Somewhat to Sought

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

somewhat, adv. (24)

    Tran 1.352 9 When I asked them concerning their private experience, [Transcendentalists] answered somewhat in this wise...
    Comp 2.126 15 The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide or genius;...
    Hsm1 2.262 6 The circumstances of man, we say, are historically somewhat better in this country and at this hour than perhaps ever before.
    Pt1 3.27 4 The poet knows that he speaks adequately then only when he speaks somewhat wildly...
    Mrs1 3.119 16 It is somewhat singular, adds Belzoni, to whom we owe this account, to talk of happiness among people who live in sepulchres...
    Mrs1 3.144 21 The artist, the scholar, and, in general, the clerisy, win their way up into these places [of fashion] and get represented here, somewhat on this footing of conquest.
    Gts 3.159 18 These gay natures [flowers] contrast with the somewhat stern countenance of ordinary nature...
    NER 3.254 7 ...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 on account of the somewhat hostile part to the church which his conscience led him to take in the anti-slavery business;...
    MoS 4.170 1 This book of Montaigne the world has endorsed by translating it into all tongues and printing seventy-five editions of it in Europe; and that, too, a circulation somewhat chosen...
    ET16 5.286 9 Whilst we listened to the organ [at Salisbury Cathedral], my friend [Carlyle] remarked, the music is...somewhat as if a monk were panting to some fine Queen of Heaven.
    Bhr 6.185 26 Manners have been somewhat cynically defined to be a contrivance of wise men to keep fools at a distance.
    Bhr 6.191 13 Jacobi said that when a man has fully expressed his thought, he has somewhat less possession of it.
    Wsp 6.227 7 As men get on in life, they acquire...somewhat less solicitude to be lulled or amused.
    Ill 6.313 7 It was wittily if somewhat bitterly said by D'Alembert, qu'un etat de vapeur etait un etat tres facheux, parcequ'il nous faisait voir les choses comme elles sont.
    SS 7.5 24 These conversations [with my friend] led me somewhat later to the knowledge of similar cases...
    Farm 7.141 14 The man that works at home helps society at large with somewhat more of certainty than he who devotes himself to charities.
    Farm 7.153 1 The great elements with which [the farmer] deals cannot leave him...unconscious of his ministry; but their influence somewhat resembles that which the same Nature has on the child,--of subduing and silencing him.
    WD 7.168 27 Cannot memory still descry the old school-house and its porch, somewhat hacked by jack-knives...
    Imtl 8.327 26 Swedenborg...announced many things true and admirable, though always clothed in somewhat sad and Stygian colors.
    Plu 10.305 7 ...here is [Plutarch's] sentiment on superstition, somewhat condensed in Lord Bacon's citation of it...
    MLit 12.333 5 It is true, though somewhat sad, that every fine genius teaches us how to blame himself.
    PPr 12.389 4 That morbid temperament has given [Carlyle's] rhetoric a somewhat bloated character;...
    Let 12.399 23 ...in Theodore Mundt's account of Frederic Holderlin's Hyperion, we were not a little struck with the following Jeremiad of the despair of Germany, whose tone is still so familiar that we were somewhat mortified to find that it was written in 1799.
    Trag 12.408 16 After reason and faith have introduced a better public and private tradition, the tragic element is somewhat circumscribed.

somewhat, n. (119)

    Nat 1.10 20 ...in the distant line of the horizon, man beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature.
    Nat 1.29 17 ...this conversion of an outward phenomenon into a type of somewhat in human life, never loses its power to affect us.
    Nat 1.50 2 [Grace and expression]...abate somewhat of the angular distinctness of objects.
    Nat 1.61 2 It is essential to a true theory of nature and of man, that it should contain somewhat progressive.
    AmS 1.100 15 It remains to say somewhat of [the scholar's] duties.
    DSA 1.133 2 ...it is a high benefit to enable me to do somewhat of myself.
    DSA 1.134 8 Men have come to speak of the revelation as somewhat long ago given and done...
    DSA 1.139 4 The good hearer...is sure there is somewhat to be reached...
    LE 1.156 9 ...the intellect hath somewhat so sacred in its possessions that the fact of [the scholar's] existence and pursuits would be a happy omen.
    LE 1.166 12 [The listener] must also rise and say somewhat.
    LE 1.183 3 There is somewhat inconvenient and injurious in [the student's] position.
    MN 1.195 19 There is somewhat indigent and tedious about [great men].
    MN 1.203 9 ...total nature...is becoming somewhat else;...
    MR 1.247 3 Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants and to serve them one's self, so as to have somewhat left to give...
    Con 1.316 13 ...[riches] take somewhat for everything they give.
    Tran 1.341 11 [Many intelligent and religious persons] are striking work, and crying out for somewhat worthy to do!
    YA 1.370 25 To men legislating for the area...somewhat of the gravity of nature will infuse itself into the code.
    YA 1.372 23 Remark the unceasing effort throughout nature at somewhat better than the actual creatures...
    YA 1.379 23 ...Trade is also but for a time, and must give way to somewhat broader and better...
    YA 1.392 15 ...to imaginative persons in this country there is somewhat bare and bald in our short history and unsettled wilderness.
    Hist 2.8 14 There is no...mode of action in history to which there is not somewhat corresponding in [each man's] life.
    Hist 2.33 17 These figures, [Goethe] would say, these Chirons, Griffins, Phorkyas, Helen and Leda, are somewhat, and do exert a specific influence on the mind.
    Hist 2.39 15 [Each man] shall...bring with him into humble cottages...all the recorded benefits of heaven and earth. Is there somewhat overweening in this claim?
    SR 2.52 1 I hope it is somewhat better than whim at last...
    SR 2.57 3 Why drag about this corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public place?
    SR 2.61 2 Ordinarily, every body in society reminds us of somewhat else...
    SR 2.69 2 There is somewhat low even in hope.
    SR 2.70 21 ...war, eloquence, personal weight, are somewhat...
    SR 2.81 15 I have no churlish objection to the circumnavigation of the globe...so that the man...does not go abroad with the hope of finding somewhat greater than he knows.
    SR 2.81 17 He who travels...to get somewhat which he does not carry, travels away from himself...
    Comp 2.97 11 There is somewhat that resembles the ebb and flow of the sea...in a single needle of the pine...
    Comp 2.108 7 This voice of fable has in it somewhat divine.
    SL 2.141 15 Every man has this call of the power to do somewhat unique...
    SL 2.163 25 The poor mind does not seem to itself to be any thing unless it have an outside badge,--some Gentoo diet...or...some wild contrasting action to testify that it is somewhat.
    Lov1 2.178 4 ...[the lover] is somewhat;...
    Lov1 2.178 20 ...[the maiden] indemnifies [the lover] by carrying out her own being into somewhat impersonal, large, mundane...
    Lov1 2.183 3 Somewhat like this have the truly wise told us of love in all ages.
    Hsm1 2.250 17 There is somewhat not philosophical in heroism;...
    Hsm1 2.250 18 ...there is somewhat not holy in [heroism];...
    Hsm1 2.250 23 There is somewhat in great actions which does not allow us to go behind them.
    Hsm1 2.259 25 The fair girl who repels interference by a decided and proud choice of influences...inspires every beholder with somewhat of her own nobleness.
    OS 2.268 6 The most exact calculator has no prescience that somewhat incalculable may not balk the very next moment.
    OS 2.275 16 The soul...requires beneficence, but is somewhat better;...
    OS 2.278 20 I feel the same truth how often in my trivial conversation with my neighbors, that somewhat higher in each of us overlooks this by-play...
    OS 2.280 23 ...the soul's communication of truth is the highest event in nature, since it then does not give somewhat from itself, but it gives itself...
    Cir 2.302 14 The Greek sculpture is all melted away, as if it had been statues of ice; here and there a solitary figure or fragment remaining, as we see flecks and scraps of snow left in cold dells and mountain clefts in June and July. For the genius that created it creates now somewhat else.
    Cir 2.318 22 That central life is somewhat superior to creation...
    Cir 2.320 12 ...of acts of routine and sense, we can tell somewhat;...
    Int 2.333 9 I knew...a person...who, seeing my whim for writing, fancied that my experiences had somewhat superior;...
    Int 2.342 17 The circle of the green earth he [in whom the love of truth predominates] must measure with his shoes to find the man who can yield him truth. He shall then know that there is somewhat more blessed and great in hearing than in speaking.
    Int 2.346 10 This band of grandees...Synesius and the rest, have somewhat...so primary in their thinking, that it seems antecedent to all the ordinary distinctions of rhetoric and literature...
    Art1 2.367 18 ...[art] stands in the imagination as somewhat contrary to nature...
    Exp 3.69 22 The persons who compose our company...design and execute many things, and somewhat comes of it all, but an unlooked-for result.
    Exp 3.70 2 [The individual] designed many things, and drew in other persons as coadjutors, quarreled with some or all, blundered much, and something is done; all are a little advanced, but the individual is always mistaken. It turns out somewhat new and very unlike what he promised himself.
    Chr1 3.89 19 ...somewhat resided in these men which begot an expectation that outran all their performance.
    Chr1 3.105 14 It is of no use to ape [character] or to contend with it. Somewhat is possible of resistance, and of persistence, and of creation, to this power, which will foil all emulation.
    Mrs1 3.121 11 An element which unites all the most forcible persons of every country...and is somewhat so precise that it is at once felt if an individual lack the masonic sign...must be an average result of the character and faculties universally found in men.
    Pol1 3.200 17 We are superstitious, and esteem the statute somewhat...
    Pol1 3.217 24 ...each of us...can do somewhat useful, or graceful, or formidable, or amusing, or lucrative.
    Pol1 3.218 9 ...we are constrained to reflect on our splendid moment with a certain humiliation, as somewhat too fine...
    NR 3.241 25 ...there is somewhat spheral and infinite in every man...
    NER 3.275 23 ...having established his equality with class after class of those with whom he would live well, [a man] still finds certain others before whom he cannot possess himself, because they have somewhat fairer, somewhat grander, somewhat purer, which extorts homage of him.
    NER 3.275 24 ...having established his equality with class after class of those with whom he would live well, [a man] still finds certain others before whom he cannot possess himself, because they have somewhat fairer, somewhat grander, somewhat purer, which extorts homage of him.
    UGM 4.28 10 There is somewhat deceptive about the intercourse of minds.
    SwM 4.97 19 In the chief examples of religious illumination somewhat morbid has mingled...
    SwM 4.140 3 Socrates's Genius did not advise him to act or to find, but if he purposed to do somewhat not advantageous, it dissuaded him.
    SwM 4.140 8 The illuminated Quakers explained their Light, not as somewhat which leads to any action...
    ShP 4.202 6 There is somewhat touching in the madness with which the passing age mischooses the object on which all candles shine...
    GoW 4.283 17 However excellent [Goethe's] sentence is, he has somewhat better in view.
    ET18 5.305 21 These poor tortoises [the English] must hold hard, for they feel no wings sprouting at their shoulders. Yet somewhat divine warms at their heart and waits a happier hour.
    Bhr 6.183 17 The enthusiast is introduced to polished scholars in society and is chilled and silenced by finding himself not in their element. They all have somewhat which he has not, and, it seems, ought to have.
    Wsp 6.210 23 It is believed by well-dressed proprietors...that life is an affair to put somewhat between the upper and lower mandibles.
    Wsp 6.223 27 If a man wish to conceal anything he carries, those whom he meets know that he conceals somewhat...
    CbW 6.278 24 The secret of culture is to learn that a few great points steadily reappear...and that these few are alone to be regarded;...these are the essentials,--these, and the wish...to add somewhat to the well-being of men.
    Bty 6.292 5 Nothing interests us which is stark or bounded, but only...what is in act or endeavor to reach somewhat beyond.
    Bty 6.303 22 Every natural feature...has in it somewhat which is not private but universal...
    Bty 6.303 26 ...in chosen men and women I find somewhat in form, speech and manners, which is...of a humane, catholic and spiritual character...
    Bty 6.305 3 ...whatsoever thing does not express to me the sea and sky, day and night, is somewhat forbidden and wrong.
    Bty 6.305 5 Into every beautiful object there enters somewhat immeasurable and divine...
    Elo1 7.92 9 For the triumphs of the art [of eloquence] somewhat more must still be required...
    Elo1 7.99 14 If [eloquence]...aspires to be somewhat of itself, and to glitter for show, it is false and weak.
    Clbs 7.226 13 Some talkers excel in the precision with which they formulate their thoughts, so that you get from them somewhat to remember;...
    Suc 7.298 8 We bask in the day, and the mind finds somewhat as great as itself.
    Suc 7.300 1 ...this brute matter is part of somewhat not brute.
    OA 7.326 7 If [the old lawyer] should on a new occasion rise quite beyond his mark and achieve somewhat great and extraordinary, that, of course, would instantly tell;...
    PI 8.4 25 ...somewhat was murmured in our ear that dwindled astronomy into a toy;...
    Res 8.139 22 [Nature] shows us only surfaces, but she is million fathoms deep. What spaces! what durations! dealing with races as merely preparations of somewhat to follow;...
    QO 8.189 24 Certainly it only needs two well placed and well tempered for cooperation, to get somewhat far transcending any private enterprise!
    Grts 8.303 24 There is somewhat in the true scholar which he cannot be laughed out of...
    Imtl 8.336 6 These long-lived or long-enduring objects are to us, as we see them, only symbols of somewhat in us far longer-lived.
    Dem1 10.6 21 You may catch the glance of a dog sometimes which lays a kind of claim to sympathy and brotherhood. What! somewhat of me down there?
    Dem1 10.17 11 I believed that I discovered in nature...somewhat which manifested itself only in contradiction...
    Dem1 10.19 13 ...I find somewhat wilful...when men as wise as Goethe talk mysteriously of the demonological.
    Edc1 10.144 20 Somewhat [the child] sees in forms or hears in music or apprehends in mathematics...which no one else sees or hears or believes.
    MoL 10.255 24 We should see in [the work of art] the great belief of the artist, which caused him to make it so as he did, and not otherwise;... somewhat that must be done then and there by him;...
    Schr 10.283 9 [Whosoever looks with heed into his thoughts] will find there is somebody within him that knows more than he does...somewhat not educated or educable;...
    MMEm 10.421 18 Our civilization is not always mending our poetry. It... lacks somewhat of the grandeur that belongs to a Doric and unphilosophical age.
    Thor 10.455 25 There was somewhat military in [Thoreau's] nature...
    GSt 10.507 19 ...there is to my mind somewhat so absolute in the action of a good man that we do not, in thinking of him, so much as make any question of the future.
    EPro 11.326 11 ...that ill-fated, much-injured race which the [Emancipation] Proclamation respects will lose somewhat of the dejection sculptured for ages in their bronzed countenance...
    FRO2 11.488 7 The point of difference that still remains between churches...is in the addition to the moral code...of somewhat positive and historical.
    PLT 12.14 12 The analytic process is...somewhat mean, as spying.
    PLT 12.31 13 Each has a certain aptitude for knowing or doing somewhat which, when it appears, is so adapted and aimed on that, that it seems a sort of obtuseness to everything else.
    PLT 12.35 17 The old Hindoo Gautama says, Like the approach of the iron to the loadstone is the approach of the new-born child to the breast. There is somewhat awful in that first approach.
    PLT 12.39 4 A man is intellectual...so long as he has no engagement in any thought or feeling which can hinder him from looking at it as somewhat foreign.
    PLT 12.48 1 Somewhat is to come to the light, and one [talent] was created to fetch it...
    PLT 12.59 1 The children have only the instinct of the universe, in which becoming somewhat else is the perpetual game of Nature...
    II 12.66 18 There is a singular credulity which no experience will cure us of, that another man has seen or may see somewhat more than we, of the primary facts;...
    II 12.82 20 What is the use of trying to be somewhat else?
    II 12.82 22 [A man] has a facility, which costs him nothing, to do somewhat admirable to all men.
    Mem 12.90 18 The sparrow, the ant, the worm, have the same memory as we. If you...offer them somewhat disagreeable to their senses, they make one or two trials, and then once for all avoid it.
    CL 12.156 17 There is somewhat finer in the sky than we have senses to appreciate.
    MLit 12.311 13 In order to any complete view of the literature of the present age, an inquiry should include what it quotes, what it writes and what it wishes to write. In our present attempt to enumerate some traits of the recent literature, we shall have somewhat to offer on each of these topics...
    MLit 12.315 9 The more [the great] draw us to them, the farther from them or more independent of them we are, because they have brought us to the knowledge of somewhat deeper than both them and us.
    MLit 12.321 13 ...more than any other contemporary bard [Wordsworth] is pervaded with a reverence of somewhat higher than (conscious) thought.
    Let 12.396 9 It is not for nothing, we assure ourselves...that sincere persons of all parties are demanding somewhat vital and poetic of our stagnant society.
    Trag 12.409 18 ...it is...imperfect characters from which somewhat is hidden that all others see, who suffer most from these causes.
    Trag 12.410 26 Tragedy must be somewhat which I can respect.
    Trag 12.414 26 Nature will not sit still; the faculties will do somewhat;...

