dream and a shade.
    DSA 1.119 8 Night brings no gloom to the heart with its welcome shade.
    LE 1.186 13 ...let us seek the shade, and find wisdom in neglect.
    MR 1.255 17 An Arabian poet describes his hero by saying, Sunshine was he/ In the winter day;/ And in the midsummer/ Coolness and shade./
    Con 1.300 26 ...the solid columnar stem, which lifts that bank of foliage into the air...to cool us with its shade, is the gift and legacy of dead and buried years.
    Comp 2.121 9 Nothing, Falsehood, may indeed stand as the great Night or shade on which as a background the living universe paints itself forth...
    Comp 2.127 4 ...the man or woman who would have remained a sunny garden-flower...by the falling of the walls and the neglect of the gardener is made the banian of the forest, yielding shade and fruit to wide neighborhoods of men.
    Fdsp 2.208 9 A man is reputed to have thought and eloquence; he cannot, for all that, say a word to his cousin or his uncle. They accuse his silence with as much reason as they would blame the insignificance of a dial in the shade.
    Hsm1 2.255 11 It is told of Brutus, that when he fell on his sword after the battle of Philippi, he quoted a line of Euripides,--O Virtue! I have followed thee through life, and I find thee at last but a shade.
    Exp 3.79 18 The intellect names [sin] shade...
    Exp 3.82 16 In Flaxman's drawing of the Eumenides of Aeschylus, Orestes supplicates Apollo, whilst the Furies sleep on the threshold. The face of the god expresses a shade of regret and compassion, but is calm with the conviction of the irreconcilableness of the two spheres.
    Chr1 3.99 10 That exultation [in events] is only to be checked by the foresight of an order of things so excellent as to throw all our prosperities into the deepest shade.
    Chr1 3.105 20 Care is taken that the greatly-destined shall slip up into life in the shade...
    SwM 4.111 22 The admirable preliminary discourses with which Mr. Wilkinson has enriched these volumes [by Swedenborg], throw all the contemporary philosophy of England into shade...
    GoW 4.276 27 ...[Goethe]...looked for [the Devil]...in every shade of coldness, selfishness and unbelief that...darkens over the human thought...
    PI 8.9 16 Nature gives [the student]...a copy of every humor and shade in his character and mind.
    Elo2 8.114 23 For the time, [the orator's] exceeding life throws all other gifts into shade...
    PPo 8.255 24 If over this world of ours/ His wings my phoenix spread,/ How gracious falls on land and sea/ The soul-refreshing shade!/
    Grts 8.317 20 The man who sells you a lamp shows you that the flame of oil, which contented you before, casts a strong shade in the path of the petroleum which he lights behind it;...
    Dem1 10.10 12 ...under every tree in the speckled sunshine and shade no man notices that every spot of light is a perfect image of the sun...
    SovE 10.195 13 ...a man may go to ruin gladly, if he see that thereby no shade falls on that he loves and adores.
    Schr 10.287 3 ...the great Necessity is [the scholar's] patron, who distributes sun and shade after immutable laws.
    CSC 10.374 13 The singularity and latitude of the summons [to the Chardon Street Convention] drew together...men of every shade of opinion...
    EWI 11.142 1 The emancipation [in the West Indies] is observed, in the islands, to have wrought for the negro a benefit as sudden as when a thermometer is brought out of the shade into the sun.
    Wom 11.407 25 Mrs. Lucy Hutchinson...who wrote the life of her husband...says, If he esteemed her at a higher rate than she in herself could have deserved...she only reflected his own glories upon him. All that she was, was him, while he was hers, and all that she is now, at best, but his pale shade.
    Shak1 11.450 14 Young men of a contemplative turn carry [Shakespeare's] sonnets in the pocket. With that book, the shade of any tree, a room in any inn, becomes a chapel or oratory in which to sit out their happiest hours.
    Milt1 12.261 5 ...[Milton]...bent [English] to express every trait of beauty, every shade of thought;...
    Let 12.397 20 As long as [a man] sleeps in the shade of the present error, the after-nature does not betray its resources.

shade, v. (1)

    PPo 8.241 8 ...the east wind, at [Solomon's] command, took up the carpet and transported with all that were upon it, whither he pleased,-the army of birds at the same time flying overhead and forming a canopy to shade them from the sun.

shaded, adj. (1)

    Nat 1.15 14 ...perspective is produced, which integrates every mass of objects...into a well colored and shaded globe...

shaded, v. (3)

    Mrs1 3.140 8 The dry light must shine in to adorn our festival, but it must be tempered and shaded, or that will also offend.
    SovE 10.185 23 The believer says to the skeptic:-One avenue was shaded from thine eyes/ Through which I wandered to eternal truth./
    HDC 11.29 18 Who can tell how many thousand years, every day, the clouds have shaded these fields with their purple awning?

shade-loving, adj. (1)

    AmS 1.113 5 Especially did [Swedenborg's] shade-loving muse hover over and interpret the lower parts of nature;...

shades, n. (10)

    AmS 1.115 5 ...with the shades of all the good and great for company;...
    DSA 1.148 7 ...[the commanders] with you are open to the influx of the all-knowing Spirit, which annihilates...the little shades and gradations of intelligence...
    Tran 1.339 22 This [Transcendental] way of thinking...falling on Unitarian and commercial times, makes the peculiar shades of Idealism which we know.
    Fdsp 2.196 9 ...in the golden hour of friendship we are surprised with shades of suspicion and unbelief.
    PPh 4.79 8 The great-eyed Plato proportioned the lights and shades after the genius of our life.
    SwM 4.121 14 The central identity enables any one symbol to express successively all the qualities and shades of real being.
    F 6.16 22 See the shades of the picture.
    Elo1 7.61 14 One man is brought to the boiling-point by the excitement of conversation in the parlor. ... ...and a fifth [needs] nothing less than...the splendors and shades of Heaven and Hell.
    MMEm 10.419 11 ...I [Mary Moody Emerson] pass my youth, its last traces, in the veriest shades of ignorance...
    ACri 12.289 20 Natural science gives us the inks, the shades;...

shades, v. (1)

    ET4 5.44 12 ...each variety [of race] shades down imperceptibly into the next...

shade-trees, n. (2)

    Mrs1 3.146 6 ...there is still...some fanatic who plants shade-trees for the second and third generation...
    Pow 6.67 20 [Boniface] was active in getting the roads repaired and planted with shade-trees;...

shad-flies, n. (1)

    Thor 10.466 20 ...the shad-flies which fill the air on a certain evening once a year...were all known by [Thoreau]...

shadow, n. (49)

    Nat 1.20 22 ...when Arnold Winkelried...under the shadow of the avalanche, gathers in his side a sheaf of Austrian spears to break the line for his comrades; are not these heroes entitled to add the beauty of the scene to the beauty of the deed?
    Nat 1.52 26 ...the lays of birds, the scents and dyes of flowers [Shakspeare] finds to be the shadow of his beloved;...
    Nat 1.61 14 [Nature] is a great shadow pointing always to the sun behind us.
    AmS 1.95 6 The world, - this shadow of the soul, or other me, - lies wide around.
    Tran 1.334 19 All that you call the world is the shadow of that substance which you are...
    Hist 2.36 27 Transport [Napoleon] to...complex interests and antagonist power, and you shall see that the man Napoleon, bounded that is by such a profile and outline, is not the virtual Napoleon. This is but Talbot's shadow;...
    SR 2.57 21 [The great soul] may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall.
    SR 2.61 15 An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man;...
    Comp 2.92 14 ...all that Nature made thy own,/ Floating in air or pent in stone,/ Will rive the hills and swim the sea/ And, like thy shadow, follow thee./
    Comp 2.105 6 We can no more...get the sensual good, by itself, than we can get...a light without a shadow.
    SL 2.148 8 On the Alps the traveller sometimes beholds his own shadow magnified to a giant...
    SL 2.155 25 ...every shadow points to the sun.
    Fdsp 2.197 16 I cannot deny it, O friend, that the vast shadow of the Phenomenal includes thee also in its pied and painted immensity...
    Fdsp 2.197 18 I cannot deny it, O friend, that the vast shadow of the Phenomenal includes...thee also, compared with whom all else is shadow.
    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.
    Exp 3.60 23 Without any shadow of doubt...I settle myself ever the firmer in the creed that we should...do broad justice where we are...
    Exp 3.76 9 ...every evil and every good thing is a shadow which we cast.
    Chr1 3.113 16 The ages are opening this moral force [of character]. All force is the shadow or symbol of that.
    GoW 4.261 10 The planet, the pebble, goes attended by its shadow.
    GoW 4.277 6 [Goethe] found that the essence of this hobgoblin [the Devil] which had hovered in shadow about the habitations of men ever since there were men, was pure intellect, applied...to the service of the senses...
    GoW 4.282 10 In the learned journal, in the influential newspaper, I discern no form; only some irresponsible shadow;...
    Bty 6.299 18 ...we can pardon pride, when a woman possesses such a figure that wherever she...leaves a shadow on the wall...she confers a favor on the world.
    Civ 7.33 19 ...a purer morality...casts backward all that we held sacred into the profane, as the flame of oil throws a shadow when shined upon by the flame of the Bude-light.
    DL 7.115 1 Generosity does not consist in giving money or money's worth. These so-called goods are only the shadow of good.
    DL 7.128 28 A verse of the old Greek Menander remains, which runs in translation:--Not on the store of sprightly wine,/ Nor plenty of delicious meats,/ Though generous Nature did design/ To court us with perpetual treats,--/ 'T is not on these we for content depend,/ So much as on the shadow of a Friend./
    Cour 7.272 5 Courage of the soldier awakes the courage of woman. Florence Nightingale brings lint and the blessing of her shadow.
    PI 8.23 5 The poet discovers...that Nature is the immense shadow of man.
    Comc 8.169 10 The lie [in poverty] is in the surrender of the man to his appearance; as if a man should neglect himself and treat his shadow on the wall with marks of infinite respect.
    PPo 8.242 9 Firdusi...has written in the Shah Nameh the annals...of Afrasiyab...whose shadow extended for miles...
    Grts 8.317 21 The man who sells you a lamp shows you that the flame of oil, which contented you before, casts a strong shade in the path of the petroleum which he lights behind it; and this again casts a shadow in the path of the electric light.
    Imtl 8.327 22 Milton anticipated the leading thought of Swedenborg, when he wrote, in Paradise Lost,-What if Earth/ Be but the shadow of Heaven, and things therein/ Each to the other like more than on earth is thought?/
    Imtl 8.328 8 [Sixty years ago] All were under the shadow of Calvinism and of the Roman Catholic purgatory...
    Dem1 10.28 4 Demonology is the shadow of Theology.
    Aris 10.32 19 It will not pain me...if it should turn out, what is true, that I am describing...a chapter of Templars who sit indifferently...under the shadow of all institutions...
    Schr 10.282 9 The orator too becomes a fool and a shadow before this light which lightens through him.
    Plu 10.320 1 ...[Plutarch]...concludes:...when I myself am invited as a shadow, I assure you I refuse to go.
    MMEm 10.416 14 Folly follows me [Mary Moody Emerson] as the shadow does the form.
    MMEm 10.422 18 ...the gray-headed god [Time] throws his shadows all around, and his slaves catch...at the halo he throws around poetry, or pebbles, bugs, or bubbles. Sometimes they climb, sometimes creep into the meanest holes-but they are all alike in vanishing, like the shadow of a cloud.
    MMEm 10.428 18 ...[Mary Moody Emerson]...delighted herself with the discovery of the figure of a coffin made every evening on their sidewalk, by the shadow of a church tower which adjoined the house.
    LS 11.22 11 In the midst of considerations as to what Paul thought, and why he so thought, I cannot help feeling that it is time misspent to argue to or from his convictions, or those of Luke and John, respecting any form. I seem to lose the substance in seeking the shadow.
    EWI 11.131 4 The poorest fishing-smack that floats under the shadow of an iceberg in the Northern seas...should be encompassed by [Massachusetts' s] laws with comfort and protection...
    FSLC 11.209 25 The sun paints; presently we shall organize the echo, as now we do the shadow.
    FSLN 11.219 11 ...under the shadow of [Webster's] great name inferior men sheltered themselves, threw their ballots for [the Fugitive Slave Law] and made the law.
    FSLN 11.226 25 [Webster's 7th of March Speech] was like the doleful speech falsely ascribed to the patriot Brutus: Virtue, I have followed thee through life, and I find thee but a shadow.
    FSLN 11.236 9 ...our education is...to know that Paradise is under the shadow of swords;...
    ALin 11.329 5 We meet under the gloom of a calamity [death of Lincoln] which darkens down over the minds of good men in all civil society, as the fearful tidings travel...like the shadow of an uncalculated eclipse over the planet.
    Wom 11.406 2 ...as more delicate mercuries of the imponderable and immaterial influences, what [women] say and think is the shadow of coming events.
    FRep 11.537 12 ...the Genius or Destiny of America is...a man incessantly advancing, as the shadow on the dial's face...
    Bost 12.183 20 There is the climate of the Sahara...where is day after day, sunstroke after sunstroke, with a frosty shadow between.

