Age to Aikin's, John
A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compiled by Eugene F. Irey
age, Classic, n. (1)
AmS 1.109 4 ...there are data for marking the genius
of the Classic, of the Romantic, and now of the Reflective or
Philosophical age.
Age, Elizabethan, n. (1)
Age, Golden, n. (1)
Res 8.142 10 Resources of America! why, one thinks of
Saint-Simon's saying, The Golden Age is not behind, but before you.
Age, Greek, n. (2)
Clbs 7.242 20 ...there was liberal and refined
conversation in the Greek, in the Roman and in the middle Age.
Clbs 7.243 16 ...a history of clubs from early
antiquity...through the Greek and Roman to the Middle Age...would be an
important chapter in history.
Age, Middle, n. (6)
Hist 2.34 11 All the fictions of the Middle Age
explain themselves as a masked or frolic expression of that which in
grave earnest the mind of that period toiled to achieve.
Pt1 3.37 20 We have yet had no genius in
America...which...saw, in the barbarism and materialism of the times,
another carnival of the same gods whose picture he so much admires in
Homer; then in the Middle Age;...
Boks 7.205 24 There is Dante's poem, to open the
Italian Republics of the Middle Age;...
Clbs 7.242 21 ...there was liberal and refined
conversation in the Greek, in the Roman and in the Middle Age.
Clbs 7.243 16 ...a history of clubs from early
antiquity...through the Greek and Roman to the Middle Age...would be an
important chapter in history.
age, n. (355)
Nat 1.34 18 There sits the Sphinx at the road-side,
and from age to age, as each prophet comes by, he tries his fortune at
reading her riddle.
Nat 1.43 7 Xenophanes complained in his old age,
that...all things hastened back to Unity.
AmS 1.88 16 ...neither can any artist
entirely...write a book of pure thought, that shall be as
efficient...to a remote posterity, as to contemporaries, or rather to
the second age.
AmS 1.110 6 If there is any period one would desire
to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution;...
DSA 1.129 11 The understanding...said, in the next
age, This was Jehovah come down out of heaven...
DSA 1.138 19 ...of the bad preacher, it could not be
told from his sermon what age of the world he fell in;...
DSA 1.144 12 The stationariness of religion; the
assumption that the age of inspiration is past...indicate...the
falsehood of our theology.
MN 1.221 4 It is the office...of this age to annul
that adulterous divorce which the superstition of many ages has
effected between the intellect and holiness.
LT 1.261 21 If you speak of the age, you mean your
own platoon of people...
LT 1.264 8 ...I find the Age walking about...in
strong eyes and pleasant thoughts, and think I read it nearer and truer
so, than...in the investments of capital, which rather celebrate with
mournful music the obsequies of the last age.
LT 1.269 2 The actors constitute that great army of
martyrs who...occupy the ground which Calvinism occupied in the last
age...
LT 1.269 4 The present age will be marked by its
harvest of projects for the reform of domestic, civil, literary, and
ecclesiastical institutions.
LT 1.272 22 The new voices in the wilderness...have
revived a hope...that the thoughts of the mind may yet, in some distant
age...be executed by the hands.
LT 1.285 2 What has checked in this age the animal
spirits which gave to our forefathers their bounding pulse?
Con 1.300 3 Nature does not give the crown of its
approbation, namely, beauty...to the rock which resists the waves from
age to age...
Con 1.300 4 Nature does not give the crown of its
approbation, namely, beauty...to the rock which resists the waves from
age to age...
Con 1.300 9 ...the superior beauty is with...the
river which ever flowing yet is found in the same bed from age to
age;...
YA 1.376 10 ...the Emperor Nicholas is reported to
have said to his council, The age is embarrassed with new opinions;...
Hist 2.5 3 Every reform was once a private opinion,
and when it shall be a private opinion again it will solve the problem
of the age.
Hist 2.8 8 I have no expectation that any man will
read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age...has
any deeper sense than what he is doing to-day.
Hist 2.8 12 There is no age or state of society...to
which there is not somewhat corresponding in [each man's] life.
Hist 2.10 7 What the former age has epitomized into a
formula or rule for manipular convenience, [the mind] will lose all the
good of verifying for itself, by means of the wall of that rule.
Hist 2.24 2 What is the foundation of that interest
all men feel in Greek history...in all its periods from the Heroic or
Homeric age...
SR 2.61 7 Every true man is a cause, a country, and
an age;...
Lov1 2.170 2 The delicious fancies of youth reject
the least savor of a mature philosophy, as chilling with age and
pedantry their purple bloom.
Lov1 2.174 11 ...the celestial rapture falling out of
heaven seizes only upon those of tender age...
Fdsp 2.194 22 ...by the divine affinity of virtue
with itself, I find [my friends], or rather not I, but the Deity in me
and in them derides and cancels the thick walls of individual
character, relation, age, sex, circumstance...
Fdsp 2.203 23 To stand in true relations with men in
a false age is worth a fit of insanity, is it not?
Hsm1 2.245 5 In the elder English dramatists...there
is a constant recognition of gentility, as if a noble behavior were as
easily marked in the society of their age as color is in our American
population.
Hsm1 2.260 20 ...congratulate yourself if you have
done something strange and extravagant and broken the monotony of a
decorous age.
OS 2.265 11 ...A spell is laid on sod and stone,/
Night and Day 've been tampered with/ Every quality and pith/
Surcharged and sultry with a power/ That works its will on age and
hour./
OS 2.286 19 Neither his age, nor his breeding...can
hinder [a man] from being deferential to a higher spirit than his own.
Cir 2.319 8 ...fever, intemperance, insanity,
stupidity and crime; they are all forms of old age;...
Int 2.345 26 ...I cannot recite...laws of the
intellect, without remembering... the expounders of the principles of
thought from age to age.
Int 2.346 24 ...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...from age to age prattle
to each other and to no contemporary.
Art1 2.363 1 He has conceived meanly of the resources
of man, who believes that the best age of production is past.
Art1 2.364 2 Already History is old enough to witness
the old age and disappearance of particular arts.
Pt1 3.23 9 [Nature] makes a man; and having brought
him to ripe age, she will no longer run the risk of losing this wonder
at a blow...
Chr1 3.98 15 Our proper vice takes form in one or
another shape, according to the sex, age, or temperament of the
person...
Chr1 3.106 14 They are a relief from
literature,--these fresh draughts from the sources of thought and
sentiment; as we read, in an age of polish and criticism, the first
lines of written prose and verse of a nation.
Pol1 3.204 25 [The young] believe their own
newspaper, as their fathers did at their age.
Pol1 3.208 1 ...our institutions, though in
coincidence with the spirit of the age, have not any exemption from the
practical defects which have discredited other forms.
NR 3.246 12 Lord Eldon said in his old age that if he
were to begin life again, he would be damned but he would begin as
agitator.
NER 3.254 4 ...it was directly in the spirit and
genius of the age, what happened in one instance when a church censured
and threatened to excommunicate one of its members...
UGM 4.34 16 Happy, if a few names remain so high
that...age and comparison have not robbed them of a ray.
SwM 4.99 12 At the age of twenty-eight [Swedenborg]
was made Assessor of the Board of Mines by Charles XII.
SwM 4.101 19 The genius [of Swedenborg] which was to
penetrate the science of the age with a far more subtle
science;...began its lessons in quarries and forges...
SwM 4.132 11 ...when [Swedenborg's] visions become
the stereotyped language of multitudes of persons of all degrees of age
and capacity, they are perverted.
MoS 4.169 13 Montaigne died of a quinsy, at the age
of sixty, in 1592.
MoS 4.169 16 At the age of thirty-three, [Montaigne]
had been married.
ShP 4.201 12 ...the generic catholic genius who is
not afraid or ashamed to owe his originality to the originality of all,
stands with the next age as the recorder and embodiment of his own.
ShP 4.202 7 There is somewhat touching in the madness
with which the passing age mischooses the object on which all candles
shine...
ShP 4.208 2 ...in [Shakespeare's] drama, as in all
great works of art...the Genius draws up the ladder after him, when the
creative age goes up to heaven...
ShP 4.208 3 ...in [Shakespeare's] drama, as in all
great works of art...the Genius draws up the ladder after him, when the
creative age...gives way to a new age...
NMW 4.227 8 [A man of Napoleon's stamp]...comes to be
a bureau for all the intelligence, wit and power of the age and
country.
