PI 8.48 15 Busk thee, busk thee, my bonny bonny bride,/ Busk thee, busk thee, my winsome marrow./ Hamilton.
PPo 8.260 13 ...what a nest has [Hafiz] found for his bonny bird to take up her abode in!
RBur 11.442 3 How many Bonny Doons and John Anderson my jo's and Auld lang synes all around the earth have [Burns's] verses been applied to!
CPL 11.507 20 The imagination...if it has not had...Prince Le Boo...has drawn equal delight and terror from haunts and passages which you will hear of with envy.
QO 8.184 1 ...we find in Southey's Commonplace Book this said of the Earl of Strafford: I learned one rule of him, says Sir G. Radcliffe, which I think worthy to be remembered.
ET7 5.116 22 Private men [in England] keep their promises, never so trivial. Down goes the flying word on the tablets, and is indelible as Domesday Book.
HDC 11.49 21 The British government has recently presented to the several public libraries of this country, copies of the splendid edition of the Domesday Book...
MLit 12.321 2 ...the interest of the poem [Wordsworth's The Excursion] ended almost with the narrative of the influences of Nature on the mind of the Boy, in the First Book.
Mrs1 3.152 17 The constitution of our society makes it a giant's castle to the ambitious youth who have not found their names enrolled in its Golden Book...
Nat 1.35 18 ...the world shall be to us an open book...
AmS 1.88 13 ...neither can any artist entirely exclude...the perishable from his book...
AmS 1.88 13 ...neither can any artist entirely...write a book of pure thought...
AmS 1.88 26 The writer was a just and wise spirit: henceforward it is settled the book is perfect;...
AmS 1.89 1 Instantly the book becomes noxious...
AmS 1.89 5 The sluggish and perverted mind of the multitude...having once received this book, stands upon it...
AmS 1.90 1 I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit...
AmS 1.90 12 The book, the college...stop with some past utterance of genius.
AmS 1.93 4 ...the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion.
LE 1.167 3 ...to have written a book that is read, satisfies us.
LE 1.172 5 The book of philosophy is only a fact...
LE 1.185 1 ...you shall get your lesson out of the hour, and the object...even in reading a dull book...
MN 1.196 14 The new book says, I will give you the key to nature...
MN 1.196 21 ...a man lasts but a very little while, for his monomania becomes insupportably tedious in a few months. It is so with every book and person...
MN 1.196 23 ...we do not take up a new book or meet a new man without a pulse-beat of expectation.
MR 1.242 13 Better that the book should not be quite so good, and the book-maker abler and better...
Tran 1.347 17 ...a book...can give [Transcendentalists] often forms so vivid that these for the time shall seem real, and society the illusion.
Tran 1.357 11 ...church and old book mumble and ritualize to an unheeding, preoccupied and advancing mind...
Hist 2.4 14 ...the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant...
Hist 2.38 21 History no longer shall be a dull book.
SR 2.58 17 My book should smell of pines...
SR 2.62 5 To [the man in the street] a palace, a statue, or a costly book have an alien and forbidding air...
Comp 2.120 5 ...every burned book or house enlightens the world;...
SL 2.146 21 A man cannot bury his meanings so deep in his book but time and like-minded men will find them.
SL 2.149 7 Take the book into your two hands and read your eyes out, you will never find what I find.
SL 2.149 11 If any ingenious reader would have a monopoly of the wisdom or delight he gets, he is as secure now the book is Englished, as if it were imprisoned in the Pelews' tongue.
SL 2.149 13 It is with a good book as it is with good company.
SL 2.153 24 ...when the empty book has gathered all its praise...it still needs fuel to make fire.
SL 2.154 5 They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and noisy readers of the hour when it appears...
SL 2.154 12 ...presentation-copies to all the libraries will not preserve a book in circulation beyond its intrinsic date.
SL 2.154 23 No book, said Bentley, was ever written down by any but itself.
Lov1 2.174 20 ...it may seem to many men...that they have no fairer page in their life's book than the delicious memory of some passages wherein affection contrived to give a witchcraft...to a parcel of accidental and trivial circumstances.
Lov1 2.185 10 Does that other [lover]...read the same book...that now delights me?
Fdsp 2.200 11 The valiant warrior famoused for fight,/ After a hundred victories, once foiled,/ Is from the book of honor razed quite/ And all the rest forgot for which he toiled./
Hsm1 2.248 24 ...a Stoicism not of the schools but of the blood, shines in every anecdote [of Plutarch], and has given that book its immense fame.
Hsm1 2.257 3 ...the power of a romance over the boy who grasps the forbidden book under his bench at school, our delight in the hero, is the main fact to our purpose.
OS 2.280 4 In the book I read, the good thought returns to me...the image of the whole soul.
OS 2.294 3 ...every book...that belongs to thee for aid or comfort, will surely come home through open or winding passages.
Cir 2.313 25 ...the instinct of man...gladly arms itself against the dogmatism of bigots with this generous word out of the book itself.
Int 2.338 23 ...there are many competent judges of the best book...
Pt1 3.32 5 An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterwards when we arrive at the precise sense of the author.
Exp 3.55 18 Once I took such delight in Montaigne that I thought I should not need any other book;...
Exp 3.56 7 A deduction must be made from the opinion which even the wise express on a new book or occurrence.
Exp 3.66 17 You love the boy reading in a book...
Exp 3.80 26 What imports it whether it is...a reader and his book, or puss with her tail?
Chr1 3.101 9 I read in a book of English memoirs, Mr. Fox (afterwards Lord Holland) said, he must have the Treasury; he had served up to it, and would have it.
Chr1 3.106 19 How captivating is [children's] devotion to their favorite books...as feeling that they have a stake in that book;...
Nat2 3.189 5 Days and nights...of communion with angels of darkness and of light have engraved their shadowy characters on that tear-stained book.
NR 3.233 8 I find the most pleasure in reading a book in a manner least flattering to the author.
NR 3.242 7 After taxing Goethe as a courtier...I took up this book of Helena, and found him an Indian of the wilderness...
NER 3.254 20 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...
UGM 4.17 16 [The imagination]...inspires an audacious mental habit. We are as elastic as the gas of gunpowder, and a sentence in a book...sets free our fancy...
UGM 4.25 5 Without Plato we should almost lose our faith in the possibility of a reasonable book.
PPh 4.39 4 Among secular books, Plato only is entitled to Omar's fanatical compliment to the Koran, when he said, Burn the libraries; for their value is in this book.
PPh 4.42 9 Every book is a quotation;...
PNR 4.89 22 In his eighth book of the Republic, [Plato] throws a little mathematical dust in our eyes.
SwM 4.94 16 ...the instincts presently teach that the problem of essence must take precedence of all others;--the questions of Whence? What? and Whither? and the solution of these must be in a life, and not in a book.
SwM 4.111 25 The Animal Kingdom [by Swedenborg] is a book of wonderful merits.
SwM 4.112 15 It is remarkable that this sublime genius [Swedenborg]...in a book [The Animal Kingdom] whose genius is a daring poetic synthesis, claims to confine himself to a rigid experience.
SwM 4.113 12 This book [The Animal Kingdom] announces [Swedenborg' s] favorite dogmas.
SwM 4.117 1 The fact [of Correspondence] thus explicitly stated [by Swedenborg] is implied...in the structure of language. Plato knew it, as is evident from his twice bisected line in the sixth book of the Republic.
SwM 4.117 25 ...literature has no book in which the symbolism of things is scientifically opened.
SwM 4.127 2 Of this book [Swedenborg's Conjugal Love] one would say that with the highest elements it has failed of success.
SwM 4.127 11 The book [Swedenborg's Conjugal Love] had been grand if the Hebraism had been omitted...
MoS 4.155 19 Neither will [the skeptic] be betrayed to a book and wrapped in a gown.
MoS 4.158 27 ...once let [the savage] read in the book, and he is no longer able not to think of Plutarch's heroes.
MoS 4.162 19 A single odd volume of Cotton's translation of the Essays [of Montaigne] remained to me from my father's library, when a boy. It lay long neglected, until, after many years...I read the book...
MoS 4.162 22 It seemed to me as if I had myself written the book [Montaigne's Essays]...
MoS 4.163 17 [Montaigne's Essays] is the only book which we certainly know to have been in the poet's [Shakespeare's] library.
MoS 4.168 9 I know not anywhere the book that seems less written [than Montaigne's Essays].
MoS 4.168 11 I know not anywhere the book that seems less written [than Montaigne's Essays]. It is the language of conversation transferred to a book.
MoS 4.169 25 This book of Montaigne the world has endorsed by translating it into all tongues and printing seventy-five editions of it in Europe;...
MoS 4.170 15 A book or statement which goes to show that there is no line...dispirits us.
MoS 4.175 27 ...a book...shoots a spark through the nerves, and we suddenly believe in will...
ShP 4.201 7 Every book supplies its time with one good word;...
ShP 4.211 3 ...the occasion which gave the saint's meaning the form...of a code of laws, is immaterial compared with the universality of its application. So it fares with the wise Shakspeare and his book of life.
GoW 4.272 24 The wonder of the book [Goethe's Helena] is its superior intelligence.
GoW 4.274 14 [Goethe] had an extreme impatience of conjecture and of rhetoric. I have guesses enough of my own; if a man write a book, let him set down only what he knows.
GoW 4.277 25 [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] is a book over which some veil is still drawn.
GoW 4.278 2 I suppose no book of this century can compare with [Goethe' s Wilhelm Meister] in its delicious sweetness...
GoW 4.278 9 [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister is] A very provoking book to the curiosity of young men of genius...
GoW 4.279 15 Goethe's hero [in Wilhelm Meister]...keeps such bad company, that the sober English public, when the book was translated, were disgusted.
GoW 4.279 20 ...the book [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] remains ever so new and unexhausted, that we must even let it go its way...
GoW 4.280 5 No generous youth can escape this charm of reality in the book [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister]...
GoW 4.280 8 The ardent and holy Novalis characterized the book [Goethe' s Wilhelm Meister] as thoroughly modern and prosaic;...
GoW 4.280 10 The book [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] treats only of the ordinary affairs of men...
GoW 4.280 16 ...Novalis soon returned to this book [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister]...
GoW 4.281 14 There must be a man behind the book;...
GoW 4.282 14 ...through every clause and part of speech of a right book I meet the eyes of the most determined of men;...
GoW 4.285 25 [Goethe's] autobiography...is the expression of the idea...a novelty to England, Old and New, when the book appeared--that a man exists for culture;...
GoW 4.286 14 Of course the book [Goethe's Dichtung und Wahrheit] affords slender materials for what would be reckoned with us a Life of Goethe;...
GoW 4.287 6 ...the charm of this portion of the book [Goethe's Thory of Colors] consists in the simplest statement of the relation betwixt these grandees of European scientific history and himself;...
GoW 4.289 8 ...compared with any motives on which books are written in England and America, [Goethe's work]...has the power to inspire which belongs to truth. Thus has he brought back to a book some of its ancient might and dignity.
ET1 5.10 26 ...taking up Bishop Waterland's book, which lay on the table, [Coleridge] read with vehemence two or three pages written by himself in the fly-leaves...
ET1 5.14 15 ...I...find it impossible to recall the largest part of [Coleridge' s] discourse, which was often like so many printed paragraphs in his book...
