John Dryden

If, to mince his meaning, I had either omitted some part of what he said, or taken from the strength of his expression, I certainly had wronged him.

Ministry

The wicked ministry of arms.

Minute

I go this minute to attend the king.

Miscarriage

When a counselor, to save himself, Would lay miscarriages upon his prince.

Misconstrue

Do not, great sir, misconstrue his intent.

Misdo

I have misdone, and I endure the smart.

Misemploy

Their frugal father's gains they misemploy.

Miserable

What hopes delude thee, miserable man?

mist

His passion cast a mist before his sense.

Modest

The blushing beauties of a modest maid.

Modify

Of his grace He modifies his first severe decree.

Moil

Now he must moil and drudge for one he loathes.

Monstrous

And will be monstrous witty on the poor.

Moor

On oozy ground his galleys moor.

Moral

Mankind is broken loose from moral bands.

Mortal

The nymph grew pale, and in a mortal fright.

Mothered

They oint their naked limbs with mothered oil.

Mound

To thrid the thickets or to leap the mounds.

Mount

Shall we mount again the rural throne?

Mourning

The houses to their tops with black were spread, And ev'n the pavements were with mourning hid.

Move

No female arts his mind could move.

On the green bank I sat and listened long, . . . Nor till her lay was ended could I move.

Muffle

He muffled with a cloud his mournful eyes.

Mumble

Gums unarmed, to mumble meat in vain.

Murder

Slaughter grows murder when it goes too far.

Murmur

Some discontents there are, some idle murmurs.

Mutter

Meantime your filthy foreigner will stare, And mutter to himself.

Muzzle

With golden muzzles all their mouths were bound

Nail

The rivets of your arms were nailed with gold.

Name

They list with women each degenerate name.

Nastiness

The nastiness of Plautus and Aristophanes.

Nature

A dispute of this nature caused mischief.

Nauseous

The nauseousness of such company disgusts a reasonable man.

Near

He served great Hector, and was ever near, Not with his trumpet only, but his spear.

Needful

All things needful for defense abound.

New

New from her sickness to that northern air.

Newly

He rubbed it o'er with newly gathered mint.

Her princely guest Was next her side; in order sat the rest.

Night

She closed her eyes in everlasting night.

Nobility

They thought it great their sovereign to control, And named their pride nobility of soul.

I fell on the same argument of preferring virtue to nobility of blood and titles, in the story of Sigismunda.

Noble

Statues, with winding ivy crowned, belong To nobler poets for a nobler song.

Noiseless

So noiseless would I live.

Nor

Simois nor Xanthus shall be wanting there.

Note

They were both noted of incontinency.

Nothing

Yet had his aspect nothing of severe.

'T is nothing, says the fool; but, says the friend, This nothing, sir, will bring you to your end.

Novice

I am young; a novice in the trade.

Nudity

There are no such licenses permitted in poetry any more than in painting, to design and color obscene nudities.

Numb

For lazy winter numbs the laboring hand.

Nurse

Him in Egerian groves Aricia bore, And nursed his youth along the marshy shore.

Obey

Afric and India shall his power obey.

Oblige

Thus man, by his own strength, to heaven would soar, And would not be obliged to God for more.

Obscene

At the cheerful light, The groaning ghosts and birds obscene take flight.

Obscenity

Mr. Cowley asserts plainly, that obscenity has no place in wit.

Obscure

And seest not sin obscures thy godlike frame?

obscurity

You are not for obscurity designed.

Obsequy

I will myself Be the chief mourner at his obsequies.

Obtain

Some pray for riches; riches they obtain.

Occasion

Her beauty was the occasion of the war.

Odium

She threw the odium of the fact on me.

Offense

I have given my opinion against the authority of two great men, but I hope without offense to their memories.

Offer

The occasion offers, and the youth complies.

Offspring

To the gods alone Our future offspring and our wives are known.

Ogle

And ogling all their audience, ere they speak.

Only

And to be loved himself, needs only to be known.

Open

Each, with open arms, embraced her chosen knight.

Opening

The opening of your glory was like that of light.

Operation

Speculative painting, without the assistance of manual operation, can never attain to perfection.

opposite

Novels, by which the reader is misled into another sort of pleasure opposite to that which is designed in an epic poem.

Ostentatious

Far from being ostentatious of the good you do.

Ourselves

Safe in ourselves, while on ourselves we stand.

Outbalance

Let dull Ajax bear away my right When all his days outbalance this one night.

Outline

Painters, by their outlines, colors, lights, and shadows, represent the same in their pictures.

Outlive

They live too long who happiness outlive.

Outward

The fire will force its outward way.

Overbear

Overborne with weight the Cyprians fell.

Overcast

Those clouds that overcast your morn shall fly.

Overlay

A heap of ashes that o'erlays your fire.

Overstand

What madman would o'erstand his market twice?

Overthrow

When the walls of Thebes he overthrew.

Pagan

And all the rites of pagan honor paid.

Pageantry

Such pageantry be to the people shown.

pain

Interpose, on pain of my displeasure.

Painful

Nor must the painful husbandman be tired.

Pains

The labored earth your pains have sowed and tilled.

Palm

For you may palm upon us new for old.

Panegyric

Some of his odes are panegyrical.

Pant

Pluto plants for breath from out his cell.

Paper

They brought a paper to me to be signed.

Paraphrase

In paraphrase, or translation with latitude, the author's words are not so strictly followed as his sense.

Parcel

These ghostly kings would parcel out my power.

Parch

The ground below is parched.

Parley

We yield on parley, but are stormed in vain.

Part

All parts resound with tumults, plaints, and fears.

Let me bear My part of danger with an equal share.

partake

Let every one partake the general joy.

Particularly

The exact propriety of Virgil I particularly regarded as a great part of his character.

Partition

No sight could pass Betwixt the nice partitions of the grass.

Partnership

He does possession keep, And is too wise to hazard partnership.

Party

The peace both parties want is like to last.

Pasquin

The Grecian wits, who satire first began, Were pleasant pasquins on the life of man.

To see himself pasquined and affronted.

Pass

Beauty is a charm, but soon the charm will pass.

I pass their warlike pomp, their proud array.

Passable

My version will appear a passable beauty when the original muse is absent.

Passage

And with his pointed dart Explores the nearest passage to his heart.

Passport

His passport is his innocence and grace.

Paternal

Their small paternal field of corn.

path

The dewy paths of meadows we will tread.

Pave

With silver paved, and all divine with gold.

Pawn

And pawned the last remaining piece of plate.

Pay

[She] pays me with disdain.

Peck

[The hen] went pecking by his side.

Peculiar

My fate is Juno's most peculiar care.

Peep

When flowers first peeped, and trees did blossoms bear.

Peer

In song he never had his peer.

Pelt

My Phillis me with pelted apples plies.

Penetrable

And pierce his only penetrable part.

Penitence

Death is deferred, and penitenance has room To mitigate, if not reverse, the doom.

Penitent

The proud he tamed, the penitent he cheered.

Permanent

Eternity stands permanent and fixed.

Permission

You have given me your permission for this address.

Perverse

To so perverse a sex all grace is vain.