NMW 4.250 3 One day [Napoleon] asked whether the
planets were inhabited? On another, what was the age of the world?
NMW 4.253 20 The highest-placed individual in the
most cultivated age and population of the world,--[Napoleon] has not
the merit of common truth and honesty.
NMW 4.254 6 ...[Napoleon] sat, in his premature old
age...coldly falsifying facts and dates and characters...
NMW 4.256 24 Bonaparte may be said to represent the
whole history of this [democrat] party, its youth and its age;...
GoW 4.270 3 ...how can [the writer] be honored...when
he must...write conventional criticism, or profligate novels, or at any
rate write...without recurrence...to the sources of inspiration? Some
reply to these questions may be furnished by looking over the list of
men of literary genius in our age.
GoW 4.273 24 [Goethe]...showed that the dulness and
prose we ascribe to the age was only another of [Proteus's] masks...
GoW 4.278 19 We had an English romance
here...professing to embody the hope of a new age...in which the only
reward of virtue is a seat in Parliament and a peerage.
ET4 5.52 19 The Scandinavians in [the English] race
still hear in every age the murmurs of their mother, the ocean;...
ET4 5.59 17 Odin died in his bed, in Sweden; but it
was a proverb of ill condition to die the death of old age.
ET4 5.62 19 Many a mean, dastardly boy is, at the age
of puberty, transformed into a serious and generous youth.
ET6 5.108 7 An English family consists of a few
persons, who, from youth to age, are found revolving within a few feet
of each other...
ET8 5.140 15 Haldor remained a short time with the
king, and then came to Iceland, where he took up his abode in
Hiardaholt and dwelt in that farm to a very advanced age.
ET10 5.157 14 [The English] have reinforced their own
productivity by the creation of that marvellous machinery which
differences this age from any other age.
ET12 5.201 22 On every side, Oxford is redolent of
age...
ET12 5.213 16 ...the best poetry of England of this
age, in the old forms, comes from two graduates at Cambridge.
ET13 5.217 17 ...the gradation of the clergy [in
England]...with the fact that a classical education has been secured to
the clergyman, makes them the link which unites the sequestered
peasantry with the intellectual advancement of the age.
ET13 5.220 12 ...the age of the Wicliffes, Cobhams,
Arundels, Beckets;...is gone.
ET13 5.225 8 The new age has new desires, new
enemies, new trades, new charities...
ET14 5.237 13 A man must think that age well taught
and thoughtful, by which masques and poems, like those of Ben
Jonson...were received with favor.
ET14 5.242 26 Not these particulars, but the mental
plane or the atmosphere from which they emanate was the home and
element of the writers and readers in what we loosely call the
Elizabethan age...
ET16 5.279 8 ...a thousand years hence, men will
thank this age for the accurate history [of Stonehenge].
ET17 5.298 9 The Ode on Immortality is the high-water
mark which the intellect has reached in this age.
ET19 5.311 20 This conscience is one element [which
attracts an American to England], and the other is...that homage of man
to man, running through all classes,--the electing of worthy
persons...to acts of kindness and warm and stanch support...from youth
to age...
ET19 5.313 18 I see [England] in her old age, not
decrepit, but young and still daring to believe in her power of
endurance and expansion.
F 6.39 19 The times, the age, what is that but a few
profound persons and a few active persons who epitomize the times?
F 6.46 27 ...what we wish for in youth, comes in
heaps on us in old age...
Pow 6.54 20 The key to the age may be this, or that,
or the other, as the young orators describe;...
Pow 6.64 20 In politics...red republicanism in the
father is a spasm of nature to engender an intolerable tyrant in the
next age.
Bhr 6.179 2 [Eyes]...ask no leave of age, or rank;...
Wsp 6.205 9 In all ages, souls...are born, who are
rather related to the system of the world than to their particular age
and locality.
Wsp 6.215 1 That which is signified by the words
moral and spiritual, is a lasting essence, and, with whatever illusions
we have loaded them, will certainly bring back the words, age after
age, to their ancient meaning.
Wsp 6.215 2 That which is signified by the words
moral and spiritual, is a lasting essence, and, with whatever illusions
we have loaded them, will certainly bring back the words, age after
age, to their ancient meaning.
Wsp 6.219 12 ...if in sidereal ages gravity and
projection keep their craft...a secreter gravitation, a secreter
projection rule not less tyrannically in human history, and keep the
balance of power from age to age unbroken.
Ill 6.319 9 There is the illusion of love, which
attributes to the beloved person all which that person shares with his
or her family, sex, age or condition...
SS 7.8 1 ...each of these potentates [Dante,
Michaelangelo, Columbus] saw well the reason of his exclusion. Solitary
was he? Why, yes; but his society was limited only by the amount of
brain nature appropriated in that age to carry on the government of the
world.
Art2 7.48 22 The artist who is to produce a work
which is to be admired... by all men...must...be a man of no party and
no manner and no age...
Art2 7.57 8 ...as far as [popular institutions]
accelerate the end of political freedom and national education, they
are preparing the soil of man for fairer flowers and fruits in another
age.
DL 7.104 23 The small enchanter nothing can
withstand,--no seniority of age...
DL 7.107 14 If a man wishes to acquaint
himself...with the spirit of the age, he must not go first to the
state-house or the court-room.
DL 7.116 19 Another age may divide the manual labor
of the world more equally on all the members of society...
DL 7.123 26 To each occurs, soon after the age of
puberty, some event or society...which becomes the crisis of life...
DL 7.124 6 ...it is pitiful to date and measure all
the facts and sequel of an unfolding life from such a youthful and
generally inconsiderate period as the age of courtship and marriage.
DL 7.132 7 The language of a ruder age has given to
common law the maxim that every man's house is his castle...
Farm 7.143 23 Nature...has a forelooking tenderness
and equal regard to the next and the next, and the fourth and the
fortieth age.
WD 7.158 3 ...such is the mechanical determination of
our age, and so recent are our best contrivances, that use has not
dulled our joy and pride in them;...
WD 7.167 18 [Hesiod's Works and Days] is full of
economies for Grecian life, noting the proper age for marriage...
Boks 7.190 22 A company of the wisest and wittiest
men that could be picked out of all civil countries in a thousand years
have [in the smallest chosen library] set in best order the results of
their learning and wisdom. The men themselves were hid and
inaccessible...but the thought which they did not uncover to their
bosom friend is here written out in transparent words to us, the
strangers of another age.
Boks 7.206 11 The Life of the Emperor Charles V., by
the useful Robertson, is still the key of the following age.
Boks 7.212 4 There is another class [of books], more
needful to the present age...
Boks 7.217 21 Every good fable...every biography from
a religious age... when they proceed from an intellectual
integrity...have the imaginative element.
Suc 7.303 8 Who is he in youth or in maturity or even
in old age, who does not like to hear of those sensibilities which turn
curled heads round at church...
Suc 7.310 18 Despondency comes readily enough to the
most sanguine. The cynic has only to follow their hint with his bitter
confirmation, and they...go home with heavier step and premature age.
Suc 7.311 21 ...[the inner life]...is just the same
now in maturity and hereafter in age, [as] it was in youth.
OA 7.317 1 ...if the essence of age is not present,
these signs, whether of Art or Nature, are counterfeit and
ridiculous;...
OA 7.317 19 Wherever there is power, there is age.
OA 7.318 17 How many men habitually believe that each
chance passenger with whom they converse is of their own age...
OA 7.318 21 ...looking at age under an aspect more
conformed to the common sense, if the question be the felicity of age,
I fear the first popular judgments will be unfavorable.
OA 7.318 23 ...if the question be the felicity of
age, I fear the first popular judgments will be unfavorable.
OA 7.318 27 ...seen from the streets and markets and
the haunts of pleasure and gain, the estimate of age is low...
OA 7.320 1 Age, like woman, requires fit
surroundings.
OA 7.320 2 Age is comely in coaches, in churches...
OA 7.322 9 ...if the life be true and noble, we have
quite another sort of seniors than the...dotards who are falsely
old,--namely, the men...who appearing in any street, the people empty
their houses to gaze at and obey them:...as blind old Dandolo...elected
at the age of ninety-six to the throne of the Eastern Empire...
OA 7.323 8 Under the general assertion of the
well-being of age, we can easily count particular benefits of that
condition.
OA 7.325 12 I count it another capital advantage of
age, this, that a success more or less signifies nothing.
