Worcester Cathedral to Wore

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

Worcester Cathedral, Englan (1)

    ET4 5.66 6 The bronze monuments of crusaders lying cross-legged in the Temple Church at London, and those in Worcester and in Salisbury cathedrals...are of the same type as the best youthful heads of men now in England;...

Worcester County, Massachus (1)

    HDC 11.81 5 In 1786, when the general sufferings drove the people in parts of Worcester and Hampshire counties to insurrection, a large party of armed insurgents arrived in this town [Concord]...

Worcester, Marquis of [Edwa (1)

    F 6.33 21 ...the Marquis of Worcester, Watt, and Fulton bethought themselves that where was power was not devil...

Worcester, Massachusetts, n. (1)

    Civ 7.32 4 ...it is not New York streets...though stretching...northward until they touch New Haven, Hartford, Springfield, Worcester and Boston,--that make the real estimation.

word, n. (263)

    Nat 1.5 4 In enumerating the values of nature and casting up their sum, I shall use the word in both senses;...
    Nat 1.25 13 Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact...is found to be borrowed from some material appearance.
    Nat 1.72 6 [Man] perceives that...if his word is sterling yet in nature...it is not inferior but superior to his will.
    DSA 1.119 18 ...the never-broken silence with which the old bounty goes forward has not yielded yet one word of explanation.
    DSA 1.121 2 He ought. [Man] knows the sense of that grand word...
    DSA 1.127 5 ...on [another soul's] word, or as his second, be he who he may, I can accept nothing.
    DSA 1.129 22 ...the word Miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression;...
    DSA 1.138 1 [The preacher] had no one word intimating that he had laughed or wept...
    DSA 1.139 5 The good hearer...is sure there is somewhat to be reached, and some word that can reach it.
    DSA 1.142 2 What a cruel injustice it is to that Law...that it is behooted and behowled, and not a trait, not a word of it articulated.
    LE 1.165 17 The hero is great by means of the predominance of the universal nature; he has only to open his mouth, and it speaks;... All men catch the word...
    LE 1.172 10 ...the first word [a man of genius] utters, sets all your so-called knowledge afloat and at large.
    LE 1.184 17 ...[the scholar] can easily think that in a society of perfect sympathy, no word, no act, no record, would be.
    MN 1.211 5 It was always the theory of literature that the word of a poet was authoritative and final.
    MN 1.218 21 Behold! there is the sun, and the rain, and the rocks; the old sun, the old stones. How easy were it to describe all this fitly; yet no word can pass.
    LT 1.280 8 This denouncing philanthropist is himself a slaveholder in every word and look.
    LT 1.284 14 This Ennui...this word of France has got a terrific significance.
    Con 1.297 8 ...the word of Uranus came into [Saturn's] mind like a ray of the sun...
    Con 1.301 27 ...we must...suffer men to learn as they have done for six millenniums, a word at time;...
    Tran 1.346 21 ...when deed, word, or letter comes not, [our friends] let us go.
    Hist 2.7 20 [The true aspirant] hears the commendation...of that character he seeks, in every word that is said concerning character...
    Hist 2.28 3 Jesus astonishes and overpowers sensual people. They cannot unite him to history, or reconcile him with themselves. As they come to revere their intuitions and aspire to live holily, their own piety explains... every word.
    Hist 2.33 15 See in Goethe's Helena the same desire that every word should be a thing.
    Hist 2.39 27 Hear the rats in the wall, see the lizard on the fence, the fungus under foot, the lichen on the log. ... As old as the Caucasion man,--perhaps older,--these creatures have kept their counsel beside him, and there is no record of any word or sign that has passed from one to the other.
    SR 2.54 23 ...not possibly can [the preacher] say a new and spontaneous word?
    SR 2.55 11 ...every word [conformists] say chagrins us...
    SR 2.56 25 The other terror that scares us from self-trust is...a reverence for our past act or word...
    SR 2.76 21 Let a Stoic...tell men...that a man is the word made flesh...
    Comp 2.110 10 With his will or against his will [a man] draws his portrait to the eye of his companions by every word.
    Comp 2.116 8 [Commit a crime and] You cannot recall the spoken word... so as to leave no inlet or clew.
    Comp 2.120 7 ...every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.
    SL 2.139 13 ...by lowly listening we shall hear the right word.
    SL 2.156 2 The most fugitive deed and word...expresses character.
    SL 2.158 26 Never was a sincere word utterly lost.
    Fdsp 2.207 6 You shall have very useful and cheering discourse at several times with two several men, but let all three of you come together and you shall not have one new and hearty word.
    Fdsp 2.208 7 A man is reputed to have thought and eloquence; he cannot, for all that, say a word to his cousin or his uncle.
    Fdsp 2.208 17 Let me be alone to the end of the world, rather than that my friend should overstep, by a word or a look, his real sympathy.
    Prd1 2.225 24 ...an affair to be transacted with a man without heart or brains, and the stinging recollection of an injurious or very awkward word,-- these eat up the hours.
    Prd1 2.236 5 ...let [a man]...feel the admonition to...keep a slender human word among the storms , distances and accidents that drive us hither and thither...
    Hsm1 2.246 1 ...Sophocles will not ask his life, although assured that a word will save him...
    OS 2.287 26 ...if a man do not speak from within the veil, where the word is one with that it tells of, let him lowly confess it.
    Cir 2.302 2 Permanence is but a word of degrees.
    Cir 2.303 20 Permanence is a word of degrees.
    Cir 2.305 8 The result of to-day...will presently be abridged into a word...
    Cir 2.313 24 ...the instinct of man...gladly arms itself against the dogmatism of bigots with this generous word out of the book itself.
    Int 2.334 11 So lies the whole series of natural images with which your life has made you acquainted, in your memory, though you know it not; and a thrill of passion flashes light on their dark chamber, and the active power seizes instantly the fit image, as the word of its momentary thought.
    Int 2.334 25 In the intellect constructive, which we popularly designate by the word Genius, we observe the same balance of two elements as in intellect receptive.
    Art1 2.352 13 What is a man but a finer and compacter landscape than the horizon figures...and what is...his love of painting, his love of nature, but a still finer success...the spirit or moral of it contracted into a musical word, or the most cunning stroke of the pencil?
    Art1 2.354 23 It is the habit of certain minds to give an all-excluding fulness to...the word, they alight upon...
    Pt1 3.8 10 ...whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word or a verse...
    Pt1 3.11 20 Mankind in good earnest have availed so far in understanding themselves and their work, that the foremost watchman on the peak announces his news. It is the truest word ever spoken...
    Pt1 3.18 14 Every word was once a poem.
    Pt1 3.18 15 Every new relation is a new word.
    Pt1 3.21 15 [The poet] knows...why the great deep is adorned with animals, with men, and gods; for in every word he speaks he rides on them as the horses of thought.
    Pt1 3.22 1 ...each word was at first a stroke of genius...
    Pt1 3.22 4 The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.
    Chr1 3.104 25 A word warm from the heart enriches me.
    Mrs1 3.120 27 The word gentleman...is a homage to personal and incommunicable properties.
    Mrs1 3.121 1 The word gentleman, which, like the word Christian, must hereafter characterize the present and the few preceding centuries by the importance attached to it, is a homage to personal and incommunicable properties.
    Mrs1 3.122 8 The word gentleman has not any correlative abstract to express the quality.
    Mrs1 3.122 12 ...we must keep alive in the vernacular the distinction between fashion, a word of narrow and often sinister meaning, and the heroic character which the gentleman imports.
    Mrs1 3.123 2 ...the word [gentleman] denotes good-nature or benevolence;...
    Mrs1 3.141 9 A man who is not happy in the company cannot find any word in his memory that will fit the occasion.
    Mrs1 3.146 20 The beautiful and the generous are, in the theory, the doctors and apostles of this church [of Fashion]: Scipio...and Washington, and every pure and valiant heart who worshipped Beauty by word and by deed.
    Mrs1 3.149 2 Once or twice in a lifetime we are permitted to enjoy the charm of noble manners, in the presence of a man or woman...whose character emanates freely in their word and gesture.
    Pol1 3.208 6 What satire on government can equal the severity of censure conveyed in the word politic, which now for ages has signified cunning...
    NR 3.228 14 ...as we grow older we value total powers and effects, as the impression, the quality, the spirit of men and things. The genius is all. The man,--it is his system: we do not try a solitary word or act, but his habit.
    NR 3.240 27 I think I have done well if I have acquired a new word from a good author;...
    NR 3.248 22 Could [my good men] but once understand that I...heartily wished them God-speed, yet, out of my poverty of life and thought, had no word or welcome for them when they came to see me...it would be a great satisfaction.
    NER 3.271 3 I think, according to the good-hearted word of Plato, Unwillingly the soul is deprived of truth.
    NER 3.283 13 Men are all secret believers in [the Law], else the word justice would have no meaning...
    UGM 4.17 16 [The imagination]...inspires an audacious mental habit. We are as elastic as the gas of gunpowder, and...a word dropped in conversation, sets free our fancy...
    UGM 4.30 15 ...great men:--the word is injurious.
    PPh 4.59 19 ...Plato, in his plenty, is never restricted, but has the fit word.
    PPh 4.59 26 ...[Plato's] finding that word cookery, and adulatory art, for rhetoric, in the Gorgias, does us a substantial service still.
    PNR 4.82 17 Everywhere [Plato] stands on a path which...runs continuously round the universe. Therefore every word becomes an exponent of nature.
    SwM 4.97 9 All religious history contains traces of the trance of saints... Myesis, the closing of the eyes,--whence our word, Mystic.
    MoS 4.162 12 ...I will...offer...a word or two to explain how my love began and grew for this admirable gossip [Montaigne].
    MoS 4.177 3 The word Fate...expresses the sense of mankind...that the laws of the world do not always befriend...us.
    ShP 4.201 8 Every book supplies its time with one good word;...
    ShP 4.206 21 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.
    ShP 4.207 22 The forest of Arden...the antres vast and desarts idle of Othello's captivity,--where is the...private letter, that has kept one word of those transcendent secrets?
    NMW 4.225 13 [Napoleon] is no saint,--to use his own word, no capuchin...
    NMW 4.226 8 ...Mirabeau plagiarized every good thought, every good word that was spoken in France.
    NMW 4.228 9 The advocates of liberty and of progress are ideologists;--a word of contempt often in [Napoleon's] mouth;...
    GoW 4.264 1 A new thought or a crisis of passion apprises [the writer] that all that he has yet learned and written is exoteric,--is not the fact, but some rumor of the fact. What then? Does he throw away the pen? No; he begins again to describe in the new light which has shined on him,--if, by some means, he may yet save some true word.
    GoW 4.269 12 There have been times when [the writer] was a sacred person: he wrote...Laconian sentences, inscribed on temple walls. Every word was true...
    GoW 4.269 14 There have been times when [the writer] was a sacred person... Every word was carved before his eyes into the earth and the sky;...
    GoW 4.274 17 [Goethe] writes in the plainest and lowest tone...putting ever a thing for a word.
    GoW 4.276 14 Goethe would have no word that does not cover a thing.
