Come to Comings
come, v. (617)
Nat 1.7 6
The rays that come from those heavenly worlds will separate
between [a man] and what he touches.
Nat 1.7 16
...every night come out these envoys of beauty...
Nat 1.17 25
...the air had so much life and sweetness that it was a pain to
come within doors.
Nat 1.20 20
...when Leonidas and his three hundred martyrs consume one
day in dying, and the sun and moon come each and look at them once...are
not these heroes entitled to add the beauty of the scene to the beauty of the
deed?
Nat 1.35 16
By degrees we may come to know the primitive sense of the
permanent objects of nature...
Nat 1.63 20
...when...we come to inquire, Whence is matter? and Whereto?
many truths arise to us...
Nat 1.75 23
So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes.
Nat 1.75 27
Then shall come to pass what my poet said...
AmS 1.81 14
Perhaps the time is already come when [our holiday] ought to
be, and will be, something else;...
AmS 1.82 13
Year by year we come up hither to read one more chapter of
[the American Scholar's] biography.
AmS 1.91 16
...when the intervals of darkness come, as come they must...
we repair to the lamps...to guide our steps to the East again, where the dawn
is.
AmS 1.100 2
...out of terrible Druids and Berserkers come at last Alfred
and Shakspeare.
AmS 1.105 4
It is a mischievous notion that we are come late into nature;...
AmS 1.108 7
...we have come up with the point of view which the universal
mind took through the eyes of one scribe;...
AmS 1.113 22
Help must come from the bosom alone.
AmS 1.115 4
...if the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts,
and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.
DSA 1.120 16
Behold these out-running laws, which our imperfect
apprehension can see tend this way and that, but not come full circle.
DSA 1.129 11
The understanding...said...This was Jehovah come down out
of heaven...
DSA 1.134 8
Men have come to speak of the revelation as somewhat long
ago given and done...
DSA 1.136 8
...this moaning of the heart because it is bereaved of the
consolation...the grandeur that come alone out of the culture of the moral
nature, - should be heard...
DSA 1.138 24
It seemed strange that the people should come to church.
DSA 1.140 15
...can [the poor preacher] ask a fellow-creature to come to
Sabbath meetings...
DSA 1.143 14
What was once a mere circumstance, that...the young and
old, should meet one day as fellows in one house...has come to be a
paramount motive for going thither.
DSA 1.146 4
...the imitator...bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come
short of another man's.
DSA 1.147 14
We easily come up to the standard of goodness in society.
DSA 1.151 17
I look for the new Teacher that shall follow so far those
shining laws that he shall see them come full circle;...
LE 1.159 12
...the new man must feel that he...has not come into the world
mortgaged to the opinions and usages of Europe...
LE 1.159 27
...now our day is come;...
LE 1.162 10
...you must come to know that each admirable genius is but a
successful diver in that sea whose floor of pearls is all your own.
LE 1.171 7
This starting, this warping of the best literary works from the
adamant of nature, is especially observable in philosophy. Let it take what
tone of pretension it will, to this complexion must it come, at last.
LE 1.174 12
Do not go into solitude only that you may presently come into
public.
LE 1.176 8
Come now, let us go and be dumb.
LE 1.180 24
...when all tactics had come to an end then [Napoleon]
dilated...
MN 1.194 4
...come forth, thou curious child!...
MN 1.196 9
...if you come month after month to see what progress our
reformer has made,-not an inch has he pierced...
MN 1.207 27
Did [a man] not come into being because something must be
done which he and no other is and does?
MN 1.223 2
Who shall dare think he has come late into nature...who seeth
the admirable stars of possibility...glittering...in the vast West?
MR 1.233 16
...all such ingenuous souls...who by the law of their nature
must act simply, find these ways of trade unfit for them, and they come
forth from it.
MR 1.256 7
There is a sublime prudence which is the very highest that we
know of man, which...sure of more to come than is yet seen,-postpones
always the present hour to the whole life;...
MR 1.256 24
...the time will come when we too shall hold nothing back...
LT 1.261 17
The reason and influence of wealth...the fuller development
and the freer play of Character as a social and political agent;-these and
other related topics will in turn come to be considered.
LT 1.264 17
In the brain of a fanatic; in the wild hope of a mountain boy...
is to be found that which shall constitute the times to come...
LT 1.278 20
I must get with truth, though I should never come to act, as
you call it, with effect.
LT 1.286 22
We have come to that which is the spring of all power...
Con 1.297 16
This [fable of Saturn and Uranus] may stand for the earliest
account of a conversation on politics between a Conservative and a Radical
which has come down to us.
Con 1.302 4
For the present...to come at what sum is attainable to us, we
must even hear the parties plead as parties.
Con 1.306 23
Touch any wood, or field, or house-lot, on your peril, cry all
the gentlemen of this world; but you may come and work in ours, for us,
and we will give you a piece of bread.
Con 1.311 1
...if in any one respect [existing institutions] have come short,
see what ample retribution of good they have made.
Con 1.312 22
Providence takes care...that you are waited for, and come
accredited;...
Con 1.325 16
...if I...become idle and dissolute, I quickly come to love the
protection of a strong law...
Tran 1.340 6
...Immanuel Kant...replied to the skeptical philosophy of
Locke...by showing that there was a very important class of ideas or
imperative forms, which did not come by experience, but through which
experience was acquired;...
Tran 1.346 16
[A man] ought to be...a great influence...so that though
absent...if...my last hour were come, his name should be the prayer I should
utter to the Universe.
Tran 1.351 12
If no call should come for years, for centuries, then I know
that the want of the Universe is the attestation of faith by my abstinence.
Tran 1.351 17
I know that which shall come will cheer me.
Tran 1.351 27
...to come a little closer to the secret of these persons, we
must say that to [Transcendentalists] it seems a very easy matter to answer
the objections of the man of the world...
YA 1.370 14
...I think we must regard the land as...the sanative and
Americanizing influence. which promises to disclose new virtues for ages
to come.
YA 1.376 22
...this club of noblemen always come at last to have a will of
their own;...
Hist 2.27 19
Rare, extravagant spirits come by us at intervals...
Hist 2.28 1
Jesus astonishes and overpowers sensual people. They cannot
unite him to history, or reconcile him with themselves. As they come to
revere their intuitions and aspire to live holily, their own piety explains
every fact...
Hist 2.31 12
When the gods come among men, they are not known.
Hist 2.32 26
In splendid variety these changes come...
SR 2.45 24
...[our rejected thoughts] come back to us with a certain
alienated majesty.
SR 2.46 16
...no kernel of nourishing corn can come to [man] but through
his toil...
SR 2.55 15
We come to wear one cut of face and figure...
SR 2.57 12
...when the devout motions of the soul come, yield to them
heart and life...
SR 2.62 9
To [the man in the street] a palace, a statue, or a costly book...
seem to say...Who are you, Sir? Yet they all are...petitioners to his faculties
that they will come out to take possession.
SR 2.68 4
...when [children] come into the point of view which those had
who uttered these sayings, they understand them...
SR 2.72 8
Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at
once at thy closet door and say,-Come out unto us.
SR 2.72 9
...come not into their confusion.
SR 2.72 12
No man can come near me but through my act.
SR 2.77 12
Prayer...asks for some foreign addition to come through some
foreign virtue...
SR 2.78 13
We come to them who weep foolishly...
SR 2.87 22
Men...have come to esteem the religious, learned and civil
institutions as guards of property...
Comp 2.108 19
The name and circumstance of Phidias...embarrass when
we come to the highest criticism.
Comp 2.113 1
[The borrower] may soon come to see that he had better
have broken his own bones than to have ridden in his neighbor's coach...
Comp 2.119 7
...honest service cannot come to loss.
Comp 2.121 17
...[the criminal]...does not come to a crisis or judgment
anywhere in visible nature.
Comp 2.125 19
We do not see that [our angels] only go out that archangels
may come in.
SL 2.135 21
When we come out of the caucus...[nature] says to us, So hot?
my little Sir.
SL 2.136 11
Why should all give dollars? It is very inconvenient to us
country folk, and we do not think any good will come of it.
SL 2.143 22
The goods of fortune may come and go like summer leaves;...
SL 2.146 2
...a man may come to find that the strongest of defences and of
ties,--that he has been understood;...
SL 2.146 5
...a man may come to find that the strongest of defences and of
ties,--that he has been understood; and he who has received an opinion may
come to find it the most inconvenient of bonds.
SL 2.150 22
...a person of related mind...comes to us...so nearly and
intimately, as if it were the blood in our proper veins, that we feel as if
some one was gone, instead of another having come;...
SL 2.153 19
That statement only is fit to be made public which you have
come at in attempting to satisfy your own curiosity.
SL 2.154 10
Only those books come down which deserve to last.
SL 2.154 21
...to every generation [Plato's works] come duly down...
SL 2.160 21
Let [your friend] feel that the highest love has come to see
him, in thee its lowest organ.
SL 2.163 14
I will not meanly decline the immensity of good, because I
have heard that it has come to others in another shape.
Fdsp 2.194 17
My friends have come to me unsought.
Fdsp 2.197 21
Thou [my friend] hast come to me lately...
Fdsp 2.200 21
Respect the naturlangsamkeit which...works in duration in
which Alps and Andes come and go as rainbows.
Fdsp 2.207 5
You shall have very useful and cheering discourse at several
times with two several men, but let all three of you come together and you
shall not have one new and hearty word.
Fdsp 2.209 23
To a great heart [your friend] will still be a stranger in a
thousand particulars, that he may come near in the holiest ground.
Fdsp 2.212 10
You shall not come nearer a man by getting into his house.
Fdsp 2.214 22
[A friend] is the child of all my foregoing hours, the prophet
of those to come...
Fdsp 2.215 15
It would...give me a certain household joy to...come down to
warm sympathies with you;...
Fdsp 2.215 22
...if you come, perhaps you will fill my mind only with new
visions;...
Prd1 2.236 1
When [a man] sees a folded and sealed scrap of paper float
round the globe in a pine ship and come safe to the eye for which it was
written...let him likewise feel the admonition to integrate his being across
all these distracting forces...
Prd1 2.238 18
...calculation might come to value love for its profit.
Prd1 2.240 5
We refuse sympathy and intimacy with people, as if we
waited for some better sympathy and intimacy to come.
Hsm1 2.248 14
...if we explore the literature of Heroism we shall quickly
come to Plutarch...
Hsm1 2.257 21
...here we are; and, if we will tarry a little, we may come to
learn that here is best.
Hsm1 2.259 27
Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas.
OS 2.268 17
When I watch that flowing river, which, out of regions I see
not, pours for a season its streams into me, I see that...from some alien
energy the visions come.
OS 2.272 16
...the walls of time and space have come to look real and
insurmountable;...
OS 2.273 9
...produce a volume of Plato or Shakspeare...and instantly we
come into a feeling of longevity.
OS 2.276 11
In ascending to this primary and aboriginal sentiment we have
come from our remote station on the circumference instantaneously to the
centre of the world...
OS 2.276 27
...these other souls, these separated selves, draw me as nothing
else can. They stir in me the new emotions we call passion;...thence come
conversation, competition, persuasion, cities and war.
OS 2.286 13
Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left
open...
OS 2.294 5
...every byword that belongs to thee for aid or comfort, will
surely come home through open or winding passages.
OS 2.295 6
When I sit in that presence [of God], who shall dare to come in?
OS 2.296 26
[The soul saith] More and more the surges of everlasting
nature enter into me, and I become public and human in my regards and
actions. So come I to live in thoughts and act with energies which are
immortal.
OS 2.297 2
...man will come to see that the world is the perennial miracle
which the soul worketh...
Cir 2.308 3
As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all
over with him.
Int 2.326 25
All that mass of mental and moral phenomena which we do
not make objects of voluntary thought, come within the power of fortune;...
Int 2.328 1
...this native law remains over [the mind] after it has come to
reflection or conscious thought.
Int 2.328 15
You cannot with your best deliberation and heed come so
close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you...
Int 2.331 27
It seems as if we needed only the stillness and composed
attitude of the library to seize the thought. But we come in, and are as far
from it as at first.
Int 2.338 9
...when we write with ease and come out into the free air of
thought, we seem to be assured that nothing is easier than to continue this
communication at pleasure.
Art1 2.351 16
...[the painter] will come to value the expression of nature
and not nature itself...
Art1 2.361 17
[At Naples] I...said to myself--Thou foolish child, hast thou
come out hither...to find that which was perfect to thee there at home?
Art1 2.363 7
Art has not yet come to its maturity if it do not put itself
abreast with the most potent influences of the world...
Art1 2.367 23
Beauty must come back to the useful arts...
Art1 2.368 5
Beauty will not come at the call of a legislature...
Art1 2.368 7
[Beauty] will come, as always, unannounced...
Pt1 3.4 5
Theologians think it a pretty air-castle to talk of the spiritual
meaning...of a city or a contract, but they prefer to come again to the solid
ground of historical evidence;...
Pt1 3.5 23
...the great majority of men seem to be minors, who have not yet
come into possession of their own...
Pt1 3.18 12
We are far from having exhausted the significance of the few
symbols we use. We can come to use them yet with a terrible simplicity.
Pt1 3.23 13
...when the soul of the poet has come to ripeness of thought,
[nature] detaches and sends away from it its poems or songs...
Pt1 3.26 6
This insight, which expresses itself by what is called
Imagination, is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study...
Pt1 3.29 18
That spirit which suffices quiet hearts, which seems to come
forth to such from every dry knoll of sere grass...comes forth to the poor
and hungry...
Pt1 3.30 8
We are like persons who come out of a cave or cellar into the
open air.
Pt1 3.33 16
The inaccessibleness of every thought but that we are in, is
wonderful. What if you come near to it; you are as remote when you are
nearest as when you are farthest.
Pt1 3.33 25
[The poet] unlocks our chains and admits us to a new scene.
This emancipation is dear to all men, and the power to impart it, as it must
come from greater depth and scope of thought, is a measure of intellect.
Pt1 3.38 25
Art is the path of the creator to his work. The paths or methods
are ideal and eternal, though few men ever see them; not the artist himself
for years, or for a lifetime, unless he come into the conditions.
Pt1 3.40 23
All the creatures by pairs and by tribes pour into [the poet's]
mind as into a Noah's ark, to come forth again to people a new world.
Exp 3.48 19
Was it Boscovich who found out that bodies never come in
contact?
Exp 3.54 4
Shall I preclude my future by...kindly adapting my conversation
to the shape of heads? When I come to that, the doctors shall buy me for a
cent.
Exp 3.54 20
On this platform [of science] one lives in a sty of sensualism,
and would soon come to suicide.
Exp 3.57 5
A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no lustre as you
turn it in your hand until you come to a particular angle;...
Exp 3.58 2
The plays of children are nonsense, but very educative
nonsense. So it is with the largest and solemnest things...and so with the
history of every man's bread, and the ways by which he is to come by it.
Exp 3.64 10
[Nature's] darlings, the great, the strong, the beautiful...do not
come out of the Sunday School...
Exp 3.64 17
We must set up the strong present tense against all the rumors
of wrath, past or to come.
Exp 3.68 5
All good conversation, manners and action come from a
spontaneity which forgets usages...
Exp 3.69 21
The persons who compose our company...come and go...and
somewhat comes of it all, but an unlooked-for result.
Exp 3.77 25
Two human beings are like globes, which can touch only in a
point, and whilst they remain in contact all other points of each of the
spheres are inert; their turn must also come...
Exp 3.79 11
If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal?
Exp 3.82 2
A wise and hardy physician will say, Come out of that, as the
first condition of advice.
Chr1 3.91 10
[The people] cannot come at their ends by sending to
Congress a learned, acute and fluent speaker, if he be not one who, before
he was appointed by the people to represent them, was appointed by
Almighty God to stand for a fact...
Chr1 3.103 22
...when [your friends]...must suspend their judgment for
years to come, you may begin to hope.
Mrs1 3.130 3
...come from year to year and see how permanent [the
distinction of caste or fashion] is, in this Boston or New York life of man...
Mrs1 3.134 17
I may go into a cottage, and find a farmer who feels that he
is the man I have come to see...
Gts 3.160 9
If a man should send to me to come a hundred miles to visit
him and should set before me a basket of fine summer-fruit, I should think
there was some proportion between the labor and the reward.
Nat2 3.170 5
Here [in the forest] we find Nature to be the circumstance
which...judges like a god all men that come to her.
Nat2 3.171 3
We come to our own [in the woods]...
Nat2 3.173 26
He who knows the most; he who knows what sweets and
virtues are in the ground, the waters, the plants, the heavens, and how to
come at these enchantments,--is the rich and royal man.
Nat2 3.180 9
Now we learn what patient periods must round themselves
before the rock is formed; then before the rock is broken, and the first
lichen race has disintegrated the thinnest external plate into soil, and
opened the door for the remote Flora, Fauna, Ceres, and Pomona to come in.
Nat2 3.180 14
It is a long way from granite to the oyster; farther yet to
Plato and the preaching of the immortality of the soul. Yet all must come,
as surely as the first atom has two sides.
Nat2 3.182 2
...no doubt when [the maples and ferns] come to
consciousness they too will curse and swear.
Nat2 3.182 4
Flowers so strictly belong to youth that we adult men soon
come to feel that their beautiful generations concern not us...
Nat2 3.186 24
...[the vegetable life] fills the air and earth with a prodigality
of seeds...that hundreds may come up...
Nat2 3.191 17
...it was known that men of thought and virtue...could lose
good time whilst the room was getting warm in winter days. Unluckily, in
the exertions necessary to remove these inconveniences...to remove friction
has come to be the end.
Pol1 3.197 25
When the Church is social worth,/ When the state-house is
the hearth,/ Then the perfect State is come,/ The republican at home./
Pol1 3.214 9
...whenever I find my dominion over myself not sufficient for
me, and undertake the direction of [my neighbor] also, I...come into false
relations to him.
NR 3.227 19
...if an angel should come to chant the chorus of the moral
law, he would eat too much gingerbread...
NR 3.227 26
...[a man with fine traits] cannot come near without appearing
a cripple.
NR 3.237 5
We like to come to a height of land and see the landscape...
NR 3.242 1
...there is somewhat spheral and infinite in every man...which,
if you can come very near him, sports with all your limitations.
NR 3.242 20
...the points come in succession to the meridian...
NER 3.257 14
...we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms,
for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind...
NER 3.259 22
If the physician, the lawyer, the divine, never use [Greek
and Latin] to come at their ends, I need never learn it to come at mine.
NER 3.259 23
If the physician, the lawyer, the divine, never use [Greek
and Latin] to come at their ends, I need never learn it to come at mine.
NER 3.262 26
If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false
sentiment I could never stay there five minutes. But why come out? the
street is as false as the church...
NER 3.274 7
[Souls of great vigor] feel the poverty at the bottom of all the
seeming affluence of the world. They know the speed with which they
come straight through the thin masquerade...
NER 3.277 2
...every man at heart...wishes to be convicted of his error, and
to come to himself...
NER 3.277 21
...surely the greatest good fortune that could befall me is
precisely to be so moved by you that I should say, Take me and all mine,
and use me and mine freely to your ends! for I could not say it otherwise
than because a great enlargement had come to my heart and mind...
NER 3.283 16
...[men] believe...that right is done at last; or chaos would
come.
UGM 4.10 3
A magnet must be made man in some...Oersted, before the
general mind can come to entertain its powers.