ET1 5.16 20 [Carlyle] had read in Stewart's book that when he inquired in a New York hotel for the Boots, he had been shown across the street and had found Mungo in his own house dining on roast turkey.
ET1 5.21 22 [Wordsworth] had never gone farther than the first part [of Goethe's Wilhelm Meister]; so disgusted was he that he threw the book across the room.
ET1 5.21 24 [Wordsworth] had never gone farther than the first part [of Goethe's Wilhelm Meister]; so disgusted was he that he threw the book across the room. I deprecated this wrath, and said what I could for the better parts of the book...
ET3 5.36 13 Every book we read...is still English history and manners.
ET4 5.44 1 An ingenious anatomist [Robert Knox] has written a book to prove that races are imperishable...
ET5 5.79 12 Sir Kenelm wrote a book...in which he propounds, that syllogisms do breed, or rather are all the variety of man's life.
ET5 5.93 11 There is no department of literature, of science, or of useful art, in which [the English] have not produced a first-rate book.
ET8 5.131 6 [The English] are headstrong believers and defenders of their opinion, and not less resolute in maintaining their whim and perversity. Hezekiah Woodward wrote a book against the Lord's Prayer.
ET11 5.175 4 He shall have the book, said the mother of Alfred, who can read it;...
ET12 5.212 5 ...the rich libraries collected at every one of many thousands of houses [in England], give an advantage not to be attained by a youth in this country, when one thinks how much more and better may be learned by a scholar who, immediately on hearing of a book, can consult it...
ET13 5.218 4 The carved and pictured chapel...made the parish-church [in England] a sort of book and Bible to the people's eye.
ET14 5.245 12 Mr. Hallam...has written the history of European literature for three centuries,--a performance of great ambition, inasmuch as a judgment was to be attempted on every book.
ET16 5.273 11 It seemed a bringing together of extreme points, to visit the oldest religious monument in Britain in company with her latest thinker, and one whose influence may be traced in every contemporary book.
ET17 5.295 21 I said, if Plato's Republic were published in England as a new book to-day, do you think it would find any readers?--[Wordsworth] confessed it would not...
F 6.9 1 The menagerie, or forms and powers of the spine, is a book of fate;...
F 6.15 13 The book of Nature is the book of Fate.
Wth 6.101 14 Political Economy is as good a book wherein to read the life of man...as any Bible which has come down to us.
Wth 6.124 2 ...'t is very well that the poor husband reads in a book of a new way of living...let him go home and try it, if he dare.
Ctr 6.131 24 It is said a man can write but one book;...
Bhr 6.174 6 Unhappily the book [Dickens, American Notes] had its own deformities.
Wsp 6.219 2 ...to [man] the book of history, the book of love...are opened;...
CbW 6.253 3 [Good men] find...the governments, the churches, to be in the interest and the pay of the devil. And wise men have met this obstruction in their times...like Erasmus, with his book, The Praise of Folly;...
CbW 6.272 2 ...if one comes who can...show [men]...what gifts they have... he wakes in them the feeling of worth... ... 'T is wonderful the effect on the company. They are not the men they were. ... There is no book and no pleasure in life comparable to it.
Bty 6.286 16 [Knowledge of men, knowledge of manners, the power of form and our sensibility to personal influence] are facts of a science which we study without book...
Civ 7.19 9 Mr. Guizot, writing a book on the subject [Civilization], does not [attempt a definition].
DL 7.110 10 How could such a book as Plato's Dialogues have come down, but for the sacred savings of scholars...
WD 7.164 23 A man makes a picture or a book, and, if it succeeds, 't is often the worse for him.
WD 7.169 24 I used formerly to choose my time with some nicety for each favorite book.
WD 7.170 4 The scholar must look long for the right hour for Plato's Timaeus. At last the elect morning arrives, the early dawn...and in its wide leisures we dare open that book.
WD 7.172 9 ...with great propriety, Humboldt entitles his book, which recounts the last results of science, Cosmos.
Boks 7.187 2 The reader and the book,--either without the other is naught.
Boks 7.188 1 That book is good/ Which puts me in a working mood./
Boks 7.193 1 ...private readers, reading purely for love of the book, would serve us by leaving each the shortest note of what he found.
Boks 7.194 12 ...whole nations have derived their culture from a single book...
Boks 7.194 24 Dr. Johnson said: Whilst you stand deliberating which book your son shall read first, another boy has read both...
Boks 7.196 22 ...Never read any book that is not a year old.
Boks 7.197 4 ...I find certain books vital and spermatic, not leaving the reader what he was: he shuts the book a richer man.
Boks 7.199 4 Why should not young men be educated on this book [Plato]?
Boks 7.199 25 ...this book [Plutarch's Lives] has taken care of itself...
Boks 7.200 11 ...it signifies little where you open [Plutarch's] book, you find yourself at the Olympian tables.
Boks 7.201 27 An excellent popular book is J. A. St. John's Ancient Greece;...
Boks 7.204 2 What is really best in any book is translatable...
Boks 7.204 11 I rarely read any Latin, Greek, German, Italian, sometimes not a French book, in the original, which I can procure in a good version.
Boks 7.204 22 If [the student] can read Livy, he has a good book;...
Boks 7.205 11 ...[Gibbon's] book is one of the conveniences of civilization...
Boks 7.209 13 The annals of bibliography afford many examples of the delirious extent to which book-fancying can go, when the legitimate delight in a book is transferred to a rare edition or to a manuscript.
Boks 7.211 3 Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy is a book of great learning.
Boks 7.211 8 Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read.
Boks 7.217 8 [In the novel] A thousand thoughts awoke; great rainbows seemed to span the sky...but we close the book and not a ray remains in the memory of evening.
Boks 7.217 15 ...this passion for romance, and this disappointment, show how much we need real elevations and pure poetry: that which shall show us...a like impression made by a just book and by the face of Nature.
Boks 7.221 14 Another member [of the literary club] meantime shall as honestly search, sift and as truly report on British mythology...the histories of Brut, Merlin and Welsh poetry;...a fourth, on Mysteries, Early Drama, Gesta Romanorum, Collier, and Dyce, and the Camden Society. Each shall give us his grains of gold...and every other shall then decide whether this is a book indispensable to him also.
Clbs 7.228 18 How sweet those hours when the day was not long enough to communicate and compare our intellectual jewels,--the favorite passages of each book...
Clbs 7.240 8 You may condemn [the eloquent man's] book, but can you fight against his thought?
Cour 7.269 11 ...a new book astonishes for a few days...
Cour 7.269 15 The old principles which books exist to express are more beautiful than any book;...
Cour 7.269 17 ...out of love of the reality [the scholar] is an expert judge how far the book has approached it...
Cour 7.269 21 In all applications [courage] is the same power,--the habit of reference to one's own mind...which can easily dispose of any book because it can very well do without all books.
Cour 7.270 3 ...I remember the old professor, whose searching mind engraved every word he spoke on the memory of the class, when we asked if he had read this or that shining novelty, No, I have never read that book;...
Cour 7.270 4 ...I remember the old professor, whose searching mind engraved every word he spoke on the memory of the class, when we asked if he had read this or that shining novelty, No, I have never read that book; instantly the book lost credit...
Suc 7.296 17 'T is the good reader that makes the good book;...
Suc 7.296 18 ...in every book [a good reader] finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear.
PI 8.15 27 ...the book, the landscape or the personality which...penetrated to the inward sense, agitates us, and is not forgotten.
PI 8.32 16 I require that the poem should impress me so that after I have shut the book it shall recall me to itself...
PI 8.32 25 Later, the thought, the happy image which expressed it and which was a true experience of the poet, recurs to mind, and sends me back in search of the book.
PI 8.34 7 No matter what [your subject] is...if it has a natural prominence to you, work away until you come to the heart of it: then it will...as fully represent the central law...as if it were the book of Genesis or the book of Doom.
PI 8.34 8 No matter what [your subject] is...if it has a natural prominence to you, work away until you come to the heart of it: then it will...as fully represent the central law...as if it were the book of Genesis or the book of Doom.
PI 8.69 12 The book [Goethe's Faust] is undeniably written by a master...
QO 8.176 1 Every book is a quotation;...
QO 8.177 10 In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight.
QO 8.177 20 Of a large and powerful class we might ask with confidence, What is the event they most desire? what gift? What but the book that shall come, which...shall speak to the imagination?
QO 8.180 9 The first book tyrannizes over the second.
QO 8.180 15 ...if we find in India or Arabia a book out of our horizon of thought and tradition, we are soon taught by new researches in its native country to discover its foregoers...
QO 8.183 24 ...when [Webster] opened a new book, he turned to the table of contents...
QO 8.183 27 ...when [Webster] opened a new book, he turned to the table of contents, took a pen, and sketched a sheet of matters and topics...before he read the book.
QO 8.184 8 When [the Earl of Strafford] met with a well-penned oration or tract upon any subject, he framed a speech upon the same argument, inventing and disposing what seemed fit to be said upon that subject, before he read the book;...
QO 8.188 16 In opening a new book we often discover, from the unguarded devotion with which the writer gives his motto or text, all we have to expect from him.
QO 8.188 21 If Lord Bacon appears already in the preface, I go and read the Instauration instead of the new book.
QO 8.191 16 Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage.
QO 8.195 2 ...a writer appears to more advantage in the pages of another book than in his own.
QO 8.195 19 It is curious what new interest an old author acquires by official canonization in...Hallam, or other historian of literature. Their registration of his book...carries the sentimental value of a college diploma.
QO 8.197 1 In hours of high mental activity we sometimes do the book too much honor...
PC 8.219 13 Every book is written with a constant secret reference to the few intelligent persons whom the writer believes to exist in the million.
Insp 8.272 5 When I wish to write on any topic, 't is of no consequence what kind of book or man gives me a hint or a motion...
Insp 8.276 12 [Inspiration] seems a semi-animal heat; as if...a genial companion, or a new thought suggested in book or conversation could fire the train...
Insp 8.295 2 ...I find a mitigation or solace by providing always a good book for my journeys...
Insp 8.295 4 ...I find a mitigation or solace by providing always a good book for my journeys...some book which lifts me quite out of prosaic surroundings...
Insp 8.295 11 You shall not read...Montaigne, nor the newest French book.
Insp 8.296 3 Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood.
Insp 8.296 4 The deep book...helps us best.
Insp 8.297 5 [Scholars] are men whom a book could entertain...
Grts 8.312 17 The great man loves the conversation or the book that convicts him...
Grts 8.313 14 I have read in an old book that Barcena the Jesuit confessed to another of his order that when the Devil appeared to him in his cell one night, out of his profound humility he rose up to meet him, and prayed him to sit down in his chair, for he was more worthy to sit there than himself.
Grts 8.315 7 ...he may read any book who reads all books...
Imtl 8.324 6 ...I read in the second book of Herodotus this memorable sentence...
Dem1 10.27 23 [Man] is sure no book, no man has told him all.
Aris 10.50 9 When old writers are consulted by young writers who have written their first book, they say, Publish it by all means; so only can you certainly know its quality.
Chr2 10.90 1 For what need I of book or priest/ Or Sibyl from the mummied East/ When every star is Bethlehem Star,-/...
Edc1 10.134 17 ...what teaching, what book of this day appeals to the Vast?
Edc1 10.157 25 [The pupils] shall have no book but schoolbooks in the room;...
