Muck to Mythus
muck, n. (1)
PerF 10.75 7
[The farmer] put his days into carting from the distant swamp
the mountain of muck which has been trundled about until it now makes the
cover of fruitful soil.
mud, adj. (1)
ET1 5.16 1
[Carlyle] had names of his own for all the matters familiar to
his discourse. Blackwood's was the sand magazine; Fraser's nearer
approach to possibility of life was the mud magazine;...
mud, n. (20)
MR 1.251 22
[Caliph Omar's] palace was built of mud;...
SwM 4.98 9
If you will have pure carbon, carbuncle, or diamond, to make
the brain transparent, the trunk and organs shall be so much the grosser:
instead of porcelain they are potter's earth, clay, or mud.
NMW 4.244 14
If he felt himself their patron and the founder of their
fortunes, as when he said I made my generals out of mud,--[Napoleon]
could not hide his satisfaction in receiving from them a seconding and
support commensurate with the grandeur of his enterprise.
ET4 5.51 24
Defoe said in his wrath, the Englishman was the mud of all
races.
F 6.15 19
One leaf [Nature] lays down, a floor of granite;...a thousand ages,
and a layer of marl and mud;...
F 6.37 22
[Man's] food is cooked when he arrives;...the mud of the deluge
dried;...
Bhr 6.181 18
The reason why men do not obey us is because they see the
mud at the bottom of our eye.
Wsp 6.228 7
[St. Philip Neri] threw himself on his mule...and hastened
through the mud and mire to the distant convent.
Wsp 6.228 12
...Philip [Neri] stretched out his leg, all bespattered with
mud, and desired [the nun] to draw off his boots.
SA 8.94 25
The party in the second coach, on arriving, heard this story with
surprise;--of thunder-storm, of steeps, of mud, of danger, they knew
nothing;...
Aris 10.51 16
The day is darkened when the golden river runs down into
mud;...
Thor 10.483 16
How did these beautiful rainbow-tints get into the shell of
the fresh-water clam, buried in the mud at the bottom of our dark river?
SMC 11.360 25
After the first marches [in the Civil War] there is no letter-paper,
there are no envelopes, no postage-stamps, for these were wetted
into a solid mass in the rains and mud.
SMC 11.361 2
Some of these [Civil War] letters are...written on the knee,
in the mud, with pencil...
SMC 11.367 20
In McClellan's retreat in the Peninsula, in July, 1862, it is
all our men can do to draw their feet out of the mud.
SMC 11.367 21
In McClellan's retreat in the Peninsula, in July, 1862, it is
all our men can do to draw their feet out of the mud. We marched one mile
through mud, without exaggeration, one foot deep...
MAng1 12.222 8
...not the most swinish compost of mud and blood that
was ever misnamed philosophy, can avail to hinder us from doing
involuntary reverence to any exhibition of majesty or surpassing beauty in
human clay.
MAng1 12.238 10
...just here [said Vasari's servant to Michelangelo],
before your door, is a spot of soft mud, and [the candles] will stand upright
in it very well, and there I will light them all.
Let 12.395 4
One of the [letter] writers relentingly says, What shall my
uncles and aunts do without me? and desires distinctly to be understood not
to propose the Indian mode of giving decrepit relatives as much of the mud
of holy Ganges as they can swallow, and more...
Trag 12.415 9
[Our human being] is like a stream of water, which, if
dammed up on one bank, overruns the other, and flows equally at its own
convenience over sand, or mud, or marble.
mud-bank, n. (1)
PLT 12.22 5
...[a muskrat] is only man modified to live in a mud-bank.
muddy, adj. (2)
Nat 1.54 21
...the approaching tide/ Will shortly fill the reasonable shores/
That now lie foul and muddy./
SL 2.156 25
When [a man] has base ends and speaks falsely, the eye is
muddy and sometimes asquint.
mud-pies, n. (1)
LLNE 10.367 15
Don't you see, [Fourier] cried, that nothing so delights
the young Caucasian child as dirt? See the mud-pies that all children will
make if you will let them.
mudsills, n. (1)
Bost 12.205 14
...when within our memory some flippant senator wished to
taunt the people of this country by calling them the mudsills of society, he
paid them ignorantly a true praise;...
muffin, n. (1)
F 6.18 24
In a large city...things whose beauty lies in their casualty, are
produced as punctually...to order as the baker's muffin for breakfast.
muffins, n. (4)
ET1 5.18 23
The baker's boy brings muffins to the window at a fixed hour
every day, and that is all the Londoner knows or wishes to know on the
subject.
ET6 5.104 5
Nothing but the most serious business could give one any
counterweight to these Baresarks [the English], though they were only to
order eggs and muffins for their breakfast.
ET14 5.233 9
[The Englishman] must be treated...with muffins, and not the
promise of muffins;...
ET14 5.233 10
[The Englishman] must be treated...with muffins, and not
the promise of muffins;...
muffle, v. (1)
PI 8.30 18
...colder moods...insinuate, or, as it were, muffle the fact to suit
the poverty or caprice of their expression...
muffled, adj. (2)
WD 7.155 2
Daughters of Time, the hypocritic days,/ Muffled and dumb
like barefoot dervishes,/ And marching single in an endless file,/ Bring
diadems and fagots in their hands./
WD 7.168 12
[The days] come and go like muffled and veiled figures...
muffled, v. (2)
SL 2.166 4
Let the great soul incarnated in some woman's form...sweep
chambers and scour floors, and its effulgent daybeams cannot be muffled or
hid...
Elo1 7.67 3
There is a tablet [in the audience] for every line [the orator] can
inscribe, though he should mount to the highest levels. Humble persons are
conscious of new illumination;...delicate spirits...masked and muffled in
coarsest fortunes, who now hear their own native language for the first
time...
Muggletonians, n. (1)
CSC 10.374 21
...Dunkers, Muggletonians, Come-outers...all successively...
seized their moment [at the Chardon Street Convention]...
mulberries, n. (1)
Bost 12.189 24
[John Smith writes (1624)] Here [in New England] are
many isles planted with corn, groves, mulberries, salvage gardens and good
harbours.
mulberry, adj. (1)
AmS 1.96 2
A strange process too, this by which experience is converted
into thought, as a mulberry leaf is converted into satin.
mule, n. (4)
Cir 2.315 4
...he can well spare his mule and panniers who has a winged
chariot instead.
ET10 5.159 11
After a few trials, [Richard Roberts] succeeded, and in 1830
procured a patent for his self-acting mule;...
Wsp 6.228 5
[St. Philip Neri] threw himself on his mule...and hastened
through the mud and mire to the distant convent.
Wsp 6.228 17
Philip [Neri] ran out of doors, mounted his mule and
returned instantly to the Pope;...
mules, n. (1)
ACri 12.300 23
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.
muleteers, n. (1)
PPo 8.254 27
The muleteers and camel-drivers, on their way through the
desert, sing snatches of [Hafiz's] songs...
mullein, adj. (1)
ET16 5.285 20
...I had been more struck with [a cathedral] of no fame, at
Coventry, which rises three hundred feet from the ground, with the
lightness of a mullein plant...
Muller, Karl Otfried, n. (2)
WD 7.174 24
What journeys and measurements,--Niebuhr and Muller and
Layard,--to identify the plain of Troy and Nimroud town!
QO 8.191 25
...we must thank Karl Otfried Muller for the just remark,
Poesy, drawing within its circle all that is glorious and inspiring, gave itself
but little concern as to where its flowers originally grew.
Muller, Max, n. (2)
FRO2 11.486 12
We have had not long since presented to us by Max
Muller a valuable paragraph from St. Augustine...
CInt 12.124 16
...there is a certain shyness of genius...in colleges, which is
as old as the rejection...of Bentley by the pedants of his time, and only the
other day, of Arago; in Oxford, the recent rejection of Max Muller.
mullusk, n. (1)
ET14 5.253 14
[English science] isolates the reptile or mullusk it assumes
to explain;...
multifarious, adj. (1)
ET1 5.17 3
[Carlyle's] own reading had been multifarious.
multiform, adj. (3)
MN 1.204 17
The royal reason, the Grace of God, seems the only
description of our multiform but ever identical fact.
MN 1.210 17
Are there not moments in the history of heaven when the
human race was not counted by individuals, but...was...God rushing into
multiform benefit?
Pt1 3.20 24
...[the poet]...perceives that thought is multiform;...
multiplex, adj. (1)
Boks 7.211 7
[Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy] is an inventory to remind
us how many classes and species of facts exist, in observing into what
strange and multiplex byways learning has strayed, to infer our opulence.
multiplication, adj. (1)
Tran 1.332 12
One thing at least, [the materialist] says, is certain...the
multiplication table has been hitherto found unimpeachable truth;...
multiplication, n. (6)
LE 1.175 16
[Society's] foolish routine, an indefinite multiplication of
balls...can teach you no more than a few can.
Tran 1.350 11
A great man...will leave to those who like it the
multiplication of examples.
Civ 7.23 3
...the multiplication of the arts of peace...fills the State with
useful and happy laborers;...
DL 7.112 1
...the wealth and multiplication of conveniences embarrass us...
Comc 8.169 16
The multiplication of artificial wants and expenses in
civilized life, and the exaggeration of all trifling forms, present innumerable
occasions for this discrepancy [between the man and his appearance] to
expose itself.
Aris 10.41 8
The multiplication of monarchs...has robbed the title of king
of all its romance...
multiplication-table, n. (2)
Comp 2.102 14
The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a
mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself.
Exp 3.67 7
In the street and in the newspapers, life appears so plain a
business that manly resolution and adherence to the multiplication-table
through all weathers will insure success.
multiplicity, n. (3)
SL 2.144 6
[A man] takes only his own out of the multiplicity that sweeps
and circles round him.
GoW 4.271 8
Goethe was the philosopher of this [modern] multiplicity;...
PI 8.7 25
All multiplicity rushes to be resolved into unity.
multiplied, adj. (1)
SMC 11.371 11
I must not follow the multiplied details that make the hard
work of the next year.
multiplied, v. (3)
UGM 4.12 16
...in good faith, we are multiplied by our proxies.
UGM 4.35 12
It is for man...on every side, whilst he lives, to scatter the
seeds of science and of song, that...the germs of love and benefit may be
multiplied.
FRep 11.538 4
Is it that Nature has only so much vital force, and must
dilute it if it is to be multiplied into millions?
multiplies, v. (5)
NER 3.265 4
[One man]...in his natural and momentary associations,
doubles or multiplies himself;...
Farm 7.150 25
There has been a nightmare bred in England of indigestion
and spleen among landlords and loom-lords, namely, the dogma...that men
multiply in a geometrical ratio, whilst corn multiplies only in an
arithmetical;...
AKan 11.263 5
...now, vast property...webs of party, cover the land with a
network that immensely multiplies the dangers of war.
CPL 11.501 26
Everything that gives [a man] a new perception of beauty
multiplies his pure enjoyments.
CL 12.138 23
[Linnaeus] found out that a terrible distemper which
sometimes proves fatal in the north of Europe, was occasioned by an
animalcule...which falls from the air on the face, or hand, or other
uncovered part, burrows into it, multiplies and kills the sufferer.
multiply, v. (11)
Comp 2.114 11
It is best...to buy...in your agent, good sense applied to
accounts and affairs. So do you multiply your presence, or spread yourself
throughout your estate.
UGM 4.13 3
We must extend the area of life and multiply our relations.
UGM 4.17 11
When [the imagination] wakes, a man seems to multiply ten
times or a thousand times his force.
PPh 4.78 25
[Plato's] sense deepens, his merits multiply, with study.
NMW 4.224 12
[The democratic class] desires to keep open every avenue
to the competition of all, and to multiply avenues...
CbW 6.249 19
If government knew how, I should like to see it check not
multiply the population.
CbW 6.276 15
...why multiply these topics...
Farm 7.150 25
There has been a nightmare bred in England of indigestion
and spleen among landlords and loom-lords, namely, the dogma...that men
multiply in a geometrical ratio, whilst corn multiplies only in an
arithmetical;...
PI 8.41 9
These fine fruits of judgment, poesy and sentiment...know as well
as coarser how to...maintain their stock alive, and multiply;...
PC 8.214 3
...if these [romantic European] works still survive and multiply,
what shall we say of names more distant...
Aris 10.45 13
...the man's associations, fortunes, love, hatred, residence,
rank, the books he will buy, the roads he will traverse are predetermined in
his organism. Men will need him, and he is rich and eminent by nature.
That man cannot be too late or too early. Let him not hurry or hesitate.
Though millions are already arrived, his seat is reserved. Though millions
attend, they only multiply his friends and agents.
multiplying, v. (4)
WD 7.162 22
Malthus, when he stated that the mouths went on multiplying
geometrically and the food only arithmetically, forgot to say that the human
mind was also a factor in political economy...
SovE 10.185 4
The man down in Nature occupies himself in guarding, in
feeding, in warming and multiplying his body...
HDC 11.77 6
To you [veterans of the battle of Concord] belongs a better
badge than stars and ribbons. This prospering country is your ornament, and
this expanding nation is multiplying your praise with millions of tongues.
EdAd 11.393 22
We rely on the talents and industry of good men known to
us, but much more on the magnetism of truth, which is multiplying and
educating advocates for itself and friends for us.
multis, adj. (1)
SwM 4.113 21
Ossa videlicet e pauxillis atque minutis/ Ossibus sic et de
pauxillis atque minutis/ Visceribus viscus gigni, sanguenque creari/
Sanguinis inter se multis coeuntibus guttis;/...
multitude, n. (58)
Nat 1.12 2
Whoever considers the final cause of the world will discern a
multitude of uses that enter as parts into that result.
Nat 1.21 12
When Sir Harry Vane was dragged up the Tower-hill, sitting
on a sled...one of the multitude cried out to him, You never sate on so
glorious a seat!
Nat 1.21 18
...the multitude imagined they saw liberty and virtue sitting by
[Lord Russell's] side.
Nat 1.35 22
A new interest surprises us, whilst...we contemplate the fearful
extent and multitude of objects;...
Nat 1.67 14
...it is less to my purpose to recite correctly the order and
superposition of the strata, than to know why all thought of multitude is lost
in a tranquil sense of unity.
AmS 1.89 3
The sluggish and perverted mind of the multitude...having
once received this book, stands upon it...
LE 1.182 13
The man of genius should occupy the whole space between
God or pure mind and the multitude of uneducated men.
MN 1.193 10
...the multitude of men degrade each other...
LT 1.268 8
Here is the innumerable multitude of those who accept the state
and the church from the last generation...
YA 1.382 5
Here are Etzlers...who...undoubtingly affirm that the smallest
union would make every man rich;-and, on the other side, a multitude of
poor men and women seeking work...
YA 1.387 13
I think I see place and duties for a nobleman in every society;
but it is...to guide and adorn life for the multitude by forethought...
Hist 2.15 3
...we have [the Greek national mind expressed] once again in
sculpture...a multitude of forms in the utmost freedom of action and never
transgressing the ideal serenity;...
Hist 2.36 1
[Man's] power consists in the multitude of his affinities...
SR 2.56 7
...the sour faces of the multitude, like their sweet faces, have no
deep cause...
SR 2.56 10
Yet is the discontent of the multitude more formidable than that
of the senate and the college.
SR 2.88 26
...the reformers summon conventions and vote and resolve in
multitude.
Hsm1 2.261 20
...to live with some rigor of temperance, or some extremes
of generosity, seems to be an asceticism which common good-nature would
appoint to those who are at ease and in plenty, in sign that they feel a
brotherhood with the great multitude of suffering men.
OS 2.288 6
Among the multitude of scholars and authors we feel no
hallowing presence;...
Nat2 3.177 24
The multitude of false churches accredits the true religion.
Nat2 3.187 4
The excess of fear with which the animal frame is hedged
round...protects us, through a multitude of groundless alarms, from some
one real danger at last.
UGM 4.21 3
The veneration of mankind selects these [great men] for the
highest place. Witness the multitude of statues, pictures and memorials
which recall their genius in every city, village, house and ship...
GoW 4.264 13
...nature has more splendid endowments for those whom she
elects to a superior office; for the class of scholars or writers, who see
connection where the multitude see fragments...
GoW 4.265 15
The ambitious and mercenary bring their last new mumbo-jumbo...
and...easily succed in making it seen in a glare; and a multitude go
mad about it...
GoW 4.265 17
The ambitious and mercenary bring their last new mumbo-jumbo...
and...easily succed in making it seen in a glare; and a multitude go
mad about it, and they are not to be reproved or cured by the opposite
multitude who are kept from this particular insanity by an equal frenzy on
another crotchet.
GoW 4.271 6
We conceive...modern life to respect a multitude of things,
which is distracting.
GoW 4.272 10
[Goethe's] Helena...is...the work of one who found himself
the master of histories, mythologies, philosophies, sciences and national
literatures, in the encyclopaedical manner in which modern erudition...
researches into...geology, chemistry, astronomy; and every one of these
kingdoms assuming a certain aerial and poetic character, by reason of the
multitude.
ET1 5.10 4
...year after year the scholar must still go back to Landor for a
multitude of elegant sentences;...
ET3 5.38 27
The constant rain...keeps [England's] multitude of rivers full...
ET11 5.182 3
A multitude of town palaces [in London] contain inestimable
galleries of art.
ET11 5.198 3
A multitude of English...are every day confronting the peers
on a footing of equality...