somewhere, adv. (29)

    LE 1.159 5 There is no event but sprung somewhere from the soul of man;...
    LE 1.159 8 Every presentiment of the mind is executed somewhere in a gigantic fact.
    Hist 2.10 10 What the former age has epitomized into a formula or rule for manipular convenience, [the mind] will lose all the good of verifying for itself, by means of the wall of that rule. Somewhere, sometime, it will demand and find compensation for that loss, by doing the work itself.
    Comp 2.111 26 [Fear] is a carrion crow, and though you see not well what he hovers for, there is death somewhere.
    Comp 2.117 4 ...no man had ever a defect that was not somewhere made useful to him.
    SL 2.141 27 Somewhere, not only every orator but every man should let out all the length of all the reins;...
    Fdsp 2.193 24 Let the soul be assured that somewhere in the universe it should rejoin its friend, and it would be content and cheerful alone for a thousand years.
    Exp 3.46 18 Some heavenly days must have been intercalated somewhere...
    Exp 3.47 7 'T is the trick of nature thus to degrade to-day; a good deal of buzz, and somewhere a result slipped magically in.
    Nat2 3.193 19 Must we not suppose somewhere in the universe a slight treachery and derision?
    UGM 4.31 25 ...true art is only possible on the conviction that every talent has its apotheosis somewhere.
    GoW 4.288 19 All the geniuses are usually so ill-assorted and sickly that one is ever wishing them somewhere else.
    ET5 5.88 23 This highly destined race [the English], if it had not somewhere added the chamber of patience to its brain, would not have built London.
    ET11 5.176 22 I have met somewhere with a historiette, which...carries a general truth.
    ET13 5.219 25 Good churches are not built by bad men; at least there must be probity and enthusiasm somewhere in the society.
    ET13 5.228 1 ...you, who are an honest man in other particulars [than conformity], know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also that he shall not kneel to false gods...
    F 6.31 18 ...relation and connection are not somewhere and sometimes...
    Wth 6.97 3 ...it is each man's interest that...wealth or surplus product should exist somewhere...
    Wth 6.121 12 Nature has her own best mode of doing each thing, and she has somewhere told it plainly...
    Wsp 6.220 25 ...[a man] does not see...that relation and connection are not somewhere and sometimes, but everywhere and always;...
    Wsp 6.230 26 I have read somewhere that none is accomplished so long as any are incomplete;...
    Elo1 7.92 17 For the explosions and eruptions, there must be accumulations of heat somewhere...
    Farm 7.147 10 Nature suggests every economical expedient somewhere on a great scale.
    Res 8.149 13 We have not a toy or trinket for idle amusement but somewhere it is the one thing needful...
    Grts 8.314 21 When one of his favorite schemes missed, [Napoleon] had the faculty of taking up his genius, as he said, and of carrying it somewhere else.
    HDC 11.84 21 For splendor, there must be somewhere rigid economy.
    EWI 11.137 9 ...every liberal mind...had had the fortune to appear somewhere for this cause [emancipation in the West Indies].
    FSLN 11.228 14 ...when allusion was made to the question of duty and the sanctions of morality, [Webster] very frankly said, at Albany, Some higher law, something existing somewhere between here and the third heaven,-I do not know where.
    CL 12.160 11 Our microscopes are not necessary. [Nature] shows every fact in large bodies somewhere.

somnambulism, n. (1)

    MMEm 10.426 10 Sadness is better than walking talking acting somnambulism.

somnambulist, n. (1)

    Dem1 10.25 3 Men who had never wondered at anything...have been unable to suppress their amazement at the disclosures of the somnambulist.

somnambulists, n. (1)

    ET7 5.124 22 ...when the Rochester rappings began to be heard of in England, a man deposited 100 pounds in a sealed box in the Dublin Bank, and then advertised in the newspapers to all somnambulists, mesmerizers and others, that whoever could tell him the number of his note should have the money.

Son, Dombey and [Charles D (1)

    ET19 5.310 13 ...as for Dombey...there is no land where paper exists to print on, where it is not found;...

son, n. (75)

    Nat 1.33 21 ...Vinegar is the son of wine;...
    MR 1.238 23 ...when [a man] comes to give all the goods he has year after year collected, in one estate to his son...the son finds his hands full...
    MR 1.239 2 ...when [a man] comes to give all the goods he has year after year collected, in one estate to his son...and cannot give him...the method and place they have in his own life, the son finds his hands full...
    YA 1.375 20 Fathers...behold with impatience a new character and way of thinking presuming to show itself in their own son or daughter.
    Prd1 2.221 17 ...the merchant breeds his son for the church or the bar;...
    Exp 3.48 24 In the death of my son...I seem to have lost a beautiful estate...
    Nat2 3.175 21 The muse herself betrays her son [the poor young poet]...
    UGM 4.27 1 Every mother wishes one son a genius...
    PPh 4.54 20 ...whether his mother or his father dreamed that the infant man-child was the son of Apollo;...a man [Plato] who could see two sides of a thing was born.
    SwM 4.136 20 The Lutheran bishop's son, for whom the heavens are opened...with all these grandeurs resting upon him, remains the Lutheran bishop's son;...
    SwM 4.136 27 The Lutheran bishop's son, for whom the heavens are opened...with all these grandeurs resting upon him, remains the Lutheran bishop's son;...
    NMW 4.231 27 Again [Bonaparte] said, speaking of his son, My son can not replace me; I could not replace myself.
    ET1 5.7 20 ...[Landor]...is well content to impress, if possible, his English whim upon the immutable past. No great man ever had a great son, if Philip and Alexander be not an exception;...
    ET1 5.17 23 [Carlyle] still returned to English pauperism...the selfish abdication by public men of all that public persons should perform. Government should direct poor men what to do. Poor Irish folk come wandering over these moors. My dame makes it a rule to give to every son of Adam bread to eat...
    ET4 5.46 25 ...we look to find in the son every mental and moral property that existed in the ancestor.
    ET6 5.110 17 The [English] ship-carpenter in the public yards, my lord's gardener and porter, have been there for more than a hundred years, grandfather, father, and son.
    ET10 5.154 20 Malthus finds no cover laid at Nature's table for the laborer' s son.
    ET10 5.156 23 Lord Burleigh writes to his son that one ought never to devote more than two thirds of his income to the ordinary expenses of life...
    ET11 5.174 4 The Norwegian pirate got what he could and held it for his eldest son.
    ET16 5.283 2 There is also some curious coincidence [to Stukeley] in the names. Apollodorus makes Magnes the son of Aeolus, who married Nais.
    F 6.10 1 It often appears in a family as if all the qualities of the progenitors were potted in several jars,-some ruling quality in each son or daughter of the house;...
    F 6.10 25 ...the fine organs of [the digger's] brain have been pinched by overwork and squalid poverty from father to son...
    Wth 6.117 25 I remember in Warwickshire to have been shown a fair manor, still in the same name as in Shakspeare's time. The rent-roll I was told is some fourteen thousand pounds a year; but when the second son of the late proprietor was born, the father was perplexed how to provide for him.
    Wth 6.118 1 The eldest son must inherit the [English] manor;...
    Ctr 6.164 19 ...the chance for appreciation is much increased by being the son of an appreciator...
    Wsp 6.220 22 ...[a man] does not see that his son is the son of his thoughts and of his actions;...
    Wsp 6.239 3 The son of Antiochus asked his father when he would join battle.
    CbW 6.243 12 ...thou, Cyndyllan's son! beware/ Ponderous gold and stuffs to bear/...
    Bty 6.283 22 ...we prize very humble utilities, a prudent husband, a good son...
    Elo1 7.72 1 [Priam] answered Helen, daughter of Jove, This is the wise Ulysses, son of Laertes...
    DL 7.119 21 The poor man's son is educated.
    Boks 7.194 25 Dr. Johnson said: Whilst you stand deliberating which book your son shall read first, another boy has read both...
    Boks 7.210 13 Earl Spencer...had paused a quarter of a minute, when Lord Althorp with long steps came to his side, as if to bring his father a fresh lance to renew the fight. Father and son whispered together...
    Clbs 7.238 3 ...[Odin] puts a question which none but himself could answer: What did Odin whisper in the ear of his son Balder, when Balder mounted the funeral pile?
    Clbs 7.238 7 ...[Odin] puts a question which none but himself could answer: What did Odin whisper in the ear of his son Balder, when Balder mounted the funeral pile? The startled giant [Wafthrudnir] replies: None of the gods knows what in the old time Thou saidst in the ear of thy son...
    Suc 7.282 9 ...If thou go in thine own likeness,/ Be it health or be it sickness;/ If thou go as thy father's son,/ If thou wear no mask or lie,/ Dealing purely and nakedly;--/...
    Suc 7.287 11 The [Norse] mother says to her son:--Success shall be in thy courser tall,/...
    OA 7.332 3 I have lately found in an old note-book a record of a visit to ex-President John Adams, in 1825, soon after the election of his son to the Presidency.
    OA 7.333 3 ...[John Adams]...added, My son has more political prudence that any man that I know who has existed in my time;...
    PI 8.59 11 Another bard in like tone says,--I am possessed of songs such as no son of man can repeat;...
    Elo2 8.114 2 In the folds of his brow, in the majesty of his mien, Nature has marked her son;...
    PPo 8.252 12 ...this self-naming [in poetry] is not quite easy. We remember but two or three examples in English poetry...Jonson's epitaph on his son...
    Imtl 8.349 12 Yama, the lord of Death, promised Nachiketas, the son of Gautama, to grant him three boons at his own choice.
    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./
    PerF 10.81 6 One day I found [the stupid farmer's] little boy of four years dragging about after him the prettiest little wooden cart...and learned that Papa had made it; that hidden deep in that thick skull was this gentle art and taste which the little fingers and caresses of his son had the power to draw out into day;...
    Chr2 10.96 14 ...there is...many a man who does not hesitate to lay down his life...to save his son or his friend.
    Chr2 10.110 26 [Voltaire] was like the son of the vine-dresser in the Gospel, who said No, and went; the other said Yea, and went not.
    MoL 10.250 11 [Nature says to the American] One thing you have rightly done. You have offered a patch of land in the wilderness to every son of Adam who will till it.
    Schr 10.264 26 The poet counsels his own son as if he were a merchant.
    Plu 10.295 17 [Henry IV wrote] My good mother...who would not wish, she said, to see her son an illustrious dunce, put this book [Plutarch] into my hands almost when I was a child at the breast.
    Plu 10.298 24 ...a good son, husband, father and friend,-[Plutarch] has a taste for common life...
    EzRy 10.381 16 ...[Ezra Ripley's] father wished him to be qualified to teach a grammar school, not thinking himself able to send one son to college without injury to his other children.
    EzRy 10.381 24 ...when fitted for college, the son [Ezra Ripley] could not be contented with teaching...
    EzRy 10.387 19 I once rode with [Ezra Ripley] to a house at Nine Acre Corner to attend the funeral of the father of a family. He mentioned to me on the way his fears that the oldest son...was becoming intemperate.
    Thor 10.449 5 ...[Nature] to her son will treasures more,/ And more to purpose, freely pour/ In one wood walk, than learned men/ Will find with glass in ten times ten./
    Thor 10.484 25 The country knows not yet, or in the least part, how great a son it has lost [in Thoreau].
    HDC 11.61 9 ...the mantle of [Peter Bulkeley's] piety and of the people's affection fell upon his son Edward...
    HDC 11.65 8 ...in 1712, the selectmen agreed with Captain James Minott, for his son Timothy to keep the school at the school-house for the town of Concord...
    HDC 11.77 13 William Emerson, the pastor [of Concord], had a hereditary claim to the affection of the people, being descended in the fourth generation from Edward Bulkeley, son of Peter.
    EWI 11.98 5 There a captive sat in chains,/ Crooning ditties treasured well/ From his Afric's torrid plains./ Sole estate his sire bequeathed,-/ Hapless sire to hapless son,-/ Was the wailing song he breathed,/ And his chain when life was done./
    TPar 11.285 24 Theodore Parker was a son of the soil...
    HCom 11.344 12 A single company in the Forty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment contained thirty-five sons of Harvard. You all know as well as I the story of these dedicated men...whose fathers and mothers said of each slaughtered son, We gave him up when he enlisted.
    HCom 11.344 13 One mother said, when her son was offered the command of the first negro regiment, If he accepts it, I shall be as proud as if I had heard that he was shot.
    CPL 11.498 22 Peter Bulkeley sent his son John to the first class that graduated at Harvard College in 1642...
    CPL 11.498 25 Major Simon Willard's son Samuel graduated at Harvard in 1659...
    CPL 11.499 1 Major Simon Willard's son Samuel graduated at Harvard in 1659...and his son Joseph was president of the college from 1781 to 1804;...
    CInt 12.115 19 ...a son, a brother, or one of our own kindred is [in college] for his training.
    CInt 12.115 21 ...even if we had no son or friend [in college], yet the college is part of the community...
    Bost 12.207 24 The towns or countries in which the man lives and dies where he was born, and his son and son's son live and die where he did, are of no great account.
    Bost 12.207 25 The towns or countries in which the man lives and dies where he was born, and his son and son's son live and die where he did, are of no great account.
    Bost 12.210 22 It is almost a proverb that a great man has not a great son.
    Bost 12.211 6 ...the Quincy of the Revolution seems compensated for the shortness of his bright career in the son who so long lingers among the last of those bright clouds, That on the steady breeze of honor sail/ In long succession calm and beautiful./
    AgMs 12.358 5 [The Farmer] was holding the plough, and his son driving the oxen.
    AgMs 12.359 17 [Edmund Hosmer]...reminds us of the hero of the Robin Hood ballad,-Much, the miller's son,/ There was no inch of his body/ But it was worth a groom./
    Let 12.403 4 A friend of ours went five years ago to Illinois to buy a farm for his son.

Son, n. (4)

    Cir 2.313 18 Then shall also the Son be subject unto Him who put all things under him...
    Pt1 3.6 24 ...the Universe has three children...which reappear under different names in every system of thought, whether they be called cause, operation and effect;...or, theologically, the Father, the Spirit and the Son;...
    FRO1 11.479 11 ...in the thirteenth century the First Person began to appear at the side of his Son, in pictures and in sculpture, for worship...
    FRO1 11.479 12 ...in the thirteenth century the First Person began to appear at the side of his Son, in pictures and in sculpture, for worship, but only through favor of his Son.

Son of Man, n. (1)

    LS 11.10 19 [Jesus] there [at Capernaum] tells the Jews, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.

