ET4 5.67 20 This union of qualities is fabled in [the Englishmen's] national legend of Beauty and the Beast...
Nat 1.34 22 ...beast and bird...preexist in necessary Ideas in the mind of God...
Nat 1.67 25 ...we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy and eccentric forms of beast, fish, and insect.
MR 1.239 18 ...instead of...that mighty and prevailing heart, which the father had...whom...beast and fish seemed all to know and to serve,-we have now a puny, protected person...
Comp 2.119 20 The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast.
SL 2.159 12 [A man's] vice...sets the mark of the beast on the back of the head...
Pt1 3.10 18 I remember when I was young how much I was moved one morning by tidings that genius had appeared in a youth who sat near me at table. He...had written hundreds of lines, but could not tell whether that which was in him was therein told; he could tell nothing but that all was changed,--man, beast, heaven, earth and sea.
Exp 3.63 20 We fancy that we are strangers, and not so intimately domesticated in the planet as the wild man and the wild beast and bird.
PPh 4.46 8 If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
SwM 4.125 15 [To Swedenborg] Bird and beast is not bird and beast, but emanation and effluvia of the minds and wills of men there present.
SwM 4.125 16 [To Swedenborg] Bird and beast is not bird and beast, but emanation and effluvia of the minds and wills of men there present.
ET1 5.16 7 When too much praise of any genius annoyed [Carlyle] he professed hugely to admire the talent shown by his pig. He had spent much time and contrivance in confining the poor beast to one enclosure in his pen, but pig, by great strokes of judgment, had found out how to let a board down, and had foiled him.
Bty 6.284 4 The motive of science was the extension of man...till his hands should touch the stars...his ears understand the language of beast and bird...
Bty 6.290 5 Elegance of form in bird or beast, or in the human figure, marks some excellence of structure...
Civ 7.25 20 In bird and beast the organs are released and begin to play.
Farm 7.135 4 [Farmers] harness beast, bird, insect, to their work;/...
Farm 7.151 13 The first planter, the savage...looking chiefly to safety from his enemy,--man or beast,--takes poor land.
Cour 7.279 13 George Nidiver stood still/ And looked [the bear] in the face;/ The wild beast stopped amazed,/ Then came with slackening pace./
Chr2 10.92 1 [The man] has his life in Nature, like a beast...
Edc1 10.126 27 ...Man himself in many races retains almost the unteachableness of the beast.
Edc1 10.155 17 These creatures [in nature] have no value for their time, and [the naturalist] must put as low a rate on his. By dint of obstinate sitting still...bird and beast...begin to return.
SovE 10.184 1 ...this unity exists in the organization of insect, beast and bird, still ascending to man...
EzRy 10.384 24 Then again, May 5th [1735, Joseph Emerson writes]: Went to the beach with three of the children. The beast, being frightened when we were all out of the shay, overturned and broke it.
EzRy 10.385 13 16th May [1735] [Joseph Emerson wrote]: My wife and I rode together to Rumney Marsh. The beast frighted several times.
HDC 11.59 9 The red man may destroy here and there a straggler, as a wild beast may;...
HDC 11.61 22 ...the Indian seemed to inspire such a feeling as the wild beast inspires in the people near his den.
War 11.156 5 In some parts of this country...the absorbing topic of all conversation is whipping; who fought, and which whipped? Of man, boy or beast, the only trait that much interests the speakers is the pugnacity.
War 11.171 7 ...[peace] is to be accomplished by the spontaneous teaching, of the cultivated soul, in its secret experience and meditation,-that it is now time that it should pass out of the state of beast into the state of man;...
EdAd 11.382 9 Our eyes/ Are armed, but we are strangers to the stars,/ And strangers to the mystic beast and bird,/ And strangers to the plant and to the mine./
Wom 11.410 16 [Man] is as much raised above the beast by this creative faculty [taste] as by any other.
Wsp 6.206 4 Christianity, in the romantic ages, signified European culture,--the grafted or meliorated tree in a crab forest. And to marry a pagan wife or husband was to marry Beast...
CbW 6.252 20 ...this beast-force...has provoked in every age the satire of wits...
Cour 7.276 16 ...we must have a scope as large as Nature's to deal with beast-like men...
War 11.158 3 ...we read with astonishment of the beastly fighting of the old times.
Nat 1.4 22 Now many [phenomena] are thought not only unexplained but inexplicable; as...beasts...
Nat 1.13 1 Beasts, fire, water, stones, and corn serve [man].
AmS 1.113 9 ...[Swedenborg]...has given in epical parables a theory...of beasts...
MR 1.253 20 To use an Egyptian metaphor, it is not [the people's] will for any long time, to raise the nails of wild beasts and to depress the heads of the sacred birds.
Pt1 3.31 24 ...Aesop reports the whole catalogue of common daily relations through the masquerade of birds and beasts;...
ET4 5.73 4 William the Conqueror being, says Camden, better affected to beasts than to men, imposed heavy fines and punishments on those that should meddle with his game.
ET7 5.117 9 Beasts that make no truce with man, do not break faith with each other.
ET16 5.278 18 I...was ready to maintain that some cleverer elephants or mylodonta had borne off and laid these rocks [of Stonehenge] one on another. Only the good beasts must have known how to cut a well-wrought tenon and mortise...
F 6.33 7 ...the wild beasts [man] makes useful for food...
F 6.39 14 The ulterior aim...the correlation by which planets subside and crystallize, then animate beasts and men,-will not stop but will work into finer particulars...
Pow 6.69 24 Strong race or strong individual rests at last on natural forces, which are best in the savage, which, like the beasts around him, is still in reception of the milk from the teats of Nature.
Wth 6.98 11 Every man may have occasion to consult books which he does not care to possess...pictures also of birds, beasts, fishes, shells, trees, flowers, whose names he desires to know.
Ctr 6.139 15 A boy, says Plato, is the most vicious of all wild beasts;...
Bhr 6.181 7 The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye.
Cour 7.278 23 The boy turned round with screams,/ And ran with terror wild;/ One of the pair of savage beasts/ Pursued the shrieking child./
Comc 8.157 3 The rocks, the plants, the beasts, the birds, neither do anything ridiculous, nor betray a perception of anything absurd done in their presence.
Comc 8.158 4 With the trifling exception of the stratagems of a few beasts and birds, there is no seeming, no halfness in Nature, until the appearance of man.
PPo 8.241 16 On the occasion of Solomon's marriage, all the beasts, laden with presents, appeared before his throne.
Dem1 10.18 1 ...every demoniacal property can manifest itself in the corporeal and incorporeal, yes, in beasts too in a remarkable manner...
PerF 10.73 25 It is curious to see how a creature so feeble and vulnerable as a man, who, unarmed, is no match for the wild beasts...is yet able to subdue to his will these terrific [natural] forces...
Edc1 10.137 7 A new Adam in the garden, [the new man] is to name all the beasts in the field, all the gods in the sky.
Edc1 10.155 8 Do you know how the naturalist learns all the secrets...of beasts...
SovE 10.189 16 ...the warfare of beasts should be renewed in a finer field, for more excellent victories.
HDC 11.51 1 ...the secret of [the Indian's] amazing skill seemed to be that he partook of the nature and fierce instincts of the beasts he slew.
EWI 11.99 6 We are met to exchange congratulations on the anniversary of an event singular in the history of civilization; a day of reason;...of that which makes us better than a flock of birds and beasts;...
CL 12.159 16 In [the Persians'] belief, wild beasts, especially gazelles, collect around an insane person...
ET1 5.24 24 To judge from a single conversation, [Wordsworth] made the impression...of one who paid for his rare elevation by general tameness and conformity. off his own beat, his opinions were of no value.
Nat 1.33 18 ...A cripple in the right way will beat a racer in the wrong;...
AmS 1.107 10 [The poor and the low]...will perish to add one drop of blood to make that great heart beat...
Con 1.314 6 Under the richest robes...the strong heart will beat with love of mankind...
Hist 2.36 21 Put Napoleon in an island prison, let his faculties find...no stake to play for, and he would beat the air, and appear stupid.
SL 2.139 9 [The soul] has so infused its strong enchantment into nature that...when we struggle to wound its creatures our hands...beat our own breasts.
NR 3.241 18 ...gamesters say that the cards beat all the players...
Pow 6.78 3 Basil Hall likes to show that the worst regular troops will beat the best volunteers.
Wsp 6.225 8 The way to conquer the foreign artisan is, not to kill him, but to beat his work.
Wsp 6.235 10 ...[Benedict said] in all the encounters that have yet chanced, I have not been weaponed for that particular occasion, and have been historically beaten; and yet I know all the time that I...shall certainly fight when my hour comes, and shall beat.
Elo1 7.76 23 We believe that there may be a man who is a match for events...one of inexhaustible personal resources, who can give you any odds and beat you.
Cour 7.279 16 Still firm the hunter stood,/ Although his heart beat high;/ Again the creature stopped,/ And gazed with wondering eye./
Dem1 10.21 26 Great men feel that they are so by...falling back on what is humane; in renouncing...each exclusive and local connection, to beat with the pulse and breathe with the lungs of nations.
PerF 10.80 17 ...[the prisoner] took his flute out of his pocket and began to play, to the surprise, and, as it proved, to the delight of all the company; the jurors waked up, the sheriff forgot his duty, the judge himself beat time...
PerF 10.80 21 ...[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 10.80 22 ...[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...the whole population of the globe would beat time...
Supl 10.170 19 ...the great official spoke and beat his breast...
Prch 10.232 9 ...it were inhuman to affect ignorance or indifference on Sundays to what makes our blood beat and our countenance dejected Saturday or Monday.
MoL 10.242 19 ...nothing has been able to resist the tide with which the material prosperity of America in years past has beat down the hope of youth...
HDC 11.55 17 The [Concord] river, at this period, seems to have caused some distress now by its overflow, now by its drought. A cold and wet summer blighted the corn; enormous flocks of pigeons beat down and eat up all sorts of English grain;...
FSLC 11.184 5 What is the use of admirable law-forms, and political forms, if a hurricane of party feeling and a combination of monied interests can beat them to the ground?
FSLC 11.193 11 If you starve or beat the orphan, in my presence, and I accuse your cruelty, can I help it?
FSLN 11.226 20 ...a ghastly result of all those years of experience in affairs, this, that there was nothing better for the foremost American man [Webster] to tell his countrymen than that Slavery was now at that strength that they must beat down their conscience and become kidnappers for it.
AsSu 11.251 16 ...this noble head [Charles Sumner]...must be the target for a pair of bullies to beat with clubs.
HCom 11.342 5 It is a rule in games of chance that the cards beat all the players...
Shak1 11.450 11 ...[Shakespeare] still agitates the heart in age as in youth, and will, until it ceases to beat.
FRep 11.530 13 ...we say that revolutions beat all the insurgents...
CInt 12.118 20 We should not think it much to beat Indians or Mexicans,- but to beat English!
CInt 12.118 21 We should not think it much to beat Indians or Mexicans,- but to beat English!
Pray 12.357 1 ...thou [God] didst beat back my weak sight upon myself...
Hsm1 2.262 10 [Culture] will not now run against an axe at the first step out of the beaten track of opinion.
Mrs1 3.128 20 ...fashion...is Mexico, Marengo and Trafalgar beaten out thin;...
ET5 5.75 20 The power of the Saxon-Danes, so thoroughly beaten in the war that the name of English and villein were synonymous......stood on the strong personality of these people.