Pow 6.54 26
...the multitude have no habit of self-reliance or original action.
Wsp 6.212 22
...the multitude of the sick shall not make us deny the
existence of health.
Elo1 7.61 10
One man is brought to the boiling-point by the excitement of
conversation in the parlor. ... Another requires the additional caloric of a
multitude and a public debate;...
Elo1 7.64 26
The orator sees himself the organ of a multitude...
DL 7.112 5
The shortest enumeration of our wants in this rugged climate
appalls us by the multitude of things not easy to be done.
DL 7.112 6
...if you look at the multitude of particulars, one would say:
Good housekeeping is impossible;...
DL 7.125 23
...the multitude do not hasten to be divine.
Suc 7.293 16
It is the dulness of the multitude that they cannot see the
house in the ground-plan;...
PI 8.70 13
O celestial Bacchus!--drive them mad,--this multitude of
vagabonds, hungry for eloquence...
SA 8.103 12
...[the American to be proud of] was the best talker...in the
company...what with the multitude and distinction of his facts...
Elo2 8.120 6
...give [an eloquent man]...the inspiration of a great multitude,
and he surprises by new and unlooked-for powers.
QO 8.193 12
There is...a new charm in such intellectual works as, passing
through long time, have had a multitude of authors and improvers.
PC 8.217 5
I find the single mind equipollent to a multitude of minds...
Insp 8.281 27
The wealth of the mind in this respect of seeing is like that of
a looking-glass, which is never tired or worn by any multitude of objects
which it reflects.
Grts 8.314 16
[Napoleon] has left...a multitude of sayings...
Dem1 10.14 19
...while the whole multitude was on the way, an augur
called out to them to stand still...
Edc1 10.133 8
If I have renounced the search of truth...I have died to all
use of these new events that are born out of prolific time into multitude of
life every hour.
Edc1 10.141 19
...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;...
Schr 10.282 21
...it is the end of eloquence...to persuade a multitude of
persons to renounce their opinions, and change the course of life.
Plu 10.302 19
[Plutarch] has preserved for us a multitude of precious
sentences...of authors whose books are lost;...
ALin 11.333 11
[Lincoln] is the author of a multitude of good sayings...
CPL 11.501 15
[Literature] is thought to be the harmless entertainment of a
few fanciful persons, and not at all to be the interest of the multitude.
FRep 11.538 9
It is not a question whether we shall be a multitude of
people.
CInt 12.116 17
...if [colleges] could cause that a mind not profound should
become profound,-we should all rush to their gates; instead of contriving
inducements to draw students, you would need to set police at the gates to
keep order in the in-rushing multitude.
CInt 12.120 22
You, gentlemen, are selected out of the great multitude of
your mates...
CW 12.177 25
...the naturalist has no barren places, no winter, and no
night, pursuing his researches...in winter, because, remove the snow a little,
a multitude of plants live and grow...
MAng1 12.218 10
The Italian artists sanction this view of Beauty by
describing it as il piu nell' uno...or multitude in unity...
MAng1 12.238 19
Michael Angelo was of that class of men who are too
superior to the multitude around them to command a full and perfect
sympathy.
multitudes, n. (30)
AmS 1.83 11
...this fountain of power, has been so distributed to
multitudes...that it is spilled into drops...
LT 1.276 14
[The Reformers] do not rely on precisely that strength which
wins me to their cause;...not on a principle, but...on multitudes...
Lov1 2.170 18
...[love] is a fire that kindling its first embers in the narrow
nook of a private bosom...glows and enlarges until it warms and beams
upon multitudes of men and women...
Nat2 3.179 13
...let us not longer omit our homage to the Efficient Nature...
itself secret, its works driven before it in flocks and multitudes...
Pol1 3.205 25
Under the dominion of an idea which possesses the minds of
multitudes...the powers of persons are no longer subjects of calculation.
SwM 4.132 10
...when [Swedenborg's] visions become the stereotyped
language of multitudes of persons of all degrees of age and capacity, they
are perverted.
NMW 4.246 5
[Napoleon's] capacious head...animating such multitudes of
agents;...
NMW 4.258 17
Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has
a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.
ET3 5.37 23
The innumerable details [in England]...the multitudes of rich
and of remarkable people...hide all boundaries by the impression of
magnificence and endless wealth.
ET8 5.129 18
Commerce sends abroad multitudes of different classes [of
Englishmen].
ET8 5.133 6
There are multitudes of rude young English who have the self-sufficiency
and bluntness of their nation...
ET14 5.244 1
The later English want the faculty of Plato and Aristotle, of
grouping men in natural classes by an insight of general laws, so deep that
the rule is deduced with equal precision...from one, as from multitudes of
lives.
ET18 5.300 18
Pauperism incrusts and clogs the [English] state, and in
hard times becomes hideous. In bad seasons, the porridge was diluted.
Multitudes lived miserably by shell-fish and sea-ware.
ET18 5.300 26
During the Australian emigration [from England],
multitudes were rejected by the commissioners as being too emaciated for
useful colonists.
Pow 6.80 6
Indifferent hacks and mediocrities tower, by pushing their
forces to a lucrative point or by working power, over multitudes of superior
men...
Ctr 6.144 20
I knew a leading man in a leading city, who, having set his
heart on an education at the university and missed it, could never quite feel
himself the equal of his own brothers who had gone thither. His easy
superiority to multitudes of professional men could never quite countervail
to him this imaginary defect.
Civ 7.23 20
We see insurmountable multitudes obeying...the restraints of a
power which they scarcely perceive...
DL 7.131 9
...in the Sistine Chapel I see the grand sibyls and prophets,
painted in fresco by Michel Angelo,--which have every day now for three
hundred years...exalted the piety of what vast multitudes of men of all
nations!
Cour 7.273 8
...it is not the means on which we draw, as...multitudes of
followers, that count, but the aims only.
QO 8.188 7
A more subtle and severe criticism might suggest that...that
multitudes of men do not live with Nature...
Dem1 10.3 22
'T is superfluous to think of the dreams of multitudes...
Aris 10.45 14
It never troubles the Senator what multitudes crack the
benches and bend the galleries to hear.
SovE 10.192 9
The student discovers one day that he lives in enchantment...
and through this enchanted gallery he is led by unseen guides to read and
learn the laws of Heaven. This discovery may come early...and to
multitudes of men wanting in mental activity it never comes...
War 11.161 14
The star once risen...will mount and mount, until it
becomes visible...to multitudes...
FSLC 11.197 21
...here are gentlemen whose believed probity was the
confidence and fortification of multitudes, who...have been drawn into the
support of this foul business [the Fugitive Slave Law].
TPar 11.291 12
There were...multitudes to censure and defame this truth-speaker
[Theodore Parker].
ALin 11.334 27
If ever a man was fairly tested, [Lincoln] was. There was
no lack of resistance, nor of slander, nor of ridicule. The times have
allowed no state secrets;...such multitudes had to be trusted, that no secret
could be kept.
Wom 11.418 17
...there are multitudes of men who live to objects quite out
of them...
SHC 11.434 6
In all the multitudes of woodlands and hillsides, which
within a few years have been laid out with a similar design [as a cemetery],
I have not known one so fitly named. Sleepy Hollow.
PPr 12.389 8
That morbid temperament has given [Carlyle's] rhetoric a
somewhat bloated character; a luxury to many imaginative and learned
persons...and yet its offensiveness to multitudes of reluctant lovers makes
us often wish some concession were possible on the part of the humorist.
multitudinous, adj. (2)
PPo 8.238 2
Oriental life and society...stand in violent contrast with the
multitudinous detail...of the Western nations.
LLNE 10.339 3
...the humanity which was the aim of all the multitudinous
works of Dickens;...was all on the side of the people.
mumble, v. (2)
Tran 1.357 11
...church and old book mumble and ritualize to an
unheeding, preoccupied and advancing mind...
MoS 4.167 3
As I look at [Montaigne's] effigy opposite the title-page, I
seem to hear him say...I will rather mumble and prose about what I
certainly know...
mumbleth, v. (1)
PI 8.51 22
The traveller as he paceth through those deserts asketh of
[Oblivion], who builded [Memphis and Thebes]? and she mumbleth
something, but what it is he heareth not.
mumbling, n. (1)
EWI 11.136 19
Out it would come, the God's truth, out it came [in
emancipation in the West Indies]...for all the mumbling of the lawyers.
mumbling, v. (1)
Prd1 2.241 5
...begin where we will, we are pretty sure in a short space to
be mumbling our ten commandments.
mumbo-jumbo, n. (1)
GoW 4.265 11
The ambitious and mercenary bring their last new mumbo-jumbo...
and...easily succed in making it seen in a glare;...
mummeries, n. (2)
Wsp 6.209 8
...the churches stagger backward to the mummeries of the
Dark Ages.
PPo 8.248 22
[Hafiz] tells his mistress that...certainly not [the monks' and
the dervishes'] cowls and mummeries but her glances can impart to him the
fire and virtue needful for such self-denial [of the ascetic and the saint].
mummery, n. (1)
NR 3.228 26
...men are steel-filings. Yet we unjustly select a particle, and
say, O steel-filing number one!...what prodigious virtues are these of
thine!... Whilst we speak the loadstone is withdrawn; down falls our filing
in a heap with the rest, and we continue our mummery to the wretched
shaving.
mummied, adj. (1)
Chr2 10.90 2
For what need I of book or priest/ Or Sibyl from the
mummied East/ When every star is Bethlehem Star,-/...
Mummies, Fragment on [Thoma (1)
PI 8.51 7
It would not be easy to refuse to Sir Thomas Browne's Fragment
on Mummies the claim of poetry...
mummy, n. (1)
QO 8.204 1
Only as braveries of too prodigal power can we pardon it,
when the life of genius is so redundant that out of petulance it flings its fire
into some old mummy, and, lo! it walks and blushes again here in the street.
mummy-case, n. (1)
ET11 5.188 20
In these [English] manors...the antiquary finds the frailest
Roman jar or crumbling Egyptian mummy-case, without so much as a new
layer of dust...
mummy-cases, n. (1)
QO 8.179 13
...the invention of yesterday of making wood indestructible by
means of vapor of coal-oil or paraffine was suggested by the Egyptian
method which has preserved its mummy-cases four thousand years.
mummy-pits, n. (2)
Hist 2.11 11
Belzoni digs and measures in the mummy-pits and pyramids
of Thebes until he can see the end of the difference between the monstrous
work and himself.
WD 7.175 10
...that flexile clay of which these old brothers moulded their
admirable symbols...was that clay which thou heldest but now in thy foolish
hands, and threwest away to go and seek in vain in sepulchres, mummy-pits
and old book-shops of Asia Minor, Egypt and England.
mumps, n. (1)
SL 2.132 16
These [problems of original sin, origin of evil, predestination
and the like] are the soul's mumps and measles and whooping-coughs...
Munchausen, Baron [Rudolph (1)
QO 8.186 26
The popular incident of Baron Munchausen, who hung his
bugle up by the kitchen fire and the frozen tune thawed out, is found in
Greece in Plato's time.
mundane, adj. (1)
Lov1 2.178 21
...[the maiden] indemnifies [the lover] by carrying out her
own being into somewhat impersonal, large, mundane...
Mundt's, Theodore, n. (1)
Let 12.399 19
...in Theodore Mundt's account of Frederic Holderlin's
Hyperion, we were not a little struck with the following Jeremiad of the
despair of Germany...
Mungo, n. (1)
ET1 5.16 23
[Carlyle] had read in Stewart's book that when he inquired in
a New York hotel for the Boots, he had been shown across the street and
had found Mungo in his own house dining on roast turkey.
Munich, Germany, n. (3)
YA 1.367 11
There is no feature of the old countries that strikes an
American with more agreeable surprise than the beautiful gardens of
Europe; such as...the gardens at Munich and at Frankfort on the Main...
GoW 4.283 3
...the [German] professor can not divest himself of the fancy
that the truths of philosophy have some application to Berlin and Munich.
ET5 5.96 26
[The Board of Trade of England] caused to be translated from
foreign languages and illustrated by elaborate drawings, the most approved
works of Munich, Berlin and Paris.
municipal, adj. (17)
Nat 1.32 13
Did it need...this host of orbs in heaven, to furnish man with
the dictionary and grammar of his municipal speech?
Fdsp 2.205 16
...we cannot forgive the poet if he...does not substantiate his
romance by the municipal virtues of justice, punctuality, fidelity and pity.
Gts 3.165 6
There are persons from whom we always expect fairy-tokens;
let us not cease to expect them. This is prerogative, and not to be limited by
our municipal rules.
NR 3.232 1
How wise the world appears, when...the completeness of the
municipal system is considered!
ShP 4.201 9
Every book supplies its time with one good word; every
municipal law, every trade, every folly of the day;...
ShP 4.217 19
[Shakespeare] was master of the revels to mankind. Is it not
as if one should have...the comets given into his hand...and should draw
them from their orbits to glare with the municipal fireworks on a holiday
night...
ET14 5.246 14
The essays, the fiction and the poetry of the day [in
England] have the like municipal limits.
ET15 5.264 14
[The London Times] has entered into each municipal,
literary and social question...
Art2 7.41 2
It was said, in allusion to the great structures of the ancient
Romans, the aqueducts and bridges, that their Art was a Nature working to
municiple ends.
DL 7.131 27
Obviously, it would be easy for every town to discharge this
truly municipal duty [of a library and museum].
PI 8.71 22
...for obvious municipal or parietal uses God has given us a bias
or a rest on to-day's forms.
Supl 10.165 17
The books say, It made my hair stand on end! Who, in our
municipal life, ever had such an experience?
SlHr 10.445 15
...the vigor of [Samuel Hoar's] understanding was directed
on the ordinary domestic and municipal well-being.
EWI 11.111 2
There is no end to the tragic anecdotes in the municipal
records of the [West Indian] colonies.
FSLC 11.204 15
Not the smallest municipal provision, if it were new,
would receive [Webster's] sanction.
TPar 11.289 25
...[Theodore Parker] insisted...that the essence of
Christianity is its practical morals;...and if you combine it...with ordinary
city ambitions to gloze over municipal corruptions...it is a hypocrisy...
MLit 12.318 4
All over the modern world the educated and susceptible
have betrayed their discontent with the limits of our municipal life...
munificence, n. (5)
NR 3.241 17
...is not munificence the means of insight?
SwM 4.111 17
This startling reappearance of Swedenborg...is not the least
remarkable fact in his history. Aided it is said by the munificence of Mr.
Clissold, and also by his literary skill, this piece of poetic justice is done.
DL 7.114 4
...we desire the elegance of munificence;...
HDC 11.49 24
The British government has recently presented to the several
public libraries of this country, copies of the splendid edition of the
Domesday Book, and other ancient public records of England. I cannot but
think that it would be a suitable acknowledgment of this national
munificence, if the records of one of our towns...should be printed, and
presented to the governments of Europe;...
CPL 11.495 21
In the details of this munificence, we may all anticipate a
sudden and lasting prosperity to this ancient town [Concord], in the benefit
of a noble library..
muniment, n. (1)
Wsp 6.222 22
We cannot spare the coarsest muniment of virtue.
muniments, n. (1)
Con 1.320 23
...if [the people] are not instructed to sympathize with the
intelligent, reading, trading, and governing class;...they will...perhaps lay a
hand on the sacred muniments of wealth itself...
munitions, n. (1)
HCom 11.343 10
...the infusion of culture and tender humanity from these
scholars and idealists who went to the war in their own despite...had its
signal and lasting effect. It was found that enthusiasm was a more potent
ally than science and munitions of war without it.
Munroe, William, n. (1)
CPL 11.496 12
...I am not sure that when Boston learns the good deed of
Mr. Munroe [building of Concord Library], it will not be a little envious...
Munroe's, William, n. (1)
CPL 11.497 21
The chairman of Mr. [William] Munroe's trustees has told
you how old is the foundation of our village library...
muove, v. (1)
Exp 3.55 8
This onward trick of nature is too strong for us: Pero si muove.
Murad [Amurath] IV, of Pe (1)
GoW 4.263 17
...if we knew the genesis of fine strokes of eloquence, they
might recall the complaisance of Sultan Amurath, who struck off some
Persian heads, that his physician, Vesalius, might see the spasms in the
muscles of the neck.
Murat, Joachim, n. (1)
NMW 4.244 11
...ample acknowledgements are made by [Napoleon] to...
Massena, Murat...
murder, n. (15)
DSA 1.123 7
...murder will speak out of stone walls.
DSA 1.150 7
All attempts to contrive a system are as cold as the new
worship introduced by the French to the goddess of Reason...ending to-morrow
in madness and murder.
Tran 1.336 13
In the play of Othello, the expiring Desdemona absolves her
husband of the murder, to her attendant Emilia.
Exp 3.78 17
Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets
and romancers will have it;...
Chr1 3.98 13
What have I gained...that I do not tremble before...the
Calvinistic Judgment-day,--if I quake...at the rumor of revolution, or of
murder?
Dem1 10.20 27
...the fabled ring of Gyges...is simply mischievous. A new
or private language...the steam battery, so fatal as to put an end to war by
the threat of universal murder;...are of this kind.
Aris 10.55 15
...the thought has...no murder, no envy, no crime...
Aris 10.63 12
...the revolution comes, and does [the man of honor] join the
standard of Chartist and outlaw? No, for these...are full of murder...
Carl 10.491 20
[Carlyle] treats [young men] with contempt;...they praise
moral suasion, he goes for murder, money, capital punishment and other
pretty abominations of English law.
