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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... tongue of one nation as distinct from others . O ! good my lord , no Latin ; I am not such a truant since my coming , As not to know the language I have liv'd in .. Sbakspeare . He not from Rome alone , but Greece , Like Jason , brought ...
... tongue of one nation as distinct from others . O ! good my lord , no Latin ; I am not such a truant since my coming , As not to know the language I have liv'd in .. Sbakspeare . He not from Rome alone , but Greece , Like Jason , brought ...
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... Tongue . Judge what a ridiculous thing it were , that the continued shadow of the earth should be broken by sudden miraculous eruptions of light , to pre- vent the art of the lantern - maker . More's Divine Dialogues . Our ideas succeed ...
... Tongue . Judge what a ridiculous thing it were , that the continued shadow of the earth should be broken by sudden miraculous eruptions of light , to pre- vent the art of the lantern - maker . More's Divine Dialogues . Our ideas succeed ...
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... tongue . The dogs by the river Nilus ' side being thirsty , lap hastily as they run along the shore . Digby . They had soups served up in broad dishes , and so the fox fell to lapping himself , and bade his guest heartily welcome . L ...
... tongue . The dogs by the river Nilus ' side being thirsty , lap hastily as they run along the shore . Digby . They had soups served up in broad dishes , and so the fox fell to lapping himself , and bade his guest heartily welcome . L ...
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... tongue do Shakspeare . And how in fields the lapwing Tereus reigns , The warbling nightingale in woods complains . Dryden . curse . LA'PWORK . n . s . [ lap and work . ] Work in which one part is interchangeably wrapped over the other ...
... tongue do Shakspeare . And how in fields the lapwing Tereus reigns , The warbling nightingale in woods complains . Dryden . curse . LA'PWORK . n . s . [ lap and work . ] Work in which one part is interchangeably wrapped over the other ...
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... tongue . If Shakspeare was able to read Plautus with ease , nothing in Latinity could be hard to him . Dennis . To LATINIZE . v . a . [ latiniser , French ; from Latin . ] To use words or phrases borrowed from the Latin . I am liable to ...
... tongue . If Shakspeare was able to read Plautus with ease , nothing in Latinity could be hard to him . Dennis . To LATINIZE . v . a . [ latiniser , French ; from Latin . ] To use words or phrases borrowed from the Latin . I am liable to ...
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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