Pester

A multitude of scribblers daily pester the world.

Petition

This last petition heard of all her prayer.

Petrify

Like Niobe we marble grow, And petrify with grief.

Pick

Why stand'st thou picking? Is thy palate sore?

Picking

was too warm on picking work to dwell.

Pile

The pile o'erlooked the town and drew the fight.

Pillar

The place . . . vast and proud, Supported by a hundred pillars stood.

Pithy

This pithy speech prevailed, and all agreed.

Play

A play ought to be a just image of human nature.

Plead

I will neither plead my age nor sickness, in excuse of faults.

Pleader

So fair a pleader any cause may gain.

Pleasant

From grave to light, from pleasant to serve.

Plight

Here my inviolable faith I plight.

Plow

Where fern succeeds ungrateful to the plow.

Plume

His high plume, that nodded o'er his head.

Plunge

Forced to plunge naked in the raging sea.

Ply

And plies him with redoubled strokes

Poet

A poet is a maker, as the word signifies.

Point

Point at the tattered coat and ragged shoe.

Poise

Men of unbounded imagination often want the poise of judgment.

Nor yet was earth suspended in the sky; Nor poised, did on her own foundation lie.

To poise with solid sense a sprightly wit.

Politician

While empiric politicians use deceit.

Poll

The man that polled but twelve pence for his head.

Poop

With wind in poop, the vessel plows the sea.

Poorly

Nor is their courage or their wealth so low, That from his wars they poorly would retire.

Popularly

The victor knight, Bareheaded, popularly low had bowed.

Porcelain

Porcelain, by being pure, is apt to break.

Porch

The graceless Helen in the porch I spied Of Vesta's temple.

Pore

The eye grows weary with poring perpetually on the same thing.

Portent

My loss by dire portents the god foretold.

Posture

The posture of a poetic figure is a description of his heroes in the performance of such or such an action.

Pound

With cruel blows she pounds her blubbered cheeks.

Practice

Obsolete words may be revived when they are more sounding or more significant than those in practice.

Praise

We praise not Hector, though his name, we know, Is great in arms; 't is hard to praise a foe.

Prate

And make a fool presume to prate of love.

What nonsense would the fool, thy master, prate, When thou, his knave, canst talk at such a rate !

Precept

No arts are without their precepts.

Precipice

Where wealth like fruit on precipices grew.

Prefatory

That prefatory addition to the Creed.

Preference

Leave the critics on either side to contend about the preference due to this or that sort of poetry.

Premeditate

With words premeditated thus he said.

Preëngage

But he was preëngaged by former ties.

Prepare

Our souls, not yet prepared for upper light.

Prescribe

Let streams prescribe their fountains where to run.

Presence

Odmar, of all this presence does contain, Give her your wreath whom you esteem most fair.

Present

To find a god so present to my prayer.

Octavia presented the poet for him admirable elegy on her son Marcellus.

Preside

Some o'er the public magazines preside.

Press

To peaceful peasant to the wars is pressed.

He pressed a letter upon me within this hour.

Presumption

I had the presumption to dedicate to you a very unfinished piece.

Pretend

Chiefs shall be grudged the part which they pretend.

Pretense

Let not the Trojans, with a feigned pretense Of proffered peace, delude the Latian prince.

Prey

Already sees herself the monster's prey.

Print

Forth on his fiery steed betimes he rode, That scarcely prints the turf on which he trod.

Where print of human feet was never seen.

Prison

The tyrant Aeolus, . . . With power imperial, curbs the struggling winds, And sounding tempests in dark prisons binds.

Prize

I fought and conquered, yet have lost the prize.

I prized your person, but your crown disdain.

Probationer

While yet a young probationer, And candidate of heaven.

Procurement

They think it done By her procurement.

Prodigal

In fighting fields [patriots] were prodigal of blood.

Prodigally

Nature not bounteous now, but lavish grows; Our paths with flowers she prodigally strows.

Productive

And kindle with thy own productive fire.

Profit

It is a great means of profiting yourself, to copy diligently excellent pieces and beautiful designs.

Profligate

Made prostitute and profligate muse.

Prognosticate

I neither will nor can prognosticate To the young gaping heir his father's fate.

Prolong

The unhappy queen with talk prolonged the night.

Prompt

And you, perhaps, too prompt in your replies.

Proper

Now learn the difference, at your proper cost, Betwixt true valor and an empty boast.

In Athens all was pleasure, mirth, and play, All proper to the spring, and sprightly May.

Prophetic

And fears are oft prophetic of the event.

Prorogue

He prorogued his government.

Prosper

All things concur toprosper our design.

Protend

With his protended lance he makes defence.

Protractive

He suffered their protractive arts.

Proximity

If he plead proximity of blood That empty title is with ease withstood.

Puff

The clearing north will puff the clouds away.

I puff the prostitute away.

Purloin

when did the muse from Fletcher scenes purloin ?

Purple

I view a field of blood, And Tiber rolling with a purple blood.

Pursue

The fame of ancient matrons you pursue.

Push

War seemed asleep for nine long years; at length Both sides resolved to push, we tried our strength.

Put

His fury thus appeased, he puts to land.

Quaff

Twelve days the gods their solemn revels keep, And quaff with blameless Ethiops in the deep.

Quarrel

On open seas their quarrels they debate.

Quarter

Then sailors quartered heaven.

Quoit

To quoit, to run, and steeds and chariots drive.

Race

Whence the long race of Alban fathers come.

Rag

And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.

Ragged

What shepherd owns those ragged sheep?

Rail

And rail at arts he did not understand.

Raiment

Living, both food and raiment she supplies.

Raise

Aeneas . . . employs his pains, In parts remote, to raise the Tuscan swains.

Soon as the prince appears, they raise a cry.

Rake

One is for raking in Chaucer for antiquated words.

Rally

The Grecians rally, and their powers unite.

Rampire

The Trojans round the place a rampire cast.

Range

Which way the forests range.

Rare

New-laid eggs, which Baucis' busy care Turned by a gentle fire, and roasted rare.

Above the rest I judge one beauty rare.

Rareness

And let the rareness the small gift commend.

Rascal

For I have sense to serve my turn in store, And he's a rascal who pretends to more.

Rash

Was never known a more adventurous knight.

Rate

You seem not high enough your joys to rate.

Rather

He sought throughout the world, but sought in vain, And nowhere finding, rather feared her slain.

Ravish

This hand shall ravish thy pretended right.

Raze

The royal hand that razed unhappy Troy.

Reach

O patron power, . . . thy present aid afford, Than I may reach the beast.

Reaching above our nature does no good.

Ready

A sapling pine he wrenched from out the ground, The readiest weapon that his fury found.

Real

For he that but conceives a crime in thought, Contracts the danger of an actual fault.

Rear

And seeks the tusky boar to rear.

Reassure

They rose with fear, . . . Till dauntless Pallas reassured the rest.

Rebel

How could my hand rebel against my heart? How could your heart rebel against your reason?

Rebellow

The cave rebellowed, and the temple shook.

Rebound

Silenus sung; the vales his voice rebound.

Flew . . . back, as from a rock, with swift rebound.

