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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... Sidney . 4 Shakspeare . Northumberland , thou ladder , by the which My cousin Bolingbroke ascends my throne . Sbakspeare . Lowliness is young ambition's ladder , Whereto the climber upwards turns his face . Shakspeare . 3. A gradual ...
... Sidney . 4 Shakspeare . Northumberland , thou ladder , by the which My cousin Bolingbroke ascends my throne . Sbakspeare . Lowliness is young ambition's ladder , Whereto the climber upwards turns his face . Shakspeare . 3. A gradual ...
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... Sidney . The victors to their vessels bear the prize , And hear behind loud groans , and lamentable cries . Dryden , 3. Miserable , in a ludicrous or low sense ; pitiful ; despicable . This bishop , to make out the disparity be- tween ...
... Sidney . The victors to their vessels bear the prize , And hear behind loud groans , and lamentable cries . Dryden , 3. Miserable , in a ludicrous or low sense ; pitiful ; despicable . This bishop , to make out the disparity be- tween ...
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... Sidney . Plate sin with gold , And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks : Arm it in rags , a pigmy's straw doth pierce it . Shakspeare 5 They shall hold the bow and the lance . Jeremiah . Hector beholds his jav'lin fall in vain ...
... Sidney . Plate sin with gold , And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks : Arm it in rags , a pigmy's straw doth pierce it . Shakspeare 5 They shall hold the bow and the lance . Jeremiah . Hector beholds his jav'lin fall in vain ...
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... Sidney . Let reason teach impossibility in any thing , and the will of man doth let it go . Hooker . He was let loose among the woods as soon as he was able to ride on horseback or carry a gun . Spectator . 14. TO LET blood , is ...
... Sidney . Let reason teach impossibility in any thing , and the will of man doth let it go . Hooker . He was let loose among the woods as soon as he was able to ride on horseback or carry a gun . Spectator . 14. TO LET blood , is ...
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... Sidney . With such full licence , as both truth and malice Have power to utter . Shaksp . Ant . and Cleopatra . They baul for freedom in their senseless moods , And still revolt when truth would set them free ; Licence they mean , when ...
... Sidney . With such full licence , as both truth and malice Have power to utter . Shaksp . Ant . and Cleopatra . They baul for freedom in their senseless moods , And still revolt when truth would set them free ; Licence they mean , when ...
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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