Toledo to Tow-Head

ET1 5.17 11 [Carlyle] took despairing or satirical views of literature at this moment;...

ET2 5.26 8 ...I took my berth in the packet-ship Washington Irving and sailed from Boston on Tuesday, 5th October, 1847.

ET4 5.60 26 [The Normans] were all alike, they took everything they could carry...

ET4 5.62 3 It was a tardy recoil of these invasions [of Northmen], when...in 1807, Lord Cathcart, at Copenhagen, took the entire Danish fleet...

ET4 5.62 10 It took many generations to trim and comb and perfume the first boat-load of Norse pirates into royal highnesses...

ET4 5.65 24 The pictures on the chimney-tiles of [the American's] nursery were pictures of these [English] people. Here they are in the identical costumes and air which so took him.

ET5 5.97 9 The last Reform-bill [in England] took away political power from a mound, a ruin and a stone wall...

ET6 5.112 15 When Thalberg the pianist was one evening performing before the Queen at Windsor, in a private party, the Queen accompanied him with her voice. The circumstance took air, and all England shuddered from sea to sea.

ET8 5.135 25 Here [in England] was lately a cross-grained miser [Joseph Turner]...yet as true a worshipper of beauty in form and color as ever existed...and when he saw that the splendor of one of his pictures in the Exhibition dimmed his rival's that hung next it, secretly took a brush and blackened his own.

ET8 5.140 14 Haldor remained a short time with the king, and then came to Iceland, where he took up his abode in Hiardaholt...

ET9 5.147 6 ...the fact that British commerce was to be re-created by the independence of America, took [the English] all by surprise.

ET16 5.273 17 On Friday, 7th July, we [Emerson and Carlyle] took the South Western Railway through Hampshire to Salisbury...

ET16 5.276 4 We [Emerson and Carlyle] left the train at Salisbury and took a carriage to Amesbury...

ET16 5.279 9 We [Emerson and Carlyle] walked in and out and took again and again a fresh look at the uncanny stones [of Stonehenge].

ET16 5.285 13 On leaving Wilton House, we [Emerson and Carlyle] took the coach for Salisbury.

ET16 5.286 20 At Bishopstoke we [Emerson and Carlyle] stopped, and found Mr. H[elps]., who...took us to his house at Bishops Waltham.

ET16 5.290 16 William of Wykeham's shrine tomb was unlocked for us, and Carlyle took hold of the recumbent statue's marble hands and patted them affectionately...

ET16 5.290 23 Slowly we [Emerson and Carlyle] left the old house [Winchester Cathedral], and parting with our host, we took the train for London.

ET17 5.297 12 [A London gentleman] said he once showed [Milton's watch] to Wordsworth, who took it in one hand, then drew out his own watch and held it up with the other, before the company...

F 6.20 13 ...whatever form [Maya] took, [Vishnu] took the male form of that kind...

Bhr 6.183 8 In Notre Dame, the grandee took his place on the dias with the look of one who is thinking of something else.

Bhr 6.193 26 ...when [the monk Basle] came to discourse with [uncivil angels], instead of contradicting or forcing him, they took his part...

Wsp 6.206 11 Hengist had verament/ A daughter both fair and gent,/ But she was heathen Sarazine,/ And Vortigern for love fine/ Her took to fere and to wife,/ And was cursed in all his life;/...

Wsp 6.230 11 ...the part you took continues to plead for you.

CbW 6.278 13 I prefer to say...what was said of a Spanish prince, The more you took from him the greater he looked.

Bty 6.287 15 The ancients believed that a genius or demon took possession at birth of each mortal, to guide him;...

Ill 6.310 8 ...I...took notice and still chiefly remember that the best thing which the [Mammoth] cave had to offer was an illusion.

Ill 6.318 7 The red men told Columbus they had an herb which took away fatigue;...

SS 7.1 24 ...As if in [Seyd] the welkin walked,/ The winds took flesh, the mountains talked/...

Art2 7.53 26 ...each work of art...took its form from the broad hint of Nature.

Farm 7.148 7 In September, when the pears hang heaviest...comes usually a gusty day which...throws down the heaviest fruit in bruised heaps. The planter took the hint of the Sequoias, built a high wall...

WD 7.155 9 I, in my pleached garden, watched the pomp,/ Forgot my morning wishes, hastily/ Took a few herbs and apples, and the Day/ Turned and departed silent./

WD 7.162 15 ...German, Chinese, Turk, Russ and Kanaka were putting out to sea, and intermarrying race with race; and commerce took the hint...

WD 7.165 10 Every new step in improving the engine restricts one more act of the engineer,--unteaches him. Once it took Archimedes; now it only needs a fireman, and a boy to know the coppers...

WD 7.166 26 Works and days were offered us, and we took works.

Boks 7.189 12 In Plato's Gorgias, Socrates says: The shipmaster walks in a modest garb near the sea, after bringing his passengers from Aegina or from Pontus;...certainly knowing that his passengers are the same and in no respect better than when he took them on board.

Clbs 7.238 19 The same thing took place when Leibnitz came to visit Newton; when Schiller came to Goethe;...

Cour 7.262 9 Coleridge has preserved an anecdote of an officer in the British Navy who told him that when he...accompanied Sir Alexander Ball, as we were rowing up to the vessel we were to attack...I was ready to faint away. Lieutenant Ball...took hold of my hand and whispered, Courage, my dear boy! you will recover in a minute or so;...

OA 7.322 24 We still feel the force...of Bacon, who took all knowledge to be his province;...

PI 8.23 26 How long it took to find out what a day was...

Elo2 8.112 23 There is one of whom we took no note, but on a certain occasion it appears that he has a secret virtue never suspected...

Elo2 8.123 9 ...[John Quincy Adams] took such ground in the debates of the following session as to lose the sympathy of many of his constituents in Boston.

QO 8.183 25 ...when [Webster] opened a new book, he turned to the table of contents, took a pen, and sketched a sheet of matters and topics...

PPo 8.241 4 When all [the troops and spirits] were in order, the east wind, at [Solomon's] command, took up the carpet and transported with all that were upon it, whither he pleased...

Insp 8.291 4 Allston rarely left his studio by day. An old friend took him, one fine afternoon, a spacious circuit into the country...

Insp 8.291 13 ...the wise student will remember the prudence of Sir Tristram in Morte d' Arthur, who...took care to fight in the hours when his strength increased;...

Grts 8.314 2 The populace will say, with Horne Tooke, If you would be powerful, pretend to be powerful. I prefer to say...what was said of the Spanish prince, The more you took from him, the greater he appeared...

Imtl 8.324 26 ...as the savage could not detach in his mind the life of the soul from the body, he took great care for his body.

Imtl 8.326 12 ...the barbarians who received the cross took the doctrine of the resurrection as the Egyptians took it.

Imtl 8.326 13 ...the barbarians who received the cross took the doctrine of the resurrection as the Egyptians took it.

Imtl 8.331 14 Both [men] were men of distinction and took an active part in the politics of their day and generation.

Imtl 8.347 23 Jesus explained nothing, but the influence of him took people out of time, and they felt eternal.

Dem1 10.11 26 ...Pancrates...wanting a servant, took a door-bar and pronounced over it magical words...

PerF 10.80 13 ...[the prisoner] took his flute out of his pocket and began to play...

Edc1 10.143 8 Let [the youth]...read Tom Brown at Oxford,-better yet, read Hodson's Life-Hodson who took prisoner the king of Delhi.

MoL 10.243 5 All the world took off their coats and worked in shirt-sleeves [in California].

Schr 10.261 1 The Athenians took an oath, on a certain crisis in their affairs, to esteem wheat, the vine and the olive the bounds of Attica.

Plu 10.314 15 ...Walter Scott took hold of boys and young men, in England and America, and through them of their fathers.

LLNE 10.332 1 ...all [Everett's] learning was available for purposes of the hour. It was all new learning, that wonderfully took and stimulated the young men.

LLNE 10.332 16 [Everett's learning] was so coldly and weightily communicated...that...this learning instantly took the highest place to our imagination...

LLNE 10.340 11 Dr. Channing took counsel in 1840 with George Ripley, to the point whether it were possible to bring cultivated, thoughtful people together...

LLNE 10.348 4 [Fourier] took his measure of that which all should and might enjoy...from the refinements of palaces, the wealth of universities and the triumphs of artists.

LLNE 10.359 18 The West Roxbury Association was formed in 1841, by a society of members...who bought a farm in West Roxbury...and took possession of the place in April.

LLNE 10.359 23 Many members [of Brook Farm] took shares by paying money...

LLNE 10.366 22 The ladies [at Brook Farm] took cold on washing-day; so it was ordained that the gentlemen-shepherds should wring and hang out clothes;...

LLNE 10.369 2 ...what accumulated culture many of the members owed to [Brook Farm]! What mutual measure they took of each other!

CSC 10.375 20 ...there was no want of female speakers [at the Chardon Street Convention]; Mrs. Little and Mrs. Lucy Sessions took a pleasing and memorable part in the debate...

EzRy 10.389 25 ...[Ezra Ripley] repeated to me at table some of the particulars of that gentleman's [Jack Downing's] intimacy with General Jackson, in a manner which betrayed to me at once that he took the whole for fact.

MMEm 10.418 27 Took a momentary revenge on--for worrying me [Mary Moody Emerson].

MMEm 10.429 11 [Mary Moody Emerson wrote] Tedious indisposition:- hoped, as it took a new form, it would open the cool, sweet grave.

SlHr 10.441 21 ...[Samuel Hoar] sometimes wearied his audience with the pains he took to qualify and verify his statements...

Thor 10.462 17 When I was planting forest trees, and had procured half a peck of acorns, [Thoreau]...proceeded to...select the sound ones. But finding this took time, he said, I think if you put them all into water the good ones will sink;...

Thor 10.472 6 ...the fishes swam into [Thoreau's] hand, and he took them out of the water;...

Thor 10.472 8 ...[Thoreau]...took the foxes under his protection from the hunters.

GSt 10.503 10 In 1862, on the President's first or preliminary Proclamation of Emancipation, [George Stearns] took the first steps for organizing the Freedman's Bureau...

GSt 10.505 16 When one remembers...the celerity with which his purpose took form;...I think this single will [George Stearns] was worth to the cause ten thousand ordinary partisans...

HDC 11.37 10 When you came over the morning waters, said one of the Sachems, we took you into our arms.

HDC 11.51 10 Early efforts were made to instruct [the Indians], in which Mr. Bulkeley, Mr. Flint, and Captain Willard, took an active part.

HDC 11.52 15 ...said [Tahattawan], all the time you have lived after the Indian fashion, under the power of the higher sachems, what did they care for you? They took away your skins, your kettles and your wampum...

HDC 11.60 11 ...at night, whilst [Mary Shepherd's] captors were asleep, she...took a horse...and rode through the forest to her home.

EWI 11.113 16 The Ministers...proposed to give the [West Indian] planters, as a compensation for so much of the slaves' time as the act [of emancipation] took from them, 20,000,000 pounds sterling...

EWI 11.116 11 At Grace Hill, [the day after emancipation in the West Indies] there were at least a thousand persons around the Moravian Chapel who could not get in. For once the house of God suffered violence, and the violent took it by force.

EWI 11.128 3 ...when, in 1789, the first privy council report of evidence on the [slave] trade...was presented to the House of Commons, a late day being named for the discussion...Mr. Wilberforce, Mr. Pitt, the Prime Minister, and other gentlemen, took advantage of the postponement to retire into the country to read the report.

War 11.158 26 I [Cavendish] navigated along the coast of Chili, Peru, and New Spain, where I made great spoils. I burnt and sunk nineteen sail of ships, small and great. All the villages and towns that ever I landed at, I burned and spoiled. And had I not been discovered upon the coast, I had taken great quantity of treasure. The matter of most profit to me was a great ship of the king's, which I took at California...

War 11.159 18 This valuable person [Assacombuit]...took to killing his own neighbors and kindred...