Rebuke

The proud he tamed, the penitent he cheered, Nor to rebuke the rich offender feared.

Recall

'T is done, and since 't is done, 't is past recall.

Recede

Like the hollow roar Of tides receding from the insulted shore.

Recess

Good verse recess and solitude requires.

Reciprocate

One brawny smith the puffing bellows plies, And draws and blows reciprocating air.

Reclaim

The headstrong horses hurried Octavius . . . along, and were deaf to his reclaiming them.

Recline

The mother Reclined her dying head upon his breast.

Recollect

The Tyrian queen . . . Admired his fortunes, more admired the man; Then recollected stood.

Reconcile

Propitious now and reconciled by prayer.

Recourse

Our last recourse is therefore to our art.

Recreate

Painters, when they work on white grounds, place before them colors mixed with blue and green, to recreate their eyes, white wearying . . . the sight more than any.

Redress

Fair majesty, the refuge and redress Of those whom fate pursues and wants oppress.

Reeden

Through reeden pipes convey the golden flood.

Refine

Chaucer refined on Boccace, and mended his stories.

Reflect

Bodies close together reflect their own color.

Errors of wives reflect on husbands still.

Reflection

As the sun water we can bear, Yet not the sun, but his reflection, there.

Reformation

Satire lashes vice into reformation.

Refresh

The rest refresh the scaly snakes that fol The shield of Pallas, and renew their gold.

Regorge

Tides at highest mark regorge the flood.

Relation

I have been importuned to make some observations on this art in relation to its agreement with poetry.

Relentless

For this the avenging power employs his darts, . . . Thus will persist, relentless in his ire.

Relief

He sees the dire contagion spread so fast, That, where it seizes, all relief is vain.

Relieve

Now lend assistance and relieve the poor.

Relish

A savory bit that served to relish wine.

Reluctance

Bear witness, Heaven, with what reluctancy Her helpless innocence I doom to die.

Remit

The prisoner was remitted to the guard.

Remnant

The remnant of my tale is of a length To tire your patience.

Remorse

Curse on the unpardoning prince, whom tears can draw To no remorse.

Rend

An empire from its old foundations rent.

Renew

The last great age . . . renews its finished course.

Renounce

From Thebes my birth I own; . . . since no disgrace Can force me to renounce the honor of my race.

He of my sons who fails to make it good, By one rebellious act renounces to my blood.

Renown

Nor envy we Thy great renown, nor grudge thy victory.

Repair

There the fierce winds his tender force assail And beat him downward to his first repair.

Reparation

I am sensible of the scandal I have given by my loose writings, and make what reparation I am able.

Repent

First she relents With pity; of that pity then repents.

My father has repented him ere now.

Reprehend

In which satire human vices, ignorance, and errors . . . are severely reprehended.

Reproach

Mezentius . . . with his ardor warmed His fainting friends, reproached their shameful flight. Repelled the victors.

Reprobation

Set a brand of reprobation on clipped poetry and false coin.

Repugnance

That which causes us to lose most of our time is the repugnance which we naturally have to labor.

Require

By nature did what was by law required.

Resemblance

One main end of poetry and painting is to please; they bear a great resemblance to each other.

Resentment

Can heavently minds such high resentment show, Or exercise their spite in human woe?

Reserved

Nothing reserved or sullen was to see.

Reside

In no fixed place the happy souls reside.

Resolution

The unraveling and resolution of the difficulties that are met with in the execution of the design are the end of an action.

Resolve

Ye immortal souls, who once were men, And now resolved to elements again.

Resource

Threat'nings mixed with prayers, his last resource.

Rest

Their visors closed, their lances in the rest.

On him I rested, after long debate, And not without considering, fixed my fate.

Your piety has paid All needful rites, to rest my wandering shade.

Armed like the rest, the Trojan prince appears.

Restless

Restless he passed the remnants of the night.

Restoration

Behold the different climes agree, Rejoicing in thy restoration.

Restore

The father banished virtue shall restore.

Resume

Reason resumed her place, and Passion fled.

Retreat

That pleasing shade they sought, a soft retreat From sudden April showers, a shelter from the heat.

Retrieve

With late repentance now they would retrieve The bodies they forsook, and wish to live.

Return

If you are a malicious reader, you return upon me, that I affect to be thought more impartial than I am.

You made my liberty your late request: Is no return due from a grateful breast?

Revenge

The gods are just, and will revenge our cause.

Reverse

The strange reverse of fate you see; I pitied you, now you may pity me.

Reversion

For even reversions are all begged before.

Rheumy

His head and rheumy eyes distill in showers.

Rhyme

And, if they rhymed and rattled, all was well.

Riddle

Riddle me this, and guess him if you can.

Ride

Men once walked where ships at anchor ride.

He rode, he fenced, he moved with graceful ease.

Right

Long love to her has borne the faithful knight, And well deserved, had fortune done him right.

Born free, he sought his right.

Rightly

Thou didst not rightly see.

Ring

My ears still ring with noise.

Rival

To rival thunder in its rapid course.

Roar

Sole on the barren sands, the suffering chief Roared out for anguish, and indulged his grief.

Rock

A rising earthquake rocked the ground.

Rodomontade

I could show that the rodomontades of Almanzor are neither so irrational nor impossible.

Roguery

'Tis no scandal grown, For debt and roguery to quit the town.

Roguish

The most bewitching leer with her eyes, the most roguish cast.

Roll

And his red eyeballs roll with living fire.

Roost

He clapped his wings upon his roost.

Round

All the rounds like Jacob's ladder rise.

Royally

His body shall be royally interred.

Rubbish

he saw the town's one half in rubbish lie.

Rude

Unblemished by my rude translation.

Ruffle

She smoothed the ruffled seas.

On his right shoulder his thick mane reclined, Ruffles at speed, and dances in the wind.

Rugged

Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line.

Ruminate

Mad with desire, she ruminates her sin.

Rumor

'T was rumored My father 'scaped from out the citadel.

Run

And had her stock been less, no doubt She must have long ago run out.

Rural

Lay bashfulness, that rustic virtue, by; To manly confidence thy throughts apply.

Russet

Our summer such a russet livery wears.

Rust

Our armors now may rust.

Must I rust in Egypt? never more Appear in arms, and be the chief of Greece?

Sacred

Secrets of marriage still are sacred held.

A temple, sacred to the queen of love.

Sail

A thousand ships were manned to sail the sea.

Saintlike

Glossed over only with a saintlike show.

Sally

They break the truce, and sally out by night.

Same

The ethereal vigor is in all the same.

Sanctify

The holy man, amazed at what he saw, Made haste to sanctify the bliss by law.

Sanctuary

The admirable works of painting were made fuel for the fire; but some relics of it took sanctuary under ground, and escaped the common destiny.

Sap

Nor safe their dwellings were, for sapped by floods, Their houses fell upon their household gods.

Sapless

Now sapless on the verge of death he stands.

Savage

Cornels, and savage berries of the wood.

Save

Will you not speak to save a lady's blush?

Scabrous

His verse is scabrous and hobbling.

Scandal

My known virtue is from scandal free.

Scant

I am scanted in the pleasure of dwelling on your actions.

