Look to Lost

A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compiled by Eugene F. Irey

look, n. (31)

    LT 1.280 8 This denouncing philanthropist is himself a slaveholder in every word and look.
    SL 2.159 20 [A man] may be a solitary eater, but he cannot keep his foolish counsel. A broken complexion, a swinish look...all blab.
    Fdsp 2.208 17 Let me be alone to the end of the world, rather than that my friend should overstep, by a word or a look, his real sympathy.
    Int 2.346 22 ...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 3.43 16 The lords of life, the lords of life,--/ I saw them pass,/ In their own guise,/ .../ Little man, least of all,/ Among the legs of his guardians tall,/ Walked about with puzzled look:--/...
    Nat2 3.193 23 Are we tickled trout, and fools of nature? One look at the face of heaven and earth lays all petulance at rest...
    SwM 4.123 22 What earnestness and weightiness [in Swedenborg]... without one swell of vanity, or one look to self in any common form of literary pride!...
    MoS 4.150 23 The genius is a genius by the first look he casts on any object.
    ET16 5.279 10 We [Emerson and Carlyle] walked in and out and took again and again a fresh look at the uncanny stones [of Stonehenge].
    ET17 5.296 9 [Wordsworth] had a healthy look...
    ET17 5.297 3 ...this trait [Wordsworth's economy] would have another look in London...
    Wth 6.87 11 When the farmer's peaches are taken from under the tree and carried into town, they have a new look and a hundredfold value over the fruit which grew on the same bough and lies fulsomely on the ground.
    Ctr 6.135 1 [Our student] must have...a power to see with a free and disengaged look every object.
    Bhr 6.177 6 Wise men read very sharply all your private history in your look and gait and behavior.
    Bhr 6.180 8 There is a look by which a man shows he is going to say a good thing...
    Bhr 6.180 9 There is a look by which a man shows he is going to say a good thing, and a look when he has said it.
    Bhr 6.182 9 ...[Balzac] says, The look, the voice, the respiration, and the attitude or walk, are identical.
    Bhr 6.183 9 In Notre Dame, the grandee took his place on the dias with the look of one who is thinking of something else.
    Bhr 6.188 22 ...the sad realist knows these fellows [of position] at a glance, and they know him; as when in Paris the chief of the police enters a ball-room, so many diamonded pretenders...give him a supplicating look as they pass.
    DL 7.103 8 ...[the nestler's] tiny beseeching weakness is compensated perfectly by the happy patronizing look of the mother...
    WD 7.163 27 [Tantalus] is now in great spirits;...thinks he shall bottle the wave. It is however getting a little doubtful. Things have an ugly look still.
    PI 8.55 13 Welcome, folded arms and fixed eyes,/ A sigh that piercing mortifies,/ A look that 's fastened to the ground/...
    PPo 8.264 19 [The birds] saw themselves all as Simorg,/ Themselves in the eternal Simorg./ When to the Simorg up they looked,/ They beheld him among themselves;/ And when they looked on each other,/ They saw themselves in the Simorg./ A single look grouped the two parties,/ The Simorg emerged, the Simorg vanished,/ This in that and that in this, As the world has never heard./
    Schr 10.283 20 ...[mother-wit's] look is catholic and universal...
    War 11.169 7 If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms...you have a nation...of true, great and able men. Let me know more of that nation;... I shall find them...men whose very look and voice carry the sentence of honor and shame;...
    Wom 11.406 12 [Women] inspire by a look...
    FRep 11.524 1 ...the people] must take wine at the hotel, first, for the look of it, and second, for the purpose of sending the bottle to two or three gentlemen at the table;...
    II 12.66 2 'T is very certain that a man's whole possibility is contained in that habitual first look which he casts on all objects.
    Bost 12.198 18 ...thoughts are expressed in every look or gesture...
    PPr 12.383 18 The most elaborate history of to-day will have the oddest dislocated look in the next generation.
    PPr 12.386 16 One can hardly credit, whilst under the spell of this magician [Carlyle], that the world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us...

look, v. (276)

