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 . Dryden . 4. Easy to be performed ; not difficult . Well pleas'd were all his friends , the task was light , The father , mother , daughter , they invite . Dryden . 5. Easy to be acted on by any power . Apples of a ripe flavour ...
... pain . Dryden . 4. Easy to be performed ; not difficult . Well pleas'd were all his friends , the task was light , The father , mother , daughter , they invite . Dryden . 5. Easy to be acted on by any power . Apples of a ripe flavour ...
Page 29
... pain ; Nor those avail'd : at length he lights on one , Before two moons their orb with light adorn , If heav'n allow me life , I will return . Dryden . Truth , light upon this way , is of no more avail to us than error ; for what is so ...
... pain ; Nor those avail'd : at length he lights on one , Before two moons their orb with light adorn , If heav'n allow me life , I will return . Dryden . Truth , light upon this way , is of no more avail to us than error ; for what is so ...
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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 ...
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... pain . Po- pularly hell . No , he is in tartar limbo , worse than hell , A devil in an everlasting garment hath him , One whose hard heart is button'd up with steel . Shakspeare . Oh what a sympathy of woe is this ! As far from help as ...
... pain . Po- pularly hell . No , he is in tartar limbo , worse than hell , A devil in an everlasting garment hath him , One whose hard heart is button'd up with steel . Shakspeare . Oh what a sympathy of woe is this ! As far from help as ...
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... pain : A print , a bronze , a flow'r , a root . Prior . 4. Not much . Cheyne . LITTLE . adv . Joshua , 1. In a small degree . The coast of Dan went out too little for them . These they are fitted for , and little else . The received ...
... pain : A print , a bronze , a flow'r , a root . Prior . 4. Not much . Cheyne . LITTLE . adv . Joshua , 1. In a small degree . The coast of Dan went out too little for them . These they are fitted for , and little else . The received ...
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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