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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... kind love , I do conjure thee To lesson me . Shakspeare . Well hast thou lesson'd us , this shall we do . Shakspeare . Children should be seasoned betimes , and les- sened into a contempt and detestation of this vice . L'Estrange . LE ...
... kind love , I do conjure thee To lesson me . Shakspeare . Well hast thou lesson'd us , this shall we do . Shakspeare . Children should be seasoned betimes , and les- sened into a contempt and detestation of this vice . L'Estrange . LE ...
Page 21
... kind , which they call an apparent libration , and which consists in this , that when the moon is at her greatest elon- gation from the south , her axis being then almost perpendicular to the plane of the ecliptick , the sun must ...
... kind , which they call an apparent libration , and which consists in this , that when the moon is at her greatest elon- gation from the south , her axis being then almost perpendicular to the plane of the ecliptick , the sun must ...
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... kind . Spenser . A translator is to make his author appear as charming as he can , provided he maintains his character , and makes him not unlike himself . Translation is a kind of drawing after the life , where there is a double sort ...
... kind . Spenser . A translator is to make his author appear as charming as he can , provided he maintains his character , and makes him not unlike himself . Translation is a kind of drawing after the life , where there is a double sort ...
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... kind . Glanville's Scep . Poets are limners of another kind , To copy out ideas in the mind ; Words are the paint by which their thoughts are shown , And nature is their object to be drawn . Grano . Lí'MOUS . adj . [ limosus , Latin ...
... kind . Glanville's Scep . Poets are limners of another kind , To copy out ideas in the mind ; Words are the paint by which their thoughts are shown , And nature is their object to be drawn . Grano . Lí'MOUS . adj . [ limosus , Latin ...
Page 73
... kind of countenance more than the pre- text of livery coats affordeth . Hooker . I think , it is our way , If we will keep in favour with the king , To be her men , and wear her livery . Shaksp . Yet do our hearts wear Timon's livery ...
... kind of countenance more than the pre- text of livery coats affordeth . Hooker . I think , it is our way , If we will keep in favour with the king , To be her men , and wear her livery . Shaksp . Yet do our hearts wear Timon's livery ...
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