Edc1 10.158 1 ...if one [pupil] has brought in a Plutarch or Shakspeare or Don Quixote or Goldsmith or any other good book, and understands what he reads, put him at once at the head of the class.
SovE 10.209 7 It accuses us...that pure ethics is not now formulated and concreted into a cultus, a fraternity...with song and book...
Prch 10.233 9 The essential ground of a new book or a new sermon is a new spirit.
MoL 10.253 6 See a political revolution dogging a book.
MoL 10.254 27 Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.
Schr 10.280 15 When a man begins to dedicate himself to a particular function...the advance of his character and genius pauses;...seal the book;...
Schr 10.284 8 ...the sure months are bringing [the scholar] to an examination-day...for which no tutor, no book, no lectures, and almost no preparation can be of the least avail.
Plu 10.293 19 ...[Plutarch]...dedicated no book to [Trajan]...
Plu 10.294 7 ...[Plutarch]...with one or two doubtful exceptions, never quotes a Latin book;...
Plu 10.295 18 [Henry IV wrote] My good mother...put this book [Plutarch] into my hands almost when I was a child at the breast.
Plu 10.295 25 Montaigne, in 1589, says: We dunces had been lost, had not this book [Plutarch] raised us out of the dirt.
Plu 10.298 20 ...[Plutarch]...declares in a letter written to his wife that he finds scarcely an erasure, as in a book well-written, in the happiness of his life.
Plu 10.300 16 I do not know where to find a book-to borrow a phrase of Ben Jonson's-so rammed with life [as Plutarch]...
Plu 10.311 18 ...when we have shut [Seneca's] book, we forget to open it again.
Plu 10.320 13 Professor Goodwin is a silent benefactor to the book [Plutarch's Morals]...
Plu 10.320 15 Professor Goodwin is a silent benefactor to the book [Plutarch's Morals], wherever I have compared the editions. I did not know how careless and vicious in parts the old book was...
Plu 10.322 4 It is a service to our Republic to publish a book that can force ambitious young men...to read the Laconic Apothegms [of Plutarch]...
MMEm 10.411 13 In her solitude of twenty years, with fewest books and those only sermons, and a copy of Paradise Lost, without covers or title-page, so that later, when she heard much of Milton and sought his work, she found it was her very book which she knew so well,-[Mary Moody Emerson] was driven to find Nature her companion and solace.
MMEm 10.412 2 I [Mary Moody Emerson] am so small in my expectations, that a week of industry delights. Rose before light every morn;...read in a little book,-Cicero's Letters,-a few...
EWI 11.106 8 [Granville Sharpe] published his book in 1769...
EWI 11.118 26 The child will sit in your arms contented, provided you do nothing. If you take a book and read, he commences hostile operations.
EWI 11.125 27 ...[slavery] does not love...a book or a preacher who has the absurd whim of saying what he thinks;...
EdAd 11.385 6 At least as far as the purpose and genius of America is yet reported in any book, it is a sterility and no genius.
EdAd 11.391 9 ...the current year has witnessed the appearance, in their first English translation, of [Swedenborg's] manuscripts. Here is an unsettled account in the book of Fame;...
EdAd 11.393 11 The name [Massachusetts Quarterly Review] might convey the impression of a book of criticism...
SHC 11.433 18 Here [at Sleepy Hollow] we may establish that most agreeable of all museums...an Arboretum,-wherein may be planted, by the taste of every citizen, one tree, with its name recorded in a book;...
RBur 11.443 12 The memory of Burns,-every man's, every boy's and girl' s head carries snatches of his songs, and they say them by heart, and, what is strangest of all, never learned them from a book...
Shak1 11.450 13 Young men of a contemplative turn carry [Shakespeare's] sonnets in the pocket. With that book, the shade of any tree, a room in any inn, becomes a chapel or oratory in which to sit out their happiest hours.
Humb 11.457 23 There is no book like [Humboldt's Cosmos];...
Humb 11.458 16 A German reads a literature whilst we are reading a book.
Scot 11.463 19 I can well remember as far back as when The Lord of the Isles was first republished in Boston, in 1815,-my own and my school-fellows' joy in the book.
CPL 11.497 11 Every faculty casts itself into an art, and memory into the art of writing, that is, the book.
CPL 11.499 26 [Mary Moody Emerson writes] I think that you never enjoy so much as in solitude with a book that meets the feelings...
CPL 11.500 7 ...events so important have occurred in the forty years since that book [Shattuck, History of Concord] was published, that it now needs a second volume.
CPL 11.503 13 ...what omniscience has music! so absolutely impersonal, and yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow reached. Yet to a scholar the book is as good or better.
CPL 11.503 19 Many times the reading of a book has made the fortune of the man...
CPL 11.503 22 'T is a tie between men to have been delighted with the same book.
CPL 11.506 12 [Kepler writes] ...I have stolen the golden vases of the Egyptians to build up a tabernacle for my God far away from the confines of Egypt. If you forgive me, I rejoice;...the book is written;...
CPL 11.507 6 ...the book is a sure friend...
CPL 11.507 11 It is a tie between men to have read the same book...
CPL 11.507 12 ...it is a disadvantage not to have read the book your mates have read...
FRep 11.534 11 [A man's life] is manufactured for him. The tailor makes your dress;...the upholsterer, from an imported book of patterns, your furniture;...
PLT 12.26 18 We say the book grew in the author's mind.
II 12.67 13 ...we can only judge safely of a discipline, of a book, of a man, or other influence, by the frame of mind it induces...
II 12.86 19 Michael Angelo must paint Sistine ceilings till he can no longer read, except by holding the book over his head.
Mem 12.91 16 ...a book I read...has a value at this moment exactly proportioned to my skill to deal with it.
Mem 12.93 10 There is no book like the memory...
Mem 12.101 25 Who can judge the new book? He who has read many books.
CInt 12.119 5 ...the book written against fame and learning has the author's name on the title-page.
CL 12.164 19 What is the merit of Thomson's Seasons but copying a few of the pictures out of this vast book [of Nature] into words...
CW 12.176 18 ...it is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany...by word of mouth from a companion than dully from a book.
CW 12.176 19 There is so much...which a book cannot teach that an old friend can.
Bost 12.204 2 ...I do not find in our [New England] people, with all their education, a fair share of originality of thought;-not any remarkable book of wisdom;...
Milt1 12.247 7 ...the new-found book having in itself less attraction than any other work of Milton, the curiosity of the public as quickly subsided...
Milt1 12.268 10 The memorable covenant, which in his youth, in the second book of the Reason of Church Government, [Milton] makes with God and his reader, expressed the faith of his old age.
Milt1 12.271 27 [Milton] maintained the doctrine of literary liberty... insisting that a book shall come into the world as freely as a man...
ACri 12.296 5 Every historic autobiographic trait authenticating the man [Montaigne] adds to the value of the book.
ACri 12.298 2 What [Carlyle] has said shall be proverb, nobody shall be able to say it otherwise. No book can any longer be tolerable in the old husky Neal-on-the-Puritans model.
ACri 12.298 11 Here has come into the country, three months ago, a History of Friedrich, infinitely the wittiest book that ever was written;...
ACri 12.298 11 Here has come into the country, three months ago, a History of Friedrich...a book that, one would think, the English people would rise up in a mass to thank [Carlyle] for...
ACri 12.298 21 ...[Carlyle's History of Frederick II is] a book holding so many memorable and heroic facts, working directly on practice;...
ACri 12.299 11 ...[Carlyle's History of Frederick II is] withal a book that is a judgment-day for its moral verdict on the men and nations and manners of modern times.
ACri 12.299 13 ...this book [Carlyle's History of Frederick II] makes no noise.
ACri 12.299 16 ...this book [Carlyle's History of Frederick II] makes no noise. I have hardly seen a notice of it...and you would think there was no such book.
MLit 12.309 13 Let us not forget the genial miraculous force we have known to proceed from a book.
MLit 12.310 2 We...take up Plutarch or Augustine, and read a few sentences or pages, and lo!...secrets of magnanimity and grandeur invite us on every hand, life is made up of them. Such is our debt to a book.
MLit 12.310 20 [The library of the Present Age] can hardly be characterized by any species of book...
MLit 12.327 14 In these days and in this country...it seems as if no book could so safely be put in the hands of young men as the letters of Goethe, which attest the incessant activity of this man...
WSL 12.340 5 [Landor] has capital enough to have furnished the brain of fifty stock authors, yet has written no book.
WSL 12.342 3 From the moment of entering a library and opening a desired book, we cease to be...men of care and fear.
Pray 12.356 6 ...we must not tie up the rosary on which we have strung these few white beads [prayers], without adding a pearl of great price from that book of prayer, the Confessions of Saint Augustine.
AgMs 12.360 14 ...who is this book [the Agricultural Survey] written for?
EurB 12.375 27 Except in the stories of Edgeworth and Scott, whose talent knew how to give to the book a thousand adventitious graces, the novels of costume are all one...
EurB 12.376 12 Everything good in such a story [novel of character] remains with the reader when the book is closed.
EurB 12.376 13 A noble book was Wilhelm Meister.
PPr 12.379 11 ...[Carlyle's Past and Present] is the book of a powerful and accomplished thinker...
PPr 12.379 23 [Carlyle's Past and Present] is a brave and just book...
PPr 12.380 9 The book [Carlyle's Past and Present] makes great approaches to true contemporary history...
PPr 12.380 16 [Carlyle's Past and Present] has the merit which belongs to every honest book, that it was self-examining before it was eloquent...
PPr 12.380 23 The scholar shall read and write, the farmer and mechanic shall toil, with new resolution, nor forget the book [Carlyle's Past and Present] when they resume their labor.
PPr 12.381 25 As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's Past and Present], we are struck with the force given to the plain truths;...the assumption throughout the book, that a new chivalry and nobility, namely, the dynasty of labor, is replacing the old nobilities.
PPr 12.382 3 As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's Past and Present], we are struck with the force given to the plain truths;... These things strike us with a force which reminds us of the morals of the Oriental or early Greek masters, and of no modern book.
PPr 12.384 22 Here is a book [Carlyle's Past and Present] which will be read...
PPr 12.384 25 Here is a book [Carlyle's Past and Present] as full of treason as an egg is full of meat...
PPr 12.385 18 We are at some loss how to state what strikes us as the fault of this remarkable book [Carlyle's Past and Present]...
PPr 12.386 20 It was perhaps inseparable from the attempt to write a book of wit and imagination on English politics that a certain local emphasis and love of effect...should appear...
PPr 12.388 4 This book [Carlyle's Past and Present] is full of humanity...
AmS 1.92 18 I would not be hurried...by any exaggeration of instincts, to underrate the Book.
ACri 12.299 23 ...the secret interior wits and hearts of men take note of [Carlyle's History of Frederick II], not the less surely. They have said nothing lately in praise of the air, or of fire, or of the blessing of love, and yet, I suppose, they are sensible of these, and not less of this Book, which is like these.
SMC 11.361 16 If Marshal Montluc's Memoirs are the Bible of soldiers, as Henry IV. of France said, Colonel Prescott might furnish the Book of Epistles.
Boks 7.198 7 The Prometheus [of Aeschylus] is a poem of the like dignity and scope as the Book of Job...
Aris 10.32 24 It will not pain me...if it should turn out, what is true, that I am describing...a chapter of Templars...but so few...that their names and doings are not recorded in any Book of Peerage...