    Nat 1.7 5 ...if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars.
    Nat 1.17 7 From the earth, as a shore, I look out into that silent sea.
    Nat 1.19 20 ...[the beauty of an October afternoon] is only a mirage as you look from the windows of diligence.
    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 1.43 7 Xenophanes complained...that, look where he would, all things hastened back to Unity.
    Nat 1.49 18 [To the senses] Things are ultimates, and they never look beyond their sphere.
    Nat 1.73 24 The ruin or the blank that we see when we look at nature, is in our own eye.
    Nat 1.75 23 So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes.
    AmS 1.81 17 Perhaps the time is already come when...the sluggard intellect of this continent will look from under its iron lids...
    AmS 1.86 26 ...[the scholar] shall look forward to an ever expanding knowledge as to a becoming creator.
    AmS 1.90 16 [Institutions] look backward and not forward.
    AmS 1.104 18 Let [the scholar] look into [fear's] eye and search its nature...
    AmS 1.109 25 I look upon the discontent of the literary class as a mere announcement of the fact that they find themselves not in the state of mind of their fathers...
    DSA 1.146 7 Look to it first and only, that fashion, custom...are nothing to you...
    DSA 1.149 20 ...these are heights that we can scarce...look up to without contrition and shame.
    DSA 1.151 7 I look for the hour when that supreme Beauty which ravished the souls of those Eastern men...shall speak in the West also.
    DSA 1.151 15 I look for the new Teacher that shall follow so far those shining laws that he shall see them come full circle;...
    MN 1.192 4 I do not wish to look with sour aspect at the industrious manufacturing village...
    MN 1.192 8 ...I look on trade and every mechanical craft as education also.
    MN 1.202 5 When we...shorten the sight to look into this court of Louis Quatorze...one can hardly help asking...whether it be quite worth while to... glut the innocent space with so poor an article.
    MN 1.207 21 [a man] cannot read, or think, or look but he unites the hitherto separated strands into a perfect cord.
    MN 1.213 6 ...man...must look at nature with a supernatural eye.
    MR 1.239 3 ...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,-not to use these things, but to look after them...
    MR 1.243 20 The duty that every man...should call the institutions of society to account...gains in emphasis if we look at our modes of living.
    MR 1.247 6 It is more elegant to answer one's own needs than to be richly served; inelegant perhaps it may look to-day, and to a few...
    MR 1.250 14 Look, [the practical man] says, at the tools with which this world of yours is to be built.
    LT 1.262 15 Thoughts...look with eyes at me...
    LT 1.263 2 ...[persons] have the skill to make the world look bleak and inhospitable, or seem the nest of tenderness and joy.
    LT 1.285 9 By the side of these men [of the intellectual class], the hot agitators have a certain cheap and ridiculous air; they even look smaller than the others.
    Con 1.307 27 Young man, I have no skill to talk with you, but look at me;...
    Con 1.315 18 Look at our pictures and books, [the mothers] said...
    Con 1.316 14 ...[riches] take somewhat for everything they give. I look bigger, but I am less;...
    YA 1.369 15 I look on such improvements [gardens] also as directly tending to endear the land to the inhabitant.
    YA 1.370 19 We cannot look on the freedom of this country...without a presentiment that here shall laws and institutions exist on some scale of proportion to the majesty of nature.
    YA 1.384 17 Look across the country from any hill-side around us...
    Hist 2.7 17 A true aspirant therefore never needs look for allusions personal and laudatory in discourse.
    Hist 2.13 26 ...a subtle spirit bends all things to its own will. The adamant streams into soft but precise form before it, and whilst I look at it its outline and texture are changed again.
    SR 2.48 8 ...when we look in [children's] faces we are disconcerted.
    SR 2.54 27 ...[the preacher] is pledged to himself not to look but at one side...
    SR 2.56 3 The by-standers look askance on [the nonconformist] in the public street...
    SR 2.71 22 How far off, how cool, how chaste the persons look...
    SR 2.74 3 ...all persons have their moments...when they look out into the region of absolute truth;...
    SR 2.84 9 As our Religion, our Education, our Art look abroad, so does our spirit of society.
    Comp 2.123 22 Look at those who have less faculty, and one feels sad...
    Comp 2.126 6 ...we walk ever with reverted eyes, like those monsters who look backwards.
    SL 2.131 2 ...when we look at ourselves in the light of thought, we discover that our life is embosomed in beauty.
    SL 2.136 24 If we look wider, things are all alike;...
    SL 2.153 16 ...take Sidney's maxim:--Look in thy heart, and write.
    Fdsp 2.189 14 ...O friend, my bosom said,/ .../ All things through thee take nobler form/ And look beyond the earth,/...
    Prd1 2.229 19 This property [which gives life to the figures in a painting] is the hitting, in all the figures we draw, the right centre of gravity. I mean the placing the figures firm upon their feet...and fastening the eyes on the spot where they should look.
    Hsm1 2.261 25 ...it behooves the wise man to look with a bold eye into those rarer dangers which sometimes invade men...
    OS 2.268 15 When I watch that flowing river, which, out of regions I see not, pours for a season its streams into me, I see...that I desire and look up and put myself in the attitude of reception...
    OS 2.272 16 ...the walls of time and space have come to look real and insurmountable;...
    Cir 2.306 5 Does the fact look crass and material...
    Int 2.331 13 I would put myself in the attitude to look in the eye an abstract truth...
    Int 2.346 5 ...wonderful seems the calm and grand air of these few [Greek philosophers], these great spiritual lords...dwelling in a worship which makes the sanctities of Christianity look parvenues and popular;...
    Art1 2.357 18 When I have seen fine statues and afterwards enter a public assembly, I understand well what he meant who said, When I have been reading Homer, all men look like giants.
    Art1 2.365 2 ...the statue will look cold and false before that new activity which needs to roll through all things...
    Art1 2.368 10 It is in vain that we look for genius to reiterate its miracles in the old arts;...
    Pt1 3.24 21 [The sculptor] rose one day...before dawn, and saw the morning break...and for many days after, he strove to express this tranquillity, and lo! his chisel had fashioned out of marble the form of a beautiful youth, Phosphorus, whose aspect is such that it is said all persons who look on it become silent.
    Pt1 3.37 4 I look in vain for the poet whom I describe.
    Exp 3.49 17 We look to [death] with a grim satisfaction...
    Exp 3.52 6 ...we look at [men], they seem alive, and we presume there is impulse in them.
    Exp 3.55 8 When at night I look at the moon and stars, I seem stationary, and they to hurry.
    Exp 3.59 5 Unspeakably sad and barren does life look to those who a few months ago were dazzled with the splendor of the promise of the times.
    Exp 3.61 20 The fine young people despise life, but in me...to whom a day is a sound and solid good, it is a great excess of politeness to look scornful and cry for company.
    Exp 3.67 27 We would look about us...
    Exp 3.76 27 By love on one part and by forbearance to press objection on the other part, it is for a time settled that we will look at [Jesus] in the centre of the horizon...
    Exp 3.80 13 If you could look with [the kitten's] eyes you might see her surrounded with hundreds of figures performing complex dramas...
    Exp 3.82 7 A man should not be able to look other than directly and forthright.
    Chr1 3.97 12 [The feeble souls] look at the profit or hurt of the action.
    Chr1 3.104 7 ...it was droll in the good Riemer, who has written memoirs of Goethe, to make out a list of his donations and good deeds, as...two professors recommended to foreign universities; etc., etc. The longest list of specifications of benefit would look very short.
    Chr1 3.108 22 I look on Sculpture as history.
    Chr1 3.113 7 ...if suddenly we encounter a friend, we pause; our heat and hurry look foolish enough;...
    Mrs1 3.129 23 [Aristocracy] respects the administration of such unimportant matters, that we should not look for any durability in its rule.
    Mrs1 3.134 2 We pointedly, and by name, introduce the parties to each other. Know you before all heaven and earth, that this is Andrew, and this is Gregory,--they look each other in the eye;...
    Mrs1 3.134 5 ...[a gentleman's] eyes look straight forward...
    Mrs1 3.152 12 ...this Byzantine pile of chivalry or Fashion, which seems so fair and picturesque to those who look at the contemporary facts for science or for entertainment, is not equally pleasant to all spectators.
    Gts 3.159 24 ...these delicate flowers look like the frolic and interference of love and beauty.
    Nat2 3.177 3 A susceptible person does not like to indulge his tastes in this kind [in passive nature] without the apology of some trivial necessity: he goes...to look at the crops...
    Nat2 3.178 25 ...when we are convalescent, nature will look up to us.
    Nat2 3.181 18 If we look at [nature's] work, we seem to catch a glance of a system in transition.
    Pol1 3.211 10 ...the older and more cautious among ourselves are learning from Europeans to look with some terror at our turbulent freedom.
    Pol1 3.214 27 ...all public ends look vague and quixotic beside private ones.
    Pol1 3.215 7 ...if, without carrying [my child] into the thought, I look over into his plot, and, guessing how it is with him, ordain this or that, he will never obey me.
    NR 3.241 15 The statesman looks at many, and compares the few habitually with others, and these look less.
    NR 3.247 20 ...if we did not in any moment shift the platform on which we stand, and look and speak from another!...
    NER 3.266 13 ...when [the individual's] thoughts look one way and his actions another;...what concert can be?
    NER 3.272 1 How sinks the song in the waves of melody which the universe pours over [the master's] soul! Before that gracious Infinite out of which he drew these few strokes, how mean they look...
    NER 3.283 27 As soon as a man is wonted to look beyond surfaces...he settles himself into serenity.
    UGM 4.13 11 Looking where others look, and conversing with the same things, we catch the charm which lured them.
    UGM 4.30 20 Generous and handsome, [the thoughtful youth] says, is your hero; but look at yonder poor Paddy...
    UGM 4.30 21 Generous and handsome, [the thoughtful youth] says, is your hero; but look at yonder poor Paddy...look at his whole nation of Paddies.
    UGM 4.34 18 ...at last we shall cease to look in men for completeness...
    PNR 4.80 17 [The human being's] arts and sciences...look glorious when prospectively beheld from the distant brain of ox...
    SwM 4.126 22 [According to Swedenborg] It is never permitted to any one, in heaven, to stand behind another and look at the back of his head;...
    MoS 4.166 24 As I look at [Montaigne's] effigy opposite the title-page, I seem to hear him say, You may play old Poz, if you will;...
    MoS 4.176 9 ...common sense resumes its tyranny; we say...look you,--on the whole, selfishness plants best, prunes best...
    MoS 4.186 4 Let a man learn to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting;...
    ShP 4.190 12 [A great man] stands where all the eyes of men look one way...
    NMW 4.245 14 The Revolution entitled...every horse-boy and powder-monkey in the army, to look on Napoleon as flesh of his flesh...
    NMW 4.246 12 ...[Napoleon's] inexhaustible resource:--what events! what romantic pictures! what strange situations!...drawing up his army for battle in sight of the Pyramids, and saying to his troops, From the tops of those pyramids, forty centuries look down on you;...
    GoW 4.278 12 ...those who look in [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] for the entertainment they find in a romance, are disappointed.
    ET1 5.21 25 ...[Wordsworth] courteously promised to look at [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] again.
    ET2 5.29 11 Look, what egg-shells are drifting all over [the sea]...
    ET4 5.46 25 ...we look to find in the son every mental and moral property that existed in the ancestor.
    ET4 5.65 7 Other countrymen look slight and undersized beside [the English]...
    ET5 5.97 3 The nearer we look, the more artificial is [the Englishmen's] social system.
    ET6 5.105 24 [The Englishman] does not let you meet his eye. It is almost an affront to look a man in the face without being introduced.
    ET7 5.122 16 In February, 1848, [the English] said, Look, the French king and his party fell for want of a shot;...
    ET11 5.188 8 I look with respect at houses six, seven, eight hundred, or, like Warwick Castle, nine hundred years old.
    ET13 5.215 11 In seeing old castles and cathedrals, I sometimes say...This was built by another and a better race than any that now look on it.
    ET13 5.222 20 ...the same [English] men who have brought free trade or geology to their present standing, look grave and lofty and shut down their valve as soon as the conversation approaches the English Church.
    ET14 5.244 12 [The English] do not look abroad into universality...
    ET14 5.258 16 By the law of contraries, I look for an irresistible taste for Orientalism in Britain.
    F 6.16 15 Look at the unpalatable conclusions of Knox...
    F 6.23 17 ...it is wholesome to man to look not at Fate, but the other way...
    F 6.23 20 Look not on Nature, for her name is fatal, said the oracle.
    F 6.48 18 ...I cannot look without seeing splendor and grace.
    Wth 6.124 5 Another point of economy is to look for seed of the same kind as you sow...
    Ctr 6.135 3 ...if a man seeks a companion who can look at objects for their own sake and without affection or self-reference, he will find the fewest who will give him that satisfaction;...
    Ctr 6.142 1 We look that a great man should be a good reader...
    Ctr 6.146 19 ...boys and men of that condition [who have grown up on a farm, which they have never left] look upon work on a railroad...as opportunity.
    Ctr 6.151 22 An old poet says,--Go far and go sparing,/ For you 'll find it certain,/ The poorer and the baser you appear,/ The more you 'll look through still./
    Ctr 6.158 18 Bonaparte, like Caesar...could look at every object for itself...
    Ctr 6.161 8 Archimedes will look through your Connecticut machine at a glance, and judge of its fitness.
    Bhr 6.174 9 It ought not to need to print in a reading-room a caution...to persons who look over fine engravings that they should be handled like cobwebs and butterflies' wings;...
    Bhr 6.174 12 It ought not to need to print in a reading-room a caution...to persons who look at marble statues that they shall not smite them with canes.
    Bhr 6.174 19 If you look at the pictures of patricians and of peasants of different periods and countries, you will see how well they match the same classes in our towns.
    Bhr 6.178 3 The jockeys say of certain horses that they look over the whole ground.
    Bhr 6.179 14 We look into the eyes to know if this other form is another self...
    Bhr 6.185 3 Look on this woman.
    Bhr 6.185 11 Look at Northcote, said Fuseli; he looks like a rat that has seen a cat.
    Wsp 6.201 21 I have no sympathy with a poor man I knew, who, when suicides abounded, told me he dared not look at his razor.
    Wsp 6.219 27 ...look where we will...a perfect reaction, a perpetual judgment keeps watch and ward.
    Wsp 6.225 15 I look on that man as happy, who, when there is a question of success, looks into his work for a reply...
    Wsp 6.231 22 ...I look on those sentiments which make the glory of the human being...as being also the intimacy of Divinity in the atoms;...
    CbW 6.265 8 I know how easy it is to men of the world to look grave and sneer at your sanguine youth and its glittering dreams.
    CbW 6.268 4 [The young people] set forth on their travels in search of a home...they look at the farms;...
    Bty 6.297 11 ...even the noble crowd in the drawing-room clambered on chairs and tables to look at [the Duchess of Hamilton].
    Bty 6.297 23 It does not hurt weak eyes to look into beautiful eyes never so long.
    Bty 6.302 10 ...if a man can build a plain cottage with such symmetry as to make all the fine palaces look cheap and vulgar;...this is still the legitimate dominion of beauty.
    Ill 6.322 24 I look upon the simple and childish virtues of veracity and honesty as the root of all that is sublime in character.
    Civ 7.23 1 ...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.
    Civ 7.32 6 ...when I look over this constellation of cities which animate and illustrate the land, and see how little the government has to do with their daily life...I see what cubic values America has...
    Elo1 7.97 10 Let [the man who will train himself to mastery in this science of persuasion] look on opposition as opportunity.
    DL 7.111 26 If we look at this matter [of housekeeping] curiously, it becomes dangerous.
    DL 7.112 6 ...if you look at the multitude of particulars, one would say: Good housekeeping is impossible;...
    WD 7.164 10 ...we must look deeper for our salvation than to steam, photographs, balloons or astronomy.
    WD 7.166 17 Look up the inventors. Each has his own knack;...
    WD 7.169 26 The scholar must look long for the right hour for Plato's Timaeus.
    WD 7.171 9 ...the treasures which Nature spent itself to amass...the eye that looketh into the deeps, which again look back to the eye, abyss to abyss;-- these...are given immeasurably to all.
    WD 7.174 3 He is a strong man who can look [these passing hours] in the eye...
    WD 7.177 9 How wistfully, when we have promised to attend the working committee, we look at the distant hills and their seductions!
    Boks 7.193 4 We look over with a sigh the monumental libraries of Paris, of the Vatican and the British Museum.
    Boks 7.206 20 [The scholar] can look back for the legends and mythology to the Younger Edda and the Heimskringla of Snorro Sturleson...
    Clbs 7.234 18 ...the ground of our indignation is our conviction that [yonder man's] dissent is some wilfulness he practises on himself. He checks the flow of his opinion, as the cross cow holds up her milk. Yes, and we look into his eye, and see that he knows it and hides his eye from ours.
    Clbs 7.250 8 ...while we look complacently at these obvious pleasures and values of good companions, I do not forget that Nature is always very much in earnest...
    Clbs 7.250 13 When we look for the highest benefits of conversation, the Spartan rule of one to one is usually enforced.
    Cour 7.274 10 There are ever appearing in the world men who, almost as soon as they are born, take a bee-line to...the axe of the tyrant, like...Jesus and Socrates. Look at Fox's Lives of the Martyrs...
    Suc 7.286 6 Leverrier...knew where to look for the new planet.
    Suc 7.287 18 The [Norse] mother says to her son:--Success shall be in thy courser tall,/ Success in thyself, which is best of all,/ Success in thy hand, success in thy foot,/ In struggle with man, in battle with brute:--/ The holy God and Saint Drothin dear/ Shall never shut eyes on thy career;/ Look out, look out, Svend Vonved!
    Suc 7.298 4 What is it we look for in the landscape...
    Suc 7.304 13 If in his walk [the lover] chanced to look back, his friend was walking behind him.
    OA 7.315 19 [Josiah Quincy's] speech led me to look over at home... Cicero's famous essay [De Senectute]...
    OA 7.317 5 If we look into the eyes of the youngest person we sometimes discover that here is one who knows already what you would go about with much pains to teach him;...
    OA 7.320 6 ...in the rush and uproar of Broadway, if you look into the faces of the passengers there is dejection or indignation in the seniors...
    OA 7.324 10 At fifty years, 't is said, afflicted citizens lose their sick-headaches. I hope this hegira is not as movable a feast as that one I annually look for, when the horticulturists assure me that the rose-bugs in our gardens disappear on the tenth of July;...
    PI 8.28 3 [Blake wrote] I question not my corporeal eye any more than I would question a window concerning a sight. I look through it, and not with it.
    PI 8.39 22 We cannot look at works of art but they teach us how near man is to creating.
    PI 8.41 17 ...all becomes poetry, when we look from the centre outward...
    SA 8.84 14 When a stranger comes to buy goods of you, do you not look in his face and answer according to what you read there?
    SA 8.90 21 Do not look sourly at the set or the club which does not choose you.
    SA 8.96 10 Let our eyes not look away, but meet.
    SA 8.96 11 Let us not look east and west for materials of conversation...
    SA 8.104 1 That is the point which decides the welfare of a people; which way does it look?
    SA 8.104 12 Amidst the calamities which war has brought on our country this one benefit has accrued,--that our eyes...look homeward.
    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...
    Comc 8.158 21 ...separate any part of Nature and attempt to look at it as a whole by itself, and the feeling of the ridiculous begins.
    Comc 8.158 23 The perpetual game of humor is to look with considerate good nature at every object in existence, aloof...
    Comc 8.158 25 The perpetual game of humor is to look with considerate good nature at every object in existence...as a man might look at a mouse...
    QO 8.188 9 People go out to look at sunrises and sunsets who do not recognize their own...
    QO 8.199 10 ...does it not look as if we men were thinking and talking out of an enormous antiquity...
    PC 8.217 18 [Culture] creates a personal independence which the monarch cannot look down...
    PC 8.225 2 Look out into the July night and see the broad belt of silver flame which flashes up the half of heaven...
    PC 8.234 4 ...when I look around me, and consider the sound material of which the cultivated class here is made up...I cannot distrust this great knighthood of virtue...
    Insp 8.278 20 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;/...
    Grts 8.315 6 We perhaps look on [intellect's] crimes as experiments of a universal student;...
    Imtl 8.324 14 ...I know well that where this belief [in immortality] once existed it would necessarily take a base form for the savage and a pure form for the wise;-so that I only look on the counterfeit as a proof that the genuine faith had been there.
    Dem1 10.12 25 In the hands of poets...nothing in the line of [the occult sciences'] character and genius would surprise us. But we should look for the style of the great artist in it...
    Dem1 10.12 26 In the hands of poets...nothing in the line of [the occult sciences'] character and genius would surprise us. But we should look for the style of the great artist in it, look for completeness and harmony.
    Dem1 10.28 6 The whole world is an omen and a sign. Why look so wistfully in a corner?
    Aris 10.29 5 Look who that is most virtuous alway,/ Prive and apert, and most entendeth aye/ To do the gentil dedes that he can,/ And take him for the greatest gentilman./
    Aris 10.31 5 There is an attractive topic, which...is impertinent in no community,-the permanent traits of the Aristocracy. It is...as I look at it, inevitable, sacred...
    Aris 10.40 16 It only needs to look at the social aspect of England and America and France, to see the rank which original practical talent commands.
    Aris 10.48 10 I told the Duke of Newcastle, says Bubb Dodington in his Memoirs, that...I was determined to make some sort of a figure in life;... what it would be I could not determine yet; I must look round me a little and consult my friends...
    Aris 10.63 2 Pay [money], and you may play the tyrant at discretion and never look back to the fatal question,-where had you the money that you paid?
    PerF 10.69 24 ...I find it wholesome and invigorating to enumerate the resources we can command, to look a little into this arsenal...
    PerF 10.74 18 Look at [man]; you can give no guess at what power is in him
    Chr2 10.106 19 ...'t is incredible to us, if we look into the religious books of our grandfathers, how they held themselves in such a pinfold.
    Supl 10.169 19 The poor countryman, having no circumstance of carpets... wine and dancing in his head to confuse him, is able to look straight at you...
    Supl 10.172 17 The astronomer shows you in his telescope the nebula of Orion, that you may look on that which is esteemed the farthest-off land in visible nature.
    SovE 10.189 26 See how these things look in the page of history.
    SovE 10.201 27 It is a necessity of the human mind that he who looks at one object should look away from all other objects.
    SovE 10.206 25 We in America are charged...that...we look at and will bear nothing above us in the state...
    SovE 10.207 17 ...if there be really in us the wish to seek...for that which is lawfully above us, we shall not long look in vain.
    SovE 10.208 3 ...the most accomplished culture, or rapt holiness, never exhausted the claim of these lowly duties,-never...was able to look behind their source.
    SovE 10.213 22 A man who has accustomed himself to look at all his circumstances as very mutable...has put himself out of the reach of all skepticism;...
    Prch 10.218 1 I see in those classes and those persons in whom I am accustomed to look for tendency and progress...character, but skepticism;...
    Prch 10.229 22 [The clergy] look into Plato, or into the mind, and then try to make parish mince-meat of the amplitudes and eternities, and the shock is noxious.
    Schr 10.273 26 If [the scholar] is not kindling his torch or collecting oil...he cannot look a blacksmith in the eye;...
    LLNE 10.357 1 ...[Thoreau's] independence made all others look like slaves.
    MMEm 10.410 16 When her cherished favorite, Elizabeth Hoar, was at the Vale, and had gone out to walk in the forest with Hannah, her niece, Aunt Mary [Moody Emerson] feared they were lost, and found a man in the next house and begged him to go and look for them.
    MMEm 10.415 10 Vital, I feel not: not active, but passive, and cannot aid the creatures which seem my progeny,-myself. But you are ingrate to tire of me, now you want to look beyond.
    MMEm 10.432 15 ...[Mary Moody Emerson's] friends feared they might, at her funeral, not dare to look at each other, lest they should forget the serious proprieties of the hour.
    Thor 10.459 11 ...the President [of Harvard University] found...the rules [of the Harvard Library] getting to look so ridiculous, that he ended by giving [Thoreau] a privilege which in his hands proved unlimited thereafter.
    Carl 10.495 18 There is nothing deeper in [Carlyle's] constitution...than the considerate, condescending good nature with which he looks at every object in existence, as a man might look at a mouse.
    Carl 10.495 20 [Carlyle]...will not look grave even at dulness or tragedy.
    GSt 10.504 25 I look upon [George Stearns] as a type of the American republican.
    LS 11.12 18 It appears...in Christian history that the disciples had very early taken advantage of these impressive words of Christ [This do in remembrance of me.] to hold religious meetings, where they broke bread and drank wine as symbols. I look upon this fact as very natural in the circumstances of the Church.
    HDC 11.36 25 ...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 8 [The Concord settler's pastor said] If we look to number, we are the fewest; if to strength, we are the weakest;...
    HDC 11.42 22 The greater speed and success that distinguish the planting of the human race in this country, over all other plantations in history, owe themselves mainly to the new subdivisions of the State into small corporations of land and power. It is vain to look for the inventor.
    LVB 11.89 6 Before any acts contrary to his own judgment or interest have repelled the affections of any man, each may look with trust and living anticipation to your [Van Buren's] government.
    War 11.151 13 War, which to sane men at the present day begins to look like an epidemic insanity...when seen in the remote past...appears a part of the connection of events...
    War 11.157 5 ...trade brings men to look each other in the face...
    War 11.157 10 ...learning and art, and especially religion weave ties that make war look like fratricide, as it is.
    War 11.168 15 In reply to this charge of absurdity on the extreme peace doctrine, as shown in the supposed consequences, I wish to say that such deductions consider only one half of the fact. They look only at the passive side of the friend of peace...they quite omit to consider his activity.
    FSLC 11.181 20 The panic [over the Fugitive Slave Law] has paralyzed the journals...so that one cannot open a newspaper without being disgusted by new records of shame. I cannot read longer even the local good news. When I look down the columns at the titles of paragraphs...what bitter mockeries!
    FSLC 11.190 8 A few months ago, in my dismay at hearing that the Higher Law was reckoned a good joke in the courts, I took pains to look into a few law-books.
    FSLC 11.198 27 Mr. Webster's measure [the Fugitive Slave Law] was, he told us, final. It was a pacification...a measure of conciliation and adjustment. These were his words at different times: there was to be no parleying more; it was irrepealable. Does it look final now?
    FSLC 11.204 27 All the drops of [Webster's] his blood have eyes that look downward.
    FSLN 11.218 14 Look into the morning trains which, from every suburb, carry the business men into the city...
    AKan 11.255 20 When pressed to look at the cause of the mischief in the Kansas laws, the President falters and declines the discussion;...
    JBS 11.277 19 When [John Brown] was five years old his father emigrated to Ohio, and the boy was there set...to look after cattle and dress skins;...
    JBS 11.278 11 ...in Pennsylvania...[John Brown] fell in with a boy...whom he looked upon as his superior. This boy was a slave;...he saw that this boy had nothing better to look forward to in life...
    EPro 11.322 20 [Lincoln] might look wistfully for what variety of courses lay open to him;...
    HCom 11.340 24 Where faith made whole with deed/ Breathes its awakening breath/ Into the lifeless creed,/ They saw [Truth] plumed and mailed,/ With sweet, stern face unveiled,/ And all-repaying eyes, look proud on them in death/ Lowell, Commemoration Ode.
    SMC 11.351 8 The art of the architect and the sense of the town have made these dumb stones [of the Concord Monument] speak;...have made them look to the past and the future;...
    SMC 11.363 2 I [George Prescott] told [the West Point officer] I had a good many young men in my company whose mothers asked me to look after them...
    SHC 11.435 8 ...we must look forward also, and make ourselves a thousand years old;...
    RBur 11.440 16 No man existed who could look down on [Burns].
    RBur 11.440 17 They that looked into [Burns's] eyes saw that they might look down the sky as easily.
    Scot 11.467 4 With such a fortune and such a genius, we should look to see what heavy toll the Fates took of [Scott]...
    CPL 11.498 9 [Peter Bulkeley said] If we look to number, we are the fewest;...
    CPL 11.502 27 If you sprain your foot, you will presently come to think that Nature has sprained hers. Everything begins to look so slow and inaccessible.
    FRep 11.517 24 [The American people] are now proceeding...to carry out, not the bill of rights, but the bill of human duties. And look what revolution that attempt involves.
    FRep 11.533 9 If a temperate wise man should look over our American society, I think the first danger that would excite his alarm would be the European influences on this country.
    PLT 12.5 22 ...when I look at the tree or the river and have not yet definitely made out what they would say to me, they are by no means unimpressive.
    PLT 12.23 3 From whatever side we look at Nature we seem to be exploring the figure of a disguised man.
    PLT 12.25 7 In the orchard many trees send out a moderate shoot in the first summer heat, and stop. They look all summer as if they would presently burst into bud again, but they do not.
    PLT 12.29 23 ...every man is furnished, if he will heed it, with wisdom necessary to steer his own boat,-if he will not look away from his own to see how his neighbor steers his.
    PLT 12.33 23 Right thought...comes duly to those who look for it.
    PLT 12.36 12 [Pan] could terrify by earth-born fears called panics. Yet was he in the secret of Nature and could look both before and after.
    PLT 12.51 4 You laugh at the monotones, at the men of one idea, but if we look nearly at heroes we may find the same poverty;...
    Mem 12.92 20 ...in the history of character the day comes when you are incapable of such crime [of neglect, selfishness, passion]. Then...you look on it as heaven looks on it...
    Mem 12.98 18 We gathered up what a rolling snow-ball as we came along... as capital stock of knowledge. Where is it now? Look behind you.
    Mem 12.109 3 In dreams a rush...of spending hours and going through a great variety of actions and companies, and when we start up and look at the watch, instead of a long night we are surprised to find it was a short nap.
    CL 12.145 13 Look over the fence at the farmer who stands there.
    CL 12.145 21 [The apple trees] look as if they were arms and fingers...
    CL 12.158 3 There are probably many in this audience who have tried the experiment on a hilltop...of bending the head so as to look at the landscape with your eyes upside down.
    CL 12.160 23 When I look at natural structures...I know that I am seeing an architecture and carpentry which has no sham...
    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 12.197 19 In the midst of [New England's] laborious and economical and rude and awkward population...you shall not unfrequently meet that refinement...which makes the elegance of wealth look stupid...
    Bost 12.198 1 I do not look to find in England better manners than the best manners here [in New England].
    MAng1 12.238 6 [Vasari's] servant brought [the candles] after nightfall, and presented them to [Michelangelo]. Michael Angelo refused to receive them. Look you, Messer Michael Angelo, replied the man, these candles have well-nigh broken my arm, and I will not carry them back;...
    MAng1 12.243 17 ...there [in Florence], the tradition of [Michelangelo's] opinions meets the traveller in every spot. ... Look at these bronze gates of the Baptistery, with their high reliefs, cast by Ghiberti five hundred years ago. Michael Angelo said, they were fit to be the gates of Paradise.
    Milt1 12.260 14 At nineteen years...[Milton] addresses his native language, saying to it that it would be his choice to leave trifles for a grave argument... Such where the deep transported mind may soar/ Above the wheeling poles, and at Heaven's door/ Look in, and see each blissful deity,/ How he before the thunderous throne doth lie./
    ACri 12.286 14 Look at this forlorn caravan of travellers who wander over Europe dumb...
    ACri 12.304 22 When I read Plutarch, or look at a Greek vase, I incline to accept the common opinion of scholars, that the Greeks had clearer wits than any other people.
    MLit 12.313 13 Accustomed always to behold the presence of the universe in every part, the soul will not condescend to look at any new part as a stranger...
    MLit 12.322 24 ...a thousand men seemed to look through [Goethe's] eyes.
    MLit 12.323 11 To look at [Goethe] one would say there was never an observer before.
    MLit 12.330 20 I am [in Wilhelm Meister]...taught to look for great talent and culture under a gray coat.
    Pray 12.356 14 [I, Augustine, entered my soul and saw] Not this vulgar light which all flesh may look upon...
    Trag 12.416 8 The individual who suffers has a mysterious counterbalance to that condition, which, to us who look upon her, appears to be attended with no alleviating circumstance.

looked, v. (88)

