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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... Sidney . My Helice , the loadstar of my life . Spenser . O happy fair ! Your eyes are loadstars , and your tongue sweet air ! More tuneable than lark to shepherd's ear When wheat is green , when hawthorn buds ap- Shakspeare . pear ...
... Sidney . My Helice , the loadstar of my life . Spenser . O happy fair ! Your eyes are loadstars , and your tongue sweet air ! More tuneable than lark to shepherd's ear When wheat is green , when hawthorn buds ap- Shakspeare . pear ...
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... Sidney . They with their filthiness Polluted this same gentle soil long time , That their own mother loath'd their beastliness . Spenser . How am I caught with an unwary oath , Not to reveal the secret which I loath ! Waller . For thee ...
... Sidney . They with their filthiness Polluted this same gentle soil long time , That their own mother loath'd their beastliness . Spenser . How am I caught with an unwary oath , Not to reveal the secret which I loath ! Waller . For thee ...
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... Sidney . A goodly cypress , who bowing her fair head over the water , it seemeth she looked into it , and dressed her green locks by that running river . Sidney . His grizly locks , long growen and unbound , Disordered hung about his ...
... Sidney . A goodly cypress , who bowing her fair head over the water , it seemeth she looked into it , and dressed her green locks by that running river . Sidney . His grizly locks , long growen and unbound , Disordered hung about his ...
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... Sidney . I found him as melancholy as a lodge in a warren . Shakspeare . He and his lady both are at the lodge , Upon the north side of this pleasant chase . Shakspeare . Thus at their shady lodge arriv'd , both stood , Both turn'd ...
... Sidney . I found him as melancholy as a lodge in a warren . Shakspeare . He and his lady both are at the lodge , Upon the north side of this pleasant chase . Shakspeare . Thus at their shady lodge arriv'd , both stood , Both turn'd ...
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... Sidney . Such labour is then more necessary than pleasant , both to them which undertake it , and for the lookers on . Hooker . My business in this state Made me a looker on here in Vienna ; Where I have seen corruption boil and bubble ...
... Sidney . Such labour is then more necessary than pleasant , both to them which undertake it , and for the lookers on . Hooker . My business in this state Made me a looker on here in Vienna ; Where I have seen corruption boil and bubble ...
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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