UGM 4.11 20
The reason why [man] knows about [things] is that he is of
them; he has just come out of nature, or from being a part of that thing.
UGM 4.29 12
If we huff and chide [children] they soon come not to mind
it...
UGM 4.31 21
...if any appear never to assume the chair, but always to
stand and serve, it is because we do not see the company in a sufficiently
long period for the whole rotation of parts to come about.
UGM 4.34 23
We have never come at the true and best benefit of any
genius so long as we believe him an original force.
PPh 4.39 11
Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated
among men of thought.
PPh 4.41 13
...wherever we find a man higher by a whole head than any of
his contemporaries, it is sure to come into doubt what are his real works.
PPh 4.43 3
Every man who would do anything well, must come to it from a
higher ground.
PPh 4.50 8
What is the great end of all [said Krishna], you shall now learn
from me. It is soul...in time past, present and to come.
PPh 4.58 3
...the anecdotes that have come down from the times attest
[Plato's] manly interference before the people in his master's behalf...
PPh 4.68 2
Plato...saw the enlargement and nobility which come from truth
itself and good itself...
PPh 4.76 13
...[Plato's] writings have not...the vital authority which...the
sermons of unlettered Arabs and Jews possess. There is an interval; and to
cohesion, contact is necessary. I know not what can be said in reply to this
criticism but that we have come to a fact in the nature of things: an oak is
not an orange.
SwM 4.97 11
All religious history contains traces of the trance of saints...
The trances of Socrates...Swedenborg, will readily come to mind.
SwM 4.110 4
Astronomy is excellent; but it must come up into life to have
its full value...
SwM 4.125 14
[To Swedenborg] We have come into a world which is a
living poem.
SwM 4.133 20
All [Swedenborg's] interlocutors Swedenborgize. Be they
who they may, to this complexion must they come at last.
SwM 4.137 11
[Swedenborg] is...like Montaigne's parish priest, who, if a
hail-storm passes over the village, thinks the day of doom is come...
MoS 4.155 25
If you come near [the studious classes] and see what conceits
they entertain,--they are abstractionists...
MoS 4.158 18
It is from the poor man's hut alone that strength and virtue
come...
MoS 4.159 7
Come, no chimeras!
MoS 4.170 12
We are persuaded that a thread runs through all things...and
men, and events, and life, come to us only because of that thread...
MoS 4.178 11
...we may come to accept it as the fixed rule and theory of
our state of education, that God is a substance, and his method is illusion.
MoS 4.181 21
Charitable souls come with their projects and ask [the
spiritualist's] co-operation.
ShP 4.189 10
...seeing what men want and sharing their desire, [the hero]
adds the needful length of sight and of arm, to come at the desired point.
ShP 4.198 11
It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature, that a
man having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled
thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.
ShP 4.206 5
We tell the chronicle of parentage...celebrity, death; and when
we have come to an end of this gossip, no ray of relation appears between it
and the goddess-born;...
ShP 4.209 3
We have [Shakespeare's] recorded convictions on those
questions which knock for answer at every heart...on the prizes of life and
the ways whereby we come at them;...
NMW 4.233 26
[Napoleon] would shorten a straight line to come at his
object.
NMW 4.242 15
...a day of expansion and demand was come [in France].
GoW 4.268 8
This disparagement [of speculative thought] will not come
from the leaders, but from inferior persons.
GoW 4.270 19
[Goethe] appears at a time...when...a social comfort and
cooperation have come in.
ET1 5.17 21
[Carlyle] still returned to English pauperism...the selfish
abdication by public men of all that public persons should perform.
Government should direct poor men what to do. Poor Irish folk come
wandering over these moors. My dame makes it a rule to give to every son
of Adam bread to eat...
ET1 5.23 5
...recollecting myself, that I had come thus far to see a poet and
he was chanting poems to me, I saw that [Wordsworth] was right and I was
wrong...
ET2 5.30 20
...here on the second day of our voyage, stepped out a little
boy in his shirt-sleeves, who had hid himself whilst the ship was in port...
having no money and wishing to go to England. The sailors have dressed
him in Guernsey frock...and he...likes the work first-rate, and if the captain
will take him, means now to come back again in the ship.
ET4 5.51 18
In the impossibility of arriving at satisfaction on the historical
question of race, and--come of whatever disputable ancestry--the
indisputable Englishman before me...I fancied I could leave quite aside the
choice of a tribe as his lineal progenitors...
ET4 5.52 27
...what we think of when we talk of English traits really
narrows itself to a small district. It...reduces itself at last to London, that is,
to those who come and go thither.
ET4 5.55 20
The English come mainly from the Germans...
ET4 5.56 21
The men who have built a ship and invented the rig, cordage,
sail, compass and pump;...have acquired much more than a ship. Now arm
them and every shore is at their mercy. ... Of course they come into the
fight from a higher ground of power than the land-nations;...
ET4 5.72 6
[The English] come honestly by their horsemanship...
ET5 5.74 7
...the Norman has come popularly to represent in England the
aristocratic, and the Saxon the democratic principle.
ET5 5.78 11
The English game is main force to main force...till one or both
come to pieces.
ET5 5.98 16
Man in England submits to be a product of political economy.
On a bleak moor a mill is built...and men come in as water in a sluice-way...
ET6 5.114 10
Hither [to an English dress-dinner] come all manner of clever
projects...
ET7 5.121 9
[The English]...cannot easily change their opinions to suit the
hour. They are like ships with too much head on to come quickly about...
ET8 5.130 23
Take them as they come, you shall find in the common
[English] people a surly indifference, sometimes gruffness and ill temper;...
ET10 5.154 17
...I found the two disgraces in [Wood's Athenae
Oxonienses]...are, first, disloyalty to Church and State, and, second, to be
born poor, or come to poverty.
ET10 5.167 24
...in these crises [of political enconomy] all are ruined
except such as are proper individuals, capable of...the application of their
talent to new labor. Then again come in new calamities.
ET10 5.171 2
...it has come that not the aims of a manly life, but the means
of meeting a certain ponderous expense, is that which is considered by a
youth in England emerging from his minority.
ET11 5.172 12
Many of the [English] halls...are beautiful desolations. The
proprietor never saw them, or never lived in them. Primogeniture built these
sumptuous piles, and I suppose it is the sentiment of every traveller...It was
well to come ere these were gone.
ET11 5.174 10
English history is aristocracy with the doors open. Who has
courage and faculty, let him come in.
ET11 5.181 7
Evelyn writes from Blois, in 1644: The wolves are here in
such numbers, that they often come and take children out of the streets;...
ET11 5.183 25
...with such interests at stake, how can these men [English
peers] afford to neglect them? O, replied my friend, why should they work
for themselves when every man in England...will suffer before they come to
harm?
ET13 5.220 20
The spirit that dwelt in this [English] church has glided
away to animate other activities, and they who come to the old shrines find
apes and players rustling the old garments.
ET13 5.220 25
When you see on the continent the well-dressed Englishman
come into his ambassador's chapel and put his face for silent prayer into his
smooth-brushed hat, you cannot help feeling how much national pride prays
with him...
ET13 5.223 9
...[the English clergyman] entertains your thought or your
project with sympathy and praise. But if a second clergyman come in, the
sympathy is at an end...
ET15 5.272 24
...[if the London Times would cleave to the right] it would
have the authority which is claimed for that dream of good men not yet
come to pass...
ET16 5.278 13
I, who had just come from Professor Sedgwick's
Cambridge Museum of megatheria and mastodons, was ready to maintain
that some cleverer elephants or mylodonta had borne off and laid these
rocks [of Stonehenge] one on another.
ET17 5.297 2
A gentleman in the neighborhood told the story of Walter
Scott's staying once for a week with Wordsworth, and slipping out every
day...to the Swan Inn for a cold cut and porter; and one day passing with
Wordsworth the inn, he was betrayed by the landlord's asking him if he had
come for his porter.
ET18 5.301 23
In Magna Charta it was ordained that all merchants shall
have safe and secure conduct to go out and come into England...
ET19 5.310 20
...these things are not for me to say; these compliments,
though true, would better come from one who felt and understood these
merits more.
ET19 5.312 7
I seem to hear you say, that for all that is come and gone yet,
we will not reduce by one chaplet or one oak-leaf the braveries of our
annual feast.
ET19 5.312 18
...I was given to understand in my childhood...that
[Englishmen's] virtues did not come out until they quarrelled;...
F 6.3 19
In our first steps to gain our wishes we come upon immovable
limitations.
F 6.12 19
...with high magnifiers...Dr. Carpenter might come to distinguish
in the embryo...this is a Whig...
F 6.25 21
If the air come to our lungs, we breathe and live;...
F 6.25 22
If the light come to our eyes, we see; else not.
F 6.25 23
...if truth come to our mind we suddenly expand to its
dimensions...
F 6.27 11
...though we sleep, our dream will come to pass.
F 6.31 8
...in politics, [men] think they come under another [dominion];...
F 6.39 10
...new men come.
F 6.44 11
The men who come on the stage at one period are all found to be
related to each other.
F 6.46 5
...if the soule of proper kind/ Be so parfite as men find,/ That it
wot what is to come,/ And that he warneth all and some/ Of everiche of hir
aventures/...
Pow 6.57 1
[A strong pulse] is like the opportunity of a city like New York
or Constantinople, which needs no diplomacy to force capital or genius or
labor to it. They come of themselves, as the waters flow to it.
Pow 6.69 3
The roisters who are destined for infamy at home, if sent to
Mexico will...come back heroes and generals.
Pow 6.81 22
Let a man dare go to a loom and see if he be equal to it. Let
machine confront machine, and see how they come out.
Wth 6.91 27
The world is full of fops...and these will deliver the fop
opinion...that it is much more respectable to spend without earning; and this
doctrine of the snake will come also from the elect sons of light;...
Wth 6.101 17
Political Economy is as good a book wherein to read...the
ascendency of laws over all private and hostile influences, as any Bible
which has come down to us.
Wth 6.110 12
...in the artificial system of society and of protected labor,
which we...have adopted and enlarged, there come presently checks and
stoppages.
Wth 6.118 11
It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize
drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently
enrich. They have served no apprenticeship to wealth, and with the rapid
wealth come rapid claims which they do not know how to deny...
Ctr 6.133 11
...we have seen children who finding themselves of no
account when grown people come in, will cough until they choke, to draw
attention.
Ctr 6.136 15
Bring any club or company of intelligent men together again
after ten years, and if the presence of some penetrating and calming genius
could dispose them to frankness, what a confession of insanities would
come up!
Ctr 6.153 11
[The countryman in the city] has come among a supple, glib-tongued
tribe...
Ctr 6.160 21
There is a certain loftiness of thought and power to marshal
and adjust particulars, which can only come from an insight of their whole
connection.
Ctr 6.160 24
The orator who has once seen things in their divine order...
will come to affairs as from a higher ground...
Ctr 6.163 1
If there is any great and good thing in store for you, it will not
come at the first or the second call...
Ctr 6.166 5
...the age of the brain and of the heart is to come in.
Ctr 6.166 5
The time will come when the evil forms we have known can no
more be organized.
Bhr 6.171 1
We send girls of a timid, retreating disposition...to the ball-room,
or wheresoever they can come into acquaintance and nearness of
leading persons of their own sex;...
Bhr 6.173 25
In the hotels on the banks of the Mississippi they print...that
No gentleman can be permitted to come to the public table without his
coat;...
Bhr 6.179 4
...[eyes]...intrude, and come again...
Bhr 6.183 3
There are people who come in ever like a child with a piece of
good news.
Bhr 6.185 7
Here come the sentimentalists, and the invalids.
Bhr 6.187 27
'T is hard to keep the what from breaking through this pretty
painting of the how. The core will come to the surface.
Bhr 6.189 23
...go into the house; if the proprietor is constrained and
deferring, 't is of no importance...how beautiful his grounds,--you quickly
come to the end of all...
Bhr 6.196 25
Come out of the azure.
Bhr 6.196 27
The oldest and the most deserving person should come very
modestly into any newly awaked company...
Bhr 6.197 3
The oldest and the most deserving person should come very
modestly into any newly awaked company, respecting the divine
communications out of which all must be presumed to have newly come.
Bhr 6.197 6
An old man...said to me, When you come into the room, I
think I will study how to make humanity beautiful to you.
Wsp 6.203 12
...as [the Shakers] go with perfect sympathy to their tasks in
the field or shop, so are they inclined for a ride or a journey at the same
instant, and the horses come up with the family carriage unbespoken to the
door.
Wsp 6.216 3
What a day dawns when we...have come to know that justice
will be done to us;...
Wsp 6.223 3
From these low external penalties the scale ascends. Next
come the resentments, the fears which injustice calls out;...
Wsp 6.235 22
When I went abroad [said Benedict], I kept company with
every man on the road, for I knew that my evil and my good did not come
from these...
Wsp 6.236 1
If the thought come, I would give it entertainment [said
Benedict].
Wsp 6.236 3
[Benedict said] if [the thought] come not spontaneously, it
comes not rightly at all.
Wsp 6.236 8
If [the thought] can spare me [said Benedict], I am sure I can
spare it. It shall be the same with my friends. I will never woo the loveliest.
I will not ask any friendship or favor. When I come to my own, we shall
both know it.
Wsp 6.237 13
In the Shakers...I find one piece of belief, in the doctrine
which they faithfully hold that encourages them to open their doors to every
wayfaring man who proposes to come among them;...
Wsp 6.239 13
Immortality will come to such as are fit for it...
Wsp 6.241 13
There will be a new church founded on moral science;...the
church of men to come...
CbW 6.246 18
...it is only as [a man]...draws on this most private wisdom,
that any good can come to him.
CbW 6.250 23
The more difficulty there is in creating good men, the more
they are used when they come.
CbW 6.252 16
To say then, the majority are wicked, means...simply that
the majority...have not yet come to themselves...
CbW 6.256 6
...out of Sabine rapes, and out of robbers' forays, real Romes
and their heroisms come in fulness of time.
CbW 6.259 26
...all great men come out of the middle classes.
CbW 6.261 23
...send [a rich man]...to Oregon; and if he have true faculty,
this may be the element he wants, and he will come out of it with broader
wisdom and manly power.
CbW 6.271 20
...if one comes who can...show [men]...what gifts they
have...then we come out of our egg-shell existence into the great dome...
CbW 6.271 24
...if one comes who can...show [men]...what gifts they
have...then...we see the zenith over and the nadir under us. Instead of the
tanks and buckets of knowledge to which we are daily confined, we come
down to the shore of the sea...
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. They have all been to California
and all have come back millionaires.
CbW 6.274 24
...one may take a good deal of pains...to organize clubs and
debating-societies, and yet no result come of it.
CbW 6.277 20
The main difference between people seems to be that one
man can come under obligations on which you can rely,--is obligable; and
another is not.
Bty 6.285 24
The miller, the lawyer and the merchant dedicate themselves
to their own details, and do not come out men of more force.
Bty 6.293 19
All that is a little harshly claimed by progressive parties may
easily come to be conceded without question, if this rule [of gradation] be
observed.
Bty 6.293 24
...the circumstances may be easily imagined in which woman
may speak, vote, argue causes, legislate and drive a coach...if only it come
by degrees.
Bty 6.301 12
If a man...can enlarge knowledge...his deformities will come
to be reckoned ornamental and advantageous on the whole.
Ill 6.312 1
We fancy that our civilization has got on far, but we still come
back to our primers.
Ill 6.315 10
When the boys come into my yard for leave to gather horse-chestnuts,
I own I enter into nature's game...
Ill 6.318 19
The fine star-dust and nebulous blur in Orion...must come
down and be dealt with in your household thought.
Ill 6.318 20
What if you shall come to discern that the play and playground
of all this pompous history are radiations from yourself...
Ill 6.319 17
...who has...come to the conviction that what seems the
succession of thought is only the distribution of wholes into causal series?
Ill 6.320 8
...what avails it that science has come to treat space and time as
simply forms of thought...
SS 7.11 18
...it is...so easy to come up to an existing standard;...
SS 7.13 27
Conversation will not corrupt us if we come to the assembly in
our own garb and speech...
Civ 7.26 7
...some of our grandest examples of men and of races come from
the equatorial regions...
Art2 7.46 15
The effect of music belongs how much...if on the stage, to
what went before in the play, or to the expectation of what shall come after.
Art2 7.55 26
[The arts] come to serve [man's] actual wants, never to please
his fancy.
Elo1 7.63 11
[The orator's audience] come to get justice done to that ear
and intuition which no Chatham and no Demosthenes has begun to satisfy.
Elo1 7.76 11
Leaving behind us these pretensions...to come a little nearer to
the verity,--eloquence is attractive as an example of the magic of personal
ascendency...
Elo1 7.78 8
It was said of Sir William Pepperell...that, put him where you
might, he commanded, and saw what he willed come to pass.
Elo1 7.80 26
Does [any one] think that not possibly a man may come to
him who shall persuade him out of his most settled determination?...
Elo1 7.81 9
...what if one should come of the same turn of mind as [a man'
s] own...
Elo1 7.86 3
...the court and the county have really come together to arrive
at these three or four memorable expressions which betrayed the mind and
meaning of somebody.
Elo1 7.88 22
[Lord Mansfield's sentences] come from and they go to the
sound human understanding;...
Elo1 7.90 27
...if we come to the heart of the mystery, perhaps we should
say that the truly eloquent man is a sane man with power to communicate
his sanity.
Elo1 7.95 15
...wherever the fresh moral sentiment, the instinct of freedom
and duty, come in direct opposition to fossil conservatism and the thirst of
gain, the spark will pass.
DL 7.102 7
I detected many a god/ Forth already on the road,/ Ancestors of
beauty come/ In thy breast to make a home./
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 7.108 26
Let us come then out of the public square and enter the
domestic precinct.
DL 7.110 11
How could such a book as Plato's Dialogues have come
down, but for the sacred savings of scholars...
DL 7.113 24
Give me the means, says the wife, and your house shall not...
waste your time. On hearing this we understand how these Means have
come to be so omnipotent on earth.
DL 7.116 26
[The reform that applies itself to the household] must come
with plain living and high thinking;...
DL 7.117 2
[The reform that applies itself to the household] must come in
connection with a true acceptance by each man of his vocation...
DL 7.124 25
We never come to be citizens of the world...
DL 7.132 6
Certainly, not aloof from this homage to beauty...the house will
come to be esteemed a Sanctuary.
Farm 7.152 7
As [the first planter's] family thrive, and other planters come
up around him, he begins to fell trees and clear good land;...
WD 7.168 12
[The days] come and go like muffled and veiled figures...
WD 7.171 18
Could our happiest dream come to pass in solid fact,--could a
power open our eyes to behold millions of spiritual creatures walk the
earth,--I believe I should find that mid-plain on which they moved floored
beneath and arched above with the same web of blue depth which weaves
itself over me now...
WD 7.175 22
'T is the old secret of the gods that they come in low
disguises.
WD 7.175 23
'T is the vulgar great who come dizened with gold and jewels.
WD 7.183 15
...in seeking to find what is the heart of the day, we come to
the quality of the moment...
Boks 7.190 24
We owe to books those general benefits which come from
high intellectual action.
Boks 7.202 12
If we come down a little [in Greek history] by natural steps
from the master to the disciples, we have...the Platonists, who also cannot
be skipped...
