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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... virtue spent now fail'd New angels to create , if they at least Are his created . Milton . Watts . Let use of observations be at least some part of the subject of your conversation . LE'ASY . adj . [ This word seems formed from the same ...
... virtue spent now fail'd New angels to create , if they at least Are his created . Milton . Watts . Let use of observations be at least some part of the subject of your conversation . LE'ASY . adj . [ This word seems formed from the same ...
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... virtue . Bacon . All soft'ning simples , known of sov'reign use , He presses out , and pours their noble juice ; These first infus'd , to lenify the pain , He tugs with pincers , but he tugs in vain . Dryd . LE'NITIVE . adj . [ lenitif ...
... virtue . Bacon . All soft'ning simples , known of sov'reign use , He presses out , and pours their noble juice ; These first infus'd , to lenify the pain , He tugs with pincers , but he tugs in vain . Dryd . LE'NITIVE . adj . [ lenitif ...
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... virtue or vice . His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might Be wrong ; his life I'm sure was in the right . Cowley . Henry and Edward , brightest sons of fame , And virtuous Alfred , a more sacred name ; After a life of glorious toils ...
... virtue or vice . His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might Be wrong ; his life I'm sure was in the right . Cowley . Henry and Edward , brightest sons of fame , And virtuous Alfred , a more sacred name ; After a life of glorious toils ...
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... virtue . Sidney . The prince , by chance , did on a lady light , That was right fair , and fresh as morning rose . Spenser . Haply your eye shall light upon some toy You have desire to purchase . Sbakspeare . As in the tides of people ...
... virtue . Sidney . The prince , by chance , did on a lady light , That was right fair , and fresh as morning rose . Spenser . Haply your eye shall light upon some toy You have desire to purchase . Sbakspeare . As in the tides of people ...
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... virtues specifically re- quisite to a due performance of this duty . South . The colours of the prism are manifestly more full ... virtue or vice , happiness or misery . And Mnestheus laid hard load upon his helm . Dryden LIV LIV.
... virtues specifically re- quisite to a due performance of this duty . South . The colours of the prism are manifestly more full ... virtue or vice , happiness or misery . And Mnestheus laid hard load upon his helm . Dryden LIV LIV.
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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