OA 7.327 22 ...at the end of fifty years, [a man's]
soul is appeased by seeing some sort of correspondence between his wish
and his possession. This makes the value of age...
OA 7.332 7 I have lately found in an old note-book a
record of a visit to ex-President John Adams, in 1825, soon after the
election of his son to the Presidency. It...reports a moment in the
life of a heroic person, who, in extreme old age, appeared still erect
and worthy of his fame.
OA 7.333 6 ...[John Adams]...added...what effect age
may work in diminishing the power of [John Quincy Adams's] mind, I do
not know;...
OA 7.333 11 When Mr. J. Q. Adams's age was mentioned,
[John Adams] said, He is now fifty-eight...
OA 7.333 24 [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 7.335 20 When life has been well spent, age is a
loss of what it can well spare...
PI 8.1 17 ...[The people of the sky] Teach him gladly
to postpone/ Pleasures to another stage/ Beyond the scope of human
age,/ Freely as task at eve undone/ Waits unblamed to-morrow's sun.
PI 8.13 9 When some familiar truth or fact appears in
a new dress...we cannot enough testify our surprise and pleasure. It is
like the new virtue shown in some unprized old property, as...when the
old horse-block in the yard is found to be a Torso Hercules of the
Phidian age.
PI 8.14 27 ...[the Hindoos]...have made it the
central doctrine of their religion that what we call Nature...has no
real existence,--is only phenomenal. Youth, age, property, condition,
events, persons,--self, even,-- are successive maias (deceptions)
through which Vishnu mocks and instructs the soul.
PI 8.58 13 [The wind] is in the field, it is in the
wood,/ Without hand, without foot,/ Without age, without season/...
PI 8.58 14 ...[The wind] is always of the same age
with the ages of ages,/ And of equal breadth with the surface of the
earth./
PI 8.63 21 To true poetry we shall sit down as the
result and justification of the age in which it appears...
PI 8.64 17 Bring us...poetry which...is the gift to
men of new images and symbols, each the ensign and oracle of an age;...
SA 8.101 11 ...in the last age, this system [of
hereditary nobility] has been on its trial...
Elo2 8.122 18 ...I never heard [John Quincy Adams]
speak in public until his fine voice was much broken by age.
Elo2 8.124 7 In social converse with the mighty dead
of ancient days, you will never smart under the galling sense of
dependence upon the mighty living of the present age.
Elo2 8.132 8 ...when a great sentiment...makes itself
deeply felt in any age or country, then great orators appear.
PC 8.209 15 ...[the coxcomb] has found that this
country and this age belong to the most liberal persuasion;...
PC 8.210 2 Mark...the large resources...of a scholar,
in this age.
PC 8.215 26 ...from time to time in history, men are
born a whole age too soon.
PC 8.225 7 Look out into the July night and see the
broad belt of silver flame which flashes up the half of heaven, fresh
and delicate as the bonfires of the meadow-flies. Yet the powers of
numbers cannot compute its enormous age...
PC 8.226 8 The benefactors we have indicated
were...great because exceptional. The question which the present age
urges with increasing emphasis...is, whether the high qualities which
distinguished them can be imparted.
PC 8.227 3 Great men,-the age goes on their
credit;...
PC 8.230 16 Here you are set down, scholars and
idealists, as in a barbarous age;...
Insp 8.282 18 ...in this poem [The Flower] [Herbert]
says:-And now in age I bud again,/ After so many deaths I live and
write;/...
Insp 8.282 27 I understand The Harbingers to refer to
the signs of age and decay which [Herbert] detects in himself...
Imtl 8.340 13 A sort of absoluteness attends all
perception of truth,-no smell of age, no hint of corruption.
Dem1 10.16 4 We do not think the young will be
forsaken; but he is fast approaching the age when the sub-miraculous
external protection and leading are withdrawn and he is committed to
his own care.
Aris 10.54 15 In the fine arts, I find none in the
present age who have any popular power...
Chr2 10.110 7 One service which this age has rendered
is, to make the life and wisdom of every past man accessible and
available to all.
Chr2 10.112 22 Every age, says Varnhagen, has another
sieve for the religious tradition...
Chr2 10.116 6 This charm in the Pagan moralists, of
suggestion, the charm...of mere truth...the New Testament loses by its
connection with a church. Mankind cannot long suffer this loss, and the
office of this age is to put all these writings on the eternal footing
of equality of origin in the instincts of the human mind.
Edc1 10.130 9 Why does [man] track in the midnight
heaven a pure spark, a luminous patch wandering from age to age...
Edc1 10.136 26 I call our system [of education] a
system of despair, and I find all the correction, all the revolution
that is needed and that the best spirits of this age, promise, in one
word, in Hope.
SovE 10.191 14 An Eastern poet, in describing the
golden age, said that God had made justice so dear to the heart of
Nature that, if any injustice lurked anywhere under the sky, the blue
vault would shrivel to a snake-skin and cast it out by spasms.
SovE 10.194 24 Let [a man]...find...in the passing
hour, the age of ages.
SovE 10.203 26 ...our later generation appears
ungirt, frivolous, compared with the religions of the last or Calvinist
age.
SovE 10.204 22 I will not now go into the metaphysics
of that reaction by which in history a period of belief is followed by
an age of criticism...
SovE 10.205 18 I do not think the summit of this age
truly reached or expressed unless it attain the height which religion
and philosophy reached in any former age.
SovE 10.205 20 I do not think the summit of this age
truly reached or expressed unless it attain the height which religion
and philosophy reached in any former age.
SovE 10.208 24 ...a new crop of geniuses like those
of the Elizabethan age, may be born in this age...
SovE 10.208 25 ...a new crop of geniuses like those
of the Elizabethan age, may be born in this age...
SovE 10.213 12 The man of this age must be
matriculated in the university of sciences and tendencies flowing from
all past periods.
Prch 10.220 16 ...the virtuous sentiment appears
arrayed against the nominal religion, and the true men are hunted as
unbelievers, and burned. Then the good sense of the people wakes up so
far as to take tacit part with them, to cast off reverence for the
Church; and there follows an age of unbelief.
Prch 10.222 27 The next age will behold God in the
ethical laws-as mankind begins to see them in this age, self-equal,
self-executing, instantaneous and self-affirmed;...
Prch 10.223 17 I find myself always struck and
stimulated by a good anecdote, any trait...of faithful service. I do
not find that the age or country makes the least difference;...
MoL 10.245 20 A French prophet of our age, Fourier,
predicted that one day...the rival portions of humanity would dispute
each other's excellence in the manufacture of little cakes.
MoL 10.254 26 ...every age...has problems to solve,
insoluble by the last age.
Schr 10.275 12 The hero rises out of all comparison
with contemporaries and with ages of men, because he disesteems old
age, and lands, and money, and power...
Schr 10.283 13 [Whosoever looks with heed into his
thoughts] will find there is somebody within him that knows more than
he does...makes no progress, but was wise in youth as in age.
Plu 10.294 8 ...though the contemporary, in his youth
or in his old age, of Persius, Juvenal, Lucan and Seneca...[Plutarch]
does not cite them...
Plu 10.317 7 In his dedication of the work
[Plutarch's Morals] to the Archbishop of Canterbury...[Morgan] tells
the Primate that Plutarch was the wisest man of his age, and, if he had
been a Christian, one of the best too;...
LLNE 10.328 21 The most remarkable literary work of
the age has for its hero and subject precisely this introversion: I
mean the poem of Faust.
LLNE 10.338 25 The result [of Modern Science] in
literature and the general mind was a return to law;...as distinguished
from the profligate manners and politics of earlier times. The age was
moral.
LLNE 10.352 8 ...we could not exempt [Fourierism]
from the criticism which we apply to so many projects for reform with
which the brain of the age teems.
LLNE 10.357 17 I regard these philanthropists as
themselves the effects of the age in which we live...
LLNE 10.361 2 There was no doubt great variety of
character and purpose in the members of the community [Brook Farm]. It
consisted in the main of young people-few of middle age, and none old.
EzRy 10.381 21 ...[Ezra Ripley's] father agreed with
the late Rev. Dr. Forbes of Gloucester...to fit Ezra for college by the
time he should be twenty-one years of age...
EzRy 10.391 17 ...all will remember that even in
[Ezra Ripley's] old age, if the firebell was rung, he was instantly on
horseback with his buckets, and bag.
EzRy 10.395 16 ...in his old age, when all the
antique Hebraism and its customs are passing away, it is fit that [Ezra
Ripley] too should depart...