    GoW 4.279 19 ...[Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] is so crammed with... knowledge of the world and with knowledge of laws; the persons so truly and subtly drawn, and with such few strokes, and not a word too much... that we must...be willing to get what good from it we can...
    GoW 4.282 4 Though [the writer] were dumb [his message] would speak. If not,--if there be no such God's word in the man,--what care we how adroit, how fluent, how brilliant he is?
    GoW 4.282 16 ...through every clause and part of speech of a right book I meet the eyes of the most determined of men; his force and terror inundate every word;...
    ET1 5.24 14 [Wordsworth] then said he would show me a better way towards the inn; and he walked a good part of a mile, talking and ever and anon stopping short to impress the word or the verse...
    ET2 5.25 14 The request [to lecture in England] was urged...by friendliest parties in Manchester, who, in the sequel, amply redeemed their word.
    ET3 5.40 12 The shop-keeping nation [England], to use a shop word, has a good stand.
    ET6 5.102 10 ...the one thing the English value is pluck. The word is not beautiful...
    ET6 5.111 24 'T is in bad taste, is the most formidable word an Englishman can pronounce.
    ET7 5.116 21 Private men [in England] keep their promises, never so trivial. Down goes the flying word on the tablets...
    ET7 5.118 5 To be king of their word is [the Englishmen's] pride.
    ET7 5.118 10 The phrase of the lowest of the [English] people is honor-bright, and their vulgar praise, His word is as good as his bond.
    ET8 5.129 7 A Yorkshire mill-owner told me he had ridden more than once all the way from London to Leeds, in the first-class carriage, with the same persons, and no word exchanged.
    ET8 5.131 24 [The English] are good at storming redoubts...but not, I think, at...any passive obedience, like jumping off a castle-roof at the word of a czar.
    ET11 5.173 25 [The English people] are proud...of the language and symbol of chivalry. Even the word lord is the luckiest style that is used in any language to designate a patrician.
    ET14 5.232 7 [The English]...never are surprised into a covert or witty word...
    F 6.26 21 We hear eagerly every thought and word quoted from an intellectual man.
    F 6.29 6 I know not what the word sublime means, if it be not the intimations...of a terrific force.
    Pow 6.62 21 The very word 'commerce' has only an English meaning...
    Pow 6.78 12 The way to learn German is to read the same dozen pages over and over a hundred times, till you know every word and particle in them...
    Wth 6.91 2 ...Wall Street thinks it easy for a millionaire to be a man of his word...
    Wth 6.96 2 ...if men should take these moralists at their word and leave off aiming to be rich, the moralists would rush to rekindle at all hazards this love of power in the people, lest civilization should be undone.
    Ctr 6.131 1 The word of ambition at the present day is Culture.
    Ctr 6.133 16 Eminent spiritualists shall have an incapacity of putting their act or word aloof from them...
    Ctr 6.146 26 California and the Pacific Coast is now the university of this class [of poor country boys of Vermont and Connecticut], as Virginia was in old times. To have some chance is their word.
    Bhr 6.196 1 [Beautiful manners] must always show self-control; you shall... be...king over your word;...
    Wsp 6.226 22 To make our word or act sublime, we must make it real.
    Wsp 6.226 24 It is our system that counts, not the single word or unsupported action.
    Wsp 6.228 25 We need not much mind what people please to say, but what...their natures say, though their...understandings try to hold back and choke that word...
    Wsp 6.229 20 Not only does our beauty waste, but it leaves word on how it went to waste.
    Wsp 6.240 12 ...as far as [immortality] is a question of fact respecting the government of the universe, Marcus Antoninus summed the whole in a word, It is pleasant to die if there be gods, and sad to live if there be none.
    Bty 6.288 8 We fancy, could we pronounce the solving word and disenchant [beridden people]...the little rider would be discovered and unseated...
    Bty 6.304 14 Every word has a double, treble or centuple use and meaning.
    Bty 6.305 17 ...[we do not know] why one word or syllable intoxicates;...
    Ill 6.323 2 I prefer to be owned as sound and solvent, and my word as good as my bond...to all the eclat in the universe.
    Art2 7.47 17 Our arts are happy hits. We are...like a traveller surprised by a mountain echo, whose trivial word returns to him in romantic thunders.
    Art2 7.50 1 In poetry, where every word is free, every word is necessary.
    Art2 7.50 2 In poetry, where every word is free, every word is necessary.
    Elo1 7.81 15 ...it is not powers of speech that we primarily consider under this word eloquence...
    Elo1 7.92 2 There is for every man a statement possible of that truth which he is most unwilling to receive,--a statement possible, so broad and so pungent that he cannot get away from it, but must either bend to it or die of it. Else there would be no such word as eloquence, which means this.
    Elo1 7.93 5 ...the main distinction between [the eloquent man] and other well-graced actors is the conviction, communicated by every word, that his mind is contemplating a whole...
    WD 7.171 27 It is singular that our rich English language should have no word to denote the face of the world.
    WD 7.172 3 Kinde was the old English term, which...filled only half the range of our fine Latin word, with its delicate future tense,--natura, about to be born...
    Cour 7.269 27 ...I remember the old professor, whose searching mind engraved every word he spoke on the memory of the class...
    Suc 7.301 23 ...I am more interested to know that when at last [Aristotle or Bacon or Kant] have hurled out their grand word, it is only some familiar experience of every man in the street.
    Suc 7.310 13 There is not a joyful boy or an innocent girl buoyant with fine purposes of duty...but a cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.
    OA 7.335 2 [John Adams]...enters bravely into long sentences...but carries them invariably to a conclusion, without correcting a word.
    PI 8.2 10 ...[Fancy] can knit/ What is past, what is done,/ With the web that 's just begun;/ Making free with time and size,/ Dwindles here, there magnifies,/ Swells a rain-drop to a tun;/ So to repeat/ No word or feat/ Crowds in a day the sum of ages,/ And blushing Love outwits the sages./
    PI 8.3 16 The common sense which...takes things at their word...believes in the existence of matter...because it agrees with ourselves...
    PI 8.7 12 The electric word pronounced by John Hunter a hundred years ago, arrested and progressive development...gave the poetic key to Natural Science...
    PI 8.12 1 Note our incessant use of the word like...
    PI 8.17 10 [Poetry's] essential mark is that it betrays in every word instant activity of mind...
    PI 8.33 17 There is no choice of words for him who clearly sees the truth. That provides him with the best word.
    PI 8.34 9 Any word...becomes poetic in the hands of a higher thought.
    PI 8.34 10 ...every word in language...becomes poetic in the hands of a higher thought.
    PI 8.39 3 [The poet] reads in the word or action of the man its yet untold results.
    PI 8.54 20 In reading prose, I am sensitive as soon as a sentence drags; but in poetry, as soon as one word drags.
    PI 8.59 2 [Taliessin says] To another,--When I lapse to a sinful word,/ May neither you, nor others hear./
    SA 8.80 4 He whose word or deed you cannot predict...that man rules.
    SA 8.80 13 The staple figure in novels is the man...who sits, among the young aspirants and desperates...and, never sharing their affections or debilities, hurls his word like a bullet when occasion requires...
    SA 8.87 15 ...one word or two in regard to dress...
    Elo2 8.109 13 Self-centred; when [the patriot] launched the genuine word/ It shook or captivated all who heard/...
    Elo2 8.115 25 [The orator's speech] is action, as the general's word of command or chart of battle is action.
    Elo2 8.130 3 Speak what you do know and believe;...and are answerable for every word.
    Elo2 8.131 5 [Eloquence] is...the unmistakable sign, never so casually given, in tone of voice, or manner, or word, that a greater spirit speaks from you than is spoken to in him.
    Res 8.140 4 See...how...every impatient boss who sharply shortens the phrase or the word to give his order quicker...improves the national tongue.
    Comc 8.164 5 ...the occasion of laughter is some seeming, some keeping of the word to the ear and eye, whilst it is broken to the soul.
    Comc 8.164 11 ...as the religious sentiment is the most vital and sublime of all our sentiments...so is it abhorrent to our whole nature, when, in the absence of the sentiment, the act or word or officer volunteers to stand in its stead.
    QO 8.182 12 The Bible itself is like an old Cremona [violin]; it has been played upon by the devotion of thousands of years until every word and particle is public and tunable.
    QO 8.183 4 A great man...will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word as good.
    QO 8.192 27 Whoever expresses to us a just thought makes ridiculous the pains of the critic who should tell him where such a word had been said before.
    QO 8.193 18 Every word in the language has once been used happily.
    QO 8.193 22 Every word in the language has once been used happily. The ear, caught by that felicity, retains it, and it is used again and again, as if the charm belonged to the word and not to the life of thought which so enforced it.
    QO 8.199 22 Our benefactors are as many as the children who invented speech, word by word.
    QO 8.201 13 To all that can be said of the preponderance of the Past, the single word Genius is a sufficient reply.
    QO 8.202 13 A phrase or a single word is adduced, with honoring emphasis, from Pindar, Hesiod or Euripides, as precluding all argument, because thus had they said...
    PC 8.234 2 ...when I say the educated class, I know what a benignant breadth that word has...
    PPo 8.236 9 As Jelaleddin old and gray,/ [Saadi] seemed to bask, to dream and play/ Without remoter hope or fear/ Than still to entertain his ear/ And pass the burning summer-time/ In the palm-grove with a rhyme;/ Heedless that each cunning word/ Tribes and ages overheard/...
    PPo 8.258 22 Ibn Jemin writes thus:-Whilst I disdain the populace,/ I find no peer in higher place./ Friend is a word of royal tone,/ Friend is a poem all alone./
    PPo 8.261 22 While roses bloomed along the plain,/ The nightingale to the falcon said/ Why, of all birds, must thou be dumb?/ With closed mouth thou utterest,/ Though dying, no last word to man./
    Insp 8.294 20 ...every word admits a new use...
    Insp 8.296 11 ...now one, now another landscape, form, color, or companion, or perhaps one kind of sounding word or syllable, strikes the electric chain with which we are darkly bound...
    Grts 8.302 8 Greatness,-what is it? Is there not some injury to us, some insult in the word?
    Grts 8.310 16 ...there is for each a Best Counsel which enjoins the fit word and the fit act for every moment.
    Imtl 8.336 4 ...the Creator keeps his word with us.
    Dem1 10.17 13 I believed that I discovered in nature...somewhat which manifested itself only in contradiction, and therefore could not be grasped by a conception, much less by a word.
    Aris 10.31 12 ...the word gentleman is gladly heard in all companies;...
    Aris 10.65 17 I do not know whether that word Gentleman...is a sufficiently broad generalization to convey the deep and grave fact of self-reliance.
    Aris 10.65 21 To many the word [Gentleman] expresses only the outsides of cultivated men...
    Chr2 10.102 19 We sometimes employ the word [character] to express the strong and consistent will of men of mixed motive...
    Chr2 10.103 5 ...the memory and tradition of such a [steadfast] leader is preserved in some strange way by those who only half understand him, until a true disciple comes, who apprehends and interprets every word.
    Edc1 10.133 23 It is ominous...that this word Education has so cold, so hopeless a sound.
    Edc1 10.135 18 A man is a little thing whilst he works by and for himself, but, when he gives voice to the rules of love and justice, is godlike, his word is current in all countries;...