Boks 7.206 2
When we come to Michel Angelo, his Sonnets and Letters
must be read...
Clbs 7.223 6
But [Saadi] has no companion;/ Come ten, or come a million,/
Good Saadi dwells alone./
Clbs 7.229 9
...the days come when we are alarmed, and say there are no
thoughts.
Clbs 7.234 20
...to come a little nearer to my mark, I am to say that there
may easily be obstacles in the way of finding the pure article [good
company] we are in search of...
Clbs 7.246 21
...when the manufacturers, merchants and shipmasters meet,
see...how long the conversation lasts! They have come from many zones;...
Clbs 7.249 2
I need only hint the value of the club for bringing masters in
their several arts to compare and expand their views, to come to an
understanding on these points...
Clbs 7.250 17
Discourse...when it lifts us into that mood out of which
thoughts come that remain as stars in our firmament, is between two.
Cour 7.254 23
...here is one who, seeing the wishes of men, knows how to
come at their end;...
Cour 7.257 25
A large majority of men...never come to the rough
experiences that make the Indian, the soldier or frontiersman self-subsistent
and fearless.
Cour 7.258 8
Lord Wellington said...When my journal appears many
statues must come down.
Cour 7.269 18
...out of love of the reality [the scholar] is an expert judge
how far the book has approached it, and where it has come short.
Cour 7.277 10
If you accept your thoughts as inspirations from the
Supreme Intelligence, obey them when they prescribe difficult duties,
because they come only so long as they are used;...
Suc 7.284 7
...Ojeda could run out swiftly on a plank projected from the top
of a tower, turn round swiftly and come back;...
Suc 7.294 13
The good workman never says, There, that will do; but,
There, that is it: try it, and come again, it will last always.
Suc 7.298 25
The owner of the wood-lot finds only a number of discolored
trees, and says, They ought to come down;...
Suc 7.299 3
Wordsworth writes of the delights of the boy in Nature:--For
never will come back the hour/ Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the
flower./
OA 7.322 22
We still feel the force...of Galileo, of whose blindness Castelli
said, The noblest eye is darkened that Nature ever made,--an eye that...hath
opened the eyes of all that shall come after him;...
OA 7.324 16
...be it as it may with the sick-headache,--'t is certain that
graver headaches and heart-aches are lulled once for all as we come up with
certain goals of time.
OA 7.333 19
We inquired when [John Adams] expected to see Mr. [John
Quincy] Adams.--He said: Never: Mr. Adams will not come to Quincy but
to my funeral.
OA 7.333 21
We inquired when [John Adams] expected to see Mr. [John
Quincy] Adams.--He said: Never: Mr. Adams will not come to Quincy but
to my funeral. It would be a great satisfaction to me to see him, but I don't
wish him to come on my account.
OA 7.333 23
[John Adams] spoke of Mr. Lechmere, whom he well
remembered to have seen come down daily, at great age, to walk in the old
town-house...
OA 7.334 5
[John Adams] talked of Whitefield, and remembered when he
was a Freshman in College to have come into town to the Old South church
(I think) to hear him...
PI 8.16 18
Mountains and oceans we think we understand;--yes, so long as
they are contented to be such, and are safe with the geologist,--but when
they are melted in Promethean alembics and come out men...
PI 8.16 19
Mountains and oceans we think we understand;--yes, so long as
they are contented to be such, and are safe with the geologist,--but when
they are melted in Promethean alembics and come out men, and then,
melted again, come out words...
PI 8.18 13
...what is life? what is force? Push [the savans] hard and they
will not be loquacious. They will come to Plato, Proclus and Swedenborg.
PI 8.19 16
Our best definition of poetry...claims to come down to us from
the Chaldaean Zoroaster...
PI 8.34 4
No matter what [your subject] is...if it has a natural prominence to
you, work away until you come to the heart of it...
PI 8.40 25
Now at this rare elevation above his usual sphere, [the poet] has
come into new circulations...
PI 8.58 17
[The wind] was not born, it sees not,/ And is not seen; it does
not come when desired;/ It has no form, it bears no burden,/ For it is void of
sin./
PI 8.61 1
Presently [Sir Gawaine] heard a voice which said, Gawain,
Gawain, be not out of heart, for everything which must happen will come to
pass.
PI 8.61 29
Ah, sir, said Merlin [to Sir Gawaine]...there is no such strong
tower as this wherein I am confined;...neither can I go out, nor can any one
come in, save she who hath enclosed me here...
PI 8.67 25
We must...ask whether, if we...do not go to Hamlet, Hamlet will
come to us?...
PI 8.68 10
What we once admired as poetry has long since come to be a
sound of tin pans;...
PI 8.70 8
In a cotillon some persons dance and others await their turn when
the music and the figure come to them.
SA 8.86 7
It is an excellent custom of the Quakers...the silent prayer before
meals. It has the effect to...introduce a moment of relfection. ... What a
check to the violent manners which sometimes come to the table...
SA 8.86 20
The attitude is the main point, assuring your companion that,
come good news or come bad, you remain in good heart and good mind...
SA 8.92 13
...we are easily great with the loved and honored associate. We
come out of our eggshell existence...
SA 8.96 15
When people come to see us, we foolishly prattle, lest we be
inhospitable.
SA 8.100 25
...[there is in America the general belief that] if [the young
American] have...quick eye for the opportunities which are always offering
for investment, he can come to wealth...
SA 8.104 13
We have come to feel that by ourselves our safety must be
bought;...
Elo2 8.116 6
You go to a town-meeting where the people are called to
some disagreeable duty, such as, for example, often occurred during the
war, at the occasion of a new draft. They come unwillingly;...
Elo2 8.123 14
When, on his return from Washington, [John Quincy Adams]
resumed his lectures in Cambridge...the coaches from Boston did not
come...
Elo2 8.124 12
...in your struggles with the world...when priest and Levite
shall come and look on you and pass by on the other side, seek refuge...in
the precepts and example of Him whose law is love...
Elo2 8.126 23
...it costs a great heat to enable a heavy man to come up with
those who have a quick sensibility.
Elo2 8.129 25
...we must come to the main matter [of eloquence], of power
of statement...
Res 8.147 18
Against the terrors of the mob, which...is...chaos come again,
good sense has many arts of prevention and of relief.
Comc 8.162 13
So painfully susceptible are some men to these impressions
[of halfness], that if a man of wit come into the room where they are, it
seems to take them out of themselves with violent convulsions of the face
and sides, and obstreperous roarings of the throat.
Comc 8.172 6
...Timur scratched his head, since the hour of the barber was
come...
QO 8.177 21
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 8.186 6
The fine verse in the old Scotch ballad of The Drowned
Lovers-Thou art roaring ower loud, Clyde water,/ Thy streams are ower
strang;/ Make me thy wrack when I come back,/ But spare me when I
gang/-is a translation of Martial's epigram on Hero and Leander...
QO 8.198 14
We once knew a man overjoyed at the notice of his pamphlet
in a leading newspaper. ... How it seemed the very voice of the refined and
discerning public, inviting merit at last to consent to fame, and come up and
take place in the reserved and authentic chairs!
QO 8.203 12
Landsmen and sailors freshly come from the most civilized
countries...healthily receive and report what they saw...
PC 8.207 19
Men come hither by nations.
PC 8.207 22
[Men] come from crowded, antiquated kingdoms to the easy
sharing of our simple forms.
PC 8.212 27
The old six thousand years of chronology become a kitchen
clock...since the duration of geologic periods has come into view.
PC 8.228 27
It was the conviction of Plato...that great thoughts come from
the heart.
PC 8.232 27
We have suffered our young men of ambition to play the game
of politics and take the immoral side without loss of caste,-to come and go
without rebuke.
PPo 8.245 7
The rapidity of [Hafiz's] turns is always surprising us:-See
how the roses burn!/ Bring wine to quench the fire!/ Alas! the flames come
up with us,/ We perish with desire./
PPo 8.249 3
We would do nothing but good [says Hafiz], else would shame
come to us on the day when the soul must hie hence;...
PPo 8.249 6
We would do nothing but good [says Hafiz], else would shame
come to us on the day when the soul must hie hence; and should they then
deny us Paradise, the Houris themselves would forsake that and come out to
us.
PPo 8.256 3
Come!-the palace of heaven rests on aery pillars,-/ Come,
and bring me wine; our days are wind./
PPo 8.256 4
Come!-the palace of heaven rests on aery pillars,-/ Come,
and bring me wine; our days are wind./
PPo 8.265 4
The Highest is a sun-mirror;/ Who comes to Him sees himself
therein,/ Sees body and soul, and soul and body;/ When you came to the
Simorg,/ Three therein appeared to you,/ And, had fifty of you come,/ So
had you seen yourselves as many./ Him has none of us yet seen./
Insp 8.272 17
A rush of thoughts is the only conceivable prosperity that
can come to us.
Insp 8.276 23
...says the man...the favorable hour will come when I can
command all my powers...
Insp 8.281 18
When we...have come to believe that an image or a happy
turn of expression is no longer at our command, in writing a letter to a
friend we may find that we rise...to a cordial power of expression that costs
no effort...
Insp 8.291 20
What prudence again does every artist, every scholar need in
the security of his easel or his desk! These must be remote from the work of
the house, and from all knowledge of the feet that come and go therein.
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.
Insp 8.292 24
Some perceptions...are granted to the single soul; they come
from the depth and go to the depth...
Insp 8.293 9
Homer said, When two come together, one apprehends before
the other;...
Grts 8.307 22
[A man] is never happy nor strong until he...learns to watch
the delicate hints and insights that come to him...
Grts 8.312 6
The day will come when no badge, uniform or medal will be
worn;...
Imtl 8.336 8
Our passions, our endeavors, have something ridiculous and
mocking, if we come to so hasty an end.
Dem1 10.2 3
In the chamber, on the stairs,/ Lurking dumb,/ Go and come/
Lemurs and Lars./
Dem1 10.4 8
They come, in dim procession led,/ The cold, the faithless,
and the dead,/ As warm each hand, each brow as gay,/ As if they parted
yesterday./
Dem1 10.4 27
When newly awaked from lively dreams...give us...one hint,
and we should repossess the whole; hours of this strange entertainment
would come trooping back to us;...
Dem1 10.10 27
The long waves indicate to the instructed mariner that there
is no near land in the direction from which they come.
Dem1 10.15 6
...[Masollam] replied...Why are you so foolish as to take care
of this unfortunate bird? How could this fowl give us any wise directions
respecting our journey, when he could not save his own life? Had he known
anything of futurity, he would not have come here to be killed by the arrow
of Masollam the Jew.
Dem1 10.15 27
I have a lucky hand, sir, said Napoleon...those on whom I
lay it are fit for anything. This faith is familiar in one form...that children
and young persons come off safe from casualties that would have proved
dangerous to wiser people.
Dem1 10.25 11
[Animal Magnetism] becomes...a black art. The uses of the
thing, the commodity, the power, at once come to mind...
Dem1 10.26 26
[The demonologic] is a lawless world. We have...come into
the realm or chaos of chance and pretty or ugly confusion;...
Aris 10.35 26
If a few grand natures should come to us and weave duties
and offices between us and them, it would make our bread ambrosial.
Aris 10.36 4
...we, certainly, have not come here to describe well-dressed
vulgarity.
Aris 10.37 3
From the folly of too much association we must come back to
the repose of self-reverence and trust.
Aris 10.41 14
We shall come to add Kings in the Contents of the Directory,
as we do Physicians, Brokers, etc.
Aris 10.45 20
Men are born to command, and...come into the world booted
and spurred to ride.
Aris 10.53 21
...I have seen a man of teeming brain come among these men
[in a village], so full of his facts, so unable to suppress them, that he has
poured out a river of knowledge to all comers...
Aris 10.55 25
I am acquainted with persons who go attended with this
ambient cloud. It is sufficient that they come.
Aris 10.56 27
When a man begins to speak, the churl will take him up by
disputing his first words, so he cannot come at his scope.
Aris 10.61 23
...when the great come by, as always there are angels walking
in the earth, they know [the generous soul] at sight.
Aris 10.63 18
Let [the man of honor]...say, The time will come when these
poor enfans perdus of revolution, will have instructed their party, if only by
their fate...
Aris 10.63 22
Let [the man of honor]...say...the music and the dance of
liberty will come up to bright and holy ground and will take me in also.
PerF 10.71 1
The winds and the rains come back a thousand and a
thousand times.
PerF 10.73 18
We come to reason and knowledge;...
PerF 10.88 12
...the massive might of ideas is irresistible at last. Whence
does the knowledge come?
Chr2 10.93 9
If from these external statements we seek to come a little
nearer to the fact, our first experiences in moral, as in intellectual nature,
force us to discriminate a universal mind...
Chr2 10.97 12
The poor Jews of the wilderness cried: Let not the Lord
speak to us; let Moses speak to us. But the simple and sincere soul makes
the contrary prayer: Let no intruder come between thee and me;...
Chr2 10.97 21
It would instantly indispose us to any person claiming to
speak for the Author of Nature, the setting forth any fact or law which we
did not find in our consciousness. We should say with Heraclitus: Come
into this smoky cabin; God is here also: approve yourself to him.
Chr2 10.102 24
Such [self-reliant] souls do not come in troops...
Chr2 10.110 12
...Spinoza has come to be revered.
Chr2 10.110 13
The time will come, says Varnhagen von Ense, when we
shall treat the jokes and sallies against the myths and church-rituals of
Christianity...good-naturedly...
Chr2 10.117 20
Men may well come together to kindle each other to
virtuous living.
Chr2 10.119 20
No evil can come from reform which a deeper thought will
not correct.
Edc1 10.128 7
Here is a world...fenced and planted with civil partitions and
properties, which all put new restraints on the young inhabitant. He too
must come into this magic circle of relations...
Edc1 10.130 16
If Newton come and first of men perceive that not alone
certain bodies fall to the ground at a certain rate, but that all bodies in the
Universe...fall always, and at one rate;...he extends the power of his mind...
over every cubic atom of his native planet...
Edc1 10.133 4
If I have renounced the search of truth, if I have come into
the port of some pretending dogmatism...I have died to all use of these new
events...
Edc1 10.141 5
...from [friendship's] revelations we come more worthily
into nature.
Edc1 10.148 18
The natural method [of education] forever confutes our
experiments, and we must still come back to it.
Edc1 10.150 11
Appetite and indolence [young men] have, but no
enthusiasm. These come in numbers to the college...
Edc1 10.152 7
Alas for the cripple Practice when it seeks to come up with
the bird Theory, which flies before it.
Edc1 10.154 26
...in this world of hurry and distraction, who can wait for
the returns of reason and the conquest of self; in the uncertainty too whether
that will ever come?
Edc1 10.155 23
By and by the curiosity [of the creatures of nature] masters
the fear, and they come swimming, creeping and flying towards [the
naturalist];...
Supl 10.164 8
If the talker [with the superlative temperament] lose a tooth,
he thinks the universal thaw and dissolution of things has come.
Supl 10.170 5
Under the Catskill Mountains the boy in the steamboat said,
Come up here, Tony; it looks pretty out-of-doors.
Supl 10.175 16
Plant beechmast and it comes up, or it does not come up.
Supl 10.175 16
Sow grain, and it does not come up; put lime into the soil
and try again, and this time [Nature] says yea.
Supl 10.179 8
If it come back...to the question of final superiority, it is too
plain that there is no question that the star of empire rolls West...
SovE 10.189 27
Nations come and go...
SovE 10.192 6
The student discovers one day that he lives in enchantment...
and through this enchanted gallery he is led by unseen guides to read and
learn the laws of Heaven. This discovery may come early,-sometimes in
the nursery, to a rare child;...
SovE 10.192 11
The student discovers one day that he lives in
enchantment...and through this enchanted gallery he is led by unseen guides
to read and learn the laws of Heaven. This discovery may come early...and
to multitudes of men wanting in mental activity it never comes-any more
than poetry or art. But it ought to come;...
SovE 10.210 7
...there are the new conventions of social science, before
which the questions of...regulation of labor, come for a hearing.
SovE 10.213 2
...to [innocence] come grandeur of situation and poetic
perception...
Prch 10.231 21
We come to church properly for self-examination...
Prch 10.234 11
A vivid thought brings the power to paint it; and in
proportion to the depth of its source is the force of its projection. We are
happy and enriched; we go away invigorated...and shall not forget to come
again for new impulses.
Prch 10.237 17
...when we...come into the house of thought and worship,
we come with the purpose to be disabused of appearances...
Prch 10.237 18
...when we...come into the house of thought and worship,
we come with the purpose to be disabused of appearances...
Prch 10.237 26
We [in the Church] come to educate, come to isolate, to be
abstractionists;...
Prch 10.237 27
We [in the Church] come to educate, come to isolate, to be
abstractionists;...
MoL 10.242 27
...the bribe came to men of intellectual culture,-Come,
drudge in our mill.
MoL 10.246 3
In my youth, said a Scotch mountaineer, a Highland
gentleman measured his importance, by the number of men his domain
could support. ... To-day we are come to count the number of sheep.
Schr 10.262 3
...in the worldly habits which harden us, we find with some
surprise...that those excellent influences which men in all ages have called
the Muse, or by some kindred name, come in to keep us warm and true;...
Schr 10.268 12
Love, Rectitude, everlasting Fame, will come to each of
you in loneliest places...
Schr 10.274 17
One thing is for [the thoughtful man] settled, that he is to
come at his ends.
Schr 10.275 7
...Algernon Sidney wrote to his father...I have ever had in
my mind that when God should cast me into such a condition as that I
cannot save my life but by doing an indecent thing he shows me the time
has come when I should resign it.
Schr 10.277 1
...I delight...to see that men can come at their ends.
Schr 10.278 27
[The scholar] is to forge out of coarsest ores the sharpest
weapons. But...if his talents...come to work for ostentation, they cannot
serve him.
Schr 10.286 26
Let those come [to scholarship] who cannot but come...
Plu 10.293 6
It is remarkable that of an author so familiar as Plutarch...not
even the dates of his birth and death, should have come down to us.
Plu 10.302 23
[Plutarch] has preserved for us a multitude of precious
sentences...of authors whose books are lost; and these embalmed
fragments...have come to be proverbs of later mankind.
EzRy 10.386 6
...[Ezra Ripley] gave me anecdotes of the nine church
members who had made a division in the church in the time of his
predecessor, and showed me how every one of the nine had come to bad
fortune or to a bad end.
EzRy 10.388 14
[Ezra Ripley] said, on parting, I wish you and your
brothers to come to this house as you have always done.
EzRy 10.388 22
...the Doctor [Ezra Ripley] presently said, Mr. Merriam,
my brother and colleague, Mr. Frost, has come to take tea with me.
EzRy 10.391 14
The late Dr. Gardiner, in a funeral sermon on some
parishioner whose virtues did not readily come to mind, honestly said, He
was good at fires.
MMEm 10.400 20
One of [Mary Moody Emerson's] tasks, it appears, was
to watch for the approach of the deputy-sheriff, who might come to
confiscate the spoons...
MMEm 10.406 12
...sublimity of character must come from sublimity of
motive...
MMEm 10.428 22
[Mary Moody Emerson] made up her shroud, and death
still refusing to come...wore it as a night-gown, or a day-gown...
SlHr 10.438 15
...when...a deputation of gentlemen waited upon him in the
hall to say they had come with the unanimous voice of the State to remove
him by force...[Samuel Hoar] considered his duty discharged to the last
point of possibility.