MMEm 10.399 5 I wish to meet the invitation with
which the ladies have honored me by offering them a portrait of real
life. It is a representative life...of an age now past...
MMEm 10.399 20 I report some of the thoughts and
soliloquies of a country girl [Mary Moody Emerson]...growing from youth
to age amid slender opportunities and usually very humble company.
MMEm 10.410 11 By and by [Mary Moody Emerson] said,
Mrs. Thoreau, I don't know whether you have observed that my eyes are
shut. Yes, Madam, I have observed it. Perhaps you would like to know
the reasons? Yes, I should. I don't like to see a person of your age
guilty of such levity in her dress.
MMEm 10.414 8 [Mary Moody Emerson writes] Could [my
aunt's] own temper in childhood or age have been subdued, how happy for
herself...
MMEm 10.415 25 This morning rich in existence; the
remembrance...of bitterer days of youth and age...
MMEm 10.418 15 Shut up in this severe weather with
careful, infirm, afflicted age, it is wonderful, my [Mary Moody
Emerson's] spirits...
MMEm 10.421 20 Our civilization is not always mending
our poetry. It... lacks somewhat of the grandeur that belongs to a
Doric and unphilosophical age.
MMEm 10.430 1 If one could choose, and without crime
be gibbeted,- were it not altogether better than the long drooping away
by age without mentality or devotion?
MMEm 10.431 25 What a timid, ungrateful creature!
Fear the deepest pitfalls of age, when pressing on...to Him with whom a
day is a thousand years...
SlHr 10.439 2 ...when the votes of the Free
States...had...betrayed the cause of freedom, [Samuel Hoar] considered
the question of justice and liberty, for his age, lost...
SlHr 10.440 24 The strength and the beauty of the man
[Samuel Hoar] lay in the natural goodness and justice of his mind,
which, in manhood and in old age...left an infantile innocence...
SlHr 10.443 24 Such was, in old age, the beauty of
[Samuel Hoar's] person and carriage, as if the mind radiated, and made
the same impression of probity on all beholders.
HDC 11.70 22 On the 27th June [1774], near three
hundred persons, upwards of twenty-one years of age, inhabitants of
Concord, entered into a covenant...
HDC 11.77 26 I have found within a few days, among
some family papers, [William Emerson's] almanac of 1775...and at the
close of the month [April], he writes, This month remarkable for the
greatest events of the present age.
EWI 11.122 8 ...that faculty which is paramount in
any period and exerts itself through the strongest nation, determines
the civility of that age...
EWI 11.143 2 Our planet, before the age of written
history, had its races of savages...
War 11.173 5 [Shakespeare's lords] are not shams, but
the substance of which that age and world is made.
War 11.173 15 ...another age comes, a truer religion
and ethics open...
FSLN 11.219 19 ...it was strange to see that office,
age, fame, talent...all count for nothing.
FSLN 11.240 7 ...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...
FSLN 11.241 26 It is a potent support and ally to a
brave man standing single, or with a few, for the right...to know that
better men in other parts of the country...will rightly report him to
his own and the next age.
FSLN 11.243 21 [Robert Winthrop] denounced every name
and aspect under which liberty and progress dare show themselves in
this age and country...
TPar 11.292 5 Ah, my brave brother [Theodore Parker]!
it seems as if, in a frivolous age, our loss were immense...
EPro 11.326 9 Incertainties now crown themselves
assured,/ And Peace proclaims olives of endless age./
EPro 11.326 17 ...that ill-fated, much-injured race
which the [Emancipation] Proclamation respects will lose somewhat of
the dejection... uttered in the wailing of their plaintive music,-a
race...whose very miseries sprang from their great talent for
usefulness, which, in a more moral age, will not only defend their
independence, but will give them a rank among nations.
ALin 11.332 4 In a host of young men that start
together and promise so many brilliant leaders for the next age, each
fails on trial;...
SMC 11.348 22 ...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 2 I shall say of this obelisk [the Concord
Monument]...what Richter says of the volcano in the fair landscape of
Naples: Vesuvius stands in this poem of Nature, and exalts everything,
as war does the age.
Koss 11.400 1 ...you [Kossuth], the foremost soldier
of freedom in this age, it is for us [the people of Concord] to crave
your judgment;...
Wom 11.415 20 A second epoch for Woman was in
France,-entirely civil; the change of sentiment from a rude to a polite
character, in the age of Louis XIV...
Wom 11.416 4 Another step [for Woman] was the effect
of the action of the age in the antagonism to Slavery.
SHC 11.430 14 ...the irresistible democracy-shall I
call it?-of chemistry, of vegetation, which recomposes for new life
every decomposing particle,- the race never dying, the individual never
spared,-have impressed on the mind of the age the futility of these old
arts of preserving.
Shak1 11.447 19 ...it is to us [The Saturday Club] a
painful disappointment...that...Mr. Charles Sprague,-pleads the
infirmities of age as an absolute bar to his presence with us.
Scot 11.467 22 [Scott] found himself in his youth and
manhood and age in the society of Mackintosh, Horner, Jeffrey...
FRO2 11.486 15 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, and at that age...
FRep 11.524 24 These [the good and wise] we just join
to wake, for these are of the strain/ That justice dare defend, and
will the age maintain./
FRep 11.539 8 It is not possible to extricate
yourself from the questions in which your age is involved.
PLT 12.7 17 Bring the best wits together, and they
are so impatient of each other, so vulgar, there is so much more than
their wit,-such follies, gluttonies, partialities, age, care, and
sleep, that you shall have no academy.
PLT 12.16 7 To Be is the unsolved, unsolvable wonder.
To Be, in its two connections of inward and outward, the mind and
Nature. The wonder subsists, and age, though of eternity, could not
approach a solution.
PLT 12.18 14 There are...[other minds] that deposit
their dangerous unripe thoughts here and there to lie still for a time
and be brooded in other minds, and the shell not be broken until the
next age...
II 12.74 2 Here is a famous Ode, which...lies in all
memories as the high-water mark in the flood of thought in this age.
What does the writer know of that?
Mem 12.92 2 Some fact that had a childish
significance to your childhood and was a type in the nursery, when
riper intelligence recalls it...perhaps in your age has new meaning.
Mem 12.102 22 ...when age and calamity have bereaved
[those who have used their days well] of their limbs or organs, then
they retreat on mental faculty...
Bost 12.187 14 In...the farthest colonies...a
middle-aged gentleman is just embarking with all his property to fulfil
the dream of his life and spend his old age in Paris;...
Bost 12.193 25 In our own age we are learning to
look, as on chivalry, at the sweetness of that ancient piety which
makes the genius of St. Bernard, Latimer, Scougal...
Bost 12.210 6 In an age of trade and material
prosperity, we have stood a little stupefied by the elevation of our
ancestors.
MAng1 12.222 14 Not easily in this age will any man
acquire by himself such perceptions of the dignity or grace of the
human frame as the student of art owes to the remains of Phidias...
MAng1 12.235 4 Not until he was in the seventy-third
year of his age, [Michelangelo] undertook the building of Saint
Peter's.
MAng1 12.237 12 ...[Michelangelo]...in old age speaks
with extreme pleasure of his residence with the hermits in the
mountains of Spoleto;...
MAng1 12.241 23 At the age of eighty years,
[Michelangelo] wrote to Vasari, sending him various spiritual sonnets
he had written...
Milt1 12.247 17 ...it is...true that [Milton] has
gained, in this age, some increase of permanent praise.
Milt1 12.248 6 There is no name in English literature
between [Milton's] age and ours that rises into any approach to his
own.
Milt1 12.252 10 ...if we skip the pages of Paradise
Lost where God the Father argues like a school divine, so did the next
age to [Milton's] own.
Milt1 12.256 18 Nor is there in literature a more
noble outline of a wise external education than that which [Milton]
drew up, at the age of thirty-six, in his Letter to Samuel Hartlib.
Milt1 12.263 16 [Milton] acknowledges to his friend
Diodati, at the age of twenty-one, that he is enamoured...of moral
perfection...
Milt1 12.268 13 The memorable covenant, which in his
youth...[Milton] makes with God and his reader, expressed the faith of
his old age.
Milt1 12.269 4 It is said that no opinion, no civil,
religious, moral dogma can be produced that was not broached in the
fertile brain of that age [of Milton].