shadow-catchers, n. (1)

    EWI 11.103 13 ...when [the negro] sank in the furrow...he went down to death with dusky dreams of African shadow-catchers and Obeahs hunting him.

shadows, n. (26)

    Nat 1.19 11 The shows of day...shadows in still water...if too eagerly hunted...mock us with their unreality.
    Nat 1.58 15 ...Contemn the unsubstantial shows of the world; they are... shadows...
    DSA 1.132 5 Already the long shadows of untimely oblivion creep over me...
    SR 2.43 6 Our acts our angels are, or good or ill,/ Our fatal shadows that walk by us still./
    Lov1 2.181 11 ...[the ancient writers] said that the soul of man, embodied here on earth...was soon stupefied by the light of the natural sun, and unable to see any other objects than those of this world, which are but shadows of real things.
    Fdsp 2.213 24 [By persisting in your path] You...draw to you...those rare pilgrims...before whom the vulgar great show as spectres and shadows merely.
    Cir 2.309 25 ...all things are shadows of [God].
    PPh 4.68 26 You will have, for one of the sections of the visible world, images, that is, both shadows and reflections;...
    F 6.1 10 ...on [the poet's] mind, at dawn of day,/ Soft shadows of the evening lay./
    CbW 6.272 13 In excited conversation we have...hints of power native to the soul, far-darting lights and shadows of an Andes landscape...
    Bty 6.296 4 The felicities of design in art or in works of nature are shadows or forerunners of that beauty which reaches its perfection in the human form.
    DL 7.104 7 By lamplight [the nestler] delights in shadows on the wall;...
    PI 8.45 19 Shadows please us as still finer rhymes.
    PPo 8.265 23 You as three birds are amazed,/ Impatient, heartless, confused:/ Far over you am I raised,/ Since I am in act Simorg./ Ye blot out my highest being,/ That ye may find yourselves on my throne;/ Forever ye blot out yourselves,/ As shadows in the sun./ Farewell!/
    Aris 10.33 14 The terrible aristocracy that is in Nature. Real people dwelling with the real...then, far down, people of taste, people dwelling in a relation, or rumor, or influence of good and fair...superficially touched, yet charmed by these shadows:-and, far below these, gross and thoughtless, the animal man...
    Aris 10.38 4 How sturdy seem to us in the history, those...Burgundies and Guesclins of the old warlike ages! We can hardly believe they were all such speedy shadows as we;...
    MoL 10.241 10 ...before the shadows of these times darken over your youthful sensibility and candor, let me use the occasion...to offer you some counsels...
    Schr 10.266 2 ...[the poet's] achievement is...letting in a beam of the pure eternity which burns up this limbo of shadows and chimeras in which we dwell.
    Plu 10.300 25 ...twilights, shadows, omens and spectres have a charm for [Plutarch].
    Plu 10.319 22 The guests not invited to a private board by the entertainer, but introduced by a guest as his companions, the Greek called shadows;...
    Plu 10.319 27 ...[Plutarch]...concludes:...when I make an invitation...I give my guests leave to bring shadows;...
    MMEm 10.422 13 ...the gray-headed god [Time] throws his shadows all around...
    LS 11.22 25 ...the Almighty God was pleased to qualify and send forth a man to teach men...that sacrifice was smoke, and forms were shadows.
    HDC 11.85 9 Fellow citizens [of Concord]; let not the solemn shadows of two hundred years, this day, fall over us in vain.
    SHC 11.431 16 Shadows haunt [trees];...
    Mem 12.103 20 ...confined now in populous streets you behold again the green fields, the shadows of the gray birches;...

shadowy, adj. (2)

    Mrs1 3.152 20 [Youth] have yet to learn that [ our society's] seeming grandeur is shadowy and relative...
    Nat2 3.189 4 Days and nights...of communion with angels of darkness and of light have engraved their shadowy characters on that tear-stained book.

Shadrach, n. (1)

    FSLC 11.181 1 The only haste in Boston, after the rescue of Shadrach, last February, was, who should first put his name on the list of volunteers in aid of the marshal.

shaft, n. (6)

    GoW 4.265 1 There is a certain heat in the breast...which is the shining of the spiritual sun down into the shaft of the mine.
    Pow 6.82 10 A day is a more magnificent cloth than any muslin...and you shall not...fear that any honest thread, or straighter steel, or more inflexible shaft, will not testify in the web.
    Comc 8.163 2 [Wit] is a true shaft of Apollo...
    SMC 11.351 11 The sense of the town, the eloquent inscriptions the shaft now bears...will go on clothing this shaft [the Concord Monument] with daily beauty and spiritual life.
    SMC 11.351 16 ...whatever good grows to the country out of war, the largest results, the future power and genius of the land, will go on clothing this shaft [the Concord Monument] with daily beauty and spiritual life.
    Trag 12.416 16 Napoleon said to one of his friends at St. Helena, Nature... has given me a temperament like a block of marble. Thunder cannot move it; the shaft merely glides along.

Shaftesbury, Earl of [Antho (1)

    ET13 5.229 17 Lord Shaftesbury calls the poor thieves together and reads sermons to them, and they call it gas.

shafts, n. (2)

    Hist 2.21 13 ...the Persian imitated in the slender shafts and capitals of his architecture the stem and flower of the lotus and palm...
    Pow 6.59 26 ...when [the weaker party] himself is matched with some other antagonist, his own shafts fly well and hit.

shagbarks, n. (1)

    CL 12.162 3 Where are the best hazel-nuts, chestnuts and shagbarks?

Shah, n. (3)

    PPo 8.244 22 [Hafiz] says to the Shah, Thou who rulest after words and thoughts which no ear has heard and no mind has thought, abide firm until thy young destiny tears off his blue coat from the old graybeard of the sky.
    PPo 8.251 12 In general what is more tedious than dedications or panegyrics addressed to grandees? Yet in the Divan you would not skip them, since [Hafiz's] muse seldom supports him better:-What lovelier forms things wear,/ Now that the Shah comes back!/...
    PPo 8.253 23 I have no hoarded treasure,/ Yet have I rich content;/ The first from Allah to the Shah,/ The last to Hafiz went./

Shah Nameh [Namah] [Firdus (1)

    PPo 8.241 24 Firdusi, the Persian Homer, has written in the Shah Nameh the annals of the fabulous and heroic kings of the country...

shake, n. (1)

    Imtl 8.332 11 Slowly [the two men]...at last met,-said nothing, but shook hands long and cordially. At last his friend said, Any light, Albert? None, replied Albert. Any light, Lewis? None, replied he. They...gave one more shake each to the hand he held...

shake, v. (23)

    Nat 1.49 8 It is the uniform effect of culture on the human mind, not to shake our faith in the stability of particular phenomena...
    Nat 1.54 5 Ariel. The strong based promontory/ Have I made shake.../
    MR 1.230 1 There is not the most bronzed and sharpened money-catcher who does not...quail and shake the moment he hears a question prompted by the new ideas.
    Comp 2.107 12 It would seem there is always this vindictive circumstance stealing in at unawares even into the wild poesy in which the human fancy attempted...to shake itself free of the old laws...
    Hsm1 2.250 14 The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will...
    Exp 3.45 11 ...we cannot shake off the lethargy now at noonday.
    Chr1 3.93 12 In his parlor I see very well that [the natural merchant] has been at hard work this morning, with that knitted brow and that settled humor, which all his desire to be courteous cannot shake off.
    ET5 5.78 18 ...when [the English] have pounded each other to a poultice, they will shake hands and be friends for the remainder of their lives.
    ET7 5.121 10 [The English] are like ships with too much head on to come quickly about, nor will prosperity or even adversity be allowed to shake their habitual view of conduct.
    ET8 5.130 22 [The English]...shake their heads if [a man] is particularly chaste.
    Cour 7.255 7 The third excellence is courage, the perfect will, which no terrors can shake...
    Suc 7.292 18 ...because we cannot shake off from our shoes this dust of Europe and Asia, the world seems to be born old...
    Insp 8.277 24 Jacob Behmen said: Art has not wrote here...but all was ordered according to the direction of the spirit, which often went on haste,- so that the penman's hand...did often shake.
    Grts 8.310 6 As [the Quakers] express [self-respect], it might be thus...if at any time I...propose a journey or a course of conduct, I perhaps find a silent obstacle in my mind that I cannot account for. ... It is not an oracle...but such as it is, it is something which the contradiction of all mankind could not shake...
    Chr2 10.113 21 The pulpit may shake, but this platform [of ethical studies] will not.
    Schr 10.271 2 ...if wealth has humors and wishes to shake off the yoke and assert itself,-oh, by all means let it try!
    MMEm 10.398 4 On earth I dream;-I die to be:/ Time! shake not thy bald head at me./ I challenge thee to hurry past,/ Or for my turn to fly too fast./
    FSLC 11.197 26 ...here are gentlemen whose believed probity was the confidence and fortification of multitudes, who...have been drawn into the support of this foul business [the Fugitive Slave Law]. We poor men in the country who might once have thought it an honor to shake hands with them...would now shrink from their touch...
    FSLN 11.231 13 I know...how idle are all attempts to shake ourselves free from [conservatism].
    AsSu 11.249 6 ...in the long time when [Charles Sumner's] election was pending, he refused to take a single step to secure it. He would not so much as go up to the state house to shake hands with this or that person whose good will was reckoned important by his friends.
    FRep 11.520 10 You rally to the support of old charities and the cause of literature, and there, to be sure, are these brazen faces [of politicians]. In this innocence you are puzzled how to meet them; must shake hands with them, under protest.
    CL 12.148 16 Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated the winds as the conveying Maruts, traversers of places difficult of access. Stable is their birthplace in the sky, but they are agitators of heaven and earth, who shake all around like the top of a tree.
    PPr 12.391 11 [Carlyle's] jokes shake down Parliament House and Windsor Castle...

shaken, v. (5)

    Suc 7.283 3 The earth is shaken by our engineries.
    OA 7.320 21 Universal convictions are not to be shaken by the whimseys of overfed butchers and firemen...
    SovE 10.196 6 Shall we attach ourselves violently to our teachers and historical personalities, and think the foundation shaken if any fault is shown in their record?
    MMEm 10.424 9 [Time] Hasten to finish thy motley work, on which frightful Gorgons are at play, spite of holy ghosts. 'T is already moth-eaten and its shuttles quaver, as the beams of the loom are shaken.
    Trag 12.413 24 Whilst a man is not grounded in the divine life by his proper roots, he clings by some tendrils of affection to society...and in calm times it will not appear that he is adrift and not moored; but let any shock take place in society...and at once his type of permanence is shaken.

Shaker, adj. (1)

    Pow 6.66 11 Of the Shaker society it was formerly a sort of proverb in the country that they always sent the devil to market.

Shaker, n. (3)

    GoW 4.267 11 ...the Shaker has established his monastery and his dance;...
    CPL 11.505 17 One curious witness [to the value of reading] was that of a Shaker who, when showing me the houses of the Brotherhood, and a very modest bookshelf, said there was Milton's Paradise Lost, and some other books in the house, and added that he knew where they were, but he took up a sound cross in not reading them.
    Bost 12.207 3 From...Ann Hutchinson, and Whitfield, and Mother Ann, the first Shaker, down to Abner Kneeland...there never was wanting [in Boston] some thorn of dissent and innovation and heresy to prick the sides of conservatism.

Shakers, n. (6)

    Nat 1.73 8 Such examples [of the action of man upon nature with his entire force] are...the miracles of enthusiasm, as those reported of...the Shakers;...
    NR 3.240 17 Here is a new enterprise of Brook Farm...why so impatient to baptize them...Shakers, or by any known and effete name?
    Wsp 6.203 6 Men as naturally make a state, or a church, as caterpillars a web. If they were more refined...it would be nervous, like that of the Shakers, who, from long habit of thinking and feeling together, it is said are affected in the same way and the same time, to work and to play;...
    Wsp 6.237 10 In the Shakers...I find one piece of belief...
    Wom 11.415 15 After the deification of Woman in the Catholic Church, in the sixteenth or seventeenth century...the Quakers have the honor of having first established, in their discipline, the equality of the sexes. It is even more perfect in the later sect of the Shakers...
    Wom 11.419 20 ...if a woman demand votes, offices and political equality with men, as among the Shakers an Elder and Elderess are of equal power... it must not be refused.

shakes, v. (12)

    Cir 2.311 17 All that we reckoned settled shakes and rattles;...
    Pt1 3.22 26 ...[nature] shakes down from the gills of one agaric countless spores...
    ET5 5.94 13 [England's] short rivers do not afford water-power, but the land shakes under the thunder of the mills.
    F 6.7 24 Our western prairie shakes with fever and ague.
    CbW 6.250 14 Nature...shakes down a tree full of gnarled, wormy, unripe crabs, before you can find a dozen dessert apples;...
    Farm 7.148 5 In September, when the pears hang heaviest...comes usually a gusty day which shakes the whole garden and throws down the heaviest fruit in bruised heaps.
    Res 8.148 4 What can a poor truckman, who is hired to groan and to hiss, do, when the orator shakes him into convulsions of laughter so that he cannot throw his egg?
    Supl 10.162 2 For Art, for Music overthrilled,/ The wine-cup shakes, the wine is spilled./
    War 11.152 22 On its own scale, on the virtues it loves, [war]...shakes the whole society until every atom falls into the place its specific gravity assigns it.
    FSLC 11.199 2 [Webster's] final settlement has dislocated the foundations. The state-house shakes like a tent.
    EPro 11.314 20 Come, East and West and North,/ By races, as snow-flakes,/ And carry my purpose forth,/ Which neither halts nor shakes./
    PPr 12.391 9 We have never had anything in literature so like earthquakes as the laughter of Carlyle. He shakes with his mountain mirth.

shaking, v. (1)

    Comc 8.173 27 ...explore the whole of Nature, the farce and buffoonery in the yard below, as well as the lessons of poets and philosophers upstairs in the hall, and get the rest and refreshment of the shaking of the sides.