EWI 11.115 4
Some American captains left the shore and put to sea [at the
announcement of emancipation in the West Indies], anticipating
insurrection and general murder.
FSLC 11.187 14
Here is a statute [the Fugitive Slave Law] which enacts
the crime of kidnapping,-a crime on one footing with arson and murder.
FSLC 11.191 4
...if any human law should allow or enjoin us to commit a
crime ([Blackstone's] instance is murder), we are bound to transgress that
human law;...
FSLC 11.195 7
By the law of Congress, March 2, 1807, it is piracy and
murder, punishable by death, to enslave a man on the coast of Africa.
FSLC 11.195 13
By law of Congress September, 1850, it is a high crime
and misdemeanor, punishable with fine and imprisonment, to resist the
reenslaving a man on the coast of America. Off soundings, it is piracy and
murder to enslave him. On soundings, it is fine and prison not to reenslave.
Bost 12.208 2
I know that this history [of Massachusetts] contains many
black lines of cruel injustice; murder, persecution, and execution of women
for witchcraft.
Murder, n. (1)
Trag 12.409 10
Hark! what sounds on the night wind, the cry of Murder in
that friendly house;...
murder, v. (1)
ET4 5.58 20
...[the Norsemen's] chief end of man is to murder or to be
murdered;...
murdered, v. (2)
ET4 5.58 20
...[the Norsemen's] chief end of man is to murder or to be
murdered;...
AKan 11.256 16
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.
Jennison of Groton, Mr. Phillips of Berkshire, have been murdered?
murderer, n. (1)
Exp 3.78 17
Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets
and romancers will have it;...
murderer's, n. (1)
AsSu 11.251 16
...this noble head [Charles Sumner]...must be the target for
a pair of bullies to beat with clubs. The murderer's brand shall stamp their
foreheads wherever they may wander in the earth.
murderous, adj. (1)
War 11.157 27
...the art of war...has made...battles less frequent and less
murderous.
murders, v. (1)
PPo 8.245 19
The earth is a host who murders his guests.
murder-stroke, n. (1)
FSLN 11.239 14
...For evil word shall evil word be said,/ For murder-stroke
a murder-stroke be paid./ Who smites must smart./
murex, n. (1)
ET6 5.111 18
The Englishman is finished like a cowry or a murex.
murmur, n. (3)
DSA 1.136 4
...this ill-suppressed murmur of all thoughtful men against the
famine of our churches;...should be heard...
SR 2.68 14
When a man lives with God, his voice shall be as sweet as the
murmur of the brook...
Farm 7.150 3
...in this very year, a large quantity of land has been
discovered and added to the town [of Concord] without a murmur of
complaint from any quarter.
murmur, v. (4)
Nat 1.32 2
At the call of a noble sentiment, again...the pines murmur...
ET14 5.255 9
No [English] poet dares murmur of beauty out of the precinct
of his rhymes.
FSLC 11.196 22
But worse, not the officials alone are bribed [by the
Fugitive Slave Law], but the whole community is solicited. The scowl of
the community is attempted to be averted by the mischievous whisper,
Tariff and Southern market, if you will be quiet: no tariff and loss of
Southern market, if you dare to murmur.
TPar 11.292 11
...you [Theodore Parker] will already be consoled in the
transfer of your genius, knowing well that the nature of the world will
affirm...that which for twenty-five years you valiantly spoke; that the winds
of Italy murmur the same truth over your grave;...
murmured, v. (1)
PI 8.4 25
...somewhat was murmured in our ear that dwindled astronomy
into a toy;...
murmuring, v. (1)
RBur 11.443 3
The west winds are murmuring [the memory of Burns].
murmurs, n. (2)
ET4 5.52 19
The Scandinavians in [the English] race still hear in every age
the murmurs of their mother, the ocean;...
MMEm 10.397 14
But O, these waves and leaves,-/ When happy, stoic
Nature grieves,-/ No human speech so beautiful/ As their murmurs, mine
to lull./
murmurs, v. (2)
Exp 3.56 20
...thou wert born to a whole and this story is a particular? The
reason of the pain this discovery causes us...is the plaint of tragedy which
murmurs from it in regard to persons, to friendship and love.
ET16 5.288 23
There, in that great sloven continent [America]...still sleeps
and murmurs and hides the great mother...
Murray, John [Duke of Atho (1)
ET11 5.189 4
The Dukes of Athol, Sutherland, Buccleugh and the Marquis
of Breadalbane have introduced the rape-culture...
Murray, John, n. (1)
ET4 5.71 4
The more vigorous [Englishmen] run out of the island...to
Africa and Australia, to hunt with fury...all the game that is in nature. These
men have written the game-books of all countries, as Hawker, Scrope,
Murray...
Murray, William [Lord Mans [Murray,] (10)
ET5 5.90 17
They are excellent judges in England of a good worker, and
when they find one, like...Mansfield, Pitt, Eldon...there is nothing too good
or too high for him.
ET15 5.262 2
So your grace likes the comfort of reading the newspapers,
said Lord Mansfield to the Duke of Northumberland; mark my words;...
these newspapers will most assuredly write the Dukes of Northumberland
out of their titles...
EWI 11.105 27
[Granville] Sharpe protected the [West Indian] slave. In
consulting with the lawyers, they told Sharpe the laws were against him.
Sharpe would not believe it; no prescription on earth could ever render such
iniquities legal. But the decisions are against you, and Lord Mansfield, now
Chief Justice of England, leans to the decisions.
EWI 11.106 11
...when [Granville Sharpe] brought the case of George
Somerset, another slave, before Lord Mansfield, the slavish decisions were
set aside, and equity affirmed.
EWI 11.106 22
...[George Somerset's] case was adjourned again and again,
and judgment delayed. At last judgment was demanded, and on the 22d
June, 1772, Lord Mansfield is reported to have decided...
EWI 11.140 19
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?
FSLC 11.191 11
Lord Coke held that where an Act of Parliament is against
common right and reason, the common law shall control it, and adjudge it
to be void. Chief Justice Hobart, Chief Justice Holt, and Chief Justice
Mansfield held the same.
FSLC 11.191 12
Lord Mansfield...said, I care not for the supposed dicta of
judges, however eminent, if they be contrary to all principle.
FSLC 11 214 5
...one, two, three occasions have just now occurred, and
past, in either of which, if one man had felt the spirit of Coke or Mansfield
or Parsons, and read the law with the eye of freedom, the dishonor of
Massachusetts had been prevented...
FSLN 11.225 23
There was the same law in England for Jeffries and Talbot
and Yorke to read slavery out of, and for Lord Mansfield to read freedom.
Murray's, William [Earl of [Murray's] (2)
Elo1 7.88 12
Lord Mansfield's merit is the merit of common sense.
Elo1 7.88 17
Each of Mansfield's famous decisions contains a level
sentence or two which hit the mark.
Murray's, William [Lord Ma (1)
EWI 11.106 13
...when [Granville Sharpe] brought the case of George
Somerset, another slave, before Lord Mansfield, the slavish decisions were
set aside, and equity affirmed. There is a sparkle of God's righteousness in
Lord Mansfield's judgment, which does the heart good.
Musagetes, n. (1)
Insp 8.286 9
...I thank the annoying insect/ For many a golden hour./ Stand,
then, for me, ye tormenting creatures,/ Highly praised by the poet/ As the
true Musagetes./
muscle, n. (6)
SR 2.85 7
[The civilized man] is supported on crutches, but lacks so much
support of muscle.
ET4 5.46 22
We anticipate in the doctrine of race something like that law
of physiology that whatever bone, muscle, or essential organ is found in
one healthy individual, the same part or organ may be found in or near the
same place in its congener;...
ET8 5.139 10
Even the scale of expense on which people live...proves the
tension of [English] muscle...
Pow 6.66 17
It is an esoteric doctrine of society that a little wickedness is
good to make muscle;...
Comc 8.163 1
The peace of society and the decorum of tables seem to
require that next to a notable wit should always be posted a phlegmatic bolt-upright
man, able to stand without movement of muscle whole broadsides
of this Greek fire.
Aris 10.56 8
Others I meet...who denude and strip one of all attributes but
material values. As much health and muscle as you have...avails.
muscles, n. (12)
SR 2.55 23
The muscles...grow tight about the outline of the face...
MoS 4.153 1
Spence relates that Mr. Pope was with Sir Godfrey Kneller
one day, when his nephew, a Guinea trader, came in. Nephew, said Sir
Godfrey, you have the honor of seeing the two greatest men in the world. I
don't know how great men you may be, said the Guinea man, but I don't
like your looks. I have often bought a man much better than both of you, all
muscles and bones, for ten guineas.
NMW 4.258 2
[Napoleon's egotism] resembled the torpedo, which inflicts
a succession of shocks on any one who takes hold of it, producing spasms
which contract the muscles of the hand, so that the man can not open his
fingers;...
GoW 4.263 19
...if we knew the genesis of fine strokes of eloquence, they
might recall the complaisance of Sultan Amurath, who struck off some
Persian heads, that his physician, Vesalius, might see the spasms in the
muscles of the neck.
ET4 5.71 9
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.
Wth 6.121 19
How often we must remember the art of the surgeon, which,
in replacing the broken bone, contents itself with releasing the parts from
false position; they fly into place by the action of the muscles.
Civ 7.27 16
...see [the carpenter] on the ground, dressing his timber under
him. Now, not his feeble muscles but the force of gravity brings down the
axe;...
Dem1 10.24 21
While the dilettanti have been prying into the humors and
muscles of the eye, simple men will have helped themselves and the world
by using their eyes.
Bost 12.196 19
New England lies in the cold and hostile latitude, which by
shutting men up in houses and tight and heated rooms a large part of the
year...takes from the muscles their suppleness...
MAng1 12.220 4
The human form, says Goethe, cannot be comprehended
through seeing its surface. It must be stripped of the muscles...
MAng1 12.221 14
When Michael Angelo would begin a statue, he made
first on paper the skeleton; afterwards, upon another paper, the same figure
clothed with muscles.
Milt1 12.256 19
The muscles, the nerves and the flesh with which this
skeleton is to be filled out and covered exist in [Milton's] works and must
be sought there.
muscular, adj. (9)
DSA 1.121 18
The child amidst his baubles is learning the action of...
muscular force;...
Exp 3.58 16
Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity.
Art2 7.42 20
...in our handiwork, we do few things by muscular force...
Art2 7.49 5
...we do not dig, or grind, or hew, by our muscular strength...
OA 7.335 21
When life has been well spent, age is a loss of what it can
well spare,--muscular strength, organic instincts, gross bulk...
Comc 8.159 17
We have a primary association between perfectness and
this [human] form. But the facts that occur when actual men enter do not
make good this anticipation; a discrepancy which is at once detected by the
intellect, and the outward sign is the muscular irritation of laughter.
PerF 10.72 23
The husbandry learned in the economy of heat or light or
steam or muscular fibre applies precisely to the use of wit.
EWI 11.147 16
The genius of the Saxon race, friendly to liberty; the
enterprise, the very muscular vigor of this nation, are inconsistent with
slavery.
WSL 12.337 2
We sometimes meet in a stage-coach in New England an
erect, muscular man...whose nervous speech instantly betrays the English
traveller;...
muse, n. (44)
Nat 1.52 16
[Shakspeare's] imperial muse tosses the creation like a bauble
from hand to hand...
Nat 1.68 15
A perception of this mystery inspires the muse of George
Herbert...
AmS 1.113 5
Especially did [Swedenborg's] shade-loving muse hover over
and interpret the lower parts of nature;...
LE 1.176 5
We...talk of muse and prophet...
SR 2.47 10
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
muse befriends;...
Pt1 3.38 19
...I am not wise enough for a national criticism, and must use
the old largeness a little longer, to discharge my errand from the muse to
the poet concerning his art.
Pt1 3.41 10
[O poet] Thou shalt leave the world, and know the muse only.
Pt1 3.41 12
[O poet] Thou shalt not know any longer the times, customs,
graces, politics, or opinions of men, but shalt take all from the muse.
Nat2 3.175 20
The muse herself betrays her son [the poor young poet]...
SwM 4.134 24
That Hebrew muse, which taught the lore of right and
wrong to men, had the same excess of influence for [Swedenborg] it has
had for the nations.
SwM 4.141 17
The sad muse [Swedenborg] loves night and death and the
pit.
GoW 4.271 25
...there is no trace of provincial limitation in [Goethe's]
muse.
ET14 5.232 22
The English muse loves the farmyard, the lane and market.
ET14 5.251 23
The voice of [Englishmen's] modern muse has a slight hint
of the steam-whistle...
ET17 5.298 10
New means were employed, and new realms added to the
empire of the muse, by [Wordsworth's] courage.
Pow 6.74 27
The poet Campbell said...that, for himself, necessity, not
inspiration, was the prompter of his muse.
CbW 6.265 21
...despair is no muse...
Art2 7.50 9
[Good poets] found the verse, not made it. The muse brought it
to them.
QO 8.203 24
...no man suspects the superior merit of [Cook's or Henry's]
description, until...the artist arrive, and mix so much art with their picture
that the incomparable advantage of the first narrative appears. For the same
reason we dislike that the poet should choose an antique or far-fetched
subject for his muse...
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 8.251 9
In general what is more tedious than dedications or panegyrics
addressed to grandees? Yet in the Divan you would not skip them, since
[Hafiz's] muse seldom supports him better...
Insp 8.279 25
Health is the first muse...
Insp 8.280 7
I honor health as the first muse...
Insp 8.282 16
[Herbert's] health had broken down early, he had lost his
muse...
Insp 8.290 19
Certain localities...are excitants of the muse.
Dem1 10.26 20
[Adepts in occult facts] are...by laws of kind,-dunces
seeking dunces in the dark of what they call the spiritual world,-preferring
snores and gastric noises to the voice of any muse.
Supl 10.179 7
There is no writing which has more electric power to unbind
and animate the torpid intellect than the bold Eastern muse.
SovE 10.187 26
Montaigne kills off bigots as cowhage kills worms; but
there is a higher muse there sitting where he durst not soar...
Plu 10.320 4
[Plutarch] thought it wonderful that a man having a muse in
his own breast...would have pipes and harps play...
Thor 10.464 22
...[Thoreau] said, one day, The other world is all my art;...I
do not use it as a means. This was the muse and genius that ruled his
opinions, conversation, studies, work and course of life.
RBur 11.440 18
[Burns's] muse and teaching was common sense...
Shak1 11.447 7
We seriously endeavored, besides our brothers and our
seniors...to draw out of their retirements a few rarer lovers of the muse...
II 12.71 27
The muse may be defined, Supervoluntary ends effected by
supervoluntary means.
II 12.78 26
...despair is no muse...
Milt1 12.269 21
[Milton's] muse was brave and humane, as well as sweet.
Milt1 12.277 18
What schools and epochs of common rhymers would it
need to make a counterbalance to the severe oracles of [Milton's] muse...
Milt1 12.277 23
The lover of Milton reads one sense in his prose and in his
metrical compositions, and sometimes the muse soars highest in the former,
because the thought is more sincere.
ACri 12.294 12
[Shakespeare's] muse is moral simply from its depth...
MLit 12.309 15
We go musing into the vault of day and night;...no muse
descends...
MLit 12.319 17
[Shelley's] muse is uniformly imitative;...
MLit 12.321 7
Here [in the First Book of Wordsworth's The Excursion]
was...a sure index where the subtle muse was about to pitch her tent and
find the argument of her song.
MLit 12.327 6
It is all design with [Goethe]...but of Shakspeare and the
transcendent muse, no syllable.
EurB 12.369 8
...the spirit of literature and the modes of living and the
conventional theories of the conduct of life were called in question [by
Wordsworth] on wholly new grounds...from the lessons which the country
muse taught a stout pedestrian climbing a mountain...
Let 12.400 24
Full of love, talent and hope spring up the darlings of the
muse among the Germans;...
Muse, n. (18)
Hist 2.8 4
The student is...to esteem his own life the text [of history], and
books the commentary. Thus compelled, the Muse of history will utter
oracles, as never to those who do not respect themselves.
Hist 2.26 16
A person of childlike genius and inborn energy is still a Greek,
and revives our love of the Muse of Hellas.
Int 2.338 13
...the kingdom of thought has no inclosures, but the Muse
makes us free of her city.
Exp 3.72 21
Fortune, Minerva, Muse, Holy Ghost,--these are quaint names,
too narrow to cover this unbounded substance.
Ctr 6.161 25
Ben Jonson specifies in his address to the Muse:--Get him the
time's long grudge, the court's ill-will,/ And, reconciled, keep him
suspected still./ Make him lose all his friends, and what is worse,/ Almost
all ways to any better course;/ With me thou leav'st a better Muse than
thee,/ And which thou brought'st me, blessed Poverty./
Ctr 6.162 3
Ben Jonson specifies in his address to the Muse:--...Make him
lose all his friends, and what is worse,/ Almost all ways to any better
course;/ With me thou leav'st a better Muse than thee,/ And which thou
brought'st me, blessed Poverty./
CbW 6.243 17
The richest of all lords is Use,/ And ruddy Health the
loftiest Muse./
PI 8.2 3
For Fancy's gift/ Can mountains lift;/ The Muse can knit/ What is
past, what is done,/ With the web that 's just begun;/...
PI 8.65 7
The Muse [of Poetry] shall be the counterpart of Nature...