Thor 10.460 20
...[Thoreau] sent notices to most houses in Concord that he
would speak in a public hall on the condition and character of John Brown,
on Sunday evening, and invited all people to come.
Thor 10.468 16
See these weeds, [Thoreau] said, which have been hoed at
by a million farmers...and just now come out triumphant over all lanes,
pastures, fields and gardens...
Thor 10.469 11
[Thoreau] knew how to sit immovable...until the bird, the
reptile, the fish, which had retired from him, should come back and resume
its habits...
Thor 10.469 13
[Thoreau] knew how to sit immovable...until the bird, the
reptile, the fish, which had retired from him, should come back and resume
its habits, nay, moved by curiosity, should come to him and watch him.
Thor 10.471 2
[Thoreau] said, What you seek in vain for, half your life,
one day you come full upon, all the family at dinner.
Carl 10.494 13
...if, after Guizot had been a tool of Louis Philippe for
years, he is now to come and write essays on the character of Washington,
on The Beautiful...[Carlyle] thinks that nothing.
Carl 10.496 6
...[Carlyle] thinks Oxford and Cambridge education
indurates the young men...so that when they come forth of them, they say,
Now we are proof; we have gone through all the degrees, and are case-hardened
against the veracities of the Universe;...
Carl 10.497 9
[Carlyle] was very serious about the bad times; he had seen
this evil coming, but thought it would not come in his time.
GSt 10.499 1
Who, when great trials come,/ Nor seeks nor shunnes them;
but doth calmly stay/ Till he the thing and the example weigh:/ All being
brought into a summe/ What place or person calls for he doth pay./ George
Herbert.
LS 11.6 4
Two of the Evangelists...were present on that occasion [the Last
Supper]. Neither of them drops the slightest intimation of any intention on
the part of Jesus to set up anything permanent. John especially...has quite
omitted such a notice. Neither does it appear to have come to the
knowledge of Mark...
LS 11.6 16
I have only brought these accounts [of the Last Supper]
together, that you may judge whether it is likely that a solemn institution, to
be continued to the end of time by all mankind, as they should come...
within the influence of the Christian religion, would have been established
in this slight manner...
LS 11.6 25
...we must suppose that the expression, This do in remembrance
of me, had come to the ear of Luke from some disciple who was present.
LS 11.7 11
In years to come [says Jesus to his disciples], as long as your
people shall come up to Jerusalem to keep this feast [the Passover], the
connection which has subsisted between us will give a new meaning in your
eyes to the national festival, as the anniversary of my death.
LS 11.13 2
...[the disciples] were bound together by the memory of Christ,
and nothing could be more natural than...that what was done with peculiar
propriety by them, his personal friends, with less propriety should come to
be extended to their companions also.
LS 11.18 26
Passing other objections, I come to this, that the use of the
elements [of the Lord's Supper]...is foreign and unsuited to affect us.
LS 11.21 20
What I revere and obey in [Christianity] is its reality...the
persuasion and courage that come out thence to lead me upward and
onward.
HDC 11.40 13
[The Concord settler's pastor said] If we look to number, we
are the fewest;...if to wealth and riches, we are the poorest of all the people
of God through the whole world. We cannot excel nor so much as equal
other people in these things; and if we come short in grace and holiness too,
we are the most despicable people under heaven.
HDC 11.50 17
...this design [the conversion of the Indians] is named first
in the printed Considerations, that inclined Hampden, and determined
Winthrop and his friends, to come hither [to New England].
HDC 11.52 22
Tahattawan and his son-in-law Waban, besought [John]
Eliot to come and preach to them at Concord...
HDC 11.56 8
We pretended to come hither, [Peter Bulkeley] says, for
ordinances;...
HDC 11.60 20
...it was only a great thaw in January, that melting the snow
and opening the earth, enabled [King Philip's] poor followers to come at
the ground-nuts, else they had starved.
HDC 11.65 11
...in 1712, the selectmen agreed with Captain James Minott,
for his son Timothy to keep the school at the school-house for the town of
Concord, for half a year beginning 2d June; and if any scholar shall come,
within the said time, for larning exceeding his son's ability, the said
Captain doth agree to instruct them himself in the tongues, till the above
said time be fulfilled;...
EWI 11.109 18
These debates [on West Indian slavery] are instructive, as
they show on what grounds the trade was assailed and defended. Everything
generous, wise and sprightly is sure to come to the attack.
EWI 11.111 19
...when...some Quakers, or Moravians, and Wesleyan and
Baptist missionaries...had been moved to come [the the West Indies] and
cheer the poor victim...these missionaries were persecuted by the planters...
EWI 11.124 26
...you could not get any poetry, any wisdom, and beauty in
woman, any strong and commanding character in man, but these absurdities
would still come flashing out,-these absurdities of a demand for justice, a
generosity for the weak and oppressed.
EWI 11.135 8
There are other comparisons and other imperative duties
which come sadly to mind...
EWI 11.136 17
Out it would come, the God's truth, out it came [in
emancipation in the West Indies], like a bolt from a cloud...
EWI 11.140 6
...the self-sustaining class of inventive and industrious men,
fear no competition or superiority. Come what will, their faculty cannot be
spared.
War 11.157 18
Early in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, the Italian cities
had grown so populous and strong that they forced the rural nobility to...
come and reside in the towns.
War 11.161 9
...the fact that [the idea that there can be peace as well as
war] has become so distinct to any small number of persons as to become a
subject...of concert and discussion,-that is the commanding fact. This
having come, much more will follow.
War 11.162 2
This is a poor, tedious society of yours, [sensible men] say;
we do not see what good can come of it.
War 11.164 20
You shall hear, some day, of a wild fancy which some man
has in his brain, of the mischief of secret oaths. Come again one or two
years afterwards, and you shall see it has built great houses of solid wood
and brick and mortar.
War 11.165 4
This happens daily, yearly about us, with half thoughts, often
with flimsy lies, pieces of policy and speculation. With good nursing they
will last three or four years before they will come to nothing.
War 11.166 5
...the least change in the man will change his
circumstances;...if, for example, he...should come to feel that every man
was another self with whom he might come to join...
War 11.166 7
...the least change in the man will change his
circumstances;...if, for example, he...should come to feel that every man
was another self with whom he might come to join...
War 11.168 21
A man does not come the length of the spirit of martyrdom
without some active purpose...
War 11.171 10
...[peace] is to hear the voice of God, which bids the devils
that have rended and torn [the man] come out of him...
War 11.174 12
If peace is to be maintained, it must be by brave men, who
have come up to the same height as the hero...
FSLC 11.188 14
I had thought, I confess, what must come at last would
come at first, a banding of all men against the authority of this statute [the
Fugitive Slave Law].
FSLC 11.201 3
[John Randolph's] words...come down now like the cry of
Fate...
FSLN 11.217 12
The one thing not to be forgiven to intellectual persons is...
to take their ideas from others. From this want of manly rest in their own
and rash acceptance of other people's watchwords come the imbecility and
fatigue of their conversation.
FSLN 11.218 13
Owing to the silent revolution which the newspaper has
wrought, this class [students and scholars] has come in this country to take
in all classes.
FSLN 11.223 22
It is a law of our nature that great thoughts come from the
heart.
FSLN 11.236 20
Whenever a man has come to this mind, that there is no
Church for him but his believing prayer;...then certain aids and allies will
promptly appear...
FSLN 11.239 4
There has come, too, one to whom lurking warfare is dear,
Retribution, with a soul full of wiles;...
FSLN 11.240 11
...that is the stern edict of Providence, that liberty shall be
no hasty fruit, but that...age on age, shall cast itself into the opposite scale,
and not until liberty has slowly accumulated weight enough to countervail
and preponderate against all this, can the sufficient recoil come.
FSLN 11.244 24
...I hope we...have come to a belief that there is a divine
Providence in the world...
AsSu 11.251 7
When the same reproach [of writing his speeches] was cast
on the first orator of ancient times by some caviller of his day, he said, I
should be ashamed to come with one unconsidered word before such an
assembly.
AKan 11.256 6
...these details that have come from Kansas are so horrible,
that the hostile press have but one word in reply, namely, that it is all
exaggeration...
AKan 11.260 4
Manifest Destiny, Democracy, Freedom, fine names for an
ugly thing. ... They call it Chivalry and freedom; I call it the stealing all the
earnings of a poor man...and the earnings of all that shall come from him...
AKan 11.263 16
Come home and stay at home, while there is a country to
save.
ACiv 11.303 10
There are Scriptures written invisibly on men's hearts,
whose letters do not come out until they are enraged.
ACiv 11.305 20
Congress can...abolish slavery, and pay for such slaves as
we ought to pay for. Then the slaves near our armies will come to us;...
ACiv 11.306 21
...what kind of peace shall at that moment be easiest
attained, [the people] will make concessions for it,-will give up the slaves,
and the whole torment of the past half-century will come back to be
endured anew.
ACiv 11.306 25
Neither do I doubt, is such a composition should take
place, that the Southerners will come back quietly and politely...
ACiv 11.309 3
...this measure [emancipation], to be effectual, must come
speedily.
EPro 11.314 17
Come, East and West and North,/ By races, as snow-flakes,/
And carry my purpose forth,/ Which neither halts nor shakes./
EPro 11.316 25
[Movement toward liberty]...is as when an orator...
announces with vibrating voice the grand human principles involved;...a
new audience is found in the heart of the assembly,-an audience...now at
last so searched and kindled that they come forward...
EPro 11.324 16
If you could add, say [foreign critics], to your strength the
whole army of England, of France and of Austria, you could not coerce
eight millions of people to come under this government against their will.
HCom 11.341 2
With whatever opinion we come here, I think it is not in
man to see, without a feeling of pride and pleasure, a tried soldier...
SMC 11.348 23
...manhood is the one immortal thing/ Beneath Time's
changeful sky,/ And, where it lightened once, from age to age,/ Men come
to learn, in grateful pilgrimage,/ That length of days is knowing when to
die./ Lowell, Concord Ode.
SMC 11.351 26
'T is certain that a plain stone like this [the Concord
Monument]...becomes...an altar where the noble youth shall in all time
come to make his secret vows.
EdAd 11.389 13
...the retributions of armed states are not less sure and
signal than those which come to private felons.
Wom 11.423 15
...there is contamination enough [in politics], but it rots the
men now, and fills the air with stench. Come out of that: it is like a dance-cellar.
Wom 11.423 18
The fairest names in this country...have gone into
Congress and come out dishonored.
SHC 11.430 22
We will not jealously guard a few atoms under immense
marbles, selfishly and impossibly sequestering it from the vast circulations
of Nature, but, at the same time...wishing to make one spot tender to our
children, who shall come hither in the next century to read the dates of
these lives.
SHC 11.435 20
...hither [to Sleepy Hollow] shall repair...every sweet and
friendly influence; the beautiful night and beautiful day will come in turn to
sit upon the grass.
Shak1 11.447 12
...it is to us [The Saturday Club] a painful disappointment
that Bryant and Whittier as guests, and our own Hawthorne,-with the best
will to come,-should have found it impossible at last;...
Scot 11.464 4
...I believe that many of those who read [Scott's books] in
youth, when, later, they come to dismiss finally their school-days' library,
will make some fond exception for Scott as for Byron.
ChiE 11.474 3
The immigrants from Asia come in crowds.
FRO1 11.477 3
Mr. Chairman: I hardly felt, in finding this house this
morning, that I had come into the right hall.
CPL 11.498 14
[Peter Bulkeley said] If we look to number, we are the
fewest;...if to wealth and riches, we are the poorest of all the people of God
through the whole world. We cannot excel, nor so much as equal other
people in these things, and if we come short in grace and holiness too, we
are the most despicable people under heaven.
CPL 11.502 26
If you sprain your foot, you will presently come to think
that Nature has sprained hers.
CPL 11.503 3
...when you sprain your mind, by gloomy reflection on your
failures and vexations, you come to have a bad opinion of life.
FRep 11.523 13
...if [Americans] should come to be interested in
themselves and in their career, they would no more stay away from the
election than from their own counting-room...
FRep 11.526 1
Nature...spends individuals and races prodigally to prepare
new individuals and races. The lower kinds are one after one extinguished;
the higher forms come in.
FRep 11.541 26
I hope America will come to have its pride in being a
nation of servants, and not of the served.
PLT 12.6 15
My belief in the use of a course of philosophy is that the
student...shall come to know that in seeing and in no tradition he must find
what truth is;...
PLT 12.6 19
My belief in the use of a course of philosophy is...that [the
student] shall see in [the mind] the source of all traditions, and shall see
each one of them as better or worse statement of its revelations; shall come
to trust it entirely, as the only true;...
PLT 12.7 7
...these questions which really interest men, how few can
answer. Here are learned faculties of law and divinity, but would questions
like these come into mind when I see them?
PLT 12.15 4
First I wish to speak of the excellence of that element
[Intellect], and the great auguries that come from it...
PLT 12.16 18
In my thought I seem to stand on the bank of a river and
watch the endless flow of the stream, floating objects of all shapes, colors
and natures; nor can I much detain them as they pass except by running
beside them a little way along the bank. But whence they come or whither
they go is not told me.
PLT 12.19 13
...when we have come, by a divine leading, into the inner
firmament, we are apprised of the unreality or representative character of
what we esteemed final.
PLT 12.26 7
...the dull, melancholy Pelasgi arrive at no civility until the
Phoenicians and Ionians come in.
PLT 12.38 12
The point of interest is here, that these gates [spiritual facts],
once opened, never swing back. The observers may come at their leisure...
PLT 12.43 26
Our thoughts at first possess us. Later, if we have good
heads, we come to possess them.
PLT 12.48 1
Somewhat is to come to the light, and one [talent] was created
to fetch it...
PLT 12.54 9
Nonsense will not keep its unreason if you come into the
humorist's point of view...
Mem 12.94 11
You say the first words of the old song, and I finish the line
and stanza. But where I have them, or what becomes of them when I am not
thinking of them for months and years that they should lie...so nigh that
they come on the instant when they are called for, never any man...could
turn himself inside out quick enough to find.
Mem 12.106 7
...I come to a bright school-girl who remembers all she
hears...
Mem 12.106 17
[The bright school-girl's] is a bushel-basket memory of all
unchosen knowledge, heaped together in a huge hamper, without method,
yet securely held, and ready to come at call;...
Mem 12.110 8
With every new insight into the duty or fact of to-day we
come into new possession of the past.
CInt 12.116 4
...[the college]...cannot give to those who come to it and
refuse to those outside.
CInt 12.126 17
...all the youth come out [of Harvard College] decrepit
citizens;...
CL 12.143 4
The light which resides in [Wordsworth's eyes] is at no time a
superficial light, but, under favorable accidents, it is a light which seems to
come from depths below all depths;...
CL 12.143 27
...you have [in Illinois] the monotony of Holland, and when
you step out of the door can see all that you will have seen when you come
home.
CL 12.146 19
I know a whole district...where the apple-trees strive with
and hold their ground against the native forest-trees: the apple growing with
profusion that mocks the pains taken by careful cockneys, who come out
into the country, plant young trees, and watch them dwindling.
CW 12.175 3
...do not forget the 14th of November, when the meteors
come...
Bost 12.187 17
Astronomers come [to Paris] because there they can find
apparatus and companions.
Bost 12.189 2
A capital fact distinguishing this colony [Massachusetts Bay]
from all other colonies was that the persons composing it consented to
come on the one condition that the charter should be transferred from the
company in England to themselves;...
Bost 12.200 9
If John Bull interest you at home, come and see him under
new conditions...
Bost 12.200 10
If John Bull interest you at home, come and see him under
new conditions, come and see the Jonathanization of John.
Bost 12.203 25
...there is always [in Boston]...always a heresiarch, whom
the governor and deputies labor with but cannot silence. Some new light...
some noble protestant, who...will stand for liberty and justice, if alone, until
all come back to him.
Bost 12.206 7
When men saw that these people [of Boston]...would stand
by each other at all hazards, they desired to come and live here.
Bost 12.207 10
With all their love of his person, [the people of Boston]
took immense pleasure in...contravening the counsel of the clergy; as they
had come so far for the sweet satisfaction of resisting the Bishops and the
King.
MAng1 12.231 26
Benedict XIV., during one of these panics, sent for the
architect Marchese Polini to come to Rome and examine [St. Peter's dome].
MAng1 12.236 17
In answer to the importunate solicitations of the Duke of
Tuscany that he would come to Florence, [Michelangelo] replies that to
leave Saint Peter's in the state in which it now was would be to ruin the
structure, and thereby be guilty of a great sin;...
Milt1 12.256 27
Perfections of body and of mind are attributed to [Milton]
by his biographers, that if the anecdotes had come down from a greater
distance of time...would lead us to suspect the portraits were ideal...
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 12.286 7
Luther said, I preach coarsely; that giveth content to all.
Hebrew, Greek and Latin I spare, until we learned ones come together...
ACri 12.298 9
Here has come into the country, three months ago, a History
of Friedrich, infinitely the wittiest book that ever was written;...
ACri 12.301 25
Now, said [Samuel Dexter], I come to the grand charge
that we have obstructed the commerce and navigation of Roxbury Ditch.
ACri 12.305 3
...when I come into the pastures, I find antiquity again.
ACri 12.305 10
A man of genius or a work of love or beauty will not come
to order...
MLit 12.329 3
[All great men] knew that the intelligent reader would come
at last...
MLit 12.332 25
...they have served [humanity] better, who assured it out of
the innocent hope in their hearts that a Physician will come, than this
majestic Artist [Goethe]...
MLit 12.334 10
The very depth of the sentiment...is guarantee for the
riches of science and of song in the age to come.
WSL 12.338 9
Add to this proud blindness [of John Bull]...the peculiarity
which is alleged of the Englishman, that his virtues do not come out until he
quarrels.
Pray 12.354 23
The last of the four orisons...contains this petition;-My
Father: I now come to thee with a desire to thank thee for the continuance
of our love...
AgMs 12.359 2
As I drew near this brave laborer [Edmund Hosmer] in the
midst of his own acres, I could not help feeling for him the highest respect.
Here is the Caesar, the Alexander of the soil...not like Napoleon, hero of
sixty battles, but of six thousand, and out of every one he has come victor;...
AgMs 12.359 4
These slight and useless city limbs of ours will come to
shame before this strong soldier [the Farmer]...
EurB 12.372 25
...the novels, which come to us in every ship from
England, have an importance increased by the immense extension of their
circulation through the new cheap press...
PPr 12.384 24
What pains, what hopes, what vows, shall come of the
reading [of Carlyle's Past and Present]!
Let 12.392 18
To the railway, we must say,-like the courageous lord
mayor at his first hunting, when told the hare was coming,-Let it come, in
Heaven's name, I am not afraid on 't.
Let 12.393 17
When children come into the library, we put the inkstand and
the watch on the high shelf...
Let 12.398 10
[American youths] are in the state of the young Persians,
when that mighty Yezdam prophet addressed them and said, Behold the
signs of evil days are come;...
Let 12.403 2
The old Duty is the old God. And we may come to this by the
rudest teaching.
Trag 12.410 4
Come bad chance,/ And we add it to our strength,/ And we
teach it art and length,/ Itself o'er us to advance./
Trag 12.413 26
Whilst a man is not grounded in the divine life by his
proper roots, he clings by some tendrils of affection to society...but let any
shock take place in society...and at once his type of permanence is shaken.
