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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... eyes send forth a quick'ning spirit , And feed the dying lamp of life within me . Rowe . Cynthia , fair regent of the night , O may thy silver lamp from heav'ns high bow'r , Direct my footsteps in the midnight hour . Cay . LAMPASS . n ...
... eyes send forth a quick'ning spirit , And feed the dying lamp of life within me . Rowe . Cynthia , fair regent of the night , O may thy silver lamp from heav'ns high bow'r , Direct my footsteps in the midnight hour . Cay . LAMPASS . n ...
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... eye believe it was exceeding beautiful . Sidney . Consider the lastingness of the motions excited in the bottom of the ... eyes With the love juice , as I did bid thee do ? Slaksp . LATCHES . n . s . Latches or laskets , in a ship , are ...
... eye believe it was exceeding beautiful . Sidney . Consider the lastingness of the motions excited in the bottom of the ... eyes With the love juice , as I did bid thee do ? Slaksp . LATCHES . n . s . Latches or laskets , in a ship , are ...
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... eyes . Spenser . LA VER . n . s . [ lavoir , French ; from lave . ] A washing vessel . Let us go find the body where it lies Soak'd in his enemies'blood , and from the stream With lavers pure , and cleansing herbs , wash off The clodded ...
... eyes . Spenser . LA VER . n . s . [ lavoir , French ; from lave . ] A washing vessel . Let us go find the body where it lies Soak'd in his enemies'blood , and from the stream With lavers pure , and cleansing herbs , wash off The clodded ...
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... eye , Quit all that Lely's art can take , And yet a thousand captives make . Waller . Then he lays by the publick care ... eyes of Heaven . Shakspeare . 38. To LAY down . To quit ; to resign . The soldier being once brought in for the ...
... eye , Quit all that Lely's art can take , And yet a thousand captives make . Waller . Then he lays by the publick care ... eyes of Heaven . Shakspeare . 38. To LAY down . To quit ; to resign . The soldier being once brought in for the ...
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... eyes ; But higger'd grief , lean - looking sallow care , Dwellon my brow . Rove's Jane Shore . 2. Netunctuous ; thin ; hungry . Thee are two chief kinds of terrestrial li- Addison . He parted frowning from me , as if ruin Leap'd from his ...
... eyes ; But higger'd grief , lean - looking sallow care , Dwellon my brow . Rove's Jane Shore . 2. Netunctuous ; thin ; hungry . Thee are two chief kinds of terrestrial li- Addison . He parted frowning from me , as if ruin Leap'd from his ...
Common terms and phrases
Addison 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 fire French give Glanville hand hast hath head heart heav'n honour Hooker Hudibras kind king L'Estrange labour land Latin leave light live Locke look lord low Latin Maccabees manner marcasites matter mean Milt Milton mind motion mouth nature ness never night noun o'er optick pain pass passion peace pear person plant Pope pow'r prince Prior publick Raleigh 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 virtue Waller Watts Woodward word