Hope, Cape of Good to Hospitality
Hope, Good, Cape of , n. [Hope,] (2)
ET5 5.91 4
Sir John Herschel...expatriated himself for years at the Cape of
Good Hope...
ET8 5.137 16
...[the English] administer, in different parts of the world, the
codes of every empire and race;...at the Cape of Good Hope, of the old
Netherlands;...
hope, n. (200)
Nat 1.26 26
Visible distance behind and before us, is respectively our
image of memory and hope.
Nat 1.70 9
A wise writer will feel that the ends of study and composition
are best answered by announcing undiscovered regions of thought, and so
communicating, through hope, new activity to the torpid spirit.
AmS 1.81 3
Our anniversary is one of hope...
AmS 1.82 10
In this hope I accept the topic which not only usage but the
nature of our association seem to prescribe to this day...
AmS 1.106 8
...I have already shown the ground of my hope...
AmS 1.110 9
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not...
when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope;...
DSA 1.135 16
I wish you may feel your call in throbs of desire and hope.
DSA 1.136 1
...any complaisance would be criminal which told you, whose
hope and commission it is to preach the faith of Christ, that the faith of
Christ is preached.
DSA 1.136 7
...this moaning of the heart because it is bereaved of the
consolation, the hope...that come alone out of the culture of the moral
nature, - should be heard...
DSA 1.143 9
...the motive that holds the best there [in the church] is now
only a hope and a waiting.
DSA 1.143 23
The eye of youth is not lighted by the hope of other worlds...
DSA 1.151 5
What hinders that now...you speak the very truth...and cheer
the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation?
LE 1.161 5
Still more do we owe to biography the fortification of our hope.
LE 1.162 10
To feel the full value of these lives, as occasions of hope and
provocation, you must come to know that each admirable genius is but a
successful diver in that sea whose floor of pearls is all your own.
LE 1.166 4
...the moment [men] desert the tradition for a spontaneous
thought, then poetry, wit, hope...all flock to their aid.
LE 1.183 18
The scholar regrets to damp the hope of ingenuous boys;...
LE 1.185 6
...I have ventured to offer you these considerations upon the
scholar's place and hope...
LE 1.186 27
Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give
you bread...such as shall not take away your property...in art, in nature, and
in hope.
MN 1.191 21
...the luck of one is the hope of thousands...
MN 1.193 12
...the scholar must be a bringer of hope...
MN 1.196 24
...this invincible hope of a more adequate interpreter is the
sure prediction of his advent.
MN 1.211 20
[This ecstatic state] respects...hope, and not possession;...
MN 1.215 8
To every reform...early disgusts are incident...so that [the
disciple]...meditates to cast himself into the arms of that society and manner
of life which he had newly abandoned with so much pride and hope.
MN 1.215 16
It is in a hope that [the soul] feels her wings.
MN 1.219 26
Is a man boastful and knowing, and his own master?-we
turn from him without hope...
MN 1.223 5
Who shall dare think he has...missed anything excellent in the
past, who seeth...the yet untouched continent of hope glittering...in the vast
West?
MN 1.223 27
I draw from this faith courage and hope.
MN 1.224 5
...[the soul] is...wide as hope...
MR 1.228 2
...I will not dissemble my hope that each person whom I
address has felt his own call to cast aside all evil customs...
MR 1.229 19
The fact that a new thought and hope have dawned in your
breast, should apprize you that in the same hour a new light broke in upon a
thousand private hearts.
LT 1.264 9
...in the wild hope of a mountain boy...is to be found that which
shall constitute the times to come...
LT 1.264 11
...in the wild hope of a mountain boy, called by city boys very
ignorant, because they do not know what his hope has certainly apprized
him shall be;...is to be found that which shall constitute the times to come...
LT 1.272 20
The new voices in the wilderness...have revived a hope...that
the thoughts of the mind may yet...be executed by the hands.
LT 1.272 24
The new voices in the wilderness...have revived a hope...that
the thoughts of the mind may yet...be executed by the hands. That is the
hope, of which all other hopes are parts.
LT 1.281 14
The sad Pestalozzi, who shared with all ardent spirits the hope
of Europe on the outbreak of the French Revolution...recorded his
conviction that the amelioration of outward circumstances will be the effect
but can never be the means of mental and moral improvement.
Con 1.319 24
If any man resist and set up a foolish hope he has entertained
as good against the general despair, Society frowns on him...
Con 1.326 6
The boldness of the hope men entertain transcends all former
experience.
Con 1.326 9
[The boldness of the hope men entertain] calms and cheers
them with the picture of a simple and equal life of truth and piety. And this
hope flowered on what tree?
Tran 1.345 15
...we...inquire...where are they who represented to the last
generation that extravagant hope which a few happy aspirants suggest to
ours?
Tran 1.346 5
We easily predict a fair future to each new candidate who
enters the lists, but...by low aims and ill example do what we can to defeat
this hope.
Tran 1.347 13
...it is really...the wish to find society for their hope and
religion,-which prompts [Transcendentalists] to shun what is called
society.
YA 1.390 8
That is [the hero's] nobility, his oath of knighthood...always to
throw himself on the side of weakness, of youth, of hope;...
SR 2.47 11
A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his
work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give
him no peace. It is a deliverance which does not deliver. In the attempt...no
invention, no hope.
SR 2.69 2
Fear and hope are alike beneath [the soul].
SR 2.69 3
There is somewhat low even in hope.
SR 2.81 15
I have no churlish objection to the circumnavigation of the
globe...so that the man...does not go abroad with the hope of finding
somewhat greater than he knows.
SR 2.82 26
...if the American artist will study with hope...the precise thing
to be done by him...he will create a house in which [beauty, convenience,
grandeur of thought] will find themselves fitted...
SL 2.138 1
We judge of a man's wisdom by his hope...
SL 2.143 18
What has [a man] to do with hope or fear?
SL 2.165 20
If the poet write a true drama, then he is Caesar...then the
selfsame strain of thought...and a heart...which on the waves of its love and
hope can uplift all that is reckoned solid and precious in the world...these
all are his...
Lov1 2.171 6
...we must...study the sentiment [of love] as it appeared in
hope...
Lov1 2.183 14
Worst, when this sensualism intrudes into the education of
young women, and withers the hope and affection of human nature...
Fdsp 2.198 7
The instinct of affection revives the hope of union with our
mates...
Fdsp 2.204 15
We are holden to men by every sort of tie...by hope...
Fdsp 2.213 5
...a sublime hope cheers ever the faithful heart...
Prd1 2.239 9
What low, poor, paltry, hypocritical people an argument on
religion will make of the pure and chosen souls! They will shuffle and
crow...and not a thought has enriched either party, and not an emotion of
bravery, modesty, or hope.
Hsm1 2.257 23
...hope and fate...shall not be absent from the chamber
where thou sittest.
Hsm1 2.263 25
Who that sees the meanness of our politics but inly
congratulates Washington...that he was laid sweet in his grave, the hope of
humanity not yet subjugated in him?
OS 2.267 12
We give up the past to the objector, and yet we hope. He must
explain this hope.
OS 2.292 10
Deal so plainly with man and woman as to...destroy all hope
of trifling with you.
OS 2.293 24
You are preparing with eagerness to go and render a service to
which your talent and your taste invite you, the love of men and the hope of
fame.
Cir 2.308 7
Infinitely alluring and attractive was [a man] to you yesterday,
a great hope...
Cir 2.319 18
...the man and woman of seventy...have outlived their hope...
Cir 2.319 24
...let [the man and woman of seventy] behold truth; and their
eyes are uplifted...they are perfumed again with hope and power.
Cir 2.320 7
...only as far as [people] are unsettled is there any hope for
them.
Int 2.327 1
All that mass of mental and moral phenomena which we do not
make objects of voluntary thought...are subject to change, to fear and hope.
Int 2.340 2
When we are young we spend much time and pains in filling
our note-books...in the hope that in the course of a few years we shall have
condensed into our encyclopaedia the net value of all the theories at which
the world has yet arrived.
Art1 2.359 8
...in the pictures of the Tuscan and Venetian masters, the
highest charm is the universal language they speak. A confession of moral
nature, of purity, love, and hope, breathes from them all.
Art1 2.360 2
[The traveller who visits the Vatican galleries] studies the
technical rules [of art] on these wonderful remains, but forgets...that each
[work] came out of the solitary workshop of one artist, who...created his
work without other model save life...and the sweet and smart...of poverty
and necessity and hope and fear.
Pt1 3.12 15
This day shall be better than my birthday: then I became an
animal; now I am invited into the science of the real. Such is the hope, but
the fruition is postponed.
Pt1 3.13 6
...let us, with new hope, observe how nature, by worthier
impulses, has insured the poet's fidelity to his office of announcement and
affirming...
Exp 3.48 11
There are moods in which we court suffering, in the hope that
here at least we shall find reality...
Exp 3.71 1
Bear with...with this coetaneous growth of the parts; they will
one day be members, and obey one will. On that one will, on that secret
cause, they nail our attention and hope.
Exp 3.85 19
It takes...a very little time to entertain a hope and an insight
which becomes the light of our life.
Chr1 3.87 1
The sun set; but set not his hope:/...
Chr1 3.113 13
...a friend is the hope of the heart.
Pol1 3.210 10
[Party representatives] have not at heart the ends which give
to the name of democracy what hope and virtue are in it.
NR 3.227 10
All our poets, heroes and saints...leave us without any hope of
realization but in our own future.
NER 3.271 19
What is it men love in Genius, but its infinite hope...
PPh 4.63 21
I give you joy, O sons of men!...that we have hope to search
out what might be the very self of everything.
PPh 4.64 19
[Plato] saw the institutions of Sparta and recognized...the hope
of education.
PPh 4.76 3
...expounding...the hope of the parting soul,--[Plato] is literary,
and never otherwise.
PNR 4.80 14
Modern science...generates a feeling of complacency and
hope.
MoS 4.182 11
Even the doctrines dear to the hope of man...[the spiritualist'
s] neighbors can not put the statement so that he shall affirm it.
ShP 4.202 1
...[the antiquaries] have left no bookstall unsearched...so keen
was the hope to discover whether the boy Shakspeare poached or not...
GoW 4.278 14
...those who begin [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] with the
higher hope to read in it a worthy history of genius...have also reason to
complain.
GoW 4.278 19
We had an English romance here...professing to embody the
hope of a new age...in which the only reward of virtue is a seat in
Parliament and a peerage.
GoW 4.278 20
We had an English romance here...professing...to unfold the
political hope of the party called Young England,--in which the only reward
of virtue is a seat in Parliament and a peerage.
ET6 5.112 3
There is a prose in certain Englishmen which exceeds in
wooden deadness all rivalry with other countrymen. There is a knell in the
conceit and externality of their voice, which seems to say, Leave all hope
behind.
ET14 5.252 11
...even what is called philosophy and letters [in England] is
mechanical in its structure...as if no vast hope, no religion, no song of joy,
no wisdom, no analogy existed any more.
ET14 5.254 8
No hope, no sublime augury cheers the [English] student...
ET19 5.314 6
...if the courage of England goes with the chances of a
commercial crisis, I will go back to the capes of Massachusetts and my own
Indian stream, and say to my countrymen...the elasticity and hope of
mankind must henceforth remain on the Alleghany ranges, or nowhere.
F 6.3 21
We are fired with the hope to reform men.
F 6.4 15
By the same obedience to other thoughts we learn [their power],
and then comes some reasonable hope of harmonizing them.
F 6.35 2
Who likes to believe that he has, hidden in his...pelvis, all the vices
of a...Celtic race, which will be sure to pull him down,-with what
grandeur of hope...he is fired,-into a selfish...animal?
Wsp 6.204 25
There is always some religion, some hope and fear extended
into the invisible...
CbW 6.248 20
A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated
with a faint hope that he will die...
CbW 6.265 20
...hope puts us in a working mood...
Bty 6.296 12
A beautiful woman is a practical poet...planting tenderness,
hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches.
DL 7.101 7
Five rosy boys with morning light/ Had leaped from one fair
mother's arms,/ Fronted the sun with hope as bright,/ And greeted God with
childhood's psalms./
DL 7.108 5
Is it not plain that...in the dwelling-house must the true
character and hope of the time be consulted?
DL 7.108 11
It is easier...to criticise [a territory's] polity, books, art, than to
come to the persons and dwellings of men and read their...their hope in
their way of life.
WD 7.179 26
These passing fifteen minutes, men think...are but hope and
memory;...
Boks 7.218 7
...in our time the Ode of Wordsworth, and the poems and the
prose of Goethe...inspire hope and generous attempts.
Boks 7.218 24
After the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures...[the sacred books]
are...the Chinese Classic, of four books, containing the wisdom of
Confucius and Mencius. Also such other books as have acquired a semi-canonical
authority in the world, as expressing the highest sentiment and
hope of nations.
