Robert Southey
Poet Laureate, 1774-1843
Cited as Southey. — 70 quotations
Acclamation
On such a day, a holiday having been voted by acclamation, an ordinary walk would not satisfy the children.
Accredit
He accredited and repeated stories of apparitions and witchcraft.
Adverse
Happy were it for us all if we bore prosperity as well and wisely as we endure an adverse fortune.
Amorist
It was the custom for an amorist to impress the name of his mistress in the dust, or upon the damp earth, with letters fixed upon his shoe.
Anticipant
Wakening guilt, anticipant of hell.
Assign
The man who could feel thus was worthy of a better station than that in which his lot had been assigned.
Asylum
Earth has no other asylum for them than its own cold bosom.
Boot
What boots to us your victories?
Catholic
Men of other countries [came] to bear their part in so great and catholic a war.
Climacteric
It is your lot, as it was mine, to live during one of the grand climacterics of the world.
Coddle
He [Lord Byron] never coddled his reputation.
Comb
A gradual rise the shelving combe Displayed.
Contravene
So plain a proposition . . . was not likely to be contravened.
Corroborant
The brain, with its proper corroborants, especially with sweet odors and with music.
Curdle
Then Mary could feel her heart's blood curdle cold.
Demurral
The same causes of demurral existed which prevented British troops from assisting in the expulsion of the French from Rome.
Deteriorate
The art of war . . . was greatly deteriorated.
Dismal
A dismal description of an English November.
Dispathy
Many discrepancies and some dispathies between us.
Dispeed
Then they dispeeded themselves of the Cid and of their mother-in-law, Doa Ximena.
disqualify
Me are not disqualified by their engagements in trade from being received in high society.
Disuse
Church discipline then fell into disuse.
Engender
Engendering friendship in all parts of the common wealth.
Enhance
The reputation of ferocity enhanced the value of their services, in making them feared as well as hated.
Eradicate
This, although now an old an inveterate evil, might be eradicated by vigorous treatment.
Exculpation
These robbers, however, were men who might have made out a strong case in exculpation of themselves.
Float
Had floated that bell on the Inchcape rock.
Flower
The flower of the chivalry of all Spain.
Foment
Exciting and fomenting a religious rebellion.
Fore
The free will of the subject is preserved, while it is directed by the fore purpose of the state.
Glib
Their wild costume of the glib and mantle.
Hagiologist
Hagiologists have related it without scruple.
Halo
The fire That haloed round his saintly brow.
Heritance
Robbing their children of the heritance Their fathers handed down
Hibernate
Inclination would lead me to hibernate, during half the year, in this uncomfortable climate of Great Britain.
Impact
The quarrel, by that impact driven.
Incommunicable
Health and understanding are incommunicable.
Incompatible
A strength and obduracy of character incompatible with his meek and innocent nature.
Inherent
The sore disease which seems inherent in civilization.
Insane
I know not which was the insane measure.
Intrenchment
The slight intrenchment upon individual freedom.
Kritarchy
Samson, Jephthah, Gideon, and other heroes of the kritarchy.
Lacerate
By each other's fury lacerate
Leftward
Rightward and leftward rise the rocks.
Lewd
Too lewd to work, and ready for any kind of mischief.
Mall
Part of the area was laid out in gravel walks, and planted with elms; and these convenient and frequented walks obtained the name of the City Mall.
Market
Industrious merchants meet, and market there The world's collected wealth.
Mithridate
[Love is] a drop of the true elixir; no mithridate so effectual against the infection of vice.
Observable
The difference is sufficiently observable.
Outstrip
Appetites which . . . had outstripped the hours.
Plank
His charity is a better plank than the faith of an intolerant and bitter-minded bigot.
Prepense
This has not arisen from any misrepresentation or error prepense.
Regardant
[He] turns thither his regardant eye.
Retort
With retorted head, pruned themselves as they floated.
Rightward
Rightward and leftward rise the rocks.
Savage
Its bloodhounds, savaged by a cross of wolf.
Scarifier
You have your scarifiers to make the ground clean.
Shelter
You have no convents . . . in which such persons may be received and sheltered.
Sophisticate
To sophisticate the understanding.
Stationary
Charles Wesley, who is a more stationary man, does not believe the story.
Stirring
A more stirring and intellectual age than any which had gone before it.
Swift
Ply swift and strong the oar.
Tact
Did you suppose that I could not make myself sensible to tact as well as sight?
Tangible
Direct and tangible benefit to ourselves and others.
Trinketry
No trinketry on front, or neck, or breast.
Turbulence
The years of . . . warfare and turbulence which ensued.
Versed
Opinions . . . derived from studying the Scriptures, wherein he was versed beyond any person of his age.
Warp
We are divested of all those passions which cloud the intellects, and warp the understandings, of men.
Worsen
It is apparent that, in the particular point of which we have been conversing, their condition is greatly worsened.
Wrath
Now smoking and frothing Its tumult and wrath in.