ET8 5.133 22 It was no bad description of the Briton generically, what was said two hundred years ago of one particular Oxford scholar: He was a very bold man...and would often speak his mind of particular persons then accidentally present, without examining the company he was in; for which he was...several times threatened to be kicked and beaten.
Pow 6.61 4 When [children] are hurt by us...or are beaten in the game...they have a serious check.
Wsp 6.234 20 [Benedict] said, I am never beaten until I know that I am beaten.
Wsp 6.234 21 [Benedict] said, I am never beaten until I know that I am beaten.
Wsp 6.235 7 ...[Benedict said] in all the encounters that have yet chanced, I have not been weaponed for that particular occasion, and have been historically beaten;...
Wsp 6.235 8 ...[Benedict said] in all the encounters that have yet chanced, I have not been weaponed for that particular occasion, and have been historically beaten; and yet I know all the time that I have never been beaten;...
EWI 11.105 11 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...
FSLC 11.201 6 By white slaves, by a white slave, are we beaten.
JBS 11.278 9 ...in Pennsylvania...[John Brown] fell in with a boy...whom he looked upon as his superior. This boy was a slave; he saw him beaten with an iron shovel...
MAng1 12.220 16 Granacci, a painter's apprentice, having lent [Michelangelo], when a boy, a print of Saint Antony beaten by devils, together with some colors and pencils, he went to the fish-market to observe the form and color of fins and of the eyes of fish.
Chr1 3.99 15 I revere the person who is riches; so that I cannot think of him as alone...but as perpetual patron, benefactor and beatified man.
Elo1 7.66 23 [Every audience] are ready to be beatified.
LE 1.177 26 Why should [the scholar]...not know, in his own beating bosom, [human life's] sweet and smart?
Fdsp 2.193 17 How beautiful, on their approach to this beating heart, the steps and forms of the gifted and the true!
Art1 2.360 1 [The traveller who visits the Vatican galleries] studies the technical rules [of art] on these wonderful remains, but forgets...that each [work] came out of the solitary workshop of one artist, who...created his work without other model save life...and the sweet and smart...of beating hearts, and meeting eyes;...
SwM 4.110 21 ...[Swedenborg] must be reckoned a leader in that revolution, which, by giving to science an idea, has given to an aimless accumulation of experiments, guidance and form and a beating heart.
Edc1 10.158 21 ...to whatsoever beating heart I speak, to you it is committed to educate men.
EPro 11.319 7 October, November, December will have passed over beating hearts and plotting brains...
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.
Exp 3.72 3 I feel a new heart beating with the love of the new beauty.
Civ 7.24 24 The ship, in its latest complete equipment, is an abridgment and compend of a nation's arts: the ship...driven by steam; and in wildest sea-mountains, at vast distances from home,--The pulses of her iron heart/ Go beating through the storm./
OA 7.316 26 Nature...now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then a young heart beating under fourscore winters.
MMEm 10.425 24 ...the bare bones of this poor embryo earth may give the idea of the Infinite far, far better than when dignified with arts and industry:-its oceans, when beating the symbols of ceaseless ages, than when covered with cargoes of war and oppression.
DSA 1.125 12 [The sentiment of virtue] is the beatitude of man.
Lov1 2.186 5 The soul which is in the soul of each [lover], craving a perfect beatitude, detects incongruities, defects and disproportion in the behaviour of the other.
OS 2.269 11 ...this deep power...whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour...
OS 2.276 2 ...whoso dwells in this moral beatitude already anticipates those special powers which men prize so highly.
Art1 2.354 2 Shall I now add that the whole extant product of the plastic arts has herein its highest value...as a stroke drawn in the portrait of that fate...according to whose ordinations all beings advance to their beatitude?
Chr1 3.113 13 A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart. Our beatitude waits for the fulfilment of these two in one.
SwM 4.97 5 All religious history contains traces of the trance of saints--a beatitude, but without any sign of joy;...
SwM 4.97 13 All religious history contains traces of the trance of saints... The trances of Socrates...Swedenborg, will readily come to mind. But what as readily comes to mind is the accompaniment of disease. This beatitude comes in terror...
MoS 4.174 21 In the mount of vision, ere they have yet risen from their knees, [the saints] say, We discover that this our homage and beatitude is partial and deformed...
F 6.25 19 This beatitude dips from on high down on us and we see.
Ill 6.324 17 ...the beatitude of man [the Hindoos] hold to lie in being freed from fascination.
Imtl 8.330 10 Hear the opinion of Montesquieu: ... I do not wish to exchange the idea of immortality against that of the beatitude of one day.
Chr2 10.114 6 The soul, penetrated with the beatitude which pours into it on all sides, asks no interpositions...
Supl 10.176 27 ...[Nature]...in the East...inculcates the tenet of a beatitude to be found in escape from all organization and all personality...
Prch 10.223 6 The next age will behold God in the ethical laws...and will regard natural history, private fortunes and politics, not for themselves, as we have done, but as illustrations of those laws, of that beatitude and love.
LLNE 10.326 8 The former generations acted under the belief that a shining social prosperity was the beatitude of man...
ChiE 11.470 5 Nature...in the East...inculcates a beatitude to be found in escape from all organization and all personality...
PLT 12.10 1 ...there is a certain beatitude...to which all men are entitled...
II 12.77 13 ...the beatitude of the Intellect seems to lie out of our volition...
MLit 12.319 5 In Byron...[the subjective tendency] predominates; but in Byron...it sees not its true end...a life nourished on absolute beatitudes...
MMEm 10.429 22 O dear worms,-how they will at some sure time take down this tedious tabernacle...instructors in the science of mind, by gnawing away the meshes which have chained it. A very Beatrice in showing the Paradise.
PI 8.47 2 I think you will also find a charm heroic, plaintive, pathetic, in these cadences [of common English metres], and be at once set on searching for the words that can rightly fill these vacant beats.
PI 8.57 2 ...[Newton] only shows...that the music must rise...up to the largeness of astronomy: at last that great heart will hear in the music beats like its own;...
OS 2.277 19 ...in groups where debate is earnest...the company become aware...that all have a spiritual property in what was said, as well as the sayer. They all become wiser than they were. It arches over them like a temple, this unity of thought in which every heart beats with nobler sense of power and duty...
SwM 4.142 26 ...when [Behmen] asserts that, in some sort, love is greater than God, his heart beats so high that the thumping against his leathern coat is audible across the centuries.
PC 8.207 5 The heart still beats with the public pulse of joy that the country has withstood the rude trial which threatened its existence...
MLit 12.334 23 The heart beats in this age as of old...
HDC 11.85 24 Why need I remind you of our own...Cumings, Barretts, Beattons, the departed benefactors of the town [Concord]?
Bty 6.294 25 Rien de beau que le vrai.
MAng1 12.219 7 Since Beauty is thus an abstraction of the harmony and proportion that reigns in all Nature, it is therefore studied in Nature, and not in what does not exist. Hence the celebrated French maxim of Rhetoric, Rien de beau que le vrai; Nothing is beautiful but what is true.
ET11 5.175 13 Of Richard Beauchamp...the Emperor told Henry V. that no Christian king had such another knight for wisdom, nurture and manhood...
ET11 5.176 7 In the same line of Warwick, the successor next but one to [Richard] Beauchamp was the stout earl of Henry VI. and Edward IV.
Clbs 7.244 3 ...we owe to Boswell our knowledge of the club of Dr. Johnson...Beauclerk and Percy.
UGM 4.6 21 Peu de moyens, beaucoup d'effet.
ET11 5.193 8 The historic names of the Buckinghams, Beauforts, Marlboroughs and Hertfords have gained no new lustre...
Clbs 7.240 12 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 16 What can you do with Beaumarchais, who converts the censor whom the court has appointed to stifle his play into an ardent advocate? The court appoints another censor, who shall crush it this time. Beaumarchais persuades him to defend it.
Clbs 7.240 18 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.
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 2.256 7 In Beaumont and Fletcher's Sea Voyage, Juletta tells the stout captain and his company,--Jul. Why, slaves, 't is in our power to hang ye./ Master. Very likely,/ 'T is in our powers, then, to be hanged, and scorn ye./
ShP 4.192 15 The best proof of [the Elizabethan theatre's] vitality is the crowd of writers which suddenly broke into this field; Kyd, Marlow, Greene, Jonson, Chapman, Decker, Webster, Heywood, Middleton, Peele, Ford, Massinger, Beaumont and Fletcher.
ShP 4.203 20 ...I find, among [Wotton's] correspondents and acquaintances...Paul Sarpi, Arminius, with all of whom exists some token of his having communicated, without enumerating many others whom doubtless he saw...Jonson, Beaumont...
ET1 5.7 16 ...[Landor]...talked of Wordsworth, Byron, Massinger, Beaumont and Fletcher.
Boks 7.207 6 Here [in the Elizabethan era the scholar] has Shakspeare... Beaumont...
Boks 7.218 2 The Greek fables...the English drama of Shakspeare, Beaumont and Fletcher, and Ford...have this enlargement [the imaginative element]...
Clbs 7.243 22 We know well the Mermaid Club...of Shakspeare... Beaumont and Fletcher;...
PI 8.55 3 Try this strain of Beaumont and Fletcher...
QO 8.190 4 Each man of thought is surrounded by wiser men than he, if they cannot write as well. Cannot he and they combine? Cannot they...call their poem Beaumont and Fletcher...
LLNE 10.358 25 Talents supplement each other. Beaumont and Fletcher and many French novelists have known how to utilize such partnerships.
MLit 12.311 19 How can the age be a bad one which gives me...Beaumont and Fletcher, Donne and Sir Thomas Browne, beside its own riches?
UGM 4.12 4 Shall we say that quartz mountains will pulverize into innumerable Werners, Von Buchs and Beaumonts...
LE 1.163 22 ...the more quaintly you inspect its evanescent beauties...so much the more you master the biography of this hero...
YA 1.393 5 One thing...the beauties of aristocracy, we commend to the study of the travelling American.
Nat2 3.170 7 ...we see what majestic beauties daily wrap us in their bosom.
Wth 6.91 22 The world is full of fops...who had persuaded beauties and men of genius to wear their fop livery;...
Bty 6.287 10 ...there are many beauties;...
Boks 7.216 5 We admire parks, and high-born beauties...
Prch 10.234 4 Given the insight, [the deep observer] will find as many beauties and heroes and strokes of genius close by him as Dante or Shakspeare beheld.
Schr 10.262 26 I think the peculiar office of scholars...is to be...detectors and delineators of occult symmetries and unpublished beauties;...
LLNE 10.332 6 [Everett's learning] was so coldly and weightily communicated...adorned with so many simple and austere beauties of expression ...that...this learning instantly took the highest place to our imagination...
FSLN 11.223 4 ...[Webster's] beauties of detail are endless.
SHC 11.435 15 ...when these acorns, that are falling at our feet, are oaks overshadowing our children in a remote century...heroes, poets, beauties, sanctities, benefactors, will have made the air timeable and articulate.
Shak1 11.448 23 All criticism is only a making of rules out of [Shakespeare's] beauties.
CInt 12.129 22 Bring the insight, and [the deep observer] will find as many beauties and heroes and astounding strokes of genius close by him as Shakspeare or Aeschylus or Dante beheld.
Bost 12.184 26 ...it appears as if some localities of the earth...through the ravishing beauties of Nature, were preferred before others.
MAng1 12.218 1 All particular beauties scattered up and down in Nature are only so far beautiful as they suggest more or less in themselves this entire circuit of harmonious proportions.