    Edc1 10.136 27 I call our system [of education] a system of despair, and I find all the correction, all the revolution that is needed...promise, in one word, in Hope.
    Supl 10.167 10 An eminent French journalist paid a high compliment to the Duke of Wellington, when his documents were published: Here are twelve volumes of military dispatches, and the word glory is not found in them.
    Supl 10.168 22 [The old head thinks] I will be as moderate as the fact, and will use the same expression, without color, which I received; and rather repeat it several times, word for word, than vary it ever so little.
    Supl 10.169 3 'T is a good rule of rhetoric which Schlegel gives,-In good prose, every word is underscored;...
    Supl 10.170 9 The farmers in the region do not call particular summits... mountains, but only them 'ere rises, and reserve the word mountains for the range.
    SovE 10.193 24 To good men, as we call good men, this doctrine of Trust is an unsounded secret. They use the word...
    SovE 10.200 3 The word miracle, as it is used, only indicates the ignorance of the devotee...
    SovE 10.209 19 [The moral law] has not yet its first hymn. But, that every line and word may be coals of true fire, ages must roll...
    SovE 10.213 16 [The man of this age] must not be one who can be surprised and shipwrecked by every bold or subtile word which malignant and acute men may utter in his hearing...
    Schr 10.265 3 [Poets] have no toleration for literature; art is only a fine word for appearance in default of matter.
    Schr 10.265 10 ...[poets] sit white over their stoves, and talk themselves hoarse over the...the effeminacy of book-makers. But...at the sound of some subtle word that falls from the lips of an imaginative person...this grave conclusion is blown out of memory;...
    Plu 10.308 27 'T is a temperance, not an eclecticism, which makes [Plutarch] adverse to the severe Stoic, or the Gymnosophist, or Diogenes, or any other extremist. That vice of theirs shall not hinder him from citing any good word they chance to drop.
    LLNE 10.331 14 The word that [Everett] spoke, in the manner in which he spoke it, became current and classical in New England.
    LLNE 10.339 27 We could not then spare a single word [Channing] uttered in public...
    MMEm 10.401 21 Every word [Mary Moody Emerson] writes about this farm (Elm Vale, Waterford)...interest like a romance...
    Thor 10.460 16 Before the first friendly word had been spoken for Captain John Brown, [Thoreau] sent notices to most houses in Concord that he would speak in a public hall on the condition and character of John Brown...
    Thor 10.460 22 ...[Thoreau] sent notices to most houses in Concord that he would speak in a public hall on the condition and character of John Brown, on Sunday evening, and invited all people to come. The Republican Committee, the Abolitionist Committee, sent him word that it was premature, and not advisable.
    Thor 10.479 10 A certain habit of antagonism defaced [Thoreau's] earlier writings,-a trick of rhetoric...of substituting for the obvious word and thought its diametrical opposite.
    Carl 10.495 27 [Carlyle] says, There is properly no religion in England. These idle nobles at Tattersall's-there is no work or word of serious purpose in them;...
    LS 11.2 1 The word unto the prophet spoken/ Was writ on tables yet unbroken;/...
    LS 11.2 2 ...The word by seers or sibyls told,/ In groves of oak, or fanes of gold,/ Still floats upon the morning wind,/ Still whispers to the willing mind./
    LS 11.22 27 ...the Almighty God was pleased to qualify and send forth a man to teach men...that sacrifice was smoke, and forms were shadows. This man lived and died true to this purpose; and now, with his blessed word and life before us, Christians must contend that it is a matter of vital importance,-really a duty, to commemorate him by a certain form [the Lord's Supper]...
    HDC 11.39 24 The light struggled in through windows of oiled paper, but [the settlers of Concord] read the word of God by it.
    HDC 11.51 16 In 1644, Squaw Sachem, the widow of Nanepashemet...with two sachems of Wachusett...intimated their desire...to learn to read God's word and know God aright;...
    HDC 11.53 8 ...[Tahattawan] was asked, why he desired a town so near, when there was more room for them up in the country? The sachem replied that he knew if the Indians dwelt far from the English, they would not so much care to pray, nor could they be so ready to hear the word of God...
    HDC 11.67 7 ...Mr. [Daniel] Bliss replied...I was filled with wonder, that such a sinful and worthless worm as I am, was allowed to represent Christ... and used the word Mediator in some differing light from that you have given it;...
    HDC 11.67 10 ...Mr. [Daniel] Bliss replied...I...used the word Mediator in some differing light from that you have given it; but I confess I was soon uneasy that I had used the word...
    War 11.173 9 [Shakespeare's lords] make what is in their minds the greatest sacrifice. They will, for an injurious word, peril all their state and wealth, and go to the field.
    FSLN 11.233 6 You relied on the constitution. It has not the word slave in it;...
    FSLN 11.239 13 ...For evil word shall evil word be said,/ For murder-stroke a murder-stroke be paid./ Who smites must smart./
    FSLN 11.243 10 I [Robert Winthrop] give you my word, not without regret, that I was first for you;...
    AsSu 11.250 9 [Sumner's enemies] have fastened their eyes like microscopes for five years on every act, word, manner and movement, to find a flaw...
    AsSu 11.251 7 When the same reproach [of writing his speeches] was cast on the first orator of ancient times by some caviller of his day, he said, I should be ashamed to come with one unconsidered word before such an assembly.
    AKan 11.256 8 ...these details that have come from Kansas are so horrible, that the hostile press have but one word in reply, namely, that it is all exaggeration...
    JBB 11.268 24 [John Brown] believes in two articles,-two instruments, shall I say?-the Golden Rule and the Declaration of Independence; and he used this expression in conversation here concerning them, Better that a whole generation of men, women and children should pass away by a violent death than that one word of either should be violated in this country.
    JBS 11.279 10 Our farmers...had learned that life was...a probation, to use their word, for a higher world...
    TPar 11.284 4 ...Every word that [Parker] speaks has been fierily furnaced/ In the blast of a life that has struggled in earnest/...
    ACiv 11.299 24 America is another word for Opportunity.
    ACiv 11.305 2 ...as long as we fight without...any word intimating forfeiture in the rebel states of their old privileges, under the law, [the Southerners] and we fight on the same side, for slavery.
    SMC 11.369 12 The Colonel [George Prescott] took evident pleasure in the fact that he could account for all his men. There were so many killed, so many wounded,-but no missing. For that word missing is apt to mean skulking.
    SMC 11.370 12 ...Word was sent by General Barnes, that, when we retired, we should fall back under cover of the woods.
    EdAd 11.386 27 We hesitate to employ a word so much abused as patriotism...
    EdAd 11.388 19 In hours when it seemed only to need one just word from a man of honor to have vindicated the rights of millions...we have seen the best understandings of New England...say, We are too old to stand for what is called a New England sentiment any longer.
    Wom 11.404 3 Lo, when the Lord made North and South,/ And sun and moon ordained he,/ Forth bringing each by word of mouth/ In order of its dignity,/ Did man from the crude clay express/ By sequence, and, all else decreed,/ He formed the woman; nor might less/ Than Sabbath such a work succeed./ Coventry Patmore.
    Wom 11.405 17 I think [women's] words are to be weighed; but it is their inconsiderate word...
    Scot 11.466 17 From these originals [Scott] drew so genially his Jeanie Deans, his Dinmonts...making these, too, the pivots on which the plots of his stories turn; and meantime without one word of brag of this discernment...
    FRO2 11.490 10 ...you cannot bring me too good a word...from the Jews.
    CPL 11.497 12 The sedge Papyrus, which gave its name to our word paper, is of more importance to history than cotton, or silver, or gold.
    CPL 11.501 12 I know the word literature has in many ears a hollow sound.
    FRep 11.521 14 John Quincy Adams was a man of an audacious independence that always kept the public curiosity alive in regard to what he might do. None could predict his word...
    PLT 12.5 20 Every object in Nature is a word to signify some fact in the mind.
    PLT 12.8 2 ...the course of things makes the scholars either egotists or worldly and jocose. In so many hundreds of superior men hardly ten or five or two from whom one can hope for a reasonable word.
    PLT 12.28 21 [Nature] is immensely rich; [man] is welcome to her entire goods, but she speaks no word...
    PLT 12.28 25 ...[Nature] is careful to leave all her doors ajar,-towers, hall, storeroom and cellar. If [man] takes her hint and uses her goods she speaks no word;...
    PLT 12.34 25 Ever at intervals leaps a word or fact to light which is no man's invention...
    II 12.87 21 ...astronomy, chemistry, keep their word.
    Mem 12.100 22 A man would think twice about...reading a new paragraph, if he believed...that he lost a word or a thought for every word he gained.
    Mem 12.100 23 A man would think twice about...reading a new paragraph, if he believed...that he lost a word or a thought for every word he gained.
    Mem 12.100 25 In reading a foreign language, every new word mastered is a lamp lighting up related words...
    Mem 12.101 1 Apprehension of the whole sentence aids to fix the precise meaning of a particular word...
    CW 12.175 18 ...the word park always charms me.
    CW 12.176 17 ...it is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany...by word of mouth from a companion than dully from a book.
    MAng1 12.241 1 [Condivi wrote] As for me...this I know very well, that in a long intimacy, I never heard from [Michelangelo's] mouth a single word that was not perfectly decorous...
    ACri 12.286 16 Look at this forlorn caravan of travellers who wander over Europe dumb,-never exchange a word, in the mother tongue of either, with prince or peasant;...
    ACri 12.289 12 As a study in language, the use of this word [Devil] is curious...
    ACri 12.292 14 Never use the word development...
    ACri 12.299 27 [Metonomy] means, using one word or image for another.
    ACri 12.304 27 A clear or natural expression by word or deed is that which we mean when we love and praise the antique.
    MLit 12.310 4 ...we ought to credit literature with much more than the bare word it gives us.
    MLit 12.323 15 To read [Goethe's] record is a frugality of time, for you shall find no word that does not stand for a thing...
    MLit 12.323 18 [Goethe's] love of Nature has seemed to give a new meaning to that word.
    WSL 12.339 21 In Mr. Landor's coarseness...the rude word seems sometimes to arise from a disgust at niceness and over-refinement.
    WSL 12.345 8 The word Character is in all mouths;...
    Pray 12.351 3 Many men have contributed a single expression, a single word to the language of devotion...
    Pray 12.353 18 Let the purpose for which I live be always before me; let every thought and word go to confirm and illuminate that end;...
    EurB 12.374 5 The eye and the word are certainly far subtler and stronger weapons than either money or knives.
    PPr 12.385 3 Here is a book [Carlyle's Past and Present] as full of treason as an egg is full of meat...and yet not a word is punishable by statute.
    PPr 12.388 12 If the good heaven have any good word to impart to this unworthy generation, here is one scribe [Carlyle] qualified and clothed for its occasion.
    PPr 12.389 18 ...[Carlyle] does yet, ever and anon, as if catching the glance of one wise man in the crowd...lance at him in clear level tone the very word...
    PPr 12.389 25 One word more respecting [Carlyle's] remarkable style.
    Let 12.394 12 [The correspondents] want a friend...from whom they may hear now and then a reasonable word.

