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, Volum 3Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805 |
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... fire . Dryden . Easy in words thy stile , in sense sublime ; ' Tis like the ladder in the patriarch's dream , Its foot on earth , its height above the skies . Prior . I saw a stage erected about a foot and a half from the ground ...
... fire . Dryden . Easy in words thy stile , in sense sublime ; ' Tis like the ladder in the patriarch's dream , Its foot on earth , its height above the skies . Prior . I saw a stage erected about a foot and a half from the ground ...
Side 21
... fire , throws up all other bodies , except gold , that are mixed , all others being lighter , except Mercury , which will not bear that de- gree of heat : it afterwards vitrifies with the baser metals , and carries them off , in form of ...
... fire , throws up all other bodies , except gold , that are mixed , all others being lighter , except Mercury , which will not bear that de- gree of heat : it afterwards vitrifies with the baser metals , and carries them off , in form of ...
Side 21
... fire . Dryden and Ler . LEAKAGE . n . s . [ from leak . ] Allowance made for accidental foss in liquid mea- sures . LEAKY . adj . [ from leak . ] 1. Battered or pierced , so as to let water in or out . Thou'rt so leaky , That we must ...
... fire . Dryden and Ler . LEAKAGE . n . s . [ from leak . ] Allowance made for accidental foss in liquid mea- sures . LEAKY . adj . [ from leak . ] 1. Battered or pierced , so as to let water in or out . Thou'rt so leaky , That we must ...
Side 21
... fire . Shakspeare . Lian raw - bon'd rascals ! who would e'er sup- pose , They had such courage and audacity ! Shaksp . Luan - look'd prophets whisper fearful change . Shakspeare . I would invent as bitter searching terins , With full ...
... fire . Shakspeare . Lian raw - bon'd rascals ! who would e'er sup- pose , They had such courage and audacity ! Shaksp . Luan - look'd prophets whisper fearful change . Shakspeare . I would invent as bitter searching terins , With full ...
Side 31
... fire in fancy and in words ; and any thing that is just in gram- mar and in measure , is as good oratory and poe- try to them as the best . Felton . Not with half the fire and life , With which he kiss'd Amphytrion's wife . Prior . 15 ...
... fire in fancy and in words ; and any thing that is just in gram- mar and in measure , is as good oratory and poe- try to them as the best . Felton . Not with half the fire and life , With which he kiss'd Amphytrion's wife . Prior . 15 ...
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Addison Ainsworth Arbuthnot Atterbury Bacon Ben Jonson Bentley bird blood body Boyle Brown called cause church chyle Clarendon colour death Dict doth Dryd Dryden Dutch earth Ecclesiasticus eyes fair Fairy Queen fire French give Glanville hand hast hath head heart heav'n honour Hooker Hudibras kind king L'Estrange labour land Latin leave light live Locke look lord low Latin Maccabees manner marcasites matter mean Milt Milton mind motion mouth nature ness never night noun o'er optick pain pass passion peace pear person plant Pope pow'r prince Prior publick Raleigh Saxon sense Shaks Shaksp Shakspeare shew Sidney soul South Spenser spirit stone sweet Swift Tatler thee thing thou thought Tillotson tion tongue tree unto v. a. mis verb virtue Waller Watts Woodward word