Cour 7.274 12 There are ever appearing in the world men who, almost as soon as they are born, take a bee-line to...the axe of the tyrant, like...Jesus and Socrates. Look at...Southey's Book of the Church...
Aris 10.32 26 The Golden Book of Venice, the scale of European chivalry... is each a transcript of the decigrade or centigraded Man.
WD 7.165 17 I believe they have ceased to publish the Newgate Calendar and the Pirate's Own Book since the family newspapers...have quite superseded them in the freshness as well as the horror of their records of crime.
Wom 11.414 25 When a daughter is born, says the Shiking, the old Sacred Book of China, she sleeps on the ground...
GoW 4.288 3 When [Goethe] sits down to write a drama or a tale, he collects and sorts his observations from a hundred sides, and combines them into the body as fitly as he can. A great deal refuses to incorporate: this he adds loosely as letters of the parties, leaves from their journals, and the like. A great deal still is left that will not find any place. This the bookbinder alone can give any cohesion to;...
GoW 4.271 1 [Goethe] appears at a time...when, in the absence of heroic characters, a social comfort and cooperation have come in. There is...no learned man, but...reading-rooms and book-clubs without number.
Boks 7.209 11 The annals of bibliography afford many examples of the delirious extent to which book-fancying can go...
Thor 10.470 26 Presently [Thoreau] heard a note which he called that of the night-warbler, a bird he had never identified...the only bird which sings indifferently by night and by day. I told him he must beware of finding and booking it, lest life should have nothing more to show him.
Pow 6.58 13 The merchant works by book-keeper and cashier;...
CbW 6.261 14 [The rich man] is a good book-keeper;...
AmS 1.89 18 Hence the book-learned class, who value books, as such;...
MR 1.242 14 Better that the book should not be quite so good, and the book-maker abler and better...
Pow 6.79 25 I remarked in England...that in literary circles, the men of trust and consideration, book-makers, editors...were...usually of a low and ordinary intellectuality...
Schr 10.265 7 ...[poets] sit white over their stoves, and talk themselves hoarse over the...the effeminacy of book-makers.
PI 8.64 2 The poetic gift we want...not bookmaking and bookselling;...
ET6 5.106 3 [The Englishman] withholds his name. At the hotel, he is hardly willing to whisper it to the clerk at the book-office.
NR 3.230 6 In the parliament, in the play-house, at dinner-tables [in England], I might see a great number of rich, ignorant, book-read, conventional, proud men...
ET5 5.90 7 Sir Robert Peel knew the Blue Books by heart.
AmS 1.87 14 Books are the best type of the influence of the past...
AmS 1.87 19 The theory of books is noble.
AmS 1.88 17 Each age...must write its own books;...
AmS 1.88 18 The books of an older period will not fit this.
AmS 1.89 7 Books are written on [a book] by thinkers...
AmS 1.89 16 Meek young men grow up in libraries...forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote these books.
AmS 1.89 19 Hence the book-learned class, who value books, as such;...
AmS 1.89 24 Books are the best of things, well used;...
AmS 1.91 11 Books are for the scholar's idle times.
AmS 1.91 24 It is remarkable, the character of the pleasure we derive from the best books.
AmS 1.98 13 Colleges and books only copy the language which the field and the work-yard made.
AmS 1.98 17 ...the final value of action, like that of books, and better than books, is that it is a resource.
AmS 1.99 5 ...when...books are a weariness, - [the artist] has always the resource to live.
AmS 1.100 14 I have now spoken of the education of the scholar...by books...
AmS 1.108 5 The books which once we valued more than the apple of the eye, we have quite exhausted.
DSA 1.135 11 ...the man who aims to speak as books enable...babbles.
DSA 1.138 10 This man...had read books;...
DSA 1.144 7 When a man comes, all books are legible...
LE 1.155 12 Neither years nor books have yet availed to extirpate a prejudice then rooted in me...
LE 1.163 27 Be lord of a day, through wisdom and justice, and you can put up your history books.
LE 1.167 5 We assume that all thought is already long ago adequately set down in books...
LE 1.177 22 [The scholar] must work with men in houses, and not with their names in books.
MR 1.227 10 ...some of those offices and functions for which we were mainly created are grown so rare in society that the memory of them is only kept alive in old books...
MR 1.238 26 ...when [a man] comes to give all the goods he has year after year collected, in one estate to his son,-house...books...the son finds his hands full...
LT 1.275 10 By the books [the Times] reads and translates, judge what books it will presently print.
LT 1.275 11 By the books [the Times] reads and translates, judge what books it will presently print.
Con 1.315 17 ...[Friar Bernard]...talked with gentle mothers...who told him how much love they bore their children, and how they were perplexed...lest they should fail in their duty to them. What! he said, and this...on marble floors, with...piles of books about you?
Con 1.315 19 Look at our pictures and books, [the mothers] said...
Con 1.316 16 ...[riches] take somewhat for everything they give. I look bigger, but I am less; I have...more books, but less wit.
Hist 2.7 11 Books, monuments, pictures, conversations, are portraits in which [the wise man] finds the lineaments he is forming.
Hist 2.8 3 The student is...to esteem his own life the text [of history], and books the commentary.
Hist 2.16 10 ...there are compositions of the same strain to be found in the books of all ages.
Hist 2.40 2 What connection do the books show between the fifty or sixty chemical elements and the historical eras?
SR 2.45 16 ...the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton is that they set at naught books and traditions...
SR 2.71 7 Let us stun and astonish the intruding rabble of...books...by a simple declaration of the divine fact.
SR 2.76 24 ...the moment [a man] acts from himself, tossing...the books... out of the window, we pity him no more...
Comp 2.109 3 Proverbs, like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions.
SL 2.132 9 Let [a man] do and say what strictly belongs to him, and though very ignorant of books, his nature shall not yield him any intellectual obstructions and doubts.
SL 2.133 5 The regular course of studies...have not yielded me better facts than some idle books under the bench at the Latin School.
SL 2.144 17 [Those facts, words, persons, which dwell in a man's memory without his being able to say why] are symbols of value to him as they can interpret parts of his consciousness which he would vainly seek words for in the conventional images of books and other minds.
SL 2.149 6 ...that author [Virgil] is a thousand books to a thousand persons.
SL 2.154 9 Only those books come down which deserve to last.
SL 2.154 25 The permanence of all books is fixed by no effort...
SL 2.164 17 I may say it of our preposterous use of books,--He knew not what to do, and so he read.
Lov1 2.172 6 What books in the circulating library circulate?
Lov1 2.172 25 ...to-day [the rude village boy] comes running into the entry and meets one fair child disposing her satchel; he holds her books to help her, and instantly it seems to him as if she removed herself from him infinitely...
Fdsp 2.195 27 Every thing that is [our friend's],--his name, his form, his dress, books and instruments,--fancy enhances.
Fdsp 2.204 24 I find very little written directly to the heart of this matter [of friendship] in books.
Fdsp 2.214 7 We are sure that we have all in us. We go to Europe...or we read books, in the instinctive faith that these will call it out...
Fdsp 2.214 11 We go to Europe, or we pursue persons, or we read books, in the instinctive faith that these will...reveal us to ourselves. Beggars all. The persons are such as we; the Europe, an old faded garment of dead persons; the books, their ghosts.
Fdsp 2.214 25 I do then with my friends as I do with my books.
Prd1 2.224 24 ...our existence...so fond of splendor and so tender to hunger and cold and debt, reads all its primary lessons out of these books.
Hsm1 2.248 25 ...a Stoicism not of the schools but of the blood, shines in every anecdote [of Plutarch], and has given that book its immense fame. We need books of this tart cathartic virtue...
Hsm1 2.248 26 ...a Stoicism not of the schools but of the blood, shines in every anecdote [of Plutarch], and has given that book its immense fame. We need books of this tart cathartic virtue more than books of political science...
Hsm1 2.258 20 ...when we hear [many extraordinary young men] speak of society, of books, of religion, we admire their superiority;...
OS 2.267 21 Why do men feel that the natural history of man has never been written, but he is always leaving behind what you have said of him, and it becomes old, and books of metaphysics worthless?
OS 2.286 19 Neither his age...nor books...can hinder [a man] from being deferential to a higher spirit than his own.
Int 2.338 18 ...we can count all our good books;...
Int 2.338 23 ...there are many competent judges of the best book, and few writers of the best books.
Int 2.344 15 [One soul] must treat things and books and sovereign genius as itself also a sovereign.
Pt1 3.18 8 Day and night, house and garden, a few books, a few actions, serve us as well as would all trades and all spectacles.
Pt1 3.32 9 I think nothing is of any value in books excepting the transcendental and extraordinary.
Pt1 3.33 27 ...all books of the imagination endure...
Exp 3.50 11 Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
Exp 3.63 13 I think I will never read any but the commonest books...
Exp 3.64 25 Law of copyright and international copyright is to be discussed, and in the interim we will sell our books for the most we can.
Chr1 3.89 15 The authority of the name of Schiller is too great for his books.
Chr1 3.101 26 I knew an amiable and accomplished person who undertook a practical reform, yet I was never able to find in him the enterprise of love he took in hand. He adopted it by ear and by the understanding from the books he had been reading.
Chr1 3.106 17 How captivating is [children's] devotion to their favorite books...
Chr1 3.109 1 How easily we read in old books...of the smallest action of the patriarchs.
Mrs1 3.134 27 Everybody we know surrounds himself with a fine house, fine books...
Mrs1 3.152 1 [Lilla] did not study...the books of the seven poets...
NR 3.225 12 ...how few particulars of [the genius of the Platonists] can I detach from all their books.
NR 3.232 18 I am very much struck in literature by the appearance that one person wrote all the books;...
NR 3.233 1 The modernness of all good books seems to give me an existence as wide as man.
NR 3.233 7 I am faithful again to the whole over the members in my use of books.
NR 3.246 27 We keep a running fire of sarcasm at ignorance and the life of the senses; then goes by, perchance, a fair girl...and...we admire and love her...and say, Lo! a genuine creature of the fair earth, not dissipated or too early ripened by books, philosophy, religion, society, or care!...
NER 3.259 8 Four, or six, or ten years, the pupil is parsing Greek and Latin, and as soon as he leaves the University...he shuts those books for the last time.
PPh 4.39 1 Among secular books, Plato only is entitled to Omar's fanatical compliment to the Koran, when he said, Burn the libraries; for their value is in this book.
SwM 4.100 4 [Swedenborg] ceased to publish any more scientific books...
SwM 4.101 27 ...[Swedenborg's] books on mines and metals are held in the highest esteem by those who understand these matters.
SwM 4.103 7 ...in Swedenborg, whose who are best acquainted with modern books will most admire the merit of mass.
SwM 4.103 11 Our books are false by being fragmentary...
SwM 4.105 21 [Swedenborg] named his favorite views the doctrine of Forms, the doctrine of Series and Degrees, the doctrine of Influx, the doctrine of Correspondence. His statement of these doctrines deserves to be studied in his books.
SwM 4.105 27 ...the Economy of the Animal Kingdom is one of those books which...is an honor to the human race.
SwM 4.111 3 Swedenborg printed these scientific books in the ten years from 1734 to 1744...
SwM 4.111 11 ...[Swedenborg] has at last found a pupil in Mr. Wilkinson... who has restored his master's buried books to the day...
