Joseph Addison

It is a dispute among the critics, whether burlesque poetry runs best in heroic verse, like that of the Dispensary, or in doggerel, like that of Hudibras.

Burlesque is therefore of two kinds; the first represents mean persons in the accouterments of heroes, the other describes great persons acting and speaking like the basest among the people.

Busy

Religious motives . . . are so busy in the heart.

But

There is no question but the king of Spain will reform most of the abuses.

Butchering

That dreadful butchering of one another.

Butt

I played a sentence or two at my butt, which I thought very smart.

Buzz

I found the whole room in a buzz of politics.

By-law

The law or institution; to which are added two by-laws, as a comment upon the general law.

Cake

Clotted blood that caked within.

Call

Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity.

Captivity

Sink in the soft captivity together.

Carnival

The carnival at Venice is everywhere talked of.

Carry

The carrying of our main point.

Cashier

They have cashiered several of their followers.

Cast

Our parts in the other world will be new cast.

And let you see with one cast of an eye.

Catcall

Upon the rising of the curtain. I was very much surprised with the great consort of catcalls which was exhibited.

Catch

Does the sedition catch from man to man?

Catechetic

Socrates introduced a catechetical method of arguing.

Challenge

Challenge better terms.

Chamade

They beat the chamade, and sent us carte blanche.

Champaign

A wide, champaign country, filled with herds.

Character

This subterraneous passage is much mended since Seneca gave so bad a character of it.

Chasm

Memory . . . fills up the chasms of thought.

Check

Which gave a remarkable check to the first progress of Christianity.

Checker

Our minds are, as it were, checkered with truth and falsehood.

Childish

Methinks that simplicity in her countenance is rather childish than innocent.

Churn

Churned in his teeth, the foamy venom rose.

circumstance

The sculptor had in his thoughts the conqueror weeping for new worlds, or the like circumstances in history.

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

The poet took the matters of fact as they came down to him and circumstanced them, after his own manner.

Clap

Unextrected claps or hisses.

Clear

My companion . . . left the way clear for him.

A statue lies hid in a block of marble; and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter.

How! wouldst thou clear rebellion?

Clearer

Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding.

Clog

The commodities are clogged with impositions.

Closeness

An affectation of closeness and covetousness.

Cock

Sir Andrew is the cock of the club, since he left us.

Cold

The jest grows cold . . . when in comes on in a second scene.

Collector

Volumes without the collector's own reflections.

Command

One side commands a view of the finest garden.

'Tis not in mortals to command success.

Comparable

There is no blessing of life comparable to the enjoyment of a discreet and virtuous friend.

Compass

Their wisdom . . . lies in a very narrow compass.

Compassionate

Compassionates my pains, and pities me.

Complacence

Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacency, if they discover none of the like in themselves.

Complacency, and truth, and manly sweetness, Dwell ever on his tongue, and smooth his thoughts.

Complaisance

These [ladies] . . . are by the just complaisance and gallantry of our nation the most powerful part of our people.

Complicate

Avarice and luxury very often become one complicated principle of action.

Comportment

Her serious and devout comportment.

Composer

If the thoughts of such authors have nothing in them, they at least . . . show an honest industry and a good intention in the composer.

Composition

A composition that looks . . . like marble.

Compound

We have the power of altering and compounding those images into all the varieties of picture.

Comprehensiveness

Compare the beauty and comprehensiveness of legends on ancient coins.

Concern

Our wars with France have affected us in our most tender interests, and concerned us more than those with any other nation.

The private concerns of fanilies.

O Marcia, let me hope thy kind concerns And gentle wishes follow me to battle.

Conclude

But no frail man, however great or high, Can be concluded blest before he die.

Conclusion

He granted him both the major and minor, but denied him the conclusion.

Concomitant

Reproach is a concomitant to greatness.

Condescension

Such a dignity and condescension . . . as are suitable to a superior nature.

Conducive

However conducive to the good or our country.

Confederacy

The friendships of the world are oft Confederacies in vice or leagues of pleasure.

Confess

I must confess I was most pleased with a beautiful prospect that none of them have mentioned.

Our beautiful votary took an opportunity of confessing herself to this celebrated father.

Confinement

The mind hates restraint, and is apt to fancy itself under confinement when the sight is pent up.

Conformable

The fragments of Sappho give us a taste of her way of writing perfectly conformable with that character.

Conformity

A conformity between the mental taste and the sensitive taste.

Confront

When I confront a medal with a verse, I only show you the same design executed by different hands.

Conjuncture

A fit conjuncture or circumstances.

Conjure

I conjure you, let him know, Whate'er was done against him, Cato did it.

Conquest

In joys of conquest he resigns his breath.

Consequentially

The faculty of writing consequentially.

Consideration

Lucan is the only author of consideration among the Latin poets who was not explained for . . . the Dauphin.

Consign

The four evangelists consigned to writing that history.

Consistence

That consistency of behavior whereby he inflexibly pursues those measures which appear the most just.

Consummation

From its original to its consummation.

Consumptive

A long consumptive war.

Contempt

Nothing, says Longinus, can be great, the contempt of which is great.

Continuance

The brute immediately regards his own preservation or the continuance of his species.

Contribute

England contributes much more than any other of the allies.

Convent

One seldom finds in Italy a spot of ground more agreeable than ordinary that is not covered with a convent.

Cook

They all of them receive the same advices from abroad, and very often in the same words; but their way of cooking it is so different.

Cope

Their generals have not been able to cope with the troops of Athens.

Courage

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it.

Cover

While the hen is covering her eggs, the male . . . diverts her with his songs.

Crack

I . . . can not get the Parliament to listen to me, who look upon me as a crack and a projector.

Crambo

I saw in one corner . . . a cluster of men and women, diverting themselves with a game at crambo. I heard several double rhymes . . . which raised a great deal of mirth.

Crash

The wreck of matter and the crash of worlds.

Crazy

One of great riches, but a crazy constitution.

Credential

Had they not shown undoubted credentials from the Divine Person who sent them on such a message.

Criminal

Foppish and fantastic ornaments are only indications of vice, not criminal in themselves.

Criticise

Several of these ladies, indeed, criticised upon the form of the association.

Critique

I should as soon expect to see a critique on the poesy of a ring as on the inscription of a medal.

Crowd

The whole company crowded about the fire.

Crumple

They crumpled it into all shapes, and diligently scanned every wrinkle that could be made.