Shakspeare, n. (1)

    Grts 8.302 26 Who can doubt the potency of an individual mind, who sees the shock given to torpid races...by Mahomet; a vibration propagated over Asia and Africa? What of Menu? what...of Shakspeare?...

Shakspeare Societies, n. (1)

    ShP 4.218 9 The Egyptian verdict of the Shakspeare Societies comes to mind; that [Shakespeare] was a jovial actor and manager.

Shakspeare Society, n. (2)

    ShP 4.201 15 We have to thank the researches of antiquaries, and the Shakspeare Society, for ascertaining the steps of the English drama, from the Mysteries...down to the possession of the stage by the very pieces which Shakspeare altered, remodelled and finally made his own.
    ShP 4.204 23 The Shakspeare Society have inquired in all directions...and with what result?

Shakspeare, William, adj. (1)

    MoS 4.163 21 ...the duplicate copy of Florio, which the British Museum purchased with a view of protecting the Shakspeare autograph...turned out to have the autograph of Ben Jonson in the fly-leaf.

Shakspeare, William, n. [Shakspeare., Shakspeare,] (177)

    Nat 1.18 1 Was there no meaning in the live repose of the valley behind the mill, and which...Shakspeare could not re-form for me in words?
    Nat 1.52 13 Shakspeare possesses the power of subordinating nature for the purposes of expression...
    AmS 1.93 12 The discerning will read, in his...Shakspeare, only that least part...
    AmS 1.100 2 ...out of terrible Druids and Berserkers come at last Alfred and Shakspeare.
    LE 1.161 8 ...see how much you would impoverish the world if you could take clean out of history the lives of Milton, Shakspeare, and Plato...
    LE 1.161 16 I console myself...by...seeing that Plato was, and Shakspeare...
    Hist 2.6 21 All that Shakspeare says of the king, yonder slip of a boy that reads in the corner feels to be true of himself.
    Hist 2.31 14 When the gods come among men, they are not known. Jesus was not; Socrates and Shakspeare were not.
    SR 2.83 14 Where is the master who could have taught Shakspeare?
    SR 2.83 19 Shakspeare will never be made by the study of Shakspeare.
    SR 2.83 20 Shakspeare will never be made by the study of Shakspeare.
    Comp 2.108 24 We are to see that which man was tending to do in a given period, and was hindered, or...modified in doing, by the interfering volitions...of Shakspeare, the organ whereby man at the moment wrought.
    Comp 2.124 13 Jesus and Shakspeare are fragments of the soul...
    SL 2.134 25 Could Shakspeare give a theory of Shakspeare?
    SL 2.134 26 Could Shakspeare give a theory of Shakspeare?
    OS 2.273 8 ...produce a volume of Plato or Shakspeare...and instantly we come into a feeling of longevity.
    OS 2.288 24 Humanity shines...in Shakspeare...
    OS 2.289 11 Shakspeare carries us to such a lofty strain of intelligent activity as to suggest a wealth which beggars his own;...
    Int 2.332 18 Inspect what delights you...in Shakspeare...
    Int 2.333 16 Perhaps, if we should meet Shakspeare we should not be conscious of any steep inferiority;...
    Pt1 3.10 25 Plutarch and Shakspeare were in the yellow leaf...
    Pt1 3.41 1 ...the rich poets, as Homer, Chaucer, Shakspeare, and Raphael, have obviously no limits to their works except the limits of their lifetime...
    Exp 3.55 18 Once I took such delight in Montaigne that I thought I should not need any other book; before that, in Shakspeare;...
    Exp 3.63 9 A collector recently bought at public auction, in London, for one hundred and fifty-seven guineas, an autograph of Shakspeare;...
    Exp 3.63 13 I think I will never read any but the commonest books,--The Bible, Homer, Dante, Shakspeare and Milton.
    Chr1 3.106 17 How captivating is [children's] devotion to their favorite books, whether Aeschylus, Dante, Shakspeare, or Scott...
    Mrs1 3.148 21 In Shakspeare alone the speakers do not strut and bridle...
    UGM 4.18 3 The eyes of Plato, Shakspeare, Swedenborg, Goethe, never shut on either of these laws [of identity and of reaction].
    PPh 4.41 14 ...wherever we find a man higher by a whole head than any of his contemporaries, it is sure to come into doubt what are his real works. Thus Homer, Plato, Raffaelle, Shakspeare.
    PNR 4.88 7 Shakspeare is a Platonist when he writes,--Nature is made better by no mean,/ But nature makes that mean/...
    SwM 4.94 6 I have sometimes thought that he would render the greatest service to modern criticism, who should draw the line of relation that subsists between Shakspeare and Swedenborg.
    SwM 4.94 11 If we tire of the saints, Shakspeare is our city of refuge.
    MoS 4.163 16 I heard with pleasure that one of the newly-discovered autographs of William Shakspeare was in a copy of Florio's translation of Montaigne.
    ShP 4.192 20 The secure possession, by the stage, of the public mind, is of the first importance to the poet who works for it. He loses no time in idle experiments. Here is audience and expectation prepared. In the case of Shakspeare there is much more.
    ShP 4.193 21 Shakspeare...esteemed the mass of old plays waste stock...
    ShP 4.195 6 ...it appears that Shakspeare did owe debts in all directions...
    ShP 4.195 13 ...the amount of [Shakespeare's] indebtedness may be inferred from Malone's laborious computations in regard to the First, Second and Third parts of Henry VI., in which, out of 6043 lines, 1771 were written by some author preceding Shakspeare...
    ShP 4.196 10 Shakspeare knew that tradition supplies a better fable than any invention can.
    ShP 4.201 22 We have to thank the researches of antiquaries, and the Shakspeare Society, for ascertaining the steps of the English drama, from the Mysteries...down to the possession of the stage by the very pieces which Shakspeare altered, remodelled and finally made his own.
    ShP 4.202 2 ...[the antiquaries] have left no bookstall unsearched...so keen was the hope to discover whether the boy Shakspeare poached or not...
    ShP 4.203 8 Sir Henry Wotton was born four years after Shakspeare...
    ShP 4.203 20 ...I find, among [Wotton's] correspondents and acquaintances...Paul Sarpi, Arminius, with all of whom exists some token of his having communicated, without enumerating many others whom doubtless he saw,--Shakspeare, Spenser...
    ShP 4.204 5 It was not possible to write the history of Shakspeare till now;...
    ShP 4.204 7 ...it was with the introduction of Shakspeare into German...that the rapid burst of German literature was most intimately connected.
    ShP 4.207 14 Did Shakspeare confide to any notary or parish recorder...the genesis of that delicate creation [A Midsummer Night's dream]?
    ShP 4.208 5 Shakspeare is the only biographer of Shakspeare;...
    ShP 4.208 7 Shakspeare is the only biographer of Shakspeare; and even he can tell nothing, except to the Shakspeare in us...
    ShP 4.208 21 ...with Shakspeare for biographer...we have really the information [about Shakespeare] which is material;...
    ShP 4.210 10 Some able and appreciating critics think no criticism on Shakspeare valuable that does not rest purely on the dramatic merit;...
    ShP 4.211 3 ...the occasion which gave the saint's meaning the form...of a code of laws, is immaterial compared with the universality of its application. So it fares with the wise Shakspeare and his book of life.
    ShP 4.211 24 Shakspeare is as much out of the category of eminent authors, as he is out of the crowd.
    ShP 4.212 3 For executive faculty, for creation, Shakspeare is unique.
    ShP 4.212 24 ...Shakspeare has no peculiarity, no importunate topic;...
    ShP 4.214 10 No recipe can be given for the making of a Shakspeare;...
    ShP 4.215 18 In the poet's mind the fact has gone quite over into the new element of thought, and has lost all that is exuvial. This generosity abides with Shakspeare.
    ShP 4.216 10 Not less sovereign and cheerful,--much more sovereign and cheerful, is the tone of Shakspeare.
    ShP 4.216 21 ...[solitude] weighs Shakspeare also, and finds him to share the halfness and imperfection of humanity.
    ShP 4.216 24 Shakspeare, Homer, Dante, Chaucer, saw the splendor of meaning that plays over the visible world;...
    ShP 4.217 6 Shakspeare employed [the things of nature] as colors to compose his picture.
    ShP 4.219 15 The world still wants its poet-priest, a reconciler, who shall not trifle, with Shakspeare the player...
    ET4 5.47 11 How came such men as...William Shakspeare, George Chapman...
    ET5 5.100 15 ...[the English people's] language seems drawn from the Bible, the Common Law and the works of Shakspeare, Bacon, Milton, Pope, Young, Cowper, Burns and Scott.
    ET14 5.234 12 Shakspeare, Spenser and Milton, in their loftiest ascents, have this national grip and exactitude of mind.
    ET14 5.234 20 The Saxon materialism and narrowness, exalted into the sphere of intellect, makes the very genius of Shakspeare and Milton.
    ET14 5.236 8 The union of Saxon precision and Oriental soaring, of which Shakspeare is the perfect example, is shared in less degree by the writers of two centuries.
    ET14 5.237 18 The unique fact in literary history, the unsurprised reception of Shakspeare...seems to demonstrate an elevation in the mind of the people.
    ET14 5.241 20 A few generalizations always circulate in the world...and these are in the world constants, like the Copernican and Newtonian theories in physics. In England these may be traced usually to Shakspeare, Bacon, Milton, or Hooker...
    ET14 5.244 1 The later English want the faculty of Plato and Aristotle, of grouping men in natural classes by an insight of general laws, so deep that the rule is deduced with equal precision...from one, as from multitudes of lives. Shakspeare is supreme in that, as in all the great mental energies.
    ET14 5.244 20 Milton, who was the stair or high table-land to let down the English genius from the summits of Shakspeare, used this privilege [of generalization] sometimes in poetry, more rarely in prose.
    ET14 5.246 3 ...[Hallam] lifts himself to own better than almost any the greatness of Shakspeare...
    ET16 5.284 5 We [Emerson and Carlyle] came to Wilton and to Wilton Hall...a house known to Shakspeare and Massinger...
    ET18 5.307 11 ...retrospectively, we may strike the balance and prefer one Alfred, one Shakspeare, one Milton, one Sidney, one Raleigh, one Wellington, to a million foolish democrats.
    Pow 6.58 19 ...Shakspeare was theatre-manager and used the labor of many young men, as well as the playbooks.
    Ctr 6.141 23 The best heads that ever existed...Julius Caesar, Shakspeare... were well-read, universally educated men...
    Ctr 6.142 6 I am always happy to meet persons who perceive the transcendent superiority of Shakspeare over all other writers.
    Wsp 6.224 13 The fame of Shakspeare or of Voltaire...characterizes those who give it.
    CbW 6.258 20 Shakspeare wrote,--'T is said, best men are moulded of their faults;/...
    CbW 6.261 4 The first-class minds...Cervantes, Shakspeare...had the poor man's feeling and mortification.
    Ill 6.312 11 [The boy] has no better friend or influence than Scott, Shakspeare, Plutarch and Homer.
    Art2 7.47 7 Even Shakspeare, of whom we can believe everything, we think indebted to Goethe and to Coleridge for the wisdom they detect in his Hamlet and Antony.
    Art2 7.49 13 The wonders of Shakspeare are things which he saw whilst he stood aside...
    Art2 7.52 15 Raphael paints wisdom...Shakspeare writes it...
    Art2 7.53 19 The Iliad of Homer...the plays of Shakspeare...were made...in grave earnest...
    WD 7.182 3 Shakspeare made his Hamlet as a bird weaves its nest.
    Boks 7.194 19 ...perhaps, the human mind would be a gainer if all the secondary writers were lost,--say, in England, all but Shakspeare, Milton and Bacon...
    Boks 7.197 18 English history is best known through Shakspeare;...
    Boks 7.207 5 Here [in the Elizabethan era the scholar] has Shakspeare, Spenser...
    Boks 7.209 16 For an autograph of Shakspeare one hundred and fifty-five guineas were given.
    Boks 7.218 2 The Greek fables...the English drama of Shakspeare, Beaumont and Fletcher, and Ford...have this enlargement [the imaginative element]...
