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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... lord . Clarendon . LEA . n . s . [ ley , Sax . a fallow ; leaz , Sax . a pasture . ] Ground inclosed , not open . Greatly agast with this pitteous plea ; Him rested the good man on the lea . Ceres , most bounteous lady , thy rich leas ...
... lord . Clarendon . LEA . n . s . [ ley , Sax . a fallow ; leaz , Sax . a pasture . ] Ground inclosed , not open . Greatly agast with this pitteous plea ; Him rested the good man on the lea . Ceres , most bounteous lady , thy rich leas ...
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... lord of liege men , being by mis- take called liege lord . ] Did not the whole realm acknowledge Henry VIII . for their king and liege lord ? Spenser . My lady liege , said he , What all your sex desire is sovereignty . Dryden . So much ...
... lord of liege men , being by mis- take called liege lord . ] Did not the whole realm acknowledge Henry VIII . for their king and liege lord ? Spenser . My lady liege , said he , What all your sex desire is sovereignty . Dryden . So much ...
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... Lord . 2 Chronicles . Of Orpheus now no more let poets tell , To bright Cæcilia greater pow'r is given , His numbers rais'd a shade from hell , Hers lift the soul to heav'n . 5. To raise in fortune . Pope . The eye of the Lord lifted up ...
... Lord . 2 Chronicles . Of Orpheus now no more let poets tell , To bright Cæcilia greater pow'r is given , His numbers rais'd a shade from hell , Hers lift the soul to heav'n . 5. To raise in fortune . Pope . The eye of the Lord lifted up ...
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... lord , said he , I not offend ? Are you afraid of me that are your friend ? This young lord had an old cunning rogue , or , Dryden . as the Scots call it , a false loon of a grandfather , that one might call a Jack of all trades ...
... lord , said he , I not offend ? Are you afraid of me that are your friend ? This young lord had an old cunning rogue , or , Dryden . as the Scots call it , a false loon of a grandfather , that one might call a Jack of all trades ...
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... lord ; and therefore the Danes , that usurped their tyranny here in Britain , were called , for more dread than dignity , lurdans , i ... lord Danes , whose insolence and pride was so out- rageous in this realm that if it for- tuned ...
... lord ; and therefore the Danes , that usurped their tyranny here in Britain , were called , for more dread than dignity , lurdans , i ... lord Danes , whose insolence and pride was so out- rageous in this realm that if it for- tuned ...
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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