Crush

The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.

Crust

I have known the statute of an emperor quite hid under a crust of dross.

And now their legs, and breast, and bodies stood Crusted with bark.

Cully

I have learned that . . . I am not the first cully whom she has passed upon for a countess.

Cultivate

To cultivate the wild, licentious savage.

Curiosity

We took a ramble together to see the curiosities of this great town.

Custom

Let him have your custom, but not your votes.

Cut

The man was cut to the heart.

Damp

Even now, while thus I stand blest in thy presence, A secret damp of grief comes o'er my soul.

Dandle

They have put me in a silk gown and gaudy fool's cap; I as ashamed to be dandled thus.

Dash

I take care to dash the character with such particular circumstance as may prevent ill-natured applications.

Innocence when it has in it a dash of folly.

Date

You will be suprised, I don't question, to find among your correspondencies in foreign parts, a letter dated from Blois.

Deafen

Deafened and stunned with their promiscuous cries.

Death

He caught his death the last county sessions.

Deathwatch

She is always seeing apparitions and hearing deathwatches.

Decry

Measures which are extolled by one half of the kingdom are naturally decried by the other.

Deepen

It would . . . deepen the bed of the Tiber.

Defilement

The chaste can not rake into such filth without danger of defilement.

Degeneracy

Degeneracy of spirit in a state of slavery.

Deity

This great poet and philosopher [Simonides], the more he contemplated the nature of the Deity, found that he waded but the more out of his depth.

Deliberate

The woman that deliberates is lost.

Delicious

No spring, nor summer, on the mountain seen, Smiles with gay fruits or with delightful green.

Depend

But if you 're rough, and use him like a dog, Depend upon it -- he 'll remain incog.

Descant

A virtuous man should be pleased to find people descanting on his actions.

Desperately

She fell desperately in love with him.

Detrimental

Neither dangerous nor detrimental to the donor.

Device

Knights-errant used to distinguish themselves by devices on their shields.

Devolve

They devolved their whole authority into the hands of the council of sixty.

Difficulty

They lie under some difficulties by reason of the emperor's displeasure.

Diffusiveness

The fault that I find with a modern legend, it its diffusiveness.

Dilate

His heart dilates and glories in his strength.

Disappoint

His retiring foe Shrinks from the wound, and disappoints the blow.

Disappointment

If we hope for things of which we have not thoroughly considered the value, our disappointment will be greater than our pleasure in the fruition of them.

Discipline

Giving her the discipline of the strap.

Disclose

If I disclose my passion, Our friendship 's an end.

Discreet

It is the discreet man, not the witty, nor the learned, nor the brave, who guides the conversation, and gives measures to society.

Disembogue

Rolling down, the steep Timavus raves, And through nine channels disembogues his waves.

Disembroil

Vaillant has disembroiled a history that was lost to the world before his time.

Disguise

There is no passion which steals into the heart more imperceptibly and covers itself under more disguises, than pride.

Disjoin

Never let us lay down our arms against France, till we have utterly disjoined her from the Spanish monarchy.

Disoblige

My plan has given offense to some gentlemen, whom it would not be very safe to disoblige.

Dissatisfaction

The ambitious man has little happiness, but is subject to much uneasiness and dissatisfaction.

Dissent

Opinions in which multitudes of men dissent from us.

Distance

[He] waits at distance till he hears from Cato.

Distill

Swords by the lightning's subtle force distilled.

Disuse

The disuse of the tongue in the only . . . remedy.

Diversion

Such productions of wit and humor as expose vice and folly, furnish useful diversion to readers.

Divinity

This the divinity that within us.

Division

Communities and divisions of men.

Doggerel

Doggerel like that of Hudibras.

Double

These men are too well acquainted with the chase to be flung off by any false steps or doubles.

Down

There is not a more melancholy object in the learned world than a man who has written himself down.

Draw

Keep a watch upon the particular bias of their minds, that it may not draw too much.

Drawcansir

The leader was of an ugly look and gigantic stature; he acted like a drawcansir, sparing neither friend nor foe.

Drift

He has made the drift of the whole poem a compliment on his country in general.

Drill

See drilled him on to five-fifty.

Droop

I'll animate the soldier's drooping courage.

Drown

My private voice is drowned amid the senate.

Dry

The weather, we agreed, was too dry for the season.

Durableness

The durableness of the metal that supports it.

Eddy

Wheel through the air, in circling eddies play.

Edification

Out of these magazines I shall supply the town with what may tend to their edification.

Elixir

The grand elixir, to support the spirits of human nature.

Elope

Great numbers of them [the women] have eloped from their allegiance.

Embroidery

Fields in spring's embroidery are dressed.

Embroil

The Christian antiquities at Rome . . . are so embroiled with able and legend.

Employ

This is a day in which the thoughts . . . ought to be employed on serious subjects.

Enable

Temperance gives Nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.

Encourager

The pope is . . . a great encourager of arts.

Engage

Good nature engages everybody to him.

Enter

He is particularly pleased with . . . Sallust for his entering into internal principles of action.

Equal

Those who were once his equals envy and defame him.

Equip

The country are led astray in following the town, and equipped in a ridiculous habit, when they fancy themselves in the height of the mode.

Essence

Gifts and alms are the expressions, not the essence of this virtue [charity].

Eternally

Where western gales eternally reside.

Even

I have made several discoveries, which appear new, even to those who are versed in critical learning.

Evil

He [Edward the Confessor] was the first that touched for the evil.

Exaggerate

A friend exaggerates a man's virtues.

Exasperate

To exsasperate them against the king of France.

Exceptionable

This passage I look upon to be the most exceptionable in the whole poem.

Excrescence

The excrescences of the Spanish monarchy.

Exercise

Lewis refused even those of the church of England . . . the public exercise of their religion.

Exotic

Plants that are unknown to Italy, and such as the gardeners call exotics.

Expatiate

He expatiated on the inconveniences of trade.

Express

They expressed in their lives those excellent doctrines of morality.

Extravagant

There appears something nobly wild and extravagant in great natural geniuses.

Eye

Booksellers . . . have an eye to their own advantage.

Fable

Jotham's fable of the trees is the oldest extant.

It would look like a fable to report that this gentleman gives away a great fortune by secret methods.

Face

This would produce a new face of things in Europe.

Fall

Heaven and earth will witness, If Rome must fall, that we are innocent.

I have observed of late thy looks are fallen.