    Clbs 7.243 21 We know well the Mermaid Club...of Shakspeare, Ben Jonson...
    Suc 7.287 27 Newton was a great man, without...lucifer-matches, or ether for his pain; so was Shakspeare and Alfred and Scipio and Socrates.
    Suc 7.296 8 We assume...that there is...but one Shakspeare...
    Suc 7.296 13 In good hours we do not find Shakspeare or Homer over-great...
    Suc 7.302 21 The great doctors of this science [of sensibility] are the greatest men,--Dante, Petrarch, Michel Angelo and Shakspeare.
    Suc 7.307 12 'T is presumed...there is but one Shakspeare, one Homer, one Jesus...
    OA 7.321 19 We have, it is true, examples of an accelerated pace by which young men achieved grand works; as...in Raffaelle, Shakspeare...
    PI 8.3 13 The restraining grace of common sense is the mark of all the valid minds,--of...Shakspeare, Cervantes...
    PI 8.27 12 ...this power [the perception of the symbolic character of things] appears in Dante and Shakspeare.
    PI 8.30 22 See how Shakspeare grapples at once with the main problem of the tragedy...
    PI 8.33 1 Shakspeare is made up of important passages...
    PI 8.44 13 The humor of Falstaff, the terror of Macbeth, have each their swarm of fit thoughts and images, as if Shakspeare had known and reported the men...
    PI 8.44 23 ...the dunce has experiences that may explain Shakspeare to him...
    PI 8.63 7 We are sometimes apprised that...the high poets, that Homer, Milton, Shakspeare, do not fully content us.
    PI 8.67 21 We are a little civil, it must be owned...to Dante and Shakspeare...
    PI 8.69 5 To know the merit of Shakspeare, read Faust.
    PI 8.69 16 Shakspeare could no doubt have been disagreeable...
    PI 8.69 22 ...our English nature and genius has made us the worst critics of Goethe,--We, who speak the tongue/ That Shakspeare spake, the faith and manners hold/ Which Milton held./
    PI 8.72 20 ...mark the equality of Shakspeare to the comic, the tender and sweet, and to the grand and terrible.
    Elo2 8.131 22 ...in the Elizabethan Age there was a dramatic zymosis, when all the genius ran in that direction, until it culminated in Shakspeare;...
    Comc 8.160 26 ...Falstaff, in Shakspeare, is a character of the broadest comedy...
    QO 8.191 20 When Shakspeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies: Yet he was more original than his originals.
    QO 8.194 23 The passages of Shakspeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century;...
    QO 8.202 19 Shakspeare, Milton, Wordsworth, were very conscious of their responsibilities.
    PC 8.216 7 All the transcendent writers and artists of the world,-'t is doubtful who they were, they are lifted so fast into mythology;...Daedalus, Hermes, Zoroaster, even Swedenborg and Shakspeare.
    PC 8.220 17 How much more are...the wise and good souls...Alfred the king, Shakspeare the poet, Newton the philosopher...than the foolish and sensual millions aroun them!
    Insp 8.275 22 Shakspeare seems to you miraculous;...
    Insp 8.295 13 You may read Chaucer, Shakspeare, Ben Jonson, Milton...
    Imtl 8.347 2 You shall not say, O my bishop, O my pastor, is there any resurrection? What do you think? Did Dr. Channing believe that we should know each other? Did Wesley? did Butler? did Fenelon? What questions are these! Go read Milton, Shakspeare or any truly ideal poet.
    Aris 10.54 12 The more familiar examples of this power [of eloquence] certainly are those...who think, and paint, and laugh, and weep, in their eloquent closets, and then convert the world into a huge whispering-gallery, to...win smiles and tears from many generations. The eminent examples are Shakspeare, Cervantes...
    Edc1 10.147 22 Letter by letter, syllable by syllable, the child learns to read, and in good time can convey to all the domestic circle the sense of Shakspeare.
    Edc1 10.157 27 ...if one [pupil] has brought in a Plutarch or Shakspeare or Don Quixote or Goldsmith or any other good book, and understands what he reads, put him at once at the head of the class.
    Supl 10.173 1 The arithmetic of Newton...the inspiration of Shakspeare, are sure of commanding interest and awe in every company of men.
    Supl 10.173 12 ...to the most expressive man that has existed, namely, Shakspeare, [mankind] have awarded the highest place.
    SovE 10.187 1 'T is a long scale...from the gorilla to Plato, Newton, Shakspeare...
    Prch 10.234 6 Given the insight, [the deep observer] will find as many beauties and heroes and strokes of genius close by him as Dante or Shakspeare beheld.
    Schr 10.289 1 [The scholar] is here to know the secret of Genius; to become, not a reader of poetry, but...Shakspeare, Swedenborg...
    Plu 10.296 13 In England, Sir Thomas North translated [Plutarch's] Lives in 1579, and Holland the Morals in 1603, in time to be used by Shakspeare in his plays...
    LLNE 10.363 14 [Charles Newcomb's] reading lay in Aeschylus, Plato, Dante, Calderon, Shakspeare...
    MMEm 10.412 3 I [Mary Moody Emerson] am so small in my expectations, that a week of industry delights. Rose before light every morn;...touched Shakspeare...
    Carl 10.489 12 If you would know precisely how [Carlyle] talks, just suppose Hugh Whelan (the gardener) had found leisure enough in addition to all his daily work to read Plato and Shakspeare...
    War 11.172 15 What makes the attractiveness of that romantic style of living which is the material of ten thousand plays and romances, from Shakspeare to Scott;...
    War 11.172 20 I do not wonder at the dislike some of the friends of peace have expressed at Shakspeare.
    FSLN 11.216 5 ...Shakspeare was of us, Milton was for us,/ Burns, Shelley, were with us,-they watch from their graves!/ He alone breaks from the van and the freemen,/ -He alone sinks to the rear and the slaves!/ Browning, The Lost Leader.
    RBur 11.441 3 ...I find [Burns's] grand plain sense in close chain with the greatest masters,-Rabelais, Shakspeare in comedy, Cervantes, Butler, and Burns.
    Shak1 11.447 15 ...it is to us [The Saturday Club] a painful disappointment...that a well-known and honored compatriot, who first in Boston wrote elegant verse, and on Shakspeare...Mr. Charles Sprague,- pleads the infirmities of age as an absolute bar to his presence with us.
    Shak1 11.448 2 We are all content to let Shakspeare speak for himself.
    Shak1 11.448 11 ...Shakspeare taught us that the little world of the heart is vaster, deeper and richer than the spaces of astronomy.
    Shak1 11.448 18 We say to the young child in the cradle, Happy, and defended against Fate! for here is Nature, and here is Shakspeare, waiting for you!
    Shak1 11.448 22 He is a cultivated man-who can tell us something new of Shakspeare.
    Shak1 11.449 3 ...Shakspeare is the one resource of our life on which no gloom gathers;...
    Shak1 11.449 21 ...we pause expectant before the genius of Shakspeare- as if his biography were not yet written;...
    Shak1 11.449 27 ...Shakspeare, by his transcendant reach of thought, so unites the extremes, that, whilst he has kept the theatre now for three centuries...he is yet to all wise men the companion of the closet.
    Shak1 11.450 27 'T is fine for Englishmen to say, they only know history by Shakspeare.
    Shak1 11.451 23 The egotism of men is immense. It concealed Shakspeare for a century.
    Shak1 11.452 11 [Shakespeare's] birth marked a great wine year when wonderful grapes ripened in the vintage of God, when Shakspeare and Galileo were born within a few months of each other...
    Shak1 11.452 16 ...Shakspeare, not by any inferiority of theirs, but simply by his colossal proportions, dwarfs the geniuses of Elizabeth...
    Shak1 11.453 12 I could name in this very company...very good types [of men who live well in and lead any society], but in order to be parliamentary, Franklin, Burns and Walter Scott are examples of the rule; and king of men, by this grace of God also, is Shakspeare.
    Shak1 11.453 14 The Pilgrims came to Plymouth in 1620. The plays of Shakspeare were not published until three years later.
    Scot 11.466 21 In the number and variety of his characters [Scott] approaches Shakspeare.
    CPL 11.501 2 [Thoreau writes] I think the best parts of Shakspeare would only be enhanced by the most thrilling and affecting events.
    CPL 11.502 11 Homer and Plato and Pindar and Shakspeare serve many more than have heard their names.
    CPL 11.504 16 The great Duke of Marlborough could not encamp without his Shakspeare.
    PLT 12.50 4 Shakspeare astonishes by his equality in every play, act, scene or line.
    Mem 12.108 8 I...can drop easily many poets out of the Elizabethan chronology, but not Shakspeare.
    CInt 12.129 24 Bring the insight, and [the deep observer] will find as many beauties and heroes and astounding strokes of genius close by him as Shakspeare or Aeschylus or Dante beheld.
    Milt1 12.253 23 As a poet, Shakspeare undoubtedly transcends, and far surpasses [Milton] in his popularity with foreign nations;...
    Milt1 12.253 25 ...Shakspeare is a voice merely;...
    Milt1 12.260 27 Not imitating but rivalling Shakspeare, [Milton] scattered, in tones of prolonged and delicate melody, his pastoral and romantic fancies;...
    Milt1 12.275 26 It is true of Homer and Shakspeare that they do not appear in their poems;...
    Milt1 12.276 18 Perhaps we speak to no fact, but to mere fables, of an idle mendicant Homer, and of a Shakspeare content with a mean and jocular way of life.
    Milt1 12.277 6 The creations of Shakspeare are cast into the world of thought to no further end than to delight.
    ACri 12.284 19 ...there is a conversation above grossness and below refinement...where Shakspeare seems to have gathered his comic dialogue.
    ACri 12.293 19 Shakspeare might be studied for his dexterity in the use of these weapons [of rhetoric], if it were not for his heroic strength.
    ACri 12.294 15 ...Shakspeare must have been a thousand years old when he wrote his first piece;...
    ACri 12.294 24 Shakspeare is nothing but a large utterance.
    ACri 12.295 8 My friend thinks the reason why the French mind is so shallow...is because they do not read Shakspeare;...
    ACri 12.295 9 ...the English and Germans, who read Shakspeare and the Bible, have a great onward march.
    ACri 12.295 10 Shakspeare would have sufficed for the culture of a nation for vast periods.
    ACri 12.295 19 ...if the English island had been larger and the Straits of Dover wider, to keep it at pleasure a little out of the imbroglio of Europe, they might have managed to feed on Shakspeare for some ages yet;...
    ACri 12.302 6 Shakspeare says, A plague of opinion; a man can wear it on both sides, like a leather jerkin.
    MLit 12.312 4 ...the prodigious growth and influence of the genius of Shakspeare, in the last one hundred and fifty years, is itself a fact of the first importance.
    MLit 12.321 18 There is in [Wordsworth] that property common to all great poets, a wisdom of humanity, which is superior to any talents which they exert. It is the wisest part of Shakspeare and of Milton.
    MLit 12.326 7 ...[Wieland says] what most remarkably in [Goethe's journal], as in all his other works, distinguishes him from Homer and Shakspeare is that the Me, the Ille ego, everywhere glimmers through...
    MLit 12.326 15 Who saw Milton, who saw Shakspeare, saw them do their best...
    MLit 12.327 5 It is all design with [Goethe]...but of Shakspeare and the transcendent muse, no syllable.
    Pray 12.350 8 ...with true prayers,/ That shall be up at heaven and enter there/ Ere sunrise; prayers from preserved souls,/ From fasting maids, whose minds are delicate/ To nothing temporal./ Shakspeare.
    EurB 12.365 22 The Pindar, the Shakspeare, the Dante, whilst they have the just and open soul, have also the eye to see the dimmest star that glimmers in the Milky Way...

Shakspeares, n. (1)

    Suc 7.296 1 'T is the fulness of man that...makes his Bibles and Shakspeares and Homers so great.

Shakspeare's portraits of goo (1)

    f Warwick, of k, of Northumberland, of Talbot, were drawn in strict consonance with the traditions.

