Pace to Parables

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

pace, n. (15)

    ET10 5.157 11 Everything in England is at a quick pace.
    ET12 5.207 19 The men [English students] have learned accuracy and comprehension, logic, and pace, or speed of working.
    ET13 5.225 8 ...[the English] have not been able to congeal humanity by act of Parliament. The heavens journey still and sojourn not, and arts, wars, discoveries and opinion go onward at their own pace.
    Farm 7.138 27 [The farmer] takes the pace of seasons, plants and chemistry.
    WD 7.166 24 ...with the material power the moral progress has not kept pace.
    Cour 7.279 4 The other [bear] on George Nidiver/ Came on with dreadful pace:/ The hunter stood unarmed,/ And met him face to face./
    Cour 7.279 14 George Nidiver stood still/ And looked [the bear] in the face;/ The wild beast stopped amazed,/ Then came with slackening pace./
    Suc 7.310 17 Despondency comes readily enough to the most sanguine. The cynic has only to follow their hint with his bitter confirmation, and they check that eager courageous pace...
    OA 7.321 17 We have, it is true, examples of an accelerated pace by which young men achieved grand works;...
    Grts 8.308 8 Clinging to Nature, or to that province of Nature which he knows, [the commander]...works after her laws and at her own pace...
    Edc1 10.155 5 Leave this military hurry and adopt the pace of Nature.
    HDC 11.74 13 The English beginning to pluck up some of the planks of the [Concord] bridge, the Americans quickened their pace...
    PLT 12.49 12 How [Intellect] moves when its pace is accelerated!
    PLT 12.49 13 The pace of Nature is so slow.
    PLT 12.50 14 When pace is increased it will happen that the control is in a degree lost.

pace, v. (2)

    WD 7.157 17 ...a good surveyor will pace sixteen rods more accurately than another man can measure them by tape.
    Thor 10.461 16 [Thoreau] could pace sixteen rods more accurately than another man could measure them with rod and chain.

paces, n. (2)

    ET2 5.26 15 ...the captain affirmed that the ship would show us in time all her paces...
    ET16 5.277 22 We [Emerson and Carlyle] counted and measured by paces the biggest stones [at Stonehenge]...

paceth, v. (1)

    PI 8.51 20 The traveller as he paceth through those deserts asketh of [Oblivion], who builded [Memphis and Thebes]?...

Pacha, n. (2)

    OS 2.279 1 ...[men] resemble those Arabian sheiks who dwell in mean houses and affect an external poverty, to escape the rapacity of the Pacha...
    Pow 6.69 16 ...when [the young English] have no wars to breathe their riotous valors in, they seek for travels as dangerous as war...utilizing Bedouin, Sheik and Pacha, with Layard;...

pacific, adj. (4)

    YA 1.367 1 ...with cheap land, and the pacific disposition of the people, everything invites to the arts of agriculture...
    NMW 4.258 18 The pacific Fourier will be as inefficient as the pernicious Napoleon.
    Cour 7.260 27 ...with this pacific education we have no readiness for bad times.
    ChiE 11.471 20 ...the wars and revolutions that occur in [China's] annals have proved but momentary swells or surges on the pacific ocean of her history...

Pacific, adj. (3)

    LT 1.260 11 Here is this great fact of Conservatism, entrenched in its immense redoubt, with...the Atlantic and Pacific seas for its ditches and trenches;...
    YA 1.364 25 The bountiful continent is ours...to the waves of the Pacific sea;...
    Wsp 6.205 13 ...some of the Pacific islanders flog their gods when things take an unfavorable turn.

Pacific Coast, n. (1)

    Ctr 6.146 24 California and the Pacific Coast is now the university of this class [of poor country boys of Vermont and Connecticut]...

Pacific Exploring Expeditio (1)

    Thor 10.462 22 [Thoreau]...would have been competent to lead a Pacific Exploring Expedition;...

Pacific Ocean, adj. (1)

    ChiE 11.474 2 It is gratifying to know that the advantages of the new intercourse between the two countries [China and the United States] are daily manifest on the Pacific coast.

Pacific Ocean, n. (4)

    Pow 6.70 26 The luxury...of electricity [is], not volleys of the charged cloud, but the manageable stream on the battery-wires. So of spirit, or energy; the rests or remains of it in the civil and moral man are worth all the cannibals in the Pacific.
    WD 7.161 2 The chain of Western railroads from Chicago to the Pacific has planted cities and civilization in less time than it costs to bring an orchard into bearing.
    WD 7.168 2 Czar Alexander...wished to call the Pacific my ocean;...
    Bost 12.189 17 The [Massachusetts Bay] territory...extended...in length from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

Pacific Railroad, n. (1)

    Art2 7.38 26 ...from [the child's] first pile of toys or chip bridge to the masonry of Minot Rock Lighthouse or the Pacific Railroad;...Art is the spirit's voluntary use and combination of things to serve its end.

Pacific, Union, adj. (1)

    Schr 10.272 12 Union Pacific stock is not quite private property...

pacification, n. (3)

    FSLC 11.198 23 Mr. Webster's measure [the Fugitive Slave Law] was, he told us, final. It was a pacification...
    FSLC 11.199 3 [Webster's] pacification has brought all the honesty in every house...to accuse the law.
    FSLC 11.199 8 [Webster's pacification] has brought United States swords into the streets, and chains round the court-house. A measure of pacification and union. What is its effect?

pacificator, n. (1)

    Civ 7.22 6 When the Indian trail gets widened, graded and bridged to a good road...there is...a pacificator...

pack, n. (1)

    ET5 5.91 13 The [English] Admiralty sent out the Arctic expeditions year after year, in search of Sir John Franklin, until at last they have threaded their way through polar pack and Behring's Straits...

pack, v. (1)

    SR 2.81 26 I pack my trunk...

packed, adj. (1)

    Suc 7.290 16 I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes...to learn... power through...a packed jury or caucus...

packed, v. (2)

    ET3 5.38 6 ...what they told me was the merit of Sir John Soane's Museum, in London,--that it was well packed and well saved,--is the merit of England;...
    PLT 12.9 14 ...'t is a great vice in all countries, the sacrifice of scholars...to talk for the amusement of those who wish to be amused, though the stars of heaven must be plucked down and packed into rockets to this end.

packet, line, n. (1)

    Tran 1.358 22 ...the storm-tossed vessel at sea speaks the frigate or line packet to learn its longitude...

packet, n. (1)

    Pow 6.68 23 I remember a poor Malay cook on board a Liverpool packet...

packet-ship, n. (1)

    ET2 5.26 8 ...I took my berth in the packet-ship Washington Irving and sailed from Boston on Tuesday, 5th October, 1847.

packing, v. (2)

    Prd1 2.227 13 The good husband finds method as efficient in the packing of fire-wood in a shed...as in Peninsular campaigns...
    MMEm 10.420 5 ...it would send me [Mary Moody Emerson] packing to depend for anything.

pack-saddles, n. (1)

    Cir 2.310 20 To-morrow you shall find [the parties in conversation] stooping under the old pack-saddles.

padded, adj. (2)

    Ctr 6.154 8 What is odious but...people...who intrigue to secure a padded chair and a corner out of the draught.
    OA 7.316 10 Wellington, in speaking of military men, said, What masks are these uniforms to hide cowards! I have often detected the like deception in the...wig, spectacles and padded chair of Age.

paddies, n. (1)

    ET16 5.283 16 I chanced to see, a year ago, men at work...in Boston, swinging a block of granite of the size of the largest of the Stonehenge columns, with an ordinary derrick. The men were common masons, with paddies to help...

Paddies, n. (1)

    UGM 4.30 22 Generous and handsome, [the thoughtful youth] says, is your hero; but look at yonder poor Paddy...look at his whole nation of Paddies.

paddle, n. (1)

    Nat2 3.172 26 ...I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle I leave the village politics and personalities... behind...

paddled, v. (1)

    Ill 6.309 12 [In the Mammoth Cave] I...paddled three quarters of a mile in the deep Echo River...

paddocks, n. (1)

    Nat2 3.175 20 That [the rich] have some high-fenced grove which they call a park; that they...go in coaches...to watering-places and to distant cities,-- these make the groundwork from which [the poor young poet] has delineated estates of romance, compared with which their actual possessions are shanties and paddocks.

paddy, n. (1)

    II 12.82 4 A man of more comprehensive view can always see with good humor the seeming opposition of a powerful talent which has less comprehension. 'T is a strong paddy, who, with his burly elbows, is making place and way for him.

Paddy, n. (1)

    UGM 4.30 20 Generous and handsome, [the thoughtful youth] says, is your hero; but look at yonder poor Paddy...

padlock, v. (1)

    PPo 8.243 24 The secret that should not be blown/ Not one of thy nation must know;/ You may padlock the gate of a town,/ But never the mouth of a foe./

padlocked, adj. (1)

    ET10 5.164 22 High stone fences and padlocked garden-gates announce the absolute will of the [English] owner to be alone.

padrone, n. (1)

    ACri 12.286 18 Look at this forlorn caravan of travellers who wander over Europe dumb...condemned to the company of a courier and of the padrone when they cannot take refuge in the society of countrymen.

paean, n. (2)

    MN 1.197 23 ...it were some suitable paean if we should piously celebrate this hour by exploring the method of nature.
    Ctr 6.166 3 Half engaged in the soil, pawing to get free, man needs all the music that can be brought to disengage him. If Love, red Love, with tears and joy;...by loud taps on the tough chrysalis can break its walls and let the new creature emerge erect and free,--make way and sing paean!

paeans, n. (1)

    MN 1.195 1 Not exhortation, not argument becomes our lips, but paeans of joy and praise.

pagan, adj. (9)

    Mrs1 3.155 8 ...[society] reminds us of a tradition of the pagan mythology, in any attempt to settle its character.
    NR 3.248 16 ...I endeavored to show my good men...that I revered saints, but woke up glad that the old pagan world stood its ground and died hard;...
    ET16 5.280 5 London is pagan [to Carlyle].
    Wsp 6.206 3 Christianity, in the romantic ages, signified European culture,--the grafted or meliorated tree in a crab forest. And to marry a pagan wife or husband was to marry Beast...
    Wsp 6.206 16 What Gothic mixtures the Christian creed drew from the pagan sources, Richard of Devizes' chronicle of Richard I.'s crusade, in the twelfth century, may show.
    PI 8.66 22 I count the genius of Swedenborg and Wordsworth as the agents of a reform in philosophy, the bringing poetry back...to the marrying of Nature and mind, undoing the old divorce in which...Nature had been suspected and pagan.
    Plu 10.312 12 Seneca, says L'Estrange, was a pagan Christian, and is very good reading for our Christian pagans.
    LLNE 10.336 2 ...the paramount source of the religious revolution was Modern Science; beginning with Copernicus, who destroyed the pagan fictions of the Church...
    PLT 12.60 7 This premature stop, I know not how, befalls most of us in early youth; as if...the access to rare truths, closed at two or three years in the child, while all the pagan faculties went ripening on to sixty.

Pagan, adj. (3)

    Chr2 10.115 14 Every exaggeration of [person and text]...inclines the manly reader to lay down the New Testament, to take up the Pagan philosophers.
    Chr2 10.116 1 This charm in the Pagan moralists, of suggestion...the New Testament loses by its connection with a church.
    LS 11.13 6 [Early Christian religious feasts] were readily adopted by the Jewish converts...and also by the Pagan converts...

pagan, n. (1)

    DSA 1.131 12 One would rather be A pagan, suckled in a creed outworn,/ than to be defrauded of his manly right...

Paganini, Nicolo, n. (1)

    SL 2.143 1 We...do not see that Paganini can extract rapture from a catgut...

Paganism, n. (5)

    Chr2 10.109 24 We boast the triumph of Christianity over Paganism...
    Chr2 10.109 25 ...Paganism hides itself in the uniform of the Church.
    Chr2 10.109 26 Paganism has only taken the oath of allegiance, taken the cross...
    Chr2 10.110 1 Paganism has only taken the oath of allegiance, taken the cross, but is Paganism still...
    Prch 10.217 13 ...a restlessness and dissatisfaction in the religious world marks that we are in a moment of transition; as...earlier, when Paganism broke into Christians and Pagans.

pagans, n. (2)

    MR 1.254 11 Love would put a new face on this weary old world in which we dwell as pagans and enemies too long...
    Plu 10.312 13 Seneca, says L'Estrange, was a pagan Christian, and is very good reading for our Christian pagans.

Pagans, n. (2)

    Prch 10.217 14 ...a restlessness and dissatisfaction in the religious world marks that we are in a moment of transition; as...earlier, when Paganism broke into Christians and Pagans.
    LS 11.13 16 It was only too probable that among the half-converted Pagans and Jews, any rite, any form, would find favor...

page, n. (22)

    AmS 1.92 24 ...great and heroic men have existed who had almost no other information than by the printed page.
    AmS 1.93 4 ...the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion.
    Lov1 2.174 19 ...it may seem to many men...that they have no fairer page in their life's book than the delicious memory of some passages wherein affection contrived to give a witchcraft...to a parcel of accidental and trivial circumstances.
    NMW 4.225 9 Every one of the million readers of anecdotes or memoirs or lives of Napoleon, delights in the page, because he studies in it his own history.
    ET17 5.293 15 Nor am I insensible to the courtesy which frankly opened to me some noble mansions [in England], if I do not adorn my page with their names.
    Ill 6.316 27 I, who have all my life...read poems and miscellaneous books... am still the victim of any new page;...
    WD 7.169 15 The old Sabbath...when this hallowed hour dawns out of the deep,--a clean page, which the wise may inscribe with truth...the cathedral music of history breathes through it a psalm to our solitude.
    Boks 7.219 15 [The communications of the sacred books] are not to be held by letters printed on a page...
    PPo 8.258 5 Presently we have [in Hafiz's poetry],-All day the rain/ Bathed the dark hyacinths in vain,/ The flood may pour from morn to night/ Nor wash the pretty Indians white./ And so onward, through many a page.
    Dem1 10.24 8 Read a page of Cudworth or of Bacon, and we are exhilarated...
    SovE 10.189 26 See how these things look in the page of history.
    Plu 10.301 23 A poet might rhyme all day with hints drawn from Plutarch, page on page.
    Plu 10.301 24 A poet might rhyme all day with hints drawn from Plutarch, page on page.
    MMEm 10.404 24 ...wonderfully as [Mary Moody Emerson] varies and poetically repeats that image [of the angel of Death] in every page and day, yet not less fondly and sublimely she returns to the other,-the grandeur of humility and privation...
    MMEm 10.429 17 [God] communicates this our condition and humble waiting, or I [Mary Moody Emerson] should never perceive Him. Science, Nature,-O, I 've yearned to open some page;-not now, too late.
    Thor 10.457 4 I said [to Thoreau]...who does not see with regret that his page is not solid with a right materialistic treatment, which delights everybody?
    EWI 11.129 12 ...in the last few days that my attention has been occupied with this history [of emancipation in the West Indies], I have not been able to read a page of it without the most painful comparisons.
    CPL 11.507 7 ...the book is a sure friend...opens to the very page you desire...
    Milt1 12.258 14 [Milton's] sensibility to impressions from beauty needs no proof from his history; it shines through every page.
    ACri 12.299 1 ...[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 12.316 1 Do gladness and hope and fortitude flow from [the writer's] page into thy heart?
    WSL 12.340 15 ...when we remember [Landor's] rich and ample page...we wish to thank a benefactor of the reading world.