Word, n. (2)

    OS 2.282 14 The rapture of the Moravian and Quietist; the opening of the eternal sense of the Word, in the language of the New Jerusalem Church... are varying forms of that shudder of awe and delight with which the individual soul always mingles with the universal soul.
    Pt1 3.40 8 ...hence these throbs and heart-beatings in the orator...to the end namely that thought may be ejaculated as Logos, or Word.

word-catching, n. (1)

    OS 2.291 2 Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching.

worded, v. (2)

    PLT 12.50 9 One would say [Shakespeare] must have been a thousand years old when he wrote his first line, so thoroughly is his thought familiar to him, and has such scope and so solidly worded...
    ACri 12.294 18 ...Shakspeare must have been a thousand years old when he wrote his first piece; so thoroughly is his thought familiar to him, so solidly worded...

word-jingle, n. (1)

    PI 8.49 4 ...when [people] apprehend real rhymes, namely, the correspondence of parts in Nature...they do not longer value...barbaric word-jingle.

words, n. (330)

    Nat 1.18 2 Was there no meaning in the live repose of the valley behind the mill, and which...Shakspeare could not re-form for me in words?
    Nat 1.25 5 Words are signs of natural facts.
    Nat 1.25 9 Words are signs of natural facts.
    Nat 1.25 21 ...thought and emotion are words borrowed from sensible things...
    Nat 1.26 9 ...this origin of all words that convey a spiritual import...is our least debt to nature.
    Nat 1.26 12 It is not words only that are emblematic;...
    Nat 1.30 8 When...duplicity and falsehood take place of simplicity and truth...old words are perverted to stand for things which are not;...
    Nat 1.30 11 In due time...words lose all power to stimulate the understanding or the affections.
    Nat 1.30 22 ...wise men...fasten words again to visible things;...
    Nat 1.31 26 Long hereafter...these solemn images shall reappear in their morning lustre, as fit symbols and words of the thoughts which the passing events shall awaken.
    Nat 1.33 13 ...the memorable words of history...consist usually of a natural fact...
    Nat 1.35 5 ...in other words, visible nature must have a spiritual and moral side.
    Nat 1.40 10 [Man] forges the subtile and delicate air into wise and melodious words...
    Nat 1.44 19 Every universal truth which we express in words, implies or supposes every other truth.
    Nat 1.44 27 Words are finite organs of the infinite mind.
    Nat 1.45 9 Words and actions are not the attributes of brute nature.
    Nat 1.52 11 ...[the poet] invests dust and stones with humanity, and makes them the words of the Reason.
    Nat 1.74 7 In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought.
    AmS 1.90 23 ...there are creative actions, and creative words;...
    AmS 1.90 24 ...there are creative manners, there are creative actions, and creative words; manners, actions, words, that is, indicative of no custom or authority...
    AmS 1.95 4 Instantly we know whose words are loaded with life, and whose not.
    AmS 1.103 21 ...[the orator] finds...that [his hearers] drink his words because he fulfils for them their own nature;...
    DSA 1.127 10 Let this faith depart, and the very words it spake...become false...
    DSA 1.128 13 Of [the Christian church's] blessed words...you need not that I should speak.
    DSA 1.134 24 ...somehow [the seer] publishes [his dream] with solemn joy...but clearest and most permanent, in words.
    DSA 1.136 22 Where shall I hear words such as in elder ages drew men to leave all and follow...
    DSA 1.139 6 When [the good hearer] listens to these vain words, he comforts himself by their relation to his remembrance of better hours...
    LE 1.157 21 The scholar may lose himself...in words, and become a pedant;...
    LE 1.164 22 In order to a knowledge of the resources of the scholar, we must not rest in the use...of faculties to do this and that other feat with words;...
    LE 1.183 23 Hence the temptation to the scholar...to hear the question...to make an answer of words in lack of the oracle of things.
    MN 1.196 12 ...if you come month after month to see what progress our reformer has made...you still find him with new words in the old place...
    MN 1.218 16 All your learning of all literatures would never enable you to anticipate one of its thoughts or expressions, and yet each is natural and familiar as household words.
    MR 1.249 20 The Americans have many virtues, but they have not Faith and Hope. I know no two words whose meaning is more lost sight of.
    MR 1.249 21 We use these words [Faith and Hope] as if they were as obsolete as Selah and Amen.
    Con 1.297 2 I see, rejoins Saturns [to Uranus]...thou art become an evil eye; thou spakest from love; now thy words smite me with hatred.
    Con 1.305 2 You who quarrel with the arrangements of society...live, move, and have your being in this, and your deeds contradict your words every day.
    Con 1.308 8 ...you must show me a warrant like these stubborn facts in your own fidelity and labor, before I suffer you, on the faith of a few fine words, to ride into my estate, and claim to scatter it as your own.
    Con 1.316 9 Your words are excellent, but they do not tell the whole.
    Tran 1.349 11 You make very free use of these words great and holy, but few things appear to [Transcendentalists] such.
    Hist 2.10 2 All history becomes subjective; in other words there is properly no history, only biography.
    Hist 2.17 11 ...a profound nature awakens in us by its actions and words... the same power and beauty that a gallery of sculpture or of pictures addresses.
    Hist 2.17 17 ...the history of art and of literature, must be explained from individual history, or must remain words.
    Hist 2.18 9 The trivial experience of every day is always...converting into things the words and signs which we had heard and seen without heed.
    Hist 2.29 1 ...the oppressor of [the child's] youth is himself a child tyrannized over by those names and words and forms of whose influence he was merely the organ to the youth.
    SR 2.57 22 Speak what you think now in hard words...
    SR 2.57 24 ...to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again...
    SR 2.60 10 Let the words [conformity, consistency] be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.
    SR 2.68 3 We are like children who repeat by rote the sentences of...tutors... painfully recollecting the exact words they spoke;...
    SR 2.68 6 ...when [children] come into the point of view which those had who uttered these sayings, they...are willing to let the words go;...
    SR 2.68 7 ...when [children] come into the point of view which those had who uttered these sayings, they...are willing to let the words go; for at any time they can use words as good when occasion comes.
    Comp 2.102 26 Every act rewards itself, or in other words integrates itself, in a twofold manner...
    Comp 2.109 6 That which the droning world...will not allow the realist to say in his own words, it will suffer him to say in proverbs without contradiction.
    Comp 2.118 14 ...as soon as honeyed words of praise are spoken for me I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies.
    SL 2.144 10 Those facts, words, persons, which dwell in [a man's] memory without his being able to say why, remain because they have a relation to him not less real for being as yet unapprehended.
    SL 2.144 16 [Those facts, words, persons, which dwell in a man's memory without his being able to say why] are symbols of value to him as they can interpret parts of his consciousness which he would vainly seek words for in the conventional images of books and other minds.
    SL 2.152 4 If [a man] can communicate himself he can teach, but not by words.
    SL 2.152 27 ...the thing uttered in words is not therefore affirmed.
    SL 2.157 11 That which we do not believe we cannot adequately say, though we may repeat the words never so often.
    Lov1 2.174 4 I have been told that in some public discourses of mine my reverence for the intellect has made me unjustly cold to the personal relations. But now I almost shrink at the remembrance of such disparaging words.
    Lov1 2.175 20 ...the figures, the motions, the words of the beloved object are not, like other images, written in water...
    Lov1 2.183 9 [The doctrine of love] awaits a truer unfolding in opposition and rebuke to that subterranean prudence which presides at marriages with words that take hold of the upper world, whilst one eye is prowling in the cellar;...
    Fdsp 2.192 5 ...it is necessary to write a letter to a friend,--and forthwith troops of gentle thoughts invest themselves, on every hand, with chosen words.
    Prd1 2.221 21 ...it would be hardly honest in me not to balance these fine lyric words of Love and Friendship with words of coarser sound...
    Prd1 2.221 22 ...it would be hardly honest in me not to balance these fine lyric words of Love and Friendship with words of coarser sound...
    Prd1 2.228 24 Our words and actions to be fair must be timely.
    Prd1 2.235 24 How many words and promises are promises of conversation!
    Prd1 2.235 26 Let [a man's words] be words of fate.
    Hsm1 2.247 10 Dor. O star of Rome! what gratitude can speak/ Fit words to follow such a deed as this?/
    Hsm1 2.257 13 Why should these words, Athenian, Roman, Asia and England, so tingle in the ear?
    Hsm1 2.260 15 If you would serve your brother, because it is fit for you to serve him, do not take back your words when you find that prudent people do not commend you.
    OS 2.269 23 Every man's words who speaks from that [inner] life must sound vain to those who do not dwell in the same thought on their own part.
    OS 2.269 26 My words do not carry [the soul's] august sense;...
    OS 2.270 3 ...I desire, even by profane words, if I may not use sacred, to indicate the heaven of this deity...
    OS 2.271 16 All reform aims in some one particular to let the soul have its way through us; in other words, to engage us to obey.
    OS 2.282 25 The soul answers never by words...
    OS 2.283 9 An answer in words is delusive; it is really no answer to the questions you ask.
    OS 2.284 15 No answer in words can reply to a question of things.
    OS 2.285 10 ...[a man's friends'] acts and words do not disappoint him.
    Cir 2.311 24 If [the speaker and the hearer] were at a perfect understanding in any part, no words would be necessary thereon.
    Cir 2.311 26 If [the speaker and the hearer] were at a perfect understanding in any part, no words would be necessary thereon. If at one in all parts, no words would be suffered.
    Cir 2.314 7 ...these metals and animals...are words of God...
    Cir 2.314 8 ...these metals and animals...are words of God, and as fugitive as other words.
    Cir 2.320 24 The simplest words,--we do not know what they mean except when we love and aspire.
    Int 2.329 24 In every man's mind, some...words...remain...which others forget...
    Pt1 3.7 22 ...Homer's words are as costly and admirable to Homer as Agamemnon's victories are to Agamemnon.
    Pt1 3.8 17 Words and deeds are quite indifferent modes of the divine energy.
    Pt1 3.8 19 Words are also actions...
    Pt1 3.8 20 ...actions are a kind of words.
    Pt1 3.15 20 Is it only poets, and men of leisure and cultivation, who live with [nature]? No; but also hunters, farmers, grooms and butchers, though they express their affection in their choice of life and not in their choice of words.
    Pt1 3.17 14 The vocabulary of an omniscient man would embrace words and images excluded from polite conversation.
    Pt1 3.17 27 Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind;...
    Pt1 3.20 8 ...words and things...are emblems;...
    Pt1 3.21 24 The poets made all the words...