The disorder of his neighbors appears to him universal disorder; chaos is
come again.
Trag 12.415 16
A tender American girl doubts of Divine Providence whilst
she reads the horrors of the middle passage;...but to such as she these
crucifixions do not come;...
Trag 12.415 16
...[the crucifixions of the middle passage] come to the
obtuse and barbarous...
come-and-go, n. (1)
Res 8.150 7
...the come-and-go of the pendulum, is the law of mind;...
comedies, n. (1)
Wom 11.417 3
...this conspicuousness [of Woman] had its inconveniences.
But it is cheap wit that has been spent on this subject; from Aristophanes, in
whose comedies I confess my dulness to find good joke, to Rabelais...
Comedy, English, n. (1)
Wom 11.417 6
...this conspicuousness [of Woman] had its inconveniences.
But it is cheap wit that has been spent on this subject; from Aristophanes...
down to English Comedy...
comedy, n. (15)
Prd1 2.224 10
The spurious prudence, making the senses final...is the
subject of all comedy.
F 6.26 17
The world of men show like a comedy without laughter...
Ill 6.315 2
[I knew a humorist who] shocked the company by maintaining
that the attributes of God were two,--power and risibility, and that it was the
duty of every pious man to keep up the comedy.
Suc 7.284 13
...Evelyn writes from Rome: Bernini...gave a public opera,
wherein he...writ the comedy and built the theatre.
Comc 8.157 18
The essence...of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well-intended
halfness;...
Comc 8.157 24
...the break of continuity in the intellect, is comedy...
Comc 8.160 21
...all falsehoods, all vices...seen from the point where our
moral sympathies do not interfere, become ludicrous. The comedy is in the
intellect's perception of discrepancy.
Comc 8.160 24
...whilst the presence of the ideal discovers the difference
[between rule and fact], the comedy is enhanced whenever that ideal is
embodied visibly in a man.
Comc 8.160 26
...Falstaff...is a character of the broadest comedy...
Comc 8.164 17
...[the intellect] compares incessantly the sublime idea with
the bloated nothing which pretends to be it, and the sense of the
disproportion is comedy.
Dem1 10.4 5
...the astonishment remains that one should dream; that we
should...become the theatre of delirious shows...antic comedy alternating
with horrid pictures.
RBur 11.441 3
...I find [Burns's] grand plain sense in close chain with the
greatest masters,-Rabelais, Shakspeare in comedy, Cervantes, Butler, and
Burns.
Shak1 11.448 27
[Shakespeare] fulfilled the famous prophecy of Socrates,
that the poet most excellent in tragedy would be most excellent in comedy...
Shak1 11.451 11
The unaffected joy of the comedy,-[Shakespeare] lives
in a gale,-contrasted with the grandeur of the tragedy, where he stoops to
no contrivance, no pulpiting...
ACri 12.293 24
I do not mean that [Shakespeare] delights in comedy...
comeliness, n. (4)
SR 2.63 21
The joyful loyalty with which men have everywhere suffered
the king...to...represent the law in his person, was the hieroglyphic by
which they obscurely signified their consciousness of their own right and
comeliness...
Farm 7.138 21
It is the beauty of the great economy of the world that
makes [the farmer's] comeliness.
Wom 11.411 2
[Man] invented marriage; and surrounded by religion, by
comeliness...the union of the sexes.
Wom 11.411 10
...how should we better measure the gulf between the best
intercourse of men in old Athens, in London, or in our American capitals,-
between this and the hedgehog existence of diggers of worms, and the
eaters of clay and offal,-than by signalizing just this department of taste or
comeliness?
comely, adj. (6)
SL 2.131 7
Not only things familiar and stale, but even the tragic and
terrible are comely as they take their place in the pictures of memory.
NER 3.269 2
We adorn the victim [of education] with manual skill...his
body with inoffensive and comely manners.
SwM 4.125 10
[To Swedenborg] Each Satan appears to himself a man; to
those as bad as he, a comely man;...
OA 7.320 2
Age is comely in coaches, in churches...
Comc 8.167 13
Women [Camper says], the prettiest in society, and those
whom I find less comely, they are all either narwhales or porpoises to my
eyes.
AsSu 11.251 14
...this noble head [Charles Sumner], so comely and so
wise, must be the target for a pair of bullies to beat with clubs.
come-off, n. (1)
DL 7.115 2
To give money to a sufferer is only a come-off.
Come-outers, n. (1)
CSC 10.374 21
...Dunkers, Muggletonians, Come-outers...all successively...
seized their moment [at the Chardon Street Convention]...
comer, n. (2)
Ill 6.325 1
In a crowded life of many parts and performers...the same
elements offer the same choices to each new comer...
SlHr 10.446 15
[Samuel Hoar] had a childlike innocence...which...enabled
him to meet every comer with a free and disengaged courtesy that had no
memory in it Of wrong and outrage with which the earth is filled./
Comer out, n. (1)
LT 1.275 23
Here is great variety and richness of mysticism, each part of
which now only disgusts whilst it forms the sole thought of some poor
Perfectionist or "Comer out"...
comers, n. (6)
LE 1.184 4
Show frankly as a saint would do, your experience, methods,
tools, and means. Welcome all comers to the freest use of the same.
Art2 7.54 27
The amphitheatre of the old Romans,--any one may see its
origin who looks at the crowd running together to see any fight...in the
street. The first comers gather round in a circle...
Farm 7.151 3
There has been a nightmare bred in England of indigestion
and spleen among landlords and loom-lords, namely, the dogma that...the
plight of every new generation is worse than of the foregoing, because the
first comers take up the best lands;...
Elo2 8.115 19
[The true orator]...must answer all comers.
Aris 10.53 24
...I have seen a man of teeming brain come among these men
[in a village], so full of his facts, so unable to suppress them, that he has
poured out a river of knowledge to all comers...
LLNE 10.364 10
All comers...found [Brook Farm] the pleasantest of
residences.
comes, v. (325)
Nat 1.16 21
...the attorney comes out of the din and craft of the street and
sees the sky and the woods, and is a man again.
Nat 1.23 1
Therefore does beauty, which...comes unsought...remain for the
apprehension and pursuit of the intellect;...
Nat 1.23 2
Therefore does beauty, which...comes unsought, and comes
because it is unsought, remain for the apprehension and pursuit of the
intellect;...
Nat 1.34 19
There sits the Sphinx at the road-side, and...as each prophet
comes by, he tries his fortune at reading her riddle.
Nat 1.40 13
[Man's] victorious thought comes up with and reduces all
things...
Nat 1.69 27
...poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.
Nat 1.71 11
Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of
fallen men...
Nat 1.76 27
As when the summer comes from the south the snow-banks
melt...so shall the advancing spirit create its ornaments along its path...
AmS 1.99 26
Not out of those on whom systems of education have
exhausted their culture, comes the helpful giant...to build the new...
DSA 1.122 24
The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.
DSA 1.141 16
...[preaching in this country] comes out of the memory...
DSA 1.144 6
Wherever a man comes, there comes revolution.
DSA 1.144 7
When a man comes, all books are legible...
DSA 1.149 11
There are...men to whom a crisis...comes graceful and
beloved as a bride.
LE 1.165 22
The vision of genius comes by renouncing the too officious
activity of the understanding...
LE 1.166 1
Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes
out but what was put in.
LE 1.175 2
Pindar, Raphael...dwell in crowds it may be, but the instant
thought comes the crowd grows dim to their eye;...
LE 1.178 5
...out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene
and beautiful laws.
LE 1.184 25
...in the counting-room the merchant cares little whether...the
transaction [be] a letter of credit or a transfer of stocks; be it what it may,
his commission comes gently out of it;...
MN 1.196 2
Here comes by a great inquisitor with auger and plumb-line...
MN 1.206 16
...when the genius comes, it makes fingers...
MN 1.210 21
...the wish to be recognized as individuals,-is finite, comes
of a lower strain.
MN 1.212 17
Every man who comes into the world [the stars] seek to
fascinate and possess...
MR 1.238 22
...when [a man] comes to give all the goods he has year after
year collected, in one estate to his son...the son finds his hands full...
LT 1.266 10
Now and then comes a bolder spirit...
LT 1.266 16
...when we stand by the seashore...a wave comes up the beach
far higher than any foregoing one, and recedes;...
LT 1.266 18
...when we stand by the seashore...a wave comes up the beach
far higher than any foregoing one, and recedes; and for a long while none
comes up to that mark;...
LT 1.273 27
...a [wealthy] man may say his religion...is become a dividual
moveable, and goes and comes near him, according as that good man
frequents the house.
LT 1.274 3
[The wealthy man] entertains [the divine]...lodges him; his
religion comes home at night...
LT 1.289 13
...the granite comes to the surface and towers into the highest
mountains...
LT 1.289 18
...in all the details of our domestic or civil life is hidden the
elemental reality, which ever and anon comes to the surface...
LT 1.290 10
...men seem to fear and to shun [the Moral Sentiment] when it
comes barely to view in our immediate neighborhood.
Con 1.306 4
...when this great tendency [conservatism] comes to practical
encounters, and is challenged by young men...it must needs seem injurious.
Tran 1.346 21
...when deed, word, or letter comes not, [our friends] let us
go.
Tran 1.353 11
...[the Transcendentalist] lies by, or occupies his hands with
some plaything, until his hour comes again.
Tran 1.357 6
[The strong spirits'] thought and emotion comes in like a
flood...
YA 1.376 16
...the sceptre comes to be a crow-bar.
YA 1.377 1
...when peace comes, the nobles prove very whimsical and
uncomfortable masters;...
YA 1.388 5
Every body who comes into our houses savors of these habits;
the men, of the market; the women, of the custom.
YA 1.394 2
In the East, where the religious sentiment comes in to the
support of the aristocracy...there is a grain of sweetness in the tyranny;...
Hist 2.30 6
One after another [the advancing man] comes up in his private
adventures with every fable of Aesop...
Hist 2.33 9
...if the man...refuses the dominion of facts, as one that comes
of a higher race;...then the facts fall aptly and supple into their places;...
SR 2.51 12
If an angry bigot...comes to me with his last news from
Barbadoes, why should I not say to him, Go love thy infant;...
SR 2.65 1
If we ask whence [universal intelligence] comes...all philosophy
is at fault.
SR 2.68 8
...when [children] come into the point of view which those had
who uttered these sayings, they...are willing to let the words go; for at any
time they can use words as good when occasion comes.
Comp 2.99 22
With every influx of light comes new danger.
Comp 2.100 14
If the law is too mild, private vengeance comes in.
Comp 2.105 7
Drive out Nature with a fork, she comes running back.
Comp 2.125 16
...to us...resisting, not cooperating with the divine
expansion, this growth comes by shocks.
SL 2.148 27
[A man]...comes at last to be faithfully represented by every
view you take of his circumstances.
SL 2.150 18
...a person of related mind...comes to us so softly and easily...
that we feel as if some one was gone, instead of another having come;...
SL 2.158 6
A stranger comes from a distant school, with better dress...
SL 2.165 5
...this under-estimate of our own [possibilities], comes from a
neglect of the fact of an identical nature.
Lov1 2.172 23
...to-day [the rude village boy] comes running into the entry
and meets one fair child disposing her satchel;...
Lov1 2.182 10
By conversation with that which is in itself excellent,
magnanimous, lowly, and just, the lover comes to a warmer love of these
nobilities...
Fdsp 2.189 3
...The world uncertain comes and goes,/ The lover rooted
stays./
Fdsp 2.193 10
Now, when [the stranger] comes, he may get the order, the
dress and the dinner...
Fdsp 2.201 27
He who offers himself a candidate for that covenant [of
friendship] comes up, like an Olympian, to the great games where the first-born
of the world are the competitors.
Prd1 2.227 4
Some wisdom comes out of every natural and innocent action.
Prd1 2.238 2
In the occurrence of unpleasant things among neighbors, fear
comes readily to heart and magnifies the consequence of the other party;...
OS 2.267 3
Our faith comes in moments;...
OS 2.271 24
A wise old proverb says, God comes to see us without bell;...
OS 2.275 4
With each divine impulse the mind...comes out into eternity...
OS 2.281 11
A thrill passes through all men...at the performance of a great
action, which comes out of the heart of nature.
OS 2.288 10
...[scholars and authors] have a light and know not whence it
comes...
OS 2.289 25
[The energy of the soul] comes to the lowly and simple;...
OS 2.289 25
...[the energy of the soul] comes to whomsoever will put off
what is foreign and proud;...
OS 2.289 27
...[the energy of the soul] comes as insight;...
OS 2.289 27
...[the energy of the soul] comes as serenity and grandeur.
OS 2.290 3
From that inspiration [of the soul] the man comes back with a
changed tone.
Cir 2.305 24
The new statement...to those dwelling in the old, comes like
an abyss of scepticism.
Int 2.331 4
At last comes the era of reflection...
Int 2.332 4
...the oracle comes because we had previously laid siege to the
shrine.
Art1 2.354 12
Until one thing comes out from the connection of things,
there can be enjoyment, contemplation, but no thought.
Pt1 3.22 12
...the poet names the thing because he...comes one step nearer
to it than any other.
Pt1 3.28 23
...the great calm presence of the Creator, comes not forth to the
sorceries of opium or of wine.
Pt1 3.28 24
The sublime vision comes to the pure and simple soul in a
clean and chaste body.
Pt1 3.29 21
That spirit which suffices quiet hearts...comes forth to the poor
and hungry...
Pt1 3.34 23
The morning-redness happens to be the favorite meteor to the
eyes of Jacob Behmen, and comes to stand to him for truth and faith;...
Pt1 3.40 19
Comes [the poet] to that power, his genius is no longer
exhaustible.
Exp 3.64 7
[Nature] comes eating and drinking and sinning.
Exp 3.67 9
...presently comes a day...which discomfits the conclusions of
nations and of years!
Exp 3.69 11
All writing comes by the grace of God...
Exp 3.69 23
The persons who compose our company...design and execute
many things, and somewhat comes of it all, but an unlooked-for result.
Chr1 3.105 5
Thence [from character] comes a new intellectual exaltation...
Chr1 3.110 9
[The virtuous prince] waits a hundred ages till a sage comes,
and does not doubt.
Chr1 3.110 11
...he who waits a hundred ages until a sage comes, without
doubting, knows men.
Chr1 3.115 25
...when that love...which has vowed to itself that it will be a
wretch and also a fool in this world sooner than soil its white hands by any
compliances, comes into our streets and houses,--only the pure and aspiring
can know its face...
Mrs1 3.135 13
...if perchance a searching realist comes to our gate...then
again we run to our curtain, and hide ourselves...
Mrs1 3.139 15
This perception [of measure] comes in to polish and perfect
the parts of the social instrument.
Mrs1 3.140 14
[One] must leave the omniscience of business at the door,
when he comes into the palace of beauty.
Mrs1 3.148 4
...elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth.
Gts 3.159 11
If at any time it comes into my head that a present is due from
me to somebody, I am puzzled what to give...
Gts 3.162 25
I am sorry...when a gift comes from such as do not know my
spirit...
Nat2 3.171 12
Ever...comes in this honest face [of nature], and takes a
grave liberty with us...
Nat2 3.185 14
...when now and then comes along some sad, sharp-eyed
man, who sees how paltry a game is played, and refuses to play but blabs
the secret;--how then?
Nat2 3.188 4
Each prophet comes presently to identify himself with his
thought...
Pol1 3.203 2
...so long as it comes to the owners in the direct way, no other
opinion would arise in any equitable community than that property should
make the law for property, and persons the law for persons.
NR 3.238 18
...when [the recluse] comes into a public assembly he sees that
men have very different manners from his own...
NR 3.238 23
When afterwards [the recluse] comes to unfold [his
endowment] in propitious circumstance, it seems the only talent;...
NR 3.242 19
The universality being hindered in its primary form, comes in
the secondary form of all sides;...
NER 3.268 14
A man of good sense but of little faith...said to me that he
liked to have concerts, and fairs, and churches, and other public
amusements go on. I am afraid the remark...comes from the same origin as
the maxim of the tyrant, If you would rule the world quietly, you must keep
it amused.
NER 3.269 14
...some doubt is felt by good and wise men whether really
the happiness and probity of men is increased by the culture of the mind in
those disciplines to which we give the name of education. Unhappily too
the doubt comes from scholars...
NER 3.274 1
We crave a sense of reality, though it comes in strokes of pain.
UGM 4.9 12
The earth rolls; every clod and stone comes to the meridian...
UGM 4.9 15
...every organ, function, acid, crystal, grain of dust, has its
relation to the brain. It waits long, but its turn comes.
UGM 4.10 6
...a sober grace adheres to the mineral and botanic kingdoms,
which, in the highest moments, comes up as the charm of nature...
UGM 4.11 1
There are advancements to numbers, anatomy, architecture,
astronomy, little suspected at first, when, by union with intellect and will,
they...reappear in conversation, character and politics. But this comes later.
UGM 4.12 18
Every ship that comes to America got its chart from
Columbus.
UGM 4.19 16
When nature removes a great man, people explore the
horizon for a successor; but none comes, and none will.
UGM 4.21 17
If I work in my garden and prune an apple-tree, I am well
enough entertained, and could continue indefinitely in the like occupation.
But it comes to mind that a day is gone, and I have got this precious nothing
done.
UGM 4.22 22
...a man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets,
envies and hatreds of his competitors.
PPh 4.47 17
At last comes Plato, the distributor, who needs no barbaric
paint, or tattoo, or whooping;...
PPh 4.60 17
...[Plato] paints and quibbles; and by and by comes a sentence
that moves the sea and land.
PPh 4.60 18
The admirable earnest [in Plato] comes not only at intervals...
PNR 4.83 18
Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and
ulterior senses. His...clear vision of the laws of return, or reaction...
instanced everywhere, but specially in the doctrine, what comes from God
to us, returns from us to God...
PNR 4.87 13
[Plato's] thoughts, in sparkles of light, had appeared often to
pious and to poetic souls; but this well-bred, all-knowing Greek geometer
comes with command, gathers them all up into rank and gradation...
SwM 4.93 22
Wherever the sentiment of right comes in, it takes precedence
of every thing else.
SwM 4.97 12
All religious history contains traces of the trance of saints...
The trances of Socrates...Swedenborg, will readily come to mind. But what
as readily comes to mind is the accompaniment of disease.
SwM 4.97 13
All religious history contains traces of the trance of saints...
The trances of Socrates...Swedenborg, will readily come to mind. But what
as readily comes to mind is the accompaniment of disease. This beatitude
comes in terror...
SwM 4.112 11
[Swedenborg]...sometimes sought to uncover those secret
recesses where Nature is sitting at the fires in the depths of her laboratory;
whilst the picture comes recommended by the hard fidelity with which it is
based on practical anatomy.
SwM 4.133 13
Every thought [in Swedenborg's system of the world]
comes into each mind by influence from a society of spirits that surround
it...
SwM 4.133 25
Only when Cicero comes by, our gentle seer [Swedenborg]
sticks a little at saying he talked with Cicero...
SwM 4.145 4
In the shipwreck...the pilot chooses with science,--I plant
myself here; all will sink before this; he comes to land who sails with me.
MoS 4.150 22
It is easy to see how this arrogance [of the literary class]
comes.
