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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Page 45
... pain , disgrace , and poverty , have frightful looks , able to discompose most men . 2. The act of looking or seeing . Locke . Then on the croud he cast a furious look , And wither'd all their strength . When they met they made a Dryden ...
... pain , disgrace , and poverty , have frightful looks , able to discompose most men . 2. The act of looking or seeing . Locke . Then on the croud he cast a furious look , And wither'd all their strength . When they met they made a Dryden ...
Page 46
... pain . Prior . 14. Remiss ; not attentive . 15. To break LooOSE .. To gain liberty .. If to break loose from the conduct of reason , and to want that restraint of examination which keeps us from chusing the worse , be liberty , madmen ...
... pain . Prior . 14. Remiss ; not attentive . 15. To break LooOSE .. To gain liberty .. If to break loose from the conduct of reason , and to want that restraint of examination which keeps us from chusing the worse , be liberty , madmen ...
Page 47
... pain . Van . of Hu . Wisba . 2. Master ; supreme person . But now I was the lord Of this fair mansion , master of my servants , Queen o'er myself ; and even now , but now , This house , these servants , and this same my self Are yours ...
... pain . Van . of Hu . Wisba . 2. Master ; supreme person . But now I was the lord Of this fair mansion , master of my servants , Queen o'er myself ; and even now , but now , This house , these servants , and this same my self Are yours ...
Page 53
... pain , all anger , and all pride , The rage of pow'r , the blast of publick breath , The lust of lucre , and the ... pains considered , was not Lerif- Boyle . LUCRIFICK . adj . [ lucrum and facio , Lat . ] Producing gain . POUS ...
... pain , all anger , and all pride , The rage of pow'r , the blast of publick breath , The lust of lucre , and the ... pains considered , was not Lerif- Boyle . LUCRIFICK . adj . [ lucrum and facio , Lat . ] Producing gain . POUS ...
Page 63
... pain I knew not what to make of , in the same joint of my other foot . Temple . There is another statue in brass of Apollo , with a modern inscription on the pedestal , which I know not what to make of . Addison , I desired he would let ...
... pain I knew not what to make of , in the same joint of my other foot . Temple . There is another statue in brass of Apollo , with a modern inscription on the pedestal , which I know not what to make of . Addison , I desired he would let ...
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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