Beattie
Cited as Beattie. — 27 quotations
Adversary
It may be thought that to vindicate the permanency of truth is to dispute without an adversary.
Afar
The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar.
Askance
They dart away; they wheel askance.
Assistant
Genius and learning . . . are mutually and greatly assistant to each other.
Attune
Wake to energy each social aim, Attuned spontaneous to the will of Jove.
Avarice
To desire money for its own sake, and in order to hoard it up, is avarice.
Careless
He framed the careless rhyme.
Carol
The gray linnets carol from the hill.
Discern
Our unassisted sight . . . is not acute enough to discern the minute texture of visible objects.
Docility
The humble docility of little children is, in the New Testament, represented as a necessary preparative to the reception of the Christian faith.
Effulgence
The bright and the balmy effulgence of morn.
Excellence
With every excellence refined.
Expansion
The starred expansion of the skies.
Fox
We call a crafty and cruel man a fox.
Garniture
The pomp of groves and garniture of fields.
Imp
To mingle in the clamorous fray Of squabbling imps.
Indecency
They who, by speech or writing, present to the ear or the eye of modesty any of the indecencies I allude to, are pests of society.
Ineffable
Contentment with our lot . . . will diffuse ineffable contentment over the soul.
Insignificance
Reduce him, from being the first person in the nation, to a state of insignificance.
Intercalary
This intercalary line . . . is made the last of a triplet.
Irreproachable
He [Berkely] erred, -- and who is free from error? -- but his intentions were irreproachable.
Reality
My neck may be an idea to you, but it is a reality to me.
Toll
Slow tolls the village clock the drowsy hour.
Weak
To think every thing disputable is a proof of a weak mind and captious temper.
Whir
The partridge bursts away on whirring wings.
Worth
If your arguments produce no conviction, they are worth nothing to me.
Wrap
Lo! where the stripling, wrapt in wonder, roves.