Son of Mary, n. (1)

    FRO1 11.479 8 ...in Europe, for twelve or fourteen centuries, God the Father had no temple and no altar. The Holy Ghost and the Son of Mary were worshipped...

sondry, adj. (1)

    CL 12.136 11 Chaucer notes of the month of April, Than longen folk to goon on pilgrymages,/ And palmers for to seken straunge strondes,/ To ferne halwes, couthe in sondry londes./

song, n. (75)

    Nat 1.77 4 As when the summer comes...the face of the earth becomes green before it, so shall the advancing spirit...carry with it...the song which enchants it;...
    DSA 1.125 2 ...the silent song of the stars is [the religious sentiment].
    LE 1.167 10 Poetry has scarce chanted its first song.
    LE 1.168 2 Further inquiry will discover...that [these chanting poets]... listlessly looked at sunsets, and repeated idly these few glimpses in their song.
    Lov1 2.176 12 In the noon and the afternoon of life we still throb at the recollection of days...when...the air was coined into song;...
    Lov1 2.179 2 [The lover's] friends find in [his mistress] a likeness to her mother, or her sisters, or to persons not of her blood. The lover sees no resemblance except...to rainbows and the song of birds.
    Hsm1 2.248 5 Earlier, Robert Burns has given us a [heroic] song or two.
    Hsm1 2.256 16 The great will not condescend to take any thing seriously; all must be as gay as the song of a canary...
    Pt1 3.25 26 ...a summer, with its harvest sown, reaped and stored, is an epic song...
    Pt1 3.40 5 Hence the necessity of speech and song;...to the end namely that thought may be ejaculated as Logos, or Word.
    NER 3.271 25 How sinks the song in the waves of melody which the universe pours over [the master's] soul!
    UGM 4.35 10 It is for man...on every side, whilst he lives, to scatter the seeds of science and of song...
    ShP 4.193 15 ...so many rising geniuses have enlarged or altered [Elizabethan plays], inserting a speech or a whole scene, or adding a song, that no man can any longer claim copyright in this work of numbers.
    ShP 4.214 11 No recipe can be given for the making of a Shakspeare; but the possibility of the translation of things into song is demonstrated.
    ET6 5.108 18 The song of 1596 says, The wife of every Englishman is counted blest.
    ET14 5.251 22 [Englishmen]...respect the five mechanic powers even in their song.
    ET14 5.252 12 ...even what is called philosophy and letters [in England] is mechanical in its structure...as if no vast hope, no religion, no song of joy, no wisdom, no analogy existed any more.
    ET14 5.258 12 A stanza of the song of nature the Oxonian has no ear for...
    Wth 6.86 4 ...the mind acts...in the creation of finer values...by song, or the reproductions of memory.
    Wsp 6.205 1 There is always some religion, some hope and fear extended into the invisible,--from the blind boding which nails a horseshoe to the mast or the threshold, up to the song of the Elders in the Apocalypse.
    Wsp 6.240 15 ...the last lesson of life, the choral song which rises from all elements and all angels, is a voluntary obedience, a necessitated freedom.
    Ill 6.310 19 ...on looking upwards [in the Mammoth Cave], I saw or seemed to see the night heaven thick with stars...and even what seemed a comet flaming among them. ... Our musical friends sung with much feeling a pretty song, The stars are in the quiet sky...
    Art2 7.53 8 We feel, in seeing a noble building, which rhymes well, as we do in hearing a perfect song, that it is spiritually organic;...
    DL 7.120 9 ...who can see unmoved...the warm sympathy with which [the eager, blushing boys] kindle each other...with scraps of poetry or song...
    WD 7.180 24 You must hear the bird's song without attempting to render it into nouns and verbs.
    WD 7.182 17 The masters of English lyric wrote their songs [for joy]. It was a fine efflorescence of fine powers; as was said of the letters of the Frenchwoman,--the charming accident of their more charming existence. Then the poet is never the poorer for his song.
    WD 7.182 18 A song is no song unless the circumstance is free and fine.
    Boks 7.198 16 You find in [Plato] that which you have already found in Homer...yet with no less security of bold and perfect song, when he cares to use it...
    Suc 7.286 15 We have seen a woman who by pure song could melt the souls of whole populations.
    PI 8.26 6 ...a cow does not...show or affect any interest in...the song of thrushes.
    PI 8.46 13 The babe is lulled to sleep by the nurse's song.
    PI 8.52 2 With...the first strain of a song, we quit the world of common sense...
    PI 8.59 14 Another bard in like tone says ... I know a song which I need only to sing when men have loaded me with bonds...
    PI 8.60 3 The Crusades brought out the genius of France, in the twelfth century, when Pierre d'Auvergne said,--I will sing a new song which resounds in my breast...
    PI 8.60 4 The Crusades brought out the genius of France, in the twelfth century, when Pierre d'Auvergne said,--I will sing a new song which resounds in my breast, never was a song good or beautiful which resembled any other.
    PI 8.65 1 [Poetry] is the piety of the intellect. Thus saith the Lord, should begin the song.
    PI 8.68 15 The poet should rejoice if he has taught us to despise his song;...
    PI 8.70 5 ...when life is true to the poles of Nature, the streams of truth will roll through us in song.
    PI 8.75 11 Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.
    SA 8.93 4 If every one recalled his experiences, he might find the best in the speech of superior women;--which was better than song...
    Elo2 8.120 12 A good voice has a charm in speech as in song;...
    Elo2 8.120 27 A singer cares little for the words of the song;...
    Res 8.152 9 Well for [the scholar] if he can say with the old minstrel, I know where to find a new song.
    QO 8.186 12 Hafiz furnished Burns with the song of John Barleycorn...
    PC 8.217 27 ...a song...has played its part in great events.
    PPo 8.249 26 It is the spirit in which the song is written that imports...
    PPo 8.250 7 ...it is the play of wit and the joy of song that [Hafiz] loves;...
    PPo 8.251 4 Every song of Hafiz affords new proof of the unimportance of your subject to success...
    PPo 8.254 1 High heart, O Hafiz! though not thine/ Fine gold and silver ore;/ More worth to thee the gift of song,/ And the clear insight more./
    PPo 8.260 6 [Hafiz's] ingenuity never sleeps:-Ah, could I hide me in my song,/ To kiss thy lips from which it flows!/
    Insp 8.287 14 Do you want...Helvellyn, or Plinlimmon, dear to English song, in your closet?
    Imtl 8.350 26 Nachiketas said [to Yama], All those [worldly] enjoyments are of yesterday. With thee remain thy horses and elephants, with thee the dance and song.
    Edc1 10.141 2 That stormy genius of [the boy's] needs a little direction to... verses of society, song...
    SovE 10.188 9 Nature is a tropical swamp in sunshine, on whose purlieus we hear the song of summer birds...
    SovE 10.209 7 It accuses us...that pure ethics is not now formulated and concreted into a cultus, a fraternity...with song and book...
    LLNE 10.369 27 ...I am not less aware of that excellent and increasing circle of masters in arts and in song and in science, who cheer the intellect of our cities and this country to-day...
    Thor 10.475 12 ...[Thoreau] said that Aeschylus and the Greeks, in describing Apollo and Orpheus, had given no song, or no good one.
    EWI 11.98 6 There a captive sat in chains,/ Crooning ditties treasured well/ From his Afric's torrid plains./ Sole estate his sire bequeathed,-/ Hapless sire to hapless son,-/ Was the wailing song he breathed,/ And his chain when life was done./
    FSLC 11.181 14 ...presidents of colleges...importers, manufacturers...not so much as a snatch of an old song for freedom, dares intrude on their passive obedience [to the Fugitive Slave Law].
    ALin 11.330 4 ...acclamations of praise for the task [Lincoln] had accomplished burst out into a song of triumph...
    EdAd 11.382 20 ...[the elements] shove us from them, yield to us/ Only what to our griping toil is due;/ But the sweet affluence of love and song,/ The rich results of the divine consents/ Of man and earth, of world beloved and loved,/ The nectar and ambrosia are withheld./
    SHC 11.435 22 Our use [of Sleepy Hollow] will not displace the old tenants. The well-beloved birds will not sing one song the less...
    PLT 12.57 12 All is condoned if I can write a good song or novel.
    II 12.72 7 It is as impossible for labor to produce...a song of Burns, as Shakspeare's Hamlet...
    Mem 12.94 6 You say the first words of the old song, and I finish the line and stanza.
    Mem 12.105 9 The Persians say, A real singer will never forget the song he has once learned.
    CInt 12.119 13 I value dearly the poet who knows his art so well that, when his voice vibrates, it fills the hearer with sympathetic song...
    CW 12.169 7 ...unto me not morn's magnificence/.../Nor wit, nor eloquence,-no, nor even the song/ Of any woman that is now alive,-/ Hath such a soul, such divine influence,/ Such resurrection of the happy past,/ As is to me when I behold the morn/ Ope in such low, moist roadside, and beneath/ Peep the blue violets out of the black loam./
    MAng1 12.219 2 ...certain minds...possess the power of abstracting Beauty from things, and reproducing it in new forms, on any object to which accident may determine their activity; as stone, canvas, song, history.
    Milt1 12.265 11 [Milton's native honor] is the spirit of Comus, the loftiest song in the praise of chastity that is in any language.
    Milt1 12.275 1 Milton's sublimest song...is the voice of Milton still.
    Milt1 12.276 1 It is true of Homer and Shakspeare...that those prodigious geniuses did cast themselves so totally into their song that their individuality vanishes...
    ACri 12.292 5 Some of these [Americanisms] are odious. Some as an adverb...the adjective graphic, which means what is written...arts of writing, and arts of speech and song,-but is used as if it meant descriptive...
    MLit 12.321 8 Here [in the First Book of Wordsworth's The Excursion] was...a sure index where the subtle muse was about to pitch her tent and find the argument of her song.
    MLit 12.334 10 The very depth of the sentiment...is guarantee for the riches of science and of song in the age to come.

Song of Solomon, n. (1)

    PPo 8.249 18 We do not wish to...try to make mystical divinity out of the Song of Solomon...

songs, n. (39)

    MN 1.198 2 Every earnest glance we give to the realities around us, with intent to learn...is really songs of praise.
    Prd1 2.227 10 The application of means to ends insures victory and the songs of victory not less in a farm or a shop than in the tactics of party or of war.
    Cir 2.313 9 We can never see Christianity from the catechism...from amidst the songs of wood-birds, we possibly may.
    Pt1 3.8 14 ...we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word or a verse and substitute something of our own and thus miswrite the poem. The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences more faithfully, and these transcripts...become the songs of the nations.
    Pt1 3.23 15 ...when the soul of the poet has come to ripeness of thought, [nature] detaches and sends away from it its poems or songs...
    Pt1 3.23 23 The songs, thus flying immortal from their mortal parent, are pursued by clamorous flights of censures...
    Pol1 3.212 17 Human nature expresses itself in [laws] as characteristically as in statues, or songs, or railroads;...
    ShP 4.210 24 ...[Shakespeare] is like some saint whose history is to be rendered...into songs and pictures...
    GoW 4.269 10 There have been times when [the writer] was a sacred person: he wrote...tragic songs...
    GoW 4.272 14 [Goethe's Helena] are not wild miraculous songs...
    ET4 5.55 18 ...[The Celts] made the best popular literature of the Middle Ages in the songs of Merlin and the tender and delicious mythology of Arthur.
    ET14 5.232 15 [The plain style] imports into [English] songs and ballads the smell of the earth...
    CbW 6.267 10 ...the crowning fortune of a man, is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness,--whether it be to make baskets...or songs.
    Art2 7.53 17 The Iliad of Homer, the songs of David...were made...in grave earnest...
    Elo1 7.84 2 I have heard it reported of an eloquent preacher...that, on occasions of death or tragic disaster which overspread the congregation with gloom, he...turning to his favorite lessons of devout and jubilant thankfulness...swept away all the impertinence of private sorrow with his hosannas and songs of praise.
    WD 7.182 13 The masters of English lyric wrote their songs [for joy].
    PI 8.37 13 ...we shall never understand political economy until Burns or Beranger or some poet shall teach it in songs...
    PI 8.38 9 A poet comes who...shows that Nature is only a language to express the laws, which are grand and beautiful;--and lets [mortal men], by his songs, into some of the realities.
    PI 8.46 17 ...the length of lines in songs and poems is determined by the inhalation and exhalation of the lungs.
    PI 8.48 12 So in our songs and ballads the refrain skilfully used, and deriving some novelty or better sense in each of many verses...
    PI 8.55 26 Keats disclosed by certain lines in his Hyperion this inward skill; and Coleridge showed at least his love and appetency for it. It appears in Ben Jonson's songs...
    PI 8.57 18 ...the direct smell of the earth or the sea, is in these ancient poems...the songs and ballads of the English and Scotch.
    PI 8.59 11 Another bard in like tone says,--I am possessed of songs such as no son of man can repeat;...
    PI 8.59 23 Odin taught these arts in runes or songs...
    PI 8.67 13 The ballad and romance work on the hearts of boys...and these heroic songs or lines are remembered and determine many practical choices which they make later.
    PPo 8.249 19 We do not wish to...try to make mystical divinity out of the Song of Solomon, much less out of the erotic and bacchanalian songs of Hafiz.
    PPo 8.253 19 Fit for the Pleiads' azure chord/ The songs I sung, the pearls I bored./
    PPo 8.254 28 The muleteers and camel-drivers, on their way through the desert, sing snatches of [Hafiz's] songs...
    PPo 8.255 4 ...Hafiz does not appear to have set any great value on his songs...
    Imtl 8.326 3 ...the modern Greeks, in their songs, ask that they may be buried where the sun can see them...
    Chr2 10.117 12 There will always be a class of imaginative youths...and these will provide [the moral sentiment] with new historic forms and songs.
    EWI 11.144 24 All the songs and newspapers and money subscriptions and vituperation of such as do not think with us, will avail nothing against a fact.
    War 11.163 21 This vast apparatus of artillery,...this martial music and endless playing of marches and singing of military and naval songs seem to us to constitute an imposing actual, which will not yield in centuries to the feeble, deprecatory voices of a handful of friends of peace.
    FSLC 11.194 18 This dreadful English Speech is saturated with songs, proverbs and speeches that flatly contradict and defy every line of Mr. Mason's statute [the Fugitive Slave Law].
    RBur 11.440 25 The Confession of Augsburg...the Marseillaise, are not more weighty documents in the history of freedom than the songs of Burns.
    RBur 11.443 11 The memory of Burns,-every man's, every boy's and girl' s head carries snatches of his songs...
    Scot 11.464 22 [Scott] made no pretension to the lofty style of Spenser, or Milton, or Wordsworth. Compared with their purified songs...his were vers de societe.
    PLT 12.38 17 The thought, the doctrine, the right hitherto not affirmed is published...in conversation...of men of the world, and at last in the very choruses of songs.
    EurB 12.371 14 The best songs in English poetry are by that heavy, hard, pedantic poet, Ben Jonson.

song-smiths, n. (1)

    PI 8.59 20 The Norsemen have no less faith in poetry and its power, when they describe it thus:--Odin spoke everything in rhyme. He and his temple-gods were called song-smiths.

son-in-law, n. (2)

    HDC 11.36 7 Tahattawan, the Sachem [of the Massachusetts Indians], with Waban his son-in-law, lived near Nashawtuck...
    HDC 11.52 21 Tahattawan and his son-in-law Waban, besought [John] Eliot to come and preach to them at Concord...

sonnet, n. (5)

    Cir 2.312 19 All the argument and all the wisdom is...in the sonnet or the play.
    Art1 2.355 13 ...each work of genius...concentrates attention on itself. For the time, it is the only thing worth naming to do that,--be it a sonnet, an opera...
    ET1 5.23 25 [Wordsworth] cited the sonnet, On the feelings of a highminded Spaniard, which he preferred to any other...
    II 12.72 7 It is as impossible for labor to produce a sonnet of Milton...as Shakspeare's Hamlet...
    MAng1 12.241 11 An eloquent vindication of [Michelangelo's poems'] philosophy may be found in a paper...by the Italian scholar, in the Discourse of Benedetto Varchi upon one sonnet of Michael Angelo...

sonneteering, n. (1)

    PI 8.64 1 The poetic gift we want...not rhymes and sonneteering...

