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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... pain divides not smart , Nor lightens aught each man's peculiar load . Strive In offices of love how we may lighten Each other's burden . 4. To exhilarate ; to cheer . Milton . Milton . A trusty villain , very oft , When I am dull with ...
... pain divides not smart , Nor lightens aught each man's peculiar load . Strive In offices of love how we may lighten Each other's burden . 4. To exhilarate ; to cheer . Milton . Milton . A trusty villain , very oft , When I am dull with ...
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 64
... pain . Dryden . See great Marcellus ! how inur'd in toils , He moves with manly grace . 2. Not womanish ; not childish . Dryden . I'll speak between the change of man and boy With a reed voice ; and turn two mincing steps Into a manly ...
... pain . Dryden . See great Marcellus ! how inur'd in toils , He moves with manly grace . 2. Not womanish ; not childish . Dryden . I'll speak between the change of man and boy With a reed voice ; and turn two mincing steps Into a manly ...
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... pain beyond the common measures of humanity , but an example of a man like ourselves . 7. Degree ; quantity ... pains , And thy fond heart beats measure to thy strains . Prior . 9. Motion harmonically regulated . My legs can keep ...
... pain beyond the common measures of humanity , but an example of a man like ourselves . 7. Degree ; quantity ... pains , And thy fond heart beats measure to thy strains . Prior . 9. Motion harmonically regulated . My legs can keep ...
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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