SwM 4.120 1 Having adopted the belief that certain books of the Old and New Testaments were exact allegories...[Swedenborg] employed his remaining years in extricating from the literal, the universal sense.
SwM 4.122 1 Swedenborg styles himself in the title-page of his books, Servant of the Lord Jesus Christ;...
SwM 4.123 2 [Swedenborg's] disciples allege that their intellect is invigorated by the study of his books.
SwM 4.132 4 [Swedenborg's] books should be used with caution.
SwM 4.132 19 An ardent and contemplative young man...might read once these books of Swedenborg...and then throw them aside for ever.
SwM 4.136 24 The Lutheran bishop's son, for whom the heavens are opened, so that he...utters again in his books...the indisputable secrets of moral nature...remains the Lutheran bishop's son;...
SwM 4.137 14 [Swedenborg] is...like Montaigne's parish priest, who, if a hail-storm passes over the village, thinks the day of doom is come, and the cannibals already have got the pip. Swedenborg confounds us not less with...his own books, which he advertises among the angels.
SwM 4.144 5 ...was it that [Swedenborg] saw the vision [of heavenly society] intellectually, and hence that chiding of the intellectual that pervades his books?
SwM 4.144 6 ...[Swedenborg's] books have no melody...
SwM 4.144 16 [Swedenborg's books have become a monument.
MoS 4.165 1 In [Montaigne's] times, books were written to one sex only...
MoS 4.168 24 Montaigne...knows the world and books and himself...
ShP 4.199 8 ...there were fountains around Homer, Menu, Saadi, or Milton, from which they drew;--friends, lovers, books, traditions, proverbs,--all perished...
ShP 4.199 19 Is there at last in [the writer's] breast a Delphi whereof to ask concerning any thought or thing, whether it be verily so, yea or nay? and to have answer, and to rely on that? All the debts which such a man could contract to other wit would never disturb his consciousness of originality; for the ministrations of books and of other minds are a whiff of smoke to that most private reality with which he has conversed.
ShP 4.200 27 The translation of Plutarch gets its excellence by being translation on translation. There never was a time when there was none. All the truly idiomatic and national phrases are kept, and all others successively picked out and thrown away. Something like the same process had gone on, long before, with the originals of these books.
ShP 4.206 4 We tell the chronicle of parentage...publication of books...
NMW 4.225 21 [The man in the street] finds [Napoleon], like himself, by birth a citizen, who, by very intelligible merits, arrived as such a commanding position that he could indulge all those tastes which the common man possesses but is obliged to conceal and deny: good society, good books...
GoW 4.267 23 The Hindoos write in their sacred books, Children only, and not the learned, speak of the speculative and the practical faculties as two.
GoW 4.276 26 ...[Goethe]...instead of looking in books and pictures, looked for [the Devil] in his own mind...
GoW 4.289 5 ...compared with any motives on which books are written in England and America, [Goethe's work] is very truth...
GoW 4.289 12 Goethe, coming into an over-civilized time and country, when original talent was oppressed under the load of books and mechanical auxiliaries...taught men how to dispose of this mountainous miscellany and make it subservient.
GoW 4.290 20 The secret of genius is...in arts, in sciences, in books, in men, to exact good faith, reality and a purpose;...
ET1 5.5 3 I have...found writers superior to their books...
ET1 5.7 7 I had inferred from [Landor's] books...an impression of Achillean wrath...
ET1 5.9 14 ...Mr. H[are], one of the guests, told me that Mr. Landor gives away his books...
ET1 5.15 23 ...books inevitably made [Carlyle's] topics.
ET1 5.16 25 We [Emerson and Carlyle] talked of books.
ET1 5.17 4 Tristram Shandy was one of [Carlyle's] first books after Robinson Crusoe...
ET1 5.17 15 [Carlyle]...recounted the incredible sums paid in one year by the great booksellers for puffing. Hence it comes that...no books are bought...
ET1 5.21 7 The conversation [with Wordsworth] turned on books.
ET1 5.23 17 I said Tinturn Abbey appeared to be the favorite poem with the public, but more contemplative readers preferred the first books of the Excursion, and the Sonnets.
ET2 5.31 19 ...some of the happiest and most valuable hours I have owed to books, passed, many years ago, on shipboard.
ET3 5.36 13 See what books fill our libraries.
ET3 5.41 10 It is not down in the books...that fortunate day when a wave of the German Ocean burst the old isthmus which joined Kent and Cornwall to France...
ET6 5.110 8 Holdship has been with me, said Lord Eldon, eight-and-twenty years, knows all my business and books.
ET7 5.123 16 [The English] are very liable in their politics to extraordinary delusions; thus to believe what stands recorded in the gravest books, that the movement of 10 April, 1848, was urged or assisted by foreigners...
ET8 5.127 21 Religion, the theatre and the reading the books of [the Englishman's] country all feed and increase his natural melancholy.
ET8 5.142 19 ...[the English] like well to have the world served up to them in books, maps, models...
ET9 5.150 13 ...in books of science, one is surprised [in England] by the most innocent exhibition of unflinching nationality.
ET10 5.154 15 ...I found the two disgraces in [Wood's Athenae Oxonienses], as in most English books, are, first, disloyalty to Church and State, and, second, to be born poor, or come to poverty.
ET12 5.201 25 The books in Merton Library [Oxford] are still chained to the wall.
ET12 5.203 15 ...one day, being in Venice [Dr. Bandinel] bought a room full of books and manuscripts...
ET12 5.204 6 [The Bodleian Library's] catalogue is the standard catalogue on the desk of every library in Oxford. In each several college they underscore in red ink on this catalogue the titles of books contained in the library of that college...
ET12 5.204 8 [The Bodleian Library's] catalogue is the standard catalogue on the desk of every library in Oxford. In each several college they underscore in red ink on this catalogue the titles of books contained in the library of that college,--the theory being that the Bodleian has all books.
ET12 5.204 9 This rich library [the Bodleian] spent during the last year (1847), for the purchase of books, 1668 pounds.
ET12 5.209 10 ...so eminent are the members that a glance at the calendars will show that in all the world one cannot be in better company than on the books of one of the larger Oxford or Cambridge colleges.
ET12 5.211 26 ...[the English] have access to books;...
ET12 5.212 6 ...the rich libraries collected at every one of many thousands of houses [in England], give an advantage not to be attained by a youth in this country, when one thinks how much more and better may be learned by a scholar who, immediately on hearing of a book, can consult it, than by one who is on the quest, for years, and reads inferior books because he cannot find the best.
ET13 5.217 22 [The English Church] has the seal of...the noblest books;...
ET13 5.229 7 What is so odious as the polite bows to God, in our books and newspapers?
ET14 5.246 2 Hallam inspires respect...by his manifest love of good books...
ET16 5.278 8 The sacrificial stone [at Stonehenge]...as I read in the books, must have been brought one hundred and fifty miles.
ET18 5.307 17 ...the American people do not yield...more inventions or books or benefits than the English.
F 6.9 19 Read the description in medical books of the four temperaments...
Pow 6.74 7 Friends, books, pictures, lower duties, talents, flatteries, hopes,-- all are distractions...
Wth 6.87 23 Wealth begins...in tools to work with, in books to read;...
Wth 6.98 8 Every man may have occasion to consult books which he does not care to possess...
Ctr 6.134 17 ...the student we speak to must have a mother-wit...which uses all books, arts, facilities, and elegancies of intercourse...
Ctr 6.137 11 It is not a compliment but a disparagement to consult a man only...on eating, or on books...
Ctr 6.139 8 The antidotes against this organic egotism are the range and variety of attractions, as gained by acquaintance with the world...with the high resources of philosophy, art and religion; books, travel, society, solitude.
Ctr 6.141 20 Books...must always enter into our notion of culture.
Ctr 6.142 10 ...books are good only as far as a boy is ready for them.
Ctr 6.143 2 Archery, cricket, gun and fishing-rod, horse and boat, are all educators, liberalizers; and so are dancing, dress and the street talk; and provided only the boy...is of a noble and ingenuous strain, these will not serve him less than the books.
Ctr 6.147 8 One use of travel is to recommend the books and works of home...
Ctr 6.148 27 Aubrey writes, I have heard Thomas Hobbes say, that, in the Earl of Devon's house, in Derbyshire, there was a good library and books enough for him...
Ctr 6.149 2 Aubrey writes, I have heard Thomas Hobbes say, that, in the Earl of Devon's house, in Derbyshire, there was a good library and books enough for him, and his lordship stored the library with what books he thought fit to be bought.
Ctr 6.152 6 ...one of the traits down in the books as distinguishing the Anglo-Saxon is a trick of self-disparagement.
Bhr 6.191 22 Novels are the journal or record of manners, and the new importance of these books derives from the fact that the novelist begins to penetrate the surface and treat this part of life more worthily.
Bhr 6.195 3 How much we forgive to those who yield us the rare spectacle of heroic manners! We will pardon them the want of books...
Wsp 6.214 23 Forget your books and traditions, and obey your moral perceptions at this hour.
Wsp 6.221 13 We owe to the Hindoo Scriptures a definition of Law, which compares well with any in our Western books.
CbW 6.271 19 ...if one comes who can...show [men]...what gifts they have...his suggestions require new ways of living, new books, new men, new arts and sciences;...
Bty 6.281 2 Our books approach very slowly the things we most wish to know.
Ill 6.312 10 What a debt is [the boy's] to imaginative books!
Ill 6.316 25 I, who have all my life...read poems and miscellaneous books... am still the victim of any new page;...
Civ 7.17 6 We praise the guide, we praise the forest life:/ But will we sacrifice our dear-bought lore/ Of books and arts and trained experiment/...
Art2 7.56 18 Who cares, who knows what works of art our government have ordered to be made for the Capitol? They are a mere flourish to please the eye of persons who have associations with books and galleries.
Elo1 7.69 18 The virtue of books is to be readable...
Elo1 7.95 6 We are slenderly furnished with anecdotes of these men [Chatham, Pericles, Luther], nor can we help ourselves by those heavy books in which their discourses are reported.
DL 7.106 19 The first ride into the country...the books of the nursery, are new chapters of joy [to the child].
DL 7.108 9 It is easier...to criticise [a territory's] polity, books, art, than to come to the persons and dwellings of men and read their character...
DL 7.109 26 ...some things each man buys without hesitation; if it were only...books that are written to his condition...
DL 7.110 16 Another man is...a builder of ships...and could achieve nothing if he should dissipate himself on books...
DL 7.121 10 Ah! short-sighted students of books, of Nature and of man!...
WD 7.174 20 History of ancient art, excavated cities, recovery of books and inscriptions,--yes, the works were beautiful, and the history worth knowing;...
Boks 7.189 1 It is easy to accuse books...
Boks 7.189 4 ...certainly there is dilettanteism enough, and books that are merely neutral and do nothing for us.
Boks 7.189 13 In Plato's Gorgias, Socrates says: The shipmaster walks in a modest garb near the sea, after bringing his passengers from Aegina or from Pontus;...certainly knowing that his passengers are the same and in no respect better than when he took them on board. So is it with books, for the most part;...
Boks 7.189 23 ...there are books which are of that importance in a man's private experience as to verify for him the fables of Cornelius Agrippa...
Boks 7.190 3 ...there are books which are of that importance in a man's private experience as to verify for him the fables...of the old Orpheus of Thrace,--books which take rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences...
