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 1Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805 |
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... thought , and sagacity of re- search into the human character . His principal performance in this class was " The Life of Savage , " published separately in 1714 , and gener rally admired both as a most interesting and curious ...
... thought , and sagacity of re- search into the human character . His principal performance in this class was " The Life of Savage , " published separately in 1714 , and gener rally admired both as a most interesting and curious ...
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... Thoughts on the late Transactions re- specting Falkland's Island , " designed to show the unreasonableness of ... thought highly of his powers for political warfare , and longed to try his force in senato- rial debate : some of ...
... Thoughts on the late Transactions re- specting Falkland's Island , " designed to show the unreasonableness of ... thought highly of his powers for political warfare , and longed to try his force in senato- rial debate : some of ...
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... thought little on sounds and derivations : some , knowing in the ancient tongues , have neglected those in which our ... thoughts have been perhaps employed too anxiously on verbal singularities , not to disturb , upon narrow views ...
... thought little on sounds and derivations : some , knowing in the ancient tongues , have neglected those in which our ... thoughts have been perhaps employed too anxiously on verbal singularities , not to disturb , upon narrow views ...
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... thought I sawe a woman stand ouer my head of a reuerend countenaunce , hauyng quycke and glysteryng clere eye , aboue the common sorte of men in lyuely and delectable coloure , and ful of strength , al- though she semed so olde that by ...
... thought I sawe a woman stand ouer my head of a reuerend countenaunce , hauyng quycke and glysteryng clere eye , aboue the common sorte of men in lyuely and delectable coloure , and ful of strength , al- though she semed so olde that by ...
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... thought , That way was nought , And there he left it not . So was he faine , From thence agayne , To put it in a cup , And by and by , Couetously , He supped it fayre vp , In his owne brest , He thought it best , His money to enclose ...
... thought , That way was nought , And there he left it not . So was he faine , From thence agayne , To put it in a cup , And by and by , Couetously , He supped it fayre vp , In his owne brest , He thought it best , His money to enclose ...
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A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are ..., Volume 1 Samuel Johnson Volledige weergave - 1818 |
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Addison Æneid ancient animal Arbuthnot arms Atterbury Bacon bear beat beauty Ben Jonson blast blessed blood blow body Boyle break breast breath Brown's Vulgar Errours called cause Clarendon colour death derived Dict doth Dryd Dryden Dutch earth English eyes Fairy Queen fear fire French fruit give grace ground hand hath head heart heav'n Henry VII honour Hooker Hudibras kind king King Lear kyng L'Estrange language Latin Locke lord manner ment Milt Milton mind nature never noun Paradise Lost particle person Pope preterit prince 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 wood word Το
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Pagina 45 - 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...
Pagina 246 - 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.