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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... Fairy Queen . I have ever verified my friends With all the size that verity Would without lapsing suffer : nay , sometimes , Like to a bowl upon a subtle ground I've tumbled past the throw ; and in his praise Have almost stampt the le ...
... Fairy Queen . I have ever verified my friends With all the size that verity Would without lapsing suffer : nay , sometimes , Like to a bowl upon a subtle ground I've tumbled past the throw ; and in his praise Have almost stampt the le ...
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... Fairy Queen . LEAVED . adj . [ from leaves , of leaf . ] 1. Furnished with foliage . 2. Made with leaves or folds . I will loose the loins of kings , to open before him the two leaved gates . Isaiah . LE'AVEN . n . s . [ levain , Fr ...
... Fairy Queen . LEAVED . adj . [ from leaves , of leaf . ] 1. Furnished with foliage . 2. Made with leaves or folds . I will loose the loins of kings , to open before him the two leaved gates . Isaiah . LE'AVEN . n . s . [ levain , Fr ...
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... Fairy Queen . Herwords prevail'd , and then the learned leech His canaing hand ' gan to his wounds to lay , And all things else the which his art did teach . Fairy Queen . Patience . Physick is their bane . The learned leeches in ...
... Fairy Queen . Herwords prevail'd , and then the learned leech His canaing hand ' gan to his wounds to lay , And all things else the which his art did teach . Fairy Queen . Patience . Physick is their bane . The learned leeches in ...
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... Fairy Queen . Be not jealous over the wife of thy bosom , and teach her not an evil lesson against thyself . Ecclesiasticus . 3. Portions of scripture read in divine service .. Notwithstanding so eminent properties , where- of lessons ...
... Fairy Queen . Be not jealous over the wife of thy bosom , and teach her not an evil lesson against thyself . Ecclesiasticus . 3. Portions of scripture read in divine service .. Notwithstanding so eminent properties , where- of lessons ...
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... queen make diligent enquiry , if any person about her should happen to be of libertine principles or morals ? LIBERTINISM . 2. 5 . Swift . [ from libertine ... Fairy Queens 1 I have given you the library of a painter LIB LIB.
... queen make diligent enquiry , if any person about her should happen to be of libertine principles or morals ? LIBERTINISM . 2. 5 . Swift . [ from libertine ... Fairy Queens 1 I have given you the library of a painter LIB LIB.
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