Shakspeare's, William, n. (20)

    AmS 1.93 15 The discerning will read, in his Plato or Shakspeare...only the authentic utterances of the oracle; - all the rest he rejects, were it never so many times Plato's and Shakspeare's.
    Hist 2.2 4 I am owner of the sphere,/ .../ Of Lord Christ's heart, and Shakspeare's strain./
    NR 3.233 4 Shakspeare's passages of passion...are in the very dialect of the present year.
    UGM 4.15 24 Shakspeare's principal merit may be conveyed in saying that he of all men best understands the English language...
    UGM 4.16 2 Shakspeare's name suggests other and purely intellectual benefits.
    PNR 4.88 16 ...'t is the magnitude only of Shakspeare's proper genius that hinders him from being classed as the most eminent of this [Platonic] school.
    ShP 4.191 15 Shakspeare's youth fell in a time when the English people were importunate for dramatic entertainments.
    ShP 4.196 5 ...the play [Henry VIII] contains through all its length unmistakable traits of Shakspeare's hand...
    ShP 4.203 6 If it need wit to know wit, according to the proverb, Shakspeare's time should be capable of recognizing it.
    ShP 4.209 22 So far from Shakspeare's being the least known, he is the one person, in all modern history, known to us.
    ShP 4.212 1 A good reader can, in a sort, nestle into Plato's brain and think from thence; but not into Shakspeare's.
    ET11 5.189 20 Shakspeare's portraits of good Duke Humphrey, of Warwick, of Northumberland, of Talbot, were drawn in a strict consonance with the traditions.
    Wth 6.117 23 I remember in Warwickshire to have been shown a fair manor, still in the same name as in Shakspeare's time.
    Boks 7.196 25 ...Never read any [books] but what you like;, or, in Shakspeare's phrase, No profit goes where is no pleasure te'en:/ In brief, sir, study what you most affect./
    PI 8.34 15 The...measure of poetic genius is the power to read the poetry of affairs...not to use Scott's antique superstitions, or Shakspeare's, but to convert those of the nineteenth century and of the existing nations into universal symbols.
    PI 8.43 13 Better examples [of poetry] are Shakspeare's Ariel, his Caliban...
    PI 8.66 25 A good poem--say Shakspeare's Macbeth...goes about the world offering itself to reasonable men...
    QO 8.197 25 The bold theory of Delia Bacon, that Shakspeare's plays were written by a society of wits...had plainly for her the charm of the superior meaning they would acquire when read under this light;...
    Shak1 11.446 6 ...centuries brood, nor can attain/ The sense and bound of Shakspeare's brain./ The men who lived with him became/ Poets, for the air was fame./
    II 12.72 8 It is as impossible for labor to produce...a song of Burns, as Shakspeare's Hamlet...

Shakspeare, William, n. (1)

    ShP 4.195 26 The first play [Shakespeare's Henry VIII] was written by a superior, thoughtful man, with a vicious ear. I can mark his lines, and know well their cadence. See Wolsey's soliloquy, and the following scene with Cromwell, where instead of the metre of Shakspeare...the lines are constructed on a given tune...

Shakspearian, adj. (1)

    LE 1.168 20 ...when I see the daybreak I am not reminded of these... Shakspearian...pictures.

Shakspearized, v. (2)

    AmS 1.91 7 The English dramatic poets have Shakspearized now for two hundred years.
    ShP 4.204 15 Now, literature, philosophy and thought are Shakspearized.

Shaksperian, n. (1)

    UGM 4.29 27 Be another:...not a poet, but a Shaksperian.

shaky, adj. (1)

    SMC 11.361 22 [George Prescott] writes, You don't know how one gets attached to a company by living with them and sleeping with them all the time. I know every man by heart. I know every man's weak spot,-who is shaky, and who is true blue.

shallow, adj. (22)

    Nat 1.19 3 In July, the blue pontederia...blooms in large beds in the shallow parts of our pleasant river...
    LE 1.167 8 We assume that...what we say we only throw in as confirmatory of this supposed complete body of literature. A very shallow assumption.
    LE 1.176 6 ...out of our shallow and frivolous way of life, how can greatness ever grow?
    MN 1.195 22 ...if polite and various [great men] are shallow.
    Tran 1.345 2 ...the delicate [nature] will be shallow, or the victim of sensibility;...
    Hist 2.40 11 I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called History is.
    Exp 3.48 14 The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.
    Pow 6.70 1 Cut off the connection between any of our works and this aboriginal source, and the work is shallow.
    Wth 6.93 2 The life of pleasure is so ostentatious that a shallow observer must believe that this is the agreed best use of wealth...
    Bhr 6.185 13 In the shallow company, easily excited, easily tired, here is the columnar Bernard;...
    Wsp 6.220 6 Shallow men believe in luck...
    Suc 7.290 9 I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit...
    PI 8.58 28 [Taliessin] says of his hero, Cunedda,--He will assimilate, he will agree with the deep and the shallow.
    Insp 8.268 4 If with light head erect I sing,/ Though all the Muses lend their force,/ From my poor love of anything,/ The verse is weak and shallow as its source./
    Grts 8.319 20 ...a very common [illusion] is the opinion you hear expressed in every village:...it happens that there are no fine young men, no superior women in my town. You may hear this every day; but it is a shallow remark.
    SovE 10.211 6 'T is very shallow to say that cotton, or iron, or silver and gold are kings of the world;...
    SovE 10.212 7 We buttress [the moral sentiment] up, in shallow hours or ages, with legends, traditions and forms...
    Schr 10.269 9 The shallow clamor against theoretic men comes from the weak.
    Mem 12.99 25 The reason of the short memory is shallow thought.
    ACri 12.295 6 My friend thinks the reason why the French mind is so shallow...is because they do not read Shakspeare;...
    Let 12.401 10 On earth all is imperfect! is an old proverb of the German. Aye, but if one should say to these God-forsaken...that with them, truly, life is shallow and anxious and full of discord because they despise genius...
    Trag 12.410 25 In phlegmatic natures calamity is unaffecting, in shallow natures it is rhetorical.

shallowness, n. (4)

    Pt1 3.3 14 It is a proof of the shallowness of the doctrine of beauty as it lies in the minds of our amateurs, that men seem to have lost the perception of the instant dependence of form upon soul.
    Prch 10.229 10 ...besides the passion and interest which pervert [religion], is the shallowness which impoverishes.
    FSLC 11.182 24 [The crisis over the Fugitive Slave Law] showed the shallowness of leaders;...
    FSLC 11.183 24 The sense of injustice is blunted,-a sure sign of the shallowness of our intellect.

sham, adj. (4)

    Pow 6.65 22 The messages of the governors and the resolutions of the legislatures are a proverb for expressing a sham virtuous indignation, which, in the course of events, is sure to be belied.
    LVB 11.91 12 It now appears that the government of the United States choose to hold the Cherokees to this sham treaty...
    SMC 11.363 16 [George Prescott's] next point is to keep [his men] cheerful. 'T is better than medicine. He has games of baseball, and pitching quoits, and euchre, whilst part of the military discipline is sham fights.
    Scot 11.467 2 [Scott's] strong good sense saved him...from...sham modesty or jealousy.

sham, n. (2)

    War 11.174 9 If peace is sought to be defended or preserved for the safety of the luxurious and the timid, it is a sham...
    CL 12.160 26 When I look at natural structures...I know that I am seeing an architecture and carpentry which has no sham...

shambles, n. (1)

    Bty 6.306 5 Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles;...

shame, n. (37)

    AmS 1.104 8 It is a shame to [the scholar] if his tranquillity...arise from the presumption that...his is a protected class;...
    DSA 1.140 9 Instantly [the poor preacher's] face is suffused with shame...
    DSA 1.149 21 ...these are heights that we can scarce...look up to without contrition and shame.
    LE 1.175 18 ...accept the hint of shame...which true nature gives you...
    MR 1.237 24 ...now I feel some shame before my wood-chopper...
    LT 1.271 19 ...we find ourselves apologizing for our employments; we speak of them with shame.
    SR 2.46 9 ...we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.
    SR 2.52 18 ...I confess with shame I sometimes succumb and give the dollar...
    SR 2.69 22 This one fact the world hates; that the soul becomes; for that... turns...all reputation to a shame...
    SR 2.76 14 [A sturdy lad from Vermont]...feels no shame in not studying a profession...
    Fdsp 2.213 10 We may congratulate ourselves that the period...of shame, is passed in solitude...
    Int 2.342 27 When Socrates speaks, Lysis and Menexenus are afflicted by no shame that they do not speak.
    Pt1 3.42 6 ...thou [O poet] shalt not be able to rehearse the names of thy friends in thy verse, for an old shame before the holy ideal.
    Mrs1 3.133 20 ...do not...imagine that a fop can be the dispenser of honor and shame.
    Gts 3.157 4 Gifts of one who loved me,--/ 'T was high time they came;/ When he ceased to love me,/ Time they stopped for shame./
    Gts 3.164 18 ...we can seldom hear the acknowledgments of any person who would thank us for a benefit, without some shame and humiliation.
    Nat2 3.177 6 A susceptible person does not like to indulge his tastes in this kind [in passive nature] without the apology of some trivial necessity:...he carries a fowling-piece or a fishing-rod. I suppose this shame must have a good reason.
    PPh 4.40 9 Plato is philosophy, and philosophy, Plato,--at once the glory and the shame of mankind...
    GoW 4.288 21 There is a slight blush of shame on the cheek of good men and aspiring men...
    ET10 5.153 3 In America there is a touch of shame when a man exhibits the evidences of large property...
    ET10 5.156 16 If [the English] cannot pay, they do not buy;...and they say without shame, I cannot afford it.
    Ctr 6.162 7 ...the wiser God says, Take the shame, the poverty and the penal solitude that belong to truth-speaking.
    DL 7.133 22 ...whoso shall teach me how to eat my meat and take my repose and deal with men, without any shame following, will restore the life of man to splendor...
    PPo 8.249 2 We would do nothing but good [says Hafiz], else would shame come to us on the day when the soul must hie hence;...
    PPo 8.257 5 The willows, [Hafiz] says, bow themselves to every wind out of shame for their unfruitfulness.
    Aris 10.29 21 Here may ye see wel, how that genterie/ Is not annexed to possession,/ Sith folk ne don their operation/ Alway, as doth the fire, lo, in his kind,/ For God it wot, men may full often find/ A lorde's son do shame and vilanie./
    Aris 10.63 25 ...shame to the fop of learning and philosophy...
    Chr2 10.94 27 Compare...all our private and personal venture in the world, with this deep of moral nature in which we lie...and we take part with hasty shame against ourselves...
    Prch 10.236 24 That should be the use of the Sabbath,-to...put us in possession of ourselves once more, for love or for shame.
    MMEm 10.432 2 Shame on me [Mary Moody Emerson] who have learned within three years to sit whole days in peace and enjoyment without the least apparent benefit to any...
    War 11.169 8 If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms...you have a nation...of true, great and able men. Let me know more of that nation;... I shall find them...men whose very look and voice carry the sentence of honor and shame;...
    FSLC 11.181 19 The panic [over the Fugitive Slave Law] has paralyzed the journals...so that one cannot open a newspaper without being disgusted by new records of shame.
    EPro 11.314 10 O North! give [the slave] beauty for rags,/ And honor, O South! for his shame;/ Nevada! coin thy golden crags/ With freedom's image and name./
    EPro 11.321 9 In times like these...what man can, without shame, receive good news from day to day without giving good news of himself?
    Pray 12.353 13 Why should I feel reproved when a busy one enters the room? I am not idle, though I sit with folded hands, but instantly I must seek some cover. For that shame I reprove myself.
    AgMs 12.358 12 I still remember with some shame that in some dealing we had together a long time ago, I found that [Edmund Hosmer] had been looking to my interest in the affair, and I had been looking to my interest, and nobody had looked to his part.
    AgMs 12.359 4 These slight and useless city limbs of ours will come to shame before this strong soldier [the Farmer]...