MoS 4.152 19
After dinner...a man comes to be valued by his athletic and
animal qualities.
MoS 4.168 1
The Essays...are an entertaining soliloquy on every random
topic that comes into [Montaigne's] head;...
MoS 4.171 15
...men rightly...reject the reformer so long as he comes only
with axe and crowbar.
MoS 4.179 7
...when a man comes into the room it does not appear whether
he has been fed on yams or buffalo...
MoS 4.185 3
The expansive nature of truth comes to our succor...
ShP 4.189 13
A poet is no rattle-brain, saying what comes uppermost...
ShP 4.196 21
...[the poet in illiterate times] comes to value his memory
equally with his invention.
ShP 4.218 9
The Egyptian verdict of the Shakspeare Societies comes to
mind; that [Shakespeare] was a jovial actor and manager.
NMW 4.227 7
[A man of Napoleon's stamp]...comes to be a bureau for all
the intelligence, wit and power of the age and country.
GoW 4.262 3
In nature...the narrative is the print of the seal. It neither
exceeds nor comes short of the fact.
GoW 4.262 24
Whatever [the writer] beholds or experiences, comes to him
as a model and sits for its picture.
GoW 4.263 3
Nothing so broad, so subtle, or so dear, but comes...
commended to [the writer's] pen, and he will write.
ET1 5.17 14
[Carlyle]...recounted the incredible sums paid in one year by
the great booksellers for puffing. Hence it comes that no newspaper is
trusted now...
ET1 5.20 4
There may be, [Wordsworth] said, in America some vulgarity
in manner, but that 's not important. That comes of the pioneer state of
things.
ET4 5.68 22
...Robin Hood comes described to us as mitissimus
praedonum; the gentlest thief.
ET5 5.76 25
The Scandinavian fancied himself surrounded by Trolls...
divine stevedores, carpenters, reapers, smiths and masons, swift to reward
every kindness done them, with gifts of gold and silver. In all English
history this dream comes to pass.
ET6 5.107 23
...with the national tendency to sit fast in the same spot for
many generations, [the Englishman's house] comes to be, in the course of
time, a museum of heirlooms...
ET7 5.124 2
A slow temperament...has given occasion to the observation
that English wit comes afterwards...
ET9 5.147 25
...[the Englishman] thinks every circumstance belonging to
him comes recommended to you.
ET11 5.174 12
The selfishness of the [English] nobles comes in aid of the
interest of the nation to require signal merit.
ET12 5.213 10
...when you have settled it that the universities are
moribund, out comes a poetic influence from the heart of Oxford...
ET12 5.213 16
...the best poetry of England of this age, in the old forms,
comes from two graduates at Cambridge.
ET13 5.223 11
...whenever it comes to action, the [English] clergyman
invariably sides with his church.
ET14 5.239 12
...wherever the mind takes a step, it is to put itself at one
with a larger class, discerned beyond the lesser class with which it has been
conversant. Hence, all poetry and all affirmative action comes.
ET14 5.252 7
Nothing comes to the [English] book-shops but politics,
travels, statistics, tabulation and engineering;...
ET15 5.263 2
[Writing for English journals] comes of the crowded state of
the professions...
ET15 5.268 16
No writer is suffered to claim the authorship of any paper
[in the London Times]; everything good, from whatever quarter, comes out
editorially;...
ET16 5.274 14
As soon as men begin to talk of art, architecture and
antiquities, nothing good comes of it [according to Carlyle].
ET17 5.295 12
In speaking of I know not what style, [Wordsworth] said, to
be sure, it was the manner, but then you know the matter always comes out
of the manner.
F 6.4 15
By the same obedience to other thoughts we learn [their power],
and then comes some reasonable hope of harmonizing them.
F 6.10 8
We sometimes see a change of expression in our companion and
say his...mother comes to the windows of his eyes...
F 6.10 26
When each comes forth from his mother's womb, the gate of gifts
closes behind him.
F 6.15 27
...when a race has lived its term, it comes no more again.
F 6.46 26
...what we wish for in youth, comes in heaps on us in old age...
Pow 6.59 3
When a new boy comes into school...that happens which befalls
when a strange ox is driven into a pen or pasture where cattle are kept; there
is at once a trial of strength between the best pair of horns and the new-comer...
Pow 6.61 11
One comes to value this plus health when he sees that all
difficulties vanish before it.
Wth 6.102 4
In the city...[the dollar] comes to be looked on as light.
Wth 6.110 3
...the Americans grew rich and great. But the pay-day comes
round.
Wth 6.119 20
[A farm] requires as much watching as if you were decanting
wine from a cask. The farmer knows what to do with it...but a blunderhead
comes out of Cornhill, tries his hand, and it all leaks away.
Wth 6.120 21
Help comes in the custom of the country...
Wth 6.122 15
When a citizen fresh from Dock Square or Milk Street comes
out and buys land in the country, his first thought is to a fine outlook from
his windows;...
Wth 6.123 5
...the citizen comes to know that his predecessor the farmer
built the house in the right spot for the sun and wind...
Wth 6.123 13
Use has made the farmer wise, and the foolish citizen learns
to take his counsel. From step to step he comes at last to surrender at
discretion.
Ctr 6.142 15
You send [your boy] to the Latin class, but much of his tuition
comes, on his way to school, from the shop-windows.
Ctr 6.152 9
...among a million of good coats a fine coat comes to be no
distinction...
Bhr 6.180 14
One comes away from a company in which, it may easily
happen, he has said nothing...
Bhr 6.186 27
A person of strong mind comes to perceive that for him an
immunity is secured so long as he renders to society that service which is
native and proper to him...
Bhr 6.187 18
Here comes to me Roland...
Wsp 6.215 21
...a day comes when [a man] begins to care that he do not
cheat his neighbor.
Wsp 6.221 1
...[a man] does not see...that relation and connection are not
somewhere and sometimes, but everywhere and always;...method, and an
even web; and what comes out, that was put in.
Wsp 6.230 1
How a man's truth comes to mind, long after we have
forgotten all his words!
Wsp 6.230 3
How it comes to us in silent hours, that truth is our only armor
in all passages of life and death!
Wsp 6.235 10
...[Benedict said] in all the encounters that have yet chanced,
I have not been weaponed for that particular occasion, and have been
historically beaten; and yet I know all the time that I...shall certainly fight
when my hour comes, and shall beat.
Wsp 6.236 4
[Benedict said] if [the thought] come not spontaneously, it
comes not rightly at all.
Wsp 6.237 3
Mira came to ask what she should do with the poor Genesee
woman who had hired herself to work for her...and, now sickening, was like
to be bedridden on her hands. Should she keep her, or should she dismiss
her? But Benedict said, why ask? One thing will clear itself as the thing to
be done...when the hour comes.
Wsp 6.238 4
Miracle comes to the miraculous...
CbW 6.243 7
...Ever from one who comes to-morrow/ Men wait their good
and truth to borrow./
CbW 6.262 15
In our life and culture everything is worked up and comes in
use...
CbW 6.268 13
The youth aches for solitude. When he comes to the house
he passes through the house.
CbW 6.269 16
When [a blockhead] comes into the office or public room,
the society dissolves;...
CbW 6.271 12
...if one comes who can illuminate this dark house with
thoughts...he wakes in [men] the feeling of worth...
CbW 6.276 1
...it rests with the master or the mistress what service comes
from the man or the maid;...
Ill 6.312 22
[the dreariest alderman] wishes the bow and compliment of
some leader in the state or in society; weighs what he says; perhaps he
never comes nearer to him for that, but dies at last better contented for this
amusement of his eyes and his fancy.
Ill 6.314 4
Amid the joyous troop who give in to the charivari, comes now
and then a sad-eyed boy whose eyes lack the requisite refractions to clothe
the show in due glory...
Civ 7.21 24
'T is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log hut on the
frontier. ... With it comes a Latin grammar...
Civ 7.22 27
...the power of a wafer or a drop of wax or gluten to guard a
letter, as it flies over sea over land and comes to its address as if a battalion
of artillery brought it, I look upon as a fine meter of civilization.
Elo1 7.75 25
In a Senate or other business committee, the solid result
depends on a few men with working talent. They...value men only as they
can forward the work. But a new man comes there who has no capacity for
helping them at all...
DL 7.123 17
...every man is provided in his thought with a measure of man
which he applies to every passenger. Unhappily, not one in many thousands
comes up to the stature and proportions of the model.
DL 7.124 13
In men, it is their...removal to the East or to the West, or some
other magnified trifle which makes the meridian movement, and all the
after years and actions only derive interest from their relation to that. Hence
it comes that we soon catch the trick of each man's conversation...
Farm 7.148 4
In September, when the pears hang heaviest...comes usually
a gusty day which...throws down the heaviest fruit in bruised heaps.
Farm 7.148 22
The chemist comes to [the farmer's] aid every year by
following out some new hint drawn from Nature...
Boks 7.195 14
There has already been a scrutiny and choice from many
hundreds of young pens before the pamphlet or political chapter which you
read in a fugitive journal comes to your eye.
Boks 7.211 24
Now and then out of that affluence of [the German's]
learning comes a fine sentence from Theophrastus, or Seneca, or Boethius...
Clbs 7.231 5
The reply of old Isocrates comes so often to mind,--The things
which are now seasonable I cannot say; and for the things which I can say it
is not now the time.
Clbs 7.235 5
Yonder is a man who can answer the questions which I
cannot. Is it so? Hence comes to me boundless curiosity to know his
experiences and his wit.
Clbs 7.237 16
Odin comes to the threshold of the Jotun Wafthrudnir in
disguise...
Cour 7.257 10
...[the babe] comes so slowly to any power of self-protection
that mothers say the salvation of the life and health of a young child is a
perpetual miracle.
Cour 7.269 23
When a confident man comes into a company magnifying
this or that author he has freshly read, the company grow silent and
ashamed of their ignorance.
Cour 7.274 5
...practice never comes up with [the religious sentiment].
Cour 7.275 25
Scholars and thinkers...shrink if a coarser shout comes up
from the street...
Suc 7.293 22
It is the dulness of the multitude that they cannot see the
house in the ground-plan; the working, in the model of the projector. Whilst
it is a thought...it is cried down, it is a chimera; but when it is a fact, and
comes in the shape of eight per cent....they cry, It is the voice of God.
Suc 7.295 14
He only who comes into this central intelligence...comes into
self-possession.
Suc 7.295 15
He only who comes into this central intelligence...comes into
self-possession.
Suc 7.296 21
The light by which we see in this world comes out from the
soul of the observer.
Suc 7.297 11
When the scholar or the writer has pumped his brain for
thoughts and verses, and then comes abroad into Nature, has he never found
that there is a better poetry hinted in a boy's whistle...than in all his literary
results?
Suc 7.303 14
...the genial man is interested in every slipper that comes into
the assembly.
Suc 7.310 14
Despondency comes readily enough to the most sanguine.
OA 7.321 22
Skill to do comes of doing;...
OA 7.321 22
...knowledge comes by eyes always open, and working
hands;...
OA 7.330 9
The day comes when the hidden author of our story is found;...
OA 7.336 5
I have heard that whenever the name of man is spoken, the
doctrine of immortality is announced; it cleaves to his constitution. The
mode of it baffles our wit, and no whisper comes to us from the other side.
PI 8.14 3
...[a new symbol] will last a hundred years. Then comes a new
genius, and brings another.
PI 8.38 4
A poet comes who lifts the veil;...
PI 8.40 7
...a new verse comes once in a hundred years;...
PI 8.58 10
...[The wind] has no fear, nor the rude wants of created things./
Great God! how the sea whitens when it comes?/
PI 8.68 18
In proportion as a man's life comes into union with truth, his
thoughts approach to a parallelism with the currents of natural laws...
SA 8.84 13
When a stranger comes to buy goods of you, do you not look in
his face and answer according to what you read there?
Elo2 8.116 1
I must feel that the speaker...comes for something...
Elo2 8.125 17
...when [the orator] rises to any height of thought or of
passion he comes down to a language level with the ear of all his audience.
Elo2 8.129 27
...the essential thing [in eloquence] is heat, and heat comes
of sincerity.
QO 8.183 2
The borrowing [from the past] is often honest enough, and
comes of magnanimity and stoutness.
QO 8.193 26
...a quick wit can at any time reinforce [a word], and it comes
into vogue again.
QO 8.203 6
He that comes second must needs quote him that comes first.
QO 8.203 7
He that comes second must needs quote him that comes first.
PPo 8.247 25
...quick perception and corresponding expression...this
generosity of ebb and flow satisfies, and we should be willing to die when
our time comes, having had our swing and gratification.
PPo 8.251 12
In general what is more tedious than dedications or
panegyrics addressed to grandees? Yet in the Divan you would not skip
them, since [Hafiz's] muse seldom supports him better:-What lovelier
forms things wear,/ Now that the Shah comes back!/...
PPo 8.263 5
I read on the porch of a palace bold/ In a purple tablet letters
cast,-/ A house though a million winters old,/ A house of earth comes
down at last;/...
PPo 8.264 31
The Highest is a sun-mirror;/ Who comes to Him sees
himself therein,/ Sees body and soul, and soul and body;/...
Insp 8.272 25
I think [a thought] comes to some men but once in their life...
Insp 8.278 1
...[Behmen said] though I could have written in a more
accurate, fair and plain manner, the burning fire often forced forward with
speed, and the hand and pen must hasten directly after it, for it comes and
goes as a sudden shower.
Insp 8.278 23
Herrick said: 'T is not every day that I/ Fitted am to
prophesy;/ No, but when the spirit fills/ The fantastic panicles,/ Full of fire,
then I write/ As the Godhead doth indite./ Thus enraged, my lines are
hurled,/ Like the Sibyl's, through the world;/ Look how next the holy fire/
Either slakes, or doth retire;/ So the fancy cools,-till when/ That brave
spirit comes again./
Imtl 8.326 6
...the modern Greeks, in their songs, ask...that a little window
may be cut in the sepulchre, from which the swallow might be seen when it
comes back in the spring.
Imtl 8.341 23
[The thinker] is but as a fly or a worm to this mountain, this
continent, which his thoughts inhabit. It is a perception that comes by the
activity of the intellect;...
Imtl 8.341 25
Courage comes naturally to those who have the habit of
facing labor and danger...
Imtl 8.342 2
...courage or confidence in the mind comes to those who know
by use its wonderful forces and inspirations and returns.
Imtl 8.345 22
...one abstains from writing or printing on the immortality of
the soul, because, when he comes to the end of his statement, the hungry
eyes that run through it will close disappointed;...
Imtl 8.347 13
He has [immortality], and he alone, who gives life to all
names, persons, things, where he comes.
Dem1 10.16 7
As [the young man] comes into manhood he remembers
passages and persons that seem...to have been supernaturally deprived of
injurious influence on him.
Aris 10.63 9
...the revolution comes, and does [the man of honor] join the
standard of Chartist and outlaw?
Aris 10.65 12
...it suffices...that [the man of generous spirit] comes into
what is called fine society from higher ground...
PerF 10.82 1
...when the soldier comes home from the fight, he fills all
eyes.
PerF 10.83 5
And so, one step higher, when [the susceptible man] comes
into the realm of sentiment and will. He sees...the eternity that belongs to
all moral nature.
PerF 10.86 13
All our political disasters grow as logically out of our
attempts in the past to do without justice, as the sinking of some part of
your house comes of defect in the foundation.
Chr2 10.99 13
Slowly the body comes to the use of its organs;...
Chr2 10.100 17
It happens now and then, in the ages, that a soul is born...
which comes down into Nature as if only for the benefit of souls...
Chr2 10.103 4
...the memory and tradition of such a [steadfast] leader is
preserved in some strange way by those who only half understand him,
until a true disciple comes, who apprehends and interprets every word.
Edc1 10.142 21
There comes the period of the imagination to each, a later
youth;...
Edc1 10.147 25
By many steps...the hesitating collegian, in the school
debate...in mock court, comes at last to full, secure, triumphant unfolding of
his thought in the popular assembly...
Edc1 10.150 12
Appetite and indolence [young men] have, but no
enthusiasm. These come in numbers to the college: few geniuses: and the
teaching comes to be arranged for these many, and not for those few.
Supl 10.164 18
...we may challenge Providence to send a fact so tragical
that we cannot contrive to make it a little worse in our gossip. All this
comes of poverty.
Supl 10.175 15
Plant beechmast and it comes up, or it does not come up.
SovE 10.192 10
The student discovers one day that he lives in
enchantment...and through this enchanted gallery he is led by unseen guides
to read and learn the laws of Heaven. This discovery may come early...and
to multitudes of men wanting in mental activity it never comes...
SovE 10.201 5
...up comes a man with a text of I John v. 7...which he
considers as the axe at the root of your tree.
SovE 10.211 12
Governments stand by [men's credence],-by the faith that
the people share,-whether it comes from the religion in which they were
bred, or from an original conscience in themselves...
SovE 10.213 1
To [innocence] alone comes true friendship;...
Prch 10.225 9
[The moral sentiment] comes itself from the highest place.
MoL 10.252 14
All that the world admires comes from within.
MoL 10.257 9
War, seeking for the roots of strength, comes upon the moral
aspects at once.
Schr 10.262 20
Stung by this intellectual conscience, we go to measure our
tasks as scholars...and our sadness is suddenly overshone by a sympathy of
blessing. Beauty...comes in and puts a new face on the world.
Schr 10.266 7
[Nature]...comes in with a new ravishing experience and
makes the old time ridiculous.
Schr 10.269 10
The shallow clamor against theoretic men comes from the
weak.
Schr 10.273 2
The scholar, when he comes, will be known by an energy
that will animate all who see him.
Plu 10.306 20
The central fact is the superhuman intelligence, pouring into
us from its unknown fountain, to be...defended from any mixture of our
will. But this high Muse comes and goes;...
Plu 10.309 20
...[Plutarch]...despises the Epicharmian disputations: as,
that...he that was yesterday invited to supper, the next night comes an
unbidden guest, for that he is quite another person.
Carl 10.493 21
The literary, the fashionable, the political man...comes
eagerly to see this man [Carlyle], whose fun they have heartily enjoyed...
and are struck with despair at the first onset.
War 11.167 4
At a still higher stage, [man] comes into the region of
holiness;...
War 11.173 15
...another age comes, a truer religion and ethics open...
FSLC 11.183 3
The fact comes out more plainly that you cannot rely on
any man for the defence of truth, who is not constitutionally or by blood
and temperament on that side.
FSLC 11.196 3
This [Fugitive Slave] law comes with infamy in it, and out
of it.
FSLC 11.199 26
When a moral quality comes into politics...general
principles are laid bare...
FSLN 11.220 3
...when a great man comes who knots up into himself the
opinions and wishes of the people, it is so much easier to follow him as an
exponent of this.
FSLN 11.238 25
...the spasms of Nature are centuries and ages, and will tax
the faith of short-lived men. Slowly, slowly the Avenger comes, but comes
surely.
FSLN 11.238 26
...the spasms of Nature are centuries and ages, and will tax
the faith of short-lived men. Slowly, slowly the Avenger comes, but comes
surely.
FSLN 11.244 22
The Anti-Slavery Society will add many members this
year. The Whig Party will join it; the Democrats will join it. The population
of the free states will join it. I doubt not, at last, the slave states will join it.
But...whoever comes or stays away, I hope we have reached the end of our
unbelief...
