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 4Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805 - English language |
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... fair and great , that shadow'd all the ground . 2. Not brightly luminous . Spenser . More pleasant light The Assyrian was a cedar with fair branches , Shadowy sets off the face of things . Milton , and with a sbadowing shroud . Ezekiel ...
... fair and great , that shadow'd all the ground . 2. Not brightly luminous . Spenser . More pleasant light The Assyrian was a cedar with fair branches , Shadowy sets off the face of things . Milton , and with a sbadowing shroud . Ezekiel ...
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... fair Pamela , could well have defended If thou hast power to raise him , bring him the assault he gave unto her face with bringing hither , a fair stain of shamefacedness into it . Sidacy . And I've power to shame him hence : She is the ...
... fair Pamela , could well have defended If thou hast power to raise him , bring him the assault he gave unto her face with bringing hither , a fair stain of shamefacedness into it . Sidacy . And I've power to shame him hence : She is the ...
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... Fair daughter , blow away these mists and gold , and considers it as a vein of the same earth clouds , he treads on . Decay of Pictvo And let thy eyes sbine forth in their full lustre . Say , in what mortal soil thou deignist to grow ...
... Fair daughter , blow away these mists and gold , and considers it as a vein of the same earth clouds , he treads on . Decay of Pictvo And let thy eyes sbine forth in their full lustre . Say , in what mortal soil thou deignist to grow ...
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... fair combat . Dryden . SHo'rtly . adv . [ from short . ] War , and luxury's more direful rage , 1. Quickly ; soon ; in a little time . It is Thy crimes have brought , to shorten mortal commonly used relatively of future time , breath ...
... fair combat . Dryden . SHo'rtly . adv . [ from short . ] War , and luxury's more direful rage , 1. Quickly ; soon ; in a little time . It is Thy crimes have brought , to shorten mortal commonly used relatively of future time , breath ...
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... fair discharge , all civil honours have For honor r , u hich they seldom sought before ; ing showered on him before , there now fell out occasion to action . Wetton . But now they by their own vain boasts were Cæsar's favour , tied ...
... fair discharge , all civil honours have For honor r , u hich they seldom sought before ; ing showered on him before , there now fell out occasion to action . Wetton . But now they by their own vain boasts were Cæsar's favour , tied ...
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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.