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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From young lülus head A scheme which was writ some years since , A lambent fiame arose , which gently spread and ... grace , one at the head , and the other at the feet , where And lambent dulness played around his face . the body of ...
From young lülus head A scheme which was writ some years since , A lambent fiame arose , which gently spread and ... grace , one at the head , and the other at the feet , where And lambent dulness played around his face . the body of ...
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Fobn . cow or manatee , which is near twenty Jeremiah lamented for Josiah , and all the sing- feet long , the head resembling that of a ing - men and women spake of Josiah in their cow , and two short feet , with which it 1 ...
Fobn . cow or manatee , which is near twenty Jeremiah lamented for Josiah , and all the sing- feet long , the head resembling that of a ing - men and women spake of Josiah in their cow , and two short feet , with which it 1 ...
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Others for language all their care express , What poems think you soft , and to be read And value books , as women , men , for dress : With languishing regards , and bending head ? Their praise is still the stile is excellent ; Dryden .
Others for language all their care express , What poems think you soft , and to be read And value books , as women , men , for dress : With languishing regards , and bending head ? Their praise is still the stile is excellent ; Dryden .
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It feeds each living plant with liquid sap , He , piteous of her woes , rear'd her lank head , And fills with flow'rs fair Flora's painted lop . And gave her to his daughters to imbathe Spenser . In nectar'd lavers strew'd with asphodil ...
It feeds each living plant with liquid sap , He , piteous of her woes , rear'd her lank head , And fills with flow'rs fair Flora's painted lop . And gave her to his daughters to imbathe Spenser . In nectar'd lavers strew'd with asphodil ...
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There is a cliff , whose high and bending head Ceres , most bounteous lady , thy rich leas Looks fearfully on the confined deep : Of wheat , rye , barley , fetches , oats , and peas . Bring me but to the very brim of it , Sbakspoare .
There is a cliff , whose high and bending head Ceres , most bounteous lady , thy rich leas Looks fearfully on the confined deep : Of wheat , rye , barley , fetches , oats , and peas . Bring me but to the very brim of it , Sbakspoare .
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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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