Cour 7.272 24
The best act of the marvellous genius of Greece was...in the
instinct which, at Thermopylae...kept Asia out of Europe,--Asia with its
antiquities and organic slavery,--from corrupting the hope and new morning
of the West.
Cour 7.273 12
The meal and water that are the commissariat of the forlorn
hope that stake their lives to defend the pass are sacred as the Holy Grail...
Suc 7.283 16
Our political constitution is the hope of the world...
Suc 7.304 7
...it occurs to [the lover] that [he and his beloved] might
somehow meet independently of time and place. How delicious the belief
that he could...hold instant and sempiternal communication! In solitude, in
banishment, the hope returned...
Suc 7.310 27
...this witty malefactor [the cynic] makes [the most sanguine'
s] little hope less with satire and skepticism...
Suc 7.311 3
...to help the young soul, add energy, inspire hope...that is not
easy...
OA 7.313 6
I know ye [clouds] skilful to convoy/ The total freight of hope
and joy/ Into rude and homely nooks,/ Shed mocking lustres on shelf of
books,/ On farmer's byre, on pasture rude,/ And stony pathway to the
wood./
OA 7.319 8
[The cup of time]...fills us with exalted dreams, which we call
hope, love, ambition, science...
OA 7.328 9
What to the youth is only a guess or a hope, is in the veteran a
digested statute.
OA 7.330 22
We remember our old Greek Professor at Cambridge...
possessed by this hope of completing a task...
PI 8.42 18
...as...every perception is a destiny, there is no limit to [the poet'
s] hope.
PI 8.66 13
I have heard that there is a hope which precedes and must
precede all science of the visible or the invisible world;...
PI 8.66 16
I have heard that there is a hope which precedes and must
precede all science of the visible or the invisible world; and that science is
the realization of that hope in either region.
Elo2 8.113 7
...[the eloquent man]...fills desponding men with hope and joy.
Elo2 8.113 21
The orator is he whom every man is seeking when he goes...
into any popular assembly,--though often disappointed, yet never giving
over the hope.
Res 8.137 24
These examples [of man's victory over Nature] wake an
infinite hope...
PC 8.212 5
That cosmical west wind...is alone broad enough to carry to
every city and suburb...the inspirations of this new hope of mankind.
PC 8.216 19
...the hope of any time, must always be sought in the
minorities.
PC 8.226 26
There is anything but humiliation in the homage men pay to a
great man; it is...the expression of their hope of what they shall become...
PC 8.229 5
No hope so bright but is the beginning of its own fulfilment.
PC 8.229 23
Hope never spreads her golden wings but on unfathomable
seas.
PC 8.233 10
...I draw new hope from the atmosphere we breathe to-day...
PC 8.234 7
...when I...consider the sound material of which the cultivated
class here is made up,-what high personal worth, what love of men, what
hope, is joined with rich information and practical power...I cannot distrust
this great knighthood of virtue...
PPo 8.236 5
As Jelaleddin old and gray,/ [Saadi] seemed to bask, to dream
and play/ Without remoter hope or fear/ Than still to entertain his ear/...
PPo 8.255 12
My phoenix long ago secured/ His nest in the sky-vault's
cope;/ In the body's cage immured,/ He was weary of life's hope./
Insp 8.268 7
...if with bended head I grope/ Listening behind me for my
wit,/ With faith superior to hope,/ More anxious to keep back than forward
it,/ Making my soul accomplice there/ Unto the flame my heart has lit,/
Then will the verse forever wear,/ Time cannot bend a line which God hath
writ./ Inspiration, H. Thoreau.
Insp 8.270 20
We must take [the aboriginal man] as we find him...in all our
knowledge of him, an interesting creature, with a will, an invention, an
imagination, a conscience and an inextinguishable hope.
Insp 8.280 17
A man is spent by his work, starved, prostrate;...he can never
think more. He sinks into deep sleep and wakes...with hope, courage, fertile
in resources...
Imtl 8.330 14
Hear the opinion of Montesquieu: ... Independently of
revealed ideas, metaphysical ideas give me a vigorous hope of my eternal
well-being, which I would never renounce.
Imtl 8.333 9
The ground of hope is in the infinity of the world;...
Imtl 8.338 7
The future must be up to the style of our faculties,-of
memory, of hope, of imagination, of reason.
Imtl 8.338 23
On the borders of the grave, the wise man looks forward with
equal elasticity of mind, or hope;...
Aris 10.34 22
The old French Revolution attracted to its first movement all
the liberality, virtue, hope and poetry in Europe.
Aris 10.58 24
...I know no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a
sovereign mind, as that tenacity of purpose which...bates no jot of heart or
hope...
Aris 10.61 11
Give up, once for all, the hope of approbation from the
people in the street, if you are pursuing great ends.
Chr2 10.101 3
They who deal with [a man of profound moral sentiment]
are elevated with joy and hope;...
Edc1 10.133 19
I have hope, said the great Leibnitz, that society may be
reformed, when I see how much education may be reformed.
Edc1 10.152 13
Each [pupil] requires so much consideration, that the
morning hope of the teacher...is often closed at evening by despair.
Prch 10.226 20
...when [the railroads] came into his poetic Westmoreland...
[Wordsworth] yet manned himself to say,-...Time,/ Pleased with your
triumphs o'er his brother brother Space,/ Accepts from your bold hands the
proffered crown/ Of hope and smiles on you with cheer sublime./
Prch 10.236 5
...certainly on this seventh [day] let us be the children of
liberty, of reason, of hope;...
MoL 10.242 19
...nothing has been able to resist the tide with which the
material prosperity of America in years past has beat down the hope of
youth...
Schr 10.265 22
Like [the pearl-diver and the diamond-merchant] [the poet]
will joyfully lose days and months...in the profound hope that one restoring,
all rewarding, immense success will arrive at last...
Schr 10.266 9
[Nature]...comes in with a new ravishing experience and
makes the old time ridiculous. Every poet knows the unspeakable hope...
Schr 10.279 12
...the young, coming up with innocent hope, and looking
around them...finding that nothing outside corresponds to the noble order in
the soul, are confused...
Schr 10.279 17
Hope is taken from youth unless there be, by the grace of
God, sufficient vigor in their instinct to say, All is wrong and human
invention.
LLNE 10.361 13
...there was immense hope in these young people [at
Brook Farm].
LLNE 10.370 4
...I am not less aware of that excellent and increasing circle
of masters in arts and in song and in science...whose genius is...normal...
and so inspires the hope of steady strength advancing on itself...
CSC 10.374 7
These meetings [of the Chardon Street Convention]...were
spoken of in different circles in every note of hope, of sympathy, of joy, of
alarm, of abhorrence and of merriment.
MMEm 10.412 13
...when Nature beams with such excess of beauty, when
the heart thrills with hope in its Author...it exults, too fondly perhaps for a
state of trial.
MMEm 10.416 1
...joy, hope and resignation unite me [Mary Moody
Emerson] to Him whose mysterious Will adjusts everything...
MMEm 10.417 21
It humbles me [Mary Moody Emerson] beyond
anything I have met, to find myself for a moment affected with hope, fear,
or especially anger, about interest.
MMEm 10.424 13
Hail requiem of departed Time! Never was incumbent's
funeral followed by expectant heir with more satisfaction. Yet not his hope
is mine [Mary Moody Emerson's].
MMEm 10.429 5
I [Mary Moody Emerson] have given up, the last year or
two, the hope of dying.
Thor 10.484 20
Thoreau seemed to me living in the hope to gather this
plant [the Edelweisse]...
LS 11.25 4
...I am consoled by the hope that no time and no change can
deprive me of the satisfaction of pursuing and exercising [the pastoral
office's] highest functions.
HDC 11.53 16
We, who see in the squalid remnants of the twenty tribes of
Massachusetts...can hardly learn without emotion the earnestness with
which the most sensible individuals of the copper race held on to the new
hope they had conceived...
HDC 11.85 12
With all the hope of the new I feel that we are leaving the
old.
HDC 11.86 19
...I believe this town [Concord] to have been the dwelling-place...
of pious and excellent persons...who served God, and loved man,
and never let go the hope of immortality.
EWI 11.111 20
...when...some Quakers, or Moravians, and Wesleyan and
Baptist missionaries...had been moved to come [the the West Indies] and
cheer the poor victim with the hope of some reparation, in a future world,
of the wrongs he suffered in this, these missionaries were persecuted by the
planters...
War 11.161 8
...the fact that [the idea that there can be peace as well as
war] has become so distinct to any small number of persons as to become a
subject of prayer and hope...that is the commanding fact.
War 11.165 21
The standing army, the arsenal, the camp and the gibbet do
not appertain to man. They only serve as an index to show where man is
now;...how low his hope lies.
War 11.171 3
...the only hope of this cause [of peace] is in the increased
insight...
War 11.174 26
...if the desire of a large class of young men for a faith and
hope, intellectual and religious, such as they have not yet found, be an
omen to be trusted;...then war has a short day...
War 11.175 4
...if the search of the sublime laws of morals and the sources
of hope and trust, in man, and not in books, in the present, and not in the
past, proceed;...then war has a short day...
War 11.175 25
...not in an antiquated appanage where no onward step can
be taken without rebellion, is this seed of benevolence [Congress of
Nations] laid in the furrow, with tears of hope;...
FSLC 11.203 25
Mr. Webster is a man who lives by his memory, a man of
the past, not a man of faith or of hope.
FSLC 11.207 1
...I strongly share the hope of mankind in the power, and
therefore, in the duties of the Union;...
EPro 11.325 22
The malignant cry of the Secession press within the free
states, and the recent action of the Confederate Congress, are decisive as to
[the Emancipation Proclamation's] efficiency and correctness of aim. Not
less so is...the new hope it has breathed into the world.
SMC 11.354 7
...the moment you cry Every man to his tent, O Israel! the
delusions of hope and fear are at an end;...
SMC 11.359 26
...the [Civil] war...disclosed in [George Prescott]...a serious
devotion to the cause of the country that never swerved, a hope that never
failed.
EdAd 11.392 19
In the rapid decay of what was called religion, timid and
unthinking people fancy a decay of the hope of man.
SHC 11.430 20
We will not jealously guard a few atoms under immense
marbles, selfishly and impossibly sequestering it from the vast circulations
of Nature, but, at the same time, fully admitting the divine hope and love
which belong to our nature, wishing to make one spot tender to our
children...
FRO2 11.490 10
...you cannot bring me...too dazzling a hope...from the
Jews.
FRO2 11.491 2
I am glad to believe society contains a class of humble
souls...who have conceived an infinite hope for mankind;...
FRep 11.524 20
Whilst each cabal...at last brings...men whose names are a
knell to all hope of progress, the good and wise are hidden in their active
retirements...
FRep 11.525 23
...the history of Nature from first to last is incessant
advance...from rude to finer organization, the globe of matter thus
conspiring with the principle of undying hope in man.
FRep 11.526 5
...the best civilization yet is only valuable as a ground of
hope.
FRep 11.530 2
In this fact, that we are a nation of individuals...and that on
such an organization sooner or later the moral laws must tell, to such ears
must speak,-in this is our hope.
PLT 12.56 23
We are continually tempted to sacrifice...the hope and
promise of insight to the lust of a freer demonstration of those gifts we
have;...
PLT 12.60 10
So long as you are capable of advance, so long you have not
abdicated the hope and future of a divine soul.
CInt 12.117 22
I presently know whether my companion has...more hope
for men or less...
CInt 12.124 7
Here [in a good teacher] is sympathy; here is an order that
corresponds to that in [a young man's] own mind, and in all sound minds,
and the hope and impulse imparted.
Milt1 12.255 1
...we think it impossible to recall one in those countries
[England, France, Germany] who communicates the same vibration of
hope, of self-reverence, of piety, of delight in beauty, which the name of
Milton awakens.
ACri 12.284 15
...the learned depart from established forms of speech, in
hope of finding or making better;...
MLit 12.309 5
In our fidelity to the higher truth we need not disown our
debt, in our actual state of culture, in the twilights of experience, to these
rude helpers. They keep alive the memory and the hope of a better day.
MLit 12.310 21
[The library of the Present Age] can hardly be
characterized by any species of book, for...every hope and fear...has an
organ.
MLit 12.315 27
Do gladness and hope and fortitude flow from [the writer'
s] page into thy heart?
MLit 12.331 7
Goethe...must be set down as...the poet...of this world, and
not of religion and hope;...
MLit 12.332 24
...they have served [humanity] better, who assured it out of
the innocent hope in their hearts that a Physician will come, than this
majestic Artist [Goethe]...
MLit 12.333 3
The criticism, which is not so much spoken as felt in
reference to Goethe, instructs us directly in the hope of literature.
Pray 12.352 13
I hunger with strong hope and affection for thee...
PPr 12.384 12
It is plain that whether by hope or by fear, or were it only by
delight in this panorama of brilliant images, all the great classes of English
society must read [Carlyle's Past and Present]...
Let 12.398 27
...companies of the best-educated young men in the Atlantic
states every week take their departure for Europe;...simply because they
shall so be...agreeably entertained for one or two years, with some lurking
hope...that something may turn up to give them a decided direction.