Page, William, n. (1)

    PLT 12.49 6 I once found Page the painter modelling his figures in clay... before he painted them on canvas.

pageant, n. (4)

    LT 1.266 21 ...we are not permitted to stand as spectators of the pageant which the times exhibit;...
    Con 1.320 22 ...if [the people] are not instructed to sympathize with the intelligent, reading, trading, and governing class;...they will upset the fair pageant of Judicature...
    Nat2 3.193 1 The present object [in nature] shall give you this sense of stillness that follows a pageant which has just gone by.
    Ill 6.314 1 ...everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours...

pageantry, n. (1)

    MMEm 10.397 21 ...Nor me can Hope or Passion urge,/ Hearing as now the lofty dirge/ Which blasts of Northern mountains hymn,/ Nature's funeral high and dim,-/ Sable pageantry of clouds,/ Mourning summer laid in shrouds./

pages, n. [pages-,] (32)

    SL 2.153 10 ...if the pages instruct you not, they will die like flies in the hour.
    Cir 2.307 1 ...a month hence, I doubt not, I shall wonder who he was that wrote so many continuous pages.
    Int 2.345 27 When...we turn over [the Greek philosophers'] abstruse pages, wonderful seems the calm and grand air of these few...
    Exp 3.55 21 Once I took such delight in Montaigne that I thought I should not need any other book; before that, in Shakspeare...but now I turn the pages of either of them languidly, whilst I still cherish their genius.
    Nat2 3.188 13 Each young and ardent person writes a diary, in which, when the hours of prayer and penitence arrive, he inscribes his soul. The pages thus written are to him burning and fragrant;...
    Nat2 3.188 24 After some time has elapsed, [the young person] begins to wish to admit his friend to this hallowed experience [of keeping a diary], and with hesitation, yet with firmness, exposes the pages to his eye.
    MoS 4.165 7 ...though a biblical plainness coupled with a most uncanonical levity may shut [Montaigne's] pages to many sensitive readers, yet the offence is superficial.
    ET1 5.11 1 ...taking up Bishop Waterland's book, which lay on the table, [Coleridge] read with vehemence two or three pages written by himself in the fly-leaves...
    ET12 5.203 20 On proceeding afterwards to examine his purchase, [Dr. Bandinel] found the twenty deficient pages of his Mentz Bible, in perfect order;...
    ET19 5.309 11 In looking over recently a newspaper-report of my remarks [at the Manchester Atheneaum Banquet], I incline to reprint it, as fitly expressing the feeling with which I entered England, and which agrees well enough with the more deliberate results of better acquaintance recorded in the foregoing pages.
    F 6.15 14 [Nature] turns the gigantic pages...
    Pow 6.78 11 The way to learn German is to read the same dozen pages over and over a hundred times...
    DL 7.120 5 ...who can see unmoved...the eager, blushing boys...stealing time to read one chapter more of the novel hardly smuggled into the tolerance of father and mother,--atoning for the same by some pages of Plutarch or Goldsmith;...
    WD 7.181 14 I dare not go out of doors and see the moon and stars, but they seem...to ask how many lines or pages are finished since I saw them last.
    Boks 7.193 13 It is easy to count the number of pages which a diligent man can read in a day...
    Boks 7.194 7 The best rule of reading will be a method from Nature, and not a mechanical one of hours and pages.
    Boks 7.195 18 There has already been a scrutiny and choice from many hundreds of young pens before the pamphlet or political chapter which you read in a fugitive journal comes to your eye. All these are young adventurers, who produce their performance to the wise ear of Time, who sits and weighs, and, ten years hence, out of a million of pages, reprints one.
    QO 8.195 2 ...a writer appears to more advantage in the pages of another book than in his own.
    Plu 10.302 26 [Plutarch] has preserved for us a multitude of precious sentences...of authors whose books are lost; and these embalmed fragments...have come to be proverbs of later mankind. I hope it is only my immense ignorance that makes me believe that they do not survive out of his pages...
    MMEm 10.424 27 When the dreamy pages of life seem all turned and folded down to very weariness, even this idea of those who fill the hour with crowded virtues, lifts the spectator to other worlds...
    HDC 11.48 19 The matters there debated [in Concord town-meetings] are such as to invite very small considerations. The ill-spelled pages of the Town Records contain the result.
    HDC 11.83 14 I hope that History [of Concord] will not long remain unknown. The author [Lemuel Shattuck]...has wisely enriched his pages with the resolutions, addresses and instructions to its agents...
    EWI 11.115 15 I will not repeat to you the well-known paragraph, in which Messrs, Thome and Kimball...describe the occurrences of that night [of emancipation] in the island of Antigua. It has been quoted in every newspaper, and Dr. Channing has given it additional fame. But I must be indulged in quoting a few sentences from the pages that follow it...
    EWI 11.135 24 The lives of the advocates [of emancipation in the West Indies] are pages of greatness...
    War 11.153 15 Plutarch...considers the invasion and conquest of the East by Alexander as one of the most bright and pleasing pages in history;...
    ACiv 11.310 9 Since the above pages were written, President Lincoln has proposed to Congress that the government shall cooperate with any state that shall enact a gradual abolishment of slavery.
    hCom 11.339 8 These boys we talk about like ancient sages/ Are the same men we read of in old pages-/ The bronze recast of dead heroic ages!/
    EdAd 11.393 14 ...good readers know that inspired pages are not written to fill a space...
    II 12.74 7 Here is a famous Ode, which...lies in all memories as the high-water mark in the flood of thought in this age. What does the writer know of that? Converse with him, learn his opinions and hopes. He has long ago passed out of it, and perhaps his only concern with it is some copyright of an edition in which certain pages...are contained.
    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 12.269 24 The humanity which warms [Milton's] pages begins, as it should, at home.
    MLit 12.309 20 We...take up Plutarch or Augustine, and read a few sentences or pages, and lo! the air swims with life...

pagoda, adj. (1)

    Art2 7.41 21 The veranda or pagoda roof can curve upward only to a certain point.

pagoda, n. (2)

    Hist 2.19 18 The Chinese pagoda is plainly a Tartar tent.
    Art2 7.41 18 You cannot build your house or pagoda as you will, but as you must.

paid, v. (67)

    YA 1.383 14 ...[the Communities] exaggerate the importance of a favorite project of theirs, that of...paying all sorts of service at one rate, say ten cents the hour. They have paid it so; but not an instant would a dime remain a dime.
    Comp 2.97 21 A surplusage given to one part is paid out of a reduction from another part of the same creature.
    Comp 2.99 11 ...the President has paid dear for his White House.
    Comp 2.109 20 Thou shalt be paid exactly for what thou hast done,
    Comp 2.115 9 ...the doctrine that every thing has its price,--and if that price is not paid, not that thing but something else is obtained...is not less sublime in the columns of a leger than in the budgets of states...
    Comp 2.122 27 ...all the good of nature is the soul's, and may be had if paid for in nature's lawful coin...
    Mrs1 3.142 14 Fox thanked the man for his confidence and paid him...
    Mrs1 3.145 22 The epitaph of Sir Jenkin Grout is not wholly unintelligible to the present age: Here lies Sir Jenkin Grout...what his mouth ate, his hand paid for...
    NER 3.256 9 Why should professional labor and that of the counting-house be paid so disproportionately to the labor of the porter and wood-sawyer?
    NER 3.283 18 Work, [the Law] saith to man, in every hour, paid or unpaid, see only that thou work...
    UGM 4.21 22 I go to Boston or New York and run up and down on my affairs: they are sped, but so is the day. I am vexed by the recollection of this price I have paid for a trifling advantage.
    PPh 4.62 4 Having paid his homage, as for the human race, to the Illimitable, [Plato] then stood erect, and for the human race affirmed, And yet things are knowable!...
    PPh 4.71 5 Socrates, a man...of a personal homeliness so remarkable as to be a cause of wit in others:--the rather that his broad good nature and exquisite taste for a joke invited the sally, which was sure to be paid.
    SwM 4.100 12 Later, [Swedenborg] resigned his office of Assessor: the salary attached to this office continued to be paid to him during his life.
    SwM 4.130 10 Possibly Swedenborg paid the penalty of introverted faculties.
    ET1 5.17 13 [Carlyle]...recounted the incredible sums paid in one year by the great booksellers for puffing.
    ET1 5.24 22 To judge from a single conversation, [Wordsworth] made the impression...of one who paid for his rare elevation by general tameness and conformity.
    ET2 5.25 16 The remuneration [for lectures in England] was equivalent to the fees at that time paid in this country for the like services.
    ET5 5.97 12 The last Reform-bill [in England] took away political power from a mound, a ruin and a stone wall, whilst Birmingham and Manchester, whose mills paid for the wars of Europe, had no representative.
    ET6 5.109 12 Wellington...paid his debts...
    ET10 5.153 2 There is no country in which so absolute a homage is paid to wealth [as England].
    ET11 5.184 26 ...there are few noble families [in England] which have not paid, in some of their members, the debt of life or limb in the sacrifices of the Russian war.
    ET12 5.206 8 ...these young men [at Oxford] thus happily placed, and paid to read, are impatient of their few checks...
    ET13 5.214 18 In the barbarous days of a nation, some cultus is formed or imported; altars are built, tithes are paid...
    ET13 5.226 23 The [English] curates are ill paid, and the prelates are overpaid.
    ET17 5.291 10 In these comments on an old journey [English Traits]...I have abstained from reference to persons, except...in one or two cases where the fame of the parties seemed to have given the public a property in all that concerned them. I must further allow myself a few notices, if only as an acknowledgment of debts that cannot be paid.
    F 6.22 18 [Man] betrays his relation to what is below him...and has paid for the new powers by loss of some of the old ones.
    Pow 6.67 25 ...[Boniface] introduced the new horse-rake, the new scraper, the baby-jumper, and what not, that Connecticut sends to the admiring citizens. He did this the easier that the peddler stopped at his house, and paid his keeping by setting up his new trap on the landlord's premises.
    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 6.131 17 ...any excess of power in one part is usually paid for at once by some defect in a contiguous part.
    Ctr 6.151 14 I have heard that throughout this country a certain respect is paid to good broadcloth;...
    CbW 6.247 18 Now we reckon [days]...by some debt which is to be paid us or which we are to pay...
    CbW 6.253 23 To obtain subsidies, [Edward I] paid in privileges.
    CbW 6.278 2 Fancy prices are paid for position and for the culture of talent...
    DL 7.115 4 [To give money to a sufferer] is only...a bribe paid for silence...
    Elo2 8.118 4 If the performance of the advocate reaches any high success it is paid in England with dignities in the professions...
    Elo2 8.118 11 It does not surprise us...to learn from Plutarch what great sums were paid at Athens to the teachers of rhetoric;...
    Elo2 8.118 13 It does not surprise us...to learn from Plutarch what great sums were paid at Athens to the teachers of rhetoric; and if the pupils got what they paid for, the lessons were cheap.
    PC 8.229 10 Men say, Ah! if a man could impart his talent, instead of his performance, what mountains of guineas would be paid!
    Aris 10.48 25 In Rome or Greece what sums would not be paid for a superior slave...
    Aris 10.49 5 Time was, in England, when the state stipulated beforehand what price should be paid for each citizen's life, if he was killed.
    Aris 10.63 4 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?
    Chr2 10.104 8 Chateaubriand said...If God made man in his image, man has paid him well back.
    Supl 10.167 7 An eminent French journalist paid a high compliment to the Duke of Wellington...
    MoL 10.254 4 ...[Pytheas] returned and paid [Pindar] for the poem.
    Schr 10.276 8 There is plenty of air, but it is worth nothing until by gathering it into sails we can get it into shape and service to carry us and our cargo across the sea. Then it is paid for by hundreds of thousands of our money.
    SlHr 10.447 1 ...the farmers greeted [Samuel Hoar] as one of themselves, whilst they paid due homage to his powers of mind and to his virtues.
    Thor 10.458 10 In 1847, not approving some uses to which the public expenditure was applied, [Thoreau] refused to pay his town tax, and was put in jail. A friend paid the tax for him, and he was released.
    Thor 10.458 12 In 1847, not approving some uses to which the public expenditure was applied, [Thoreau] refused to pay his town tax, and was put in jail. A friend paid the tax for him, and he was released. The like annoyance was threatened the next year. But as his friends paid the tax, notwithstanding his protest, I believe he ceased to resist.
    Thor 10.460 12 ...[Thoreau] paid the tribute of his uniform respect to the Anti-Slavery party.
    HDC 11.38 18 The labors of a new plantation were paid by its excitements.
    HDC 11.71 20 It was...voted [in Concord], to raise one or more companies of minute-men, by enlistment, to be paid by the town whenever called out of town;...
    HDC 11.79 24 The great expense of the [Revolutionary] war was borne with cheerfulness [by Concord], whilst the war lasted; but years passed, after the peace, before the debt was paid.
    HDC 11.82 20 The town [Concord] raises, this year, 1800 dollars for its public schools; besides about 1200 dollars which are paid, by subscription, for private schools.
    EWI 11.125 11 It was shown to the planters...that though they paid no wages, they got very poor work;...
    War 11.159 16 When [Assacombuit] appeared at court, he lifted up his hand and said, This hand has slain a hundred and fifty of your majesty's enemies within the territories of New England. This so pleased the king that he...ordered a pension of eight livres a day to be paid him during life.
    FSLC 11.209 3 'T is said [buying the slaves] will cost two thousand millions of dollars. Was there ever any contribution that was so enthusiastically paid as this will be?
    FSLN 11.239 14 ...For evil word shall evil word be said,/ For murder-stroke a murder-stroke be paid./ Who smites must smart./
    ALin 11.332 15 ...[Lincoln] had a vast good nature...affable, and not sensible to the affliction which the innumerable visits paid to him when President would have brought to any one else.
    Mem 12.96 15 In the minds of most men memory is nothing but a farm-book or a pocket-diary. On such a day I paid my note;...
    CInt 12.120 12 ...I value [talent] more...when the talent is...in harmony with the public sentiment of mankind. Such is the patriotism of Demosthenes, of Patrick Henry...strong by the strength of the facts themselves. Then the orator is still one of the audience, persuaded by the same reasons which persuade them;...not a wire-puller paid to manage the lobby and caucus.
    CL 12.157 21 Every acquisition we make in the science of beauty is so sweet that I think it is cheaply paid for by what accompanies it, of course, the prating and affectation of connoisseurship.
    CL 12.162 24 ...sometimes [my naturalist] brought [the farmers] ostentatiously gifts of flowers, fruit or rare shrubs they would gladly have paid a price for...
    CW 12.177 10 ...the countryman, as I said, has more than he paid for; the landscape is his.
    Bost 12.205 14 ...when within our memory some flippant senator wished to taunt the people of this country by calling them the mudsills of society, he paid them ignorantly a true praise;...
    ACri 12.292 22 Vulgarisms to be gazetted...there being scarce a person of any note in England but what some time or other paid a visit or sent a present to our Lady of Walsingham...
    Trag 12.415 22 The market-man never damned the lady because she had not paid her bill...

pail, n. (2)

    ET2 5.28 25 Near the equator you can read small print by [the light of the sea-fire]; and the mate describes the phosphoric insects, when taken up in a pail, as shaped like a Carolina potato.
    Wth 6.120 3 ...[Mr. Cockayne] thinks a cow is a creature that is fed on hay and gives a pail of milk twice a day.

pails, n. (1)

    ET14 5.232 18 [The plain style] imports into [English] songs and ballads the smell of the earth...and, like a Dutch painter, seeks a household charm, though by pails and pans.

pain, n. (84)