FSLC 11.190 8 A few months ago, in my dismay at hearing that the Higher Law was reckoned a good joke in the courts, I took pains to look into a few law-books.

FSLN 11.223 5 [Webster]...took very naturally a leading part in large private and in public affairs;...

FSLN 11.230 20 The plea on which freedom was resisted was Union. I went to certain serious men, who had a little more reason than the rest, and inquired why they took this part?

AsSu 11.249 15 [Charles Sumner] took his position and kept it.

TPar 11.290 23 [Theodore Parker] took away the reproach of silent consent that would otherwise have lain against the indignant minority, by uttering in the hour and place wherein these outrages were done, the stern protest.

SMC 11.352 6 ...after the quarrel [American Revolution] began, the Americans took higher ground, and stood for political independence.

SMC 11.353 9 Every Democrat who went South came back a Republican, like the governors who...went to Kansas, and instantly took the free-state colors.

SMC 11.364 4 Whilst [George Prescott's] regiment was encamped at Camp Andrew, near Alexandria, in June, 1861, marching orders came. Colonel Lawrence sent for eight wagons, but only three came. On these they loaded all the canvas of the tents, but took no tent-poles.

SMC 11.364 9 ...I [George Prescott] took six poles, and went to the colonel, and told him I had got the poles for two tents, which would cover twenty-four men...

SMC 11.369 9 The Colonel [George Prescott] took evident pleasure in the fact that he could account for all his men.

SMC 11.374 9 On the first of April, the [Thirty-second] regiment connected with Sheridan's cavalry, near the Five Forks, and took an important part in that battle which opened Petersburg and Richmond...

Wom 11.416 10 Was never a University of Oxford or Gottingen that made such students. [Antagonism to Slavery] took a man from the plough and made him acute, eloquent, and wise to the silencing of the doctors.

Wom 11.417 22 ...it would be easy for women to retaliate in kind, by painting men from the dogs and gorillas that have worn our shape. That they have not, is an eulogy on their taste and self-respect. The good easy world took the joke which it liked.

Scot 11.467 5 With such a fortune and such a genius, we should look to see what heavy toll the Fates took of [Scott]...

CPL 11.504 11 Julius Caesar, when shipwrecked, and forced to swim for life...took his Commentaries between his teeth and swam for the shore.

CPL 11.505 22 One curious witness [to the value of reading] was that of a Shaker who, when showing me the houses of the Brotherhood, and a very modest bookshelf, said there was Milton's Paradise Lost, and some other books in the house, and added that he knew where they were, but he took up a sound cross in not reading them.

FRep 11.511 17 Wedgwood, the eminent potter, bravely took the sculptor Flaxman to counsel...

FRep 11.512 18 ...the interest nations took in our war was exasperated by the importance of the cotton trade.

CInt 12.114 9 ...when the Roman soldier, at the sack of Syracuse, broke into his study, the philosopher [Archimedes] could not rise from his chair and his diagram, and took his death without resistance.

CInt 12.125 27 ...how often we have had repeated the trials of the young man who made no figure at college because his own methods were new and extraordinary, and who only prospered at last because he forsook theirs and took his own.

CW 12.172 14 Montaigne took much pains to be made a citizen of Rome;...

CW 12.172 25 Linnaeus...took the occasion of a public ceremony to say, I thank God, who has ordered my fate, that I live in this time...

Bost 12.182 4 The rocky nook with hilltops three/ Looked eastward from the farms,/ And twice each day the flowing sea/ Took Boston in its arms./

Bost 12.191 4 In our beautiful [Boston] bay...a good boatman can...wonder that Governor Carver had not better eyes than to stop on the Plymouth Sands. But it took ten years to find this out.

Bost 12.207 7 With all their love of his person, [the people of Boston] took immense pleasure in turning out the governor and deputy and assistants...

MAng1 12.225 21 The excellence of the [defense] works constructed by our artist [Michelangelo] has been approved by Vauban, who...took a plan of them.

MAng1 12.237 10 [Michelangelo]...never or very rarely took his meals with any person.

Milt1 12.269 12 The part [Milton] took, the zeal of his fellowship, make us acquainted with the greatness of his spirit as in tranquil times we could not have known it.

ACri 12.288 26 What traveller has not listened to the vigor of...the deep stomach of an English drayman's execration. I remember an occasion when a proficient in this style came from North Street to Cambridge and drew a crowd of young critics in the college yard, who found his wrath so aesthetic and fertilizing that they took notes...

ACri 12.289 4 Burns took [the Devil] into compassion and expressed a blind wish for his reformation.

ACri 12.296 18 [Herrick was] Like Montaigne in this, that...he knew what he spake of...and took his level...

ACri 12.296 20 ...[Herrick] took what he knew, and took it easy, as we say.

EurB 12.367 22 Early in life...[Wordsworth] made his election between assuming and defending some legal rights, with the chances of wealth and a position in the world, and the inward promptings of his heavenly genius; he took his part;...

EurB 12.368 8 [Wordsworth] sat at the foot of Helvellyn and on the margin of Windermere, and took their lustrous mornings and their sublime midnights for his theme...

Tooke, John Horne, n. (2)

CbW 6.278 9 The populace says, with Horne Tooke, If you would be powerful, pretend to be powerful.

Grts 8.313 24 The populace will say, with Horne Tooke, If you would be powerful, pretend to be powerful.

tool, n. (9)

Prd1 2.234 19 There is nothing [a man] will not be the better for knowing, were it only...the the prudence which consists in husbanding little strokes of the tool...

F 6.15 9 Nature is the tyrannous circumstance...the conditions of a tool, like the locomotive, strong enough on its track, but which can do nothing but mischief off of it;...

Wsp 6.212 11 ...forgetful that a wise mechanic uses a sharp tool, [even well-disposed, good sort of people] go on choosing the dead men of routine.

WD 7.163 10 ...we have language,--the finest tool of all...

WD 7.184 14 There are people...who have no talents, or care not to have them,--being that which was before talent, and shall be after it, and of which talent seems only a tool...

MMEm 10.415 6 I am not infinite, nor have I power or will, but bound and imprisoned, the tool of mind...

Carl 10.494 12 ...if, after Guizot had been a tool of Louis Philippe for years, he is now to come and write essays on the character of Washington, on The Beautiful...[Carlyle] thinks that nothing.

FRO2 11.487 20 All education is to accustom [man] to trust himself...until he ceases to be an underling, a tool...

Mem 12.98 4 The way in which...any orator surprises us is by his always having a sharp tool that fits the present use.

tool-box, n. (1)

Prd1 2.227 17 In the rainy day [the good husband]...gets his tool-box set in the corner of the barn-chamber...

tool-chest, n. (1)

Wth 6.90 5 The world is [the human being's] tool-chest...

tool-making, adj. (1)

F 6.17 26 This kind of talent so abounds, this constructive tool-making efficiency, as if it adhered to the chemic atoms;...

tools, n. (50)

LE 1.184 3 Show frankly as a saint would do, your experience, methods, tools, and means.

MN 1.209 9 ...the tools run away with the workman...

MR 1.250 15 Look, [the practical man] says, at the tools with which this world of yours is to be built.

MR 1.250 18 ...we cannot make a planet...by means of the best...engineers' tools...

Con 1.310 26 ...in this institution of credit...always some neighbor stands ready to be bread and land and tools and stock to the young adventurer.

Comp 2.93 9 The documents...from which the doctrine [of Compensation] is to be drawn...are the tools in our hands...

Pt1 3.20 8 ...workmen, work, and tools...all are emblems;...

UGM 4.8 26 ...the makers of tools;...severally make an easy way for all, through unknown and impossible confusions.

ET4 5.58 22 ...crowbars, peat-knives and hay-forks are tools valued by [the Norsemen] all the more for their charming aptitude for assassinations.

ET5 5.84 10 [The English] are neat husbands for ordering all their tools pertaining to house and field.

ET10 5.169 7 ...in the influx of tons of gold and silver; amid the chuckle of chancellors and financiers, it was found [in England]...that the yeoman was forced to sell his cow and pig, his tools and his acre of land;...

ET11 5.196 6 The tools of our time...belong to those who can handle them;...

Pow 6.79 19 To have learned the use of the tools, by thousands of manipulations;...is the power of the mechanic...

Wth 6.87 23 Wealth begins...in tools to work with, in books to read;...

Wth 6.87 24 Wealth begins...in giving on all sides by tools and auxiliaries the greatest possible extension to our powers;...

Wth 6.112 9 [Each man] wants an equipment of means and tools proper to his talent.

Wth 6.125 18 ...The right investment is in tools of your trade;...

Ctr 6.141 4 Our arts and tools give to him who can handle them much the same advantage over the novice as if you extended his life...

Bhr 6.178 20 An artist, said Michael Angelo, must have his measuring tools not in the hand, but in the eye;...

Art2 7.40 1 The useful arts comprehend...navigation, practical chemistry and the construction of all the grand and delicate tools and instruments by which man serves himself;...

Art2 7.42 4 Man seems to have no option about his tools...

DL 7.109 25 ...some things each man buys without hesitation; if it were only...tools for his work...

Farm 7.151 12 The first planter, the savage...without tools...takes poor land.

Farm 7.152 9 ...when...there is more skill, and tools and roads, the new generations are strong enough to open the lowlands...

WD 7.157 1 Our nineteenth century is the age of tools.

WD 7.157 8 All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of [the human body's] limbs and senses.

WD 7.160 13 What of the grand tools with which we engineer, like kobolds and enchanters...

WD 7.163 1 ...we have a pretty artillery of tools now in our social arrangements...

WD 7.164 12 ...we must look deeper for our salvation than to steam, photographs, balloons or astronomy. These tools have some questionable properties.

WD 7.164 16 If you do not use the tools, they use you.

WD 7.164 16 All tools are in one sense edge-tools...

PI 8.52 12 ...we talk of our work, our tools and material necessities, in prose;...

SA 8.99 23 ...[manners and talk] require...human labor for food, clothes, house, tools...

SA 8.100 10 It is the sense of every human being that man...should arm himself with tools and force the elements to drudge for him and give him power.

Res 8.141 5 Ah! what a plastic little creature [man] is!...his body a chest of tools...

Res 8.143 17 ...it turns out that [the Chinaman] has sent home to China American food and tools and luxuries...

Comc 8.170 21 He whom all things should serve, serves some one of his own tools.

QO 8.187 19 If we observe the tenacity with which nations cling to their first types...of tools and methods in tillage...we shall think very well of the first men, or ill of the latest.

Aris 10.45 2 If we see tools in a magazine...we can predict well enough their destination;...

PerF 10.79 4 [A man] becomes acquainted with the resistances, and with his own tools;...

Edc1 10.147 18 ...as mechanics say, when one has learned the use of tools, it is easy to work at a new craft.

Thor 10.461 15 [Thoreau's] senses were acute...his hands strong and skilful in the use of tools.

EWI 11.126 10 It was very easy for manufacturers...to see that...if the slaves [in the West Indies] had wages, the slaves would be clothed, would build houses, would fill them with tools...

War 11.166 23 ...bayonet and sword...will be transferred to the museums of the curious, as poisoning and torturing tools are at this day.

FSLC 11.196 8 No government ever found it hard to pick up tools for base actions.

FSLN 11.232 25 The events of this month are teaching one thing plain and clear, the worthlessness of good tools to bad workmen;...

ChiE 11.474 8 [Asian immigrants] send back to their friends, in China, money, new products of art, new tools...

II 12.80 19 Whence came all these tools, inventions, books, laws, parties, kingdoms?

Mem 12.97 22 A knife with a good spring...a watch, the teeth or jaws of which fit and play perfectly, as compared with the same tools when badly put together, describe to us the difference between a person of quick and strong perception...and a heavy man who witnesses the same facts...

MAng1 12.227 12 [Michelangelo] was so nice in tools that he made with his own hand the wimbles...and all other irons and instruments which he needed in sculpture;...

tooth, n. (6)

Comp 2.109 14 ...a tooth for a tooth;...

Comp 2.109 15 ...a tooth for a tooth;...