Let 12.400 23
Full of love, talent and hope spring up the darlings of the
muse among the Germans;...
Trag 12.405 20
There is a simultaneous diminution of memory and hope.
Hope, n. (9)
MR 1.249 19
The Americans have many virtues, but they have not Faith
and Hope.
Con 1.295 22
Such an irreconcilable antagonism [as that between
Conservatism and Innovation]...must have a correspondent depth of seat in
the human constitution. It is the opposition...of Memory and Hope...
YA 1.379 12
That is the moral of all we learn, that it warrants Hope...
NER 3.249 7
...the angel Hope aye makes/ Him an angel whom she leads./
Edc1 10.128 25
Here [in the household] is Economy, and Glee, and
Hospitality, and Ceremony, and Frankness, and Calamity, and Death, and
Hope.
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.
Edc1 10.150 26
[In colleges] You have to work for large classes instead of
individuals;...you grow departmental, routinary, military almost with your
discipline and college police. But what doth such a school to form a great
and heroic character? What abiding Hope can it inspire?
MMEm 10.397 17
...Nor me can Hope or Passion urge,/ Hearing as now
the lofty dirge/ Which blasts of Northern mountains hymn,/ Nature's
funeral high and dim,-/ Sable pageantry of clouds,/ Mourning summer laid
in shrouds./
War 11.149 1
The archangel Hope/ Looks to the azure cope,/ Waits
through dark ages for the morn,/ Defeated day by day, but unto Victory
born./
hope, v. (60)
DSA 1.140 17
...can [the poor preacher] ask a fellow-creature to come to
Sabbath meetings, when he and they all know what is the poor uttermost
they can hope for therein.
LE 1.161 20
...the most hopeless, in view of these radiant facts [Plato,
Milton, Shakspeare], may now theorize and hope.
MN 1.194 11
...come...hither, thou tender, doubting heart...thine and not
theirs is the hour. Smooth thy brow, and hope and love on...
MN 1.199 2
How can I hope for better hap in my attempts to enunciate
spiritual facts?
MN 1.199 4
...let us hope that as far as we receive the truth, so far shall we
be felt by every true person to say what is just.
MR 1.232 14
...the general system of our trade (apart from the blacker
traits, which, I hope, are exceptions...) is a system of selfishness;...
LT 1.278 17
To the youth...the temptation is always great to lend himself to
public movements, and as one of a party accomplish what he cannot hope to
effect alone.
LT 1.281 7
These benefactors [the reformers] hope to raise man by
improving his circumstances...
LT 1.281 9
...by combination of that which is dead [the reformers] hope to
make something alive.
SR 2.51 27
I hope it is somewhat better than whim at last...
SR 2.60 9
I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and
consistency.
SR 2.83 21
...you cannot hope too much or dare too much.
OS 2.267 12
We give up the past to the objector, and yet we hope.
Chr1 3.103 22
...when [your friends]...must suspend their judgment for
years to come, you may begin to hope.
Mrs1 3.154 7
Are you...rich enough to make...even the poor insane or
besotted wreck of man or woman, feel the noble exception of your presence
and your house from the general bleakness and stoniness; to make such feel
that they were greeted with a voice which made them both remember and
hope?
NER 3.272 24
In the circle of the rankest tories...let...a man of great heart
and mind act on them, and very quickly...these hopeless will begin to hope...
ShP 4.191 26
...we could not hope to suppress newspapers now...
ShP 4.195 5
This balance-wheel, which the sculptor found in architecture,
the perilous irritability of poetic talent found in the accumulated dramatic
materials...which had a certain excellence which no single genius...could
hope to create.
Pow 6.75 16
...I hope, said a good man to Rothschild, your children are not
too fond of money and business; I am sure you would not wish that.--I am
sure I should wish that; I wish them to give mind, soul, heart and body to
business,--that is the way to be happy.
Wth 6.124 7
Another point of economy is to look for seed of the same kind
as you sow, and not to hope to buy one kind with another kind.
Ctr 6.150 12
The best bribe which London offers to-day to the imagination
is that in such a vast variety of people and conditions one can believe...that
the poet, the mystic and the hero may hope to confront their counterparts.
OA 7.324 9
At fifty years, 't is said, afflicted citizens lose their sick-headaches.
I hope this hegira is not as movable a feast as that one I annually
look for, when the horticulturists assure me that the rose-bugs in our
gardens disappear on the tenth of July;...
OA 7.333 6
...[John Adams]...added, My son has more political prudence
that any man that I know who has existed in my time; he never was put off
his guard; and I hope he will continue such...
SA 8.91 18
...presidents of the United States are afflicted by rude Western
and Southern gossips (I hope it is only by them)...
SA 8.107 17
...I believe...that intelligence, manly enterprise, good
education, virtuous life and elegant manners have been and are found here,
and, we hope, in the next generation will still more abound.
Grts 8.315 13
...I please myself with [greatness's] diffusion; to find a spark
of true fire amid much corruption. It is some guaranty, I hope, for the health
of the soul which has this generous blood.
Aris 10.37 11
We like cool people, who neither hope nor fear too much...
PerF 10.86 22
The divine knowledge has ebbed out of us and we do not
know enough to be free. I hope better of the State.
Chr2 10.101 19
I am in the habit of thinking-not, I hope, out of partial
experience...that to every serious mind Providence sends from time to time
five or six or seven teachers who are of first importance to him...
Chr2 10.107 15
...it by no means follows, because those [earlier religious]
offices are much disused, that the men and women are irreligious;...but
only, let us hope, that they see that they can omit the form without loss of
real ground;...
Edc1 10.153 1
Whatever becomes of our method [of teaching], the
conditions stand fast,-six hours, and thirty, fifty, or a hundred and fifty
pupils. Something must be done, and done speedily, and in this distress the
wisest are tempted...to proclaim...main strength and ignorance, in lieu of
that wise genial providential influence they had hoped, and yet hope at
some future day to adopt.
Supl 10.164 20
From want of skill to convey quality, we hope to move
admiration by quantity.
SovE 10.195 12
I hope it is conceivable that a man may go to ruin gladly, if
he see that thereby no shade falls on that he loves and adores.
SovE 10.205 13
...I hope the defect of faith with us is only apparent.
Prch 10.235 23
All civil mankind have agreed in leaving one day for
contemplation against six for practice. I hope that day will keep its honor
and its use.
MoL 10.241 7
You go to be teachers...I hope, some of you, to be the men
of letters, critics, philosophers;...
Plu 10.299 20
[Plutarch] is...sufficiently a mathematician to leave some of
his readers...respectfully skipping to the next chapter. But this scholastic
omniscience of our author engages a new respect, since they hope he
understands his own diagram.
Plu 10.302 24
[Plutarch] has preserved for us a multitude of precious
sentences...of authors whose books are lost; and these embalmed
fragments...have come to be proverbs of later mankind. I hope it is only my
immense ignorance that makes me believe that they do not survive out of
his pages...
Plu 10.317 10
...it was [Plutarch's] severe fate to flourish in those days of
ignorance, which, 't is a favorable opinion to hope that the Almighty will
sometime wink at;...
Plu 10.321 6
I hope the Commission of the Philological Society in
London...will not overlook these volumes [the 1718 edition of Plutarch]...
EzRy 10.384 26
[Joseph Emerson wrote] I desire (I hope I desire it) that the
Lord would teach me suitably to resent this Providence...
HDC 11.68 26
...it gives life and strength to every attempt to oppose
[unconstitutional taxes], that not only the people of this, but the neighboring
provinces are remarkably united in the important and interesting opposition,
which, as it succeeded before, in some measure, by the blessing of heaven,
so, we cannot but hope it will be attended with still greater success, in
future.
HDC 11.70 15
...we think it our duty...to return our hearty thanks to the
town of Boston...and we hope...that they will still remain watchful and
persevering;...
HDC 11.82 25
Two religious societies, of differing creed, dwell together
[in Concord] in good understanding, both promoting, we hope, the cause of
righteousness and love.
HDC 11.83 10
I hope that History [of Concord] will not long remain
unknown.
FSLN 11.235 7
...no man has a right to hope that the laws of New York
will defend him from the contamination of slaves another day until he has
made up his mind that he will not owe his protection to the laws of New
York, but to his own sense and spirit.
FSLN 11.244 23
...I hope we have reached the end of our unbelief...
JBB 11.273 4
I hope...that, in administering relief to John Brown's family,
we shall remember all those whom his fate concerns...
TPar 11.291 15
Fops, whether in hotels or churches, will...faintly hope for
the salvation of [Theodore Parker's] soul;...
ACiv 11.309 9
I hope it is not a fatal objection to this policy [of
emancipation] that it is simple and beneficent thoroughly...
EPro 11.319 3
A day which most of us dared not hope to see...seems now
to be close before us.
HCom 11.340 16
...They followed [Truth] and found her/ Where all may
hope to find/ Not in the ashes of the burnt-out mind,/ But beautiful, with
danger's sweetness round her./
SMC 11.375 5
I hope the disuse of such medals or badges in this country
only signifies that everybody knows these men [veterans of the Civil War]...
SMC 11.375 11
I am sure I need not bespeak your gratitude to these fellow
citizens and neighbors of ours [veterans of the Civil War]. I hope they will
be content with the laurels of one war.
FRep 11.541 26
I hope America will come to have its pride in being a
nation of servants, and not of the served.
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 12.62 19
...when a man says I hope, I find, I think, he might properly
say, The human race, thinks or finds or hopes.
II 12.78 26
...we must hope and strive, for despair is no muse...
CL 12.162 18
Sometimes the farmer withstands [the true naturalist] in
crossing his lots, but 't is to no purpose; the farmer could as well hope to
prevent the sparrows or tortoises.
Pray 12.354 12
And next in value, which thy kindness lends,/ That I may
greatly disappoint my friends,/ Howe'er they think or hope that it may be,/
They may not dream how thou'st distinguished me./
hoped, v. (16)
Lov1 2.170 26
...it is to be hoped that by patience and the Muses' aid we
may attain to that inward view of the law which shall describe a truth ever
young and beautiful...
Mrs1 3.155 14
I overheard Jove, one day, said Silenus, talking of
destroying the earth; he said it had failed; they were all rogues and vixens,
who went from bad to worse, as fast as the days succeeded each other.
Minerva said she hoped not;...
MoS 4.151 10
It is not strange that these men [predisposed to morals],
remembering what they have seen and hoped of ideas, should affirm
disdainfully the superiority of ideas.
ET3 5.42 9
When James the First declared his purpose of punishing
London by removing his Court, the Lord Mayor replied that in removing
his royal presence from his lieges, they hoped he would leave them the
Thames.
Bty 6.293 18
I need not say how wide the same law [of gradation] ranges,
and how much it can be hoped to effect.
Suc 7.310 24
Which of [the most sanguine] has not...found themselves
awkward or tedious or incapable of study, thought or heroism, and only
hoped by good sense and fidelity to do what they could and pass unblamed?
Edc1 10.152 27
Whatever becomes of our method [of teaching], the
conditions stand fast,-six hours, and thirty, fifty, or a hundred and fifty
pupils. Something must be done, and done speedily, and in this distress the
wisest are tempted...to proclaim...main strength and ignorance, in lieu of
that wise genial providential influence they had hoped...to adopt.
LLNE 10.345 12
There was a pilgrim in those days walking in the country
who stopped at every door where he hoped to find hearing for his doctrine,
which was, Never to give or receive money.
MMEm 10.429 11
[Mary Moody Emerson wrote] Tedious indisposition:-
hoped, as it took a new form, it would open the cool, sweet grave.
Thor 10.469 3
I think [Thoreau's] fancy for referring everything to the
meridian of Concord...was...a playful expression of his conviction...that the
best place for each is where he stands. He expressed it once in this wise: I
think nothing is to be hoped from you, if this bit of mould under your feet is
not sweeter to you to eat than any other in this world, or in any world.
HDC 11.53 9
...[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...but would be...Indians still; but dwelling near the
English, he hoped it might be otherwise with them then.
LVB 11.92 9
We have looked in the newspapers of different parties and
find a horrid confirmation of the tale [of the relocation of the Cherokees].
We are slow to believe it. We hoped the Indians were misinformed...
ACiv 11.311 7
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...
FRO2 11.485 9
...quite against my design and my will, I shall have to
request the attention of the audience to a few written remarks, instead of the
more extensive statement which I had hoped to offer them.
II 12.83 27
We must suppose life to [men slow in finding their vocation] is
a kind of hibernation, and 't is to be hoped they will be very fat and
energetic in the spring.
MAng1 12.236 20
In answer to the importunate solicitations of the Duke of
Tuscany that he would come to Florence, [Michelangelo] replies...that he
hoped he should shortly see the execution of his plans [for St. Peter's]
brought to such a point that they could no longer be interfered with...
hopeful, adj. (4)
AmS 1.114 27
...thousands of young men as hopeful now crowding to the
barriers for the career do not yet see, that if the single man plant himself
indomitably on his instincts...the huge world will come round to him.