Milt1 12.271 15 [Milton] pushed, as far as any in
that democratic age, his ideas of civil liberty.
Milt1 12.278 26 We have offered no apology for
expanding to such length our commentary on the character of John
Milton; who, in old age, in solitude, in neglect, and blind, wrote
Paradise Lost;...
Milt1 12.279 7 ...are not all men fortified by the
remembrance of...the angelic devotion of this man [Milton], who, in a
revolutionary age... endeavored...to carry out the life of man to new
heights of spiritual grace and dignity...
ACri 12.294 26 We cannot find that anything in
[Shakespeare's] age was more worth expression than anything in ours;...
MLit 12.311 9 In order to any complete view of the
literature of the present age, an inquiry should include what it
quotes, what it writes and what it wishes to write.
MLit 12.311 17 How can the age be a bad one which
gives me Plato and Paul and Plutarch...beside its own riches?
MLit 12.311 24 Our presses groan every year with new
editions of all the select pieces of the first of mankind...which the
age adopts by quoting them.
MLit 12.311 26 If we should designate favorite
studies in which the age delights more than in the rest of this great
mass of the permanent literature of the human race, one or two
instances would be conspicuous.
MLit 12.313 24 ...the single soul feels its
right...to summon all facts and parties before its tribunal. And in
this sense the age is subjective.
MLit 12.315 15 The great lead us to Nature, and in
our age to metaphysical Nature...
MLit 12.316 11 Has [the writer] led thee to Nature
because his own soul was too happy in beholding her power and love? Or
is his passion for the wilderness only...the exhibition of a
talent...which...would not make itself intelligible to the wise man of
another age or country?
MLit 12.322 14 Whatever the age inherited or
invented, [Goethe] has made his own.
MLit 12.323 2 ...in [Goethe] this encyclopaedia of
facts, which it has been the boast of the age to compile, wrought an
equal effect.
MLit 12.328 18 Does [Goethe] represent, not only the
achievement of that age in which he lived, but that which it would be
and is now becoming?
MLit 12.329 12 [We can fancy Goethe saying to
himself] The age, that can damn [Wilhelm Meister] as false and
falsifying, will see that it is deeply one with the genius and history
of all the centuries.
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.
MLit 12.334 11 He who doubts whether this age or this
country can yield any contribution to the literature of the world only
betrays his own blindness to the necessities of the human soul.
WSL 12.343 20 Whoever writes for the love of truth
and beauty...belongs to this sacred class; and among these, few men of
the present age have a better claim to be numbered than Mr. Landor.
Pray 12.351 25 ...what led us to these remembrances
[of prayers] was the happy accident which in this undevout age lately
brought us acquainted with two or three diaries...
EurB 12.369 1 ...with a complete satisfaction
[Wordsworth]...celebrated his own [life] with the religion of a true
priest. Hence the antagonism which was immediately felt between his
poetry and the spirit of the age...
EurB 12.372 6 The poem of all the poetry of the
present age for which we predict the longest term is Abou ben Adhem, of
Leigh Hunt.
EurB 12.374 26 ...Mr. Bulwer's recent stories have
given us who do not read novels occasion to think of this department of
literature, supposed to be the natural fruit and expression of the age.
PPr 12.386 27 ...the splendor of wit cannot outdazzle
the calm daylight, which always shows every individual man in balance
with his age...
PPr 12.388 15 One excellence [Carlyle] has in an age
of Mammon and of criticism, that he never suffers the eye of his wonder
to close.
Age, n. (10)
LT 1.262 4 What is the reason to be given for this
extreme attraction which persons have for us, but that they are the
Age?...
LT 1.271 8 The conscience of the Age demonstrates
itself in this effort to raise the life of man by putting it in harmony
with his idea of the Beautiful and the Just.
LT 1.287 3 I do not wish to be guilty of the
narrowness and pedantry of inferring the tendency and genius of the Age
from a few and insufficient facts or persons.
LT 1.287 14 At the manifest risk of repeating what
every other Age has thought of itself, we might say we think the Genius
of this Age more philosophical than any other has been...
OA 7.316 10 Wellington, in speaking of military men,
said, What masks are these uniforms to hide cowards! I have often
detected the like deception in the...wig, spectacles and padded chair
of Age.
OA 7.316 14 Nature lends herself to these illusions
[of time], and adds dim sight...short memory and sleep. These also are
masks, and all is not Age that wears them.
Age of Gold, n. (2)
Chr1 3.87 8 He spoke, and words more soft than rain/
Brought the Age of Gold again:/...
Age of Reason, n. (1)
Age, Old, Apology for, n. (1)
Age, Old, n. (1)
OA 7.320 16 ...the creed of the street is, Old Age is
not disgraceful, but immensely disadvantageous.
age, Philosophical, n. (1)
AmS 1.109 5 ...there are data for marking the genius
of the Classic, of the Romantic, and now of the Reflective or
Philosophical age.
Age, Present, n. (1)
MLit 12.310 17 In looking at the library of the
Present Age, we are first struck with the fact of the immense
miscellany.
age, Reflective, n. (1)
AmS 1.109 5 ...there are data for marking the genius
of the Classic, of the Romantic, and now of the Reflective or
Philosophical age.
Age, Roman, n. (2)
Clbs 7.242 20 ...there was liberal and refined
conversation in the Greek, in the Roman and in the Middle Age.
Clbs 7.243 16 ...a history of clubs from early
antiquity...through the Greek and Roman to the Middle Age...would be an
important chapter in history.
age, Romantic, n. (1)
AmS 1.109 4 ...there are data for marking the genius
of the Classic, of the Romantic, and now of the Reflective or
Philosophical age.
Age, Spirit of the, n. (1)
Schr 10.269 2 Talk frankly with [the practical men]
and you learn...that the Spirit of the Age has been before you with
influences impossible to parry or resist.
age, v. (1)
aged, adj. (8)
Nat 1.60 7 [Idealism] beholds the whole circle of
persons and things...not as painfully accumulated...in an aged creeping
Past...
NER 3.272 15 [Men] are conservatives...when they are
sick, or aged.
MoS 4.162 27 ...when in Paris, in 1833...in the
cemetery of Pere Lachaise, I came to a tomb of Auguste Collignon, who
died in 1830, aged sixty-eight years...
ET19 5.313 4 Is it not true, sir, that the wise
ancients did not praise the ship parting with flying colors from the
port, but only that brave sailor which came back...stript of her
banners, but having ridden out the storm? And so... I feel in regard to
this aged England...
PI 8.14 9 The aged Michel Angelo indicates his
perpetual study as in boyhood,--I carry my satchel still.
Plu 10.319 1 [Alexander] persuaded the Sogdians not
to kill, but to cherish their aged parents;...
HDC 11.76 7 The presence of these aged men who were
in arms on that day [battle of Concord] seems to bring us nearer to it.
MAng1 12.235 7 On the death of San Gallo...Paul III.
first entreated, then commanded the aged artist [Michelangelo] to
assume the charge of this great work...
aged, n. (2)
Lov1 2.170 11 ...this passion of which we speak
[love]...makes the aged participators of it not less than the tender
maiden...
HDC 11.83 2 Concord has always been noted for its
ministers. The living need no praise of mine. Yet it is among the
sources of satisfaction and gratitude, this day, that the aged [Ezra
Ripley] with whom is wisdom, our fathers' counsellor and friend, is
spared to counsel and intercede for the sons.
agencies, n. (8)
Pow 6.68 9 The rule for this whole class of [natural]
agencies is,--all plus is good; only put it in the right place.
CbW 6.256 10 The agencies by which events so grand as
the opening of California, of Texas, or Oregon...are effected, are
paltry...
Civ 7.33 9 ...in Judaea, the advent of Jesus, and, in
modern Christendom, of the realists Huss, Savonarola and Luther,--are
casual facts which...elevate the rule of life. In the presence of these
agencies it is frivolous to insist on the invention of printing or
gunpowder...
Dem1 10.17 2 This faith...in the particular of lucky
days and fortunate persons...this supposed power runs athwart the
recognized agencies...which science and religion explore.
PerF 10.70 17 What agencies of electricity, gravity,
light, affinity combine to make every plant what it is...
agency, n. (10)
Nat 1.49 24 Until this higher agency intervened, the
animal eye sees...sharp outlines and colored surfaces.
UGM 4.35 5 ...within the limits of human education
and agency, we may say great men exist that there may be greater men.