Sonnets [michelangelo], n. [Sonnets] (3)

    Boks 7.206 3 When we come to Michel Angelo, his Sonnets and Letters must be read...
    Boks 7.218 1 The Greek fables...the Sonnets of Michel Angelo...have this enlargement [the imaginative element]...
    MAng1 12.213 6 Never did sculptor's dream unfold/ A form which marble doth not hold/ In its white block; yet it therein shall find/ Only the hand secure and bold/ Which still obeys the mind./ Michael Angelo's Sonnets.

sonnets, n. (15)

    Nat 1.52 25 Thus in his sonnets, the lays of birds, the scents and dyes of flowers [Shakspeare] finds to be the shadow of his beloved;...
    Hsm1 2.247 26 ...Wordsworth's Laodamia, and the ode of Dion, and some sonnets, have a certain noble music;...
    Pt1 3.25 20 A rhyme in one of our sonnets should not be less pleasing than the iterated nodes of a seashell...
    PNR 4.88 6 Michael Angelo is a Platonist in his sonnets...
    PNR 4.88 27 [Plato's] writings have...the sempiternal youth of poetry. For their arguments, most of them, might have been couched in sonnets...
    ET1 5.22 10 [Wordsworth] had just returned from a visit to Staffa, and within three days had made three sonnets on Fingal's Cave...
    ET1 5.22 17 ...[Wordsworth] recollected himself for a few moments and then stood forth and repeated...the three entire sonnets with great animation.
    PI 8.10 5 Sonnets of lovers are mad enough...
    Shak1 11.450 13 Young men of a contemplative turn carry [Shakespeare's] sonnets in the pocket.
    MAng1 12.237 2 A natural fruit of the nobility of [Michelangelo's] spirit is his admiration for Dante, to whom two of his sonnets are addressed.
    MAng1 12.240 10 [Vittoria Colonna]...came to Rome repeatedly to see [Michelangelo]. To her his sonnets are addressed;...
    MAng1 12.241 25 At the age of eighty years, [Michelangelo] wrote to Vasari, sending him various spiritual sonnets he had written...
    Milt1 12.258 17 The form and the voice of Leonora Baroni seemed to have captivated [Milton] in Rome, and to her he addressed his Italian sonnets and Latin epigrams.
    Milt1 12.275 6 [Milton's] sonnets are all occasional poems.
    ACri 12.294 5 ...[Shakespeare's] very sonnets are as solid and close to facts as the Banker's Gazette;...

Sonnets [William Shakespear (2)

    ShP 4.209 10 Who ever read the volume of [Shakespeare's] Sonnets without finding that the poet had there revealed...the lore of friendship and of love;...
    ShP 4.214 14 The sonnets [of Shakespeare], though their excellence is lost in the splendor of the dramas, are as inimitable as they;...

Sonnets [William Wordsworth (1)

    ET1 5.23 18 I said Tinturn Abbey appeared to be the favorite poem with the public, but more contemplative readers preferred the first books of the Excursion, and the Sonnets.

Sonnetto primo [Michelangelo (1)

    MAng1 12.214 5 Non ha l' ottimo artista alcun concetto,/ Ch' un marmo solo in se non circoscriva/ Col suo soverchio, e solo a quello arriva/ La man che obbedisce all' intelletto./ M. Angelo, Sonneto primo.

sonorous, adj. (2)

    ET10 5.153 15 [The English] are under the Jewish law, and read with sonorous emphasis that their days shall be long in the land...
    Art2 7.43 23 The basis of music is the qualities of the air and the vibrations of sonorous bodies.

sons, n. (44)

    Nat 1.37 18 Debt...whose iron face...the sons of genius fear and hate;...is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be foregone...
    Comp 2.99 3 Is a man...a morose ruffian...Nature sends him a troop of pretty sons and daughters...
    Exp 3.48 18 [Grief], like all the rest...never introduces me into the reality, for contact with which we would even pay the costly price of sons and lovers.
    Mrs1 3.128 23 [The working heroes] are the sowers, their sons shall be the reapers...
    Mrs1 3.128 24 [The working heroes] are the sowers, their sons shall be the reapers, and their sons...must yield the possession of the harvest to new competitors...
    Pol1 3.200 27 Nature...will not be fooled or abated of any jot of her authority by the pertest of her sons;...
    Pol1 3.204 24 The old, who have seen through the hypocrisy of courts and statesmen, die and leave no wisdom to their sons.
    PPh 4.63 19 I give you joy, O sons of men! that truth is altogether wholesome;...
    GoW 4.271 21 ...[Goethe] lived...in a time when Germany played no such leading part in the world's affairs as to swell the bosom of her sons with any metropolitan pride...
    ET4 5.60 25 Twenty thousand thieves landed at Hastings. These founders of the House of Lords were greedy and ferocious dragoons, sons of greedy and ferocious pirates.
    ET6 5.110 11 Wordsworth says of the small freeholders of Westmoreland, Many of these humble sons of the hills had a consciousness that the land which they tilled had for more than five hundred years been possessed by men of the same name and blood.
    ET10 5.153 17 [The English] are under the Jewish law, and read with sonorous emphasis that...they shall have sons and daughters, flocks and herds, wine and oil.
    ET11 5.177 13 The lawyer, the farmer, the silk-mercer lies perdu under the coronet, and winks to the antiquary to say nothing; especially skilful lawyers, nobody's sons...
    ET11 5.195 4 ...[English nobles] were expert in every species of equitation, to the most dangerous practices, and this down to the accession of William of Orange. But graver men appear to have trained their sons for civil affairs.
    ET12 5.202 10 As many sons [at Oxford], almost so many benefactors.
    ET12 5.212 16 ...we all send our sons to college, and though he be a genius, the youth must take his chance.
    Pow 6.64 17 In politics, the sons of democrats will be whigs;...
    Wth 6.92 1 The world is full of fops...and these will deliver the fop opinion...that it is much more respectable to spend without earning; and this doctrine of the snake will come also from the elect sons of light;...
    CbW 6.257 7 ...the friends of a gentleman brought to his notice the follies of his sons...
    CbW 6.263 10 ...sickness...absorbs its own sons and daughters.
    Clbs 7.237 23 Wafthrudnir asks [Odin]...what river separates the dwellings of the sons of the giants from those of the gods;...
    Cour 7.256 16 How short a time since this whole nation rose every morning to read or hear the traits of courage of its sons and brothers in the field...
    PI 8.74 7 Poetry is inestimable as...a lonely protest in the uproar of atheism. But so many men are ill-born or ill-bred,--the brains are so marred...brains of the sons of fallen men, that the doctrine is imperfectly received.
    SA 8.101 17 ...the heroic father did not surely have heroic sons...
    Elo2 8.122 10 What must have been the discourse of St. Bernard, when mothers hid their sons...lest they should be led by his eloquence to join the monastery.
    Imtl 8.350 9 Yama said [to Nachiketas], Choose sons and grandsons who may live a hundred years;...
    Supl 10.179 11 ...there is no question...that the warm sons of the Southeast have bent the neck under the yoke of the cold temperament and the exact understanding of the Northwestern races.
    LLNE 10.369 5 [Brook Farm] was a close union...of clergymen, young collegians, merchants, mechanics, farmers' sons and daughters...
    HDC 11.83 4 Concord has always been noted for its ministers. The living need no praise of mine. Yet it is among the sources of satisfaction and gratitude, this day, that the aged [Ezra Ripley]...our fathers' counsellor and friend, is spared to counsel and intercede for the sons.
    HDC 11.85 2 [Concord's] sons have settled the region around us, and far from us.
    HDC 11.86 24 The acknowledgment of the Supreme Being exalts the history of this people [of Concord]. It brought the fathers hither. In a war of principle, it delivered their sons.
    EWI 11.99 21 In this cause [emancipation], no man's weakness is any prejudice; it has a thousand sons;...
    FSLN 11.242 15 I listened, lately, on one of those occasions when the university chooses one of its distinguished sons returning from the political arena...
    JBB 11.266 3 John Brown in Kansas settled, like a steadfast Yankee farmer,/ Brave and godly, with four sons-all stalwart men of might./
    HCom 11.344 8 A single company in the Forty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment contained thirty-five sons of Harvard.
    SMC 11.350 15 The town [Concord] has thought fit to signify its honor for a few of its sons by raising an obelisk in the square.
    SMC 11.375 24 There are people who can hardly read the names on yonder bronze tablet [Concord Monument], the mist so gathers in their eyes. Three of the names are of sons of one family.
    Wom 11.426 5 ...there are always a certain number of passionately loving fathers, brothers, husbands and sons who put their might into the endeavor to make a daughter, a wife, or a mother happy in the way that suits best.
    CPL 11.498 24 Peter Bulkeley sent his son John to the first class that graduated at Harvard College in 1642, and two sons to later classes.
    PLT 12.19 5 ...presently, antagonized by other thoughts which [the perceptions of the soul] first aroused, or by thoughts which are sons and daughters of these, the thought buries itself in the new thought of larger scope...
    Bost 12.207 20 We [New Englanders] are willing to see our sons emigrate, as to see our hives swarm.
    Bost 12.210 20 Let us shame the fathers, by superior virtue in the sons.
    Bost 12.210 24 ...in Boston, Nature...has given good sons to good sires...
    Pray 12.355 17 I thank thee for the knowledge that I have attained of thee by thy sons who have been before me...

son's, n. (3)

    OA 7.335 10 [John Adams] received a premature report of his son's election...
    HDC 11.65 12 ...in 1712, the selectmen agreed with Captain James Minott, for his son Timothy to keep the school at the school-house for the town of Concord, for half a year beginning 2d June; and if any scholar shall come, within the said time, for larning exceeding his son's ability, the said Captain doth agree to instruct them himself in the tongues, till the above said time be fulfilled;...
    Bost 12.207 25 The towns or countries in which the man lives and dies where he was born, and his son and son's son live and die where he did, are of no great account.

soon, adj. (1)

    Prch 10.232 25 ...the gigantic evils which seem to us so mischievous and so incurable will at last end themselves and rid the world of their presence, as all crime sooner or later must. But be that event for us soon or late, we are not excused from playing our short part in the best manner we can...

soon, adv. (205)

