Plastic to Plenteous
plastic, adj. (20)
Nat 1.15 5
...such [is] the plastic power of the human eye, that the primary
forms...give us delight in and for themselves;...
AmS 1.105 6
...the world was plastic and fluid in the hands of God...
DSA 1.150 11
...if once you are alive, you shall find [the old forms] shall
become plastic and new.
SR 2.70 8
...a man or a company of men, plastic and permeable to
principles, by the law of nature must overpower and ride all cities...who are
not.
Lov1 2.179 26
The same fluency may be observed in every work of the
plastic arts.
Art1 2.353 25
...the whole extant product of the plastic arts has herein its
highest value, as history;...
Art1 2.364 14
...in the works of our plastic arts...creation is driven into a
corner.
ET1 5.16 11
...[Carlyle] still thought man the most plastic little fellow in
the planet...
F 6.28 7
Thought dissolves the material universe by carrying the mind up
into a sphere where all is plastic.
DL 7.130 4
...let the creations of the plastic arts be collected with care in
galleries by the piety and taste of the people...
WD 7.158 10
...we pity our fathers for dying before...photograph and
spectroscope arrived, as cheated out of half their human estate. These arts
open great gates of a future, promising to make the world plastic...
WD 7.171 3
...the treasures which Nature spent itself to amass...the
surrounding plastic natures;...are given immeasurably to all.
Res 8.137 8
The world is...strings of tension waiting to be struck; the earth
sensitive as iodine to light; the most plastic and impressionable medium...
Res 8.141 4
Ah! what a plastic little creature [man] is!...
Res 8.142 26
All is ductile and plastic.
PC 8.223 18
...[Nature] is hostile to ignorance,-plastic, transparent,
delightful, to knowledge.
LLNE 10.352 10
[Fourier] treats man as a plastic thing...
PLT 12.6 5
Whilst we converse with truths as thoughts, they exist also as
plastic forces;...
MAng1 12.221 25
Man is the highest, and indeed the only proper object of
plastic art.
Trag 12.415 4
Our human being is wonderfully plastic;...
plate, n. (14)
Nat 1.33 3
The visible world and the relation of its parts, is the dial plate of
the invisible.
LT 1.264 27
Whilst the Daguerreotypist, with camera-obscura and silver
plate, begins now to traverse the land, let us set up our Camera also...
Mrs1 3.138 4
I pray my companion...if he wishes for sassafras or arsenic,
to ask me for them, and not to hold out his plate as if I knew already.
Nat2 3.180 7
Now we learn what patient periods must round themselves
before the rock is formed; then before the rock is broken, and the first
lichen race has disintegrated the thinnest external plate into soil...
ShP 4.214 4
Daguerre learned how to let one flower etch its image on his
plate of iodine...
ET6 5.107 26
[The Englishman] is very fond of silver plate...
ET6 5.108 2
Incredible amounts of plate are found in good houses [in
England]...
ET11 5.193 2
Dismal anecdotes abound...of [English] dukes served by
bailiffs, with all their plate in pawn;...
ET12 5.200 6
The halls [at Oxford] are rich with oaken wainscoting and
ceiling. The pictures of the founders hang from the walls; the tables glitter
with plate.
ET12 5.202 13
It is usual for a nobleman, or indeed for almost every
wealthy student [at Oxford], on quitting college to leave behind him some
article of plate;...
FSLC 11.209 6
'T is said [buying the slaves] will cost two thousand
millions of dollars. Was there ever any contribution that was so
enthusiastically paid as this will be? ... The churches will melt their plate.
Mem 12.93 20
We figure [memory] as if the mind were a kind of looking-glass,
which being carried through the street of time receives on its clear
plate every image that passes;...
Mem 12.93 21
We figure [memory] as if the mind were a kind of looking-glass,
which being carried through the street of time receives on its clear
plate every image that passes; only with this difference, that our plate is
iodized so that every image sinks into it, and is held there.
Mem 12.93 26
...in addition to this [photographic] property [the memory]
has one more, this, namely, that of all the million images that are imprinted,
the very one we want reappears in the centre of the plate in the moment
when we want it.
platform, n. (30)
MN 1.204 25
...the didactic morals of self-denial and strife with sin, are in
the view we are constrained by our constitution to take of the fact seen from
the platform of action;...
MN 1.204 26
...seen from the platform of intellection there is nothing for us
but praise and wonder.
Con 1.326 2
...to return from this alternation of partial views to the high
platform of universal and necessary history, it is a happiness for mankind
that innovation has got on so far...
Fdsp 2.214 18
...thus we part only to meet again on a higher platform...
OS 2.275 26
Those who are capable of humility, of justice, of love, of
aspiration, stand already on a platform that commands the sciences and
arts...
Cir 2.312 3
The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may
command a view of our present life...
Exp 3.52 21
I thus express the law as it is read from the platform of
ordinary life...
Exp 3.52 24
On the platform of physics we cannot resist the contracting
influences of so-called science.
Exp 3.54 19
On this platform [of science] one lives in a sty of sensualism...
NR 3.247 19
...if we did not in any moment shift the platform on which we
stand, and look and speak from another!...
NER 3.270 11
We must go up to a higher platform...
NER 3.277 8
What [the selfish man] most wishes is to be lifted to some
higher platform...
SwM 4.143 16
...[Swedenborg] did not rise to the platform of pure genius.
MoS 4.174 5
How respectable is earnestness on every platform!...
ET19 5.309 23
On being introduced to the meeting [Manchester
Athenaeum Banquet] I said:--Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen: It is pleasant
to me to meet this great and brilliant company, and doubly pleasant to see
the faces of so many distinguished persons on this platform.
Wsp 6.201 4
Some of my friends have complained...that we discussed Fate,
Power and Wealth on too low a platform;...
Elo1 7.97 22
The highest platform of eloquence is the moral sentiment.
Clbs 7.231 1
Conversation in society is found to be on a platform so low as
to exclude science, the saint and the poet.
PI 8.70 20
Every man may be, and at some time a man is, lifted to a
platform whence he looks beyond sense to moral and spiritual truth...
Elo2 8.115 17
[The true orator's] attitude in the rostrum, on the platform,
requires that he counterbalance his auditory.
QO 8.202 18
A phrase or a single word is adduced, with honoring
emphasis, from Pindar, Hesiod or Euripides, as precluding all argument,
because thus had they said: importing that the bard spoke not his own, but
the words of some god. True poets have always ascended to this lofty
platform...
Grts 8.301 23
[Greatness] is...the only platform on which all men can meet.
Chr2 10.113 21
The pulpit may shake, but this platform [of ethical studies]
will not.
Supl 10.163 2
[The doctrine of temperance] is usually taught on a low
platform...
Plu 10.322 5
It is a service to our Republic to publish a book that can force
ambitious young men, before they mount the platform of the county
conventions, to read the Laconic Apothegms [of Plutarch]...
LLNE 10.332 4
[Everett's learning] was so coldly and weightily
communicated from so commanding a platform...that...this learning
instantly took the highest place to our imagination...
LLNE 10.336 6
...the paramount source of the religious revolution was
Modern Science; beginning with Copernicus, who destroyed the pagan
fictions of the Church, by showing mankind that the earth on which we live
was not the centre of the Universe...and thus fitted to be the platform on
which the Drama of the Divine Judgment was played before the assembled
Angels of Heaven...
MAng1 12.226 25
When the Sistine Chapel was prepared for him, that he
might paint the ceiling, [Michelangelo] found the platform on which he was
to work suspended by ropes which passed through the ceiling.
MAng1 12.227 4
Michael [Angelo] demanded of San Gallo, the pope!s
architect, how these holes [in the Sistine Chapel ceiling] were to be repaired
in the picture. San Gallo replied: That was for him to consider, for the
platform could be constructed in no other way..
MAng1 12.227 6
Michael [Angelo]...constructed a movable platform to
rest and roll upon the floor [of the Sistine Chapel]...
platforms, n. (8)
PNR 4.81 22
[Plato] represents...the power...of carrying up every fact to
successive platforms...
Wth 6.126 14
[The liquor of life] passes through the sacred fermentations,
by that law of nature whereby everything climbs to higher platforms...
CbW 6.275 6
...we live with people on other platforms;...
Elo1 7.79 24
...there are men of the most peaceful way of life...who are felt
wherever they go...and these examples may be found on very humble
platforms as well as on high ones.
Suc 7.311 7
We live on different planes or platforms.
Chr2 10.113 10
The lines of the religious sects are very shifting; their
platforms unstable;...
FSLN 11.232 26
The events of this month are teaching one thing plain and
clear...that official papers are of no use; resolutions of public meetings,
platforms of conventions, no, nor laws, nor constitutions, any more.
Bost 12.201 22
There is a little formula...I 'm as good as you be, which
contains the essence of the Massachusetts Bill of Rights and of the
American Declaration of Independence. And this...could be heard (by an
acute ear) in...the platforms of churches...
Plato, n. (175)
Nat 1.34 16
[The relation between mind and matter] is the standing
problem which has exercised the wonder and the study of every fine genius
since the world began; from the era of the Egyptians...to that...of Plato...
Nat 1.55 8
The problem of philosophy, according to Plato, is, for all that
exists conditionally, to find a ground unconditioned and absolute.
Nat 1.69 26
...we accept the sentence of Plato, that poetry comes nearer to
vital truth than history.
AmS 1.93 11
The discerning will read, in his Plato...only that least part...
LE 1.161 9
...see how much you would impoverish the world if you could
take clean out of history the lives of Milton, Shakspeare, and Plato...
LE 1.161 16
I console myself...by...seeing that Plato was...
LE 1.172 12
...the first word [a man of genius] utters, sets all your so-called
knowledge afloat and at large. Then Plato, Bacon, Kant, and the Eclectic
Cousin condescend instantly to be men and mere facts.
LT 1.282 23
We are so sharp-sighted that we can...neither read Plato nor
not read him.
Hist 2.3 5
What Plato has thought, he [that is once admitted to the right of
reason] may think;...
Hist 2.26 27
When a thought of Plato becomes a thought to me...time is no
more.
Hist 2.34 8
...Plato said that poets utter great and wise things which they do
not themselves understand.
SR 2.45 15
...the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton is
that they...spoke...what they thought.
SL 2.146 22
Plato had a secret doctrine, had he?
SL 2.154 19
There are not in the world at any time more than a dozen
persons who read and understand Plato...
Lov1 2.183 5
Somewhat like this have the truly wise told us of love in all
ages. The doctrine is not old, nor is it new. If Plato, Plutarch and Apuleius
taught it, so have Petrarch, Angelo and Milton.
OS 2.273 8
...produce a volume of Plato or Shakspeare...and instantly we
come into a feeling of longevity.
Cir 2.308 12
Aristotle and Plato are reckoned the respective heads of two
schools.
Int 2.345 8
...[the philosopher] has not succeeded in rendering back to you
your consciousness. He has not succeeded; now let another try. If Plato
cannot, perhaps Spinoza will.
Int 2.346 8
This band of grandees...Plato...and the rest, have somewhat...so
primary in their thinking, that it seems antecedent to all the ordinary
distinctions of rhetoric and literature...
Pt1 3.4 14
...the highest minds of the world have never ceased to explore
the...manifold meaning, of every sensuous fact;...Heraclitus, Plato...
Pt1 3.30 20
...the metamorphosis once seen, we divine that it does not stop.
I will not now consider how much this makes the charm of algebra and the
mathematics, which also have their tropes, but it is felt in every definition;
as when...Plato defines a line to be a flowing point;...
Pt1 3.31 3
...Plato calls the world an animal...
Chr1 3.109 20
Plato said it was impossible not to believe in the children of
the gods...
Nat2 3.180 13
It is a long way from granite to the oyster; farther yet to
Plato and the preaching of the immortality of the soul.
Pol1 3.199 20
...society is fluid;...any particle may suddenly become the
centre of the movement and compel the system to gyrate round it; as...every
man of truth, like Plato or Paul, does forever.
NR 3.233 10
I read Proclus, and sometimes Plato, as I might read a
dictionary...
NER 3.259 14
Four or five persons I have seen who read Plato.
NER 3.271 3
I think, according to the good-hearted word of Plato,
Unwillingly the soul is deprived of truth.
UGM 4.17 6
...we thus [through the acts of the intellect]...learn to choose
men by their truest marks, taught, with Plato, to choose those who can,
without aid from the eyes or any other sense, proceed to truth and to being.
UGM 4.18 3
The eyes of Plato, Shakspeare, Swedenborg, Goethe, never
shut on either of these laws [of identity and of reaction].
UGM 4.19 26
When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe this to Plato,
but to the idea, to which also Plato was debtor.
UGM 4.19 27
When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe this to Plato,
but to the idea, to which also Plato was debtor.
UGM 4.25 3
Without Plato we should almost lose our faith in the
possibility of a reasonable book.
PPh 4.39 1
Among secular books, Plato only is entitled to Omar's fanatical
compliment to the Koran, when he said, Burn the libraries; for their value is
in this book.
PPh 4.39 11
Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated
among men of thought.
PPh 4.39 21
...every brisk young man who says in succession fine things to
each reluctant generation...is some reader of Plato...
PPh 4.40 8
Plato is philosophy, and philosophy, Plato...
PPh 4.40 25
Mysticism finds in Plato all its texts.
PPh 4.41 4
...Plato seems to a reader in New England an American genius.
PPh 4.41 8
This range of Plato instructs us what to think of the vexed
question concerning his reputed works...
PPh 4.41 14
...wherever we find a man higher by a whole head than any of
his contemporaries, it is sure to come into doubt what are his real works.
Thus Homer, Plato, Raffaelle, Shakspeare.
PPh 4.41 23
Plato...like every great man, consumed his own times.
PPh 4.42 7
When we are praising Plato, it seems we are praising quotations
from Solon and Sophron and Philolaus.
PPh 4.42 15
Plato absorbed the learning of his times...
PPh 4.43 5
Plato is clothed with the powers of a poet...
PPh 4.43 17
Plato especially has no external biography.
PPh 4.44 14
...the biography of Plato is interior.
PPh 4.44 22
...the writings of Plato have preoccupied every school of
learning...
PPh 4.45 6
I am struck...with the extreme modernness of [Plato's] style and
spirit. Here is the germ of that Europe we know so well, in its long history
of arts and arms; here are all its traits, already discernible in the mind of
Plato...
PPh 4.45 13
How Plato came thus to be Europe, and philosophy, and
almost literature, is the problem for us to solve.
PPh 4.47 17
At last comes Plato, the distributor, who needs no barbaric
paint, or tattoo, or whooping;...
PPh 4.53 23
...Plato, in Egypt and in Eastern pilgrimages, imbibed the idea
of one Deity...
PPh 4.54 3
...the infinitude of the Asiatic soul and the defining, result-loving,
machine-making, surface-seeking, opera-going Europe,--Plato came
to join...
PPh 4.56 2
...the experience of poetic creativeness, which is not found in
staying at home, nor yet in travelling, but in transitions from one to the
other, which must therefore be adroitly managed to present as much
transitional surface as possible; this command of two elements must explain
the power and the charm of Plato.
PPh 4.56 6
Plato keeps the two vases, one of aether and one of pigment, at
his side, and invariably uses both.
PPh 4.56 11
Plato turns incessantly the obverse and the reverse of the
medal of Jove.
PPh 4.56 17
...The physical philosophers had sketched each his theory of
the world;...theories mechanical and chemical in their genius. Plato...feels
these...to be no theories of the world but bare inventories and lists.
PPh 4.57 11
The mind of Plato is not to be exhibited by a Chinese
catalogue...
PPh 4.57 23
According to the old sentence, If Jove should descend to the
earth, he would speak in the style of Plato.
PPh 4.58 6
...the anecdotes that have come down from the times attest
[Plato's] manly interference before the people in his master's behalf, since
even the savage cry of the assembly to Plato is preserved;...
PPh 4.59 7
In reading logarithms one is not more secure than in following
Plato in his flights.
PPh 4.59 18
...Plato, in his plenty, is never restricted, but has the fit word.
PPh 4.61 20
Plato apprehended the cardinal facts.
PPh 4.66 13
Those of you who were the worthy ones in the state of
ignorance, will be the worthy ones in the state of faith, as soon as you
embrace it. Plato was not less firm.
PPh 4.67 27
Plato, lover of limits, loved the illimitable...
PPh 4.68 16
A key to the method and completeness of Plato is his twice
bisected line.
PPh 4.70 22
Socrates and Plato are the double star which the most powerful
instruments will not entirely separate.
PPh 4.75 9
The rare coincidence [in Socrates], in one ugly body, of...the
keen street and market debater with the sweetest saint known to any history
at that time, had forcibly struck the mind of Plato...
PPh 4.75 18
The strange synthesis in the character of Socrates capped the
synthesis in the mind of Plato.
PPh 4.75 23
...[Plato] was able...to avail himself of the wit and weight of
Socrates, to which unquestionably his own debt was great; and these
derived again their principal advantage from the perfect art of Plato.
PPh 4.75 24
...the defect of Plato in power is only that which results
inevitably from his quality.
PPh 4.76 5
It is almost the sole deduction from the merit of Plato that his
writings have not...the vital authority which the screams of prophets...
possess.
PPh 4.77 4
Plato would willingly have a Platonism, a known and accurate
expression for the world...
PPh 4.77 7
[Plato's Platonism] shall be the world passed through the mind
of Plato...
PPh 4.77 19
...elements, planet itself, laws of planet and of men, have
passed through this man [Plato] as bread into his body, and become no
longer bread, but body: so all this mammoth morsel has become Plato.
PPh 4.77 27
...the bitten world holds the biter fast by his own teeth. There
he perishes: unconquered nature lives on and forgets him. So it fares with
all: so must it fare with Plato.
PPh 4.78 1
In view of eternal nature, Plato turns out of be philosophical
exercitations.
PPh 4.78 8
...admirable texts can be quoted on both sides of every great
question from [Plato]. These things we are forced to say if we must
consider the effort of Plato or of any philosopher to dispose of nature,--
which will not be disposed of.
PPh 4.78 13
No power of genius has ever yet had the smallest success in
explaining existence. The perfect enigma remains. But there is an injustice
in assuming this ambition for Plato.
