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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... passion . ٠٠٢٠ What man who knows What woman is , yea , what she cannot chuse But must be , will his free hours languish out For assur'd bondage ? Shakespeare's Gymbeline . The land shall mourn , and every one that dwelleth therein ...
... passion . ٠٠٢٠ What man who knows What woman is , yea , what she cannot chuse But must be , will his free hours languish out For assur'd bondage ? Shakespeare's Gymbeline . The land shall mourn , and every one that dwelleth therein ...
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... passion man can strength enjoy ; Time , that on all things lays his lenient hand , Yet tames not this ; it sticks to our last sand . 2. With of . Consolatories writ Pope . With study'd argument , and much persuasion sought Lenient of ...
... passion man can strength enjoy ; Time , that on all things lays his lenient hand , Yet tames not this ; it sticks to our last sand . 2. With of . Consolatories writ Pope . With study'd argument , and much persuasion sought Lenient of ...
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... passion of joy was not that which now often usurps the name ; that trivial , vanishing , superficial thing , that only gilds the apprehension , and plays upon the surface of the soul . South . LIGHTSOMENESS.n.s . [ from lightsome . ] 1 ...
... passion of joy was not that which now often usurps the name ; that trivial , vanishing , superficial thing , that only gilds the apprehension , and plays upon the surface of the soul . South . LIGHTSOMENESS.n.s . [ from lightsome . ] 1 ...
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... passion or peevishness , or list to contradict , shall have any bias on my judgment . King Charles . He saw false reynard where he lay full low ; I need not swear he had no list to crow . Dryd . 5. [ licium , Latin ; lisse , French ...
... passion or peevishness , or list to contradict , shall have any bias on my judgment . King Charles . He saw false reynard where he lay full low ; I need not swear he had no list to crow . Dryd . 5. [ licium , Latin ; lisse , French ...
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... passion ! Temple . 11. Not to employ ; not to enjoy . tise ; The happy have whole days , and those they Th ' unhappy ... passions ' wild rotation tost , Our spring of action to ourselves is lost . Pope . 14 . To destroy by ...
... passion ! Temple . 11. Not to employ ; not to enjoy . tise ; The happy have whole days , and those they Th ' unhappy ... passions ' wild rotation tost , Our spring of action to ourselves is lost . Pope . 14 . To destroy by ...
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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