Scarce

Slowly she sails, and scarcely stems the tides.

Scarecrow

A scarecrow set to frighten fools away.

Scatter

Why should my muse enlarge on Libyan swains, Their scattered cottages, and ample plains?

Scene

A sylvan scene with various greens was drawn, Shades on the sides, and in the midst a lawn.

Scent

Balm from a silver box distilled around, Shall all bedew the roots, and scent the sacred ground.

School

It now remains for you to school your child, And ask why God's Anointed be reviled.

Sconce

Golden sconces hang not on the walls.

Scoop

He scooped the water from the crystal flood.

Scorch

The fire that scorches me to death.

Score

You act your kindness in Cydaria's score.

Scorn

Every sullen frown and bitter scorn But fanned the fuel that too fast did burn.

Scour

So four fierce coursers, starting to the race, Scour through the plain, and lengthen every pace.

Screaming

The fearful matrons raise a screaming cry.

Screw

He screwed his face into a hardened smile.

Sculpture

There, too, in living sculpture, might be seen The mad affection of the Cretan queen.

Scurf

The scurf is worn away of each committed crime.

Search

Nor did my search of liberty begin Till my black hairs were changed upon my chin.

Season

You season still with sports your serious hours.

Secure

But thou, secure of soul, unbent with woes.

I spread a cloud before the victor's sight, Sustained the vanquished, and secured his flight.

Seducer

He whose firm faith no reason could remove, Will melt before that soft seducer, love.

Seen

Noble Boyle, not less in nature seen, Than his great brother read in states and men.

Seether

Like burnished gold the little seether shone.

Seizure

Make o'er thy honor by a deed of trust, And give me seizure of the mighty wealth.

Select

The pious chief . . . A hundred youths from all his train selects.

Self

At that self moment enters Palamon.

Self-centered

There hangs the ball of earth and water mixt, Self-centered and unmoved.

Sense

He raves; his words are loose As heaps of sand, and scattering wide from sense.

Sentence

Nature herself is sentenced in your doom.

Sentry

Here toils, and death, and death's half-brother, sleep, Forms terrible to view, their sentry keep.

Separate

From the fine gold I separate the alloy.

Sepulture

Where we may royal sepulture prepare.

Sequacious

Trees uprooted left their place, Sequacious of the lyre.

Sermon

His preaching much, but more his practice, wrought, A living sermon of the truths he taught.

Serve

Others, pampered in their shameless pride, Are served in plate and in their chariots ride.

This little brand will serve to light your fire.

Service

This poem was the last piece of service I did for my master, King Charles.

Set

And him too rich a jewel to be set In vulgar metal for a vulgar use.

Set thy own songs, and sing them to thy lute.

High on their heads, with jewels richly set, Each lady wore a radiant coronet.

An ugly woman, in rich habit set out with jewels, nothing can become.

I'll set up such a note as she shall hear.

That was but civil war, an equal set.

Settle

The father thought the time drew on Of setting in the world his only son.

Settlement

My flocks, my fields, my woods, my pastures take, With settlement as good as law can make.

Several

Each several ship a victory did gain.

Four several armies to the field are led.

Severe

The Latin, a most severe and compendious language.

Severity

Confining myself to the severity of truth.

Shade

Swift as thought the flitting shade Thro' air his momentary journey made.

I went to crop the sylvan scenes, And shade our altars with their leafy greens.

Shadow

Augustus is shadowed in the person of Æneas.

Shady

And Amaryllis fills the shady groves.

Shaggy

About his shoulders hangs the shaggy skin.

Shallow

Dashed on the shallows of the moving sand.

Shame

HIde, for shame, Romans, your grandsires' images, That blush at their degenerate progeny.

Shamefaced

Your shamefaced virtue shunned the people's prise.

Sharp

Be thy words severe, Sharp as merits but the sword forbear.

A sharp assault already is begun.

Sheaf

The reaper fills his greedy hands, And binds the golden sheaves in brittle bands.

The sheaf of arrows shook and rattled in the case.

Shear

Short of the wool, and naked from the shear.

Sheathe

'T is in my breast she sheathes her dagger now.

Shelf

On the secret shelves with fury cast.

Shell

When Jubal struck the chorded shell.

Shelter

Those ruins sheltered once his sacred head.

Shend

I fear my body will be shent.

Shield

Shouts of applause ran ringing through the field, To see the son the vanquished father shield.

Shift

Little souls on little shifts rely.

Shine

Be it fair or foul, or rain or shine.

Shiny

Like distant thunder on a shiny day.

Shoal

The god himself with ready trident stands, And opes the deep, and spreads the moving sands, Then heaves them off the shoals.

Shoaly

The tossing vessel sailed on shoaly ground.

Shock

Advise him not to shock a father's will.

Shoot

Beware the secret snake that shoots a sting.

She . . . shoots the Stygian sound.

There shot a streaming lamp along the sky.

But the wild olive shoots, and shades the ungrateful plain.

Shorten

Here, where the subject is so fruitful, I am shortened by my chain.

Spoiled of his nose, and shortened of his ears.

Shoulder

Adown her shoulders fell her length of hair.

Show

I 'll show my duty by my timely care.

Just such she shows before a rising storm.

Shriek

At this she shrieked aloud; the mournful train Echoed her grief.

Shrieks, clamors, murmurs, fill the frighted town.

Shrink

And shrink like parchment in consuming fire.

Shroud

Some tempest rise, And blow out all the stars that light the skies, To shroud my shame.

Shuffle

It was contrived by your enemies, and shuffled into the papers that were seizen.

Sickly

The moon grows sickly at the sight of day.

Side

One mighty squadron with a side wind sped.

Siege

Love stood the siege, and would not yield his breast.

Sift

When yellow sands are sifted from below, The glittering billows give a golden show.

Silvan

Betwixt two rows of rocks, a silvan scene Appears above, and groves forever green.

Similitude

Tasso, in his similitudes, never departed from the woods; that is, all his comparisons were taken from the country.

Since

I have a model by which he build a nobler poem than any extant since the ancients.

Sincere

A joy which never was sincere till now.

The inviolable body stood sincere.

Sing

Singing birds, in silver cages hung.

Arms and the man I sing.

Single

Single chose to live, and shunned to wed.

Sip

They skim the floods, and sip the purple flowers.

[She] raised it to her mouth with sober grace; Then, sipping, offered to the next in place.

Skulk

Discovered and defeated of your prey, You skulked behind the fence, and sneaked away.

Slack

Slack not the pressage.

Sleek

So sleek her skin, so faultless was her make.

Sleepy

She waked her sleepy crew.

Slide

Ages shall slide away without perceiving.

Slip

Thrice the flitting shadow slipped away.

Slippery

The slippery god will try to loose his hold.

Slow

Fixed on defense, the Trojans are not slow To guard their shore from an expected foe.

Sluicy

And oft whole sheets descend of sluicy rain.

Slumber

Rest to my soul, and slumber to my eyes.

Slur

With periods, points, and tropes, he slurs his crimes.

Smacking

Like the faint smacking of an after kiss.

Smoke

Proud of his steeds, he smokes along the field.

Smooth

The outlines must be smooth, imperceptible to the touch, and even, without eminence or cavities.