    LE 1.156 21 Men looked...that nature...should reimburse itself by a brood of Titans...
    LE 1.167 27 Further inquiry will discover...that [these chanting poets]... listlessly looked at sunsets...
    LE 1.179 5 The English officers and men looked on with astonishment...
    YA 1.381 16 All this drudgery...to end in mortgages and the auctioneer's flag, and removing from bad to worse. It is time to have the thing looked into...
    Hist 2.7 23 Praise is looked...from mute nature...
    Hist 2.40 10 ...every history should be written in a wisdom which...looked at facts as symbols.
    SR 2.87 20 Men have looked away from themselves and at things so long that they have come to esteem the religious, learned and civil institutions as guards of property...
    SR 2.89 11 He who knows...that he is weak because he has looked for good out of him and elsewhere...instantly rights himself...
    Fdsp 2.208 21 I hate, where I looked for a manly furtherance...to find a mush of concession.
    Prd1 2.228 12 Dr. Johnson is reported to have said,--If the child says he looked out of this window, when he looked out of that,--whip him.
    Prd1 2.228 13 Dr. Johnson is reported to have said,--If the child says he looked out of this window, when he looked out of that,--whip him.
    Int 2.326 7 Heraclitus looked upon the affections as dense and colored mists.
    Exp 3.46 21 ...all martyrdoms looked mean when they were suffered.
    Nat2 3.169 13 These halcyons may be looked for with a little more assurance in that pure October weather which we distinguish by the name of the Indian summer.
    Pol1 3.202 11 Laban, who has flocks and herds, wishes them looked after by an officer on the frontiers...
    NR 3.232 25 I looked into Pope's Odyssey yesterday: it is as correct and elegant after our canon of to-day as if it were newly written.
    SwM 4.125 8 [To Swedenborg] Whatever the angels looked upon was to them celestial.
    NMW 4.246 5 ...[Napoleon's] eye, which looked through Europe;...
    GoW 4.268 14 It is not from men excellent in any kind that disparagement of any other is to be looked for.
    GoW 4.276 26 ...[Goethe]...looked for [the Devil] in his own mind...
    ET1 5.11 16 [Coleridge] was very sorry that Dr. Channing, a man to whom he looked up,--no, to say that he looked up to him would be to speak falsely, but a man whom he looked at with so much interest,--should embrace such [Unitarian] views.
    ET1 5.11 18 [Coleridge] was very sorry that Dr. Channing, a man to whom he looked up,--no, to say that he looked up to him would be to speak falsely, but a man whom he looked at with so much interest,--should embrace such [Unitarian] views.
    ET1 5.15 16 [Carlyle] was...full of lively anecdote and with a streaming humor which floated every thing he looked upon.
    ET1 5.18 4 We [Emerson and Carlyle] went out to walk over long hills, and looked at Criffel...
    ET4 5.56 1 Charlemagne, halting one day in a town of Narbonnese Gaul, looked out of a window and saw a fleet of Northmen cruising in the Mediterranean.
    ET5 5.74 19 The Roman came [to England], but in the very day when his fortune culminated. He looked in the eyes of a new people that was to supplant his own.
    ET5 5.77 19 All the admirable expedients or means hit upon in England must be looked at as growths or irresistible offshoots of the expanding mind of the race.
    ET11 5.176 2 [French and English nobles] were looked on as men who played high for a great stake.
    ET12 5.210 10 I looked over the Examination Papers of the year 1848 [at Oxford]...
    ET13 5.229 23 George Borrow...reads to [the Gypsies] the Apostles' Creed in Romany. When I had concluded, he says, I looked around me. The features of the assembly were twisted...
    ET16 5.276 12 On the broad downs...not a house was visible, nothing but Stonehenge, which looked like a group of brown dwarfs in the wide expanse...
    ET16 5.276 19 It looked as if the wide margin given in this crowded isle to this primeval temple [Stonehenge] were accorded by the veneration of the British race to the old egg out of which all their ecclesiastical structures and history had proceeded.
    F 6.11 10 ...[a man] is an adulterer before he has yet looked on the woman...
    Wth 6.102 5 In the city...[the dollar] comes to be looked on as light.
    Bhr 6.179 21 The confession of a low, usurping devil is there made [in the eyes], and the observer shall seem to feel the stirring of owls and bats and horned hoofs, where he looked for innocence and simplicity.
    Bhr 6.181 15 Whoever looked on [a complete man] would consent to his will...
    CbW 6.278 14 I prefer to say...what was said of a Spanish prince, The more you took from him the greater he looked.
    Civ 7.24 16 ...in every house we hesitate to burn a newspaper until we have looked it through.
    Elo1 7.72 18 ...when the wise Ulysses arose and stood and looked down... you would say it was some angry or foolish man;...
    DL 7.101 3 I reached the middle of the mount/ Up which the incarnate soul must climb,/ And paused for them, and looked around,/ With me who walked through space and time./
    Cour 7.279 12 George Nidiver stood still/ And looked [the bear] in the face;/ The wild beast stopped amazed,/ Then came with slackening pace./
    Comc 8.172 19 ...said Timur to Chodscha, Hearken! I have looked in the mirror, and seen myself ugly.
    PC 8.211 4 Every one who was in Italy thirty-five years ago will remember the caution with which his host or guest in any house looked around him, if a political topic were broached.
    PPo 8.257 12 With unrelated glance/ I looked the rose in the eye:/ The rose in the hour of gloaming/ Flamed like a lamp hard-by./
    PPo 8.264 15 [The birds] saw themselves all as Simorg,/ Themselves in the eternal Simorg./ When to the Simorg up they looked,/ They beheld him among themselves;/ And when they looked on each other,/ They saw themselves in the Simorg./
    PPo 8.264 17 [The birds] saw themselves all as Simorg,/ Themselves in the eternal Simorg./ When to the Simorg up they looked,/ They beheld him among themselves;/ And when they looked on each other,/ They saw themselves in the Simorg./
    Imtl 8.325 21 [The Greek] looked at death only as the distributor of imperishable glory.
    Imtl 8.332 10 Slowly [the two men]...at last met,-said nothing, but shook hands long and cordially. At last his friend said, Any light, Albert? None, replied Albert. Any light, Lewis? None, replied he. They looked in each other's eyes silently...
    Dem1 10.5 25 In sleep one shall travel certain roads...or shall walk alone in familiar fields and meadows, which road or which meadow in waking hours he never looked upon.
    Edc1 10.136 7 Let us apply to this subject [education] the light of the same torch by which we have looked at all the phenomena of the time; the infinitude, namely, of every man.
    Schr 10.261 13 Literary men gladly acknowledge these ties which find for the homeless and the stranger a welcome where least looked for.
    Plu 10.305 3 The paths of life are large, but few are men directed by the Daemons. When Theanor had said this, he looked attentively on Epaminondas, as if he designed a fresh search into his nature and inclinations.
    LLNE 10.367 3 The country members [at Brook Farm] naturally were surprised to observe that one man ploughed all day and one looked out of the window all day...and both received at night the same wages.
    EzRy 10.385 25 [Ezra Ripley] looked at every person and thing from the parochial point of view.
    EzRy 10.387 2 ...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. He...looked at the cloud, and said, We are in the Lord's hand; mind your rake, George! We are in the Lord's hand;...
    MMEm 10.407 1 I was disappointed, [Mary Moody Emerson] writes, in finding my little Calvinist...a cold little thing who...is looked up to as a specimen of genius.
    MMEm 10.411 17 [Mary Moody Emerson] speaks of her attempts in Malden, to wake up the soul amid the dreary scenes of monotonous Sabbaths, when Nature looked like a pulpit.
    SlHr 10.444 5 ...how solitary [Samuel Hoar] looked, day by day in the world, this man so revered, this man of public life...
    Thor 10.470 3 On the day I speak of [Thoreau] looked for the Menyanthes...
    LS 11.7 22 ...I cannot bring myself to believe that in the use of such an expression [This do in remembrance of me] [Jesus] looked beyond the living generation...
    HDC 11.34 26 For flesh, [the pilgrims] looked not for any, in those times, unless they could barter with the Indians for venison and raccoons.
    HDC 11.55 23 ...the Concord people became uneasy, and looked around for new seats.
    LVB 11.92 6 We have looked in the newspapers of different parties and find a horrid confirmation of the tale [of the relocation of the Cherokees].
    EWI 11.105 2 It became plain to all men, the more this business was looked into, that the crimes...of the slave-traders and slave-owners could not be overstated.
    War 11.151 8 Looked at in this general and historical way, many things wear a very different face from that they show near by, and one at a time...
    War 11.169 16 Whenever we see the doctrine of peace embraced by a nation, we may be assured it will...be...one which is looked upon as the asylum of the human race...
    FSLC 11.181 8 It looked as if in the city [Boston] and the suburbs all were involved in one hot haste of terror...not so much as a snatch of an old song for freedom, dares intrude on their passive obedience [to the Fugitive Slave Law].
    FSLC 11.201 6 By white slaves, by a white slave, are we beaten. Who looked for such ghastly fulfilment, or to see what we see?
    FSLN 11.221 11 I think [people] looked at [Webster] as the representative of the American Continent.
    JBS 11.278 7 ...in Pennsylvania...[John Brown] fell in with a boy...whom he looked upon as his superior.
    TPar 11.286 15 Such was the largeness of [Theodore Parker's] reception of facts and his skill to employ them that it looked as if he were some president of council to whom a score of telegraphs were ever bringing in reports;...
    SMC 11.363 7 [George Prescott writes] Told [the West Point officer] I did not swear myself and would not allow him to. He looked at me as much as to say, Do you know whom you are talking to?...
    SMC 11.363 9 [George Prescott writes] Told [the West Point officer] I did not swear myself and would not allow him to. He looked at me as much as to say, Do you know whom you are talking to? and I looked at him as much as to say, Yes, I do.
    SMC 11.363 10 [The West Point officer] looked rather ashamed, but went through the drill without an oath.
    SMC 11.364 6 It looked very much like a severe thunder-storm, writes the captain [George Prescott] and I knew the men would all have to sleep out of doors, unless we carried [tent-poles].
    RBur 11.440 16 They that looked into [Burns's] eyes saw that they might look down the sky as easily.
    Scot 11.462 5 Our concern is only with the residue, where the man Scott was warmed with a divine ray that clad with beauty...every bald hill in the country he looked upon...
    CPL 11.497 16 ...though [Papyrus] hardly grows now in Egypt, where I lately looked for it in vain, I always remember with satisfaction that I saw that venerable plant in 1833...
    CPL 11.499 14 ...whenever [Mary Moody Emerson] arrived in a town where was a good minister who had a library, she would persuade him to receive her as a boarder, and would stay until she had looked over all his volumes which were to her taste.
    FRep 11.516 5 ...when the adventurers [to America] have planted themselves and looked about, they send back all the money they can spare to bring their friends.
    Bost 12.182 2 The rocky nook with hilltops three/ Looked eastward from the farms,/ And twice each day the flowing sea/ Took Boston in its arms./
    Bost 12.190 6 Morton arrived [in Massachusetts] in 1622, in June, beheld the country, and the more he looked, the more he liked it.
    Milt1 12.270 25 Toland tells us, As [Milton] looked upon true and absolute freedom to be the greatest happiness of this life, whether to societies or single persons, so he thought constraint of any sort to be the utmost misery;...
    AgMs 12.358 16 I still remember with some shame that in some dealing we had together a long time ago, I found that [Edmund Hosmer] had been looking to my interest in the affair, and I had been looking to my interest, and nobody had looked to his part.
    EurB 12.374 7 Whoever looked on the hero [the complete man] would consent to his will...
    PPr 12.379 12 ...[Carlyle's Past and Present] is the book of a powerful and accomplished thinker, who has looked with naked eyes at the dreadful political signs in England for the last few years...

looketh, v. (5)

    OS 2.274 9 The soul looketh steadily forwards...
    F 6.11 8 Jesus said, When he looketh on her, he hath committed adultery.
    Bhr 6.167 9 ...Graceful women, chosen men/ Dazzle every mortal:/ Their sweet and lofty countenance/ His enchanting food;/ He need not go to them, their forms/ Beset his solitude./ He looketh seldom in their face,/ His eyes explore the ground/...
    WD 7.171 8 ...the treasures which Nature spent itself to amass...the eye that looketh into the deeps, which again look back to the eye, abyss to abyss;-- these...are given immeasurably to all.
    PI 8.51 16 Time...is now dominant and...looketh unto Memphis and old Thebes...

looking, n. (1)

    PLT 12.30 3 ...our deep conviction of the riches proper to every mind does not allow us to admit of much looking over into one another's virtues.

looking, v. (69)

    Nat 1.51 11 Turn the eyes upside down, by looking at the landscape through your legs, and how agreeable is the picture...
    Nat 1.58 20 [The Manichean and Plotinus] distrusted in themselves any looking back to these flesh-pots of Egypt.
    AmS 1.91 21 ...A fig tree, looking on a fig tree, becometh fruitful.
    DSA 1.137 25 ...the eye felt the sad contrast in looking at [the preacher], and then...into the beautiful meteor of the snow.
    MN 1.212 4 Is [man's work in the world] for use? nature is debased, as if one looking at the ocean can remember only the price of fish.
    MR 1.238 21 What [a man] gets only as fast as he wants for his own ends, does not...take away his sleep with looking after.
    LT 1.274 19 ...now the purists are looking into all these matters.
    Tran 1.331 1 This [idealistic] manner of looking at things transfers every object in nature from an independent and anomalous position without there, into the consciousness.
    Tran 1.345 16 In looking at the class of counsel, and power...of the land... one asks, Where are they who represented genius, virtue, the invisible and heavenly world, to these?
    YA 1.370 7 Without looking...into those extraordinary social influences which are now acting in precisely this direction...I think we must regard the land as a commanding and increasing power on the citizen...
    SR 2.49 1 ...looking out from his corner on such people and facts as pass by, [the boy] tries and sentences them on their merits...
    Lov1 2.174 24 In looking backward [many men] may find that several things which were not the charm have more reality to this groping memory than the charm itself which embalmed them.
    Lov1 2.187 22 Looking at these aims with which two persons, a man and a woman...are shut up in one house to spend in the nuptial society forty or fifty years, I do not wonder at the emphasis with which the heart prophesies this crisis from early infancy...
    Prd1 2.236 12 We must not try to write the laws of any one virtue, looking at that only.
    Cir 2.316 7 ...that second man has his own way of looking at things;...
    Cir 2.319 14 Infancy, youth, receptive, aspiring, with religious eye looking upward, counts itself nothing...
    Gts 3.163 15 ...when the beneficiary is ungrateful, as all beneficiaries hate all Timons, not at all considering the value of the gift but looking back to the greater store it was taken from,--I rather sympathize with the beneficiary than with the anger of my lord Timon.
    Nat2 3.178 23 By fault of our dulness and selfishness we are looking up to nature...
    Nat2 3.194 25 The uneasiness which the thought of our helplessness in the chain of causes occasions us, results from looking too much at one condition of nature, namely, Motion.
    Pol1 3.215 12 A man who cannot be acquainted with me...looking from afar at me ordains that a part of my labor shall go to this or that whimsical end...
    NR 3.244 8 ...men feign themselves dead...and there they stand looking out of the window, sound and well, in some new and strange disguise.
    NER 3.279 1 I remember standing at the polls one day when the anger of the political contest gave a certain grimness to the faces of the independent electors, and a good man at my side, looking on the people, remarked, I am satisfied that the largest part of these men, on either side, mean to vote right.
    NER 3.279 4 I suppose considerate observers, looking at the masses of men in their blameless and in their equivocal actions, will assent, that...the general purpose in the great number of persons is fidelity.
    UGM 4.13 11 Looking where others look, and conversing with the same things, we catch the charm which lured them.
    UGM 4.13 17 Talk much with any man of vigorous mind, and we acquire very fast the habit of looking at things in the same light...
    UGM 4.32 26 No man, in all the procession of famous men, is reason or illumination or that essence we were looking for;...
    PPh 4.60 24 ...looking to the truth, I shall endeavor in reality to live as virtuously as I can [said Plato];...
    GoW 4.270 2 ...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 4.276 25 ...[Goethe]...instead of looking in books and pictures, looked for [the Devil] in his own mind...
    ET1 5.5 8 On looking over the diary of my journey in 1833, I find nothing to publish in my memoranda of visits to places.
    ET3 5.39 26 The London fog...sometimes justifies the epigram on the climate by an English wit, in a fine day, looking up a chimney; in a foul day, looking down one.
    ET9 5.145 7 Swedenborg...notes...[the English] regard foreigners as one looking through a telescope from the top of a palace regards those who dwell or wander about out of the city.
    ET10 5.154 12 I was lately turning over Wood's Athenae Oxonienses, and looking naturally for another standard [than wealth] in a chronicle of the scholars of Oxford for two hundred years.
    ET10 5.157 21 Six hundred years ago, Roger Bacon...announced (as if looking from his lofty cell, over five centuries, into ours) that machines can be constructed to drive ships more rapidly than a whole galley of rowers could do;...
    ET14 5.248 23 Coleridge...with eyes looking before and after to the highest bards and sages...is one of those who save England from the reproach of no longer possessing the capacity to appreciate what rarest wit the island has yielded.
    ET16 5.289 5 Just before entering Winchester we stopped at the Church of Saint Cross, and after looking through the quaint antiquity, we demanded a piece of bread and a draught of beer...
    ET19 5.309 6 In looking over recently a newspaper-report of my remarks [at the Manchester Atheneaum Banquet], I incline to reprint it...
    Wsp 6.220 13 Strong men believe in cause and effect. The man was born to do it, and his father was born to be the father of him and of his deed; and by looking narrowly you shall see there was no luck in the matter;...
    Wsp 6.229 2 If we will sit quietly, what [people] ought to say is said, with their will or against their will. We do not care for you, let us pretend what we may,--we are always looking through you to the dim dictator behind you.
    CbW 6.274 1 It makes no difference, in looking back five years, how you have been dieted or dressed;...
    Ill 6.310 13 ...on looking upwards [in the Mammoth Cave], I saw or seemed to see the night heaven thick with stars...
    Farm 7.151 12 The first planter, the savage...looking chiefly to safety from his enemy...takes poor land.
    WD 7.176 23 In daily life, what distinguishes the master is the using of those materials he has, instead of looking about for what are more renowned...
    WD 7.185 16 ...this is the progress of every earnest mind;...from local skills and the economy which reckons the amount of production per hour to the finer economy which respects the quality of what is done, and...the fidelity with which it flows from ourselves; then to the depth of thought it betrays, looking to its universality...
    Clbs 7.244 14 It was a pathetic experience when a genial and accomplished person said to me, looking from his country home to the capital of New England, There is a town of two hundred thousand people, and not a chair for me.
    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.
    PI 8.19 10 ...poetry, or the imagination which dictates it, is a second sight, looking through [things]...
    PI 8.60 21 Presently [Sir Gawaine] heard the voice of one groaning on his right hand; looking that way, he could see nothing save a kind of smoke...
    Elo2 8.117 4 [The orator] knew very well beforehand that [the people] were looking behind and that he was looking ahead...
    Res 8.152 14 If I go into the woods in winter, and am shown the thirteen or fourteen species of willow that grow in Massachusetts, I learn that they quietly expand...when nobody is looking at them...
    PC 8.214 27 ...looking over how many horizons as far as into Liverpool and New York, [Roger Bacon] announced that machines can be constructed to drive ships more rapidly than a whole galley of rowers could do...
    Aris 10.50 16 It is curious how negligent the public is of the essential qualifications of its representatives. They ask if a man is a Republican, a Democrat? Yes. Is he a man of talent? Yes. Is he honest and not looking for an office or any manner of bribe? He is honest.
    Edc1 10.145 1 This is the perpetual romance of new life, the invasion of God into the old dead world, when he sends into quiet houses a young soul... looking for something which is not there, but which ought to be there...
    Edc1 10.145 27 ...Sir Charles Fellowes...being at Xanthus...had seen a Turk point with his staff to some carved work on the corner of a stone almost buried in the soil. Fellowes...looking about him, observed more blocks and fragments like this.
    Prch 10.229 18 It was said: [The clergy] have bronchitis because they read from their papers sermons with a near voice, and then, looking at the congregation, they try to speak with their far voice, and the shock is noxious.
    Schr 10.279 12 ...the young...looking around them at education, at the professions and employments...finding that nothing outside corresponds to the noble order in the soul, are confused...
    EWI 11.111 4 Looking in the face of his master by the negro was held to be violence by the [West Indian] island courts.
    EWI 11.147 18 The Intellect, with blazing eye, looking through history from the beginning onward, gazes on this blot [slavery] and it disappears.
    FSLN 11.219 23 ...[supporters of the Fugitive Slave Law] were only looking to what their great Captain did...
    TPar 11.284 6 ...There [Theodore Parker] stands, looking more like a ploughman than priest,/ If not dreadfully awkward, not graceful at least;/...
    PLT 12.22 16 If we go through...any cabinet where is some representation of all the kingdoms of Nature...we feel as if looking at our bone and flesh through coloring and distorting glasses.
    PLT 12.39 4 A man is intellectual...so long as he has no engagement in any thought or feeling which can hinder him from looking at it as somewhat foreign.
    CW 12.174 17 In the arboretum you should have things...which people who read of them are hungry to see. Thus plant the Sequoia Gigantea...and set it on its way of ten or fifteen centuries. Bayard Taylor planted two -one died but I saw the other looking well.
    Bost 12.188 2 It was said of Rome in its proudest days, looking at the vast radiation of the privilege of Roman citizenship through the then-known world,-the extent of the city and of the world is the same...
    ACri 12.299 2 ...[Carlyle's History of Frederick II is] a book...with a range...of thought and wisdom so large, so colloquially elastic, that we not so much read a stereotype page as we see the eyes of the writer looking into ours...
    MLit 12.310 17 In looking at the library of the Present Age, we are first struck with the fact of the immense miscellany.
    AgMs 12.358 14 I still remember with some shame that in some dealing we had together a long time ago, I found that [Edmund Hosmer] had been looking to my interest in the affair, and I had been looking to my interest, and nobody had looked to his part.
    AgMs 12.358 15 I still remember with some shame that in some dealing we had together a long time ago, I found that [Edmund Hosmer] had been looking to my interest in the affair, and I had been looking to my interest, and nobody had looked to his part.
    PPr 12.384 19 It is plain that...all the great classes of English society must read [Carlyle's Past and Present], even those whose existence it proscribes. Poor Queen Victoria...poor Primates and Bishops,-poor Dukes and Lords! There is no help...in looking another way;...

looking-glass, n. (6)

    GoW 4.262 8 In man, the memory is a kind of looking-glass...
    Bhr 6.167 11 ...The green grass is a looking-glass/ Whereon [men's] traits are found./
    Elo2 8.114 14 ...you may find [the orator] in some lowly Bethel, by the seaside...a man who never knew the looking-glass or the critic;...
    Comc 8.172 8 Whilst [Timur] was shaven, the barber gave him a looking-glass in his hand.
    Insp 8.281 26 The wealth of the mind in this respect of seeing is like that of a looking-glass, which is never tired or worn by any multitude of objects which it reflects.
    Mem 12.93 18 We figure [memory] as if the mind were a kind of looking-glass...