LT 1.264 3
...I find the Age walking about in happy and hopeful natures...
SA 8.107 12
...I believe that with all liberal and hopeful men there is a firm
faith in the beneficent results which we really enjoy;...
ALin 11.330 1
[Lincoln] was the most active and hopeful of men;...
hopeless, adj. (11)
DSA 1.145 27
The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity.
Pol1 3.220 3
Are our methods now so excellent that all competition is
hopeless?...
NER 3.272 24
In the circle of the rankest tories...let...a man of great heart
and mind act on them, and very quickly...these hopeless will begin to hope...
NMW 4.253 26
[Napoleon] is unjust to his generals;...intriguing to involve
his faithful Junot in hopeless bankruptcy...
ET14 5.260 8
...the two complexions, or two styles of mind [in England],--
the perceptive class, and the practical finality class,--are ever in
counterpoise, interacting mutually: one in hopeless minorities; the other in
huge masses;...
Ctr 6.141 11
...I think it the part of good sense to provide every fine soul
with such culture that it shall not, at thirty or forty years, have to say, This
which I might do is made hopeless through my want of weapons.
DL 7.117 6
[The reform that applies itself to the household] must come in
connection with a true acceptance by each man of his vocation,--not chosen
by his parents or friends, but by his genius, with earnestness and love. Nor
is this redress so hopeless as it seems.
Res 8.138 1
A low, hopeless spirit puts out the eyes;...
Edc1 10.133 23
It is ominous...that this word Education has so cold, so
hopeless a sound.
Schr 10.282 2
As we read the newspapers...patriotism and religion seem to
shriek like ghosts. We will not speak for them, because to speak for them
seems so weak and hopeless.
Trag 12.407 6
[Fate] is the terrible meaning that...makes the Oedipus and
Antigone and Orestes objects of such hopeless commiseration.
hopeless, n. (1)
LE 1.161 19
...the most hopeless...may now theorize and hope.
hopes, n. (28)
AmS 1.82 16
Let us inquire what light new days and events have thrown on
[the American Scholar's] character and his hopes.
AmS 1.113 25
The scholar is that man who must take up into himself...all
the hopes of the future.
LE 1.163 6
...in the hopes of the morning...behold Charles the Fifth's day;...
MR 1.252 22
We do not greet [the laborers'] talents...nor foster their
hopes...
LT 1.272 24
The new voices in the wilderness...have revived a hope...that
the thoughts of the mind may yet...be executed by the hands. That is the
hope, of which all other hopes are parts.
Con 1.313 16
Thank the rude foster-mother [Necessity], though she has...
set hopes in your heart which shall be history in the next ages.
OS 2.267 9
...the argument which is always forthcoming to silence those
who conceive extraordinary hopes of man, namely the appeal to experience,
is for ever invalid and vain.
OS 2.293 11
[God's presence] inspires in man an infallible trust. ... In the
presence of law to his mind he is overflowed with a reliance so universal
that it sweeps away all cherished hopes and the most stable projects of
mortal condition in its flood.
Cir 2.308 27
The very hopes of man...are...at the mercy of a new
generalization.
NR 3.235 15
The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our
hopes.
ET11 5.173 12
The hopes of the commoners [in England] take the same
direction with the interest of the patricians.
Pow 6.74 8
Friends, books, pictures, lower duties, talents, flatteries, hopes,--
all are distractions...
Suc 7.291 2
There was a wise man...Michel Angelo, who writes thus of
himself: Meanwhile the Cardinal Ippolito, in whom all my best hopes were
placed, being dead, I began to understand...that to confide in one's self, and
become something of worth and value, is the best and safest course.
PI 8.67 27
We must...ask...whether we shall find our tragedy written in
[Hamlet's],--our hopes, wants, pains, disgraces, described to the life...
PC 8.227 18
In our daily intercourse, we...lend ourselves to low fears and
hopes...
LLNE 10.329 22
Instead of the social existence which all shared, was now
separation. Every one...driven to find all his resources, hopes, rewards,
society and deity within himself.
LLNE 10.348 3
Fourier...has put men under the obligation...of conceiving
magnificent hopes and making great demands as the right of man.
MMEm 10.418 15
Shut up in this severe weather with careful, infirm,
afflicted age, it is wonderful, my [Mary Moody Emerson's] spirits: hopes I
can have none.
SlHr 10.438 27
...when the votes of the Free States...had disappointed the
hopes of mankind...[Samuel Hoar] considered the question of justice and
liberty, for his age, lost...
FSLN 11.226 13
[Webster] listened to State reasons and hopes...
FSLN 11.244 9
Now at last we are disenchanted and shall have no more
false hopes.
ACiv 11.298 22
All the little hopes that heretofore made the year pleasant
are deferred.
ALin 11.329 12
...I doubt if any death has caused so much pain to mankind
as this [of Lincoln] has caused, or will cause, on its announcement; and
this...because of the mysterious hopes and fears which, in the present day,
are connected with the name and institutions of America.
FRep 11.519 20
We have seen the great party of property and education in
the country drivelling and huckstering away...the dearest hopes of
mankind;...
II 12.74 4
Here is a famous Ode, which...lies in all memories as the high-water
mark in the flood of thought in this age. What does the writer know
of that? Converse with him, learn his opinions and hopes. He has long ago
passed out of it...
ACri 12.303 19
...there is much in literature that draws us with a sublime
charm-the superincumbent necessity by which each writer...is enriched by
thoughts which flow from all past minds, shares the hopes of all existing
minds;...
PPr 12.384 24
What pains, what hopes, what vows, shall come of the
reading [of Carlyle's Past and Present]!
Trag 12.414 26
...new hopes spring, new affections twine, and the broken
is whole again.
hope's, n. (1)
MMEm 10.424 25
...He who formed thy [Time's] web, who stretched thy
warp from long ages...has attuned [man's] mind in such unison with the
harp of the universe, that he is never without some chord of hope's music.
Hope's, n. (1)
Suc 7.309 21
...every gift of noble origin/ Is breathed upon by Hope's
perpetual breath./
hopes, v. (10)
AmS 1.90 18
...man hopes...
DSA 1.125 16
[The sentiment of virtue] corrects the capital mistake of the
infant man, who...hopes to derive advantages from another...
GoW 4.282 11
In the learned journal, in the influential newspaper, I discern
no form; only some irresponsible shadow; oftener...some dangler who
hopes...to pass for somebody.
ET11 5.173 16
Every man who becomes rich [in England]...does what he
can to fortify the nobility, into which he hopes to rise.
CbW 6.246 1
The judge...hopes he has done justice...
Elo1 7.68 19
Set a New Englander to describe any accident which
happened in his presence. What hesitation and reserve in his narrative! He...
though he cannot describe, hopes to suggest the whole scene.
Suc 7.290 9
I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by
credit...
SA 8.81 2
...he who has not this fine garment of behavior is studious of
dress, and then not less of house and furniture and pictures and gardens, in
all which he hopes to lie perdu...
PLT 12.62 21
...when a man says I hope, I find, I think, he might properly
say, The human race, thinks or finds or hopes.
Trag 12.413 13
A man should try Time, and his face should wear the
expression of a just judge...who fears nothing, and even hopes nothing...
hoping, n. (1)
FSLN 11.241 3
Whilst the inconsistency of slavery with the principles on
which the world is built guarantees its downfall, I own that the patience it
requires...seems to demand of us more than mere hoping.
hoping, v. (3)
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.
Comc 8.165 8
The Society in London which had contributed their means to
convert the savages, hoping doubtless to see the Keokuks, Black Hawks...
converted into church-wardens and deacons at least, pestered the gallant
rover [Capt. John Smith] with frequent solicitations...touching the
conversion of the Indians...
MAng1 12.236 26
...[Michelangelo] replies [to the Duke of Tuscany]...that
he hoped he should shortly see the execution of his plans [for St. Peter's]
brought to such a point that they could no longer be interfered with...if, he
adds, I do not commit a great crime by disappointing the cormorants who
are daily hoping to get rid of me.
Hopken, Count, n. (1)
SwM 4.100 17
At the Diet of 1751, Count Hopken says, the most solid
memorials on finance were from [Swedenborg's] pen.
Hopkins, Samuel, n. (1)
Prch 10.237 1
We no longer recite the old creeds...of Calvin or Hopkins.
hopping, adj. (1)
Prch 10.237 21
...when we...come into the house of thought and worship,
we come with the purpose...to see that life...is no hopping squib...
Hopps, Mr., n. (1)
AKan 11.256 14
Do the Committee of Investigation say that the outrages
[in Kansas] have been overstated? Does their dismal catalogue of private
tragedies show it? Do the private letters? Is it an exaggeration, that Mr.
Hopps of Somerville, Mr. Hoyt of Deerfield...have been murdered?
hops, v. (1)
Exp 3.58 3
Like a bird which alights nowhere, but hops perpetually from
bough to bough, is the Power which abides in no man and in no woman, but
for a moment speaks from this one, and for another moment from that one.
Horace, n. (12)
Ctr 6.159 7
...if in travelling in the dreary wildernesses of Arkansas or
Texas we should observe on the next seat a man reading Horace...we should
wish to hug him.
Boks 7.204 26
The poet Horace is the eye of the Augustan age;...
OA 7.329 25
We have an admirable line worthy of Horace, ever and anon
resounding in our mind's ear...
Elo2 8.122 22
If indignation makes verses, as Horace says, it is not less true
that a good indignation makes an excellent speech.
PC 8.225 18
The highest flight to which the muse of Horace ascended was
in that triplet of lines in which he described the souls which can calmly
confront the sublimity of Nature...
PPo 8.244 13
Hafiz...adds to some of the attributes of Pindar, Anacreon,
Horace and Burns, the insight of a mystic...
Insp 8.295 3
...I find a mitigation or solace by providing always a good
book for my journeys, as Horace or Martial or Goethe...
Edc1 10.140 7
In their fun and extreme freak [boys] hit on the topmost
sense of Horace.
Plu 10.319 17
[Plutarch] knew the laws of conversation and the laws of
good-fellowship quite as well as Horace...
WSL 12.341 11
When we pronounce the names of...Horace, Ovid and
Plutarch;...we...enter into a region of the purest pleasure accessible to
human nature.
EurB 12.366 24
In the debates on the Copyright Bill...Mr. Sergeant
Wakley, the coroner, quoted Wordsworth's poetry in derision, and asked
the roaring House of Commons...whether a man should have public reward
for writing such stuff. Homer, Horace, Milton and Chaucer would defy the
coroner.
EurB 12.368 11
[Wordsworth] sat at the foot of Helvellyn and on the
margin of Windermere, and took their lustrous mornings and their sublime
midnights for his theme, and...not Horace nor Milton nor Dante.
horde, n. (1)
SovE 10.190 8
Community of property is tried, as when a Tartar horde or
an Indian tribe roam over a vast tract for pasturage or hunting;...
horizon, n. (63)
Nat 1.8 19
There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he
whose eye can integrate all the parts...
Nat 1.10 19
...in the distant line of the horizon, man beholds somewhat as
beautiful as his own nature.
Nat 1.16 25
The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon.
LE 1.168 27
...[when I see the daybreak] I am cheered by the...hour, that
takes down the narrow walls of my soul, and extends its life and pulsation
to the very horizon.
LE 1.175 4
Pindar, Raphael...dwell in crowds it may be, but the instant
thought comes...their eye fixes on the horizon...
Hist 2.18 23
...my companion pointed out to me a broad cloud, which might
extend a quarter of a mile parallel to the horizon...
SR 2.80 7
...the walls of the system blend to [unbalanced mind's] eye in the
remote horizon with the walls of the universe;...
Comp 2.122 9
...in a virtuous act I add to the world; I...see the darkness
receding on the limits of the horizon.
SL 2.147 20
People are not the better for the sun and moon, the horizon and
the trees;...
Fdsp 2.210 16
Should not the society of my friend be to me...great as
nature itself? Ought I to feel that our tie is profane in comparison with
yonder bar of cloud that sleeps on the horizon...
Cir 2.301 1
The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the
second;...
Cir 2.310 9
The things which are dear to men at this hour are so on account
of the ideas which have emerged on their mental horizon...
Int 2.339 19
I cannot see what you see, because I am caught up by a strong
wind and blown so far in one direction that I am out of the hoop of your
horizon.
Art1 2.352 8
What is a man but a finer and compacter landscape than the
horizon figures...
Exp 3.46 24
Embark, and the romance quits our vessel and hangs on every
other sail in the horizon.
Exp 3.46 26
Men seem to have learned of the horizon the art of perpetual
retreating and reference.
Exp 3.51 3
Of what use is genius, if the organ...cannot find a focal distance
within the actual horizon of human life?
Exp 3.76 19
...it is the eye which makes the horizon...
Exp 3.76 27
By love on one part and by forbearance to press objection on
the other part, it is for a time settled that we will look at [Jesus] in the
centre of the horizon...