ET1 5.19 10 ...[Wordsworth] had broken a tooth by a fall...

F 6.36 10 The whole circle of animal life-tooth against tooth...pleases at a sufficient perspective.

OA 7.325 19 When I chanced to meet the poet Wordsworth, then sixty-three years old, he told me that he had just had a fall and lost a tooth...

Supl 10.164 6 If the talker [with the superlative temperament] lose a tooth, he thinks the universal thaw and dissolution of things has come.

toothed, adj. (1)

Pow 6.57 22 Import into any stationary district...a colony of hardy Yankees, with...heads full of steam-hammer, pulley, crank and toothed wheel,--and everything begins to shine with values.

toothed, v. (2)

RBur 11.443 16 ...the music-boxes at Geneva are framed and toothed to play [Burns's songs];...

ACri 12.294 22 Shakespeare's] loom is better toothed, cranked and pedalled than other people's...

tooting, v. (1)

PLT 12.36 2 [Pan's] habit was to dwell in mountains, lying on the ground, tooting like a cricket in the sun...

top, n. (39)

SL 2.166 6 Let the great soul incarnated in some woman's form...sweep chambers and scour floors, and...to sweep and scour will instantly appear... the top and radiance of human life...

Art1 2.355 25 ...it is the right and property...of all native properties whatsoever, to be for their moment the top of the world.

Pt1 3.31 9 ...George Chapman, following [Timaeus], writes, So in our tree of man, whose nervie root/ Springs in his top;/...

Mrs1 3.129 13 If [aristocracy and fashion] provoke anger in the least favored class, and the excluded majority revenge themselves on the excluding minority by the strong hand and kill them, at once a new class finds itself at the top...

Nat2 3.176 8 In every landscape the point of astonishment is the meeting of the sky and the earth, and that is seen from the first hillock as well as from the top of the Alleghanies.

Nat2 3.186 13 ...this opaline lustre plays round the top of every toy to [the child's] eye to insure his fidelity...

NR 3.239 7 The rotation which whirls every leaf and pebble to the meridian, reaches to every gift of man, and we all take turns at the top.

SwM 4.108 5 At the top of the column [the spine] [Nature] puts out another spine...

SwM 4.121 19 ...we must be at the top of our condition to understand any thing rightly.

ET1 5.22 22 [Wordsworth's] third [sonnet on Fingal's Cave] is addressed to the flowers, which, he said...are very abundant on the top of the rock.

ET7 5.124 7 The Englishman who visits Mount Etna will carry his teakettle to the top.

ET9 5.145 8 Swedenborg...notes...[the English] regard foreigners as one looking through a telescope from the top of a palace regards those who dwell or wander about out of the city.

ET11 5.186 7 [English nobility] survey society as from the top of St. Paul' s...

ET12 5.204 19 The reading men [at Oxford] are kept, by hard walking, hard riding and measured eating and drinking, at the top of their condition...

ET16 5.276 15 On the top of a mountain, the old temple [Stonehenge] would not be more impressive.

ET16 5.281 1 I stood on the last [the sacrificial stone at Stonehenge], and [Mr. Brown] pointed to the upright, or rather, inclined stone, called the astronomical, and bade me notice that its top ranged with the sky-line.

ET16 5.281 4 ...at the summer solstice, the sun rises exactly over the top of that [astronomical] stone [at Stonehenge]...

F 6.20 17 ...the ring of necessity is always perched at the top.

F 6.34 12 The opinion of the million was the terror of the world, and it was attempted...to pile it over with strata of society,-a layer of soldiers...and a king on the top;...

F 6.34 15 ...sometimes the religious principle would get in and...rive every mountain laid on top of it.

Pow 6.55 17 If Eric...is at the top of his condition...at his departure from Greenland he will steer west, and his ships will reach Newfoundland.

CbW 6.257 13 ...[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.

Bty 6.291 23 In the midst of...a festal procession gay with banners, I saw a boy seize an old tin pan...and poising it on the top of a stick, he set it turning and made it describe the most elegant imaginable curves, and drew away attention from the decorated procession by this startling beauty.

Ill 6.323 7 At the top or at the bottom of all illusions, I set the cheat which still leads us to work and live for appearances;...

SS 7.11 13 'T is hard...to whip our own top;...

DL 7.120 16 ...who can see unmoved...the first solitary joys of literary vanity...sitting alone near the top of the house;...

WD 7.180 22 We must be at the top of our condition to understand anything rightly.

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

Suc 7.284 7 ...Ojeda could run out swiftly on a plank projected from the top of a tower...

Suc 7.306 12 ...the oracles are never silent; but the receiver must by a happy temperance be brought to that top of condition...that he can easily take and give these fine communications.

PI 8.40 12 ...[the writer] must be at the top of his condition.

Comc 8.163 21 ...it is the top of wisdom to philosophize yet not appear to do it...

Insp 8.276 22 I am not, says the man, at the top of my condition to-day...

Plu 10.312 22 Plutarch...thought it the top of wisdom to philosophize yet not appear to do it...

CSC 10.374 25 ...Quakers, Abolitionists, Calvinists, Unitarians and Philosophers,-all came successively to the top [at the Chardon Street Convention]...

SMC 11.350 18 The town [Concord] has thought fit to signify its honor for a few of its sons by raising an obelisk in the square. It is a simple pile enough,-a few slabs of granite, dug just below the surface of the soil, and laid upon the top of it;...

CL 12.148 16 Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated the winds as the conveying Maruts, traversers of places difficult of access. Stable is their birthplace in the sky, but they are agitators of heaven and earth, who shake all around like the top of a tree.

CW 12.171 20 ...I have a problem long waiting for an engineer,-this-to what height I must build a tower in my garden that shall show me the Atlantic Ocean from its top-the ocean twenty miles away.

CW 12.178 9 ...the top of the tree is also a tap-root thrust into the public pocket of the atmosphere.

topaz, n. (1)

Suc 7.298 16 [The city boy in the October woods] is the king he dreamed he was; he walks...through bowers of crimson, porphyry and topaz...

topazes, n. (1)

SlHr 10.446 8 ...so entirely was [Samuel Hoar's] respect to the ground-plan and substructure of society a natural ability...that it was...like one of those opaque crystals...not less perfect in their angles and structure, and only less beautiful, than the transparent topazes and diamonds.

top-button, n. (1)

ET2 5.28 3 The mainmast [of our ship], from the deck to the top-button, measured 115 feet;...

toper, n. (1)

Insp 8.272 10 The toper finds, without asking, the road to the tavern...

topic, n. (50)

AmS 1.82 10 ...I accept the topic which not only usage but the nature of our association seem to prescribe to this day...

LE 1.176 19 How mean to go blazing...in fashionable or political salons...a topic for newspapers...

LT 1.259 21 Nature itself seems to propound to us this topic, and to invite us to explore the meaning of the conspicuous facts of the day.

SR 2.54 20 I hear a preacher announce for his text and topic the expediency of one of the institutions of his church.

SR 2.70 13 ...a man or a company of men, plastic and permeable to principles, by the law of nature must overpower and ride all cities...who are not. This is the ultimate fact, which we so quickly reach on this, as on every topic...

Lov1 2.172 2 The strong bent of nature is seen in the proportion which this topic of personal relations usurps in the conversation of society.

Int 2.339 14 How wearisome...any possessed mortal whose balance is lost by the exaggeration of a single topic.

Nat2 3.176 23 ...it is very easy to outrun the sympathy of readers on this topic, which schoolmen called natura naturata, or nature passive.

Nat2 3.177 16 ...ordinarily, whether we are too clumsy for so subtle a topic, or from whatever cause, as soon as men begin to write on nature, they fall into euphuism.

Nat2 3.177 24 ...I cannot renounce the right of returning often to this old topic [nature].

Nat2 3.179 9 ...taking timely warning, and leaving many things unsaid on this topic, let us not longer omit our homage to the Efficient Nature...

SwM 4.130 8 [Swedenborg] was painfully alive to the difference between knowing and doing, and this sensibility is incessantly expressed. ... But this topic suggests a sad afterthought, that here we find the seat of his own pain.

MoS 4.168 1 The Essays...are an entertaining soliloquy on every random topic that comes into [Montaigne's] head;...

ShP 4.212 25 ...Shakspeare has no peculiarity, no importunate topic;...

GoW 4.275 23 It is really of very little consequence what topic [Goethe] writes upon.

GoW 4.283 12 ...men distinguished for wit and learning, in England and France...are not understood to be very deeply engaged, from grounds of character, to the topic or the part they espouse...

ET1 5.18 8 It was not Carlyle's fault that we talked on that topic [the immortality of the soul]...

ET1 5.19 15 [Wordsworth] had much to say of America, the more that it gave occasion for his favorite topic,--that society is being enlightened by a superficial tuition, out of all proportion to its being restrained by moral culture.

ET12 5.199 22 I saw several faithful, high-minded young men [at Oxford], some of them in the mood of making sacrifices for peace of mind,--a topic, of course, on which I had no counsel to offer.

Pow 6.78 26 Cannot one converse better on a topic on which he has experience, than on one which is new?

Pow 6.80 14 I adjourn what I have to say on this topic [the limit to the value of talent and superficial success] to the chapters on Culture and Worship.

Wth 6.124 23 ...we must not leave the topic [economy] without casting one glance into the interior recesses.

Bhr 6.196 16 ...there is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers.

Elo1 7.67 8 ...all these several audiences...which successively appear to greet the variety of style and topic [of the orator], are really composed out of the same persons;...

Elo1 7.82 4 In the assembly, you shall find the orator and the audience in perpetual balance; and the predominance of either is indicated by the choice of topic.

DL 7.124 16 ...we soon catch the trick of each man's conversation, and knowing his two or three main facts, anticipate what he thinks of each new topic that rises.

Boks 7.211 21 ...[the Germans] take any general topic...and write and quote without method or end.

Clbs 7.245 15 A right rule for a club would be,--Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic.

SA 8.87 15 To pass to an allied topic [to manners], one word or two in regard to dress...

SA 8.89 23 A few times in my life it has happened to me to meet persons of so good a nature and so good breeding that every topic was open...

SA 8.98 17 ...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.

PC 8.211 5 Every one who was in Italy thirty-five years ago will remember the caution with which his host or guest in any house looked around him, if a political topic were broached.

PPo 8.258 12 Friendship is a favorite topic of the Eastern poets...

Insp 8.272 4 When I wish to write on any topic, 't is of no consequence what kind of book or man gives me a hint or a motion...

Insp 8.272 7 When I wish to write on any topic, 't is of no consequence what kind of book or man gives me a hint or a motion, nor how far off that is from my topic.

Dem1 10.27 14 ...the attraction which this topic [demonology] has had for me...is precisely because I think the numberless forms in which this superstition has reappeared in every time and every people indicates the inextinguishableness of wonder in man...

Aris 10.31 1 There is an attractive topic, which never goes out of vogue...

SovE 10.199 5 Then you find so many men infatuated on that topic [religion]!

SovE 10.199 13 You may sometimes talk with the gravest and best citizen, and the moment the topic of religion is broached, he runs into a childish superstition.

Schr 10.264 5 This, gentlemen, is the topic on which I shall speak,-the natural and permanent function of the Scholar...

Schr 10.288 11 I had perhaps wiselier adhered to my first purpose of confining my illustration [of the scholar] to a single topic...

LLNE 10.331 19 [Everett] had a great talent for collecting facts, and for bringing those he had to bear with ingenious felicity on the topic of the moment.

CSC 10.373 12 The [Chardon Street] Convention...spent three days in the consideration of the Sabbath, and adjourned to a day in March of the following year [1841], for the discussion of the second topic.

LS 11.11 3 Whilst I am upon this topic, I cannot help remarking that it is not a little singular that we should have preserved this rite [the Lord's Supper] and insisted upon perpetuating one symbolical act of Christ whilst we have totally neglected all others...

War 11.156 3 In some parts of this country...the absorbing topic of all conversation is whipping; who fought, and which whipped?