Shame on me [Mary Moody Em (1)

    ned within three yea o sit whole days in peace and enjoyment without the least apparent benefit to any, or knowledge to myself;...

shame, v. (5)

    MN 1.220 16 How our friendships and the complaisances we use, shame us now!
    Nat2 3.178 27 ...if our own life flowed with the right energy, we should shame the brook.
    UGM 4.15 8 What has friendship so signal as its sublime attraction to whatever virtue is in us? ... We are piqued to some purpose, and the industry of the diggers on the railroad will not again shame us.
    Wsp 6.241 20 [The new church founded on moral science] shall...shame these social, supplicating manners...
    Bost 12.210 19 Let us shame the fathers, by superior virtue in the sons.

shamed, adj. (1)

    Pol1 3.217 17 ...successes in those fields [of trade and ambition] are the poor amends, the fig-leaf with which the shamed soul attempts to hide its nakedness.

shamed, v. (3)

    NER 3.273 24 What is it we heartily wish of each other? Is it to be pleased and flattered? No, but...to be shamed out of our nonsense of all kinds...
    Bhr 6.184 9 ...[of every two persons who meet on any affair],--one instantly perceives...that his will comprehends the other's will...and he has only to use courtesy and furnish good-natured reasons to his victim to cover up the chain, lest he be shamed into resistance.
    Schr 10.273 27 If [the scholar] is not kindling his torch or collecting oil...in the field he will be shamed by mowers and reapers.

shamefaced, adj. (1)

    CbW 6.267 2 ...who provoke pity like that excellent family party just arriving in their well-appointed carriage, as far from home and any honest end as ever? Each nation has asked successively, What are they here for? until at last the party are shamefaced...

shameful, adj. (3)

    Con 1.323 21 Is there not something shameful that I should owe my peaceful occupancy of my house and field, not to the knowledge of my countrymen that I am useful, but to their respect for sundry other reputable persons, I know not whom, whose joint virtue still keeps the law in good odor?
    WD 7.165 25 ...Trade...ends in shameful defaulting, bubble and bankruptcy...
    Schr 10.286 17 [The scholar] is to eat insult, drink insult, be clothed and shod in insult until he has learned that this bitter bread and shameful dress is also wholesome and warm...

shamefully, adv. (2)

    LLNE 10.349 18 Genius hitherto has been shamefully misapplied, a mere trifler.
    EWI 11.141 18 In 1791, Mr. Wilberforce announced to the House of Commons, We have already gained one victory: we have obtained for these poor creatures [West Indian negroes] the recognition of their human nature, which for a time was most shamefully denied them.

shameless, adj. (2)

    GoW 4.269 22 ...how can [the writer] be honored...when he must sustain with shameless advocacy some bad government...
    Let 12.400 21 It is heartrending to see your [German] poet, your artist, and all who still revere genius, who love and foster the Beautiful. The Good! They...are like the patient Ulysses whilst he sat in the guise of a beggar at his own door, whilst shameless rioters shouted in the hall...

shames, v. (5)

    Prd1 2.233 3 The scholar shames us by his bifold life.
    Cir 2.311 21 Good as is discourse, silence is better, and shames it.
    Nat2 3.170 1 Here [in the forest] is sanctity which shames our religions...
    Nat2 3.171 14 Ever...comes in this honest face [of nature]...and shames us out of our nonsense.
    Ill 6.310 3 The mysteries and scenery of the [Mammoth] cave had the same dignity that belongs to all natural objects, and which shames the fine things to which we foppishly compare them.

shaming, v. (2)

    SwM 4.104 3 The robust Aristotelian method...shaming our sterile and linear logic by its genial radiation...had trained a race of athletic philosophers.
    MLit 12.327 19 [Goethe's letters] cannot be read without shaming us into an emulating industry.

shams, n. (1)

    War 11.173 5 [Shakespeare's lords] are not shams, but the substance of which that age and world is made.

Shan, Tul Will, n. (1)

    Mrs1 3.144 14 ...here is...Tul Wil Shan, the exiled nabob of Nepaul, whose saddle is the new moon.

Shandy, Tristram [Laurence (1)

    ET1 5.17 3 Tristram Shandy was one of [Carlyle's] first books after Robinson Crusoe...

shanties, n. (1)

    Nat2 3.175 20 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, compared with which their actual possessions are shanties and paddocks.

shanty, n. (2)

    Wth 6.102 17 In California, the country where [the dollar] grew,--what would it buy? A few years since, it would buy a shanty, dysentery, hunger, bad company and crime.
    PC 8.212 4 That cosmical west wind...is alone broad enough to carry to every city and suburb, to...the miner's shanty and the fisher's boat, the inspirations of this new hope of mankind.

shape, n. (30)

    MN 1.198 3 What difference can it make whether [our glance at the realities around us] take the shape of exhortation...
    Tran 1.335 6 I-this thought which is called I-is the mould into which the world is poured like melted wax. The mould is invisible, but the world betrays the shape of the mould.
    SR 2.57 14 ...when the devout motions of the soul come, yield to them heart and life, though they should clothe God with shape and color.
    SL 2.163 15 I will not meanly decline the immensity of good, because I have heard that it has come to others in another shape.
    Exp 3.54 3 Shall I preclude my future by...kindly adapting my conversation to the shape of heads?
    Chr1 3.98 15 Our proper vice takes form in one or another shape, according to the sex, age, or temperament of the person...
    Mrs1 3.147 7 ...as we show beyond that Heaven and Earth/ In form and shape compact and beautiful;/ .../ So on our heels a fresh perfection treads/...
    UGM 4.9 25 It would seem as if each [creature and quality] waited...for a destined human deliverer. Each must be disenchanted and walk forth to the day in human shape.
    MoS 4.177 6 Fate, in the shape of Kinde or nature, grows over us like grass.
    ET3 5.40 7 England resembles a ship in its shape...
    ET4 5.65 27 It is the fault of their forms that [the English] grow stocky... few tall, slender figures of flowing shape...
    ET5 5.84 26 Every article of cutlery [in England] shows, in its shape, thought and long experience of workmen.
    ET18 5.300 23 In Irish districts [of England], men deteriorated in size and shape...
    ET18 5.305 13 There is [in England] a drag of inertia which resists reform in every shape;...
    F 6.20 7 If we are brute and barbarous, the fate takes a brute and dreadful shape.
    Pow 6.53 21 ...[a man] can well afford to let events and possessions and the breath of the body go, if their value has been added to him in the shape of power.
    Ctr 6.163 2 If there is any great and good thing in store for you, it will not come...in the shape of fashion, ease, and city drawing-rooms.
    Art2 7.42 1 It is the law of fluids that prescribes the shape of the boat...
    Elo1 7.64 8 Among the Spartans, the art [of eloquence] assumed a Spartan shape, namely, of the sharpest weapon.
    Elo1 7.75 24 In a Senate or other business committee, the solid result depends on a few men with working talent. They know how...to put things into a practical shape...
    Elo1 7.90 16 Put the argument into a concrete shape...and the cause is half won.
    Suc 7.293 22 It is the dulness of the multitude that they cannot see the house in the ground-plan; the working, in the model of the projector. Whilst it is a thought...it is cried down, it is a chimera; but when it is a fact, and comes in the shape of eight per cent....they cry, It is the voice of God.
    Elo2 8.127 1 If [some men] are to put a thing in proper shape...their mind is a blank.
    Aris 10.60 14 The solitariest man who shares [a certain order of men's] spirit walks environed by them;...and happy is he who prefers these associates to profane companions. They also take shape in men, in women.
    SovE 10.202 27 What anthropomorphists we are in this, that we cannot let moral distinctions be, but must mould them into human shape!
    Schr 10.276 7 There is plenty of air, but it is worth nothing until by gathering it into sails we can get it into shape and service to carry us and our cargo across the sea.
    LLNE 10.328 9 The nobles...now, in another shape, as capitalists, shall in all love and peace eat [the churls] up as before.
    War 11.164 16 Observe the ideas of the present day...see...how timber, brick, lime and stone have flown into convenient shape, obedient to the master-idea reigning in the minds of many persons.
    Wom 11.417 20 ...it would be easy for women to retaliate in kind, by painting men from the dogs and gorillas that have worn our shape.
    AgMs 12.359 27 ...[Edmund Hosmer] is a man...of an erect good sense and independent spirit which can neither brook usurpation nor falsehood in any shape.

shape, v. (2)

    Hist 2.37 7 Columbus needs a planet to shape his course upon.
    Nat2 3.194 4 [Nature's] secret is untold. Many and many an Oedipus arrives; he has the whole mystery teeming in his brain. Alas! the same sorcery has spoiled his skill; no syllable can he shape on his lips.

shaped, v. (2)

    ET2 5.28 25 Near the equator you can read small print by [the light of the sea-fire]; and the mate describes the phosphoric insects, when taken up in a pail, as shaped like a Carolina potato.
    ALin 11.328 8 ...For [Lincoln] [Nature's] Old-World moulds aside she threw,/ And, choosing sweet clay from the breast/ Of the unexhausted West,/ With stuff untainted shaped a hero new,/ Wise, steadfast in the strength of God, and true./

shapeless, adj. (2)

    Art1 2.353 21 ...the artist's pen or chisel seems to have been held and guided by a gigantic hand to inscribe a line in the history of the human race. This circumstance gives a value...to the Indian, Chinese and Mexican idols, however gross and shapeless.
    PLT 12.35 3 Instinct is a shapeless giant in the cave...

shapes, n. (4)

    Hist 2.20 1 In these [Nubian Egypian] caverns, already prepared by nature, the eye was accustomed to dwell on huge shapes and masses...
    MoL 10.244 12 See the activity of the imagination in the Crusades: the front of morn was full of fiery shapes;...
    PLT 12.16 15 In my thought I seem to stand on the bank of a river and watch the endless flow of the stream, floating objects of all shapes, colors and natures;...
    Mem 12.93 13 There is no book like the memory, none with such a good index, and that of every kind...arranged...by colors, tastes, smells, shapes...

shapes, v. (1)

    Prd1 2.240 21 If not the Deity but our ambition hews and shapes the new relations, their virtue escapes...

share, n. (34)

    LE 1.177 20 [The scholar] must bear his share of the common load.
    MR 1.237 11 Is it possible that I, who get indefinite quantities of sugar...by simply signing my name...to a cheque...get the fair share of exercise to my faculties by that act which nature intended me...
    MR 1.254 6 ...no one should take more than his share...
    YA 1.375 1 ...we who build will receive the very smallest share of benefit.
    Comp 2.92 9 Laurel crowns cleave to deserts/ And power to him who power exerts;/ Hast not thy share? On winged feet,/ Lo! it rushes thee to meet;/...
    Hsm1 2.249 18 Unhappily no man exists who has not in his own person become to some amount a stockholder in the sin, and so made himself liable to a share in the expiation.
    Art1 2.353 4 No man can...produce a model in which the education, the religion, the politics, usages and arts of his time shall have no share.
    Chr1 3.107 17 ...however pertly our sermons and disciplines would divide some share of credit...[Nature] goes her own gait and puts the wisest in the wrong.
    NER 3.264 5 [The new communities] aim to give every member a share in the manual labor...
    ShP 4.205 5 It appears that from year to year [Shakespeare] owned a larger share of the Blackfriars' Theatre...
    NMW 4.230 23 Nature must have far the greatest share in every success, and so in [Bonaparte's].
    ET2 5.26 1 I am not a good traveller, nor have I found that long journeys yield a fair share of reasonable hours.
    ET11 5.177 4 ...Henry VIII...liking [John Russell's] company, gave him a large share of the plundered church lands.
    ET11 5.184 16 ...[the English peers] have their share in the subordinate offices, as a school of training.
    ET11 5.184 24 In the army, the [English] nobility fill a large part of the high commissions, and give to these a tone...of exclusiveness. They have borne their full share of duty and danger in this service...
    ET15 5.265 3 ...when [John Walter] demanded a small share in the proprietary [of the London Times] and was refused, he said, As you please, gentlemen; and you may take away The Times from this office when you will;...
    DL 7.132 1 Obviously, it would be easy for every town to discharge this truly municipal duty [of a library and museum]. Every one of us would gladly contribute his share;...
    Farm 7.148 17 The high wall reflecting the heat back on the soil gives that acre a quadruple share of sunshine...
    WD 7.178 25 ...Homer said, The gods ever give to mortals their apportioned share of reason only on one day.
    PC 8.208 22 Now that by the increased humanity of law she controls her property, [woman] inevitably takes the next step to her share in power.
    Dem1 10.24 3 Coincidences, dreams, animal magnetism, omens, sacred lots, have great interest for some minds. They run into this twilight and say, There 's more than is dreamed of in your philosophy. Certainly these facts... deserve to be considered. But they are entitled only to a share of attention, and not a large share.
    Dem1 10.24 4 Coincidences, dreams, animal magnetism, omens, sacred lots, have great interest for some minds. They run into this twilight and say, There 's more than is dreamed of in your philosophy. Certainly these facts... deserve to be considered. But they are entitled only to a share of attention, and not a large share.
    Chr2 10.93 5 ...love is delight in the preference of that benefit redounding to another over the securing of our own share;...
    Edc1 10.153 11 A sure proportion of rogue and dunce finds its way into every school and requires a cruel share of time...
    MMEm 10.401 13 Finally [Mary Moody Emerson's farm] was sold, and its price invested in a share of a farm in Maine...
    HDC 11.81 1 ...whilst the town [Concord] had its own full share of the public distress, it was very far from desiring relief at the cost of order and law.
    FSLC 11.208 24 It is really the great task fit for this country to accomplish, to buy that property of the planters, as the British nation bought the West Indian slaves. I say buy...that we may...bear a countryman's share in relieving [the planter];...
    JBS 11.281 2 All gentlemen, of course, are on [John Brown's] side. I do not mean by gentlemen, people of scented hair and perfumed handkerchiefs, but men...who, like the Cid, give the outcast leper a share of their bed;...
    ACiv 11.307 5 ...the North will for a time have its full share and more, in place and counsel.
    Wom 11.424 1 I do not think it yet appears that women wish this equal share in public affairs.
    FRep 11.531 19 In this country...there is, at present...a headlong devotion... to the conquest of the continent,-to each man as large a share of the same as he can carve for himself...
    Bost 12.204 1 ...I do not find in our [New England] people, with all their education, a fair share of originality of thought;...
    PPr 12.381 13 As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's Past and Present], we are struck with the force given to the plain truths;...the proposition that the laborer must have a greater share in his earnings;...
    Let 12.392 6 ...we are very liable...to fall behind-hand in our correspondence; and a little more liable because in consequence of our editorial function we receive more epistles than our individual share...

