A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from Their Originals, and Illustrated in Their Different Significations, by Examples from the Best Writers, to which are Prefixed a History of the Language, and an English Grammar, Bind 1Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805 |
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... lost to mankind , for want of English words , in which they might be expressed . It is not sufficient that a word is found , unless it be so combined as that its mean- ing is apparently determined by the tract and tenour of the sentence ...
... lost to mankind , for want of English words , in which they might be expressed . It is not sufficient that a word is found , unless it be so combined as that its mean- ing is apparently determined by the tract and tenour of the sentence ...
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... lost louer . Ex flatering fortune , loke thou neuer so fayre , Or neuer so plesantly begin to smile , As though thou wouldst my ruine all repayre , During my life thou shalt not me begile . Trust shall I God , to entre in a while , Hys ...
... lost louer . Ex flatering fortune , loke thou neuer so fayre , Or neuer so plesantly begin to smile , As though thou wouldst my ruine all repayre , During my life thou shalt not me begile . Trust shall I God , to entre in a while , Hys ...
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... Lost . Nom . Thou Ye Oblique Thee You She , in shadiest covert hid , Tun'd her nocturnal note . And virtuous . What she wills to say or do , Seems wisest , virtuousest , discreetest , best . Paradise Lost . So trifling , by Ray , who is ...
... Lost . Nom . Thou Ye Oblique Thee You She , in shadiest covert hid , Tun'd her nocturnal note . And virtuous . What she wills to say or do , Seems wisest , virtuousest , discreetest , best . Paradise Lost . So trifling , by Ray , who is ...
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... verses are either iambick , as alóft , create ; or trochaick , as bóly , lofty . Our jambick measure comprises verses Of four syllables , Most good , most fair , Or things as rare , 1 To call you ' s lost ; For all ENGLISH TONGUE . lxxxiit.
... verses are either iambick , as alóft , create ; or trochaick , as bóly , lofty . Our jambick measure comprises verses Of four syllables , Most good , most fair , Or things as rare , 1 To call you ' s lost ; For all ENGLISH TONGUE . lxxxiit.
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... lost ; For all the cost Words can bestow , So poorly show Upon your praise , That all the ways Sense hath , come short . The palace of loud Fame , her seat of pow'r , Plac'd on the summit of a lofty tow'r . A thousand winding entries ...
... lost ; For all the cost Words can bestow , So poorly show Upon your praise , That all the ways Sense hath , come short . The palace of loud Fame , her seat of pow'r , Plac'd on the summit of a lofty tow'r . A thousand winding entries ...
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Addison ancient animal Arbuthnot arms Atterbury Bacon bear beat Ben Jonson blood body Boyle break breast breath Brown's Vulgar Errours called cause church Clarendon colour Corvell death derived Dict doth Dryd Dryden Dutch earth English eyes Fairy Queen fear fire French fruit give grace ground grow hand hath head heart heav'n Henry VII honour Hooker horse Hudibras kind king King Lear kyng L'Estrange language Latin live Locke lord manner ment Milton mind motion nature never noun Opticks Paradise Lost particle person plant Pope preterit prince Quincy Saxon sense Shaks Shaksp Shakspeare Shakspeare's shew Sidney signifies sometimes soul sound South Spenser spirit sweet Swift syllable Tatler thee thing thou thought Tillotson tion tongue tree unto verb virtue Waller Watts wind word
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Side 12 - As one who, long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight ; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Side 32 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long...
Side 124 - That, with the hurly," death itself awakes ? Can'st thou, O partial sleep ! give thy repose To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude ; And in the calmest and most stillest night, With all appliances and means to boot, Deny it to a king? Then, happy low, lie down ! Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
Side 15 - But forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made. The servant therefore fell down, and worshipped him, saying; Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.
Side 10 - The which observed, a man may prophesy With a near aim of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasure"d. Such things become the hatch and brood of time...
Side 32 - Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him ; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison. Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing.
Side 7 - Horatio, what a wounded name, Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me. If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart, Absent thee from felicity awhile, And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain, To tell my story.