A soul exasperated in ills falls out With everything, its friend, itself.

Falsify

Jews and Pagans united all their endeavors, under Julian the apostate, to baffle and falsify the prediction.

Farewell

Before I take my farewell of the subject.

Fate

The great, th'important day, big with the fate Of Cato and of Rome.

Fence

A fence betwixt us and the victor's wrath.

Flatterer

The most abject flaterers degenerate into the greatest tyrants.

Fling

I know thy generous temper well. Fling but the appearance of dishonor on it, It straight takes fire.

Flirt

Several little flirts and vibrations.

Several young flirts about town had a design to cast us out of the fashionable world.

Flounce

With his broad fins and forky tail he laves The rising sirge, and flounces in the waves.

Folding

The lower foldings of the vest.

Fondness

My heart had still some foolish fondness for thee.

Forecast

He makes this difference to arise from the forecast and predetermination of the gods themselves.

Fork

A thunderbolt with three forks.

Forwardness

In France it is usual to bring children into company, and cherish in them, from their infancy, a kind of forwardness and assurance.

Foul-mouthed

So foul-mouthed a witness never appeared in any cause.

Fraternal

Fraternal love and friendship.

Freeman

Both having been made freemen on the same day.

Freethinker

Atheist is an old-fashioned word: I'm a freethinker, child.

Frenzy

All else is towering frenzy and distraction.

Friendly

On the first friendly bank he throws him down.

Frisk

The frisking satyrs on the summits danced.

From

From high Mæonia's rocky shores I came.

Fruitful

The great fruitfulness of the poet's fancy.

Full

Full in the center of the sacred wood.

Fustian

Claudius . . . has run his description into the most wretched fustian.

Gain

The English have not only gained upon the Venetians in the Levant, but have their cloth in Venice itself.

Gall

In our wars against the French of old, we used to gall them with our longbows, at a greater distance than they could shoot their arrows.

Galloon

Silver and gold galloons, with the like glittering gewgaws.

Generally

Generally speaking, they live very quietly.

Girth

He's a lusty, jolly fellow, that lives well, at least three yards in the girth.

Give

It would be well for all authors, if they knew when to give over, and to desist from any further pursuits after fame.

Gladden

A secret pleasure gladdened all that saw him.

Gleam

Transient unexpected gleams of joi.

Glow

Did not his temples glow In the same sultry winds and acrching heats?

Go

Life itself goes out at thy displeasure.

Goddess

When the daughter of Jupiter presented herself among a crowd of goddesses, she was distinguished by her graceful stature and superior beauty.

Gorge

The giant gorged with flesh.

Grapy

The grapy clusters.

Greet

In vain the spring my senses greets.

Grief

The mother was so afflicted at the loss of a fine boy, . . . that she died for grief of it.

Grimace

Moving his face into such a hideous grimace, that every feature of it appeared under a different distortion.

Grin

He showed twenty teeth at a grin.

Gut

Tom Brown, of facetious memory, having gutted a proper name of its vowels, used it as freely as he pleased.

Habit

There are, among the statues, several of Venus, in different habits.

Habited

Another world, which is habited by the ghosts of men and women.

Hallucination

This must have been the hallucination of the transcriber.

Hand

He had a great mind to try his hand at a Spectator.

Hang

Life hangs upon me, and becomes a burden.

Harass

Nature oppressed and harass'd out with care.

Hard

A power which will be always too hard for them.

Havoc

Ye gods, what havoc does ambition make Among your works!

Head

An army of fourscore thousand troops, with the duke of Marlborough at the head of them.

The indisposition which has long hung upon me, is at last grown to such a head, that it must quickly make an end of me or of itself.

Headdress

Among birds the males very often appear in a most beautiful headdress, whether it be a crest, a comb, a tuft of feathers, or a natural little plume.

Heat

It has raised . . . heats in their faces.

With all the strength and heat of eloquence.

Hecatomb

Slaughtered hecatombs around them bleed.

Height

Social duties are carried to greater heights, and enforced with stronger motives by the principles of our religion.

Herd

I'll herd among his friends, and seem One of the number.

Hereafter

'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter.

Hermit

He had been Duke of Savoy, and after a very glorious reign, took on him the habit of a hermit, and retired into this solitary spot.

Hold

My soul took hold on thee.

Hover

Great flights of birds are hovering about the bridge, and settling on it.

Humanize

Was it the business of magic to humanize our natures with compassion?

Humorist

He [Roger de Coverley] . . . was a great humorist in all parts of his life.

The reputation of wits and humorists.

Hunt

He hunts a pack of dogs.

Hurry

Ambition raises a tumult in the soul, it inflames the mind, and puts into a violent hurry of thought.

Huzza

He was huzzaed into the court.

Hypermeter

When a man rises beyond six foot, he is an hypermeter.

Ignominy

Their generals have been received with honor after their defeat; yours with ignominy after conquest.

Imaginary

Wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer Imaginary ills and fancied tortures?

Impale

Then with what life remains, impaled, and left To writhe at leisure round the bloody stake.

Impatient

The impatient man will not give himself time to be informed of the matter that lies before him.

Impious

When vice prevails, and impious men bear away, The post of honor is a private station.

Implex

The fable of every poem is . . . simple or implex. it is called simple when there is no change of fortune in it; implex, when the fortune of the chief actor changes from bad to good, or from good to bad.

Impotent

Not slow to hear, Nor impotent to save.

Improvable

I have a fine spread of improvable lands.

Improve

A hint that I do not remember to have seen opened and improved.

Improvement

The parts of Sinon, Camilla, and some few others, are improvements on the Greek poet.

There is a design of publishing the history of architecture, with its several improvements and decays.

Imputation

Let us be careful to guard ourselves against these groundless imputation of our enemies.

In

He would not plunge his brother in despair.

Inadvertence

The productions of a great genius, with many lapses an inadvertencies, are infinitely preferable to works of an inferior kind of author which are scrupulously exact.

Incog

Depend upon it -- he'll remain incog.

Inconsiderate

It is a very unhappy token of our corruption, that there should be any so inconsiderate among us as to sacrifice morality to politics.

Inconsistency

Mutability of temper, and inconsistency with ourselves, is the greatest weakness of human nature.

Inconsistent

Compositions of this nature . . . show that wisdom and virtue are far from being inconsistent with politeness and good humor.

Incorporate

The Romans did not subdue a country to put the inhabitants to fire and sword, but to incorporate them into their own community.