PPh 4.79 7
The great-eyed Plato proportioned the lights and shades after
the genius of our life.
PNR 4.80 2
The publication, in Mr. Bohn's Serial Library, of the excellent
translations of Plato...gives us an occasion to take hastily a few more notes
of the elevation and bearings of this fixed star;...
PNR 4.80 7
The publication, in Mr. Bohn's Serial Library, of the excellent
translations of Plato...gives us an occasion...to add a bulletin, like the
journals, of Plato at the latest dates.
PNR 4.81 13
...Plato has the fortune in the history of mankind to mark an
epoch.
PNR 4.82 2
...the Republic of Plato...may be said to require and so to
anticipate the astronomy of Laplace.
PNR 4.82 7
In ascribing to Plato the merit of announcing [the expansions
of facts], we only say, Here was a more complete man, who could apply to
nature the whole scale of the senses, the understanding and the reason.
PNR 4.83 22
Plato affirms the coincidence of science and virtue;...
PNR 4.83 26
The eye attested that justice was best, as long as it was
profitable; Plato affirms that it is profitable throughout;...
PNR 4.85 13
Ethical science was new and vacant when Plato could write
thus:--Of all whose arguments are left to the men of the present time, no
one has ever yet condemned injustice, or praised justice, otherwise than as
respects the repute, honors, and emoluments arising therefrom;...
PNR 4.86 6
Plato is so centred that he can well spare all his dogmas.
PNR 4.86 23
...[Plato's] forerunners had mapped out each a farm or a
district or an island, in intellectual geography, but...Plato first drew the
sphere.
PNR 4.88 24
...in Plato, intellect is always moral.
PNR 4.89 25
Plato plays Providence a little with the baser sort...
SwM 4.96 1
If one should ask the reason of this intuition, the solution
would lead us into that property which Plato denoted as Reminiscence...
SwM 4.113 15
This book [The Animal Kingdom] announces [Swedenborg'
s] favorite dogmas. The ancient doctrine...of Leucippus, that the atom may
be known by the mass; or, in Plato, the macrocosm by the microcosm;...
SwM 4.116 27
The fact [of Correspondence] thus explicitly stated [by
Swedenborg] is implied...in the structure of language. Plato knew it...
SwM 4.120 6
[Swedenborg] had borrowed from Plato the fine fable of a
most ancient people, men better than we and dwelling nigher to the gods;...
SwM 4.123 25
Plato is a gownsman;...
SwM 4.127 5
[Swedenborg's Conjugal Love] came near to be the Hymn of
Love, which Plato attempted in the Banquet;...
MoS 4.150 14
Read the haughty language in which Plato and the Platonists
speak of all men who are not devoted to their own shining abstractions...
MoS 4.165 25
...I, [says Montaigne,]...am afraid that Plato, in his purest
virtue, if he had listened and laid his ear close to himself, would have heard
some jarring sound of human mixture;...
GoW 4.282 22
That a man has spent years on Plato and Proclus, does not
afford a presumption that he holds heroic opinions...
ET1 5.16 25
Plato [Carlyle] does not read...
ET12 5.203 9
In the Bodleian Library, Dr. Bandinel showed me the
manuscript Plato...
ET14 5.238 7
The influence of Plato tinges the British genius.
ET14 5.238 15
...Britain had many disciples of Plato;...
ET14 5.241 1
Plato had signified the same sense, when he said, All the
great arts require a subtle and speculative research into the law of nature...
ET14 5.241 23
A few generalizations always circulate in the world...and
these are in the world constants, like the Copernican and Newtonian
theories in physics. In England these...do all have a kind of filial retrospect
to Plato and the Greeks.
ET14 5.243 24
The later English want the faculty of Plato and Aristotle, of
grouping men in natural classes by an insight of general laws...
ET14 5.245 17
...[Hallam's] eye does not reach to the ideal standards...all
new thought must be cast into the old moulds. The expansive element
which creates literature is steadily denied. Plato is resisted, and his school.
Ctr 6.139 14
A boy, says Plato, is the most vicious of all wild beasts;...
Ctr 6.141 23
The best heads that ever existed, Pericles, Plato...were well-read,
universally educated men...
Ctr 6.142 7
I like people who like Plato.
Ctr 6.156 11
...Plato, Plotinus...did not live in a crowd...
Ctr 6.161 11
...a wise man who knows not only what Plato, but what Saint
John can show him, can easily raise the affair he deals with to a certain
majesty.
Ctr 6.161 13
...a wise man who knows not only what Plato, but what Saint
John can show him, can easily raise the affair he deals with to a certain
majesty. Plato says Pericles owed this elevation to the lessons of
Anaxagoras.
Bty 6.306 22
Wherever we begin, thither our steps tend: an ascent from the
joy of a horse in his trappings...up to the perception of Plato that globe and
universe are rude and early expressions of an all-dissolving Unity,--the first
stair on the scale to the temple of the Mind.
Art2 7.39 13
...Plato rightly said, Those things which are said to be done by
Nature are indeed done by Divine Art.
Elo1 7.62 14
Plato says that the punishment which the wise suffer who
refuse to take part in the government, is, to live under the government of
worse men;...
Boks 7.191 17
Whenever any skeptic or bigot claims to be heard on the
questions of intellect and morals, we ask if he is familiar with the books of
Plato, where all his pert objections have once for all been disposed of.
Boks 7.198 8
Of Plato I hesitate to speak, lest there should be no end.
Boks 7.198 14
You find in [Plato] that which you have already found in
Homer...as if Homer were the youth and Plato the finished man;...
Boks 7.198 19
In Plato you explore modern Europe in its causes and seed...
Boks 7.198 23
The well-informed man finds himself anticipated [by Plato].
Plato is up with him too.
Boks 7.199 15
...who can overestimate the images with which Plato has
enriched the minds of men...
Boks 7.200 21
An inestimable trilogy of ancient social pictures are the
three Banquets respectively of Plato, Xenophon and Plutarch.
Boks 7.201 1
Xenophon's delineation of Athenian manners is an accessory
to Plato...
Boks 7.202 18
Of Jamblichus the Emperor Julian said that he was posterior
to Plato in time, not in genius.
Clbs 7.248 9
Plutarch, Xenophon and Plato, who have celebrated each a
banquet of their set, have given us next to no data of the viands;...
Suc 7.296 11
We should know how to praise...Plato...without
impoverishing us.
Suc 7.297 20
...[the youth] can read Plato, covered to his chin with a cloak
in a cold upper chamber...
PI 8.13 17
I had rather have a good symbol of my thought...than the
suffrage of Kant or Plato.
PI 8.18 14
...what is life? what is force? Push [the savans] hard and they
will not be loquacious. They will come to Plato, Proclus and Swedenborg.
PI 8.65 5
...when we speak of the Poet in any high sense, we are driven to
such examples as Zoroaster and Plato...with their moral burdens.
QO 8.180 20
Read in Plato and you shall find Christian dogmas...
QO 8.193 1
It is no more according to Plato than according to me.
QO 8.202 10
Plato, Cicero and Plutarch cite the poets in the manner in
which Scripture is quoted in our churches.
PC 8.213 19
We cannot yet afford to drop Homer...nor Plato...
PC 8.228 24
It was the conviction of Plato...that piety is an essential
condition of science...
Insp 8.274 20
Plato...notes that the perception is only accomplished by long
familiarity with the objects of intellect...
Insp 8.280 2
Plato thought exercise would almost cure a guilty conscience.
Insp 8.295 11
You may read Plutarch, Plato, Plotinus, Hindoo mythology
and ethics.
Grts 8.311 23
[The scholar's] courage is to weigh Plato...
Imtl 8.347 3
Read Plato, or any seer of the interior realities.
Imtl 8.348 5
...Plato and Cicero had both allowed themselves to overstep
the stern limits of the spirit, and gratify the people with that picture [of
personal immortality].
SovE 10.186 27
'T is a long scale...from the gorilla to Plato, Newton,
Shakspeare...
Prch 10.229 22
[The clergy] look into Plato, or into the mind, and then try
to make parish mince-meat of the amplitudes and eternities, and the shock
is noxious.
MoL 10.249 15
...let us have masculine and divine men, formidable
lawgivers, Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle...
Schr 10.271 21
...[genius and virtue] are the First Good, of which Plato
affirms that all things are for its sake...
Plu 10.297 21
[Plutarch] is...not a metaphysician, like Parmenides, Plato or
Aristotle;...
Plu 10.297 25
[Plutarch] is...not a leader of the mind of a generation, like
Plato or Goethe.
Plu 10.306 11
We are always interested in the man who treats the intellect
well. We expect it from the philosopher,-from Plato, Aristotle, Spinoza
and Kant;...
Plu 10.306 26
Plato and Plotinus are enthusiasts, who honor the race;...
Plu 10.308 6
[Plutarch] wonders with Plato at that nail of pain and pleasure
which fastens the body to the mind.
Plu 10.308 15
Of philosophy he is more interested in the results than in the
method. He...prefers to sit as a scholar with Plato, than as a disputant;...
Plu 10.314 13
I can easily believe that an anxious soul may find in Plutarch'
s...Letter to his Wife Timoxena, a more sweet and reassuring argument on
the immortality than in the Phaedo of Plato;...
LLNE 10.341 24
Margaret Fuller, George Ripley...and many others...from
time to time spent an afternoon at each other's houses in a serious
conversation. With them was always...a man...who read Plato as an equal...
LLNE 10.353 15
...it would be better to say, Let us be lovers and servants
of that which is just, and straightway every man becomes a centre of a holy
and beneficent republic, which he sees to include all men in its law, like
that of Plato, and of Christ.
LLNE 10.363 14
[Charles Newcomb's] reading lay in Aeschylus, Plato,
Dante, Calderon, Shakspeare...
MMEm 10.402 14
[Mary Moody Emerson's] early reading was Milton,
Young, Akenside, Samuel Clarke, Jonathan Edwards, and always the Bible.
Later, Plato, Plotinus, Marcus Antoninus...
MMEm 10.402 22
...Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus,-how venerable and
organic as Nature they are in [Mary Moody Emerson's] mind!
Carl 10.489 12
If you would know precisely how [Carlyle] talks, just
suppose Hugh Whelan (the gardener) had found leisure enough in addition
to all his daily work to read Plato and Shakspeare...
Wom 11.406 23
Plato said, Women are the same as men in faculty, only
less in degree.
CPL 11.502 10
Homer and Plato and Pindar and Shakspeare serve many
more than have heard their names.
PLT 12.32 25
What can Plato or Newton teach, if you are deaf or
incapable?
Mem 12.99 11
Plato deplores writing as a barbarous invention which would
weaken the memory by disuse.
Mem 12.103 7
Plato remembered Anaxagoras by one of his sayings.
CL 12.142 2
...Plato said of exercise that it would almost cure a guilty
conscience.
CL 12.165 11
Swedenborg or Behman or Plato tried to decipher this
hieroglyphic [of Nature]...
Bost 12.197 21
In the midst of [New England's] laborious and economical
and rude and awkward population...you shall not unfrequently meet that
refinement...which...nourishes itself on Plato and Dante...
MAng1 12.240 26
[Condivi wrote] As for me, I am ignorant what Plato has
said upon this subject [love]; but this I know very well, that in a long
intimacy, I never heard from [Michelangelo's] mouth a single word that
was not perfectly decorous...
ACri 12.286 26
See how Plato managed it, with an imagination so
gorgeous, and a taste so patrician, that Jove, if he descended, was to speak
in his style.
MLit 12.311 18
How can the age be a bad one which gives me Plato and
Paul and Plutarch...beside its own riches?
WSL 12.339 7
...nor will [Landor] persuade us to burn Plato and
Xenophon, out of our admiration of Bishop Patrick...
Pray 12.351 12
In the Phaedrus of Plato, we find this petition in the mouth
of Socrates: O gracious Pan!...grant that I may be beautiful within;...
PPr 12.389 27
Plato is the purple ancient...
platonic, adj. (2)
MAng1 12.240 3
There is yet one more trait in Michael Angelo's history,
which humanizes his character without lessening its loftiness; this is his
platonic love.
MAng1 12.240 25
Condivi, his friend, has left this testimony; I have often
heard Michael Angelo reason and discourse upon love, but never heard him
speak otherwise than upon platonic love.
Platonic, adj. (7)
PPh 4.77 8
[Plato's Platonism] shall be the world passed through the mind
of Plato,--nothing less. Every atom shall have the Platonic tinge;...
SwM 4.106 14
The thoughts in which [Swedenborg] lived were, the
universality of each law in nature; the Platonic doctrine of the scale or
degrees;...
SwM 4.108 15
This new spine [the skull] is destined to high uses. It is a
new man on the shoulders of the last. It can almost shed its trunk and
manage to live alone, according to the Platonic idea in the Timaeus.
SwM 4.127 15
[Swedenborg's Conjugal Love] is a fine Platonic
development of the science of marriage;...
ET14 5.239 22
The Platonic is the poetic tendency;...
ET14 5.247 13
[Macaulay] thinks it the distinctive merit of the Baconian
philosophy in its triumph over the old Platonic, its disentangling the
intellect from theories of the all-Fair and all-Good, and pinning it down to
the making of a better sick chair and a better wine-whey for an invalid;...
Boks 7.203 9
...[in the Platonists] the grand and pleasing figures of gods
and daemons and daemoniacal men...and all the rest of the Platonic
rhetoric...sail before [the scholar's] eyes.
Platonism, n. (5)
PPh 4.77 4
Plato would willingly have a Platonism, a known and accurate
expression for the world...
PPh 4.78 4
The acutest German, the lovingest disciple, could never tell
what Platonism was;...
OA 7.316 19
Whilst...our mates are yet youths with even boyish remains,
one good fellow in the set prematurely sports a gray or a bald head, which
does not impose on us who know how innocent of sanctity or of Platonism
he is...
SovE 10.205 21
If I miss the inspiration of the saints of Calvinism, or of
Platonism, or Buddhism, our times are not up to theirs...
EurB 12.369 6
...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,-not from Platonism, not from
Christianity...
platonist, n. (1)
ET17 5.295 18
I told [Wordsworth] it was not creditable that no one in all
the country knew anything of Thomas Taylor, the Platonist...
Platonist, n. (6)
UGM 4.29 25
Be another: not thyself, but a Platonist;...
PNR 4.88 6
Michael Angelo is a Platonist in his sonnets...
PNR 4.88 7
Shakspeare is a Platonist when he writes,--Nature is made
better by no mean,/ But nature makes that mean/...
PNR 4.88 15
Hamlet is a pure Platonist...
PNR 4.88 19
Swedenborg, throughout his prose poem of Conjugal Love, is
a Platonist.
PI 8.50 10
Thomas Taylor, the Platonist...is really a better man of
imagination, a better poet...than any man between Milton and Wordsworth.
Platonists, n. (10)
NR 3.225 10
The genius of the Platonists is intoxicating to the student...
PPh 4.40 16
How many great men Nature is incessantly sending up out of
night, to be [Plato's] men,--Platonists!...
MoS 4.150 14
Read the haughty language in which Plato and the Platonists
speak of all men who are not devoted to their own shining abstractions...
ET13 5.224 3
...[the Anglican Church's] instinct is hostile to all change in
politics, literature, or social arts. The church has not been the founder...of
the Free School, of whatever aims at diffusion of knowledge. The Platonists
of Oxford are as bitter against this heresy, as Thomas Taylor.
ET14 5.239 15
Bacon, in the structure of his mind, held...of the idealists,
or...Platonists.
ET14 5.239 21
Locke is as surely the influx of decomposition and of prose,
as Bacon and the Platonists of growth.
ET14 5.239 25
'T is quite certain that Spenser, Burns, Byron and
Wordsworth will be Platonists...
Boks 7.202 14
If we come down a little [in Greek history] by natural steps
from the master to the disciples, we have...the Platonists, who also cannot
be skipped...
QO 8.195 24
Hallam...is...able to appreciate poetry unless it becomes deep,
being always blind and deaf to imaginative and analogy-loving souls, like
the Platonists...
Schr 10.272 8
Gold and silver, says one of the Platonists, grow in the earth
from the celestial gods...
Platonize, v. (1)
PNR 4.88 5
...a very well-marked class of souls...are said to Platonize.
platonizes, v. (1)
Cir 2.308 14
A wise man will see that Aristotle platonizes.
platoon, n. (2)
LE 1.180 17
...everything [was] expected from the valor and discipline of
every platoon, in flank and centre [in Napoleon's army]...
LT 1.261 21
If you speak of the age, you mean your own platoon of
people...
platoons, n. (1)
LT 1.261 23
...Dante and Milton painted in colossal their platoons, and
called them Heaven and Hell.
Plato's, n. (17)
Nat 1.55 17
Is not the charm of one of Plato's or Aristotle's definitions
strictly like that of the Antigone of Sophocles?
AmS 1.93 14
The discerning will read, in his Plato or Shakspeare...only the
authentic utterances of the oracle; - all the rest he rejects, were it never so
many times Plato's and Shakspeare's.
Hist 2.2 3
I am owner of the sphere,/ .../ Of Caesar's hand, and Plato's
brain/...
PPh 4.70 22
...[Plato] constantly affirms...that the greatest goods...are
assigned to us by a divine gift. This leads me to that central figure...whose
biography he has likewise so labored that the historic facts are lost in the
light of Plato's mind.
PPh 4.70 26
Socrates again, in his traits and genius, is the best example of
that synthesis which constitutes Plato's extraordinary power.
PNR 4.81 15
Plato's fame does not stand on a syllogism...
ShP 4.211 27
A good reader can, in a sort, nestle into Plato's brain and
think from thence; but not into Shakspeare's.
ET17 5.295 20
I said, if Plato's Republic were published in England as a
new book to-day, do you think it would find any readers?--[Wordsworth]
confessed it would not...
Elo1 7.64 16
Plato's definition of rhetoric is, the art of ruling the minds of
men.
DL 7.110 10
How could such a book as Plato's Dialogues have come
down, but for the sacred savings of scholars...
WD 7.169 27
The scholar must look long for the right hour for Plato's
Timaeus.
Boks 7.201 2
...Plato's [delineation of Athenian manners] has merits of
every kind...
