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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... heav'n is saintly chastity , That when a soul is found sincerely so , A thousand liveried angels lackey her , Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt . Mils . To LACKEY . v . n . To act as a footboy ; to pay servile attendance . Oft ...
... heav'n is saintly chastity , That when a soul is found sincerely so , A thousand liveried angels lackey her , Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt . Mils . To LACKEY . v . n . To act as a footboy ; to pay servile attendance . Oft ...
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... Heav'n , grown weary of more perfect work , Set upright with a little puff of breath , And bid us pass for men . 3. Last ; long delayed . Dryden Pack to their old play - fellows ; there I take They may , cum privilegio , wear away , The ...
... Heav'n , grown weary of more perfect work , Set upright with a little puff of breath , And bid us pass for men . 3. Last ; long delayed . Dryden Pack to their old play - fellows ; there I take They may , cum privilegio , wear away , The ...
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... heav'n , and fill their lemps With everlasting oil , to 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 ...
... heav'n , and fill their lemps With everlasting oil , to 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 ...
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... heav'n , and fill'd their lamps With everlasting oil ? Milton . Vice is like a dark lantborn , which turns its bright side only to him that bears it , but looks black and dismal in another's hand . Gov. of the Tongue . Judge what a ...
... heav'n , and fill'd their lamps With everlasting oil ? Milton . Vice is like a dark lantborn , which turns its bright side only to him that bears it , but looks black and dismal in another's hand . Gov. of the Tongue . Judge what a ...
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... Heav'n open'd her eternal doors , from whence The spirit descended on me like a dove . Milton . With roomy decks , her guns of mighty strength , Whose low - laid mouths each mounting billow laves , Deep in her draught , and warlike in ...
... Heav'n open'd her eternal doors , from whence The spirit descended on me like a dove . Milton . With roomy decks , her guns of mighty strength , Whose low - laid mouths each mounting billow laves , Deep in her draught , and warlike in ...
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