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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... Sidney . The prince , by chance , did on a lady light , That was right fair , and fresh as morning rose . Spenser Haply your eye shall light upon some toy You have desire to purchase . " Shakspears . As in the tides of people once up ...
... Sidney . The prince , by chance , did on a lady light , That was right fair , and fresh as morning rose . Spenser Haply your eye shall light upon some toy You have desire to purchase . " Shakspears . As in the tides of people once up ...
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... Sidney . Sidney . Shakspeare's Tempest . I look'd upon her with a soldier's eye ; That lik'd , but had a rougher task in hand Than to drive liking to the name of love . Shak . Scarce any man passes to a liking of sin in others , but by ...
... Sidney . Sidney . Shakspeare's Tempest . I look'd upon her with a soldier's eye ; That lik'd , but had a rougher task in hand Than to drive liking to the name of love . Shak . Scarce any man passes to a liking of sin in others , but by ...
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... Sidney . Shaksp . Sir John , they are your likeliest men ; I would have you served with the best . 2. Probable ; such as may in reason be thought or believed ; such as may be thought more reasonably than the con- trary : as , a likely ...
... Sidney . Shaksp . Sir John , they are your likeliest men ; I would have you served with the best . 2. Probable ; such as may in reason be thought or believed ; such as may be thought more reasonably than the con- trary : as , a likely ...
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... Sidney . Perhaps they are by so much the more loth to forsake this argument , for that it hath , though nothing else , yet the name of scripture , to give it some kind of countenance more than the pre- text of livery coats affordeth ...
... Sidney . Perhaps they are by so much the more loth to forsake this argument , for that it hath , though nothing else , yet the name of scripture , to give it some kind of countenance more than the pre- text of livery coats affordeth ...
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... Sidney . All they did cast in of their abundance ; but she of her want did cast in all that she had , even all her living . Mark . 2. Power of continuing life . There is no living without trusting some body L'Estrange . or other , in ...
... Sidney . All they did cast in of their abundance ; but she of her want did cast in all that she had , even all her living . Mark . 2. Power of continuing life . There is no living without trusting some body L'Estrange . or other , in ...
Common terms and phrases
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