    Nat 1.17 25 ...the air had so much life and sweetness that it was a pain to come within doors.
    LE 1.163 16 I am tasting the self-same life...its pain, which I so admire in other men.
    LE 1.168 22 ...[when I see the daybreak] I feel perhaps the pain of an alien world;...
    LE 1.178 2 ...out of sickness and pain;...comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.
    Con 1.320 5 [Conservatism's] religion is just as bad;...mitigations of pain by pillows and anodynes;...
    Hist 2.15 7 ...we have [the Greek national mind expressed] once again in sculpture...a multitude of forms...like votaries performing some religious dance before the gods, and, though in convulsive pain or mortal combat, never daring to break the figure and decorum of their dance.
    SR 2.73 27 ...so may you give these friends pain.
    Comp 2.123 21 How can Less not feel the pain; how not feel indignation or malevolence towards More?
    SL 2.131 14 The soul will not know either deformity or pain.
    SL 2.131 19 All loss, all pain, is particular;...
    Lov1 2.176 3 In the noon and the afternoon of life we still throb at the recollection of days when happiness...must be drugged with the relish of pain and fear;...
    Lov1 2.185 18 ...the lot of humanity is on these children [young lovers]. Danger, sorrow and pain arrive to them as to all.
    Lov1 2.186 8 The soul which is in the soul of each [lover], craving a perfect beatitude, detects incongruities, defects and disproportion in the behaviour of the other. Hence arise surprise, expostulation and pain.
    Lov1 2.188 12 Though slowly and with pain, the objects of the affections change...
    Fdsp 2.192 9 A commended stranger is expected and announced, and an uneasiness betwixt pleasure and pain invades all the hearts of a household.
    OS 2.274 26 The growths of genius are of a certain total character, that does not advance the elect individual first over John, then Adam, then Richard, and give to each the pain of discovered inferiority...
    Int 2.341 21 [The scholar] must...choose defeat and pain...
    Exp 3.51 8 Of what use [is genius]...if the web is...too irritable by pleasure and pain...
    Exp 3.56 17 ...thou wert born to a whole and this story is a particular? The reason of the pain this discovery causes us...is the plaint of tragedy which murmurs from it in regard to persons, to friendship and love.
    Exp 3.56 24 That immobility and absence of elasticity which we find in the arts, we find with more pain in the artist.
    Mrs1 3.145 24 The epitaph of Sir Jenkin Grout is not wholly unintelligible to the present age: Here lies Sir Jenkin Grout...if a woman gave him pleasure, he supported her in pain...
    Mrs1 3.155 1 ...I shall hear without pain that I play the courtier very ill...
    Nat2 3.196 24 ...wisdom is infused into every form. It has been poured into us as blood; it convulsed us as pain;...
    Pol1 3.218 14 Senators and presidents have climbed so high with pain enough...
    NER 3.274 2 We crave a sense of reality, though it comes in strokes of pain.
    PPh 4.58 19 [Plato] saw the souls in pain...
    SwM 4.98 5 ...the men of God purchased their science by folly or pain.
    SwM 4.130 9 [Swedenborg] was painfully alive to the difference between knowing and doing, and this sensibility is incessantly expressed. ... But this topic suggests a sad afterthought, that here we find the seat of his own pain.
    SwM 4.131 11 A vampyre sits in the seat of the prophet [in Swedenborg's universe] and turns with gloomy appetite to the images of pain.
    MoS 4.169 2 Montaigne...likes pain because it makes him feel himself and realize things;...
    GoW 4.263 10 [The writer] draws his rents from rage and pain.
    ET8 5.131 26 [The English] are good at storming redoubts...but not, I think, at...any passive obedience, like jumping off a castle-roof at the word of a czar. Being both vascular and highly organized, so as to be very sensible of pain; and intellectual...
    ET16 5.279 18 In this quiet house of destiny [Stonehenge] [Carlyle] happened to say, I plant cypresses wherever I go, and if I am in search of pain, I cannot go wrong.
    ET18 5.306 22 ...the feudal system can be seen with less pain on large historical grounds.
    F 6.36 11 The whole circle of animal life...a yelp of pain and a grunt of triumph ...pleases at a sufficient perspective.
    F 6.47 23 ...[man] is to take sides with the Deity who secures universal benefit by his pain.
    Wth 6.88 8 ...by making his wants less or his gains more, [a man] must draw himself out of that state of pain and insult in which [nature] forces the beggar to lie.
    Ctr 6.133 8 [Egotists] like sickness, because physical pain will extort some show of interest from the bystanders...
    Ctr 6.147 23 ...a man witnessing the admirable effect of ether to lull pain... rejoices in Dr. Jackson's benign discovery...
    Bhr 6.196 6 There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.
    Wsp 6.233 25 [The faithful student] shall...work against failure, pain and ill-will.
    CbW 6.266 5 An old French verse runs, in my translation:--Some of your griefs you have cured,/ And the sharpest you still have survived;/ But what torments of pain you endured/ From evils that never arrived!/
    Ill 6.311 15 The same interference from our organization creates the most of our pleasure and pain.
    Cour 7.265 6 ...men with little imagination are less fearful; they wait till they feel pain...
    Cour 7.265 12 Bodily pain is superficial...
    Cour 7.265 17 Pain is superficial...
    Suc 7.287 26 Newton was a great man, without...lucifer-matches, or ether for his pain;...
    OA 7.313 21 The world has overmuch of pain,--/ If Nature give me joy again,/ Of such deceit I'll not complain./
    OA 7.323 24 ...it will not add a pang to the prisoner marched out to be shot, to assure him that the pain in his knee threatens mortification.
    OA 7.324 26 To insure the existence of the race, [Nature] reinforces the sexual instinct, at the risk of disorder, grief and pain.
    PI 8.22 14 Man runs about restless and in pain when his condition or the objects about him do not fully match his thought.
    PI 8.28 20 Bunyan, in pain for his soul, wrote Pilgrim's Progress;...
    PI 8.37 20 All [others'] pleasures are tinged with pain. All [the poet's] pains are edged with pleasure.
    Comc 8.157 14 Aristotle's definition of the ridiculous is, what is out of time and place, without danger. If there be pain and danger, it becomes tragic; if not, comic.
    Comc 8.164 14 ...as the religious sentiment is the most vital and sublime of all our sentiments...so is it abhorrent to our whole nature, when, in the absence of the sentiment, the act or word or officer volunteers to stand in its stead. To the sympathies this...occasions grief. But to the intellect the lack of the sentiment gives no pain;...
    Insp 8.283 4 ...[In The Harbingers, Herbert] signalizes his delight in this skill [of writing verse], and his pain that the Herricks, Lovelaces and Marlowes...should use the like genius in language to sensual purpose...
    Imtl 8.332 26 One argument of future life is...our pain at every skeptical statement.
    Imtl 8.336 15 Will you, with vast cost and pain, educate your children to be adepts in their several arts, and, as soon as they are ready to produce a masterpiece, call out a file of soldiers to shoot them down?
    Dem1 10.16 13 [The young man] observes, with pain...that his genius...is no longer present and active.
    Aris 10.58 2 ...All that depends on another gives pain; all that depends on himself gives pleasure;...
    Aris 10.58 4 ...All that depends on another gives pain; all that depends on himself gives pleasure; in these few words is the definition of pleasure and pain.
    Chr2 10.107 10 Fifty or a hundred years ago...an exact observance of the Sunday was kept in the houses of laymen as of clergymen. And one sees with some pain the disuse of rites so charged with humanity and aspiration.
    Edc1 10.129 22 Is it not true that every landscape I behold...every pain I suffer, leaves me a different being from that they found me?
    Supl 10.164 13 Especially we note this tendency to extremes in the pleasant excitement of horror-mongers. Is there something so delicious in disasters and pain?
    MoL 10.257 25 I learn with grief, but with honoring pain, that you have had your sufferers in the battle...
    Plu 10.301 11 [Plutarch's] surprising merit is the genial facility with which he deals with his manifold topics. There is no trace of labor or pain.
    Plu 10.308 6 [Plutarch] wonders with Plato at that nail of pain and pleasure which fastens the body to the mind.
    MMEm 10.409 20 [Mary Moody Emerson writes] To live to give pain rather than pleasure (the latter so delicious) seems the spider-like necessity of my being on earth...
    MMEm 10.426 23 The idea of being no mate for those intellectualists I've [Mary Moody Emerson] loved to admire, is no pain.
    MMEm 10.428 5 The sickness of the last week was fine medicine; pain disintegrated the spirit, or became spiritual.
    TPar 11.287 10 ...I found some harshness in [Theodore Parker's] treatment both of Greek and of Hebrew antiquity, and sympathized with the pain of many good people in his auditory...
    ALin 11.329 8 ...I doubt if any death has caused so much pain to mankind as this [of Lincoln] has caused, or will cause, on its announcement;...
    SMC 11.356 21 All sorts of men went to the [Civil] war,-the roughs...men for whom pleasure was not strong enough, but who wanted pain...
    SHC 11.428 9 ...shalt thou pause to hear some funeral-bell/ Slow stealing o' er the heart in this calm place,/ Not with a throb of pain, a feverish knell,/ But in its kind and supplicating grace,/ It says, Go, pilgrim, on thy march, be more/ Friend to the friendless than thou wast before;/...
    Mem 12.92 14 You say, I can never think of some act of neglect, of selfishness, or of passion without pain.
    Mem 12.92 22 ...in the history of character the day comes when you are incapable of such crime [of neglect, selfishness, passion]. Then...you look on it...with wonder at the deed, and with applause at the pain it has cost you.
    Mem 12.104 12 The memory has a fine art of sifting out the pain and keeping all the joy.
    Mem 12.104 20 ...this power of sinking the pain of any experience and of recalling the saddest with tranquillity, and even with a wise pleasure, is familiar.
    MLit 12.335 15 In [man's] heart he knows the ache of spiritual pain...
    Trag 12.406 18 ...no theory of life can have any right which leaves out of account the values of vice, pain, disease...
    Trag 12.409 24 There are people who have an appetite for grief, pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain...
    Trag 12.415 2 ...Temperament resists the impression of pain.
    Trag 12.416 4 It is my duty, says Sir Charles Bell, to visit certain wards of the hospital where there is no patient admitted but with that complaint which most fills the imagination with the idea of insupportable pain and certain death.
    Trag 12.416 23 The intellect is a consoler, which delights in detaching or putting an interval between a man and his fortune, and so converts the sufferer into a spectator and his pain into poetry.

Pain, n. (1)

    Trag 12.405 2 He has seen but half the universe who never has been shown the house of Pain.

pain, v. (4)

    SL 2.136 5 We pain ourselves to please nobody.
    Bhr 6.186 16 Those who are not self-possessed obtrude and pain us.
    Aris 10.32 14 It will not pain me if I am found now and then to rove from the accepted and historic, to a theoretic peerage;...
    Wom 11.419 4 The answer that lies, silent or spoken, in the minds of well-meaning persons, to the new claims [for women's rights], is this:...that, if the laws and customs were modified in the manner proposed, it would embarrass and pain gentle and lovely persons with duties which they would find irksome and distasteful.

Paine, Thomas, n. (1)

    NR 3.239 19 Jesus would absorb the race; but Tom Paine or the coarsest blasphemer helps humanity by resisting this exuberance of power.

pained, v. (4)

    MR 1.235 16 ...I should not be pained at a change which threatened a loss of some of the luxuries or conveniences of society...
    NER 3.282 18 I am not pained that I cannot frame a reply to the question, What is the operation we call Providence?
    Dem1 10.7 10 ...in varieties of our own species where organization seems to predominate over the genius of man...we are sometimes pained by the same feeling [of the similarity between man and animal];...
    SovE 10.196 3 We answer, when they tell us of the bad behavior of Luther or Paul: Well, what if he did? Who was more pained than Luther or Paul?

painful, adj. (32)

    DSA 1.122 1 The moral traits which are all globed into every virtuous act and thought, - in speech we must...describe or suggest by painful enumeration of many particulars.
    LT 1.283 8 The inadequacy of the work to the faculties is the painful perception which keeps [men] still.
    Hist 2.17 5 By a deeper apprehension, and not primarily by a painful acquisition of many manual skills, the artist attains the power of awakening other souls to a given activity.
    SL 2.138 24 ...our painful labors are unnecessary and fruitless;...
    Lov1 2.171 22 In the actual world--the painful kingdom of time and place-- dwell care and canker and fear.
    Pt1 3.5 17 In love...in games, we study to utter our painful secret.
    Chr1 3.113 1 Society is spoiled...if the associates are brought a mile to meet. And if it be not society, it is a mischievous, low, degrading jangle, though made up of the best. All the greatness of each is kept back, and every foible in painful activity...
    NER 3.258 1 ...it seems as if a man should learn to plant, or to fish, or to hunt, that he might secure his subsistence at all events, and not be painful to his friends and fellow-men.
    UGM 4.6 14 ...[other than great men] must make painful corrections...
    SwM 4.138 18 To what a painful perversion had Gothic theology arrived, that Swedenborg admitted no conversion for evil spirits!
    MoS 4.151 21 On the other part, the men of toil and trade and luxury,--the animal world...and the practical world, including the painful drudgeries which are never excused to philosopher or poet any more than to the rest,-- weigh heavily on the other side.
    MoS 4.177 23 There is a painful rumor in circulation that we have been practised upon in all the principal performances of life...
    ET9 5.150 7 [The English] have no curiosity about foreigners, and answer any information you may volunteer with Oh, Oh! until the informant makes up his mind that they shall die in their ignorance, for any help he will offer. There are really no limits to this conceit, though brighter men among them make painful efforts to be candid.
    Wsp 6.232 7 A poor, tender, painful body, [man] can run into flame or bullets or pestilence, with duty for his guide.
    WD 7.182 2 ...what has been best done in the world,--the works of genius,-- cost nothing. There is no painful effort...
    Insp 8.278 27 Bonaparte said: There is no man more pusillanimous than I, when I make a military plan. I magnify...all the possible mischances. I am in an agitation utterly painful.
    Dem1 10.5 6 A painful imperfection almost always attends [dreams].
    GSt 10.501 9 ...the painful surprise which the last week brought us, in the tidings of the death of Mr. [George] Stearns, opened all eyes to the just consideration of the singular merits of the citizen...whom this assembly mourns.
    LS 11.17 16 I appeal now to the convictions of communicants [in the Lord' s Supper], and ask such persons whether they have not been occasionally conscious of a painful confusion of thought between the worship due to God and the commemoration due to Christ.
    LS 11.19 10 Most men find the bread and wine [of the Lord's Supper] no aid to devotion, and to some it is a painful impediment.
    HDC 11.32 17 The green meadows of Musketaquid...were...not to be reached without a painful and dangerous journey through an uninterrupted wilderness.
    HDC 11.62 1 It is the misfortune of Concord to have permitted a disgraceful outrage upon the friendly Indians settled within its limits, in February, 1676, which ended in their forcible expulsion from the town. This painful incident is but too just an example of the measure which the Indians have generally received from the whites.
    LVB 11.90 11 ...we have witnessed with sympathy the painful labors of these red men [the Cherokees] to redeem their own race from the doom of eternal inferiority...
    EWI 11.116 26 ...for the most part, throughout the [West Indian] islands, nothing painful occurred.
    EWI 11.129 13 ...in the last few days that my attention has been occupied with this history [of emancipation in the West Indies], I have not been able to read a page of it without the most painful comparisons.
    FSLC 11.179 10 I wake in the morning with a painful sensation...which, when traced home, is the odious remembrance of that ignominy which has fallen on Massachusetts...
    FSLC 11.199 10 A measure of pacification and union. What is [the Fugitive Slave Law's] effect? To make one sole subject for conversation and painful thought throughout the continent, namely, slavery.
    FSLC 11.202 8 [Webster] must learn...that he who was their pride in the woods and mountains of New England is now their mortification...they have thrust his speeches into the chimney. No roars of New York mobs can drown this voice in Mr. Webster's ear. It will outwhisper all the salvos of the Union Committees' cannon. But I have said too much on this painful topic.
    Shak1 11.447 9 ...it is to us [The Saturday Club] a painful disappointment that Bryant and Whittier as guests, and our own Hawthorne,-with the best will to come,-should have found it impossible at last;...
    MAng1 12.228 5 ...[Michelangelo] toiled so assiduously at this painful work [the Sistine Chapel ceiling], that, for a long time after, he was unable to see any picture but by holding it over his head.
    Let 12.396 24 To live solitary and unexpressed is painful...
    Let 12.396 25 To live solitary and unexpressed is...painful in proportion to one's consciousness of ripeness and equality to the offices of friendship.

painfully, adv. (10)

    Nat 1.60 6 [Idealism] beholds the whole circle of persons and things...not as painfully accumulated...
    Con 1.308 1 I have...toiled honestly and painfully for very many years.
    SR 2.68 2 We are like children who repeat by rote the sentences of...tutors... painfully recollecting the exact words they spoke;...
    SL 2.139 14 Why need you choose so painfully your place...
    OS 2.275 21 To the well-born child all the virtues are natural, and not painfully acquired.
    SwM 4.130 2 [Swedenborg] was painfully alive to the difference between knowing and doing...
    NMW 4.234 18 At the moment in which the Russian army was making its retreat, painfully, but in good order...the Emperor Napoleon came riding at full speed toward the artillery.
    Comc 8.162 11 So painfully susceptible are some men to these impressions [of halfness], that if a man of wit come into the room where they are, it seems to take them out of themselves with violent convulsions of the face and sides, and obstreperous roarings of the throat.
    FSLC 11.180 5 There are men who are as sure indexes of the equity of legislation...as the barometer is of the weight of the air, and it is a bad sign when these are discontented, for though they snuff oppression and dishonor at a distance, it is because they are more impressionable: the whole population will in a short time be as painfully affected.
    Mem 12.109 19 If we occupy ourselves long on this wonderful faculty [memory], and see...the way in which new knowledge calls upon old knowledge...so that what one had painfully held by strained attention and recapitulation now falls into place...we cannot fail to draw thence a sublime hint that thus there must be an endless increase in the power of memory only through its use;...

painfulness, n. (1)

    ET12 5.209 23 Oxford...mis-spends the revenues bestowed for such youths as should be most meet for towardness, poverty and painfulness;...

pains, n. (45)

    Tran 1.334 24 Do not cumber yourself with fruitless pains to mend and remedy remote effects;...
    Tran 1.341 22 ...in ecclesiastical history we take so much pains to know what the Gnostics...believed...
    Tran 1.342 24 ...if any one will take pains to talk with [these separators], he will find that this part is chosen both from temperament and from principle;...
    Hist 2.16 14 If any one will but take pains to observe the variety of actions to which he is equally inclined in certain moods of mind, and those to which he is averse, he will see how deep is the chain of affinity.
    Comp 2.114 26 The cheat, the defaulter, the gambler, cannot extort the knowledge of material and moral nature which his honest care and pains yield to the operative.
    Lov1 2.176 5 ...he touched the secret of the matter who said of love,--All other pleasures are not worth its pains/...
    Fdsp 2.198 23 ...these uneasy pleasures and fine pains [of friendship] are for curiosity...
    Prd1 2.233 24 Is it not better that a man should accept the first pains and mortifications of this sort...as hints that he must expect no other good than the just fruit of his own labor and self-denial?
    Hsm1 2.254 7 In some way...the pains [the magnanimous] seem to take remunerate themselves.
    Cir 2.314 15 ...the goods which belong to you gravitate to you and need not be pursued with pains and cost?
    Int 2.331 5 At last comes the era of reflection, when we not only observe, but take pains to observe;...
    Int 2.339 27 When we are young we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art...
    Chr1 3.112 22 Society is spoiled if pains are taken...
    Nat2 3.191 23 ...this is the ridicule of the [wealthy] class, that they arrive with pains and sweat and fury nowhere;...
    NR 3.235 11 It seems not worth while to execute with too much pains some one intellectual, or aesthetical, or civil feat...
    NR 3.244 26 ...a good pear or apple costs no more time or pains to rear than a poor one;...
    UGM 4.6 7 We take a great deal of pains to waylay and entrap that which of itself will fall into our hands.
    SwM 4.137 13 [Swedenborg] is...like Montaigne's parish priest, who, if a hail-storm passes over the village, thinks the day of doom is come, and the cannibals already have got the pip. Swedenborg confounds us not less with the pains of Melancthon and Luther and Wolfius...
    MoS 4.180 18 ...has [a man of earnest and burly habit] not a right to insist on being convinced in his own way? When he is convinced, he will be worth the pains.
    ShP 4.205 23 [Shakespeare] was...an actor and shareholder in the theatre, not in any striking manner distinguished from other actors and managers. I admit the importance of this information. It was well worth the pains that have been taken to procure it.
    Ctr 6.141 14 ...a large part of our cost and pains is thrown away.
    CbW 6.263 6 No labor, pains, temperance...that can gain [health], must be grudged.
    CbW 6.274 22 ...one may take a good deal of pains to bring people together...and yet no result come of it.
    Bty 6.300 5 ...petulant old gentlemen...who see, after a world of pains have been successfully taken for the costume, how the least mistake in sentiment takes all the beauty out of your clothes,--affirm that the secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
    Elo1 7.99 21 [Eloquence's] great masters, whilst they...thought no pains too great which contributed in any manner to further it,--resembling the Arabian warrior of fame, who wore seventeen weapons in his belt, and in personal combat used them all occasionally.--yet subordinated all means;...
    OA 7.317 8 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;...
    PI 8.37 20 All [others'] pleasures are tinged with pain. All [the poet's] pains are edged with pleasure.
    PI 8.37 27 [Mortal men] live cabined, cribbed, confined...in wants, pains, anxieties and superstitions...
    PI 8.67 27 We must...ask...whether we shall find our tragedy written in [Hamlet's],--our hopes, wants, pains, disgraces, described to the life...
    SA 8.85 17 ...the sentiment of honor and the wish to serve make all our pains superfluous.
    SA 8.92 5 A wise man once said to me that all whom he knew, met:-- meaning that he need not take pains to introduce the persons whom he valued to each other...
    Elo2 8.121 7 Plutarch, in his enumeration of the ten Greek orators, is careful to mention their excellent voices, and the pains bestowed by some of them in training these.
    QO 8.192 26 Whoever expresses to us a just thought makes ridiculous the pains of the critic who should tell him where such a word had been said before.
    Aris 10.34 18 ...if primogeniture, if heraldry, if money could secure such a result as superior and finished men, it would be the interest of all mankind to see that the steps were taken, the pains incurred.
    Edc1 10.148 9 It s curious...what vast pains and cost we incur to do wrong.
    Supl 10.166 11 Think how much pains astronomers and opticians have taken to procure an achromatic lens.
    MoL 10.249 3 Every man...does not need any one good so much as this of right thought. Calm pleasures here abide, majestic pains./
    SlHr 10.441 20 ...[Samuel Hoar] sometimes wearied his audience with the pains he took to qualify and verify his statements...
    FSLC 11.187 16 Pains seem to have been taken to give us in this statute [the Fugitive Slave Law] a wrong pure from any mixture of right.
    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.
    EdAd 11.389 17 ...we should think our pains well bestowed if we could cure the infatuation of statesmen...
    CL 12.146 18 I know a whole district...where the apple-trees strive with and hold their ground against the native forest-trees: the apple growing with profusion that mocks the pains taken by careful cockneys...
    CW 12.172 14 Montaigne took much pains to be made a citizen of Rome;...
    AgMs 12.360 15 ...who is this book [the Agricultural Survey] written for? Not for farmers; no pains are taken to send it to them;...
    PPr 12.384 23 What pains, what hopes, what vows, shall come of the reading [of Carlyle's Past and Present]!