Snag

The coat of arms Now on a naked snag in triumph borne.

Snarl

It is malicious and unmanly to snarl at the little lapses of a pen, from which Virgil himself stands not exempted.

Snary

Spiders in the vault their snary webs have spread.

Sneak

You skulked behind the fence, and sneaked away.

Snuff

He snuffs the wind, his heels the sand excite.

Snuffle

One clad in purple Eats, and recites some lamentable rhyme . . . Snuffling at nose, and croaking in his throat.

Sob

She sighed, she sobbed, and, furious with despair. She rent her garments, and she tore her hair.

Break, heart, or choke with sobs my hated breath.

Sober

No sober man would put himself into danger for the applause of escaping without breaking his neck.

Sock

Great Fletcher never treads in buskin here, Nor greater Jonson dares in socks appear.

Socket

His eyeballs in their hollow sockets sink.

And in the sockets oily bubbles dance.

Soften

He bore his great commision in his look, But tempered awe, and softened all he spoke.

Soil

A lady's honor . . . will not bear a soil.

Solar

And proud beside, as solar people are.

Solemnly

There in deaf murmurs solemnly are wise.

Solicit

But anxious fears solicit my weak breast.

Solid

These, wanting wit, affect gravity, and go by the name of solid men.

I hear his thundering voice resound, And trampling feet than shake the solid ground.

Solitude

Such only can enjoy the country who are capable of thinking when they are there; then they are prepared for solitude; and in that [the country] solitude is prepared for them.

Some

Your edicts some reclaim from sins, But most your life and blest example wins.

Somewhat

Somewhat of his good sense will suffer, in this transfusion, and much of the beauty of his thoughts will be lost.

Song

The bard that first adorned our native tongue Tuned to his British lyre this ancient song.

Sophisticate

They purchase but sophisticated ware.

So truth, while only one supplied the state, Grew scare and dear, and yet sophisticate.

Sordid

A sordid god; down from his hoary chin A length of beard descends, uncombed, unclean.

Sore

Sore sighed the knight, who this long sermon heard.

Sort

I shall not be wholly without praise, if in some sort I have copied his style.

Sot

I hate to see a brave, bold fellow sotted.

Sound

I was in jest, And by that offer meant to sound your breast.

Spare

Be pleased your plitics to spare.

Spare my sight the pain Of seeing what a world of tears it costs you.

Specie

“[The king] expects a return in specie from them” [i. e., kindness for kindness].

Species

Wit, . . . the faculty of imagination in the writer, which searches over all the memory for the species or ideas of those things which it designs to represent.

Spectacle

Shakespeare . . . needed not the spectacles of books to read nature.

Specter

The ghosts of traitors from the bridge descend, With bold fanatic specters to rejoice.

Speed

With rising gales that speed their happy flight.

Speedy

Darts, which not the good could shun, The speedy ould outfly.

Spell

The word “satire” ought to be spelled with i, and not with y.

When what small knowledge was, in them did dwell, And he a god, who could but read or spell.

Spent

Heaps of spent arrows fall and strew the ground.

Spicy

In hot Ceylon spicy forests grew.

Spill

And to revenge his blood so justly spilt.

Spirit

Such spirits as he desired to please, such would I choose for my judges.

Spiry

Hid in the spiry volumes of the snake.

Split

Cold winter split the rocks in twain.

Spoom

When virtue spooms before a prosperous gale, My heaving wishes help to fill the sail.

Sport

Flitting leaves, the sport of every wind.

Now sporting on thy lyre the loves of youth.

Spray

The painted birds, companions of the spring, Hopping from spray to spray, were heard to sing.

Spring

And sudden light Sprung through the vaulted roof.

What makes all this, but Jupiter the king, At whose command we perish, and we spring?

She starts, and leaves her bed, and springs a light.

The prisoner, with a spring, from prison broke.

Heavens! what a spring was in his arm!

Sprite

Gaping graves received the wandering, guilty sprite.

Spumous

The spumy waves proclaim the watery war.

Spur

The Parthians shall be there, And, spurring from the fight, confess their fear.

Sputter

Like the green wood . . . sputtering in the flame.

Squalid

Uncombed his locks, and squalid his attire.

Squander

Our squandered troops he rallies.

Square

We live not on the square with such as these.

Squeak

If he be obstinate, put a civil question to him upon the rack, and he squeaks, I warrant him.

Stab

None shall dare With shortened sword to stab in closer war.

Staff

With forks and staves the felon to pursue.

Cowley found out that no kind of staff is proper for an heroic poem, as being all too lyrical.

Stagger

Deep was the wound; he staggered with the blow.

Staidness

If sometimes he appears too gay, yet a secret gracefulness of youth accompanies his writings, though the staidness and sobriety of age be wanting.

Stain

Nor death itself can wholly wash their stains.

Stake

A sharpened stake strong Dryas found.

Stalk

[Bertran] stalks close behind her, like a witch's fiend, Pressing to be employed.

With manly mien he stalked along the ground.

Stall

At last he found a stall where oxen stood.

Where King Latinus then his oxen stalled.

Stamp

He frets, he fumes, he stares, he stamps the ground.

'T is gold so pure It can not bear the stamp without alloy.

That sacred name gives ornament and grace, And, like his stamp, makes basest metals pass.

Stand

I charge thee, stand, And tell thy name.

My mind on its own center stands unmoved.

Accomplish what your signs foreshow; I stand resigned, and am prepared to go.

From the same parts of heaven his navy stands.

Or the black water of Pomptina stands.

Vice is at stand, and at the highest flow.

Stanza

Horace confines himself strictly to one sort of verse, or stanza, in every ode.

Starlight

A starlight evening and a morning fair.

start

I start as from some dreadful dream.

At once they start, advancing in a line.

The fright awakened Arcite with a start.

State

Declare the past and present state of things.

Where least of state there most of love is shown.

Well monarchies may own religion's name, But states are atheists in their very fame.

Stature

Foreign men of mighty stature came.

Stay

Sallows and reeds . . . for vineyards useful found To stay thy vines.

Stay, I command you; stay and hear me first.

The flames augment, and stay At their full height, then languish to decay.

I must stay a little on one action.

Make haste, and leave thy business and thy care; No mortal interest can be worth thy stay.

Stead

The genial bed, Sallow the feet, the borders, and the stead.

Stealth

The monarch, blinded with desire of wealth, With steel invades the brother's life by stealth.

Steam

My brother's ghost hangs hovering there, O'er his warm blood, that steams into the air.

Steel

While doubting thus he stood, Received the steel bathed in his brother's blood.

Steepy

No more, my goats, shall I behold you climb The steepy cliffs, or crop the flow'ry thyme.

Steerage

Here he hung on high, The steerage of his wings.

Stem

The lowering spring, with lavish rain, Beats down the slender stem and breaded grain.

Stench

Clouds of savory stench involve the sky.

Step

Conduct my steps to find the fatal tree.

Stern

Stern as tutors, and as uncles hard.

Stick

The points of spears are stuck within the shield.

The trembling weapon passed Through nine bull hides, . . . and stuck within the last.

