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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... give due light To the misled and lonely traveller ? Milton . In lamp furnaces I used spirits of wine instead of oil , and the same flame has melted foliated gold . Boyle . 1. Any kind of light , in poetical language , real or ...
... give due light To the misled and lonely traveller ? Milton . In lamp furnaces I used spirits of wine instead of oil , and the same flame has melted foliated gold . Boyle . 1. Any kind of light , in poetical language , real or ...
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... give himself , All thin and naked , to the numb cold night . Ever against eating cares , Lep me in soft Lydian airs . Shakspeare . Milton . Indulgent fortune does her care employ , And smiling , broods upon the naked boy ; Her garment ...
... give himself , All thin and naked , to the numb cold night . Ever against eating cares , Lep me in soft Lydian airs . Shakspeare . Milton . Indulgent fortune does her care employ , And smiling , broods upon the naked boy ; Her garment ...
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... give it . Addison . 6. At LARGE . Diffusely ; in the full ex- tent . Discover more at large what cause that was , For I am ignorant , and cannot guess . Shakspeare , It does not belong to this place to have that point debated at large ...
... give it . Addison . 6. At LARGE . Diffusely ; in the full ex- tent . Discover more at large what cause that was , For I am ignorant , and cannot guess . Shakspeare , It does not belong to this place to have that point debated at large ...
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... give ' em law , Lay it by here , and give a gentler smile . Waller . Darkness , which fairest nymphs disarms , Detends us ill from Mira's charins ; Mira can lay her beauty by , Take no advantage of the eye , Quit all that Lely's art can ...
... give ' em law , Lay it by here , and give a gentler smile . Waller . Darkness , which fairest nymphs disarms , Detends us ill from Mira's charins ; Mira can lay her beauty by , Take no advantage of the eye , Quit all that Lely's art can ...
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... give us leave , drawer . The days Waller . Of Sylla's sway , when the free sword took leave To act all that it would . Ben Jonson's Catiline . Thrice happy snake ! that in her sleeve May boldly creep ; we dare not give Our thoughts so ...
... give us leave , drawer . The days Waller . Of Sylla's sway , when the free sword took leave To act all that it would . Ben Jonson's Catiline . Thrice happy snake ! that in her sleeve May boldly creep ; we dare not give Our thoughts so ...
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Addison 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 fire French give Glanville hand hast hath head heart heav'n honour Hooker Hudibras kind king L'Estrange labour land Latin leave light live Locke look lord low Latin Maccabees manner marcasites matter mean Milt Milton mind motion mouth nature ness never night noun o'er optick pain pass passion peace pear person plant Pope pow'r prince Prior publick Raleigh 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 virtue Waller Watts Woodward word