SwM 4.133 10 There is an immense chain of
intermediation [in Swedenborg's system of the world]...which bereaves
every agency of all freedom and character.
SwM 4.134 16 Though the agency of the Lord is in
every line referred to by name [by Swedenborg], it never becomes alive.
Bty 6.288 5 ...everybody knows people...who, with all
degrees of ability, never impress us with the air of free agency.
Farm 7.146 14 Water...transports vast boulders of
rock in its iceberg a thousand miles. But its far greater power depends
on its talent of becoming little, and entering the smallest holes and
pores. By this agency, carrying in solution elements needful to every
plant, the vegetable world exists.
SovE 10.195 4 The fiery soul said: Let me be a blot
on this fair world, the obscurest, the loneliest sufferer, with one
proviso,-that I know it is his agency.
MMEm 10.428 12 Constantly offer myself [Mary Moody
Emerson] to continue the obscurest and loneliest thing ever heard of,
with one proviso,- [God's] agency.
agent, adj. (2)
agent, n. (23)
MR 1.231 25 In the Spanish islands, every agent or
factor of the Americans...has taken oath that he is a Catholic...
LT 1.261 16 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.
Tran 1.355 7 ...the justice which is now claimed for
the black...is for a necessity to the soul of the agent, not of the
beneficiary.
Comp 2.114 9 It is best...to buy...in your agent,
good sense applied to accounts and affairs.
Chr1 3.92 20 Nature seems to authorize trade, as soon
as you see the natural merchant, who appears not so much a private
agent as her factor and Minister of Commerce.
Chr1 3.93 19 I see [in the natural merchant]...the
consciousness of being an agent and playfellow of the original laws of
the world.
NER 3.283 17 [The Law] rewards actions after their
nature, and not after the design of the agent.
UGM 4.9 5 Each man is by secret liking connected with
some district of nature, whose agent and interpreter he is;...
SwM 4.138 14 That pure malignity can exist is the
extreme proposition of unbelief. It is not to be entertained by a
rational agent;...
Pow 6.77 12 ...the galvanic stream, slow but
continuous, is equal in power to the electric spark, and is, in our
arts, a better agent.
Wsp 6.240 5 The weight of the universe is pressed
down on the shoulders of each moral agent to hold him to his task.
Schr 10.264 8 This, gentlemen, is the topic on which
I shall speak,-the natural and permanent function of the Scholar, as he
is...an organic agent in nature.
HDC 11.63 9 [Edward Bulkeley's] youngest brother,
Peter, was deputy from Concord, and was chosen speaker of the house of
deputies in 1676. The following year, he was sent to England...as agent
for the Colony;...
LVB 11.91 2 The newspapers now inform us that...a
treaty contracting for the exchange of all the Cherokee territory was
pretended to be made by an agent on the part of the United States with
some persons appearing on the part of the Cherokees;...
FRO2 11.487 22 I think wise men wish their religion
to be all of this kind, teaching the agent to go alone...
CInt 12.122 16 Instinct is the name for...that
feeling which each has that what is done by any man or agent is done by
the same wit as his.
agents, n. (31)
Con 1.321 2 The contractors who were building a road
out of Baltimore... found the Irish laborers...refractory to a degree
that embarrassed the agents...
Hsm1. 2.252 3 ...[heroism's] ultimate objects are the
last defiance of falsehood and wrong, and the power to bear all that
can be inflicted by evil agents.
Chr1 3.114 19 ...the mind requires...a force of
character...which will rule animal and mineral virtues, and blend with
the courses of sap, of rivers, of winds, of stars, and of moral agents.
Pol1 3.213 22 The wise man [the community] cannot
find in nature, and it makes awkward but earnest efforts...to secure
the advantages of efficiency and internal peace by confiding the
government to one, who may himself select his agents.
NR 3.235 19 Thus we settle it in our cool libraries,
that all the agents with which we deal are subalterns...
ShP 4.207 8 That imagination which dilates the closet
[Shakespeare] writes in to the world's dimension, crowds it with agents
in rank and order, as quickly reduces the big reality to be the
glimpses of the moon.
ShP 4.217 22 Are the agents of nature, and the power
to understand them, worth no more than a street serenade...
Civ 7.30 25 If we can thus ride in Olympian chariots
by putting our works in the path of the celestial circuits, we can
harness also evil agents...
DL 7.110 7 Do not ask [the scholar] to help with his
savings...eager agents to lobby in legislatures...
Farm 7.152 21 ...we cannot enumerate the incidents
and agents of the farm without reverting to their influence on the
farmer.
Cour 7.264 18 Courage...consists in the conviction
that the agents with whom you contend are not superior in strength of
resources or spirit to you.
PI 8.66 18 I count the genius of Swedenborg and
Wordsworth as the agents of a reform in philosophy...
Dem1 10.12 21 The lovers...of what we call the occult
and unproved sciences...need not reproach us with incredulity because
we are slow to accept their statement. It is not the incredibility of
the fact, but a certain want of harmony between the action and the
agents.
Dem1 10.16 20 In the popular belief, ghosts are a
selecting tribe, avoiding millions, speaking to one. In our traditions,
fairies, angels and saints show the like favoritism; so do the agents
and the means of magic...
Dem1 10.22 10 A Highland chief, an Indian sachem or a
feudal baron may fancy...that...when he acts, unheard-of success
evinces the presence of rare agents;...
Aris 10.45 13 ...the man's associations, fortunes,
love, hatred, residence, rank, the books he will buy, the roads he will
traverse are predetermined in his organism. Men will need him, and he
is rich and eminent by nature. That man cannot be too late or too
early. Let him not hurry or hesitate. Though millions are already
arrived, his seat is reserved. Though millions attend, they only
multiply his friends and agents.
Aris 10.65 9 There is no need that [a man of generous
spirit] should count the pounds of property or the numbers of agents
whom his influence touches;...
Chr2 10.96 4 Before [the moral sentiment] what are
persons, prophets, or seraphim but its passing agents...
HDC 11.83 15 I hope that History [of Concord] will
not long remain unknown. The author [Lemuel Shattuck]...has wisely
enriched his pages with the resolutions, addresses and instructions to
its agents...
LVB 11.95 8 ...the steps of this crime [the
relocation of the Cherokees] follow each other...at such fatally quick
time, that the millions of virtuous citizens, whose agents the
government are, have no place to interpose...
EWI 11.138 18 Men have become aware, through the
emancipation [in the West Indies] and kindred events, of the presence
of powers which, in their days of darkness, they had overlooked.
Virtuous men will not again rely on political agents.
CL 12.140 15 The importance to the intellect of
exposing the body and brain to the fine mineral and imponderable agents
of the air makes the chief interest in the subject.
MAng1 12.236 9 Amidst endless annoyances from the
envy and interest of the office-holders and agents in the work whom he
had displaced, [Michelangelo] steadily ripened and executed his vast
ideas.
Ages, Dark, n. (3)
PC 8.214 15 In modern Europe, the Middle Ages were
called the Dark Ages.
Ages, Middle [Henry Hallam (1)
Boks 7.206 6 For the Church and the Feudal
Institution, Mr. Hallam's Middle Ages will furnish, if superficial, yet
readable and conceivable outlines.
Ages, Middle, n. (8)
GoW 4.271 4 We conceive...life in the Middle Ages, to
be a simple and comprehensible affair;...
PC 8.214 14 In modern Europe, the Middle Ages were
called the Dark Ages.
Schr 10.262 24 I think the peculiar office of
scholars...is to be (as the poets were called in the Middle Ages)
Professors of the Joyous Science...
RBur 11.439 20 At the first announcement...that the
25th of January [1859] was the hundredth anniversary of the birth of
Robert Burns, a sudden consent warmed the great English race...to keep
the festival. We are here to hold our parliament with love and poesy,
as men were wont to do in the Middle Ages.
FRep 11.513 18 Our sleepy civilization, ever since
Roger Bacon and Monk Schwartz invented gunpowder, has built its whole
art of war...on that one compound...and reckons Greeks and Romans and
Middle Ages little better than Indians and bow-and-arrow times.
Bost 12.193 13 ...these Englishmen [who settled
Massachusetts], with the Middle Ages still obscuring their reason, were
filled with Christian thought.
ages, n. (205)
AmS 1.105 19 They are the kings of the world
who...persuade men...that this thing which they do is the apple which
the ages have desired to pluck...