Stickle

When he [the angel] sees half of the Christians killed, and the rest in a fair way of being routed, he stickles betwixt the remainder of God's host and the race of fiends.

While for paltry punk they roar and stickle.

Stickler

Our former chiefs, like sticklers of the war, First sought to inflame the parties, then to poise.

Stiff

A war ensues: the Cretans own their cause, Stiff to defend their hospitable laws.

Stiffen

Like bristles rose my stiffening hair.

The tender soil then stiffening by degrees.

Some souls we see, Grow hard and stiffen with adversity.

Stifle

Stifled with kisses, a sweet death he dies.

Stir

And for her sake some mutiny will stir.

Stock

Add to that stock which justly we bestow.

Stoop

Mighty in her ships stood Carthage long, . . . Yet stooped to Rome, less wealthy, but more strong.

And stoop with closing pinions from above.

Can any loyal subject see With patience such a stoop from sovereignty?

Stow

Some stow their oars, or stop the leaky sides.

Straggler

Let thy hand supply the pruning knife, And crop luxuriant stragglers.

Straight

There are many several sorts of crooked lines, but there is only one which is straight.

Strain

They strain their warbling throats To welcome in the spring.

Evander with a close embrace Strained his departing friend.

Their heavenly harps a lower strain began.

Strangely

How strangely active are the arts of peace!

Stranger

I was no stranger to the original.

Stray

Seeing him wander about, I took him up for a stray.

Streamer

Brave Rupert from afar appears, Whose waving streamers the glad general knows.

Stretch

By stretch of arms the distant shore to gain.

Strew

And strewed his mangled limbs about the field.

Stride

Mars in the middle of the shining shield Is graved, and strides along the liquid field.

Strife

These vows, thus granted, raised a strife above Betwixt the god of war and queen of love.

Strike

Now and then a glittering beam of wit or passion strikes through the obscurity of the poem.

String

Toil strung the nerves, and purified the blood.

Stroke

He has a great stroke with the reader.

He dried the falling drops, and, yet more kind, He stroked her cheeks.

Strong

Orses the strong to greater strength must yield.

I was stronger in prophecy than in criticism.

Struggle

'T is wisdom to beware, And better shun the bait than struggle in the snare.

Strut

The bellying canvas strutted with the gale.

Stub

And prickly stubs instead of trees are found.

Study

Study thyself; what rank or what degree The wise Creator has ordained for thee.

Stuff

Anger would indite Such woeful stuff as I or Shadwell write.

Lest the gods, for sin, Should with a swelling dropsy stuff thy skin.

With inward arms the dire machine they load, And iron bowels stuff the dark abode.

Stum

And with thy stum ferment their fainting cause.

Stumble

Ovid stumbled, by some inadvertency, upon Livia in a bath.

Stun

One hung a poleax at his saddlebow, And one a heavy mace to stun the foe.

Style

How well his worth and brave adventures styled.

Subdivide

The progenies of Cham and Japhet swarmed into colonies, and those colonies were subdivided into many others.

Subject

All human things are subject to decay.

Make choice of a subject, beautiful and noble, which . . . shall afford an ample field of matter wherein to expatiate.

Sublimated

[Words] whose weight best suits a sublimated strain.

Sublime

Sublime on these a tower of steel is reared.

Sublunar

All things sublunary are subject to change.

Submit

Sometimes the hill submits itself a while.

Suborn

Those who by despair suborn their death.

Substance

Heroic virtue did his actions guide, And he the substance, not the appearance, chose.

Succeed

Succeed my wish and second my design.

It is almost impossible for poets to succeed without ambition.

Spenser endeavored it in Shepherd's Kalendar; but neither will it succeed in English.

Will you to the cooler cave succeed!

Succor

This mighty succor, which made glad the foe.

Suck

As waters are by whirlpools sucked and drawn.

Suffice

The power appeased, with winds sufficed the sail.

Suit

Ill suits his cloth the praise of railing well.

The place itself was suiting to his care.

Sullen

Such sullen planets at my birth did shine.

Sultry

Such as, born beneath the burning sky And sultry sun, betwixt the tropics lie.

Sum

He sums their virtues in himself alone.

Summon

Trumpets summon him to war.

Sun

Then to sun thyself in open air.

Sunburn

Sunburnt and swarthy though she be.

Sundry

Sundry foes the rural realm surround.

Superstructure

You have added to your natural endowments the superstructure of study.

Supine

If the vine On rising ground be placed, or hills supine.

Supple

The stones . . . Suppled into softness as they fell.

Suppliant

The rich grow suppliant, and the poor grow proud.

Hear thy suppliant's prayer.

Supply

The sun was set, and Vesper, to supply His absent beams, had lighted up the sky.

Support

This fierce demeanor and his insolence The patience of a god could not support.

Surcease

The nations, overawed, surceased the fight.

Surcharge

Your head reclined, as hiding grief from view, Droops like a rose surcharged with morning dew.

Surge

He flies aloft, and, with impetuous roar, Pursues the foaming surges to the shore.

Surmise

It wafted nearer yet, and then she knew That what before she but surmised, was true.

Survey

With such altered looks, . . . All pale and speechless, he surveyed me round.

Sustain

His sons, who seek the tyrant to sustain.

Shall Turnus, then, such endless toil sustain?

Sway

This was the race To sway the world, and land and sea subdue.

Sweat

With exercise she sweat ill humors out.

Sweep

I have already swept the stakes.

Their long descending train, With rubies edged and sapphires, swept the plain.

Sweepy

The branches bend before their sweepy away.

Sweeten

Correggio has made his memory immortal by the strength he has given to his figures, and by sweetening his lights and shadows, and melting them into each other.

Swell

Your equal mind yet swells not into state.

Swerve

The tree was high; Yet nimbly up from bough to bough I swerved.

Swift

Swift of dispatch and easy of access.

Swim

Sometimes he thought to swim the stormy main.

Swing

He swings his tail, and swiftly turns his round.

Swoon

The most in years . . . swooned first away for pain.

Swoop

And now at last you came to swoop it all.

Sword

She quits the balance, and resigns the sword.

Sycophant

A sycophant will everything admire: Each verse, each sentence, sets his soul on fire.

Symphony

The trumpets sound, And warlike symphony in heard around.

Synod

Parent of gods and men, propitious Jove! And you, bright synod of the powers above.

Tablebook

Put into your tablebook whatever you judge worthy.

Tag

His courteous host . . . Tags every sentence with some fawning word.

Take

Beauty alone could beauty take so right.

Yet thy moist clay is pliant to command; . . . Not take the mold.

Talent

He is chiefly to be considered in his three different talents, as a critic, a satirist, and a writer of odes.

Tally

They were framed the tallies for each other.

Tantalize

Thy vain desires, at strife Within themselves, have tantalized thy life.

Tarnish

Till thy fresh glories, which now shine so bright, Grow stale and tarnish with our daily sight.

Task

There task thy maids, and exercise the loom.

Taste

For age but tastes of pleasures, youth devours.

I have no taste Of popular applause.

Taster

Thy tutor be thy taster, ere thou eat.

Tattle

The tattling quality of age, which is always narrative.

Tax

Men's virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.

