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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... ness . Your brother and his lover have embrac'd . Sbakspeare . I tell thee , fellow , The general is my lover : I have been The book of his good act , whence men have read His fame unparallel'd haply amplified . Shaksp . 3. One who ...
... ness . Your brother and his lover have embrac'd . Sbakspeare . I tell thee , fellow , The general is my lover : I have been The book of his good act , whence men have read His fame unparallel'd haply amplified . Shaksp . 3. One who ...
Page 50
... ness ; affection . Carrying thus in one person the only two bands of good - will , loveliness and lovingness . Sidney . LOUIS D'OR . n.s. [ French . ] A golden coin of France , valued at twenty shil- lings . If he is desired to change a ...
... ness ; affection . Carrying thus in one person the only two bands of good - will , loveliness and lovingness . Sidney . LOUIS D'OR . n.s. [ French . ] A golden coin of France , valued at twenty shil- lings . If he is desired to change a ...
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... ness of style or sentiment . His stile is accommodated to his subject , either high or low ; if his fault be too much loquness , that of Persius is the hardness of his metaphors . Dryden . 5. Submissiveness . The people were in such ...
... ness of style or sentiment . His stile is accommodated to his subject , either high or low ; if his fault be too much loquness , that of Persius is the hardness of his metaphors . Dryden . 5. Submissiveness . The people were in such ...
Page 54
... ness ; or too near turcheth all provisions , and maketh every thing dear . Bacon , 2. To defeat : to disappoint . A word now used only in burlesque . [ from the game lurch . ] He waxed like a sea ; And , in the brunt of seventeen ...
... ness ; or too near turcheth all provisions , and maketh every thing dear . Bacon , 2. To defeat : to disappoint . A word now used only in burlesque . [ from the game lurch . ] He waxed like a sea ; And , in the brunt of seventeen ...
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... ness they imagined . Psalms . Virtue was represented by Hercules : he is drawn offering to strike a dragon ; by the dragon are meant all manner of lusts . Peachama All weigh our acts , and whate'er seems un- I grant him bloody ...
... ness they imagined . Psalms . Virtue was represented by Hercules : he is drawn offering to strike a dragon ; by the dragon are meant all manner of lusts . Peachama All weigh our acts , and whate'er seems un- I grant him bloody ...
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