An Essay on the Archaeology of Our Popular Phrases, and Nursery Rhymes, Volume 2Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, 1840 - English language |
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... nature of the person , he is sure to find a subject somehow or somewhere ; whether friend or foe , guilt or innocence , is to be his aim , remains uncertain till the blow is felt . So that both by travesty and original forms ...
... nature of the person , he is sure to find a subject somehow or somewhere ; whether friend or foe , guilt or innocence , is to be his aim , remains uncertain till the blow is felt . So that both by travesty and original forms ...
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... suffer contentedly [ resignedly ] , to do which is the characteristic of the female in all such predi- caments as fall specially to the lot of her sex , and parturition being the common ban pronounced by nature upon 16 ARCHEOLOGY OF.
... suffer contentedly [ resignedly ] , to do which is the characteristic of the female in all such predi- caments as fall specially to the lot of her sex , and parturition being the common ban pronounced by nature upon 16 ARCHEOLOGY OF.
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... nature fulfilled . By the falling in of the term straw to the travesty , from a tender expression of humane sympathy with the female in question , it is degraded into one of heartless buffoonery . Ster , sterre , stark , undisturbed ...
... nature fulfilled . By the falling in of the term straw to the travesty , from a tender expression of humane sympathy with the female in question , it is degraded into one of heartless buffoonery . Ster , sterre , stark , undisturbed ...
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... , high words passed between them , and in the import of angry [ irritating , pro- voking , ] language was used by each of them , and * Homage , feudal estates . a quarrel the natural issue . Hye wo hort's ; 18 ARCHEOLOGY OF.
... , high words passed between them , and in the import of angry [ irritating , pro- voking , ] language was used by each of them , and * Homage , feudal estates . a quarrel the natural issue . Hye wo hort's ; 18 ARCHEOLOGY OF.
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John Bellenden Ker. a quarrel the natural issue . Hye wo hort's ; q . e . when an offence is given , return it [ make him suffer for it ] ; when an intentional insult is done , take your due revenge ... natural issue. Hye wo hort's; ...
John Bellenden Ker. a quarrel the natural issue . Hye wo hort's ; q . e . when an offence is given , return it [ make him suffer for it ] ; when an intentional insult is done , take your due revenge ... natural issue. Hye wo hort's; ...
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analogous Anglo-Saxon aspirate belongs bend Bije BILDERDIJK bring called CHAUCER chop contracted participle present derives dialect dije dijen direction of sense Doogh Dutch ellipsis etymology evidently explained expression favour fellow female fetch fool formerly spelt French German gode grete grounded groundedly hand head heart heet heeten Hence herte hold hoon HORNE TOOKE horse HUDIBRAS IBID IDEM ijse implying import intermutating Italian JOHNSON says keye labour language Latin literal form maie meaning mede meê metathesis mind nature never original form pain participle past participle present past participle phrase play potential mood præterite pronounce prosopopoeia question quoth regard Saxon schie semid SHAKSPEARE shrewd sounds Spanish spelt by CHAUCER suspect taele tell term thema ther thing thou TITMOUSE travesty trope turn utter verb watir whence Wijse word wote