Boks 7.190 7 ...there are...books which are the work and the proof of faculties so comprehensive...that though one shuts them with meaner ones, he feels his exclusion from them to accuse his way of living.
Boks 7.190 23 We owe to books those general benefits which come from high intellectual action.
Boks 7.191 8 College education is the reading of certain books which the common sense of all scholars agrees will represent the science already accumulated.
Boks 7.191 17 Whenever any skeptic or bigot claims to be heard on the questions of intellect and morals, we ask if he is familiar with the books of Plato, where all his pert objections have once for all been disposed of.
Boks 7.191 23 ...the colleges, whilst they provide us with libraries, furnish no professor of books;...
Boks 7.192 17 It seems...as if some charitable soul, after losing a great deal of time among the false books and alighting upon a few true ones which made him happy and wise, would do a right act in naming those which have been bridges or ships to carry him safely over dark morasses and barren oceans...
Boks 7.192 23 It seems...as if some charitable soul...would do a right act in naming those [books] which have been bridges or ships to carry him safely... into palaces and temples. This would be best done by those great masters of books who from time to time appear...
Boks 7.193 3 There are books; and it is practicable to read them, because they are so few.
Boks 7.193 7 In 1858, the number of printed books in the Imperial Library at Paris was estimated at eight hundred thousand volumes...
Boks 7.193 11 ...the number of printed books extant to-day may easily exceed a million.
Boks 7.194 2 The crowds and centuries of books are only commentary and elucidation, echoes and weakeners of these few great voices of time.
Boks 7.195 4 [Nature] does the same thing by books as by her gases and plants.
Boks 7.195 7 ...all books that get fairly into the vital air of the world were written by the successful class...
Boks 7.195 25 'T is...an economy of time to read old and famed books.
Boks 7.196 5 Be sure...to read no mean books.
Boks 7.196 14 ...the scholar knows that the famed books contain, first and last, the best thoughts and facts.
Boks 7.196 24 ...Never read any but famed books.
Boks 7.197 1 Montaigne says, Books are a languid pleasure;...
Boks 7.197 2 ...I find certain books vital and spermatic...
Boks 7.197 7 ...I will venture...to count the few books which a superficial reader must thankfully use.
Boks 7.197 9 Of the old Greek books, I think there are five which we cannot spare...
Boks 7.203 16 The reader of these books [of the Platonists] makes new acquaintance with his own mind;...
Boks 7.204 1 I do not hesitate to read all the books I have named, and all good books, in translations.
Boks 7.204 5 ...in our Bible, and other books of lofty moral tone, it seems easy and inevitable to render the rhythm and music of the original into phrases of equal melody.
Boks 7.204 18 I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.
Boks 7.208 6 Among the best books are certain Autobiographies;...
Boks 7.208 14 Another class of books closely allied to these [Autobiographies], and of like interest, are those which may be called Table-Talks...
Boks 7.209 9 ...tender readers have a great pudency in showing their books to a stranger.
Boks 7.211 19 ...Cornelius Agrippa On the Vanity of Arts and Sciences is a specimen of that scribatiousness which grew to be the habit of the gluttonous readers of his time. Like the modern Germans, they read a literature while other mortals read a few books.
Boks 7.214 2 ...books that treat the old pedantries of the world...with a certain freedom... put us on our feet again...
Boks 7.217 18 If our times are sterile in genius, we must cheer us with books of rich and believing men...
Boks 7.218 10 ...I might as well not have begun as to leave out a class of books which are the best: I mean the Bibles...
Boks 7.218 11 ...I might as well not have begun as to leave out a class of books which are the best: I mean...the sacred books of each nation...
Boks 7.218 14 After the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures, which constitute the sacred books of Christendom, [the sacred books] are, the Desatir of the Persians, and the Zoroastrian Oracles;...
Boks 7.218 19 After the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures...[the sacred books] are...the books of the Buddhists;...
Boks 7.218 20 After the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures...[the sacred books] are...the Chinese Classic, of four books, containing the wisdom of Confucius and Mencius.
Boks 7.218 21 After the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures...[the sacred books] are...the Chinese Classic, of four books, containing the wisdom of Confucius and Mencius. Also such other books as have acquired a semi-canonical authority in the world...
Boks 7.219 4 All these [sacred] books are the majestic expressions of the universal conscience...
Boks 7.220 10 These are a few of the books which the old and the later times have yielded us...
Boks 7.220 13 In comparing the number of good books with the shortness of life, many might well be read by proxy, if we had good proxies;...
Clbs 7.229 6 In youth...the day is too short for books...
Clbs 7.229 8 Later, when books tire, thought has a more languid flow;...
Clbs 7.249 18 If...[l'homme de lettres] dare not speak of fairy gold, he will yet tell what new books he has found...
Cour 7.269 14 The old principles which books exist to express are more beautiful than any book;...
Cour 7.269 22 In all applications [courage] is the same power,--the habit of reference to one's own mind...which can easily dispose of any book because it can very well do without all books.
Suc 7.297 18 What is so admirable as the health of youth?--with his long days because...he loves books that speak to the imagination;...
OA 7.313 8 I know ye [clouds] skilful to convoy/ The total freight of hope and joy/ Into rude and homely nooks,/ Shed mocking lustres on shelf of books,/ On farmer's byre, on pasture rude,/ And stony pathway to the wood./
OA 7.329 27 We have an admirable line worthy of Horace...but have searched all probable and improbable books for it in vain.
PI 8.15 3 I think Hindoo books the best gymnastics for the mind...
PI 8.25 10 When people tell me they do not relish poetry, and bring me Shelley...to show that it has no charm, I am quite of their mind. But this dislike of the books only proves their liking of poetry.
PI 8.51 2 St. Augustine complains to God of his friends offering him the books of the philosophers...
PI 8.65 8 The Muse [of Poetry] shall be the counterpart of Nature, and equally rich. I find her not often in books.
PI 8.68 8 How fast we outgrow the books of the nursery...
PI 8.68 11 ...many of our later books we have outgrown.
Comc 8.168 2 ...in the country we cannot find every day a case that agrees with the diagnosis of the books.
Comc 8.168 17 The pedantry of literature belongs to the same category [as that of religion and science]. In both cases there is a lie, when the mind... learning languages and reading books to the end of a better acquaintance with man, stops in the languages and books;...
Comc 8.168 19 The pedantry of literature belongs to the same category [as that of religion and science]. In both cases there is a lie, when the mind... learning languages and reading books to the end of a better acquaintance with man, stops in the languages and books;...
QO 8.177 17 In every man's memory, with the hours when life culminated are usually associated certain books which met his views.
QO 8.178 5 If we encountered a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he read.
QO 8.178 14 We prize books...
QO 8.178 25 We quote not only books and proverbs...
QO 8.181 12 Albert...St. Buonaventura...Thomas Aquinas...whose books made the sufficient culture of these ages, Dante absorbed, and he survives for us.
QO 8.185 17 Goethe's favorite phrase, the open secret, translates Aristotle' s answer to Alexander, These books are published and not published.
QO 8.188 12 As they do by books, so [people] quote the sunset and the star...
QO 8.194 7 Most of the classical citations you shall hear or read in the current journals or speeches were...drawn...from previous quotations in English books;...
QO 8.194 19 The profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader.
PC 8.222 9 We are told that in posting his books, after the French had measured on the earth a degree of the meridian, when [Newton] saw that his theoretic results were approximating that empirical one, his hand shook...
PPo 8.237 13 That for which mainly books exist is communicated in these rich extracts [from Persian poetry].
PPo 8.237 19 ...there are many virtues in books...
PPo 8.239 12 The Persians and the Arabs, with great leisure and few books, are exquisitely sensible to the pleasures of poetry.
Insp 8.289 19 ...Montaigne travelled with his books, but did not read in them.
Insp 8.293 16 In enlarged conversation we have suggestions that require... new books, new men, new arts...
Insp 8.295 22 Fact-books, if the facts be well and thoroughly told, are much more nearly allied to poetry than many books are that are written in rhyme.
Insp 8.295 25 Books of natural science...all the better if written without literary aim or ambition.
Grts 8.304 16 You shall not...tell me by their titles what books you have read.
Grts 8.310 9 You are rightly fond of certain books or men...
Grts 8.315 8 ...he may read any book who reads all books...
Imtl 8.328 5 Sixty years ago, the books read...were all directed on death.
Imtl 8.328 10 The emphasis of all the good books given to young people [sixty years ago] was on death.
Imtl 8.338 9 I have a house, a closet which holds my books, a table, a garden, a field...
Aris 10.45 6 ...the man's associations, fortunes, love, hatred, residence, rank, the books he will buy, the roads he will traverse are predetermined in his organism.
Chr2 10.106 19 ...'t is incredible to us, if we look into the religious books of our grandfathers, how they held themselves in such a pinfold.
Chr2 10.111 23 ...how many sentences and books we owe to unknown authors...
Edc1 10.140 16 If [a boy] can turn his books to such picturesque account in his fishing and hunting, it is easy to see how his reading and experience... will interpenetrate each other.
Edc1 10.142 23 There comes the period of the imagination to each, a later youth; the power of beauty, the power of books, of poetry.
Edc1 10.142 24 Culture makes [the youth's] books realities to him...
Edc1 10.153 16 ...[the gentle teacher, who wished to be a Providence to youth's]...love of learning is lost in the routine of grammars and books of elements.
Supl 10.165 16 The books say, It made my hair stand on end! Who, in our municipal life, ever had such an experience?
SovE 10.198 7 We go to famous books for our examples of character...
MoL 10.256 12 Reading!-do you mean that this senator or this lawyer, who stood by and allowed the passage of infamous laws, was a reader of Greek books?
Schr 10.265 6 ...[poets] sit white over their stoves, and talk themselves hoarse over the mischief of books...
Schr 10.283 11 [Whosoever looks with heed into his thoughts] will find there is somebody within him that knows more than he does...a mother-wit which does not learn by experience or by books, but knew it all already;...
Schr 10.288 17 ...[the scholar's] use of books is occasional, and infinitely subordinate;...
Plu 10.293 12 [Plutarch] has been represented as having been the tutor of the Emperor Trajan, as dedicating one of his books to him...
Plu 10.294 19 ...[Plutarch's] books were never known to the world in their own Greek tongue...
Plu 10.298 14 ...a master of ancient culture, [Plutarch] read books with a just criticism;...
Plu 10.302 21 [Plutarch] has preserved for us a multitude of precious sentences...of authors whose books are lost;...
Plu 10.318 4 [Plutarch's] delight in magnanimity and self-sacrifice has made his books...a bible for heroes;...
Plu 10.321 11 I hope the Commission of the Philological Society in London...will not overlook these volumes [the 1718 edition of Plutarch], which show the wealth of their tongue to greater advantage than many books of more renown as models.
Plu 10.322 21 ...[Plutarch's] books will be reprinted and read anew by coming generations.
Plu 10.322 24 ...Plutarch will be perpetually rediscovered from time to time as long as books last.
LLNE 10.341 21 Margaret Fuller, George Ripley...and many others...from time to time spent an afternoon at each other's houses in a serious conversation. With them was always...a pure idealist, not...a writer of books;...
LLNE 10.343 16 From that time meetings were held for conversation...of people...fond of books...
LLNE 10.354 6 It argued singular courage, the adoption of Fourier's system, to even a limited extent, with his books lying before the world only defended by the thin veil of the French language.
