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 - English Language |
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... king . Jaune ir par uuense and uuerre . hilæidengælder Dir gære for pe king Stephne oper on þe tuner æuneŭ pile . clepeden it re to Normandi . per per under - fan- tenrenie . pa pe precce men ne hadden zen . Fordi hi penden he rculde ...
... king . Jaune ir par uuense and uuerre . hilæidengælder Dir gære for pe king Stephne oper on þe tuner æuneŭ pile . clepeden it re to Normandi . per per under - fan- tenrenie . pa pe precce men ne hadden zen . Fordi hi penden he rculde ...
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... king adde bereht Euor - pic . & to oðer æuez men mid fæu men fuhren pid heom . Flemben þe king ær te srandard . rlogen ruide micel of hir genge :. On bir gæn polve pe king Stephne tæcen Rodbert eorl of Lloucerne . þe kinger rune pennier ...
... king adde bereht Euor - pic . & to oðer æuez men mid fæu men fuhren pid heom . Flemben þe king ær te srandard . rlogen ruide micel of hir genge :. On bir gæn polve pe king Stephne tæcen Rodbert eorl of Lloucerne . þe kinger rune pennier ...
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... king of prirun pon pe eonl . te eonl For be king . I fua diden . Siden der erten rathleden þe king 7 Randolf eorl at Stan - ford ader sporen and trender færron her nouden rculoe beruiken oder . it ne for - srod naht . For be kmg him ...
... king of prirun pon pe eonl . te eonl For be king . I fua diden . Siden der erten rathleden þe king 7 Randolf eorl at Stan - ford ader sporen and trender færron her nouden rculoe beruiken oder . it ne for - srod naht . For be kmg him ...
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... king Edwardes life , forethought to be king in that case the king his brother ( whose life hee looked that euil dyete shoulde short- en ) shoulde happen to decease ( as in dede he did ) while his children wer yonge . And thei deme ...
... king Edwardes life , forethought to be king in that case the king his brother ( whose life hee looked that euil dyete shoulde short- en ) shoulde happen to decease ( as in dede he did ) while his children wer yonge . And thei deme ...
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... king , affinitie or kinred , this realme , your owne coun- trey , or your owne surety . And there- withal the king no longer enduring to sitte vp , laide him down on his right side , his face towarde them : and none was there present ...
... king , affinitie or kinred , this realme , your owne coun- trey , or your owne surety . And there- withal the king no longer enduring to sitte vp , laide him down on his right side , his face towarde them : and none was there present ...
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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
Popular passages
Page 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...
Page 32 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.