PI 8.66 6
The poet must let Humanity sit with the Muse in his head...
Schr 10.262 3
...in the worldly habits which harden us, we find with some
surprise...that those excellent influences which men in all ages have called
the Muse, or by some kindred name, come in to keep us warm and true;...
Schr 10.287 23
Give me bareness and poverty so that I know them as the
sure heralds of the Muse.
Plu 10.306 20
The central fact is the superhuman intelligence, pouring into
us from its unknown fountain, to be...defended from any mixture of our
will. But this high Muse comes and goes;...
Plu 10.306 21
...the danger is that, when the Muse is wanting, the student is
prone to supply its place with microscopic subtleties and logomachy.
MMEm 10.404 20
Destitution is the Muse of [Mary Moody Emerson's]
genius,-Destitution and Death.
FSLN 11.242 12
[American universities] have forgotten their allegiance to
the Muse...
CInt 12.127 1
...here [in the college] Imagination should be greeted with
the problems in which it delights; the noblest tasks to the Muse proposed...
MLit 12.331 21
Poetry is with Goethe thus external...but the Muse never
assays those thunder-tones which cause to vibrate the sun and the moon...
muse, v. (1)
SS 7.9 1
...we sit and muse and are serene and complete;...
mused, v. (1)
Cir 2.307 16
I thought as I...mused on my friends, why should I play with
them this game of idolatry?
Muses, Leader of the, n. (1)
Insp 8.284 19
Goethe acknowledges [the fine influences of the morning] in
the poem in which he dislodges the nightingale from her place as Leader of
the Muses...
muses, n. (12)
AmS 1.114 10
We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe.
Hsm1 2.257 15
Where the heart is, there the muses...
Pt1 3.21 26
...language is...a sort of tomb of the muses.
Exp 3.80 27
...all the muses and love and religion hate these [intellectual]
developments...
Mrs1 3.150 25
...besides those who make good in our imagination the place
of muses and of Delphic Sibyls, are there not women who fill our vase with
wine and roses to the brim...
ET16 5.278 23
The chief mystery [of Stonehenge] is, that any mystery
should have been allowed to settle on so remarkable a monument, in a
country on which all the muses have kept their eyes now for eighteen
hundred years.
PPo 8.259 13
...the celerity of flight and allusion which our colder muses
forbid, is habitual to [Hafiz].
Insp 8.281 10
...I fancy that my logs...are a kind of muses.
Insp 8.284 22
Often in deep midnights/ I called on the sweet muses./
Insp 8.291 23
...the delicate muses lose their head if their attention is once
diverted.
Supl 10.166 18
I hear without sympathy the complaint of young and ardent
persons that they find life no region of romance, with no enchanter, no
giant, no fairies, nor even muses.
II 12.77 24
...one day, though far off, you will attain the control of these
[higher] states;...you will do what now the muses only sing.
Muses, n. (10)
Lov1 2.171 25
With thought, with the ideal, is...the rose of joy. Round it all
the Muses sing.
Fdsp 2.195 2
High thanks I owe you, excellent lovers, who...enlarge the
meaning of all my thoughts. These are...Apollo and the Muses chanting still.
Pol1 3.197 15
When the Muses nine/ With the Virtues meet,/ Find to their
design/ An Atlantic seat,/ By green orchard boughs/ Fended from the heat,/
Where the statesman ploughs/ Furrow for the wheat;/ .../ Then the perfect
State is come,/ The republican at home./
Wth 6.109 10
[The New Hampshire youth in the city] will perhaps find by
and by that he left the Muses at the door of the hotel, and found the Furies
inside.
Ctr 6.166 18
[Man] will convert the Furies into Muses...
SS 7.3 7
I fell in with a humorist on my travels, who had in his chamber a
cast of the Rondanini Medusa, and who assured me that...he was convinced
that the sculptor who carved it intended it for Memory, the mother of the
Muses.
Elo1 7.59 1
For whom the Muses smile upon,/ And touch with soft
persuasion,/ His words, like a storm-wind, can bring/ Terror and beauty on
their wing;/...
Insp 8.268 2
If with light head erect I sing,/ Though all the Muses lend
their force,/ From my poor love of anything,/ The verse is weak and
shallow as its source./
Insp 8.286 2
Vigorous, I spring from my couch,/ Seek the beloved Muses/...
Mem 12.95 22
...the poets represented the Muses as the daughters of
Memory...
muses', n. (1)
PI 8.72 26
The inexorable rule in the muses' court, either inspiration or
silence, compels the bard to report only his supreme moments.
Muses', n. (1)
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...
muses, v. (1)
Nat 1.72 3
...sometimes [man]...muses strangely at the resemblance betwixt
himself and [his house].
Museum, Agassiz's, Harvard (1)
Res 8.151 26
...how hungry I found myself, the other day, at Agassiz's
Museum, for [shells'] names!
Museum, Ashmolean, Oxford, (1)
ET12 5.201 13
I saw [at Oxford] the Ashmolean Museum...
Museum, British, n. (8)
MoS 4.163 20
...the duplicate copy of Florio, which the British Museum
purchased with a view of protecting the Shakspeare autograph...turned out
to have the autograph of Ben Jonson in the fly-leaf.
MoS 4.163 23
...the duplicate copy of Florio, which the British Museum
purchased with a view of protecting the Shakspeare autograph (as I was
informed in the Museum), turned out to have the autograph of Ben Jonson
in the fly-leaf.
ET11 5.181 18
The Duke of Bedford includes or included a mile square in
the heart of London, where the British Museum, once Montague House,
now stands...
ET16 5.274 15
[Carlyle] wishes to go through the British Museum in
silence...
ET17 5.293 19
Among the privileges of London, I recall with pleasure two
or three signal days...one at the Museum, where Sir Charles Fellowes
explained in detail the history of his Ionic trophy-monument;...
Boks 7.193 6
We look over with a sigh the monumental libraries of Paris,
of the Vatican and the British Museum.
Edc1 10.146 14
...[Fellowes] was able to reconstruct, in the British perfect
model of the Ionic trophy-monument...
PLT 12.22 12
If we go through the British Museum...or any cabinet where
is some representation of all the kingdoms of Nature, we are surprised with
occult sympathies;...
Museum, Cambridge, England, (1)
ET16 5.278 14
I, who had just come from Professor Sedgwick's
Cambridge Museum of megatheria and mastodons, was ready to maintain
that some cleverer elephants or mylodonta had borne off and laid these
rocks [of Stonehenge] one on another.
Museum, Hunterian, London, (1)
ET17 5.293 24
Among the privileges of London, I recall with pleasure two
or three signal days...one at the Museum...and still another, on which Mr.
[Richard] Owen accompanied my countryman Mr. H[illard]. and myself
through the Hunterian Museum.
museum, n. (11)
LE 1.177 24
[The scholar's] needs...are keys that open to him the beautiful
museum of human life.
ET5 5.94 9
...from first to last [England] is a museum of anomalies.
ET6 5.107 24
...with the national tendency to sit fast in the same spot for
many generations, [the Englishman's house] comes to be, in the course of
time, a museum of heirlooms...
ET11 5.188 5
...[the English nobility] are they who make England that
strongbox and museum it is;...
Ctr 6.148 18
In town [a man] can find...the museum of natural history;...
DL 7.130 2
...let [a man] not...seek to turn his house into a museum.
DL 7.130 27
...I think the public museum in each town will one day relieve
the private house of this charge of owning and exhibiting [statues and
pictures].
DL 7.131 15
I wish to find in my own town a library and museum which is
the property of the town, where I can deposit this precious treasure
[engravings of Michelangelo's sibyls and prophets]...
Cour 7.275 27
The Medical College piles up in its museum its grim
monsters of morbid anatomy...
PI 8.8 5
Anatomy, osteology, exhibit arrested or progessive ascent in each
kind; the lower pointing to the higher forms, the higher to the highest...as if
the whole animal world were only a Hunterian museum to exhibit the
genesis of mankind.
Supl 10.163 19
We talk, sometimes, with people whose conversation would
lead you to suppose that they had lived in a museum...
Museum, Sir John Soane's, (1)
ET3 5.38 5
...what they told me was the merit of Sir John Soane's Museum,
in London,--that it was well packed and well saved,--is the merit of
England;...
Museums, British, n. (1)
Wth 6.96 14
It is the interest of all men that there should be...British
Museums...
museums, n. (7)
Con 1.311 4
[Existing institutions] have lost no time and spared no expense
to collect libraries, museums, galleries, colleges, palaces, hospitals,
observatories, cities.
Pol1 3.220 15
...when [men] are pure enough to abjure the code of force
they will be wise enough to see how these public ends...of museums and
libraries...can be answered.
ET16 5.274 5
I thought it natural that [travelling Americans] should give...a
little [time] to scientific clubs and museums, which, at this moment, make
London very attractive.
War 11.166 22
...bayonet and sword...will be transferred to the museums of
the curious...
SHC 11.433 15
Here [at Sleepy Hollow] we may establish that most
agreeable of all museums...
FRep 11.511 18
Wedgwood, the eminent potter, bravely took the sculptor
Flaxman to counsel, who said, Send to Italy, search the museums for the
forms of old Etruscan vases...
CInt 12.122 6
...it happens often that the wellbred and refined...dwelling
amidst colleges, churches, and scientific museums...are more vicious and
malignant than the rude country people...
mush, n. (3)
MR 1.254 22
Have you not seen in the woods...a poor fungus or
mushroom,-a plant...that seemed nothing but a soft mush or jelly,-by its...
gentle pushing, manage to break its way up through the frosty ground...
Fdsp 2.208 23
I hate, where I looked for...at least a manly resistance, to
find a mush of concession.
SA 8.107 6
Any other affection between men than this geometric one of
relation to the same thing, is a mere mush of materialism.
mushroom, adj. (1)
PC 8.212 18
Geology...has had the effect to throw an air of novelty and
mushroom speed over entire history.
mushroom, n. (2)
MR 1.254 20
Have you not seen in the woods...a poor fungus or
mushroom...by its...gentle pushing, manage to break its way up through the
frosty ground...
SHC 11.436 20
The being that can share a thought and feeling so sublime
as confidence in truth is no mushroom.
mushrooms, n. (1)
ET5 5.84 8
You dine with a gentleman [in England] on venison, pheasant,
quail, pigeons, poultry, mushrooms and pine-apples, all the growth of his
estate.
Music, Cave of, n. (1)
ET1 5.22 24
[Wordsworth's] second [sonnet on Fingal's Cave] alludes to
the name of the cave, which is Cave of Music;...
Music, Doctor of, n. (1)
LLNE 10.363 19
There [at Brook Farm] was the accomplished Doctor of
Music [John S. Dwight]...
Music Hall, Boston Massach (1)
TPar 11.288 14
...[it will be] in the plain lessons of Theodore Parker in this
Music Hall...that the true temper and the authentic record of these days will
be read.
music, n. (158)
Nat 1.18 7
...every withered stem and stubble rimed with frost, contribute
something to the mute music.
Nat 1.43 21
...architecture is called frozen music, by De Stael and Goethe.
Nat 1.54 7
Prospero calls for music to soothe the frantic Alonzo...
Nat 1.69 12
Music and light attend our head./
AmS 1.103 27
...the deeper [the orator] dives into his privatest, secretest
presentiment, to his wonder he finds this is the most...universally true. The
people delight in it; the better part of every man feels, This is my music;
this is myself.
DSA 1.133 21
...with yet more entire consent of my human being, sounds in
my ear the severe music of the bards that have sung of the true God in all
ages.
DSA 1.134 23
...somehow [the seer] publishes [his dream] with solemn
joy...sometimes in anthems of indefinite music;...
LE 1.177 17
How can [the scholar] catch and keep the strain of upper
music that peals from [human life]?
MN 1.192 6
I love the music of the water-wheel;...
MN 1.200 14
...like a strain of music...[the dance of the hours] is inexact
and boundless.
MN 1.209 26
If [a man] listen with insatiable ears...the sound swells to a
ravishing music...
MN 1.219 5
[Genius] is sun and moon and wave and fire in music...
MR 1.245 7
...we shall dwell like the ancient Romans in narrow tenements,
whilst our public edifices, like theirs, will be worthy...for music...
LT 1.263 4
I do not wonder at the miracles which poetry attributes to the
music of Orpheus...
LT 1.264 7
...I find the Age walking about...in strong eyes and pleasant
thoughts, and think I read it nearer and truer so, than...in the investments of
capital, which rather celebrate with mournful music the obsequies of the
last age.
Con 1.322 6
...wherever he sees anything that will keep men amused...
music, or what not, [every honest fellow] must cry Hist-a-boy, and urge the
game on.
Hist 2.12 8
When we have gone through this process, and added thereto the
Catholic Church...its music...we have as it were been the man that made the
minster;...
Hist 2.31 20
The power of music, the power of poetry, to unfix and...clap
wings to solid nature, interprets the riddle of Orpheus.
Lov1 2.175 5
...no man ever forgot the visitations of that power to his heart
and brain...which was the dawn in him of music, poetry, and art;...
Lov1 2.177 15
The heats that have opened [the lover's] perceptions of
natural beauty have made him love music and verse.
Lov1 2.179 22
What else did Jean Paul Richter signify, when he said to
music, Away! away! thou speakest to me of things which in all my endless
life I have not found and shall not find.
Prd1 2.227 6
The domestic man, who loves no music so well as his kitchen
clock...has solaces which others never dream of.
Hsm1 2.247 27
...Wordsworth's Laodamia, and the ode of Dion, and some
sonnets, have a certain noble music;...
Hsm1 2.250 15
...pleasantly and as it were merrily [the hero] advances to
his own music...
Int 2.346 13
This band of grandees...Synesius and the rest, have
somewhat...so primary in their thinking, that it seems...to be at once poetry
and music and dancing and astronomy and mathematics.
Art1 2.365 8
The sweetest music is...in the human voice...
Pt1 3.8 8
...whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into
that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings and
attempt to write them down...
Pt1 3.9 20
We hear, through all the varied music [of modern poetry], the
ground-tone of conventional life.
Pt1 3.9 22
Our poets are men of talents who sing, and not the children of
music.
Pt1 3.27 26
All men avail themselves of such means as they can, to add this
extraordinary power to their normal powers; and to this end they prize...
music...
Gts 3.159 19
...[flowers] are like music heard out of a work-house.
Nat2 3.172 22
The fall of snowflakes in a still air...the crackling and
spurting of hemlock in the flames, or of pine logs, which yield glory to the
walls and faces in the sitting-room;--these are the music and pictures of the
most ancient religion.
Nat2 3.190 12
Our music, our poetry, our language itself are not
satisfactions...
NER 3.272 17
...they hear music, or when they read poetry, [men] are
radicals.
UGM 4.10 21
The table of logarithms is one thing, and its vital play in
botany, music, optics and architecture another.
UGM 4.20 19
...if persons and things are scores of a celestial music, let us
read off the strains.
PPh 4.59 22
There is indeed no weapon in all the armory of wit which
[Plato] did not possess and use,--epic, analysis, mania, intuition, music,
satire and irony...
PPh 4.65 5
What value [Plato] gives to the art of gymnastic in education;...
what to music;...
SwM 4.143 24
[Swedenborg] knew the grammar and rudiments of the
Mother-Tongue,--how could he not read off one strain into music?
ShP 4.190 15
The Church has reared [a great man] amidst rites and pomps,
and he carries out the advice which her music gave him, and builds a
cathedral needed by her chants and processions.
ShP 4.199 27
Our English Bible is a wonderful specimen of the strength
and music of the English language.
ShP 4.204 17
Our ears are educated to music by [Shakespeare's] rhythm.
ShP 4.211 4
[Shakespeare] wrote the airs for all our modern music...
ShP 4.213 12
This power...of transferring the inmost truth of things into
music and verse, makes [Shakespeare] the type of the poet...
NMW 4.225 26
[The man in the street] finds [Napoleon], like himself, by
birth a citizen, who, by very intelligible merits, arrived as such a
commanding position that he could indulge all those tastes which the
common man possesses but is obliged to conceal and deny:...the refined
enjoyments of...music, palaces...
GoW 4.290 12
Genius hovers with [Goethe's] sunshine and music close by
the darkest and deafest eras.
ET11 5.173 20
...the national music, the popular romances, conspire to
uphold the heraldry which the current politics of the day [in England] are
sapping.
ET13 5.219 2
Another part of the same service [at York Minster] on this
occasion was not insignificant. Handel's coronation anthem, God save the
King, was played by Dr. Camidge on the organ, with sublime effect. The
minster and the music were made for each other.
ET13 5.223 18
[The Anglican Church]...spends a world of money in music
and building...
ET16 5.286 8
Whilst we listened to the organ [at Salisbury Cathedral], my
friend [Carlyle] remarked, the music is good, and yet not quite religious...
ET19 5.312 13
...I was given to understand in my childhood that the British
island from which my forefathers came was...no paradise of serene sky and
roses and music and merriment all the year round...
F 6.10 14
In different hours a man represents each of several of his
ancestors...and they constitute the variety of notes for that new piece of
music which his life is.
Pow 6.51 1
His tongue was framed to music,/ And his hand was armed with
skill;/...
Pow 6.74 3
...the one evil [in life] is dissipation; and it makes no difference
whether our dissipations are...politics, or music, or feasting.
Pow 6.79 15
The masters say that they know a master in music, only by
seeing the pose of the hands on the keys;...
