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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... speak with exactness ; and consequently some examples might be indifferently put to either signification : this uncertainty is not to be imputed to me , who do not form , but register the language ; who do not teach men how they ...
... speak with exactness ; and consequently some examples might be indifferently put to either signification : this uncertainty is not to be imputed to me , who do not form , but register the language ; who do not teach men how they ...
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... speak , bear , sheur , swear , tear , wear , weave , cleave , strive , thrive , drive , shine . rise , arise , smite , write , bide , abide , ride , chouse , chuse , tread , get , beget , forget , seethe , make in both preterit and ...
... speak , bear , sheur , swear , tear , wear , weave , cleave , strive , thrive , drive , shine . rise , arise , smite , write , bide , abide , ride , chouse , chuse , tread , get , beget , forget , seethe , make in both preterit and ...
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... speak with your eye ; yet with a de- Bacon . mure abasing of it sometimes . 2. To cast down ; to depress ; to bring low : in a figurative and personal sense , which is the common use . Happy shepherd ! to the gods be thankful , that to ...
... speak with your eye ; yet with a de- Bacon . mure abasing of it sometimes . 2. To cast down ; to depress ; to bring low : in a figurative and personal sense , which is the common use . Happy shepherd ! to the gods be thankful , that to ...
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... speak of the ablative case absolute , in grammar . I see still the distinctions of sovereign and in- ferior , of ... speaking were as his : I'm absolute , ' Twas very Cloten . Shakspeare's Cymbeline . A'BSOLUTELY . adv . [ from absolute ...
... speak of the ablative case absolute , in grammar . I see still the distinctions of sovereign and in- ferior , of ... speaking were as his : I'm absolute , ' Twas very Cloten . Shakspeare's Cymbeline . A'BSOLUTELY . adv . [ from absolute ...
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... speaking or pronounc- ing , with regard either to force or ele- gance . I know , sir , I am no flatterer ; he that be ... speak words with particular regard to the grammatical marks or rules . Having got somebody to mark the last sylla ...
... speaking or pronounc- ing , with regard either to force or ele- gance . I know , sir , I am no flatterer ; he that be ... speak words with particular regard to the grammatical marks or rules . Having got somebody to mark the last sylla ...
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.