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 3 |
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Thy gentle eyes send forth a quick'ning spirit , 1. To pierce ; to cut . And feed the dying lamp of lite within me . With his prepared sword he charges homo Rowe . My unprovided body , lanc ' my arm . Sbakspo Cynthia , fair regent of ...
Thy gentle eyes send forth a quick'ning spirit , 1. To pierce ; to cut . And feed the dying lamp of lite within me . With his prepared sword he charges homo Rowe . My unprovided body , lanc ' my arm . Sbakspo Cynthia , fair regent of ...
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Locko . consideration of the exceeding lastingness made I might have spar'd his life , the eye believe it was exceeding beautiful . But now it is too late . Phillips ' Distrest Mother . Sidney . 2. In a later season .
Locko . consideration of the exceeding lastingness made I might have spar'd his life , the eye believe it was exceeding beautiful . But now it is too late . Phillips ' Distrest Mother . Sidney . 2. In a later season .
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And see all things despoil'd of fallacies : ' Thou shalt not peep through lattices of eyes , LATITUDINA'RIAN . adj . ... love will be expensive , and therefore I would be informed what is to be Room but to peep wiua hali an eye .
And see all things despoil'd of fallacies : ' Thou shalt not peep through lattices of eyes , LATITUDINA'RIAN . adj . ... love will be expensive , and therefore I would be informed what is to be Room but to peep wiua hali an eye .
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... the noon and the stars which thou hast ordain' The wholesome sage , and lavender still grey , ed , with all the company of heaven , we laud and Rank smelling rue , and cummin good for eyes . magnify thy glorious name . Bentity .
... the noon and the stars which thou hast ordain' The wholesome sage , and lavender still grey , ed , with all the company of heaven , we laud and Rank smelling rue , and cummin good for eyes . magnify thy glorious name . Bentity .
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I dare my life lay down , and will do't , Sir , Roscommon first , then Mulgrave rose , like Please you t'accept is , that the queen is spotlight ; less The Stagyrite , and Horace , laid aside , l'th ' eyes of Heaven . Sbakspeare .
I dare my life lay down , and will do't , Sir , Roscommon first , then Mulgrave rose , like Please you t'accept is , that the queen is spotlight ; less The Stagyrite , and Horace , laid aside , l'th ' eyes of Heaven . Sbakspeare .
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| Title | 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 3 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, Samuel Johnson |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Edition | 9 |
| Publisher | Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 7 Sep 2006 |
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