Nat2 3.171 17
We go out daily and nightly to feed the eyes on the horizon...
Nat2 3.174 18
...it is the magical lights of the horizon and the blue sky for
the background which save all our works of art...
UGM 4.19 15
When nature removes a great man, people explore the
horizon for a successor;...
UGM 4.27 6
Ah! yonder in the horizon is our help;--other great men...
PNR 4.82 12
These expansions or extensions [of facts] consist in
continuing the spiritual sight where the horizon falls on our natural vision...
SwM 4.118 8
...Why does the horizon hold me fast, with my joy and grief,
in this centre?
ShP 4.204 15
[Shakespeare's] mind is the horizon beyond which, at
present, we do not see.
GoW 4.273 8
The immense horizon which journeys with us lends its
majesty to trifles...
ET1 5.5 7
I have...found writers superior to their books, and I cling to my
first belief that a strong head will...give one...a larger horizon.
ET2 5.26 25
The good ship darts through the water...sliding from horizon
to horizon.
ET11 5.187 10
[English nobility] is a romance adorning English life with a
larger horizon;...
ET14 5.246 10
How can [English genius] discern and hail the new forms
that are looming up on the horizon...
ET14 5.254 12
A horizon of brass of the diameter of his umbrella shuts
down around [the English student's] senses.
ET14 5.257 16
Color, like the dawn, flows over the horizon from
[Tennyson's] pencil...
F 6.48 13
...the rainbow and the curve of the horizon and the arch of the
blue vault are only results from the organism of the eye.
Ctr 6.153 9
[The countryman] has lost [in the city] the lines of grandeur of
the horizon, hills and plains...
Wsp 6.242 5
...the good Laws themselves are alive...they animate [man]
with the leading of great duty, and an endless horizon.
CbW 6.267 15
In childhood we fancied ourselves walled in by the horizon...
CbW 6.267 18
On experiment the horizon flies before us...
CbW 6.267 22
...'t is strange how tenaciously we cling to that bell-astronomy
of a protecting domestic horizon.
Bty 6.303 7
[Beauty] instantly deserts possession, and flies to an object in
the horizon.
Bty 6.305 7
Into every beautiful object there enters somewhat
immeasurable and divine, and just as much into form bounded by outlines,
like mountains on the horizon, as into tones of music or depths of space.
Boks 7.192 26
It seems...as if some charitable soul...would do a right act in
naming those [books] which have been bridges or ships to carry him safely...
into palaces and temples. This would be best done by those great masters of
books who from time to time appear...whose eyes sweep the whole horizon
of learning.
Clbs 7.229 17
[The student] seeks intelligent persons...who will give him
provocation, and at once and easily the old motion begins in his brain:
thoughts, fancies, humors flow;...the horizon broadens;...
PI 8.41 22
...the poet sees the horizon...
SA 8.106 21
As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to the man,
I see no limit to the horizon which opens before me.
Res 8.138 22
...if you tell me...that man only rightly knows himself as far as
he has experimented on things...the horizon opens...
QO 8.180 15
...if we find in India or Arabia a book out of our horizon of
thought and tradition, we are soon taught by new researches in its native
country to discover its foregoers...
Insp 8.273 14
...this quick ebb of power,-as if life were a thunder-storm
wherein you can see by a flash the horizon, and then cannot see your
hand,-tantalizes us.
Insp 8.273 25
Sometimes there is no sea-fire, and again the sea is aglow to
the horizon.
Chr2 10.106 12
Our horizon is not far, say one generation, or thirty years...
Edc1 10.126 15
...when one and the same man...leaves...the stupor of the
senses, to enter into the quasi-omniscience of high thought...all limits
disappear. No horizon shuts down.
SovE 10.185 19
...health, melody and a wider horizon belong to moral
sensibility.
Plu 10.299 7
Plutarch's memory is full, and his horizon wide.
Plu 10.306 13
...we know that metaphysical studies in any but minds of
large horizon and incessant inspiration have their dangers.
EzRy 10.393 5
[Ezra Ripley] kept his eye on the horizon...
HDC 11.39 5
The majestic summits of Wachusett and Monadnoc towering
in the horizon, invited the steps of adventure westward.
War 11.161 13
The star once risen, though only one man in the hemisphere
has yet seen its upper limb in the horizon, will mount and mount...
CL 12.156 24
The mountains in the horizon acquaint us with finer relations
to our friends than any we sustain.
PPr 12.385 7
The wit [of Carlyle's Past and Present] has eluded all official
zeal; and yet...this flaming sword of Cherubim waved high in air,
illuminates the whole horizon, and shows to the eyes of the universe every
wound it inflicts.
PPr 12.387 14
...[each age's] limitation assumes the poetic form of a
beautiful superstition, as the dimness of our sight clothes the objects in the
horizon with mist and color.
PPr 12.390 21
Carlyle's style is the first emergence of all this wealth and
labor with which the world has gone with child so long. London and
Europe...and America, with the Rocky Hills in the horizon, have never
before been conquered in literature.
PPr 12.391 10
[Carlyle's laughter] is like the laughter of the Genii in the
horizon.
PPr 12.391 25
Whatever thought or motto has once appeared to [Carlyle]
fraught with meaning...is sure to return...in gigantic reverberation, as if the
hills, the horizon, and the next ages returned the sound.
horizon-line, n. (1)
Edc1 10.141 21
...because of the disturbing effect of passion and sense,
which by a multitude of trifles impede the mind's eye from the quiet search
of that fine horizon-line which truth keeps,-the way to knowledge and
power has ever been an escape from too much engagement with affairs and
possessions;...
horizons, n. (4)
PI 8.26 2
[People] like to go...to Faneuil Hall, and be taught by Otis,
Webster, or Kossuth...what great hearts they have...what new possible
enlargements to their narrow horizons.
PC 8.214 27
...looking over how many horizons as far as into Liverpool
and New York, [Roger Bacon] announced that machines can be constructed
to drive ships more rapidly than a whole galley of rowers could do...
Chr2 10.106 16
...what has been running on through three horizons, or
ninety years, looks to all the world like a law of Nature...
Chr2 10.106 22
...'t is incredible to us, if we look into the religious books
of our grandfathers, how they held themselves in such a pinfold. But why
not? As far as they could see, through two or three horizons, nothing but
ministers and ministers.
horizon's, n. (1)
Pt1 3.1 5
A moody child and wildly wise/ Pursued the game with joyful
eyes,/ .../ They overleapt the horizon's edge,/ Searched with Apollo's
privilege;/...
horizontal, adj. (1)
SwM 4.107 23
A poetic anatomist, in our own day, teaches that a snake,
being a horizontal line, and man, being an erect line, constitute a right
angle;...
Horn, Golden, n. (1)
LLNE 10.351 8
There, in the Golden Horn, will the Arch-Phalanx be
established;...
horn, n. (3)
Nat2 3.175 1
[A boy] hears the echoes of a horn in a hill country...
PI 8.52 1
With the first note of the flute or horn...we quit the world of
common sense...
Aris 10.42 22
The horn of Roland, in the romance, is heard sixty miles.
hornblende, n. (1)
SwM 4.142 14
Strange, scholastic, didactic, passionless, bloodless man
[Swedenborg], who...visits doleful hells as a stratum of chalk or hornblende!
horned, adj. (3)
Mrs1 3.144 2
...Fashion loves lions, and points like Circe to her horned
company.
SwM 4.135 22
The excess of [Hebraic] influence shows itself [in
Swedenborg] in the incongruous importation of a foreign rhetoric. What
have I to do, asks the impatient reader, with...beryl and chalcedony;...what
with...dragons crowned and horned...
Bhr 6.179 21
The confession of a low, usurping devil is there made [in the
eyes], and the observer shall seem to feel the stirring of owls and bats and
horned hoofs...
Horner, Francis, n. (1)
Scot 11.467 23
[Scott] found himself in his youth and manhood and age in
the society of Mackintosh, Horner, Jeffrey...
horns, n. (9)
Hist 2.14 9
...Io, in Aeschylus, transformed to a cow, offends the
imagination; but how changed when as Isis in Egypt she meets Osiris-Jove,
a beautiful woman with nothing of the metamorphosis left but the lunar
horns as the splendid ornament of her brows!
Comp 2.117 6
The stag in the fable admired his horns and blamed his feet...
Comp 2.117 8
...when the hunter came, [the stag's] feet saved him, and
afterwards, caught in the thicket, his horns destroyed him.
GoW 4.276 24
...[Goethe] stripped [the Devil] of mythologic gear, of
horns, cloven foot, harpoon tail, brimstone and blue-fire...
ET4 5.59 13
If [the Northman] cannot pick any other quarrel, he will get
himself comfortably gored by a bull's horns...
Pow 6.59 9
When a new boy comes into school...that happens which befalls
when a strange ox is driven into a pen or pasture where cattle are kept; there
is at once a trial of strength between the best pair of horns and the new-comer...
PLT 12.35 27
...what else [than Instinct] was it they represented in Pan...
who was not yet completely finished in godlike form...had emblematic
horns and feet?
Milt1 12.273 23
...it would not be matter of rational wonder [Milton said],
if the wethers of our country should be born with horns that could batter
down cities and towns.
ACri 12.288 17
...some men swear with genius. I knew a poet in whose
talent Nature carried this freak so far that his only graceful verses were
pretty blasphemies. The better the worse, you will say; and I own it reminds
one of Vathek's collection of monstrous men with...horns of exquisite
polish.
horoscope, n. (2)
OS 2.269 19
Only by the vision of that Wisdom [the soul] can the
horoscope of the ages be read...
ET8 5.131 11
...one can believe that Burton, the Anatomist of Melancholy,
having predicted from the stars the hour of his death, slipped the knot
himself round his own neck, not to falsify his horoscope.
horrible, adj. (9)
Exp 3.78 22
...in its sequel [murder] turns out to be a horrible jangle and
confounding of all relations.
Mrs1 3.120 6
...the salt, the dates, the ivory, and the gold, for which these
horrible regions are visited, find their way into countries where the
purchaser and consumer can hardly be ranked in one race with these
cannibals and man-stealers;...
PPh 4.73 23
[Socrates is] A pitiless disputant...so careless and ignorant as
to disarm the wariest and draw them, in the pleasantest manner, into
horrible doubts and confusion.
NMW 4.233 26
Horrible anecdotes may no doubt be collected from
[Napoleon's] history...
ET4 5.60 12
...the old fossil world shows that the first steps of reducing the
chaos were confided to saurians and other huge and horrible animals...
Elo1 7.87 13
...all this flood not serving the cuttle-fish to get away in, the
horrible shark of the district attorney being still there...the poor court
pleaded its inferiority.
Supl 10.163 24
[Those with the superlative temperament] use the
superlative of grammar: most perfect, most exquisite, most horrible.
EWI 11.146 11
I doubt not that, sometimes, a despairing negro...has
believed there was no vindication of right; it is horrible to think of, but it
seemed so.
AKan 11.256 7
...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...
horrid, adj. (5)
Dem1 10.4 5
...the astonishment remains that one should dream; that we
should...become the theatre of delirious shows...antic comedy alternating
with horrid pictures.
LVB 11.92 8
We have looked in the newspapers of different parties and
find a horrid confirmation of the tale [of the relocation of the Cherokees].
EWI 11.104 22
...a good man or woman...once in a while saw these injuries
[to West Indian slaves] and had the indiscretion to tell of them. The horrid
story ran and flew;...
EWI 11.109 21
Every horrid fact [of the slave trade] became known.
Trag 12.415 17
...[the crucifixions of the middle passage] come to the
obtuse and barbarous, to whom they are not horrid, but only a little worse
than the old sufferings.
horror, n. (7)
ET7 5.122 8
[The English] have a horror of adventurers in or out of
Parliament.
Bty 6.285 14
At the end of the seventh day the king inquired [of Tisso],
From what cause hast thou become so emaciated? He answered, From the
horror of death.
SS 7.4 26
[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.
WD 7.165 21
I believe they have ceased to publish the Newgate Calendar
and the Pirate's Own Book since the family newspapers...have quite
superseded them in the freshness as well as the horror of their records of
crime.
Chr2 10.105 8
...we read with surprise the horror of Athens when, one
morning, the statues of Mercury in the temples were found broken...
ACri 12.289 2
We were educated in horror of Satan, but Goethe remarked
that all men like to hear him named.
Pray 12.357 4
...thou [God] didst beat back my weak sight upon myself,
shooting out beams upon me after a vehement manner; and I even trembled
between love and horror...
horror-mongers, n. (1)
Supl 10.164 12
Especially we note this tendency to extremes in the pleasant
excitement of horror-mongers.
horrors, n. (4)
Wth 6.95 16
The world is his who has money to go over it. He arrives at
the seashore and a sumptuous ship has floored and carpeted for him the
stormy Atlantic, and made it a luxurious hotel, amid the horrors of the
tempests.
