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AdeterminerUS /ə/
used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading --Come and see! trust thine own eyes, A fearful sign stands in the house of life, An enemy; a fiend lurks close behind ...
almost
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From this reading The belief in astrology was almost universal in the middle of the seventeenth century; it began to waver and become doubtful towards the close of that period, and in the beginning of the eighteenth the art fell into general disrepute, and even under general ridicule.
AndeterminerUS /æn/
the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound
From this reading --Come and see! trust thine own eyes, A fearful sign stands in the house of life, An enemy; a fiend lurks close behind ...
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading --Come and see! trust thine own eyes, A fearful sign stands in the house of life, An enemy; a fiend lurks close behind ...
artauxiliary verbUS /ɑːrt/
an old form of “are”, used with “thou”
From this reading The belief in astrology was almost universal in the middle of the seventeenth century; it began to waver and become doubtful towards the close of that period, and in the beginning of the eighteenth the art fell into general disrepute, and even under general ridicule.
astrology
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From this reading The belief in astrology was almost universal in the middle of the seventeenth century; it began to waver and become doubtful towards the close of that period, and in the beginning of the eighteenth the art fell into general disrepute, and even under general ridicule.
beauxiliary verbUS /biː/
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading The radiance of thy planet--O be warned!
become
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From this reading The belief in astrology was almost universal in the middle of the seventeenth century; it began to waver and become doubtful towards the close of that period, and in the beginning of the eighteenth the art fell into general disrepute, and even under general ridicule.
begannounUS /began/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading The belief in astrology was almost universal in the middle of the seventeenth century; it began to waver and become doubtful towards the close of that period, and in the beginning of the eighteenth the art fell into general disrepute, and even under general ridicule.
beginningnounUS /ˈbeginning/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading The belief in astrology was almost universal in the middle of the seventeenth century; it began to waver and become doubtful towards the close of that period, and in the beginning of the eighteenth the art fell into general disrepute, and even under general ridicule.
behindprepositionUS /bɪˈhaɪnd/
at or toward the back of something
From this reading --Come and see! trust thine own eyes, A fearful sign stands in the house of life, An enemy; a fiend lurks close behind ...
belief
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From this reading The belief in astrology was almost universal in the middle of the seventeenth century; it began to waver and become doubtful towards the close of that period, and in the beginning of the eighteenth the art fell into general disrepute, and even under general ridicule.
century
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From this reading The belief in astrology was almost universal in the middle of the seventeenth century; it began to waver and become doubtful towards the close of that period, and in the beginning of the eighteenth the art fell into general disrepute, and even under general ridicule.
close
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From this reading --Come and see! trust thine own eyes, A fearful sign stands in the house of life, An enemy; a fiend lurks close behind ...
Coleridge
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From this reading Coleridge, from Schiller.
ComenounUS /come/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading --Come and see! trust thine own eyes, A fearful sign stands in the house of life, An enemy; a fiend lurks close behind ...
disrepute
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From this reading The belief in astrology was almost universal in the middle of the seventeenth century; it began to waver and become doubtful towards the close of that period, and in the beginning of the eighteenth the art fell into general disrepute, and even under general ridicule.
doubtful
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From this reading The belief in astrology was almost universal in the middle of the seventeenth century; it began to waver and become doubtful towards the close of that period, and in the beginning of the eighteenth the art fell into general disrepute, and even under general ridicule.
eighteenth
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From this reading The belief in astrology was almost universal in the middle of the seventeenth century; it began to waver and become doubtful towards the close of that period, and in the beginning of the eighteenth the art fell into general disrepute, and even under general ridicule.
enemy
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From this reading --Come and see! trust thine own eyes, A fearful sign stands in the house of life, An enemy; a fiend lurks close behind ...
evennounUS /even/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading The belief in astrology was almost universal in the middle of the seventeenth century; it began to waver and become doubtful towards the close of that period, and in the beginning of the eighteenth the art fell into general disrepute, and even under general ridicule.
eyes
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From this reading --Come and see! trust thine own eyes, A fearful sign stands in the house of life, An enemy; a fiend lurks close behind ...
fearful
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From this reading --Come and see! trust thine own eyes, A fearful sign stands in the house of life, An enemy; a fiend lurks close behind ...
fell
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From this reading The belief in astrology was almost universal in the middle of the seventeenth century; it began to waver and become doubtful towards the close of that period, and in the beginning of the eighteenth the art fell into general disrepute, and even under general ridicule.
fiend
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From this reading --Come and see! trust thine own eyes, A fearful sign stands in the house of life, An enemy; a fiend lurks close behind ...
fromprepositionUS /frʌm/
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading Coleridge, from Schiller.
general
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From this reading The belief in astrology was almost universal in the middle of the seventeenth century; it began to waver and become doubtful towards the close of that period, and in the beginning of the eighteenth the art fell into general disrepute, and even under general ridicule.
house
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From this reading --Come and see! trust thine own eyes, A fearful sign stands in the house of life, An enemy; a fiend lurks close behind ...
inprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading --Come and see! trust thine own eyes, A fearful sign stands in the house of life, An enemy; a fiend lurks close behind ...