pains, v. (2)

    Suc 7.306 25 What delights, what emancipates, not what scars and pains us, is wise and good in speech and in the arts.
    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;...

painstaking, adj. (1)

    YA 1.368 16 ...the culture of years will never make the most painstaking apprentice [the man of genius's] equal...

paint, n. (14)

    MR 1.244 3 We spend our incomes for paint and paper...and not for the things of a man.
    NR 3.241 4 Into paint will I grind thee, my bride!/
    PPh 4.43 20 If [Plato] had lover, wife, or children, we hear nothing of them. He ground them all into paint.
    PPh 4.47 18 At last comes Plato, the distributor, who needs no barbaric paint, or tattoo, or whooping;...
    ET11 5.198 1 [Titles of lordship...may be advantageously consigned, with paint and tattoo, to the dignitaries of Australia and Polynesia.
    Pow 6.73 9 There is no way to success in our art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.
    CbW 6.264 20 'T is a Dutch proverb that paint costs nothing...
    Bty 6.291 3 ...our taste in building rejects paint, and all shifts...
    Ill 6.313 4 Great is paint;...
    Ill 6.317 5 ...if...Moosehead, or any other, invent a new style or mythology, I fancy that the world will be all brave and right if dressed in these colors, which I had not thought of. Then at once I will daub with this new paint; but it will not stick.
    WD 7.170 22 'T is pitiful the things by which we are rich or poor...a little more or less stone, or wood, or paint...
    Aris 10.59 5 ...[a grand interest] reckons fortunes mere paint;...
    Thor 10.482 5 Thank God, [Thoreau] said, they cannot cut down the clouds! All kinds of figures are drawn on the blue ground with this fibrous white paint.
    PLT 12.53 17 When [a man] speaks out of another's mind, we detect it. He can't make any paint stick but his own.

paint, v. (51)

    LE 1.164 6 Say to the man of letters that he cannot paint a Transfiguration... and he will not seem to himself depreciated.
    MN 1.198 13 I do not wish in attempting to paint a man, to describe an air-fed... ghost.
    MN 1.206 14 ...it is as impossible for you to paint a right picture as for grass to bear apples.
    LT 1.264 25 Let us paint the painters.
    LT 1.265 2 ...let us set up our Camera also, and let the sun paint the people.
    LT 1.265 2 Let us paint the agitator...
    Tran 1.335 13 ...Caesar's history will paint out Caesar.
    SL 2.138 16 We side with the hero, as we read or paint, against the coward and the robber;...
    Lov1 2.178 11 The lover cannot paint his maiden to his fancy poor and solitary.
    Prd1 2.221 14 We paint those qualities which we do not possess.
    OS 2.271 19 Language cannot paint [this pure nature] with [man's] colors.
    Int 2.335 21 The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject if he has no hand to paint them to the senses.
    Art1 2.354 8 We carve and paint...as students of the mystery of Form.
    Art1 2.363 22 A man should find in [art] an outlet for his whole energy. He may paint and carve only as long as he can do that.
    Pt1 3.25 1 ...in the sun, objects paint their images on the retina of the eye...
    Pt1 3.25 3 ...[the poet's thoughts], sharing the aspiration of the whole universe, tend to paint a far more delicate copy of their essence on his mind.
    Exp 3.50 7 Life is a train of moods like a string of beads, and as we pass through them they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue...
    Mrs1 3.120 26 ...in English literature half the drama, and all the novels... paint this figure [of the gentleman].
    UGM 4.5 4 Man can paint, or make, or think, nothing but man.
    UGM 4.6 17 It costs a beautiful person no exertion to paint her image on our eyes;...
    UGM 4.31 15 ...bring to each [man] an intelligent person of another experience, and it is as if you let off water from a lake by cutting a lower basin. It seems a mechanical advantage, and great benefit it is to each speaker, as he can now paint out his thought to himself.
    PPh 4.41 19 ...these [great] men magnetize their contemporaries, so that their companions can do for them what they can never do for themselves; and the great man does thus...write, or paint or act, by many hands;...
    MoS 4.177 7 We paint Time with a scythe;...
    ShP 4.213 18 ...[Shakespeare] could paint the fine with precision...
    GoW 4.263 9 ...as our German poet said, Some god gave me the power to paint what I suffer.
    F 6.41 9 We know what madness belongs to love,-what power to paint a vile object in hues of heaven.
    Pow 6.72 17 When Michel Angelo was forced to paint the Sistine Chapel in fresco...he went down into the Pope's gardens behind the Vatican, and with a shovel dug out ochres, red and yellow...
    SS 7.1 6 ...[Seyd] Loved harebells nodding on a rock,/ A cabin hung with curling smoke,/ Ring of axe or hum of wheel/ Or gleam which use can paint on steel/...
    DL 7.106 1 What art can paint or gild any object in afterlife with the glow which Nature gives to the first baubles of childhood!
    Farm 7.138 17 ...you must not try to paint [the farmer] in rose-color;...
    Farm 7.146 16 ...we must not paint the farmer in rose-color.
    WD 7.182 12 The masters painted for joy, and knew not that virtue had gone out of them. They could not paint the like in cold blood.
    Boks 7.190 9 ...there are...books...so nearly equal to the world which they paint, that though one shuts them with meaner ones, he feels his exclusion from them to accuse his way of living.
    Boks 7.212 25 The man asks for a novel,--that is, asks leave for a few hours...to paint things as they ought to be.
    Clbs 7.248 16 Herrick's verses to Ben Jonson no doubt paint the fact...
    Elo2 8.112 26 There is one of whom we took no note, but on a certain occasion it appears that he has a secret virtue never suspected,--that he can paint what has occurred and what must occur, with such clearness to a company, as if they saw it done before their eyes.
    Aris 10.54 8 The more familiar examples of this power [of eloquence] certainly are those...who think, and paint, and laugh, and weep, in their eloquent closets...
    Chr2 10.109 21 ...we paint over the bareness of ethics with the quaint grotesques of theology.
    Supl 10.169 7 Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech. They are never off their centres. As soon as they swell and paint and find truth not enough for them, softening of the brain has already begun.
    Prch 10.234 7 A vivid thought brings the power to paint it;...
    LLNE 10.357 26 ...[the Fourierists] were unconscious prophets of a true state of society;...one which always establishes itself for the sane soul, though not in that manner in which they paint it;...
    SHC 11.428 2 No abbey's gloom, nor dark cathedral stoops,/ No winding torches paint the midnight air;/...
    II 12.86 17 Michael Angelo must paint Sistine ceilings till he can no longer read, except by holding the book over his head.
    CInt 12.122 21 [A man] looks at all men as his representatives, and is glad to see that his wit can work at that problem as it ought to be done, and better than he could do it; whether it be to build, engineer, carve, paint...
    MAng1 12.226 25 When the Sistine Chapel was prepared for him, that he might paint the ceiling, [Michelangelo] found the platform on which he was to work suspended by ropes which passed through the ceiling.
    MAng1 12.234 5 [Michelangelo] did not only build a divine temple, and paint and carve saints and prophets. He lived out the same inspiration.
    MAng1 12.234 9 When [Michelangelo] was informed that Paul IV. desired he should paint again the side of the chapel where the Last Judgment was painted, because of the indecorous nudity of the figures, he replied, Tell the Pope that this is easily done. Let him reform the world and he will find the pictures will reform themselves.
    MLit 12.329 7 We can fancy [Goethe] saying to himself: There are poets enough of the Ideal; let me paint the Actual...
    EurB 12.370 22 The [modern] painters are not willing to paint ill enough;...
    EurB 12.370 23 ...[modern painters] will not paint for their times...
    EurB 12.370 27 ...[modern painters]...paint for their predecessors' public.

paint-box, n. (1)

    Gts 3.160 19 ...if the man at the door have no shoes, you have not to consider whether you could procure him a paint-box.

paint-brush, n. (1)

    Aris 10.45 3 If we see tools in a magazine, as...a pump, a paint-brush...we can predict well enough their destination;...

painted, adj. (12)

    Fdsp 2.197 17 I cannot deny it, O friend, that the vast shadow of the Phenomenal includes thee also in its pied and painted immensity...
    Mrs1 3.142 24 The painted phantasm Fashion rises to cast a species of derision on what we say.
    Mrs1 3.153 11 ...we have lingered long enough in these painted courts.
    Nat2 3.173 6 ...I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle I...pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight... We penetrate bodily this incredible beauty; we dip our hands in this painted element;...
    Nat2 3.186 1 The child...abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip...lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred.
    ShP 4.206 22 The recitation [of Shakespeare] begins; one golden word leaps out immortal from all this painted pedantry and sweetly torments us with invitations to its own inaccessible homes.
    ET11 5.187 1 [The English]...walk by their faith in their painted May-Fair as if among the forms of gods.
    PI 8.26 11 ...when, on rare days, [nature] speaks to the imagination, we feel...that the light, skies and mountains are but the painted vicissitudes of the soul.
    PI 8.41 11 ...flights of painted moths are as old as the Alleghanies.
    Res 8.142 13 We have seen slavery disappear like a painted scene in a theatre;...
    LLNE 10.327 20 College classes, military corps, or trades-unions may fancy themselves indissoluble for a moment, over their wine; but it is a painted hoop, and has no girth.
    Shak1 11.451 9 The real Elizabeths, Jameses and Louises were painted sticks before this magician [Shakespeare].

painted, v. (33)

    LT 1.261 22 ...Dante and Milton painted in colossal their platoons, and called them Heaven and Hell.
    Hist 2.18 25 ...my companion pointed out to me a broad cloud...quite accurately in the form of a cherub as painted over churches...
    Hist 2.19 7 ...the Greeks drew from nature when they painted the thunderbolt in the hand of Jove.
    Hist 2.38 27 [A man] shall walk...in a robe painted all over with wonderful events and experiences;...
    Prd1 2.225 19 A door is to be painted, a lock to be repaired.
    Art1 2.354 9 We carve and paint, or we behold what is carved and painted, as students of the mystery of Form.
    Art1 2.362 19 [The work of art] was not painted for [picture dealers], it was painted for you;...
    Pt1 3.7 8 ...the world is not painted or adorned...
    Mrs1 3.136 19 When [Montaigne] leaves any house in which he has lodged for a few weeks, he causes his arms to be painted and hung up as a perpetual sign...
    Mrs1 3.148 11 Scott is praised for the fidelity with which he painted the demeanor and conversation of the superior classes.
    ET14 5.233 22 What [the Englishman] relishes in Dante is the vise-like tenacity with which he holds a mental image before the eyes, as if it were a scutcheon painted on a shield.
    Pow 6.72 24 ...[Michel Angelo] went down into the Pope's gardens behind the Vatican, and with a shovel dug out ochres, red and yellow, mixed them with glue and water with his own hands, and having after many trials at last suited himself, climbed his ladders, and painted away...the sibyls and prophets.
    Bty 6.289 20 ...the mythologists tell us that Vulcan was painted lame and Cupid blind, to call attention to the fact that one was all limbs, and the other all eyes.
    DL 7.131 3 I go to Rome and see on the walls of the Vatican the Transfiguration, painted by Raphael...
    DL 7.131 6 ...in the Sistine Chapel I see the grand sibyls and prophets, painted in fresco by Michel Angelo...
    WD 7.173 4 Seldom and slowly the mask [of illusion] falls and the pupil is permitted to see that all is one stuff, cooked and painted under many counterfeit appearances.
    WD 7.182 10 The masters painted for joy...
    Suc 7.284 11 ...Evelyn writes from Rome: Bernini...gave a public opera, wherein he painted the scenes, cut the statues...
    PI 8.41 4 Now at this rare elevation above his usual sphere...[the poet] is permitted to dip his brush into the old paint-pot with which...the broad landscape, the ocean and the eternal sky, were painted.
    PPo 8.262 16 A painter in China once painted a hall;/ Such a web never hung on an emperor's wall;-/ One half from his brush with rich colors did run,/ The other he touched with a beam of the sun;/...
    Insp 8.291 5 Allston rarely left his studio by day. An old friend took him, one fine afternoon, a spacious circuit into the country, and he painted two or three pictures as the fruits of that drive.
    EWI 11.101 27 In the oldest temples of Egypt, negro captives are painted on the tombs of kings, in such attitudes as to show that they are on the point of being executed;...
    PLT 12.34 8 We feel as if one man wrote all the books, painted, built, in dark ages;...
    PLT 12.49 8 I once found Page the painter modelling his figures in clay... before he painted them on canvas.
    CInt 12.122 23 We feel as if one man wrote all the books, painted, built, in dark ages...
    CInt 12.131 16 When the great painter was told by a dauber, I have painted five pictures whilst you have made one, he replied, Pingo in aeternitatem.
    MAng1 12.230 12 [The Sistine Chapel ceiling] is [Michelangelo's] capital work painted in fresco.
    MAng1 12.230 19 Upon the wall [of the Sistine Chapel], over the altar, is painted the Last Judgment.
    MAng1 12.234 11 When [Michelangelo] was informed that Paul IV. desired he should paint again the side of the chapel where the Last Judgment was painted, because of the indecorous nudity of the figures, he replied, Tell the Pope that this is easily done. Let him reform the world and he will find the pictures will reform themselves.
    MAng1 12.234 26 When the Pope suggested to him that the [Sistine] chapel would be enriched if the figures were ornamented with gold, Michael Angelo replied, In those days, gold was not worn; and the characters I have painted were neither rich nor desirous of wealth...
    MAng1 12.239 7 Michael Angelo said of Masaccio's pictures that when they were first painted they must have been alive.
    MLit 12.330 18 I find there [in Wilhelm Meister] actual men and women even too faithfully painted.
    MLit 12.335 11 In the gay saloon [man] laments that these figures are not what Raphael and Guercino painted.

painter, n. (41)

    Nat 1.24 6 The poet, the painter...seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point...
    Hist 2.16 18 A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree;...
    Hist 2.16 22 ...by watching for a time [a child's] motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at will in every attitude.
    SR 2.45 2 I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original...
    SL 2.165 11 ...the painter uses the conventional story of the Virgin Mary, of Paul, of Peter.
    Int 2.336 1 The rich inventive genius of the painter must be smothered and lost for want of the power of drawing...
    Int 2.337 1 Not by any conscious imitation of particular forms are the grand strokes of the painter executed...
    Art1 2.351 8 In landscapes the painter should give the suggestion of a fairer creation than we know.
    Art1 2.355 4 This...power to fix the momentary eminency of an object...the painter and sculptor exhibit in color and in stone.
    Pt1 3.8 2 ...[the poet] writes primarily what will and must be spoken, reckoning [the hero and the sage], though primaries also, yet, in respect to him, secondaries and servants; as sitters or models in the studio of a painter...
    Pt1 3.38 25 The painter, the sculptor, the composer, the epic rhapsodist, the orator, all partake one desire, namely to express themselves symmetrically and abundantly...
    Pt1 3.39 4 [Artists] found or put themselves in certain conditions, as, the painter and sculptor before some impressive human figures;...and each presently feels the new desire.
    Pt1 3.39 12 ...[the artist] says, with the old painter, By God it is in me and must go forth of me.
    Gts 3.161 15 The only gift is a portion of thyself. ... Therefore the poet brings his poem;...the painter, his picture;...
    ET13 5.224 18 [The English] put up no Socratic prayer, much less any saintly prayer for the Queen's mind;...but say bluntly, Grant her in health and wealth long to live. And one traces this Jewish prayer in all English private history, from the prayers of King Richard...to those in the diaries of Sir Samuel Romilly and of Haydon the painter.
    ET14 5.232 17 [The plain style] imports into [English] songs and ballads the smell of the earth...and, like a Dutch painter, seeks a household charm...
    ET14 5.246 19 [Dickens] is a painter of English details, like Hogarth;...
    ET17 5.294 7 At Edinburgh...I made the acquaintance...of the Messrs. Chambers, and of a man of high character and genius, the short-lived painter, David Scott.
    Pow 6.73 5 Ah! said a brave painter to me...if a man has failed, you will find he has dreamed instead of working.
    Wth 6.113 1 Allston the painter was wont to say that he built a plain house, and filled it with plain furniture, because he would hold out no bribe to any to visit him who had not similar tastes to his own.
    CbW 6.255 9 What would painter do...but for crucifixions and hells?
    Ill 6.313 5 Great is paint; nay, God is the painter;...
    Art2 7.46 27 The highest praise we can attribute to any writer, painter, sculptor, builder, is, that he actually possessed the thought or feeling with which he has inspired us
    Suc 7.284 9 ...Evelyn writes from Rome: Bernini, the Florentine sculptor, architect, painter and poet...gave a public opera, wherein he painted the scenes, cut the statues...
    Suc 7.310 3 The painter Giotto, Vasari tells us, renewed art because he put more goodness into his heads.
    PI 8.18 2 ...a painter, a sculptor, a musician, can in their several ways express the same sentiment of anger, or love, or religion.
    PI 8.27 15 In some individuals this insight or second sight has an extraordinary reach which compels our wonder, as in Behmen, Swedenborg and William Blake the painter.
    PI 8.27 22 William Blake...writes thus... The painter of this work asserts that all his imaginations appear to him infinitely more perfect and more minutely organized than anything seen by his mortal eye.
    Comc 8.169 21 The multiplication of artificial wants and expenses in civilized life, and the exaggeration of all trifling forms, present innumerable occasions for this discrepancy [between the man and his appearance] to expose itself. Such is the story told of the painter Astley...
    Comc 8.170 3 ...on the back of [Astley's] waistcoat a gay cascade was thundering down the rocks with foam and rainbow...a picture of his own, with which the poor painter had been fain to repair the shortcomings of his wardrobe.
    PPo 8.262 16 A painter in China once painted a hall;/ Such a web never hung on an emperor's wall;-/ One half from his brush with rich colors did run,/ The other he touched with a beam of the sun;/...
    Grts 8.305 21 ...there is the boy who is born with a taste for the sea... another will be a lawyer;...another, a painter, sculptor, architect or engineer.
    Imtl 8.339 11 Every really able man...a poet, a painter,-considers his work...as far short of what it should be.
    PerF 10.80 2 The geometer shows us the true order in figures; the painter in laws of color;...
    Wom 11.412 22 Beautiful is the passion of love, painter and adorner of youth and early life...
    FRep 11.512 9 The theatre avails itself of the best talent of poet, of painter, and of amateur of taste, to make the ensemble of dramatic effect.
    PLT 12.29 4 ...to the painter [Nature's] plumbago and marl are pencils and chromes.
    PLT 12.49 7 I once found Page the painter modelling his figures in clay... before he painted them on canvas.
    CInt 12.131 15 When the great painter was told by a dauber, I have painted five pictures whilst you have made one, he replied, Pingo in aeternitatem.
    MLit 12.322 23 ...radical, painter, composer,-all worked for [Goethe]...
    PPr 12.385 25 ...we may easily fail in expressing the general objection [to Carlyle's Past and Present] which we feel. It appears to us as a certain disproportion in the picture, caused by the obtrusion of the whims of the painter.

