Careful Words

luxury (n.)

Blesses his stars and thinks it luxury.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719): Cato. Act i. Sc. 4.

O Luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree!

Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774): The Deserted Village. Line 385.

There is a luxury in self-dispraise;

And inward self-disparagement affords

To meditative spleen a grateful feast.

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

Sad fancies do we then affect,

In luxury of disrespect

To our own prodigal excess

Of too familiar happiness.

William Wordsworth (1770-1850): Ode to Lycoris.

And learn the luxury of doing good.—Goldsmith: The Traveller, line 22. Crabbe: Tales of the Hall, book iii. Graves: The Epicure.

And learn the luxury of doing good.

Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774): The Traveller. Line 22.

He tried the luxury of doing good.

George Crabbe (1754-1832): Tales of the Hall. Book iii. Boys at School.

Weep on! and as thy sorrows flow,

I 'll taste the luxury of woe.

Thomas Moore (1779-1852): Anacreontic.

Blest hour! it was a luxury—to be!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834): Reflections on having left a Place of Retirement.