looks, n. (10)

    Hist 2.17 12 ...a profound nature awakens in us...by its very looks and manners, the same power and beauty that a gallery of sculpture or of pictures addresses.
    Pt1 3.33 21 ...we love the poet, the inventor, who in any form, whether in an ode or in an action or in looks and behavior, has yielded us a new thought.
    Chr1 3.103 20 ...when [your friends] stand with uncertain timid looks of respect and half-dislike...you may begin to hope.
    UGM 4.21 9 Ever their phantoms arise before us,/ Our loftier brothers, but one in blood;/ At bed and table they lord it o'er us/ With looks of beauty and words of good./
    MoS 4.152 27 Spence relates that Mr. Pope was with Sir Godfrey Kneller one day, when his nephew, a Guinea trader, came in. Nephew, said Sir Godfrey, you have the honor of seeing the two greatest men in the world. I don't know how great men you may be, said the Guinea man, but I don't like your looks.
    ET8 5.131 12 [Englishmen's] looks bespeak an invincible stoutness...
    Bty 6.287 3 ...the passionate histories in the looks and manners of youth and early manhood...we know how these forms thrill, paralyze, provoke, inspire and enlarge us.
    Bty 6.298 2 [Women] heal us of awkwardness by their words and looks.
    DL 7.119 2 ...let this stranger...in your looks, in your accent and behavior, read your heart and earnessness...
    EzRy 10.386 27 ...I well remember [Ezra Ripley's] his pleading, almost reproachful looks at the sky, when the thunder-gust was coming up to spoil his hay.

looks, v. (100)

    Nat 1.26 27 Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour and is not reminded of the flux of all things?
    AmS 1.90 17 ...genius looks forward...
    AmS 1.112 9 In contrast with their [Goethe's, Wordsworth's, Carlyle's] writing, the style of Pope, of Johnson, of Gibbon, looks cold and pedantic.
    LE 1.171 10 It looks as if [the French Eclectics] had all truth...
    MN 1.217 17 He who is in love...sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved...
    MN 1.217 25 ...the reason why all men honor love is because it looks up and not down;...
    MN 1.218 3 [Genius] looks to the cause and life...
    LT 1.265 25 ...souls of as lofty a port as any in Greek or Roman fame might appear;...men of...an apprehension which looks over all history and everywhere recognizes its own.
    LT 1.267 21 To-day always looks mean to the thoughtless...
    LT 1.274 26 Grimly the same spirit [of Reform] looks into the law of Property...
    LT 1.285 11 [Speculators] have some piety which looks with faith to a fair Future...
    Tran 1.330 25 [The idealist] does not deny the presence of this table, this chair...but he looks at these things as the reverse side of the tapestry...
    Tran 1.353 5 To him who looks at his life from these moments of illumination, it will seem that he skulks and plays a mean, shiftless and subaltern part in the world.
    YA 1.368 25 The land...looks poverty-stricken...
    SR 2.62 3 ...the man in the street...feels poor when he looks on [towers and statues].
    SR 2.77 11 Prayer looks abroad...
    Comp 2.102 13 The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself.
    SL 2.155 14 ...now, every thing [the great man] did...looks large...
    Lov1 2.171 11 Each man sees over his own experience a certain stain of error, whilst that of other men looks fair and ideal.
    Lov1 2.176 20 The clouds have faces as [the lover] looks on them.
    Fdsp 2.214 20 A friend...looks to the past and the future.
    OS 2.279 14 ...if I renounce my will and act for the soul...out of [my child' s] young eyes looks the same soul;...
    OS 2.291 2 Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching.
    Cir 2.303 8 Everything looks permanent until its secret is known.
    Cir 2.303 15 Nature looks provokingly stable and secular...
    Cir 2.303 24 Sturdy and defying though he looks, [a man] has a helm which he obeys...
    Exp 3.46 25 Our life looks trivial...
    Exp 3.67 12 To-morrow again every thing looks real and angular...
    Exp 3.78 15 The act looks very differently on the inside and on the outside;...
    Nat2 3.178 11 If the king is in the palace, nobody looks at the walls.
    Pol1 3.203 25 That principle [of calling that which is just, equal; not that which is equal just] no longer looks so self-evident as it appeared in former times...
    Pol1 3.216 18 [The wise man] needs...no experience, for the life of the creator shoots through him, and looks from his eyes.
    NR 3.241 13 The statesman looks at many, and compares the few habitually with others, and these look less.
    PPh 4.69 25 When an artificer, [Plato] says, in the fabrication of any work, looks to that which always subsists according to the same; and, employing a model of this kind, expresses its idea and power in his work,--it must follow that his production should be beautiful.
    PNR 4.82 18 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses.
    GoW 4.272 11 One looks at a king with reverence;...
    ET2 5.28 9 It is impossible not to personify a ship; every body does, in every thing they say...she looks into a port.
    ET5 5.85 17 In war, the Englishman looks to his means.
    ET9 5.145 16 A much older traveller...says... ... ...whenever [the English] see a handsome foreigner, they say he looks like an Englishman...
    ET18 5.306 19 An Englishman shows no mercy to those below him in the social scale, as he looks for none from those above him;...
    F 6.9 10 ...the cab-man is phrenologist so far, he looks in your face to see if his shilling is sure.
    F 6.19 11 The force with which we resist these torrents of tendency looks so ridiculously inadequate...
    F 6.42 15 [Man] looks like a piece of luck, but is a piece of causation;...
    Wth 6.93 18 Columbus...looks on all kings and peoples as cowardly landsmen until they dare fit him out.
    Ctr 6.147 26 ...a man who looks at Paris...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.
    Bhr 6.176 16 Every man...looks with confidence for some traits and talents in his own child...
    Bhr 6.178 6 A farmer looks out at you as strong as the horse;...
    Bhr 6.185 3 The aspect of that man is repulsive; I do not wish to deal with him. The other is irritable, shy and on his guard. The youth looks humble and manly; I choose him.
    Bhr 6.185 12 Look at Northcote, said Fuseli; he looks like a rat that has seen a cat.
    Wsp 6.225 16 I look on that man as happy, who, when there is a question of success, looks into his work for a reply...
    Art2 7.54 25 The amphitheatre of the old Romans,--any one may see its origin who looks at the crowd running together to see any fight, sickness, or odd appearance in the street.
    Elo1 7.71 22 The old man [Priam] asked: Tell me, dear child, who is that man, shorter by a head than Agamemnon, yet he looks broader in his shoulders and breast.
    Elo1 7.89 19 Where [the orator] looks, all things fly to their places.
    Cour 7.254 26 ...here is one who, seeing the wishes of men, knows how to come at their end;...looks at all men as wax for his hands;...
    Cour 7.264 3 The forest on fire looks discouraging enough to a citizen...
    Suc 7.281 6 Who bides at home, nor looks abroad,/ Carries the eagles and masters the sword./
    Suc 7.292 5 Any work looks wonderful to [a man], except that which he can do.
    PI 8.19 7 Whilst common sense looks at things or visible Nature as real and final facts, poetry, or the imagination which dictates it, is a second sight...
    PI 8.70 11 In the dance of God there is not one of the chorus but can and will begin to spin, monumental as he now looks, whenever the music and figure reach his place and duty.
    PI 8.70 20 Every man may be, and at some time a man is, lifted to a platform whence he looks beyond sense to moral and spiritual truth...
    Res 8.145 11 The boat is full of water, and resists all your strength to drag it ashore and empty it. The fisherman looks about him, puts a round stick of wood underneath, and it rolls as on wheels at once.
    QO 8.177 1 Whoever looks at the insect world...must have remarked the extreme content they take in suction...
    PC 8.212 10 ...in America everything looks new and recent.
    PPo 8.260 1 And since round lines are drawn/ My darling's lips about,/ The very Moon looks puzzled on,/ And hesitates in doubt/ If the sweet curve that rounds thy mouth/ Be not her true way to the South./
    Imtl 8.335 15 ...a century, when we have once made it familiar and compared it with a true antiquity, looks dwarfish and recent;...
    Imtl 8.338 22 On the borders of the grave, the wise man looks forward with equal elasticity of mind, or hope;...
    Dem1 10.16 9 As [the young man] comes into manhood he remembers passages and persons that seem, as he looks at them now, to have been supernaturally deprived of injurious influence on him.
    Aris 10.46 10 I know how steep the contrast of condition looks;...
    Aris 10.57 22 ...amid the levity and giddiness of people one looks round... on some self-dependent mind...
    Chr2 10.93 26 [The moral intuition]...looks to no superior essence.
    Chr2 10.106 16 ...what has been running on through three horizons, or ninety years, looks to all the world like a law of Nature...
    Chr2 10.119 15 ...[the infant soul's] narrow chapel expands to the blue cathedral of the sky, where he Looks in and sees each blissful deity,/ Where he before the thunderous throne doth lie./
    Supl 10.170 5 Under the Catskill Mountains the boy in the steamboat said, Come up here, Tony; it looks pretty out-of-doors.
    SovE 10.199 15 You may sometimes talk with the gravest and best citizen, and the moment the topic of religion is broached, he runs into a childish superstition. His face looks infatuated, and his conversation is.
    SovE 10.201 27 It is a necessity of the human mind that he who looks at one object should look away from all other objects.
    SovE 10.204 4 There was in the last century a serious habitual reference to the spiritual world...compared with which our liberation looks a little foppish and dapper.
    Prch 10.219 13 It looks as if there were much doubt, much waiting, to be endured by the best.
    Schr 10.283 4 Whosoever looks with heed into his thoughts will find that our science of the mind has not got far.
    Carl 10.495 17 There is nothing deeper in [Carlyle's] constitution...than the considerate, condescending good nature with which he looks at every object in existence...
    War 11.149 2 The archangel Hope/ Looks to the azure cope,/ Waits through dark ages for the morn,/ Defeated day by day, but unto Victory born./
    FSLC 11.181 26 ...a man looks gloomily at his children, and thinks, What have I done that you should begin life in dishonor?
    FSLC 11.204 4 [Webster] looks at the Union as an estate...
    AsSu 11.246 3 His erring foe,/ Self-assured that he prevails,/ Looks from his victim lying low,/ And sees aloft the red right arm/ Redress the eternal scales./
    JBB 11.270 9 ...we are here to think of relief for the family of John Brown. To my eyes, that family looks very large and very needy of relief.
    ACiv 11.303 21 It looks as if we held the fate of the fairest possession of mankind in our hands...
    EPro 11.323 20 Give [the Confederacy] Washington, and they would have assumed the army and navy, and, through these, Philadelphia, New York, and Boston. It looks as if the battle-field would have been at least as large in that event as it is now.
    SMC 11.355 22 ...the common people [in the South], rich or poor, were...as arrogant as the negroes on the Gambia River; and...it looks as if the editors of the Southern press were in all times selected from this class.
    Wom 11.426 9 Woman should find in man her guardian. Silently she looks for that...
    FRO2 11.487 8 ...the knowledge of Europe looks out into Persia and India...
    FRep 11.522 3 [The American] sits secure in the possession of his vast domain...looks from his coal-fields, his wheat-bearing prairie, his gold-mines, to his two oceans...
    FRep 11.523 23 If a customer looks grave at [the peoples'] newspaper, or damns their member of Congress, they take another newspaper, and vote for another man.
    PLT 12.10 14 A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects.
    PLT 12.42 26 The highest measure of poetic power is such insight and faculty to fuse the circumstances of to-day as shall make transparent the whole web of circumstance and opinion in which the man finds himself, so that he...no longer looks back to Hebrew or Greek or English use or tradition in religion, laws or life...
    PLT 12.51 10 It is a law of Nature that he who looks at one thing must turn his eyes from every other thing in the universe.
    PLT 12.63 19 The superiority of the man is...that he has no obstruction, but looks straight at the pure fact...
    Mem 12.92 20 ...in the history of character the day comes when you are incapable of such crime [of neglect, selfishness, passion]. Then...you look on it as heaven looks on it...
    CInt 12.122 17 [A man] looks at all men as his representatives...
    ACri 12.305 15 Criticism is an art when it...looks at the order of [the poet' s] thoughts...
    MLit 12.335 13 ...the august spirit of the world looks out from [man's] eyes.
    Trag 12.410 13 [Tragedy] looks like an insupportable load under which earth moans aloud. But analyze it;...it is always another person who is tormented.

loom, n. (17)

    Pt1 3.16 17 In the political processions, Lowell goes in a loom...
    Exp 3.83 1 Illusion, Temperament, Succession, Surface, Surprise, Reality, Subjectiveness,--these are threads on the loom of time...
    SwM 4.93 6 Among eminent persons, those who are most dear to men are not of the class which the economist calls producers...they have not led out a colony, nor invented a loom.
    ET10 5.158 23 Hargreaves invented the spinning-jenny, and died in a workhouse. Arkwright improved the invention, and...one spinner could do as much work as one hundred had done before. The loom was improved further.
    F 6.10 19 You may as well ask a loom which weaves huckabuck why it does not make cashmere...
    F 6.19 8 These [laws of repression]...show a kind of mechanical exactness, as of a loom or mill in what we call casual...events.
    Pow 6.81 15 A man hardly knows how much he is a machine until he begins to make telegraph, loom, press and locomotive, in his own image.
    Pow 6.81 20 Let a man dare go to a loom and see if he be equal to it.
    Wth 6.89 25 ...the webs of his loom;...are [man's] natural playmates...
    Art2 7.42 15 We do not grind corn or lift the loom by our own strength...
    Farm 7.142 6 In English factories, the boy that watches the loom...is called a minder.
    WD 7.170 16 The days are made on a loom whereof the warp and woof are past and future time.
    SovE 10.191 5 Humanity sits at the dread loom and throws the shuttle...
    MMEm 10.424 9 [Time] Hasten to finish thy motley work, on which frightful Gorgons are at play, spite of holy ghosts. 'T is already moth-eaten and its shuttles quaver, as the beams of the loom are shaken.
    EWI 11.141 3 Mr. Clarkson, early in his career, made a collection of African productions and manufactures, as specimens of the arts and culture of the negro; comprising cloths and loom, weapons...
    Mem 12.97 20 A knife with a good spring...a loom...describe to us the difference between a person of quick and strong perception...and a heavy man who witnesses the same facts...
    ACri 12.294 22 Shakespeare's] loom is better toothed, cranked and pedalled than other people's...

loom, v. (1)

    NR 3.229 13 Who can tell if Washington be a great man or no? Who can tell if Franklin be? Yes, or any but the twelve, or six, or three great gods of fame? And they too loom and fade before the eternal.

loomed, v. (1)

    Cir 2.311 13 The facts which loomed so large in the fogs of yesterday... have strangely changed their proportions.

looming, v. (1)

    ET14 5.246 10 How can [English genius] discern and hail the new forms that are looming up on the horizon...

loom-lords, n. (1)

    Farm 7.150 23 There has been a nightmare bred in England of indigestion and spleen among landlords and loom-lords...

looms, n. (5)

    ET5 5.97 1 [The English] have ransacked Italy to find new forms, to add a grace to the products of their looms, their potteries and their foundries.
    ET10 5.158 10 Two centuries ago...the land was tilled by wooden ploughs. And it was to little purpose that [the English] had pit-coal, or that looms were improved...
    Ctr 6.155 15 There is a great deal of self-denial and manliness in poor and middle-class houses in town and country...that...takes two looms in the factory...
    Ctr 6.155 16 There is a great deal of self-denial and manliness in poor and middle-class houses in town and country...that...takes two looms in the factory, three looms, six looms...
    DL 7.110 14 Another man is...an inventor of looms...and could achieve nothing if he should dissipate himself on books...

loon, n. (1)

    Thor 10.467 1 ...the birds which frequent the stream [the Concord River], heron, duck, sheldrake, loon, osprey;...were all known to [Thoreau]...

loops, v. (1)

    SwM 4.108 7 At the top of the column [the spine] [Nature] puts out another spine, which doubles or loops itself over...

loose, adj. (14)

    Prd1 2.228 10 It is vinegar to the eyes to deal with men of loose and imperfect perception.
    Cir 2.308 19 Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
    Wsp 6.205 16 The Greek poets did not hesitate to let loose their petulant wit on their deities also.
    Ill 6.320 18 With such volatile elements to work in, 't is no wonder if our estimates are loose and floating.
    Farm 7.142 19 [The farmer's] machine is of colossal proportions;...and it takes him long to understand its parts and its working. This pump never sucks; these screws are never loose;...
    Elo2 8.111 19 Who knows before the debate begins...what the means are of the combatants? The facts, the reasons, the logic,--above all, the flame of passion and the continuous energy of will which is presently to be let loose on this bench of judges...all are invisible and unknown.
    Res 8.139 11 Our Copernican globe is a great factory or shop of power, with its rotating constellations, times and tides. The machine is of colossal size;...and it takes long to understand its parts and its workings. This pump never sucks; these screws are never loose;...
    PC 8.233 1 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. But that kind of loose association does not leave a man his own master.
    PerF 10.82 13 Every one knows what are the effects of music to put people in gay or mournful or martial mood. But these are...only the hint of its power on a keener sense. It is a stroke on a loose or tense cord.
    EzRy 10.392 5 ...often...[Ezra Ripley's] speech was a satire on the loose, voluminous, draggle-tail periods of other speakers.
    Thor 10.461 24 From a box containing a bushel or more of loose pencils, [Thoreau] could take up with his hands fast enough just a dozen pencils at every grasp.
    TPar 11.287 14 [Theodore Parker] came at a time when, to the irresistible march of opinion, the forms still retained by the most advanced sects showed loose and lifeless...
    SMC 11.356 9 ...when the Border raids were let loose on [Kansas] villages, these people...were so beside themselves with rage, that they became on the instant the bravest soldiers and the most determined avengers.
    Milt1 12.263 26 When [Milton] was charged with loose habits of living, he declares that a certain niceness of nature, an honest haughtiness and self-esteem... and a modesty, kept me still above those low descents of mind beneath which he must deject and plunge himself that can agree to such degradation.

loose, v. (2)

    PPo 8.246 3 Loose the knots of the heart; never think on thy fate:/ No Euclid has yet disentangled that snarl./
    PPo 8.247 13 Loose the knots of the heart, [Hafiz] says.

loosed, v. (1)

    Wsp 6.208 20 A silent revolution has loosed the tension of the old religious sects...

loosely, adv. (5)

    Comp 2.125 3 ...in some happier mind [these revolutions] are incessant, and all worldly relations hang very loosely about him...
    GoW 4.287 27 When [Goethe] sits down to write a drama or a tale, he collects and sorts his observations from a hundred sides, and combines them into the body as fitly as he can. A great deal refuses to incorporate: this he adds loosely as letters of the parties...and the like.
    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...
    ET14 5.245 3 [Hume] owes his fame to one keen observation...that the term cause and effect was loosely or gratuitously applied to what we know only as consecutive, not at all as causal.
    Milt1 12.271 17 [Milton] proposed to establish a republic, of which the federal power was weak and loosely defined...

loosen, v. (1)

    Mem 12.98 13 The more [the orator] is heated, the wider he sees; he seems to remember all he ever knew; thus certifying us...that what his mind grasps it does not let go. 'T is the bull-dog bite; you must cut off the head to loosen the teeth.

loosened, v. (1)

    EzRy 10.390 26 [Ezra Ripley's] friends were his study, and to see them loosened his talents and his tongue.

looseness, n. (4)

    GoW 4.288 4 ...notwithstanding the looseness of many of [Goethe's] works, we have volumes of detached paragraphs, aphorisms, Xenien, etc.
    Chr2 10.112 16 ...in America, where are no legal ties to churches, the looseness appears dangerous.
    Supl 10.166 24 How impatient we are...of looseness and intemperance in speech!
    Supl 10.175 7 ...Nature encourages no looseness...

loosens, v. (1)

    Elo2 8.118 24 ...deep interest or sympathy...loosens the tongue...