Bhr 6.196 4 There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.
Nat 1.10 20 ...in the distant line of the horizon, man beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature.
Nat 1.15 20 There is no object so foul that intense light will not make beautiful.
Nat 1.24 3 Nothing is quite beautiful alone;...
Nat 1.24 4 ...nothing but is beautiful in the whole.
Nat 1.24 5 A single object is only so far beautiful as it suggests this universal grace.
Nat 1.27 3 Throw a stone into the stream, and the circles that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence.
Nat 1.59 10 I do not wish to fling stones at my beautiful mother...
Nat 1.68 15 A perception of this mystery inspires the muse of George Herbert, the beautiful psalmist of the seventeenth century.
Nat 1.75 9 To the wise...a fact is...the most beautiful of fables.
Nat 1.77 5 ...[the advancing spirit] shall draw beautiful faces...
AmS 1.96 25 In its grub state...[the new deed] is a dull grub. But suddenly, without observation, the selfsame thing unfurls beautiful wings...
AmS 1.112 12 Man is surprised to find that things near are not less beautiful and wondrous than things remote.
DSA 1.121 6 When...[man] attains to say...Truth is beautiful...then...God is well pleased.
DSA 1.132 20 A true conversion...is...to be made by the reception of beautiful sentiments.
DSA 1.137 27 ...the eye felt the sad contrast in looking at [the preacher], and then...into the beautiful meteor of the snow.
DSA 1.148 17 ...let us study the grand strokes of rectitude:...what is the highest form in which we know this beautiful element, a certain solidity of merit...
LE 1.177 24 [The scholar's] needs...are keys that open to him the beautiful museum of human life.
LE 1.178 6 ...out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.
MN 1.201 22 ...if...it be assumed that the final cause of the world is to make holy or wise or beautiful men, we see that it has not succeeded.
MN 1.205 20 The great Pan of old, who was clothed in a leopard skin to signify the beautiful variety of things...was but the representative of thee, O rich and various Man!...
MN 1.212 27 These beautiful basilisks [the stars] set their brute glorious eyes on the eye of every child...
MN 1.216 26 From the poisonous tree, the world, say the Brahmins, two species of fruit are produced, sweet as the waters of life; Love or the society of beautiful souls, and Poetry...
MN 1.224 6 Pusillanimity and fear [the soul] refuses with a beautiful scorn;...
MR 1.227 12 ...beautiful and perfect men we are not now...
LT 1.271 21 Nature, literature, science, childhood, appear to us beautiful;...
LT 1.276 9 The impulse [of Reform] is good, and the theory; the practice is less beautiful.
YA 1.367 8 There is no feature of the old countries that strikes an American with more agreeable surprise than the beautiful gardens of Europe;...
YA 1.368 2 A well-laid garden makes the face of the country of no account; let that be...grand or mean, you have made a beautiful abode worthy of man.
YA 1.387 16 I think I see place and duties for a nobleman in every society; but it is...to guide and adorn life for the multitude...by making his life secretly beautiful.
Hist 2.14 8 ...Io, in Aeschylus, transformed to a cow, offends the imagination; but how changed when as Isis in Egypt she meets Osiris-Jove, a beautiful woman with nothing of the metamorphosis left but the lunar horns as the splendid ornament of her brows!
Hist 2.30 10 The beautiful fables of the Greeks...are universal verities.
Hist 2.35 20 Lucy Ashton is another name for fidelity, which is always beautiful and always liable to calamity in this world.
Comp 2.115 26 The beautiful laws and substances of the world persecute and whip the traitor.
Comp 2.124 24 ...the shell-fish crawls out of its beautiful but stony case...
Comp 2.125 23 We do not believe there is any force in to-day to rival or recreate that beautiful yesterday.
SL 2.136 17 It is natural and beautiful that childhood should inquire and maturity should teach;...
SL 2.150 10 ...nearness or likeness of nature,--how beautiful is the ease of its victory!
SL 2.151 10 The scholar...follows some giddy girl, not yet taught by religious passion to know the noble woman with all that is serene, oracular and beautiful in her soul.
SL 2.155 22 The laws of disease, physicians say, are as beautiful as the laws of health.
SL 2.166 6 Let the great soul incarnated in some woman's form...sweep chambers and scour floors, and...to sweep and scour will instantly appear supreme and beautiful actions...
Lov1 2.171 1 ...it is to be hoped that...we may attain to that inward view of the law which shall describe a truth ever young and beautiful...
Lov1 2.171 18 Every thing is beautiful seen from the point of the intellect, or as truth.
Lov1 2.179 27 The statue is then beautiful when it begins to be incomprehensible...
Lov1 2.181 13 ...the Deity sends the glory of youth before the soul, that it may avail itself of beautiful bodies as aids to its recollection of the celestial good and fair;...
Lov1 2.182 14 ...so is the one beautiful soul only the door through which [the lover] enters to the society of all true and pure souls.
Lov1 2.183 18 ...this dream of love, though beautiful, is only one scene in our play.
Lov1 2.185 15 ...adding up costly advantages...[lovers] exult in discovering that willingly, joyfully, they would give all as a ransom for the beautiful, the beloved head...
Lov1 2.188 25 That which is so beautiful and attractive as these relations [of love], must be succeeded and supplanted only by what is more beautiful, and so on for ever.
Lov1 2.188 27 That which is so beautiful and attractive as these relations [of love], must be succeeded and supplanted only by what is more beautiful, and so on for ever.
Fdsp 2.193 16 How beautiful, on their approach to this beating heart, the steps and forms of the gifted and the true!
Fdsp 2.196 22 Shall I not be as real as the things I see? If I am, I shall not fear to know them for what they are. Their essence is not less beautiful than their appearance...
Fdsp 2.199 18 ...the very flower and aroma of the flower of each of the beautiful natures disappears as they approach each other.
Fdsp 2.210 2 Why should we desecrate noble and beautiful souls by intruding on them?
Fdsp 2.210 25 Let [your friend] be to thee for ever a sort of beautiful enemy...
Prd1 2.228 20 The beautiful laws of time and space, once dislocated by our inaptitude, are holes and dens.
Cir 2.313 11 ...steeped in the sea of beautiful forms which the field offers us, we may chance to cast a right glance back upon biography.
Int 2.337 13 ...a beautiful face sets twenty hearts in palpitation...
Int 2.338 19 ...I remember any beautiful verse for twenty years.
Int 2.342 20 As long as I hear truth I am bathed by a beautiful element...
Art1 2.354 1 Shall I now add that the whole extant product of the plastic arts has herein its highest value...as a stroke drawn in the portrait of that fate, perfect and beautiful, according to whose ordinations all beings advance to their beatitude?
Art1 2.356 1 A squirrel leaping from bough to bough...is beautiful...
Art1 2.365 16 A beautiful woman is a picture which drives all beholders nobly mad.
Art1 2.367 7 Now men do not see nature to be beautiful...
Art1 2.368 2 In nature, all is useful, all is beautiful. It is therefore beautiful because it is alive, moving, reproductive;...
Pt1 3.3 5 ...if you inquire whether [the umpires of taste] are beautiful souls... you learn that they are selfish and sensual.
Pt1 3.4 23 ...the fountains whence all this river of Time and its creatures floweth are intrinsically ideal and beautiful...
Pt1 3.7 9 ...the world...is from the beginning beautiful;...
Pt1 3.7 10 ...God has not made some beautiful things...
Pt1 3.8 15 ...nature is as truly beautiful as it is good...
Pt1 3.24 2 The songs...are pursued by clamorous flights of censures, which swarm in far greater numbers and threaten to devour them; but these last are not winged. At the end of a very short leap they fall plump down and rot, having received from the souls out of which they came no beautiful wings.
Pt1 3.24 19 [The sculptor] rose one day...before dawn, and saw the morning break...and for many days after, he strove to express this tranquillity, and lo! his chisel had fashioned out of marble the form of a beautiful youth...
Pt1 3.31 1 ...Socrates...tells us that the soul is cured of its maladies by certain incantations, and that these incantations are beautiful reasons, from which temperance is generated in souls;...
Pt1 3.39 17 ...by and by [the poet] says something which is original and beautiful.
Pt1 3.39 22 ...the poet knows well that [what he says] not his; that it is as strange and beautiful to him as to you;...
Exp 3.48 25 In the death of my son...I seem to have lost a beautiful estate...
Exp 3.57 6 A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no lustre as you turn it in your hand until you come to a particular angle; then it shows deep and beautiful colors.
Exp 3.65 8 Right to hold land, right of property, is disputed...and before the vote is taken, dig away in your garden, and spend your earnings as a waif or godsend to all serene and beautiful purposes.
Exp 3.67 2 How easily, if fate would suffer it, we might keep forever these beautiful limits...
Mrs1 3.138 17 Men are too coarsely made for the delicacy of beautiful carriage and customs.
Mrs1 3.147 7 ...as we show beyond that Heaven and Earth/ In form and shape compact and beautiful;/ .../ So on our heels a fresh perfection treads/...
Mrs1 3.149 2 A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face;...
Mrs1 3.149 3 A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face;...
Mrs1 3.149 3 ...a beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form...
Mrs1 3.149 4 ...a beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form...
Gts 3.163 11 I say to [the donor], How can you give me this pot of oil or this flagon of wine when all your oil and wine is mine, which belief of mine this gift seems to deny? Hence the fitness of beautiful, not useful things, for gifts.
Nat2 3.175 7 [A boy] hears the echoes of a horn in a hill country...which converts the mountains into an Aeolian harp,--and this supernatural tiralira restores to him...Apollo, Diana, and all divine hunters and huntresses. Can a musical note be so lofty, so haughtily beautiful!
Nat2 3.176 19 There is nothing so wonderful in any particular landscape as the necessity of being beautiful under which every landscape lies.
Nat2 3.182 5 Flowers so strictly belong to youth that we adult men soon come to feel that their beautiful generations concern not us...
NR 3.231 19 Money...is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.
NR 3.233 24 ...it was easy [at Handel's Messiah] to observe what efforts nature was making, through so many hoarse, wooden and imperfect persons, to produce beautiful voices...
NR 3.234 14 Beautiful details we must have, or no artist;...
NR 3.246 22 We keep a running fire of sarcasm at ignorance and the life of the senses; then goes by, perchance, a fair girl...making the commonest offices beautiful...
NER 3.254 19 It is right and beautiful in any man to say, I will take this coat, or this book, or this measure of corn of yours,--in whom we see the act to be original...
NER 3.283 9 ...the man...whose advent men and events prepare and foreshow, is one who...shall rely on the Law alive and beautiful...
UGM 4.6 16 It costs a beautiful person no exertion to paint her image on our eyes;...
PPh 4.57 4 All things are for the sake of the good, and it is the cause of every thing beautiful. This dogma animates and impersonates [Plato's] philosophy.
PPh 4.65 3 [Plato] called the several faculties, gods, in his beautiful personation.
PPh 4.69 18 ...there is another, which is as much more beautiful than beauty as beauty is than chaos; namely, wisdom...
PPh 4.70 1 When an artificer, [Plato] says, in the fabrication of any work, looks to that which always subsists according to the same; and, employing a model of this kind, expresses its idea and power in his work,--it must follow that his production should be beautiful.
PPh 4.70 3 When an artificer, [Plato] says, in the fabrication of any work, looks to that which always subsists according to the same; and, employing a model of this kind, expresses its idea and power in his work,--it must follow that his production should be beautiful. But when he beholds that which is born and dies, it will be far from beautiful.
