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 |
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... Gothick ; sealt , Sax . They break the truce , and sally out by night . sal , Lat . sel , Fr. ] Dryden . The summons take of the same trumpet's call , 1. Salt is a body whose two essential pro . To sally from one port , or man one ...
... Gothick ; sealt , Sax . They break the truce , and sally out by night . sal , Lat . sel , Fr. ] Dryden . The summons take of the same trumpet's call , 1. Salt is a body whose two essential pro . To sally from one port , or man one ...
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... Gothick ; sammo , it is sometimes written samplar . ) A Swedish . ] pattern of work ; a piece worked by 1. Not different ; not another ; identical ; young girls for improvement . being of the like kind , sort , or degree . O love , why ...
... Gothick ; sammo , it is sometimes written samplar . ) A Swedish . ] pattern of work ; a piece worked by 1. Not different ; not another ; identical ; young girls for improvement . being of the like kind , sort , or degree . O love , why ...
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... Gothick ; rendan , Saxon ; day again to the king . Clarendon . senden , Dutch . ) 2. TO SEND for . To require by message to 1. To dispatch from one place to another : come , or cause to be brought . used both of persons and things . Go ...
... Gothick ; rendan , Saxon ; day again to the king . Clarendon . senden , Dutch . ) 2. TO SEND for . To require by message to 1. To dispatch from one place to another : come , or cause to be brought . used both of persons and things . Go ...
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... Gothick ; them , in the same sesquialteral proportion of rettan , Saxon ; setten , Dutch . ] their periodical motions to their orbs . Bentley . 1. To place ; to put in any situation or SE'SQUIPEDAL . adj . ( sesquipedalis , place ; to ...
... Gothick ; them , in the same sesquialteral proportion of rettan , Saxon ; setten , Dutch . ] their periodical motions to their orbs . Bentley . 1. To place ; to put in any situation or SE'SQUIPEDAL . adj . ( sesquipedalis , place ; to ...
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... Gothick ; reo , Saxon ; sche , old Eng . lish . ] 1. The female pronoun demonstrative ; the woman ; the woman before men . tioned . Sbe , of whom the ancients seem'd to prophesy , When they callid virtues by the name of she ; Sbe , in ...
... Gothick ; reo , Saxon ; sche , old Eng . lish . ] 1. The female pronoun demonstrative ; the woman ; the woman before men . tioned . Sbe , of whom the ancients seem'd to prophesy , When they callid virtues by the name of she ; Sbe , in ...
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Addison Ainsworth Arbuthnot Atterbury Bacon Ben Jonson blood body Boyle Brown called callid cause colour death Dict doth Dryd Dryden Dutch earth ev'ry eyes fair Fairy Queen fear fire French give Gothick ground hand hast hath head heart heav'n honour Hooker Hudibras Islandick kind king L'Estrange Latin light live Locke look lord Milt Milton mind Mortimer motion nature ness never night noun o'er pain plant Pope pow'r preterit prince Prior publick salt sapience Saxon Sbaks Sbaksp Sbakspeare sense Shaks shew ship side Sidney sight sleep soft soul sound Soutb South Spectator Spenser spirit spring stand stone strike super sweet Swift taste Temple tender thee thing thou thought Tillotson tion tongue tree unto verb vessel virtue Waller Watts wind Wiseman Woodward word
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Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 46 - Here's the smell of the blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.