painters, n. (10)

    Nat 1.15 18 ...light is the first of painters.
    LT 1.264 25 Let us paint the painters.
    SL 2.147 22 ...it is not observed that the keepers of Roman galleries or the valets of painters have any elevation of thought...
    Pt1 3.28 12 ...a great number of such as were professionally expressers of Beauty, as painters, poets, musicians and actors, have been more than others wont to lead a life of pleasure and indulgence;...
    Bty 6.299 5 Portrait painters say that most faces and forms are irregular and unsymmetrical;...
    Elo2 8.131 26 ...in Germany we have seen a metaphysical zymosis culminating in Kant, Schelling, Schleiermacher, Schopenhauer, Hegel, and so ending. To this we might add the great eras not only of painters but of orators.
    SHC 11.435 6 The morning, the moonlight, the spring day, are magical painters...
    Scot 11.466 21 In the number and variety of his characters [Scott] approaches Shakspeare. Other painters in verse or prose have thrown into literature a few type-figures; as Cervantes, De Foe...
    EurB 12.370 18 A critical friend of ours affirms that the vice which bereaved modern painters of their power is the ambition to begin where their fathers ended;...
    EurB 12.370 22 The [modern] painters are not willing to paint ill enough;...

painter's, n. (2)

    YA 1.383 22 One man...with [a dime]...buys...pen, ink, and paper, or a painter's brush, by which he can communicate himself to the human race as if he were fire;...
    MAng1 12.220 15 Granacci, a painter's apprentice, having lent [Michelangelo], when a boy, a print of Saint Antony beaten by devils, together with some colors and pencils, he went to the fish-market to observe the form and color of fins and of the eyes of fish.

painting, n. (29)

    LE 1.157 1 ...the mark of American merit in painting...seems to be a certain grace without grandeur...
    YA 1.367 15 ...sculpture, painting, and religious and civil architecture have become effete...
    Art1 2.356 15 The office of painting and sculpture seems to be merely initial.
    Art1 2.356 21 Painting seems to be to the eye what dancing is to the limbs.
    Art1 2.356 25 ...painting teaches me the splendor of color...
    Art1 2.357 19 ...painting and sculpture are gymnastics of the eye...
    Art1 2.360 25 I remember when in my younger days I had heard of the wonders of Italian painting, I fancied the great pictures would be great strangers;...
    PNR 4.89 4 All [Plato's] painting in the Republic must be esteemed mythical...
    ShP 4.207 26 ...in [Shakespeare's] drama, as in all great works of art...in... the Italian painting...Genius draws up the ladder after him...
    ET1 5.7 27 [Landor] prefers John of Bologna to Michael Angelo; in painting, Raffaelle...
    ET8 5.135 22 Here [in England] was lately a cross-grained miser [Joseph Turner]...yet as true a worshipper of beauty in form and color as ever existed...making an era in painting;...
    ET14 5.234 11 Chaucer's hard painting of his Canterbury pilgrims satisfies the senses.
    Pow 6.66 14 ...in representations of the Deity, painting, poetry, and popular religion have ever drawn the wrath from Hell.
    Bhr 6.187 26 'T is hard to keep the what from breaking through this pretty painting of the how.
    Bty 6.290 16 The lesson taught by the study...of antique and of Pre-Raphaelite painting, was worth all the research,--namely, that all beauty must be organic;...
    Art2 7.45 18 ...how much is there that is not original...in every tune, painting, poem or harangue!...
    Art2 7.52 17 Painting was called silent poetry...
    Art2 7.52 18 Painting was called silent poetry, and poetry speaking painting.
    Cour 7.268 13 There is a courage in the treatment of every art by a master in architecture...in painting or in poetry...
    OA 7.322 17 We still feel the force...of Michel Angelo, wearing the four crowns of architecture, sculpture, painting and poetry;...
    PC 8.214 23 ...[the Middle Ages'] Gothic architecture, their painting, are the delight and tuition of ours.
    Dem1 10.12 17 The lovers...of what we call the occult and unproved sciences...of intercourse, by writing or by rapping or by painting, with departed spirits, need not reproach us with incredulity because we are slow to accept their statement.
    Schr 10.270 9 ...such is the gulf between our perception and our painting... that all the human race have agreed to value a man according to his power of expression.
    Wom 11.407 27 ...up to recent times, in no art or science, nor in painting, poetry or music, have [women] produced a masterpiece.
    Wom 11.408 19 ...there is an art which is better than painting, poetry, music, or architecture...namely Conversation.
    Scot 11.465 14 The tone of strength in Waverley...was more than justified by the superior genius of the following romances, up to the Bride of Lammermoor, which almost goes back to Aeschylus for a counterpart as a painting of Fate...
    MAng1 12.227 16 ...in painting, [Michelangelo] not only mixed but ground his colors himself...
    MAng1 12.228 2 [Michelangelo] finished the gigantic painting of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in twenty months...
    MAng1 12.241 20 So vehement was this desire [for death], that, [Michelangelo] says, my soul can no longer be appeased by the wonted seductions of painting and sculpture.

Painting, n. (2)

    Art2 7.43 7 Music, Eloquence, Poetry, Painting, Sculpture, Architecture. This is a rough enumeration of the Fine Arts.
    MAng1 12.216 9 [Michelangelo] is an eminent master in the four fine arts, Painting, Sculpture, Architecture and Poetry.

painting, v. (16)

    Comp 2.106 8 The human soul is true to these facts [of Compensation] in the painting of fable...
    Lov1 2.180 9 The god or hero of the sculptor is always represented in a transition from that which is representable to the senses, to that which is not. Then first it ceases to be a stone. The same remark holds of painting.
    Art1 2.352 10 What is a man but a finer and compacter landscape than the horizon figures...and what is...his love of painting...but a still finer success...
    Chr1 3.104 22 ...it is but poor chat and gossip to go to enumerate traits of this simple and rapid power [of character], and we are painting the lightning with charcoal;...
    Pow 6.79 13 ...six hours a day at painting, only to give command of the odious materials...
    Wth 6.114 17 ...if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider...
    Ctr 6.160 14 ...sculpture and painting have an effect to teach us manners and abolish hurry.
    Art2 7.44 8 In painting, bright colors stimulate the eye before yet they are harmonized into a landscape.
    Elo1 7.63 9 No one can survey the face of an excited assembly, without being apprised of new opportunity for painting in fire human thought...
    SA 8.105 1 The consolation and happy moment of life...is...a flame of affection or delight in the heart, burning up suddenly for its object;--as the love...of the boy for sea-life, or for painting...
    Aris 10.33 26 ...I notice also that [the finer qualities] may become fixed and permanent in any stock, by painting and repainting them on every individual...
    Wom 11.417 18 ...it would be easy for women to retaliate in kind, by painting men from the dogs and gorillas that have worn our shape.
    CL 12.151 13 ...the oak and maple are red with the same colors on the new leaf which they will resume in autumn when it is ripe. In June, the miracle works faster, Painting with white and red the moors/ To draw the nations out of doors./
    ACri 12.302 12 [Channing] is the April day incarnated and walking... painting all things its own color.
    MLit 12.329 24 [We can fancy Goethe saying to himself] ...every keen beholder of life will justify my truth [in Wilhelm Meister], and will acquit me of prejudging the cause of humanity by painting it with this morose fidelity.
    WSL 12.344 18 ...there is a noble nature within [Landor] which instructs him that he is so rich that he can well spare all his trappings, and, leaving to others the painting of circumstance, aspire to the office of delineating character.

paintings, n. (7)

    Prd1 2.229 6 I have seen a criticism on some paintings, of which I am reminded when I see the shiftless and unhappy men who are not true to their senses.
    Art1 2.361 22 [At Naples] I saw that nothing was changed with me but the place... That fact I saw again in the Academmia at Naples...and yet again when I came to Rome and to the paintings of Raphael...
    PPh 4.50 27 As if [Krishna] had said, All is for the soul, and the soul is Vishnu; and animals and stars are transient paintings;...
    MoL 10.243 23 The Egyptian built Thebes and Karnak on a scale which dwarfs our art, and by the paintings on their interior walls invited us into the secret of the religious belief whence he drew such power.
    MAng1 12.222 18 Not easily in this age will any man acquire by himself such perceptions of the dignity or grace of the human frame as the student of art owes to...the paintings and statues of Michael Angelo...
    MAng1 12.229 11 The style of [Michelangelo's] paintings is monumental;...
    MAng1 12.230 6 [Michelangelo's] paintings are in the Sistine Chapel...

paint-pot, n. (1)

    PI 8.41 1 Now at this rare elevation above his usual sphere...[the poet] is permitted to dip his brush into the old paint-pot with which birds, flowers, the human cheek, the living rock, the broad landscape, the ocean and the eternal sky were painted.

paints, v. (21)

    Nat 1.47 19 ...what difference does it make, whether Orion is up there in heaven, or some god paints the image in the firmament of the soul?
    Nat 1.60 9 [Idealism] beholds the whole circle of persons and things...as one vast picture which God paints on the instant eternity...
    AmS 1.99 4 ...when the fancy no longer paints...[the artist] has always the resource to live.
    DSA 1.131 5 ...the language that describes Christ...paints a demigod...
    Comp 2.121 10 Nothing, Falsehood, may indeed stand as the great Night or shade on which as a background the living universe paints itself forth...
    Lov1 2.170 23 He who paints [love] at the first period will lose some of its later...traits.
    Lov1 2.170 24 He who paints [love] at the first period will lose some of its later, he who paints it at the last, some of its earlier traits.
    Int 2.337 26 ...the mystic pencil wherewith we...draw [in unconscious states]...can design well and group well;...and the whole canvas which it paints is lifelike...
    Art1 2.357 6 ...then is my eye opened to the eternal picture which nature paints in the street...
    Pol1 3.201 7 What the tender poetic youth dreams, and prays, and paints to-day... shall presently be the resolutions of public bodies;...
    PPh 4.60 16 ...[Plato] paints and quibbles;...
    PNR 4.87 18 [Plato] describes his own ideal, when he paints...a god leading things from disorder into order.
    SwM 4.142 6 These angels that Swedenborg paints give us no very high idea of their discipline and culture...
    Art2 7.47 23 Nature paints the best part of the picture...
    Art2 7.52 13 Raphael paints wisdom...
    PI 8.29 12 Fancy paints; imagination sculptures.
    MMEm 10.422 25 Channing paints [war's] miseries, but does he know those of a worse war,-private animosities...
    FSLC 11.209 23 The sun paints; presently we shall organize the echo, as now we do the shadow.
    Wom 11.410 22 ...man invents and adorns all he does with delays and degrees, paints it all over with forms...
    II 12.71 2 In the healthy mind, the thought...paints itself in wonderful symbols...
    CL 12.145 8 The American sun paints itself in these glowing balls [apples]...

pair, n. (30)

    MR 1.242 2 ...there were two pairs of eyes in man, and it is requisite that the pair which are beneath should be closed, when the pair that are above them perceive...
    MR 1.242 3 ...there were two pairs of eyes in man, and it is requisite that the pair which are beneath should be closed, when the pair that are above them perceive...
    MR 1.242 4 ...there were two pairs of eyes in man, and it is requisite that... when the pair above are closed, those which are beneath should be opened.
    MR 1.252 27 In every household, the peace of a pair is poisoned by the malice...of domestics.
    Lov1 2.184 27 Life, with this pair [Romeo and Juliet], has no other aim, asks no more, than Juliet,--than Romeo.
    Mrs1 3.135 19 Cardinal Caprara...defended himself from the glances of Napoleon by an immense pair of green spectacles.
    Mrs1 3.135 23 ...Napoleon...was not great enough...to face a pair of freeborn eyes...
    Pol1 3.214 18 This undertaking for another is the blunder which stands in colossal ugliness in the governments of the world. It is the same thing in numbers, as in a pair, only not quite so intelligible.
    Pol1 3.221 27 ...there are now men...to whom no weight of adverse experience will make it for a moment appear impossible that thousands of human beings might exercise towards each other the grandest and simplest sentiments, as well as...a pair of lovers.
    NR 3.248 10 I talked yesterday with a pair of philosophers;...
    MoS 4.166 23 Over his name [Montaigne] drew an emblematic pair of scales, and wrote Que scais je? under it.
    ET4 5.58 23 A pair of [Norse] kings, after dinner, will divert themselves by thrusting each his sword through the other's body...
    ET4 5.58 26 Another pair [of Norse kings] ride out on a morning for a frolic, and finding no weapon near, will take the bits out of their horses' mouths and crush each other's heads with them...
    ET19 5.310 17 ...as for Dombey...there is...no man who can read, that does not read it, and, if he cannot, he finds some charitable pair of eyes that can, and hears it.
    F 6.11 2 Let [a man] value his hands and feet, he has but one pair.
    Pow 6.59 9 When a new boy comes into school...that happens which befalls when a strange ox is driven into a pen or pasture where cattle are kept; there is at once a trial of strength between the best pair of horns and the new-comer...
    Pow 6.77 2 Dr. Johnson said...Miserable beyond all names of wretchedness is that unhappy pair, who are doomed to reduce beforehand to the principles of abstract reason all the details of each domestic day.
    Ctr 6.132 6 The physician Sanctorius spent his life in a pair of scales, weighing his food.
    Elo1 7.64 21 ...the end of eloquence is...to alter in a pair of hours...the convictions and habits of years.
    Cour 7.258 14 ...I remember when a pair of Irish girls who had been run away with in a wagon by a skittish horse, said that when he began to rear, they were so frightened that they could not see the horse.
    Cour 7.278 23 The boy turned round with screams,/ And ran with terror wild;/ One of the pair of savage beasts/ Pursued the shrieking child./
    PI 8.13 2 When some familiar truth or fact appears...equipped with a grand pair of ballooning wings, we cannot enough testify our surprise and pleasure.
    PI 8.23 25 The senses imprison us, and we help them with metres as limitary,--with a pair of scales and a foot-rule and a clock.
    Edc1 10.125 17 ...the poor man, whom the law does not allow to take...a pair of shoes for his freezing feet, is allowed to put his hand into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall educate me...
    Prch 10.237 11 There are two pairs of eyes in man; and it is requisite that the pair which are beneath should be closed when the pair that are above them perceive;...
    Prch 10.237 12 There are two pairs of eyes in man; and it is requisite that the pair which are beneath should be closed when the pair that are above them perceive;...
    Prch 10.237 13 There are two pairs of eyes in man; and it is requisite that... when the pair above are closed, those which are beneath are opened.
    AsSu 11.251 15 ...this noble head [Charles Sumner]...must be the target for a pair of bullies to beat with clubs.
    PLT 12.5 12 Our metaphysics should be able to...name the pair identical through all variety.
    PLT 12.51 27 Not having enough [thought] to support all the powers of a race, [Nature] thins all her stock, and raises a few individuals, or only a pair.

pair, v. (1)

    Con 1.302 1 ...we must...suffer men...to pair off into insane parties, and learn the amount of truth each knows by the denial of an equal amount of truth.

paired, v. (2)

    Fdsp 2.206 16 Friendship may be said to require natures...each so well tempered and so happily adapted, and withal so circumstanced (for even in that particular, a poet says, love demands that the parties be altogether paired), that its satisfaction can very seldom be assured.
    CbW 6.250 8 Suppose the three hundred heroes at Thermopylae had paired off with three hundred Persians;...

pairing, adj. (1)

    Pt1 3.1 10 A moody child and wildly wise/ Pursued the game with joyful eyes,/ .../ Through worlds, and races, and terms, and times/ Saw musical order, and pairing rhymes./

pairing, v. (4)

    Pt1 3.25 23 The pairing of the birds is an idyl...
    SwM 4.128 27 Heaven is not the pairing of two, but the communion of all souls.
    CbW 6.250 3 What a vicious practice is this of our politicians at Washington pairing off!...
    CbW 6.267 25 ...'t is strange how tenaciously we cling to that bell-astronomy of a protecting domestic horizon. I find the same illusion in the search after happiness which I observe every summer recommenced in this neighborhood, soon after the pairing of the birds.

pairs, n. (10)

    MR 1.242 1 I would not quite forget the venerable counsel of the Egyptian mysteries, which declared that there were two pairs of eyes in man...
    Hsm1 2.253 2 What a disgrace is it to me to take note how many pairs of silk stockings thou hast...
    Pt1 3.40 21 All the creatures by pairs and by tribes pour into [the poet's] mind as into a Noah's ark...
    SS 7.14 12 Put any company of people together with freedom for conversation, and a rapid self-distribution takes place into sets and pairs.
    SS 7.14 24 Put Stubbs and Coleridge, Quintilian and Aunt Miriam, into pairs, and you make them all wretched.
    Clbs 7.230 7 ...thoughts commonly go in pairs;...
    Clbs 7.230 9 Things are in pairs...
    PI 8.47 4 Young people like...things in pairs and alternatives;...
    PI 8.49 13 [The elemental forces] furnish the poet with grander pairs and alternations...
    Prch 10.237 10 There are two pairs of eyes in man;...

