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... ( Dict . of Eng . Etym . s.v. ) observes that in old English " the active sense of looking out for a thing was much more strongly felt in the word abide than it is now . " He quotes in illustration of this Wiclif's version of 2 Pet . iii ...
... ( Dict . of Eng . Etym . s.v. ) observes that in old English " the active sense of looking out for a thing was much more strongly felt in the word abide than it is now . " He quotes in illustration of this Wiclif's version of 2 Pet . iii ...
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... Dict . s . v . ) quotes from Lambarde's Perambulation , 1596 , p . 301 : ' Brought thereunto more accesse of estimation and reverence than all that ever was done before or since . ' Accurse , v.t. To curse . participle ' accursed ' is ...
... Dict . s . v . ) quotes from Lambarde's Perambulation , 1596 , p . 301 : ' Brought thereunto more accesse of estimation and reverence than all that ever was done before or since . ' Accurse , v.t. To curse . participle ' accursed ' is ...
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... Dict . s . v . ) " to informe , certifie , aduertise . " This sense is common in Shakespeare , who lays the accent on the middle syllable . Thus , " As I by friends am well advértised , ” Řich . III , 1v . 4. " To one that can my part ...
... Dict . s . v . ) " to informe , certifie , aduertise . " This sense is common in Shakespeare , who lays the accent on the middle syllable . Thus , " As I by friends am well advértised , ” Řich . III , 1v . 4. " To one that can my part ...
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... Dict . of Eng . Etym . ) . With the two forms amay and amaze may be compared apay and appease , allay and allegge . Alas ! what sorrow , what amasement , what shame was in Amphialus , when he saw his deere foster father , find him the ...
... Dict . of Eng . Etym . ) . With the two forms amay and amaze may be compared apay and appease , allay and allegge . Alas ! what sorrow , what amasement , what shame was in Amphialus , when he saw his deere foster father , find him the ...
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... Dict . Avoid , v.i. ( 1 Sam . xviii . 11 ; Wisd . xvii . 17 ) . Fr. vuider , vider , to make empty , clear out . Intransitively to depart , escape . Webster marks as improper the usage of the word in 1 Sam .: ' David avoided out of his ...
... Dict . Avoid , v.i. ( 1 Sam . xviii . 11 ; Wisd . xvii . 17 ) . Fr. vuider , vider , to make empty , clear out . Intransitively to depart , escape . Webster marks as improper the usage of the word in 1 Sam .: ' David avoided out of his ...
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Acts Alvearie Bacon Baret Cæs called Chaucer Clerk's Tale common Cotgrave denote derived Deut Dict doth Ecclus English euery Franklin's Tale Gower Conf Greek Hall hath haue Hebrew Hebrew word hence Holland's Pliny holy Ibid John Josh king Knight's Tale kyng Latimer Latimer Serm Law's Tale literal Lord Luke Macc Matt meaning N.'s Dr North's Plutarch occurs old form original Parson's Tale participle passage phrase Piers Ploughman's Prol Prov rendered Rich schal sche sense Serm Shakespeare shew Shipman's Tale signifies Spenser thee thing thou thynges trans Translators tyme Udal's Erasmus unto usage verb viii vnto vpon Vulgate whan whence Wiclif xvii xviii xxii xxiii xxiv xxix xxvi xxvii xxxii xxxiv
Popular passages
Page 320 - Sometime we see a cloud that's dragonish; A vapour sometime like a bear or lion, A tower'd citadel, a pendent rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees upon't, that nod unto the world, And mock our eyes with air.
Page 303 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty: For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.
Page 35 - In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt But, being season'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil ? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it and approve it with a text...
Page 245 - He had walk for a hundred sheep ; and my mother milked thirty kine. He was able, and did find the king a harness, with himself and his horse, while he came to the place that he should receive the king's wages. I can remember that I buckled his harness when he went unto Blackheath field. He kept me to school, or else I had not been able to have preached before the king's majesty now.
Page 261 - You would have thought the very windows spake, So many greedy looks of young and old Through casements darted their desiring eyes Upon his visage ; and that all the walls, With painted imagery, had said at once, — Jesu preserve thee ! welcome, Bolingbroke ! Whilst he, from one side to the other turning, Bare-headed, lower than his proud steed's neck, Bespake them thus, — I thank you, countrymen: And thus still doing, thus he pass'd along.
Page 10 - It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore and to see ships tossed upon the sea; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below; but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors and wanderings and mists and tempests in the vale below...
Page 523 - In all time of our tribulation; in all time of our wealth ; in the hour of death, and in the day of judgment, Good Lord, deliver us.
Page 499 - As watchman to my heart. But, good my brother, Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven, Whilst, like a puffd and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads And recks not his own rede.
Page 480 - If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know, you shall be thought another time to know that you know not. Speech of a man's self ought to be seldom, and well chosen. I knew one was wont to say in scorn, He must needs be a wise man, he speaks so much of himself.
Page 310 - Come not to me again : but say to Athens, Timon hath made his everlasting mansion Upon the beached verge of the salt flood ; Who once a day with his embossed froth The turbulent surge shall cover : thither come, And let my grave-stone be your oracle.