AKan 11.261 7
...of Kansas, the President says; Let the complainants go to
the courts; though he knows that when the poor plundered farmer comes to
the court, he finds the ringleader who has robbed him dismounting from his
own horse, and unbuckling his knife to sit as his judge.
JBS 11.277 6
...the best orators who have added their praise to his fame...
have one rival who comes off a little better, and that is JOHN BROWN.
TPar 11.284 1
Here comes Parker, the Orson of parsons, a man/ Whom the
Church undertook to put under her ban.-/
TPar 11.285 8
It is only what [a man] tells of himself that comes to be
known and believed.
ACiv 11.297 7
...now here comes this conspiracy of slavery,-they call it
an institution, I call it a destitution...
ACiv 11.305 8
Then comes the summer, and the fever will drive the
soldiers home;...
EPro 11.315 13
[Liberty] comes, like religion, for short periods...
SMC 11.358 5
...the captain [George Prescott] writes home of another of
his men, B[owers] comes from a sense of duty and love of country...
SMC 11.372 18
June fourth is marked in [George Prescott's] diary as An
awful day;-two hundred men lost to the command; and not until the fifth
of June comes at last a respite for a short space...
Wom 11.421 24
...if any man will take the trouble to see how our people
vote,-how many gentlemen...standing at the door of the polls, give every
innocent citizen his ticket as he comes in, informing him that this is the vote
of his party;...I cannot but think he will agree that most women might vote
as wisely.
FRO2 11.488 14
[Miraculous dispensation] comes the wrong way; to
comes from without, not within.
FRO2 11.488 15
[Miraculous dispensation] comes the wrong way; to
comes from without, not within.
FRep 11.528 23
We have eight or ten religions in every large town, and the
most that comes of it is a degree or two on the thermometer of fashion;...
FRep 11.529 12
The government...knows the leaders of the humblest class.
The President comes near enough to these;...
FRep 11.531 25
In this country...there is, at present...an extravagant
confidence in our talent and activity, which becomes, whilst successful, a
scornful materialism,-but with the fault, of course, that it has...no reserved
force whereon to fall back when a reverse comes.
PLT 12.7 23
...[a plain man] comes to write in his tablets, Avoid the great
man as one who is privileged to be an unprofitable companion.
PLT 12.11 4
The wonder of the science of Intellect is that the substance
with which we deal is of that subtle and active quality that it intoxicates all
who approach it. Gloves on the hands...are no defence against this virus,
which comes in as secretly as gravitation into and through all barriers.
PLT 12.15 21
We figure to ourselves Intellect as an ethereal sea...carrying
its whole virtue into every creek and inlet which it bathes. To this sea every
human house has a water front. But this force...making day where it comes
and leaving night when it departs, is no fee or property of man or angel.
PLT 12.17 18
Every just thinker has attempted to indicate these degrees [of
Intellect], these steps on the heavenly stair, until he comes to light where
language fails him.
PLT 12.21 3
[A thought] comes single like a foreign traveller,-but find
out its name, and it is related to a powerful and numerous family.
PLT 12.31 3
The one thing not to be forgiven to intellectual persons is that
they believe in the ideas of others. From this deference comes the
imbecility and fatigue of their society...
PLT 12.33 20
Right thought comes spontaneously...
PLT 12.33 20
Right thought comes spontaneously, comes like the morning
wind;...
PLT 12.33 21
Right thought...comes daily, like our daily bread, to humble
service;...
PLT 12.33 22
Right thought...comes duly to those who look for it.
PLT 12.47 21
By and by comes a facility; some one that can move the
mountain and build of it a causeway through the Dismal Swamp, as easily
as he carries the hair on his head.
PLT 12.53 11
I must think...that we have in the race the sketch of a man
which no individual comes up to.
PLT 12.57 26
Peter is the mould into which everything is poured like warm
wax, and be it astronomy or railroads or French revolution or theology or
botany, it comes out Peter.
II 12.67 5
All true wisdom of thought and of action comes of deference to
this instinct...
II 12.72 22
The reformer comes with many plans of melioration...
II 12.82 10
Every man comes into Nature impressed with his own polarity
or bias...
Mem 12.92 18
...in the history of character the day comes when you are
incapable of such crime [of neglect, selfishness, passion].
CInt 12.125 13
In the romance Spiridion...we had...the story of a young
saint who comes into a convent for her education...
CInt 12.125 21
Piety comes to be regarded as a spy and a rebel.
CInt 12.130 19
Go sit with the Hermit in you, who knows more than you
do. You will find...doors opened to grander entertainments. Yet all comes
easily that he does...
Bost 12.187 24
Each great city...comes to be the brag of its age and
population.
Bost 12.205 2
[The people of Massachusetts] knew, as God knew, that
command of Nature comes by obedience to Nature;...
Bost 12.205 3
[The people of Massachusetts] knew...that reward comes by
faithful service;...
Milt1 12.250 25
...when [Milton] comes to speak of the reason of the thing
[Defence of the English People], then he always recovers himself.
MLit 12.334 6
There is nothing in the heart but comes presently to the lips.
Pray 12.352 4
When my long-attached friend comes to me, I have pleasure
to converse with him...
Pray 12.353 24
I know that sorrow comes not at once only.
AgMs 12.360 13
...every man has one thing which he specially wishes to
say, and that comes out at first.
PPr 12.380 19
[Carlyle's Past and Present] has the merit which belongs to
every honest book, that it was self-examining before it was eloquent, and
so...as the country people say of good preaching, comes bounce down into
every pew.
Let 12.401 26
...where the divine nature and the artist is crushed...every
other planet is better than the earth. Men deteriorate...drunkenness comes
with a disaster;...
Trag 12.411 11
[Tragedy] is full of illusion. As it comes, it has its support.
comet, n. (6)
MN 1.203 13
The embryo does not more strive to be man, than yonder burr
of light we call a nebula tends to be a ring, a comet, a globe, and parent of
new stars.
SL 2.137 18
...the globe, earth, moon, comet, sun, star, fall for ever and
ever.
SwM 4.118 16
...there is no comet, rock-stratum...that, for itself, does not
interest more scholars and classifiers than the meaning and upshot of the
frame of things.
Ill 6.310 16
...on looking upwards [in the Mammoth Cave], I saw or seemed
to see the night heaven thick with stars...and even what seemed a comet
flaming among them.
Chr2 10.106 27
Calvinism was one and the same thing in Geneva, in
Scotland, in Old and New England. If there was a wedding, they had a
sermon;...if a war, or small-pox, or a comet, or canker-worms, or a deacon
died,-still a sermon...
Edc1 10.131 22
Yonder magnificent astronomy [man] is at last to import,
fetching away...solstice, period, comet and binal star, by comprehending
their relation and law.
cometary, adj. (1)
CbW 6.247 25
See what a cometary train of auxiliaries man carries with
him...
cometh, v. (8)
Nat 1.77 8
The kingdom of man over nature, which cometh not with
observation...he shall enter without more wonder than the blind man feels
who is gradually restored to perfect sight.
Hist 2.1 3
There is no great and no small/ To the Soul that maketh all:/ And
where it cometh, all things are;/ And it cometh everywhere./
Hist 2.1 4
There is no great and no small/ To the Soul that maketh all:/ And
where it cometh, all things are;/ And it cometh everywhere./
Cir 2.311 8
We all stand waiting, empty...surrounded by mighty symbols
which are not symbols to us, but prose and trivial toys. Then cometh the
god and converts the statues into fiery men...
Exp 3.68 24
...the moral sentiment is well called the newness, for it is never
other;...the kingdom that cometh without observation.
PI 8.62 2
Ah, sir, said Merlin [to Sir Gawaine]...there is no such strong
tower as this wherein I am confined;...neither can I go out, nor can any one
come in, save she...who keeps me company when it pleaseth her: she
cometh when she listeth, for her will is here.
Aris 10.30 5
Than cometh our very gentillesse of grace,/ It was no thing
bequethed us with our place./ Chaucer, The Knighte's Tale.
ACri 12.297 26
...I think of [Carlyle] when I read the famous inscription on
the pyramid, I King Saib built this pyramid. I, when I had built it, covered it
with satin. Let him who cometh after me, and says he is equal to me, cover
it with mats.
comets, n. (2)
ShP 4.217 17
[Shakespeare] was master of the revels to mankind. Is it not
as if one should have...the comets given into his hand...and should draw
them from their orbits to glare with the municipal fireworks on a holiday
night...
F 6.7 13
The planet is liable to shocks from comets...
comfits, n. (2)
MR 1.244 27
...as soon as there is society, comfits and cushions will be left
to slaves.
Ill 6.314 18
...I remember the quarrel of another youth with the
confectioners, that when he racked his wit to choose the best comfits in the
shops, in all the endless varieties of sweetmeat he could find only three
flavors, or two.
comfort, n. (64)
LE 1.181 27
The good scholar will not refuse...to make his own hands
acquainted with...the sweat that goes before comfort and luxury.
MR 1.237 14
Is it possible that I, who get indefinite quantities of sugar,
hominy...by simply signing my name...get the fair share of exercise to my
faculties by that act which nature intended me in making all these far-fetched
matters important to my comfort?
MR 1.246 9
[Infirm people] contrive everywhere to exhaust for their single
comfort the entire means and appliances of that luxury to which our
invention has yet attained.
MR 1.249 9
I ought not to allow any man, because he has broad lands, to
feel that he is rich in my presence. I ought to make him feel...that I cannot
be bought,-neither by comfort, neither by pride...
Con 1.298 24
...conservatism goes for comfort, reform for truth.
Con 1.316 8
The reformer concedes...that if he proposed comfort, he should
take sides with the establishment.
Lov1 2.182 22
In the particular society of his mate [the lover] attains a
clearer sight of any spot, any taint which her beauty has contracted from
this world, and is able to point it out, and this with mutual joy that they are
now able, without offence, to...give to each all help and comfort in curing
[blemishes and hindrances].
Fdsp 2.205 27
[Friendship] is for aid and comfort through all the relations
and passages of life and death.
OS 2.294 4
...every byword that belongs to thee for aid or comfort, will
surely come home through open or winding passages.
Mrs1 3.134 13
I may easily go into a great household where there is...
excellent provision for comfort, luxury and taste, and yet not encounter
there any Amphitryon who shall subordinate these appendages.
NMW 4.233 4
Here was a man who in each moment and emergency knew
what to do next. It is an immense comfort and refreshment to the spirits, not
only of kings, but of citizens.
GoW 4.266 9
Ideas are subversive of social order and comfort...
GoW 4.270 19
[Goethe] appears at a time...when...a social comfort and
cooperation have come in.
ET2 5.25 12
The request [to lecture in England] was urged...with...every
assurance of aid and comfort...
ET3 5.34 7
Alfieri thought Italy and England the only countries worth
living in;...the latter because art...transforms a rude, ungenial land into a
paradise of comfort and plenty.
ET5 5.86 7
...more care is taken of the health and comfort of English troops
than of any other troops in the world;...
ET6 5.107 4
All the world praises the comfort and private appointments of
an English inn, and of English households.
ET10 5.163 10
...all that can aid science, gratify taste, or soothe comfort, is
in open market [in England].
ET10 5.163 25
This comfort and splendor [in England]...all consist with
perfect order.
ET10 5.166 6
I much prefer the condition of an English gentleman of the
better class to that of any potentate in Europe,--whether for travel...or for
mere comfort and easy healthy relation to people at home.
ET11 5.177 18
The national tastes of the English do not lead them to the
life of the courtier, but to secure the comfort and independence of their
homes.
ET14 5.249 26
[Carlyle] saw little difference in the gladiators, or the
causes for which they combated; the one comfort was, that they were all
going speedily into the abyss together.
ET14 5.255 20
...we have [in England] the factitious instead of the natural;
tasteless expense, arts of comfort...
ET15 5.262 1
So your grace likes the comfort of reading the newspapers,
said Lord Mansfield to the Duke of Northumberland; mark my words;...
these newspapers will most assuredly write the dukes of Northumberland
out of their titles...
ET17 5.296 15
Miss Martineau...praised [Wordsworth] to me...for having
afforded to his country-neighbors an example of a modest household where
comfort and culture were secured without any display.
ET18 5.307 8
...we must not play Providence and balance the chances of
producing ten great men against the comfort of ten thousand mean men...
Wth 6.87 7
...coal...with its comfort brings its industrial power.
Ctr 6.155 3
Wordsworth was praised to me in Westmoreland for having
afforded to his country neighbors an example of a modest household where
comfort and culture were secured without display.
Bhr 6.186 24
The hero...should impart comfort by his own security and
good nature to all beholders.
Wsp 6.210 22
It is believed by well-dressed proprietors...that the solid
portion of society exist for the arts of comfort;...
CbW 6.265 12
...I find the gayest castles in the air that were ever piled, far
better for comfort and for use than the dungeons in the air that are daily dug
and caverned out by grumbling, discontented people.
Ill 6.314 23
Pears and cakes are good for something; and because you
unluckily have an eye or nose too keen, why need you spoil the comfort
which the rest of us find in them?
Civ 7.33 14
These arts [of invention] add a comfort and smoothness to
house and street life;...
DL 7.111 12
The progress of domestic living has been...in countless means
and arts of comfort...
DL 7.118 16
[The great]...subdue the low habits of comfort and luxury;...
Clbs 7.227 11
The clergyman walks from house to house all day all the
year to give people the comfort of good talk.
Clbs 7.234 24
...beside its comfort as medicine and cordial, once in the
right company, new and vast values do not fail to appear.
Cour 7.274 25
Sacred courage indicates...that [a man] is aiming neither at
pelf nor comfort...
SA 8.97 16
Must we always talk for victory, and never once for truth, for
comfort, and joy?
PPo 8.238 3
Oriental life and society...stand in violent contrast with...the
vast average of comfort of the Western nations.
Insp 8.274 11
...where is...a Franklin who can draw off electricity from
Jove himself, and convey it into the arts of life, inspire men...withdraw
them from the life of trifles and gain and comfort...
Imtl 8.337 17
All the comfort I have found teaches me to confide that I
shall not have less in times and places that I do not yet know.
Imtl 8.337 26
...I have enjoyed the benefits of all this complex machinery
of arts and civilization, and its results of comfort.
Aris 10.46 14
I know how steep the contrast of condition looks;...such
despotism of wealth and comfort in banquet-halls, whilst death is in the
pots of the wretched...
Supl 10.168 6
All our manner of life is on a secure and moderate pattern,
such as can last. Violence and extravagance are...distasteful; competence,
quiet, comfort, are the agreed welfare.
SovE 10.193 11
Settles for evermore the ponderous equator [of Divine
justice] to its line, and man and mote and star and sun must range with it, or
be pulverized by the recoil. It is a doctrine of unspeakable comfort.
Prch 10.219 10
It is certain that...many...periods of inactivity...will occur.
In those hours, we can find comfort in reverence of the highest power, and
only in that.
Prch 10.232 20
It is a comfort to reflect that the gigantic evils which seem
to us so mischievous and so incurable will at last end themselves...
Schr 10.287 18
I invite you [scholars] not...to a sleek and rosy comfort;...
EzRy 10.384 14
The minister [Joseph Emerson] writes against January 31st
[1735]: Bought a shay for 27 pounds, 10 shillings. The Lord grant it may be
a comfort and blessing to my family.
Carl 10.493 8
If a tory takes heart at [Carlyle's] hatred of stump-oratory
and model republics, he replies, Yes, the idea of a pig-headed soldier who
will obey orders, and fire on his own father at the command of his officer,
is a great comfort to the aristocratic mind.
EWI 11.101 3
If there be any man who thinks the ruin of a race of men a
small matter, compared with the last decoration and completions of his own
comfort...I think I must not hesitate to satisfy that man that also his cream
and vanilla are safer and cheaper by placing the negro nation on a fair
footing than by robbing them.
EWI 11.102 15
These men [negro slaves]...producers of comfort and
luxury for the civilized world...I am heart-sick when I read how they came
there, and how they are kept there.
EWI 11.110 17
In consequence of the dangers of the [slave] trade growing
out of the act of abolition, ships were built...with a frightful disregard of the
comfort of the victims they were destined to transport.
EWI 11.121 26
The legislature [of Jamaica]...say, The peaceful demeanor
of the emancipated population...affords a proof of their continued comfort
and prosperity.
EWI 11.131 6
The poorest fishing-smack that...hunts whale in the Southern
ocean, should be encompassed by [Massachusetts's] laws with comfort and
protection...
AKan 11.258 3
...the governor and legislature should neither slumber nor
sleep till they have found out how to send effectual aid and comfort to these
poor farmers [in Kansas]...
FRep 11.526 27
...instead of the doleful experience of the European
economist, who tells us, In almost all countries the condition of the great
body of the people is poor and miserable, here that same great body has
arrived at a sloven plenty...an unbuttoned comfort...
PLT 12.56 15
There are two theories of life;... One is activity...in this
direction lie usefulness, comfort, society...
II 12.77 8
The only comfort I can lay to my own sorrow is that we have a
higher than a personal interest, which, in the ruin of the personal, is secured.
CInt 12.118 11
Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of
common sense and of simple justice, as at a wonderful discovery. Thus...at
the introduction...of cleanliness and comfort into penitentiaries.
CL 12.140 6
...we cannot overpraise the comfort and the beauty of the
[Massachusetts] climate in the best days of the year.
CW 12.178 15
...[trees] grow, when you wake and when you sleep...for
everybody's comfort.
Bost 12.200 8
America is growing like a cloud...and wealth...is piled in
every form invented for comfort or pride.
comfort, v. (4)
Comc 8.172 13
Timur saw himself in the mirror and found his face quite
too ugly. Therefore he began to weep; Chodscha also set himself to weep;
and so they wept for two hours. On this, some courtiers began to comfort
Timur...
Aris 10.60 12
The solitariest man who shares [a certain order of men's]
spirit walks environed by them; they talk to him, they comfort him...
Plu 10.291 6
...Be great, be true, and all the Scipios,/ The Catos, the wise
patriots of Rome,/ Shall flock to you and tarry by your side/ And comfort
you with their high company./
CPL 11.505 13
A man, that strives to make himself a different thing from
other men by much reading gains this chiefest good, that in all fortunes he
hath something to entertain and comfort himself withal.
comfortable, adj. (12)
UGM 4.4 5
...I do not travel to find comfortable, rich and hospitable
people...
GoW 4.267 17
...in those lower activities, which have no higher aim than to
make us more comfortable and more cowardly...there is nothing else but
drawback and negation.
ET15 5.261 19
No antique privilege, no comfortable monopoly, but sees
surely that its days are counted;...
Wsp 6.211 7
Kossuth fled hither across the ocean to try if he could rouse
the New World to a sympathy with European liberty. Ay, says New York,
he made a handsome thing of it, enough to make him comfortable for life.
Res 8.141 6
Ah! what a plastic little creature [man] is!...he making himself
comfortable in every climate, in every condition.
LLNE 10.368 10
People cannot live together in any but necessary ways.
The only candidates who will present themselves will be those who have
tried the experiment of independence and ambition, and have failed; and
none others will barter for the most comfortable equality the chance of
superiority.
EzRy 10.384 16
In March following [Joseph Emerson] notes: Had a safe
and comfortable journey to York.
FSLC 11.187 23
[Resistance to the Fugitive Slave Law] is not going
crusading into Virginia and Georgia after slaves, who, it is alleged, are very
comfortable where they are...