DSA 1.129 7 ...what a distortion did [Jesus's]
doctrine and memory suffer in the same, in the next, and the following
ages!
DSA 1.130 14 ...as it has appeared for ages,
[Christianity] is not the doctrine of the soul...
DSA 1.133 22 ...with yet more entire consent of my
human being, sounds in my ear the severe music of the bards that have
sung of the true God in all ages.
LE 1.162 14 The impoverishing philosophy of ages has
laid stress on the distinctions of the individual...
MN 1.193 26 ...the sturdiest defender of existing
institutions feels the terrific inflammability of this air which
condenses heat in every corner that may restore to the elements the
fabric of ages.
MN 1.207 8 Follow the great man, and you shall see
what the world has at heart in these ages.
MN 1.221 6 It is the office...of this age to annul
that adulterous divorce which the superstition of many ages has
effected between the intellect and holiness.
LT 1.265 17 Could we indicate the indicators...we
should have a series of sketches which would report to the next ages
the color and quality of ours.
LT 1.272 25 The new voices in the wilderness...have
revived a hope...that the thoughts of the mind may yet...be executed by
the hands. ... For some ages, these ideas have been consigned to the
poet and musical composer...
Con 1.301 6 If we read the world historically, we
shall say, Of all the ages, the present hour and circumstance is the
cumulative result;...
Con 1.313 17 Thank the rude foster-mother
[Necessity], though she has... set hopes in your heart which shall be
history in the next ages.
Con 1.317 22 Yonder peasant...carries a whole
revolution of man and nature in his head, which shall be a sacred
history to some future ages.
YA 1.370 13 ...I think we must regard the land
as...the sanative and Americanizing influence. which promises to
disclose new virtues for ages to come.
YA 1.371 23 ...there is a sublime and friendly
Destiny by which the human race is guided...to results affecting masses
and ages.
Hist 2.26 5 [Vases, tragedies, statues] have
continued to be made in all ages...
Hist 2.30 20 ...[the story of Prometheus] gives the
history of religion, with some closeness to the faith of later ages.
Hist 2.37 26 A mind might ponder its thoughts for
ages and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall
teach it in a day.
SR 2.61 11 A man Caesar is born, and for ages after
we have a Roman Empire.
SR 2.86 2 A singular equality may be observed between
the great men of the first and of the last ages;...
SL 2.146 19 We are always reasoning from the seen to
the unseen. Hence the perfect intelligence that subsists between wise
men of remote ages.
Fdsp 2.201 14 ...after so many ages of experience,
what do we know of nature or of ourselves?
OS 2.273 3 Some thoughts always find us young, and
keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal
beauty. Every man parts from that contemplation with the feeling that
it rather belongs to ages than to mortal life.
Cir 2.302 27 You admire this tower of granite,
weathering the hurts of so many ages.
Cir 2.311 1 O, what truths profound and executable
only in ages and orbs, are supposed in the announcement of every truth!
Int 2.329 9 As far as we can recall these ecstasies
[of thought] we carry away in the ineffaceable memory the result, and
all men and all the ages confirm it.
Art1 2.359 22 [The traveller who visits the Vatican
galleries] studies the technical rules [of art] on these wonderful
remains, but forgets that these works...are the contributions of many
ages and many countries;...
Pt1 3.35 16 Swedenborg, of all men in the recent
ages, stands eminently for the translator of nature into thought.
Exp 3.71 27 I clap my hands in infantine joy and
amazement before the first opening to me of this august magnificence,
old with the love and homage of innumerable ages...
Exp 3.83 9 I can very confidently announce one or
another law...but I am too young yet by some ages to compile a code.
Chr1 3.110 8 [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 3.110 13 ...the virtuous prince moves, and for
ages shows empire the way.
Mrs1 3.123 12 ...every man's name that emerged at all
from the mass in the feudal ages rattles in our ear like a flourish of
trumpets.
Pol1 3.208 6 What satire on government can equal the
severity of censure conveyed in the word politic, which now for ages
has signified cunning...
UGM 4.20 4 Mankind have in all ages attached
themselves to a few persons who...were entitled to the position of
leaders and law-givers.
PPh 4.66 7 In the doctrine of the organic character
and disposition is the origin of caste. ... The East confirms itself,
in all ages, in this faith.
PPh 4.78 19 How many ages have gone by, and [Plato]
remains unapproached!
PNR 4.87 24 [Plato] kindled a fire so truly in the
centre that we see the sphere illuminated...a theory so averaged, so
modulated, that you would say the winds of ages had swept through this
rhythmic structure...
SwM 4.117 9 The poets, in as far as they are poets,
use [Correspondence]; but it is known to them only as the magnet was
known for ages, as a toy.
SwM 4.124 8 The moral insight of Swedenborg...the
announcement of ethical laws...entitle him to a place, vacant for some
ages, among the lawgivers of mankind.
MoS 4.177 4 The word Fate...expresses the sense of
mankind, in all ages, that the laws of the world do not always
befriend...us.
MoS 4.185 23 We see, now, events forced on which seem
to retard or retrograde the civility of ages.
ShP 4.202 18 There is somewhat touching in the
madness with which the passing age...registers every trifle touching
Queen Elizabeth...and lets pass without a single valuable note...the
man...on whose thoughts the foremost people of the world are now for
some ages to be nourished...
NMW 4.254 20 Laws, institutions, monuments, nations,
all fall [said Napoleon]; but the noise [of a great
reputation]...resounds in after ages.
GoW 4.272 26 In the menstruum of this man's
[Goethe's] wit, the past and the present ages...are dissolved into
archetypes and ideas.
GoW 4.277 12 ...[Goethe] flung into literature, in
his Mephistopheles, the first organic figure that has been added for
some ages...
GoW 4.290 8 We shall learn to draw rents and revenues
from the immense patrimony of the old and the recent ages.
ET1 5.11 9 [Coleridge said] It was a wonder that
after so many ages of unquestioning acquiescence in the doctrine of St.
Paul...this handful of Priestleians should take on themselves to deny
it...
ET3 5.34 12 The solidity of the structures that
compose the [English] towns speaks the industry of ages.
ET4 5.46 11 ...[the Englishmen's] success is not
sudden or fortunate, but they have maintained constancy and
self-equality for many ages.
ET5 5.81 17 [The English] are bound to see their
measure carried, and stick to it through ages of defeat.
ET5 5.91 9 Sir John Herschel...expatriated himself
for years at the Cape of Good Hope, finished his inventory of the
southern heaven, came home, and redacted it in eight years more;.--a
work whose value does not begin until thirty years have elapsed, and
thenceforward a record to all ages of the highest import.
ET5 5.101 20 Whilst [the English] are some ages ahead
of the rest of the world in the art of living;...this vanguard of
civility and power they coldly hold...
ET10 5.163 22 The taste and science of thirty
peaceful generations;...are in the vast auction [in England], and the
hereditary principle heaps on the owner of to-day the benefit of ages
of owners.
ET11 5.178 26 This long descent of [English] families
and this cleaving through ages to the same spot of ground, captivates
the imagination.
ET12 5.200 9 A youth [at Oxford] came forward to the
upper table and pronounced the ancient form of grace before meals,
which, I suppose, has been in use here for ages...
ET13 5.215 3 [Prudent men say] Better find some niche
or crevice in this mountain of stone which religious ages have quarried
and carved...than attempt anything ridiculously and dangerously above
your strength, like removing it.
ET13 5.215 15 ...plainly there has been great power
of sentiment at work in this island [England], of which these
[religious] buildings are the proofs; as volcanic basalts show the work
of fire which has been extinguished for ages.
ET13 5.216 7 [The priest...translated the sanctities
of old hagiology into English virtues on English ground. It was a
certain affirmative or aggressive state of the Caucasian races. Man
awoke refreshed by the sleep of ages.
ET16 5.279 21 The spot, the gray blocks [of
Stonehenge] and their rude order...suggested to [Carlyle] the flight of
ages...
ET18 5.299 10 ...[the English] have earned their
vantage ground and held it through ages of adverse possession.
F 6.15 16 One leaf [Nature] lays down, a floor of
granite; then a thousand ages, and a bed of slate;...
F 6.15 17 One leaf [Nature] lays down, a floor of
granite;...a thousand ages, and a measure of coal;...
F 6.15 18 One leaf [Nature] lays down, a floor of
granite;...a thousand ages, and a layer of marl and mud;...