    Pt1 3.21 27 ...the origin of most of our words is forgotten...
    Pt1 3.27 1 ...there is a great public power on which [the intellectual man] can draw, by...suffering the ethereal tides to roll and circulate through him; then he is caught up into the life of the Universe...his words are universally intelligible as the plants and animals.
    Pt1 3.35 19 I do not know the man in history to whom things stood so uniformly for words [as Swedenborg].
    Exp 3.53 16 What notions do [physicians] attach to love! what to religion! One would not willingly pronounce these words in their hearing...
    Chr1 3.87 7 He spoke, and words more soft than rain/ Brought the Age of Gold again:/...
    Chr1 3.91 26 The constituency at home hearkens to [men of characters'] words...
    Mrs1 3.122 4 There is something equivocal in all the words in use to express the excellence of manners and social cultivation...
    Mrs1 3.122 14 The usual words...must be respected;...
    Mrs1 3.122 22 ...our words intimate well enough the popular feeling that the appearance supposes a substance.
    Mrs1 3.151 10 Steep us, we cried [to women], in these influences, for days, for weeks, and we shall be sunny poets and will write out in many-colored words the romance that you are.
    Mrs1 3.153 27 Are you...rich enough to make...the swarthy Italian with his few broken words of English...feel the noble exception f your presence and your house from the general bleakness and stoniness;...
    Nat2 3.188 9 Each prophet comes presently...to esteem his hat and shoes sacred. However this may discredit such persons with the judicious, it helps them with the people, as it gives heat, pungency and publicity to their words.
    Nat2 3.194 12 We cannot bandy words with Nature...
    NR 3.231 2 Proverbs, words and grammar-inflections convey the public sense with more purity and precision than the wisest individual.
    NR 3.247 6 If the profoundest prophet could be holden to his words...
    NR 3.248 3 How sincere and confidential we can be, saying all that lies in the mind, and yet go away feeling that all is yet unsaid, from the incapacity of the parties to know each other, although they use the same words!
    NR 3.248 6 My companion assumes to know my mood and habit of thought, and we go on from explanation to explanation until all is said which words can...
    NER 3.257 12 We are students of words...
    NER 3.257 15 ...we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with...a memory of words...
    NER 3.259 20 Some intelligent persons said or thought, Is that Greek and Latin some spell to conjure with, and not words of reason?
    NER 3.281 1 When two persons sit and converse in a thoroughly good understanding, the remark is sure to be made, See how we have disputed about words!
    NER 3.282 7 In vain we compose our faces and our words;...
    UGM 4.21 9 Ever their phantoms arise before us,/ Our loftier brothers, but one in blood;/ At bed and table they lord it o'er us/ With looks of beauty and words of good./
    PPh 4.49 27 The words I and mine constitute ignorance.
    SwM 4.113 4 ...as often as [nature] betakes herself upward from visible phenomena, or, in other words, withdraws herself inward, she instantly as it were disappears, while no one knows what has become of her...
    SwM 4.126 27 [To Swedenborg] The angels, from the sound of the voice, know a man's love;...and from the sense of the words, his science.
    MoS 4.168 12 Cut [Montaigne's] words, and they would bleed;...
    MoS 4.184 1 Charles Fourier announced that the attractions of man are proportioned to his destinies; in other words, that every desire predicts its own satisfaction.
    ShP 4.202 26 Ben Jonson, though we have strained his few words of regard and panegyric, had no suspicion of the elastic fame whose first vibrations [Shakespeare] was attempting.
    ShP 4.208 16 Read the antique documents extricated, analyzed and compared by the assiduous Dyce and Collier, and now read one of [Shakespeare's] skyey sentences...which not your experience but the man within the breast has accepted as words of fate, and tell me if they match;...
    NMW 4.252 4 In intervals of leisure...Napoleon appears as a man of genius directing on abstract questions...the impatience of words he was wont to show in war.
    GoW 4.279 26 The argument [in Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] is the passage of a democrat to the aristocracy, using both words in their best sense.
    ET4 5.67 23 I apply to Britannia...the words in which her latest novelist portrays his heroine; She is as mild as she is game, and as game as she is mild.
    ET5 5.80 16 ...[the English] have a supreme eye to facts, and theirs is...the logic of cooks, carpenters and chemists...and one on which words make no impression.
    ET5 5.100 13 In Parliament, in pulpits, in theatres [in England], when the speakers rise to thought and passion, the language becomes idiomatic; the people in the street best understand the best words.
    ET7 5.118 1 The Northman Guttorm said to King Olaf, It is royal work to fulfil royal words.
    ET8 5.128 6 I suppose [Englishmen's] gravity of demeanor and their few words have obtained this reputation [for gloominess].
    ET8 5.140 8 Haldor was not a man of many words...
    ET8 5.141 25 Glory, a career, and ambition, the words familiar to the longitude of Paris, are seldom heard in English speech.
    ET10 5.158 5 Finally, [Roger Bacon announced] it would not be impossible to make machines which by means of a suit of wings, should fly in the air in the manner of birds. But the secret slept with Bacon. The six hundred years have not yet fulfilled his words.
    ET11 5.179 24 ...the English are those barbarians of Jamblichus, who... firmly continue to employ the same words, which are also dear to the gods.
    ET13 5.221 3 So far is [the English gentleman] from attaching any meaning to the words, that he believes himself to have done almost the generous thing, and that it is very condescending in him to pray to God.
    ET14 5.234 27 It is a tacit rule of the [English] language to make the frame or skeleton of Saxon words...
    ET14 5.235 3 It is a tacit rule of the [English] language to make the frame or skeleton of Saxon words, and, when elevation or ornament is sought, to interweave Roman, but sparingly; nor is a sentence made of Roman words alone, without loss of strength.
    ET14 5.236 23 The more hearty and sturdy [English] expression may indicate that the savageness of the Norseman was not all gone. Their dynamic brains hurled off their words as the revolving stone hurls off scraps of grit.
    ET14 5.259 18 ...in other words, there is at all times a minority of profound minds existing in the nation [England], capable of appreciating every soaring of intellect...
    ET15 5.262 3 ...said Lord Mansfield to the Duke of Northumberland; mark my words;...these newspapers will most assuredly write the dukes of Northumberland out of their titles...
    ET16 5.273 12 I was glad...to exchange a few reasonable words on the aspects of England with a man on whose genius I set a very high value [Carlyle]...
    F 6.49 24 Let us build...to the Necessity which rudely or softly educates [man] to the perception...that Law rules throughout existence; a Law which...disdains words and passes understanding;...
    Ctr 6.140 12 There are people who can never understand...any second or expanded sense given to your words...
    Bhr 6.167 16 Little [man] says to [graceful women, chosen men]/, So dances his heart in his breast,/ Their tranquil mien bereaveth him/ Of wit, of words, of rest./
    Bhr 6.195 18 ...[Marcus Scaurus], full of firmness and gravity, defended himself in this manner:--Quintus Varius Hispanus alleges that Marcus Scaurus...excited the allies to arms: Marcus Scaurus...denies it. There is no witness. Which do you believe, Romans? Utri creditis, Quirites? When he had said these words he was absolved by the assembly of the people.
    Wsp 6.214 25 That which is signified by the words moral and spiritual, is a lasting essence...
    Wsp 6.215 1 That which is signified by the words moral and spiritual, is a lasting essence, and, with whatever illusions we have loaded them, will certainly bring back the words...to their ancient meaning.
    Wsp 6.215 3 I know no words that mean so much [as the words moral and spiritual].
    Wsp 6.230 2 How a man's truth comes to mind, long after we have forgotten all his words!
    Wsp 6.230 10 The other party will forget the words that you spoke...
    CbW 6.272 26 What questions we ask of [a friend]! what an understanding we have! how few words are needed!
    Bty 6.298 2 [Women] heal us of awkwardness by their words and looks.
    SS 7.15 25 ...let us not be the victims of words.
    Art2 7.38 19 ...most of our necessary words are unconsciously said.
    Art2 7.48 27 ...[the artist] is not to speak his own words, or do his own works, or think his own thoughts...
    Elo1 7.59 3 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 7.63 27 Antiphon the Rhamnusian...advertised in Athens that he would cure distempers of the mind with words.
    Elo1 7.64 2 No man has a prosperity so high or firm but two or three words can dishearten it.
    Elo1 7.64 3 There is no calamity which right words will not begin to redress.
    Elo1 7.72 15 When [Ulysses and Menelaus] conversed, and interweaved stories and opinions with all, Menelaus spoke succinctly,--few but very sweet words...
    Elo1 7.72 23 ...when...his words fell like the winter snows, not then would any mortal contend with Ulysses;...
    Elo1 7.85 25 ...in the examination of witnesses there usually leap out...three or four stubborn words or phrases which are the pith and fate of the business...
    Elo1 7.87 6 ...[the state's attorney] revenged himself...on the judge, by requiring the court to define what salvage was. The court, thus pushed, tried words...
    Elo1 7.93 7 ...the main distinction between [the eloquent man] and other well-graced actors is the conviction...that the words and sentences uttered by him...fall from him as unregarded parts of that terrible whole which he sees...
    Elo1 7.94 18 ...whilst [the preacher] deals in words we are released from attention.
    Elo1 7.96 6 [The woods and mountains] send us every year...some some sturdy countryman, on whom neither money...nor hard words...make any impression.
    DL 7.105 12 Fast--almost too fast for the wistful curiosity of the parents, studious of the witchcraft of curls and dimples and broken words--the little talker grows to a boy.
    WD 7.167 4 The new study of the Sanskrit has shown us the origin of the old names of God...names of the sun, still recognizable through the modifications of our vernacular words...
    Boks 7.190 21 A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries in a thousand years have [in the smallest chosen library] set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom. The men themselves were hid and inaccessible...but the thought which they did not uncover to their bosom friend is here written out in transparent words to us...
    Boks 7.212 2 ...[sentences] are good only as strings of suggestive words.
    Clbs 7.226 15 Especially women use words that are not words...
    Clbs 7.238 9 ...[Odin] puts a question which none but himself could answer: What did Odin whisper in the ear of his son Balder, when Balder mounted the funeral pile? The startled giant [Wafthrudnir] replies...with Odin contended I in wise words.
    Cour 7.267 16 It was told of the Prince of Conde that there not being a more furious man in the world, danger in fight never disturbs him more than just to make him civil, and to command in words of great obligation to his officers and men...
    PI 8.8 22 Natural objects...are really parts of a symmetrical universe, like words of a sentence;...
