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 4 |
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Gloss'd over only with a saintlike show , Young Pompey built a fleet of large ships , and Still thou art bound to vice . Dryden . had good sailors , commanded by experienced cap- 2. Resembling a saint . tains . Arbuthuot .
Gloss'd over only with a saintlike show , Young Pompey built a fleet of large ships , and Still thou art bound to vice . Dryden . had good sailors , commanded by experienced cap- 2. Resembling a saint . tains . Arbuthuot .
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Young ; not firm ; weak . This young prince was brought up among SARCO'TICK , n . s . [ from oo ; sarcotique , nurses , till he arrived to the age of six years : Fr. ] A medicine which fills up ulcers when he had passed this weak and ...
Young ; not firm ; weak . This young prince was brought up among SARCO'TICK , n . s . [ from oo ; sarcotique , nurses , till he arrived to the age of six years : Fr. ] A medicine which fills up ulcers when he had passed this weak and ...
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A young Dryden . We must seek out some other original of power plant just risen from the seed . for the government of politicks than this of Carry into the shade such seedlings or plants Adam , or else there will be none at all in the ...
A young Dryden . We must seek out some other original of power plant just risen from the seed . for the government of politicks than this of Carry into the shade such seedlings or plants Adam , or else there will be none at all in the ...
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L'Estrange . than they , destroy their young by senseless fond10. Meaning ; import . ness , and too much embracing . Locke , In this sense , to be preserved from sin is not 3. Wanting sensibility ; wanting quickness impossible .
L'Estrange . than they , destroy their young by senseless fond10. Meaning ; import . ness , and too much embracing . Locke , In this sense , to be preserved from sin is not 3. Wanting sensibility ; wanting quickness impossible .
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... had not he broke windows , and diA general peace and serenity newly succeeded sturbed honest people with his midnight serens a general trouble and cloud throughout all his ades , when he was a young fellow . Addison . kingdoms .
... had not he broke windows , and diA general peace and serenity newly succeeded sturbed honest people with his midnight serens a general trouble and cloud throughout all his ades , when he was a young fellow . Addison . kingdoms .
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Page 39 - 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.
Page 67 - 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.
Page 99 - 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...
Page 46 - Here's the smell of the blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.
Page 109 - 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.
Page 82 - 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...
Page 30 - 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.
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| Title | 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 4 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, Samuel Johnson |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Edition | 9 |
| Publisher | Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | Sep 7, 2006 |
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