Lopez, Narcisco (?), n. (1)

    Cour 7.276 6 ...there are melancholy skeptics with a taste for carrion who batten on the hideous facts in history...devilish lives...Marat, Lopez;...

lops, v. (1)

    OS 2.280 8 To the bad thought which I find in [the book I read], the same soul becomes a discerning, separating sword, and lops it away.

loquacious, adj. (2)

    ET16 5.282 26 The golden fleece again, of Jason, was the compass,--a bit of loadstone, easily supposed to be the only one in the world, and therefore naturally awakening the cupidity and ambition of the young heroes of a maritime nation to join in an expedition to obtain possession of this wise stone. Hence the fable that the ship Argo was loquacious and oracular.
    PI 8.18 13 ...what is life? what is force? Push [the savans] hard and they will not be loquacious.

loquacity, n. (3)

    Elo1 7.61 22 The eloquence of one [man] stimulates...all others to a degree that makes them good receivers and conductors, and they avenge themselves for their enforced silence by increased loquacity on their return to the fireside.
    PI 8.73 3 The inexorable rule in the muses' court, either inspiration or silence, compels the bard to report only his supreme moments. It teaches the enormous force of a few words, and in proportion to the inspiration checks loquacity.
    CL 12.151 17 Man...pumps the sap of all this forest through his arteries; the loquacity of all birds in the morning;...

lord, adj. (1)

    Let 12.392 17 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.

Lord God, n. (1)

    Mrs1 3.135 16 ...if perchance a searching realist comes to our gate...then again we run to our curtain, and hide ourselves as Adam at the voice of the Lord God in the garden.

Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, (1)

    ET6 5.102 6 On the day of my arrival at Liverpool, a gentleman, in describing to me the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, happened to say, Lord Clarendon has pluck like a cock and will fight till he dies;...

Lord Mansfield [William Mu (1)

    EWI 11.140 19 In the case of the ship Zong, in 1781, whose master had thrown one hundred and thirty-two slaves alive into the sea...the first jury gave a verdict in favor of the master and owners: they had a right to do what they had done. Lord Mansfield is reported to have said on the bench, The matter left to the jury is,-Was it from necessity?

Lord Mayor, n. (1)

    ET3 5.42 7 When James the First declared his purpose of punishing London by removing his Court, the Lord Mayor replied that in removing his royal presence from his lieges, they hoped he would leave them the Thames.

lord, n. (34)

    Nat 1.68 8 Nor has science sufficient humanity, so long as the naturalist overlooks that wonderful congruity which subsists between man and the world; of which he is lord...
    LE 1.163 25 Be lord of a day...and you can put up your history books.
    SR 2.48 24 The nonchalance of boys who...would disdain as much as a lord to do or say aught to conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature.
    SL 2.150 5 ...Gertrude has Guy; but what now avails...how Roman his mien and manners, if...she has no aims, no conversation that can enchant her graceful lord?
    Hsm1 2.246 10 Let not soft nature so transformed be,/ And lose her gentler sexed humanity,/ to make me see my lord bleed. So, 't is well;/...
    Hsm1 2.246 31 Kiss thy lord,/ And live with all the freedom you were wont./
    OS 2.290 8 The vain traveller attempts to embellish his life by quoting my lord and the prince and the countess...
    Exp 3.53 26 I carry the keys of my castle in my hand, ready to throw them at the feet of my lord...
    Mrs1 3.122 25 The gentleman is...lord of his own actions...
    Mrs1 3.124 1 In a good lord there must first be a good animal...
    Gts 3.163 18 ...when the beneficiary is ungrateful, as all beneficiaries hate all Timons...I rather sympathize with the beneficiary than with the anger of my lord Timon.
    Pol1 3.217 3 ...as the rightful lord who is to tumble all rulers from their chairs, [character's] presence is hardly yet suspected.
    PNR 4.88 12 Shakspeare is a Platonist when he writes...He, that can endure/ To follow with allegiance a fallen lord,/ Does conquer him that did his master conquer,/ And earns a place in the story./
    ET5 5.84 18 The Englishman wears a sensible coat...of rough but solid and lasting texture. If he is a lord, he dresses a little worse than a commoner.
    ET5 5.101 5 The laborer [in England] is a possible lord. The lord is a possible basket-maker.
    ET11 5.173 25 [The English people] are proud...of the language and symbol of chivalry. Even the word lord is the luckiest style that is used in any language to designate a patrician.
    ET11 5.180 26 Mirabeau wrote prophetically from England, in 1784, If revolution break out in France, I tremble for the aristocracy: their chateaux will be reduced to ashes and their blood be spilt in torrents. The English tenant would defend his lord to the last extremity.
    ET11 5.184 1 The hardest radical [in England] instantly uncovers and changes his tone to a lord.
    ET13 5.216 14 The [English] clergy obtained respite from labor for the boor on the Sabbath and on church festivals. The lord who compelled his boor to labor between sunset on Saturday and sunset on Sunday, forfeited him altogether.
    F 6.22 1 ...Fate has its lord;...
    Wsp 6.206 21 King Richard taunts God with forsaking him. O fie! O how unwilling should I be to forsake thee, in so forlorn and dreadful a position, were I thy lord and advocate, as thou art mine.
    Wsp 6.213 14 There is...a simple, quiet, undescribed, undescribable presence, dwelling very peacefully in us, our rightful lord...
    SS 7.1 2 Seyd melted the days like cups of pearl,/ Served high and low, the lord and churl/...
    SS 7.13 1 ...[animal spirits'] feats are like the structure of a pyramid. Their result is a lord, a general, or a boon companion.
    Art2 7.55 17 The leaning towers originated from the civil discords which induced every lord to build a tower.
    Clbs 7.239 17 Hyde, Earl of Rochester, asked Lord-Keeper Guilford, Do you not think I could understand any business in England in a month? Yes, my lord, replied the other, but I think you would understand it better in two months.
    Clbs 7.239 20 When Edward I. claimed to be acknowledged by the Scotch (1292) as lord paramount, the nobles of Scotland replied, No answer can be made while the throne is vacant.
    PPo 8.251 25 Timour taxed Hafiz with treating disrepectfully his two cities, to raise and adorn which he had conquered nations. Hafiz replied, Alas, my lord, if I had not been so prodigal, I had not been so poor!
    Imtl 8.349 11 Yama, the lord of Death, promised Nachiketas, the son of Gautama, to grant him three boons at his own choice.
    Schr 10.270 13 For [the poet] arms, art, politics, trade, waited like menials, until the lord of the manor should arrive.
    EWI 11.123 8 The English lord is a retired shopkeeper...
    CL 12.149 9 The Hindoos called fire Agni...lord of red coursers;...
    CL 12.167 10 ...as soon as man knows himself as [Nature's] interpreter... then Nature has a lord.
    ACri 12.295 27 Montaigne must have the credit of giving to literature that which we listen for in bar-rooms, the low speech...words of the boatman, the farmer and the lord;...

Lord, n. (25)

    LE 1.176 12 Let us...suffer, and weep, and drudge, with eyes and hearts that love the Lord.
    Hsm1 2.255 5 Better still is the temperance of King David, who poured out on the ground unto the Lord the water which three of his warriors had brought him to drink...
    SwM 4.120 21 The reason why all and single things, in the heavens and on earth, are representative, is because they exist from an influx of the Lord, through heaven [said Swedenborg].
    SwM 4.122 1 Swedenborg styles himself in the title-page of his books, Servant of the Lord Jesus Christ;...
    SwM 4.126 24 [According to Swedenborg] It is never permitted to any one, in heaven, to stand behind another and look at the back of his head; for then the influx which is from the Lord is disturbed.
    SwM 4.134 16 Though the agency of the Lord is in every line referred to by name [by Swedenborg], it never becomes alive.
    ET6 5.111 5 ...the cockneys stifle the curiosity of the foreigner on the reason of any practice with Lord, sir, it was always so.
    Ill 6.324 15 Dispel, O Lord of all creatures! the conceit of knowledge which proceeds from ignorance.
    Art2 7.48 26 [The artist] must work in the spirit in which we conceive...an angel of the Lord to act;...
    Elo1 7.83 26 I have heard it reported of an eloquent preacher...that, on occasions of death or tragic disaster which overspread the congregation with gloom, he...turning to his favorite lessons of devout and jubilant thankfulness,--Let us praise the Lord,--carried audience, mourners and mourning along with him...
    PI 8.64 27 [Poetry] is the piety of the intellect. Thus saith the Lord, should begin the song.
    PC 8.227 7 No angel in his heart acknowledges any one superior to himself but the Lord alone.
    PPo 8.254 12 To the vizier returning from Mecca [Hafiz] says,-Boast not rashly, prince of pilgrims, of thy fortune. Thou hast indeed seen the temple; but I, the Lord of the temple.
    Insp 8.277 6 Swedenborg's genius was the perception of the doctrine that The Lord flows into the spirits of angels and of men;...
    Chr2 10.97 9 The poor Jews of the wilderness cried: Let not the Lord speak to us; let Moses speak to us.
    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.
    EzRy 10.384 26 [Joseph Emerson wrote] I desire (I hope I desire it) that the Lord would teach me suitably to resent this Providence...
    LS 11.9 13 It was the custom for the master of the feast [Passover] to break the bread and to bless it, using this formula...Blessed be Thou, O Lord, our God, who givest us the fruit of the vine...
    LS 11.14 12 I have received of the Lord, [St. Paul] says, that which I delivered to you.
    HDC 11.34 23 ...the Lord is pleased to provide for [the pilgrims] great store of fish in the spring-time...
    HDC 11.35 6 ...let no man, writes our pious chronicler [Edward Johnson]... make a jest of pumpkins, for with this fruit the Lord was pleased to feed his people until their corn and cattle were increased.
    HDC 11.56 27 The General Court, in 1647...Ordered, that every township after the Lord had increased them to the number of fifty house-holders, shall appoint one to teach all children to write and read;...
    JBB 11.266 22 ...Old Brown,/ Osawatomie Brown,/ Said, Boys, the Lord will aid us! and he shoved his ramrod down./ Edmund Clarence Stedman, John Brown.
    Wom 11.404 1 Lo, when the Lord made North and South,/ And sun and moon ordained he,/ Forth bringing each by word of mouth/ In order of its dignity,/ Did man from the crude clay express/ By sequence, and, all else decreed,/ He formed the woman; nor might less/ Than Sabbath such a work succeed./ Coventry Patmore.
    Bost 12.195 15 The General Court of Massachusetts, in 1647, To the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of the forefathers, ordered, that every township, after the Lord has increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall appoint one to teach all children to write and read;...

Lord of the Isles, The [Wa (1)

    Scot 11.463 16 I can well remember as far back as when The Lord of the Isles was first republished in Boston...

Lord Protector, n. (1)

    Milt1 12.258 22 ...foreigners came to England, we are told, to see the Lord Protector and Mr. Milton.

lord, v. (1)

    UGM 4.21 8 Ever their phantoms arise before us,/ Our loftier brothers, but one in blood;/ At bed and table they lord it o'er us/ With looks of beauty and words of good./

lorde's, n. (1)

    Aris 10.29 21 Here may ye see wel, how that genterie/ Is not annexed to possession,/ Sith folk ne don their operation/ Alway, as doth the fire, lo, in his kind,/ For God it wot, men may full often find/ A lorde's son do shame and vilanie./

lordlier, adj. (1)

    Nat2 3.185 19 ...the wary Nature sends a new troop of fairer forms, of lordlier youths, with a little more excess of direction to hold them fast to their several aim;...

lordliest, adj. (1)

    Mrs1 3.125 11 The famous gentlemen of Asia and Europe have been of this strong type; Saladin...Pericles, and the lordliest personages.

lord-loving, adj. (1)

    ET8 5.141 8 The conservative, money-loving, lord-loving English are yet liberty-loving;...

Lords, House of, n. (7)

    ET4 5.60 24 Twenty thousand thieves landed at Hastings. These founders of the House of Lords were greedy and ferocious dragoons...
    ET10 5.162 4 A sporting duke [in England] may fancy that the state depends on the House of Lords...
    ET11 5.183 14 I was surprised to observe the very small attendance usually in the House of Lords.
    ET11 5.197 19 The lawyers, said Burke, are only birds of passage in this House of Commons, and then added...they have their best bower anchor in the House of Lords.
    ET13 5.221 8 A great duke said on the occasion of a victory, in the House of Lords, that he thought the Almighty God had not been well used by them...
    CbW 6.253 26 In the twenty-fourth year of his reign [Edward I] decreed that no tax should be levied without consent of Lords and Commons;...
    EWI 11.120 25 The Queen, in her speech to the Lords and Commons, praised the conduct of the emancipated population [of Jamaica]...

lords, n. (27)

    Con 1.315 6 ...the cabins of the peasants and the castles of the lords supplied [Friar Bernard's] few wants.
    YA 1.384 23 These rising grounds which command the champaign below, seem to ask for lords, true lords, land-lords...
    Int 2.346 2 ...wonderful seems the calm and grand air of these few [Greek philosophers], these great spiritual lords...
    Exp 3.43 1 The lords of life, the lords of life,--/ I saw them pass,/ In their own guise/...
    Exp 3.83 1 Illusion, Temperament, Succession, Surface, Surprise, Reality, Subjectiveness...these are the lords of life.
    Mrs1 3.148 17 [Scott's] lords brave each other in smart epigrammatic speeches...
    MoS 4.164 19 The neighboring lords and gentry brought jewels and papers to [Montaigne] for safe-keeping.
    ET11 5.179 27 The English lords do not call their lands after their own names...
    ET11 5.184 19 A few law lords and a few political lords take the brunt of public business [in England].
    ET11 5.184 20 A few law lords and a few political lords take the brunt of public business [in England].
    ET11 5.185 16 ...a race yields a nobility in some form, however we name the lords, as surely as it yields women.
    ET11 5.187 3 The economist of 1855 who asks, Of what use are the [English] lords? may learn of Franklin to ask, Of what use is a baby?
    ET11 5.188 23 These [English] lords are the treasurers and librarians of mankind...
    ET11 5.189 20 The grand old halls scattered up and down in England, are dumb vouchers to the state and broad hospitality of their ancient lords.
    ET11 5.191 13 Prostitutes taken from the theatres were made duchesses, their bastards dukes and earls. The young men sat uppermost, the old serious lords were out of favor.
    ET11 5.193 3 Dismal anecdotes abound...of great lords living by the showing of their houses...
    ET11 5.194 15 A man of wit [in England]...confessed to his friend that he could not enter [noblemen's] houses without being made to feel that they were great lords, and he a low plebeian.
    F 6.34 11 The opinion of the million was the terror of the world, and it was attempted...to pile it over with strata of society,-a layer of soldiers, over that a layer of lords...
    Wth 6.105 13 Not much otherwise the economical power touches the masses through the political lords.
    Wth 6.117 16 In England...I was assured...that great lords and ladies had no more guineas to give away than other people;...
    CbW 6.243 16 The richest of all lords is Use/...
    SS 7.1 8 ...nor loved [Seyd] less/ Stately lords in palaces/...
    Supl 10.171 12 ...the [agricultural] discourse, to say the truth, was bad; and one of our village fathers gave at the dinner this toast: The orator of the day: his subject deserves the attention of every farmer. The caution of the toast did honor to our village father. I wish great lords and diplomatists had as much respect for truth.
    LLNE 10.328 7 The nobles shall not any longer, as feudal lords, have power of life and death over the churls...
    HDC 11.49 13 ...the people [of Concord] truly feel that they are lords of the soil.
    War 11.172 22 I do not wonder at the dislike some of the friends of peace have expressed at Shakspeare. The veriest churl and Jacobin cannot resist the influence of the style and manners of these haughty lords.
    FSLC 11.191 13 Lord Mansfield, in the case of the slave Somerset, wherein the dicta of Lords Talbot and Hardwicke had been cited...said, I care not for the supposed dicta of judges, however eminent, if they be contrary to all principle.

Lords, n. (2)

    MoL 10.251 24 'T is some thirty years since the days of the Reform Bill in England, when on the walls in London you read everywhere placards, Down with the Lords.
    PPr 12.384 18 It is plain that...all the great classes of English society must read [Carlyle's Past and Present], even those whose existence it proscribes. Poor Queen Victoria...poor Primates and Bishops,-poor Dukes and Lords!

lord's, n. (1)

    ET6 5.110 15 The [English] ship-carpenter in the public yards, my lord's gardener and porter, have been there for more than a hundred years, grandfather, father, and son.

Lord's, n. (5)

    SL 2.160 15 Let us lie low in the Lord's power...
    EzRy 10.387 3 ...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. He...looked at the cloud, and said, We are in the Lord's hand; mind your rake, George! We are in the Lord's hand;...
    EzRy 10.387 5 ...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. He...looked at the cloud, and said, We are in the Lord's hand; mind your rake, George! We are in the Lord's hand;...
    HDC 11.34 14 ...in these poor wigwams [the pilgrims] sing psalms, pray and praise their God, till they can provide them houses, which they could not ordinarily, till the earth, by the Lord's blessing, brought forth bread to feed them.
    Trag 12.407 21 ...universally, in uneducated and unreflecting persons...we discover traits of the same superstition [belief in Fate]:...if you spill the salt;...if you say the Lord's prayer backwards;...

Lord's Prayer, n. (3)

    ShP 4.200 11 Grotius makes the like remark in respect to the Lord's Prayer, that the single clauses of which it is composed were already in use in the time of Christ...
    ET8 5.131 6 [The English] are headstrong believers and defenders of their opinion, and not less resolute in maintaining their whim and perversity. Hezekiah Woodward wrote a book against the Lord's Prayer.
    FSLN 11.219 22 [Supporters of the Fugitive Slave Law] had no opinions, they had no memory for what they had been saying like the Lord's Prayer all their lifetime...