QO 8.177 13
He who has once known [a book's] satisfactions is provided
with a resource against calamity. Like Plato's disciple who has perceived a
truth, he is preserved from harm until another period.
QO 8.187 3
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.
QO 8.187 3
Antiphanes, one of Plato's friends, laughingly compared his
writings to a city where the words froze in the air as soon as they were
pronounced...
QO 8.191 8
We may like well to know what is Plato's and what is
Montesquieu's or Goethe's part, and what thought was always dear to the
writer himself;...
Wom 11.407 26
As for Plato's opinion [of women], it is true that, up to
recent times, in no art or science, nor in painting, poetry or music, have
they produced a masterpiece.
platter, n. (1)
MR 1.251 25
...when [Caliph Omar] left Medina to go to the conquest of
Jerusalem, he rode on a red camel, with a wooden platter hanging at his
saddle...
plausibility, n. (1)
PPr 12.379 23
...the topic of English politics becomes the best vehicle for
the expression of [Carlyle's] recent thinking, recommended to him by the
desire...to strip the worst mischiefs of their plausibility.
plausible, adj. (7)
LE 1.176 4
We live in the sun and on the surface,-a thin, plausible,
superficial existence...
ET12 5.205 2
The whole expense, says Professor Sewel, of ordinary
college tuition at Oxford, is about sixteen guineas a year. But this plausible
statement may deceive a reader unacquainted with the fact that the principal
teaching relied on is private tuition.
F 6.45 24
Such an one [a strong, astringent, billious nature] has curculios,
borers, knife-worms; a swindler ate him first...then smooth, plausible
gentlemen...
Imtl 8.329 9
A man of affairs is afraid to die...because he...is the victim of
those who have moulded the religious doctrines into some neat and
plausible system...
MoL 10.243 12
It is the perpetual tendency of wealth to draw on the
spiritual class...in plausible and covert ways.
FSLN 11.225 11
Nobody doubts that there were good and plausible things
to be said on the part of the South.
CInt 12.120 7
...I value [talent] more...when the talent is...in harmony with
the public sentiment of mankind. Such is the patriotism of Demosthenes, of
Patrick Henry...not the making a plausible case...
plausibly, adv. (1)
Shak1 11.449 17
...we have already seen the most fantastic theories
plausibly urged, that Raleigh and Bacon were the authors of [Shakespeare'
s] plays.
plausive, adj. (1)
WD 7.169 9
In college terms, and in years that followed, the young
graduate, when the Commencement anniversary returned, though he were
in a swamp, would...find the air faintly echoing with plausive academic
thunders.
play, n. (69)
MN 1.205 16
See the play of thoughts!...
MN 1.209 15
As children in their play run behind each other, and seize one
by the ears and make him walk before them, so is the spirit our unseen pilot.
LT 1.261 15
The reason and influence of wealth...the fuller development
and the freer play of Character as a social and political agent;-these and
other related topics will in turn come to be considered.
Con 1.318 12
...beside that charity which should...engage [adult persons] to
see that [the youth] has a free field and fair play on his entrance into life,
we are bound to see that the society of which we compose a part, does not
permit the formation...of views...injurious to the honor and welfare of
mankind.
Tran 1.336 12
In the play of Othello, the expiring Desdemona absolves her
husband of the murder, to her attendant Emilia.
Lov1 2.183 19
...this dream of love, though beautiful, is only one scene in
our play.
Lov1 2.187 16
At last [lovers] discover that all which at first drew them
together...that magical play of charms,--was deciduous...
Hsm1 2.247 20
I do not readily remember any poem, play, sermon, novel
or oration that our press vents in the last few years, which goes to the same
[heroic] tune.
Cir 2.312 20
All the argument and all the wisdom is...in the sonnet or the
play.
Mrs1 3.135 10
We call together many friends who keep each other in play...
UGM 4.10 21
The table of logarithms is one thing, and its vital play in
botany, music, optics and architecture another.
UGM 4.31 25
Fair play and an open field and freshest laurels to all who
have won them!
PPh 4.74 14
This hard-headed humorist [Socrates]...turns out...to be either
insane, or at least, under cover of this play, enthusiastic in his religion.
ShP 4.193 27
The rude warm blood of the living England circulated in the
play...
ShP 4.195 21
The first play [Shakespeare's Henry VIII] was written by a
superior, thoughtful man, with a vicious ear.
ShP 4.196 4
...the play [Henry VIII] contains through all its length
unmistakable traits of Shakspeare's hand...
NMW 4.252 6
[Napoleon] could enjoy every play of invention...as well as
a stratagem in a campaign.
ET3 5.36 14
Every book we read, every biography, play, romance, in
whatever form, is still English history and manners.
ET5 5.78 10
The English game is...fair play and open field...
ET5 5.81 21
Into this English logic...an infusion of justice enters, not so
apparent in other races;--a belief in the existence of two sides, and the
resolution to see fair play.
ET5 5.99 14
An electric touch by any of their national ideas, melts [the
English] into one family, and brings the hoards of power which their
individuality is always hiving, into use and play for all.
ET14 5.254 3
...for the most part the natural science in England...is as void
of imagination and free play of thought as conveyancing.
F 6.13 16
In England there is always some man of wealth and large
connection...who, as soon as he begins to die, checks his forward play...
F 6.26 24
...in [the intellectual man's] presence...we forget very fast what
he says, much more interested in the new play of our own thought than in
any thought of his.
Pow 6.61 25
...[a timid man] discovers that the enormous elements of
strength which are here in play make our politics unimportant.
Pow 6.78 1
John Kemble said that the worst provincial company of actors
would go through a play better than the best amateur company.
Wth 6.103 18
A dollar...is worth more...in a temperate, schooled, law-abiding
community than in some sink of crime, where dice, knives and
arsenic are in constant play.
Ctr 6.158 20
...[Bonaparte] could criticise a play...and give a just opinion.
Wsp 6.239 19
[Immortality] must be proved, if at all, from our own activity
and designs, which imply an interminable future for their play.
Bty 6.301 19
There are faces...so flushed and rippled by the play of
thought, that we can hardly find what the mere features really are.
Ill 6.317 17
'T is the charm of practical men that outside of their
practicality are a certain poetry and play...
Ill 6.318 21
What if you shall come to discern that the play and playground
of all this pompous history are radiations from yourself...
Art2 7.44 4
Eloquence...is modified how much by the material organization
of the orator...the play of the eye and countenance.
Art2 7.46 4
[The temple] is exalted by...the play of the clouds...
Art2 7.46 14
The effect of music belongs how much...if on the stage, to
what went before in the play...
Art2 7.50 20
...every work of art, in proportion to its excellence, partakes
of the precision of fate: no room was there for choice, no play for fancy;...
Elo1 7.70 2
[The right eloquence] draws the children from their play...
Clbs 7.240 14
What can you do with Beaumarchais, who converts the
censor whom the court has appointed to stifle his play into an ardent
advocate?
Clbs 7.240 20
The court successively appoints three more severe
inquisitors; Beaumarchais converts them all into triumphant vindicators of
the play which is to bring in the Revolution.
Cour 7.260 26
...the only title I can have to your help is when I have
manfully put forth all the means I possess to keep me, and being overborne
by odds, the by-standers have a natural wish to interfere and see fair play.
Cour 7.261 5
Tender, amiable boys, who had never encountered any
rougher play than a base-ball match...were suddenly drawn up to face a
bayonet charge or capture a battery.
PI 8.29 2
...fancy [is] a play as with dolls and puppets...
PI 8.36 3
The writer in the parlor has more presence of mind, more wit and
fancy, more play of thought, on the incidents that occur at table or about the
house, than in the politics of Germany or Rome.
PI 8.45 4
...I doubt if the best poet has yet written any five-act play that can
compare in thoroughness of invention with this unwritten play in fifty acts,
composed by the dullest snorer on the floor of the watch-house.
PI 8.45 6
...I doubt if the best poet has yet written any five-act play that can
compare in thoroughness of invention with this unwritten play in fifty acts,
composed by the dullest snorer on the floor of the watch-house.
PC 8.224 15
As language is in the alphabet, so is entire Nature, the play of
all its laws, in one atom.
PPo 8.250 7
...it is the play of wit and the joy of song that [Hafiz] loves;...
Dem1 10.19 13
...I find...some play at blindman's-buff, when men as wise
as Goethe talk mysteriously of the demonological.
PerF 10.85 2
A man...has the fancy and invention of a poet, and says, I will
write a play that shall be repeated in London a hundred nights;...
Schr 10.268 4
...I rather wish you to...give play to your energies...
Schr 10.277 3
These shrewd faculties belong to man. I love to see them in
play...
Plu 10.309 6
In many of these chapters [in Plutarch] it is easy to infer the
relation between the Greek philosophers and those who came to them for
instruction. This teaching was no play nor routine...
LLNE 10.332 24
In the lecture-room, [Everett]...pleased himself with the
play of detailing erudition in a style of perfect simplicity.
MMEm 10.424 7
[Time] Hasten to finish thy motley work, on which
frightful Gorgons are at play...
JBS 11.277 22
[John Brown] said that he loved rough play, could never
have rough play enough;...
JBS 11.277 23
[John Brown] said that he loved rough play, could never
have rough play enough;...
SMC 11.356 19
All sorts of men went to the [Civil] war,-the roughs, men
who liked harsh play and violence...
SMC 11.358 25
The older among us can well remember [George Prescott]
at school, at play and at work...
Wom 11.408 27
Conversation is our account of ourselves. All we have, all
we can, all we know, is brought into play...
SHC 11.436 3
Our use [of Sleepy Hollow] will not displace the old tenants.
The well-beloved birds will not sing one song the less...and in the grass,
and by the pond, the locust, the cricket and the hyla, shall shrilly play.
PLT 12.11 17
I confine my ambition to true reporting of [intellect's] play
in natural action...
PLT 12.50 5
Shakspeare astonishes by his equality in every play, act, scene
or line.
II 12.85 1
...all parties acquiesce, at last, each in a private box, with the
whole play performed before himself solus.
CL 12.153 22
On the seashore the play of the Atlantic with the coast! What
wealth is here!
Bost 12.200 19
...a gold-mine, a new country...offer swing and play to the
confined powers.
ACri 12.294 1
...in the conduct of the play, and the speech of the heroes,
[Shakespeare] keeps the level tone which is the tone of high and low alike...
WSL 12.338 7
Add to this proud blindness [of John Bull] the better quality
of...the love of fair play, on all occasions...
WSL 12.345 1
...in the character of Pericles [Landor] has found full play
for beauty and greatness of behavior...
EurB 12.365 5
It was a brighter day than we have often known in our
literary calendar, when within a twelvemonth a single London
advertisement announced a new volume of poems by Wordsworth, poems
by Tennyson, and a play by Henry Taylor.
play, v. (94)
DSA 1.121 15
...this homely game of life we play, covers...principles that
astonish.
LT 1.266 25
A little while this interval of wonder and comparison is
permitted us, but to the end that we shall play a manly part.
Con 1.302 17
Here is the fact which men call Fate...necessitating the
question whether the faculties of man will play him true in resisting the
facts of universal experience?
Con 1.318 25
...[the conservative party] makes so many additions and
supplements to the machine of society that it will play smoothly and softly,
but will no longer grind any grist.
Hist 2.13 6
Why should we make account of time, or of magnitude, or of
figure? The soul knows them not, and genius, obeying its law, knows how
to play with them...
Hist 2.36 20
Put Napoleon in an island prison, let his faculties find...no
stake to play for, and he would beat the air, and appear stupid.
SR 2.48 12
...one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who
prattle and play to it.
SL 2.159 16
A man may play the fool in the drifts of a desert, but every
grain of sand shall seem to see.
Fdsp 2.199 14
We are armed all over with subtle antagonisms, which, as
soon as we meet, begin to play...
Fdsp 2.199 26
Our faculties do not play us true...
Hsm1 2.256 21
Simple hearts...play their own game...
Cir 2.307 17
...why should I play with [my friends] this game of idolatry?
Cir 2.309 18
We learn first to play with [idealism] academically...
Art1 2.349 20
'T is the privilege of Art/ Thus to play its cheerful part/...
Art1 2.361 3
...in my younger days...I fancied the great pictures would be...
a foreign wonder, barbaric pearl and gold, like the spontoons and standards
of the militia, which play such pranks in the eyes and imaginations of
school-boys.
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.
Mrs1 3.155 1
...I shall hear without pain that I play the courtier very ill...
Nat2 3.174 25
A boy hears a military band play on the field at night, and he
has kings and queens and famous chivalry palpably before him.
Nat2 3.185 16
...when now and then comes along some sad, sharp-eyed
man, who sees how paltry a game is played, and refuses to play but blabs
the secret;--how then?
NR 3.231 16
...morning and night, solstice and equinox, geometry,
astronomy and all the lovely accidents of nature play through [the day-laborer's]
mind.
NR 3.236 24
Nick Bottom cannot play all the parts, work it how he may;...
NER 3.262 8
Do you complain of the laws of Property? It is a pedantry to
give such importance to them. Can we not play the game of life with these
counters, as well as those?...
PNR 4.84 16
[Plato affirms that] The right punishment of one out of tune is
to make him play in tune;...
SwM 4.120 25
This design of exhibiting such correpondences [between
heaven and earth], which, if adequately executed, would be the poem of the
world, in which all history and science would play an essential part, was
narrowed and defeated by the exclusively theologic direction which
[Swedenborg's] inquiries took.
MoS 4.161 11
Every thing that is excellent in mankind...every one skilful
to play and win,--[the wise skeptic] will see and judge.
MoS 4.166 25
As I look at [Montaigne's] effigy opposite the title-page, I
seem to hear him say, You may play old Poz, if you will;...
MoS 4.167 20
[I seem to hear Montaigne say] Why should I vapor and play
the philosopher...
MoS 4.168 27
Montaigne...does not wish to...play any antics...
MoS 4.173 6
[The wise skeptic] does not wish...to play the part of devil's
attorney...
MoS 4.175 21
...as soon as each man attains the poise and vivacity which
allow the whole machinery to play, he will not need extreme examples...
MoS 4.183 10
I play with the miscellany of facts, and take those superficial
views which we call skepticism;...
ET1 5.5 1
It is probable you left some obscure comrade...when you crossed
sea and land to play bo-peep with celebrated scribes.
ET5 5.76 18
...to set [the Saxon] at work and to begin to draw his
monstrous values out of barren Britain, all dishonor, fret and barrier must
be removed, and then his energies begin to play.
ET12 5.210 27
The diet and rough exercise [at Oxford] secure a certain
amount of old Norse power. A fop will fight, and in exigent circumstances
will play the manly part.
ET16 5.275 20
I told Carlyle that...I like the [English] people;...but
meantime, I surely know that as soon as I return to Massachusetts I shall
lapse at once into the feeling, which the geography of America inevitably
inspires, that we play the game with immense advantage;...
ET18 5.307 7
...we must not play Providence and balance the chances of
producing ten great men against the comfort of ten thousand mean men...
F 6.9 22
Find the part which black eyes and which blue eyes play severally
in the company.
F 6.40 14
All the toys that infatuate men and which they play for...are the
selfsame thing...
Pow 6.68 13
Men of this surcharge of arterial blood...cannot read novels
and play whist;...
Wth 6.100 2
Commerce is a game of skill, which every man cannot play,
which few men can play well.
Wth 6.106 5
The laws of nature play through trade...
Wth 6.106 11
The sublime laws play indifferently through atoms and
galaxies.
Wth 6.106 27
...however wary we are of the falsehoods and petty tricks
which we suicidally play off on each other, every man has a certain
satisfaction whenever his dealing touches on the inevitable facts;...
Ctr 6.162 6
We wish to...play at heroism.
Wsp 6.201 9
I have no fears of being forced in my own despite to play as
we say the devil's attorney.
Wsp 6.203 9
Men as naturally make a state, or a church, as caterpillars a
web. If they were more refined...it would be nervous, like that of the
Shakers, who...it is said are affected in the same way and the same time, to
work and to play;...
Ill 6.318 11
You play with jackstraws, balls...estates and politics; but there
are finer games before you.
Ill 6.322 23
Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games
with ourselves...
Civ 7.25 21
In bird and beast the organs are released and begin to play.
Art2 7.42 17
...we build a mill in such position as to set the north wind to
play upon our instrument...
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...
Elo1 7.65 9
Him we call an artist who shall play on an assembly of men as
a master on the keys of the piano...
Elo1 7.78 22
[Caesar]...declaimed to [the pirates]; if they did not applaud
his speeches, he threatened them with hanging...and in a short time, was
master of all on board. A man this is who...can never play his last card...
DL 7.114 7
...we desire to play the benefactor and the prince with our
townsmen...
WD 7.181 5
The savages in the islands...delight to play with the surf...
Clbs 7.231 27
...[the lover of letters] seeks the company of those who have
convivial talent. But the moment they meet, to be sure they begin to be
something else than they were; they play pranks...
Clbs 7.238 12
The startled giant [Wafthrudnir] replies...with Odin
contended I in wise words. Thou must ever the wisest be. And still the gods
and giants are so known, and still they play the same game in all the million
mansions of heaven and of earth;...
Cour 7.255 12
The third excellence is courage, the perfect will...which...is
never quite itself until the hazard is extreme; then...all its powers play well.
Suc 7.295 7
...it is a nice point to discriminate this self-trust...from the
disease to which it is allied,--the exaggeration of the part which we can
play;...
OA 7.328 4
The compensations of Nature play in age as in youth.
Elo2 8.128 20
This unmanliness [lack of eloquence] is so common a result
of our half-education...that I wish [a boy's] guardians to consider that they
are thus preparing him to play a contemptible part when he is full-grown.
QO 8.195 13
A man hears a fine sentence out of Swedenborg...and is very
merry at heart that he has now got so fine a thing. Translate it out of the
new words into his own usual phrase, and he will wonder again at his own
simplicity, such tricks do fine words play with us.
PC 8.229 12
When [a man] does not play a part...he communicates himself,
and not his vanity.
PC 8.232 25
We have suffered our young men of ambition to play the game
of politics and take the immoral side without loss of caste...
PPo 8.236 4
As Jelaleddin old and gray,/ [Saadi] seemed to bask, to dream
and play/ Without remoter hope or fear/ Than still to entertain his ear/...