PNR 4.81 13 ...the succession of individual men is fatal and beautiful...
PNR 4.83 2 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His...beautiful definitions of ideas...
SwM 4.104 27 ...Linnaeus, [Swedenborg's] contemporary, was affirming, in his beautiful science, that Nature is always like herself...
SwM 4.127 25 ...though the virgins [Swedenborg] saw in heaven were beautiful, the wives were incomparably more beautiful...
SwM 4.127 26 ...though the virgins [Swedenborg] saw in heaven were beautiful, the wives were incomparably more beautiful...
SwM 4.144 13 The entire want of poetry in so transcendent a mind [as Swedenborg's]...like a hoarse voice in a beautiful person, is a kind of warning.
SwM 4.146 9 ...if [Swedenborg] staggered under the trance of delight, the more excellent is the spectacle he saw, the realities of being which beam and blaze through him...and he renders a second passive service to men... and, in the retributions of spiritual nature, not less glorious or less beautiful to himself.
MoS 4.149 18 [A man] sees the beauty of a human face, and searches the cause of that beauty, which must be more beautiful.
ShP 4.219 19 ...right is more beautiful than private affection;...
ET1 5.7 6 I found [Landor]...living in a cloud of pictures at his Villa Gherardesca, a fine house commanding a beautiful landscape.
ET1 5.7 13 [Landor] praised the beautiful cyclamen which grows all about Florence;...
ET1 5.22 19 ...[Wordsworth] recollected himself for a few moments and then stood forth and repeated...the three entire sonnets with great animation. I fancied the second and third more beautiful than his poems are wont to be.
ET6 5.102 11 ...the one thing the English value is pluck. The word is not beautiful...
ET10 5.163 11 Whatever is excellent and beautiful in civil, rural, or ecclesiastic architecture...the English noble crosses sea and land to see and to copy at home.
ET11 5.172 8 Many of the [English] halls...are beautiful desolations.
ET12 5.199 7 I regret that I had but a single day wherein to see...the beautiful lawns and gardens of the colleges [at Cambridge]...
ET14 5.239 19 Whoever...requires heaps of facts before any theories can be attempted, has no poetic power, and nothing original or beautiful will be produced by him.
ET14 5.249 24 ...Carlyle was driven by his disgust at the pettiness and the cant, into the preaching of Fate. In comparison with all this rottenness [in England], any check, any cleansing, though by fire, seemed desirable and beautiful.
ET14 5.258 2 There are all degrees in poetry, and we must be thankful for every beautiful talent.
ET16 5.286 3 The rule of art is that a colonnade is more beautiful the longer it is...
F 6.36 24 Christopher Wren said of the beautiful King's College chapel, that if anybody would tell him where to lay the first stone, he would build such another.
F 6.43 13 By and by [man] will...have his gardens and vineyards in the beautiful order...of his thought.
F 6.45 6 Moller...taught that the building which was fitted accurately to answer its end would turn out to be beautiful...
Wth 6.92 17 The statue is so beautiful that it contracts no stain from the market...
Bhr 6.177 12 [Men] carry the liquor of life flowing up and down in these beautiful bottles...
Bhr 6.189 22 ...go into the house; if the proprietor is constrained and deferring, 't is of no importance...how beautiful his grounds...
Bhr 6.197 7 An old man...said to me, When you come into the room, I think I will study how to make humanity beautiful to you.
Wsp 6.232 2 ...a beautiful atmosphere is generated from the planet by the averaged emanations from all its rocks and soils.
CbW 6.278 22 The secret of culture is to learn that a few great points steadily reappear...and that these few are alone to be regarded;...love of what is simple and beautiful;...
Bty 6.288 2 We know [our friends] have intervals of folly...but wait there appearings of the genius, which are sure and beautiful.
Bty 6.291 13 How beautiful are ships on the sea!...
Bty 6.292 15 Beautiful as is the symmetry of any form, if the form can move we seek a more excellent symmetry.
Bty 6.295 19 ...see how surely a beautiful form strikes the fancy of men...
Bty 6.295 26 In our cities...any beautiful building is copied and improved upon...
Bty 6.296 10 A beautiful woman is a practical poet...
Bty 6.297 24 It does not hurt weak eyes to look into beautiful eyes never so long.
Bty 6.297 25 Women stand related to beautiful nature around us...
Bty 6.298 16 ...we see faces every day which have a good type but have been marred in the casting; a proof that we are all...should have been beautiful if our ancestors had kept the laws...
Bty 6.299 13 A beautiful person among the Greeks was thought to betray by this sign some secret favor of the immortal gods;...
Bty 6.303 1 Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.
Bty 6.303 8 If I could put my hand on the North Star, would it be as beautiful?
Bty 6.303 17 The new virtue which constitutes a thing beautiful is a certain cosmical quality...
Bty 6.303 25 Every natural feature...speaks of that central benefit which is the soul of nature, and thereby is beautiful.
Bty 6.305 4 Into every beautiful object there enters somewhat immeasurable and divine...
Ill 6.318 5 We begin low with coarse masks and rise to the most subtle and beautiful.
SS 7.7 22 The ministers of beauty are rarely beautiful in coaches and saloons.
Civ 7.25 1 ...I watched, in crossing the sea, the beautiful skill whereby the engine in its constant working was made to produce two hundred gallons of fresh water out of salt water, every hour...
Art2 7.40 15 I hasten to state the principle which prescribes...its firm law to the useful and the beautiful arts.
Art2 7.40 18 ...to make anything useful or beautiful, the individual must be submitted to the universal mind.
Art2 7.48 19 The artist who is to produce a work...which is to be more beautiful to the eye in proportion to its culture, must disindividualize himself...
Art2 7.52 24 ...whatever is beautiful rests on the foundation of the necessary.
Art2 7.53 6 The most perfect form to answer an end is so far beautiful.
Art2 7.53 27 ...each work of art...took its form from the broad hint of Nature. Beautiful in this wise is the obvious origin of all the known orders of architecture;...
Elo1 7.92 20 ...in cases where profound conviction has been wrought, the eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief.
DL 7.103 16 [The nestler's] unaffected lamentations when he lifts up his voice on high, or, more beautiful, the sobbing child...soften all hearts to pity...
DL 7.106 26 ...by beautiful traits...the little pilgrim prosecutes the journey through Nature which he has thus gayly begun.
DL 7.111 19 The houses of the rich are confectioners' shops, where we get sweetmeats and wine; the houses of the poor are imitations of these to the extent of their ability. With these ends housekeeping is not beautiful;...
DL 7.129 20 ...the household should cherish the beautiful arts and the sentiment of veneration.
DL 7.129 26 ...let [a man] not think that a property in beautiful objects is necessary to his apprehension of them...
WD 7.160 2 How excellent are the mechanical aids we have applied to the human body, as...in the beautiful aid of ether...
WD 7.174 21 History of ancient art, excavated cities, recovery of books and inscriptions,--yes, the works were beautiful, and the history worth knowing;...
Boks 7.216 25 Great is the poverty of [novelists'] inventions. She was beautiful and he fell in love.
Clbs 7.225 12 Varied foods, climates, beautiful objects...are the necessity of this exigent system of ours.
Cour 7.268 19 The beautiful voice at church goes sounding on, and covers up in its volume...all the defects of the choir.
Cour 7.269 15 The old principles which books exist to express are more beautiful than any book;...
Suc 7.299 8 ...I have just seen a man...who told me...that every spring was more beautiful to him than the last.
Suc 7.304 20 ...the man of sensibility counts it a delight...to see the beautiful manners of the youth of either sex.
Suc 7.309 3 Nature lays the ground-plan of each creature accurately...then veils it scrupulously. See how carefully she covers up the skeleton. ... She weaves her tissues and integuments of flesh and skin and hair and beautiful colors of the day over it...
PI 8.11 17 The lover sees reminders of his mistress in every beautiful object;...
PI 8.38 8 A poet comes who...shows that Nature is only a language to express the laws, which are grand and beautiful;...
PI 8.45 17 ...no matter what objects are near [water]...they become beautiful by being reflected.
PI 8.60 4 The Crusades brought out the genius of France, in the twelfth century, when Pierre d'Auvergne said,--I will sing a new song which resounds in my breast, never was a song good or beautiful which resembled any other.
PI 8.69 27 It is not style or rhymes, or a new image more or less that imports, but...that life should be an image in every part beautiful;...
SA 8.79 13 ...grace is more beautiful than beauty.
SA 8.94 8 When they showed [Madame de Stael] the beautiful Lake Leman, she exclaimed, O for the gutter of the Rue de Bac!...
Elo2 8.111 6 ...[an anecdote of eloquence] has a beautiful and prodigious surprise in it.
Elo2 8.130 13 ...such practical chemistry as the conversion of a truth written in God's language into a truth in Dunderhead's language, is one of the most beautiful and cogent weapons that are forged in the shop of the Divine Artificer.
Comc 8.167 17 I chanced the other day to fall in with an odd illustration of the remark I had heard, that the laws of disease are as beautiful as the laws of health;...
PPo 8.251 18 Take my heart in thy hand, O beautiful boy of Shiraz!/ I would give for the mole on thy cheek Samarcand and Buchara!/
Imtl 8.325 24 [The Greek] carried his arts to Rome, and built his beautiful tombs at Pompeii.
Aris 10.39 17 I wish...men who are charmed by the beautiful Nemesis as well as by the dire Nemesis...
Aris 10.55 2 He is beautiful in face, in port, in manners, who is absorbed in objects which he truly believes to be superior to himself.
Aris 10.55 9 What is it that makes the true knight? Loyalty to his thought. That makes the beautiful scorn...which all men admire...
PerF 10.84 26 A man has a rare mathematical talent, inviting him to the beautiful secrets of geometry, and wishes to clap a patent on it;...
Edc1 10.133 1 ...the event of each moment...the passing of a beautiful face, the apoplexy of our neighbor, are all tests to try our theory [of life]...
Edc1 10.148 23 The joy of our childhood in hearing beautiful stories from some skilful aunt who loves to tell them, must be repeated in youth.
Edc1 10.159 3 The beautiful nature of the world has here blended your happiness with your power.
SovE 10.184 26 The poor grub, in the hole of a tree, by yielding itself to Nature, goes blameless through its low part...expands into a beautiful form with rainbow wings...
SovE 10.190 21 Shall I say then it were truer to see Necessity calm, beautiful, passionless...
Prch 10.217 7 The venerable and beautiful traditions in which we were educated are losing their hold on human belief, day by day;...
Schr 10.262 19 Stung by this intellectual conscience, we go to measure our tasks as scholars...and our sadness is suddenly overshone by a sympathy of blessing. Beauty...which draws by being beautiful...comes in and puts a new face on the world.
Schr 10.271 23 ...[genius and virtue] are the First Good, of which Plato affirms that...it is the cause of everything beautiful.
Schr 10.279 21 I declare anew from Heaven that truth exists new and beautiful and profitable forevermore.
LLNE 10.331 13 If any of my readers were at that period [1820] in Boston or Cambridge, they will easily remember [Everett's] radiant beauty of person...a voice...that...was the most mellow and beautiful and correct of all the instruments of the time.
LLNE 10.333 18 Especially beautiful were [Everett's] poetic quotations.
LLNE 10.351 10 Aladdin and his magician, or the beautiful Scheherezade can alone, in these prosaic times before the [Fourierist] sight, describe the material splendors collected there [in the Golden Horn].
