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, Volume 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805 - English language |
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... Pope Now , on fancy's easy wing convey'd , The king descended to th ' Elysian shade ; There in a dusky vale , where Lethe rolls , Old Bavius sits to dip poetic souls . Pope's Dunc . So fishes , rising from the main , Can soar with ...
... Pope Now , on fancy's easy wing convey'd , The king descended to th ' Elysian shade ; There in a dusky vale , where Lethe rolls , Old Bavius sits to dip poetic souls . Pope's Dunc . So fishes , rising from the main , Can soar with ...
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... Pope's Odyssey . Discharge thy shafts ; this ready bosom rend . Pope's Statius . To let off a gun . A conceit runneth abroad , that there should be a white powder , which will discharge a piece 5 . city . 9 . of his duty , there would ...
... Pope's Odyssey . Discharge thy shafts ; this ready bosom rend . Pope's Statius . To let off a gun . A conceit runneth abroad , that there should be a white powder , which will discharge a piece 5 . city . 9 . of his duty , there would ...
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... Pope . To DISCREDIT . v . a . [ décrediter , Fr. ] 1. To deprive of credibility ; to make not trusted . He had framed to himself many deceiving pro- mises of life , which I have discredited to him , and now is he resolved to die ...
... Pope . To DISCREDIT . v . a . [ décrediter , Fr. ] 1. To deprive of credibility ; to make not trusted . He had framed to himself many deceiving pro- mises of life , which I have discredited to him , and now is he resolved to die ...
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... Pope . Narrowness of mind should be cured by read- ing histories of past ages , and of nations and countries distant ... Pope's Odyssey . To DISTA STE . v . a . [ from the noun . ] 1. To fill the mouth with nauseousness , or disrelish ...
... Pope . Narrowness of mind should be cured by read- ing histories of past ages , and of nations and countries distant ... Pope's Odyssey . To DISTA STE . v . a . [ from the noun . ] 1. To fill the mouth with nauseousness , or disrelish ...
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... Pope . Crystal drops from min'ral roofs distil . Pope . 2. To flow gently and silently . The Euphrates distilleth out of the mountains of Armenia , and falleth into the gulph of Persia . Raleigh's History . 3. To use a still ; to ...
... Pope . Crystal drops from min'ral roofs distil . Pope . 2. To flow gently and silently . The Euphrates distilleth out of the mountains of Armenia , and falleth into the gulph of Persia . Raleigh's History . 3. To use a still ; to ...
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