Insp 8.292 14
A wise man goes to this game [of conversation] to play upon
others and to be played upon...
Dem1 10.9 13
A skilful man reads his dreams for his self-knowledge; yet
not the details, but the quality. What part does he play in them...
Aris 10.63 2
Pay [money], and you may play the tyrant at discretion...
PerF 10.80 14
...[the prisoner] took his flute out of his pocket and began to
play...
PerF 10.87 2
...a sensitive politician suffers his ideas of the part New York
or Pennsylvania or Ohio is to play in the future of the Union, to be
fashioned by the election of rogues in some counties.
Prch 10.224 26
...when [a man] shall act from one motive, and all his
faculties play true, it is clear mathematically...that this will tell in the
result...
Schr 10.273 18
Other men are...heaving and carrying, each that he may
peacefully execute the fine function by which they all are helped. Shall [the
scholar] play, whilst their eyes follow him from far with reverence...
Plu 10.320 7
[Plutarch] thought it wonderful that a man having a muse in
his own breast...would have pipes and harps play...
MMEm 10.411 4
...[Mary Moody Emerson] was no whistle that every
mouth could play on...
EWI 11.144 7
...if the black man carries in his bosom an indispensable
element of a new and coming civilization; for the sake of that element...he
will survive and play his part.
FSLC 11.210 25
......still the question recurs, What must we do [about
slavery]? One thing is plain, we cannot answer for the Union, but we must
keep Massachusetts true. It is of unspeakable importance that she play her
honest part.
TPar 11.291 7
There are men of good powers who have so much sympathy
that they must be silent when they are not in sympathy. If you don't agree
with them, they know they only injure the truth by speaking. Their faculties
will not play them true...
SMC 11.360 19
These letters [from soldiers] play a great part in the [Civil]
war.
Wom 11.408 11
The part [women] play in education...is their organic
office in the world.
RBur 11.443 17
...the music-boxes at Geneva are framed and toothed to
play [Burns's songs];...
FRep 11.535 27
[The class of which I speak] sit in decorated club-houses
in the cities, and burn tobacco and play whist;...
FRep 11.542 19
...man seems to play...a certain part that even tells on the
general face of the planet...
PLT 12.9 7
Here [in society] they play the game of conversation, as they
play billiards, for pastime and credit.
PLT 12.9 8
Here [in society] they play the game of conversation, as they
play billiards, for pastime and credit.
PLT 12.45 12
There is indeed this vice about men of thought, that you
cannot quite trust them;...because they have a hankering to play
Providence...
PLT 12.47 3
A man tries to speak [the truth] and his voice is...rude and
chiding. The truth is not spoken but injured. The same thing happens in
power to do the right. His rectitude is ridiculous. His organs do not play
him true.
PLT 12.58 23
No wonder the children...play horse, play soldier, play
school, play bear...
PLT 12.58 24
No wonder the children...play horse, play soldier, play
school, play bear...
II 12.79 26
The thoughts which wander through our mind, we do not
absorb and make flesh of, but...we retail them as news, to our lovers and to
all Athenians. At a dreadful loss we play this game;...
II 12.89 8
...the universe understands itself, and all the parts play with a
sure harmony.
Mem 12.97 21
A knife with a good spring...a watch, the teeth or jaws of
which fit and play perfectly...describe to us the difference between a person
of quick and strong perception...and a heavy man who witnesses the same
facts...
CInt 12.122 22
[A man] looks at all men as his representatives, and is glad
to see that his wit can work at that problem as it ought to be done, and
better than he could do it; whether it be to build...or play chess, or ride, or
swim.
CInt 12.129 9
Do not the electricities and the imponderable influences play
with all their magic undulations?
ACri 12.291 13
Resolute blotting rids you of all those phrases that sound
like something and mean nothing, with which scriptural forms play a large
part.
play-bill, n. (1)
ET19 5.310 11
...when I came to sea, I found the History of Europe, by Sir
A. Alison, on the ship's cabin table, the property of the captain;--a sort of
programme or play-bill to tell the seafaring New Englander what he shall
find on his landing here.
playbook, n. (1)
PI 8.56 18
Newton may be permitted to call Terence a playbook...
playbooks, n. (2)
ET11 5.179 27
'T is an old sneer that the Irish peerage drew their names
from playbooks.
Pow 6.58 21
...Shakspeare was theatre-manager and used the labor of many
young men, as well as the playbooks.
played, v. (33)
MN 1.202 6
When we...shorten the sight to look into this court of Louis
Quatorze, and see the game that is played there...one can hardly help
asking...whether it be quite worth while to...glut the innocent space with so
poor an article.
LT 1.278 4
You have on some occasion played a bold part.
Tran 1.352 17
...[the Transcendentalist says, my faith] is a certain brief
experience, which...made me aware that I had played the fool with fools all
this time...
Nat2 3.185 16
...when now and then comes along some sad, sharp-eyed
man, who sees how paltry a game is played, and refuses to play but blabs
the secret;--how then?
NR 3.242 13
...care is taken that the whole tune shall be played.
NER 3.274 18
The heroes of ancient and modern fame...have treated life
and fortune as a game to be well and skilfully played...
MoS 4.161 17
The terms of admission to this spectacle [of life] are, that
[the wise skeptic] have...proof that he has played with skill and success;...
GoW 4.271 19
...[Goethe] lived...in a time when Germany played no such
leading part in the world's affairs as to swell the bosom of her sons with
any metropolitan pride...
GoW 4.276 12
The Devil had played an important part in mythology in all
times.
ET11 5.176 2
[French and English nobles] were looked on as men who
played high for a great stake.
ET13 5.218 27
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.
Ctr 6.143 10
[The boy] is infatuated for weeks with whist and chess; but
presently will find out...that when he rises from the game too long played,
he is vacant and forlorn and despises himself.
CbW 6.262 3
...we go gladly to Faneuil Hall to be played upon by the
stormy winds and strong fingers of enraged patriotism...
Ill 6.322 22
Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games
with ourselves...
Civ 7.17 13
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./
Art2 7.44 26
A jumble of musical sounds...in which the rhythm of the tune
is played without one of the notes being right, gives pleasure to the
unskilful ear.
Elo1 7.84 9
Pepys says of Lord Clarendon...though he spoke indeed
excellent well, yet his manner and freedom of doing it, as if he played with
it, and was informing only all the rest of the company, was mighty pretty.
Cour 7.269 7
Morphy played a daring game in chess...
QO 8.182 11
The Bible itself is like an old Cremona [violin]; it has been
played upon by the devotion of thousands of years until every word and
particle is public and tunable.
PC 8.218 1
...a sentence, has played its part in great events.
Insp 8.292 14
A wise man goes to this game [of conversation] to play upon
others and to be played upon...
PerF 10.80 20
...[the prisoner] took his flute out of his pocket and began to
play...and the prisoner was by general consent of court and officers allowed
to go his way without any money. And I suppose, if he could have played
loud enough, we here should have beat time...
PerF 10.81 25
...if we fall in with a cricket-club and see the game masterly
played, the best player is the first of men;...
Edc1 10.139 25
Everybody delights in the energy with which boys deal and
talk with each other; the mixture of...love and wrath, with which the game
is played;...
LLNE 10.336 7
...the paramount source of the religious revolution was
Modern Science; beginning with Copernicus, who destroyed the pagan
fictions of the Church, by showing mankind that the earth on which we live
was not the centre of the Universe...and thus fitted to be the platform on
which the Drama of the Divine Judgment was played before the assembled
Angels of Heaven...
Thor 10.471 27
[Thoreau] confessed that he...if born among Indians, would
have been a fell hunter. But, restrained by his Massachusetts culture, he
played out the game in this mild form of botany and ichthyology.
HDC 11.82 8
...in 1788, the town [Concord], by its delegate, accepted the
new Constitution of the United States, and this event closed the whole
series of important public events in which this town played a part.
EWI 11.116 20
Throughout the island [Antigua], [the day after
emancipation] there was not a single dance known of...nor so much as a
fiddle played.
War 11.170 11
How is [this new aspiration of the human mind towards
peace] to pass out of thoughts into things? Not, certainly...in the way of
routine and mere forms...not by...going through a course of resolutions and
public manifestoes, and being thus formally accredited to the public and to
the civility of the newspapers. We have played this game to tediousness.
Wom 11.415 25
...another important step [for Woman] was made by the
doctrine of Swedenborg, a sublime genius who gave a scientific exposition
of the part played severally by man and woman in the world...
Scot 11.467 3
[Scott] played ever a manly part.
CInt 12.116 27
...[the scholars]...played the sycophant to presidents and
generals and members of Congress...
CL 12.152 10
The witch-hazel blooms to mark the last hour arrived, and
that Nature has played out her summer score.
player, n. (8)
SL 2.165 9
Bonaparte...rewarded in one and the same way the good soldier,
the good astronomer, the good poet, the good player.
SL 2.165 15
If the poet write a true drama, then he is Caesar, and not the
player of Caesar;...
UGM 4.22 5
...if there should appear in the company some gentle soul
who...certifies me of the equity which checkmates every false player...that
man liberates me;...
ShP 4.202 20
A popular player;--nobody suspected [Shakespeare] was the
poet of the human race;...
ShP 4.219 15
The world still wants its poet-priest, a reconciler, who shall
not trifle, with Shakspeare the player...
Boks 7.215 1
...the player in Consuelo insists that he and his colleagues on
the boards have taught princes the fine etiquette and strokes of grace and
dignity which they practise with so much effect in their villas...
Cour 7.269 8
Morphy played a daring game in chess: the daring was only
an illusion of the spectator, for the player sees his move to be well fortified
and safe.
PerF 10.81 25
...if we fall in with a cricket-club and see the game masterly
played, the best player is the first of men;...
players, n. (11)
Mrs1 3.127 4
...the youth finds himself in a more transparent atmosphere,
wherein life is a less troublesome game, and not a misunderstanding rises
between the players.
NR 3.241 19
...gamesters say that the cards beat all the players...
NR 3.241 20
...in the contest we are now considering, the players are also
the game...
PPh 4.71 6
The players personated [Socrates] on the stage;...
MoS 4.161 7
The wise skeptic wishes to have a near view of the best game
and the chief players;...
ShP 4.191 24
...extemporaneous enclosures at country fairs were the ready
theatres of strolling players.
ET13 5.220 21
The spirit that dwelt in this [English] church has glided
away to animate other activities, and they who come to the old shrines find
apes and players rustling the old garments.
Wth 6.99 21
Property is an intellectual production. The game requires
coolness, right reasoning, promptness and patience in the players.
Plu 10.309 9
The part of each of the class [of the Greek philosophers] is as
important as that of the master. They are like the baseball players, to whom
the pitcher, the bat, the catcher and the scout are equally important.
Thor 10.463 23
...those pieces of luck which happen only to good players
happened to [Thoreau].
HCom 11.342 6
It is a rule in games of chance that the cards beat all the
players...
Playfair, John, n. (3)
ET1 5.4 1
Like most young men at that time, I was much indebted to the
men of Edinburgh...to Scott, Playfair and DeQuincey;...
PI 8.8 17
In geology, what a useful hint was given to the early inquirers on
seeing in the possession of Professor Playfair a bough of a fossil tree which
was perfect wood at one end and perfect mineral coal at the other.
Scot 11.467 23
[Scott] found himself in his youth and manhood and age in
the society of...Playfair, Dugald Stewart, Sydney Smith...
playfellow, n. (1)
Chr1 3.93 19
I see [in the natural merchant]...the consciousness of being an
agent and playfellow of the original laws of the world.
playful, adj. (4)
Clbs 7.233 16
How delightful after these disturbers is the radiant, playful
wit of--one whom I need not name...
PPo 8.252 17
[Self-naming in poetry] gives [Hafiz] the opportunity of the
most playful self-assertion...
Thor 10.468 26
I think [Thoreau's] fancy for referring everything to the
meridian of Concord...was...a playful expression of his conviction of the
indifferency of all places...
CPL 11.494 1
The bishop of Cavaillon, Petrarch's friend, in a playful
experiment locked up the poet's library...
playfully, adv. (3)
ET1 5.15 16
[Carlyle's] talk playfully exalting the familiar objects, put the
companion at once into an acquaintance with his Lars and Lemurs...
Comc 8.169 26
...[Astley's] comrades playfully forced off his coat...
PLT 12.42 14
Each soul...walking in its own path walks firmly; and to the
astonishment of all other souls, who see not its path, it goes as softly and
playfully on its way as if...it were a wide prairie.
playfulness, n. (1)
Hsm1 2.256 6
Socrates's condemnation of himself to be maintained in all
honor in the Prytaneum, during his life, and Sir Thomas More's playfulness
at the scaffold, are of the same strain.
play-ground, n. [playground,] (4)
Nat 1.13 3
The field is at once [man's] floor, his work-yard, his play-ground,
his garden, and his bed.
AmS 1.97 3
...school and playground...are gone already;...
Ill 6.318 21
What if you shall come to discern that the play and playground
of all this pompous history are radiations from yourself...
Edc1 10.138 14
I like boys, the masters of the playground and of the street...
playgrounds, n. (1)
ET12 5.208 8
It is contended by those who have been bred at Eton,
Harrow, Rugby and Westminster...that, in their playgrounds, courage is
universally admired...
playhouse, n. [play-house,] (3)
SR 2.48 27
A boy is in the parlor what the pit is in the playhouse;...
NR 3.230 4
In the parliament, in the play-house, at dinner-tables [in
England], I might see a great number of rich, ignorant, book-read,
conventional, proud men...
EWI 11.131 19
The Governor of Massachusetts is a trifler; the State-House
in Boston is a play-house;...if they make laws which they cannot execute.
playing, n. (2)
Schr 10.263 9
A celebrated musician was wont to say, that men knew not
how much more he delighted himself with his playing than he did others;...
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.
playing, v. (15)
LE 1.177 4
...literary men...dealing with the organ of language...learn to
enjoy the pride of playing with this splendid engine...
Pt1 3.16 1
No imitation or playing of these things [of nature] would content
[the coachman or the hunter];...
Mrs1 3.151 6
...are there not women...who anoint our eyes and we see? We
say things we never thought to have said;...we were children playing with
children in a wide field of flowers.
Gts 3.161 2
I can think of many parts I should prefer playing to that of the
Furies.
PPh 4.59 9
Nothing can be colder than [Plato's] head, when the lightnings
of his imagination are playing in the sky.
Pow 6.64 9
The same elements are always present, only sometimes these
conspicuous, and sometimes those; what was yesterday foreground, being
to-day background;--what was surface, playing now a not less effective part
as basis.
PI 8.28 19
...[Lear] becomes fanciful with Tom, playing with the
superficial resemblances of objects.
Dem1 10.25 26
Mesmerism is...Momus playing Jove in the kitchens of
Olympus.
Prch 10.232 25
...the gigantic evils which seem to us so mischievous and
so incurable will at last end themselves and rid the world of their presence,
as all crime sooner or later must. But be that event for us soon or late, we
are not excused from playing our short part in the best manner we can...
Schr 10.279 4
The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with
it for pride.
LLNE 10.362 27
...[Charles Newcomb was] a student and philosopher,
who found his daily enjoyment not with the elders or his exact
contemporaries so much as with the fine boys who were skating and
playing ball or bird-hunting;...
EWI 11.145 6
...in the great anthem which we call history...after playing a
long time a very low and subdued accompaniment, [the black race] perceive
the time arrived when they can strike in with effect...
CL 12.155 21
...after having climbed the Alps, whilst I [Linnaeus], a youth
of twenty-five years, was spent and tired...these two old [Lap] men, one
fifty, one seventy years, running and playing like boys, felt none of the
inconveniences of the road...
Milt1 12.265 16
[Milton's native honor] refined his amusements, which
consisted in gardening, in exercise with the sword, and in playing on the
organ.
PPr 12.389 12
...in all his fun of...playing of tunes with a whiplash...
[Carlyle] does yet, ever and anon, as if catching the glance of one wise man
in the crowd...lance at him in clear level tone the very word...
playmates, n. (3)
Exp 3.49 24
[Nature]...likes that we should be her fools and playmates.
Wth 6.90 2
...all grand and subtile things, minerals, gases, ethers, passions,
war, trade, government,--are [man's] natural playmates...
JBS 11.278 1
...for [rough play] it needed that the playmates should be
equal;...
plays, n. (15)
Hist 2.16 22
...by watching for a time [a child's] motions and plays, the
painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at will in every attitude.
Hsm1 2.245 2
In the elder English dramatists, and mainly in the plays of
Beaumont and Fletcher, there is a constant recognition of gentility...
Hsm1 2.245 12
In harmony with this delight in personal advantages [in the
elder English dramatists] there is in their plays a certain heroic cast of
character and dialogue...
Exp 3.57 24
The plays of children are nonsense, but very educative
nonsense.
ShP 4.193 22
Shakspeare...esteemed the mass of old plays waste stock...
ShP 4.201 19
We have to thank the researches of antiquaries, and the
Shakspeare Society, for ascertaining the steps of the English drama, from
the Mysteries...and the completion of secular plays...down to the possession
of the stage by the very pieces which Shakspeare altered, remodelled and
finally made his own.
ShP 4.214 21
...the speeches in [Shakespeare's] plays, and single lines,
have a beauty which tempts the ear to pause on them for their euphuism...
Art2 7.53 19
The Iliad of Homer...the plays of Shakspeare...were made...in
grave earnest...
OA 7.334 14
I...saw [George Whitefield], [John Adams] said, through a
window, and distinctly heard all. He had a voice such as I never heard
before or since. He cast it out so that you might hear it at the meeting-house...
and he had the grace...of an actor of plays.
QO 8.197 25
The bold theory of Delia Bacon, that Shakspeare's plays were
written by a society of wits...had plainly for her the charm of the superior
meaning they would acquire when read under this light;...
Plu 10.296 14
In England, Sir Thomas North translated [Plutarch's] Lives
in 1579, and Holland the Morals in 1603, in time to be used by Shakspeare
in his plays...
War 11.172 14
What makes the attractiveness of that romantic style of
living which is the material of ten thousand plays and romances...
Shak1 11.449 19
...we have already seen the most fantastic theories
plausibly urged, that Raleigh and Bacon were the authors of [Shakespeare'
s] plays.