Incumbent

To move the incumbent load they try.

Indeed

There is, indeed, no great pleasure in visiting these magazines of war.

Indelicacy

Your papers would be chargeable with worse than indelicacy; they would be immoral.

Indication

The frequent stops they make in the most convenient places are plain indications of their weariness.

Indifference

Indifference can not but be criminal, when it is conversant about objects which are so far from being of an indifferent nature, that they are highest importance.

Indifferent

Indifferent in his choice to sleep or die.

It was a law of Solon, that any person who, in the civil commotions of the republic, remained neuter, or an indifferent spectator of the contending parties, should be condemned to perpetual banishment.

Indigent

Charity consists in relieving the indigent.

Indolently

Calm and serene you indolently sit.

Inequality

The country is cut into so many hills and inequalities as renders it defensible.

Inexperience

Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.

Infatuate

The people are . . . infatuated with the notion.

Infernal

The instruments or abettors in such infernal dealings.

Infest

These, said the genius, are envy, avarice, superstition, love, with the like cares and passions that infest human life.

Infiltrate

The water infiltrates through the porous rock.

Infinitude

As pleasing to the fancy, as speculations of eternity or infinitude are to the understanding.

Inflame

A friend exaggerates a man's virtues, an enemy inflames his crimes.

Inflexible

A man of upright and inflexible temper . . . can overcome all private fear.

Infusion

Our language has received innumerable elegancies and improvements from that infusion of Hebraisms.

Inmost

The silent, slow, consuming fires, Which on my inmost vitals prey.

Inoffensive

So have I seen a river gently glide In a smooth course, and inoffensive tide.

Insensibly

The hills rise insensibly.

Interest

A goddess who used to interest herself in marriages.

Intrepidity

Sir Roger had acquitted himself of two or three sentences with a look of much business and great intrepidity.

Intricate

His style was fit to convey the most intricate business to the understanding with the utmost clearness.

Intrusion

Why this intrusion? Were not my orders that I should be private?

Invocation

The whole poem is a prayer to Fortune, and the invocation is divided between the two deities.

Irresolution

Irresolution on the schemes of life which offer themselves to our choice, and inconstancy in pursuing them, are the greatest causes of all unhappiness.

Item

I have itemed it in my memory.

Jauntiness

That jauntiness of air I was once master of.

Javelin

Flies the javelin swifter to its mark, Launched by the vigor of a Roman arm?

Joyless

Youth and health and war are joyless to him.

Just

When all The war shall stand ranged in its just array.

Justle

We justled one another out, and disputed the post for a great while.

Keep

Keep a stiff rein, and move but gently on.

Kindly

Examine how kindly the Hebrew manners of speech mix and incorporate with the English language

Laborious

Dost thou love watchings, abstinence, or toil, Laborious virtues all? Learn these from Cato.

Landed

The House of Commons must consist, for the most part, of landed men.

Landlord

Upon our arrival at the inn, my companion fetched out the jolly landlord.

Languid

Fire their languid souls with Cato's virtue.

Lapse

Homer, in his characters of Vulcan and Thersites, has lapsed into the burlesque character.

Lash

I observed that your whip wanted a lash to it.

Lease

There were some [houses] that were leased out for three lives.

Lend

Cato, lend me for a while thy patience.

Level

Providence, for the most part, sets us on a level.

Lift

The Roman virtues lift up mortal man.

Light

Absence might cure it, or a second mistress Light up another flame, and put out this.

These weights did not exert their natural gravity, . . . insomuch that I could not guess which was light or heavy whilst I held them in my hand.

Livelihood

The opportunities of gaining an honest livelihood.

Lodge

The deer is lodged; I have tracked her to her covert.

He lodged an arrow in a tender breast.

Longspun

The longspun allegories fulsome grow, While the dull moral lies too plain below.

Look

It would look more like vanity than gratitude.

Loose

Now I stand Loose of my vow; but who knows Cato's thoughts ?

Vent all its griefs, and give a loose to sorrow.

Lose

The woman that deliberates is lost.

Loud

To speak loud in public assemblies.

Lump

They may buy them in the lump.

Luster

The scorching sun was mounted high, In all its luster, to the noonday sky.

Luxury

He cut the side of a rock for a garden, and, by laying on it earth, furnished out a kind of luxury for a hermit.

Magnificent

When Rome's exalted beauties I descry Magnificent in piles of ruin lie.

make

He was all made up of love and charms!

Man

every wife ought to answer for her man.

A man would expect to find some antiquities; but all they have to show of this nature is an old rostrum of a Roman ship.

Manage

It was so much his interest to manage his Protestant subjects.

Management

He had great managements with ecclesiastics.

Manifesto

it was proposed to draw up a manifesto, setting forth the grounds and motives of our taking arms.

Many

Seeing a great many in rich gowns.

Master

Master of a hundred thousand drachms.

Match

Government . . . makes an innocent man, though of the lowest rank, a match for the mightiest of his fellow subjects.

A senator of Rome survived, Would not have matched his daughter with a king.

Maze

The ways of Heaven are dark and intricate, Puzzled with mazes, and perplexed with error.

Mead

To fertile vales and dewy meads My weary, wandering steps he leads.

Mean

The wine on this side of the lake is by no means so good as that on the other.

Meanness

This figure is of a later date, by the meanness of the workmanship.

Measure

That portion of eternity which is called time, measured out by the sun.

Medley

This medley of philosophy and war.

Mind

Bidding him be a good child, and mind his book.

Misbecome

Thy father will not act what misbecomes him.

Misconstrue

Much afflicted to find his actions misconstrued.

Misfortune

Consider why the change was wrought, You 'll find his misfortune, not his fault.

Mistress

A letter desires all young wives to make themselves mistresses of Wingate's Arithmetic.

Mixture

Cicero doubts whether it were possible for a community to exist that had not a prevailing mixture of piety in its constitution.

Mob

A cluster of mob were making themselves merry with their betters.

Model

You have the models of several ancient temples, though the temples and the gods are perished.

Moiety

The more beautiful moiety of his majesty's subject.

Mold

Nature formed me of her softest mold.

Moonshiny

I went to see them in a moonshiny night.

Mortify

How often is the ambitious man mortified with the very praises he receives, if they do not rise so high as he thinks they ought!

Mosaic

A very beautiful mosaic pavement.

Motto

It was the motto of a bishop eminent for his piety and good works, . . . “Serve God, and be cheerful.”