FSLC 11.202 8 [Webster] must learn...that he who was their pride in the woods and mountains of New England is now their mortification...they have thrust his speeches into the chimney. No roars of New York mobs can drown this voice in Mr. Webster's ear. It will outwhisper all the salvos of the Union Committees' cannon. But I have said too much on this painful topic.

Scot 11.464 25 ...[Scott] had the...skill to fit his verse to his topic...

II 12.70 16 If you press [those we call great men], they fly to a new topic...

CInt 12.117 17 Two men cannot converse together on any topic without presently finding where each stands in moral judgment;...

PPr 12.379 19 ...the topic of English politics becomes the best vehicle for the expression of [Carlyle's] recent thinking...

topical, adj. (1)

Ctr 6.131 5 A topical memory makes [a man] an almanac;...

topics, n. (32)

AmS 1.111 4 The literature of the poor...the meaning of household life, are the topics of the time.

LE 1.158 5 What I have to say on that doctrine [of Literary Ethics] distributes itself under the topics of the resources, the subject, and the discipline of the scholar.

MN 1.195 11 The festival of the intellect and the return to its source cast a strong light on the always interesting topics of Man and Nature.

MN 1.198 12 In treating a subject so large...I know it is not easy to speak with the precision attainable on topics of less scope.

LT 1.261 16 The reason and influence of wealth...the fuller development and the freer play of Character as a social and political agent;-these and other related topics will in turn come to be considered.

Comp 2.95 21 I find a similar base tone in the popular religious works of the day and the same doctrines assumed by the literary men when occasionally they treat the related topics.

SwM 4.106 7 The grandeur of the topics makes the grandeur of [Swedenborg's] style.

MoS 4.167 14 [I seem to hear Montaigne say] I...think...plain topics where I do not need to strain myself and pump my brains, the most suitable.

ShP 4.212 20 [A man of talents] has certain observations, opinions, topics, which have some accidental prominence...

NMW 4.249 20 This deputy of the nineteenth century [Napoleon] added to his gifts a capacity for speculation on general topics.

ET1 5.15 24 ...books inevitably made [Carlyle's] topics.

F 6.4 23 If one would study his own time, it must be by this method of taking up in turn each of the leading topics which belong to our scheme of human life...

Ctr 6.152 13 In an English party a man...with a face like red dough, unexpectedly discloses wit, learning, a wide range of topics...

CbW 6.276 15 ...why multiply these topics...

Elo1 7.66 13 There are many audiences in every public assembly, each one of which rules in turn. If anything comic and coarse is spoken, you shall see the emergence of the boys and rowdies, so loud and vivacious that you might think the house was filled with them. If new topics are started, graver and higher, these roisters recede;...

Clbs 7.249 25 We need range and alternation of topics and variety of minds.

Cour 7.256 10 ...any man who puts his life in peril in a cause which is esteemed becomes the darling of all men. The very nursery-books...the favorite topics of eloquence...may testify.

SA 8.90 2 ...to the company I am now considering, were no terrors, no vulgarity. All topics were broached...

QO 8.183 26 ...when [Webster] opened a new book, he turned to the table of contents, took a pen, and sketched a sheet of matters and topics...

PPo 8.244 16 [Hafiz] accosts all topics with an easy audacity.

PPo 8.249 26 It is the spirit in which the song is written that imports, and not the topics.

PPo 8.250 5 Hafiz praises wine, roses...to give vent to his immense hilarity and sympathy with every form of beauty and joy; and lays the emphasis on these to mark his scorn of sanctimony and base prudence. These are the natural topics and language of his wit and perception.

Plu 10.301 10 [Plutarch's] surprising merit is the genial facility with which he deals with his manifold topics.

SMC 11.360 17 [The Civil War soldiers] have to think carefully of every last resource at home on which their wives or mothers may fall back; upon... the grass that can be sold, the old cow, or the heifer. These necessities make the topics of the ten thousand letters with which the mail-bags came loaded day by day.

EdAd 11.391 21 Will [a journal] venture into the thin and difficult air of that school where the secrets of structure are discussed under the topics of mesmerism and the twilights of demonology?

FRep 11.527 13 The facility with which clubs are formed by young men for discussion of social, political and intellectual topics secures the notoriety of the questions.

Milt1 12.272 9 The tracts [Milton] wrote on these topics [divorce and freedom of the press] are, for the most part, as fresh and pertinent to-day as they were then.

MLit 12.311 14 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...

EurB 12.370 6 The elegance, the wit and subtlety of this writer [Tennyson]...his peculiar topics...discriminate the musky poet of gardens and conservatories...

PPr 12.379 14 ...[Carlyle's Past and Present] is the book of a powerful and accomplished thinker, who has looked with naked eyes at the dreadful political signs in England for the last few years, has conversed much on these topics...

PPr 12.381 5 As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's Past and Present], we are struck with the force given to the plain truths;...

Let 12.392 12 ...we have thought that we might clear our account [of correspondence] by writing a quarterly catholic letter to all and several who have...expressed a curiosity to know our opinion. We shall be compelled to dispose very rapidly of quite miscellaneous topics.

topmost, adj. (2)

LT 1.284 26 The canker worms have crawled to the topmost bough of the wild elm...

Edc1 10.140 7 In their fun and extreme freak [boys] hit on the topmost sense of Horace.

topography, n. (1)

Hsm1 2.257 19 ...the ear loves names of foreign and classic topography.

topple, v. (1)

Cir 2.303 3 The hand that built [the wall] can topple it down much faster.

tops, n. (5)

NMW 4.246 12 ...[Napoleon's] inexhaustible resource:--what events! what romantic pictures! what strange situations!...drawing up his army for battle in sight of the Pyramids, and saying to his troops, From the tops of those pyramids, forty centuries look down on you;...

WD 7.169 1 Cannot memory still descry the old school-house and its porch...where you spun tops and snapped marbles;...

MoL 10.249 20 As certainly as water falls in rain on the tops of mountains and runs down into valleys, plains and pits, so does thought fall first on the best minds, and run down...

MMEm 10.407 17 [Mary Moody Emerson] had the misfortune of spinning with a greater velocity than any of the other tops.

CL 12.157 11 Can you...bring home the tops of Uncanoonuc?

Topsy [Stowe, Uncle Tom's (1)

PLT 12.35 9 Instinct is a shapeless giant in the cave...Behemoth... aboriginal...and saying, like poor Topsy, never was born; growed.

Tor Bay, England, n. (1)

ET3 5.42 15 In the variety of surface, Britain is a miniature of Europe, having...delicious landscape in Dovedale, delicious sea-view at Tor Bay...

torch, n. (8)

Nat 1.26 20 ...a learned man is a torch.

Farm 7.145 24 Whilst all thus burns,--the universe in a blaze kindled from the torch of the sun,--it needs a perpetual tempering...to check the fury of the conflagration;...

PI 8.4 2 ...the most imaginative and abstracted person...never...carries a torch into a powder-mill...

Edc1 10.136 6 Let us apply to this subject [education] the light of the same torch by which we have looked at all the phenomena of the time; the infinitude, namely, of every man.

Schr 10.273 22 If [the scholar] is not kindling his torch or collecting oil, he will fear to go by a workshop;...

Schr 10.275 15 Man is a torch borne in the wind.

PLT 12.21 11 The retrospective value of each new thought is...like a torch applied to a long train of gunpowder.

CInt 12.112 6 I know the mighty bards,/ I listen when they sing,/ And now I know/ The secret store/ Which these explore/ When they with torch of genius pierce/ The tenfold clouds that cover/ The riches of the universe/ From God's adoring lover./

torch-bearers, n. (1)

Pt1 3.4 18 ...we are not pans and barrows, nor even porters of the fire and torch-bearers...

torches, n. (2)

Res 8.149 15 In the Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, the torches which each traveller carries make a dismal funeral procession...

SHC 11.428 2 No abbey's gloom, nor dark cathedral stoops,/ No winding torches paint the midnight air;/...

tore, v. (1)

Mrs1 3.142 12 A tradesman who had long dunned [Charles James Fox] for a note of three hundred guineas, found him one day counting gold, and demanded payment. No, said Fox, I owe this money to Sheridan; it is a debt of honor; if an accident should happen to me, he has nothing to show. Then, said the creditor, I change my debt into a debt of honor, and tore the note in pieces.

tories, n. (1)

NER 3.272 19 In the circle of the rankest tories...let a powerful and stimulating intellect...act on them, and very quickly these frozen conservators will yield to the friendly influence...

torment, n. (4)

LT 1.282 4 ...our torment is Unbelief...

Fdsp 2.198 21 ...thou art to me a delicious torment.

Bhr 6.194 3 The angel that was sent to find a place of torment for [the monk Basle] attempted to remove him to a worse pit...

ACiv 11.306 20 ...what kind of peace shall at that moment be easiest attained, [the people] will make concessions for it,-will give up the slaves, and the whole torment of the past half-century will come back to be endured anew.

torment, v. (1)

SL 2.160 23 ...why need you torment yourself and friend by secret self-reproaches that you have not assisted him...heretofore?

tormentable, adj. (1)

Cir 2.321 12 The great man is not convulsible or tormentable;...

tormented, adj. (1)

LVB 11.95 11 ...the steps of this crime [the relocation of the Cherokees] follow each other...at such fatally quick time, that the millions of virtuous citizens...must shut their eyes until the last howl and wailing of these tormented villages and tribes shall afflict the ear of the world.

tormented, v. (9)

LT 1.282 1 Our forefathers walked in the world and went to their graves tormented with the fear of Sin...

Comp 2.117 27 When [a great man] is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something;...

Fdsp 2.199 22 After interviews have been compassed with long foresight we must be tormented presently by baffled blows...in the heydey of friendship and thought.

Cir 2.307 9 ...if I have a friend I am tormented by my imperfections.

SwM 4.125 18 [To Swedenborg] The ghosts are tormented with the fear of death...

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.

ET14 5.254 24 ...having attempted to domesticate and dress the Blessed Soul itself in English broadcloth and gaiters, [the English] are tormented with fear that herein lurks a force that will sweep their system away.

OA 7.326 24 [The youth] is tormented with the want of correspondence between things and thoughts.

Trag 12.410 16 ...analyze [tragedy];...it is always another person who is tormented.

tormenting, adj. (1)

Insp 8.286 7 ...I thank the annoying insect/ For many a golden hour./ Stand, then, for me, ye tormenting creatures,/ Highly praised by the poet/ As the true Musagetes./

tormenting, v. (1)

EWI 11.119 4 The planter...has contracted in his indolent and luxurious climate the need of excitement by irritating and tormenting his slave.

tormentors, n. (1)

SwM 4.131 21 [Swedenborg] was let down through a column that...was formed of angelic spirits, that he might descend safely amongst the unhappy, and witness the vastation of souls and hear there...their lamentations; he saw their tormentors...

torments, n. (5)

ShP 4.206 22 The recitation [of Shakespeare] begins; one golden word leaps out immortal from all this painted pedantry and sweetly torments us with invitations to its own inaccessible homes.

CbW 6.266 5 An old French verse runs, in my translation:--Some of your griefs you have cured,/ And the sharpest you still have survived;/ But what torments of pain you endured/ From evils that never arrived!/

Cour 7.265 18 The torments of martyrdoms are probably most keenly felt by the by-standers.

Cour 7.265 20 The torments of martyrdoms are probably most keenly felt by the by-standers. The torments are illusory.

Trag 12.416 25 [The intellect] yields the joys of conversation, of letters and of science. Hence also the torments of life become tuneful tragedy...

torments, v. (2)

Wth 6.88 11 ...[nature] starves, taunts and torments [a man]...until he has fought his way to his own loaf.

Carl 10.490 4 [Carlyle] talks like a very unhappy man...meditating how to undermine and explode the whole world of nonsense which torments him.

torn, adj. (1)

ET19 5.313 1 Is it not true, sir, that the wise ancients did not praise the ship parting with flying colors from the port, but only that brave sailor which came back with torn sheets and battered sides...

torn, v. (5)

Exp 3.49 7 ...something which I fancied was a part of me, which could not be torn away without tearing me...falls off from me and leaves no scar.

