Sir Henry Wotton
Diplomat and poet, 1568-1639
Cited as Sir H. Wotton. — 68 quotations
Ambulatory
The princess of whom his majesty had an ambulatory view in his travels.
Ballot
None of the competitors arriving to a sufficient number of balls, they fell to ballot some others.
Butt
Two harmless lambs are butting one the other.
Buttery
All that need a cool and fresh temper, as cellars, pantries, and butteries, to the north.
Circumspectness
[Travel] forces circumspectness on those abroad, who at home are nursed in security.
Circumvest
Circumvested with much prejudice.
Compartition
Their temples . . . needed no compartitions.
Complimental
Languages . . . grow rich and abundant in complimental phrases, and such froth.
Conduce
He was sent to conduce hither the princess.
Conscionable
Let my debtors have conscionable satisfaction.
Contentment
At Paris the prince spent one whole day to give his mind some contentment in viewing of a famous city.
Conterminable
Love and life not conterminable.
Contexture
He was not of any delicate contexture; his limbs rather sturdy than dainty.
Conversative
She chose . . . to endue him with the conversative qualities of youth.
Courtesan
Lasciviously decked like a courtesan.
Cumber
A place of much distraction and cumber.
Daintiness
The duke exeeded in the daintiness of his leg and foot, and the earl in the fine shape of his hands,
Delivery
Neater limbs and freer delivery.
Detract
Detract much from the view of the without.
Discredit
He. . . least discredits his travels who returns the same man he went.
Discuss
Many arts were used to discuss the beginnings of new affection.
Disposure
In a kind of warlike disposure.
Disrobe
Two great peers were disrobed of their glory.
Elevation
His style . . . wanted a little elevation.
Epithet
Never was a town better epitheted.
eruption
He would . . . break out into bitter and passionate eruditions.
File
Let me resume the file of my narration.
Forwardness
He had such a dexterous proclivity, as his teachers were fain to restrain his forwardness.
Fuel
Well watered and well fueled.
Fugitive
A libellous pamphlet of a fugitive physician.
Inaugurate
As if kings did choose remarkable days to inaugurate their favors.
Incumbent
Two incumbent figures, gracefully leaning upon it.
Inlet
Doors and windows, inlets of men and of light.
Insensible
Accept an obligation without being a slave to the giver, or insensible to his kindness.
Insociable
Lime and wood are insociable.
Latitude
Provided the length do not exceed the latitude above one third part.
Ledge
The lowest ledge or row should be of stone.
Luster
His ancestors continued about four hundred years, rather without obscurity than with any great luster.
Maidenhead
The maidenhead of their credit.
Meridional
Offices that require heat . . . should be meridional.
Nurture
He was nurtured where he had been born.
Picture
Any well-expressed image . . . either in picture or sculpture.
Plot
The prince did plot to be secretly gone.
Proclivity
He had such a dexterous proclivity as his teachers were fain to restrain his forwardness.
Prompt
The reception of the light into the body of the building was very prompt.
Rap
From Oxford I was rapt by my nephew, Sir Edmund Bacon, to Redgrove.
Recourse
Thus died this great peer, in a time of great recourse unto him and dependence upon him.
Refuge
Light must be supplied, among gracefulrefuges, by terracing story in danger of darkness.
Resupination
Our Vitruvius calleth this affection in the eye a resupination of the figure.
Rude
He was but rude in the profession of arms.
Rush
A gentleman of his train spurred up his horse, and, with a violent rush, severed him from the duke.
Sally
The excursion was esteemed but a sally of youth.
Sardonic
Where strained, sardonic smiles are glozing still, And grief is forced to laugh against her will.
Second
Being sure enough of seconds after the first onset.
Shift
My going to Oxford was not merely for shift of air.
Shy
Princes are, by wisdom of state, somewhat shy of thier successors.
Solemness
Some think he wanted solemnes.
Staircase
To make a complete staircase is a curious piece of architecture.
Step
The breadth of every single step or stair should be never less than one foot.
Stive
His chamber was commonly stived with friends or suitors of one kind or other.
Sturdy
He was not of any delicate contexture; his limbs rather sturdy than dainty.
Tend
Two gentlemen tending towards that sight.
Transportation
To provide a vessel for their transportation.
Traverse
Oak . . . being strong in all positions, may be better trusted in cross and traverse work.
Try
He first deceased: she for a little tried To live without him; liked it not, and died.
Vacancy
All dispositions to idleness or vacancy, even before they are habits, are dangerous.
Vacant
The duke had a pleasant and vacant face.
Washy
A polish . . . not over thin and washy.