Team

A long team of snowy swans on high.

Tear

Let Araby extol her happy coast, Her fragrant flowers, her trees with precious tears.

Teeming

Teeming buds and cheerful appear.

Teint

Time shall . . . embrown the teint.

Temper

The tempered metals clash, and yield a silver sound.

Tempt

Tempt not the brave and needy to despair.

Ere leave be given to tempt the nether skies.

Temptation

Dare to be great, without a guilty crown; View it, and lay the bright temptation down.

Ten

With twice ten sail I crossed the Phrygian Sea.

There 's a proud modesty in merit, Averse from begging, and resolved to pay Ten times the gift it asks.

Tenor

This success would look like chance, if it were perpetual, and always of the same tenor.

Term

In painting, the greatest beauties can not always be expressed for want of terms.

Test

Each test every light her muse will bear.

Our test excludes your tribe from benefit.

Who would excel, when few can make a test Betwixt indifferent writing and the best?

Thank

Weigh the danger with the doubtful bliss, And thank yourself if aught should fall amiss.

Then

Now, then, be all thy weighty cares away.

Thick

Black was the forest; thick with beech it stood.

He through a little window cast his sight Through thick of bars, that gave a scanty light.

Thicken

The press of people thickens to the court.

The combat thickens, like the storm that flies.

Thimbleful

For a thimbleful of golf, a thimbleful of love.

Thin

Thin, hollow sounds, and lamentable screams.

Think

For that I am I know, because I think.

This

Consider the arguments which the author had to write this, or to design the other, before you arraign him.

I have not wept this years; but now My mother comes afresh into my eyes.

Thong

And nails for loosened spears, and thongs for shields, provide.

Though

A good cause would do well, though.

Thought

Thoughts come crowding in so fast upon me, that my only difficulty is to choose or to reject.

Thoughtless

Thoughtless as monarch oaks that shade the plain.

Thraldom

He shall rule, and she in thraldom live.

Thrash

I rather would be Maevius, thrash for rhymes, Like his, the scorn and scandal of the times.

Threat

Our dreaded admiral from far they threat.

Thrid

I resume the thrid of my discourse.

Through

Through the gate of ivory he dismissed His valiant offspring.

Throughly

To dare in fields is valor; but how few Dare to be throughly valiant to be true?

Thrust

And thrust between my father and the god.

[Polites] Pyrrhus with his lance pursues, And often reaches, and his thrusts renews.

Thunder

Oracles severe Were daily thundered in our general's ear.

Thunderbolt

The Scipios' worth, those thunderbolts of war.

Thunderclap

When suddenly the thunderclap was heard.

Tie

Not tied to rules of policy, you find Revenge less sweet than a forgiving mind.

Tinkle

And his ears tinkled, and the color fled.

Tinsel

Who can discern the tinsel from the gold?

Tipple

Himself, for saving charges, A peeled, sliced onions eats, and tipples verjuice.

Tire

Tired with toil, all hopes of safety past.

Tissue

A robe of tissue, stiff with golden wire.

To

I'll to him again, . . . He'll tell me all his purpose. She stretched her arms to heaven.

Fate and the dooming gods are deaf to tears.

Go, buckle to the law.

He to God's image, she to his was made.

Together

Take the bad together with the good.

Toil

Then toils for beasts, and lime for birds, were found.

Toll

When hollow murmurs of their evening bells Dismiss the sleepy swains, and toll them to their cells.

Tone

Eager his tone, and ardent were his eyes.

Tongue

Parrots imitating human tongue.

Tony

A pattern and companion fit For all the keeping tonies of the pit.

Too

Such is not Charles his too too active age.

Tooth

These are not dishes for thy dainty tooth.

Top

But write thy, and top.

Tope

If you tope in form, and treat.

Totter

Troy nods from high, and totters to her fall.

Touch

Never give the least touch with your pencil till you have well examined your design.

Tough

A body made of brass, the crone demands, . . . Tough to the last, and with no toil to tire.

So tough a frame she could not bend.

Towardly

He's towardly and will come on apace.

Track

Behold Torquatus the same track pursue.

Trade

The house and household goods, his trade of war.

Traditive

Suppose we on things traditive divide.

Traduce

He had the baseness . . . to traduce me in libel.

Traduction

If by traduction came thy mind, Our wonder is the less to find A soul so charming from a stock so good.

Trail

And hung his head, and trailed his legs along.

Train

The warrior horse here bred he's taught to train.

Transcend

How much her worth transcended all her kind.

Transgress

Surpassing common faith, transgressing nature's law.

Transpierce

The sides transpierced return a rattling sound.

Trappings

Trappings of life, for ornament, not use.

Travel

His travels ended at his country seat.

Traverse

The parts should be often traversed, or crossed, by the flowing of the folds.

And save the expense of long litigious laws, Where suits are traversed, and so little won That he who conquers is but last undone.

Tread

Methought she trod the ground with greater grace.

Treat

To treat the peace, a hundred senators Shall be commissioned.

Treble

A lofty tower, and strong on every side With treble walls.

Tremble

Frighted Turnus trembled as he spoke.

Trill

To judge of trilling notes and tripping feet.

Trine

By fortune he [Saturn] was now to Venus trined.

Trip

She bounded by, and tripped so light They had not time to take a steady sight.

Virgil is so exact in every word that none can be changed but for a worse; he pretends sometimes to trip, but it is to make you think him in danger when most secure.

And watches with a trip his foe to foil.

Triple

By thy triple shape as thou art seen.

Triumph

Hercules from Spain Arrived in triumph, from Geryon slain.

Trophy

Around the posts hung helmets, darts, and spears, And captive chariots, axes, shields, and bars, And broken beaks of ships, the trophies of their wars.

Trudge

And trudged to Rome upon my naked feet.

Trumpet

The trumpet's loud clangor Excites us to arms.

That great politician was pleased to have the greatest wit of those times . . . to be the trumpet of his praises.

Trust

Whom, with your power and fortune, sir, you trust, Now to suspect is vain.

Her widening streets on new foundations trust.

Try

Or try the Libyan heat or Scythian cold.

Tug

At the tug he falls, Vast ruins come along, rent from the smoking walls.

Tun

A tun of man in thy large bulk is writ.

Turbulent

Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit.

Turn

I will take a turn in your garden.

The turn of both his expressions and thoughts is unharmonious.

Twain

When old winter split the rocks in twain.

Twice

He twice essayed to cast his son in gold.

Unawares

He breaks at unawares upon our walks.

Unbecoming

My grief lets unbecoming speeches fall.

Uncertain

From certain dangers to uncertain praise.

Soon bent his bow, uncertain in his aim.

Unconcerned

Happy mortals, unconcerned for more.

Unconditional

O, pass not, Lord, an absolute decree, Or bind thy sentence unconditional.

Unction

The king himself the sacred unction made.

Uncurl

He sheaths his paw, uncurls his angry mane.

Underaction

The least episodes or underactions . . . are parts necessary or convenient to carry on the main design.

Underhand

Such mean revenge, committed underhand.

Underpart

It should be lightened with underparts of mirth.

Undertake

And he was not right fat, I undertake.

