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 4Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805 - English language |
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... Common Prayer . Bacon . the Trojan chiefs . Dryden . If all should be set out to the world by an 66. TO SET up . To establish ; to appoint ; angry whig , the consequence must be a confine- to fix . ment of our friend for some months ...
... Common Prayer . Bacon . the Trojan chiefs . Dryden . If all should be set out to the world by an 66. TO SET up . To establish ; to appoint ; angry whig , the consequence must be a confine- to fix . ment of our friend for some months ...
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... common lift , in Would not awhile her forward course pursue . low subjects ; and is a kind of juniper , a sbrub Fairy Queen . belonging to the species of cedar . Dryden . If there were taken out of men's minds vain I've liy'd opinions ...
... common lift , in Would not awhile her forward course pursue . low subjects ; and is a kind of juniper , a sbrub Fairy Queen . belonging to the species of cedar . Dryden . If there were taken out of men's minds vain I've liy'd opinions ...
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... common to 2. [ In grammar . ] Expressing only one ; others . not plural Solitude and singularity can neither daunt nor If St. Paul's speaking of himself in the first disgrace bim , unless we could suppose it a disSoutb . person singular ...
... common to 2. [ In grammar . ] Expressing only one ; others . not plural Solitude and singularity can neither daunt nor If St. Paul's speaking of himself in the first disgrace bim , unless we could suppose it a disSoutb . person singular ...
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... common as the stairs Because you bought them . Sbakspeare . That mount the capitol ; join gripes with hands The supreme God , t ' whom all things ili Made hard with hourly falsehood as with labour . Are but as slavish officers of ...
... common as the stairs Because you bought them . Sbakspeare . That mount the capitol ; join gripes with hands The supreme God , t ' whom all things ili Made hard with hourly falsehood as with labour . Are but as slavish officers of ...
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... common weed by the His head , and on his wife's lip steal a smack . sides of ditches and brooks . Miner . Donne . Smuullage is raised by slips or seed , which is 7. ( snacca , Sax . sneckra , Islandick . ) A reddish , and pretty big ...
... common weed by the His head , and on his wife's lip steal a smack . sides of ditches and brooks . Miner . Donne . Smuullage is raised by slips or seed , which is 7. ( snacca , Sax . sneckra , Islandick . ) A reddish , and pretty big ...
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Page 39 - God knows, my son, By what by-paths and indirect crook'd ways I met this crown ; and I myself know well How troublesome it sat upon my head : To thee it shall descend with better quiet, Better opinion, better confirmation ; For all the soil of the achievement goes With me into the earth.
Page 67 - Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain-tops that freeze, Bow themselves, when he did sing : To his music, plants and flowers Ever sprung : as sun and showers There had made a lasting spring.
Page 99 - Of linked sweetness long drawn out With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus...
Page 46 - Here's the smell of the blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.
Page 109 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form; Then, have I reason to be fond of grief ? Fare you well: had you such a loss as I, I could give better comfort than you do.
Page 82 - To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise...
Page 30 - And flowers aloft shading the fount of life, And where the river of bliss through midst of heaven Rolls o'er Elysian flowers her amber stream. With these, that never fade, the Spirits elect Bind their resplendent locks, inwreath'd with beams : Now in loose garlands thick thrown off, the bright Pavement, that like a sea of jasper shone, Impurpled with celestial roses smiled.