    PI 8.9 13 ...[all things in Nature's] growths, decays, quality and use so curiously resemble [the student], in parts and in wholes, that he is compelled to speak by means of them. His words and his thoughts are framed by their help.
    PI 8.16 20 Mountains and oceans we think we understand;--yes, so long as they are contented to be such, and are safe with the geologist,--but when they are melted in Promethean alembics and come out men, and then, melted again, come out words...
    PI 8.17 13 [Poetry's] essential mark is that it betrays in every word instant activity of mind, shown...in preternatural quickness or perception of relations. All its words are poems.
    PI 8.19 11 ...poetry, or the imagination which dictates it, is a second sight, looking through [things], and using them as types or words for thoughts...
    PI 8.19 23 ...Poets are standing transporters, whose employment consists... in producing apparent imitations of unapparent natures, and inscribing things unapparent in the apparent fabrication of the world; in other words, the world exists for thought...
    PI 8.28 5 The words [Fancy and Imagination] are often used, and the things confounded.
    PI 8.30 15 ...in poetry, the master rushes to deliver his thought, and the words and images fly to him to express it;...
    PI 8.30 21 ...colder moods...insinuate, or, as it were, muffle the fact to suit the poverty or caprice of their expression...being unable to fuse and mould their words and images to fluid obedience.
    PI 8.32 20 We are dazzled at first by new words and brilliancy of color...
    PI 8.33 16 There is no choice of words for him who clearly sees the truth.
    PI 8.36 17 [The poet] is very well convinced that the great moments of life are those in which...the tritest and nearest ways and words and things have been illuminated into prophets and teachers.
    PI 8.38 17 ...Milton, Hafiz, Ossian, the Welsh Bards;--these all deal with Nature and history as means and symbols, and not as ends. With such guides [men] begin to see that...the mean life is pictures. And this is achieved by words;...
    PI 8.42 25 We cannot know things by words and writing...
    PI 8.44 1 The gushing fulness of speech belongs to the poet, and it flows from the lips of each of his magic beings in the thoughts and words peculiar to its nature.
    PI 8.44 6 This force of representation so plants [the poet's] figures before him that he...puts words in their mouth such as they should have spoken...
    PI 8.47 2 I think you will also find a charm heroic, plaintive, pathetic, in these cadences [of common English metres], and be at once set on searching for the words that can rightly fill these vacant beats.
    PI 8.47 9 ...human passion, seizing these constitutional tunes, aims to fill them with appropriate words...
    PI 8.50 5 Now try Spenser, Marlowe, Chapman, and see...how rich and lavish their profusion. In their rhythm is...a vortex, or musical tornado, which, falling on words and the experience of a learned mind, whirls these materials into the same grand order as planets and moons obey...
    PI 8.52 9 The best thoughts run into the best words;...
    PI 8.57 6 The metallic force of primitive words makes the superiority of the remains of the rude ages.
    PI 8.57 10 [The early bard's] advantage is that his words are things...
    PI 8.61 15 When Sir Gawain heard the voice which spoke to him thus, he thought it was Merlin, and he answered, Sir, certes I ought to know you well, for many times I have heard your words.
    PI 8.68 26 By successive states of mind all the facts of Nature are for the first time interpreted. In proportion as [a man's] life departs from this simplicity, he uses circumlocution,--by many words hoping to suggest what he cannot say.
    PI 8.73 2 The inexorable rule in the muses' court, either inspiration or silence, compels the bard to report only his supreme moments. It teaches the enormous force of a few words...
    SA 8.89 10 Welfare requires...persons with whom we can speak a few reasonable words every day...
    SA 8.99 17 ...in good conversation parties don't speak to the words, but to the meanings of each other.
    SA 8.105 9 [This flame of desire] reinforces the heart that feels it, makes all its acts and words gracious and interesting.
    Elo2 8.110 5 ...whose mind soever is fully possessed with a fervent desire to know good things, and with the dearest charity to infuse the knowledge of them into others, when such a man would speak, his words...trip about him at command...
    Elo2 8.120 27 A singer cares little for the words of the song;...
    Elo2 8.121 1 ...[a singer] will make any words glorious.
    Elo2 8.125 24 ...all poetry is written in the oldest and simplest English words.
    Elo2 8.127 6 Something which any boy would tell with color and vivacity [some men] can only...say it in the very words they heard, and no other.
    Elo2 8.129 17 ...said [Lord Ashley], if I, who had no personal concern in the question, was so overpowered with my own apprehensions that I could not find words to express myself, what must be the case of one whose life depended on his own abilities to defend it?
    Elo2 8.130 16 It was said of Robespierre's audience, that though they understood not the words, they understood a fury in the words, and caught the contagion.
    Elo2 8.130 17 It was said of Robespierre's audience, that though they understood not the words, they understood a fury in the words, and caught the contagion.
    Comc 8.161 6 ...Falstaff...is a character of the broadest comedy...cooly ignoring the Reason, whilst he invokes its name...only to make the fun perfect by enjoying the confusion betwixt Reason and the negation of Reason,--in other words, the rank rascaldom he is calling by its name.
    QO 8.185 12 Rabelais's dying words...only repeats the IF inscribed on the portal of the temple at Delphi.
    QO 8.187 5 Antiphanes, one of Plato's friends, laughingly compared his writings to a city where the words froze in the air as soon as they were pronounced...
    QO 8.195 11 A man hears a fine sentence out of Swedenborg...and is very merry at heart that he has now got so fine a thing. Translate it out of the new words into his own usual phrase, and he will wonder again at his own simplicity...
    QO 8.195 13 A man hears a fine sentence out of Swedenborg...and is very merry at heart that he has now got so fine a thing. Translate it out of the new words into his own usual phrase, and he will wonder again at his own simplicity, such tricks do fine words play with us.
    QO 8.197 7 Our best thought came from others. We heard in their words a deeper sense than the speakers put into them...
    QO 8.202 16 A phrase or a single word is adduced, with honoring emphasis, from Pindar, Hesiod or Euripides, as precluding all argument, because thus had they said: importing that the bard spoke not his own, but the words of some god.
    QO 8.204 13 ...the words overheard at unawares by the free mind, are trustworthy and fertile when obeyed...
    PPo 8.244 23 [Hafiz] says to the Shah, Thou who rulest after words and thoughts which no ear has heard and no mind has thought, abide firm until thy young destiny tears off his blue coat from the old graybeard of the sky.
    Insp 8.287 4 Solitary converse with Nature; for thence are ejaculated sweet and dreadful words never uttered in libraries.
    Insp 8.294 17 What is best in literature is the affirming, prophesying, spermatic words of men-making poets.
    Insp 8.294 19 Words used in a new sense and figuratively, dart a delightful lustre;...
    Grts 8.311 11 He can toil terribly, said Cecil of Sir Walter Raleigh. These few words sting and bite and lash us when we are frivolous.
    Dem1 10.11 27 ...Pancrates...wanting a servant, took a door-bar and pronounced over it magical words...
    Dem1 10.12 5 For Pancrates write Watt or Fulton, and for magical words write steam; and do they not make an iron bar and half a dozen wheels do the work, not of one, but of a thousand skilful mechanics?
    Aris 10.56 26 When a man begins to speak, the churl will take him up by disputing his first words...
    Aris 10.58 3 ...All that depends on another gives pain; all that depends on himself gives pleasure; in these few words is the definition of pleasure and pain.
    Chr2 10.99 26 Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought.
    Chr2 10.105 3 We use in our idlest poetry and discourse the words Jove, Neptune, Mercury, as mere colors...
    Chr2 10.106 11 Our ancestors spoke continually of angels and archangels with the same good faith as they would have spoken of their own parents or their late minister. Now the words pale...
    Chr2 10.121 4 In a sensible family, nobody ever hears the words shall and shan't;...
    Edc1 10.135 3 We exercise [boys'] understandings...to a skill in numbers, in words;...
    Edc1 10.154 22 It is so easy to bestow on a bad boy a blow...and get obedience without words...
    Supl 10.169 11 It seems as if inflation were a disease incident to too much use of words...
    Supl 10.176 26 ...[Nature] creates in the East the uncontrollable yearning... to use a freedom of fancy which plays with all the works of Nature...as toys and words of the mind;...
    SovE 10.185 19 ...in the voice of Genius I hear invariably the moral tone, even when it is disowned in words;...
    Prch 10.222 13 I cannot keep the sun in heaven, if you take away the purpose that animates him. ... The words, great, venerable, have lost their meaning;...
    Prch 10.235 25 A wise man advises that we should see to it that we read and speak two or three reasonable words, every day...
    Schr 10.266 6 [Nature] does not bandy words with us...
    Plu 10.300 5 ...though Plutarch is as plain-spoken [as Montaigne], his moral sentiment is always pure. What better praise has any writer received than he whom Montaigne finds frank in giving things, not words...
    Plu 10.312 16 ...what noble words we owe to [Seneca]...
    Plu 10.313 8 [Plutarch] cites...the memorable words of Antigone, in Sophocles, concerning the moral sentiment...
    LLNE 10.333 6 In the pulpit...[Everett] gave the reins to his florid, quaint and affluent fancy. Then was exhibited all the richness of a rhetoric which we have never seen rivalled in this country. Wonderful how memorable were words made which were only pleasing pictures...
    LLNE 10.333 14 [Everett] abounded...even in a sort of defying experiment of his own wit and skill in giving an oracular weight to Hebrew or Rabbinical words;...
    LLNE 10.344 21 I habitually apply to [Theodore Parker] the words of a French philosopher who speaks of the man of Nature who abominates the steam-engine and the factory.
    EzRy 10.383 9 To these facts, gathered chiefly from [Ezra Ripley's] own diary, and stated nearly in his own words, I can only add a few traits from memory.
    EzRy 10.392 3 In debate...the structure of [Ezra Ripley's] sentences was admirable; so neat, so natural, so terse, his words fell like stones;...
    Thor 10.476 22 Such was the wealth of [Thoreau's] truth that it was not worth his while to use words in vain.
    LS 11.5 10 In St. Matthew's Gospel...are recorded the words of Jesus in giving bread and wine on that occasion [the Last Supper] to his disciples...
    LS 11.5 14 In St. Matthew's Gospel...are recorded the words of Jesus in giving bread and wine on that occasion [the Last Supper] to his disciples, but no expression occurs intimating that this feast was hereafter to be commemorated. In St. Mark...the same words are recorded...
    LS 11.5 18 St. Luke...after relating the breaking of the bread [at the Last Supper], has these words: This do in remembrance of me.
    LS 11.8 12 ...though the words, Do this in remembrance of me, do not occur in Matthew, Mark or John...yet many persons are apt to imagine that the very striking and personal manner in which the eating and drinking [at the Last Supper] is described, indicates a striking and formal purpose to found a festival.