share, v. (46)

    Nat 1.17 5 I see the spectacle of morning...with emotions which an angel might share.
    DSA 1.135 22 ...you will infer the sad conviction, which I share, I believe, with numbers, of the universal decay...of faith in society.
    Tran 1.348 1 ...[Transcendentalists] do not willingly share in the public charities, in the public religious rites...
    SR 2.64 16 We first share the life by which things exist...
    Art1 2.353 12 ...[a man] is necessitated by...the idea on which he and his contemporaries live and toil, to share the manner of his times...
    Chr1 3.90 26 Man...in these examples [of men of character] appears to share the life of things...
    Mrs1 3.154 26 ...it seemed as if the instinct of all sufferers drew them to [Osman's] side. And the madness which he harbored he did not share.
    Pol1 3.204 14 ...there is an instinctive sense...that if men can be educated, the institutions will share their improvement...
    Pol1 3.209 24 Of the two great parties which at this hour almost share the nation between them, I should say that one has the best cause, and the other contains the best men.
    Pol1 3.216 22 [The wise man] has no personal friends, for he who has the spell to draw the prayer and piety of all men unto him needs not husband and educate a few to share with him a select and poetic life.
    NR 3.241 21 ...in the contest we are now considering, the players are also the game, and share the power of the cards.
    ShP 4.216 22 ...[solitude] weighs Shakspeare also, and finds him to share the halfness and imperfection of humanity.
    GoW 4.268 11 The robust gentlemen who stand at the head of the practical class, share the ideas of the time...
    F 6.26 10 [The mind] distances those who share it from those who share it not.
    F 6.26 11 Those who share [the mind] not are flocks and herds.
    Wth 6.98 21 ...the use which any man can make of [pictures, engravings, statues and casts] is rare, and their value...is much enhanced by the numbers of men who can share their enjoyment.
    Wth 6.103 10 A dollar is rated for the corn it will buy, or to speak strictly... for the wit, probity and power which we eat bread and dwell in houses to share and exert.
    Wth 6.110 8 Britain, France and Germany...send out, attracted by the fame of our advantages, first their thousands, then their millions of poor people, to share the crop.
    Wsp 6.217 10 ...not by our private but by our public force can we share and know the nature of things.
    WD 7.170 8 There are days when the great are near us...when...we share their thought.
    Clbs 7.241 16 We consider those...who think it the highest compliment they can pay a man...to share with him the sphere of freedom and the simplicity of truth.
    Cour 7.278 7 A little Indian boy/ Followed him [George Nidiver] everywhere,/ Eager to share the hunter's joy,/ The hunter's meal to share./
    Cour 7.278 8 A little Indian boy/ Followed him [George Nidiver] everywhere,/ Eager to share the hunter's joy,/ The hunter's meal to share./
    PI 8.65 13 All [Nature's] kinds share the attributes of the selectest extremes.
    Elo2 8.114 26 ...how every listener gladly consents to be nothing in [the orator's] presence, and to share this surprising emanation...
    Imtl 8.345 6 ...we live by choice;...by the vivacity of the laws which we obey, and obeying share their life...
    Aris 10.42 25 The Cid has a prevailing health that will let him nurse the leper, and share his bed without harm.
    PerF 10.87 19 ...things endure as they share [our moral sentiment];...
    Chr2 10.98 17 In the ever-returning hour of reflection, [a man] says: I stand here glad at heart of all the sympathies I can awaken and share...
    Supl 10.163 14 There is a superlative temperament...which affects the manners of those who share it with a certain desperation.
    SovE 10.211 11 Governments stand by [men's credence],-by the faith that the people share...
    Schr 10.264 23 The men committed by profession as well as by bias to study...share the infatuation of cities.
    LLNE 10.360 23 [The projectors of Brook Farm] had the feeling that our ways of living were too conventional and expensive...not permitting men to combine cultivation of mind and heart with a reasonable amount of daily labor. At the same time, it was an attempt...to share the advantages they should attain, with others now deprived of them.
    Thor 10.479 20 The tendency to magnify the moment...is of course comic to those who do not share the philosopher's perception of identity.
    FSLC 11.207 1 ...I strongly share the hope of mankind in the power, and therefore, in the duties of the Union;...
    JBB 11.267 1 Mr. Chairman, and fellow citizens: I share the sympathy and sorrow which have brought us together.
    Koss 11.397 5 The people of this town [Concord] share with their countrymen the admiration of valor and perseverance;...
    Wom 11.405 16 [Women] are the best index of the coming hour. I share this belief.
    SHC 11.436 19 The being that can share a thought and feeling so sublime as confidence in truth is no mushroom.
    ChiE 11.471 5 All share the surprise and pleasure when the venerable Oriental dynasty...suddenly steps into the fellowship of nations.
    PLT 12.12 21 I share the belief that the natural direction of the intellectual powers is from within outward...
    PLT 12.18 5 [Thoughts or intellections] again all mimic in their sphericity the first mind, and share its power.
    PLT 12.38 8 In so far as we see [spiritual facts] we share their life and sovereignty.
    II 12.81 16 [Men] all share, to the rankest Philistines, the same belief.
    PPr 12.388 2 ...we at this distance are not so far removed from any of the specific evils [of the English State], and are deeply participant in too many, not to share the gloom and thank the love and courage of the counsellor [Carlyle].
    Let 12.402 8 The steep antagonism between the money-getting and the academic class...perhaps is the more violent that whilst our work is imposed by the soil and the sea, our culture is the tradition of Europe. But we cannot share the desperation of our contemporaries;...

shared, v. (25)

    MR 1.236 12 ...quite apart from the emphasis which the times give to the doctrine that the manual labor of society ought to be shared among all the members, there are reasons proper to every individual why he should not be deprived of it.
    LT 1.281 13 The sad Pestalozzi, who shared with all ardent spirits the hope of Europe on the outbreak of the French Revolution...recorded his conviction that the amelioration of outward circumstances will be the effect but can never be the means of mental and moral improvement.
    Hist 2.38 3 Who knows himself before he...has shared the throb of thousands in a national exultation or alarm?
    SR 2.64 18 We first share the life by which things exist and afterwards... forget that we have shared their cause.
    MoS 4.158 16 The generous minds embrace the proposition of labor shared by all;...
    ET7 5.123 20 [The English] are very liable in their politics to extraordinary delusions; thus to believe...that the movement of 10 April, 1848, was urged or assisted by foreigners: which, to be sure, is paralleled by the democratic whimsy in this country which I have noticed to be shared by men sane on other points, that the English are at the bottom of the agitation of slavery...
    ET14 5.236 9 The union of Saxon precision and Oriental soaring, of which Shakspeare is the perfect example, is shared in less degree by the writers of two centuries.
    ET15 5.266 9 ...the editor's room [of the London Times], I did not see, though I shared the curiosity of mankind respecting it.
    Ctr 6.156 25 ...if [solitude] can be shared between two or more than two, it is happier and not less noble.
    Bty 6.306 9 ...the woman who has shared with us the moral sentiment,--her locks must appear to us sublime.
    SS 7.1 21 ...[Seyd] shared the life of the element,/ The tie of blood and home was rent/...
    Grts 8.307 10 ...none of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone. Swedenborg called it the proprium,-not a thought shared with others, but constitutional to the man.
    Edc1 10.157 20 If you have a taste which you have suppressed because it is not shared by those about you, tell [your pupils] that.
    MoL 10.257 5 All of us have shared the new enthusiasm of country and of liberty which swept like a whirlwind through all souls at the outbreak of war...
    LLNE 10.329 21 Instead of the social existence which all shared, was now separation.
    LLNE 10.369 8 [Brook Farm] was a close union...assembled there by a sentiment which all shared, some of them hotly shared...
    War 11.160 5 ...for ages [the human race] have shared so much of the nature of the lower animals...
    Wom 11.406 21 ...any remarkable opinion or movement shared by woman will be the first sign of revolution.
    Wom 11.424 5 Let the public donations for education be equally shared by [women]...
    Wom 11.426 15 The new movement [for women's rights] is only a tide shared by the spirits of man and woman;...
    CPL 11.498 5 The town [Concord] was settled by a pious company of non-conformists from England, and the printed books of their pastor and leader... testify the ardent sentiment which they shared.
    Bost 12.210 15 The [American] heroes only shared this power of a sentiment, which, if it now breathes into us, will make it easy to us to understand them, and we shall no longer flatter them.
    MAng1 12.237 2 [Michelangelo] shared Dante's deep contempt of the vulgar...
    MLit 12.320 18 More than any poet [Wordsworth's] success has been not his own but that of the idea which he shared with his coevals...
    MLit 12.324 6 [Goethe] shared...the subjectiveness of the age...

shareholder, n. (3)

    SR 2.50 2 Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater.
    ShP 4.205 8 It appears...that [Shakespeare] bought an estate in his native village with his earnings as writer and shareholder;...
    ShP 4.205 19 [Shakespeare] was...an actor and shareholder in the theatre...

sharer, n. (1)

    Elo2 8.121 14 In moments of clearer thought or deeper sympathy, the voice will attain a music and penetration which surprises the speaker as much as the auditor; he also is a sharer of the higher wind that blows over his strings.

sharers, n. (2)

    MN 1.220 23 Shall we not...betake ourselves to...some unvisited recess in Moosehead Lake, to bewail our innocency and to recover it, and with it the power to communicate again with these sharers of a more sacred idea?
    FSLC 11.188 19 I thought that all men of all conditions had been made sharers of a certain experience, that in certain rare and retired moments they had been made to see how man is man...

shares, n. (3)

    LLNE 10.359 23 Many members [of Brook Farm] took shares by paying money...
    LLNE 10.359 24 Many members [of Brook Farm] took shares by paying money, others held shares by their labor.
    EWI 11.113 18 The Ministers...proposed to give the [West Indian] planters, as a compensation for so much of the slaves' time as the act [of emancipation] took from them, 20,000,000 pounds sterling, to be divided into nineteen shares for the nineteen colonies...

shares, v. (21)

    Tran 1.334 18 Everything divine shares the self-existence of Deity.
    Chr1 3.97 9 Will is the north, action the south pole. Character may be ranked as having its natural place in the north. It shares the magnetic currents of the system.
    GoW 4.280 19 What distinguishes Goethe for French and English readers is a property which he shares with his nation...
    ET1 5.7 27 [Landor]...shares the growing taste for Perugino and the early masters.
    ET15 5.272 8 The [London] Times shares all the limitations of the governing classes...
    Wsp 6.240 18 Man is made of the same atoms as the world is, he shares the same impressions, predispositions and destiny.
    Ill 6.319 8 There is the illusion of love, which attributes to the beloved person all which that person shares with his or her family, sex, age or condition...
    PI 8.35 10 The test of the poet is the power to take the passing day, with its news, its cares, its fears, as he shares them, and hold it up to a divine reason...
    PI 8.37 21 The gladness [the poet] imparts he shares.
    PI 8.51 24 Rhyme, being a kind of music, shares this advantage with music, that it has a privilege of speaking truth...
    PC 8.207 4 No good citizen but shares the wonderful prosperity of the Federal Union.
    Grts 8.306 26 ...[every man] shares with all mankind the gift of reason and the moral sentiment...
    Imtl 8.349 1 ...the man puts off the ignorance and tumultuous passions of youth; proceeding thence puts off the egotism of manhood, and becomes at last a public and universal soul. He is...rising to realities; the outer relations and circumstances dying out, he entering deeper into God, God into him, until the last garment of egotism falls, and he is with God,-shares the will and the immensity of the First Cause.
    Aris 10.60 10 The solitariest man who shares [a certain order of men's] spirit walks environed by them;...
    PerF 10.72 7 These [natural] forces...seem to leave no room for the individual; man or atom, he only shares them;...
    PerF 10.84 10 ...this child of the dust throws himself by obedience into the circuit of the heavenly wisdom, and shares the secret of God.
    SovE 10.185 27 ...we exaggerate when we represent these two elements [belief and skepticism] as disunited; every man shares them both;...
    Mem 12.97 27 A knife with a good spring, a forceps...the teeth or jaws of which fit and play perfectly, as compared with the same tools when badly put together, describe to us the difference between a person of quick and strong perception...and a heavy man who...shares experiences like theirs.
    Milt1 12.251 22 ...deeply as that peculiar state of society, in which and for which Milton wrote, has engraved itself in the remembrance of the world, it shares the destiny which overtakes everything local and personal in Nature;...
    ACri 12.303 19 ...there is much in literature that draws us with a sublime charm-the superincumbent necessity by which each writer...is enriched by thoughts which flow from all past minds, shares the hopes of all existing minds;...
    MLit 12.319 23 [Shelley]...shares with Richter, Chateaubriand, Manzoni and Wordsworth the feeling of the Infinite...

