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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... Sound may serve such , ere they to sense are grown , Like leading - strings , till they can walk alone . Dryden . Was he ever able to walk without leading- strings , or swim without bladders , without being discovered by his hobbling ...
... Sound may serve such , ere they to sense are grown , Like leading - strings , till they can walk alone . Dryden . Was he ever able to walk without leading- strings , or swim without bladders , without being discovered by his hobbling ...
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... sound many years , and grow to a considerable bulk . Sir Thomas Brown mentions one , in Norfolk , sixteen yards in circuit . Miller . For her the limes their pleasing shades deny , For her the lilies hang their heads , and die . Pope ...
... sound many years , and grow to a considerable bulk . Sir Thomas Brown mentions one , in Norfolk , sixteen yards in circuit . Miller . For her the limes their pleasing shades deny , For her the lilies hang their heads , and die . Pope ...
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... sound to the words , though they are all of one syllable . Dryden's Æneid . Let Carolina smooth the tuneful lay ... sounds , to persevere in the con- tinued repetition of vocal airs . Glanville . LIQUIDNESS . n . s . [ from liquid ...
... sound to the words , though they are all of one syllable . Dryden's Æneid . Let Carolina smooth the tuneful lay ... sounds , to persevere in the con- tinued repetition of vocal airs . Glanville . LIQUIDNESS . n . s . [ from liquid ...
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... sound I better know : List ! I would I could hear Mo. Shakspeare . Ben Jonson . LISTED . adj . striped ; particoloured in long streaks . Over his head beholds A dewy cloud , and in the cloud a bow Conspicuous , with three listed colours ...
... sound I better know : List ! I would I could hear Mo. Shakspeare . Ben Jonson . LISTED . adj . striped ; particoloured in long streaks . Over his head beholds A dewy cloud , and in the cloud a bow Conspicuous , with three listed colours ...
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... sound was produced by the impe- tuous eruptions of the halituous flames of the saltpetre upon casting of a live coal upon it . LIVELESS . adj . [ from live . ] Wanting Boyle . life : rather , lifeless . Description cannot suit itself in ...
... sound was produced by the impe- tuous eruptions of the halituous flames of the saltpetre upon casting of a live coal upon it . LIVELESS . adj . [ from live . ] Wanting Boyle . life : rather , lifeless . Description cannot suit itself in ...
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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