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 . 2. Softness of mien . Humility it expresses , by the stooping or bend- ing of the head ; languishment , when we hang it one side . Dryden . LA NGUOR . n . s . [ languor , Latin ; lan- gueur , French . ] 1. Faintness ...
... Spenser . 2. Softness of mien . Humility it expresses , by the stooping or bend- ing of the head ; languishment , when we hang it one side . Dryden . LA NGUOR . n . s . [ languor , Latin ; lan- gueur , French . ] 1. Faintness ...
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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'ring ...
... 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'ring ...
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... Spenser's Fairy Queen . Herwords prevail'd , and then the learned leech His canaing hand ' gan to his wounds to lay , And all things else the which his art did teach . Fairy Queen . Physick is their bane . The learned leeches in despair ...
... Spenser's Fairy Queen . Herwords prevail'd , and then the learned leech His canaing hand ' gan to his wounds to lay , And all things else the which his art did teach . Fairy Queen . Physick is their bane . The learned leeches in despair ...
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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 Dryden . censures . 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 Dryden . censures . 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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