    Nat 1.39 20 ...weigh the problems suggested concerning...Geology, and judge whether the interest of natural science is likely to be soon exhausted.
    DSA 1.127 27 Life is comic or pitiful as soon as the high ends of being fade out of sight...
    DSA 1.137 15 We shrink as soon as the prayers begin, which do not uplift...
    LE 1.175 14 You can very soon learn all that society can teach you for one while.
    MN 1.196 5 ...as soon as [the grand inquisitor] probes the crust, behold gimlet, plumb-line, and philosopher take a lateral direction...
    MR 1.229 23 That secret which you would fain keep,-as soon as you go abroad, lo' there is one standing on the doorstep to tell you the same.
    MR 1.244 26 As soon as there is faith...comfits and cushions will be left to slaves.
    MR 1.244 27 ...as soon as there is society, comfits and cushions will be left to slaves.
    MR 1.253 3 Let any two matrons meet, and observe how soon their conversation turns on the troubles from their "help,", as our phrase is.
    LT 1.266 14 Now and then comes...a...soul, more informed and led by God...which...predicts what shall soon be the general fulness;...
    Con 1.312 22 ...as soon as you put your gift to use, you shall have acre or acre's worth according to your exhibition of desert...
    Tran 1.359 9 Soon these improvements and mechanical inventions will be superseded;...
    YA 1.377 8 ...Trade, a plant which grows...as soon as there is peace...
    SR 2.49 10 As soon as [a man] has once acted or spoken with eclat he is a committed person...
    SR 2.73 24 You will soon love what is dictated by your nature as well as mine...
    SR 2.77 24 As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg.
    Comp 2.105 2 Pleasure is taken out of pleasant things...as soon as we seek to separate them from the whole.
    Comp 2.111 12 ...as soon as there is any departure from simplicity and attempt at halfness, or good for me that is not good for him, my neighbor feels the wrong;...
    Comp 2.113 1 [The borrower] may soon come to see that he had better have broken his own bones than to have ridden in his neighbor's coach...
    Comp 2.118 13 ...as soon as honeyed words of praise are spoken for me I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies.
    Lov1 2.181 8 ...[the ancient writers] said that the soul of man, embodied here on earth...was soon stupefied by the light of the natural sun...
    Fdsp 2.193 3 ...as soon as the stranger begins to intrude his partialities... into the conversation, it is all over.
    Fdsp 2.199 13 We are armed all over with subtle antagonisms, which, as soon as we meet, begin to play...
    Fdsp 2.210 26 Let [your friend] be to thee for ever...not a trivial conveniency to be soon outgrown and cast aside.
    Prd1 2.229 22 Even lifeless figures, as vessels and stools--let them be drawn ever so correctly--lose all effect so soon as they lack the resting upon their centre of gravity...
    Cir 2.305 25 The new statement...to those dwelling in the old, comes like an abyss of scepticism. But the eye soon gets wonted to it...
    Cir 2.308 2 As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him.
    Int 2.337 17 ...as soon as we let our will go and let the unconscious states ensue, see what cunning draughtsmen we are!
    Art1 2.366 22 As soon as beauty is sought...for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
    Pt1 3.13 1 I tumble down again soon into my old nooks...
    Pt1 3.34 15 Here is the difference betwixt the poet and the mystic, that the last nails a symbol to one sense, which was a true sense for a moment, but soon becomes old and false.
    Exp 3.54 20 On this platform [of science] one lives in a sty of sensualism, and would soon come to suicide.
    Exp 3.59 2 A political orator wittily compared our party promises to western roads, which opened stately enough...but soon became narrow and narrower and ended in a squirrel-track and ran up a tree.
    Chr1 3.92 18 Nature seems to authorize trade, as soon as you see the natural merchant...
    Mrs1 3.127 11 These forms [manners] very soon become fixed...
    Nat2 3.177 17 ...ordinarily...as soon as men begin to write on nature, they fall into euphuism.
    Nat2 3.182 4 Flowers so strictly belong to youth that we adult men soon come to feel that their beautiful generations concern not us...
    Nat2 3.189 18 As soon as [a man] is released from the instinctive and particular and sees [his speech's] partiality, he shuts his mouth in disgust.
    Pol1 3.200 22 Our statute is a currency which we stamp with our own portrait, it soon becomes unrecognizable...
    Pol1 3.204 27 [The young] believe their own newspaper, as their fathers did at their age. With such an ignorant and deceivable majority, States would soon run to ruin, but that there are limitations beyond which the folly and ambition of governors can not go.
    NR 3.239 14 In every conversation, even the highest, there is a certain trick, which may be soon learned by an acute person...
    NR 3.243 2 As soon as a person is no longer related to our present well-being, he is concealed, or dies, as we say.
    NR 3.243 17 As soon as the soul sees any object, it stops before that object.
    NR 3.243 25 As soon as [a man] needs a new object, suddenly he beholds it...
    NR 3.246 8 The rabid democrat, as soon as he is senator and rich man, has ripened beyond the possibility of sincere radicalism...
    NER 3.259 7 Four, or six, or ten years, the pupil is parsing Greek and Latin, and as soon as he leaves the University...he shuts those books for the last time.
    NER 3.283 27 As soon as a man is wonted to look beyond surfaces...he settles himself into serenity.
    UGM 4.29 11 If we huff and chide [children] they soon come not to mind it...
    PPh 4.45 23 As soon as [children] can speak and tell their want and the reason of it, they become gentle.
    PPh 4.46 1 As soon as, with culture, things have cleared up a little...[men and women] desist from that weak vehemence and explain their meaning in detail.
    PPh 4.66 12 Those of you who were the worthy ones in the state of ignorance, will be the worthy ones in the state of faith, as soon as you embrace it.
    SwM 4.117 27 One would say that as soon as men had the first hint that every sensible object...subsists...as a picture-language to tell another story of beings and duties, other science would be put by...
    SwM 4.139 11 ...we feel the more generous spirit of the Indian Vishnu,--I am the same to all mankind. ... If one whose ways are altogether evil serve me alone...he soon becometh of a virtuous spirit...
    MoS 4.175 20 ...as soon as each man attains the poise and vivacity which allow the whole machinery to play, he will not need extreme examples...
    ShP 4.194 22 As soon as the statue was begun for itself, and with no reference to the temple or palace, the art began to decline...
    ShP 4.198 18 ...as soon as we have learned what to do with [borrowed thoughts] they become our own.
    NMW 4.245 23 As soon as we are removed out of the reach of local and accidental partialities, Man feels that Napoleon fights for him;...
    GoW 4.262 13 The facts do not lie in [the memory] inert; but some subside and others shine; so that we soon have a new picture...
    GoW 4.280 15 ...Novalis soon returned to this book [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister]...
    ET3 5.37 14 As soon as you enter England...this little land stretches by an illusion to the dimensions of an empire.
    ET4 5.56 24 The men who have built a ship and invented the rig, cordage, sail, compass and pump;...have acquired much more than a ship. Now arm them and every shore is at their mercy. ... As soon as the shores are sufficiently peopled to make piracy a losing business, the same skill and courage are ready for the service of trade.
    ET4 5.64 18 As soon as this land [England]...got a hardy people into it, they could not help becoming the sailors and factors of the globe.
    ET4 5.70 19 As soon as he can handle a gun, hunting is the fine art of every Englishman of condition.
    ET5 5.90 13 Many of the great [English] leaders, like Pitt, Canning, Castlereagh, Romilly, are soon worked to death.
    ET6 5.110 21 As soon as [the English] have rid themselves of some grievance and settled the better practice, they make haste to fix it as a finality...
    ET7 5.120 3 [Wellington] augured ill of the [Napoleonic] empire as soon as he saw that it was mendacious...
    ET8 5.138 16 [The English] are subject to panics of credulity and of rage, but the temper of the nation...settles itself soon and easily...
    ET12 5.212 21 ...I should as soon think of quarrelling with the janitor for not magnifying his office by hostile sallies into the street...as of quarrelling with the professors for not admiring the young neologists who pluck the beards of Euclid and Aristotle...
    ET13 5.222 21 ...the same [English] men who have brought free trade or geology to their present standing, look grave and lofty and shut down their valve as soon as the conversation approaches the English Church.
    ET16 5.274 13 As soon as men begin to talk of art, architecture and antiquities, nothing good comes of it [according to Carlyle].
    ET16 5.275 17 I told Carlyle that...I like the [English] people;...but meantime, I surely know that as soon as I return to Massachusetts I shall lapse at once into the feeling, which the geography of America inevitably inspires, that we play the game with immense advantage;...
    ET16 5.277 22 We [Emerson and Carlyle] counted and measured by paces the biggest stones [at Stonehenge], and soon knew as much as any man can suddenly know of the inscrutable temple.
    ET17 5.294 18 We [Emerson and Martineau] found Mr. Wordsworth asleep on the sofa. He...soon became full of talk on the French news.
    F 6.13 15 In England there is always some man of wealth and large connection...who, as soon as he begins to die, checks his forward play...
    F 6.21 9 ...high over thought, in the world of morals, Fate appears as vindicator...always striking soon or late when justice is not done.
    F 6.38 17 As soon as there is life, there is self-direction...
    Pow 6.75 27 If I were to listen to all the projects proposed to me [said Rothschild], I should ruin myself very soon.
    Pow 6.76 4 Stick to your brewery ([Rothschild] said this to young Buxton), and you will be the great brewer of London. Be brewer, and banker, and merchant, and manufacturer, and you will soon be in the Gazette.
    Wth 6.85 1 As soon as a stranger is introduced into any company, one of the first questions which all wish to have answered, is, How does that man get his living?
    Wth 6.107 24 You dismiss your laborer, saying, Patrick, I shall send for you as soon as I cannot do without you.
    Ctr 6.135 8 ...most men are afflicted with a coldness, an incuriosity, as soon as any object does not connect with their self-love.
    Ctr 6.158 5 As soon as [the poet] sides with his critic against himself, with joy, he is a cultivated man.
    Wsp 6.203 19 I and my neighbors have been bred in the notion that unless we came soon to some good church...there would be a universal thaw and dissolution.
    Wsp 6.217 25 The bias of errors of principle carries away men into perilous courses as soon as their will does not control their passion or talent.
    Wsp 6.228 10 ...as soon as [the nun] came into the apartment, Philip [Neri] stretched out his leg, all bespattered with mud, and desired her to draw off his boots.
    Wsp 6.231 25 ...as soon as the man is right, assurances and previsions emanate from the interior of his body and his mind;...
    CbW 6.254 7 The barbarians who broke up the Roman Empire did not arrive a day too soon.
    CbW 6.257 12 ...[the gentleman] replied...that he was not alarmed by the dissipation of boys; 't was dangerous water, but he thought they would soon touch bottom, and then swim to the top.
    CbW 6.259 3 ...as soon as the children are good, the mothers are scared...
    CbW 6.263 17 Dr. Johnson said severely, Every man is a rascal as soon as he is sick.
    CbW 6.267 24 ...'t is strange how tenaciously we cling to that bell-astronomy of a protecting domestic horizon. I find the same illusion in the search after happiness which I observe every summer recommenced in this neighborhood, soon after the pairing of the birds.
    CbW 6.268 23 ...there is a great dearth, this year, of friends;...they too... have engagements and necessities. They are just starting for Wisconsin; have letters from Bremen;--see you again, soon.
    CbW 6.270 5 ...resistance only exasperates the acrid fool, who believes that...he only is right. Hence all the dozen inmates [of his household] are soon perverted...into contradictors...
    Bty 6.295 25 In our cities an ugly building is soon removed and is never repeated...
    SS 7.11 10 As soon as the first wants are satisfied, the higher wants become imperative.
    Civ 7.21 22 'T is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log hut on the frontier.
    Elo1 7.73 26 [Pleasing speech] is heard like a band of music passing through the streets, which...is forgotten as soon as it has turned the next corner;...
    Elo1 7.94 6 ...[people] soon begin to ask, What is [the speaker] driving at?...
    Elo1 7.98 5 ...as soon as one acts for large masses, the moral element will and must be allowed for...
    DL 7.117 9 ...if we begin by reforming particulars of our present system [of housekeeping], correcting a few evils and letting the rest stand, we shall soon give up in despair.
    DL 7.123 26 To each occurs, soon after the age of puberty, some event or society...which becomes the crisis of life...
    DL 7.124 13 ...we soon catch the trick of each man's conversation...
    WD 7.173 21 ...as soon as the irrecoverable years have woven their blue glory between to-day and us these passing hours shall glitter and draw us as the wildest romance and the homes of beauty and poetry?
    Boks 7.194 27 Dr. Johnson said...read anything five hours a day, and you will soon be learned.
    Boks 7.204 15 I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.
    Boks 7.205 22 The cardinal facts of European history are soon learned.
    Clbs 7.225 9 ...thought...pure...soon burns up the bone-house of man...
    Clbs 7.232 26 Some men love only to talk where they are masters. ... They go rarely to thei equals, and then...listen badly or do not listen to the comment or to the thought by which the company strive to repay them; rather, as soon as their own speech is done, they take their hats.
    Cour 7.257 22 Every moment as long as [the child] is awake he studies the use of his eyes, ears, hands and feet, learning how to meet and avoid his dangers, and thus every hour loses one terror more. But this education stops too soon.
    Cour 7.270 25 [John Brown] said, As soon as I hear one of my men say, Ah, let me only get my eye on such a man, I'll bring him down, I don't expect much aid in the fight from that talker.
    Cour 7.274 7 There are ever appearing in the world men who, almost as soon as they are born, take a bee-line to the rack of the inquisitor...
    OA 7.325 23 ...Nature takes care that we shall not lose our organs forty years too soon.
    OA 7.332 2 I have lately found in an old note-book a record of a visit to ex-President John Adams, in 1825, soon after the election of his son to the Presidency.
    PI 8.6 7 The admission, never so covertly, that this [material world] is a makeshift, sets the dullest brain in ferment: our little sir, from his first tottering steps, as soon as he can crow, does not like to be practised upon...
    PI 8.7 1 ...as soon as once thought begins, it refuses to remember whose brain it belongs to;...
    PI 8.17 22 As soon as a man masters a principle and sees his facts in relation to it, fields, waters, skies, offer to clothe his thoughts in images.
    PI 8.28 10 ...as soon as this [inspired] soul is released a little from its passion...we call its action Fancy.
    PI 8.43 20 ...a being whom we have called into life by magic arts, as soon as it has received existence acts independently of the master's impulse...
    PI 8.54 19 In reading prose, I am sensitive as soon as a sentence drags;...
    PI 8.54 20 In reading prose, I am sensitive as soon as a sentence drags; but in poetry, as soon as one word drags.
    SA 8.86 11 A lady loses as soon as she admires too easily and too much.
    SA 8.98 1 As soon as the company give in to this enjoyment [of jokes], we shall have no Olympus.
    SA 8.98 19 ...even if you could trust yourself on that perilous topic [sickness], beware of unmuzzling a valetudinarian, who will soon give you your fill of it.
    SA 8.106 19 As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to the man, I see no limit to the horizon which opens before me.
    Elo2 8.117 17 As soon as a man shows rare power of expression...all the great interests...crowd to him to be their spokesman...
    Elo2 8.120 16 The voice...soon indicates what is the range of the speaker's mind.
    Comc 8.174 2 Mirth quickly becomes intemperate, and the man would soon die of inanition...
    QO 8.180 16 ...if we find in India or Arabia a book out of our horizon of thought and tradition, we are soon taught by new researches in its native country to discover its foregoers...
    QO 8.187 5 Antiphanes, one of Plato's friends, laughingly compared his writings to a city where the words froze in the air as soon as they were pronounced...
    QO 8.191 18 Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west.
    QO 8.192 6 Wordsworth, as soon as he heard a good thing, caught it up...
    QO 8.192 7 Wordsworth, as soon as he heard a good thing...very soon reproduced it in his conversation and writing.
    PC 8.215 27 ...from time to time in history, men are born a whole age too soon.
    PPo 8.252 22 [Hafiz] says, The fishes shed their pearls, out of desire and longing as soon as the ship of Hafiz swims the deep.
    PPo 8.263 23 In the fable [Ferideddin Attar's Bird Conversations], the birds were soon weary of the length and difficulties of the way...
    Grts 8.304 3 A sensible person will soon see the folly and wickedness of thinking to please.
    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?
    Imtl 8.343 22 As soon as thought is exercised, this belief [in immortality] is inevitable;...
    Imtl 8.343 23 ...as soon as virtue glows, this belief [in immortality] confirms itself.
    Imtl 8.344 7 Goethe said: It is to a thinking being quite impossible to think himself non-existent, ceasing to think and live; so far does every one carry in himself the proof of immortality, and quite spontaneously. But so soon as the man will be objective and go out of himself...he is lost in contradiction.
    Imtl 8.344 8 Goethe said: It is to a thinking being quite impossible to think himself non-existent, ceasing to think and live; so far does every one carry in himself the proof of immortality, and quite spontaneously. But...so soon as [the man] dogmatically will grasp a personal duration to bolster up in cockney fashion that inward assurance, he is lost in contradiction.
    Aris 10.64 22 ...a good head soon grows wise, and does not govern too much.
    PerF 10.70 14 ...the marble column, the brazen statue...would soon decompose if their molecular structure, disturbed by the raging sunlight, were not restored by the darkness of the night.
    Supl 10.169 7 Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech. They are never off their centres. As soon as they swell and paint and find truth not enough for them, softening of the brain has already begun.
    SovE 10.205 15 ...freedom has its own guards, and, as soon as in the vulgar it runs to license, sets all reasonable men on exploring those guards.
    SovE 10.212 16 ...all the religion we have is the ethics of one or another holy person; as soon as character appears, be sure love will, and veneration...
    MoL 10.246 6 Dickens complained that in America, as soon as he arrived in any of the Western towns, a committee waited on him and invited him to deliver a temperance lecture.
    Plu 10.294 26 ...[Plutarch's] Lives were translated in Rome in 1470, and the Morals, part by part, soon after...
    Plu 10.305 11 ...I had rather a great deal that men should say, There was no such man at all as Plutarch, than that they should say that there was one Plutarch that would eat up his children as soon as they were born, as the poets speak of Saturn.
    LLNE 10.345 20 [The pilgrim] thought every one should labor at some necessary product, and as soon as he had made more than enough for himself...he should give of the commodity to any applicant...
    LLNE 10.355 4 As soon as our people got wind of the doctrine of Marriage held by this master [Fourier], it would fall at once into the hands of a lawless crew...
    LLNE 10.355 25 ...the men of science, art, intellect, are pretty sure to degenerate into selfish housekeepers, dependent on wine, coffee, furnace-heat, gas-light and fine furniture. Then instantly things swing the other way, and we suddenly find that civilization crowed too soon;...
    LLNE 10.360 14 I think the numbers of this mixed community [at Brook Farm] soon reached eighty or ninety souls.
    EzRy 10.387 11 ...the minister of Sudbury...being at the Thursday lecture in Boston, heard the officiating clergyman praying for rain. As soon as the service was over, he went to the petitioner, and said, You Boston ministers, as soon as a tulip wilts under your windows, go to church and pray for rain, until all Concord and Sudbury are under water.
    EzRy 10.387 13 ...the minister of Sudbury...being at the Thursday lecture in Boston, heard the officiating clergyman praying for rain. As soon as the service was over, he went to the petitioner, and said, You Boston ministers, as soon as a tulip wilts under your windows, go to church and pray for rain, until all Concord and Sudbury are under water.
    MMEm 10.398 14 [Lucy Percy] prefers the conversation of men to that of women; not but she can talk on the fashions with her female friends, but she is too soon sensible that she can set them as she wills;...
    MMEm 10.406 2 None but was attracted or piqued by [Mary Moody Emerson's] interest and wit and wide acquaintance with books and with eminent names. She said she gave herself full swing in these sudden intimacies, for she knew she should disgust them soon...
    SlHr 10.445 1 [Samuel Hoar's] ability lay in the clear apprehension and the powerful statement of the material points of his case. He soon possessed it, and he never possessed it better...
    Thor 10.451 15 After leaving the University, [Thoreau] joined his brother in teaching a private school, which he soon renounced.
    Thor 10.456 17 I love Henry, said one of [Thoreau's] friends, but I cannot like him; and as for taking his arm, I should as soon think of taking the arm of an elm-tree.
    Thor 10.458 5 As soon as [Thoreau] had exhausted the advantages of that solitude [at Walden Pond], he abandoned it.
    Thor 10.471 3 [Thoreau] said, What you seek in vain for, half your life, one day you come full upon, all the family at dinner. You seek it like a dream, and as soon as you find it you become its prey.
    Thor 10.473 3 The farmers who employed [Thoreau] as a surveyor soon discovered his rare accuracy and skill...
    HDC 11.35 13 The great cost of cattle...the sufferings of the people [pilgrims] in the great snows and cold soon following;...are the other disasters enumerated by the historian [Edward Johnson].
    HDC 11.44 24 In 1635, the [General] Court say...it is Ordered, that the freemen of every town shall have power to...choose their own particular officers. This pointed chiefly at the office of constable, but they soon chose their own selectmen...
    HDC 11.58 26 A still more formidable enemy [of Concord] was removed... by the capture of Canonchet, the faithful ally of Philip, who was soon afterwards shot at Stonington.
    HDC 11.66 5 Mr. Whiting was succeeded in the pastoral office [in Concord] by Rev. Daniel Bliss, in 1738. Soon after his ordination, the town seems to have been divided by ecclesiastical discords.
    HDC 11.67 9 ...Mr. [Daniel] Bliss replied...I...used the word Mediator in some differing light from that you have given it; but I confess I was soon uneasy that I had used the word...
    HDC 11.75 9 The British, as soon as they were rejoined by the plundering detachment, began that disastrous retreat to Boston...
    HDC 11.79 25 The great expense of the [Revolutionary] war was borne with cheerfulness [by Concord], whilst the war lasted; but years passed, after the peace, before the debt was paid. As soon as danger and injury ceased, the people were left at leisure to consider their poverty and their debts.
    EWI 11.117 10 It soon appeared in all the [West Indian] islands that the planters were disposed to use their old privileges...
    EWI 11.136 4 Lord Chancellor Northington is the author of the famous sentence, As soon as any man puts his foot on English ground, he becomes free.
    War 11.161 21 ...a universal peace is as sure as is the prevalence...of liberal governments over feudal forms. The question for us is only How soon?
    War 11.168 10 Will you stick to your principle of non-resistance...when your wife and babes are insulted and slaughtered in your sight? If you say yes...a few bloody-minded desperadoes would soon butcher the good.
    FSLC 11.206 14 ...as soon as the constitution ordains an immoral law, it ordains disunion.
    FSLC 11.206 17 The Union is at an end as soon as an immoral law is enacted.
    FSLN 11.222 3 ...the perfection of [Webster's] elocution...we shall not soon find again.
    FSLN 11.226 10 Mr. Webster decided for Slavery, and that, when the aspect of the institution was...no longer feeble and apologetic and proposing soon to end itself...
    JBS 11.277 8 ...as soon as [people] read [John Brown's] own speeches and letters they are heartily contented...
    SMC 11.366 20 In August, 1862...twelve men...were enlisted for three years, and, being soon after enrolled in the Fortieth Massachusetts, went to the war;...
    EdAd 11.390 10 As soon as men have tasted the enjoyment of learning, friendship and virtue, for which the State exists, the prizes of office appear polluted...
    Scot 11.467 26 [Scott] found himself in his youth and manhood and age in the society of...Wilson, Hogg, De Quincey, to name only some of his literary neighbors, and, as soon as he died, all this brilliant circle was broken up.
    FRO1 11.479 14 ...as soon as every man is apprised of the Divine Presence within his own mind...then we have a religion that exalts...
    FRO2 11.489 16 ...do not attempt to elevate [the lesson of the New Testament] out of humanity, by saying, This was not a man, for then you confound it with the fables of every popular religion, and my distrust of the story makes me distrust the doctrine as soon as it differs from my own belief.
    FRep 11.514 6 In our popular politics you may note that each aspirant who rises above the crowd...soon learns that it is by no means by obeying the vulgar weathercock of his party...that real power is gained...
    FRep 11.532 15 ...as soon as the success stops and the admirable man blunders, [our people] quit him;...
    PLT 12.4 23 Every creation...is on the method and by the means which our mind approves as soon as it is thoroughly acquainted with the facts;...
    PLT 12.33 5 As soon as our accumulation [of knowledge] overruns our invention or power to use, the evils of intellectual gluttony begin...
    PLT 12.48 17 To hammer out phalanxes must be done by smiths; as soon as the scholar attempts it, he is half a charlatan.
    PLT 12.51 1 We are forced to treat a great part of mankind as if they were a little deranged. We detect their mania and humor it, so that conversation soon becomes a tiresome effort.
    PLT 12.58 2 [People] are as much alike as their barns and pantries, and are as soon musty and dreary.
    II 12.84 23 Men generally attempt, early in life, to make their brothers, afterwards their wives, acquainted with what is going forward in their private theatre; but they soon desist from the attempt...
    Mem 12.105 21 Captain John Brown, of Ossawatomie, said he had in Ohio three thousand sheep on his farm, and could tell a strange sheep in his flock as soon as he saw its face.
    CInt 12.123 18 Falsehood begins as soon as [talent] disobeys...
    CInt 12.132 3 ...old men cannot see...the institutions, the laws under which they have lived, passing, or soon to pass, into the hands of you and your contemporaries, without an earnest wish that you have caught sight of your high calling...
    CL 12.136 13 ...in the country, Nature is always inviting to the compromise of walking as soon as we are released from severe labor.
    CL 12.152 16 The leaf in our dry climate gets fully ripe, and...acquires fine color, whilst, in Europe, the damper climate decomposes it too soon.
    CL 12.155 4 ...says Linnaeus...as soon as I got upon the Norway Alps I seemed to have acquired a new existence.
    CL 12.167 5 ...as soon as man knows himself as [Nature's] interpreter... then Nature has a lord.
    ACri 12.291 7 As soon as you read aloud, you will find what sentences drag.
    Pray 12.352 6 ...soon I am weary of spending my time causelessly and unimproved...
    EurB 12.369 20 The influence [of Wordsworth]...was wafted up and down into lone and into populous places...and soon came to be felt in poetry, in criticism, in plans of life, and at last in legislation.
    Let 12.398 1 There is...a paralysis of the active faculties, which falls on young men of this country as soon as they have finished their college education...
    Let 12.398 12 As soon as [American youths] have arrived at this term, there are no employments to satisfy them...
    Trag 12.405 11 In the dark hours, our existence seems to be...a struggle against the encroaching All, which threatens surely to engulf us soon...