ET7 5.117 14 'T is said that the wolf, who makes a cache of his prey and brings his fellows with him to the spot, if, on digging, it is not found, is instantly and unresistingly torn in pieces.

War 11.171 10 ...[peace] is to hear the voice of God, which bids the devils that have rended and torn [the man] come out of him...

FSLC 11.202 3 [Webster] must learn...that he who was their pride in the woods and mountains of New England is now their mortification,-they have torn down his picture from the wall...

SMC 11.369 5 [George Prescott writes] Our colors had several holes made, and were badly torn.

tornado, n. (2)

PI 8.50 4 Now try Spenser, Marlowe, Chapman, and see...how rich and lavish their profusion. In their rhythm is...a vortex, or musical tornado...

ALin 11.335 7 ...what an occasion was the whirlwind of the war. Here was place for...no fair-weather sailor; the new pilot was hurried to the helm in a tornado.

Tornea, Sweden, n. (1)

CL 12.137 15 In Tornea, [Linnaeus] found the people suffering every spring from the loss of their cattle...

torpedo, n. (1)

NMW 4.257 27 [Napoleon's egotism] resembled the torpedo...

torpid, adj. (12)

Nat 1.70 10 A wise writer will feel that the ends of study and composition are best answered by announcing undiscovered regions of thought, and so communicating, through hope, new activity to the torpid spirit.

ET17 5.297 24 There are torpid places in [Wordsworth's] mind...

F 6.37 6 ...it was found that whilst some animals became torpid in winter, others were torpid in summer...

F 6.37 10 [The animal] becomes torpid when the fruit or prey it lives on is not in season...

Pow 6.60 20 ...the torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost...

CbW 6.248 12 The men we meet are coarse and torpid.

Insp 8.274 14 What metaphysician has undertaken to enumerate the tonics of the torpid mind...

Grts 8.302 23 Who can doubt the potency of an individual mind, who sees the shock given to torpid races-torpid for ages-by Mahomet;...

Edc1 10.126 11 ...when one and the same man passes out of the torpid into the perceiving state...all limits disappear.

Supl 10.179 7 There is no writing which has more electric power to unbind and animate the torpid intellect than the bold Eastern muse.

Prch 10.224 14 The human race are afflicted with a St. Vitus's dance;... their senses, their talents, are superfluously active, while the torpid heart gives no oracle.

Bost 12.206 14 ...youth and health like a stirring town, above a torpid place where nothing is doing.

torpidity, n. (3)

NER 3.271 6 Iron conservative, miser, or thief, no man is but by a supposed necessity, which he tolerates by shortness or torpidity of sight.

ET13 5.221 18 The torpidity on the side of religion of the vigorous English understanding shows how much wit and folly can agree in one brain.

Dem1 10.6 13 In a dream we have...the same torpidity of the highest power, the same unsurprised assent to the monstrous as these metamorphosed men [animals] exhibit.

torpor, n. (3)

FSLN 11.240 2 ...torpor exists here throughout the active classes on the subject of domestic slavery and its appalling aggressions.

FRep 11.533 2 The source of mischief is the extreme difficulty with which men are roused from the torpor of every day.

FRep 11.533 4 Blessed is all that agitates the mass, breaks up this torpor...

torrent, n. (9)

LE 1.172 22 The inundation of the spirit sweeps away before it all our little architecture of wit and memory, as straws and straw-huts before the torrent.

MN 1.199 21 If anything could stand still, it would be crushed and dissipated by the torrent it resisted...

Chr1 3.94 12 How often has the influence of a true master realized all the tales of magic! A river of command seemed to run down from his eyes into all those who beheld him, a torrent of strong sad light...

NMW 4.236 3 [Bonaparte]...on a hostile position, rained a torrent of iron...

GoW 4.289 3 In this aim of culture, which is the genius of [Goethe's] works, is their power. ... The surrender to the torrent of poetic inspiration is higher;...

F 6.33 6 The mischievous torrent is taught to drudge for man;...

Wth 6.84 12 ...The storm-wind wove, the torrent span,/ Where they were bid the rivers ran;/...

Elo2 8.114 5 In the folds of his brow, in the majesty of his mien, Nature has marked her son; and in that artificial and perhaps unworthy place and company [the Senate] shall remind you of the lessons taught him in earlier days by the torrent in the gloom of the pine-woods...

PLT 12.28 10 'T is only the source that we can see;-the eternal mind... continually ejaculating its torrent into every artery and vein and veinlet of humanity.

torrents, n. (5)

AmS 1.91 2 ...let [the soul] receive from another mind its truth, though it were in torrents of light...and a fatal disservice is done.

ET11 5.180 25 Mirabeau wrote prophetically from England, in 1784, If revolution break out in France, I tremble for the aristocracy: their chateaux will be reduced to ashes and their blood be spilt in torrents.

F 6.19 10 The force with which we resist these torrents of tendency looks so ridiculously inadequate...

Elo1 7.92 25 ...in cases where profound conviction has been wrought, the eloquent man is he...who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief. It... perhaps almost bereaves him of the power of articulation. Then it rushes from him...in torrents of meaning.

II 12.65 21 ...in each man's experience, from this spark [consciousness] torrents of light have once and again streamed...

torrid, adj. (4)

Pt1 3.9 13 [A recent writer of lyrics] does not stand out of our low limitations, like a Chimborazo under the line, running up from a torrid base through all the climates of the globe...

Mrs1 3.144 10 ...here is...Reverend Jul Bat, who has converted the whole torrid zone in his Sunday school;...

Supl 10.176 14 In the temperate climates there is a temperate speech, in torrid climates an ardent one.

EWI 11.98 3 There a captive sat in chains,/ Crooning ditties treasured well/ From his Afric's torrid plains./

Torrington, Connecticut, n. (1)

JBS 11.277 16 John Brown...was born in Torrington, Litchfield County, Connecticut, in 1800.

Torso Hercules, n. (1)

PI 8.13 8 When some familiar truth or fact appears in a new dress...we cannot enough testify our surprise and pleasure. It is like the new virtue shown in some unprized old property, as...when the old horse-block in the yard is found to be a Torso Hercules of the Phidian age.

torsos, n. (1)

Hist 2.23 25 The primeval world...I can dive to it in myself as well as grope for it with researching fingers in...the broken reliefs and torsos of ruined villas.

tortoises, n. (2)

ET18 5.305 19 These poor tortoises [the English] must hold hard, for they feel no wings sprouting at their shoulders.

CL 12.162 19 Sometimes the farmer withstands [the true naturalist] in crossing his lots, but 't is to no purpose; the farmer could as well hope to prevent the sparrows or tortoises.

tortoise's, n. (1)

ET18 5.305 9 There is cramp limitation in [Englishmen's] habit of thought...and a tortoise's instinct to hold hard to the ground with his claws...

torture, n. (5)

ET4 5.64 9 The torture of criminals, and the rack for extorting evidence, were slowly disused [in England].

ET4 5.64 16 In the last session (1848), the House of Commons was listening to the details of flogging and torture practised in the jails.

HDC 11.59 20 A nameless Wampanoag who was put to death by the Mohicans, after cruel tortures, was asked by his butchers, during the torture, how he liked the war?-he said, he found it as sweet as sugar was to Englishmen.

War 11.157 23 The increase of civility has abolished the use of poison and of torture...

Trag 12.415 11 We fancy [suffering] is torture; the patient has his own compensations.

tortured, v. (2)

ET4 5.61 1 ...[the Normans] burned, harried, violated, tortured and killed...

Suc 7.292 15 The gravest and learnedest courts in this country...will wait months and years for a case to occur that can be tortured into a precedent...

tortures, n. (4)

ET7 5.125 24 ...tortures, it is said, could never wrest from an Egyptian the confession of a secret.

Suc 7.308 16 I do not find executions or tortures or lazar-houses...fit subjects for cabinet pictures.

HDC 11.59 19 A nameless Wampanoag who was put to death by the Mohicans, after cruel tortures, was asked by his butchers, during the torture, how he liked the war?-he said, he found it as sweet as sugar was to Englishmen.

EWI 11.124 8 If any mention was made of homicide, madness, adultery, and intolerable tortures [of negroes], we would let the church-bells ring louder...

torturing, adj. (1)

War 11.166 23 ...bayonet and sword...will be transferred to the museums of the curious, as poisoning and torturing tools are at this day.

tory, adj. (2)

ET7 5.123 9 The radical mob at Oxford cried after the tory Lord Eldon, There's old Eldon; cheer him; he never ratted.

HDC 11.61 19 When the Dutch, or the French, or the English royalist disagreed with the [Massachusetts Bay] Colony, there was always found a Dutch, or French, or tory party,-an earnest minority,-to keep things from extremity.

tory, n. (1)

Carl 10.493 3 If a tory takes heart at [Carlyle's] hatred of stump-oratory and model republics, he replies, Yes, the idea of a pig-headed soldier who will obey orders, and fire on his own father at the command of his officer, is a great comfort to the aristocratic mind.

toss, v. (1)

Hist 2.35 17 We may all shoot a wild bull that would toss the good and beautiful...

tossed, v. (6)

Nat 1.48 23 We are not built like a ship, to be tossed...

QO 8.182 1 ...what we daily observe in regard to the bon-mots that circulate in society...the same growth befalls mythology: the legend is tossed from believer to poet, from poet to believer...

EzRy 10.386 10 [Ezra Ripley's] prayers...against sickness and insanity; that we have not been tossed to and fro until the dawning of the day...are well remembered...

CPL 11.504 19 The Duchess d'Abrantes...tells us that Bonaparte...tossed his journals and books out of his travelling carriage as fast as he had read them...

ACri 12.302 26 ...this is the ball that is tossed in every court of law, in every legislature and in literature...by sovereignty of thought to make facts and men obey our present humor or belief.

PPr 12.385 1 Here is a book [Carlyle's Past and Present] as full of treason as an egg is full of meat, and every lordship and worship and high form and ceremony of English conservatism tossed like a football into the air...

tosses, v. (4)

Nat 1.52 16 [Shakspeare's] imperial muse tosses the creation like a bauble from hand to hand...

PPh 4.73 27 No escape; [Socrates] drives [his opponents] to terrible choices by his dilemmas, and tosses the Hippiases and Gorgiases with their grand reputations, as a boy tosses his balls.

PPh 4.74 1 No escape; [Socrates] drives [his opponents] to terrible choices by his dilemmas, and tosses the Hippiases and Gorgiases with their grand reputations, as a boy tosses his balls.

ACiv 11.298 6 ...who is this who tosses his empty head at this blessing in disguise...and calls labor vile...

tossing, adj. (1)

Elo1 7.98 15 In this tossing sea of delusion we feel with our feet the adamant;...

tossing, n. (1)

Comp 2.98 22 The waves of the sea do not more speedily seek a level from their loftiest tossing than the varieties of condition tend to equalize themselves.

tossing, v. (1)

SR 2.76 24 ...the moment [a man] acts from himself, tossing the laws...out of the window, we pity him no more...

tota, adj. (1)

SwM 4.104 21 Malpighi...had given emphasis to the dogma that nature works in leasts,--tota in minimis existit natura.

total, adj. (44)

Nat 1.62 21 Idealism acquaints us with the total disparity between the evidence of our own being and the evidence of the world's being.

AmS 1.97 10 ...he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions has the richest return of wisdom.

AmS 1.99 13 [The great soul] can still fall back on this elemental force of living [his truths]. This is a total act.

DSA 1.122 22 A man in the view of absolute goodness, adores, with total humility.

LE 1.180 18 ...always remained [Napoleon's] total trust in the prodigious revolutions of fortune which his reserved Imperial Guard were capable of working...

LE 1.183 14 They [whom the student's thoughts have entertained or inflamed] find that he is a poor, ignorant man...now and then [emitting] a jet of luminous thought followed by total darkness;...

