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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... Milton . These lull'd by nightingales embracing sleep . Milion . 1. To compose ; to quiet ; to put to rest . To find a foe it shall not be his hap , And peace shall lull him in her flow'ry lap . Milton . No more these scenes my ...
... Milton . These lull'd by nightingales embracing sleep . Milion . 1. To compose ; to quiet ; to put to rest . To find a foe it shall not be his hap , And peace shall lull him in her flow'ry lap . Milton . No more these scenes my ...
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... Milton . Held out her lure to his superiour eye , And griev'd to see him pass contemptuous by . Madden . To LURE . V. n . [ from the noun . ] To call hawks . Standing near one that lured loud and shrill , I had suddenly an offence , as ...
... Milton . Held out her lure to his superiour eye , And griev'd to see him pass contemptuous by . Madden . To LURE . V. n . [ from the noun . ] To call hawks . Standing near one that lured loud and shrill , I had suddenly an offence , as ...
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... Milton . LUXURIOUSLY , adv . [ from luxurious . ] Deliciously ; voluptuously . Hotter hours you have Luxuriously pick'd out . Shakspeare . Where mice and rats devour'd poetic bread , And with heroic verse luxuriously were fed . Dryden ...
... Milton . LUXURIOUSLY , adv . [ from luxurious . ] Deliciously ; voluptuously . Hotter hours you have Luxuriously pick'd out . Shakspeare . Where mice and rats devour'd poetic bread , And with heroic verse luxuriously were fed . Dryden ...
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... Milton . Magnanimous industry is a resolved assiduity and care , answerable to any weighty work . Brown . Paracelsus extracteth the magistery of wine , exposing it unto the extremity of cold ; where- by the aqueous parts will freeze ...
... Milton . Magnanimous industry is a resolved assiduity and care , answerable to any weighty work . Brown . Paracelsus extracteth the magistery of wine , exposing it unto the extremity of cold ; where- by the aqueous parts will freeze ...
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... Milton . Milton . O parent ! these are thy magnifik deeds ; Thy trophies ! MAGNIFICENCE . . . [ magnificentia , Lat . ] Grandeur of appearance ; splen- dour . This desert soil Wants not her hidden lustre , gems , and gold , Nor want we ...
... Milton . Milton . O parent ! these are thy magnifik deeds ; Thy trophies ! MAGNIFICENCE . . . [ magnificentia , Lat . ] Grandeur of appearance ; splen- dour . This desert soil Wants not her hidden lustre , gems , and gold , Nor want we ...
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