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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... Dryden . To his laborious youth consum'd in war , And lasting age , adorn'd and crown'd with peace . Prior . 2. Requiring labour ; tiresome ; not easy . Do'st thou love watchings , abstinence , and toil , Laborious virtues all ? learn ...
... Dryden . To his laborious youth consum'd in war , And lasting age , adorn'd and crown'd with peace . Prior . 2. Requiring labour ; tiresome ; not easy . Do'st thou love watchings , abstinence , and toil , Laborious virtues all ? learn ...
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... Dryden's Virgil . What makes my ram the lag of all the flock ? Pope . To LAG . v . π . 1. To loiter ; to move slowly . Sne pass'd , with fear and fury wild ; The nurse went lagging after with the child . Dryden . The remnant of his days ...
... Dryden's Virgil . What makes my ram the lag of all the flock ? Pope . To LAG . v . π . 1. To loiter ; to move slowly . Sne pass'd , with fear and fury wild ; The nurse went lagging after with the child . Dryden . The remnant of his days ...
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... Dryden . 3. Imperfect ; unsatisfactory . Shrubs are formed into sundry shapes , by moulding them within , and cutting them with- out ; but they are but lame things , being too small to keep figure . Swift , who could neither fiy nor ...
... Dryden . 3. Imperfect ; unsatisfactory . Shrubs are formed into sundry shapes , by moulding them within , and cutting them with- out ; but they are but lame things , being too small to keep figure . Swift , who could neither fiy nor ...
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... Dryden and Lee . Me , only me , the hand of fortune bore , Unblest to tread the interdicted shore ; When Jove ... Dryden . They turn their heads to sea , their sterns to land , And greet with greedy joy th ' Italian strand . Dryden ...
... Dryden and Lee . Me , only me , the hand of fortune bore , Unblest to tread the interdicted shore ; When Jove ... Dryden . They turn their heads to sea , their sterns to land , And greet with greedy joy th ' Italian strand . Dryden ...
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... Dryden . He lards with flourishes his long harangue , ' Tis fine , say'st thou . Dryden . Swearing by heaven ; the poets think this no- thing , their plays are somuch larded with it . Collier . LA'RDER . n.s. [ lardier , old French ...
... Dryden . He lards with flourishes his long harangue , ' Tis fine , say'st thou . Dryden . Swearing by heaven ; the poets think this no- thing , their plays are somuch larded with it . Collier . LA'RDER . n.s. [ lardier , old French ...
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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