MN 1.203 8 ...total nature is growing like a field of maize in July;...

MN 1.216 21 ...there are other examples of this total and supreme influence...

MR 1.254 23 Have you not seen in the woods...a poor fungus or mushroom...by its constant, total...gentle pushing, manage to break its way up through the frosty ground...

Con 1.319 11 The conservative assumes sickness as a necessity, and...his total legislation is for the present distress...

Fdsp 2.200 24 Love...is...for the total worth of man.

Fdsp 2.217 3 The essence of friendship is...a total magnanimity and trust.

OS 2.274 23 The growths of genius are of a certain total character...

Cir 2.320 13 ...the masterpieces of God, the total growths and universal movements of the soul, he hideth;...

Chr1 3.106 20 How captivating is [children's] devotion to their favorite books...as feeling that they have a stake in that book;...and especially the total solitude of the critic, the Patmos of thought from which he writes, in unconsciousness of any eyes that shall ever read this writing.

Mrs1 3.139 27 [Society]...hates whatever can interfere with total blending of parties;...

Gts 3.163 20 ...the expectation of gratitude...is continually punished by the total insensibility of the obliged person.

NR 3.226 23 ...the power which drew my respect is not supported by the total symphony of [a man's] talents.

NR 3.228 11 ...as we grow older we value total powers and effects...

NER 3.261 24 It is handsomer to remain in the establishment better than the establishment, and to conduct that in the best manner, than to make a sally against evil by some single improvement, without supporting it by a total regeneration.

NER 3.265 20 I have not been able either to persuade my brother or to prevail on myself to disuse the traffic or the potation of brandy, but perhaps a pledge of total abstinence might effectually restrain us.

SwM 4.127 21 ...in the real or spiritual world the nuptial union is not momentary [to Swedenborg], but incessant and total;...

ShP 4.214 16 The sonnets [of Shakespeare], though their excellence is lost in the splendor of the dramas, are as inimitable as they; and it is not a merit of lines, but a total merit of the piece;...

F 6.42 7 ...a man likes better to be complimented on his position, as the proof of the last or total excellence, than on his merits.

Ctr 6.148 12 ...let [a man's] own genius be what it may, it will repel quite as much of agreeable and valuable talent as it draws, and, in a city, the total attraction of all the citizens is sure to conquer, first or last, every repulsion...

Wsp 6.213 20 ...our faith in ecstasy consists with total inexperience of it.

Wsp 6.227 13 As we grow older we value total powers and effects...

Elo1 7.76 13 ...eloquence is attractive as an example of the magic of personal ascendency,--a total and resultant power...

DL 7.125 27 ...we hold fast, all our lives long, a faith...in clean and noble relations, notwithstanding our total inexperience of a true society.

Cour 7.258 25 The political reigns of terror have been...a total perversion of opinion;...

OA 7.313 6 I know ye [clouds] skilful to convoy/ The total freight of hope and joy/ Into rude and homely nooks,/ Shed mocking lustres on shelf of books,/ On farmer's byre, on pasture rude,/ And stony pathway to the wood./

Dem1 10.20 11 The Ego partial makes the dream; the Ego total the interpretation.

Edc1 10.154 9 ...total abstinence from this drug [of emulation and display]... involves at once immense claims on the time, the thoughts, on the life of the teacher.

Schr 10.277 24 It is excellent when the individual is ripened to that degree that he touches both the centre and the circumference, so that he...alternates the contemplation of the fact in pure intellect, with the total conversion of the intellect into energy;...

EWI 11.113 13 The Ministers...estimated the total value of the slave property [in the West Indies] at 30,000,000 pounds sterling...

FSLN 11.217 15 The one thing not to be forgiven to intellectual persons is... to take their ideas from others. From this want of manly rest in their own and rash acceptance of other people's watchwords come the imbecility and fatigue of their conversation. For they cannot affirm these...with the natural movement and total strength of their nature and talent...

FSLN 11.220 13 I saw that a great man [Webster]...was able,-fault of the total want of stamina in public men,-when he failed...to carry parties with him.

FSLN 11.222 21 [Webster's] power...was total.

CInt 12.120 1 ...I value [talent] more...when the talent is...subject to the total and native sentiment of the man...

MLit 12.326 14 [Goethe] differs from all the great in the total want of frankness.

MLit 12.328 16 ...let us honestly record our thought upon the total worth and influence of this genius [Goethe].

EurB 12.372 23 Ulysses [Tennyson] belongs to a high class of poetry, destined...to be more cultivated in the next generation. Oenone was a sketch of the same kind. One of the best specimens we have of the class is Wordsworth's Laodamia, of which no special merit it can possess equals the total merit of having selected such a subject in such a spirit.

Let 12.393 14 Our friend suggests so many inconveniences from piracy out of the high air to orchards and lone houses...and the total inadequacy of the present system of defence, that we have not the heart to break the sleep of the good public by the repetition of these details.

Let 12.403 22 Apathies and total want of work...are like seasickness...

total, sum, n. (1)

SR 2.62 27 ...power and estate, are a gaudier vocabulary than private John and Edward in a..common day's work; but...the sum total of both is the same.

totality, n. (3)

Nat 1.24 1 The standard of beauty is the entire circuit of natural forms - the totality of nature;...

YA 1.389 24 The private mind has the access to the totality of goodness and truth...

PPr 12.380 8 ...he is the commander...whose eye not only sees details, but throws crowds of details into...a larger and juster totality than any other.

totally, adv. (8)

Pt1 3.24 24 The poet also resigns himself to his mood, and that thought which agitated him is expressed, but...in a manner totally new.

NMW 4.232 19 I have gained some advantages over superior forces and when totally destitute of every thing [Bonaparte writes to the Directory], because...my actions were as prompt as my thoughts.

CbW 6.274 19 ...all those who are native, congenial, and by many an oath of the heart sacramented to you, are gradually and totally lost.

Aris 10.39 15 I wish...men who...can feel and convey the sense which is only collectively or totally expressed by a population;...

Edc1 10.137 27 I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young soul to which they are totally unfit.

LS 11.11 7 ...it is not a little singular that we should have preserved this rite [the Lord's Supper] and insisted upon perpetuating one symbolical act of Christ whilst we have totally neglected all others...

FSLN 11.227 19 ...Mr. Webster and the country went for the application to these poor men [negroes] of quadruped law. People were expecting a totally different course from Mr. Webster.

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...

totter, v. (1)

DSA 1.135 26 The Church seems to totter to its fall...

tottering, adj. (2)

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...does not like to be practised upon...

Chr2 10.119 3 [Growth] is not dangerous, any more than the mother's withdrawing her hands from the tottering babe, at his first walk across the nursery-floor...

totters, v. (1)

Tran 1.355 9 Our virtue totters and trips, does not yet walk firmly.

Tottipottymoy [Butler, Hudi (1)

Comc 8.166 9 This precious brother having slain,/ In times of peace, an Indian,/ Not out of malice, but mere zeal/ (Because he was an infidel),/ The mighty Tottipottymoy/ Sent to our elders an envoy/...

touch, n. (15)

LE 1.159 18 The sense of spiritual independence is like the lovely varnish of the dew, whereby the old...earth and its old...productions are made new every morning, and shining with the last touch of the artist's hand.

Prd1 2.223 13 The world is filled with the proverbs and acts and winkings of a base prudence, which is a devotion to matter, as if we possessed no other faculties than the palate...the touch...

Pt1 3.6 6 Every touch [of nature] should thrill.

UGM 4.14 6 Cecil's saying of Sir Walter Raleigh, I know that he can toil terribly, is an electric touch.

SwM 4.133 27 Only when Cicero comes by, our gentle seer [Swedenborg] sticks a little at saying he talked with Cicero, and with a touch of human relenting remarks, one whom it was given me to believe was Cicero;...

ET1 5.14 11 ...Montague, still talking with his back to the canvas, put up his hand and touched it, and exclaimed, By Heaven! this picture is not ten years old:--so delicate and skilful was that man's touch.

ET5 5.99 11 An electric touch by any of their national ideas, melts [the English] into one family...

ET10 5.153 3 In America there is a touch of shame when a man exhibits the evidences of large property...

Pow 6.79 12 Six hours every day at the piano, only to give facility of touch;...

Bty 6.305 18 ...the fact is familiar that the fine touch of the eye...plants wings at our shoulders;...

Elo1 7.75 3 ...a ruffian touch in his rhetoric, will do [the member of Congress] no harm with his audience.

Res 8.137 9 The world is...strings of tension waiting to be struck; the earth sensitive as iodine to light; the most plastic and impressionable medium, alive to every touch...

FSLC 11.198 1 ...here are gentlemen whose believed probity was the confidence and fortification of multitudes, who...have been drawn into the support of this foul business [the Fugitive Slave Law]. We poor men in the country who might once have thought it an honor to shake hands with them...would now shrink from their touch...

Bost 12.185 12 ...if the character of the people [of Boston] has a larger range and greater versatility...perhaps they may thank their climate of extremes, which at one season gives them the splendor of the equator and a touch of Syria, and then runs down to a cold which approaches the temperature of the celestial spaces.

MLit 12.330 25 The vicious conventions...which the poet should explode at his touch, stand [in Wilhelm Meister] for all they are worth in the newspaper.

touch, v. (30)

MR 1.247 15 If we...say,-I will neither eat nor drink nor wear nor touch any food or fabric which I do not know to be innocent...we shall stand still.

Con 1.306 21 ...[the youth] says, If I am born in the earth...have the goodness, gentlemen of this world, to show me...my pleasant ground where to build my cabin. Touch any wood, or field, or house-lot, on your peril, cry all the gentlemen of this world;...

Con 1.308 10 Now you touch the heart of the matter, replies the reformer.

Comp 2.105 11 Life invests itself with inevitable conditions...which one and another brags...that they do not touch him;...

Int 2.337 27 ...the mystic pencil wherewith we...draw [in unconscious states]...can design well and group well;...and the whole canvas which it paints is...apt to touch us with terror...

Exp 3.48 20 ...souls never touch their objects.

Exp 3.49 5 If to-morrow I should be informed of the bankruptcy of my principal debtors, the loss of my property would be a great inconvenience to me, perhaps, for many years; but it would leave me as it found me,--neither better nor worse. So is it with this calamity [the death of my son]; it does not touch me;...

Exp 3.77 22 Two human beings are like globes, which can touch only in a point...

UGM 4.14 22 ...it is hard for departed men to touch the quick like our own companions...

UGM 4.19 12 We touch and go, and sip the foam of many lives.

UGM 4.33 5 The study of many individuals leads us to an elemental region...wherein all touch by their summits.

MoS 4.158 4 ...to put any of the questions which touch mankind nearest,-- shall the young man aim at a leading part in law, in politics, in trade? It will not be pretended that a success in either of these kinds is quite coincident with what is best and inmost in his mind.

ET2 5.28 12 ...that wonderful esprit du corps by which we adopt into our self-love every thing we touch, makes us all champions of [a ship's] sailing qualities.

ET3 5.42 19 In the variety of surface, Britain is a miniature of Europe, having...in Westmoreland and Cumberland a pocket Switzerland, in which the lakes and mountains are on a sufficient scale to fill the eye and touch the imagination.

ET14 5.248 1 The critic [in England] hides his skepticism under the English cant of practical. To convince the reason, to touch the conscience, is romantic pretension.

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.

Bty 6.284 3 The motive of science was the extension of man...till his hands should touch the stars...

Civ 7.32 3 ...it is not New York streets...though stretching out towards Philadelphia until they touch it...that make the real estimation.

Civ 7.32 3 ...it is not New York streets...though stretching...northward until they touch New Haven, Hartford, Springfield, Worcester and Boston,--that make the real estimation.

Elo1 7.59 2 For whom the Muses smile upon,/ And touch with soft persuasion,/ His words, like a storm-wind, can bring/ Terror and beauty on their wing;/...

Elo1 7.62 23 ...this lust to speak marks the universal feeling of the energy of the engine, and the curiosity men feel to touch the springs.