intoprepositionUS /ˈɪntuː/
moving to the inside of something
From this reading The belief in astrology was almost universal in the middle of the seventeenth century; it began to waver and become doubtful towards the close of that period, and in the beginning of the eighteenth the art fell into general disrepute, and even under general ridicule.
itpronounUS /ɪt/
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading The belief in astrology was almost universal in the middle of the seventeenth century; it began to waver and become doubtful towards the close of that period, and in the beginning of the eighteenth the art fell into general disrepute, and even under general ridicule.
learning
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From this reading Yet it still retained many partisans even in the seats of learning.
lifenounUS /life/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading --Come and see! trust thine own eyes, A fearful sign stands in the house of life, An enemy; a fiend lurks close behind ...
lurks
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From this reading --Come and see! trust thine own eyes, A fearful sign stands in the house of life, An enemy; a fiend lurks close behind ...
many
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From this reading Yet it still retained many partisans even in the seats of learning.
middle
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From this reading The belief in astrology was almost universal in the middle of the seventeenth century; it began to waver and become doubtful towards the close of that period, and in the beginning of the eighteenth the art fell into general disrepute, and even under general ridicule.
O
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From this reading The radiance of thy planet--O be warned!
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading --Come and see! trust thine own eyes, A fearful sign stands in the house of life, An enemy; a fiend lurks close behind ...
own
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From this reading --Come and see! trust thine own eyes, A fearful sign stands in the house of life, An enemy; a fiend lurks close behind ...
partisans
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From this reading Yet it still retained many partisans even in the seats of learning.
period
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From this reading The belief in astrology was almost universal in the middle of the seventeenth century; it began to waver and become doubtful towards the close of that period, and in the beginning of the eighteenth the art fell into general disrepute, and even under general ridicule.
planet
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From this reading The radiance of thy planet--O be warned!
radiance
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From this reading The radiance of thy planet--O be warned!
retained
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From this reading Yet it still retained many partisans even in the seats of learning.
ridicule
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From this reading The belief in astrology was almost universal in the middle of the seventeenth century; it began to waver and become doubtful towards the close of that period, and in the beginning of the eighteenth the art fell into general disrepute, and even under general ridicule.
Schiller
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From this reading Coleridge, from Schiller.
seats
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From this reading Yet it still retained many partisans even in the seats of learning.
see
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From this reading --Come and see! trust thine own eyes, A fearful sign stands in the house of life, An enemy; a fiend lurks close behind ...
seventeenth
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From this reading The belief in astrology was almost universal in the middle of the seventeenth century; it began to waver and become doubtful towards the close of that period, and in the beginning of the eighteenth the art fell into general disrepute, and even under general ridicule.
sign
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From this reading --Come and see! trust thine own eyes, A fearful sign stands in the house of life, An enemy; a fiend lurks close behind ...
stands
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From this reading --Come and see! trust thine own eyes, A fearful sign stands in the house of life, An enemy; a fiend lurks close behind ...
stillnounUS /still/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Yet it still retained many partisans even in the seats of learning.
thatconjunctionUS /ðæt/
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading The belief in astrology was almost universal in the middle of the seventeenth century; it began to waver and become doubtful towards the close of that period, and in the beginning of the eighteenth the art fell into general disrepute, and even under general ridicule.
thedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading --Come and see! trust thine own eyes, A fearful sign stands in the house of life, An enemy; a fiend lurks close behind ...
thinepronounUS /ðaɪn/
an old word for “yours”
From this reading --Come and see! trust thine own eyes, A fearful sign stands in the house of life, An enemy; a fiend lurks close behind ...
thydeterminerUS /ðaɪ/
an old word for “your”, speaking to one person
From this reading The radiance of thy planet--O be warned!
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading The belief in astrology was almost universal in the middle of the seventeenth century; it began to waver and become doubtful towards the close of that period, and in the beginning of the eighteenth the art fell into general disrepute, and even under general ridicule.
towardsprepositionUS /təˈwɔːrdz/
in the direction of
From this reading The belief in astrology was almost universal in the middle of the seventeenth century; it began to waver and become doubtful towards the close of that period, and in the beginning of the eighteenth the art fell into general disrepute, and even under general ridicule.
trust
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From this reading --Come and see! trust thine own eyes, A fearful sign stands in the house of life, An enemy; a fiend lurks close behind ...
underprepositionUS /ˈʌndər/
below or beneath something; less than
From this reading The belief in astrology was almost universal in the middle of the seventeenth century; it began to waver and become doubtful towards the close of that period, and in the beginning of the eighteenth the art fell into general disrepute, and even under general ridicule.
universal
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From this reading The belief in astrology was almost universal in the middle of the seventeenth century; it began to waver and become doubtful towards the close of that period, and in the beginning of the eighteenth the art fell into general disrepute, and even under general ridicule.
warned
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From this reading The radiance of thy planet--O be warned!
wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading The belief in astrology was almost universal in the middle of the seventeenth century; it began to waver and become doubtful towards the close of that period, and in the beginning of the eighteenth the art fell into general disrepute, and even under general ridicule.
waver
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From this reading The belief in astrology was almost universal in the middle of the seventeenth century; it began to waver and become doubtful towards the close of that period, and in the beginning of the eighteenth the art fell into general disrepute, and even under general ridicule.
YetconjunctionUS /jet/
but in spite of that
From this reading Yet it still retained many partisans even in the seats of learning.
