Careful Words

travel (n.)

travel (v.)

  Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Of Travel.

Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour:

England hath need of thee!

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Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart:

So didst thou travel on life's common way

In cheerful godliness.

William Wordsworth (1770-1850): London, 1802.

Was never eie did see that face,

Was never eare did heare that tong,

Was never minde did minde his grace,

That ever thought the travell long;

But eies and eares and ev'ry thought

Were with his sweete perfections caught.

Mathew Roydon (Circa 1586): An Elegie; or Friend's Passion for his Astrophill.

Until a man might travel twelve stout miles,

Or reap an acre of his neighbor's corn.

William Wordsworth (1770-1850): The Brothers.