Shak1 11.450 17
Young men of a contemplative turn carry [Shakespeare's]
sonnets in the pocket. With that book, the shade of any tree, a room in any
inn, becomes a chapel or oratory in which to sit out their happiest hours.
Later they find riper and manlier lessons in the plays.
Shak1 11.453 14
The Pilgrims came to Plymouth in 1620. The plays of
Shakspeare were not published until three years later.
plays, v. (29)
Tran 1.353 7
To him who looks at his life from these moments of
illumination, it will seem that he skulks and plays a mean, shiftless and
subaltern part in the world.
Hist 2.13 7
Why should we make account of time, or of magnitude, or of
figure? The soul knows them not, and genius, obeying its law, knows how
to play with them as a young child plays with graybeards and in churches.
SR 2.62 23
In history our imagination plays us false.
Comp 2.91 8
Gauge of more and less through space/ Electric star and
pencil plays./
Pt1 3.35 20
Before [Swedenborg] the metamorphosis continually plays.
Exp 3.48 15
[Grief], like all the rest, plays about the surface...
Nat2 3.186 13
...this opaline lustre plays round the top of every toy to [the
child's] eye to insure his fidelity...
UGM 4.11 10
Each material thing...has its translation, through humanity,
into the spiritual and necessary sphere where it plays a part as indestructible
as any other.
PPh 4.60 15
...[Plato] plays with the doubt, and makes the most of it...
PNR 4.89 25
Plato plays Providence a little with the baser sort...
SwM 4.121 10
In nature, each individual symbol plays innumerable parts...
ShP 4.216 25
Shakspeare, Homer, Dante, Chaucer, saw the splendor of
meaning that plays over the visible world;...
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.
ET13 5.219 3
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. It was a hint of the part the
church plays as a political engine.
F 6.42 13
As once [man] found himself among toys, so now he plays a part
in colossal systems...
Ill 6.311 8
...rainbows and Northern Lights are not quite so spheral as our
childhood thought them, and the part our organization plays in them is too
large.
WD 7.169 21
A thousand tunes the variable wind plays...
Clbs 7.227 2
...a child will long for his companions, but among them plays
by himself.
Cour 7.254 13
Men admire...the power of better combination and foresight,
however exhibited, whether it only plays a game of chess, or whether...a
cunning mathematician...predicts the planet which eyes had never seen;...
PI 8.10 2
The poet who plays with [the law of correspondence] with most
boldness best justifies himself;...
PI 8.28 11
...as soon as this [inspired] soul...at leisure plays with the
resemblances and types, for amusement, and not for its moral end, we call
its action Fancy.
PPo 8.260 8
[Hafiz's ingenuity]...plays in a thousand pretty courtesies...
Supl 10.176 24
...[Nature] creates in the East the uncontrollable yearning...
to use a freedom of fancy which plays with all the works of Nature...as toys
and words of the mind;...
JBB 11.269 17
It is easy to see what a favorite [John Brown] will be with
history, which plays such pranks with temporary reputations.
Wom 11.414 27
When a daughter is born, says the Shiking, the old Sacred
Book of China, she sleeps on the ground...she plays with a tile;...
ChiE 11.470 3
Nature creates in the East the uncontrollable yearning...to
use a freedom of fancy which plays with all works of Nature...
PLT 12.35 11
...[Instinct] plays the god in animal nature as in human or as
in the angelic...
Mem 12.95 16
The memory plays a great part in settling the intellectual
rank of men.
MAng1 12.226 7
...this work [rebuilding the Pons Palatinus] was taken
from [Michelangelo]...and intrusted to Nanni di Bacio Bigio, who plays but
a pitiful part in Michael's history.
Plays [William Shakespeare] (1)
Nat 1.54 1
...this power which [the poet] exerts to dwarf the great, to
magnify the small, - might be illustrated by a thousand examples from
[Shakspeare's] Plays.
plaything, n. (3)
Tran 1.353 11
...[the Transcendentalist] lies by, or occupies his hands with
some plaything, until his hour comes again.
Pow 6.74 5
Everything is good which takes away one plaything and
delusion more...
Res 8.149 25
...the guide kindled a Roman candle, and held it here and
there shooting its fireballs successively into each crypt of the groined roof
[of the Mammoth Cave], disclosing its starry splendor, and showing for the
first time what that plaything was good for.
playthings, n. (2)
ET4 5.64 22
From childhood, [the English] dabbled in water...their
playthings were boats.
PC 8.213 10
...the child is in his playthings working incessantly at
problems of natural philosophy...
playwright, n. (2)
ShP 4.193 8
Here [in the Elizabethan drama] is...a shelf full of English
history...and a string of doleful tragedies, merry Italian tales and Spanish
voyages, which all the London 'prentices know. All the mass has been
treated, with more or less skill, by every playwright...
WSL 12.341 22
The existence of the poorest playwright and the humblest
scrivener is a good omen.
plea, n. (10)
DSA 1.140 26
Let me not taint the sincerity of this plea by any oversight of
the claims of good men.
MR 1.241 10
Neither would I shut my ears to the plea of the learned
professions...
LT 1.270 27
...each of these aspirations and attempts of the people for the
Better is magnified by the natural exaggeration of its advocates, until it...
repels discreet persons by the unfairness of the plea...
Hist 2.6 9
Property also holds of the soul... The obscure consciousness of
this fact is...the plea for education, for justice, for charity;...
ET2 5.32 26
When their privilege was disputed by the Dutch and other
junior marines, on the plea that you could never anchor on the same wave...
the English did not stick to claim the channel, or the bottom of all the
main...
LVB 11.93 24
We will not have this great and solemn claim upon national
and human justice [the relocation of the Cherokees] huddled aside under the
flimsy plea of its being a party act.
FSLN 11.230 17
The plea on which freedom was resisted was Union.
FSLN 11.238 10
The plea in the mouth of a slave-holder that the negro is
an inferior race sounds very oddly in my ear.
Milt1 12.278 8
...according to Lord Bacon's definition of poetry...Poetry...
seeks...to create an ideal world better than the world of experience. Such
certainly is the explanation of Milton's tracts. Such is the apology to be
entered for the plea for freedom of divorce;...
PPr 12.385 11
Worst of all for the party attacked, [Carlyle's Past and
Present] bereaves them beforehand of all sympathy, by anticipating the plea
of poetic and humane conservatism...
pleached, adj. (1)
WD 7.155 7
I, in my pleached garden, watched the pomp,/ Forgot my
morning wishes, hastily/ Took a few herbs and apples, and the Day/ Turned
and departed silent./
plead, v. (9)
Con 1.302 5
For the present...to come at what sum is attainable to us, we
must even hear the parties plead as parties.
ET15 5.267 26
...the steadiness of the aim [of the London Times] suggests
the belief that this fire is directed and fed by older engineers; as if persons
of exact information, and with settled views of policy...availed themselves
of [the writers'] younger energy and eloquence to plead the cause.
Bhr 6.173 27
...in the same country [on the banks of the Mississippi], in the
pews of the churches little placards plead with the worshipper against the
fury of expectoration.
Wsp 6.230 11
...the part you took continues to plead for you.
Clbs 7.239 23
When Henry III. (1217) plead duress against his people
demanding confirmation and execution of the Charter, the reply was: If this
were admitted, civil wars could never close but by the extirpation of one of
the contending parties.
Clbs 7.247 24
...it was explained to me, in a Southern city, that it was
impossible to set any public charity on foot unless through a tavern dinner.
I do not think our metropolitan charities would plead the same necessity;...
Comc 8.163 11
[Wit] is like ice, on which no beauty of form, no majesty of
carriage can plead any immunity...
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.
Koss 11.399 4
We [people of Concord] have seen that you [Kossuth] are
organically in that cause you plead.
pleaded, v. (3)
ET18 5.306 23
It was pleaded in mitigation of the rotten borough [in
England], that it worked well...
Elo1 7.87 15
...the horrible shark of the district attorney being still there,
grimly awaiting with his The court must define,--the poor court pleaded its
inferiority.
EWI 11.140 1
The tendency of things runs steadily to this point, namely...
to give [every man] so much power as he naturally exerts,-no more, no
less. Of course, the timid and base persons...would fain...lock up every
house where liberty and innovation can be pleaded for.
pleader, n. (1)
Bost 12.203 21
...there is always [in Boston]...always a heresiarch, whom
the governor and deputies labor with but cannot silence. Some new light...
some pleader for peace;...
pleaders, n. (1)
Farm 7.138 9
All men keep the farm in reserve as an asylum...or a solitude,
if they do not succeed in society. And who knows how many glances of
remorse are turned this way...from mortified pleaders in courts and senates...
pleading, adj. (2)
EzRy 10.386 27
...I well remember [Ezra Ripley's] his pleading, almost
reproachful looks at the sky, when the thunder-gust was coming up to spoil
his hay.
Wom 11.403 8
...there in the parlor sits/ Some figure in noble guise,-/ Our
Angel in a stranger's form;/ Or Woman's pleading eyes./
pleading, n. (2)
JBB 11.269 8
[John Brown's] own speeches to the court have interested the
nation in him. What magnanimity, what innocent pleading, as of childhood!
CInt 12.120 6
...I value [talent] more...when the talent is...in harmony with
the public sentiment of mankind. Such is the patriotism of Demosthenes, of
Patrick Henry...not an ingenious special pleading...
pleading, v. (3)
Con 1.298 6
...conservatism...is always...pleading a necessity, pleading that
to change would be to deteriorate...
OA 7.325 27
Thirty years ago it was a serious concern to [the lawyer]
whether his pleading was good and effective.
CPL 11.508 21
...I am pleading a cause which in the event of this day
[opening of the Concord Library] has already won...
pleads, v. (5)
Nat 1.71 11
Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of
fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise.
Con 1.312 11
The king on the throne governs for thee...the barrister
pleads...
Chr1 3.88 3
Work of his hand/ He nor commends nor grieves:/ Pleads for
itself the fact;/ As unrepenting Nature leaves/ Her every act./
Elo1 7.92 15
In transcendent eloquence, there was ever some crisis in
affairs, such as could deeply engage the man to the cause he pleads...
Shak1 11.447 19
...it is to us [The Saturday Club] a painful
disappointment...that...Mr. Charles Sprague,-pleads the infirmities of age
as an absolute bar to his presence with us.
Pleas, Common, Court of, n. (1)
HDC 11.81 9
In 1786...a large party of armed insurgents arrived in this
town [Concord]...to hinder the sitting of the Court of Common Pleas.
pleasant, adj. (42)
Nat 1.18 9
The inhabitants of cities suppose that the country landscape is
pleasant only half the year.
Nat 1.19 3
In July, the blue pontederia...blooms in large beds in the shallow
parts of our pleasant river...
Nat 1.46 3
It were a pleasant inquiry to follow into detail [the human
forms'] ministry to our education...
MR 1.244 19
We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to
our friend...
LT 1.264 4
...I find the Age walking about...in strong eyes and pleasant
thoughts...
Con 1.306 19
...[the youth] says, If I am born in the earth...have the
goodness, gentlemen of this world, to show me...my pleasant ground where
to build my cabin.
Comp 2.104 27
Pleasure is taken out of pleasant things...as soon as we seek
to separate them from the whole.
SL 2.133 27
When we see a soul whose acts are all regal, graceful and
pleasant as roses, we must thank God that such things can be and are...
Fdsp 2.193 13
What is so pleasant as these jets of affection which make a
young world for me again?
Prd1 2.227 24
[The good husband's] garden or his poultry-yard tells him
many pleasant anecdotes.
Prd1 2.228 25
A gay and pleasant sound is the whetting of the scythe in the
mornings of June...
Mrs1 3.152 14
...this Byzantine pile of chivalry or Fashion...is not equally
pleasant to all spectators.
Gts 3.159 9
...it is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious
to pay debts.
ET1 5.15 19
[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.
ET11 5.176 26
[The Duke of Bedford's] ancestor...a lively, pleasant man,
became the companion of a foreign prince wrecked on the Dorsetshire
coast, where Mr. [John] Russell lived.
ET16 5.277 4
It was pleasant to see that just this simplest of all simple
structures [Stonehenge]...had long outstood all later churches...
ET19 5.309 20
On being introduced to the meeting [Manchester
Athenaeum Banquet] I said:--Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen: It is pleasant
to me to meet this great and brilliant company...
ET19 5.309 22
On being introduced to the meeting [Manchester
Athenaeum Banquet] I said:--Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen: It is pleasant
to me to meet this great and brilliant company, and doubly pleasant to see
the faces of so many distinguished persons on this platform.
Bhr 6.196 24
...if you have headache...or thunderstroke, I beseech you...to
hold your peace, and not pollute the morning, to which all the housemates
bring serene and pleasant thoughts...
Wsp 6.240 12
...as far as [immortality] is a question of fact respecting the
government of the universe, Marcus Antoninus summed the whole in a
word, It is pleasant to die if there be gods, and sad to live if there be none.
Bty 6.300 25
Sir Philip Sidney...Ben Jonson tells us, was no pleasant man
in countenance...
Civ 7.31 2
...a wise government puts fines and penalties on pleasant vices.
WD 7.173 12
Hume's doctrine was that...the girl equipped for her first ball,
and the orator returning triumphant from the debate, had different means,
but the same quantity of pleasant excitement.
WD 7.177 6
That work is ever the more pleasant to the imagination which
is not now required.
Comc 8.158 1
...the break of continuity in the intellect, is comedy, and it
announces itself physically in the pleasant spasms we call laughter.
Comc 8.172 1
The Persians have a pleasant story of Tamerlane...
Imtl 8.351 3
Yama said [to Nachiketas], One thing is good, another is
pleasant.
Imtl 8.351 4
Yama said [to Nachiketas], One thing is good, another is
pleasant. Blessed is he who takes the good, but he who chooses the pleasant
loses the object of man.
Imtl 8.351 7
These two, ignorance (whose object is what is pleasant) and
knowledge (whose object is what is good) are known to be far asunder...
Chr2 10.122 4
[A well-principled man] defends himself against failure in
his main design by making every inch of the road to it pleasant.
Supl 10.164 12
Especially we note this tendency to extremes in the pleasant
excitement of horror-mongers.
HDC 11.35 2
Indian corn, even the coarsest, made as pleasant meal as rice.
HDC 11.62 16
Alas! for [the Indians]-their day is o'er,/ Their fires are out
from hill and shore,/ No more for them the wild deer bounds,/ The plough
is on their hunting grounds;/ The pale man's axe rings in their woods,/ The
pale man's sail skims o'er their floods,/ Their pleasant springs are dry./
EWI 11.104 15
...if we saw the runaways hunted with bloodhounds into
swamps and hills; and, in cases of passion, a planter throwing his negro into
a copper of boiling cane-juice,-if we saw these things with eyes, we too
should wince. They are not pleasant sights.
AKan 11.257 8
I think we are to give largely, lavishly, to these [Kansas]
men. And we must prepare to do it. We must...sell our apple-trees, our
acres, our pleasant houses.
TPar 11.292 16
...the polished and pleasant traitors to human rights...rot
and are forgotten...
ACiv 11.298 22
All the little hopes that heretofore made the year pleasant
are deferred.
SHC 11.431 3
A simultaneous movement has, in a hundred cities and
towns in this country, selected some convenient piece of undulating ground
with pleasant woods and waters;...and we lay the corpse in these leafy
colonnades.
PLT 12.56 13
There are two theories of life;... One is activity...the
following of that practical talent which we have, in the belief that what is so
natural, easy and pleasant to us...will surely lead us out safely;...
Milt1 12.258 9
[Milton says] In those vernal seasons of the year, when the
air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against Nature not
to go out and see her riches...
Pray 12.355 2
When nought on earth seemeth pleasant to me, thou dost
make thyself known to me...
EurB 12.378 1
[The Vivian Greys]...could write an Iliad any rainy
morning, if fame were not such a bore. Men, women...are stupid things; but
a rifle, and a mild pleasant gunpowder, a spaniel, and a cheroot, are themes
for Olympus.
pleasantest, adj. (2)
PPh 4.73 23
[Socrates is] A pitiless disputant...so careless and ignorant as
to disarm the wariest and draw them, in the pleasantest manner, into
horrible doubts and confusion.
LLNE 10.364 11
All comers...found [Brook Farm] the pleasantest of
residences.
pleasantly, adv. (2)
Hsm1 2.250 14
...pleasantly and as it were merrily [the hero] advances to
his own music...
Int 2.337 11
A good form strikes all eyes pleasantly...
pleasantness, n. (1)
Plu 10.320 5
[Plutarch] thought it wonderful that a man having a muse in
his own breast, and all the pleasantness that would fit an entertainment,
would have pipes and harps play...
pleasantries, n. (2)
EPro 11.316 14
[Movement toward liberty]...is as when an orator, having
ended the compliments and pleasantries with which he conciliated
attention...announces with vibrating voice the grand human principles
involved;...
ALin 11.333 12
[Lincoln] is the author of a multitude of good sayings, so
disguised as pleasantries that it is certain they had no reputation at first but
as jests;...
pleasantry, n. (1)
QO 8.185 3
A pleasantry which ran through all the newspapers a few years
since...was only a theft of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's mot of a hundred
years ago...
please, v. (62)
Nat 1.18 10
I please myself with the graces of the winter scenery...
Nat 1.19 15
...[the moon] will not please as when its light shines upon your
necessary journey.
Nat 1.51 7
...the most wonted objects, (make a very slight change in the
point of vision,) please us most.
AmS 1.115 18
Is it not the chief disgrace in the world...to be reckoned in
the gross...of the section, to which we belong; and our opinion predicted
geographically, as the north, or the south? Not so...please God, ours shall
not be so.
LE 1.160 10
Please himself with complaisance who will...
LE 1.178 20
Bonaparte represents truly a great recent revolution, which we
in this country, please God, shall carry to its farthest consummation.
Con 1.305 13
However men please to style themselves, I see no other than
a conservative party.
Tran 1.354 11
...it will please us to reflect that though we had few virtues
or consolations, we bore with our indigence...
YA 1.373 3
The population of the world is a conditional population; these
are not the best, but...the best that could yet live; there shall be a better,
please God.
SR 2.60 15
A great man is coming to eat at my house. I do not wish to
please him;...