Mourn

As if he mourned his rival's ill success.

Mouth

Every coffeehouse has some particular statesman belonging to it, who is the mouth of the street where he lives.

I'll bellow out for Rome, and for my country, And mouth at Caesar, till I shake the senate.

Muffle

The face lies muffled up within the garment.

Munificence

The virtues of liberality and munificence.

Murky

A murky deep lowering o'er our heads.

Mutilate

Among the mutilated poets of antiquity, there is none whose fragments are so beautiful as those of Sappho.

Naked

Behold my bosom naked to your swords.

Namely

For the excellency of the soul, namely, its power of divining dreams; that several such divinations have been made, none can question.

Natural

What can be more natural than the circumstances in the behavior of those women who had lost their husbands on this fatal day?

Nature

That reverence which is due to a superior nature.

Neutrality

Men who possess a state of neutrality in times of public danger, desert the interest of their fellow subjects.

Niggardliness

Niggardliness is not good husbandry.

nincompoop

An old ninnyhammer, a dotard, a nincompoop, is the best language she can afford me.

Notion

The extravagant notion they entertain of themselves.

Notoriety

They were not subjects in their own nature so exposed to public notoriety.

Number

Ladies are always of great use to the party they espouse, and never fail to win over numbers.

Object

Others object the poverty of the nation.

obliging

Mons. Strozzi has many curiosities, and is very obliging to a stranger who desires the sight of them.

Obliquely

His discourse tends obliquely to the detracting from others.

Obloquy

Shall names that made your city the glory of the earth be mentioned with obloquy and detraction?

Obsequious

His servants weeping, Obsequious to his orders, bear him hither.

Omission

The most natural division of all offenses is into those of omission and those of commission.

Omit

Her father omitted nothing in her education that might make her the most accomplished woman of her age.

Once

My soul had once some foolish fondness for thee.

Open

The French are always open, familiar, and talkative.

Opprobrious

They . . . vindicate themselves in terms no less opprobrious than those by which they are attacked.

Orb

The wheels were orbed with gold.

Ordinary

Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation that in writing.

Orifice

Etna was bored through the top with a monstrous orifice.

Original

And spangled heavens, a shining frame, Their great Original proclaim.

Oscitancy

It might proceed from the oscitancy of transcribers.

Otherwise

Thy father was a worthy prince, And merited, alas! a better fate; But Heaven thought otherwise.

Out

Very seldom out, in these his guesses.

Outside

Created beings see nothing but our outside.

Overcharge

Our language is overcharged with consonants.

Overlook

The pardoning and overlooking of faults.

Pack

Strange materials packed up with wonderful art.

pain

None shall presume to fly, under pain of death.

Paragram

Puns, which he calls paragrams.

Parallel

When honor runs parallel with the laws of God and our country, it can not be too much cherished.

Parsimonious

Extraordinary funds for one campaign may spare us the expense of many years; whereas a long, parsimonious war will drain us of more men and money.

Pass

I had only time to pass my eye over the medals.

Passion

When statesmen are ruled by faction and interest, they can have no passion for the glory of their country.

Patrician

His horse's hoofs wet with patrician blood.

People

And strive to gain his pardon from the people.

Permit

Let us not aggravate our sorrows, But to the gods permit the event of things.

Perquisite

The best perquisites of a place are the advantages it gaves a man of doing good.

Persist

If they persist in pointing their batteries against particular persons, no laws of war forbid the making reprisals.

Pitch

The welkin pitched with sullen could.

He lived when learning was at its highest pitch.

Pithy

In all these Goodman Fact was very short, but pithy.

Pity

What pity is it That we can die but once to serve our country!

Plait

The plaits and foldings of the drapery.

Play

The setting sun Plays on their shining arms and burnished helmets.

Pleasantry

The grave abound in pleasantries, the dull in repartees and points of wit.

Plot

O, think what anxious moments pass between The birth of plots and their last fatal periods!

Plunge

And with thou not reach out a friendly arm, To raise me from amidst this plunge of sorrows?

Ply

He was forced to ply in the streets as a porter.

Polish

This Roman polish and this smooth behavior.

Possess

We possessed our selves of the kingdom of Naples.

To possess our minds with an habitual good intention.

Post

The post of honor is a private station.

Prance

The insulting tyrant prancing o'er the field.

Prelude

The last Georgic was a good prelude to the Aenis

Preëminence

The preëminence of Christianity to any other religious scheme.

Premise

I premise these particulars that the reader may know that I enter upon it as a very ungrateful task.

Press

Be sure to press upon him every motive.

Proportion

In the loss of an object we do not proportion our grief to the real value . . . but to the value our fancies set upon it.

Proudly

Proudly he marches on, and void of fear.

Public

The public is more disposed to censure than to praise.

Publish

The unwearied sun, from day to day, Does his Creator's power display, And publishes to every land The work of an almighty hand.

Pulvillio

Smells of incense, ambergris, and pulvillios.

Puppy

I found my place taken by an ill-bred, awkward puppy with a money bag under each arm.

Purge

We 'll join our cares to purge away Our country's crimes.

puzzle

He is perpetually puzzled and perplexed amidst his own blunders.

The ways of Heaven are dark and intricate, Puzzled in mazes, and perplexed with error.

Quality

I shall appear at the masquerade dressed up in my feathers, that the quality may see how pretty they will look in their traveling habits.

Quaver

We shall hear her quavering them . . . to some sprightly airs of the opera.

Quiver

And left the limbs still quivering on the ground.

Raillery

Studies employed on low objects; the very naming of them is sufficient to turn them into raillery.

Rally

Honeycomb . . . rallies me upon a country life.

Range

A man has not enough range of thought.

Rank

These all are virtues of a meaner rank.

Rap

I'm rapt with joy to see my Marcia's tears.

A judge who rapped out a great oath.

Rapture

Music, when thus applied, raises in the mind of the hearer great conceptions; it strengthens devotion, and advances praise into rapture.

Rare

When any particular piece of money grew very scarce, it was often recoined by a succeeding emperor.

Rarity

I saw three rarities of different kinds, which pleased me more than any other shows in the place.

Rattle

And the rude hail in rattling tempest forms.

Ravage

Would one think 't were possible for love To make such ravage in a noble soul?

Already Caesar Has ravaged more than half the globe.

Rave

Have I not cause to rave and beat my breast?