Lord's Supper, n. (11)

    DSA 1.140 18 Will [the poor preacher] invite [people] privately to the Lord' s Supper?
    LS 11.3 5 In the history of the Church no subject has been more fruitful of controversy than the Lord's Supper.
    LS 11.4 21 ...so far from the [Lord's] Supper being a tradition in which men are fully agreed, there has always been the widest room for difference of opinion upon this particular.
    LS 11.11 14 I ask any person who believes the [Lord's] Supper to have been designed by Jesus to be commemorated forever, to go and read the account of it in the other Gospels...
    LS 11.11 20 I ask any person who believes the [Lord's] Supper to have been designed by Jesus to be commemorated forever, to go and read the account of it in the other Gospels, and then compare with it the account of this transaction [Christ's washing the disciples' feet] in St. John, and tell me if this be not much more explicitly authorized than the Supper.
    LS 11.11 21 [Christ's washing the disiciples' feet] only differs in this, that we have found the [Lord's] Supper used in New England and the washing of the feet not.
    LS 11.12 9 These views of the original account of the Lord's Supper lead me to esteem it an occasion full of solemn and prophetic interest...
    LS 11.13 26 Upon this matter of St. Paul's view of the [Lord's] Supper, a few important considerations must be stated.
    LS 11.14 3 The end which [St. Paul] has in view...is not to enjoin upon his friends to observe the [Lord's] Supper, but to censure their abuse of it.
    LS 11.14 5 We quote [St. Paul's] passage nowadays as if it enjoined attendance upon the [Lord's] Supper;...
    LS 11.17 13 It is the old objection to the doctrine of the Trinity...that such confusion was introduced into the soul that an undivided worship was given nowhere. Is not that the effect of the Lord's Supper?

lordship, n. (8)

    SR 2.62 24 Kingdom and lordship...are a gaudier vocabulary than private John and Edward...
    Mrs1 3.122 26 The gentleman is...lord of his own actions, and expressing that lordship in his behavior;...
    ET11 5.197 23 Whilst the privileges of nobility are passing to the middle class [in England]...the titles of lordship are getting musty and cumbersome.
    ET18 5.302 20 ...what facility and plenteousness of knighthood, lordship, ladyship, royalty, loyalty;...is indicated in Collins's Peerage, through eight hundred years!
    F 6.24 9 Let [man]...show his lordship by manners and deeds on the scale of nature.
    Ctr 6.149 1 Aubrey writes, I have heard Thomas Hobbes say, that, in the Earl of Devon's house, in Derbyshire, there was a good library and books enough for him, and his lordship stored the library with what books he thought fit to be bought.
    War 11.173 21 ...the man who, without any...titles of lordship or train of guards...takes in solitude the right step uniformly...does not yield, in my imagination, to any man.
    PPr 12.384 26 Here is a book [Carlyle's Past and Present] as full of treason as an egg is full of meat, and every lordship and worship and high form and ceremony of English conservatism tossed like a football into the air...

lore, n. (8)

    Fdsp 2.206 19 [Friendship] cannot subsist in its perfection, say some who are learned in this warm lore of the heart, betwixt more than two.
    SwM 4.134 25 That Hebrew muse, which taught the lore of right and wrong to men, had the same excess of influence for [Swedenborg] it has had for the nations.
    ShP 4.209 12 Who ever read the volume of [Shakespeare's] Sonnets without finding that the poet had there revealed...the lore of friendship and of love;...
    Civ 7.17 5 We praise the guide, we praise the forest life:/ But will we sacrifice our dear-bought lore/ Of books and arts and trained experiment/...
    WD 7.176 13 ...it was the rule of our poets, in the legends of fairy lore, that the fairies largest in power were the least in size.
    MMEm 10.409 10 As a traveller enters some fine palace and finds all the doors closed, and he only allowed the use of some avenues and passages, so have I [Mary Moody Emerson] wandered from the cradle over...the cabinets of natural or moral philosophy, the recesses of ancient and modern lore.
    Thor 10.477 7 I hearing get, who had but ears,/ And sight, who had but eyes before;/ I moments live, who lived but years,/ And truth discern, who knew but learning's lore./
    Milt1 12.259 27 [Milton's] lore of foreign tongues added daily to his consummate skill in the use of his own.

Lorris, William of, n. (1)

    ShP 4.198 2 ...the Romaunt of the Rose is only judicious translation from William of Lorris and John of Meung...

lose, v. (110)

    Nat 1.8 2 Neither does the wisest man...lose his curiosity by finding out all [nature's] perfection.
    Nat 1.30 12 In due time...words lose all power to stimulate the understanding or the affections.
    Nat 1.31 21 The poet...bred in the woods...shall not lose their lesson altogether...
    AmS 1.96 27 So is there...no event, in our private history, which shall not... lose its adhesive, inert form, and astonish us by soaring from our body into the empyrean.
    LE 1.157 9 I will not lose myself in the desultory questions, what are the limitations, and what the causes of the fact.
    LE 1.157 20 The scholar may lose himself in schools...and become a pedant;...
    MN 1.222 15 Emanuel Swedenborg affirmed that it was opened to him that the spirits who knew truth in this life, but did it not, at death shall lose their knowledge.
    MN 1.223 9 What man seeing this [great reality], can lose it from his thoughts...
    MR 1.256 12 ...the great man [is] very willing to lose particular powers and talents, so that he gain in the elevation of his life.
    Con 1.303 6 We have all a certain intellection or presentiment of reform existing in the mind, which does not yet descend into the character, and those who throw themselves blindly on this lose themselves.
    Tran 1.357 14 ...[strong spirits] by happiness of greater momentum lose no time, but take the right road at first.
    Hist 2.5 19 ...crabs, goats, scorpions, the balance and the waterpot lose their meanness when hung as signs in the zodiac...
    Hist 2.6 17 Universal history, the poets, the romancers, do not in their stateliest pictures...anywhere lose our ear, anywhere make us feel...that this is for better men;...
    Hist 2.10 8 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.
    SR 2.75 26 If our young men miscarry in their first enterprises they lose all heart.
    SR 2.81 25 At home I dream that...at Rome, I can...lose my sadness.
    SR 2.89 19 Most men gamble with [Fortune], and gain all, and lose all, as her wheel rolls.
    Comp 2.94 2 ...if this doctrine [Compensation] could be stated in terms with any resemblance to those bright intuitions in which this truth is sometimes revealed to us, it would be a star in many...crooked passages in our journey, that would not suffer us to lose our way.
    Comp 2.98 15 ...for every thing you gain, you lose something.
    Comp 2.111 1 Treat men as pawns and ninepins and you shall suffer as well as they. If you leave out their heart, you shall lose your own.
    Comp 2.120 20 The thoughtless say...What boots it to do well?...if I lose any good I gain some other;...
    SL 2.135 2 Could ever a man of prodigious mathematical genius convey to others any insight into his methods? If he could communicate that secret it would instantly lose its exaggerated value...
    SL 2.152 10 There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are;...then is a teaching, and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever quite lose the benefit.
    Lov1 2.169 6 Nature...anticipates already a benevolence which shall lose all particular regards in its general light.
    Lov1 2.170 24 He who paints [love] at the first period will lose some of its later...traits.
    Lov1 2.184 3 Neighborhood, size, numbers, habits, persons, lose by degrees their power over us.
    Lov1 2.187 11 [Lovers]...exchange the passion which once could not lose sight of its object, for a cheerful disengaged furtherance, whether present or absent, of each other's designs.
    Lov1 2.188 20 ...the warm loves and fears, that swept over us as clouds, must lose their finite character and blend with God, to attain their own perfection.
    Lov1 2.188 23 ...we need not fear that we can lose anything by the progress of the soul.
    Fdsp 2.213 27 It is foolish to be afraid of making our ties too spiritual, as if so we could lose any genuine love.
    Fdsp 2.215 8 In the great days, presentiments hover before me in the firmament. ... I fear only that I may lose them...
    Fdsp 2.215 12 In the great days, presentiments hover before me in the firmament. ... Then, though I prize my friends, I cannot afford to talk with them and study their visions, lest I lose my own.
    Prd1 2.224 4 If a man lose his balance and immerse himself in any trades or pleasures for their own sake, he may be a good wheel or pin, but he is not a cultivated man.
    Prd1 2.229 21 Even lifeless figures, as vessels and stools--let them be drawn ever so correctly--lose all effect so soon as they lack the resting upon their centre of gravity...
    Prd1 2.240 22 ...strawberries lose their flavor in garden-beds.
    Hsm1 2.246 9 Let not soft nature so transformed be,/ And lose her gentler sexed humanity,/ to make me see my lord bleed. So, 't is well;/...
    Hsm1 2.254 6 In some way the time [the magnanimous] seem to lose is redeemed...
    Cir 2.321 23 The one thing which we seek with insatiable desire is...to lose our sempiternal memory...
    Pt1 3.8 9 ...whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word or a verse...
    Exp 3.51 25 We see young men who owe us a new world...but they never acquit the debt; they die young and dodge the account; or if they live they lose themselves in the crowd.
    Chr1 3.96 8 With what quality is in him [a man] infuses all nature that he can reach; nor does he tend to lose himself in vastness...
    Chr1 3.110 24 The coldest precisian cannot go abroad without encountering inexplicable influences. One man fastens an eye on him and... the secrets that make him wretched either to keep or to betray must be yielded;--another, and he cannot speak, and the bones of his body seem to lose their cartilages;...
    Mrs1 3.119 14 The house [of the inhabitants of Gournou], namely a tomb, is ready without rent or taxes. No rain can pass through the roof, and there is no door, for there is no want of one, as there is nothing to lose.
    Mrs1 3.145 13 Real service will not lose its nobleness.
    Nat2 3.191 12 ...it was known that men of thought and virtue...could lose good time whilst the room was getting warm in winter days.
    NR 3.234 16 The eye must not lose sight for a moment of the purpose [of the artist].
    NER 3.261 5 [Many reformers] lose their way;...
    NER 3.261 7 ...in the assault on the kingdom of darkness [many reformers]...lose their sanity and power of benefit.
    UGM 4.25 4 Without Plato we should almost lose our faith in the possibility of a reasonable book.
    PPh 4.49 9 The raptures of prayer and ecstasy of devotion lose all being in one Being.
    SwM 4.129 7 ...it is only when you leave and lose me by casting yourself on a sentiment which is higher than both of us, that I draw near and find myself at your side;...
    GoW 4.267 9 The fiery reformer embodies his aspiration in some rite or covenant, and he and his friends cleave to the form and lose the aspiration.
    GoW 4.279 3 ...[the hero and heroine of Sand's Consuelo] lose their wealth...
    ET10 5.156 8 [The English] are contented with slower steamers, as long as they know that swifter boats lose money.
    ET11 5.186 5 These people [English nobility] seem to gain as much as they lose by their position.
    ET19 5.311 9 It is this [sense of right and wrong] which lies at the foundation of that aristocratic character...but which, if it should lose this, would find itself paralyzed;...
    F 6.32 15 Cold and sea will train an imperial Saxon race, which nature cannot bear to lose...
    Pow 6.61 5 When [children] are hurt by us...or are beaten in the game,--if they lose heart and remember the mischance in their chamber at home, they have a serious check.
    Ctr 6.160 12 I have heard that stiff people lose something of their awkwardness under high ceilings and in spacious halls.
    Ctr 6.160 23 The orator who has once seen things in their divine order will never quite lose sight of this...
    Ctr 6.162 1 Ben Jonson specifies in his address to the Muse:--...Make him lose all his friends, and what is worse,/ Almost all ways to any better course;/ With me thou leav'st a better Muse than thee,/ And which thou brought'st me, blessed Poverty./
    Wsp 6.219 25 It is a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those...of botany, and so forth. Those laws do not stop where our eyes lose them...
    CbW 6.260 10 Charles James Fox said of England, The history of this country proves that we are not to expect from men in affluent circumstances the vigilance, energy and exertion without which the House of Commons would lose its greatest force and weight.
    CbW 6.273 15 There is a pudency about friendship as about love, and though fine souls never lose sight of it, yet they do not name it.
    Ill 6.322 11 When we break the laws, we lose our hold on the central reality.
    SS 7.15 18 Solitude is impracticable, and society fatal. We must keep our head in the one and our hands in the other. The conditions are met, if we keep our independence, yet do not lose our sympathy.
    Clbs 7.227 6 The experience of retired men is positive,--that we lose our days and are barren of thought for want of some person to talk with.
    OA 7.319 11 ...they who take the larger draughts [of the cup of time]...lose their stature, strength, beauty and senses...
    OA 7.324 7 All men carry seeds of all distempers through life latent, and we die without developing them...but if you are enfeebled by any cause, these sleeping seeds start and open. Meantime, at every stage we lose a foe.
    OA 7.324 8 At fifty years, 't is said, afflicted citizens lose their sick-headaches.
    OA 7.325 22 ...Nature takes care that we shall not lose our organs forty years too soon.
    PI 8.70 2 It is not style or rhymes, or a new image more or less that imports, but...that we should lose our wit, but gain our reason.
    SA 8.86 13 In man or woman, the face and the person lose power when they are on the strain to express admiration.
    Elo2 8.123 10 ...[John Quincy Adams] took such ground in the debates of the following session as to lose the sympathy of many of his constituents in Boston.
    Elo2 8.126 25 ...we have all of us known men who lose their talents...at any sudden call.
    Comc 8.162 4 The perception of the Comic is...a protection from those perverse tendencies and gloomy insanities in which fine intellects sometimes lose themselves.
    QO 8.202 6 Originals never lose their value.
    Insp 8.291 23 ...the delicate muses lose their head if their attention is once diverted.
    Grts 8.308 22 Set ten men to write their journal for one day, and nine of them will...lose themselves in misreporting the supposed experience of other people.
    Edc1 10.155 21 [The naturalist] sits still; if [the creatures of nature] approach, he remains passive as the stone he sits upon. They lose their fear.
    Supl 10.164 6 If the talker [with the superlative temperament] lose a tooth, he thinks the universal thaw and dissolution of things has come.
    SovE 10.199 5 Wise on all other, [many men] lose their head the moment they talk of religion.
    SovE 10.210 15 ...to draw [the moral principle] out of its natural current is to lose at once all its power.
    SovE 10.212 11 ...the Power sends in the next moment a new lesson, which we lose while our eyes are reverted and striving to perpetuate the old.
    Prch 10.224 4 The health and welfare of man consist in ascent...from self-activity of talents, which lose their way by the lust of display, to the controlling and reinforcing of talents...
    Prch 10.229 11 The opinions of men lose all worth to him who perceives that they are accurately predictable from the ground of their sect.
    Schr 10.265 21 Like [the pearl-diver and the diamond-merchant] [the poet] will joyfully lose days and months...in the profound hope that one restoring, all rewarding, immense success will arrive at last...
    Plu 10.299 3 Thought defends [Plutarch] from any degradation. He does not lose his way...
    Plu 10.306 24 It is fatal to spiritual health to lose your admiration.
    LLNE 10.339 22 [Channing] could never be reported, for his eye and voice could not be printed, and his discourses lose their best in losing them.
    MMEm 10.409 25 ...I [Mary Moody Emerson] have gone on my queer way with joy, saying, Shall the clay interrogate? But in every actual case, 't is hard, and we lose sight of the first necessity...
    MMEm 10.426 7 The mystic dream which is shed over the season. O, to dream more deeply; to lose external objects a little more!
    MMEm 10.431 17 While I [Mary Moody Emerson] am sympathizing in the government of God over the world, perhaps I lose nearer views.
    SlHr 10.447 26 ...Mr. Hoar remarked that Judge Marshall could afford to lose brains enough to furnish three or four common men, before common men would find it out.
    LS 11.22 11 In the midst of considerations as to what Paul thought, and why he so thought, I cannot help feeling that it is time misspent to argue to or from his convictions, or those of Luke and John, respecting any form. I seem to lose the substance in seeking the shadow.
    War 11.171 18 The manhood that has been in war must be transferred to the cause of peace, before war can lose its charm...
    TPar 11.292 24 We have few such men [as Theodore Parker] to lose;...
    EPro 11.326 11 ...that ill-fated, much-injured race which the [Emancipation] Proclamation respects will lose somewhat of the dejection sculptured for ages in their bronzed countenance...
    Wom 11.407 14 ...[women]...lose themselves eagerly in the glory of their husbands and children.
    Wom 11.409 27 [Women] are, in their nature, more relative;...out of place they lose half their weight...
    Humb 11.458 5 [Humboldt] was properly a man of the world; you could not lose him;...
    FRep 11.511 6 The sailors sail by chronometers that do not lose two or three seconds in a year...
    FRep 11.515 8 No interest not attaches...to the wars of German, French and Spanish emperors, which were only dynastic wars, but to those in which a principle was involved. These...never lose their pathos by time.
    FRep 11.532 25 Young men at thirty and even earlier lose all spring and vivacity...
    FRep 11.534 7 We lose our invention and descend into imitation.
    II 12.75 3 ...what we call Inspiration is coy and capricious; we must lose many days to gain one;...
    CL 12.149 27 ...you cannot lose [the Indian] in the woods.
    Bost 12.187 3 ...they who drink for some little time of the Potomac water lose their relish for the water of the Charles River...
    PD 12.307 1 The tongue is prone to lose the way;/ Not so the pen, for in a letter/ We have not better things to say,/ But surely say them better./
    Let 12.396 13 It is not for nothing...that sincere persons of all parties are demanding somewhat vital and poetic of our stagnant society. How fantastic and unpresentable soever the theory has hitherto seemed...let us not lose the warning of that most significant dream.

loser, n. (1)

    Chr2 10.119 23 If there is any tendency in national expansion to form character, religion will not be a loser.

losers, n. (1)

    CL 12.147 6 ...there was a contest between the old orchard and the invading forest-trees, for the possession of the ground, of the whites against the Pequots, and if the handsome savages win, we shall not be losers.

loses, v. (43)

    Nat 1.29 18 ...this conversion of an outward phenomenon into a type of somewhat in human life, never loses its power to affect us.
    AmS 1.99 21 ...the scholar loses no hour which the man lives.
    DSA 1.142 3 The pulpit in losing sight of this Law, loses its reason...
    Con 1.302 24 The reformer, the partisan, loses himself in driving to the utmost some specialty of right conduct...
    Con 1.321 17 ...religion in such hands loses its essence.
    Con 1.321 24 As it loses its truth, [religion] loses its credit with the sagacious.
    YA 1.392 4 ...after all the deduction is made for our frivolities and insanities, there still remains an organic simplicity and liberty, which, when it loses its balance, redresses itself presently...
    SR 2.54 7 The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force. It loses your time...
    SR 2.77 13 Prayer...loses itself in endless mazes of natural and supernatural, and mediatorial and miraculous.
    SR 2.84 18 Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts.
    Fdsp 2.205 10 We chide the citizen because he makes love a commodity. It...quite loses sight of the delicacies and nobility of the relation.
    Cir 2.307 15 For every friend whom he loses for truth, [a man] gains a better.
    Exp 3.57 22 Something is earned...by conversing with so much folly and defect. In fine, whoever loses, we are always of the gaining party.
    NER 3.254 13 ...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...the threatened individual immediately excommunicated the church, in a public and formal process. This...of course loses all value when it is copied.
    ShP 4.192 18 The secure possession, by the stage, of the public mind, is of the first importance to the poet who works for it. He loses no time in idle experiments.
    GoW 4.269 19 ...how can [the writer] be honored...when he loses himself in a crowd;...
    ET2 5.27 13 Our good master...by incessant straight steering, never loses a rod of way.
    ET9 5.148 11 [This little superfluity of self-regard in the English brain]... encourages a frank and manly bearing, so that each man...loses no opportunity for want of pushing.
    ET10 5.167 2 ...the machine unmans the user. What he gains in making cloth, he loses in general power.
    Ctr 6.133 2 The [egotistical] man...falls into an admiration of [his own talent], and loses relation to the world.
    Wsp 6.218 26 Man has learned to weigh the sun, and its weight neither loses nor gains.
    Wsp 6.219 9 ...if in sidereal ages gravity and projection keep their craft, and the ball never loses its way in its wild path through space,--a secreter gravitation, a secreter projection rule not less tyrannically in human history...
    Bty 6.301 22 When the delicious beauty of lineaments loses its power, it is because a more delicious beauty has appeared;...
    SS 7.11 22 ...the one event which never loses its romance is the encounter with superior persons on terms allowing the happiest intercourse.
    Elo1 7.90 11 [A trope] is a wonderful aid to the memory, which carries away the image and never loses it.
    Cour 7.257 21 Every moment as long as [the child] is awake he studies the use of his eyes, ears, hands and feet, learning how to meet and avoid his dangers, and thus every hour loses one terror more.
    Cour 7.263 16 The sailor loses fear as fast as he acquires command of sails and spars and steam;...
    PI 8.30 13 ...the moment the orator loses command of his audience, the audience commands him.
    SA 8.86 11 A lady loses as soon as she admires too easily and too much.
    Res 8.147 4 When a man is once possessed with fear, said the old French Marshal Montluc, and loses his judgment...he knows not what he does.
    Imtl 8.351 4 Yama said [to Nachiketas], One thing is good, another is pleasant. Blessed is he who takes the good, but he who chooses the pleasant loses the object of man.
    Aris 10.38 14 ...they only prosper or they prosper best...who engineer in sword and cannon style, with energy and sharpness. Why, but because courage never loses its high price?
    PerF 10.79 1 The power of persistence...is one of these [mental] forces which never loses its charm.
    Chr2 10.116 4 This charm in the Pagan moralists, of suggestion, the charm...of mere truth...the New Testament loses by its connection with a church.
    Chr2 10.118 21 How many people are there in Boston? Some two hundred thousand. Well, then so many sects. Of course, each poor soul loses all his old stays;...
    Edc1 10.127 18 Enamoured of [sun's, moon's, plants', animals'] beauty, comforted by their convenience, [man]...fast loses sight of the fact that they have worse than no values...
    Supl 10.166 4 ...a face magnified in a concave mirror loses its expression.
    Prch 10.222 14 I cannot keep the sun in heaven, if you take away the purpose that animates him. ... The words, great, venerable, have lost their meaning; every thought loses all its depth and has become mere surface.
    Prch 10.235 12 ...emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject;...seeing that a sentiment never loses its pathos or its persuasion...
    ACiv 11.304 24 [The Southerner's] laborer works for him at home, so that he loses no labor by the war.
    PLT 12.14 18 ...the metaphysician...puts himself out of the way of inspiration; loses that which is the miracle and creates the worship.
    CInt 12.123 16 ...each talent links itself so fast with self-love and with petty advantage that it loses sight of its obedience...
    EurB 12.374 14 ...Zanoni pains us and the author loses our respect, because he speedily betrays that he does not see the true limitations of the charm;...