SR 2.60 16
...I wish that [the great man] should wish to please me.
SL 2.136 5
We pain ourselves to please nobody.
Fdsp 2.206 23
I please my imagination more with a circle of godlike men
and women variously related to each other...
Hsm1 2.263 8
Coarse slander, fire, tar and feathers and the gibbet, the
youth may freely bring home to his mind...and inquire how fast he can fix
his sense of duty, braving such penalties, whenever it may please the next
newspaper and a sufficient number of his neighbors to pronounce his
opinions incendiary.
OS 2.279 11
If I am wilful, [my child] sets his will against mine...and
leaves me, if I please, the degradation of beating him by my superiority of
strength.
Cir 2.306 20
To-day I am full of thoughts and can write what I please.
Int 2.341 25
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose.
Take which you please,--you can never have both.
Art1 2.351 19
...[the painter] will come to value the expression of nature
and not nature itself, and so exalt in his copy the features that please him.
Pt1 3.15 11
...if you please, every man is so far a poet as to be susceptible
of these enchantments of nature;...
Mrs1 3.119 14
If the house do not please [the inhabitants of Gournou], they
walk out and enter another...
Mrs1 3.148 19
...[Scott's] dialogue is in costume, and does not please on
the second reading...
Mrs1 3.151 24
[Lilla] had too much sympathy and desire to please, than
that you could say her manners were marked with dignity...
Nat2 3.173 20
...I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with
one stroke of the paddle I...pass into a delicate realm of sunset and
moonlight... ... I am over-instructed for my return. Henceforth I shall be
hard to please.
Nat2 3.186 17
Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the
good of living...
PPh 4.67 7
Such, O Theages, is the association with me [said Socrates];
for, if it pleases the God, you will make great and rapid proficiency: you
will not, if he does not please.
SwM 4.109 5
We are hard to please, and love nothing which ends;...
NMW 4.250 21
...Bonaparte pointed to the stars, and said, You may talk as
long as you please, gentlemen, but who made all that?
NMW 4.255 6
As long as I continue to be what I am [said Napoleon], I
may have as many pretended friends as I please.
ET4 5.66 9
The bronze monuments of crusaders lying cross-legged in the
Temple Church at London...please by beauty of the same character...which
is daily seen in the streets of London.
ET8 5.137 27
[The English] are...churlish as men sometimes please to be
who do not forget a debt...
ET8 5.140 10
Haldor...told his opinion bluntly and was obstinate and hard:
and this could not please the king...
ET11 5.196 27
The fiction with which the noble and the bystander equally
please themselves [in England] is that the former is of unbroken descent
from the Norman...
ET15 5.265 4
...when [John Walter] demanded a small share in the
proprietary [of the London Times] and was refused, he said, As you please,
gentlemen; and you may take away The Times from this office when you
will;...
F 6.23 5
If you please to plant yourself on the side of Fate...then we say, a
part of Fate is the freedom of man.
Bhr 6.187 10
...[Aspasia] adds good-humoredly, the movers and masters of
our souls have surely a right to throw out their limbs as carelessly as they
please...
Wsp 6.228 21
We need not much mind what people please to say, but what
they must say;...
CbW 6.246 20
What we have...to say of life, is rather description, or if you
please, celebration, than available rules.
Bty 6.300 15
If command...exist in the most deformed person, all the
accidents that usually displease, please...
SS 7.1 9
...nor loved [Seyd] less/ Stately lords in palaces/ Princely women
hard to please/...
Art2 7.55 27
[The arts] come to serve [man's] actual wants, never to please
his fancy.
Art2 7.56 17
Who cares, who knows what works of art our government
have ordered to be made for the Capitol? They are a mere flourish to please
the eye of persons who have associations with books and galleries.
Clbs 7.232 16
Some men love only to talk where they are masters. They
like to go...into the shops where the sauntering people gladly lend an ear to
any one. On these terms they...please themselves by sallies and chat...
Suc 7.294 5
Cannot we please ourselves with performing our work...
Suc 7.310 20
Which of [the most sanguine] has not failed to please where
they most wished it?...
PI 8.45 19
Shadows please us as still finer rhymes.
SA 8.95 11
What a good trait is that recorded of Madame de Maintenon,
that, during dinner, the servant slipped to her side, Please, madame, one
anecdote more, for there is no roast to-day.
SA 8.105 11
Now society in towns is infested by persons who, seeing that
the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them.
SA 8.106 24
...those people, and no others, interest us...who are absorbed, if
you please to say so, in their own dream.
Grts 8.304 4
A sensible person will soon see the folly and wickedness of
thinking to please.
Grts 8.315 11
It is difficult to find greatness pure. Well, I please myself
with its diffusion;...
Edc1 10.153 8
...[the teacher] cannot delight in personal relations with
young friends, when...twenty classes are to be dealt with before the day is
done. Besides, how can he please himself with genius, and foster modest
virtue?
Plu 10.301 1
[Plutarch] believes...in demons and ghosts,-but prefers, if
you please, to talk of these in the morning.
LLNE 10.369 19
I please myself with the thought that our American mind
is not now eccentric or rude in its strength...
MMEm 10.404 13
[Mary Moody Emerson] writes to her nephew Charles
Emerson, in 1833... I never expected connections and matrimony. My taste
was formed in romance, and I knew I was not destined to please.
LS 11.24 18
I am content that [the Lord's Supper] stand to the end of the
world, if it please men and please Heaven...
LS 11.24 19
I am content that [the Lord's Supper] stand to the end of the
world, if it please men and please Heaven...
Koss 11.398 9
We [people of Concord] please ourselves that in you
[Kossuth] we meet one whose temper was long since tried in the fire...
Wom 11.410 23
...man invents and adorns all he does with delays and
degrees, paints it all over with forms, to please himself better;...
CInt 12.120 15
[Demosthenes said] If it please you to note it, my counsels
to you are not such whereby I should grow great among you...
CInt 12.127 22
...I thought a college was a place not to train talents, not to
train attorneys, and those who say what they please, but to adorn Genius...
ACri 12.304 16
Don't set out to please; you will displease.
Pray 12.352 18
When I go to visit my friends...I must think of my manner
to please them.
pleased, adj. (1)
Elo1 7.74 24
...whoever can say off currently, sentence by sentence, matter
neither better nor worse than what is there [in the country newspaper]
printed, will be very impressive to our easily pleased population.
pleased, v. (49)
DSA 1.121 11
When...[man] attains to say...Virtue, I am thine;...thee will I
serve...that I may be not virtuous, but virtue; - then...God is well pleased.
Art1 2.366 13
Men are not well pleased with the figure they make in their
own imaginations, and they flee to art...
Exp 3.55 26
...each [picture] will bear an emphasis of attention once, which
it cannot retain, though we fain would continue to be pleased in that manner.
NER 3.273 22
What is it we heartily wish of each other? Is it to be pleased
and flattered?
PPh 4.73 14
...[Socrates] is...a man who was willingly confuted if he did
not speak the truth, and who willingly confuted others asserting what was
false; and not less pleased when confuted than when confuting;...
ShP 4.209 18
One can discern, in [Shakespeare's] ample pictures of the
gentleman and the king, what forms and humanities pleased him;...
NMW 4.231 15
...[Bonaparte] pleased himself, as well as the people, when
he styled himself the Child of Destiny.
NMW 4.245 11
When a natural king becomes a titular king, every body is
pleased and satisfied.
NMW 4.246 23
Perhaps it is a little puerile, the pleasure [Napoleon] took
in making these contrasts glaring; as when he pleased himself with making
kings wait in his antechambers...
ET3 5.40 13
The old Venetians pleased themselves with the flattery that
Venice was in 45 degrees, midway between the poles and the line;...
ET14 5.232 7
[The English]...never are surprised into a covert or witty
word, such as pleased the Athenians and Italians...
ET16 5.273 5
It had been agreed between my friend Mr. Carlyle and me,
that before I left England we should make an excursion together to
Stonehenge, which neither of us had seen; and the project pleased my fancy
with the double attraction of the monument and the companion.
CbW 6.264 12
Whenever you are sincerely pleased, you are nourished.
Ill 6.311 2
...we must be content to be pleased without too curiously
analyzing the occasions.
Elo1 7.65 15
Bring [the master orator] to his audience, and, be they...
pleased or displeased...he will have them pleased and humored as he
chooses;...
Elo1 7.65 18
Bring [the master orator] to his audience, and...he will have
them pleased and humored as he chooses;...
Elo1 7.84 18
It is well with [the audience] only when [the orator's]
influence is complete; then only they are well pleased.
DL 7.124 22
I have seen finely endowed men at college festivals...
returning, as it seemed, the same boys who went away. The same jokes
pleased, the same straws tickled;...
DL 7.125 12
We are too easily pleased.
Cour 7.256 23
Men are so charmed with valor that they have pleased
themselves with being called lions...
OA 7.334 16
[John Adams said] I went [to hear George Whitefield] with
Jonathan Sewall.--And you were pleased with him, sir?--Pleased! I was
delighted beyond measure.
OA 7.334 17
[John Adams said] I went [to hear George Whitefield] with
Jonathan Sewall.--And you were pleased with him, sir?--Pleased! I was
delighted beyond measure.
PI 8.15 23
The poet accounts all productions and changes of Nature as the
nouns of language, uses them representatively, too well pleased with their
ulterior to value much their primary meaning.
PI 8.68 13
Better not to be easily pleased.
QO 8.185 23
Wordsworth's hero acting on the plan which pleased his
childish thought, is Schiller's Tell him to reverence the dreams of his
youth...
QO 8.198 19
...what dismay when the good Matilda, pleased with [the
author's] pleasure, confessed she had written the criticism...
PPo 8.241 6
When all [the troops and spirits] were in order, the east wind,
at [Solomon's] command, took up the carpet and transported with all that
were upon it, whither he pleased...
Insp 8.286 4
Vigorous, I spring from my couch,/ Seek the beloved Muses,/
Find them in the beech grove,/ Pleased to receive me;/...
Grts 8.317 11
Bret Harte has pleased himself with noting and recording the
sudden virtue blazing in the wild reprobates of the ranches and mines of
California.
Edc1 10.149 1
The boy wishes to learn to skate, to coast...and a boy a little
older is just as well pleased to teach him these sciences.
Prch 10.221 13
The understanding...because it has found absurdities to
which the sentiment of veneration is attached, sneers at veneration; so that
analysis has run to seed in unbelief. There is no faith left. We laugh and
hiss, pleased with our power in making heaven and earth a howling
wilderness.
Prch 10.226 18
...when [the railroads] came into his poetic Westmoreland...
[Wordsworth] yet manned himself to say,-...Time,/ Pleased with your
triumphs o'er his brother brother Space,/ Accepts from your bold hands the
proffered crown/ Of hope and smiles on you with cheer sublime./
LLNE 10.332 24
In the lecture-room, [Everett]...pleased himself with the
play of detailing erudition in a style of perfect simplicity.
MMEm 10.398 9
They whom [Lucy Percy] is pleased to choose are such
as are of the most eminent condition...
MMEm 10.402 9
[Mary Moody Emerson's] sympathy for young people
who pleased her was almost passionate...
LS 11.22 21
...the Almighty God was pleased to qualify and send forth a
man to teach men that they must serve him with the heart;...
HDC 11.34 23
...the Lord is pleased to provide for [the pilgrims] great store
of fish in the spring-time...
HDC 11.35 7
...let no man, writes our pious chronicler [Edward Johnson]...
make a jest of pumpkins, for with this fruit the Lord was pleased to feed his
people until their corn and cattle were increased.
EWI 11.105 14
Granville Sharpe was accidentally made acquainted with
the sufferings of a slave, whom a West Indian planter had brought with him
to London, and had beaten with a pistol on his head, so badly that his whole
body became diseased, and the man useless to his master, who left him to
go whither he pleased.
War 11.158 12
The celebrated Cavendish...wrote thus...on his return from a
voyage round the world: Sept. 1588. It hath pleased Almighty God to suffer
me to circumpass the whole globe of the world...
War 11.159 1
...the good [Thomas] Cavendish piously begins this
statement,-It hath pleased Almighty God.
War 11.159 14
When [Assacombuit] appeared at court, he lifted up his
hand and said, This hand has slain a hundred and fifty of your majesty's
enemies within the territories of New England. This so pleased the king that
he knighted him...
FSLC 11.192 12
Sire, said the brave Orte, governor of Bayonne, in his
letter...both [the inhabitants and soldiers] and I must humbly entreat your
majesty to be pleased to employ your arms and lives in things that are
possible...
FSLC 11.209 7
'T is said [buying the slaves] will cost two thousand
millions of dollars. Was there ever any contribution that was so
enthusiastically paid as this will be? ... The father of his country shall wait,
well pleased, a little longer for his monument;...
SMC 11.370 26
Being informed that he misunderstood the order, which
was only to inform him how to retire when it became necessary, [George
Prescott] was satisfied, and he and his command held their ground
manfully. It was said that Colonel Prescott's reply, when reported, pleased
the Acting-Brigadier-General Sweitzer mightily.
EdAd 11.389 19
...we...should be sincerely pleased if we could give a
direction to the Federal politics...
Wom 11.422 12
...one [man] would change nothing, and the other is
pleased with nothing;...
Mem 12.105 12
Michael Angelo, after having once seen a work of any
other artist, would remember it so perfectly that if it pleased him to make
use of any portion thereof, he could do so...
EurB 12.369 12
...the Court Journals and Literary Gazettes were not well
pleased, and voted the poet [Wordsworth] a bore.
pleases, v. (17)
Lov1 2.178 9
Beauty...welcome as the sun wherever it pleases to shine...
seems sufficient to itself.
Lov1 2.178 9
Beauty...which pleases everybody with it and with
themselves, seems sufficient to itself.
OS 2.280 1
...It is no proof of a man's understanding to be able to affirm
whatever he pleases;...
Gts 3.162 27
...if the gift pleases me overmuch, then I should be ashamed
that the donor should read my heart, and see that I love his commodity, and
not him.
PPh 4.67 5
Such, O Theages, is the association with me [said Socrates];
for, if it pleases the God, you will make great and rapid proficiency...
NMW 4.255 2
I do not even love my brothers [said Napoleon]: perhaps
Joseph a little...and Duroc, I love him too; but why?--because his character
pleases me...
ET9 5.144 18
The pursy man [in England] means by freedom the right to
do as he pleases...
F 6.36 14
The whole circle of animal life...until at last...the whole chemical
mass is mellowed and refined for higher use-pleases at a sufficient
perspective.
Wth 6.91 15
[A man] may fix his inventory of necessities and of
enjoyments on what scale he pleases...
Bty 6.291 8
Every necessary or organic action pleases the beholder.
DL 7.128 20
It has been finely added by Landor to his definition of the
great man, It is he who can call together the most select company when it
pleases him.
Clbs 7.232 20
Some men love only to talk where they are masters. They
like to go...into the shops where the sauntering people gladly lend an ear to
any one. On these terms...the talker is at his ease and jolly, for he can walk
out without ceremony when he pleases.
OA 7.331 1
In Goethe's Romance, Makaria, the central figure for wisdom
and influence, pleases herself with withdrawing into solitude to astronomy
and epistolary correspondence.
Imtl 8.335 12
What lasts a century pleases us in comparison with what lasts
an hour.
PLT 12.52 14
...because [men] know one thing, we defer to them in
another, and find them really contemptible. We can't make a half bow and
say, I honor and despise you. But Nature can; she whistles with all her
winds, and does as she pleases.
MAng1 12.242 7
In conversing upon this subject [death] with one of his
friends, that person remarked that Michael [Angelo] might well grieve that
one who was incessant in his creative labors should have no restoration.
No, replied Michael...if life pleases us, death, being a work of the same
master, ought not to displease us.
MLit 12.327 25
We think, when we contemplate the stupendous glory of
the world, that it were life enough for one man merely to lift his hands and
cry with Saint Augustine, Wrangle who pleases, I will wonder.
pleasest, v. (1)
Imtl 8.351 1
Nachiketas said [to Yama], All those [worldly] enjoyments are
of yesterday. With thee remain thy horses and elephants, with thee the
dance and song. If we should obtain wealth, we live only as long as thou
pleasest.
pleaseth, v. (1)
PI 8.62 1
Ah, sir, said Merlin [to Sir Gawaine]...there is no such strong
tower as this wherein I am confined;...neither can I go out, nor can any one
come in, save she...who keeps me company when it pleaseth her...
pleasing, adj. (30)
LE 1.169 14
...the broad, cold lowland...where the traveller...thinks with
pleasing terror of the distant town; this beauty...has never been recorded by
art...
YA 1.368 3
If the landscape is pleasing, the garden shows it...
SR 2.58 13
In this pleasing contrite wood-life which God allows me, let me
record day by day my honest thought without prospect or retrospect...
SL 2.131 5
Behind us, as we go, all things assume pleasing forms...
Lov1 2.176 10
In the noon and the afternoon of life we still throb at the
recollection of days...when the moonlight was a pleasing fever...
Fdsp 2.196 27
...I must hazard the production of the bald fact amidst these
pleasing reveries...
OS 2.290 13
The more cultivated, in their account of their own experience,
cull out the pleasing, poetic circumstance...
Art1 2.354 16
The infant lies in a pleasing trance...
Pt1 3.25 20
A rhyme in one of our sonnets should not be less pleasing than
the iterated nodes of a seashell...
Gts 3.160 19
...it is always pleasing to see a man eat bread, or drink water,
in the house or out of doors...
Gts 3.161 17
The only gift is a portion of thyself. ... Therefore the poet
brings his poem;...the girl, a handkerchief of her own sewing. This is right
and pleasing...
ET11 5.173 10
...the fair idea of a settled government [in England]
connecting itself with heraldic names...was too pleasing a vision to be
shattered by a few offensive realities...
Bty 6.298 5
[Women]...teach [the most serious student] to put a pleasing
method into what is dry and difficult.
Elo1 7.73 18
...the power of detaining the ear by pleasing speech...often
exists without higher merits.
DL 7.106 14
[The child] has heard of wild horses and of bad boys, and with
a pleasing terror he watches at his gate for the passing of those varieties of
each species.
Farm 7.137 22
...the tranquillity and innocence of the countryman, his
independence and his pleasing arts...all men acknowledge.
