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 3Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805 - English language |
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... Æneid . An eager desire to know something concerning him , has occasioned mankind to labour the point , under these disadvantages , and turn on all hands to see if there were any thing left which might have the least appearance of ...
... Æneid . An eager desire to know something concerning him , has occasioned mankind to labour the point , under these disadvantages , and turn on all hands to see if there were any thing left which might have the least appearance of ...
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... Æneid . A sinew cracked seldom recovers its former strength , and the memory of it leaves a lasting caution in the man , not to put the part quickly again to any robust employment . Locke . LA'STINGLY . adv . [ from lasting . ] Per ...
... Æneid . A sinew cracked seldom recovers its former strength , and the memory of it leaves a lasting caution in the man , not to put the part quickly again to any robust employment . Locke . LA'STINGLY . adv . [ from lasting . ] Per ...
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... Æneid . to wield Her brandish'd lance . 2. To rush with vehemence . God changed the spirit of the king into mild- ness , who in a fear leap'd from his throne , and took her in his arms , till she came to herself again . Esther . After ...
... Æneid . to wield Her brandish'd lance . 2. To rush with vehemence . God changed the spirit of the king into mild- ness , who in a fear leap'd from his throne , and took her in his arms , till she came to herself again . Esther . After ...
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... Æneid . Addison . TO LEAVE . v . n . 1. To cease ; to desist . She is my essence , and I leave to be , If I be not by her fair influence Foster'd , illumin'd , cherish'd , kept alive . Sbaksp . And since this business so far fair is ...
... Æneid . Addison . TO LEAVE . v . n . 1. To cease ; to desist . She is my essence , and I leave to be , If I be not by her fair influence Foster'd , illumin'd , cherish'd , kept alive . Sbaksp . And since this business so far fair is ...
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... Æneid . Let Carolina smooth the tuneful lay , Lull with Amelia's liquid name the nine , And sweetly flow through all the royal line . 4. Dissolved , so as not to be obtainable by law . Pope . If a creditor should appeal to hinder the ...
... Æneid . Let Carolina smooth the tuneful lay , Lull with Amelia's liquid name the nine , And sweetly flow through all the royal line . 4. Dissolved , so as not to be obtainable by law . Pope . If a creditor should appeal to hinder the ...
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Addison Æneid Ainsworth Arbuthnot Atterbury Bacon Ben Jonson Bentley bird blood body Boyle Brown called cause church chyle Clarendon colour death Dict doth Dryd Dryden Dutch earth Ecclesiasticus eyes fair Fairy Queen father fire French give Glanville hand hast hath heart heav'n honour Hooker Hudibras kind king L'Estrange labour laid land Latin leave light live Locke look loose lord low Latin Maccabees matter means Milt Milton mind Mortimer motion mouth nature ness never night noun o'er optick pain pass passion peace person plant Pope pow'r prince Prior publick Saxon sense Shaks Shaksp Shakspeare shew Sidney soul South Spenser spirit stone sweet Swift Tatler thee thing thou thought Tillotson tion tongue tree unto v. a. mis verb Waller Watts word Wotton young