    LS 11.10 14 The reason why St. John does not repeat [Jesus's] words on this occasion [the Last Supper] seems to be that he had reported a similar discourse of Jesus to the people of Capernaum more at length already...
    LS 11.11 1 [Jesus] closed his discourse [at Capernaum] with these explanatory expressions: The flesh profiteth nothing; the words that I speak to you, they are spirit and they are life.
    LS 11.12 16 It appears...in Christian history that the disciples had very early taken advantage of these impressive words of Christ [This do in remembrance of me.] to hold religious meetings...
    LS 11.13 15 There was good reason for [Christ's] personal friends to remember their friend and repeat his words.
    LS 11.23 16 There remain some practical objections to the ordinance [the Lord's Supper], into which I shall not now enter. There is one on which I had intended to say a few words; I mean the unfavorable relation in which it places that numerous class of persons who abstain from it merely from disinclination to the rite.
    HDC 11.44 6 [The colonists'] wants, their poverty, their manifest convenience made them bold to ask of the Governor and of the General Court...to certain purposes, sovereign powers. The townsmen's words were heard and weighed...
    HDC 11.50 12 About ten years after the planting of Concord, efforts began to be made to civilize the Indians, and to win them to the knowledge of the true God. This indeed, in so many words, is expressed in the charter of the colony as one of its ends;...
    HDC 11.73 5 ...the farmers [of Concord] snatched down their rusty firelocks from the kitchen walls, to make good the resolute words of their town debates.
    HDC 11.83 23 [The Concord Town Records] exhibit a pleasing picture of a community...where no man has much time for words, in his search after things;...
    EWI 11.100 17 ...[the opponent of slavery] feels that none but a stupid or a malignant person can hesitate on a view of the facts. Under such an impulse, I was about to say, If any cannot speak, or cannot hear the words of freedom, let him go hence...
    EWI 11.106 23 ...[George Somerset's] case was adjourned again and again, and judgment delayed. At last judgment was demanded, and on the 22d June, 1772, Lord Mansfield is reported to have decided in these words...
    FSLC 11.193 13 If you starve or beat the orphan, in my presence, and I accuse your cruelty, can I help it? In the words of Electra...'T is you that say it, not I. You do the deeds, and your ungodly deeds find me the words.
    FSLC 11.193 15 If you starve or beat the orphan, in my presence, and I accuse your cruelty, can I help it? In the words of Electra...'T is you that say it, not I. You do the deeds, and your ungodly deeds find me the words.
    FSLC 11.198 25 Mr. Webster's measure [the Fugitive Slave Law] was, he told us, final. It was a pacification...a measure of conciliation and adjustment. These were his words at different times: there was to be no parleying more; it was irrepealable.
    FSLC 11.200 18 The words of John Randolph, wiser than he knew, have been ringing ominously in all echoes for thirty years, words spoken in the heat of the Missouri debate.
    FSLC 11.200 20 The words of John Randolph, wiser than he knew, have been ringing ominously in all echoes for thirty years, words spoken in the heat of the Missouri debate.
    FSLC 11.201 1 [John Randolph's] words resounding ever since from California to Oregon...come down now like the cry of Fate...
    FSLC 11.204 3 [Webster] believes, in so many words, that government exists for the protection of property.
    FSLC 11.206 22 I pass to say a few words to the question, What shall we do?
    FSLN 11.240 14 ...all the statesmen...are sure to be found befriending liberty with their words, and crushing it with their votes.
    AKan 11.260 8 ...our poor people, led by the nose by these fine words [Union and Democracy], dance and sing...with every new link of the chain which is forged for their limbs by the plotters in the Capitol.
    JBB 11.269 9 You remember [John Brown's] words: If I had interfered in behalf of the rich, the powerful...it would all have been right.
    ACiv 11.311 9 More and better than the President has spoken shall, perhaps, the effect of this message [proposal for gradual abolition] be,- but...not more or better than he hoped in his heart, when...he penned these cautious words.
    ALin 11.334 3 ...[Lincoln's] brief speech at Gettysburg will not easily be surpassed by words on any recorded occasion.
    SMC 11.357 24 One [volunteer] wrote to his father these words: You may think it strange that I, who have always naturally rather shrunk from danger, should wish to enter the army;...
    SMC 11.361 2 Some of these [Civil War] letters are...written on the knee, in the mud, with pencil, six words at a time;...
    SMC 11.361 5 ...the words [of Civil War letters] are proud and tender...
    SMC 11.373 18 One of [George Prescott's] townsmen and comrades...uses these words: He was one of the few men who fight for principle.
    Wom 11.405 16 I think [women's] words are to be weighed;...
    SHC 11.429 14 [The committee] have thought that the taking possession of this field [Sleepy Hollow Cemetery] ought to be marked by a public meeting and religious rites: and they have requested me to say a few words...
    RBur 11.438 5 Praise to the bard! his words are driven,/ Like flower-seeds by the far winds sown,/ Where'er, beneath the sky of heaven,/ The birds of fame have flown./ Halleck.
    RBur 11.442 19 ...[Burns] had that secret of genius to draw from the bottom of society the strength of its speech, and astonish the ears of the polite with these artless words...
    ChiE 11.470 4 Nature creates in the East the uncontrollable yearning...to use a freedom of fancy which plays with all works of Nature...as toys and words of the mind;...
    FRO2 11.490 2 I submit that in sound frame of mind, we read or remember the religious sayings and oracles of other men...only for joy in the social identity which they open to us, and that these words would have no weight with us if we had not the same conviction already.
    CPL 11.502 19 The very language we speak thinks for us by the subtle distinctions which already are marked for us by its words...
    PLT 12.5 22 Every object in Nature is a word to signify some fact in the mind. But when that fact is not yet put into English words...they are by no means unimpressive.
    PLT 12.17 9 I dare not deal with this element [Intellect] in its pure essence. It is too rare for the wings of words.
    PLT 12.29 6 To the poet all sounds and words are melodies and rhythms.
    PLT 12.37 16 We find ourselves expressed in Nature, but we cannot translate it into words.
    PLT 12.43 18 There are times when the cawing of a crow...is more suggestive to the mind than the Yosemite gorge or the Vatican would be in another hour. In like mood an old verse, or certain words, gleam with rare significance.
    II 12.71 18 We brood on the words or works of our companion, and ask in vain the sources of his information.
    II 12.79 17 All men are inspirable. Whilst they say only the beautiful and sacred words of necessity, there is no weakness, and no repentance.
    Mem 12.94 6 You say the first words of the old song, and I finish the line and stanza.
    Mem 12.95 2 Am I asked whether the thoughts clothe themselves in words?
    Mem 12.100 26 In reading a foreign language, every new word mastered is a lamp lighting up related words...
    CL 12.142 16 Good observers have the manners of trees and animals...and if they add words, 't is only when words are better than silence.
    CL 12.142 17 Good observers have the manners of trees and animals...and if they add words, 't is only when words are better than silence.
    CL 12.163 7 If we should now say a few words on the advantages that belong to the conversation with Nature, I might set them so high as to make it a religious duty.
    CL 12.164 20 What is the merit of Thomson's Seasons but copying a few of the pictures out of this vast book [of Nature] into words...
    MAng1 12.215 7 ...[Michelangelo] uttered extraordinary words;...
    MAng1 12.216 11 [Michelangelo] is an eminent master in the four fine arts, Painting, Sculpture, Architecture and Poetry. In three of them by visible means, and in poetry by words, he strove to express the Idea of Beauty.
    MAng1 12.234 8 The fire and sanctity of [Michelangelo's] pencil breathe in his words.
    Milt1 12.255 9 Of the upper world of man's being [Bacon's Essays] speak few and faint words.
    Milt1 12.260 6 Very early in life [Milton] became conscious that he had more to say to his fellow men than they had fit words to embody.
    Milt1 12.260 21 The world, no doubt, contains many of that class of men whom Wordsworth denominates silent poets, whose minds teem with images which they want words to clothe.
    Milt1 12.262 9 ...[Milton] said...whose mind soever is fully possessed with a fervent desire to know good things, and with the dearest charity to infuse the knowledge of them into others, when such a man would speak, his words...trip about him at command...
    ACri 12.281 2 To clothe the fiery thought/ In simple words succeeds,/ For still the craft of genius is/ To mask a king in weeds./
    ACri 12.283 2 Literature is but a poor trick...when it busies itself to make words pass for things;...
    ACri 12.287 21 Not only low style, but the lowest classifying words outvalue arguments;...
    ACri 12.288 2 The short Saxon words with which the people help themselves are better than Latin.
    ACri 12.289 12 As a study in language, the use of this word [Devil] is curious, to see how words help us and must be philosophical.
    ACri 12.290 15 The silences, pauses, of an orator are as telling as his words.
    ACri 12.290 22 A good writer must convey the feeling...as if in his densest period was...room to turn a chariot and horses between his valid words.
    ACri 12.291 9 As soon as you read aloud, you will find what sentences drag. Blot them out, and read again, you will find the words that drag.
    ACri 12.291 25 ...I sometimes wish that the Board of Education might carry out the project of a college for graduates of our universities, to which editors and members of Congress and writers of books might repair, and learn to sink what we could best spare of our words;...
    ACri 12.292 16 Dangerous words in like kind are display, improvement, peruse...
    ACri 12.293 8 Every age gazettes a quantity of words which it has used up.
    ACri 12.293 12 A list might be made of showy words that tempt young writers...
    ACri 12.295 24 Montaigne must have the credit of giving to literature that which we listen for in bar-rooms, the low speech,-words and phrases that no scholar coined;...
    ACri 12.295 26 Montaigne must have the credit of giving to literature that which we listen for in bar-rooms, the low speech...words of the boatman, the farmer and the lord;...
    ACri 12.305 14 Criticism is an art when it does not stop at the words of the poet...
    WSL 12.347 21 [Landor] hates false words...
    WSL 12.347 24 [Landor] knows the value of his own words.
    WSL 12.347 26 [Landor] never...uses seven words where one will do.
    WSL 12.348 5 The dense writer has...even a gamesome mood often between his valid words.
    Pray 12.351 21 Wacic the Caliph...ended his life...with these words: O thou whose kingdom never passes away, pity one whose dignity is so transient.
    EurB 12.366 5 The Pindar, the Shakspeare, the Dante...have...the eye to see...the test-objects of the microscope, and then the tongue to utter the same things in words...
    EurB 12.366 14 [The poet's] words must be pictures...
    Trag 12.405 18 Already our thoughts and words have an alien sound.