sharing, n. (1)

    PC 8.207 23 [Men] come from crowded, antiquated kingdoms to the easy sharing of our simple forms.

sharing, v. (8)

    Pt1 3.25 2 ...[the poet's thoughts], sharing the aspiration of the whole universe, tend to paint a far more delicate copy of their essence on his mind.
    Pt1 3.26 7 This insight, which expresses itself by what is called Imagination, is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but...by sharing the path or circuit of things through forms...
    ShP 4.189 9 ...seeing what men want and sharing their desire, [the hero] adds the needful length of sight and of arm...
    ShP 4.199 25 ...what is best written or done by genius in the world...came by wide social labor, when a thousand wrought like one, sharing the same impulse.
    Pow 6.56 10 All power is...a sharing of the nature of the world.
    PI 8.21 2 ...shall we say that the imagination exists by sharing the ethereal currents?
    SA 8.80 12 The staple figure in novels is the man...who sits, among the young aspirants and desperates...and, never sharing their affections or debilities, hurls his word like a bullet when occasion requires...
    Imtl 8.349 6 It is curious to find the selfsame feeling, that it is...not duration, but a state of abandonment to the Highest, and so the sharing of His perfection,-appearing in the farthest east and west.

shark, n. (5)

    F 6.8 6 ...the forms of the shark...are hints of ferocity in the interiors of nature.
    Elo1 7.87 13 ...all this flood not serving the cuttle-fish to get away in, the horrible shark of the district attorney being still there...the poor court pleaded its inferiority.
    Res 8.140 20 By his machines man can dive and remain under water like a shark;...
    War 11.160 7 ...for ages [the human race] have shared so much of the nature of the lower animals, the tiger and the shark...
    CL 12.160 24 When I look at natural structures, as at a tree, or the teeth of a shark...I know that I am seeing an architecture and carpentry which has no sham...

sharp, adj. (31)

    Nat 1.49 25 Until this higher agency intervened, the animal eye sees...sharp outlines and colored surfaces.
    Con 1.307 14 [The youth says] Nature has sufficiently provided me with rewards and sharp penalties, to bind me not to transgress.
    Tran 1.351 20 In other places other men have encountered sharp trials, and behaved themselves well.
    Exp 3.48 12 There are moods in which we court suffering, in the hope that here at least we shall find reality, sharp peaks and edges of truth.
    Mrs1 3.139 24 [Society] hates corners and sharp points of character...
    Mrs1 3.143 4 Life owes much of its spirit to these sharp contrasts.
    UGM 4.14 10 Cecil's saying of Sir Walter Raleigh, I know that he can toil terribly, is an electric touch. So are Clarendon's portraits,--of Hampden, who was...of parts not to be imposed on by the most subtle and sharp...of Falkland...
    GoW 4.270 17 [Goethe] appears at a time when a general culture...has smoothed down all sharp individual traits;...
    ET3 5.43 6 ...I [Nature] have work that requires the best will and sinew. Sharp and temperate northern breezes shall blow, to keep that will alive and alert.
    F 6.40 24 ...we have not eyes sharp enough to descry the thread that ties cause and effect.
    Pow 6.66 25 'T is not very rare, the coincidence of sharp private and political practice with public spirit and good neighborhood.
    Wsp 6.212 11 ...forgetful that a wise mechanic uses a sharp tool, [even well-disposed, good sort of people] go on choosing the dead men of routine.
    Bty 6.292 13 Beauty is the moment of transition, as if the form were just ready to flow into other forms. Any fixedness, heaping or concentration on one feature,--a long nose, a sharp chin, a hump-back,--is the reverse of flowing, and therefore deformed.
    Farm 7.144 19 The atmosphere, a sharp solvent, drinks the essence and spirit of every solid on the globe...
    Farm 7.151 18 ...[the first planter] scratches with a sharp stick...
    Clbs 7.240 1 What can you do with one of these sharp respondents?
    PC 8.218 15 Popes and kings and Councils of Ten are very sharp with their censorships and inquisitions...
    Supl 10.176 20 ...[Nature] appoints us to keep within the sharp boundaries of form as the condition of our strength...
    SovE 10.202 2 [A man] may throw himself upon some sharp statement of one fact...with such concentration as to hide the universe from him: but the stars roll above;...
    Plu 10.298 4 ...[Plutarch] had many qualities of the poet in...his sharp, objective eyes.
    Plu 10.300 23 [Plutarch's] style is realistic, picturesque and varied; his sharp objective eyes seeing everything that moves, shines or threatens in nature or art, or thought or dreams.
    Plu 10.321 20 We owe to these translators [of Plutarch] many sharp perceptions of the wit and humor of their author...
    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.
    EWI 11.110 16 In consequence of the dangers of the [slave] trade growing out of the act of abolition, ships were built sharp for swiftness...
    TPar 11.289 24 ...[Theodore Parker] insisted...that the essence of Christianity is its practical morals;...and if you combine it with sharp trading...it is a hypocrisy...
    SMC 11.358 8 None of us can have forgotten how sharp a test to try our peaceful people with, was the first call for troops [in the Civil War].
    SMC 11.374 1 At Dabney's Mills, in a sharp fight, [the Thirty-second Regiment] lost seventy-four killed, wounded and missing.
    Mem 12.98 4 The way in which...any orator surprises us is by his always having a sharp tool that fits the present use.
    Milt1 12.257 14 Aubrey adds a sharp trait, [Milton] pronounced the letter R very hard, a certain sign of satirical genius.
    WSL 12.338 15 [Landor is] A sharp, dogmatic man...
    Let 12.402 20 In all the cases we have ever seen where people were supposed to suffer from too much wit, or, as men said, from a blade too sharp for the scabbard, it turned out that they had not wit enough.

Sharp [Sharpe], Granville, (8)

    EWI 11.105 8 Granville Sharpe was accidentally made acquainted with the sufferings of a slave, whom a West Indian planter had brought with him to London...
    EWI 11.105 18 Granville Sharpe found [the West Indian slave] at his brother's...
    EWI 11.105 22 Granville Sharpe found [the West Indian slave] at his brother's and procured a place for him in an apothecary's shop. The master accidentally met his recovered slave, and instantly endeavored to get possession of him again. Sharpe protected the slave.
    EWI 11.105 23 [Granville] Sharpe protected the [West Indian] slave. In consulting with the lawyers, they told Sharpe the laws were against him.
    EWI 11.105 24 [Granville] Sharpe protected the [West Indian] slave. In consulting with the lawyers, they told Sharpe the laws were against him. Sharpe would not believe it;...
    EWI 11.106 2 [Granville] Sharpe instantly sat down and gave himself to the study of English law for more than two years...
    EWI 11.110 3 The [English] assailants of slavery had early agreed to limit their political action on this subject to the abolition of the trade, but Granville Sharpe...felt constrained to record his protest against the limitation...
    EWI 11.136 10 Granville Sharpe filled the ear of the judges with the sound principles that had from time to time been affirmed by the legal authorities...

Sharp [Sharpe], William, n. (1)

    EWI 11.105 15 The man [West Indian slave] applied to Mr. William Sharpe, a charitable surgeon...

sharpen, v. (1)

    Edc1 10.134 7 ...if [a man] be capable of dividing men by the trenchant sword of his thought, education should unsheathe and sharpen it;...

sharpened, adj. (2)

    MR 1.229 26 There is not the most bronzed and sharpened money-catcher who does not...quail and shake the moment he hears a question prompted by the new ideas.
    PPh 4.52 23 European civility is...the sharpened understanding...

sharpening, v. (2)

    Comp 2.115 4 Human labor...from the sharpening of a stake to the construction of a city or an epic, is one immense illustration of the perfect compensation of the universe.
    CL 12.152 26 Its power on the mind in sharpening the perceptions has made the sea the famous educator of our race.

sharpens, v. (2)

    Art2 7.51 13 ...a study of admirable works of art sharpens our perceptions of the beauty of Nature;...
    Edc1 10.129 4 How [the desire of power] sharpens the perceptions and stores the memory with facts.

sharper, adj. (4)

    MR 1.246 27 ...the more odious [infirm people] grow, the sharper is the tone of their complaining and craving.
    ET13 5.228 24 Religious persons are driven out of the Established Church into sects, which instantly rise to credit and hold the Establishment in check. Nature has sharper remedies, also
    PI 8.30 9 The right poetic mood...shows a sharper insight...
    Supl 10.164 22 Language should aim to describe the fact. It is not enough to suggest it and magnify it. Sharper sight would indicate the true line.

sharper, adv. (1)

    PPr 12.391 3 [Carlyle's style] is the first experiment, and something of rudeness and haste must be pardoned to so great an achievement. It will be done again and again, sharper, simpler;...

sharper-tongued, adj. (1)

    Hist 2.25 13 ...Xenophon is as sharp-tongued as any and sharper-tongued than most...

sharpest, adj. (6)

    Ctr 6.150 23 [The man of the world] calls his employment by its lowest name, and so takes from evil tongues their sharpest weapon.
    CbW 6.254 23 The sharpest evils are bent into that periodicity which makes the errors of planets...self-limiting.
    CbW 6.266 4 An old French verse runs, in my translation:--Some of your griefs you have cured,/ And the sharpest you still have survived;/ But what torments of pain you endured/ From evils that never arrived!/
    Elo1 7.64 8 Among the Spartans, the art [of eloquence] assumed a Spartan shape, namely, of the sharpest weapon.
    Schr 10.278 25 [The scholar] is to forge out of coarsest ores the sharpest weapons.
    MLit 12.324 9 With the sharpest eye for form, color, botany...[Goethe] never stopped at surface...

sharpest-sighted, adj. (1)

    Bty 6.289 17 ...the sharpest-sighted hunter in the universe is Love...

sharp-eyed, adj. (1)

    Nat2 3.185 15 ...when now and then comes along some sad, sharp-eyed man, who sees how paltry a game is played, and refuses to play but blabs the secret;--how then?

sharply, adv. (6)

    Hist 2.24 14 In [the Grecian state] existed those human forms which supplied the sculptor with his models of Hercules, Phoebus, and Jove;... wherein the face is...composed of incorrupt, sharply defined and symmetrical features...
    Fdsp 2.200 13 Our impatience is thus sharply rebuked.
    Bhr 6.177 5 Wise men read very sharply all your private history in your look and gait and behavior.
    Res 8.140 3 See...how...every impatient boss who sharply shortens the phrase or the word to give his order quicker...improves the national tongue.
    Thor 10.457 9 ...a young girl...sharply asked [Thoreau], Whether his lecture would be a nice, interesting story...
    FSLN 11.228 5 ...by Mr. Webster the opposition to the [Fugitive Slave] law was sharply called treason...

sharpness, n. (5)

    Hist 2.34 16 Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a deep presentiment of the powers of science. The shoes of swiftness, the sword of sharpness...are the obscure efforts of the mind in a right direction.
    Dem1 10.25 16 [Animal Magnetism] seemed to open again that door which was open to the imagination of childhood-of...the travelling cloak, the shoes of swiftness and the sword of sharpness...
    Aris 10.38 13 ...they only prosper or they prosper best...who engineer in sword and cannon style, with energy and sharpness.
    LLNE 10.337 7 ...there was, in the first quarter of our nineteenth century, a certain sharpness of criticism...
    Milt1 12.252 25 We think we have heard the recitation of [Milton's] verses by genius which found in them that which itself would say; recitation which told, in the diamond sharpness of every articulation, that now first was such perception and enjoyment possible;...

sharp-sighted, adj. (3)

    LT 1.282 22 We are so sharp-sighted that we can neither work nor think...
    ShP 4.200 18 The nervous language of the Common Law...and the precision and substantial truth of the legal distinctions, are the contribution of all the sharp-sighted, strong-minded men who have lived in the countries where these laws govern.
    Mem 12.94 12 You say the first words of the old song, and I finish the line and stanza. But where I have them, or what becomes of them when I am not thinking of them...never any man was so sharp-sighted, or could turn himself inside out quick enough to find.

sharp-tongued, adj. (3)

    Hist 2.25 12 ...Xenophon is as sharp-tongued as any and sharper-tongued than most...
    ET8 5.134 23 ...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...as if the burly inexpressive, now mute and contumacious, now fierce and sharp-tongued dragon, which once made the island light with his fiery breath, had bequeathed his ferocity to his conqueror.
    ET18 5.306 3 You cannot account for [Englishmen's] success by their Christianity, commerce, charter, common law, Parliament, or letters, but by the contumacious sharp-tongued energy of English naturel...

sharpwitted, adj. (1)

    Dem1 10.7 11 ...in varieties of our own species where organization seems to predominate over the genius of man...we are sometimes pained by the same feeling [of the similarity between man and animal]; and sometimes too the sharpwitted prosperous white man awakens it.

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