Clbs 7.239 13 To answer a question so as to admit of no reply, is the test of a man,--to touch bottom every time.

Cour 7.256 27 Touch the snapping-turtle with a stick, and he seizes it with his teeth.

PI 8.3 18 The common sense which...takes...things as they appear,-- believes in the existence of matter, not because we can touch it or conceive of it, but because it agrees with ourselves...

Edc1 10.143 4 Do not spare to put novels into the hands of young people as an occasional holiday and experiment; but, above all, good poetry in all kinds, epic, tragedy, lyric. If we can touch the imagination, we serve them...

Supl 10.172 21 At the Bank of England they put a scrap of paper that is worth a million pounds sterling into the hands of the visitor to touch.

MMEm 10.411 21 What a rich day, so fully occupied in pursuing truth that I [Mary Moody Emerson] scorned to touch a novel which for so many years I have wanted.

PLT 12.28 17 No quality in Nature's vast magazines [each man] cannot touch...

Milt1 12.255 17 The man of Lord Chesterfield is unworthy to touch [Milton's man's] garment's hem.

ACri 12.290 14 The French have a neat phrase, that the secret of boring you is that of telling all,-Le secret d'ennuyer est celui de tout dire; which we translate short, Touch and go.

touched, adj. (1)

Insp 8.285 18 ...the love-filled singers [nightingales]/ Poured by night before my window/ Their sweet melodies,-/ Kept awake my dear soul,/ Roused tender new longings/ In my lately touched bosom/...

touched, v. (34)

Nat 1.18 11 I...believe that we are as much touched by [winter scenery] as by the genial influences of summer.

DSA 1.139 3 The good hearer is sure he has been touched sometimes;...

LE 1.169 9 ...the pines, bearded with savage moss, yet touched with grace by the violets at their feet;...this beauty...has never been recorded by art...

MN 1.216 6 Your end should be one inapprehensible to the senses; then will it be a god always approached, never touched;...

Hist 2.31 16 ...every time [Antaeus] touched his mother-earth his strength was renewed.

Lov1 2.176 3 ...he touched the secret of the matter who said of love,--All other pleasures are not worth its pains/...

Lov1 2.179 6 Who can analyze the nameless charm which glances from one and another face and form? We are touched with emotions of tenderness and complacency...

Fdsp 2.204 22 When a man becomes dear to me I have touched the goal of fortune.

Int 2.338 3 ...the artist's copies from experience [are]...always touched and softened by tints from this ideal domain.

Art1 2.362 18 The knowledge of picture dealers has its value, but listen not to their criticism when your heart is touched by genius.

Art1 2.362 20 [The work of art] was not painted for [picture dealers], it was painted for you; for such as had eyes capable of being touched by simplicity and lofty emotions.

Pt1 3.30 6 We seem to be touched by a wand which makes us dance and run about happily, like children.

Mrs1 3.145 25 The epitaph of Sir Jenkin Grout is not wholly unintelligible to the present age: Here lies Sir Jenkin Grout...whoso touched his finger, drew after it his whole body.

NER 3.278 2 ...we desire to be touched with that fire which shall command this ice to stream, and make our existence a benefit.

UGM 4.34 11 Once [our teachers] were angels of knowledge, and their figures touched the sky.

GoW 4.262 10 In man, the memory is a kind of looking-glass, which, having received the images of surrounding objects, is touched with life...

ET1 5.14 8 ...Montague, still talking with his back to the canvas, put up his hand and touched it...

ET1 5.23 20 [Wordsworth] preferred such of his poems as touched the affections, to any others;...

F 6.26 8 All things are touched and changed by [the mind].

Wsp 6.212 7 Even well-disposed, good sort of people are touched with the same infidelity...

Wsp 6.235 19 I ate whatever was set before me [said Benedict]; I touched ivy and dogwood.

Ill 6.310 17 ...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. All the party were touched with astonishment and pleasure.

DL 7.103 13 Welcome to the parents the puny struggler...his lips touched with persuasion which Chatham and Pericles in manhood had not.

PI 8.63 11 [The high poets] have touched this heaven and retain afterwards some sparkle of it...

Res 8.137 20 I am benefited by every observation of a victory of man over Nature;...by seeing that every healthy and resolute man is...a method coming into a confusion and drawing order out of it. We are touched and cheered by every such example.

PPo 8.262 19 A painter in China once painted a hall;/ Such a web never hung on an emperor's wall;-/ One half from his brush with rich colors did run,/ The other he touched with a beam of the sun;/...

Aris 10.33 14 The terrible aristocracy that is in Nature. Real people dwelling with the real...then, far down, people of taste, people dwelling in a relation, or rumor, or influence of good and fair...superficially touched... and, far below these, gross and thoughtless, the animal man...

Plu 10.315 9 ...this Stoic [Plutarch] in his fight...with vices, effeminacy and indolence, is gentle as a woman when other strings are touched.

MMEm 10.411 23 How insipid is fiction to a mind touched with immortal views!

MMEm 10.412 2 I [Mary Moody Emerson] am so small in my expectations, that a week of industry delights. Rose before light every morn;...touched Shakspeare...

EWI 11.107 11 [Lord Mansfield's] decision established the principle that the air of England is too pure for any slave to breathe, but the wrongs in the islands [West Indies] were not thereby touched.

ALin 11.336 21 ...what if it should turn out, in the unfolding of the web, that [Lincoln] had reached the term;...that the rebellion had touched its natural conclusion, and what remained to be done required new and uncommitted hands...

SHC 11.430 25 Our people accepting this lesson from science, yet touched by the tenderness which Christianity breathes, have found a mean in the consecration of gardens.

CL 12.156 5 ...a view from a cliff over a wide country...reinstates us wronged men in our rights. The imagination is touched.

touches, n. (3)

Chr1 3.105 1 How death-cold is literary genius before this fire of life [character]! These are the touches that reanimate my heavy soul...

ET5 5.78 20 You shall trace these Gothic touches [in England] at school, at country fairs...

PI 8.51 12 ...they adorned the sepulchres of the dead, and, planting thereon lasting bases, defied the crumbling touches of time...

touches, v. (22)

Nat 1.7 7 The rays that come from those heavenly worlds will separate between [a man] and what he touches.

Nat 1.57 8 ...no man touches these divine natures [ideas], without becoming, in some degree, himself divine.

Con 1.320 15 [Conservatism's] social and political action has no better aim;...a timid cobbler and patcher, it degrades whatever it touches.

SR 2.79 17 In proportion...to the number of objects [a thought] touches...is [the pupil's] complacency.

Chr1 3.106 19 How captivating is [children's] devotion to their favorite books...as feeling that they have a stake in that book; who touches that, touches them...

PNR 4.85 12 This eldest Goethe [Plato]...appears like the god of wealth among the cabins of vagabonds, opening power and capability in everything he touches.

ShP 4.216 14 [Shakespeare] touches nothing that does not borrow health and longevity from his festal style.

GoW 4.284 7 There are nobler strains in poetry than any [Goethe] has sounded. There are writers poorer in talent, whose tone...more touches the heart.

F 6.20 1 A man's power is hooped in by a necessity which...he touches on every side until he learns its arc.

Wth 6.105 12 Not much otherwise the economical power touches the masses through the political lords.

Wth 6.107 2 ...every man has a certain satisfaction whenever his dealing touches on the inevitable facts;...

Elo1 7.98 13 It is only to these simple strokes [of the moral sentiment] that the highest power belongs,--when a weak human hand touches...the eternal beams and rafters on which the whole structure of Nature and society is laid.

Imtl 8.347 14 He has [immortality], and he alone, who gives life to all names, persons, things, where he comes. No religion, not the wildest mythology dies for him; no art is lost. He vivifies what he touches.

Aris 10.65 10 There is no need that [a man of generous spirit] should count the pounds of property or the numbers of agents whom his influence touches;...

Edc1 10.133 27 We are not encouraged when the law touches [education] with its fingers.

SovE 10.197 14 ...what touches any thread in the vast web of being touches me.

SovE 10.197 15 ...what touches any thread in the vast web of being touches me.

Schr 10.277 19 It is excellent when the individual is ripened to that degree that he touches both the centre and the circumference...

Plu 10.299 8 Nothing touches man but [Plutarch] feels to be his;...

Carl 10.493 18 [Carlyle] detects weakness on the instant, and touches it.

FSLC 11.197 16 Every person who touches this business [the Fugitive Slave Law] is contaminated.

FSLN 11.217 24 My own habitual view is to the well-being of students or scholars. And it is only when the public event affects them, that it very seriously touches me.

touching, adj. (3)

ShP 4.202 6 There is somewhat touching in the madness with which the passing age mischooses the object on which all candles shine...

SlHr 10.443 27 Such was, in old age, the beauty of [Samuel Hoar's] person and carriage, as if the mind radiated, and made the same impression of probity on all beholders. His beauty was pathetic and touching in these latest days...

EWI 11.115 1 I have never read anything in history more touching than the moderation of the negroes [at the news of emancipation in the West Indies].

touching, v. (19)

LT 1.270 11 The political questions touching the Banks;...are all pregnant with ethical conclusions;...

Fdsp 2.210 7 Leave this touching and clawing.

MoS 4.175 7 What flutters the Church...may yet be very far from touching any principle of faith.

ShP 4.202 10 There is somewhat touching in the madness with which the passing age mischooses the object on which...all eyes are turned; the care with which it registers every trifle touching Queen Elizabeth and King James...

ShP 4.205 2 ...[the Shakspeare Society] have gleaned a few facts touching the property, and dealings in regard to property, of the poet [Shakespeare].

ET5 5.88 1 ...Popery, Plymouth colony, American Revolution, are all questions involving a yeoman's right to his dinner, and except as touching that, would not have lashed the British nation to rage and revolt.

ET10 5.169 9 ...in the influx of tons of gold and silver; amid the chuckle of chancellors and financiers, it was found [in England]...that...the dreadful barometer of the poor-rates was touching the point of ruin.

Wsp 6.227 21 There was a wise, devout man who is called in the Catholic Church, St. Philip Neri, of whom many anecdotes touching his discernment and benevolence are told at Naples and Rome.

Wsp 6.229 8 Even children are not deceived by the false reasons which their parents give in answer to their questions, whether touching natural facts, or religion, or persons.

Elo1 7.94 16 ...whilst [the preacher] speaks things, I feel that he is touching some of my relations, and I am uneasy;...

Comc 8.165 13 The Society in London...pestered the gallant rover [Capt. John Smith] with frequent solicitations...touching the conversion of the Indians...

Imtl 8.341 3 It is my greatest desire, [Van Helmont] said, that it might be granted unto atheists to have tasted, at least but one only moment, what it is intellectually to understand; whereby they may feel the immortality of the mind, as it were by touching.

Aris 10.62 25 In America [the gentleman] shall find deprecation of purism on all questions touching the morals of trade and of social customs...

Edc1 10.130 26 ...what is the charm which every ore...every new fact touching winds, clouds, ocean currents...possess for Humboldt?

Edc1 10.135 9 [The great object of Education] should be a moral one...to inspire the youthful man...with a curiosity touching his own nature;...

LLNE 10.326 2 It is not easy to date these eras of activity with any precision, but in this region one made itself remarked, say in 1820 and the twenty years following. It...brought new divisions in politics; as the new conscience touching temperance and slavery.

Thor 10.473 17 ...on the river-bank, large heaps of clam-shells and ashes mark spots which the savages frequented. These, and every circumstance touching the Indian, were important in [Thoreau's] eyes.

LVB 11.93 27 ...to us the questions upon which the government and the people have been agitated during the past year, touching the prostration of the currency and of trade, seem but motes in comparison [with the relocation of the Cherokees].

