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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... Spenser . Their complot is to have my life : And , if my death might make this island happy , And prove the period of their tyranny , I would expend it with all willingness . Shaksp . Nor love thy life , nor hate ; but what thou liv'st ...
... Spenser . Their complot is to have my life : And , if my death might make this island happy , And prove the period of their tyranny , I would expend it with all willingness . Shaksp . Nor love thy life , nor hate ; but what thou liv'st ...
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... Spenser Haply your eye shall light upon some toy You have desire to purchase . " Shakspears . As in the tides of people once up , there want not stirring winds to make them more rough ; so this people did light upon two ringleaders ...
... Spenser Haply your eye shall light upon some toy You have desire to purchase . " Shakspears . As in the tides of people once up , there want not stirring winds to make them more rough ; so this people did light upon two ringleaders ...
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... Spenser . Then may I set the world on wheels , when she can spin for her living . Shakspeare . Isaac and his wife , now dig for your life , Or shortly you'll dig for your living . Denham . Actors must represent such things as they are ...
... Spenser . Then may I set the world on wheels , when she can spin for her living . Shakspeare . Isaac and his wife , now dig for your life , Or shortly you'll dig for your living . Denham . Actors must represent such things as they are ...
Page 75
... Spenser . O happy fair ! Your eyes are loadstars , and your tongue sweet air ! More tuneable than lark to shepherd's ... Spenser . When he heard her answers loth , he knew Some secret sorrow did her heart distrain . To speak so ...
... Spenser . O happy fair ! Your eyes are loadstars , and your tongue sweet air ! More tuneable than lark to shepherd's ... Spenser . When he heard her answers loth , he knew Some secret sorrow did her heart distrain . To speak so ...
Page 75
... Spenser . How am I caught with an unwary oath , Not to reveal the secret which I loath ! Waller . For thee the lion loaths the taste of blood , And roaring hunts his female through the wood . Dryden . Now his exalted spirit loaths ...
... Spenser . How am I caught with an unwary oath , Not to reveal the secret which I loath ! Waller . For thee the lion loaths the taste of blood , And roaring hunts his female through the wood . Dryden . Now his exalted spirit loaths ...
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