CbW 6.255 5
...the glory of character is in affronting the horrors of
depravity to draw thence new nobilities of power;...
ACri 12.289 24
Goethe, who had collected all the diabolical hints in men
and nature for traits for his Walpurgis Nacht, continued the humor of
collecting such horrors after this first occasion had passed...
Trag 12.415 13
A tender American girl doubts of Divine Providence whilst
she reads the horrors of the middle passage;...
Horsa, n. (1)
ET4 5.72 7
[The English] come honestly by their horsemanship, with
Hengst and Horsa for their Saxon founders.
horse, n. (85)
MR 1.243 14
...attempting to drive along the ecliptic with one horse of the
heavens and one horse of the earth, there is only discord and ruin and
downfall to chariot and charioteer.
Hist 2.17 20
There is nothing but is related to us...kingdom, college, tree,
horse, or iron shoe...
Comp 2.101 6
...the naturalist...regards a horse as a running man...
Hsm1. 2.252 24
...the little man...is born red, and dies gray...setting his
heart on a horse or a rifle...
Exp 3.58 23
At Education Farm the noblest theory of life sat on the noblest
figures of young men and maidens, quite powerless and melancholy. It
would not rake or pitch a ton of hay; it would not rub down a horse;...
NR 3.237 22
[Nature] loves better...a groom who is part of his horse;...
NER 3.252 26
The ox must be taken from the plough and the horse from
the cart...
NER 3.257 21
We are afraid of a horse...
SwM 4.121 4
[Swedenborg] fastens each natural object to a theologic
notion;--a horse signifies carnal understanding;...
NMW 4.238 4
At Montebello, [Napoleon said,] I ordered Kellermann to
attack with eight hundred horse...
ET4 5.71 1
The more vigorous [Englishmen] run out of the island...to
Africa and Australia, to hunt with fury...with dog, with horse, with elephant
or with dromedary, all the game that is in nature.
ET4 5.71 18
[The Englishman's] attachment to the horse arises from the
courage and address required to manage it.
ET4 5.71 19
[The Englishman's] attachment to the horse arises from the
courage and address required to manage it. The horse finds out who is
afraid of it, and does not disguise its opinion.
ET4 5.71 24
The horse has more uses than Buffon noted.
ET4 5.72 9
[The English] come honestly by their horsemanship, with
Hengst and Horsa for their Saxon founders. The other branch of their race
had been Tartar nomads. The horse was all their wealth.
ET4 5.72 18
Two centuries ago the English horse never performed any
eminent service beyond the seas;...
ET4 5.72 25
...the genius of the English hath always more inclined them to
foot-service, as pure and proper manhood, without any mixture; whilst in a
victory on horseback, the credit ought to be divided betwixt the man and his
horse.
ET5 5.88 8
...it must be owned [the English] are capable of larger views;
but the indulgence...costs great crises, or accumulations of mental power. In
common, the horse works best with blinders.
ET12 5.204 15
[The English] know the use of a tutor, as they know the use
of a horse;...
ET12 5.207 27
...[English students] make those eupeptic studying-mills...
and when it happens that a superior brain puts a rider on this admirable
horse, we obtain those masters of the world who combine the highest
energy in affairs with a supreme culture.
ET13 5.217 6
[The English Church]...has coupled itself with the almanac,
that no court can be held, no field ploughed, no horse shod, without some
leave from the church.
ET18 5.306 6
[The English]...are like a dull good horse which lets every
nag pass him, but with whip and spur will run down every racer in the field.
F 6.47 12
A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his
public nature, as the equestrians in the circus throw themselves nimbly
from horse to horse...
F 6.48 5
When a god wishes to ride, any chip...will...serve him for a horse.
Pow 6.57 14
...one horse has the spring in him, and another in the whip.
Wth 6.87 21
Wealth begins...in a horse or a locomotive to cross the land...
Wth 6.119 2
The farm yielded no money, and the farmer got on without it.
If he fell sick, his neighbors came in to his aid; each gave a day's work...or
lent his yoke of oxen, or his horse...
Ctr 6.139 10
The hardiest skeptic who has seen a horse broken...will not
deny the validity of education.
Ctr 6.142 24
Archery, cricket, gun and fishing-rod, horse and boat, are all
educators, liberalizers;...
Ctr 6.144 1
...Lord Herbert of Cherbury said, A good rider on a good horse
is as much above himself and others as the world can make him.
Ctr 6.144 3
...the gun, fishing-rod, boat and horse, constitute, among all
who use them, secret freemasonries.
Ctr 6.155 14
There is a great deal of self-denial and manliness in poor and
middle-class houses in town and country...that sells the horse but builds the
school;...
Bhr 6.173 8
I have seen men who neigh like a horse when you contradict
them...
Bhr 6.178 6
A farmer looks out at you as strong as the horse;...
Bty 6.291 8
A man leading a horse to water...is becoming to the wise eye.
Bty 6.306 19
Wherever we begin, thither our steps tend: an ascent from the
joy of a horse in his trappings, up to the perception of Newton that the
globe on which we ride is only a larger apple falling from a larger tree...the
first stair on the scale to the temple of the Mind.
Ill 6.317 18
'T is the charm of practical men that outside of their
practicality are a certain poetry and play, as if they led the good horse
Power by the bridle, and preferred to walk...
Ill 6.318 12
You play with...bowls, horse and gun, estates and politics; but
there are finer games before you.
Civ 7.21 15
...a nomad, will die with no more estate than the wolf or the
horse leaves.
DL 7.105 16
[The boy] walks daily among wonders...the furniture of the
house, the red tin horse...
WD 7.172 27
The Hindoos represent Maia, the illusory energy of Vishnu,
as one of his principal attributes. As if, in this gale of warring elements
which life is, it was necessary to bind souls to human life as mariners in a
tempest lash themselves to the mast and bulwarks of a ship, and Nature
employed certain illusions as her ties and straps...skates, a river, a boat, a
horse, a gun, for the growing boy;...
Cour 7.258 16
...I remember when a pair of Irish girls who had been run
away with in a wagon by a skittish horse, said that when he began to rear,
they were so frightened that they could not see the horse.
Cour 7.258 18
...I remember when a pair of Irish girls who had been run
away with in a wagon by a skittish horse, said that when he began to rear,
they were so frightened that they could not see the horse.
Cour 7.258 21
Cowardice...shuts the eyes so that we cannot see the horse
that is running away with us;...
Cour 7.263 6
It is the groom who knows the jumping horse well who can
safely ride him.
Cour 7.267 20
...the courage of the tiger is one, and of the horse another.
PI 8.13 2
When some familiar truth or fact appears...mounted as on a fine
horse...we cannot enough testify our surprise and pleasure.
SA 8.95 27
The great gain is...to find a companion who knows what you do
not; to tilt with him and be overthrown, horse and foot...
Res 8.145 21
Wanting a picket to which to attach my horse, [Malus] says, I
tied him to my leg.
Res 8.151 10
[Taste] should be extended to gardens and grounds, and
mainly one thing should be illustrated: that life in the country...wants...no
fleet horse that a man cannot hold...
Res 8.151 11
[Taste] should be extended to gardens and grounds, and
mainly one thing should be illustrated: that life in the country...wants...an
old horse that will stand tied in a pasture half a day without risk...
Comc 8.159 2
Separate any object, as...a horse...from the connection of
things...it becomes at once comic;...
PPo 8.240 18
Solomon had three talismans...the third, the east wind, which
was his horse.
PPo 8.242 16
...when [Afrasiyab] came to fight against the generals of
Kaus, he was but an insect in the grasp of Rustem, who seized him by the
girdle and dragged him from his horse.
Insp 8.272 9
Rarey can tame a wild horse;...
Insp 8.272 10
Rarey can tame a wild horse; but if he could give speed to a
dull horse, were not that better?
Aris 10.42 7
Epeus builds the wooden horse.
Supl 10.177 17
A bag of sequins...a single horse, constitute an estate in
countries where insecure institutions make every one desirous of
concealable and convertible property.
Prch 10.221 19
Unlovely, nay, frightful, is the solitude of the soul which is
without God in the world. To...behold the horse, cow and bird, and to
foresee an equal and speedy end to him and them;...
MoL 10.251 7
Learn to harness a horse...
EzRy 10.390 19
We remember the remark made by the old farmer who
used to travel hither from Maine, that no horse from the Eastern country
would go by the Doctor's [Ezra Ripley's] gate.
EzRy 10.391 6
Ingratitude and meanness in [Ezra Ripley's] beneficiaries
did not wear out his compassion; he bore the insult, and the next day his
basket for the beggar, his horse and chaise for the cripple, were at their door.
EzRy 10.393 2
[Ezra Ripley] watched with interest...the orchard, the house
and the barn, horse, cow, sheep and dog...
Thor 10.476 9
I long ago lost a hound, a bay horse and a turtle-dove...
Thor 10.476 14
I have met one or two who have heard the hound, and the
tramp of the horse, and even seen the dove disappear behind a cloud;...
HDC 11.57 15
In 1654, the four united New England Colonies agreed to
raise 270 foot and 40 horse, to reduce Ninigret, Sachem of the Niantics...
HDC 11.60 11
...at night, whilst [Mary Shepherd's] captors were asleep,
she...took a horse...and rode through the forest to her home.
EWI 11.135 14
Here [in emancipation in the West Indies] was no prodigy...
no Trojan horse...
AKan 11.261 9
...of Kansas, the President says; Let the complainants go to
the courts; though he knows that when the poor plundered farmer comes to
the court, he finds the ringleader who has robbed him dismounting from his
own horse, and unbuckling his knife to sit as his judge.
SMC 11.359 10
The army officers were welcome to their jest on [George
Prescott]...as the colonel who got off his horse when he saw one of his men
limp on the march, and told him to ride.
SMC 11.361 4
Some of these [Civil War] letters are...written...in the
saddle, and have to stop because the horse will not stand still.
Wom 11.410 18
The horse and ox use no delays;...
Scot 11.466 19
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 extreme
sympathy reaching down to every beggar and beggar's dog, and horse and
cow.
FRep 11.536 14
A man for success...must obey ideas, or he might as well
be the horse he rides on.
PLT 12.51 11
The horse goes better with blinders...
PLT 12.58 23
No wonder the children...play horse, play soldier, play
school, play bear...
Mem 12.99 3
...there is strength in the wild horse which is never regained
when he is once broken by training...
Mem 12.105 24
Abel Lawton knew every horse that went up and down
through Concord...
CInt 12.118 8
Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of
common sense and of simple justice, as at a wonderful discovery. Thus, at
Mr. Rarey's mode of taming a horse by kindness...
CL 12.143 23
[In Illinois] You can distinguish from the cows a horse
feeding, at the distance of five miles, with the naked eye.
CL 12.161 18
How startling are the hints of wit we detect in the horse and
dog...
CL 12.167 9
...as soon as man knows himself as [Nature's] interpreter...
then is there a rider to the horse, an organized will...
ACri 12.296 6
We can't afford to take the horse out of [Montaigne's]
Essays; it would take the rider too.
ACri 12.301 1
Pindar when the victor in a race by mules offered him a
trifling present, pretended to be hurt at thought of writing on demi-asses.
When, however, he offered a sufficient present, he composed the poem:-
Hail, daughters of the tempest-footed horse,/ That skims like wind along the
course./
WSL 12.337 21
[John Bull] has never seen a good horse in America...
horseback, n. (6)
NMW 4.230 26
Such a man [as Bonaparte] was wanted, and such a man
was born; a man...capable of sitting on horseback sixteen or seventeen
hours...
ET4 5.72 23
...the genius of the English hath always more inclined them to
foot-service, as pure and proper manhood, without any mixture; whilst in a
victory on horseback, the credit ought to be divided betwixt the man and his
horse.
ET4 5.73 16
The [English] gentlemen are always on horseback...
EzRy 10.391 18
...all will remember that even in [Ezra Ripley's] old age, if
the firebell was rung, he was instantly on horseback with his buckets, and
bag.
MMEm 10.428 25
[Mary Moody Emerson] made up her shroud...and she...
went out to ride in it, on horseback...
MAng1 12.226 13
...one day riding over [the Pons Palatinus] on horseback,
with his friend Vasari, [Michelangelo] cried, George, this bridge trembles
under us;...
horse-block, n. (1)
PI 8.13 8
When some familiar truth or fact appears in a new dress...we
cannot enough testify our surprise and pleasure. It is like the new virtue
shown in some unprized old property, as...when the old horse-block in the
yard is found to be a Torso Hercules of the Phidian age.
horse-boy, n. (1)
NMW 4.245 13
The Revolution entitled...every horse-boy and powder-monkey
in the army, to look on Napoleon as flesh of his flesh...
horse-chasseurs, n. (1)
NMW 4.236 8
To a regiment of horse-chasseurs at Lobenstein...Napoleon
said, My lads, you must not fear death;...
horse-chestnuts, n. (1)
Ill 6.315 11
When the boys come into my yard for leave to gather horse-chestnuts,
I own I enter into nature's game...
horsed, v. (5)
MR 1.251 9
The naked Derar, horsed on an idea, was found an overmatch
for a troop of Roman cavalry.
