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, Հատոր 1Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805 |
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... Pope In this measure a syllable is often retrenched from the first foot , as Diógenes súrly and proúd . Dr. Pope When présent we love , and when ábsent agrée , I think not of l'ris nor l'ris of mé . Dryden These measures are varied by ...
... Pope In this measure a syllable is often retrenched from the first foot , as Diógenes súrly and proúd . Dr. Pope When présent we love , and when ábsent agrée , I think not of l'ris nor l'ris of mé . Dryden These measures are varied by ...
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... Pope. ABI Genesis . instead of the lad , a bondman to my lord ; and let the lad go up with his brethren . * . To dwell . The marquis Dorset , as I hear , is filed To Richmond , in the parts where he abides . Shakspeare's Richard 111 ...
... Pope. ABI Genesis . instead of the lad , a bondman to my lord ; and let the lad go up with his brethren . * . To dwell . The marquis Dorset , as I hear , is filed To Richmond , in the parts where he abides . Shakspeare's Richard 111 ...
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... Pope inclusive . Swift . 2. A great depth ; a gulph : hyperbolically . 1 Denbam's Sopby . ACCIDENTALLY . adv . [ from accidental. It imports the misrepresentation of the quali- ties of things and actions , to the common appre hensions of ...
... Pope inclusive . Swift . 2. A great depth ; a gulph : hyperbolically . 1 Denbam's Sopby . ACCIDENTALLY . adv . [ from accidental. It imports the misrepresentation of the quali- ties of things and actions , to the common appre hensions of ...
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... Pope . Thou hast said , it is not good that man should be alone ; let us make unto him an aid , like unto himself . Tobit . Great aids came in to him , partly upon missives , and partly voluntaries from many parts . Bacon . 3. In law ...
... Pope . Thou hast said , it is not good that man should be alone ; let us make unto him an aid , like unto himself . Tobit . Great aids came in to him , partly upon missives , and partly voluntaries from many parts . Bacon . 3. In law ...
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... Pope . 4. The object of a design ; the thing after which any one endeavours . The safest way is to suppose , that the epistle has but one aim , till , by a frequent perusal of it , you are forced to see there are distinct indepen- dent ...
... Pope . 4. The object of a design ; the thing after which any one endeavours . The safest way is to suppose , that the epistle has but one aim , till , by a frequent perusal of it , you are forced to see there are distinct indepen- dent ...
Common terms and phrases
Addison ancient animal Arbuthnot arms Atterbury Bacon bear beat Ben Jonson blood body Boyle break breast breath Brown's Vulgar Errours called cause church Clarendon colour Corvell death derived Dict doth Dryd Dryden Dutch earth English eyes Fairy Queen fear fire French fruit give grace ground grow hand hath head heart heav'n Henry VII honour Hooker horse Hudibras kind king King Lear kyng L'Estrange language Latin live Locke lord manner ment Milton mind motion nature never noun Opticks Paradise Lost particle person plant Pope preterit prince Quincy Saxon sense Shaks Shaksp Shakspeare Shakspeare's shew Sidney signifies sometimes soul sound South Spenser spirit sweet Swift syllable Tatler thee thing thou thought Tillotson tion tongue tree unto verb virtue Waller Watts wind word
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Էջ 12 - As one who, long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight ; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Էջ 32 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long...
Էջ 124 - That, with the hurly," death itself awakes ? Can'st thou, O partial sleep ! give thy repose To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude ; And in the calmest and most stillest night, With all appliances and means to boot, Deny it to a king? Then, happy low, lie down ! Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
Էջ 15 - But forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made. The servant therefore fell down, and worshipped him, saying; Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.
Էջ 10 - The which observed, a man may prophesy With a near aim of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasure"d. Such things become the hatch and brood of time...
Էջ 32 - Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him ; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison. Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing.
Էջ 7 - Horatio, what a wounded name, Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me. If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart, Absent thee from felicity awhile, And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain, To tell my story.