sooner, adv. (22)

    AmS 1.96 27 So is there...no event, in our private history, which shall not, sooner or later...astonish us by soaring from our body into the empyrean.
    Con 1.325 5 Sooner or later all men will be my friends...
    YA 1.382 25 At least an economical success seemed certain for the enterprise [the Associations], and that agricultural association must, sooner or later, fix the price of bread...
    Hsm1 2.264 5 ...the love that will be annihilated sooner than treacherous has already made death impossible...
    Pt1 3.5 14 [The poet] is isolated among his contemporaries by truth and by his art, but with this consolation in his pursuits, that they will draw all men sooner or later.
    Exp 3.79 25 ...all things sooner or later fall into place.
    Chr1 3.115 24 ...when that love...which has vowed to itself that it will be a wretch and also a fool in this world sooner than soil its white hands by any compliances, comes into our streets and houses,--only the pure and aspiring can know its face...
    NMW 4.230 14 That common-sense which no sooner respects any end than it finds the means to effect it; the delight in the use of means;...make [Bonaparte] the natural organ and head of what I may almost call, from its extent, the modern party.
    ET6 5.113 17 ...[the English] would sooner give five or six ducats to provide an entertainment for a person, than a groat to assist him in any distress.
    ET15 5.262 6 ...said Lord Mansfield to the Duke of Northumberland; mark my words;...a little sooner or later, these newspapers will most assuredly write the dukes of Northumberland out of their titles...
    WD 7.161 17 No sooner is the electric telegraph devised than gutta-percha, the very material it requires, is found.
    Clbs 7.248 4 ...to a club met for conversation a supper is a good basis, as it...puts pedantry and business to the door. ...experienced men...sooner or later, impart all that is singular in their experience.
    PI 8.75 8 Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry...
    PC 8.226 20 The ear outgrows the tongue, is sooner ripe and perfect;...
    Imtl 8.326 23 The Earth goes on the Earth glittering with gold;/ The Earth goes to the Earth sooner than it wold;/ The Earth builds on the Earth castles and towers;/ The Earth says to the Earth, All this is ours./
    SovE 10.204 16 Luther would cut his hand off sooner than write theses against the pope if he suspected that he was bringing on with all his might the pale negations of Boston Unitarianism.
    Prch 10.232 24 ...the gigantic evils which seem to us so mischievous and so incurable will at last end themselves and rid the world of their presence, as all crime sooner or later must.
    HDC 11.36 23 ...standing on the seashore, [the Indians] often told of the coming of a ship at sea, sooner by one hour, yea, two hours' sail, than any Englishman that stood by, on purpose to look out.
    FSLN 11.241 27 It is a potent support and ally to a brave man standing single, or with a few, for the right...to know that better men in other parts of the country...will rightly report him to his own and the next age. Without this assurance, he will sooner sink.
    FSLN 11.244 22 The Anti-Slavery Society will add many members this year. The Whig Party will join it; the Democrats will join it. The population of the free states will join it. I doubt not, at last, the slave states will join it. But be that sooner or later...I hope we have reached the end of our unbelief...
    Wom 11.420 6 ...all my points would sooner be carried in the State if women voted.
    FRep 11.529 27 In this fact, that we are a nation of individuals...and that on such an organization sooner or later the moral laws must tell, to such ears must speak,-in this is our hope.

soot, n. (1)

    ET3 5.39 18 In the manufacturing towns [of England], the fine soot or blacks darken the day...

sooth, n. (2)

    Wsp 6.206 22 King Richard taunts God with forsaking him. ... In sooth, my standards will in future be despised, not through my fault, but through thine...
    Wsp 6.206 24 King Richard taunts God with forsaking him. ...in sooth not through any cowardice of my warfare art thou thyself, my king and my God, conquered this day...

soothe, v. (6)

    Nat 1.54 7 Prospero calls for music to soothe the frantic Alonzo...
    Hsm1 2.255 24 ...these rare [heroic] souls set opinion, success, and life at so cheap a rate that they will not soothe their enemies by petitions...
    ET10 5.163 10 ...all that can aid science, gratify taste, or soothe comfort, is in open market [in England].
    F 6.21 13 ...you would soothe a Deity not to be soothed.
    PI 8.26 16 Who has heard our hymn in the churches without accepting the truth,--As o'er our heads the seasons roll,/ And soothe with change of bliss the soul/?
    Trag 12.409 26 There are people who have an appetite for grief...natures so doomed that no prosperity can soothe their ragged and dishevelled desolation.

soothed, v. (3)

    F 6.21 13 ...you would soothe a Deity not to be soothed.
    MMEm 10.415 11 'T was I who soothed your thorny childhood, though you knew me not...
    MLit 12.317 27 There are...sentiments...which are soothed by silence, by darkness...

soothes, v. (3)

    Lov1 2.176 24 ...nature soothes and sympathizes [with the lover].
    Nat2 3.193 25 Are we tickled trout, and fools of nature? One look at the face of heaven and earth...soothes us to wiser convictions.
    Grts 8.312 18 The great man loves the conversation or the book that convicts him, not that which soothes or flatters him.

soothfast, adv. (1)

    OA 7.313 12 I care not if the pomps [clouds] show/ Be what they soothfast appear,/ Or if yon realms in sunset glow/ Be bubbles of the atmosphere./

soothing, adj. (4)

    LT 1.262 25 How [persons]...lap us in Elysium to soothing dreams and castles in the air!
    OS 2.292 21 How dear, how soothing to man, arises the idea of God...
    Elo2 8.124 4 In the mortifications of disappointment, [Science's] soothing voice shall whisper serenity and peace.
    CL 12.140 25 We are very sensible of this [power of the air]...when, after much confinement to the house, we go abroad into the landscape, with any leisure to attend to its soothing and expanding influences.

sophisticated, adj. (1)

    Nat2 3.173 21 I am grown expensive and sophisticated.

sophistication, n. (1)

    Nat2 3.170 10 ...we see what majestic beauties daily wrap us in their bosom. How willingly we would...escape the sophistication and second thought...

sophistries, n. (1)

    PLT 12.29 14 [Man] has his own defences and his own fangs; his perception and his own mode of reply to sophistries.

sophistry, n. (1)

    Plu 10.309 15 ...[Plutarch] is impatient of sophistry...

sophists, n. (2)

    Schr 10.266 19 The Sophists...have not much helped us.
    Plu 10.306 27 ...the logic of the sophists and materialists...fills us with disgust.

Sophists, n. (1)

    MoL 10.251 5 A redeeming trait of the Sophists of Athens...is that they made their own clothes and shoes.

Sophocles [Beaumont, The T (1)

    umph. of Honor], n Hsm1 2.245 24 ...Sophocles will not ask his life...

Sophocles [Beaumont, Triump (9)

    Hsm1 2.245 13 In harmony with this delight in personal advantages [in the elder English dramatists] there is in their plays a certain heroic cast of character and dialogue,--as in Bonduca, Sophocles, the Mad Lover, the Double Marriage...
    Hsm1 2.245 21 The Roman Martius has conquered Athens,--all but the invincible spirits of Sophocles, the duke of Athens, and Dorigen, his wife.
    Hsm1 2.245 24 Hsm1 2.246 4 Valerius. Bid thy wife farewell./ Soph. No, I will take no leave..../
    Hsm1 2.246 7 Dor. Stay, Sophocles,--with this tie up my sight;/...
    Hsm1 2.246 12 ...Never one object underneath the sun/ Will I behold before my Sophocles:/ Farewell;.../
    Hsm1 2.246 15 Mar. Dost know what 't is to die?/ Soph. Thou dost not, Martius,/ And, therefore, not what 't is to live;.../
    Hsm1 2.246 24 Soph. Why should I grieve or vex for being sent/ To them I ever loved the best?.../
    Hsm1 2.247 7 Soph. Martius, O Martius,/ Thou now hast found a way to conquer me./

Sophocles, n. (4)

    Nat 1.55 19 Is not the charm of one of Plato's or Aristotle's definitions strictly like that of the Antigone of Sophocles?
    Bhr 6.187 7 Euripides, says Aspasia, has not the fine manners of Sophocles;...
    Plu 10.313 9 [Plutarch] cites...the memorable words of Antigone, in Sophocles, concerning the moral sentiment...
    Plu 10.318 27 That prince [Alexander] kept Homer's poems not only for himself under his pillow in his tent, but carried these for the delight of the Persian youth, and made them acquainted also with the tragedies of Euripides and Sophocles.

Sophron, n. (1)

    PPh 4.42 8 When we are praising Plato, it seems we are praising quotations from Solon and Sophron and Philolaus.

sopped, v. (1)

    MoS 4.178 1 We have been sopped and drugged with the air...