Paisley, Scotland, n. (1)

    Wth 6.105 7 If the Rothschilds at Paris do not accept bills, the people at Manchester, at Paisley...are forced into the highway...

palace, adj. (2)

    ET2 5.32 20 ...I think the white path of an Atlantic ship the right avenue to the palace front of this seafaring people [the English]...
    Bhr 6.183 11 ...we must not peep and eavesdrop at palace doors.

Palace, Crystal, England, n (1)

    ET10 5.156 4 The Crystal Palace is not considered honest until it pays;...

palace, n. (36)

    Nat 1.64 21 This [spiritual] view, which...points to virtue as to The golden key/ Which opes the palace of eternity,/ carries upon its face the highest certificate of truth...
    MN 1.205 23 ...O rich and various Man! thou palace of sight and sound......
    MR 1.251 22 [Caliph Omar's] palace was built of mud;...
    SR 2.62 4 To [the man in the street] a palace, a statue, or a costly book have an alien and forbidding air...
    Lov1 2.177 8 [The lover] is a palace of sweet sounds and sights;...
    Lov1 2.182 4 ...if...the soul passes through the body and falls to admire strokes of character, and the lovers contemplate one another in their discourses and their actions, then they pass to the true palace of beauty...
    Hsm1 2.253 17 When I was in Sogd I saw a great building, like a palace...
    Mrs1 3.140 14 [One] must leave the omniscience of business at the door, when he comes into the palace of beauty.
    Nat2 3.178 10 If the king is in the palace, nobody looks at the walls.
    Nat2 3.182 20 The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature...
    Nat2 3.190 21 This palace of brick and stone...all for a little conversation, high, clear and spiritual!
    Pol1 3.216 11 [The wise man] needs...no bribe, or feast, or palace, to draw friends to him;...
    ShP 4.194 24 As soon as the statue was begun for itself, and with no reference to the temple or palace, the art began to decline...
    NMW 4.252 2 In intervals of leisure, either in the camp or the palace, Napoleon appears as a man of genius...
    ET9 5.145 8 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.
    ET11 5.181 24 Stafford House is the noblest palace in London.
    Bhr 6.170 9 Genius invents fine manners, which the baron and the baroness copy very fast, and by the advantage of a palace, better the instruction.
    Bty 6.292 6 The pleasure a palace or a temple gives the eye is, that an order and method has been communicated to stones...
    PPo 8.241 10 ...when the Queen of Sheba came to visit Solomon, he had built, against her arrival, a palace...
    PPo 8.242 4 Firdusi...has written in the Shah Nameh the annals...of Kai Kaus, in whose palace...gold and silver and precious stones were used so lavishly that in the brilliancy produced by their combined effect, night and day appeared the same;...
    PPo 8.251 22 It is told of Hafiz, that, when he had written a compliment to a handsome youth...the verses came to the ears of Timour in his palace.
    PPo 8.256 3 Come!-the palace of heaven rests on aery pillars,-/ Come, and bring me wine; our days are wind./
    PPo 8.260 20 I have sought for thee a costlier dome/ Than Mahmoud's palace high,/ And thou, returning, find thy home/ In the apple of Love's eye./
    PPo 8.263 2 I read on the porch of a palace bold/ In a purple tablet letters cast,-/ A house though a million winters old,/ A house of earth comes down at last;/...
    Imtl 8.325 5 Every [Egyptian] palace was a door to a pyramid...
    Imtl 8.336 13 Nature does not, like the Empress Anne of Russia, call together all the architectural genius of the Empire to build and finish and furnish a palace of snow...
    Aris 10.42 4 [Ulysses]...in his own palace carves a bedstead out of the trunk of a tree...
    Schr 10.270 23 Genius is a poor man and has no house, but see, this proud landlord who has built the palace...opens it to him...
    Schr 10.270 26 Where is the palace in England whose tenants are not too happy if it can make a home for Pope or Addison...
    Plu 10.321 14 [The language of the 1718 edition of Plutarch] runs through the whole scale of conversation in...the palace, the college and the church.
    MMEm 10.409 4 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 apartments of social affections...
    Thor 10.482 16 The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length the middle-aged man concludes to build a wood-shed with them.
    Koss 11.401 3 You [Kossuth] have got your story told in every palace and log hut and prairie camp, throughout the continent.
    CInt 12.119 17 I value dearly...the architect with his palace...
    MAng1 12.243 21 Here [in Florence] is the church, the palace, the Laurentian library, [Michelangelo] built.
    EurB 12.367 2 ...a palace might well be magnificent, but first it must be a house.

Palace, Rondanini, Rome, I (1)

    MAng1 12.222 24 Goethe says that he is but half himself who has never seen the Juno in the Rondanini Palace at Rome.

Palaces, Crystal, n. (1)

    Wsp 6.225 8 The way to conquer the foreign artisan is, not to kill him, but to beat his work. And the Crystal Palaces and World Fairs...are the result of this feeling.

palaces, n. (36)

    Con 1.311 4 [Existing institutions] have lost no time and spared no expense to collect libraries, museums, galleries, colleges, palaces, hospitals, observatories, cities.
    Con 1.311 21 ...for thee the hospitable North opens its heated palaces under the polar circle;...
    Con 1.311 23 ...for thee...fleets of floating palaces...swim by sail and by steam through all the waters of this world.
    Hist 2.6 16 Universal history, the poets, the romancers, do not in their stateliest pictures,--in the sacerdotal, the imperial palaces...anywhere make us feel...that this is for better men;...
    SR 2.82 3 I seek the Vatican and the palaces.
    SL 2.165 21 If the poet write a true drama, then he is Caesar...then the selfsame strain of thought...and a heart...which on the waves of its love and hope can uplift all that is reckoned solid and precious in the world,-- palaces, gardens, money, navies, kingdoms...these all are his...
    Nat2 3.173 15 ...I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle I...pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight... I am taught...the ugliness of towns and palaces.
    Nat2 3.174 9 These bribe and invite; not kings, not palaces, not men, not women, but these tender and poetic stars, eloquent of secret promises.
    NMW 4.225 26 [The man in the street] finds [Napoleon], like himself, by birth a citizen, who, by very intelligible merits, arrived as such a commanding position that he could indulge all those tastes which the common man possesses but is obliged to conceal and deny:...the refined enjoyments of...palaces and conventional honors...
    NMW 4.240 4 When the expenses...of his palaces, had accumulated great debts, Napoleon examined the bills of the creditors himself...
    ET3 5.38 9 ...[England] is stuffed full, in all corners and crevices, with towns, towers, churches, villas, palaces, hospitals and charity-houses.
    ET10 5.163 5 A hundred thousand palaces adorn the island [England].
    ET11 5.172 5 Palaces, halls, villas, walled parks, all over England, rival the splendor of royal seats.
    ET11 5.181 11 In evidence of the wealth amassed by ancient [English] families, the traveller is shown the palaces in Piccadilly...
    ET11 5.182 3 A multitude of town palaces [in London] contain inestimable galleries of art.
    ET12 5.206 4 If a young American...were offered a home, a table, the walks and the library in one of these academical palaces [at Oxford]...he would dance for joy.
    Wth 6.91 5 ...when one observes in the hotels and palaces of our Atlantic capitals the habit of expense...he feels that when a man or a woman is driven to the wall, the chances of integrity are frightfully diminished;...
    Bhr 6.170 23 Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
    Bhr 6.182 16 Palaces interest us mainly in the exhibition of manners...
    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.
    SS 7.1 8 ...nor loved [Seyd] less/ Stately lords in palaces/...
    SS 7.15 21 We require such a solitude as shall hold us to its revelations when we are in the street and in palaces;...
    DL 7.118 18 ...only the low habits need palaces and banquets.
    Farm 7.153 12 ...[the farmer] would not shine in palaces;...
    Boks 7.192 22 It seems...as if some charitable soul...would do a right act in naming those [books] which have been bridges or ships to carry him safely... into palaces and temples.
    Boks 7.215 15 ...'t is pity [people] should not read novels a little more, to import the fine generosities and the clear, firm conduct, which are as becoming in the unions and separations which love effects under shingle roofs as in palaces and among illustrious personages.
    Clbs 7.243 3 It was the Marchioness of Rambouillet who first got the horses out of and the scholars into the palaces...
    PPo 8.263 9 What need, cries the mystic Feisi, of palaces and tapestry?
    Aris 10.62 18 ...[the gentleman] will find...in English palaces the London twist, derision, coldness...
    Edc1 10.126 6 All the fairy tales of Aladdin...or the talisman that opens kings' palaces...are only fictions to indicate the one miracle of intellectual enlargement.
    LLNE 10.347 17 ...Ah, [Robert Owen] said...there are as tender hearts and as much good will to serve men, in palaces, as in colleges.
    LLNE 10.348 7 [Fourier] took his measure of that which all should and might enjoy...from the refinements of palaces, the wealth of universities and the triumphs of artists.
    FSLC 11.196 10 No government ever found it hard to pick up tools for base actions. If you cannot find them in the huts of the poor, you shall find them in the palaces of the rich.
    Shak1 11.451 1 The palaces [Englishmen] compass earth and sea to enter, the magnificence and personages of royal and imperial abodes, are shabby imitations and caricatures of [Shakespeare's]...
    Milt1 12.261 7 ...[Milton]...searched the kennel and jakes as well as the palaces of sound for the harsh discords of his polemic wrath.
    EurB 12.370 9 The elegance, the wit and subtlety of this writer [Tennyson]...discriminate the musky poet...of parks and palaces.

palaeontology, n. (1)

    PLT 12.49 26 The same functions which are perfect in our quadrupeds are seen slower performed in palaeontology.

palaiotheria, n. (1)

    MN 1.205 17 See the play of thoughts!...what saurians, what palaiotheria shall be named with these agile movers?

palatable, adj. (1)

    NER 3.252 18 It was in vain urged by the housewife...that fermentation develops the saccharine element in the grain, and makes it more palatable and more digestible.

palate, n. (3)

    Prd1 2.223 13 The world is filled with the proverbs and acts and winkings of a base prudence, which is a devotion to matter, as if we possessed no other faculties than the palate, the nose...
    Ctr 6.154 16 The least habit of dominion over the palate has certain good effects not easily estimated.
    Thor 10.482 22 Sugar is not so sweet to the palate as sound to the healthy ear.

palates, n. (1)

    Mrs1 3.137 25 Must we have a good understanding with one another's palates?...

palatial, adj. (1)

    PPh 4.57 24 With the palatial air there is [in Plato]...a certain earnestness...

Palatinus, Pons, Rome, Ita (1)

    MAng1 12.226 2 [Michelangelo] was charged with rebuilding the Pons Palatinus over the Tiber.

pale, adj. (22)

    Nat 1.69 19 ...[Man] treads down that which doth befriend him/ When sickness makes him pale and wan./
    AmS 1.109 21 ...the time is...Sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought./
    LT 1.262 25 How [persons] make the tears start, make us blush and turn pale...
    Lov1 2.177 2 Fountain-heads and pathless groves,/ Places which pale passion loves,/ Moonlight walks, when all the fowls/ Are safely housed, save bats and owls,/ A midnight bell, a passing groan,--/ These are the sounds we [lovers] feed upon./
    Exp 3.58 24 At Education Farm the noblest theory of life sat on the noblest figures of young men and maidens, quite powerless and melancholy. It would not rake or pitch a ton of hay;...and the men and maidens it left pale and hungry.
    Mrs1 3.124 10 The society of the energetic class...is full...of attempts which intimidate the pale scholar.
    MoS 4.155 21 The studious class are their own victims; they are thin and pale...
    Wth 6.115 4 ...the pale scholar leaves his desk to draw a freer breath...in the garden-walk.
    CbW 6.263 11 I figure [sickness] as a pale, wailing, distracted phantom...
    PI 8.55 16 Welcome, folded arms and fixed eyes,/...Fountain-heads and pathless groves,/ Places which pale Passion loves/...
    Chr2 10.112 18 Our religion has got on as far as Unitarianism. But all the forms grow pale.
    SovE 10.204 18 Luther would cut his hand off sooner than write theses against the pope if he suspected that he was bringing on with all his might the pale negations of Boston Unitarianism.
    HDC 11.62 14 Alas! for [the Indians]-their day is o'er,/ Their fires are out from hill and shore,/ No more for them the wild deer bounds,/ The plough is on their hunting grounds;/ The pale man's axe rings in their woods,/ The pale man's sail skims o'er their floods,/ Their pleasant springs are dry./
    HDC 11.62 15 Alas! for [the Indians]-their day is o'er,/ Their fires are out from hill and shore,/ No more for them the wild deer bounds,/ The plough is on their hunting grounds;/ The pale man's axe rings in their woods,/ The pale man's sail skims o'er their floods,/ Their pleasant springs are dry./
    LVB 11.92 1 Men and women with pale and perplexed faces meet one another in the streets and churches here, and ask if this [relocation of the Cherokees] be so.
    SMC 11.356 10 ...when the Border raids were let loose on [Kansas] villages, these people, who turned pale at home if called to dress a cut finger...were so beside themselves with rage, that they became on the instant the bravest soldiers and the most determined avengers.
    Wom 11.407 25 Mrs. Lucy Hutchinson...who wrote the life of her husband...says, If he esteemed her at a higher rate than she in herself could have deserved...she only reflected his own glories upon him. All that she was, was him, while he was hers, and all that she is now, at best, but his pale shade.
    SHC 11.428 5 ...Here the green pines delight, the aspen droops/ Along the modest pathways, and those fair/ Pale asters of the season spread their plumes/ Around this field, fit garden for our tombs./
    SHC 11.428 18 ...Prison thy soul from malice, bar out pride,/ Nor these pale flowers nor this still field deride:/...
    II 12.88 4 It seems to me, as if men stood craving a more stringent creed than any of the pale and enervating systems to which they have had recourse.
    MLit 12.318 1 There are...sentiments...which are soothed...by the pale stars...
    Let 12.398 5 ...the noblest youths are in a few years converted into pale Caryatides...

pale, n. (2)

    NMW 4.250 13 In 1806 [Napoleon] conversed with Fournier, bishop of Montpellier, on matters of theology. There were two points on which they could not agree, viz. that of hell, and that of salvation out of the pale of the church.
    MMEm 10.424 27 'T is not in the nature of existence, while there is a God, to be without the pale of excitement.

pale, v. (2)

    Chr2 10.106 11 Our ancestors spoke continually of angels and archangels with the same good faith as they would have spoken of their own parents or their late minister. Now the words pale...
    MLit 12.333 17 What is Austria? What is England? What is our graduated and petrified social scale of ranks and employments? Shall not a poet redeem us from these idolatries, and pale their legendary lustre before the fires of the Divine Wisdom which burn in his heart?

paleontologist, n. (1)

    PI 8.50 21 Richard Owen, the eminent paleontologist, said:--All hitherto observed causes of extirpation point either to continuous slowly operating geologic changes, or to no greater sudden cause than the, so to speak, spectral appearance of mankind on a limited tract of land not before inhabited.

paleontology, n. (1)

    PNR 4.81 7 [Nature] waited tranquilly the flowing periods of paleontology...

Palermo, Italy, n. (1)

    Ctr 6.152 22 ...I remember one rainy morning in the city of Palermo the street was in a blaze with scarlet umbrellas.

pales, n. (1)

    MMEm 10.409 11 ...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. All say-Forbear to enter the pales of the initiated by birth, wealth, talents and patronage.

pales, v. (1)

    Cir 2.306 2 ...presently, all its energy spent, [the new statement] pales and dwindles before the revelation of the new hour.

Palestine, n. (6)

    AmS 1.97 24 Authors we have, in numbers...who...sail for Greece or Palestine...to replenish their merchantable stock.
    DSA 1.126 14 This [moral] thought dwelled always deepest in the minds of men in the devout and contemplative East; not alone in Palestine...
    Hist 2.9 9 Babylon, Troy, Tyre, Palestine, and even early Rome are passing already into fiction.
    SwM 4.135 1 Palestine is ever the more valuable as a chapter in universal history, and ever the less an available element in education.
    EWI 11.122 27 [The civility] of Athens...lay in an intellect dedicated to beauty. That of Asia Minor in poetry, music and arts; that of Palestine in piety;...
    ACri 12.302 17 [Channing] thinks...Palestine used up...

Paley, William, n. (1)

    OS 2.287 9 The great distinction...between philosophers like Spinoza, Kant and Coleridge, and philosophers like Locke, Paley, Mackintosh and Stewart...is that one class speak from within...and the other class from without...

Palgrave, Francis Turner, n (1)

    Boks 7.206 26 [The scholar] can look back for the legends and mythology... to the researches of Sharon Turner and Palgrave.

paling, n. (3)

    ET10 5.165 3 An Englishman hears that the Queen Dowager wishes to establish some claim to put her park paling a rod forward into his grounds...
    ET10 5.165 5 An Englishman hears that the Queen Dowager wishes to establish some claim to put her park paling a rod forward into his grounds, so as to get a coachway and save her a mile to the avenue. Instantly he transforms his paling into stone-masonry...
    Ctr 6.149 9 In the country, in long time, for want of good conversation, one's understanding and invention contract a moss on them, like an old paling in an orchard.

pall, n. (1)

    Fdsp 2.205 10 We chide the citizen because he makes love a commodity. It...holds the pall at the funeral;...