Read

A poet . . . well read in Longinus.

Reality

A man fancies that he understands a critic, when in reality he does not comprehend his meaning.

Reascend

He mounts aloft, and reascends the skies.

Reason

The most probable way of bringing France to reason would be by the making an attempt on the Spanish West Indies.

Reckon

I reckoned above two hundred and fifty on the outside of the church.

Reckoning

A coin would have a nobler use than to pay a reckoning.

Redound

both . . . will devour great quantities of paper, there will no small use redound from them to that manufacture.

Redundance

Labor . . . throws off redundacies.

Refine

So the pure, limpid stream, when foul with stains, Works itself clear, and, as it runs, refines.

refute

There were so many witnesses in these two miracles that it is impossible to refute such multitudes.

Relic

There are very few treasuries of relics in Italy that have not a tooth or a bone of this saint.

Relieve

The poet must . . . sometimes relieve the subject with a moral reflection.

Relish

When liberty is gone, Life grows insipid, and has lost its relish.

Remembrance

Lest the remembrance of his grief should fail.

Remove

A freeholder is but one remove from a legislator.

Rencounter

The confederates should . . . outnumber the enemy in all rencounters and engagements.

Represent

This bank is thought the greatest load on the Genoese, and the managers of it have been represented as a second kind of senate.

Representative

A statute of Rumor, whispering an idiot in the ear, who was the representative of Credulity.

Reserve

However any one may concur in the general scheme, it is still with certain reserves and deviations.

Resolve

Caesar's approach has summoned us together, And Rome attends her fate from our resolves.

Rest

To rest in Heaven's determination.

Retain

A Benedictine convent has now retained the most learned father of their order to write in its defense.

Retire

And from Britannia's public posts retire.

Retirement

Caprea had been the retirement of Augustus.

Retribution

It is a strong argument for a state of retribution hereafter, that in this world virtuous persons are very often unfortunate, and vicious persons prosperous.

Revere

Marcus Aurelius, whom he rather revered as his father than treated as his partner in the empire.

Reverie

There are infinite reveries and numberless extravagancies pass through both [wise and foolish minds].

Ridicule

To see the ridicule of this practice.

Right-hand

Mr. Alexander Truncheon, who is their right-hand man in the troop.

Rigor

The prince lived in this convent with all the rigor and austerity of a capuchin.

Ripe

While things were just ripe for a war.

Romantic

Zeal for the good of one's country a party of men have represented as chimerical and romantic.

Roof

I have not seen the remains of any Roman buildings that have not been roofed with vaults or arches.

Room

There was no prince in the empire who had room for such an alliance.

Rostral

[Monuments] adorned with rostral crowns and naval ornaments.

Rostrum

Myself will mount the rostrum in his favor.

Round

The figures on our modern medals are raised and rounded to a very great perfection.

Roundly

He affirms everything roundly.

Ruin

The Veian and the Gabian towers shall fall, And one promiscuous ruin cover all; Nor, after length of years, a stone betray The place where once the very ruins lay.

Run

Have I not cause to rave and beat my breast, to rend my heart with grief and run distracted?

Virgil, in his first Georgic, has run into a set of precepts foreign to his subject.

As wax dissolves, as ice begins to run.

As fast as our time runs, we should be very glad in most part of our lives that it ran much faster.

It is impossible for detached papers to have a general run, or long continuance, if not diversified with humor.

Rusticity

The sweetness and rusticity of a pastoral can not be so well expressed in any other tongue as in the Greek, when rightly mixed and qualified with the Doric dialect.

Sack

The Romans lay under the apprehensions of seeing their city sacked by a barbarous enemy.

Sacrifice

My life, if thou preserv'st my life, Thy sacrifice shall be.

Saint

A large hospital, erected by a shoemaker who has been beatified, though never sainted.

Salutation

I shall not trouble my reader with the first salutes of our three friends.

Salute

You have the prettiest tip of a finger . . . I must take the freedom to salute it.

Savor

I have rejected everything that savors of party.

Scarce

The scarcest of all is a Pescennius Niger on a medallion well preserved.

Scarceness

A scarcity of snow would raise a mutiny at Naples.

Scene

Through what new scenes and changes must we pass!

Scum

The great and innocent are insulted by the scum and refuse of the people.

Seam

Precepts should be so finely wrought together . . . that no coarse seam may discover where they join.

Season

The several seasons of the year in their beauty.

Seasoning

Political speculations are of so dry and austere a nature, that they will not go down with the public without frequent seasonings.

Second-sight

He was seized with a fit of second-sight.

Secular

The secular year was kept but once a century.

See

I had a mind to see him out, and therefore did not care for contradicting him.

Seem

A prince of Italy, it seems, entertained his mistress on a great lake.

Seemingly

This the father seemingly complied with.

Sensible

They are now sensible it would have been better to comply than to refuse.

Sensuality

They avoid dress, lest they should have affections tainted by any sensuality.

Sententious

How he apes his sire, Ambitiously sententious!

Set

They show how hard they are set in this particular.

They . . . set off the worst faces with the best airs.

The Venetians pretend they could set out, in case of great necessity, thirty men-of-war.

Settle

A government, on such occasions, is always thick before it settles.

Several

Several of them neither rose from any conspicuous family, nor left any behind them.

Shadowy

Milton has brought into his poems two actors of a shadowy and fictitious nature, in the persons of Sin and Death.

Shake

Our salutations were very hearty on both sides, consisting of many kind shakes of the hand.

Sham

Believe who will the solemn sham, not I.

Sharp

Nothing makes men sharper . . . than want.

Shirt

Several persons in December had nothing over their shoulders but their shirts.

Shock

He stood the shock of a whole host of foes.

Shoot

Thy words shoot through my heart.

Shortsighted

Cunning is a kind of shortsightedness.

Shower

Csar's favor, That showers down greatness on his friends.

Showy

A present of everything that was rich and showy.

Shrug

He shrugs his shoulders when you talk of securities.

Sing

The last, the happiest British king, Whom thou shalt paint or I shall sing.

Singular

These busts of the emperors and empresses are all very scarce, and some of them almost singular in their kind.

Singularity

I took notice of this little figure for the singularity of the instrument.

Sink

The Alps and Pyreneans sink before him.

You sunk the river repeated draughts.

Sitting

The male bird . . . amuses her [the female] with his songs during the whole time of her sitting.