Undervalue

I write not this with the least intention to undervalue the other parts of poetry.

Unerring

Hissing in air the unerring weapon flew.

Unfix

The mountain stands; nor can the rising sun Unfix her frosts.

Unheard

What pangs I feel, unpitied and unheard!

Universal

This universal frame began.

Unlade

The venturous merchant . . . Shall here unlade him and depart no more.

Unlucky

Haunt me not with that unlucky face.

Unquestioned

She muttering prayers, as holy rites she meant, Through the divided crowd unquestioned went.

Unspell

Such practices as these, . . . The more judicious Israelites unspelled.

Until

In open prospect nothing bounds our eye, Until the earth seems joined unto the sky.

Unturned

[He] left unturned no stone To make my guilt appear, and hide his own.

Up

Thou hast fired me; my soul's up in arms.

Grief and passion are like floods raised in little brooks by a sudden rain; they are quickly up.

Uphold

The mournful train with groans, and hands upheld. Besought his pity.

Upright

With chattering teeth, and bristling hair upright.

Uproot

Trees uprooted left their place.

Urn

His scattered limbs with my dead body burn, And once more join us in the pious urn.

Use

To study nature will thy time employ: Knowledge and innocence are perfect joy.

Usury

What he borrows from the ancients, he repays with usury of is own.

Vacancy

Those little vacancies from toil are sweet.

Vacate

He vacates my revenge.

Vain

Vain is the force of man To crush the pillars which the pile sustain.

The minstrels played on every side, Vain of their art.

Value

His design was not to pay him the value of his pictures, because they were above any price.

Van

He wheeled in air, and stretched his vans in vain; His vans no longer could his flight sustain.

Vare

His hand a vare of justice did uphold.

Various

A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome.

Vary

We are to vary the customs according to the time and country where the scene of action lies.

Vault

Leaning on his lance, he vaulted on a tree.

Veer

And as he leads, the following navy veers.

Venal

Thus needy wits a vile revenue made, And verse became a mercenary trade.

Venerate

And seemed to venerate the sacred shade.

Vent

The queen of heaven did thus her fury vent.

Venture

I, in this venture, double gains pursue.

Versify

I'll versify in spite, and do my best.

Vest

In state attended by her maiden train, Who bore the vests that holy rites require.

With ether vested, and a purple sky.

Vestment

The sculptor could not give vestments suitable to the quality of the persons represented.

Vex

Some English wool, vexed in a Belgian loom.

Victim

Led like a victim, to my death I'll go.

View

Surveying nature with too nice a view.

The walls of Pluto's palace are in view.

Vigor

The vigor of this arm was never vain.

Villainy

Such villainies roused Horace into wrath.

Villanize

Were virtue by descent, a noble name Could never villanize his father's fame.

Vindictive

I am vindictive enough to repel force by force.

Virelay

To which a lady sung a virelay.

Virtuoso

Virtuoso the Italians call a man who loves the noble arts, and is a critic in them.

Vocation

What can be urged for them who not having the vocation of poverty to scribble, out of mere wantonness make themselves ridiculous?

Voice

Some laws ordain, and some attend the choice Of holy senates, and elect by voice.

Volume

So glides some trodden serpent on the grass, And long behind wounded volume trails.

Vouch

Vouch the silent stars and conscious moon.

Vouchsafe

Vouchsafe, illustrious Ormond, to behold What power the charms of beauty had of old.

Vow

Knights of love, who never broke their vow; Firm to their plighted faith.

Wade

And wades through fumes, and gropes his way.

Waft

And now the shouts waft near the citadel.

Wag

The resty sieve wagged ne'er the more.

We wink at wags when they offend.

Wage

[He pondered] which of all his sons was fit To reign and wage immortal war with wit.

Wait

Haste, my dear father; 't is no time to wait.

Awed with these words, in camps they still abide, And wait with longing looks their promised guide.

He chose a thousand horse, the flower of all His warlike troops, to wait the funeral.

Wake

Singing her flatteries to my morning wake.

The warlike wakes continued all the night, And funeral games played at new returning light.

Wakeful

Dissembling sleep, but wakeful with the fright.

Waken

Early, Turnus wakening with the light.

Wall

To rush undaunted to defend the walls.

Wallow

One taught the toss, and one the new French wallow.

Wand

Picus bore a buckler in his hand; His other waved a long divining wand.

Wane

You saw but sorrow in its waning form.

Want

The disposition, the manners, and the thoughts are all before it; where any of those are wanting or imperfect, so much wants or is imperfect in the imitation of human life.

Ward

For want of other ward, He lifted up his hand, his front to guard.

Throughout the trembling city placed a guard, Dealing an equal share to every ward.

Ware

Then ware a rising tempest on the main.

Warm

Welcome, daylight; we shall have warm work on't.

Warning

Could warning make the world more just or wise.

Warp

This first avowed, nor folly warped my mind.

Waste

The Tiber Insults our walls, and wastes our fruitful grounds.

All the leafy nation sinks at last, And Vulcan rides in triumph o'er the waste.

Watchet

Who stares in Germany at watchet eyes?

Way

And let eternal justice take the way.

By noble ways we conquest will prepare.

Weak

Weak with hunger, mad with love.

Wealth

Each day new wealth, without their care, provides.

Weariness

With weariness and wine oppressed.

Weather

What gusts of weather from that gathering cloud My thoughts presage!

Wedge

Wedged in the rocky shoals, and sticking fast.

Well

He followed the fortunes of that family, and was well with Henry the Fourth.

What

What partial judges are our love and hate!

Wheedle

The unlucky art of wheedling fools.

Wheel

The gasping charioteer beneath the wheel Of his own car.

Whip

Who, for false quantities, was whipped at school.

Whirl

He whirls his sword around without delay.

The wooden engine flies and whirls about.

But whirled away to shun his hateful sight.

Whirlbat

The whirlbat and the rapid race shall be Reserved for Caesar.

Whisper

Soft whispers through the assembly went.

Whistle

They fear his whistle, and forsake the seas.

White

White as thy fame, and as thy honor clear.

Whiz

It flew, and whizzing, cut the liquid way.

Wholly

Nor wholly overcome, nor wholly yield.

Whose

The question whose solution I require.

Why

Turn the discourse; I have a reason why I would not have you speak so tenderly.

Wicket

The wicket, often opened, knew the key.

Widow

The widowed isle, in mourning, Dries up her tears.

Wifely

With all the tenderness of wifely love.

Wilding

Ten ruddy wildings in the wood I found.

Willing

No spouts of blood run willing from a tree.

Willingness

Sweet is the love which comes with willingness.

Win

Thy well-breathed horse Impels the flying car, and wins the course.

Wind

So swift your judgments turn and wind.

Their instruments were various in their kind, Some for the bow, and some for breathing wind.

Winnow

Winnow well this thought, and you shall find This light as chaff that flies before the wind.

Wiredraw

My sense has been wiredrawn into blasphemy.

Wisp

In a small basket, on a wisp of hay.

Wit

He wants not wit the dander to decline.

The definition of wit is only this, that it is a propriety of thoughts and words; or, in other terms, thoughts and words elegantly adapted to the subject.