PPh 4.58 16
Horsed on these winged steeds [poetry, prophecy, high
insight], [Plato] sweeps the dim regions...
Ill 6.308 10
When thou dost return/ .../ Beholding.../ ...out of endeavor/ To
change and to flow,/ The gas become solid,/ And phantoms and nothings/
Return to be things,/ And endless imbroglio/ Is law and the world,--/Then
first shalt thou know,/ That in the wild turmoil,/ Horsed on the Proteus,/
Thou ridest to power,/ And to endurance./
Art2 7.49 26
Not [the orator's] will, but the principle on which he is
horsed...thunder in the ear of the crowd.
SA 8.96 6
The great gain is...to find a companion who knows what you do
not; to tilt with him and be overthrown...with utter destruction of all your
logic and learning. ... You will ride to battle horsed on the very logic which
you found irresistible.
horse-doctors, n. (1)
PPh 4.55 10
...[Plato] fortified himself by drawing all his illustrations from
sources disdained by orators and polite conversers;...from...the shops of...
horse-doctors...
horseflesh, n. (1)
ET4 5.72 12
The pastures of Tartary were still remembered by the
tenacious practice of the Norsemen to eat horseflesh at religious feasts.
horse-guards, n. (4)
ET9 5.144 13
Every individual [in England] has his particular way of
living, which he pushes to folly, and the decided sympathy of his
compatriots is engaged to back up Mr. Crump's whim by statutes and
chancellors and horse-guards.
ET10 5.164 2
[The English] have...no horse-guards dictating to the crown;...
SovE 10.211 22
...the old commandment, Thou shalt not kill, holds down
New York, and London, and Paris, and not a police or horse-guards.
Bost 12.202 7
[The Massachusetts colonists could say to themselves]
London is a long way off, with beadles and pursuivants and horse-guards.
Horse-guards, n. (1)
YA 1.392 24
Would [our youths and maidens] like...Horse-Guards...
horse-hair, n. (1)
Thor 10.483 4
If I wish for a horse-hair for my compass-sight I must go to
the stable;...
horse-hairs, n. (1)
WD 7.177 19
Zoologists may deny that horse-hairs in the water change to
worms...
horseman, n. (1)
PPo 8.245 17
On every side is an ambush laid by the robber-troops of
circumstance; hence it is that the horseman of life urges on his courser at
headlong speed.
horsemanship, n. (2)
ET4 5.72 6
[The English] come honestly by their horsemanship...
Aris 10.58 12
I have heard that in horsemanship he is not the good rider
who never was thrown...
horsemen, n. (2)
NMW 4.249 8
At Arcola [said Napoleon] I won the battle with twenty-five
horsemen.
Dem1 10.14 16
As I was once travelling by the Red Sea, there was one
among the horsemen that attended us named Masollam...
horse-play, n. (2)
NMW 4.256 1
[Napoleon] had the habit...pulling the ears and whiskers of
men, and of striking and horse-play with them...
Edc1 10.144 15
The two points in a boy's training are...to keep his naturel
but stop off his uproar, fooling and horse-play;...
horse-power, n. (3)
ET16 5.283 10
For the difficulty of handling and carrying stones of this
size [of Stonehenge], the like is done in all cities, every day, with no other
aid than horse-power.
PC 8.229 22
Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the
horse-power of the understanding.
Chr2 10.96 25
Though Love repine, and Reason chafe,/ There came a
voice without reply,/ 'T is man's perdition to be safe,/ When for the truth he
ought to die./ Such is the difference of the action of the heart within and of
the senses without. One is enthusiasm, and the other more or less amounts
of horse-power.
horse-rake, n. (1)
Pow 6.67 22
...[Boniface] introduced the new horse-rake, the new scraper,
the baby-jumper, and what not, that Connecticut sends to the admiring
citizens.
horses, n. (59)
MR 1.244 9
Why must [any man] have horses...
Con 1.317 10
Rich and fine is your dress, O conservatism! your horses are
of the best blood;...
Hist 2.16 12
What is Guido's Rospigliosi Aurora but a morning thought, as
the horses in it are only a morning cloud?
Comp 2.94 19
What did the preacher mean by saying that the good are
miserable in the present life? Was it that houses and lands, offices, wine,
horses, dress, luxury, are had by unprincipled men...
Comp 2.112 21
Has [a man] gained by borrowing, through indolence or
cunning, his neighbor's wares, or horses, or money?
Hsm1 2.259 2
...the tough world had its revenge the moment [many
extraordinary young men] put their horses of the sun to plough in its furrow.
Pt1 3.15 22
The writer wonders what the coachman or the hunter values in
riding, in horses and dogs.
Pt1 3.21 16
[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 3.29 8
We fill the hands and nurseries of our children with all manner
of dolls, drums and horses;...
Pt1 3.34 18
...all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries
and horses are, for conveyance...
Pt1 3.36 16
Certain priests, whom [Swedenborg] describes as conversing
very learnedly together, appeared to the children who were at some
distance, like dead horses;...
Chr1 3.90 20
When I beheld Theseus, I desired that I might...at least guide
his horses in the chariot-race;...
Nat2 3.190 22
...these servants, this kitchen, these stables, horses and
equipage...all for a little conversation, high, clear and spiritual!
PPh 4.59 15
...the rich man...drives no more horses...than the poor...
PPh 4.77 13
...you shall feel that Alexander indeed overran, with men and
horses, some countries of the planet;...
PNR 4.83 8
Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and
ulterior senses. His...love of the apologue, and his apologues themselves;...
the charioteer and two horses;...
ShP 4.202 3
...[the antiquaries] have left no bookstall unsearched...so keen
was the hope to discover whether the boy Shakspeare poached or not,
whether he held horses at the theatre door...
ShP 4.215 3
[Shakespeare] is not reduced to dismount and walk because his
horses are running off with him in some distant direction...
ET4 5.71 8
I suppose the dogs and horses [in England] must be thanked for
the fact that the men have muscles almost as tough and supple as their own.
ET4 5.71 17
The Englishman associates well with dogs and horses.
ET4 5.71 22
Their young boiling clerks and lusty collegians [in England]
like the company of horses better than the company of professors.
ET4 5.71 23
Their young boiling clerks and lusty collegians [in England]
like the company of horses better than the company of professors. I suppose
the horses are better company for them.
ET4 5.72 14
In the Danish invasions the marauders seized upon horses
where they landed...
ET4 5.72 27
...[the English] boast that they understand horses better than
any other people in the world...
ET4 5.73 1
...[the English] boast...that their horses are become their second
selves.
ET4 5.73 15
The severity of the [English] game-laws certainly indicates an
extravagant sympathy of the nation with horses and hunters.
ET4 5.73 17
The [English] gentlemen...have brought horses to an ideal
perfection;...
ET5 5.95 3
The agriculturist Bakewell created sheep and cows and horses
to order...
ET6 5.102 4
[The English] have in themselves what they value in their
horses,--mettle and bottom.
ET6 5.114 13
Hither [to an English dress-dinner] come all manner of...
political, literary and personal news; railroads, horses, diamonds,
agriculture, horticulture, pisciculture and wine.
ET10 5.153 10
A coarse logic rules throughout all English souls;--if you
have merit, can you not show it by your good clothes and coach and horses?
F 6.33 11
Man moves in all modes, by legs of horses...
F 6.47 9
A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his
public nature...
Wth 6.114 11
...vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and
peace...
Ctr 6.137 10
It is not a compliment but a disparagement to consult a man
only on horses...
Ctr 6.142 21
[Your boy] hates the grammar and Gradus, and loves guns,
fishing-rods, horses and boats.
Bhr 6.178 3
The jockeys say of certain horses that they look over the whole
ground.
Wsp 6.203 12
...as [the Shakers] go with perfect sympathy to their tasks in
the field or shop, so are they inclined for a ride or a journey at the same
instant, and the horses come up with the family carriage unbespoken to the
door.
CbW 6.274 5
It makes no difference, in looking back five years...whether
you have...good cattle and horses...
SS 7.15 18
These wonderful horses [independence and sympathy] need to
be driven by fine hands.
Civ 7.27 27
We had letters to send: couriers...foundered their horses;...
Civ 7.28 2
We had letters to send: couriers...could not get the horses out of
a walk.
Elo1 7.91 10
...all these talents [of oratory]...have an equal power to
ensnare and mislead the audience and the orator. His talents are too much
for him, his horses run away with him;...
Elo1 7.91 12
...people always perceive whether you drive or whether the
horses take the bits in their teeth and run.
DL 7.106 13
[The child] has heard of wild horses and of bad boys...
DL 7.110 17
Another man is...a builder of ships...and could achieve
nothing if he should dissipate himself on books or on horses.
Clbs 7.226 9
With some men [conversation] is a debate; at the approach of
a dispute they neigh like horses.
Clbs 7.243 3
It was the Marchioness of Rambouillet who first got the
horses out of and the scholars into the palaces...
PC 8.206 3
From high to higher forces/ The scale of power uprears,/ The
heroes on their horses,/ The gods upon their spheres./
Insp 8.293 23
By sympathy, each [party in good conversation] opens to the
eloquence, and begins to see with the eyes of his mind. We were all lonely,
thoughtless; and now...we see new relations, many truths;...each catches by
the mane one of these strong coursers like horses of the prairie...
Imtl 8.350 11
Yama said [to Nachiketas]...choose elephants and gold and
horses;...
Imtl 8.350 25
Nachiketas said [to Yama], All those [worldly] enjoyments
are of yesterday. With thee remain thy horses and elephants...
Dem1 10.14 3
Swans, horses, dogs and dragons, says Plutarch, we
distinguish as sacred...
EWI 11.140 24
In the case of the ship Zong, in 1781, whose master had
thrown one hundred and thirty-two slaves alive into the sea...the first jury
gave a verdict in favor of the master and owners: they had a right to do
what they had done. Lord Mansfield is reported to have said on the bench,
The matter left to the jury is,-Was it from necessity? For they had no
doubt...that the case of slaves was the same as if horses had been thrown
overboard.
War 11.156 20
To men...in whom is any knowledge or mental activity, the
detail of battle becomes insupportably tedious and revolting. It is like the
talk of one of those monomaniacs whom we sometimes meet in society,
who converse on horses;...
War 11.164 24
You shall hear, some day, of a wild fancy which some man
has in his brain, of the mischief of secret oaths. Come again one or two
years afterwards, and you shall see it has built great houses of solid wood
and brick and mortar. You shall see a hundred presses printing a million
sheets; you shall see men and horses and wheels made to walk, run and roll
for it...
CW 12.175 17
Horses and carriages are costly toys...
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 12.302 16
[Channing] complains of Nature,-too many leaves, too
windy and grassy, and I suppose the birds are too feathery and the horses
too leggy.
horse's, n. [horses',] (4)
Pt1 3.27 12
...the traveller who has lost his way throws his reins on his
horse's neck...
ET4 5.59 2
Another pair [of Norse kings] ride out on a morning for a frolic,
and finding no weapon near, will take the bits out of their horses' mouths
and crush each other's heads with them...
Pow 6.67 14
[Boniface] girdled the trees and cut off the horses' tails of the
temperance people, in the night.
MAng1 12.239 16
...it is said that when [Michelangelo] left Florence to go
to Rome...he turned his horse's head on the last hill from which the noble
dome of the cathedral (built by Brunelleschi) was visible, and said, Like
you, I will not build; better than you I cannot.
horseshoe, n. (1)
Wsp 6.204 27
There is always some religion, some hope and fear extended
into the invisible,--from the blind boding which nails a horseshoe to the
mast or the threshold, up to the song of the Elders in the Apocalypse.
horse-thieves, n. (1)
FRep 11.534 23
In the planters of this country...the conditions of the
country...forced them to a wonderful personal independence and to a certain
heroic planting and trading. Later this strength appeared in the solitudes of
the West, where...neighborhoods must combine against the Indians, or the
horse-thieves...
horticulture, n. (1)
ET6 5.114 14
Hither [to an English dress-dinner] come all manner of...
political, literary and personal news; railroads, horses, diamonds,
agriculture, horticulture, pisciculture and wine.
horticulturists, n. (1)
OA 7.324 10
At fifty years, 't is said, afflicted citizens lose their sick-headaches.
I hope this hegira is not as movable a feast as that one I annually
look for, when the horticulturists assure me that the rose-bugs in our
gardens disappear on the tenth of July;...
hosannas, n. (1)
Elo1 7.84 1
I have heard it reported of an eloquent preacher...that, on
occasions of death or tragic disaster which overspread the congregation
with gloom, he...turning to his favorite lessons of devout and jubilant
thankfulness...swept away all the impertinence of private sorrow with his
hosannas and songs of praise.
hose, n. (2)
SwM 4.121 15
In the transmission of the heavenly waters, every hose fits
every hydrant.