Boks 7.203 5
...[in the Platonists] the grand and pleasing figures of gods
and daemons and daemoniacal men...sail before [the scholar's] eyes.
Res 8.150 23
It was a pleasing trait in Goethe's romance, that Makaria
retires from society to astronomy and her correspondence.
Aris 10.51 9
We do not expect [public representatives] to be saints, and it is
very pleasing to see the instinct of mankind on this matter...
Supl 10.176 19
...in the East [the superlative] is animated, it is pertinent,
pleasing, poetic.
LLNE 10.333 7
In the pulpit...[Everett] gave the reins to his florid, quaint
and affluent fancy. Then was exhibited all the richness of a rhetoric which
we have never seen rivalled in this country. Wonderful how memorable
were words made which were only pleasing pictures...
CSC 10.375 20
...there was no want of female speakers [at the Chardon
Street Convention]; Mrs. Little and Mrs. Lucy Sessions took a pleasing and
memorable part in the debate...
MMEm 10.409 17
...from the highway hedges where I [Mary Moody
Emerson] get lodging...I get a pleasing vision which is an earnest of the
interminable skies where the mansions are prepared for the poor.
LS 11.20 1
...I choose that my remembrances of [Jesus] should be pleasing,
affecting, religious.
HDC 11.38 22
...[the settlers of Concord] beheld, with curiosity, all the
pleasing features of the American forest.
HDC 11.45 2
...[the settlers of Concord]...very early assessed taxes; a
power at first resisted, but speedily confirmed to them. Meantime, to this
paramount necessity, a milder and more pleasing influence was joined.
HDC 11.83 21
[The Concord Town Records] exhibit a pleasing picture of a
community almost exclusively agricultural...
War 11.153 15
Plutarch...considers the invasion and conquest of the East
by Alexander as one of the most bright and pleasing pages in history;...
MAng1 12.218 14
A beautiful person...appears to have truer conformity to
all pleasing objects in external Nature than another.
Milt1 12.254 3
There is something pleasing in the affection with which we
can regard a man [Milton] who died a hundred and sixty years ago...
pleasing, v. (2)
Hsm1 2.259 24
The fair girl who repels interference by a decided and
proud choice of influences, so careless of pleasing...inspires every beholder
with somewhat of her own nobleness.
Wth 6.113 12
...the betrothed maiden by one secure affection is relieved
from a system of slaveries,--the daily inculcated necessity of pleasing all...
pleasure, n. (178)
Nat 1.15 8
...the primary forms...give us...a pleasure arising from outline,
color, motion, and grouping.
Nat 1.30 3
When...the sovereignty of ideas is broken up by the prevalence
of...the desire of...pleasure...the power over nature as an interpreter of the
will is in a degree lost;...
Nat 1.51 17
Hence arises a pleasure mixed with awe;...a low degree of the
sublime is felt, from the fact...that man is hereby apprized that...something
in himself is stable.
Nat 1.51 23
In a higher manner the poet communicates the same pleasure.
Nat 1.69 9
The whole is either our cupboard of food,/ Or cabinet of
pleasure./
AmS 1.91 23
It is remarkable, the character of the pleasure we derive from
the best books.
AmS 1.92 2
We read the verses of one of the great English poets...with a
pleasure...which is in great part caused by the abstraction of all time from
their verses.
AmS 1.101 12
For the ease and pleasure of treading the old road...[the
scholar] takes the cross of making his own...
AmS 1.109 18
...we cannot enjoy any thing for hankering to know whereof
the pleasure consists;...
DSA 1.137 4
The test of the true faith...should be its power to charm...the
soul...so commanding that we find pleasure and honor in obeying.
DSA 1.146 8
Look to it...that fashion, custom, authority, pleasure, and
money, are nothing to you...
MN 1.212 5
...is [man's work in the world] for pleasure? he is mocked;...
LT 1.273 7
A wealthy man, addicted to his pleasure...finds religion to be a
traffic so entangled...that of all mysteries he cannot skill to keep a stock
going upon that trade.
LT 1.277 26
I cannot feel any pleasure in sacrifices which display to me
such partiality of character.
YA 1.381 9
The farmer, after sacrificing pleasure, taste, freedom, thought,
love, to his work, turns out often a bankrupt, like the merchant.
YA 1.390 27
...as if the Union had any other real basis than the good
pleasure of a majority of the citizens to be united.
Hist 2.35 3
In the story of the Boy and the Mantle even a mature reader
may be surprised with a glow of virtuous pleasure at the triumph of the
gentle Genelas;...
Comp 2.98 10
Every faculty which is a receiver of pleasure has an equal
penalty put on its abuse.
Comp 2.103 13
Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens with the
flower of the pleasure which concealed it.
Comp 2.103 21
...to gratify the senses we sever the pleasure of the senses
from the needs of the character.
Comp 2.104 12
[The soul] would be the only fact. All things shall be added
unto it,--power, pleasure, knowledge, beauty.
Comp 2.104 26
Pleasure is taken out of pleasant things...as soon as we seek
to separate them from the whole.
Fdsp 2.192 9
A commended stranger is expected and announced, and an
uneasiness betwixt pleasure and pain invades all the hearts of a household.
Fdsp 2.209 25
Leave it to girls and boys to regard a friend as property, and
to suck a short and all-confounding pleasure...
Prd1 2.227 26
One might find argument for optimism in the abundant flow
of this saccharine element of pleasure in every suburb and extremity of the
good world.
Cir 2.307 26
We sell the thrones of angels for a short and turbulent
pleasure.
Cir 2.315 3
...it behooves each to see, when he sacrifices prudence, to what
god he devotes it; if to ease and pleasure, he had better be prudent still;...
Cir 2.320 9
We do not guess to-day...the pleasure...of to-morrow...
Int 2.338 12
...when we write with ease...we seem to be assured that
nothing is easier than to continue this communication at pleasure.
Art1 2.355 27
A squirrel leaping from bough to bough and making the
wood but one wide tree for his pleasure...is beautiful...
Art1 2.366 24
As soon as beauty is sought...for pleasure, it degrades the
seeker.
Pt1 3.28 14
...a great number of such as were professionally expressers of
Beauty...have been more than others wont to lead a life of pleasure and
indulgence;...
Exp 3.51 8
Of what use [is genius]...if the web is...too irritable by pleasure
and pain...
Exp 3.61 3
...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.
Chr1 3.103 7
We have no pleasure in thinking of a benevolence that is only
measured by its works.
Mrs1 3.145 23
The epitaph of Sir Jenkin Grout is not wholly unintelligible
to the present age: Here lies Sir Jenkin Grout...if a woman gave him
pleasure, he supported her in pain...
Mrs1 3.149 5
...[a beautiful behavior] gives a higher pleasure than statues
or pictures;...
Gts 3.160 4
Men use to tell us that we love flattery...because it shows that
we are of importance enough to be courted. Something like that pleasure,
the flowers give us...
Nat2 3.196 25
...wisdom is infused into every form. It has been poured into
us as blood;...it slid into us as pleasure;...
NR 3.233 8
I find the most pleasure in reading a book in a manner least
flattering to the author.
NR 3.233 17
It is a greater joy to see the author's author, than himself. A
higher pleasure of the same kind I found lately at a concert, where I went to
hear Handel's Messiah.
UGM 4.15 18
This pleasure of full expression to that which, [in the people'
s] private experience, is usually cramped and obstructed, runs...much
higher...
UGM 4.16 23
We go to the gymnasium and the swimming-school to see
the power and beauty of the body; there is the like pleasure and a higher
benefit from witnessing intellectual feats of all kinds;...
PPh 4.51 19
These two principles [unity and diversity] reappear and
interpenetrate all things, all thought; the one, the many. One is...strength;
the other, pleasure...
PPh 4.64 14
[Plato] secures a position not to be commanded, by his passion
for reality; valuing philosophy only as it is the pleasure of conversing with
real being.
PPh 4.72 26
...it is said that to procure the pleasure, which he loves, of
talking at his ease all day with the most elegant and cultivated young men,
[Socrates] will now and then return to his shop and carve statues, good or
bad, for sale.
SwM 4.103 14
Our books are false by being fragmentary: their sentences
are...childish expressions of surprise or pleasure in nature;...
SwM 4.144 8
In [Swedenborg's] profuse and accurate imagery is no
pleasure, for there is no beauty.
MoS 4.163 14
I heard with pleasure that one of the newly-discovered
autographs of William Shakspeare was in a copy of Florio's translation of
Montaigne.
MoS 4.164 7
Though [Montaigne] had been a man of pleasure and
sometimes a courtier, his studious habits now grew on him...
MoS 4.168 13
One has the same pleasure in [Montaigne's language] that he
feels in listening to the necessary speech of men about their work...
MoS 4.182 9
the people's questions are not [the spiritualist's]; their
methods are not his; and against all the dictates of good nature he is driven
to say he has no pleasure in them.
NMW 4.246 21
Perhaps it is a little puerile, the pleasure [Napoleon] took
in making these contrasts glaring;...
GoW 4.287 13
...the charm of this portion of the book [Goethe's Thory of
Colors] consists in the simplest statement of the relation betwixt these
grandees of European scientific history and himself; the mere drawing of
the lines from Goethe to Kepler, from Goethe to Bacon, from Goethe to
Newton. The drawing of the line...gives pleasure when Iphigenia and Faust
do not...
ET1 5.3 6
...I remember the pleasure of that first walk on English ground...
ET1 5.24 1
[Wordsworth]...quoted, with evident pleasure, the verses
addressed To the Skylark.
ET3 5.40 25
I have seen a kratometric chart designed to show that the city
of Philadelphia was in the same thermic belt, and by inference in the same
belt of empire, as the cities of Athens, Rome and London. It was drawn by a
patriotic Philadelphian, and was examined with pleasure, under his
showing, by the inhabitants of Chestnut Street.
ET5 5.76 9
[These Saxons] have the taste for toil, a distaste for pleasure or
repose...
ET8 5.140 4
King Harold gave [Haldor] this testimony, that he, among all
his men, cared least about doubtful circumstances, whether they betokened
danger or pleasure;...
ET11 5.191 10
Grammont, Pepys and Evelyn show the kennels to which
the king and court went in quest of pleasure.
ET11 5.195 15
Already...the English noble and squire were preparing for
the career of the country-gentleman and his peaceable expense. They went
from city to city...gathering seeds, gems, coins and divers curiosities,
preparing for a private life thereafter, in which they should take pleasure in
these recreations.
ET13 5.222 12
I suspect that there is in an Englishman's brain a valve that
can be closed at pleasure...
ET17 5.293 16
Among the privileges of London, I recall with pleasure two
or three signal days, one at Kew, where Sir William Hooker showed me all
the riches of the vast botanic garden;...
F 6.41 5
The pleasure of life is according to the man that lives it...
Pow 6.66 10
The most amiable of country gentlemen has a certain pleasure
in the teeth of the bull-dog which guards his orchard.
Pow 6.72 14
This aboriginal might gives a surprising pleasure when it
appears under conditions of supreme refinement...
Wth 6.93 1
The life of pleasure is so ostentatious that a shallow observer
must believe that this is the agreed best use of wealth...
Wth 6.109 12
...power and pleasure are not cheap.
Wth 6.121 27
Of the two eminent engineers in the recent construction of
railways in England, Mr. Brunel went straight...and so arriving at his end, at
great pleasure to geometers, but with cost to his company.
Wth 6.125 23
The merchant's economy is a coarse symbol of the soul's
economy. It is to spend for power and not for pleasure.
Wth 6.126 10
[A man's] body is a jar in which the liquor of life is stored.
Will he spend for pleasure?
Ctr 6.158 2
...the poor little poet hearkens only to [praise], and rejects the
censure as proving incapacity in the critic. But the poet cultivated becomes
a stockholder in both companies,--say Mr. Curfew in the Curfew stock, and
in the humanity stock,--and, in the last, exults as much in the demonstration
of the unsoundness of Curfew, as his interest in the former gives him
pleasure in the currency of Curfew.
Ctr 6.165 7
...a considerate man will reckon himself a subject of that
secular melioration by which mankind is mollified, cured and refined; and
will shun every expenditure of his forces on pleasure or gain which will
jeopardize this social and secular accumulation.
Wsp 6.202 6
If the Divine Providence...has stated itself out...in trade, in the
love of power and pleasure...let us not be so nice that we cannot write these
facts down coarsely...
CbW 6.247 19
Now we reckon [days]...by...some pleasure we are to taste.
CbW 6.266 19
...we shall not always traverse seas and lands...for pleasure,
as we say.
CbW 6.272 3
...if one comes who can...show [men]...what gifts they have...
he wakes in them the feeling of worth... ... 'T is wonderful the effect on the
company. They are not the men they were. ... There is no book and no
pleasure in life comparable to it.
Bty 6.292 6
The pleasure a palace or a temple gives the eye is, that an order
and method has been communicated to stones...
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. All the party were touched with astonishment and
pleasure.
Ill 6.311 15
The same interference from our organization creates the most
of our pleasure and pain.
Ill 6.311 24
...the barrister with the jury, the belle at the ball...ascribe a
certain pleasure to their employment, which they themselves give it.
Civ 7.29 20
...if we will only choose our jobs in directions in which [the
heavenly powers] travel, they will undertake them with the greatest
pleasure.
Art2 7.38 10
Speech is a great pleasure...
Art2 7.38 11
...action [is] a great pleasure;...
Art2 7.40 5
When we reflect on the pleasure we receive from a ship, a
railroad, a dry-dock; or from a picture, a dramatic representation, a statue, a
poem,--we find that these have not a quite simple, but a blended origin.
Art2 7.43 25
The pulsation of a stretched string or wire gives the ear the
pleasure of sweet sound...
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 7.44 6
Eloquence...is modified how much by the material organization
of the orator...the play of the eye and countenance. All this is so much
deduction from the purely spiritual pleasure...
Art2 7.44 12
In sculpture and in architecture the material...and in
architecture the mass, are sources of great pleasure quite independent of the
artificial arrangement.
Art2 7.44 27
A jumble of musical sounds...gives pleasure to the unskilful
ear.
Art2 7.45 7
A very coarse imitation of the human form on canvas, or in
wax-work;...these things give...to the uncultured...almost as much pleasure
as a statue of Canova or a picture of Titian.
Art2 7.45 10
A very coarse imitation of the human form on canvas, or in
wax-work;...these things give...to the uncultured...almost as much pleasure
as a statue of Canova or a picture of Titian. And in the statue of Canova or
the picture of Titian, these give the great part of the pleasure;...
Art2 7.46 2
...the pleasure that a noble temple gives us is only in part owing
to the temple.
Art2 7.46 6
The pleasure of eloquence is in greatest part owing often to the
stimulus of the occasion which produces it...
Elo1 7.71 18
See with what care and pleasure the poet [Homer] brings
[Ulysses] on the stage.
DL 7.111 7
...what idea predominates in our houses? Thrift first, then
convenience and pleasure.
Farm 7.138 10
All men keep the farm in reserve as an asylum...or a
solitude, if they do not succeed in society. And who knows how many
glances of remorse are turned this way...from the victims of idleness and
pleasure?
Farm 7.153 4
We see the farmer with pleasure and respect when we think
what powers and utilities are so meekly worn.
WD 7.174 7
He is a strong man who can look [these passing hours] in the
eye...nor permit love, or death, or politics, or money, war or pleasure to
draw him from his task.
Boks 7.196 26
...Never read any [books] but what you like;, or, in
Shakspeare's phrase, No profit goes where is no pleasure te'en:/ In brief,
sir, study what you most affect./
Boks 7.197 1
Montaigne says, Books are a languid pleasure;...
Clbs 7.225 3
We...require nice treatment to get from us the maximum of
power and pleasure.
Clbs 7.227 22
...in higher activity of mind, every new perception is
attended with a thrill of pleasure...
Clbs 7.227 24
...in higher activity of mind, every new perception is
attended with a thrill of pleasure, and the imparting of it to others is also
attended with pleasure.
OA 7.318 26
...seen from the streets and markets and the haunts of pleasure
and gain, the estimate of age is low...
OA 7.328 19
...age...finishes its works, which to every artist is a supreme
pleasure.
OA 7.331 13
Much wider is spread the pleasure which old men take in
completing their secular affairs...
PI 8.8 13
In botany we have...the poetic perception of metamorphosis,--that
the same vegetable point or eye which is the unit of the plant can be
transformed at pleasure into every part...
PI 8.13 4
When some familiar truth or fact appears in a new dress...we
cannot enough testify our surprise and pleasure.
PI 8.25 2
This metonymy, or seeing the same sense in things so diverse,
gives a pure pleasure.
PI 8.37 21
All [others'] pleasures are tinged with pain. All [the poet's]
pains are edged with pleasure.
PI 8.45 20
Architecture gives the like pleasure [of rhyme] by the repetition
of equal parts in a colonnade...
PI 8.50 20
...every good reader will easily recall expressions or passages in
works of pure science which have given him the same pleasure which he
seeks in professed poets.
PI 8.72 14
The problem of the poet is...to give the pleasure of color, and be
not less the most powerful of sculptors.
Elo2 8.113 6
...[the eloquent man] makes [the people] glad or angry or
penitent at his pleasure;...
Res 8.153 7
When I see in these brave plants [the willows] this vigor and
immortality in weakness, I find a sudden relief and pleasure in observing
the mighty law of vegetation...
Comc 8.161 10
Prince Hal stands by, as the acute understanding, who sees
the Right, and sympathizes with it, and in the heyday of youth feels also the
full attractions of pleasure...
QO 8.198 19
...what dismay when the good Matilda, pleased with [the
author's] pleasure, confessed she had written the criticism...
QO 8.203 4
Our pleasure in seeing each mind take the subject to which it
has a proper right is seen in mere fitness in time.
PC 8.233 3
[A man] cannot go from the good to the evil at pleasure, and
then back again to the good.
Insp 8.290 27
...Sir Joshua Reynolds had no pleasure in Richmond;...
Imtl 8.329 26
A friend of Michel Angelo saying to him that his constant
labor for art must make him think of death with regret,-By no means, he
said; for if life be a pleasure, yet since death also is sent by the hand of the
same Master, neither should that displease us.
