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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... BIRD . LA'DY - COw . LADY - FLY . } Fly lady - bird , north , south , or east or west , Fly where the man is found that I love best . Gay . This lady - Ay I take from off the grass , Whose spotted back might scarlet red surpass . Gay ...
... BIRD . LA'DY - COw . LADY - FLY . } Fly lady - bird , north , south , or east or west , Fly where the man is found that I love best . Gay . This lady - Ay I take from off the grass , Whose spotted back might scarlet red surpass . Gay ...
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... bird with long wings . Ah ! but I think him better than I say , And yet would herein others eyes were worse : Far from her nest the lapwing cries away ; My heart prays for him , though my tongue do Shakspeare . And how in fields the ...
... bird with long wings . Ah ! but I think him better than I say , And yet would herein others eyes were worse : Far from her nest the lapwing cries away ; My heart prays for him , though my tongue do Shakspeare . And how in fields the ...
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... bird . It was the lark , the herald of the morn . Shak . Look up a height , the shrill - gorg'd lark so far Cannot be seen or heard . Shaksp . King Lear . Cowley . Dict . Pope . Unhappy s'ave , and pupil to a bell. Dict . Th ' example of ...
... bird . It was the lark , the herald of the morn . Shak . Look up a height , the shrill - gorg'd lark so far Cannot be seen or heard . Shaksp . King Lear . Cowley . Dict . Pope . Unhappy s'ave , and pupil to a bell. Dict . Th ' example of ...
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... birds ' of Dryden . TO LATH . v . a . [ latter , Fr. from the noun . ] To fit up with laths . prey . A small kiln consists of an oaken frame , lathed en every side . Mortimer's Husbandry . The plaisterer's work is commonly done by the ...
... birds ' of Dryden . TO LATH . v . a . [ latter , Fr. from the noun . ] To fit up with laths . prey . A small kiln consists of an oaken frame , lathed en every side . Mortimer's Husbandry . The plaisterer's work is commonly done by the ...
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... bird , he had not the night- ingale's voice . L'Estrange . He that really lays these two things to heart , the extreme necessity that he is in , and the small possibility of help , will never come coldly to a work of that concernment ...
... bird , he had not the night- ingale's voice . L'Estrange . He that really lays these two things to heart , the extreme necessity that he is in , and the small possibility of help , will never come coldly to a work of that concernment ...
Common terms and phrases
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