Careful Words

built (n.)

built (adj.)

I built my soul a lordly pleasure-house,

Wherein at ease for aye to dwell.

Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892): The Palace of Art.

  Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar-school; and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used, and, contrary to the king, his crown and dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King Henry VI. Part II. Act iv. Sc. 7.

Built God a church, and laugh'd his word to scorn.

William Cowper (1731-1800): Retirement. Line 688.

Rome was not built in one day.

John Heywood (Circa 1565): Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.

It was that fatal and perfidious bark,

Built in th' eclipse, and rigg'd with curses dark.

John Milton (1608-1674): Lycidas. Line 100.

Like a fair house, built on another man's ground.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 2.

If this fail,

The pillar'd firmament is rottenness,

And earth's base built on stubble.

John Milton (1608-1674): Comus. Line 597.