Sorbonne, Paris, France, n. (1)

    LE 1.160 6 ...neither Greece nor Rome...nor the College of the Sorbonne... is to command any longer.

sorcerers, n. (1)

    Dem1 10.16 21 In the popular belief, ghosts are a selecting tribe, avoiding millions, speaking to one. In our traditions, fairies, angels and saints show the like favoritism; so do the agents and the means of magic, as sorcerers and amulets.

sorceries, n. (1)

    Pt1 3.28 23 ...the great calm presence of the Creator, comes not forth to the sorceries of opium or of wine.

sorcery, n. (2)

    Nat2 3.194 3 [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;...
    Dem1 10.25 22 ...this prodigious promiser [Animal Magnetism] ends always and always will, as sorcery and alchemy have done before, in a very small and smoky performance.

sordid, adj. (8)

    Nat 1.21 20 ...among sordid objects, an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its temple...
    LT 1.272 2 Is there a necessity that the works of man should be sordid?
    NR 3.231 9 ...[general ideas] round and ennoble the most partial and sordid way of living.
    HDC 11.69 6 ...the purchasing commodities subject to such illegal taxation is an explicit, though an impious and sordid resignation of the liberties of this free and happy people.
    EWI 11.137 20 Every one of these [arguments against emancipation in the West Indies] was built on the narrow ground...of sordid gain...
    TPar 11.292 19 ...the polished and pleasant traitors to human rights...rot and are forgotten with their double tongue saying all that is sordid for the corruption of man.
    MAng1 12.237 5 [Michelangelo] shared Dante's deep contempt...of that sordid and abject crowd of all classes and all places who obscure, as much as in them lies, every beam of beauty in the universe.
    MLit 12.317 12 ...the street seems to be built, and the men and women in it moving, not in reference to pure and grand ends, but rather to very short and sordid ones.

sordor, n. (1)

    Nat 1.76 25 The sordor and filths of nature, the sun shall dry up...

sore, adj. (5)

    UGM 4.22 9 ...if there should appear in the company some gentle soul who...apprises me of my independence on any conditions of country, or time, or human body,--that man liberates me; I forget the clock. I pass out of the sore relation to persons.
    CbW 6.271 11 The success which will content [men] is a bargain...a legacy and the like. With these objects, their conversation deals with surfaces... exaggerated bad news and the rain. This is forlorn, and they feel sore and sensitive.
    Edc1 10.153 13 ...the gentle teacher, who wished to be a Providence to youth, is grown a martinet, sore with suspicions;...
    EzRy 10.393 22 An eminent skill [Ezra Ripley] had...in uncovering the bandage from a sore place, and applying the surgeon's knife with a truly surgical spirit.
    HDC 11.34 16 [Food the pilgrims] attain with sore travail...

sorely, adv. (5)

    DSA 1.137 19 I once heard a preacher who sorely tempted me to say I would go to church no more.
    Comp 2.117 24 The indignation which arms itself with secret forces does not awaken until we are pricked and stung and sorely assailed.
    SL 2.131 24 No man ever stated his griefs as lightly as he might. Allow for exaggeration in the most patient and sorely ridden hack that ever was driven.
    ET5 5.77 26 A man of that [English] brain thinks and acts thus; and his neighbor, being afflicted with the same kind of brain...is ready to allow the justice of the thought and act in his retainer or tenant, though sorely against his baronial or ducal will.
    ALin 11.335 10 In four years...[Lincoln's] endurance, his fertility of resources, his magnanimity, were sorely tried...

soreness, n. (1)

    Schr 10.286 20 [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...that [praise and fat living] also are disgrace and soreness to him who has them.

sorrow, n. (20)

    LE 1.183 17 They [whom the student's thoughts have entertained or inflamed] find...that he cannot make of his infrequent illumination a portable taper to carry whither he would, and explain now this dark riddle, now that. Sorrow ensues.
    MN 1.220 6 What a debt is ours to that old religion...teaching privation, self-denial and sorrow!
    Lov1 2.181 24 If...from too much conversing with material objects, the soul was gross, and misplaced its satisfaction in the body, it reaped nothing but sorrow;...
    Lov1 2.185 17 ...the lot of humanity is on these children [young lovers]. Danger, sorrow and pain arrive to them as to all.
    Hsm1 2.255 25 ...these rare [heroic] souls set opinion, success, and life at so cheap a rate that they will not soothe their enemies by...the show of sorrow...
    ET4 5.56 8 As [the Northmen] put out to sea again, the emperor [Charlemagne] gazed long after them, his eyes bathed in tears. I am tormented with sorrow, he said, when I foresee the evils they will bring on my posterity.
    ET4 5.60 22 The [Norman] conquest has obtained in the chronicles the name of the memory of sorrow.
    Elo1 7.84 1 I have heard it reported of an eloquent preacher...that, on occasions of death or tragic disaster which overspread the congregation with gloom, he...turning to his favorite lessons of devout and jubilant thankfulness...swept away all the impertinence of private sorrow with his hosannas and songs of praise.
    OA 7.332 26 The world does not know, [John Adams] replied, how much toil, anxiety and sorrow I have suffered.
    Edc1 10.129 24 [Is it not true] That...sickness, sorrow, success, all work actively upon our being...
    FSLC 11.209 13 Every man in the land will give a week's work to dig away this accursed mountain of sorrow [slavery] once and forever out of the world.
    JBB 11.267 1 Mr. Chairman, and fellow citizens: I share the sympathy and sorrow which have brought us together.
    ACiv 11.296 8 To the mizzen, the main, and the fore/ Up with it once more!-/ The old tri-color,/ The ribbon of power,/ The white, blue and red which the nations adore!/ It was down at half-mast/ For a grief-that is past!/ To the emblem of glory no sorrow can last!/
    CPL 11.503 13 ...what omniscience has music! so absolutely impersonal, and yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow reached.
    II 12.77 9 The only comfort I can lay to my own sorrow is that we have a higher than a personal interest, which, in the ruin of the personal, is secured.
    MLit 12.334 21 Are we not evermore whipped by thoughts? In sorrow steeped, and steeped in love/ Of thoughts not yet incarnated./
    Pray 12.353 24 I know that sorrow comes not at once only.
    Trag 12.405 4 As the salt sea covers more than two thirds of the surface of the globe, so sorrow encroaches in man on felicity.
    Trag 12.410 9 ...all sorrow dwells in a low region.
    Trag 12.417 6 ...the intellect in its purity and the moral sense in its purity... both ravish us into a region whereunto these passionate clouds of sorrow cannot rise.

sorrowful, adj. (3)

    PI 8.62 13 ...said Merlin...I taught my mistress that whereby she hath imprisoned me in such a manner that none can set me free. Certes, Merlin, replied Sir Gawain, of that I am right sorrowful...
    PI 8.62 28 ...Sir Gawain departed joyful and sorrowful;...
    PI 8.63 1 ...Sir Gawain departed joyful and sorrowful; joyful because of what Merlin had assured him should happen to him, and sorrowful that Merlin had thus been lost.

sorrows, n. (2)

    Nat 1.9 7 In the presence of nature a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.
    MMEm 10.427 20 ...if it were in the nature of things possible He could withdraw himself,-I [Mary Moody Emerson] would hold on to the faith... that, though cast from Him, my sorrows, my ignorance and meanness were a part of His plan;...

sorry, adj. (16)

    LE 1.185 10 ...I thought that...you would not be sorry to be admonished of those primary duties of the intellect...
    LE 1.185 21 When you shall say...I renounce, I am sorry for it, my early visions;...then dies the man in you;...
    Gts 3.162 20 We are either glad or sorry at a gift...
    Gts 3.162 23 I am sorry when my independence is invaded...
    PNR 4.89 23 I am sorry to see [Plato], after such noble superiorities, permitting [in The Republic] the lie to governors.
    NMW 4.253 8 I am sorry that the brilliant picture [of Napoleon] has its reverse.
    ET1 5.11 15 [Coleridge] was very sorry that Dr. Channing...should embrace such [Unitarian] views.
    ET11 5.191 7 ...when the baron, educated only for war...found himself idle at home, he grew fat and wanton and a sorry brute.
    Bhr 6.194 21 I am sorry, replies Napoleon [to his brother Joseph], you think you shall find your brother again only in the Elysian Fields.
    Imtl 8.330 7 Hear the opinion of Montesquieu: If the immortality of the soul were an error, I should be sorry not to believe it.
    SlHr 10.443 7 I am sorry to say [Samuel Hoar] could not be elected to Congress a second time from Middlesex.
    HDC 11.63 10 ...I am sorry to find that the servile Randolph speaks of [Peter Bulkeley 2nd] with marked respect.
    FSLC 11.182 10 Just now a friend came into my house and said, If this [Fugitive Slave] law shall be repealed I shall be glad that I have lived; if not I shall be sorry that I was born.
    SMC 11.357 21 One of our later volunteers...said, I go because I shall always be sorry if I did not go when the country called me.
    II 12.79 20 I am sorry that we do not receive the higher gifts justly and greatly.
    CW 12.177 10 I am sorry to say the farmers seldom walk for pleasure.

sort, n. (118)

    Nat 1.15 21 ...the stimulus [light] affords to the sense, and a sort of infinitude which it hath...make all matter gay.
    Nat 1.49 15 To the senses and the unrenewed understanding, belongs a sort of instinctive belief in the absolute existence of nature.
    AmS 1.89 21 Hence the book-learned class, who value books...as making a sort of Third Estate with the world and the soul.
    LE 1.164 11 Concede to [the man of letters] genius, which is a sort of Stoical plenum annulling the comparative, and he is content;...
    LE 1.174 23 ...it is only as...the forest, and the rock, are a sort of mechanical aids to [independence of spirit], that they are of value.
    MN 1.202 26 To questions of this sort, Nature replies, I grow.
    MN 1.213 13 The poet must be a rhapsodist; his inspiration a sort of bright casualty;...
    MR 1.234 13 ...to earn money enough to buy [a farm] requires a sort of concentration toward money...
    MR 1.237 26 ...now I feel some shame before my wood-chopper...and my cook, for they have some sort of self-sufficiency...
    LT 1.287 18 ...we think the Genius of this Age more philosophical than any other has been...with less fear, less fable, less mixture of any sort.
    YA 1.364 22 ...[the railroad] has great value as a sort of yard-stick and surveyor's line.
    YA 1.379 3 ...the aristocracy of trade...was...the result of merit of some kind, and is continually falling...before new claims of the same sort.
    Hist 2.16 19 A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree;...
    SR 2.62 19 ...[man] is in the world a sort of sot...
    SR 2.78 8 Another sort of false prayers are our regrets.
    Comp 2.113 27 Beware of too much good staying in your hand. It will fast corrupt and worm worms. Pay it away quickly in some sort.
    SL 2.145 25 ...Napoleon sent to Vienna M. de Narbonne...saying that it was indispensable to send to the old aristocracy of Europe men of the same connection, which in fact constitutes a sort of free-masonry.
    SL 2.150 23 ...a person of related mind...comes to us...so nearly and intimately, as if it were the blood in our proper veins, that we feel as if some one was gone, instead of another having come;...it is a sort of joyful solitude.
    Lov1 2.170 13 ...this passion of which we speak [love]...makes the aged participators of it not less than the tender maiden, though in a different and nobler sort.
    Fdsp 2.204 6 A friend...is a sort of paradox in nature.
    Fdsp 2.204 14 We are holden to men by every sort of tie...
    Fdsp 2.207 9 ...three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.
    Fdsp 2.210 24 Let [your friend] be to thee for ever a sort of beautiful enemy...
    Fdsp 2.217 1 ...these things may hardly be said without a sort of treachery to the relation [of friendship].
    Prd1 2.221 3 What right have I to write on Prudence, whereof I have little, and that of the negative sort?
    Prd1 2.233 24 Is it not better that a man should accept the first pains and mortifications of this sort...as hints that he must expect no other good than the just fruit of his own labor and self-denial?
    Prd1 2.236 26 Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar...
    OS 2.289 15 ...we...feel that the splendid works which [Shakspeare] has created, and which in other hours we extol as a sort of self-existent poetry, take no stronger hold of real nature than the shadow of a passing traveller on the rock.
    Cir 2.317 14 ...these [divine] moments confer a sort of omnipresence and omnipotence...
    Pt1 3.21 26 ...language is...a sort of tomb of the muses.
    Pt1 3.26 5 This insight, which expresses itself by what is called Imagination, is a very high sort of seeing...
    Mrs1 3.133 22 [Fops] pass also at their just rate; for how can they otherwise, in circles which exist as a sort of herald's office for the sifting of character.
    Gts 3.159 5 I do not think this general insolvency [of the world], which involves in some sort all the population, to be the reason of the difficulty experienced at Christmas and New Year and other times, in bestowing gifts;...
    Pol1 3.218 7 Our talent is a sort of expiation...
    NR 3.230 21 ...[the language] is a sort of monument to which each forcible individual in a course of many hundred years has contributed a stone.
    NR 3.236 23 ...when each person...would conquer all things to his poor crochet, [Nature] raises up against him another person, and by many persons incarnates again a sort of whole.
    UGM 4.5 16 Our affection towards others creates a sort of vantage or purchase which nothing will supply.
    UGM 4.6 16 [The great man's] service to us is of like sort.
    UGM 4.16 13 The indicators of the values of matter are degraded to a sort of cooks and confectioners, on the appearance of the indicators of ideas.
    PNR 4.89 26 Plato plays Providence a little with the baser sort...
    SwM 4.109 19 Metaphysics shows us a sort of gravitation operative also in the mental phenomena;...
    SwM 4.113 11 The pursuing the inquiry under the light of an end or final cause gives wonderful animation, a sort of personality to the whole writing [of Swedenborg].
    SwM 4.142 25 ...when [Behmen] asserts that, in some sort, love is greater than God, his heart beats so high that the thumping against his leathern coat is audible across the centuries.
    MoS 4.159 9 Men are a sort of moving plants...
    ShP 4.198 11 It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature, that a man having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.
    ShP 4.204 12 It was not until the nineteenth century, whose speculative genius is a sort of living Hamlet, that the tragedy of Hamlet could find such wondering readers.
    ShP 4.205 18 [Shakespeare] was a good-natured sort of man...
    ShP 4.211 27 A good reader can, in a sort, nestle into Plato's brain and think from thence; but not into Shakspeare's.
    ShP 4.218 12 Other admirable men have led lives in some sort of keeping with their thought; but this man [Shakespeare], in wide contrast.
    NMW 4.241 3 ...a sort of freedom and companionship grew up between [Napoleon] and [his troops]...
    NMW 4.243 9 The necessity of [Napoleon's] position required a hospitality to every sort of talent...
    NMW 4.256 8 ...[Napoleon] fully deserves the epithet of Jupiter Scapin, or a sort of Scamp Jupiter.
    ET13 5.218 4 The carved and pictured chapel...made the parish-church [in England] a sort of book and Bible to the people's eye.
    ET14 5.240 25 [Bacon] complains that he finds this part of learning [universality] very deficient, the profounder sort of wits drawing a bucket now and then for their own use...
    ET16 5.275 14 I told Carlyle that...I saw everywhere in the country [England] proofs of sense and spirit, and success of every sort...
    ET19 5.310 11 ...when I came to sea, I found the History of Europe, by Sir A. Alison, on the ship's cabin table, the property of the captain;--a sort of programme or play-bill to tell the seafaring New Englander what he shall find on his landing here.
    F 6.41 21 In age we put out another sort of perspiration...
    Pow 6.66 12 Of the Shaker society it was formerly a sort of proverb in the country that they always sent the devil to market.
    Pow 6.80 2 I remarked in England...that in literary circles, the men of trust and consideration...were...usually of a low and ordinary intellectuality, with a sort of mercantile activity and working talent.
    Wth 6.114 23 We had in this region, twenty years ago, among our educated men, a sort of Arcadian fanaticism...
    Wth 6.124 27 It is a doctrine of philosophy...that there is nothing in the world which is not repeated in [a man's] body, his body being a sort of miniature or summary of the world;...
    Bhr 6.176 2 When [the old Massachusetts statesman] sat down, after speaking, he seemed in a sort of fit...
    Wsp 6.212 6 Even well-disposed, good sort of people are touched with the same infidelity...
    CbW 6.252 11 We have as good right, and the same sort of right to be here, as Cape Cod or Sandy Hook have to be there.
    Bty 6.283 25 ...we prize very humble utilities, a prudent husband, a good son...and perhaps reckon only his money value...as a sort of bill of exchange easily convertible into fine chambers...
    Civ 7.22 18 There was once a giantess who had a daughter, and the child saw a husbandman ploughing in the field. Then she ran...and carried them to her mother, and said, Mother, what sort of a beetle is this that I found wriggling in the sand?
    Art2 7.48 10 ...in useful art, so far as it is useful, the work must be strictly subordinated to the laws of Nature, so as to become a sort of continuation... of Nature;...
    Elo1 7.68 6 When each auditor...shudders...with fear lest all will heavily fail through one bad speech, mere energy and mellowness [in the orator] are then inestimable. Wisdom and learning would be harsh and unwelcome, compared with...a hue-and-cry style of harangue, which...makes all safe and secure, so that any and every sort of good speaking becomes at once practicable.
    Elo1 7.98 23 ...I esteem this to be [eloquence's] perfection,--when the orator sees through all masks to the eternal scale of truth, in such sort that he can hold up before the eyes of men the fact of to-day steadily to that standard...
    DL 7.103 9 ...[the nestler's] tiny beseeching weakness is compensated perfectly by the happy patronizing look of the mother, who is a sort of high reposing Providence toward it.
    WD 7.164 6 Can anybody remember when...the right sort of men, and the right sort of women, were plentiful?
    WD 7.164 7 Can anybody remember when...the right sort of men, and the right sort of women, were plentiful?
    Boks 7.197 26 Of the old Greek books, I think there are five which we cannot spare... ... 2. Herodotus, whose history contains inestimable anecdotes, which brought it with the learned into a sort of disesteem;...
    Boks 7.207 19 ...the works of Ben Jonson are a sort of hoop to bind all these fine [Elizabethan] persons together...
    Boks 7.209 7 ...a man's library is a sort of harem...
    Boks 7.215 19 What made the popularity of Jane Eyre, but that a central question was answered in some sort?
    OA 7.315 10 [Josiah Quincy]...made a sort of running commentary on Cicero's chapter De Senectute.
    OA 7.321 27 ...if the life be true and noble, we have quite another sort of seniors than the frowzy, timorous, peevish dotards who are falsely old...
    OA 7.327 20 ...at the end of fifty years, [a man's] soul is appeased by seeing some sort of correspondence between his wish and his possession.
    PI 8.13 14 A happy symbol is a sort of evidence that your thought is just.
    PI 8.72 10 The habit of saliency, or not pausing but going on, is a sort of importation or domestication of the Divine effort in a man.
    Comc 8.170 18 ...in the instance of cowardice or fear of any sort...the majesty of man is violated.
    QO 8.196 22 ...many men can write better under a mask than for themselves; as...I doubt not, many a young barrister in chambers in London, who forges good thunder for the Times, but never works as well under his own name. This is a sort of dramatizing talent;...
    Imtl 8.335 25 ...the nebular theory threatens [the sun's and the star's] duration also...and will make a shift to eke out a sort of eternity by succession...
    Imtl 8.340 11 A sort of absoluteness attends all perception of truth...
    Aris 10.48 6 I told the Duke of Newcastle, says Bubb Dodington in his Memoirs, that...I was determined to make some sort of a figure in life;...
    Edc1 10.131 8 ...always the mind contains in its transparent chambers the means of classifying the most refractory phenomena, of...subordinating them to a bright reason of its own, and so giving to man a sort of property... in every district and particle of the globe.
    Edc1 10.131 16 In some sort the end of life is that the man should take up the universe into himself...
    Supl 10.172 22 Our travelling is a sort of search for the superlatives or summits of art...
    SovE 10.186 7 'T is a sort of proverbial dying speech of scholars...that...of Nathaniel Carpenter... It did repent him, he said, that he had formerly so much courted the maid instead of the mistress (meaning philosophy and mathematics to the neglect of divinity).
    SovE 10.205 8 It is a sort of mark of probity and sincerity to declare how little you believe...
    Prch 10.228 24 What sort of respect can these preachers or newspapers inspire by their weekly praises of texts and saints, when we know that they would say just the same things if Beelzebub had written the chapter, provided it stood where it does in the public opinion?
    LLNE 10.333 11 [Everett] abounded...even in a sort of defying experiment of his own wit and skill in giving an oracular weight to Hebrew or Rabbinical words;...
    LLNE 10.349 10 [Brisbane's plan] was not daunted by...remoteness of any sort...
    MMEm 10.420 17 Do I [Mary Moody Emerson] yearn to be in Boston? 'T would fatigue, disappoint; I, who have so long despised means, who have always found it a sort of rebellion to seek them?
    Carl 10.490 17 They keep Carlyle as a sort of portable cathedral-bell...
    LS 11.14 9 To make [his friends'] enormity plainer, [St. Paul] goes back to the origin of this religious feast [the Lord's Supper] to show what sort of feast that was...
    FSLC 11.199 19 ...Mr. Webster can judge whether this sort of solar microscope brought to bear on his law is likely to make opposition less.
    FSLN 11.218 7 ...when I say the class of scholars or students,-that is a class which comprises in some sort all mankind...
    EdAd 11.390 27 Will [a journal] measure itself with the chapter on Slavery, in some sort the special enigma of the time...
    EdAd 11.391 2 Will [a journal] measure itself with the chapter on Slavery, in some sort the special enigma of the time, as it has provoked against it a sort of inspiration and enthusiasm singular in modern history?
    Humb 11.457 10 ...a man's natural powers are often a sort of committee that slowly...give their attention and action;...
    PLT 12.11 15 I write...a sort of Farmer's Almanac of mental moods.
    PLT 12.24 11 ...the nervous and hysterical and animalized will produce a like series of symptoms in you...though you are conscious that they...are a sort of extension of the diseases of this particular person into you.
    PLT 12.31 11 The temptation is to patronize Providence, to fall into the accepted ways of talking and acting of the good sort of people.
    PLT 12.31 14 Each has a certain aptitude for knowing or doing somewhat which, when it appears, is so adapted and aimed on that, that it seems a sort of obtuseness to everything else.
    PLT 12.59 15 The habit...of not pausing but proceeding, is a sort of importation and domestication of the divine effort into a man.
    II 12.79 3 The whole ethics of thought...is a sort of religious office.
    II 12.79 6 It is a sort of rule in Art that you shall not speak of any work of art except in its presence;...
    Mem 12.90 21 Every machine must be perfect of its sort.
    Bost 12.186 16 New England is a sort of Scotland.
    MAng1 12.238 2 Vasari observed that [Michelangelo] did not use wax candles, but a better sort made of the tallow of goats.
    Milt1 12.255 8 Bacon's Essays are the portrait of...a great man of the vulgar sort.
    Milt1 12.271 2 Toland tells us...[Milton] thought constraint of any sort to be the utmost misery;...
    MLit 12.313 4 ...a steadfast tendency of this sort [toward subjectiveness] appears in modern literature.
    MLit 12.324 4 ...a sort of conscientious feeling [Goethe] had to be up to the universe is the best account and apology for many of [his stories].
    WSL 12.338 21 [Landor is] A sharp, dogmatic man...prone to indulge a sort of ostentation of coarse imagery and language.
    WSL 12.340 1 A sort of Earl Peterborough in literature, [Landor's] eccentricity is too decided not to have diminished his greatness.