Imtl 8.350 19
[Yama said to Nachiketas] All those desires that are difficult
to gain in the world of mortals, all those ask thou at thy pleasure;...
Dem1 10.17 20
I believed that I discovered in nature...somewhat which
manifested itself only in contradiction, and therefore could not be grasped
by a conception, much less by a word. ... It seemed to deal at pleasure with
the necessary elements of our constitution;...
Aris 10.58 3
...All that depends on another gives pain; all that depends on
himself gives pleasure;...
Aris 10.58 4
...All that depends on another gives pain; all that depends on
himself gives pleasure; in these few words is the definition of pleasure and
pain.
Edc1 10.149 2
Not less delightful is the mutual pleasure of teaching and
learning the secret of algebra...
Plu 10.295 11
King Henry IV. wrote to his wife...you could not have sent
me anything which could be more agreeable than the news of the pleasure
you have taken in this reading [of Plutarch].
Plu 10.296 5
Montesquieu...in his Pensees, declares, I am always charmed
with Plutarch; in his writings are circumstances attached to persons, which
give great pleasure;...
Plu 10.301 14
It is for his pleasure that [Plutarch] recites all that is best in
his reading...
Plu 10.308 6
[Plutarch] wonders with Plato at that nail of pain and pleasure
which fastens the body to the mind.
Plu 10.308 8
The mathematics give [Plutarch] unspeakable pleasure...
Plu 10.309 14
Plutarch has such a keen pleasure in realities that he has
none in verbal disputes;...
LLNE 10.342 24
...there was no concert, and only here and there two or
three men or women who read and wrote, each alone, with unusual
vivacity. Perhaps they only agreed in having fallen upon Coleridge and
Wordsworth and Goethe, then on Carlyle, with pleasure and sympathy.
LLNE 10.350 2
By concert and the allowing each laborer to choose his
own work, it becomes pleasure.
LLNE 10.351 18
Certainly we listened with great pleasure to such gay and
magnificent pictures [as Fourier's].
LLNE 10.354 10
...abstinence from pleasure appeared to [Fourier] a great
sin.
MMEm 10.409 20
[Mary Moody Emerson writes] To live to give pain
rather than pleasure (the latter so delicious) seems the spider-like necessity
of my being on earth...
MMEm 10.412 7
There is a sweet pleasure in bending to circumstances
while superior to them.
MMEm 10.413 2
...I [Mary Moody Emerson] shall delight to return to
God. His name my fullest confidence. His sole presence ineffable pleasure.
MMEm 10.413 11
[I, Mary Moody Emerson] Met a lady in the morning
walk, a foreigner,-conversed on the accomplishments of Miss T. My mind
expanded with novel and innocent pleasure.
SlHr 10.438 22
...when the mob of Charleston was assembled in the streets
before his hotel...[Samuel Hoar] considered his duty discharged to the last
point of possibility. The force was apparent and irresistible;...and he said,
Well, gentlemen, since it is your pleasure to use force, I must go.
Thor 10.455 12
[Thoreau] said,-I have a faint recollection of pleasure
derived from smoking dried lily-stems, before I was a man.
Thor 10.468 11
[Thoreau]...noticed, with pleasure, that the willow bean-poles
of his neighbor had grown more than his beans.
Thor 10.469 14
It was a pleasure and a privilege to walk with [Thoreau].
HDC 11.52 16
...said [Tahattawan], all the time you have lived after the
Indian fashion, under the power of the higher sachems, what did they care
for you? They took away your skins, your kettles and your wampum, at
their own pleasure...
LVB 11.90 18
...it is not to be doubted that it is the good pleasure and the
understanding of all humane persons in the Republic...that [the Indians]
shall be duly cared for;...
AsSu 11.247 14
In [the slave state]...man is an animal, given to pleasure...
ACiv 11.310 25
The message [Lincoln's proposal of gradual abolition] has
been received throughout the country...we doubt not, with more pleasure
than has been spoken.
ALin 11.332 5
In a host of young men that start together and promise so
many brilliant leaders for the next age, each fails on trial; one by bad
health, one by...love of pleasure...
HCom 11.341 4
...I think it is not in man to see, without a feeling of pride
and pleasure, a tried soldier...
SMC 11.356 20
All sorts of men went to the [Civil] war,-the roughs...men
for whom pleasure was not strong enough, but who wanted pain...
SMC 11.369 9
The Colonel [George Prescott] took evident pleasure in the
fact that he could account for all his men.
Koss 11.399 1
We [people of Concord] have seen, with great pleasure, that
there is nothing accidental in your [Kossuth's] attitude.
SHC 11.432 18
I suppose all of us will readily admit the value of parks and
cultivated grounds to the pleasure and education of the people...
Shak1 11.446 2
England's genius filled all measure/ Of heart and soul, of
strength and pleasure,/ Gave to mind its emperor/ And life was larger than
before;/...
Shak1 11.449 6
...[Shakespeare] is...pleasure without repentance;...
ChiE 11.471 5
All share the surprise and pleasure when the venerable
Oriental dynasty...suddenly steps into the fellowship of nations.
FRO1 11.477 9
I have listened with great pleasure to the lessons which we
have heard.
CPL 11.506 25
You say, [reading] is a languid pleasure.
FRep 11.540 21
[The Constitution and the law in America] should be
mankind's...Royal Proclamation of the Intellect...announcing its good
pleasure that now...the world shall be governed by common sense and law
of morals.
Mem 12.104 22
...this power of sinking the pain of any experience and of
recalling the saddest with tranquillity, and even with a wise pleasure, is
familiar.
CL 12.164 8
Every new perception of the method and beauty of Nature
gives a new shock of surprise and pleasure;...
CW 12.172 1
Still less did I know [when I bought my farm] what good and
true neighbors I was buying...some of them now known the country
through...but whom I had the pleasure of knowing long before the Country
did;...
CW 12.177 11
...the farmers seldom walk for pleasure.
Bost 12.205 11
[The people of Massachusetts] accepted the divine
ordination that man is for use;...and that his ruin is to live for pleasure and
for show.
Bost 12.207 8
With all their love of his person, [the people of Boston] took
immense pleasure in turning out the governor and deputy and assistants...
MAng1 12.218 23
...all men have...a power of deriving pleasure from
Beauty.
MAng1 12.237 12
...[Michelangelo]...in old age speaks with extreme
pleasure of his residence with the hermits in the mountains of Spoleto;...
ACri 12.295 17
...if the English island had been larger and the Straits of
Dover wider, to keep it at pleasure a little out of the imbroglio of Europe,
they might have managed to feed on Shakspeare for some ages yet;...
ACri 12.300 13
All conversation, as all literature, appears to me the
pleasure of rhetoric...
WSL 12.341 15
When we pronounce the names of...Ben Jonson and Isaak
Walton; Dryden and Pope,-we...enter into a region of the purest pleasure
accessible to human nature.
WSL 12.344 25
[Landor] draws with evident pleasure the portrait of a man
who never said anything right and never did anything wrong.
Pray 12.352 5
When my long-attached friend comes to me, I have pleasure
to converse with him...
EurB 12.369 27
...notwithstanding all Wordsworth's grand merits, it was a
great pleasure to know that Alfred Tennyson's two volumes were coming
out in the same ship;...
EurB 12.370 2
...notwithstanding all Wordsworth's grand merits, it was a
great pleasure to know that Alfred Tennyson's two volumes were coming
out in the same ship; it was a great pleasure to receive them.
EurB 12.374 1
We read Zanoni with pleasure, because the magic is natural.
Trag 12.409 23
There are people who have an appetite for grief, pleasure is
not strong enough and they crave pain...
Pleasure...Epicurus [Plutar (1)
Plu 10.314 9
I can easily believe that an anxious soul may find in Plutarch'
s chapter called Pleasure not attainable by Epicurus...a more sweet and
reassuring argument on the immortality than in the Phaedo of Plato;...
pleasure-houses, n. (1)
ET10 5.163 17
The taste and science of thirty peaceful generations;...the
temples and pleasure-houses which Inigo Jones and Christopher Wren
built;...are in the vast auction [in England]...
pleasure-hunters, n. (1)
ET5 5.77 12
Even the pleasure-hunters and sots of England are of a tougher
texture.
pleasures, n. (26)
Nat 1.11 7
It is necessary to use these pleasures [of nature] with great
temperance.
YA 1.369 10
Whatever events in progress shall go to...infuse into [men] the
passion for country life and country pleasures, will render a service to the
whole face of this continent...
Lov1 2.176 5
...he touched the secret of the matter who said of love,--All
other pleasures are not worth its pains/...
Fdsp 2.198 23
...these uneasy pleasures and fine pains [of friendship] are
for curiosity...
Prd1 2.224 5
If a man...immerse himself in any trades or pleasures for their
own sake, he may be a good wheel or pin, but he is not a cultivated man.
Prd1 2.228 3
There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than
in the amount.
Prd1 2.232 22
...[Goethe's] Antonio and Tasso, both apparently right,
wrong each other. One living after the maxims of this world and consistent
and true to them, the other fired with all divine sentiments, yet grasping
also at the pleasures of sense, without submitting to their law. That is a
grief we all feel...
Hsm1 2.246 22
...Thou thyself must part/ At last from all thy garlands,
pleasures, triumphs,/ And prove thy fortitude what then 't will do./
Nat2 3.171 2
These enchantments [of nature]...sober and heal us. These are
plain pleasures, kindly and native to us.
UGM 4.10 11
...solid, liquid, and gas, circle us round in a wreath of
pleasures...
ET8 5.128 1
[The police in England] thinks itself bound in duty to respect
the pleasures and rare gayety of this inconsolable nation;...
Wth 6.127 2
Nor is the man enriched...unless through new powers and
ascending pleasures he knows himself by the actual experience of higher
good to be already on the way to the highest.
Clbs 7.250 9
...while we look complacently at these obvious pleasures and
values of good companions, I do not forget that Nature is always very much
in earnest...
PI 8.1 16
...[The people of the sky] Teach him gladly to postpone/
Pleasures to another stage/ Beyond the scope of human age,/ Freely as task
at eve undone/ Waits unblamed to-morrow's sun.
PI 8.37 19
All [others'] pleasures are tinged with pain. All [the poet's]
pains are edged with pleasure.
PI 8.45 10
Music and rhyme are among the earliest pleasures of the child...
Elo2 8.124 2
In the vain and foolish exultation of the heart...the pensive
portress of Science shall call you to the sober pleasures of her holy cell.
Res 8.145 23
Wanting a picket to which to attach my horse, [Malus] says, I
tied him to my leg. I slept, and dreamed peaceably of the pleasures of
Europe.
Res 8.151 3
...the subject [the physiology of taste] is so large and exigent
that a few particulars, and those the pleasures of the epicure, cannot satisfy.
PPo 8.239 13
The Persians and the Arabs...are exquisitely sensible to the
pleasures of poetry.
Chr2 10.96 11
...there is no man who will bargain to sell his life, say at the
end of a year, for...any temporary pleasures...
MoL 10.249 3
Every man...does not need any one good so much as this of
right thought. Calm pleasures here abide, majestic pains./
MMEm 10.427 27
Oh how weary in youth-more so scarcely now, not
whenever I [Mary Moody Emerson] can breathe, as it seems, the
atmosphere of the Omnipresence: then...honors, pleasures, labors, I always
refuse...
CL 12.152 17
...the pleasures of garden, orchard and wood must be
alternated.
CL 12.166 23
...[a parlor in which fine persons are found] again is Nature,
and there we have again the charm which landscape gives us, in a finer
form; but the persons...must know [Nature's] simple, cheap pleasures...
MAng1 12.217 2
...in proportion as man rises above the servitude to wealth
and a pursuit of mean pleasures, he perceives that what is most real is most
beautiful...
plebeian, n. (2)
Con 1.295 8
The battle of patrician and plebeian...reappears in all countries
and times.
ET11 5.194 16
A man of wit [in England]...confessed to his friend that he
could not enter [noblemen's] houses without being made to feel that they
were great lords, and he a low plebeian.
pledge, n. (17)
SL 2.157 23
If a man know that he can do any thing...he has a pledge of the
acknowledgement of that fact by all persons.
Prd1 2.236 8
...let [a man]...feel the admonition to...keep a slender human
word among the storms , distances and accidents that drive us hither and
thither, and, by persistency, make the paltry force of one man reappear to
redeem its pledge after months and years in the most distant climates.
NER 3.265 20
I have not been able either to persuade my brother or to
prevail on myself to disuse the traffic or the potation of brandy, but perhaps
a pledge of total abstinence might effectually restrain us.
Ctr 6.138 2
In the Norse legend, All-fadir did not get a drink of Mimir's
spring (the fountain of wisdom) until he left his eye in pledge.
Ctr 6.138 12
Cleanse with healthy blood [the scholar's] parchment skin.
You restore to him his eyes which he left in pledge at Mimir's spring.
Wsp 6.212 16
Only those can help in counsel or conduct who did not make
a party pledge to defend this or that...
CbW 6.277 3
[The happy conditions of life's] attraction for you is the
pledge that they are within your reach.
Ill 6.315 6
...I have known gentlemen of great stake in the community...who
held themselves bound to sign every temperance pledge...
Suc 7.295 4
...it is a nice point to discriminate this self-trust, which is the
pledge of all mental vigor and performance, from the disease to which it is
allied,--the exaggeration of the part which we can play;...
Comc 8.159 9
...the human form is a pledge of wholeness...
Comc 8.162 1
The perception of the Comic is...a pledge of sanity...
PC 8.207 11
The storm which has been resisted is a crown of honor and a
pledge of strength to the ship.
CSC 10.376 9
...[these men and women at the Chardon Street Convention]
found what they sought, or the pledge of it, in the attitude taken by the
individuals of their number of resistance to the insane routine of
parliamentary usage;...
GSt 10.503 6
...[George Stearns] did not give money to excuse his entire
preoccupation in his own pursuits, but as an earnest of the dedication of his
heart and hand to the interests of the sufferers [in Kansas],-a pledge kept
until the success he wrought and prayed for was consummated.
HDC 11.78 5
In the whole course of the [Revolutionary] war the town
[Concord] did not depart from this pledge it had given.
MAng1 12.223 17
Architecture is the bond that unites the elegant and the
economical arts, and [Michelangelo's] skill in this is a pledge of his
capacity in both kinds.
MAng1 12.231 4
[Michelangelo] said he would hang the Pantheon in the
air; and he redeemed his pledge by suspending that vast cupola [of St. Peter'
s], without offence to grace or to stability, over the astonished beholder.
Pledge, n. (1)
LT 1.270 5
The Temperance-question...drawing with it all the curious
ethics of the Pledge...is a gymnastic training to the casuistry and conscience
of the time.
pledged, v. (7)
SR 2.54 26
...[the preacher] is pledged to himself not to look but at one
side...
SL 2.160 2
...the hero fears not that if he withhold the avowal of a just and
brave act it will go unwitnessed and unloved. One knows it,--himself,--and
is pledged by it to sweetness of peace...
GoW 4.281 15
There must be a man behind the book; a personality which
by birth and quality is pledged to the doctrines there set forth...
PC 8.230 22
Here you are set down, scholars and idealists...amongst angry
politicians...pledged to parties...
PC 8.230 23
Here you are set down, scholars and idealists...amongst angry
politicians...pledged to parties, pledged to clients...
EWI 11.109 23
In 1791, three hundred thousand persons in Britain pledged
themselves to abstain from all articles of [West Indian] island produce.
FSLC 11.203 10
[Webster] indulged occasionally in excellent expression
of the known feeling of the New England people [on slavery]: but, when
expected and when pledged, he omitted to speak...
pledges, n. (4)
SR 2.49 16
Who can thus avoid all pledges...must always be formidable.
Comc 8.157 22
The essence...of all comedy, seems to be...a non-performance
of what is pretended to be performed, at the same time that
one is giving loud pledges of performance.
FSLC 11.183 1
[The crisis over the Fugitive Slave Law]...showed...that the
resolutions of public bodies, or the pledges never so often given and put on
record of public men, will not bind them.
FSLC 11.203 23
I suppose [Webster's] pledges were not quite natural to
him.
pledges, v. (1)
Lov1 2.169 12
The introduction to this felicity [of Nature] is in a private
and tender relation of one to one, which...seizes on man at one period...and...
pledges him to the domestic and civic relations...
Pleiad, n. (1)
CW 12.175 13
How many poems have been written, or, at least attempted,
on the lost Pleiad!...
Pleiades, n. (2)
PPo 8.265 7
Ants see not the Pleiades./ Can the gnat grasp with his teeth/
The body of the elephant?/
CW 12.175 8
...a common spy-glass...turned on the Pleiades, or Seven
Stars, in which most eyes can only count six,-will show many more...
Pleiads', n. (1)
PPo 8.253 18
Fit for the Pleiads' azure chord/ The songs I sung, the pearls I
bored./
plenitude, n. (4)
Hsm1 2.250 11
[Heroism] is a self-trust which slights the restraints of
prudence, in the plenitude of its energy and power to repair the harms it
may suffer.
NMW 4.235 8
In the plenitude of [Napoleon's] resources, every obstacle
seemed to vanish.
ET18 5.302 18
...the wealth of the source is seen in the plenitude of English
nature.
Res 8.153 21
...the one fact that shines through all this plenitude of [man's]
powers is, that as is the receiver, so is the gift;...
plenitudes, n. (1)
ET13 5.220 6
Heats and genial periods arrive in history, or, shall we say,
plenitudes of Divine Presence...
plenteous, adj. (4)
Pt1 3.42 23
...wherever is danger, and awe, and love,--there is Beauty,
plenteous as rain, shed for thee [O poet]...
Mrs1 3.124 25
...only that plenteous nature is rightful master which is the
complement of whatever person it converses with.
ET10 5.166 12
The cause and spring of [England's wealth] is the wealth of
temperament in the people. The wonder of Britain is this plenteous nature.
PLT 12.49 16
The pace of Nature is so slow. Why not from strength to
strength...and not as now with this retardation...and plenteous stopping at
little stations?
plenteousness, n. (1)
ET18 5.302 20
...what facility and plenteousness of knighthood, lordship,
ladyship, royalty, loyalty;...is indicated in Collins's Peerage, through eight
hundred years!