Palladio, Andrea, n. (1)

    DL 7.104 16 Out of blocks, thread-spools, cards and checkers, [the child] will build his pyramid with the gravity of Palladio.

palladium, n. (1)

    FSLC 11.192 17 The practitioners [of law] should guard this dogma [that immoral laws are void] well, as the palladium of the profession...

pall-bearers, n. (2)

    LE 1.160 2 ...now will we live-live for ourselves,-and not as the pall-bearers of a funeral...
    Elo1 7.65 26 [Eloquence] is that despotism which poets have celebrated in the Pied Piper of Hamelin...or that of the minstrel of Meudon, who made the pall-bearers dance around the bier.

palliation, n. (1)

    Schr 10.268 25 ...if [the practical men] parade their business and public importance, it is by way of apology and palliation for not being the students and obeyers of those diviner laws.

pallor, n. (1)

    MoS 4.155 24 The studious class are their own victims;...the night is without sleep, the day a fear of interruption,--pallor, squalor, hunger and egotism.

palls, v. (1)

    MMEm 10.426 13 Sadness is better than walking talking acting somnambulism. Yes, this entire solitude with the Being who makes the powers of life! Even Fame which lives in other states of Virtue, palls.

palm, n. (8)

    Nat 1.16 10 ...almost all the individual forms [in nature] are agreeable to the eye, as is proved by our endless imitations of some of them, as...forms of many trees, as the palm.
    MN 1.201 14 Nature knows neither palm nor oak, but only vegetable life...
    Hist 2.21 15 ...the Persian imitated in the slender shafts and capitals of his architecture the stem and flower of the lotus and palm...
    UGM 4.6 3 Man is that noble endogenous plant which grows, like the palm, from within outward.
    Suc 7.299 23 You walk on the beach and enjoy the animation of the picture. Scoop up a little water in the hollow of your palm, take up a handful of shore sand; well, these are the elements.
    PPo 8.256 30 The cedar, the cypress, the palm, the olive and fig-tree...are never wanting in these musky verses [of Hafiz]...
    MMEm 10.429 25 ...I [Mary Moody Emerson] am resigned to being nothing, never expect a palm, a laurel, hereafter.
    SHC 11.434 10 Sleepy Hollow. In this quiet valley, as in the palm of Nature's hand, we shall sleep well when we have finished our day.

palm, v. (1)

    Tran 1.336 6 ...[the Transcendentalist] resists all attempts to palm other rules and measures on the spirit than its own.

Palmer, Edward, n. (1)

    CSC 10.375 14 ...Edward, Palmer, Jones Very, Maria W. Chapman and many other persons of a mystical or sectarian or philanthropic renown, were present [at the Chardon Street Convention]...

palmers, n. (1)

    CL 12.136 10 Chaucer notes of the month of April, Than longen folk to goon on pilgrymages,/ And palmers for to seken straunge strondes,/ To ferne halwes, couthe in sondry londes./

Palmerston, Lord [Henry Jo (1)

    FSLN 11.240 12 ...all the statesmen, Guizot, Palmerston, Webster, Calhoun, are sure to be found befriending liberty with their words, and crushing it with their votes.

Palmerston, Lord [Henry Te (1)

    ET5 5.86 5 Lord Palmerston told the House of Commons that more care is taken of the health and comfort of English troops than of any other troops in the world;...

palmetto, n. (1)

    Pt1 3.16 20 Witness...the palmetto, and all the cognizances of party.

palm-grove, n. (1)

    PPo 8.236 8 As Jelaleddin old and gray,/ [Saadi] seemed to bask, to dream and play/ Without remoter hope or fear/ Than still to entertain his ear/ And pass the burning summer-time/ In the palm-grove with a rhyme;/...

palm-groves, n. (1)

    Nat 1.21 6 Does not the New World clothe [Columbus's] form with her palm-groves and savannahs as fit drapery?

palm-houses, n. (1)

    CW 12.173 17 ...nothing in Europe is more elaborately luxurious than the costly gardens...with their greenhouses, conservatories, palm-houses...

palmiest, adj. (1)

    ET15 5.263 17 I asked one of [the London Times's] old contributors whether it had once been abler than it is now? Never, he said; these are its palmiest days.

palmistry, n. (4)

    Pt1 3.32 21 All the value which attaches to...Oken, or any other who introduces questionable facts into his cosmogony, as...palmistry, mesmerism, and so on, is the certificate we have of departure from routine, and that here is a new witness.
    Nat2 3.179 7 Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology;...and anatomy and physiology become phrenology and palmistry.
    Dem1 10.10 21 We doubt not a man's fortune may be read in the lines of his hand, by palmistry;...
    LLNE 10.327 25 Astrology, magic, palmistry, are long gone.

palms, n. (5)

    SR 2.50 8 He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness...
    ET5 5.94 24 Let India boast her palms, nor envy we/ The weeping amber, nor the spicy tree,/ While, by our oaks, those precious loads are borne,/ And realms commanded which those trees adorn./
    Wth 6.83 26 ...Who saw what ferns and palms were pressed/ Under the tumbling mountain's breast,/ In the safe herbal of the coal?/
    Imtl 8.344 18 The revelation that is true is written on the palms of the hands, the thought of our mind, the desire of our heart, or nowhere.
    Schr 10.268 15 Love, Rectitude, everlasting Fame, will come to each of you in loneliest places with their grand alternatives, and Honor watches to see whether you dare seize the palms.

palm-tree, n. (1)

    Imtl 8.335 3 The mind delights in immense time; delights...in the age of trees...in the noble toughness and imperishableness of the palm-tree...

palm-trees, n. (1)

    SwM 4.136 9 Of all absurdities, this of some foreigner proposing to take away my rhetoric and substitute his own, and amuse me with...palm-trees and shittim-wood, instead of sassafras and hickory,--seems the most needless.

Palmyra, n. (1)

    SR 2.81 19 In Thebes, in Palmyra, [the traveller's] will and mind have become old and dilapidated as they.

Palos, Spain, n. (1)

    Bost 12.199 25 What should hinder that this America...the firm shore hid until...a man should be found who should sail steadily west fixty-eight days from the port of Palos to find it...should have its happy ports...

palpable, adj. (3)

    ET14 5.233 19 [The Englishman's] mind must stand on a fact. He will not be baffled, or catch at clouds, but the mind must have a symbol palpable and resisting.
    PI 8.27 9 ...as a talent [poetry] is a magnetic tenaciousness of an image, and by the treatment demonstrating that this pigment of thought is as palpable and objective to the poet as is the ground on which he stands...
    Schr 10.276 4 There is a great deal of spiritual energy in the universe, but it is not palpable to us until we can make it up into man.

palpably, adv. (2)

    Nat2 3.174 27 A boy hears a military band play on the field at night, and he has kings and queens and famous chivalry palpably before him.
    Elo2 8.131 13 Your argument is ingenious...but your major proposition palpably absurd. Will you establish a lie?

palpitation, n. (2)

    Fdsp 2.192 6 See, in any house where virtue and self-respect abide, the palpitation which the approach of a stranger causes.
    Int 2.337 13 ...a beautiful face sets twenty hearts in palpitation...

palsy, n. (3)

    NER 3.267 26 ...[our system of education] is open to graver criticism than the palsy of its members...
    F 6.13 25 ...strong natures...are inevitable patriots, until...their defects and gout, palsy and money, warp them.
    PLT 12.26 24 ...no wine, music or exhilarating aids...avail at all to resist the palsy of mis-association.

palter, v. (1)

    EWI 11.139 3 What happened notoriously to an American ambassador in England, that he found himself compelled to palter and to disguise the fact that he was a slave-breeder, happens to men of state.

paltering, adj. (1)

    Bty 6.279 24 While thus to love [Seyd] gave his days/ In loyal worship, scorning praise,/ How spread their lures for him, in vain,/ Thieving Ambition and paltering Gain!/

paltering, n. (1)

    Thor 10.478 23 [Thoreau] detected paltering as readily in dignified and prosperous persons as in beggars...

paltering, v. (1)

    ET7 5.118 12 ...the cause is damaged in the [English] public opinion, on which any paltering can be fixed.

palters, v. (1)

    LT 1.280 16 I am not mortified by our vice;...it colors and palters...and I can see to the end of it;...

paltriness, n. (2)

    Art1 2.364 16 ...there is a certain appearance of paltriness...in sculpture.
    WD 7.166 11 Here is greatness begotten of paltriness.

paltry, adj. (19)

    MR 1.250 8 ...I see at once how paltry is all this generation of unbelievers...
    Tran 1.349 4 What you call...your great and holy causes, seem to [Transcendentalists]...paltry matters.
    Prd1 2.233 20 ...who has not seen the tragedy of imprudent genius struggling for years with paltry pecuniary difficulties, at last sinking, chilled, exhausted and fruitless...
    Prd1 2.236 7 ...let [a man]...feel the admonition to...keep a slender human word among the storms , distances and accidents that drive us hither and thither, and, by persistency, make the paltry force of one man reappear to redeem its pledge after months and years in the most distant climates.
    Prd1 2.239 2 What low, poor, paltry, hypocritical people an argument on religion will make of the pure and chosen souls!
    Hsm1 2.257 18 Massachusetts, Connecticut River and Boston Bay you think paltry places...
    Exp 3.85 13 ...far be from me the despair which prejudges the law by a paltry empiricism;...
    Mrs1 3.137 22 Proportionate is our disgust at those invaders who fill a studious house with blast and running, to secure some paltry convenience.
    Nat2 3.185 15 ...when now and then comes along some sad, sharp-eyed man, who sees how paltry a game is played, and refuses to play but blabs the secret;--how then?
    NER 3.271 11 ...we are not so wedded to our paltry performances of every kind but that every man has at intervals the grace to scorn his performances, in comparing them with his belief of what he should do;...
    Wth 6.92 21 The case of the young lawyer was pitiful to disgust,--a paltry matter of buttons or tweezer-cases; but the determined youth saw in it an aperture to insert his dangerous wedges...
    Ctr 6.154 26 How can you mind...even the bringing things to pass,--when you think how paltry are the machinery and the workers?
    CbW 6.256 13 The agencies by which events so grand as...the junction of the two oceans, are effected, are paltry...
    Civ 7.30 15 Let us not fag in paltry works which serve our pot and bag alone.
    WD 7.160 27 ...there is no argument of theism better than the grandeur of ends brought about by paltry means.
    Imtl 8.338 1 Shall I hold on with both hands to every paltry possession?
    EWI 11.129 2 [The question of slavery in the West Idies] was not narrowed down [in England] to a paltry electioneering trap;...
    FRep 11.521 25 The American marches with a careless swagger to the height of power...in his reckless confidence that he can have all he wants, risking all the prized charters of the human race...gambling them all away for a paltry selfish gain.
    PLT 12.48 21 Most men's minds do not grasp anything. All slips through their fingers, like the paltry brass grooves that in most country houses are used to raise or drop the curtain...

pamper, v. (2)

    F 6.6 23 ...Nature...does not cosset or pamper us.
    Farm 7.149 7 As [the farmer] nursed his Thanksgiving turkeys on bread and milk, so he will pamper his peaches and grapes on the viands they like best.

pampered, adj. (1)

    Suc 7.289 23 [Egotists] are ever thrusting this pampered self between you and them.

pampered, v. (4)

    Civ 7.26 2 Where the banana grows the animal system is...pampered at the cost of higher qualities...
    LLNE 10.325 5 Children had been repressed and kept in the background; now they were considered, cosseted and pampered.
    EdAd 11.388 11 We see that reckless and destructive fury which characterizes the lower classes of American society, and which is pampered by hundreds of profligate presses.
    FRep 11.522 16 [The American] is easily fed with wheat and game, with Ohio wine, but his brain is also pampered by finer draughts...

pampering, v. (1)

    MN 1.203 24 ...my [Nature's] aim is...by no means the pampering of a monstrous pericarp at the expense of all the other functions.

pamphlet, n. (5)

    ET1 5.12 21 ...I proceeded to inquire [of Coleridge] if the extract from the Independent's pamphlet, in the third volume of the Friend, were a veritable quotation.
    ET1 5.12 23 ...I proceeded to inquire [of Coleridge] if the extract from the Independent's pamphlet, in the third volume of the Friend, were a veritable quotation. He replied that it was really taken from a pamphlet in his possession entitled A Protest of one of the Independents, or something to that effect.
    Boks 7.195 13 There has already been a scrutiny and choice from many hundreds of young pens before the pamphlet or political chapter which you read in a fugitive journal comes to your eye.
    QO 8.178 1 Of a large and powerful class we might ask with confidence, What is the event they most desire? what gift? What but the book that shall come...that shall be to their mature eyes what many a tinsel-covered toy pamphlet was to their childhood...
    QO 8.198 6 We once knew a man overjoyed at the notice of his pamphlet in a leading newspaper.

pamphleteer, n. (2)

    ET12 5.211 20 ...pamphleteer or journalist...must read meanly and fragmentarily.
    Milt1 12.248 18 ...[Milton]...obtained great respect from his contemporaries as an accomplished scholar and a formidable pamphleteer.

pamphlets, n. (5)

    ET15 5.271 8 Many of [Punch's] caricatures are equal to the best pamphlets...
    ET18 5.299 22 The history of Rome and Greece, when written by [English] scholars, degenerates into English party pamphlets.
    F 6.3 8 ...the subject [the Spirit of the Times] had the same prominence in some remarkable pamphlets and journals issued in London in the same season.
    CPL 11.504 22 The Duchess d'Abrantes...tells us that Bonaparte...tossed his journals and books out of his travelling carriage as fast as he had read them, and strewed the highway with pamphlets.
    Milt1 12.276 26 ...the genius and office of Milton were...to ascend by the aids of his learning and his religion...to a higher insight and more lively delineation of the heroic life of man. This was his poem; whereof all his indignant pamphlets and all his soaring verses are only single cantos or detached stanzas.

pan, n. (6)

    AmS 1.111 15 The meal in the firkin; the milk in the pan;...show me the ultimate reason of these matters;...
    Pt1 3.3 20 We were put into our bodies, as fire is put into a pan to be carried about;...
    Wsp 6.205 22 King Olaf's mode of converting Eyvind to Christianity was to put a pan of glowing coals on his belly...
    Bty 6.291 22 In the midst of...a festal procession gay with banners, I saw a boy seize an old tin pan that lay rusting under a wall, and poising it on the top of a stick, he set it turning and made it describe the most elegant imaginable curves, and drew away attention from the decorated procession by this startling beauty.
    ACri 12.302 18 [Channing] thinks...England a flash in the pan;...
    Let 12.395 10 One of the [letter] writers relentingly says, What shall my uncles and aunts do without me? and desires distinctly to be understood...to propose...to begin the enterprise of concentration by concentrating all uncles and aunts in one delightful village by themselves!-so heedless is our correspondent of putting all the dough into one pan, and all the leaven into another.

Pan, n. (8)

    MN 1.205 19 The great Pan of old...was but the representative of thee, O rich and various Man!...
    Hist 2.39 11 [Each man] shall be the priest of Pan...
    Pt1 3.42 1 ...thou [O poet] must pass for a fool and a churl for a long season. This is the screen and sheath in which Pan has protected his well-beloved flower...
    Nat2 3.177 19 Frivolity is a most unfit tribute to Pan...
    PNR 4.87 5 The gods are [to Plato] the ideas. Pan is speech, or manifestation;...
    PLT 12.35 24 ...what else [than Instinct] was it they represented in Pan, god of the shepherds, who was not yet completely finished in godlike form...
    PLT 12.36 1 ...what else [than Instinct] was it they represented in Pan... who was not yet completely finished in godlike form...had emblematic horns and feet? Pan, that is, All.
    Pray 12.351 13 In the Phaedrus of Plato, we find this petition in the mouth of Socrates: O gracious Pan!...grant that I may be beautiful within;...

panacea, n. (1)

    MR 1.252 4 [Love] is...the panacea of nature.

Panama, n. (1)

    F 6.7 22 ...the sword of the climate...at Panama...cut off men like a massacre.

Pancrates [Lucian, The Lov (2)

    Dem1 10.11 24 ...Pancrates...wanting a servant, took a door-bar and pronounced over it magical words...
    Dem1 10.12 3 For Pancrates write Watt or Fulton, and for magical words write steam; and do they not make an iron bar and half a dozen wheels do the work, not of one, but of a thousand skilful mechanics?

Pancratium, n. (1)

    MoL 10.253 23 Pytheas of Aegina was victor in the Pancratium of the boys...

Pandects, n. (1)

    ET8 5.137 17 ...[the English] administer, in different parts of the world, the codes of every empire and race;...in the Ionian Islands, the Pandects of Justinian.

pander, n. (1)

    FSLC 11.212 8 The behavior of Boston was the reverse of what it should have been: it was supple and officious, and it put itself into the base attitude of pander to the crime [the Fugitive Slave Law].