ACri 12.303 5 I designed to speak of one point more, the touching a principal question in criticism in recent times-the Classic and Romantic, or what is classic?

touchstone, n. (2)

JBS 11.276 2 A man there came, whence none could tell,/ Bearing a touchstone in his hand,/ And tested all things in the land/ By its unerrring spell./

JBS 11.276 18 But though they slew him with the sword,/ And in the fire his touchstone burned,/ Its doings could not be o'erturned,/ Its undoings restored./

Touchstone [Shakespeare, As (1)

ACri 12.293 27 I do not mean that [Shakespeare]...exults in bringing the street itself...on the scene, with Falstaff and Touchstone and Trinulo and the fools;...

tough, adj. (14)

MR 1.236 22 We must have an antagonism in the tough world for all the variety of our spiritual faculties...

Fdsp 2.199 2 Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams, instead of the tough fibre of the human heart.

Fdsp 2.200 14 Bashfulness and apathy are a tough husk in which a delicate organization is protected from premature ripening.

Hsm1 2.259 1 ...the tough world had its revenge the moment [many extraordinary young men] put their horses of the sun to plough in its furrow.

ET4 5.62 25 The nation [England] has a tough, acrid, animal nature...

ET4 5.71 10 I suppose the dogs and horses [in England] must be thanked for the fact that the men have muscles almost as tough and supple as their own.

F 6.9 15 People seem sheathed in their tough organization.

Ctr 6.166 1 Half engaged in the soil, pawing to get free, man needs all the music that can be brought to disengage him. If Love, red Love, with tears and joy;...by loud taps on the tough chrysalis can break its walls and let the new creature emerge erect and free,--make way and sing paean!

Elo1 7.96 1 [The woods and mountains] send us every year...some tough oak-stick of a man...

DL 7.103 3 The care which covers the seed of the tree under tough husks and stony cases provides for the human plant the mother's breast and the father's house.

Farm 7.140 5 This hard work [of the farm] will always be done...by men of endurance,--deep-chested, long-winded, tough, slow and sure, and timely.

Res 8.140 16 The marked events in history...each of these events...supples the tough barbarous sinew...

Dem1 10.6 26 We fear lest the poor brute [the dog]...should learn in some moment the tough limitations of this fettering organization.

Wom 11.420 21 If new power is here, of a character which solves old tough questions...you [women] can well leave voting to the old dead people.

tougher, adj. (3)

ET5 5.77 13 Even the pleasure-hunters and sots of England are of a tougher texture.

Pow 6.61 10 ...if [children] have the buoyancy and resistance that preoccupies them with new interest in the new moment,--the wounds cicatrize and the fibre is the tougher for the hurt.

Trag 12.410 19 [Grief] is so distributed as not to destroy. That which would rend you falls on tougher textures.

toughness, n. (2)

Hist 2.13 23 Through the bruteness and toughness of matter, a subtle spirit bends all things to its own will.

Imtl 8.335 2 The mind delights in immense time; delights...in the age of trees...in the noble toughness and imperishableness of the palm-tree...

Toulouse, France, n. (1)

Milt1 12.250 6 We could be well content if the flames to which [Milton's Defence of the English People] was condemned at Paris, at Toulouse, and at London, had utterly consumed it.

Toulouse [Thoulouse], Franc (2)

Bty 6.296 26 ...the citizens of her native city of Toulouse obtained the aid of the civil authorities to compel [Pauline de Viguier] to appear publicly on the balcony at least twice a week...

Bty 6.297 21 ...why need we console ourselves with the fames of Helen of Argos...or Pauline of Toulouse...

tour, n. (4)

ET1 5.3 2 In 1833, on my return from a short tour in Sicily, Italy and France, I crossed from Boulogne and landed in London...

ET17 5.294 10 At Ambleside in March, 1848, I was for a couple of days the guest of Miss Martineau, then newly returned from her Egyptian tour.

Boks 7.213 20 [Men's] education is neglected; but the circulating library and the theatre, as well as...the tour to Mont Blanc...make such amends as they can.

MLit 12.325 22 There is a good letter from Wieland to Merck, in which Wieland relates that Goethe read to a select party his journal of a tour in Switzerland with the Grand Duke...

tourists, n. (1)

Ill 6.309 8 We traversed...the six or eight black miles from the mouth of the cavern [Mammoth Cave] to the innermost recess which tourists visit...

tourney-play, n. (1)

PPr 12.390 7 Carlyle, in his strange, half-mad way, has entered the Field of the Cloth of Gold, and shown a vigor and wealth of resource which has no rival in the tourney-play of these times;...

tournure, n. (1)

Mrs1 3.131 5 The chiefs of savage tribes have distinguished themselves in London and Paris by the purity of their tournure.

Toussaint L' Ouverture, Fr (1)

EWI 11.144 9 ...now, the arrival in the world of such men as Toussaint, and the Haytian heroes...outweighs in good omen all the English and American humanity.

Toussaint L'Ouverture, Fra [Toussaint] (2)

Chr1 3.94 27 Suppose a slaver on the coast of Guinea should take on board a gang of negroes which should contain persons of the stamp of Toussaint L'Ouverture...

Aris 10.49 2 I don't know how much Epictetus was sold for...or Toussaint l' Ouverture...

tout, n. (4)

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...

QO 8.185 3 ...[Grimm] says that Louis XVI., going out of chapel after hearing a sermon from the Abbe Maury, said, Si l'Abbe nous avait parle un peu de religion, il nous aurait parle de tout.

FSLN 11.237 6 ...Tout est soldat pour vous combattre.

ACri 12.290 13 The French have a neat phrase, that the secret of boring you is that of telling all,-Le secret d'ennuyer est celui de tout dire;...

toutes, adj. (1)

Insp 8.286 12 ...Il n'y a que le matin en toutes choses.

tow, n. (1)

FRep 11.543 25 ...our little wherry is taken in tow by the ship of the great Admiral...

towardness, n. (1)

ET12 5.209 23 Oxford...mis-spends the revenues bestowed for such youths as should be most meet for towardness, poverty and painfulness;...

towels, n. (1)

II 12.76 25 ...Number, Inspiration, Nature, Duty;-'t is very certain that these things have been hid as under towels and blankets, most part of our days...

tower, n. (17)

Hist 2.19 11 I have seen a snow-drift along the sides of the stone wall which obviously gave the idea of the common architectural scroll to abut a tower.

SR 2.62 2 ...the man in the street, finding no worth in himself which corresponds to the force which built a tower or sculptured a marble god, feels poor when he looks on these.

Cir 2.302 26 You admire this tower of granite...

SwM 4.102 23 [Swedenborg's] superb speculation, as from a tower...almost realizes his own picture...of the original integrity of man.

ET13 5.215 9 In seeing old castles and cathedrals, I sometimes say, as to-day in front of Dundee Church tower...This was built by another and a better race than any that now look on it.

Ill 6.319 13 As if one shut up always in a tower, with one window through which the face of heaven and earth could be seen, should fancy that all the marvels he beheld belonged to that window.

Art2 7.41 20 The leaning tower can only lean so far.

Art2 7.55 17 The leaning towers originated from the civil discords which induced every lord to build a tower.

Art2 7.55 19 The leaning towers originated from the civil discords which induced every lord to build a tower. Then it became a point of family pride,--and for more pride the novelty of a leaning tower was built.

Elo1 7.71 19 Helen is pointing out to Priam, from a tower, the different Grecian chiefs.

Suc 7.284 7 ...Ojeda could run out swiftly on a plank projected from the top of a tower...

PI 8.61 24 Ah, sir, said Merlin [to Sir Gawaine]...never other person will be able to discover this place...neither shall I ever go out from hence, for in the world there is no such strong tower as this wherein I am confined;...

Dem1 10.16 15 [The young man] observes, with pain...that his genius, whose invisible benevolence was tower and shield to him, is no longer present and active.

Aris 10.57 23 ...amid the levity and giddiness of people one looks round, as for a tower of strength, on some self-dependent mind...

MMEm 10.428 19 ...[Mary Moody Emerson]...delighted herself with the discovery of the figure of a coffin made every evening on their sidewalk, by the shadow of a church tower which adjoined the house.

CW 12.171 18 ...I have a problem long waiting for an engineer,-this-to what height I must build a tower in my garden that shall show me the Atlantic Ocean from its top-the ocean twenty miles away.

MAng1 12.224 17 Michael [Angelo] made such good resistance that the Prince [of Orange] directed the artillery to demolish the tower [at San Miniato].

Tower, n. (1)

PPr 12.391 12 [Carlyle's] jokes shake down Parliament House and Windsor Castle, Temple and Tower...

Tower of London, adj. (1)

ET1 5.3 4 In 1833...I crossed from Boulogne and landed in London at the Tower stairs.

Tower of London, n. [Tower,] (3)

ET1 5.3 8 ...I remember the pleasure of that first walk on English ground... from the Tower up through Cheapside and the Strand...

ET13 5.230 25 Electricity cannot be made fast, mortared up and ended, like London Monument or the Tower...

Carl 10.490 12 ...[Carlyle] is also as remarkable in England as the Tower of London...

tower, v. (4)

LE 1.169 5 ...the deep, echoing, aboriginal woods, where the living columns of the oak and fir tower up...this beauty...has never been recorded by art...

OS 2.272 6 Justice we see and know, Love, Freedom, Power. These natures...tower over us...

Pow 6.80 4 Indifferent hacks and mediocrities tower, by pushing their forces to a lucrative point...

Aris 10.60 8 ...out of the vast duration of man's race, [a certain order of men] tower like mountains...

towered, adj. (1)

Con 1.311 14 Would you have...preferred your freedom on a heath...to this towered and citied world?...

towered, v. (1)

Clbs 7.237 7 One of the best records of the great German master who towered over all his contemporaries in the first thirty years of this century, is his conversations as recorded by Eckermann;...

Tower-hill, London, England (1)

Nat 1.21 10 When Sir Harry Vane was dragged up the Tower-hill...one of the multitude cried out to him, You never sate on so glorious a seat!

towering, adj. (1)

ET15 5.263 20 [The London Times] has shown those qualities which are dear to Englishmen...a towering assurance...

towering, v. (1)

HDC 11.39 5 The majestic summits of Wachusett and Monadnoc towering in the horizon, invited the steps of adventure westward.

towers, n. (13)

AmS 1.108 20 [The universal mind] is one central fire, which, flaming... now out of the throat of Vesuvius, illuminates the towers and vineyards of Naples.

DSA 1.134 21 ...somehow [the seer] publishes [his dream] with solemn joy...sometimes in towers and aisles of granite...

SL 2.129 4 The living Heaven thy prayers respect,/ House at once and architect,/ Quarrying man's rejected hours,/ Builds there with eternal towers;/...

ET2 5.33 17 There lay the green shore of Ireland, like some coast of plenty. We could see towns, towers, churches, harvests;...

ET3 5.38 8 ...[England] is stuffed full, in all corners and crevices, with towns, towers, churches, villas, palaces, hospitals and charity-houses.

ET5 5.74 21 [The Roman] disembarked his legions [in England], erected his camps and towers...

ET12 5.212 19 The university must be retrospective. The gale that gives direction to the vanes on all its towers blows out of antiquity.

Art2 7.46 6 [The temple] is exalted by...its grouping with the houses, trees and towers in its vicinity.

Art2 7.55 16 The leaning towers originated from the civil discords which induced every lord to build a tower.

Imtl 8.326 24 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./

PLT 12.28 23 ...[Nature] is careful to leave all her doors ajar,-towers, hall, storeroom and cellar.

Bost 12.182 18 A blessing through the ages thus/ Shield all thy roofs and towers!/ GOD WITH THE FATHERS, SO WITH US,/ Thou darling town of ours [Boston]1/

MAng1 12.223 24 Nor was [Michelangelo's] a skill in ornament, or confined to the outline and designs of towers and facades...

towers, v. (3)

LT 1.289 14 ...the granite comes to the surface and towers into the highest mountains...

F 6.30 13 A personal influence towers up in memory only worthy...

Milt1 12.276 2 It is true of Homer and Shakspeare...that...the poet towers to the sky, whilst the man quite disappears.

tow-head, adj. (1)

Civ 7.21 25 'T is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log hut on the frontier. ... With it comes a Latin grammar,--and one of those tow-head boys has written a hymn on Sunday.

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