losing, adj. (1)

    ET4 5.56 25 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. ... As soon as the shores are sufficiently peopled to make piracy a losing business, the same skill and courage are ready for the service of trade.

losing, v. (20)

    DSA 1.142 2 The pulpit in losing sight of this Law, loses its reason...
    Lov1 2.187 6 ...losing in violence what it gains in extent, [love] becomes a thorough good understanding.
    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...
    SwM 4.102 24 [Swedenborg's] superb speculation, as from a tower, over nature and arts, without ever losing sight of the texture and sequence of things, almost realizes his own picture...of the original integrity of man.
    MoS 4.182 26 [The wise and magninimous] will exult in [the spiritualist's] far-sighted good-will that can abandon to the adversary all the ground of tradition and common belief, without losing a jot of strength.
    MoS 4.186 7 ...let [a man] learn to bear the disappearance of things he was wont to reverence without losing his reverence;...
    NMW 4.224 7 The first [conservative] class is...continually losing numbers by death.
    NMW 4.234 21 You are losing time, [Napoleon] cried;...
    ET4 5.54 4 ...it is fine for us to speculate in face of unbroken traditions, though vague and losing themselves in fable.
    CbW 6.263 13 I figure [sickness] as a...phantom...losing its soul...
    Boks 7.192 16 It seems...as if some charitable soul, after losing a great deal of time among the false books and alighting upon a few true ones which made him happy and wise, would do a right act in naming those which have been bridges or ships to carry him safely over dark morasses and barren oceans...
    Imtl 8.345 8 ...we live by choice;...by the vivacity of the laws which we obey, and obeying share their life,-or we die by sloth, by disobedience, by losing hold of life...
    SovE 10.207 3 ...we are fast losing or have already lost our old reverence;...
    Prch 10.217 8 The venerable and beautiful traditions in which we were educated are losing their hold on human belief, day by day;...
    Prch 10.229 3 ...anything but losing hold of the moral intuitions...
    LLNE 10.339 22 [Channing] could never be reported, for his eye and voice could not be printed, and his discourses lose their best in losing them.
    MMEm 10.417 1 If more liberal views of the divine government make me [Mary Moody Emerson] think nothing lost which carries me to His now hidden presence, there may be danger of losing and causing others the loss of that awe and sobriety so indispensable.
    PLT 12.45 16 The primary rule for the conduct of Intellect is to have control of the thoughts without losing their natural attitudes and action.
    ACri 12.297 1 [Herrick] has, and knows that he has...a perfect, plain style, from which he can soar to a fine, lyric delicacy, or descend to coarsest sarcasm, without losing his firm footing.
    WSL 12.339 11 ...a man may love a paradox without either losing his wit or his honesty.

loss, n. (87)

    Nat 1.29 26 A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol... depends...upon his love of truth and his desire to communicate it without loss.
    AmS 1.95 26 The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action past by, as a loss of power.
    AmS 1.101 16 ...[the scholar] takes...the frequent uncertainty and loss of time, which are the nettles...in the way of the self-relying...
    AmS 1.101 21 For all this loss and scorn [to the scholar], what offset?
    DSA 1.143 19 ...what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship?
    DSA 1.147 24 There are...persons...to whom all we call art and artist, seems too nearly allied...to...loss of the universal.
    LE 1.184 12 ...[the scholar] will find that ample returns are poured into his bosom out of what seemed hours of obstruction and loss.
    MR 1.235 17 ...I should not be pained at a change which threatened a loss of some of the luxuries or conveniences of society...
    MR 1.242 7 ...no separation from labor can be without some loss of power and of truth to the seer himself;...
    Con 1.304 15 The Indian and barbarous name can never be supplanted without loss.
    Hist 2.10 12 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. Somewhere, sometime, it will demand and find compensation for that loss, by doing the work itself.
    Comp 2.119 7 ...honest service cannot come to loss.
    Comp 2.122 3 Neither can it be said...that the gain of rectitude must be bought by any loss.
    Comp 2.126 10 ...a loss of wealth, a loss of friends, seems at the moment unpaid loss, and unpayable.
    Comp 2.126 11 ...a loss of friends, seems at the moment unpaid loss, and unpayable.
    SL 2.131 19 All loss, all pain, is particular;...
    Prd1 2.234 26 ...money, if kept by us, yields no rent and is liable to loss;...
    Hsm1 2.253 9 Citizens...consider the inconvenience of receiving strangers at their fireside, reckon narrowly the loss of time and the unusual display;...
    Hsm1 2.255 17 [Greatness] does not need plenty, and can very well abide its loss.
    Exp 3.49 1 If to-morrow I should be informed of the bankruptcy of my principal debtors, the loss of my property would be a great inconvenience to me, perhaps, for many years; but it would leave me as it found me...
    NER 3.256 25 Am I not defrauded of my best culture in the loss of those gymnastics which manual labor and the emergencies of poverty constitute?
    UGM 4.31 3 It is as real a loss that others should be low as that we should be low; for we must have society.
    MoS 4.155 10 ...[the skeptic] stands for...a cool head and whatever serves to keep it cool;...no loss of brains in toil.
    ShP 4.213 18 Things were mirrored in [Shakespeare's] poetry without loss or blur...
    GoW 4.266 26 ...a headiness and loss of balance, is the tax which all action must pay.
    GoW 4.274 24 [Goethe] treats nature...as the seven wise masters did,--and, with whatever loss of French tabulation and dissection, poetry and humanity remain to us;...
    ET1 5.22 5 [Wordsworth's] eyes are much inflamed. This is no loss except for reading...
    ET4 5.53 12 In Scotland there is a rapid loss of all grandeur of mien and manners;...
    ET14 5.235 4 It is a tacit rule of the [English] language to make the frame or skeleton of Saxon words, and, when elevation or ornament is sought, to interweave Roman, but sparingly; nor is a sentence made of Roman words alone, without loss of strength.
    ET14 5.243 14 These heights [of the Elizabethan age] were followed by a meanness and a descent of the mind into lower levels; the loss of wings;...
    F 6.22 19 [Man] betrays his relation to what is below him...and has paid for the new powers by loss of some of the old ones.
    Wth 6.109 6 A youth coming into the city from his native New Hampshire farm...boards at a first-class hotel, and believes he must somehow have outwitted Dr. Franklin and Malthus, for luxuries are cheap. But he pays for the one convenience of a better dinner, by the loss of some of the richest social and educational advantages.
    Wth 6.109 20 Of course the loss [of an American ship] was serious to the owner, but the country was indemnified;...
    Wth 6.109 24 ...we charged threepence a pound for carrying cotton, sixpence for tobacco, and so on; which paid for the risk and loss...
    Ctr 6.137 24 No performance is worth loss of geniality.
    Wsp 6.218 13 The moment of your loss of faith...will be marked in the pause or solstice of genius...
    Wsp 6.218 16 The moment of your...acceptance of the lucrative standard will be marked in the pause or solstice of genius...and the inevitable loss of attraction to other minds.
    Wsp 6.234 11 In the greatest destitution and calamity [the moral] surprises man with a feeling of elasticity which makes nothing of loss.
    CbW 6.260 22 ...by loss of sympathy...learn a wider truth and humanity than that of a fine gentleman.
    Elo1 7.62 10 Each patient [taking nitrous-oxide gas] in turn exhibits similar symptoms...an alarming loss of perception of the passage of time...
    Elo1 7.62 12 Each patient [taking nitrous-oxide gas] in turn exhibits similar symptoms...a selfish enjoyment of his sensations, and loss of perception of the sufferings of the audience.
    Elo1 7.94 12 ...a pause in the speaker's own character is very properly a loss of attraction.
    Suc 7.289 21 I could point to men in this country...of this [egotistical] humor, whom we could ill spare; any one of them would be a national loss.
    OA 7.335 20 When life has been well spent, age is a loss of what it can well spare...
    Comc 8.170 18 ...in the instance of cowardice or fear of any sort, from the loss of life to the loss of spoons, the majesty of man is violated.
    Comc 8.170 19 ...in the instance of cowardice or fear of any sort, from the loss of life to the loss of spoons, the majesty of man is violated.
    PC 8.232 26 We have suffered our young men of ambition to play the game of politics and take the immoral side without loss of caste...
    PPo 8.259 25 The Moon thought she knew her own orbit well enough; but when she saw the curve on Zuleika's cheek, she was at a loss...
    Grts 8.307 26 ...in this self-respect or hearkening to the privatest oracle, [a man]...need never be at a loss.
    PerF 10.71 25 ...gravity is as adhesive...water as medicinal as on the first day. There is no loss...
    PerF 10.76 21 We define Genius to be...a sensibility so equal that it receives accurately all impressions, and can truly report them, without excess or loss, as it received.
    PerF 10.85 11 ...Canning or Thurlow has a genius of debate, and says, I will know how with this weapon to defend the cause that will...make me Chancellor or Foreign Secretary. But this perversion is punished with instant loss of true wisdom and real power.
    Chr2 10.107 17 ...it by no means follows, because those [earlier religious] offices are much disused, that the men and women are irreligious;...but only...that they see that they can omit the form without loss of real ground;...
    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...
    Chr2 10.119 18 To nations or to individuals the progress of opinion is not a loss of moral restraint...
    Edc1 10.156 23 I confess myself utterly at a loss in suggesting particular reforms in our ways of teaching.
    MoL 10.246 25 There is an oracle current in the world, that nations die by suicide. The sign of it is the decay of thought. Niebuhr has given striking examples of that fatal portent; as in the loss of power of thought that followed the disasters of the Athenians in Sicily.
    LLNE 10.338 27 Every immorality...is punished by natural loss and deformity.
    LLNE 10.368 19 The society at Brook Farm existed...about six or seven years, and then broke up, the Farm was sold, and I believe all the partners came out with pecuniary loss.
    MMEm 10.417 1 If more liberal views of the divine government make me [Mary Moody Emerson] think nothing lost which carries me to His now hidden presence, there may be danger of losing and causing others the loss of that awe and sobriety so indispensable.
    MMEm 10.432 7 Shame on me [Mary Moody Emerson]...resigned...to the loss of that character which I once thought and felt so sure of...
    Thor 10.480 17 ...I so much regret the loss of [Thoreau's] rare powers of action, that I cannot help counting it a fault in him that he had no ambition.
    GSt 10.507 2 ...when I consider...that [George Stearns]...was never called to suffer under the decays and loss of his powers...I count him happy among men.
    GSt 10.507 11 Almost I am ready to say to these mourners [of George Stearns], Be not too proud in your grief, when you remember that there is not a town in the remote State of Kansas that will not weep with you at the loss of its founder;...
    HDC 11.35 11 The great cost of cattle...the loss of [the pilgrims'] sheep and swine by wolves;...are the other disasters enumerated by the historian [Edward Johnson].
    HDC 11.55 27 In 1643, one seventh or one eighth part of the inhabitants [of Concord] went to Connecticut with Reverend Mr. Jones, and settled Fairfield. Weakened by this loss, the people begged to be released from a part of their rates...
    EWI 11.133 7 ...I am at a loss how to characterize the tameness and silence of the two senators and the ten representatives of the State [of Massachusetts] at Washington.
    FSLC 11.196 21 But worse, not the officials alone are bribed [by the Fugitive Slave Law], but the whole community is solicited. The scowl of the community is attempted to be averted by the mischievous whisper, Tariff and Southern market, if you will be quiet: no tariff and loss of Southern market, if you dare to murmur.
    FSLC 11.196 25 I wonder that our acute people...should not find out that an immoral law costs more than the loss of the custom of a Southern city.
    FSLC 11.198 3 You have a law [The Fugitive Slave Law] which no man can obey, or abet the obeying, without loss of self-respect...
    FSLC 11.199 18 There is...not an economist but is computing [slavery's] profit and loss...
    JBS 11.276 10 Then angrily the people cried,/ The loss outweighs the profit far;/ Our goods suffice us as they are:/ We will not have them tried./
    TPar 11.292 5 Ah, my brave brother [Theodore Parker]! it seems as if, in a frivolous age, our loss were immense...
    SMC 11.371 23 The [Thirty-second] regiment has been in the front and centre since the battle begun...and is now building breastworks on the Fredericksburg road. This has been the hardest fight the world ever knew. I think the loss of our army will be forty thousand.
    PLT 12.12 20 We have invincible repugnance...to study of the eyes instead of that which the eyes see; and the belief of men is that the attempt...is punished by loss of faculty.
    PLT 12.30 15 There is always a loss of truth and power when a man leaves working for himself to work for another.
    PLT 12.54 27 [A man]...does not give to any manner of life the strength of his constitution. Hence the perpetual loss of power and waste of human life.
    PLT 12.56 26 We are continually tempted to sacrifice genius to talent...and we buy this freedom to glitter by the loss of general health.
    II 12.72 9 It is as impossible for labor to produce...a song of Burns, as...the Iliad. There is much loss, as we say on the railway, in the stops, but the running time need be but little increased, to add great results.
    II 12.79 26 The thoughts which wander through our mind, we do not absorb and make flesh of, but...we retail them as news, to our lovers and to all Athenians. At a dreadful loss we play this game;...
    II 12.84 11 ...men...always work in society with great loss of power.
    CL 12.137 16 In Tornea, [Linnaeus] found the people suffering every spring from the loss of their cattle...
    ACri 12.284 26 ...many of [Goethe's] poems are so idiomatic...that they are the terror of translators, who say they cannot be rendered into any other language without loss of vigor...
    MLit 12.335 9 Man is not so far lost but that he suffers ever the great Discontent which is the elegy of his loss and the prediction of his recovery.
    PPr 12.385 17 We are at some loss how to state what strikes us as the fault of this remarkable book [Carlyle's Past and Present]...
    Trag 12.405 16 ...how the spirit seems already to contract its domain, retiring within narrower walls by the loss of memory...
    Trag 12.408 26 After we have enumerated...mutilation, rack, madness and loss of friends, we have not yet included the proper tragic element, which is Terror...

losses, n. (7)

    LE 1.178 2 ...out of earnings, and borrowings, and lendings, and losses;... comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.
    LE 1.180 8 ...[Napoleon] had a sublime confidence...in the sallies of courage...which, at the right moment, repaired all losses...
    SwM 4.114 22 Hunger is an aggregate of very many little hungers, or losses of blood by the little veins all over the body.
    ET12 5.205 25 This aristocracy [at Oxford]...repairs its own losses;...
    SovE 10.214 3 ...it seems as if whatever is most affecting and sublime in our intercourse, in our happiness, and in our losses, tended steadily to uplift us to a life so extraordinary, and, one might say, superhuman.
    SMC 11.366 12 The regiment [Fifty-ninth Massachusetts] being formed of veterans, and in fields requiring great activity and exposure, suffered extraordinary losses;...
    SMC 11.367 9 ...though suffering at first some disadvantage from change of commanders, and from severe losses, [the Thirty-second Regiment] grew at last...to an excellent reputation...

lost, adj. (10)

    Fdsp 2.215 21 ...next week I shall have languid moods...then I shall regret the lost literature of your mind...
    Cir 2.317 11 ...when these waves of God flow into me I no longer reckon lost time.
    Bty 6.292 24 This is the theory of dancing, to recover continually in changes the lost equilibrium...
    Insp 8.291 8 ...[Allston] made it a rule not to go to the city on two consecutive days. One was rest; more was lost time.
    PerF 10.78 5 It would be easy to awake wonder by sketching the performance of each of these mental forces; as of the diving-bell of the Memory, which descends into the deeps of our past and oldest experience and brings up every lost jewel;...
    Plu 10.303 3 ...it is in reading the fragments [Plutarch] has saved from lost authors that I have hailed another example of the sacred care which has unrolled in our times, and still searches and unrolls papyri from ruined libraries...
    MMEm 10.413 3 I [Mary Moody Emerson] walked yesterday five or more miles, lost to mental or heart existence, through fatigue...
    HDC 11.50 20 The interest of the Puritans in the natives was heightened by a suspicion at that time prevailing that these were the lost ten tribes of Israel.
    CW 12.175 13 How many poems have been written, or, at least attempted, on the lost Pleiad!...
    Milt1 12.247 1 The discovery of the lost work of Milton, the treatise Of the Christian Doctrine, in 1823, drew a sudden attention to his name.

Lost Leader, The [Robert (1)

    FSLN 11.216 10 ...Shakspeare was of us, Milton was for us,/ Burns, Shelley, were with us,-they watch from their graves!/ He alone breaks from the van and the freemen,/ -He alone sinks to the rear and the slaves!/ Browning, The Lost Leader.

lost, n. (1)

    Wsp 6.238 9 The great class...the rapt, the lost, the fools of ideas...suggest what they cannot execute.

