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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... Spenser . TO LA'NIATE . v . a . [ lanio , Latin . ] To tear in pieces ; to lacerate . LANIFICE . n . s ... Spenser . Upon a day , as love lay sweetly slumb'ring All in his mother's lap , A gentle bee , with his loud trumpet mur- m ...
... Spenser . TO LA'NIATE . v . a . [ lanio , Latin . ] To tear in pieces ; to lacerate . LANIFICE . n . s ... Spenser . Upon a day , as love lay sweetly slumb'ring All in his mother's lap , A gentle bee , with his loud trumpet mur- m ...
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... Spenser and Milton , who neither of them wanted genius or learn- ing ; and yet both of them are liable to many censures . Dryden . This , or any other scheme , coming from a private hand , might be liable to many defects . Swift . LIAR ...
... Spenser and Milton , who neither of them wanted genius or learn- ing ; and yet both of them are liable to many censures . Dryden . This , or any other scheme , coming from a private hand , might be liable to many defects . Swift . LIAR ...
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... Spenser . You confine yourself most unreasonably . Come ; you must go visit the lady that lies in . Shakspeare . She had lain in , and her right breast had been apostemated . Wiseman's Surgery . The doctor has practised by sea and land ...
... Spenser . You confine yourself most unreasonably . Come ; you must go visit the lady that lies in . Shakspeare . She had lain in , and her right breast had been apostemated . Wiseman's Surgery . The doctor has practised by sea and land ...
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... Spenser . O happy fair ! Your eyes are loadstars , and your tongue sweet More tuneable than lark to shepherd's ear ... Spenser . When he heard her answers loth , he knew Some secret sorrow did her heart distrain . To speak so ...
... Spenser . O happy fair ! Your eyes are loadstars , and your tongue sweet More tuneable than lark to shepherd's ear ... Spenser . When he heard her answers loth , he knew Some secret sorrow did her heart distrain . To speak so ...
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... Spenser . How am I caught with an unwary oath , Not to reveal the secret which I loath ! Waller . For thee the lion loaths the taste of blood , And roaring hunts his female through the wood . Now his exalted spirit loaths Incumbrances ...
... Spenser . How am I caught with an unwary oath , Not to reveal the secret which I loath ! Waller . For thee the lion loaths the taste of blood , And roaring hunts his female through the wood . Now his exalted spirit loaths Incumbrances ...
Common terms and phrases
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