Wth 6.89 4
Wealth requires...the benefits of science, music and fine arts...
Wth 6.98 15
There is a refining influence from the arts of Design on a
prepared mind which is as positive as that of music...
Wth 6.98 26
I think sometimes, could I only have music on my own terms;
could I live in a great city and know where I could go whenever I wished
the ablution and inundation of musical waves,--that were a bath and a
medicine.
Wth 6.114 17
...if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music,
architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider...
Ctr 6.140 13
There are people who...remain literalists, after hearing the
music and poetry and rhetoric and wit of seventy or eighty years.
Ctr 6.165 20
Half engaged in the soil, pawing to get free, man needs all the
music that can be brought to disengage him.
Wsp 6.209 4
In creeds never was such levity;... The architecture, the music,
the prayer, partake of the madness;...
Wsp 6.241 17
There will be a new church founded on moral science;...it
will fast enough gather beauty, music, picture, poetry.
CbW 6.243 22
The music that can deepest reach,/ And cure all ill, is
cordial speech/...
Bty 6.279 10
[Seyd] smote the lake to feed his eye/ With the beryl beam of
the broken wave./ He flung in pebbles well to hear/ The moment's music
which they gave./
Bty 6.283 27
...we prize very humble utilities, a prudent husband, a good
son...and perhaps reckon only his money value...as a sort of bill of
exchange easily convertible into fine chambers, pictures, music and wine.
Bty 6.293 6
It is necessary in music, when you strike a discord, to let down
the ear by an intermediate note or two to the accord again;...
Bty 6.305 8
Into every beautiful object there enters somewhat
immeasurable and divine, and just as much into form bounded by outlines...
as into tones of music or depths of space.
Ill 6.309 16
[In the Mammoth Cave] I...plied with music and guns the
echoes in these alarming galleries;...
Ill 6.314 2
...everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant
marches at all hours, with music and banner and badge.
Art2 7.35 1
I framed his tongue to music,/ I armed his hand with skill,/ I
moulded his face to beauty/ And his heart the throne of Will./
Art2 7.43 22
The basis of music is the qualities of the air and the vibrations
of sonorous bodies.
Art2 7.46 11
The effect of music belongs how much to the place...
Art2 7.56 11
The Madonnas of Raphael and Titian were made to be
worshipped. Tragedy was instituted for the like purpose, and the miracles of
music...
Elo1 7.65 23
[Eloquence] is that despotism which poets have celebrated in
the Pied Piper of Hamelin, whose music drew like the power of gravitation...
Elo1 7.73 24
[Pleasing speech] is heard like a band of music passing
through the streets...
WD 7.169 17
The old Sabbath...when this hallowed hour dawns out of the
deep...the cathedral music of history breathes through it a psalm to our
solitude.
Boks 7.204 7
...in our Bible...it seems easy and inevitable to render the
rhythm and music of the original into phrases of equal melody.
Boks 7.213 2
What private heavens can we not open, by yielding to all the
suggestion of rich music!
Boks 7.213 26
[The imagination] has a flute which sets the atoms of our
frame in a dance, like planets; and once so liberated, the whole man reeling
drunk to the music, they never quite subside to their old stony state.
Suc 7.284 13
...Evelyn writes from Rome: Bernini...gave a public opera,
wherein he...invented the engines, composed the music...
Suc 7.298 18
[The city boy in the October woods] is the king he dreamed
he was; he walks...through bowers of crimson, porphyry and topaz...with
incense and music...
Suc 7.302 18
Fontenelle said: There are three things about which I have
curiosity, though I know nothing of them,--music, poetry and love.
Suc 7.307 6
Every sound ends in music.
PI 8.45 9
Music and rhyme are among the earliest pleasures of the child...
PI 8.47 5
...in higher degrees, we know the instant power of music upon our
temperaments to change our mood...
PI 8.47 9
...human passion, seizing these constitutional tunes, aims to fill
them with appropriate words, or marry music to thought...
PI 8.51 24
Rhyme, being a kind of music, shares this advantage with music,
that it has a privilege of speaking truth...
PI 8.51 25
Rhyme, being a kind of music, shares this advantage with music,
that it has a privilege of speaking truth...
PI 8.51 27
Music is the poor man's Parnassus.
PI 8.52 10
The best thoughts run into the best words; imaginative and
affectionate thoughts into music and metre.
PI 8.52 18
...we have not done with music...so long as boys whistle and
girls sing.
PI 8.52 22
Let Poetry then pass, if it will, into music and rhyme.
PI 8.54 18
...the verse must be...inseparable from its contents...and we
measure the inspiration by the music.
PI 8.56 25
...[Newton] only shows...that the music must rise to a loftier
strain...
PI 8.57 2
...[Newton] only shows...that the music must rise...up to the
largeness of astronomy: at last that great heart will hear in the music beats
like its own;...
PI 8.70 7
In a cotillon some persons dance and others await their turn when
the music and the figure come to them.
PI 8.70 11
In the dance of God there is not one of the chorus but can and
will begin to spin...whenever the music and figure reach his place and duty.
PI 8.72 16
Music seems to you sufficient...
SA 8.79 11
[Fine manners] is music and sculpture and picture to many who
do not pretend to appreciation of those arts.
Elo2 8.120 18
Many people have no ear for music...
Elo2 8.121 12
In moments of clearer thought or deeper sympathy, the voice
will attain a music and penetration which surprises the speaker as much as
the auditor;...
QO 8.185 19
Madame de Stael's Architecture is frozen music is borrowed
from Goethe's dumb music...
QO 8.185 20
Madame de Stael's Architecture is frozen music is borrowed
from Goethe's dumb music...
QO 8.185 22
Madame de Stael's Architecture is frozen music is borrowed
from Goethe's dumb music, which is Vitruvius's rule, that the architect
must not only understand drawing, but music.
PPo 8.250 1
Hafiz praises...birds, mornings and music, to give vent to his
immense hilarity and sympathy with every form of beauty and joy;...
Aris 10.63 21
Let [the man of honor]...say...the music and the dance of
liberty will come up to bright and holy ground and will take me in also.
PerF 10.81 23
If we hear music we give up all to that;...
PerF 10.82 9
Every one knows what are the effects of music to put people
in gay or mournful or martial mood.
Edc1 10.129 18
As every wind draws music out of the Aeolian harp, so
doth every object in Nature draw music out of [man's] mind.
Edc1 10.129 19
As every wind draws music out of the Aeolian harp, so
doth every object in Nature draw music out of [man's] mind.
Edc1 10.144 21
Somewhat [the child] sees in forms or hears in music or
apprehends in mathematics...which no one else sees or hears or believes.
Schr 10.263 1
I think the peculiar office of scholars...is to be...affirmers of
the one law, yet as those who should affirm it in music and dancing;...
Schr 10.265 15
...[poets] sit white over their stoves, and talk themselves
hoarse over the...the effeminacy of book-makers. But at a single strain of a
bugle out of a grove...the worlds roll to music...
Schr 10.273 24
If [the scholar] is not kindling his torch or collecting oil...he
will not dare to hear the music of a saw or plane;...
Plu 10.320 3
[Plutarch] has an objection to the introduction of music at
feasts.
LLNE 10.333 17
All [Everett's] speech was music...
LLNE 10.364 14
It is certain that...variety of work, variety of means of
thought and instruction, art, music, poetry, reading, masquerade, did not
permit sluggishness or despondency [at Brook Farm]...
LLNE 10.365 17
It was a curious experience of the patrons and leaders of
this noted community [Brook Farm], in which the agreement with many
parties was that they should give so many hours of instruction, in
mathematics, in music, in moral and intellectual philosophy, and so forth,-
that in every instance the newcomers showed themselves keenly alive to the
advantages of the society...
MMEm 10.411 7
...[Mary Moody Emerson] was...a quite clannish
instrument...from which none but a native Highlander could draw music.
MMEm 10.418 12
Could I [Mary Moody Emerson] at times be regaled
with music, it would remind me that there are sounds.
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.
MMEm 10.425 20
...there is a sombre music in the whirl of times so long
gone by.
Thor 10.474 16
[Thoreau's] eye was open to beauty, and his ear to music.
Thor 10.474 18
[Thoreau] thought the best of music was in single strains;...
EWI 11.122 26
[The civility] of Athens...lay in an intellect dedicated to
beauty. That of Asia Minor in poetry, music and arts;...
EWI 11.145 9
...in the great anthem which we call history...[the black race]
perceive the time arrived when they can...take a master's part in the music.
War 11.163 20
This vast apparatus of artillery,...this martial music and
endless playing of marches and singing of military and naval songs seem to
us to constitute an imposing actual, which will not yield in centuries to the
feeble, deprecatory voices of a handful of friends of peace.
TPar 11.290 6
...[Theodore Parker] insisted...that the essence of
Christianity is its practical morals;...and if you combine it...with ordinary
city ambitions...the truth is not in you; and no love of religious music...can
save you from the Satan which you are.
EPro 11.326 14
...that ill-fated, much-injured race which the
[Emancipation] Proclamation respects will lose somewhat of the dejection...
uttered in the wailing of their plaintive music...
Wom 11.408 1
...up to recent times, in no art or science, nor in painting,
poetry or music, have [women] produced a masterpiece.
Wom 11.408 20
...there is an art which is better than painting, poetry,
music, or architecture...namely Conversation.
Wom 11.413 14
This is the victory of Griselda, her supreme humility. And
it is when love has reached this height that all our pretty rhetoric begins to
have meaning. When we see that...it is music in the ear...
RBur 11.438 1
He was the music to whose tone/ The common pulse of man
keeps time/ In cot or castle's mirth or moan,/ In cold or sunny clime./
Shak1 11.448 6
Wherever there are men, and in the degree in which they
are civil-have...sensibility to beauty, music, the secrets of passion, and the
liquid expression of thought, [Shakespeare] has risen to his place as the first
poet of the world.
CPL 11.503 9
...if you can kindle the imagination by a new thought...
instantly you expand...and become wise, and even prophetic. Music works
this miracle for those who have a good ear;...
CPL 11.503 11
...what omniscience has music!...
PLT 12.26 21
...no wine, music or exhilarating aids...avail at all to resist
the palsy of mis-association.
PLT 12.36 6
[Pan] could intoxicate by the strain of his shepherd's pipe,-
silent yet to most, for his pipes make the music of the spheres...
II 12.73 22
What a revelation of power is music!
II 12.73 24
...when we consider who and what the professors of that art
usually are, does it not seem as if music falls accidentally and superficially
on its artists?
II 12.84 19
If you speak to the man, he turns his eyes from his own scene,
and, slower or faster, endeavors to comprehend what you say. When you
have done speaking, he returns to his private music.
Mem 12.103 23
...confined now in populous streets you behold again the
green fields, the shadows of the gray birches; by the solitary river...vibrate
anew to the tenderness and dainty music of the poetry your boyhood fed
upon.
CL 12.137 5
...the Professor [Linnaeus] was generally attended by two
hundred students, and, when they returned, they marched through the
streets of Upsala in a festive procession...to the music of drums and
trumpets...
CL 12.152 3
...[in October] all the trees are wind-harps, filling the air with
music;...
Bost 12.197 25
In the midst of [New England's] laborious and economical
and rude and awkward population...you shall not unfrequently meet that
refinement...which...gave a hospitality in this country to the spirit of
Coleridge and Wordsworth, and to the music of Beethoven, before yet their
genius had found a hearty welcome in Great Britain.
Milt1 12.245 1
I framed his tongue to music,/ I armed his hand with skill,/ I
moulded his face to beauty,/ And his heart the throne of will./
Milt1 12.257 18
[Milton's] ear for music was so acute that he was not only
enthusiastic in his love, but a skilful performer himself;...
Milt1 12.257 22
[Milton] insists that music shall make a part of a generous
education.
Milt1 12.261 10
We may even apply to [Milton's] performance on the
instrument of language, his own description of music...
ACri 12.287 18
...when a great bank president was expounding the virtues
of his party and of the government to a silent circle of bank pensioners, a
grave Methodist exclaimed, Fiddlesticks! The whole party were surprised
and cheered...though it would be difficult to explain the propriety of the
expression, as no music or fiddle was so much as thought of.
ACri 12.303 22
...literature resounds with the music of united vast ideas of
affirmation and of moral truth.
MLit 12.312 19
The poetry and speculation of the age are marked by a
certain philosophic turn, which discriminates them from the works of
earlier times. The poet is not content to see...What music a sunbeam awoke
in the groves...
MLit 12.318 17
The music of Beethoven is said...to labor with vaster
conceptions and aspirations than music has attempted before.
MLit 12.318 20
The music of Beethoven is said...to labor with vaster
conceptions and aspirations than music has attempted before.
MLit 12.325 2
It was with [Goethe] a favorite task to find a theory of every
institution, custom, art, work of art, which he observed. Witness his
explanation...of the Venetian music of the gondolier...
PPr 12.391 19
...[Carlyle] is full of rhythm, not only in the perpetual
melody of his periods, but in the burdens, refrains, and grand returns of his
sense and music.
Trag 12.416 26
[The intellect] yields the joys of conversation, of letters
and of science. Hence also the torments of life become tuneful tragedy,
solemn and soft with music...
Music, n. (3)
Art2 7.43 7
Music, Eloquence, Poetry, Painting, Sculpture, Architecture.
This is a rough enumeration of the Fine Arts.
Supl 10.162 1
For Art, for Music overthrilled,/ The wine-cup shakes, the
wine is spilled./
LLNE 10.362 21
...[Charles Newcomb's] mind [was] fed and overfed by
whatever is exalted in genius, whether...in Drama or Music...
musical, adj. (35)
LT 1.272 26
The new voices in the wilderness...have revived a hope...that
the thoughts of the mind may yet...be executed by the hands. ... For some
ages, these ideas have been consigned to the poet and musical composer...
Art1 2.352 13
What is a man but a finer and compacter landscape than the
horizon figures...and what is...his love of painting, his love of nature, but a
still finer success...the spirit or moral of it contracted into a musical word,
or the most cunning stroke of the pencil?
Art1 2.358 27
The best of beauty is...a wonderful expression through stone,
or canvas, or musical sound, of the deepest and simplest attributes of our
nature...
Pt1 3.1 10
A moody child and wildly wise/ Pursued the game with joyful
eyes,/ .../ Through worlds, and races, and terms, and times/ Saw musical
order, and pairing rhymes./
Pt1 3.11 21
...the phrase will be the fittest, most musical, and the unerring
voice of the world for that time.
Pt1 3.13 15
...the carpenter's stretched cord, if you hold your ear close
enough, is musical in the breeze.
Exp 3.71 3
Underneath the inharmonious and trivial particulars, is a
musical perfection;...
Mrs1 3.150 15
...I confide so entirely in [woman's] inspiring and musical
nature, that I believe only herself can show us how she shall be served.
Nat2 3.172 17
The fall of snowflakes in a still air...the musical, steaming,
odorous south wind...these are the music and pictures of the most ancient
religion.
Nat2 3.175 7
[A boy] hears the echoes of a horn in a hill country...which
converts the mountains into an Aeolian harp,--and this supernatural tiralira
restores to him...Apollo, Diana, and all divine hunters and huntresses. Can a
musical note be so lofty, so haughtily beautiful!
SwM 4.109 10
Creative force, like a musical composer, goes on
unweariedly repeating a simple air or theme...
ET11 5.194 17
With the tribe of artistes, including the musical tribe, the
patrician morgue [in England] keeps no terms, but excludes them.
ET14 5.257 10
One regrets that [Wordsworth's] temperament was not more
liquid and musical.
F 6.11 25
Now and then one has a new cell or camarilla opened in his
brain,-an architectural, a musical, or a philological knack;...
F 6.26 15
Where [the mind] shines...all things make a musical or pictorial
impression.
Wth 6.99 2
I think sometimes, could I only have music on my own terms;
could I live in a great city and know where I could go whenever I wished
the ablution and inundation of musical waves,--that were a bath and a
medicine.
Ctr 6.129 3
Can rules or tutors educate/ The semigod whom we await?/ He
must be musical/...
Ctr 6.132 12
I saw a man who believed the principal mischiefs in the
English state were derived from the devotion to musical concerts.
Bty 6.303 22
Every natural feature--sea, sky, rainbow, flowers, musical
tone--has in it somewhat which is not private but universal...
Ill 6.310 18
...on looking upwards [in the Mammoth Cave], I saw or seemed
to see the night heaven thick with stars...and even what seemed a comet
flaming among them. ... Our musical friends sung with much feeling a
pretty song, The stars are in the quiet sky...
Art2 7.44 25
A jumble of musical sounds...gives pleasure to the unskilful
ear.
Elo1 7.62 24
Of all the musical instruments on which men play, a popular
assembly is that which has the largest compass and variety...
DL 7.126 10
One is struck in every company...with the riches of Nature,
when he hears so many new tones, all musical...
WD 7.179 16
...if a man is at once acquainted with the geometric
foundations of things and with their festal splendor, his poetry is exact and
his arithmetic musical.
WD 7.180 15
...life is good only when it is magical and musical...
Boks 7.198 13
You find in [Plato] that which you have already found in
Homer...the poet converted to a philosopher, with loftier strains of musical
wisdom than Homer reached;...
Clbs 7.242 11
Does it never occur that we perhaps live with people too
superior to be seen,--as there are musical notes too high for the scale of
most ears?