SMC 11.373 24
On the first of January, 1865, the Thirty-second Regiment
made itself comfortable in log huts...
EdAd 11.388 25
...we have seen the best understandings of New England...
clapped on the back by comfortable capitalists from all sections, and
persuaded to say, We are too old to stand for what is called a New England
sentiment any longer.
Bost 12.191 20
The planters of Massachusetts do not appear to have been
hardy men, rather, comfortable citizens...
ACri 12.296 22
The Germans praise in Goethe the comfortable stoutness.
comfortable, n. (1)
ET14 5.255 6
The practical and comfortable oppress [the English] with
inexorable claims...
comfortably, adv. (3)
ET4 5.59 13
If [the Northman] cannot pick any other quarrel, he will get
himself comfortably gored by a bull's horns...
Bty 6.285 5
Why should not priests, lodged and fed comfortably in the
temples, also amuse themselves [said Tisso]?
FSLN 11.234 19
These things show that no forms...are of any use in
themselves. The Devil nestles comfortably into them all.
comforted, v. (4)
ET3 5.34 23
Cushioned and comforted in every manner, the traveller [in
England] rides as on a cannon-ball...
Wsp 6.207 18
...the old faiths which comforted nations...seem to have spent
their force.
Edc1 10.127 16
Enamoured of [sun's, moon's, plants', animals'] beauty,
comforted by their convenience, [man] seeks them as ends...
MMEm 10.415 14
...I [Nature] comforted thee when going on the daily
errand...
comforter, n. (2)
Nat 1.54 9
A solemn air, and the best comforter/ To an unsettled fancy,
cure thy brains/...
Mrs1 3.146 4
...there is still...some guide and comforter of runaway
slaves;...
Comforter, n. (1)
Chr2 10.97 2
Devout men...have used different images to suggest this
latent [moral] force; as...the Comforter, the Daemon, the still, small voice...
comforts, n. (3)
LE 1.186 20
Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit
deserts of truth, for the premature comforts of an acre, house, and barn?
ET7 5.124 11
The old Italian author of the Relation of England (in 1500),
says, I have it on the best information, that when the war is actually raging
most furiously, [the English] will seek for good eating and all their other
comforts, without thinking what harm might befall them.
Ctr 6.154 12
Let these triflers [who scream and bewail] put us out of
conceit with petty comforts.
comforts, v. (2)
DSA 1.139 6
When [the good hearer] listens to these vain words, he
comforts himself by their relation to his remembrance of better hours...
MoS 4.171 6
One man appears whose nature is to all men's eyes
conserving and constructive; his presence supposes a well-ordered society,
agriculture, trade, large institutions and empire. ... Therefore he cheers and
comforts men...
comic, adj. (20)
Nat 1.9 15
Nature is a setting that fits equally well a comic or a mourning
piece.
DSA 1.127 27
Life is comic or pitiful as soon as the high ends of being fade
out of sight...
Int 2.346 21
...what marks [Greek philosophers' thought's] elevation and
has even a comic look to us, is the innocent serenity with which these babe-like
Jupiters sit in their clouds...
Exp 3.80 16
If you could look with [the kitten's] eyes you might see her
surrounded with hundreds of figures performing complex dramas, with
tragic and comic issues...
Mrs1 3.143 16
...a comic disparity would be felt, if we should enter the
acknowledged first circles [of fashion] and apply these terrific standards of
justice, beauty and benefit to the individuals actually found there.
ET15 5.271 7
Punch is equally an expression of English good sense, as the
London Times. It is the comic version of the same sense.
F 6.18 4
Doubtless in every million there will be...a comic poet...
Elo1 7.66 10
There are many audiences in every public assembly, each one
of which rules in turn. If anything comic and coarse is spoken, you shall see
the emergence of the boys and rowdies...
DL 7.103 6
The size of the nestler is comic...
Boks 7.202 10
The secret of the recent histories in German and in English
is the discovery...that the sincere Greek history of that period [Age of
Pericles] must be drawn from Demosthenes...and from the comic poets.
Comc 8.157 15
Aristotle's definition of the ridiculous is, what is out of
time and place, without danger. If there be pain and danger, it becomes
tragic; if not, comic.
Comc 8.159 6
Separate any object...and contemplate it alone, standing
there in absolute nature, it becomes at once comic;...
Comc 8.169 8
The poverty...of the naked Indian, is not comic.
LLNE 10.366 19
...every visitor [to Brook Farm] found that there was a
comic side to this Paradise of shepherds and shepherdesses.
MMEm 10.432 13
...the event of [Mary Moody Emerson's] death had
really such a comic tinge in the eyes of every one who knew her, that her
friends feared they might, at her funeral, not dare to look at each other, lest
they should forget the serious proprieties of the hour.
SlHr 10.445 19
The useful and practical super-abounded in [Samuel Hoar'
s] mind, and to a degree which might be even comic to young and poetical
persons.
Thor 10.479 19
The tendency to magnify the moment...is of course comic
to those who do not share the philosopher's perception of identity.
Shak1 11.453 5
...there are some men so born to live well that, in whatever
company they fall,-high or low,-they fit well, and lead it!...I suppose
because they have more humanity than talent, whilst they have quite as
much of the last as any of the company. It would strike you as comic, if I
should give my own customary examples of this elasticity...
PLT 12.50 23
The excess of individualism, when it is not...subordinated to
the Supreme Reason, makes that vice which we stigmatize as monotones,
men of one idea...which give such a comic tinge to all society.
ACri 12.284 20
...there is a conversation above grossness and below
refinement...where Shakspeare seems to have gathered his comic dialogue.
comic, n. (2)
ShP 4.213 20
...[Shakespeare] could paint...the tragic and the comic
indifferently...
PI 8.72 20
...mark the equality of Shakspeare to the comic, the tender and
sweet, and to the grand and terrible.
Comic, n. (5)
Comc 8.161 15
If the essence of the Comic be the contrast in the intellect
between the idea and the false performance, there is good reason why we
should be affected by the exposure.
Comc 8.161 21
...a perception of the Comic seems to be a balance-wheel in
our metaphysical structure.
Comc 8.161 27
The perception of the Comic is a tie of sympathy with other
men...
Comc 8.171 10
More food for the Comic is afforded whenever the personal
appearance, the face, form and manners, are subjects of thought with the
man himself.
Comc 8.173 27
...the Comic also has its own speedy limits.
coming, adj. (19)
AmS 1.110 2
I look upon the discontent of the literary class as a mere
announcement of the fact that they...regret the coming state as untried;...
AmS 1.110 15
I read with some joy of the auspicious signs of the coming
days...
YA 1.374 22
...the existing generation are conspiring with a beneficence
which in its working for coming generations, sacrifices the passing one;...
Int 2.327 4
...man...lies open to the mercy of coming events.
F 6.15 24
One leaf [Nature] lays down, a floor of granite;...a thousand ages,
and a layer of marl and mud;...her first misshapen animals...rude forms...
concealing under these unwieldy monsters the fine type of her coming king.
F 6.44 22
...women, as the most susceptible, are the best index of the
coming hour.
Pow 6.61 21
A timid man...might easily believe that he and his country
have seen their best days, and he hardens himself the best he can against the
coming ruin.
Wsp 6.238 18
If there ever was a good man, be certain there was another
and will be more. And so in relation to...that spectre clothed with beauty at
our curtain by night, at our table by day,--the apprehension, the assurance
of a coming change.
Wsp 6.240 25
The religion which is to guide and fulfil the present and
coming ages...must be intellectual.
PC 8.227 13
Every soliciting instinct is only a hint of a coming fact...
Edc1 10.136 13
...the coming age and the departing age seldom understand
each other.
Plu 10.322 22
...[Plutarch's] books will be reprinted and read anew by
coming generations.
LLNE 10.349 25
Society, concert, cooperation, is the secret of the coming
Paradise.
EWI 11.144 5
...if the black man carries in his bosom an indispensable
element of a new and coming civilization; for the sake of that element, no
wrong nor strength nor circumstance can hurt him...
FSLC 11.178 5
The Eternal Rights,/ Victors over daily wrongs:/ Awful
victors, they misguide/ Whom they will destroy,/ And their coming triumph
hide/ In our downfall, or our joy/...
TPar 11.288 12
It will not be in the acts of city councils, nor of obsequious
mayors;...that coming generations will study what really befell [in
Boston];...
Wom 11.405 15
[Women] are the best index of the coming hour.
Wom 11.406 3
...as more delicate mercuries of the imponderable and
immaterial influences, what [women] say and think is the shadow of
coming events.
Milt1 12.261 20
...Milton was conscious of possessing this intellectual
voice...propelling its melodious undulations forward through the coming
world...
coming, n. (4)
LS 11.15 2
...[St. Paul's] mind had not escaped the prevalent error of the
primitive Church, the belief, namely, that the second coming of Christ
would shortly occur...
LS 11.15 10
Elsewhere [St. Paul] tells [the primitive Church] that at that
time [the second coming of Christ], the world would be burnt up with fire...
so slow were the disciples...to receive the idea which we receive, that his
second coming was a spiritual kingdom...
HDC 11.36 23
...standing on the seashore, [the Indians] often told of the
coming of a ship at sea, sooner by one hour, yea, two hours' sail, than any
Englishman that stood by, on purpose to look out.
HDC 11.40 21
...as we are informed, the edge of [the settlers of Concord's]
appetite was greater to spiritual duties at their first coming, in time of
wants, than afterwards.
coming, v. (68)
Nat 1.11 2
[The waving of the boughs'] effect is like that of a higher
thought or a better emotion coming over me...
DSA 1.131 13
One would rather be A pagan, suckled in a creed outworn,/
than to be defrauded of his manly right in coming into nature and finding...
even virtue and truth foreclosed...
DSA 1.132 26
...only by coming again to themselves...can [the simple]
grow forevermore.
DSA 1.133 3
The time is coming when all men will see that the gift of God
to the soul is not a vaunting, overpowering, excluding sanctity...
DSA 1.139 2
...there is a commanding attraction in the moral sentiment,
that can lend a faint tint of light to...ignorance coming in its name...
LE 1.178 24
On coming on board the Bellerophon, a file of English
soldiers drawn up on deck gave [Napoleon] a military salute.
MR 1.233 19
...by coming out of trade you have not cleared yourself.
LT 1.266 15
...when we stand by the seashore, whilst the tide is coming in,
a wave comes up the beach far higher than any foregoing one, and
recedes;...
Hist 2.9 26
We are always coming up with the emphatic facts of history in
our private experience...
SR 2.60 14
A great man is coming to eat at my house.
Prd1 2.225 18
Time, which shows so vacant, indivisible and divine in its
coming, is slit and peddled into trifles and tatters.
Cir 2.319 27
In nature...the coming only is sacred.
Pt1 3.28 5
All men avail themselves of such means as they can, to add this
extraordinary power to their normal powers; and to this end they prize
conversation...animal intoxication,--which are several coarser or finer quasi-mechanical
substitutes for the true nectar, which is the ravishment of the
intellect by coming nearer to the fact.
Pt1 3.35 27
The noise which at a distance appeared like gnashing and
thumping, on coming nearer was found to be the voice of disputants.
Mrs1 3.139 19
...being in its nature a convention, [society] loves what is
conventional, or what belongs to coming together.
Mrs1 3.147 2
The theory of society supposes the existence and sovereignty
of these [natural aristocrats]. It divines afar off their coming.
PPh 4.40 2
Even the men of grander proportion suffer some deduction from
the misfortune (shall I say?) of coming after this exhausting generalizer
[Plato].
PPh 4.50 23
The whole world is but a manifestation of Vishnu [said
Krishna], who...is to be regarded by the wise as not differing from, but as
the same as themselves. I neither am going nor coming;...
MoS 4.154 16
There is so much trouble in coming into the world, said Lord
Bolingbroke, and so much more, as well as meanness, in going out of it,
that 't is hardly worth while to be here at all.
NMW 4.227 23
There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest
ground of politics...
GoW 4.289 10
Goethe, coming into an over-civilized time and country...
taught men how to dispose of this mountainous miscellany and make it
subservient.
ET4 5.52 3
...[the English character] is not so much a history of one or of
certain tribes of Saxons, Jutes, or Frisians, coming from one place and
genetically identical...
ET8 5.140 26
...if hereafter the war of races, often predicted, and making
itself a war of opinions also (a question of despotism and liberty coming
from Eastern Europe), should menace the English civilization, these sea-kings
may take once again to their floating castles...
ET11 5.198 11
It is computed that, with titles and without, there are
seventy thousand of these people coming and going in London, who make
up what is called high society.
ET12 5.201 10
Isaac Casaubon, coming from Henri Quatre of France...was
admitted to Christ-Church [College, Oxford], in July, 1613.
ET16 5.280 11
We [Emerson and Carlyle] left the mound [Stonehenge] in
the twilight...and coming back two miles to our inn we were met by little
showers...
Wth 6.91 11
...when one observes in the hotels and palaces of our Atlantic
capitals, the habit of expense...he feels that when a man or a woman is
driven to the wall, the chances of integrity are frightfully diminished; as if
virtue were coming to be a luxury which few could afford...
Wth 6.108 27
A youth coming into the city from his native New Hampshire
farm...boards at a first-class hotel...
Bhr 6.185 9
Here is Elise, who caught cold in coming into the world and
has always increased it since.
Wsp 6.199 13
This is he men miscall Fate,/ Threading dark ways, arriving
late,/ But ever coming in time to crown/ The truth, and hurl wrongdoers
down./
Wsp 6.228 2
Among the nuns in a convent not far from Rome, one had
appeared who laid claim to certain rare gifts of inspiration and prophecy,
and the abbess advised the Holy Father of the wonderful powers shown by
her novice. The Pope did not well know what to make of these new claims,
and Philip coming in from a journey one day, he consulted him.
Ill 6.318 27
We are coming on the secret of a magic which sweeps out of
men's minds all vestige of theism and beliefs which they and their fathers
held and were framed upon.
DL 7.125 7
In each the circumstance signalized differs, but in each it is
made the coals of an ever-burning egotism. In one, it was his going to sea;...
in a fourth, his coming out of the Quaker Society;...
DL 7.125 9
In each the circumstance signalized differs, but in each it is
made the coals of an ever-burning egotism. In one, it was his going to sea;...
in a sixth, his coming forth from the abolition organizations;...
WD 7.159 23
Lord Chancellor Thurlow thought [steam] might be made to
draw bills and answers in chancery. If that were satire, yet it is coming to
render many higher services of a mechanico-intellectual kind...
WD 7.181 6
The savages in the islands...delight to play with the surf,
coming in on the top of the rollers...
Suc 7.284 10
...Evelyn writes from Rome: Bernini...a little before my
coming to Rome, gave a public opera, wherein he painted the scenes, cut
the statues...
OA 7.318 1
Saadi found in a mosque at Damascus an old Persian of a
hundred and fifty years, who was dying, and was saying to himself, I said,
coming into the world by birth, I will enjoy myself for a few moments.
Res 8.137 19
I am benefited by every observation of a victory of man over
Nature;...by seeing that every healthy and resolute man is...a method
coming into a confusion and drawing order out of it.
Res 8.138 25
I like the sentiment of the poor woman who, coming...for the
first time to the seashore...said she was glad for once in her life to see
something which there was enough of.
Res 8.145 25
...coming among a wild party of Illinois, [Tissenet] overheard
them say that they would scalp him.
PPo 8.263 16
Ferideddin Attar wrote the Bird Conversations, a mystical
tale, in which the birds, coming together to choose their king, resolve on a
pilgrimage to Mount Kaf...
Aris 10.60 18
That highest good of rational existence is always coming to
such as reject mean alliances.
Edc1 10.138 18
I like...boys...quite unsuspected, coming in as naturally as
the janitor...
SovE 10.200 10
Here [a man] stands, a lonely thought harmoniously
organized into correspondence with the universe of mind and matter. What
narrative of wonders coming down from a thousand years ought to charm
his attention like this?
SovE 10.202 7
With patience and fidelity to truth [a man] may work his
way through, if only by coming against somebody who believes more
fables than he does;...
Schr 10.261 17
...in coming among strange faces we find that the love of
letters makes us friends...
Schr 10.272 23
[The scholar] is the attorney of the world, and can never be
superfluous where so vast a variety of questions are ever coming up to be
solved...
Schr 10.278 17
It seems as if two or three persons coming who should add
to a high spiritual aim great constructive energy, would carry the country
with them.
Schr 10.279 11
...the young, coming up with innocent hope, and looking
around them...finding that nothing outside corresponds to the noble order in
the soul, are confused...
Plu 10.306 5
The plain speaking of Plutarch, as of the ancient writers
generally, coming from the habit of writing for one sex only, has a great
gain for brevity...
Plu 10.320 16
...in recent reading of the old text [of Plutarch's Morals], on
coming on anything absurd or unintelligible, I referred to the new text and
found a clear and accurate statement in its place.
LLNE 10.345 7
The clergyman who would live in the city may have piety,
but must have taste, whilst there was often coming, among these, some
John the Baptist, wild from the woods...
EzRy 10.387 1
...I well remember [Ezra Ripley's] his pleading, almost
reproachful looks at the sky, when the thunder-gust was coming up to spoil
his hay.
Carl 10.497 8
[Carlyle] was very serious about the bad times; he had seen
this evil coming, but thought it would not come in his time.
Carl 10.497 9
...now [the bad time] is coming, and the only good [Carlyle]
sees in it is the visible appearance of the gods.
EWI 11.99 14
I might well hesitate, coming from other studies...to
undertake to set this matter [emancipation] before you;...
AKan 11.262 22
...the hour is coming when the strongest will not be strong
enough.
FRO2 11.485 15
I am glad that a more realistic church is coming to be the
tendency of society...
FRO2 11.486 14
We have had not long since presented to us by Max
Muller a valuable paragraph from St. Augustine, not at all extraordinary in
itself, but only as coming from that eminent Father in the Church...
CPL 11.506 26
You say, [reading] is a languid pleasure. Yes, but its
tractableness, coming and going like a dog at our bidding, compensates the
quietness...
FRep 11.525 15
In each new threat of faction the ballot has been, beyond
expectation, right and decisive. It is ever an inspiration...a sudden, undated
perception of eternal right coming into and correcting things that were
wrong;...
FRep 11.533 27
A man is coming, here as [in England], to value himself on
what he can buy.
PLT 12.40 2
...the mind discovers some essential copula binding this [new]
fact or change to a class of facts or changes, and enjoys the discovery as if
coming to its own again.
CL 12.148 19
Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated the winds as the
conveying Maruts, traversers of places difficult of access. ... Because they
drive the clouds, they have harnessed the spotted deer to their chariot; they
are coming with weapons, war-cries and decorations.
MAng1 12.230 22
Of [Michelangelo's] designs, the most celebrated is the
cartoon representing soldiers coming out of the bath and arming
themselves;...
EurB 12.370 1
...notwithstanding all Wordsworth's grand merits, it was a
great pleasure to know that Alfred Tennyson's two volumes were coming
out in the same ship;...
Let 12.392 18
To the railway, we must say,-like the courageous lord
mayor at his first hunting, when told the hare was coming,-Let it come, in
Heaven's name, I am not afraid on 't.
comings, n. (1)
Fdsp 2.198 16
...Dear Friend, If I was...sure to match my mood with thine,
I should never think again of trifles in relation to thy comings and goings.