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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... BIRD . LA'DY - COw . LADY - FLY . } Fly lady - bird , north , south , or east or west , Fly where the man is found that I love best . Gay . This lady - Ay I take from off the grass , Whose spotted back might scarlet red surpass . Gay ...
... BIRD . LA'DY - COw . LADY - FLY . } Fly lady - bird , north , south , or east or west , Fly where the man is found that I love best . Gay . This lady - Ay I take from off the grass , Whose spotted back might scarlet red surpass . Gay ...
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... bird . It was the lark , the herald of the morn . Shak . Look up a height , the shrill - gorg'd lark so far Cannot be seen or heard . Shaksp . King Lear . Cowley . Dict . Pope . Unhappy s'ave , and pupil to a bell. Dict . Th ' example of ...
... bird . It was the lark , the herald of the morn . Shak . Look up a height , the shrill - gorg'd lark so far Cannot be seen or heard . Shaksp . King Lear . Cowley . Dict . Pope . Unhappy s'ave , and pupil to a bell. Dict . Th ' example of ...
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... birds that light upon it . Poor bird ! thou'dst never fear the net or lime , The pitfall , nor the gin . Sbaksp . Macbeth . You must lay lime , to tangle her desires , By wailful sonnets , whose composed rhimes Should be full fraught ...
... birds that light upon it . Poor bird ! thou'dst never fear the net or lime , The pitfall , nor the gin . Sbaksp . Macbeth . You must lay lime , to tangle her desires , By wailful sonnets , whose composed rhimes Should be full fraught ...
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... bird that hath been limed in a bushi , With trembling wings misdoubteth ev'ry bush , And I , the hapless mate to one sweet bird , Have now the fatal object in my eye , Where my poor young was lim'd , was caught , Shakspeare . and kill'd ...
... bird that hath been limed in a bushi , With trembling wings misdoubteth ev'ry bush , And I , the hapless mate to one sweet bird , Have now the fatal object in my eye , Where my poor young was lim'd , was caught , Shakspeare . and kill'd ...
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... bird of dawning singeth all night long , And then they say no spirit walks abroad . The nights are wholesome , then no planets strike , No fairy takes , no witch hath power to charm , So hallow'd and so gracious is the time . Shaks . He ...
... bird of dawning singeth all night long , And then they say no spirit walks abroad . The nights are wholesome , then no planets strike , No fairy takes , no witch hath power to charm , So hallow'd and so gracious is the time . Shaks . He ...
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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