Suc 7.283 22
Men are made each with some triumphant superiority, which,
through some adaptation of...ciphering or pugilistic or musical or literary
craft, enriches the community with a new art;...
PI 8.46 12
We are lovers of...period and musical reflection.
PI 8.50 4
Now try Spenser, Marlowe, Chapman, and see...how rich and
lavish their profusion. In their rhythm is...a vortex, or musical tornado...
PI 8.56 8
As the imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of
every man, so also is this joy of musical expression.
Imtl 8.350 20
[Yama said to Nachiketas] All those desires that are difficult
to gain in the world of mortals, all those ask thou at thy pleasure;-those
fair nymphs of heaven with their chariots, with their musical instruments;...
Schr 10.279 27
What is the use of...musical voice...to a maniac?
Schr 10.283 16
...[Mother-wit's] grand Ay and its grand No are more
musical than all eloquence.
RBur 11.440 27
[Burns's] musical arrows yet sing through the air.
musically, adv. (1)
MN 1.219 3
Genius...advertises us...that it knows so deeply and speaks so
musically, because it is itself a mutation of the thing it describes.
music-book, n. (1)
Thor 10.469 21
Under his arm [Thoreau] carried an old music-book to
press plants;...
music-box, n. (3)
Pt1 3.9 5
I took part in a conversation the other day concerning a recent
writer of lyrics...whose head appeared to be a music-box of delicate tunes
and rhythms...
Exp 3.52 11
...we look at [men], they seem alive, and we presume there is
impulse in them. In the moment it seems impulse; in the year, in the
lifetime, it turns out to be a certain uniform tune which the revolving barrel
of the music-box must play.
ET12 5.207 24
When born with good constitutions, [English students]
make those eupeptic studying-mills...whose powers of performance
compare with ours as the steam-hammer with the music-box;...
music-boxes, n. (1)
RBur 11.443 16
...the music-boxes at Geneva are framed and toothed to
play [Burns's songs];...
musician, n. (10)
Nat 1.24 7
The...sculptor, the musician...seek each to concentrate this
radiance of the world on one point...
Nat 1.43 22
Vitruvius thought an architect should be a musician.
UGM 4.9 1
...the makers of tools;...the musician,--severally make an easy
way for all, through unknown and impossible confusions.
ET8 5.141 20
Does the early history of each tribe show the permanent bias,
which...is masked as the tribe spreads its activity into colonies, commerce,
codes, arts, letters? The early history shows it, as the musician plays the air
which he proceeds to conceal in a tempest of variations.
Art2 7.43 26
The pulsation of a stretched string or wire gives the ear the
pleasure of sweet sound, before yet the musician has enhanced this pleasure
by concords and combinations.
Art2 7.47 14
Our arts are happy hits. We are like the musician on the lake,
whose melody is sweeter than he knows...
PI 8.18 3
...a painter, a sculptor, a musician, can in their several ways
express the same sentiment of anger, or love, or religion.
PerF 10.74 23
[Man] is...a machinist, a musician, a steam-engine...and each
of these by dint of a wonderful method or series that resides in him and
enables him to work on the material elements.
Schr 10.263 7
A celebrated musician was wont to say, that men knew not
how much more he delighted himself with his playing than he did others;...
Bost 12.187 18
Astronomers come [to Paris] because there they can find
apparatus and companions. Chemist, geologist, artist, musician, dancer,
because there only are grandees and their patronage, appreciators and
patrons.
musicians, n. (1)
Pt1 3.28 12
...a great number of such as were professionally expressers of
Beauty, as painters, poets, musicians and actors, have been more than
others wont to lead a life of pleasure and indulgence;...
music-masters, n. (1)
Elo1 7.61 1
It is the doctrine of the popular music-masters that whoever can
speak can sing.
musing, v. (3)
WD 7.179 3
I am of the opinion of Pliny that whilst we are musing on these
things, we are adding to the length of our lives.
II 12.84 14
Men go through the world each musing on a great fable
dramatically pictured and rehearsed before him.
MLit 12.309 14
We go musing into the vault of day and night;...
musk, n. (3)
PI 8.18 16
Why changes not the violet earth into musk?
PPo 8.243 1
These legends [of Persian kings], with...the cohol, a cosmetic
by which pearls and eyebrows are indelibly stained black, the bladder in
which musk is brought, the down of the lip, the mole on the cheek, the
eyelash;...make the staple imagery of Persian odes.
PPo 8.244 7
Here is a poem on a melon, by Adsched of Meru:-Color,
taste and smell, smaragdus, sugar and musk,/ Amber for the tongue, for the
eye a picture rare,/ If you cut the fruit in slices, every slice a crescent fair,/
If you leave it whole, the full harvest moon is there./
musk-bladder, n. (1)
PPo 8.254 13
To the vizier returning from Mecca [Hafiz] says,-Boast not
rashly, prince of pilgrims, of thy fortune. Thou hast indeed seen the temple;
but I, the Lord of the temple. Nor has any man inhaled from the musk-bladder
of the merchant...that sweet air which I am permitted to breathe
every hour of the day.
musket, n. (2)
Wsp 6.224 20
Each must be armed--not necessarily with musket and pike.
War 11.162 12
You forget that the quiet...which lets the wagon go
unguarded and the farmhouse unbolted, rests on the perfect understanding
of all men that the musket, the halter and the jail stand behind there...
Musketaquid, Massachusetts, (6)
HDC 11.32 2
Mr. Bulkeley, having turned his estate into money and set his
face towards New England, was easily able to persuade a good number of
planters to join him. They arrived in Boston in 1634. Probably there had
been a previous correspondence with Governor Winthrop, and an
agreement that they should settle at Musketaquid.
HDC 11.32 9
...on the 2d of September, 1635...leave to begin a plantation
at Musketaquid was given to Peter Bulkeley, Simon Willard, and about
twelve families more.
HDC 11.32 15
The green meadows of Musketaquid or Grassy Brook were
far up in the woods...
HDC 11.36 4
...what was [the pilgrims'] reception at Musketaquid?
HDC 11.37 19
...the peace was made, and the ear of the savage already
secured, before the pilgrims arrived at his seat of Musketaquid...
HDC 11.43 19
What could the body of freemen, meeting four times a year,
at Boston, do for the daily wants of the planters at Musketaquid?
Musketaquid River, Massachu (1)
CW 12.171 9
Neither did I fully consider [when I bought my farm] what an
indescribable luxury is our Indian river, the Musketaquid...
musket-ball, n. (1)
SMC 11.373 9
...[George Prescott] was struck...by a musket-ball...
musketry, n. (3)
Cour 7.262 6
Coleridge has preserved an anecdote of an officer in the
British Navy who told him that when he...accompanied Sir Alexander Ball,
as we were rowing up to the vessel we were to attack, amid a discharge of
musketry, I was overpowered with fear...
Elo2 8.111 9
...all can see and understand the means by which a battle is
gained...they see the cannon, the musketry, the cavalry...
EzRy 10.383 27
I am sure all who remember both will associate [Ezra
Ripley's] form with whatever was grave and droll in the old...meeting-house...
with long prayers...and not less with the report like musketry from
the movable seats.
muskets, n. (5)
Con 1.306 26
Touch any wood, or field, or house-lot, on your peril, cry all
the gentlemen of this world;... And what is that peril? Knives and muskets,
if we meet you in the act;...
Pow 6.72 11
The men whom in peaceful communities we hold if we can
with iron at their legs, in prisons, under the muskets of sentinels,--this man
[Napoleon] dealt with hand to hand...
Wsp 6.224 21
Each must be armed--not necessarily with musket and pike.
Happy, if seeing these, he can feel that he has better muskets and pikes in
his energy and constancy.
PerF 10.70 2
...I find it wholesome and invigorating to enumerate the
resources we can command, to look a little into this arsenal, and see...what
muskets...we can bring to bear.
PerF 10.70 3
...I find it wholesome and invigorating to enumerate the
resources we can command, to look a little into this arsenal, and see...how
many arms better than Springfield muskets, we can bring to bear.
musket-worship, n. (1)
ET16 5.287 16
I can easily see the bankruptcy of the vulgar musket-worship...
musket-worshippers, n. (1)
ET16 5.287 17
I can easily see the bankruptcy of the vulgar musket-worship,--
though great men be musket-worshippers;...
muskrat, n. (2)
Thor 10.467 1
...the snake, muskrat, otter, woodchuck and fox, on the
banks [of the Concord River];...were all known to [Thoreau]...
PLT 12.22 4
If man has organs...for reproduction and love and care of his
young, you shall find all the same in the muskrat.
musky, adj. (3)
PPo 8.254 14
To the vizier returning from Mecca [Hafiz] says,-Boast not
rashly, prince of pilgrims, of thy fortune. Thou hast indeed seen the temple;
but I, the Lord of the temple. Nor has any man inhaled...from the musky
morning wind that sweet air which I am permitted to breathe every hour of
the day.
PPo 8.257 2
The cedar, the cypress, the palm, the olive and fig-tree, the
birds that inhabit them, and the garden flowers, are never wanting in these
musky verses [of Hafiz]...
EurB 12.370 8
The elegance, the wit and subtlety of this writer
[Tennyson]...discriminate the musky poet of gardens and conservatories...
muslin, n. (2)
Pow 6.81 9
Success has no more eccentricity than the gingham and muslin
we weave in our mills.
Pow 6.82 6
A day is a more magnificent cloth than any muslin...
mussel, n. (1)
CL 12.138 17
[Linnaeus] learned the secret of making pearls in the river-pearl
mussel.
Must, n. (1)
FSLN 11.231 23
May and Must, and the sense of right and duty, on the one
hand, and the material necessities on the other: May and Must.
Must, v. (1)
FSLN 11.231 25
May and Must, and the sense of right and duty, on the one
hand, and the material necessities on the other: May and Must.
mustache, n. (1)
Pow 6.58 9
...if [the plus man] have the accidental advantage of personal
ascendency,--which implies...merely the temperamental or taming eye of a
soldier or a schoolmaster (which one has and one has not, as one has a
black mustache and one a blond),--then quite easily...all his coadjutors and
feeders will admit his right to absorb them.
mustard, n. (2)
MoS 4.153 8
[The men of the senses] believe that mustard bites the
tongue...
Thor 10.482 25
I put on some hemlock-boughs, and the rich salt crackling
of their leaves was like mustard to the ear...
mustard-seed, n. (1)
Grts 8.310 4
As [the Quakers] express [self-respect], it might be thus...if at
any time I...propose a journey or a course of conduct, I perhaps find a silent
obstacle in my mind that I cannot account for. ... It is not an oracle...it is too
simple to be described, it is but a grain of mustard-seed...
muster, n. (2)
ACiv 11.300 15
If the war brought any surprise to the North, it was not the
fault of sentinels on the watch-tower, who had furnished full details of the
designs, the muster and the means of the enemy.
EdAd 11.386 24
...who can see the continent...without putting new queries
to Destiny as to the purpose for which this muster of nations...is made?
muster, v. (1)
Con 1.321 15
...if priest and church-member should fail...the very
innholders and landlords of the county, would muster with fury to [religious
institutions'] support.
mustered, v. (4)
NMW 4.248 7
The world treated [Napoleon's] novelties just as it treats
everybody's novelties...mustered all the impediments;...
FSLN 11.224 10
Four years ago to-night, on one of those high critical
moments in history...when the powers of right and wrong are mustered for
conflict...Mr. Webster, most unexpectedly, threw his whole weight on the
side of Slavery...
SMC 11.355 8
The armies mustered in the North were as much
missionaries to the mind of the country as they were carriers of material
force...
SMC 11.374 18
...the [Thirty-second] regiment was mustered out in the
field, at Washington, on the twenty-eighth of June...
must-have-the-money, adj. (1)
FRep 11.523 22
...it is useless to rely on [the people] to go to a meeting, or
to give a vote, if any check from this must-have-the-money side arises.
musts, n. (2)
FSLN 11.232 7
I too think the musts are a safe company to follow...
FSLN 11.232 11
...if we are Whigs, let us be Whigs of nature and science,
and so for all the necessities. Let us know that, over and above all the musts
of poverty and appetite, is the instinct of man to rise...
Musts, n. (1)
FSLN 11.231 27
In vulgar politics the Whig goes...for the old necessities,-
the Musts.
musty, adj. (5)
MoS 4.171 13
...though the town and state and way of living, which our
counsellor contemplated, might be a very modest or musty prosperity, yet
men rightly go for him...
ET11 5.197 24
Whilst the privileges of nobility are passing to the middle
class [in England]...the titles of lordship are getting musty and cumbersome.
LLNE 10.348 12
A man is entitled...to the air of good conversation in his
bringing up, and not, as we or so many of us, to the poor-smell and musty
chambers...
HDC 11.84 6
These soiled and musty books [the Concord Town Records]
are luminous and electric within.
PLT 12.58 2
[People] are as much alike as their barns and pantries, and are
as soon musty and dreary.
mutable, adj. (4)
Nat 1.48 27
...we resist with indignation any hint that nature is more short-lived
or mutable than spirit.
Hist 2.13 19
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
ET8 5.141 6
If the English race were as mutable as the French, what
reliance?
SovE 10.213 23
A man who has accustomed himself to look at all his
circumstances as very mutable...has put himself out of the reach of all
skepticism;...
mutable, n. (1)
MoS 4.186 5
Let a man learn to look for the permanent in the mutable and
fleeting;...
mutari, v. (1)
ET6 5.111 3
The favorite phrase of [the Englishmen's] law is, a custom
whereof the memory of man runneth not back to the contrary. The barons
say, Nolumus mutari;...
mutation, n. (3)
MN 1.219 3
Genius...advertises us...that it knows so deeply and speaks so
musically, because it is itself a mutation of the thing it describes.
SR 2.89 7
...in the endless mutation, thou only firm column must presently
appear the upholder of all that surrounds thee.
Chr2 10.113 18
...the science of ethics has no mutation;...
mutations, n. (2)
Hist 2.31 24
The philosophical perception of identity through endless
mutations of form makes [man] know the Proteus.
Ill 6.307 3
Flow, flow the waves hated,/ Accursed, adored,/ The waves of
mutations:/ No anchorage is./
mute, adj. (14)
Nat 1.18 7
...every withered stem and stubble rimed with frost, contribute
something to the mute music.
Nat 1.42 4
What is a farm but a mute gospel?
Hist 2.7 24
Praise is looked, homage tendered, love flows, from mute
nature...
ShP 4.217 6
Shakspeare, Homer, Dante, Chaucer...knew that a tree had
another use than for apples...and the ball of the earth, than for tillage and
roads: that these things bore a second and finer harvest to the mind...
conveying in all their natural history a certain mute commentary on human
life.
ET5 5.99 24
These private, reserved, mute family-men [of England] can
adopt a public end with all their heat...
ET8 5.134 22
...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...as if
the burly inexpressive, now mute and contumacious, now fierce and sharp-tongued
dragon, which once made the island light with his fiery breath, had
bequeathed his ferocity to his conqueror.
Wth 6.83 19
What smiths, and in what furnace, rolled/ (In dizzy aeons dim
and mute/ The reeling brain can ill compute)/ Copper and iron, lead, and
gold?/
Civ 7.17 9
Witness the mute all hail/ The joyful traveller gives, when on
the verge/ Of craggy Indian wilderness he hears/ From a log cabin stream
Beethoven's notes/ On the piano, played with master's hand./
Elo1 7.63 10
No one can survey the face of an excited assembly, without...
being agitated to agitate. How many orators sit mute there below!
PI 8.18 10
...hold [the savans] hard to principle and definition, and they
become mute and near-sighted.
Imtl 8.322 1
Mute orator! well skilled to plead,/ And send conviction
without phrase,/ Thou dost succor and remede/ The shortness of our days,/
And promise, on thy Founder's truth,/ Long morrow to this mortal youth./
Monadnoc.
PerF 10.80 4
Bonaparte, with his celerity of combination, mute,
unfathomable, reads the geography of Europe as if his eyes were
telescopes;...
SHC 11.435 12
...when these acorns, that are falling at our feet, are oaks
overshadowing our children in a remote century, this mute green bank
[Sleepy Hollow] will be full of history...
PLT 12.26 24
...no wine, music or exhilarating aids...avail at all to resist
the palsy of mis-association. Genius is mute, is dull;...
mute, n. (4)
MN 1.218 21
Nature is a mute...
MN 1.218 23
Nature is a mute, and man, her articulate, speaking brother,
lo! he also is a mute.
Elo1 7.61 16
...every man is an orator, how long soever he may have been a
mute...
Pray 12.352 28
The next [prayer] is a voice out of a solitude as strict and
sacred as that in which Nature had isolated this eloquent mute...
mutely, adv. (1)
Schr 10.284 19
Happy if you can answer [life's questions] mutely in the
order and disposition of your life!
mutes, n. (1)
Pt1 3.5 24
...the great majority of men seem to be...mutes, who cannot
report the conversation they have had with nature.
mutilate, v. (1)
Schr 10.274 22
[The thoughtful man] is not there to defend himself, but to
deliver his message;...bruise him, mutilate him, cut off his hands and feet,
he can still crawl towards his object on his stumps.
mutilated, adj. (1)
MMEm 10.430 4
If one could choose, and without crime be gibbeted,-
were it not altogether better than the long drooping away by age without
mentality or devotion? The vulture and crow...unconscious of any
deformity in the mutilated body, would relish their meal...
mutilated, v. (1)
Mrs1 3.154 20
Osman had a humanity so broad and deep that although his
speech was so bold and free with the Koran as to disgust all the dervishes,
yet was there never...some fool...who had been mutilated under a vow...but
fled at once to him;...
mutilation, n. (6)
Comp 2.126 9
...a mutilation...seems at the moment unpaid loss, and
unpayable.