LLNE 10.367 19 See how much more joy [children] find in pouring their pudding on the table-cloth than into their beautiful mouths.
MMEm 10.397 13 But O, these waves and leaves,-/ When happy, stoic Nature grieves,-/ No human speech so beautiful/ As their murmurs, mine to lull./
SlHr 10.446 7 ...so entirely was [Samuel Hoar's] respect to the ground-plan and substructure of society a natural ability...that it was...like one of those opaque crystals...not less perfect in their angles and structure, and only less beautiful, than the transparent topazes and diamonds.
Thor 10.483 14 How did these beautiful rainbow-tints get into the shell of the fresh-water clam...
GSt 10.506 19 For a year or two, the most affectionate and domestic of men [George Stearns] became almost a stranger in his beautiful home.
ALin 11.328 10 How beautiful to see/ Once more a shepherd of mankind indeed,/ Who loved his charge, but never loved to lead;/...
ALin 11.337 9 The ancients believed in a serene and beautiful Genius which rules in the affairs of nations;...
HCom 11.340 18 ...They followed [Truth] and found her/ Where all may hope to find/ Not in the ashes of the burnt-out mind,/ But beautiful, with danger's sweetness round her./
Wom 11.412 21 Beautiful is the passion of love...
SHC 11.435 19 ...hither [to Sleepy Hollow] shall repair...every sweet and friendly influence; the beautiful night and beautiful day will come in turn to sit upon the grass.
FRO2 11.489 10 Let [the lesson of the New Testament] stand, beautiful and wholesome...
II 12.79 16 All men are inspirable. Whilst they say only the beautiful and sacred words of necessity, there is no weakness, and no repentance.
Mem 12.103 27 At this hour the stream is still flowing, though you hear it not; the plants are still drinking their accustomed life and repaying it with their beautiful forms.
Mem 12.107 17 We forget also according to beautiful laws.
CInt 12.123 16 ...each talent links itself so fast with self-love and with petty advantage that it loses sight of its obedience, which is beautiful...
CL 12.146 8 It seems to me much that I have brought a skilful chemist into my ground...for an art he has, out of all kinds of refuse rubbish to manufacture Virgaliens, Bergamots, and Seckels...and his method of working is no less beautiful than the result.
CL 12.153 12 At Niagara, I have noticed, that, as quick as I got out of the wetting of the Fall, all the grandeur changed into beauty. You cannot keep it grand, 't is so quickly beautiful;...
CW 12.173 7 I [Linnaeus] possess here [in the Academy Garden]...unless I am very much mistaken, what is far more beautiful than Babylonian robes...
CW 12.179 8 ...when [the man] sees this annual reappearance of beautiful forms, the lovely carpet, the lovely tapestry of June, he may well ask himself the special meaning of the hieroglyphic...
Bost 12.190 17 In our beautiful [Boston] bay...a good boatman can easily find his way for the first time to the State House...
Bost 12.211 9 ...the Quincy of the Revolution seems compensated for the shortness of his bright career in the son who so long lingers among the last of those bright clouds, That on the steady breeze of honor sail/ In long succession calm and beautiful./
MAng1 12.217 3 ...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...
MAng1 12.217 21 ...because the understanding in the presence of the beautiful, cannot ask, Why is it beautiful? for that reason it is so.
MAng1 12.217 24 There is no standard whereby the understanding can determine whether objects are beautiful or otherwise.
MAng1 12.218 2 All particular beauties scattered up and down in Nature are only so far beautiful as they suggest more or less in themselves this entire circuit of harmonious proportions.
MAng1 12.218 11 The Italian artists sanction this view of Beauty by describing it as il piu nell' uno...or multitude in unity, intimating that what is truly beautiful seems related to all Nature.
MAng1 12.218 12 A beautiful person has a kind of universality...
MAng1 12.219 8 Since Beauty is thus an abstraction of the harmony and proportion that reigns in all Nature, it is therefore studied in Nature, and not in what does not exist. Hence the celebrated French maxim of Rhetoric, Rien de beau que le vrai; Nothing is beautiful but what is true.
MAng1 12.219 18 The common eye is satisfied with the surface on which it rests. The wise eye knows that it is surface and, if beautiful, only the result of interior harmonies...
MAng1 12.220 9 The human form, says Goethe, cannot be comprehended through seeing its surface. It must be stripped of the muscles...the hidden, the reposing, the foundation of the apparent, must be searched, if one would really see and imitate what moves as a beautiful, inseparable whole in living waves before the eye.
MAng1 12.240 16 [Michelangelo's sonnets] are founded on the thought... that a beautiful person is sent into the world as an image of the divine beauty...
Milt1 12.257 8 Aubrey says [of Milton], This harmonical and ingenuous soul dwelt in a beautiful, well-proportioned body.
Milt1 12.262 20 ...the old eternal goodness finds a home in [Milton's] breast, and for once shows itself beautiful.
MLit 12.310 15 ...they say every man walks environed by his proper atmosphere, extending to some distance around him. This beautiful result must be credited to literature also in casting its account.
MLit 12.319 5 In Byron...[the subjective tendency] predominates; but in Byron...it sees not its true end-an infinite good, alive and beautiful...
Pray 12.351 15 In the Phaedrus of Plato, we find this petition in the mouth of Socrates: O gracious Pan!...grant that I may be beautiful within;...
EurB 12.372 16 The Talking Oak, though a little hurt by its wit and ingenuity, is beautiful...
PPr 12.387 13 ...[each age's] limitation assumes the poetic form of a beautiful superstition, as the dimness of our sight clothes the objects in the horizon with mist and color.
Trag 12.413 1 [Some men] treat trifles with a tragic air. This is not beautiful.
AmS 1.110 22 Instead of the sublime and beautiful, the near...was explored and poetized.
Hist 2.35 17 We may all shoot a wild bull that would toss the good and beautiful...
Int 2.343 7 ...a true and natural man contains and is the same truth which an eloquent man articulates; but in the eloquent man, because he can articulate it, it seems something the less to reside, and he turns to these silent beautiful with the more inclination and respect.
Art1 2.358 22 Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
Art1 2.366 18 Art makes the same effort which a sensual prosperity makes; namely to detach the beautiful from the useful...
Pt1 3.13 26 The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary.
Exp 3.64 9 [Nature's] darlings, the great, the strong, the beautiful, are not children of our law;...
Exp 3.82 19 In Flaxman's drawing of the Eumenides of Aeschylus, Orestes supplicates Apollo, whilst the Furies sleep on the threshold. The face of the god expresses a shade of regret and compassion, but is calm with the conviction of the irreconcilableness of the two spheres. He is born...into the eternal and beautiful.
Mrs1 3.146 15 The beautiful and the generous are, in the theory, the doctors and apostles of this church [of Fashion]...
NR 3.236 27 Everything must have its flower or effort at the beautiful...
Bty 6.288 20 Goethe said, The beautiful is a manifestation of secret laws of nature which, but for this appearance, had been forever concealed from us.
Art2 7.40 17 The universal soul is the alone creator of the useful and the beautiful;...
DL 7.121 9 What is the hoop that holds [the eager, blushing boys] stanch? It is the iron band...of austerity, which...has...made them...reverers of the grand, the beautiful and the good.
DL 7.126 21 Beauty is, even in the beautiful, occasional...
FRep 11.538 5 The beautiful is never plentiful.
Bost 12.197 10 As an antidote to the spirit of commerce and of economy, the religious spirit-always...prompting the pursuit of the vast, the beautiful, the unattainable-was especially necessary to the culture of New England.
MAng1 12.217 18 The nature of the beautiful-we gladly borrow the language of Moritz, a German critic-consists herein, that because the understanding in the presence of the beautiful, cannot ask, Why is it beautiful? for that reason it is so.
MAng1 12.217 21 ...because the understanding in the presence of the beautiful, cannot ask, Why is it beautiful? for that reason it is so.
MAng1 12.217 25 What other standard of the beautiful exists than the entire circuit of all harmonious proportions of the great system of Nature?
MAng1 12.219 13 [Michelangelo] labored to express the beautiful, in the entire conviction that it was only to be attained by knowledge of the true.
Milt1 12.263 24 [Milton says] Nor did Ceres, according to the fable, ever seek her daughter Proserpine with such unceasing solicitude as I have sought this tou kalou idean, this perfect model of the beautiful in all forms and appearances of things.
LT 1.271 10 The conscience of the Age demonstrates itself in this effort to raise the life of man by putting it in harmony with his idea of the Beautiful and the Just.
Tran 1.355 19 We call the Beautiful the highest, because it appears to us the golden mean, escaping the dowdiness of the good and the heartlessness of the true.
Fdsp 2.194 3 Shall I not call God the Beautiful, who daily showeth himself so to me in his gifts?
DL 7.113 27 ...the love of wealth seems to grow chiefly out of the root of the love of the Beautiful.
Plu 10.311 4 ...[Plutarch's] extreme interest in every trait of character and his broad humanity, lead him constantly...to the study of the Beautiful and Good.
MAng1 12.233 27 ...as...[Michelangelo] sought to approach the Beautiful by the study of the True, so he failed not to make the next step of progress, and to seek Beauty in its highest form, that of Goodness.
Let 12.400 17 It is heartrending to see your [German] poet, your artist, and all who still revere genius, who love and foster the Beautiful. The Good!
F 6.48 24 Let us build altars to the Beautiful Necessity.
F 6.49 5 Let us build altars to the Beautiful Necessity...
F 6.49 16 Let us build to the Beautiful Necessity...
Carl 10.494 14 ...if, after Guizot had been a tool of Louis Philippe for years, he is now to come and write essays on the character of Washington, on The Beautiful...[Carlyle] thinks that nothing.
SwM 4.143 2 Behmen is healthily and beautifully wise...
MMEm 10.421 14 Alone, feeling strongly, fully, that I [Mary Moody Emerson] have deserved nothing;...yet joying in existence, perhaps striving to beautify one individual of God's creation.
Schr 10.263 21 Language can hardly exaggerate the beautitude of the intellect flowing into the faculties.
ET4 5.67 19 This union of qualities is fabled in [the Englishmen's] national legend of Beauty and the Beast...
MAng1 12.216 12 [Michelangelo] is an eminent master in the four fine arts, Painting, Sculpture, Architecture and Poetry. In three of them by visible means, and in poetry by words, he strove to express the Idea of Beauty.
Nat 1.7 17 ...every night come out these envoys of beauty...
Nat 1.10 16 I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty.
Nat 1.15 4 The ancient Greeks called the world kosmos, beauty.
Nat 1.16 1 Even the corpse has its own beauty.
Nat 1.16 17 The influence of the forms and actions in nature is so needful to man, that, in its lowest functions, it seems to lie on the confines of commodity and beauty.
Nat 1.18 14 To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty...
Nat 1.19 8 ...this beauty of Nature which is seen and felt as beauty, is the least part.
Nat 1.19 9 ...this beauty of Nature which is seen and felt as beauty, is the least part.
Nat 1.19 17 The beauty that shimmers in the yellow afternoons of October, who ever could clutch it?
Nat 1.19 23 The high and divine beauty...is that which is found in combination with the human will.
Nat 1.19 25 Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.
Nat 1.20 17 When a noble act is done, - perchance in a scene of great natural beauty...are not these heroes entitled to add the beauty of the scene to the beauty of the deed?
Nat 1.20 26 ...are not these heroes entitled to add the beauty of the scene to the beauty of the deed?
Nat 1.21 8 Ever does natural beauty steal in like air, and envelope great actions.