Wth 6.83 15 From air the creeping centuries drew/ The
matted thicket low and wide,/ This must the leaves of ages strew/ The
granite slab to clothe and hide,/ Ere wheat can wave its golden pride./
Ctr 6.148 4 ...a man who looks...at London, says, If
I should be driven from my own home, here at least my thoughts can be
consoled by the most prodigal amusement and occupation which the human
race in ages could contrive and accumulate.
Wsp 6.205 6 In all ages, souls out of time...are
born...
Wsp 6.206 1 Christianity, in the romantic ages,
signified European culture...
Wsp 6.213 17 There is...a simple...presence, dwelling
very peacefully in us...and to this homage there is a consent of all
thoughtful and just men in all ages and conditions.
Wsp 6.219 7 ...if in sidereal ages gravity and
projection keep their craft...a secreter gravitation, a secreter
projection rule not less tyrannically in human history...
Wsp 6.238 10 The great class...the rapt, the lost,
the fools of ideas...suggest what they cannot execute. They speak to
the ages...
Wsp 6.240 25 The religion which is to guide and
fulfil the present and coming ages...must be intellectual.
SS 7.5 10 Do you think, [my friend] said, I am in
such great terror of being shot, I, who am only waiting...to slip away
into the back stars...there to wear out ages in solitude...
DL 7.116 11 ...this voice of communities and ages,
Give us wealth and the good household shall exist, is vicious...
Farm 7.142 27 Long before [the farmer] was born, the
sun of ages decomposed the rocks...
Farm 7.152 24 This crust of soil which ages have
refined [the farmer] refines again for the feeding of a civil and
instructed people.
PI 8.2 11 ...[Fancy] can knit/ What is past, what is
done,/ With the web that 's just begun;/ Making free with time and
size,/ Dwindles here, there magnifies,/ Swells a rain-drop to a tun;/
So to repeat/ No word or feat/ Crowds in a day the sum of ages,/ And
blushing Love outwits the sages./
PI 8.39 6 [The poet's] inspiration is power to carry
out and complete the metamorphosis, which, in the imperfect kinds
arrested for ages, in the perfecter proceeds rapidly in the same
individual.
PI 8.57 7 The metallic force of primitive words makes
the superiority of the remains of the rude ages.
PI 8.58 14 ...[The wind] is always of the same age
with the ages of ages,/ And of equal breadth with the surface of the
earth./
PI 8.74 11 One man sees a spark or shimmer of the
truth and reports it, and his saying becomes a legend or golden proverb
for ages...
SA 8.77 2 When the old world is sterile/ And the ages
are effete,/ He will from wrecks and sediment/ The fairer world
complete./
QO 8.181 13 Albert...St. Buonaventura...Thomas
Aquinas...whose books made the sufficient culture of these ages, Dante
absorbed, and he survives for us.
QO 8.182 7 ...the psalms and liturgies of churches,
are...of this slow growth,-a fagot of selections gathered through
ages...
PC 8.213 9 ...I find not only this equality between
new and old countries... but also a certain equivalence of the ages of
history;...
PC 8.215 17 As we find thus a certain equivalence in
the ages, there is also an equipollence of individual genius to the
nation which it represents.
PPo 8.236 10 As Jelaleddin old and gray,/ [Saadi]
seemed to bask, to dream and play/ Without remoter hope or fear/ Than
still to entertain his ear/ And pass the burning summer-time/ In the
palm-grove with a rhyme;/ Heedless that each cunning word/ Tribes and
ages overheard/...
PPo 8.240 2 He who would understand the influence of
the Homeric ballads in the heroic ages should witness the effect which
similar compositions have upon the wild nomads of the East.
Grts 8.301 10 I might call [the prize] completeness,
but that is later,- perhaps adjourned for ages.
Grts 8.302 24 Who can doubt the potency of an
individual mind, who sees the shock given to torpid races-torpid for
ages-by Mahomet;...
Imtl 8.327 3 The most remarkable step in the
religious history of recent ages is that made by the genius of
Swedenborg...
Imtl 8.328 25 ...spend yourself on the work before
you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will
be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it...
Imtl 8.348 16 Here are people who cannot dispose of a
day;...and will you offer them rolling ages without end?
Dem1 10.11 3 Belzoni describes the three marks which
led him to dig for a door to the pyramid of Ghizeh. What thousands had
beheld the same spot for so many ages, and seen no three marks.
Dem1 10.22 5 A Highland chief, an Indian sachem or a
feudal baron may fancy...that the one question for history is the
pedigree of his house, and future ages will be busy with his renown;...
Aris 10.38 3 How sturdy seem to us in the history,
those...Burgundies and Guesclins of the old warlike ages!
Aris 10.41 17 In simple communities, in the heroic
ages, a man was chosen for his knack;...
Aris 10.41 27 In the heroic ages, as we call them,
the hero uniformly has some real talent.
Chr2 10.97 5 In all ages, to all men, [the moral
force] saith, I am;...
Chr2 10.100 14 It happens now and then, in the ages,
that a soul is born which has no weakness of self...
Chr2 10.116 11 ...each inspired master will gain
instantly by the separation from the idolatry of ages.
Edc1 10.152 9 Try your design on the best school. The
scholars are of all ages and temperaments and capacities.
SovE 10.184 5 In ignorant ages it was common to vaunt
the human superiority by underrating the instinct of other animals;...
SovE 10.191 4 These threads [of Necessity] are
Nature's pernicious elements...the orphan's tears, the vices of men,
lust, cruelty and pitiless avarice. These make the gloomy warp of ages.
SovE 10.194 24 Let [a man]...find...in the passing
hour, the age of ages.
SovE 10.209 19 [The moral law] has not yet its first
hymn. But, that every line and word may be coals of true fire, ages
must roll...
SovE 10.212 7 We buttress [the moral sentiment] up,
in shallow hours or ages, with legends, traditions and forms...
Prch 10.219 19 No age and no person is destitute of
the [religious] sentiment, but in actual history its illustrious
exhibitions are interrupted and periodical,-the ages of belief, of
heroic action...
MoL 10.243 17 It is charged that all vigorous
nations, except our own, have balanced their labor by mental activity,
and especially by the imagination...the angel of earnest and believing
ages.
Schr 10.259 4 For thought, and not praise,/ Thought
is the wages/ For which I sell days,/ Will gladly sell ages/...
Schr 10.262 2 ...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 10.263 16 The scholar is here...to affirm noble
sentiments; to hear them wherever spoken, out of the deeps of ages...
Schr 10.272 24 [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, and for ages.
Schr 10.275 11 The hero rises out of all comparison
with contemporaries and with ages of men, because he disesteems old
age, and lands, and money, and power...
Plu 10.303 12 ...it is in reading the fragments
[Plutarch] has saved from lost authors that I have hailed another
example of...the benign Providence which uses the violence of war, of
earthquakes and changed water-courses, to save underground through
barbarous ages the relics of ancient art...
LLNE 10.329 18 The warm swart Earth-spirit which made
the strength of past ages...warm negro ages of sentiment and
vegetation,-all gone;...
EzRy 10.383 26 I am sure all who remember both will
associate [Ezra Ripley's] form with whatever was grave and droll in the
old...meeting-house... with long prayers, rich with the diction of
ages;...
MMEm 10.424 18 ...He who formed thy [Time's] web, who
stretched thy warp from long ages, has graciously given man to throw
his shuttle, or feel he does, and irradiate the filling woof with many
a flowery rainbow,- labors, rather...
MMEm 10.425 11 The wonderful inhabitant of the
building to which unknown ages were the mechanics, is left out [of
Brougham's title of a System of Natural Theology] as to that part where
the Creator had put his own lighted candle...
MMEm 10.425 25 ...the bare bones of this poor embryo
earth may give the idea of the Infinite far, far better than when
dignified with arts and industry:-its oceans, when beating the symbols
of ceaseless ages, than when covered with cargoes of war and
oppression.
MMEm 10.433 11 Very rightly...the Christian ages,
proceeding on a grand instinct, have said: Faith alone, Faith alone.
LS 11.16 14 On every other subject [than the Lord's
Supper] succeeding times have learned to form a judgment more in
accordance with the spirit of Christianity than was the practice of the
early ages.
HDC 11.29 20 The river...every winter, for ages, has
spread its crust of ice over the great meadows which, in ages, it had
formed.
HDC 11.29 22 The river...every winter, for ages, has
spread its crust of ice over the great meadows which, in ages, it had
formed.
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