Chr1 3.98 12
What have I gained...that I do not tremble before...the
Calvinistic Judgment-day,--if I quake...at the threat of...mutilation...
ET6 5.113 26
The guests [at dinner in London] are expected to arrive
within half an hour of the time fixed by card of invitation, and nothing but
death or mutilation is permitted to detain them.
HDC 11.31 12
Hindered from speaking, some of these [suspended
ministers] dared to print the reasons of their dissent, and were punished
with imprisonment or mutilation.
EWI 11.111 9
[The West Indian slave] suffered insult, stripes, mutilation at
the humor of the master...
Trag 12.408 25
After we have enumerated...mutilation, rack, madness and
loss of friends, we have not yet included the proper tragic element, which is
Terror...
mutineers, n. (1)
Dem1 10.8 5
We call the phantoms that rise [in dreams], the creation of our
fancy, but they act like mutineers...
mutter, v. (1)
ET10 5.159 4
Iron and steel are very obedient. Whether it were not possible
to make a spinner that would not rebel, nor mutter, nor scowl...
muttered, adj. (1)
ET8 5.135 5
[The English] hide virtues under vices, or the semblance of
them. It is the misshapen hairy Scandinavian troll again, who lifts the cart
out of the mire...but it is done in the dark and with muttered maledictions.
muttering, v. (1)
Bost 12.193 9
...[the savage] goes muttering his rude ritual or mythology,
which yet conceals some grand commandment;...
mutters, v. (1)
MLit 12.317 17
There is that in us which mutters, and that which groans,
and that which triumphs, and that which aspires.
mutton, n. (4)
ET4 5.48 26
Trades and professions carve their own lines on face and form.
Certain circumstances of English life are not less effective; as...good ale
and mutton;...
ET4 5.69 11
Beef, mutton, wheat-bread and malt-liquors are universal
among the first-class laborers [in England].
Carl 10.491 17
[Carlyle] treats [young men] with contempt;...they will eat
vegetables and drink water, and he is a Scotchman who thinks English
national character has a pure enthusiasm for beef and mutton...
CPL 11.501 18
[Literature] is thought to be the harmless entertainment of a
few fanciful persons, and not at all to be the interest of the multitude. To
these objections, which proceed on the cheap notion that nothing but what...
roasts mutton...is anything worth, I have little to say.
mutton-chop, n. (1)
ET16 5.287 25
...I insisted...that as to our secure tenure of our mutton-chop
and spinach in London or in Boston, the soul might quote Talleyrand,
Monsieur, je n'en vois pas la necessite.
mutual, adj. (35)
Nat 1.15 11
By the mutual action of [the eye's] structure and of the laws of
light, perspective is produced...
LE 1.181 13
Let [the scholar] know...by mutual reaction of thought and
life, to make thought solid, and life wise;...
SR 2.63 12
[The world] has been taught by this colossal symbol [of kings]
the mutual reverence that is due from man to man.
Lov1 2.182 19
In the particular society of his mate [the lover] attains a
clearer sight of any spot, any taint which her beauty has contracted from
this world, and is able to point it out, and this with mutual joy that they are
now able, without offence, to indicate blemishes and hindrances in each
other...
Lov1 2.184 14
Little think the youth and maiden who are glancing at each
other...with eyes so full of mutual intelligence, of the precious fruit long
hereafter to proceed from this new, quite external stimulus.
Fdsp 2.211 21
There can never be deep peace between two spirits, never
mutual respect, until in their dialogue each stands for the whole world.
Prd1 2.240 19
Every man's imagination hath its friends; and life would be
dearer with such companions. But if you cannot have them on good mutual
terms, you cannot have them
OS 2.291 20
...what rebuke [simple souls'] plain fraternal bearing casts on
the mutual flattery with which authors solace each other...
Mrs1 3.129 8
Aristocracy and fashion are certain inevitable results. These
mutual selections are indestructible.
NR 3.238 5
...our economical mother...gathering up into some man every
property in the universe, establishes thousand-fold occult mutual attractions
among her offspring...
PPh 4.75 15
It was a rare fortune that this Aesop of the mob [Socrates] and
this robed scholar [Plato] should meet, to make each other immortal in their
mutual faculty.
ET5 5.99 4
One secret of [the Englishmen's] power is their mutual good
understanding.
ET6 5.108 17
...nothing [can be] more firm and based in nature and
sentiment than the courtship and mutual carriage of the sexes [in England].
F 6.37 16
Eyes are found in light;...and each creature where it was meant to
be, with a mutual fitness.
Bhr 6.184 15
The theatre in which this science of manners has a formal
importance is not with us a court, but dress-circles, wherein, after the close
of the day's business, men and women meet...for mutual entertainment...
Ill 6.316 17
Teague and his jade get some just relations of mutual respect...
Civ 7.24 2
...place the sexes in right relations of mutual respect, and a
severe morality gives that essential charm to woman which educates all that
is delicate, poetic and self-sacrificing;...
Boks 7.207 17
The [scholar's] task is aided by the strong mutual light
which these [Elizabethan] men shed on each other.
Clbs 7.244 12
Every scholar is surrounded by wiser men than he--if they
cannot write as well. Cannot they meet and exchange results to their mutual
benefit and delight?
Clbs 7.244 22
Now this want of adapted society is mutual.
Clbs 7.249 22
A principal purpose also is the hospitality of the club, as a
means of receiving a worthy foreigner with mutual advantage.
Aris 10.55 18
The service we receive from the great is a mutual deference.
PerF 10.83 24
...[the world's energies] work together on a system of
mutual aid...
Edc1 10.148 21
The child is as hot to learn as the mother is to impart.
There is mutual delight.
Edc1 10.149 2
Not less delightful is the mutual pleasure of teaching and
learning the secret of algebra...
MoL 10.249 9
...the Church clung to ritual, and the scholar clung to joy...
and thus the separation was a mutual fault.
LLNE 10.340 23
[Channing] found [at Warren's house] a well-chosen
assembly of gentlemen variously distinguished; there was mutual greeting
and introduction...
LLNE 10.368 13
Few people can live together on their merits. There must
be kindred, or mutual economy...
LLNE 10.369 2
...what accumulated culture many of the members owed to
[Brook Farm]! What mutual measure they took of each other!
HDC 11.66 12
Mr. [Daniel] Bliss...by his earnest sympathy with [George
Whitefield], in opinion and practice, gave offence to a part of his people.
Party and mutual councils were called...
Scot 11.466 9
In his own household and neighbors [Scott] found characters
and pets of humble class...came with these into real ties of mutual help and
good will.
FRep 11.540 13
We...shall proceed like William Penn...on principles of
honest trade and mutual advantage.
FRep 11.543 20
...north and south, east and west will be present to our
minds, and our vote will be as if they voted, and we shall know that our
vote secures...mutual increase of good will in the great interests.
CL 12.141 1
The power of the air was the first explanation offered by the
early philosophers of the mutual understanding that men have.
PPr 12.381 15
As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's Past and Present], we
are struck with the force given to the plain truths;...the proposition...that the
principle of permanence shall be admitted into all contracts of mutual
service;...
Mutual Faith, n. (1)
DL 7.121 19
The angels that dwell with [the eager, blushing boys] and are
weaving laurels of life for their youthful brows, are Toil and Want, and
Truth, and Mutual Faith.
mutually, adv. (12)
Fdsp 2.209 2
Let [friendship] be an alliance of two large, formidable
natures, mutually beheld, mutually feared...
Fdsp 2.209 3
Let [friendship] be an alliance of two large, formidable
natures, mutually beheld, mutually feared...
Mrs1 3.126 18
The manners of this class [of doers] are observed and
caught with devotion by men of taste. The association of these masters with
each other and with men intelligent of their merits, is mutually agreeable
and stimulating.
PPh 4.48 25
[Unity's and Variety's] existence is mutually contradictory
and exclusive;...
MoS 4.154 26
The abstractionist and the materialist thus mutually
exasperating each other, and the scoffer expressing the worst of
materialism, there arises a third party to occupy the middle ground between
these two, the skeptic, namely.
ET11 5.187 5
[English noblemen] have been a social church proper to
inspire sentiments mutually honoring the lover and the loved.
ET14 5.260 7
...the two complexions, or two styles of mind [in England],--
the perceptive class, and the practical finality class,--are ever in
counterpoise, interacting mutually...
Bhr 6.192 25
That is the charm in all good novels, as it is the charm in all
good histories, that the heroes mutually understand, from the first...
Clbs 7.249 7
...in the sections of the British Association more information
is mutually and effectually communicated, in a few hours, than in many
months of ordinary correspondence...
LLNE 10.343 9
...perhaps those persons who were mutually the best
friends were the most private...
PLT 12.61 18
...all great minds and all great hearts have mutually allowed
the absolute necessity of the twain.
Mem 12.101 5
So is it with every fact in a new science: they are mutually
explaining...
Myesis, n. (1)
SwM 4.97 8
All religious history contains traces of the trance of saints...
Myesis, the closing of the eyes...
mylodonta, n. (1)
ET16 5.278 16
I, who had just come from Professor Sedgwick's
Cambridge Museum of megatheria and mastodons, was ready to maintain
that some cleverer elephants or mylodonta had borne off and laid these
rocks [of Stonehenge] one on another.
myriad, adj. (2)
ET10 5.160 6
...when, to this labor and trade and these native resources [of
England] was added this goblin of steam, with his myriad arms...the
amassing of property has run out of all figures.
ET18 5.303 2
[the English] is a people of myriad personalities.
myriad, n. (1)
Pt1 3.35 2
Either of these [symbols], or of a myriad more, are equally good
to the person to whom they are significant.
myriads, n. (4)
Hist 2.37 8
Newton and Laplace need myriads of age and thick-strewn
celestial areas.
Int 2.333 2
...[men] have myriads of facts just as good [as the writer's]...
ET14 5.244 8
...a bad general wants myriads of men and miles of redoubts
to compensate the inspirations of courage and conduct.
MMEm 10.430 7
I [Mary Moody Emerson] pray to die, though happier
myriads and mine own companions press nearer to the throne.
myrmidons, n. (3)
Ctr 6.153 25
'T is heavy odds/ Against the gods,/ When they will match
with myrmidons./
Ctr 6.153 26
We spawning, spawning myrmidons,/ Our turn to-day! we
take command,/ Jove gives the globe into the hand/ Of myrmidons, of
myrmidons./
Ctr 6.154 2
We spawning, spawning myrmidons,/ Our turn to-day! we take
command,/ Jove gives the globe into the hand/ Of myrmidons, of
myrmidons./
myrrh, n. (3)
DSA 1.124 27
[The religious sentiment] is myrrh and storax, and chlorine
and rosemary.
Mrs1 3.137 13
Let us sit apart as the gods, talking from peak to peak all
round Olympus. No degree of affection need invade this religion. This is
myrrh and rosemary to keep the other sweet.
Pol1 3.216 24
[The wise man's] relation to men is angelic; his memory is
myrrh to them; his presence, frankincense and flowers.
mysteries, n. (16)
MR 1.241 27
I would not quite forget the venerable counsel of the Egyptian
mysteries...
LT 1.273 10
A wealthy man...finds religion to be a traffic...of so many
piddling accounts, that of all mysteries he cannot skill to keep a stock going
upon that trade.
Hist 2.40 6
What light does [history] shed on those mysteries which we
hide under the names Death and Immortality?
Mrs1 3.143 12
...the respect which these mysteries [of fashion] inspire in
the most rude and sylvan characters...betray[s] the universality of the love
of cultivated manners.
NR 3.232 9
The Eleusinian mysteries...show that there always were seeing
and knowing men in the planet.
SwM 4.132 15
The wise people of the Greek race were accustomed to lead
the most intelligent and virtuous young men...through the Eleusinian
mysteries...
SwM 4.132 20
An ardent and contemplative young man...might read once
these books of Swedenborg, these mysteries of love and conscience, and
then throw them aside for ever.
F 6.47 5
One key, one solution to the mysteries of human condition...
exists;...
Bty 6.304 10
Facts which had never before left their stark common sense
suddenly figure as Eleusinian mysteries.
Bty 6.306 17
...there is a climbing scale of culture...up through...signs and
tokens of thought and character in manners, up to the ineffable mysteries of
the intellect.
Ill 6.310 1
The mysteries and scenery of the [Mammoth] cave had the same
dignity that belongs to all natural objects...
Civ 7.17 22
Now speed the gay celerities of art,/ What in the desert was
impossible/ Within four walls is possible again,/--Culture and libraries,
mysteries of skill/...
MoL 10.244 15
Dramatic mysteries were the entertainment of the people
[in the Middle Ages].
Schr 10.289 4
...if I could prevail to communicate the incommunicable
mysteries, you [scholars] should see the breadth of your realm;...
Plu 10.304 25
...asking Epaminondas about the manner of Lysis's burial, I
found that Lysis had taught him as far as the incommunicable mysteries of
our sect...
LLNE 10.337 12
Gall and Spurzheim's Phrenology laid a rough hand on
the mysteries of animal and spiritual nature...
Mysteries, n. (2)
ShP 4.201 17
We have to thank the researches of antiquaries, and the
Shakspeare Society, for ascertaining the steps of the English drama, from
the Mysteries...down to the possession of the stage by the very pieces which
Shakspeare altered, remodelled and finally made his own.
Boks 7.221 10
Another member [of the literary club] meantime shall as
honestly search, sift and as truly report on British mythology...the histories
of Brut, Merlin and Welsh poetry;...a fourth, on Mysteries, Early Drama,
Gesta Romanorum, Collier, and Dyce, and the Camden Society.
mysterious, adj. (23)
AmS 1.113 7
...[Swedenborg] showed the mysterious bond that allies moral
evil to the foul material forms...
MN 1.200 5
In all animal and vegetable forms, the physiologist concedes
that...a mysterious principle of life must be assumed...
MR 1.248 24
...it would be like dying of perfumes to sink in the effort to re-attach
the deeds of every day to the holy and mysterious recesses of life.
LT 1.272 12
...the origin of all reform is in that mysterious fountain of the
moral sentiment in man...
Con 1.304 7
...[the system of property and law] is the fruit of the same
mysterious cause as the mineral or animal world.
Hist 2.5 26
Human life, as containing [the universal nature], is mysterious
and inviolable...
Cir 2.305 18
Step by step we scale this mysterious ladder;...
NER 3.274 25
Caesar, just before the battle of Pharsalia...offers to quit the
army, the empire, and Cleopatra, if [the Egyptian priest] will show him
those mysterious sources [of the Nile].
ShP 4.209 6
We have [Shakespeare's] recorded convictions on those
questions which knock for answer at every heart...on those mysterious and
demoniacal powers which defy our science...
Bhr 6.179 8
The mysterious communication established across a house
between two entire strangers, moves all the springs of wonder.
Civ 7.20 1
The term [Civilization] imports a mysterious progress.
PI 8.9 8
...[the student] observes that all things in Nature...have a
mysterious relation to his thoughts and his life;...
PI 8.20 6
...Swedenborg [expressed the same sense], when he said, There is
nothing existing in human thought, even though relating to the most
mysterious tenet of faith, but has combined with it a natural and sensuous
image.
MMEm 10.403 13
My opinion, [Mary Moody Emerson] writes, [is]...that
the fiery depths of Calvinism, with its high and mysterious elections to
eternal bliss...would have alone been fitted to fix [Byron's] imagination.
MMEm 10.416 2
...joy, hope and resignation unite me [Mary Moody
Emerson] to Him whose mysterious Will adjusts everything...
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.
PLT 12.4 10
...in the order of Nature [the higher laws] lie higher and are
nearer to the mysterious seat of power and creation.
Mem 12.93 14
There is no book like the memory, none with such a good
index, and that of every kind...arranged...by all sorts of mysterious hooks
and eyes to catch and hold...
Mem 12.95 9
Never was truer fable than that of the Sibyl's writing on
leaves which the wind scatters. The difference between men is that in one
the memory with inconceivable swiftness flies after and recollects the
flying leaves,-flies on wing as fast as that mysterious whirlwind...
Mem 12.97 5
...this mysterious power [memory] that binds our life together
has its own vagaries and interruptions.
Mem 12.107 8
...observing some mysterious continuity of mental operation
during sleep...'t is an old rule of scholars...'T is best knocking in the nail
overnight and clinching it next morning.
Milt1 12.261 22
...[Milton] knew that this mastery of language was a
secondary power, and he respected the mysterious source whence it had its
spring;...
Trag 12.416 7
The individual who suffers has a mysterious counterbalance
to that condition...
mysteriously, adv. (1)
Dem1 10.19 15
...I find...some play at blindman's-buff, when men as wise
as Goethe talk mysteriously of the demonological.
mystery, n. (32)
Nat 1.23 16
The production of a work of art throws a light upon the
mystery of humanity.
Nat 1.68 14
A perception of this mystery inspires the muse of George
Herbert...
DSA 1.119 13
The mystery of nature was never displayed more happily.
DSA 1.128 20
[Jesus Christ] saw with open eye the mystery of the soul.
MN 1.222 2
If you say, The acceptance of the vision is also the act of
God:-I shall not seek to penetrate the mystery...