Wordsworth, Mrs., n. (1)

    ET17 5.295 5 [The Edinburgh Review] had...changed the tone of its literary criticism from the time when a certain letter was written to the editor by Coleridge. Mrs. W[ordsworth]. had the Editor's answer in her possession.

Wordsworth, William, n. (58)

    AmS 1.112 6 This idea [of Unity] has inspired the genius...in a newer time, of Goethe, Wordsworth, and Carlyle.
    ET1 5.4 4 ...my narrow and desultory reading had inspired the wish to see the faces of three or four writers,--Coleridge, Wordsworth, Landor, DeQuincey...
    ET1 5.7 15 ...[Landor]...talked of Wordsworth, Byron, Massinger, Beaumont and Fletcher.
    ET1 5.19 4 On the 28th August [1833] I went to Rydal Mount, to pay my respects to Mr. Wordsworth.
    ET1 5.23 1 This recitation [of his sonnets by Wordsworth] was so unlooked for and surprising,--he, the old Wordsworth, standing apart, and reciting to me in a garden-walk, like a school-boy declaiming,--that I at first was near to laugh;...
    ET1 5.24 17 Wordsworth honored himself by his simple adherence to truth...
    ET6 5.110 9 Wordsworth says of the small freeholders of Westmoreland, Many of these humble sons of the hills had a consciousness that the land which they tilled had for more than five hundred years been possessed by men of the same name and blood.
    ET9 5.150 10 The habit of brag runs through all classes [in England]... through Wordsworth, Carlyle, Mill and Sydney Smith, down to the boys of Eton.
    ET14 5.239 25 'T is quite certain that Spenser, Burns, Byron and Wordsworth will be Platonists...
    ET14 5.256 10 The poetry [of England] of course is low and prosaic; only now and then, as in Wordsworth, conscientious;...
    ET14 5.257 5 The exceptional fact of the period is the genius of Wordsworth.
    ET14 5.257 14 Tennyson is endowed precisely in points where Wordsworth wanted.
    ET17 5.294 13 ...as I have recorded a visit to Wordsworth, many years before, I must not forget this second interview.
    ET17 5.294 15 We [Emerson and Martineau] found Mr. Wordsworth asleep on the sofa.
    ET17 5.296 25 A gentleman in the neighborhood told the story of Walter Scott's staying once for a week with Wordsworth...
    ET17 5.296 27 A gentleman in the neighborhood told the story of Walter Scott's staying once for a week with Wordsworth, and slipping out every day...to the Swan Inn for a cold cut and porter; and one day passing with Wordsworth the inn, he was betrayed by the landlord's asking him if he had come for his porter.
    ET17 5.297 5 ...[in London] you will hear from different literary men that Wordsworth had no personal friend...
    ET17 5.297 12 [A London gentleman] said he once showed [Milton's watch] to Wordsworth...
    ET17 5.297 17 I do not attach much importance to the disparagement of Wordsworth among London scholars.
    Ctr 6.154 27 Wordsworth was praised to me in Westmoreland for having afforded to his country neighbors an example of a modest household where comfort and culture were secured without display.
    Ctr 6.156 12 ...Newton, Milton, Wordsworth, did not live in a crowd...
    Bty 6.303 12 Wordsworth rightly speaks of a light that never was on sea or land, meaning that it was supplied by the observer;...
    WD 7.178 27 I am of the opinion of the poet Wordsworth, that there is no real happiness in this life but in intellect and virtue.
    Boks 7.218 5 ...in our time the Ode of Wordsworth, and the poems and the prose of Goethe, have this enlargement [the imaginative element]...
    Suc 7.299 1 Wordsworth writes of the delights of the boy in Nature...
    OA 7.325 17 When I chanced to meet the poet Wordsworth...he told me that he had just had a fall and lost a tooth...
    PI 8.27 16 William Blake, whose abnormal genius, Wordsworth said, interested him more than the conversation of Scott or of Byron, writes thus...
    PI 8.29 19 ...Herbert, Swedenborg, Wordsworth, are heartily enamoured of their sweet thoughts.
    PI 8.33 20 I find [great design] in the poems of Wordsworth...
    PI 8.50 13 Thomas Taylor...is really...a better poet...than any man between Milton and Wordsworth.
    PI 8.66 17 I count the genius of Swedenborg and Wordsworth as the agents of a reform in philosophy...
    QO 8.192 5 Wordsworth, as soon as he heard a good thing, caught it up...
    QO 8.198 21 Mr. Wordsworth, said Charles Lamb, allow me to introduce to you my only admirer.
    QO 8.202 19 Shakspeare, Milton, Wordsworth, were very conscious of their responsibilities.
    PC 8.219 20 Tennyson would give his fame for a verdict in his favor from Wordsworth.
    PC 8.226 11 The poet Wordsworth asked, What one is, why may not millions be? Why not?
    Grts 8.300 5 True dignity abides with him alone/ Who, in the silent hour of inward thought,/ Can still suspect, and still revere himself,/ In lowliness of heart./ Wordsworth.
    Prch 10.226 10 The poet Wordsworth greeted even the steam-engine and railroads;...
    LLNE 10.323 5 Of old things all are over old,/ Of good things none are good enough;-/ We 'll show that we can help to frame/ A world of other stuff./ Rob Roy's Grave. Wordsworth.
    LLNE 10.342 23 ...there was no concert, and only here and there two or three men or women who read and wrote, each alone, with unusual vivacity. Perhaps they only agreed in having fallen upon Coleridge and Wordsworth...with pleasure and sympathy.
    LVB 11.88 5 Say, what is honour? 'T is the finest sense/ Of justice which the human mind can frame,/ Intent each lurking frailty to disclaim,/ And guard the way of life from all offence,/ Suffered or done./ Wordsworth.
    Scot 11.464 21 [Scott] made no pretension to the lofty style of... Wordsworth.
    CL 12.143 9 ...De Quincey prefixes to this description of Wordsworth a little piece of advice...
    Bost 12.197 25 In the midst of [New England's] laborious and economical and rude and awkward population...you shall not unfrequently meet that refinement...which...gave a hospitality in this country to the spirit of Coleridge and Wordsworth...before yet their genius had found a hearty welcome in Great Britain.
    Milt1 12.260 19 The world, no doubt, contains many of that class of men whom Wordsworth denominates silent poets...
    Milt1 12.267 15 ...Milton deserved the apostrophe of Wordsworth;-Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free,/ So didst thou travel on life's common way/ In cheerful godliness;.../
    MLit 12.318 25 This new love of the vast, always native in Germany... appeared in England in Coleridge, Wordsworth, Byron...and finds a most genial climate in the American mind.
    MLit 12.319 24 [Shelley]...shares with Richter, Chateaubriand, Manzoni and Wordsworth the feeling of the Infinite...
    MLit 12.320 11 The fame of Wordsworth is a leading fact in modern literature...
    MLit 12.321 11 [Wordsworth's The Excursion] was the human soul in these last ages striving for a just publication of itself. Add to this, however, the great praise of Wordsworth, that more than any other contemporary bard he is pervaded with a reverence of somewhat higher than (conscious) thought.
    MLit 12.321 24 With the name of Wordsworth rises to our recollection the name of his contemporary and friend, Walter Savage Landor...
    WSL 12.338 27 What [Landor] says of Wordsworth is true of himself, that he delights to throw a clod of dirt on the table, and cry, Gentlemen, there is a better man than all of you.
    WSL 12.346 14 [Landor] was one of the first to pronounce Wordsworth the great poet of the age...
    EurB 12.365 5 It was a brighter day than we have often known in our literary calendar, when within a twelvemonth a single London advertisement announced a new volume of poems by Wordsworth, poems by Tennyson, and a play by Henry Taylor.
    EurB 12.367 4 Coleridge excellently said of poetry, that poetry must first be good sense; as a palace might well be magnificent, but first it must be a house. Wordsworth is open to ridicule of this kind.
    EurB 12.367 5 ...Wordsworth, though satisfied if he can suggest to a sympathetic mind his own mood...is really a master of the English language...
    EurB 12.367 15 ...the capital merit of Wordsworth is that he has done more for the sanity of this generation than any other writer.
    EurB 12.368 4 ...Wordsworth threw himself into his place...

Wordsworth's, William, n. (9)

    Hsm1 2.247 25 ...Wordsworth's Laodamia, and the ode of Dion, and some sonnets, have a certain noble music;...
    ET1 5.18 5 We [Emerson and Carlyle] went out to walk over long hills, and looked at Criffel...and down into Wordsworth's country.
    QO 8.185 22 Wordsworth's hero acting on the plan which pleased his childish thought, is Schiller's Tell him to reverence the dreams of his youth...
    Imtl 8.346 6 ...Wordsworth's Ode is the best modern essay on the subject [of immortality].
    CL 12.142 22 There is also an effect [of walking] on beauty. De Quincey said, I have seen Wordsworth's eyes sometimes affected powerfully in this respect.
    EurB 12.365 6 Wordsworth's nature or character has had all the time it needed in order to make its mark...
    EurB 12.366 20 In the debates on the Copyright Bill, in the English Parliament, Mr. Sergeant Wakley, the coroner, quoted Wordsworth's poetry in derision...
    EurB 12.369 26 ...notwithstanding all Wordsworth's grand merits, it was a great pleasure to know that Alfred Tennyson's two volumes were coming out in the same ship;...
    EurB 12.372 22 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...

wore, v. (12)

    PPh 4.72 23 [Socrates] wore no under garment;...
    SwM 4.101 13 [Swedenborg] wore a sword when in full velvet dress...
    ET1 5.3 18 ...the public and private buildings wore a more native and wonted front.
    SS 7.5 1 [My friend] went to Vienna, to Smyrna, to London. In all the variety of costumes...to his horror he could never discover a man in the street who wore anything like his own dress.
    Elo1 7.99 23 [Eloquence's] great masters...resembling the Arabian warrior of fame, who wore seventeen weapons in his belt, and in personal combat used them all occasionally.--yet subordinated all means;...
    Res 8.146 3 ...coming among a wild party of Illinois, [Tissenet] overheard them say that they would scalp him. He said to them, Will you scalp me? Here is my scalp, and confounded them by lifting a little periwig he wore.
    Comc 8.170 9 The same astonishment of the intellect at the disappearance of the man out of Nature...as if truth and virtue should be bowed out of creation by the clothes they wore, is the secret of all the fun that circulates concerning eminent fops and fashionists...
    EzRy 10.385 21 ...if [Ezra Ripley] made his forms a strait-jacket to others, he wore the same himself all his years.
    MMEm 10.428 23 [Mary Moody Emerson] made up her shroud, and...wore it as a night-gown, or a day-gown...
    MMEm 10.429 2 ...as [Mary Moody Emerson] never travelled without being provided for this dear and indispensable contingency [death], I believe she wore out a great many [shrouds].
    Thor 10.469 24 [Thoreau] wore a straw hat, stout shoes, strong gray trousers...
    GSt 10.506 22 ...the excessive toil and anxieties, into which [George Stearns's] ardent spirit led him...wore out prematurely his constitution.

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