PLT 12.20 13
It is necessary to suppose that every hose in Nature fits every
hydrant;...
Hosmer, Abner, n. (1)
HDC 11.74 19
...the British fired one or two shots up the river...then a
single gun...then a volley, by which Captain Isaac Davis and Abner Hosmer
of Acton were instantly killed.
Hosmer, n. (2)
HDC 11.27 1
Bulkeley, Hunt, Willard, Hosmer, Merriam, Flint,/ Possessed
the land which rendered to their toil/ Hay, corn, roots, hemp, flax, apples,
wool and wood./
HDC 11.30 16
Here are still around me the lineal descendants of the first
settlers of this town [Concord]. Here is...Wood, Hosmer, Barrett, Wheeler...
Hosmer, Stephen, n. (1)
HDC 11.64 14
The public charity seems to have been bestowed in a
manner now obsolete [in Concord]. The town...being informed of the great
present want of Thomas Pellit, gave order to Stephen Hosmer to deliver a
town cow...unto said Pellit, for his present supply.
Hosmers, n. (1)
HDC 11.85 23
Why need I remind you of our own Hosmers, Minotts...the
departed benefactors of the town [Concord]?
hospitable, adj. (18)
AmS 1.93 23
...[colleges] can only highly serve us...when they gather from
far every ray of various genius to their hospitable halls...
MN 1.202 4
When we have spent our wonder in computing this wasteful
hospitality with which boon Nature turns off...suns and planets hospitable
to souls...one can hardly help asking...whether it be quite worth while to...
glut the innocent space with so poor an article.
Con 1.311 20
...for thee the hospitable North opens its heated palaces under
the polar circle;...
Hsm1. 2.252 4
...[heroism] is just, generous, hospitable, temperate...
Mrs1 3.154 22
...[Osman's] great heart lay there so sunny and hospitable in
the centre of the country, that it seemed as if the instinct of all sufferers
drew them to his side.
UGM 4.4 2
You say...the Germans are hospitable;...
UGM 4.4 5
...I do not travel to find comfortable, rich and hospitable
people...
ET4 5.46 7
[The English] laws are hospitable...
ET4 5.51 2
Everything English is a fusion of distant and antagonistic
elements. The language is mixed;...the currents of thought are counter...
aggressive freedom and hospitable law with bitter class-legislation;...
ET19 5.313 25
I see [England] in her old age...still daring to believe in her
power of endurance and expansion. Seeing this, I say, All hail! mother of
nations...hospitable to the foreigner...
Bhr 6.196 8
It is good to give a stranger...a night's lodging. It is better to be
hospitable to his good meaning and thought...
EzRy 10.390 15
[Ezra Ripley] was...courtly, hospitable, manly and public-spirited;...
TPar 11.291 18
...[Theodore Parker's] great hospitable heart was the
sanctuary to which every soul conscious of an earnest opinion came for
sympathy...
Wom 11.425 12
Let us have the true woman...the hospitable, the religious
heart...
FRep 11.531 11
I wish to see America...hospitable to all nations...
CW 12.169 6
...unto me not morn's magnificence/.../Nor Rome, nor joyful
Paris, nor the halls/ Of rich men, blazing hospitable light,/.../Hath such a
soul, such divine influence,/ Such resurrection of the happy past,/ As is to
me when I behold the morn/ Ope in such low, moist roadside, and beneath/
Peep the blue violets out of the black loam./
Bost 12.203 12
...there is always [in Boston]...always a heresiarch, whom
the governor and deputies labor with but cannot silence. Some new light...
some tender minister hospitable to Whitfield against the counsel of all the
ministers;...
PPr 12.382 22
[A man's] manners,-let them be hospitable and civilizing...
hospitably, adv. (4)
MoS 4.182 19
I believe, [the spiritualist] says, in the moral design of the
universe; it exists hospitably for the weal of souls;...
ET17 5.292 16
The privileges of the [London] Athenaeum and of the
Reform Clubs were hospitably opened to me...
Bost 12.190 19
In our beautiful [Boston] bay...with its islands hospitably
shining in the sun...a good boatman can easily find his way for the first time
to the State House...
MAng1 12.244 18
The traveller from a distant continent, who gazes on that
marble brow [bust of Michelangelo], feels that he is not a stranger in the
foreign church; for the great name of Michael Angelo sounds hospitably in
his ear.
Hospital Committee, n. (1)
Con 1.319 22
...society has resolved itself into a Hospital Committee...
Hospital Life Assurance Co (1)
MoL 10.246 11
Bowditch translated Laplace, and when he removed to
Boston, the Hospital Life Assurance Company insisted that he should make
their tables of annuities.
hospital, n. (9)
Con 1.319 11
The conservative assumes sickness as a necessity, and his
social frame is a hospital...
YA 1.388 16
...the college, the church, the hospital, the theatre, the hotel,
the road, the ship of the capitalist,-whatever goes to secure, adorn, enlarge
these is good;...
NER 3.268 8
We believe that...society is a hospital of incurables.
CbW 6.251 1
I once counted in a little neighborhood and found that every
able-bodied man had say from twelve to fifteen persons dependent on him
for material aid,--to whom he is to be...for nursery and hospital...
Farm 7.138 15
Poisoned by town life and town vices, the sufferer resolves:
Well, my children, whom I have injured, shall go back to the land, to be
recruited and cured by that which should have been my nursury, and now
shall be their hospital.
SMC 11.373 11
[George Prescott] was carried off the field to the division
hospital...
Wom 11.417 16
These [literary jokes on Woman] were all...such satire as
might be written on the tenants of a hospital or on an asylum for idiots.
CInt 12.117 9
...[the scholars]...gave degrees and literary and social honors
to those whom they ought to have rebuked and exposed, incurring the
contempt of those whom they ought to have put in fear; then the college...
ceases to be a school;...and instead...it is a hospital for decayed tutors.
Trag 12.416 1
It is my duty, says Sir Charles Bell, to visit certain wards of
the hospital where there is no patient admitted but with that complaint
which most fills the imagination with the idea of insupportable pain and
certain death.
hospitalities, n. (7)
Mrs1 3.134 8
...what is it that we seek, in so many visits and hospitalities?
ET11 5.185 4
For the rest, the [English] nobility have the lead...in convivial
and domestic hospitalities.
ET12 5.199 16
I was the guest of my friend [Arthur Hugh Clough] in Oriel
[College, Oxford]...and I lived on college hospitalities.
Clbs 7.248 6
The hospitalities of clubs are easily exaggerated.
Insp 8.297 3
...great hospitalities, would have been impediments to
[scholars].
Schr 10.271 15
There could always be traced...some vestiges of a faith in
genius, as...in hospitalities;...
EWI 11.134 20
...if, most unhappily, the ambitious class of young men and
political men have found out...that [these neglected victims] have no
graceful hospitalities to offer...then let the citizens in their primary capacity
take up [the negroes'] cause on this very ground...
hospitality, n. (46)
MN 1.201 27
When we have spent our wonder in computing this wasteful
hospitality with which boon Nature turns off new firmaments without end
into her wide common...one can hardly help asking...whether it be quite
worth while to...glut the innocent space with so poor an article.
MR 1.243 5
[The man with a strong bias to the contemplative life] may
leave to others...large hospitality...
MR 1.243 7
Let [the man with a strong bias to the contemplative life] feel
that genius is a hospitality...
LT 1.262 10
...trees...constitute the hospitality of the landscape...
LT 1.291 2
What is the scholar, what is the man for, but for hospitality to
every new thought of his time?
SR 2.72 21
Check this lying hospitality and lying affection.
SL 2.143 12
The parts of hospitality, the connection of families...royalty
makes its own estimate of, and a royal mind will.
Hsm1 2.253 15
Ibn Haukal, the Arabian geographer, describes a heroic
extreme in the hospitality of Sogd, in Bukharia.
Hsm1 2.254 10
...hospitality must be for service...
Chr1 3.114 27
I do not forgive in my friends the failure to know a fine
character and to entertain it with thankful hospitality.
Mrs1 3.134 25
...we are not often gratified by this hospitality.
Gts 3.165 8
The best of hospitality and of generosity is also not in the will,
but in fate.
ShP 4.209 19
One can discern, in [Shakespeare's] ample pictures of the
gentleman and the king...his delight...in large hospitality...
NMW 4.243 8
The necessity of [Napoleon's] position required a hospitality
to every sort of talent...
ET7 5.119 1
[The English] love reality in wealth, power, hospitality...
ET11 5.189 19
The grand old halls scattered up and down in England, are
dumb vouchers to the state and broad hospitality of their ancient lords.
ET16 5.289 13
This hospitality of seven hundred years' standing [at the
Church of Saint Cross] did not hinder Carlyle from pronouncing a
malediction on the priest who receives 2000 pounds a year...
ET17 5.293 5
A finer hospitality made many private houses [in London]
not less known and dear.
ET17 5.293 25
The like frank hospitality...I found among the great and the
humble, wherever I went [in England];...
ET18 5.301 17
At home [the English] have a certain statute hospitality.
ET18 5.302 2
In Magna Charta it was ordained that all merchants shall
have safe and secure conduct...to buy and sell by the ancient allowed
customs, without any evil toll, except in time of war, or when they shall be
of any nation at war with us. It is a statute and obliged hospitality and
peremptorily maintained.
ET18 5.302 8
...this perfunctory hospitality puts no sweetness into
[Englishmen's] unaccommodating manners...
Pow 6.78 16
The rule for hospitality and Irish 'help' is to have the same
dinner every day throughout the year.
Wth 6.100 27
Napoleon was fond of telling the story of the Marseilles
banker who said to his visitor, surprised at the contrast between the
splendor of the banker's chateau and hospitality and the meanness of the
counting-room in which he had seen him,--Young man, you are too young
to understand how masses are formed;...
Bhr 6.180 11
Vain and forgotten are all the fine offers and offices of
hospitality, if there is no holiday in the eye.
CbW 6.269 7
What a difference in the hospitality of minds!
Bty 6.285 26
The miller, the lawyer and the merchant dedicate themselves
to their own details, and do not come out men of more force. Have they...
hospitality of soul...which we demand in man...
Civ 7.32 12
...when I...see...how self-helped and self-directed all families
are,--knots of men in purely natural societies, societies...of habitual
hospitality...I see what cubic values America has...
DL 7.112 15
If the children...are...schooled and at home fostered by the
parents,--then does the hospitality of the house suffer;...
DL 7.119 9
Certainly, let the board be spread and let the bed be dressed for
the traveller; but let not the emphasis of hospitality lie in these things.
WD 7.167 19
[Hesiod's Works and Days] is full of economies for Grecian
life, noting...the rules of household thrift and of hospitality.
Clbs 7.247 18
The use of the hospitality of the club hardly needs
explanation.
Clbs 7.249 20
A principal purpose also is the hospitality of the club...
Cour 7.253 21
[Self-Sacrifice] makes the renown...of Hatem Tai's
hospitality;...
Suc 7.305 14
As our tenderness for youth and beauty gives a new and just
importance to their fresh and manifold claims, so the like sensibility...has
eyes and hospitality for merit in corners.
Suc 7.308 13
I fear the popular notion of success stands in direct opposition
in all points to the real and wholesome success. One adores public opinion,
the other private opinion;...one monopoly, and the other hospitality of mind.
EzRy 10.389 4
[Ezra Ripley's] hospitality obeyed Charles Lamb's rule, and
ran fine to the last.
GSt 10.506 5
...this sudden association now with the leaders of parties and
persons of pronounced power and influence in the nation, and the broad
hospitality which brought them about his board at his own house or in New
York, or in Washington, never altered...one trait of [George Stearns's]
manners.
HDC 11.63 2
Randolph at this period [1666] writes to the English
government, concerning the country towns; The farmers...are given to
hospitality;...
HDC 11.78 27
When...the poor of Boston were quartered by the Provincial
Congress on the neighboring country, Concord received 82 persons to its
hospitality.
War 11.153 3
The [early] leaders, picked men of a courage and vigor tried
and augmented in fifty battles, are emulous to distinguish themselves above
each other by new merits, as clemency, hospitality, splendor of living.
FSLN 11.239 6
There has come, too, one to whom lurking warfare is dear,
Retribution...a violator of hospitality...
SHC 11.435 26
Our use [of Sleepy Hollow] will not displace the old
tenants. The well-beloved birds will not sing one song the less...red-eyed
warbler, the heron, the bittern, will find out the hospitality and protection
from the gun of this asylum...
FRep 11.541 22
The genius of the country has marked out our true
policy,-opportunity. Opportunity...of personal power, and not less of
wealth; doors wide open. If I could have it,-free trade with all the world...
hospitality of fair field and equal laws to all.
Bost 12.197 24
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 12.259 20
...probably no traveller ever entered that country of history
[Italy] with better right to its hospitality [than Milton]...
Hospitality, n. (1)
Edc1 10.128 24
Here [in the household] is Economy, and Glee, and
Hospitality, and Ceremony, and Frankness, and Calamity, and Death, and
Hope.