LT 1.262 12
...persons are the world to persons,-a cunning mystery by
which the Great Desert of thoughts and of planets takes this engaging form,
to bring...its meanings nearer to the mind.
Art1 2.354 9
We carve and paint...as students of the mystery of Form.
Pt1 3.16 9
The inwardness and mystery of this attachment [to nature] drive
men of every class to the use of emblems.
Nat2 3.167 2
The rounded world is fair to see,/ Nine times folded in
mystery/...
Nat2 3.194 2
[Nature's] secret is untold. Many and many an Oedipus
arrives; he has the whole mystery teeming in his brain.
SwM 4.108 25
Here again [in the brain] is the mystery of generation
repeated.
ShP 4.209 27
What mystery has [Shakespeare] not signified his knowledge
of?
ET16 5.278 20
The chief mystery [of Stonehenge] is, that any mystery
should have been allowed to settle on so remarkable a monument...
ET16 5.278 21
The chief mystery [of Stonehenge] is, that any mystery
should have been allowed to settle on so remarkable a monument...
Elo1 7.90 27
...if we come to the heart of the mystery, perhaps we should
say that the truly eloquent man is a sane man with power to communicate
his sanity.
PI 8.67 10
If [the readers of a good poem] build ships, they write Ariel or
Prospero or Ophelia on the ship's stern, and impart a tenderness and
mystery to matters of fact.
Aris 10.39 9
I wish...men...whom the mystery of botany allures, and the
mineral laws;...
PerF 10.72 17
...in the impenetrable mystery which hides...the mental
nature, I await the insight which our advancing knowledge of material laws
shall furnish.
SovE 10.190 15
For my part, said Napoleon, it is not the mystery of the
incarnation which I discover in religion, but the mystery of social order...
SovE 10.190 16
For my part, said Napoleon, it is not the mystery of the
incarnation which I discover in religion, but the mystery of social order...
Prch 10.234 2
...new shop, or old cathedral, it is all one to [the deep
observer]. He will find...as deep a cloud of mystery on the cause...
Prch 10.238 1
We [in the Church] come...to open the upper eyes to the
deep mystery of cause and effect...
FSLC 11.189 16
I thought it was this fair mystery, whose foundations are
hidden in eternity, which made the basis of human society, and of law;...
SHC 11.434 16
...when I think of the mystery of life...I think sometimes
that the vault of the sky arching there upward...is only a Sleepyy Hollow,
with path of Suns, insead of foot-paths;...
FRep 11.509 1
There is a mystery in the soul of state/ Which hath an
operation more divine/ Than breath or pen can give expression to./
PLT 12.5 16
...in the impenetrable mystery which hides...the mental nature,
I await the insight which our advancing knowledge of material laws shall
furnish.
II 12.74 25
...this wonderful source of knowledge [Inspiration] remains a
mystery;...
II 12.74 26
...[Inspiration's] arts and methods of working remain a
mystery...
CInt 12.129 18
Only bring a deep observer, and he will make light of the
new shop or old cathedral...or new circumstances that afflict you. He will
find the circumstances not altered; as deep a cloud of mystery on the cause...
mystic, adj. (18)
Nat 1.17 18
...the night shall be my Germany of mystic philosophy and
dreams.
Int 2.337 22
...the mystic pencil wherewith we...draw [in unconscious
states] has no awkwardness or inexperience...
Exp 3.61 2
...we should...do broad justice where we are...accepting our
actual companions and circumstances...as the mystic officials to whom the
universe has delegated its whole pleasure for us.
Wsp 6.199 21
Draw, if thou canst, the mystic line,/ Severing rightly [Fate'
s] from thine,/ Which is human, which divine./
Wsp 6.209 11
The dogma of the mystic offices of Christ being dropped...it
is impossible to maintain the old emphasis of his personality;...
WD 7.185 9
...this is the progress of every earnest mind;...from a respect to
the works to a wise wonder at this mystic element of time in which he is
conditioned;...
PI 8.16 5
...the sole question is how many strokes vibrate on this mystic
string,--how many diameters are drawn quite through from matter to spirit;...
Comc 8.163 4
[Wit]...unless it encounter a mystic or a dumpish soul, goes
everywhere heralded and harbingered by smiles and greetings.
PC 8.205 6
...as through dreams in watches of the night,/ So through all
creatures in their form and ways/ Some mystic hint accosts the vigilant/...
PPo 8.263 8
What need, cries the mystic Feisi, of palaces and tapestry?
Chr2 10.109 16
Fontenelle said: If the Deity should lay bare to the eyes of
men the secret system of Nature...and they finding no magic, no mystic
numbers, no fatalities...I am persuaded they...would exclaim, with
disappointment, Is that all?
SovE 10.185 6
...presently a mystic change is wrought...and [the man down
in Nature] is made a citizen of the world of souls...
Plu 10.304 20
Another [sentence] gives an insight into [Plutarch's] mystic
tendencies...
MMEm 10.426 5
The mystic dream which is shed over the season.
MMEm 10.426 27
Never do the feelings of the Infinite and the
consciousness of finite frailty and ignorance harmonize so well as at this
mystic season in the deserts of life.
EdAd 11.382 9
Our eyes/ Are armed, but we are strangers to the stars,/ And
strangers to the mystic beast and bird,/ And strangers to the plant and to the
mine./
PLT 12.16 21
...I have a suspicion that, as geologists say every river makes
its own valley, so does this mystic stream.
CL 12.141 17
We might say, the Rock of Ages dissolves himself into the
mineral air to build up this mystic constitution of man's mind and body.
Mystic, Connecticut (?), n. (1)
HDC 11.51 12
In 1644, Squaw Sachem, the widow of Nanepashemet, the
great Sachem of Concord and Mystic, with two sachems of Wachusett...
intimated their desire...to learn to read God's word and know God aright;...
mystic, n. (10)
OS 2.287 12
The great distinction...between men of the world who are
reckoned accomplished talkers...and a fervent mystic...is that one class
speak from within...and the other class from without...
Pt1 3.34 13
Here is the difference betwixt the poet and the mystic, that the
last nails a symbol to one sense, which was a true sense for a moment, but
soon becomes old and false.
Pt1 3.35 6
...the mystic must be steadily told,--All that you say is just as
true without the tedious use of that symbol as with it.
SwM 4.95 21
The Arabians say, that Abul Khain, the mystic, and Abu Ali
Seena, the philosopher, conferred together;...
SwM 4.95 24
The Arabians say, that Abul Khain, the mystic, and Abu Ali
Seena, the philosopher, conferred together; and, on parting, the philosopher
said, All that he sees, I know; and the mystic said, All that he knows, I see.
SwM 4.124 2
...this mystic [Swedenborg] is awful to Caesar.
F 6.18 5
Doubtless in every million there will be...a mystic.
Ctr 6.150 11
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.
PPo 8.244 14
Hafiz...adds to some of the attributes of Pindar, Anacreon,
Horace and Burns, the insight of a mystic...
SovE 10.207 19
The mystic or theist is never scared by any startling
materialism.
Mystic, n. (1)
SwM 4.97 9
All religious history contains traces of the trance of saints...
Myesis, the closing of the eyes,--whence our word, Mystic.
mystical, adj. (8)
SwM 4.107 25
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; and between the lines of this mystical quadrant all animated beings
find their place...
SwM 4.121 2
[Swedenborg's] perception of nature...is mystical and
Hebraic.
SwM 4.132 24
Genius is ever haunted by similar dreams [to those of
Swedenborg], when the hells and the heavens are opened to it. But these
pictures are to be held as mystical...
SwM 4.143 3
Behmen is healthily and beautifully wise, notwithstanding the
mystical narrowness and incommunicableness.
ET14 5.242 1
In England these [generalizations]...do all have a kind of
filial retrospect to Plato and the Greeks. Of this kind is...the Zoroastrian
definition of poetry, mystical, yet exact, apparent pictures of unapparent
natures;...
PPo 8.249 17
We do not wish to...try to make mystical divinity out of the
Song of Solomon...
PPo 8.263 16
Ferideddin Attar wrote the Bird Conversations, a mystical
tale...
CSC 10.375 16
...Edward, Palmer, Jones Very, Maria W. Chapman and
many other persons of a mystical or sectarian or philanthropic renown, were
present [at the Chardon Street Convention]...
mysticism, n. (5)
LT 1.275 21
Here is great variety and richness of mysticism...
Pt1 3.34 19
Mysticism consists in the mistake of an accidental and
individual symbol for an universal one.
PPh 4.40 24
Mysticism finds in Plato all its texts.
PPo 8.263 21
From this poem [Ferideddin Attar's Bird Conversations],
written five hundred years ago, we cite the following passage, as a proof of
the identity of mysticism in all periods.
MLit 12.318 14
The very child in the nursery prattles mysticism...
mystics, n. (6)
Pt1 3.17 2
...[the people] are all poets and mystics!
SwM 4.117 6
Behmen, and all mystics, imply this law [of Correspondence]
in their dark riddle-writing.
ET13 5.226 16
...when wealth accrues to a chaplaincy, a bishopric, or
rectorship, it requires moneyed men for its stewards, who will give it
another direction than to the mystics of their day.
ET14 5.245 20
Hallam...is unconscious of the deep worth which lies in the
mystics...
Suc 7.305 18
An Englishman of marked character and talent, who had
brought with him hither one or two friends and a library of mystics, assured
me that nobody and nothing of possible interest was left in England...
SovE 10.203 22
The Church of Rome had its saints, and inspired the
conscience of Europe...the mystics, Behmen and Swedenborg;...
mystify, v. (2)
LE 1.183 21
Hence the temptation to the scholar to mystify...
Mrs1 3.131 8
...to exclude and mystify pretenders and send them into
everlasting Coventry, is [fashion's] delight.
myth, n. (1)
PI 8.7 25
...the severest analyzer...is forced to keep the poetic curve of
Nature, and his result is like a myth of Theocritus.
Myth, n. (1)
ACri 12.293 10
We are now offended with Standpoint, Myth, Subjective,
the Good and the True and the Cause.
mythical, adj. (4)
PNR 4.89 5
All [Plato's] painting in the Republic must be esteemed
mythical...
Pow 6.55 4
Courage, the old physicians taught (and their meaning holds, if
their physiology is a little mythical)...is as the degree of circulation of the
blood in the arteries.
Thor 10.476 7
All readers of Walden will remember [Thoreau's] mythical
record of his disappointments...
Shak1 11.449 15
...at the short distance of three hundred years
[Shakespeare] is mythical...
mythically, adv. (1)
ET5 5.74 12
...we are forced to use the names [Saxon and Norman] a little
mythically...
mythologic, adj. (2)
PPh 4.47 16
Before Pericles came the Seven Wise Masters, and we have
the beginnings of geometry, metaphysics and ethics: then the partialists,--
deducing the origin of things from flux or water, or from air, or from fire,
or from mind. All mix with these causes mythologic pictures.
GoW 4.276 23
...[Goethe] stripped [the Devil] of mythologic gear...
mythological, adj. (2)
PC 8.220 23
...[the true man] is the only great event, and it is easy to lift
him into a mythological personage.
ALin 11.333 18
I am sure if this man [Lincoln] had ruled in a period of less
facility of printing, he would have become mythological in a very few
years...
mythologies, n. (5)
Con 1.296 5
There is a fragment of old fable which seems somehow to
have been dropped from the current mythologies...
GoW 4.272 3
[Goethe's] Helena...is...the work of one who found himself
the master of histories, mythologies, philosophies, sciences and national
literatures...
GoW 4.273 2
What new mythologies sail through [Goethe's] head!
Boks 7.213 2
We must have idolatries, mythologies...
PI 8.64 19
Bring us...poetry...that shall...mould itself into religions and
mythologies...
mythologists, n. (4)
Pt1 3.18 18
In the old mythology, mythologists observe, defects are
ascribed to divine natures...to signify exuberances.
Bty 6.289 19
...the mythologists tell us that Vulcan was painted lame and
Cupid blind, to call attention to the fact that one was all limbs, and the other
all eyes.
Bty 6.292 1
Another text from the mythologists.
Bty 6.294 6
One more text from the mythologists is to the same purpose...
mythologizes, v. (1)
SovE 10.203 3
Our religion...respects and mythologizes some one time and
place and person and people.
mythology, n. (39)
MN 1.206 3
The history of the genesis or the old mythology repeats itself
in the experience of every child.
Hist 2.30 16
Beside its primary value as the first chapter of the history of
Europe (the mythology thinly veiling authentic facts, the invention of the
mechanic arts and the migration of colonies,) [the story of Prometheus]
gives the history of religion...
Hist 2.30 21
Prometheus is the Jesus of the old mythology.
Comp 2.106 23
[Jove] cannot get his own thunders; Minerva keeps the key
of them... A plain confession of the in-working of the All and of its moral
aim. The Indian mythology ends in the same ethics;...
Pt1 3.18 18
In the old mythology...defects are ascribed to divine natures...to
signify exuberances.
Mrs1 3.155 8
...[society] reminds us of a tradition of the pagan mythology,
in any attempt to settle its character.
Nat2 3.175 5
[A boy] hears the echoes of a horn in a hill country...which
converts the mountains into an Aeolian harp,--and this supernatural tiralira
restores to him the Dorian mythology...
Nat2 3.177 20
Frivolity is a most unfit tribute to Pan, who ought to be
represented in the mythology as the most continent of gods.
UGM 4.3 4
All mythology opens with demigods...
SwM 4.124 22
That metempsychosis which is familiar in the old
mythology of the Greeks...in Swedenborg's mind has a more philosophic
character.
GoW 4.274 8
...[Goethe] showed...that, in actions of routine, a thread of
mythology and fable spins itself...
GoW 4.276 13
The Devil had played an important part in mythology in all
times.
ET1 5.15 20
[Carlyle's] talk playfully exalting the familiar objects, put the
companion at once into an acquaintance with his Lars and Lemurs, and it
was very pleasant to learn what was predestined to be a pretty mythology.
ET4 5.55 19
...[The Celts] made the best popular literature of the Middle
Ages in the songs of Merlin and the tender and delicious mythology of
Arthur.
F 6.25 13
We have successive experiences so important that the new
forgets the old, and hence the mythology of the seven or the nine heavens.
Bty 6.289 22
In the true mythology Love is an immortal child...
Ill 6.317 2
...if...Moosehead, or any other, invent a new style or mythology,
I fancy that the world will be all brave and right if dressed in these colors...
Boks 7.206 21
[The scholar] can look back for the legends and mythology
to the Younger Edda and the Heimskringla of Snorro Sturleson...
Boks 7.217 20
Every good fable, every mythology...when they proceed
from an intellectual integrity...have the imaginative element.
Boks 7.221 6
Another member [of the literary club] meantime shall as
honestly search, sift and as truly report on British mythology...
Cour 7.255 14
There is a Hercules...or a Cid in the mythology of every
nation;...
PI 8.14 4
...the Greek mythology called the sea the tear of Saturn.
PI 8.34 18
'T is easy to repaint the mythology of the Greeks...
PI 8.74 18
O yes, poets we shall have, mythology, symbols, religion, of our
own.
QO 8.181 22
Mythology is no man's work;...
QO 8.181 27
...what we daily observe in regard to the bon-mots that
circulate in society,-that every talker helps a story in repeating it, until, at
last, from the slenderest filament of fact a good fable is constructed,-the
same growth befalls mythology...
QO 8.193 15
We admire that poetry which no man wrote...which is to be
read in a mythology...
PC 8.207 20
Science surpasses the old miracles of mythology...
PC 8.216 5
All the transcendent writers and artists of the world,-'t is
doubtful who they were, they are lifted so fast into mythology;...
PPo 8.240 8
The Persian poetry rests on a mythology whose few legends
are connected with the Jewish history and the anterior traditions of the
Pentateuch.
Insp 8.295 12
You may read Plutarch, Plato, Plotinus, Hindoo mythology
and ethics.
Insp 8.295 16
...read Hafiz and the Trouveurs; nay, Welsh and British
mythology of Arthur...
Imtl 8.347 13
He has [immortality], and he alone, who gives life to all
names, persons, things, where he comes. No religion, not the wildest
mythology dies for him;...
Chr2 10.104 16
Every nation is degraded by the goblins it worships instead
of this Deity. The Dionysia and Saturnalia of Greece and Rome...the
vindictive mythology of Calvinism, are examples of this perversion.
MoL 10.244 2
The Greek was so perfect in action and in imagination, his
poems...so charming in form and so true to the human mind, that we cannot
forget or outgrow their mythology.
PLT 12.35 23
The mythology cleaves close to Nature;...
Bost 12.193 9
...[the savage] goes muttering his rude ritual or mythology,
which yet conceals some grand commandment;...
ACri 12.290 26
In the Hindoo mythology, Viswaharman placed the sun on
his lathe to grind off some of his effulgence, and in this manner reduced it
to an eighth,-more was inseparable.
Trag 12.407 11
The same idea [of Fate] makes the paralyzing terror with
which the East Indian mythology haunts the imagination.
Mythology, n. (1)
Boks 7.212 9
Poetry, with its aids of Mythology and Romance, must be
well allowed for an imaginative creature.
myths, n. (1)
Chr2 10.110 15
The time will come, says Varnhagen von Ense, when we
shall treat the jokes and sallies against the myths and church-rituals of
Christianity...good-naturedly...
Mythus, n. (1)
DSA 1.129 17
Christianity became a Mythus...