sortilege, n. (2)

    PI 8.48 25 Omen and coincidence show the rhythmical structure of man; hence the taste for signs, sortilege, prophecy and fulfilment, anniversaries...
    Dem1 10.3 2 The name Demonology covers dreams, omens, coincidences, luck, sortilege, magic and other experiences which shun rather than court inquiry...

sorting, n. (1)

    Boks 7.211 12 ...[a dictionary] is full of suggestion,--the raw material of possible poems and histories. Nothing is wanting but a little shuffling, sorting, ligature and cartilage.

sorts, n. (11)

    YA 1.383 13 ...[the Communities] exaggerate the importance of a favorite project of theirs, that of...paying all sorts of service at one rate...
    Mrs1 3.123 23 God knows that all sorts of gentlemen knock at the door;...
    ET5 5.79 20 ...[Kenelm Digby] propounds, that syllogisms do breed, or rather are all the variety of man's life. ... Man, as he is man, doth nothing else but weave such chains. ...if he do aught beyond this, by breaking out into divers sorts of exterior actions, he findeth, nevertheless, in this linked sequel of simple discourses, the art, the cause, the rule, the bounds and the model of it.
    Aris 10.53 25 ...I have seen a man of teeming brain come among these men [in a village]...and drawing all these men round him, all sorts of men, interested the whole village...in his facts;...
    Carl 10.490 6 [Carlyle] is obviously greatly respected by all sorts of people...
    HDC 11.50 25 Master of all sorts of wood-craft, [the Indian] seemed a part of the forest and the lake...
    HDC 11.55 17 The [Concord] river, at this period, seems to have caused some distress now by its overflow, now by its drought. A cold and wet summer blighted the corn; enormous flocks of pigeons beat down and eat up all sorts of English grain;...
    FSLN 11.219 14 ...under the shadow of [Webster's] great name inferior men sheltered themselves, threw their ballots for [the Fugitive Slave Law] and made the law. I say inferior men. There were all sorts of what are called brilliant men...but men without self-respect...
    SMC 11.356 18 All sorts of men went to the [Civil] war...
    PLT 12.56 16 There are two theories of life;... One is activity...in this direction lie usefulness, comfort, society, low power of all sorts.
    Mem 12.93 14 There is no book like the memory, none with such a good index, and that of every kind...arranged...by all sorts of mysterious hooks and eyes to catch and hold...

sorts, v. (1)

    GoW 4.287 24 When [Goethe] sits down to write a drama or a tale, he collects and sorts his observations from a hundred sides...

sot, n. (5)

    SR 2.62 12 That popular fable of the sot who was picked up dead-drunk in the street...symbolizes...the state of man...
    SR 2.62 19 ...[man] is in the world a sort of sot...
    MoS 4.179 14 So vast is the disproportion between the sky of law and the pismire of performance under it, that whether [a man] is a man of worth or a sot is not so great a matter as we say.
    Edc1 10.133 15 When I see...that there is no sot or fop, ruffian or pedant into whom thoughts do not enter by passages which the individual never left open, I can expect any revolution in character.
    EzRy 10.393 23 Was a man a sot, or a spendthrift...the good pastor [Ezra Ripley] knew his way straight to that point...

Sothiac, adj. (1)

    WD 7.179 19 ...him I reckon the most learned scholar, not who can unearth for me the buried dynasties of Sesostris and Ptolemy, the Sothiac era...

sots, n. (6)

    SR 2.52 16 ...alms to sots, and the thousand-fold Relief Societies;- though...I sometimes...give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar...
    Prd1 2.224 9 The spurious prudence, making the senses final, is the god of sots and cowards...
    Exp 3.62 6 I find my account in sots and bores also.
    MoS 4.183 20 [The man of thought] is content...with sots and fools...
    ET5 5.77 13 Even the pleasure-hunters and sots of England are of a tougher texture.
    Ill 6.313 26 ...the sots are easily amused.

souffrir, v. (2)

    ET13 5.231 5 ...if religion be the doing of all good, and for its sake the suffering of all evil, souffrir de tout le monde, et ne faire souffrir personne, that divine secret has existed in England from the days of Alfred...
    ET13 5.231 6 ...if religion be the doing of all good, and for its sake the suffering of all evil, souffrir de tout le monde, et ne faire souffrir personne, that divine secret has existed in England from the days of Alfred...

sought, v. (40)

    DSA 1.144 5 In the soul then let the redemption be sought.
    SR 2.82 19 It was in his own mind that the artist sought his model.
    Art1 2.366 23 As soon as beauty is sought...for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
    Nat2 3.190 16 The hunger for wealth...fools the eager pursuer. What is the end sought?
    SwM 4.112 8 [Swedenborg]...sometimes sought to uncover those secret recesses where Nature is sitting at the fires in the depths of her laboratory;...
    NMW 4.243 15 In Italy, [Napoleon] sought for men and found none.
    NMW 4.244 26 ...every species of merit was sought and advanced under [Napoleon's] government.
    GoW 4.274 3 [Goethe] sought [Proteus] in public squares and main streets...
    ET14 5.235 1 It is a tacit rule of the [English] language to make the frame or skeleton of Saxon words, and, when elevation or ornament is sought, to interweave Roman, but sparingly;...
    Bhr 6.178 17 There is no nicety of learning sought by the mind which the eyes do not vie in acquiring.
    CbW 6.268 15 The youth aches for solitude. When he comes to the house he passes through the house. That does not make the deep recess he sought.
    Bty 6.282 16 Alchemy, which sought to transmute one element into another...that was in the right direction.
    DL 7.102 4 Spirits of a higher strain/ Who sought thee once shall seek again./
    DL 7.107 9 The events that occur [in the home] are more near and affecting to us than those which are sought in senates and academies.
    DL 7.107 16 If a man wishes to acquaint himself...with the spirit of the age, he must not go first to the state-house or the court-room. The subtle spirit of life must be sought in facts nearer.
    DL 7.108 24 The account of the body is to be sought in the mind.
    DL 7.133 8 These are the consolations,--these are the ends to which the household is instituted and the roof-tree stands. If these are sought and in any good degree attained, can the state...yield anything better, or half as good"
    Suc 7.304 12 When [the lover] went abroad, he met, by wonderful casualties, the one person he sought.
    Elo2 8.126 2 Dr. Johnson said, There is in every nation...a certain mode of phraseology so consonant to the analogy and principles of its respective language as to remain settled and unaltered. This style is to be sought in the common intercourse of life among those who speak only to be understood...
    QO 8.177 21 Of a large and powerful class we might ask with confidence, What is the event they most desire? what gift? What but the book that shall come, which they have sought through all libraries...
    PC 8.216 19 ...the hope of any time, must always be sought in the minorities.
    PPo 8.260 19 I have sought for thee a costlier dome/ Than Mahmoud's palace high,/ And thou, returning, find thy home/ In the apple of Love's eye./
    Edc1 10.146 25 ...[Fellowes] was able to reconstruct, in the British Museum...the perfect model of the Ionic trophy-monument...which had been destroyed by earthquakes, then by iconoclast Christians, then by savage Turks. But mark that in the task...the enthusiast had found the master, the masters, whom he sought.
    Supl 10.171 19 Whenever the true objects of action appear, they are to be heartily sought.
    Plu 10.322 19 If over-read in this decade, so that his anecdotes and opinions become commonplace, and to-day's novelties are sought for variety, [Plutarch's] sterling values will presently recall the eye and thought of the best minds...
    CSC 10.376 9 ...[these men and women at the Chardon Street Convention] found what they sought, or the pledge of it, in the attitude taken by the individuals of their number of resistance to the insane routine of parliamentary usage;...
    MMEm 10.411 12 In her solitude of twenty years, with fewest books and those only sermons, and a copy of Paradise Lost, without covers or title-page, so that later, when she heard much of Milton and sought his work, she found it was her very book which she knew so well,-[Mary Moody Emerson] was driven to find Nature her companion and solace.
    Thor 10.459 24 What [Thoreau] sought was the most energetic nature;...
    War 11.174 7 If peace is sought to be defended or preserved for the safety of the luxurious and the timid, it is a sham...
    JBB 11.267 12 Every anecdote [of John Brown] is eagerly sought...
    HCom 11.340 5 Many in sad faith sought for [Truth],/ Many with crossed hands sighed for her;/ But these, our brothers, fought for her,/ At life's dear peril wrought for her,/ So loved her that they died for her,/ Tasting the raptured fleetness/ Of her divine completeness/...
    CInt 12.126 20 All that is sought in the instruction [at Harvard College] is drill; tutors, not inspirers.
    MAng1 12.233 25 [Michelangelo] sought, through the eye, to reach the soul.
    MAng1 12.233 26 ...as...[Michelangelo] sought to approach the Beautiful by the study of the True, so he failed not to make the next step of progress, and to seek Beauty in its highest form, that of Goodness.
    MAng1 12.243 1 ...art was to [Michelangelo] no means of livelihood or road to fame, but the end of living, as it was the organ through which he sought to suggest lessons of an unutterable wisdom;...
    Milt1 12.256 22 The muscles, the nerves and the flesh with which this skeleton is to be filled out and covered exist in [Milton's] works and must be sought there.
    Milt1 12.263 23 [Milton says] Nor did Ceres, according to the fable, ever seek her daughter Proserpine with such unceasing solicitude as I have sought this tou kalou idean, this perfect model of the beautiful in all forms and appearances of things.
    Milt1 12.272 16 [Milton] sought absolute truth, not accomodating truth.
    ACri 12.284 10 This [national] style is probably to be sought in the common intercourse of life...
    Pray 12.354 1 If but this tedious battle could be fought,/ Like Sparta's heroes at one rocky pass,/ One day be spent in dying, men had sought/ The spot, and been cut down like mower's grass./

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