Pandora-box, n. (1)

    Ill 6.316 11 ...the mighty Mother...insinuates into the Pandora-box of marriage some deep and serious benefits...

panegyric, n. (2)

    ShP 4.202 27 Ben Jonson, though we have strained his few words of regard and panegyric, had no suspicion of the elastic fame whose first vibrations [Shakespeare] was attempting.
    ET14 5.237 20 The unique fact in literary history, the unsurprised reception of Shakspeare;...and the apathy proved by the absence of all contemporary panegyric,--seems to demonstrate an elevation in the mind of the people.

panegyrics, n. (1)

    PPo 8.251 7 In general what is more tedious than dedications or panegyrics addressed to grandees?

pang, n. (3)

    Cour 7.265 8 ...men with little imagination are less fearful; they wait till they feel pain, whilst others of more sensibility...suffer in the fear of the pang more acutely than in the pang.
    OA 7.323 22 ...it will not add a pang to the prisoner marched out to be shot, to assure him that the pain in his knee threatens mortification.
    SMC 11.348 9 Felt they no pang of passionate regret/ For those unsolid goods that seem so much our own?/

pangs, n. (2)

    SwM 4.131 22 [Swedenborg] was let down through a column that...was formed of angelic spirits, that he might descend safely amongst the unhappy, and witness the vastation of souls and hear there...their lamentations; he saw their tormentors, who increase and strain pangs to infinity;...
    Bost 12.191 9 ...the weariness of the sea, the shrinking from cold weather and the pangs of hunger must justify [the Plymouth colonists].

panic, n. (4)

    NMW 4.249 13 You see [said Napoleon] that two armies are two bodies which meet and endeavor to frighten each other; a moment of panic occurs, and that moment must be turned to advantage.
    Cour 7.262 25 The child is as much in danger from...a cat, as the soldier from...an ambush. ... Each is liable to panic...
    FSLC 11.181 16 The panic [over the Fugitive Slave Law] has paralyzed the journals...
    Trag 12.411 1 A panic such as frequently in ancient or savage nations put a troop or an army to flight without an enemy; a fear of ghosts...are no tragedy...

panicles, n. (1)

    Insp 8.278 15 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./

panics, n. (4)

    ET8 5.138 14 [The English] are subject to panics of credulity and of rage...
    Elo1 7.80 13 ...among our cool and calculating people...where heats and panics and abandonments are quite out of the system, there is a good deal of skepticism as to extraordinary influence.
    PLT 12.36 10 [Pan] could terrify by earth-born fears called panics.
    MAng1 12.231 25 Benedict XIV., during one of these panics, sent for the architect Marchese Polini to come to Rome and examine [St. Peter's dome].

panniers, n. (2)

    Cir 2.315 5 ...he can well spare his mule and panniers who has a winged chariot instead.
    SA 8.95 14 Politics, war, party, luxury, avarice, fashion, are all asses with loaded panniers to serve the kitchen of Intellect, the king.

panorama, n. (3)

    Ctr 6.148 18 In town [a man] can find...opera, theatre and panorama;...
    Insp 8.273 18 A glimpse, a point of view that by its brightness excludes the purview is granted, but no panorama.
    PPr 12.384 13 It is plain that whether by hope or by fear, or were it only by delight in this panorama of brilliant images, all the great classes of English society must read [Carlyle's Past and Present]...

panoramas, n. (1)

    Schr 10.259 8 For thought, and not praise,/ Thought is the wages/ For which I sell days,/ Will gladly sell ages,/ And willing grow old,/ Deaf and dumb, blind and cold,/ Melting matter into dreams,/ Panoramas which I saw,/ And whatever glows or seems/ Into substance, into Law./

pans, n. (6)

    Art1 2.349 1 Give to barrows, trays, and pans/ Grace and glimmer of romance/...
    Pt1 3.4 17 ...we are not pans and barrows, nor even porters of the fire and torch-bearers...
    ET14 5.232 18 [The plain style] imports into [English] songs and ballads the smell of the earth...and, like a Dutch painter, seeks a household charm, though by pails and pans.
    PI 8.68 11 What we once admired as poetry has long since come to be a sound of tin pans;...
    PI 8.68 13 Perhaps Homer and Milton will be tin pans yet.
    AKan 11.262 7 Pans of gold lay drying outside of every man's tent, in perfect security [in California].

panta, n. (1)

    QO 8.200 1 Panta rhei: all things are in flux.

pantaloons, n. (1)

    MoS 4.153 11 [The men of the senses] believe that mustard bites the tongue...and suspenders hold up pantaloons;...

Pantheon, n. (2)

    PNR 4.87 3 All the gods of the Pantheon are, by their names, [to Plato] significant of a profound sense.
    MAng1 12.231 3 [Michelangelo] said he would hang the Pantheon in the air;...

panther, n. (2)

    SS 7.1 18 In caves and hollow trees [Seyd] crept/ And near the wolf and panther slept./
    Thor 10.471 25 [Thoreau] confessed that he sometimes felt like a hound or a panther...

panting, v. (1)

    ET16 5.286 10 Whilst we listened to the organ [at Salisbury Cathedral], my friend [Carlyle] remarked, the music is...somewhat as if a monk were panting to some fine Queen of Heaven.

pantomime, n. (2)

    Nat 1.42 27 Who can guess...how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes?
    SA 8.89 2 Thus much for manners: but we are not content with pantomime;...

pantomimic, adj. (1)

    Tran 1.333 27 ...[the idealist] does not respect...the church, nor charities, nor arts, for themselves; but hears, as at a vast distance, what they say, as if his consciousness would speak to him through a pantomimic scene.

pantries, n. (1)

    PLT 12.58 2 [People] are as much alike as their barns and pantries...

pantry, n. (2)

    Con 1.317 12 Rich and fine is your dress, O conservatism!...your pantry is full of meats and your cellar of wines...
    ACri 12.296 13 [Herrick] found his subject where he stood, between his feet, in his house, pantry, barn, poultry-yard...

pants, v. (1)

    MoS 4.179 18 The young spirit pants to enter society.

Panza, Sancho [Cervantes, (1)

    Clbs 7.229 21 Sancho Panza blessed the man who invented sleep.

papa, n. (1)

    YA 1.376 16 ...this patriarchal or family management gets to be rather troublesome to all but the papa;...

Papa, n. (1)

    PerF 10.81 3 One day I found [the stupid farmer's] little boy of four years dragging about after him the prettiest little wooden cart...and learned that Papa had made it;...

papacy, n. (2)

    Hist 2.29 21 Doctor, said his wife to Martin Luther, one day, how is it that whilst subject to papacy we prayed so often and with such fervor, whilst now we pray with utmost coldness and very seldom?
    PI 8.14 11 Machiavel described the papacy as a stone inserted in the body of Italy to keep the wound open.

Papal, adj. (1)

    LLNE 10.325 22 It is not easy to date these eras of activity with any precision, but in this region one made itself remarked, say in 1820 and the twenty years following. It seemed...a crack in Nature, which split every church in Christendom into Papal and Protestant;...

paper, adj. (12)

    Nat 1.30 9 ...a paper currency is employed, when there is no bullion in the vaults.
    LT 1.284 2 ...we begin to doubt...whether [Reform] be not...a paper blockade...
    YA 1.374 17 We inflate our paper currency...and are presently visited with unlimited bankruptcy.
    Comp 2.114 18 ...the real price of labor is knowledge and virtue, whereof wealth and credit are signs. These signs, like paper money, may be counterfeited or stolen...
    ET10 5.168 19 The machinist has wrought and watched, engineers and firemen without number have been sacrificed in learning to tame and guide the monster [steam]. But harder still it has proved to resist and rule the dragon Money, with his paper wings.
    F 6.23 13 ...nothing is more disgusting than...the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble...by those who have never dared to think or to act...
    Wth 6.103 20 ...the current dollar, silver or paper, is itself the detector of the right and wrong where it circulates.
    DL 7.115 5 [To give money to a sufferer] is only...a credit system in which a paper promise to pay answers for the time instead of liquidation.
    WD 7.163 9 ...we have money, and paper money;...
    Boks 7.191 27 In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern boxes;...
    SovE 10.213 19 EPro 11.320 26 [The Emancipation Proclamation] must not be a paper proclamation.

paper, n. (44)

    DSA 1.121 22 [These divine laws] will not be written out on paper...
    MR 1.244 3 We spend our incomes for paint and paper...and not for the things of a man.
    YA 1.383 22 One man...with [a dime]...buys...pen, ink, and paper, or a painter's brush, by which he can communicate himself to the human race as if he were fire;...
    SL 2.143 4 We...do not see that Paganini can extract rapture from a catgut... and a nimble-fingered lad out of shreds of paper with his scissors...
    Lov1 2.173 8 ...who can avert his eyes from the engaging...ways of school-girls who go into the country shops to buy...a sheet of paper...
    Prd1 2.235 27 When [a man] sees a folded and sealed scrap of paper float round the globe in a pine ship and come safe to the eye for which it was written...let him likewise feel the admonition to integrate his being across all these distracting forces...
    Pt1 3.32 14 If a man is inflamed and carried away by his thought...let me read his paper, and you may have all the arguments and histories and criticism.
    Mrs1 3.153 25 Are you...rich enough to make...the itinerant with his consul' s paper which commends him To the charitable...feel the noble exception f your presence and your house from the general bleakness and stoniness;...
    ShP 4.211 22 ...all the sweets and all the terrors of human lot lay in [Shakespeare's] mind as truly but as softly as the landscape lies on the eye. And the importance of this wisdom of life sinks the form...out of notice. 'T is like making a question concerning the paper on which a king's message is written.
    NMW 4.254 3 The official paper, [Napoleon's] Moniteur, and all his bulletins, are proverbs for saying what he wished to be believed;...
    ET1 5.6 11 [Greenough's] paper on Architecture, published in 1843, announced in advance the leading thoughts of Mr. Ruskin on the morality in architecture...
    ET6 5.112 8 An Englishman of fashion is like one of those souvenirs... enriched with delicate engravings on thick hot-pressed paper...but with nothing in it worth reading or remembering.
    ET11 5.191 20 In logical sequence of these dignified revels, Pepys can tell the beggarly shifts to which the king was reduced, who could not find paper at his council table...
    ET14 5.233 13 [The Englishman]...prefers his hot chop, with perfect security and convenience in the eating of it, to the chances of the amplest and Frenchiest bill of fare, engraved on embossed paper.
    ET15 5.264 22 ...a daily paper can only be new and seasonable for a few hours.
    ET15 5.264 24 [The London Times] will kill all but that paper which is diametrically in opposition;...
    ET15 5.267 14 The daily paper [London Times] is the work of many hands...
    ET15 5.268 15 No writer is suffered to claim the authorship of any paper [in the London Times];...
    ET15 5.268 17 ...by making the paper everything and those who write it nothing, the character and the awe of the journal [the London Times] gain.
    ET15 5.268 24 ...[the English] do not know, when they take [the London Times] up, what their paper is going to say...
    ET15 5.269 24 Was never such arrogancy as the tone of this paper [the London Times].
    ET19 5.310 14 ...as for Dombey...there is no land where paper exists to print on, where it is not found;...
    Wth 6.107 6 Your paper is not fine or coarse enough...
    Wth 6.107 11 The manufacturer says he will furnish you with just that thickness or thinness [of paper] you want;...here is his schedule;--any variety of paper, as cheaper or dearer, with the prices annexed.
    Wth 6.107 12 A pound of paper costs so much...
    Bty 6.295 12 Let an artist scrawl a few lines or figures on the back of a letter, and that scrap of paper is rescued from danger...
    Art2 7.44 20 Just as much better as is the polished statue of dazzling marble than the clay model, or as much more impressive as is the granite cathedral or pyramid than the ground-plan or profile of them on paper, so much more beauty owe they to Nature than to Art.
    Clbs 7.239 5 ...an American chemist carried a letter of introduction to Dr. Dalton of Manchester, England...and was coolly enough received by the doctor in the laboratory where he was engaged. Only Dr. Dalton scratched a formula on a scrap of paper and pushed it towards the guest,--Had he seen that?
    Clbs 7.239 7 ...Dr. Dalton scratched a formula on a scrap of paper and pushed it towards the guest,--Had he seen that? The visitor scratched on another paper a formula describing some results of his own with sulphuric acid, and pushed it across the table,--Had he seen that?
    PC 8.214 21 ...[The Middle Ages']...mariner's compass, gunpowder, glass, paper and clocks;...are the delight and tuition of ours.
    Supl 10.172 20 At the Bank of England they put a scrap of paper that is worth a million pounds sterling into the hands of the visitor to touch.
    Schr 10.269 20 The poet writes his verse on a scrap of paper, and instantly the desire and love of all mankind take charge of it...
    LLNE 10.345 21 [The pilgrim] thought every one should labor at some necessary product, and as soon as he had made more than enough for himself, were it corn, or paper, or cloth, or boot-jacks, he should give of the commodity to any applicant...
    EzRy 10.389 22 At the time when Jack Downing's letters were in every paper, [Ezra Ripley] repeated to me at table some of the particulars of that gentleman's intimacy with General Jackson, in a manner which betrayed to me at once that he took the whole for fact.
    Thor 10.482 13 The chub is a soft fish, and tastes like boiled brown paper salted.
    HDC 11.39 24 The light struggled in through windows of oiled paper, but [the settlers of Concord] read the word of God by it.
    LVB 11.91 23 ...the American President and the Cabinet, the Senate and the House of Representatives...are contracting...to drag [the Cherokees]...to a wilderness at a vast distance beyond the Mississippi. And a paper purporting to be an army order fixes a month from this day as the hour for this doleful removal.
    EWI 11.103 20 The buckra box was full up with pen, paper and whip, and the negro box with hoe and bill;...
    JBB 11.273 2 ...your habeas corpus is, in any way in which it has been, or, I fear, is likely to be used, a nuisance, and not a protection; for it takes away [a man's] right reliance on himself...by offering him a form which is a piece of paper.
    SMC 11.360 27 Some of these [Civil War] letters are written on the back of old bills, some on brown paper, or strips of newspaper;...
    CPL 11.497 12 The sedge Papyrus, which gave its name to our word paper, is of more importance to history than cotton, or silver, or gold.
    MAng1 12.221 13 When Michael Angelo would begin a statue, he made first on paper the skeleton;...
    MAng1 12.221 14 When Michael Angelo would begin a statue, he made first on paper the skeleton; afterwards, upon another paper, the same figure clothed with muscles.
    MAng1 12.241 8 An eloquent vindication of [Michelangelo's poems'] philosophy may be found in a paper by Signor Radici in the London Retrospective Review...

paper-money, n. (2)

    GoW 4.276 7 ...what [Goethe] says...of paper-money...refuses to be forgotten.
    ET10 5.169 1 It is rare to find a merchant...who knows the mischief of paper-money.

Papers, Examination, n. (1)

    ET12 5.210 10 I looked over the Examination Papers of the year 1848 [at Oxford]...

papers, n. (17)

    YA 1.388 8 I find no expression in our state papers or legislative debate...of a high national feeling...
    YA 1.388 20 The 'opposition' papers, so called, are on the same side.
    MoS 4.164 20 The neighboring lords and gentry brought jewels and papers to [Montaigne] for safe-keeping.
    ET15 5.261 8 The celebrated Lord Somers knew of no good law proposed and passed in his time, to which the public papers had not directed his attention.
    ET15 5.264 25 [The London Times] will kill all but that paper which is diametrically in opposition; since many papers, first and last, have lived by their attacks on the leading journal.
    Wsp 6.201 2 Some of my friends have complained, when the preceding papers were read, that we discussed Fate, Power and Wealth on too low a platform;...
    Bty 6.284 12 The formulas of science are like the papers in your pocket-book, of no value to any but the owner.
    Aris 10.41 10 The multiplication of monarchs known by telegraph and daily news from all countries to the daily papers...has robber the title of king of all its romance...
    Prch 10.229 17 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.
    LLNE 10.339 9 I attribute much importance to two papers of Dr. Channing...
    LLNE 10.343 26 All [The Dial's] papers were unpaid contributions...
    LLNE 10.344 4 ...[The Dial] contained some noble papers by Margaret Fuller...
    LLNE 10.344 6 ...some numbers [of The Dial] had an instant exhausting sale, because of papers by Theodore Parker.
    MMEm 10.423 7 A war-trump would be harmony to the jars of theologians and statesmen such as the papers bring.
    HDC 11.68 4 It would be impossible on this occasion to recite all these patriotic papers [of Concord].
    HDC 11.77 21 I have found within a few days, among some family papers, [William Emerson's] almanac of 1775...
    FSLN 11.232 25 The events of this month are teaching one thing plain and clear...that official papers are of no use;...

Paphos, Cyprus, n. (2)

    Nat 1.17 15 ...the sunset and moonrise [are] my Paphos...
    Nat2 3.174 17 In [the stars'] soft glances I see what men strove to realize in some...Paphos...

papillae, n. (1)

    F 6.38 27 ...the papillae of a man run out to every star.

pap-spoon, n. (1)

    Con 1.319 13 The conservative assumes sickness as a necessity, and...his total legislation is for the present distress, a universe...with bib and pap-spoon...

Papuan, n. (1)

    ET4 5.50 4 It need not puzzle us that Malay and Papuan...should mix...

papyri, n. (1)

    Plu 10.303 6 ...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...

Papyrus, n. (2)

    CPL 11.497 11 The sedge Papyrus...is of more importance to history than cotton, or silver, or gold.
    CW 12.174 21 Plant...the Mandrake and Papyrus...

par, n. (1)

    PerF 10.79 21 ...[the manufacturer] persisted, and after many years succeeded in his production of the right article for commerce, brought up the stock of his mills to par...

Para, adj. (1)

    Exp 3.49 15 The dearest events are summer-rain, and we the Para coats that shed every drop.

parable, n. (6)

    Nat 1.33 15 ...the proverbs of nations consist usually of a natural fact, selected as a picture or parable of a moral truth.
    SR 2.66 27 ...history is an impertinence and an injury if it be any thing more than a cheerful apologue or parable of my being and becoming.
    SwM 4.119 11 When [Swedenborg] attempted to announce the law most sanely, he was forced to couch it in parable.
    PI 8.71 3 In good society...is not everything spoken in fine parable...
    LLNE 10.333 11 [Everett] abounded...in daring imagery, in parable...
    EurB 12.372 11 ...it is strange that one of the best poems [Abou ben Adhem] should be written by a man [Leigh Hunt] who has hardly written any other. And Godiva is a parable which belongs to the same gospel.

parables, n. (3)

    Nat 1.33 26 What is true of proverbs, is true of all...parables...
    AmS 1.113 9 ...[Swedenborg]...has given in epical parables a theory of insanity...
    LS 11.9 27 [Jesus] always taught by parables and symbols.

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