EzRy 10.381 23 ...[Ezra Ripley's] father agreed with the late Rev. Dr. Forbes of Gloucester...to fit Ezra for college...and to have him labor during the time sufficiently to pay for his instruction, clothing and books.
EzRy 10.389 14 ...[Ezra Ripley] was no reader of books or journals...
EzRy 10.392 24 With a very limited acquaintance with books, [Ezra Ripley' s] knowledge was an external experience...
MMEm 10.405 15 ...the minister found quickly that [Mary Moody Emerson] knew all his books and many more...
MMEm 10.405 26 None but was attracted or piqued by [Mary Moody Emerson's] interest and wit and wide acquaintance with books and with eminent names.
MMEm 10.406 22 If [Mary Moody Emerson's] companion were a little ambitious, and asked her opinions on books or matters on which she did not wish rude hands laid, she did not hesitate to stop the intruder with How's your cat, Mrs. Tenner?
MMEm 10.411 9 In her solitude of twenty years, with fewest books and those only sermons, and a copy of Paradise Lost...[Mary Moody Emerson] was driven to find Nature her companion and solace.
MMEm 10.411 27 I [Mary Moody Emerson] am so small in my expectations, that a week of industry delights. Rose before light every morn; visited from necessity once, and again for books;...
SlHr 10.445 5 [Samuel Hoar] saw what was essential, and refused whatever was not, so that no man embarrassed himself less with a needless array of books and evidences of contingent value.
SlHr 10.445 29 ...of the modern sciences [Samuel Hoar] liked to read popular books on geology.
Thor 10.458 20 On one occasion [Thoreau] went to the University Library to procure some books.
Thor 10.458 23 Mr. Thoreau repaired to the President [of Harvard University], who stated to him the rules and usages, which permitted the loan of books to resident graduates...
Thor 10.459 5 Mr. Thoreau explained to the President [of Harvard University]...that, at this moment, not only his want of books was imperative, but he wanted a large number of books...
Thor 10.459 7 Mr. Thoreau explained to the President [of Harvard University]...that, at this moment, not only his want of books was imperative, but he wanted a large number of books...
Carl 10.489 15 If you would know precisely how [Carlyle] talks, just suppose Hugh Whelan (the gardener) had found leisure enough in addition to all his daily work to read Plato and Shakspeare, Augustine and Calvin, remaining Hugh Whelan all the time, should talk scornfully of all this nonsense of books...
HDC 11.48 24 ...I have set a value upon any symptom of meanness and private pique which I have met with in these antique books [Concord Town Records]...
HDC 11.64 6 Some interesting peculiarities in the manners and customs of the time appear in the town's [Concord's] books.
HDC 11.84 6 These soiled and musty books [the Concord Town Records] are luminous and electric within.
War 11.165 15 We surround ourselves always...with true images of ourselves in things, whether it be ships or books or cannons or churches.
War 11.175 5 ...if the search of the sublime laws of morals and the sources of hope and trust, in man, and not in books, in the present, and not in the past, proceed;...then war has a short day...
FSLC 11.189 26 All arts, customs, societies, books, and laws, are good as they foster and concur with this spiritual element...
ACiv 11.300 18 Neither was anything concealed of the theory or practice of slavery. To what purpose make more big books of these statistics?
HCom 11.340 2 Many loved Truth, and lavished life's best oil/ Amid the dust of books to find her,/ Content at last, for guerdon of their toil,/ With the cast mantle she hath left behind her./
HCom 11.343 25 ...when I consider [Massachusetts's] influence on the country as a principal planter of the Western States, and now, by her teachers, preachers journalists and books...the diffuser of religious, literary and political opinion;...I think the little state bigger than I knew.
EdAd 11.385 16 Our books and fine arts are imitations;...
EdAd 11.386 17 Here are no books, but who can see the continent...without putting new queries to Destiny as to the purpose for which this muster of nations...is made?
RBur 11.441 21 ...[Burns] has endeared...the dear society of weans and wife, of brothers and sisters...finding amends for want and obscurity in books and thoughts.
Scot 11.463 23 ...when we reopen these old books [of Scott's] we all consent to be boys again
Scot 11.465 4 [Scott] apprehended in advance the immense enlargement of the reading public, which almost dates from the era of his books...
Scot 11.465 4 [Scott] apprehended in advance the immense enlargement of the reading public...which his books and Byron's inaugurated;...
CPL 11.497 1 If you consider what has befallen you when reading...a tragedy, or a novel, even, that deeply interested you...you will easily admit the wonderful property of books to make all towns equal...
CPL 11.497 6 Robinson Crusoe, could he have had a shelf of our books, could almost have done without his man Friday...
CPL 11.498 2 The town [Concord] was settled by a pious company of non-conformists from England, and the printed books of their pastor and leader... testify the ardent sentiment which they shared.
CPL 11.499 20 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] writes in her diary...perhaps a greater variety of internal emotions would be felt by remaining with books in one place than pursuing the waves which are ever the same.
CPL 11.500 15 Henry Thoreau we all remember as a man...more widely known as the writer of some of the best books which have been written in this country...
CPL 11.500 27 [Thoreau writes] It is a relief to read some true books wherein all are equally dead, equally alive.
CPL 11.504 9 There is a wonderful agreement among eminent men of all varieties of character and condition in their estimate of books.
CPL 11.504 20 The Duchess d'Abrantes...tells us that Bonaparte...tossed his journals and books out of his travelling carriage as fast as he had read them...
CPL 11.505 20 One curious witness [to the value of reading] was that of a Shaker who, when showing me the houses of the Brotherhood, and a very modest bookshelf, said there was Milton's Paradise Lost, and some other books in the house, and added that he knew where they were, but he took up a sound cross in not reading them.
CPL 11.506 17 In books I have the history or the energy of the past.
CPL 11.507 24 In saying these things for books, I do not for a moment forget that they are secondary...
CPL 11.508 3 Instantly, when the mind itself wakes, all books...are forgotten...
CPL 11.508 8 [Books'] costliest benefit is that they set us free from themselves; for they wake the imagination and the sentiment,-and in their inspirations we dispense with books.
CPL 11.508 14 ...there is no end to the praise of books...
FRep 11.533 16 We import trifles, dancers, singers, laces, books of patterns...
FRep 11.533 22 See the secondariness and aping of foreign and English life, that runs through this country...in eating, in books.
PLT 12.34 7 We feel as if one man wrote all the books...in dark ages;...
II 12.71 5 In the healthy mind, the thought...appears...in art, in books.
II 12.72 12 One master could so easily be conceived as writing all the books of the world.
II 12.80 19 Whence came all these tools, inventions, books, laws, parties, kingdoms?
II 12.88 15 Our books are full of generous biographies of Saints, who knew not that they were such;...
Mem 12.98 23 The facts of the last two or three days or weeks are all you have with you,-the reading of the last month's books.
Mem 12.101 25 Who can judge the new book? He who has read many books.
Mem 12.102 18 ...I would rather have a perfect recollection of all I have thought and felt in a day or a week of high activity than read all the books that have been published in a century.
CInt 12.121 27 There are bad books and false teachers and corrupt judges;...
CInt 12.122 23 We feel as if one man wrote all the books...in dark ages...
CInt 12.124 3 No books, no aids...can compare with [a good teacher].
Bost 12.186 18 New England is a sort of Scotland. 'T is hard to say why. Climate is much; then, old accumulation of the means,-books, schools, colleges, literary society;...
Milt1 12.268 15 ...the invocations of the Eternal Spirit in the commencement of [Milton's] books are not poetic forms, but are thoughts...
ACri 12.286 23 Look at this forlorn caravan of travellers who wander over Europe dumb...condemned to the company of a courier and of the padrone when they cannot take refuge in the society of countrymen. A well-chosen series of stereoscopic views would have served a better purpose, which they can explore at home, sauced...with reference to all the books in your library.
ACri 12.291 24 ...I sometimes wish that the Board of Education might carry out the project of a college for graduates of our universities, to which editors and members of Congress and writers of books might repair, and learn to sink what we could best spare of our words;...
ACri 12.297 13 In [Carlyle's] books the vicious conventions of writing are all dropped.
ACri 12.299 26 After Low Style and Compression what the books call Metonomy is a principal power of rhetoric.
ACri 12.305 2 A clear or natural expression by word or deed is that which we mean when we love and praise the antique. In society I do not find it, in modern books, seldom;...
MLit 12.309 6 When we flout all particular books as initial merely, we truly express the privilege of spiritual nature...
MLit 12.310 24 ...[the library of the Present Age] vents books that breathe of new morning...
MLit 12.310 26 ...[the library of the Present Age] vents...books for which men and women peak and pine;...
MLit 12.310 27 ...[the library of the Present Age] vents...books which take the rose out of the cheek of him that wrote them...
MLit 12.311 16 ...[the Present Age] has all books.
MLit 12.327 13 In these days and in this country...where men read easy books and sleep after dinner, it seems as if no book could so safely be put in the hands of young men as the letters of Goethe, which attest the incessant activity of this man...
WSL 12.340 19 ...when we remember [Landor's] rich and ample page, wherein we are always sure to find...an affluent and ready memory familiar with all chosen books...we wish to thank a benefactor of the reading world.
WSL 12.345 21 ...intellectual, but scornful of books, [character] works directly and without means...
WSL 12.348 17 [Landor's] books are a strange mixture of politics, etymology, allegory, sentiment and personal history;...
EurB 12.368 14 [Wordsworth] once for all forsook the styles and standards and modes of thinking of London and Paris, and the books read there and the aims pursued...
EurB 12.373 15 We are not very well versed in these books [novels]...
PPr 12.390 15 We have been civilizing very fast...and it has not appeared in literature; there has been no analogous expansion and recomposition in books.
Boks 7.189 14 The bookseller might certainly know that his customers are in no respect better for the purchase and consumption of his wares.
MLit 12.319 13 Nothing certifies the prevalence of this [subjective] taste in the people more than the circulation of the poems-one would say most incongruously united by some bookseller-of Coleridge, Shelley and Keats.
ET1 5.17 13 [Carlyle]...recounted the incredible sums paid in one year by the great booksellers for puffing.
ET1 5.17 16 [Carlyle]...recounted the incredible sums paid in one year by the great booksellers for puffing. Hence it comes that...the booksellers are on the eve of bankruptcy.
PI 8.64 2 The poetic gift we want...not bookmaking and bookselling;...
Insp 8.291 26 Perhaps if you were successful abroad in talking and dealing with men, you would not come back to your book-shelf and your task.
CPL 11.505 19 One curious witness [to the value of reading] was that of a Shaker who, when showing me the houses of the Brotherhood, and a very modest bookshelf, said there was Milton's Paradise Lost, and some other books in the house, and added that he knew where they were, but he took up a sound cross in not reading them.
Nat 1.14 6 [The private poor man] goes...to the book-shop, and the human race read and write of all that happens, for him;...
Nat2 3.177 15 ...I suppose that such a gazetteer as wood-cutters and Indians should furnish facts for, would take place in the most sumptuous drawing-rooms of all the Wreaths and Flora's chaplets of the bookshops;...
ET14 5.252 7 Nothing comes to the [English] book-shops but politics, travels, statistics, tabulation and engineering;...
