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, Volum 4Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805 |
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Pàgina
... strong , yet so refin'd , Heav'n , as its purest gold , by tortures try'd ; The saint sustain'd it , but the woman dy'd . Pope . To SAINT . v . a . [ from the noun . ] To number among saints ; to reckon among saints by a publick decree ...
... strong , yet so refin'd , Heav'n , as its purest gold , by tortures try'd ; The saint sustain'd it , but the woman dy'd . Pope . To SAINT . v . a . [ from the noun . ] To number among saints ; to reckon among saints by a publick decree ...
Pàgina 26
... strong hooked talons , one of which is remark- ably serrate on the edge . Derbam . Grew . This stick is usually knotted , and always arm- ed : one of them with a curious shark's tooth near an inch long , and indented or serrated on both ...
... strong hooked talons , one of which is remark- ably serrate on the edge . Derbam . Grew . This stick is usually knotted , and always arm- ed : one of them with a curious shark's tooth near an inch long , and indented or serrated on both ...
Pàgina 37
... strong hairs ; consisting of strong hairs . 6. To quit an irregular and desultory for a methodical SET SET.
... strong hairs ; consisting of strong hairs . 6. To quit an irregular and desultory for a methodical SET SET.
Pàgina 45
... strong tower from the enemy . Psalms . 3. The state of being covered ; protection ; security . Low at his foot a spacious plain is plac'd , Between the mountain and the stream embrac'd ; Which shade and shelter from the hill derives ...
... strong tower from the enemy . Psalms . 3. The state of being covered ; protection ; security . Low at his foot a spacious plain is plac'd , Between the mountain and the stream embrac'd ; Which shade and shelter from the hill derives ...
Pàgina 45
... strong unshaken mounds resist the shocks Of tides and seas tempestuous , while the rocks , That secret in a long continu'd vein Passthrough the earth , the pond'rous pile sustain . Blackmore . Such is the haughty man ; his tow'ring soul ...
... strong unshaken mounds resist the shocks Of tides and seas tempestuous , while the rocks , That secret in a long continu'd vein Passthrough the earth , the pond'rous pile sustain . Blackmore . Such is the haughty man ; his tow'ring soul ...
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Addison Ainsworth Arbuthnot Atterbury Bacon Ben Jonson Bentley blood body Boyle Brown called colour death Decay of Piety Denbam doth Dryd Dryden Dutch earth ev'ry eyes fair Fairy Queen fear fire French give Glanville ground hand hath head heart heav'n honour Hooker Hudibras Islandick Jonson kind king Knolles L'Estrange Latin light live Locke look lord Milt Milton mind Mortimer motion nature ness never night noun o'er pain plant Pope pow'r preterit prince Prior publick Raleigh salt sapience Saxon sense Shaks Shaksp Shakspeare sharp shew side Sidney sight sleep soft soul sound South Spectator Spenser spirit spring stand stone strong sweet Swift taste Tatler Temple tender thee thing thou thought Tillotson tion tongue unto verb virtue Waller Waterland Watts wind Wiseman Woodward word
Passatges populars
Pàgina 45 - Sheer o'er the crystal battlements : from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day ; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith like a falling star...
Pàgina 73 - God knows, my son, By what by-paths and indirect crook'd ways I met this crown ; and I myself know well How troublesome it sat upon my head : To thee it shall descend with better quiet, Better opinion, better confirmation ; For all the soil of the achievement goes With me into the earth.
Pàgina 90 - Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain-tops that freeze, Bow themselves, when he did sing : To his music, plants and flowers Ever sprung : as sun and showers There had made a lasting spring.
Pàgina 155 - Of linked sweetness long drawn out With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus...
Pàgina 73 - Here's the smell of the blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.
Pàgina 175 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form; Then, have I reason to be fond of grief ? Fare you well: had you such a loss as I, I could give better comfort than you do.
Pàgina 45 - The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon, With spectacles on nose and pouch on side, His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound.
Pàgina 120 - To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise...
Pàgina 73 - And flowers aloft shading the fount of life, And where the river of bliss through midst of heaven Rolls o'er Elysian flowers her amber stream. With these, that never fade, the Spirits elect Bind their resplendent locks, inwreath'd with beams : Now in loose garlands thick thrown off, the bright Pavement, that like a sea of jasper shone, Impurpled with celestial roses smiled.