Careful Words

intellectual (n.)

intellectual (adj.)

For who would lose,

Though full of pain, this intellectual being,

Those thoughts that wander through eternity,

To perish rather, swallow'd up and lost

In the wide womb of uncreated night?

John Milton (1608-1674): Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 146.

But, oh ye lords of ladies intellectual,

Inform us truly,—have they not henpeck'd you all?

Lord Byron 1788-1824: Don Juan. Canto i. Stanza 22.

Hail, Columbia! happy land!

Hail, ye heroes! heaven-born band!

Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause,

Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause,

And when the storm of war was gone,

Enjoyed the peace your valor won.

Let independence be our boast,

Ever mindful what it cost;

Ever grateful for the prize,

Let its altar reach the skies!

Joseph Hopkinson (1770-1842): Hail, Columbia!

The intellectual power, through words and things,

Went sounding on a dim and perilous way!

William Wordsworth (1770-1850): The Excursion. Book iii.