Lost, Paradise [John Milto (8)

    QO 8.180 13 The Paradise Lost had never existed but for these precursors [Virgil and Homer];...
    Imtl 8.327 20 Milton anticipated the leading thought of Swedenborg, when he wrote, in Paradise Lost,-What if Earth/ Be but the shadow of Heaven, and things therein/ Each to the other like more than on earth is thought?/
    MMEm 10.411 10 In her solitude of twenty years, with fewest books and those only sermons, and a copy of Paradise Lost...[Mary Moody Emerson] was driven to find Nature her companion and solace.
    CPL 11.505 20 One curious witness [to the value of reading] was that of a Shaker who, when showing me the houses of the Brotherhood, and a very modest bookshelf, said there was Milton's Paradise Lost, and some other books in the house, and added that he knew where they were, but he took up a sound cross in not reading them.
    Bost 12.204 6 ...I do not find in our [New England] people, with all their education, a fair share of originality of thought;...not any...equal power of imagination. No Novum Organon;...no Paradise Lost;...have we yet contributed.
    Milt1 12.252 8 ...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 12.275 17 The most affecting passages in Paradise Lost are personal allusions;...
    Milt1 12.278 27 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;...

lost, v. (176)

    Nat 1.11 16 Then there is a kind of contempt of the landscape felt by him who has just lost by death a dear friend.
    Nat 1.30 7 When...duplicity and falsehood take place of simplicity and truth, the power over nature as an interpreter of the will is in a degree lost;...
    Nat 1.67 14 ...it is less to my purpose to recite correctly the order and superposition of the strata, than to know why all thought of multitude is lost in a tranquil sense of unity.
    Nat 1.69 24 ...the end is lost sight of in attention to the means.
    AmS 1.99 23 What is lost in seemliness is gained in strength.
    AmS 1.102 22 The odds are that the whole question is not worth the poorest thought which the scholar has lost in listening to the controversy.
    AmS 1.106 11 [Man] has almost lost the light that can lead him back to his prerogatives.
    DSA 1.127 21 The doctrine of inspiration is lost;...
    DSA 1.137 8 ...now the priest's Sabbath has lost the splendor of nature;...
    DSA 1.142 26 [Public worship] has lost its grasp on the affection of the good...
    DSA 1.144 20 The true Christianity...is lost.
    LE 1.180 21 ...always remained [Napoleon's] total trust in the prodigious revolutions of fortune which his reserved Imperial Guard were capable of working, if, in all else, the day was lost.
    LE 1.183 19 ...the youth has lost a star out of his new flaming firmament.
    MN 1.197 10 ...we have lost our miraculous power;...
    MR 1.231 3 ...it requires more vigor and resources than can be expected of every young man, to right himself in [the employments of commerce]; he is lost in them;...
    MR 1.239 26 ...we have now a puny, protected person, guarded by walls and curtains...who...is forced to spend so much time in guarding them, that he has quite lost sight of their original use, namely, to help him to his ends...
    MR 1.249 20 The Americans have many virtues, but they have not Faith and Hope. I know no two words whose meaning is more lost sight of.
    LT 1.282 3 These terrors [of Sin and the Day of Judgment] have lost their force...
    Con 1.311 3 [Existing institutions] have lost no time and spared no expense to collect libraries, museums, galleries, colleges, palaces, hospitals, observatories, cities.
    Con 1.321 8 Such hints, be sure, are too valuable to be lost.
    Tran 1.359 11 Soon these improvements and mechanical inventions will be superseded; these modes of living lost out of memory;...
    SR 2.59 3 These varieties [in actions] are lost sight of at a little distance...
    SR 2.84 26 ...the white man has lost his aboriginal strength.
    SR 2.85 6 The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.
    SR 2.85 20 ...it may be a question...whether we have not lost by refinement some energy...
    Comp 2.97 26 What we gain in power is lost in time, and the converse.
    SL 2.142 9 The common experience is that the man fits himself as well as he can to the customary details of that work or trade he falls into, and tends it as a dog turns a spit. Then is he a part of the machine he moves; the man is lost.
    SL 2.147 25 There are graces in the demeanor of a polished and noble person which are lost upon the eye of a churl.
    SL 2.153 23 The writer who takes his subject from his ear and not from his heart, should know that he has lost as much as he seems to have gained...
    SL 2.158 26 Never was a sincere word utterly lost.
    Fdsp 2.200 16 [A delicate organization] would be lost if it knew itself before any of the best souls were yet ripe enough to know and own it.
    Prd1 2.235 23 How much of human life is lost in waiting!...
    Cir 2.303 12 A rich estate appears to women a firm and lasting fact; to a merchant, one easily created out of any materials, and easily lost.
    Int 2.336 2 The rich inventive genius of the painter must be smothered and lost for want of the power of drawing...
    Int 2.339 14 How wearisome...any possessed mortal whose balance is lost by the exaggeration of a single topic.
    Art1 2.365 11 The oratorio has already lost its relation to the morning...
    Pt1 3.3 16 ...men seem to have lost the perception of the instant dependence of form upon soul.
    Pt1 3.13 2 I...have lost my faith in the possibility of any guide who can lead me thither where I would be.
    Pt1 3.27 11 ...the traveller who has lost his way throws his reins on his horse's neck...
    Pt1 3.33 10 The fate of the poor shepherd, who, blinded and lost in the snow-storm, perishes in a drift within a few feet of his cottage door, is an emblem of the state of man.
    Exp 3.48 25 In the death of my son...I seem to have lost a beautiful estate...
    Exp 3.78 27 No man at last believes that he can be lost...
    Exp 3.83 21 The effect is deep and secular as the cause. It works on periods in which mortal lifetime is lost.
    Chr1 3.103 3 If your friend has displeased you, you shall not sit down to consider it, for he has already lost all memory of the passage...
    Mrs1 3.130 27 A natural gentleman finds his way in [to fashionable society], and will keep the oldest patrician out who has lost his intrinsic rank.
    Nat2 3.191 16 ...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...the old aims have been lost sight of...
    Nat2 3.193 12 The accepted and betrothed lover has lost the wildest charm of his maiden in her acceptance of him.
    UGM 4.33 5 The study of many individuals leads us to an elemental region wherein the individual is lost...
    PPh 4.67 16 As if [Socrates] had said... ... If there is love between us, inconceivably delicious and profitable will our intercourse be; if not, your time is lost...
    PPh 4.70 21 ...[Plato] constantly affirms...that the greatest goods...are assigned to us by a divine gift. This leads me to that central figure...whose biography he has likewise so labored that the historic facts are lost in the light of Plato's mind.
    PPh 4.77 3 The longest wave is quickly lost in the sea.
    MoS 4.152 16 After dinner, a man believes less, denies more: verities have lost some charm.
    MoS 4.178 25 Reason...is apprehended, now and then, for a serene and profound moment...is then lost for months or years...
    MoS 4.178 26 Reason...is apprehended, now and then, for a serene and profound moment...is then lost for months or years, and again found for an interval, to be lost again.
    MoS 4.183 4 The final solution in which skepticism is lost, is in the moral sentiment...
    ShP 4.196 11 If [Shakespeare] lost any credit of design, he augmented his resources;...
    ShP 4.214 14 The sonnets [of Shakespeare], though their excellence is lost in the splendor of the dramas, are as inimitable as they;...
    ShP 4.215 16 In the poet's mind the fact has gone quite over into the new element of thought, and has lost all that is exuvial.
    NMW 4.229 3 [Napoleon] has not lost his native sense and sympathy with things.
    NMW 4.233 22 ...[Napoleon] never for a moment lost sight of his way onward...
    NMW 4.236 17 [Napoleon] came, several times, within an inch of ruin; and his own person was all but lost.
    NMW 4.238 23 ...when you bring bad news [Bonaparte told his secretary], rouse me instantly, for then there is not a moment to be lost.
    GoW 4.264 18 Nature has dearly at heart the formation of the speculative man, or scholar. It is an end never lost sight of...
    ET4 5.60 17 [The Normans] had lost their own language...
    ET8 5.139 20 No nation was ever so rich in able men [as England];...men of such temper, that, like Baron Vere, had one seen him returning from a victory, he would by his silence have suspected that he had lost the day; and, had he beheld him in a retreat, he would have collected him a conqueror by the cheerfulness of his spirit.
    ET10 5.153 21 An Englishman who has lost his fortune is said to have died of a broken heart.
    ET10 5.161 17 Nations have lost their old omnipotence;...
    ET11 5.182 1 ...most of the historical [English] houses are masked or lost in the modern uses to which trade or charity has converted them.
    ET13 5.215 26 The power of the religious sentiment [in England]...created the religious architecture...works to which the key is lost...
    ET14 5.252 18 [The English] have lost all commanding views in literature, philosophy and science.
    ET14 5.256 18 The English have lost sight of the fact that poetry exists to speak the spiritual law...
    ET16 5.282 18 ...as Britain was a Phoenician secret, so they kept their compass a secret, and it was lost with the Tyrian commerce.
    ET19 5.311 9 It is this [sense of right and wrong] which lies at the foundation of that aristocratic character, which certainly wanders into strange vagaries, so that its origin is often lost sight of, but which, if it should lose this, would find itself paralyzed;...
    Wth 6.104 8 If you take out of State Street the ten honestest merchants and put in ten roguish persons controlling the same amount of capital...the judge will sit less firmly on the bench, and his decisions be less upright; he has lost so much support and constraint, which all need;...
    Wth 6.109 8 [The New Hampshire youth in the city] has lost what guards! what incentives!
    Ctr 6.134 19 ...the student we speak to must have a mother-wit...which uses all books, arts, facilities, and elegancies of intercourse, but is never subdued and lost in them.
    Ctr 6.153 8 [The countryman] has lost [in the city] the lines of grandeur of the horizon, hills and plains...
    Ctr 6.164 15 ...I observe that [scholars] lost on ruder companions those years of boyhood which alone could give imaginative literature a religious and infinite quality in their esteem.
    Bhr 6.174 4 Charles Dickens self-sacrificingly undertook the reformation of our American manners in unspeakable particulars. I think the lesson was not quite lost;...
    Wsp 6.209 10 ...the Christian traditions have lost their hold.
    Wsp 6.222 6 In a new nation and language, [the countryman's] sect...is lost.
    CbW 6.274 19 ...all those who are native, congenial, and by many an oath of the heart sacramented to you, are gradually and totally lost.
    Bty 6.284 21 The collector has dried all the plants in his herbal, but he has lost weight and humor.
    Ill 6.309 10 I lost the light of one day [in the Mammoth Cave].
    SS 7.10 6 [The ends of thought] reach down to that depth...where the individual is lost in his source.
    SS 7.15 2 A higher civility will reestablish in our customs a certain reverence which we have lost.
    Elo1 7.95 10 Some of [the eloquent men] were writers, like Burke; but most of them were not, and no record at all adequate to their fame remains. Besides, what is best is lost,--the fiery life of the moment.
    Boks 7.194 18 ...perhaps, the human mind would be a gainer if all the secondary writers were lost...
    Clbs 7.229 13 ...the days come when we are alarmed, and say there are no thoughts. What a barren-witted pate is mine! the student says; I will go and learn whether I have lost my reason.
    Cour 7.265 21 The torments of martyrdoms are probably most keenly felt by the by-standers. The torments are illusory. The first suffering is the last suffering, the later hurts being lost on insensibility.
    Cour 7.270 4 ...I remember the old professor, whose searching mind engraved every word he spoke on the memory of the class, when we asked if he had read this or that shining novelty, No, I have never read that book; instantly the book lost credit...
    Suc 7.290 24 ...excellence is lost sight of in the hunger for sudden performance and praise.
    Suc 7.294 10 ...the time is never lost that is devoted to work.
    OA 7.319 16 ...we one day discover that our literary talent was a youthful effervescence which we have now lost.
    OA 7.325 18 When I chanced to meet the poet Wordsworth, then sixty-three years old, he told me that he had just had a fall and lost a tooth...
    OA 7.326 11 ...[the old lawyer] may go below his mark with impunity, and people will say...He lost his sleep for two nights.
    OA 7.328 25 ...the young man's year is a heap of beginnings. At the end of a twelvemonth, he has nothing to show for it,--not one completed work. But the time is not lost.
    OA 7.329 21 We carry in memory important anecdotes, and have lost all clew to the author from whom we had them.
    PI 8.63 2 ...Sir Gawain departed joyful and sorrowful; joyful because of what Merlin had assured him should happen to him, and sorrowful that Merlin had thus been lost.
    SA 8.97 21 Here [in the man of genius] is...strong understanding, and the higher gifts, the insight of the real, or from the real, and the moral rectitude which belongs to it: but all this and all his resources of wit and invention are lost to me in every experiment that I make to hold intercourse with his mind;...
    SA 8.105 24 A little experience acquaints us with the unconvertibility of the sentimentalist, the soul that is lost by mimicking soul.
    Elo2 8.127 26 The doctor [Charles Chauncy]...had lost some natural relation to men...
    Res 8.143 12 ...the immense expansion of trade has wanted every ounce of gold, and it has not lost its value.
    Comc 8.162 6 A rogue alive to the ludicrous is still convertible. If that sense is lost, his fellow men can do little for him.
    QO 8.179 7 ...movable types, the kaleidoscope, the railway, the power-loom, etc., have been many times found and lost...
    QO 8.179 9 ...if we have arts which Rome wanted, so also Rome had arts which we have lost;...
    PPo 8.241 20 Asaph, the vizier, at a certain time, lost the seal of Solomon...
    Insp 8.282 16 [Herbert's] health had broken down early, he had lost his muse...
    Imtl 8.344 10 Goethe said: It is to a thinking being quite impossible to think himself non-existent, ceasing to think and live; so far does every one carry in himself the proof of immortality, and quite spontaneously. But...so soon as [the man] dogmatically will grasp a personal duration to bolster up in cockney fashion that inward assurance, he is lost in contradiction.
    Imtl 8.347 14 He has [immortality], and he alone, who gives life to all names, persons, things, where he comes. No religion, not the wildest mythology dies for him; no art is lost.
    Dem1 10.5 2 ...we cannot get our hand on the first link or fibre [of a dream], and the whole is lost.
    PerF 10.71 21 The sun has lost no beams...
    PerF 10.71 26 When the heat is less here it is not lost, but more heat is there.
    Chr2 10.99 1 There was a time when Christianity existed in one child. But if the child had been killed by Herod, would the element have been lost?
    Chr2 10.105 21 Christianity was once a schism and protest against the impieties of the time, which had originally been protests against earlier impieties, but had lost their truth.
    Chr2 10.111 19 ...with every repeater something of creative force is lost...
    Chr2 10.112 24 Every age, says Varnhagen, has another sieve for the religious tradition, and will sift it out again. Something is continually lost by this treatment...
    Edc1 10.153 15 ...[the gentle teacher, who wished to be a Providence to youth's]...love of learning is lost in the routine of grammars and books of elements.
    Supl 10.167 26 [People of English stock's] houses are...not designed...to be lost under sand-drifts...
    SovE 10.194 25 Wondrous state of man! never so happy as when he has lost all private interests and regards...
    SovE 10.207 4 ...we are fast losing or have already lost our old reverence;...
    Prch 10.222 5 To [the soul which is without God] heaven and earth have lost their beauty.
    Prch 10.222 13 I cannot keep the sun in heaven, if you take away the purpose that animates him. ... The words, great, venerable, have lost their meaning;...
    MoL 10.247 21 Air, water, fire, iron, gold, wheat, electricity, animal fibre, have not lost a particle of power...
    MoL 10.256 22 ...this big-mouthed talker, among his dictionaries and Leipzig editions of Lysias, had lost his knowledge.
    Schr 10.280 16 When a man begins to dedicate himself to a particular function...the development of that mind is arrested. The scholar is lost in the showman.
    Schr 10.282 13 [Truth]...diminishes and annihilates everybody, and the prophet so gladly feels his personality lost in this victorious life.
    Plu 10.295 24 Montaigne, in 1589, says: We dunces had been lost, had not this book [Plutarch] raised us out of the dirt.
    Plu 10.302 21 [Plutarch] has preserved for us a multitude of precious sentences...of authors whose books are lost;...
    Plu 10.307 14 Plutarch is uniformly true to this [spiritual] centre. He had not lost his wonder.
    Plu 10.315 20 There is no treasure, [Plutarch] says, parents can give to their children, like a brother; 't is...a gift nothing can supply; once lost, not to be replaced.
    Plu 10.317 27 What a trilogy is lost to mankind in [Plutarch's] Lives of Scipio, Epaminondas, and Pindar.
    LLNE 10.330 22 The novelty of the learning lost nothing in the skill and genius of [Everett's] relation...
    LLNE 10.365 5 In the American social communities, the gossip found such vent and sway as to become despotic. The institutions were whispering-galleries, in which the adored Saxon privacy was lost.
    EzRy 10.394 22 Many and many a felicity [Ezra Ripley] had in his prayer, now forever lost...
    MMEm 10.410 15 When her cherished favorite, Elizabeth Hoar, was at the Vale, and had gone out to walk in the forest with Hannah, her niece, Aunt Mary [Moody Emerson] feared they were lost...
    MMEm 10.414 24 ...as I [Mary Moody Emerson] walked out this afternoon, so sad was wearied Nature that I felt her whisper to me, Even these leaves you use to think my better emblem have lost their charm on me too...
    MMEm 10.416 24 I [Mary Moody Emerson] end days of fine health and cheerfulness without getting upward now. How did I use to think them lost!
    MMEm 10.416 26 If more liberal views of the divine government make me [Mary Moody Emerson] think nothing lost which carries me to His now hidden presence, there may be danger of losing and causing others the loss of that awe and sobriety so indispensable.
    MMEm 10.424 1 O Time! thou loiterer. Thou...restest on thy hoary throne... When will thy routines give way to higher and lasting institutions? When thy trophies and thy name and all its wizard forms be lost in the Genius of Eternity?
    MMEm 10.426 9 ...the hold on [external objects] is so slight, that duty is lost sight of perhaps, at times.
    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 6 ...no lesson of his experience was lost on [Samuel Hoar]...
    Thor 10.476 9 I long ago lost a hound, a bay horse and a turtle-dove...
    Thor 10.476 17 I have met one or two who have heard the hound, and the tramp of the horse, and even seen the dove disappear behind a cloud; and they seemed as anxious to recover them as if they had lost them themselves.
    Thor 10.484 26 The country knows not yet, or in the least part, how great a son it has lost [in Thoreau].
    HDC 11.33 19 Much time was lost in travelling [the pilgrims] knew not whither, when the sun was hidden by clouds;...
    HDC 11.33 22 Much time was lost in travelling [the pilgrims] knew not whither...for...the Indian paths, once lost, they did not easily find.
    HDC 11.40 24 The original [Concord] Town Records, for the first thirty years, are lost.
    HDC 11.58 11 The inactivity of Major [Simon] Willard, in Ninigret's war, had lost him no confidence.
    EWI 11.106 27 Immemorial usage preserves the memory of positive law, long after all traces of the occasion, reason, authority and time of its introduction are lost;...
    EWI 11.109 11 In 1791, a bill to abolish the [slave] trade was brought in by Wilberforce, and supported by him and by Fox and Burke and Pitt, with the utmost ability and faithfulness; resisted by the planters and the whole West Indian interest, and lost.
    FSLC 11.181 25 The very convenience of property, the house and land we occupy, have lost their best value...
    FSLC 11.213 12 ...the sting of the late disgraces [the Fugitive Slave Law] is that this royal position of Massachusetts was foully lost...
    FSLN 11.215 7 All else is gone; from those great eyes/ The soul has fled:/ When faith is lost, when honor dies,/ The man is dead!/ Whittier, Ichabod!
    AKan 11.259 18 Language has lost its meaning in the universal cant.
    AKan 11.263 18 When [the country] is lost it will be time enough then for any who are luckless enough to remain alive to gather up their clothes and depart to some land where freedom exists.
    ACiv 11.303 23 It looks as if we held the fate of the fairest possession of mankind in our hands, to be saved by our firmness or to be lost by hesitation.
    EPro 11.318 20 Life in America had lost much of its attraction in the later years.
    SMC 11.372 17 June fourth is marked in [George Prescott's] diary as An awful day;-two hundred men lost to the command;...
    SMC 11.374 2 At Dabney's Mills...[the Thirty-second Regiment] lost seventy-four killed, wounded and missing.
    Wom 11.410 3 Position, Wren said, is essential to the perfecting of beauty;-a fine building is lost in a dark lane;...
    RBur 11.440 26 [Burns's] satire has lost none of its edge.
    FRep 11.528 22 Here heresy has lost its terrors.
    PLT 12.37 11 ...the feet have lost, by our distrust, their proper virtue;...
    PLT 12.50 15 When pace is increased it will happen that the control is in a degree lost.
    II 12.66 11 None of the metaphysicians have prospered in describing this power [consciousness], which...is the corrector of private excesses and mistakes;...of a balance which is never lost, not even in the insane.
    Mem 12.98 25 ...you have lost something for everything you have gained, and cannot grow.
    Mem 12.100 22 A man would think twice about...reading a new paragraph, if he believed...that he lost a word or a thought for every word he gained.
    CL 12.156 22 Where is he who is to save the perfect moment, and cause that this beauty shall not be lost?
    Milt1 12.251 26 We have lost all interest in Milton as the redoubted disputant of a sect;...
    Milt1 12.252 7 Milton the polemic has lost his popularity long ago;...
    Milt1 12.270 20 ...drawn into the great controversies of the times, [Milton] is never lost in a party.
    MLit 12.334 24 Nature has not lost one ringlet of her beauty...
    MLit 12.335 7 Man is not so far lost but that he suffers ever the great Discontent which is the elegy of his loss and the prediction of his recovery.
    Trag 12.406 12 Men and women at thirty years, and even earlier, have lost all spring and vivacity...

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