Nat 1.22 14 There is still another aspect under which the beauty of the world may be viewed...
Nat 1.22 27 Therefore does beauty, which...comes unsought...remain for the apprehension and pursuit of the intellect;...
Nat 1.23 6 The beauty of nature re-forms itself in the mind...
Nat 1.23 11 This love of beauty is Taste.
Nat 1.23 14 The creation of beauty is Art.
Nat 1.23 26 A leaf, a sunbeam, a landscape, the ocean, make an analogous impression on the mind. What is common to them all...is beauty.
Nat 1.23 27 The standard of beauty is the entire circuit of natural forms...
Nat 1.24 2 The standard of beauty is...the totality of nature; which the Italians expressed by defining beauty il piu nell' uno.
Nat 1.24 9 The poet...the architect, seek...each in his several work to satisfy the love of beauty which stimulates him to produce.
Nat 1.24 13 Thus in art does Nature work through the will of a man filled with the beauty of her first works.
Nat 1.24 15 The world thus exists to the soul to satisfy the desire of beauty.
Nat 1.24 17 No reason can be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty.
Nat 1.24 17 Beauty...is one expression for the universe.
Nat 1.24 20 Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All.
Nat 1.24 21 ...beauty in nature is not ultimate.
Nat 1.24 23 [Beauty in nature] is the herald of inward and eternal beauty...
Nat 1.39 9 The beauty of nature shines in [man's] own breast.
Nat 1.53 3 ...The ornament of beauty is Suspect/...
Nat 1.53 21 The wild beauty of this hyperbole...it would not be easy to match in literature.
Nat 1.55 13 That [universal] law, when in the mind, is an idea. Its beauty is infinite.
Nat 1.55 15 The true philosopher and the true poet are one, and a beauty, which is truth, and a truth, which is beauty, is the aim of both.
Nat 1.55 16 The true philosopher and the true poet are one, and a beauty, which is truth, and a truth, which is beauty, is the aim of both.
Nat 1.58 24 ...[the theosophists] might all say of matter, what Michael Angelo said of external beauty...
Nat 1.63 25 ...the dread universal essence, which is not wisdom, or love, or beauty, or power, but all in one...is that for which all things exist...
Nat 1.73 22 The problem of restoring to the world original and eternal beauty is solved by the redemption of the soul.
Nat 1.77 4 As when the summer comes...the face of the earth becomes green before it, so shall the advancing spirit...carry with it the beauty it visits...
AmS 1.87 3 [Nature's] beauty is the beauty of [the scholar's] own mind.
AmS 1.94 24 ...the world hangs before the eye as a cloud of beauty...
AmS 1.94 25 ...we cannot even see [the world's] beauty.
AmS 1.96 20 Henceforth [the new deed] is an object of beauty...
AmS 1.99 15 Let the beauty of affection cheer [the great soul's] lowly roof.
DSA 1.120 21 A more...overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.
DSA 1.128 22 ...ravished by [the soul's] beauty, [Jesus Christ] lived in it...
DSA 1.133 13 The preachers do not see that they...shear [Jesus] of the locks of beauty...
DSA 1.133 18 ...when I vibrate to the melody and fancy of a poem; I see beauty that is to be desired.
DSA 1.134 14 ...it is the effect of conversation with the beauty of the soul, to beget a desire and need to impart to others the same knowledge and love.
DSA 1.146 3 ...the imitator...bereaves himself of his own beauty...
LE 1.157 7 ...the mark of American merit...in eloquence, seems...a vase of fair outline...which does not, like the charged cloud, overflow with terrible beauty...
LE 1.169 15 ...this beauty...which the sun and the moon, the snow and the rain, repaint and vary, has never been recorded by art...
LE 1.169 16 ...this beauty,-haggard and desert beauty, which the sun and the moon, the snow and the rain, repaint and vary, has never been recorded by art...
LE 1.170 2 ...not less is there a relation of beauty between my soul and the dim crags of Agiochook up there in the clouds.
LE 1.177 12 The scholar will feel that...the heart and soul of beauty, lies enclosed in human life.
LE 1.185 19 If...God have called any of you to explore truth and beauty, be bold, be firm, be true.
MN 1.199 27 The beauty of these fair objects is imported into them from a metaphysical and eternal spring.
MN 1.200 11 ...in balanced beauty, the dance of the hours goes forward still.
MN 1.208 15 ...many more men than one [God] harbors in his bosom, biding their time and the needs and the beauty of all.
MR 1.244 7 ...it is...not beauty...that costs so much.
LT 1.263 24 ...an eloquent man,-let him be of what sect soever,-would be ordained at once in one of our metropolitan churches. To be sure he would;...but he must be...able to supplant our method and classification by the superior beauty of his own.
LT 1.271 23 This beauty which the fancy finds in everything else, certainly accuses the manner of life we lead.
LT 1.271 26 Why should [the manner of life we lead] contrast thus with all natural beauty?
LT 1.286 24 We have come to that which is the spring...of beauty and virtue...
LT 1.289 12 [The Moral Sentiment] makes by its presence or absence... beauty and ugliness...
Con 1.300 1 Nature does not give the crown of its approbation, namely, beauty, to any action or emblem or actor but to one which combines both these elements [Conservatism and Reform];...
Con 1.300 5 ...the superior beauty is with the oak which stands with its hundred arms against the storms of a century...
Tran 1.330 7 [The idealist]...admits the impressions of sense, admits...their use and beauty...
Tran 1.339 12 ...genius and virtue predict in man the same absence of private ends and of condescension to circumstances, united with every trait and talent of beauty and power.
Tran 1.343 15 To behold the beauty of another character...these are degrees on the scale of human happiness to which [Transcendentalists] have ascended;...
Tran 1.343 16 ...to behold the beauty lodged in a human being, with such vivacity of apprehension that I am instantly forced home to inquire if I am not deformity itself;...these are degrees on the scale of human happiness to which [Transcendentalists] have ascended;...
Tran 1.345 27 ...Where are they who represented genius, virtue, the invisible and heavenly world, to these? ... ...did the high idea die out of them, and leave their unperfumed body as its tomb and tablet, announcing to all that the celestial inhabitant, who once gave them beauty, had departed?
Tran 1.359 20 ...the thoughts which these few hermits strove to proclaim... not only by what they did, but by what they forbore to do, shall abide in beauty and strength...
YA 1.378 17 This is the good and this the evil of trade, that it would put everything into market; talent, beauty, virtue, and man himself.
Hist 2.14 26 ...we have [the Greek national mind expressed] once more in their architecture, a beauty as of temperance itself...
Hist 2.17 13 ...a profound nature awakens in us...the same power and beauty that a gallery of sculpture or of pictures addresses.
Hist 2.21 8 The mountain of granite [the Gothic cathedral] blooms into an eternal flower, with the lightness and delicate finish as well as the aerial proportions and perspective of vegetable beauty.
SR 2.64 2 What is the nature and power of that science-baffling star...which shoots a ray of beauty even into trivial and impure actions...
SR 2.81 25 At home I dream that...at Rome, I can be intoxicated with beauty...
SR 2.82 23 Beauty, convenience, grandeur of thought and quaint expression are as near to us as to any...
Comp 2.104 13 [The soul] would be the only fact. All things shall be added unto it,--power, pleasure, knowledge, beauty.
Comp 2.122 10 There can be no excess to love...none to beauty...
SL 2.131 4 ...we discover that our life is embosomed in beauty.
SL 2.139 25 Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom...and you are without effort impelled...to right and a perfect contentment. ... Then you are...the measure...of beauty.
SL 2.147 11 Not in nature but in man is all the beauty and worth he sees.
SL 2.150 12 Persons approach us, famous for their beauty...with very imperfect result.
SL 2.151 7 The scholar...apes the customs and costumes of the man of the world to deserve the smile of beauty...
Lov1 2.171 13 Let any man go back to those delicious relations which make the beauty of his life...he will shrink and moan.
Lov1 2.173 14 The girls may have little beauty, yet plainly do they establish between them and the good boy the most agreeable, confiding relations;...
Lov1 2.174 12 ...a beauty overpowering all analysis or comparison and putting us quite beside ourselves we can seldom see after thirty years...
Lov1 2.177 15 The heats that have opened [the lover's] perceptions of natural beauty have made him love music and verse.
Lov1 2.178 7 Beauty...seems sufficient to itself.
Lov1 2.179 3 The ancients called beauty the flowering of virtue.
Lov1 2.179 16 We cannot approach beauty.
Lov1 2.180 16 ...personal beauty is then first charming and itself when it dissatisfies us with any end;...
Lov1 2.181 20 ...the man beholding such a [beautiful] person in the female sex runs to her and finds the highest joy in contemplating the form, movement and intelligence of this person, because it suggests to him the presence of that which indeed is within the beauty, and the cause of the beauty.
Lov1 2.181 25 If...from too much conversing with material objects, the soul was gross, and misplaced its satisfaction in the body, it reaped nothing but sorrow; body being unable to fulfil the promise which beauty holds out;...
Lov1 2.181 27 ...if, accepting the hint of these visions and suggestions which beauty makes to [a man's] mind...the lovers contemplate one another in their discourses and their actions, then they pass to the true palace of beauty...
Lov1 2.182 4 ...if...the soul passes through the body and falls to admire strokes of character, and the lovers contemplate one another in their discourses and their actions, then they pass to the true palace of beauty...
Lov1 2.182 18 In the particular society of his mate [the lover] attains a clearer sight of any spot, any taint which her beauty has contracted from this world...
Lov1 2.182 24 ...beholding in many souls the traits of the divine beauty... the lover ascends to the highest beauty...
Lov1 2.182 27 ...separating in each soul that which is divine from the taint which it has contracted in the world, the lover ascends to the highest beauty...
Lov1 2.188 1 ...I do not wonder...at the profuse beauty with which the instincts deck the nuptial bower...
Fdsp 2.202 6 ...he alone is victor who has truth enough in his constitution to preserve the delicacy of his beauty from the wear and tear of [Time, Want, Danger].
Fdsp 2.203 8 I knew a man who under a certain religious frenzy...spoke to the conscience of every person he encountered, and that with great insight and beauty.
Fdsp 2.210 19 ...that scornful beauty of [your friend's] mien and action, do not pique yourself on reducing, but rather fortify and enhance.
Prd1 2.222 16 [Prudence] is legitimate...when it unfolds the beauty of laws within the narrow scope of the senses.
Prd1 2.222 23 Another class live above this mark to the beauty of the symbol...
Prd1 2.222 25 A third class live above the beauty of the symbol to the beauty of the thing signified;...
Prd1 2.222 26 A third class live above the beauty of the symbol to the beauty of the thing signified;...
Prd1 2.223 5 Once in a long time, a man...sees and enjoys the symbol solidly, then also has a clear eye for its beauty...
Prd1 2.230 4 ...beside all the resistless beauty of form, [the Raphael in the Dresden gallery] possesses in the highest degree the property of the perpendicularity of all the figures.
Prd1 2.230 23 We must...ask why health and beauty and genius should now be the exception rather than the rule of human nature?
Prd1 2.231 10 Beauty should be the dowry of every man and woman...
Prd1 2.231 25 ...[the finer souls] find beauty in rites and bounds that resist [appetite].
Hsm1 2.245 22 The Roman Martius has conquered Athens,--all but the invincible spirits of Sophocles, the duke of Athens, and Dorigen, his wife. The beauty of the latter inflames Martius...