Skirt

A narrow lace, or a small skirt of ruffled linen, which runs along the upper part of the stays before, and crosses the breast, being a part of the tucker, is called the modesty piece.

Slack

I should be grieved, young prince, to think my presence Unbent your thoughts, and slackened 'em to arms.

Smart

A sentence or two, . . . which I thought very smart.

Smoke

Upon that . . . I began to smoke that they were a parcel of mummers.

Smooth

This smooth discourse and mild behavior oft Conceal a traitor.

Smut

He does not stand upon decency . . . but will talk smut, though a priest and his mother be in the room.

So

He is very much in Sir Roger's esteem, so that he lives in the family rather as a relation than dependent.

Soar

Valor soars above What the world calls misfortune.

Solemnity

The statelines and gravity of the Spaniards shows itself in the solemnity of their language.

Sonorous

The Italian opera, amidst all the meanness and familiarty of the thoughts, has something beautiful and sonorous in the expression.

Soon

I would as soon see a river winding through woods or in meadows, as when it is tossed up in so many whimsical figures at Versailles.

Soothe

I've tried the force of every reason on him, Soothed and caressed, been angry, soothed again.

Sound

I've sounded my Numidians man by man.

Sour

They keep out melancholy from the virtuous, and hinder the hatred of vice from souring into severity.

Source

Kings that rule Behind the hidden sources of the Nile.

Souse

They soused me over head and ears in water.

Sow

And sow dissension in the hearts of brothers.

Speak

Lycan speaks of a part of Caesar's army that came to him from the Leman Lake.

Speechless

Speechless with wonder, and half dead with fear.

Spent

Now thou seest me Spent, overpowered, despairing of success.

Spike

He wears on his head the corona radiata . . . ; the spikes that shoot out represent the rays of the sun.

Spread

I have got a fine spread of improvable land.

Sprightliness

In dreams, observe with what a sprightliness and alacrity does she [the soul] exert herself!

Square

The statue of Alexander VII. stands in the large square of the town.

Squeak

Who can endure to hear one of the rough old Romans squeaking through the mouth of an eunuch?

Stalk

Then stalking through the deep, He fords the ocean.

Stamp

At Venice they put out very curious stamps of the several edifices which are most famous for their beauty and magnificence.

Stand

Bid him disband his legions, . . . And stand the judgment of a Roman senate.

Star

Blesses his stars, and thinks it luxury.

Start

I was engaged in conversation upon a subject which the people love to start in discourse.

To check the starts and sallies of the soul.

Startle

Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction?

Stated

He is capable of corruption who receives more than what is the stated and unquestionable fee of his office.

Statuary

On other occasions the statuaries took their subjects from the poets.

Stay

Trees serve as so many stays for their vines.

Steel

Why will you fight against so sweet a passion, And steel your heart to such a world of charms?

Steep

We had on each side naked rocks and mountains broken into a thousand irregular steeps and precipices.

Stiff

The French are open, familiar, and talkative; the Italians stiff, ceremonious, and reserved.

Stigmatize

To find virtue extolled and vice stigmatized.

Still

The sea that roared at thy command, At thy command was still.

The desire of fame betrays an ambitious man into indecencies that lessen his reputation; he is still afraid lest any of his actions should be thrown away in private.

Stingo

Shall I set a cup of old stingo at your elbow?

Stoop

These are arts, my prince, In which your Zama does not stoop to Rome.

Stowage

In every vessel is stowage for immense treasures.

Straight

I know thy generous temper well; Fling but the appearance of dishonor on it, It straight takes fire, and mounts into a blaze.

Strap

A lively cobbler that . . . had scarce passed a day without giving her [his wife] the discipline of the strap.

String

For here the Muse so oft her harp has strung, That not a mountain rears its head unsung.

Struggle

An honest might look upon the struggle with indifference.

Sublime

The sublime rises from the nobleness of thoughts, the magnificence of words, or the harmonious and lively turn of the phrase.

Subsistence

His viceroy could only propose to himself a comfortable subsistence out of the plunder of his province.

Suit

Give me not an office That suits with me so ill.

Sultry

When in the sultry glebe I faint, Or on the thirsty mountain plant.

Sunny

Her blooming mountains and her sunny shores.

Swaddle

They put me in bed in all my swaddles.

They swaddled me up in my nightgown with long pieces of linen.

Swarm

Those prodigious swarms that had settled themselves in every part of it [Italy].

Swarthy

Their swarthy hosts would darken all our plains.

Swathe

Wrapped me in above an hundred yards of swathe.

Sway

When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honor is a private station.

Switch

Mauritania, on the fifth medal, leads a horse with something like a thread; in her other hand she holds a switch.

Sympathize

Their countrymen . . . sympathized with their heroes in all their adventures.

Table

St. Antony has a table that hangs up to him from a poor peasant.

Take

Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale.

Each wit may praise it for his own dear sake, And hint he writ it, if the thing should take.

Tally

I found pieces of tiles that exactly tallied with the channel.

Tap

He has been tapping his liquors.

Tautology

The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day.

Tear

The hand of fate Hath torn thee from me.

Temper

She [the Goddess of Justice] threw darkness and clouds about her, that tempered the light into a thousand beautiful shades and colors.

Tenant

Sir Roger's estate is tenanted by persons who have served him or his ancestors.

Tendency

Writings of this kind, if conducted with candor, have a more particular tendency to the good of their country.

Tenebrificous

Authors who are tenebrificous stars.

Test

Thy virtue, prince, has stood the test of fortune, Like purest gold, that tortured in the furnace, Comes out more bright, and brings forth all its weight.

Theorist

The greatest theoretists have given the preference to such a government as that which obtains in this kingdom.

Thin

Ferrara is very large, but extremely thin of people.

Thing

The poor thing sighed, and . . . turned from me.

Thirsty

When in the sultry glebe I faint, Or on the thirsty mountain pant.

This

Thy crimes . . . soon by this or this will end.

Throb

The impatient throbs and longings of a soul That pants and reaches after distant good.

Throw

He heaved a stone, and, rising to the throw, He sent it in a whirlwind at the foe.

Your youth admires The throws and swellings of a Roman soul.

Tidings

What tidings dost thou bring?

Time

Who overlooked the oars, and timed the stroke.

Tinge

His [Sir Roger's] virtues, as well as imperfections, are tinged by a certain extravagance.

Toss

He tossed his arm aloft, and proudly told me, He would not stay.

Touch

The tender sire was touched with what he said.