WD 7.175 11 ...that flexile clay of which these old brothers moulded their admirable symbols...was that clay which thou heldest but now in thy foolish hands, and threwest away to go and seek in vain in sepulchres, mummy-pits and old book-shops of Asia Minor, Egypt and England.
FSLC 11.194 15 You can commit no crime, for [men] are created in their sentiments conscious of and hostile to it; and unless you can suppress the newspaper, pass a law against book-shops, gag the English tongue in America, all short of this is futile.
ShP 4.201 25 Elated with success and piqued by the growing interest of the problem, [the antiquaries] have left no bookstall unsearched...so keen was the hope to discover whether the boy Shakspeare poached or not...
AmS 1.89 18 ...instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm.
SL 2.144 8 [A man] is like one of those booms which are set out from the shore on rivers to catch drift-wood...
SS 7.13 2 ...[animal spirits'] feats are like the structure of a pyramid. Their result is a lord, a general, or a boon companion.
Plu 10.298 8 ...[Plutarch] is a chief example of the illumination of the intellect by the force of morals. Though the most amiable of boon companions, this generous religion gives him apercus like Goethe's.
MN 1.202 1 When we have spent our wonder in computing this wasteful hospitality with which boon Nature turns off new firmaments without end into her wide common...one can hardly help asking...whether it be quite worth while to...glut the innocent space with so poor an article.
Imtl 8.349 17 Nachiketas...said, O Death! let Gautama...forget his anger against me: this I choose for the first boon.
Imtl 8.349 19 For the second boon, Nachiketas asks that the fire by which heaven is gained be made known to him;...
Imtl 8.349 22 For the second boon, Nachiketas asks that the fire by which heaven is gained be made known to him; which also Yama allows, and says, Choose the third boon, O Nachiketas!
Imtl 8.350 3 Yama said, For this question [of immortality], it was inquired of old, even by the gods; for it is not easy to understand it. Subtle is its nature. Choose another boon, O Nachiketas!
Imtl 8.350 8 Nachiketas said, Even by the gods was it inquired [concerning immortality]. And as to what thou sayest, O Death, that it is not easy to understand it, there is no other speaker to be found like thee. There is no other boon like this.
Imtl 8.350 13 Yama said [to Nachiketas]...choose the wide expanded earth, and live thyself as many years as thou listeth. if thou knowest a boon like this, choose it, together with wealth and far-extending life.
Imtl 8.351 1 Nachiketas said [to Yama], All those [worldly] enjoyments are of yesterday. With thee remain thy horses and elephants, with thee the dance and song. If we should obtain wealth, we live only as long as thou pleasest. The boon which I choose I have said.
Imtl 8.349 12 Yama, the lord of Death, promised Nachiketas, the son of Gautama, to grant him three boons at his own choice.
Imtl 8.349 27 Nachiketas said [to Yama], there is this inquiry. Some say the soul exists after the death of man; others say it does not exist. This I should like to know, instructed by thee. Such is the third of the boons.
ET13 5.216 13 The [English] clergy obtained respite from labor for the boor on the Sabbath and on church festivals.
ET13 5.216 14 The [English] clergy obtained respite from labor for the boor on the Sabbath and on church festivals. The lord who compelled his boor to labor between sunset on Saturday and sunset on Sunday, forfeited him altogether.
SS 7.12 4 A backwoodsman...told me that when he heard the best-bred young men at the law-school talk together, he reckoned himself a boor; but whenever he caught them apart, and had one to himself alone, then they were the boors and he the better man.
SS 7.12 6 A backwoodsman...told me that when he heard the best-bred young men at the law-school talk together, he reckoned himself a boor; but whenever he...had one to himself alone, then they were the boors and he the better man.
MR 1.244 2 I ought to be armed by every part and function of my household...by my traffic. Yet I am almost no party to any of these things. Custom does it for me...and runs me in debt to boot.
MR 1.250 19 ...we cannot make a planet...by means of the best...engineers' tools, with chemist's laboratory and smith's forge to boot...
CL 12.149 23 [The Indian] goes to a white birch-tree, and can fit his leg with a seamless boot, or a hat for his head.
Aris 10.45 20 Men are born to command, and...come into the world booted and spurred to ride.
DL 7.120 18 ...who can see unmoved...the cautious comparison of the attractive advertisement of the arrival of Macready, Booth or Kemble...with the expense of the entertainment;...
LLNE 10.345 22 [The pilgrim] thought every one should labor at some necessary product, and as soon as he had made more than enough for himself, were it corn, or paper, or cloth, or boot-jacks, he should give of the commodity to any applicant...
Cir 2.315 6 Geoffrey draws on his boots to go through the woods...
ET9 5.146 27 ...so help him God! [the Englishman] will...trample down all nationalities with his taxed boots.
Wsp 6.228 13 ...Philip [Neri] stretched out his leg, all bespattered with mud, and desired [the nun] to draw off his boots.
Bty 6.304 10 My boots and chair and candlestick are fairies in disguise...
Imtl 8.338 18 I do not wish to live to wear out my boots.
SMC 11.367 22 In McClellan's retreat in the Peninsula, in July, 1862, it is all our men can do to draw their feet out of the mud. We marched one mile through mud...a good deal of the way over my boots...
ET1 5.16 22 [Carlyle] had read in Stewart's book that when he inquired in a New York hotel for the Boots, he had been shown across the street and had found Mungo in his own house dining on roast turkey.
Comp 2.120 18 The thoughtless say...What boots it to do well?...
Cir 2.308 5 As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him. Has he talents? has he enterprise? has he knowledge? it boots not.
CL 12.133 5 What boots it here of Thebes or Rome,/ Or lands of Eastern day?/ In forests I am still at home/ And there I cannot stray./
ET1 5.5 1 It is probable you left some obscure comrade...when you crossed sea and land to play bo-peep with celebrated scribes.
MoS 4.164 5 In 1571...Montaigne...retired from the practice of law at Bordeaux...
AKan 11.255 19 The printed letters of border ruffians avow the facts.
EPro 11.323 9 If we had consented to a peaceable secession of the rebels, the divided sentiment of the border states made peaceable secession impossible...
MoL 10.257 21 Battle, with the sword, has cut many a Gordian knot in twain which all the wit of East and West, of Northern and Border statesmen could not untie.
JBB 11.266 5 ...There [John Brown] spoke aloud for Freedom, and the Border strife grew warmer/ Till the Rangers fired his dwelling, in his absence, in the night;/...
SMC 11.356 9 ...when the Border raids were let loose on [Kansas] villages, these people...were so beside themselves with rage, that they became on the instant the bravest soldiers and the most determined avengers.
AKan 11.255 18 The testimony of the telegraphs from St. Louis and the border confirm the worst details.
JBB 11.266 15 Then [John Brown] grasped his trusty rifle, and boldly fought for Freedom;/ Smote from border unto border the fierce invading band/...
EPro 11.323 12 If we had consented to a peaceable secession of the rebels... the slaves on the border, wherever the border might be, were an incessant fuel to rekindle the fire.
PI 8.59 5 [Taliessin says] Of an enemy,--The cauldron of the sea was bordered round by his land, but it would not boil the food of a coward./
LT 1.281 26 Other times have had...a barbarism, domestic or bordering, as their antagonism.
MR 1.230 21 The ways of trade are grown selfish to the borders of theft...
MR 1.230 22 The ways of trade are grown...supple to the borders (if not beyond the borders) of fraud.
ET8 5.140 19 The slow, deep English mass smoulders with fire, which at last sets all its borders in flame.
DL 7.133 3 ...the pulses of thought that go to the borders of the universe, let them proceed from the bosom of the Household.
Elo2 8.112 8 Our community runs through a long scale of mental power, from the highest refinement to the borders of savage ignorance and rudeness.
PPo 8.259 10 [Hafiz] has run through the whole gamut of passion,-from the sacred to the borders, and over the borders, of the profane.
Imtl 8.338 21 On the borders of the grave, the wise man looks forward with equal elasticity of mind, or hope;...
Edc1 10.159 11 Consent yourself to be an organ of your highest thought, and lo! suddenly you...are the fountain of an energy that goes pulsing on with waves of benefit to the borders of society...
Bost 12.207 14 The Massachusetts colony grew and filled its own borders with a denser population than any other American State...
ET3 5.43 11 [Nature said] The sea shall disjoin the people [of England] from others, and knit them to a fierce nationality. It shall give them markets on every side. Long time I will keep them on their feet, by poverty, border-wars... seafaring...
UGM 4.27 10 Every hero becomes a bore at last.
EurB 12.369 13 ...the Court Journals and Literary Gazettes were not well pleased, and voted the poet [Wordsworth] a bore.
EurB 12.377 26 [The Vivian Greys]...could write an Iliad any rainy morning, if fame were not such a bore.
MN 1.196 3 Here comes by a great inquisitor with auger and plumb-line, and will bore an Artesian well through our conventions and theories...
Con 1.315 12 ...[Friar Bernard]...talked with gentle mothers with their babes at their breasts, who told him how much love they bore their children...
Tran 1.354 13 ...it will please us to reflect that though we had few virtues or consolations, we bore with our indigence...
SwM 4.131 13 ...a bird does not more readily weave its nest, or a mole bore into the ground, than this seer of the souls [Swedenborg] substructs a new hell and pit...round each new crew of offenders.
ShP 4.217 3 Shakspeare, Homer, Dante, Chaucer...knew that a tree had another use than for apples...and the ball of the earth, than for tillage and roads: that these things bore a second and finer harvest to the mind...
Wth 6.83 6 Wings of what wind the lichen bore,/ Wafting the puny seeds of power,/ Which, lodged in rock, the rock abrade?/
SS 7.3 4 I fell in with a humorist on my travels, who had in his chamber a cast of the Rondanini Medusa, and who assured me that the name which that fine work of art bore in the catalogues was a misnomer...
Plu 10.316 15 When the guests are gone, [Plutarch] would leave one lamp burning, only as a sign of the respect he bore to fires...
EzRy 10.391 4 Ingratitude and meanness in [Ezra Ripley's] beneficiaries did not wear out his compassion; he bore the insult...
HDC 11.45 10 [The settlers of Concord] bore to John Winthrop, the Governor, a grave but hearty kindness.
HDC 11.67 13 ...Mr. [Daniel] Bliss replied...I...used the word Mediator in some differing light from that you have given it; but I confess I was soon uneasy that I had used the word, lest some would put a wrong meaning thereupon. The Council...bore witness to his purity and fidelity in his office.
FSLC 11.210 6 Let [the United States] confront this mountain of poison [slavery],-bore, blast, excavate, pulverize, and shovel it once for all, down into the bottomless Pit.
AsSu 11.249 16 [Charles Sumner] meekly bore the cold shoulder from some of his New England colleagues...
TPar 11.292 13 ...you [Theodore Parker] will already be consoled in the transfer of your genius, knowing well that the nature of the world will affirm...that which for twenty-five years you valiantly spoke;...that the sea which bore your mourners home affirms it...
Milt1 12.270 1 My mother bore me, [Milton] said, a speaker of what God made mine own, and not a translator.
Insp 8.288 8 Perhaps you can recall a delight like [the swell of an Aeolian harp], which spoke to the eye, when you have stood by a lake in the woods in summer, and saw where little flaws of wind whip spots or patches of still water into fleets of ripples,-so sudden, so slight, so spiritual, that it was more like the rippling of the Aurora Borealis at night than any spectacle of day.