Hsm1 2.247 3 O love! thou doubly hast afflicted me/ With virtue and with beauty..../
OS 2.269 5 The Supreme Critic on the errors of the past and the present... is...that overpowering reality...which evermore tends to pass into our thought and hand and become wisdom and virtue and power and beauty.
OS 2.269 8 ...within man is...the universal beauty...
OS 2.273 1 Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.
OS 2.297 2 ...revering the soul, and learning, as the ancient said, that its beauty is immense, man will come to see that the world is the perennial miracle which the soul worketh...
Cir 2.311 15 The facts which loomed so large in the fogs of yesterday... breeding, personal beauty, and the like, have strangely changed their proportions.
Cir 2.315 27 ...one man's beauty [is] another's ugliness;...
Art1 2.351 7 ...in every act [the soul] attempts the production of a new and fairer whole. This appears in works both of the useful and fine arts, if we employ the popular distinction of works according to their aim either at use or beauty.
Art1 2.351 13 [The painter] should know that the landscape has beauty for his eye because it expresses a thought which is to him good;...
Art1 2.354 4 ...historically viewed, it has been the office of art to educate the perception of beauty.
Art1 2.354 5 We are immersed in beauty...
Art1 2.358 23 The best of beauty is a finer charm than skill in surfaces... can ever teach...
Art1 2.359 14 The traveller who visits the Vatican and passes from chamber to chamber...through all forms of beauty cut in the richest materials, is in danger of forgetting the simplicity of the principles out of which they all sprung...
Art1 2.362 10 A calm benignant beauty shines over all this picture [Raphael, Transfiguration]...
Art1 2.365 24 The fountains of invention and beauty in modern society are all but dried up.
Art1 2.366 21 ...this division of beauty from use, the laws of nature do not permit.
Art1 2.366 23 As soon as beauty is sought...for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
Art1 2.366 24 As soon as beauty is sought...for pleasure, it degrades the seeker. High beauty is no longer attainable by him in canvas or in stone...
Art1 2.366 27 As soon as beauty is sought...for pleasure, it degrades the seeker. ...an effeminate, prudent, sickly beauty, which is not beauty, is all that can be formed;...
Art1 2.367 1 As soon as beauty is sought...for pleasure, it degrades the seeker. ...an effeminate, prudent, sickly beauty, which is not beauty, is all that can be formed;...
Art1 2.367 23 Beauty must come back to the useful arts...
Art1 2.368 5 Beauty will not come at the call of a legislature...
Art1 2.368 11 ...it is [genius's] instinct to find beauty and holiness in new and necessary facts...
Pt1 3.3 15 It is a proof of the shallowness of the doctrine of beauty as it lies in the minds of our amateurs, that men seem to have lost the perception of the instant dependence of form upon soul.
Pt1 3.5 8 Nature enhances her beauty, to the eye of loving men, from their belief that the poet is beholding her shows at the same time.
Pt1 3.7 1 ...the Universe has three children...which reappear under different names in every system of thought...but which we will call here the Knower, the Doer and the Sayer. These stand respectively for the love of truth, for the love of good, and for the love of beauty.
Pt1 3.7 7 The poet is...represents beauty.
Pt1 3.13 9 ...let us...observe how nature, by worthier impulses, has insured the poet's fidelity to his office of announcement and affirming, namely by the beauty of things, which becomes a new and higher beauty when expressed.
Pt1 3.13 10 ...let us...observe how nature, by worthier impulses, has insured the poet's fidelity to his office of announcement and affirming, namely by the beauty of things, which becomes a new and higher beauty when expressed.
Pt1 3.13 25 ...a perception of beauty should be sympathetic, or proper only to the good.
Pt1 3.15 9 The beauty of the fable proves the importance of the sense;...
Pt1 3.16 4 A beauty not explicable is dearer than a beauty which we can see to the end of.
Pt1 3.23 22 ...when the soul of the poet has come to ripeness of thought, [nature] detaches and sends away from it its poems or songs...a fearless, vivacious offspring, clad with wings...which carry them fast and far, and infix them irrecoverably into the hearts of men. These wings are the beauty of the poet's soul.
Pt1 3.39 13 [The artist] pursues a beauty, half seen, which flies before him.
Exp 3.68 18 The most attractive class of people are those who are powerful obliquely...one gets the cheer of their light without paying too great a tax. Theirs is the beauty of the bird...and not of art.
Exp 3.71 15 When I converse with a profound mind...I am at first apprised of my vicinity to a new and excellent region of life. By persisting to read or to think, this region gives further sign of itself...in sudden discoveries of its profound beauty and repose...
Exp 3.72 3 I feel a new heart beating with the love of the new beauty.
Mrs1 3.120 20 ...the salt, the dates, the ivory, and the gold, for which these horrible regions are visited, find their way into...countries where man... establishes a select society...which...adopts and makes its own whatever personal beauty or extraordinary native endowment anywhere appears.
Mrs1 3.122 2 [Good society]...is a compound result into which every great force enters as an ingredient, namely virtue, wit, beauty, wealth and power.
Mrs1 3.122 20 The point of distinction in all this class of names, as courtesy, chivalry, fashion, and the like, is that the flower and fruit, not the grain of the tree, are contemplated. It is beauty which is the aim this time, and not worth.
Mrs1 3.138 20 We imperatively require a perception of, and a homage to beauty in our companions.
Mrs1 3.139 8 The love of beauty is mainly the love of measure or proportion.
Mrs1 3.140 10 Accuracy is essential to beauty...
Mrs1 3.140 14 [One] must leave the omniscience of business at the door, when he comes into the palace of beauty.
Mrs1 3.143 19 ...a comic disparity would be felt, if we should enter the acknowledged first circles [of fashion] and apply these terrific standards of justice, beauty and benefit to the individuals actually found there.
Mrs1 3.146 15 Even the line of heroes is not utterly extinct. ... These are the creators of Fashion, which is an attempt to organize beauty of behavior.
Mrs1 3.147 9 ...as we show beyond that Heaven and Earth/ In form and shape compact and beautiful;/ .../ So on our heels a fresh perfection treads,/ A power more strong in beauty.../
Mrs1 3.147 13 ...For 't is the eternal law/ That first in beauty shall be first in might./
Mrs1 3.147 22 ...within the ethnical circle of good society there is a narrower and higher circle...to which there is always a tacit appeal of pride and reference... And this is constituted of those persons in whom heroic dispositions are native; with the love of beauty, the delight in society and the power to embellish the passing day.
Gts 3.159 16 ...flowers...are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
Gts 3.160 1 ...these delicate flowers look like the frolic and interference of love and beauty.
Gts 3.160 15 For common gifts, necessity makes pertinences and beauty every day...
Nat2 3.173 5 ...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... We penetrate bodily this incredible beauty;...
Nat2 3.173 10 ...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... A holiday...the proudest, most heart-rejoicing festival that valor and beauty, power and taste, ever decked and enjoyed, establishes itself on the instant.
Nat2 3.173 18 Art and luxury have early learned that they must work as enhancement and sequel to this original beauty [of nature].
Nat2 3.175 22 The muse herself betrays her son [the poor young poet], and enhances the gifts of wealth and well-born beauty by a radiation out of the air, and clouds, and forests that skirt the road...
Nat2 3.176 21 Beauty breaks in everywhere.
Nat2 3.178 6 ...the beauty of nature must always seem unreal and mocking, until the landscape has human figures that are as good as itself.
Nat2 3.178 16 The critics who complain of the sickly separation of the beauty of nature from the thing to be done, must consider that our hunting of the picturesque is inseparable from our protest against false society.
Nat2 3.190 17 The hunger for wealth...fools the eager pursuer. What is the end sought? Plainly to secure the ends of good sense and beauty from the intrusion of deformity or vulgarity of any kind.
Nat2 3.191 9 Thought, virtue, beauty, were the ends [of wealth];...
Nat2 3.192 12 I have seen the softness and beauty of the summer clouds floating feathery overhead...
Nat2 3.193 9 Is it that beauty can never be grasped?...
NR 3.225 16 ...a society of men will cursorily represent well enough a certain quality and culture, for example, chivalry or beauty of manners;...
NR 3.226 25 All persons exist to society by some shining trait of beauty or utility which they have.
NR 3.234 4 Art, in the artist, is...a habitual respect to the whole by an eye loving beauty in details.
NR 3.234 11 In modern sculpture, picture and poetry, the beauty is miscellaneous;...
NER 3.249 6 Peace now each for malice takes,/ Beauty for his sinful weeds,/ For the angel Hope aye makes/ Him an angel whom she leads./
NER 3.258 13 The ancient languages, with great beauty of structure, contain wonderful remains of genius...
NER 3.272 5 With silent joy [the master] sees himself to be capable of a beauty that eclipses all which his hands have done;...
NER 3.285 4 That which befits us, embosomed in beauty and wonder as we are, is cheerfulness and courage...
UGM 4.12 14 In one of those celestial days when heaven and earth meet and adorn each other...we wish for a thousand heads, a thousand bodies, that we might celebrate its immense beauty in many ways and places.
UGM 4.16 22 We go to the gymnasium and the swimming-school to see the power and beauty of the body;...
UGM 4.21 9 Ever their phantoms arise before us,/ Our loftier brothers, but one in blood;/ At bed and table they lord it o'er us/ With looks of beauty and words of good./
UGM 4.29 8 [Children] shed their own abundant beauty on the objects they behold.
PPh 4.41 3 ...they say that Helen of Argos had that universal beauty that every body felt related to her...
PPh 4.63 25 ...the supreme beauty is reality;...
PPh 4.69 13 ...beauty is the most lovely of all things...
PPh 4.69 18 ...there is another, which is as much more beautiful than beauty as beauty is than chaos; namely, wisdom...
PPh 4.70 9 ...the Banquet [of Plato] is a teaching in the same spirit [of ascension]...that the love of the sexes is initial, and symbolizes at a distance the passion of the soul for that immense lake of beauty it exists to seek.
SwM 4.103 4 There is beauty of a concert, as well as of a flute;...
SwM 4.126 6 [Swedenborg] delivers golden sayings which express with singular beauty the ethical laws;...
SwM 4.127 27 ...though the virgins [Swedenborg] saw in heaven were beautiful, the wives were incomparably more beautiful, and went on increasing in beauty evermore.
SwM 4.131 3 Beauty is disgraced, love is unlovely, when truth...is denied...
SwM 4.141 16 ...there is [in Swedenborg] no beauty, no heaven: for angels, goblins.
SwM 4.144 9 In [Swedenborg's] profuse and accurate imagery is no pleasure, for there is no beauty.
MoS 4.149 16 [A man] sees the beauty of a human face, and searches the cause of that beauty, which must be more beautiful.
MoS 4.149 17 [A man] sees the beauty of a human face, and searches the cause of that beauty, which must be more beautiful.
MoS 4.151 3 [The genius] has a conception of beauty which the sculptor cannot embody.
MoS 4.158 25 ...culture will instantly impair that chiefest beauty of spontaneousness.
ShP 4.204 21 ...there is in all cultivated minds a silent appreciation of [Shakespeare's] superlative power and beauty...
ShP 4.214 22 ...the speeches in [Shakespeare's] plays, and single lines, have a beauty which tempts the ear to pause on them for their euphuism...
ShP 4.215 23 One more royal trait properly belongs to the poet. I mean his cheerfulness, without which no man can be a poet,--for beauty is his aim.
ShP 4.215 27 Beauty, the spirit of joy and hilarity, [the poet] sheds over the universe.