If the antiquaries have touched upon it, they immediately quitted it.

I made a little voyage round the lake, and touched on the several towns that lie on its coasts.

Town

Always hankering after the diversions of the town.

Tract

A very high mountain joined to the mainland by a narrow tract of earth.

Train

The king's daughter with a lovely train.

The train of ills our love would draw behind it.

Transform

His hair transforms to down.

Troth

In troth, thou art able to instruct gray hairs.

Turn

My thoughts are turned on peace.

He was perfectly well turned for trade.

The Roman poets, in their description of a beautiful man, often mention the turn of his neck and arms.

Tweedle

A fiddler brought in with him a body of lusty young fellows, whom he had tweedled into the service.

Twist

Not the least turn or twist in the fibers of any one animal which does not render them more proper for that particular animal's way of life than any other cast or texture.

Ultimate

Many actions apt to procure fame are not conductive to this our ultimate happiness.

Uncomfortable

The most dead, uncomfortable time of the year.

Uncover

We are forced to uncover after them.

Under

It was too great an honor for any man under a duke.

Undermine

A vast rock undermined from one end to the other, and a highway running through it.

Underwood

Shrubs and underwoods look well enough while they grow within the shade of oaks and cedars.

Uneasy

A sour, untractable nature makes him uneasy to those who approach him.

Ungenerous

The victor never will impose on Cato Ungenerous terms.

Unruffled

Calm and unruffled as a summer's sea.

Up

A general whisper ran among the country people, that Sir Roger was up.

Upon

This advantage we lost upon the invention of firearms.

Use

Cato has used me ill.

Usher

The Examiner was ushered into the world by a letter, setting forth the great genius of the author.

Utter

And the last words he uttered called me cruel.

Value

Caesar is well acquainted with your virtue, And therefore sets this value on your life.

Varnish

Cato's voice was ne'er employed To clear the guilty and to varnish crimes.

Vary

While fear and anger, with alternate grace, Pant in her breast, and vary in her face.

Vat

Let him produce his vats and tubs, in opposition to heaps of arms and standards.

Vault

Lucan vaulted upon Pegasus with all the heat and intrepidity of youth.

Vehemence

I . . . tremble at his vehemence of temper.

Veneration

We find a secret awe and veneration for one who moves about us in a regular and illustrious course of virtue.

Venture

A man would be well enough pleased to buy silks of one whom he would not venture to feel his pulse.

Veteran

Ensigns that pierced the foe's remotest lines, The hardy veteran with tears resigns.

Vice

When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honor is a private station.

Vie

In a trading nation, the younger sons may be placed in such a way of life as . . . to vie with the best of their family.

Vigil

Nothing wears out a fine face like the vigils of the card table and those cutting passions which attend them.

Vilify

Many passions dispose us to depress and vilify the merit of one rising in the esteem of mankind.

Virtue

If there's Power above us, And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works, he must delight in virtue.

Voice

O Marcus, I am warm'd; my heart Leaps at the trumpet's voice.

Vulgar

Men who have passed all their time in low and vulgar life.

Wag

A counselor never pleaded without a piece of pack thread in his hand, which he used to twist about a finger all the while he was speaking; the wags used to call it the thread of his discourse.

Wainscot

The other is wainscoted with looking-glass.

Wane

Like the moon, aye wax ye and wane. Waning moons their settled periods keep.

Wanton

How does your tongue grow wanton in her praise!

Ward

The pointed javelin warded off his rage.

Warm

They say he's warm man and does not care to be mad mouths at.

Warmth

Here kindly warmth their mounting juice ferments.

Warp

I have no private considerations to warp me in this controversy.

Warrant

True fortitude is seen in great exploits, That justice warrants, and that wisdom guides.

Watch

All the long night their mournful watch they keep.

Way

There is but one road by which to climb up.

Weak

Guard thy heart On this weak side, where most our nature fails.

Wheel

His examination is like that which is made by the rack and wheel.

Whelp

That awkward whelp with his money bags would have made his entrance.

Whimsical

My neighbors call me whimsical.

Whip

In his right hand he holds a whip, with which he is supposed to drive the horses of the sun.

Whistle

He chanced to miss his dog; we stood still till he had whistled him up.

Who

How hard is our fate, who serve in the state.

Wholly

They employed themselves wholly in domestic life.

Whoop

A fox, crossing the road, drew off a considerable detachment, who clapped spurs to their horses, and pursued him with whoops and halloos.

Wild

The wild winds howl.

then Libya first, of all her moisture drained, Became a barren waste, a wild of sand.

Willingly

The condition of that people is not so much to be envied as some would willingly represent it.

Wind

Were our legislature vested in the prince, he might wind and turn our constitution at his pleasure.

Wingy

With wingy speed outstrip the eastern wind.

With

Such arguments had invincible force with those pagan philosophers.

[He] entertained a coffeehouse with the following narrative.

Without

Without the separation of the two monarchies, the most advantageous terms . . . must end in our destruction.

Witticism

He is full of conceptions, points of epigram, and witticisms; all which are below the dignity of heroic verse.

Word

The apology for the king is the same, but worded with greater deference to that great prince.

Work

Confused with working sands and rolling waves.

So the pure, limpid stream, when foul with stains Of rushing torrents and descending rains, Works itself clear, and as it runs, refines, Till by degrees the floating mirror shines.

Now, Marcus, thy virtue's the proof; Put forth thy utmost strength, work every nerve.

The sun, that rolls his chariot o'er their heads, Works up more fire and color in their cheeks.

World

If knowledge of the world makes man perfidious, May Juba ever live in ignorance.

Worst

He is always sure of finding diversion when the worst comes to the worst.

Worth

This is life indeed, life worth preserving.

At Geneva are merchants reckoned worth twenty hundred crowns.

Wrangle

He did not know what it was to wrangle on indifferent points.

Wrap

Leontine's young wife, in whom all his happiness was wrapped up, died in a few days after the death of her daughter.

Wreck

The wreck of matter and the crush of worlds.

Wrest

Our country's cause, That drew our swords, now secret wrests them from our hand.

Wring

Didst thou taste but half the griefs That wring my soul, thou couldst not talk thus coldly.

Yearn

Your mother's heart yearns towards you.

Yet

Facts they had heard while they were yet heathens.

Yokefellow

Those who have most distinguished themselves by railing at the sex, very often choose one of the most worthless for a companion and yokefellow.