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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The stone that labours up the hill , The parallel holds in the gainlessness , as well Mocking the lab'rer's toil , returning still , as the laboriousness of the work ; those wretched Is love . Glanville . creatures , buried in earth and ...
The stone that labours up the hill , The parallel holds in the gainlessness , as well Mocking the lab'rer's toil , returning still , as the laboriousness of the work ; those wretched Is love . Glanville . creatures , buried in earth and ...
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( lapidaire , Fr. ] One like thin pasteboard , I lapped several times a who deals in stones or gems . siender thread of ... To When we both lay in the field , Frozen almost to death , how he did lap me , stone ; to kill by stoning .
( lapidaire , Fr. ] One like thin pasteboard , I lapped several times a who deals in stones or gems . siender thread of ... To When we both lay in the field , Frozen almost to death , how he did lap me , stone ; to kill by stoning .
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Spectator Samuel Should the big last extend the shoe too wide O , may some spark of your celestial fire , Each stone would wrench th ' unwary step aside The last , the meanest of your sons inspire ! Pope . Gay 3.
Spectator Samuel Should the big last extend the shoe too wide O , may some spark of your celestial fire , Each stone would wrench th ' unwary step aside The last , the meanest of your sons inspire ! Pope . Gay 3.
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... not close cohesion ; person of the mighty , and lay a stumbling - block slackness of contexture . in the way of thy uprightness . Ecclesiasticus . The former causes could never beget whirlA stone was laid on the mouth of the den .
... not close cohesion ; person of the mighty , and lay a stumbling - block slackness of contexture . in the way of thy uprightness . Ecclesiasticus . The former causes could never beget whirlA stone was laid on the mouth of the den .
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From fallow as needeth , to gather up stones . ... apprehend danger for want of W. unto him that saith to the wood , taking the true measure of things , and laying Avake ; to the dumb stone , Arise , it shall matters rightly tog ther .
From fallow as needeth , to gather up stones . ... apprehend danger for want of W. unto him that saith to the wood , taking the true measure of things , and laying Avake ; to the dumb stone , Arise , it shall matters rightly tog ther .
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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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