ShP 4.217 8 Shakspeare employed [the things of nature] as colors to compose his picture. He rested in their beauty;...
ShP 4.219 2 ...other men...beheld the same objects [as Shakespeare]: they also saw through them that which was contained. And to what purpose? The beauty straightway vanished;...
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.
ET4 5.66 15 Both branches of the Scandinavian race are distinguished for beauty.
ET4 5.66 19 The anecdote of the handsome captives which Saint Gregory found at Rome, A. D. 600, is matched by the testimony of the Norman chroniclers, five centuries later, who wondered at the beauty and long flowing hair of the young English captives.
ET4 5.66 22 ...the Heimskringla has frequent occasion to speak of the personal beauty of its heroes.
ET8 5.135 15 Here [in England] was lately a cross-grained miser [Joseph Turner]...yet as true a worshipper of beauty in form and color as ever existed...
ET10 5.156 5 The Crystal Palace is not considered honest until it pays; no matter how much convenience, beauty, or eclat, it must be self-supporting.
ET14 5.237 6 ...nature, to pique the more, sometimes works up deformities into beauty in some rare Aspasia or Cleopatra...
ET14 5.237 10 ...the Greek art wrought many a vase or column, in which too long or too lithe, or nodes, or pits and flaws are made a beauty of;...
ET14 5.248 3 The critic [in England] hides his skepticism under the English cant of practical. To convince the reason, to touch the conscience, is romantic pretension. The fine arts fall to the ground. Beauty, except as luxurious commodity, does not exist.
ET14 5.250 3 ...[Carlyle's] imagination, finding no nutriment in any creation, avenged itself by celebrating the majestic beauty of the laws of decay.
ET14 5.255 9 No [English] poet dares murmur of beauty out of the precinct of his rhymes.
ET14 5.256 5 How many volumes of well-bred metre we must jingle through, before we can be filled, taught, renewed! We want the miraculous; the beauty which we can manufacture at no mill...
ET14 5.256 7 How many volumes of well-bred metre we must jingle through, before we can be filled, taught, renewed! We want the miraculous;...the beauty of which Chaucer and Chapman had the secret.
F 6.18 23 In a large city...things whose beauty lies in their casualty, are produced as punctually...as the baker's muffin for breakfast.
F 6.45 7 Moller...taught that the building which was fitted accurately to answer its end would turn out to be beautiful though beauty had not been intended.
F 6.48 11 I do not wonder at...the glory of the stars; but at the necessity of beauty under which the universe lies;...
F 6.48 21 ...the indwelling necessity plants the rose of beauty on the brow of chaos...
Pow 6.51 3 His tongue was framed to music,/ And his hand was armed with skill;/ His face was the mould of beauty,/ And his heart the throne of will./
Pow 6.71 3 In history the great moment is when the savage is just ceasing to be a savage, with all his hairy Pelasgic strength directed on his opening sense of beauty...
Wth 6.102 21 In Rome [the dollar] will buy beauty and magnificence.
Wth 6.111 21 ...we can only give [means] any beauty by a reflection of the glory of the end.
Ctr 6.146 3 ...let [the traveler] go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries.
Ctr 6.159 11 We only vary the phrase, not the doctrine, when we say that culture opens the sense of beauty.
Ctr 6.159 15 I suffer every day from the want of perception of beauty in people.
Bhr 6.170 20 There are certain manners which are learned in good society, of that force that if a person have them, he or she...is everywhere welcome, though without beauty, or wealth, or genius.
Bhr 6.172 12 ...when we think...what high lessons and inspiring tokens of character [manners] convey...we see what range the subject has, and what relations to convenience, power and beauty.
Bhr 6.178 23 ...there is no end to the catalogue of [the eye's] performances, whether in indolent vision (that of health and beauty), or in strained vision (that of art and labor).
Bhr 6.185 4 Look on this woman. There is not beauty, nor brilliant sayings...
Bhr 6.195 21 I have seen manners that make a similar impression with personal beauty;...
Bhr 6.195 24 I have seen manners that make a similar impression with personal beauty;...and in memorable experiences they are suddenly better than beauty...
Bhr 6.195 26 I have seen manners that make a similar impression with personal beauty;...and in memorable experiences they are suddenly better than beauty, and make that superfluous and ugly. But they must be marked by...the acquaintance with real beauty.
Wsp 6.207 8 [Dido] was so fair,/ So young, so lusty, with her eyen glad,/ That if that God that heaven and earthe made/ Would have a love for beauty and goodness,/ And womanhede, truth, and seemliness,/ Whom should he loven but this lady sweet?/ There n' is no woman to him half so meet./
Wsp 6.213 1 ...the moral sense reappears to-day with the same morning newness that has been from of old the fountain of beauty and strength.
Wsp 6.214 13 ...[religion] cannot be grafted and keep its wild beauty.
Wsp 6.216 19 It is true that genius takes its rise out of the mountains of rectitude; that all beauty and power which men covet are somehow born out of that Alpine district;...
Wsp 6.216 21 ...any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.
Wsp 6.218 11 If your eye is on the eternal...your opinions and actions will have a beauty which no learning or combined advantages of other men can rival.
Wsp 6.229 19 Not only does our beauty waste, but it leaves word on how it went to waste.
Wsp 6.238 16 If there ever was a good man, be certain there was another and will be more. And so in relation to...that spectre clothed with beauty at our curtain by night...
Wsp 6.241 17 There will be a new church founded on moral science;...it will fast enough gather beauty, music, picture, poetry.
CbW 6.255 12 ...evermore in the world is this marvellous balance of beauty and disgust...
Bty 6.279 5 Beauty chased [Seyd] everywhere/...
Bty 6.286 27 ...the beauty of school-girls...we know how these forms thrill, paralyze, provoke, inspire and enlarge us.
Bty 6.287 8 Beauty is the form under which the intellect prefers to study the world.
Bty 6.287 10 All privilege is that of beauty;...
Bty 6.287 12 ...there are many beauties; as, of general nature...of brain or method, moral beauty or beauty of the soul.
Bty 6.287 13 ...there are many beauties; as, of general nature...of brain or method, moral beauty or beauty of the soul.
Bty 6.288 14 ...the beauty which certain objects have for [man] is the friendly fire which expands the thought...
Bty 6.289 1 Every man values every acquisition he makes in the science of beauty, above his possessions.
Bty 6.289 5 ...as fast as [a man] sees beauty, life acquires a very high value.
Bty 6.289 9 We ascribe beauty to that which is simple;...
Bty 6.290 6 ...beauty is only an invitation from what belongs to us.
Bty 6.290 13 ...in the construction of any fabric or organism any real increase of fitness to its end is an increase of beauty.
Bty 6.290 17 ...all beauty must be organic;...
Bty 6.291 27 In the midst of...a festal procession gay with banners, I saw a boy seize an old tin pan...and poising it on the top of a stick, he set it turning and made it describe the most elegant imaginable curves, and drew away attention from the decorated procession by this startling beauty.
Bty 6.292 10 Beauty is the moment of transition...
Bty 6.293 26 To this streaming or flowing belongs the beauty that all circular movement has;...
Bty 6.294 7 Beauty rests on necessities.
Bty 6.294 8 The line of beauty is the result of perfect economy.
Bty 6.294 19 ...our art...reaches beauty by taking every superfluous ounce that can be spared from a wall, and keeping all its strength in the poetry of columns.
Bty 6.295 4 Beauty is the quality which makes to endure.
Bty 6.295 14 Let an artist scrawl a few lines or figures on the back of a letter, and that scrap of paper...in proportion to the beauty of the lines drawn, will be kept for centuries.
Bty 6.296 5 The felicities of design in art or in works of nature are shadows or forerunners of that beauty which reaches its perfection in the human form.
Bty 6.296 10 To Eve, say the Mahometans, God gave two thirds of all beauty.
Bty 6.298 15 ...we see faces every day which have a good type but have been marred in the casting; a proof that we are all entitled to beauty...
Bty 6.299 20 ...it is not beauty that inspires the deepest passion.
Bty 6.299 21 Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
Bty 6.299 22 Beauty, without expression, tires.
Bty 6.299 27 A Greek epigram intimates that the force of love is not shown by the courting of beauty...
Bty 6.300 7 ...petulant old gentlemen...who see, after a world of pains have been successfully taken for the costume, how the least mistake in sentiment takes all the beauty out of your clothes,--affirm that the secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
Bty 6.301 14 This is the triumph of expression, degrading beauty...
Bty 6.301 22 When the delicious beauty of lineaments loses its power, it is because a more delicious beauty has appeared;...
Bty 6.301 23 When the delicious beauty of lineaments loses its power, it is because a more delicious beauty has appeared;...
Bty 6.301 26 Still, it was for beauty that the world was made.
Bty 6.302 7 If a man can cut such a head on his stone gatepost as shall draw and keep a crowd about it all day, by its beauty, good nature, and inscrutable meaning;...this is still the legitimate dominion of beauty.
Bty 6.302 16 ...if a man...can take such advantages of nature that all her powers serve him;...this is still the legitimate dominion of beauty.
Bty 6.302 18 The radiance of the human form, though sometimes astonishing, is only a burst of beauty for a few years or a few months at the perfection of youth...
Bty 6.303 1 Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful. This is the reason why beauty is still escaping out of all analysis.
Bty 6.303 9 The sea is lovely, but when we bathe in it the beauty forsakes all the near water.
Bty 6.305 1 The poets are quite right in decking their mistresses with the spoils of the landscape...since all beauty points at identity;...
Bty 6.305 24 ...the fact is familiar that...a phrase of poetry, plants wings at our shoulders; as if the Divinity, in his approaches...deigns to draw a truer line, which the mind knows and owns. This is that haughty force of beauty... which the poets praise...
Bty 6.306 1 All high beauty has a moral element in it...
Bty 6.306 3 ...I find...the beauty ever in proportion to the depth of thought.
Ill 6.316 13 We find a delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
SS 7.7 22 The ministers of beauty are rarely beautiful in coaches and saloons.
Civ 7.21 21 ...a nomad, will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse leaves. But so simple a labor as a house being achieved, his chief enemies are kept at bay. ... Invention and art are born, manners and social beauty and delight.
Art2 7.35 3 I framed his tongue to music,/ I armed his hand with skill,/ I moulded his face to beauty/ And his heart the throne of Will./
Art2 7.39 21 ...the Spirit, in its creation, aims at use or at beauty...
Art2 7.43 1 Let us now consider this [natural] law as it affects the works that have beauty for their end...
Art2 7.43 12 Architecture and eloquence are mixed arts, whose end is sometimes beauty and sometimes use.
Art2 7.44 21 Just as much better as is the polished statue of dazzling marble than the clay model, or as much more impressive as is the granite cathedral or pyramid than the ground-plan or profile of them on paper, so much more beauty owe they to Nature than to Art.
Art2 7.46 4 [The temple] is exalted by the beauty of sunlight...
Art2 7.46 18 The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight which a verse gives in happy quotation than in the poem.
Art2 7.48 12 ...so in art that aims at beauty must the parts be subordinated to Ideal Nature...
Art2 7.51 14 ...a study of admirable works of art sharpens our perceptions of the beauty of Nature;...
Art2 7.52 26 Nothing is arbitrary, nothing is insulated in beauty.
Art2 7.53 4 Fitness is so inseparable an accompaniment of beauty that it has been taken for it.
Art2 7.53 15 The gayest charm of beauty has a root in the constitution of things.
Art2 7.57 9 ...beauty, truth and goodness are not obsolete;...
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