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 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805 |
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... turn'd up , and she thun- DISSY'LLABLE . n . s . [ diooúrral☺ . ] A der'd . Chapman word of two syllables . No man is tied , in modern poetry , to observe any farther rule in the feet of his verse , but that they be dissyllables ...
... turn'd up , and she thun- DISSY'LLABLE . n . s . [ diooúrral☺ . ] A der'd . Chapman word of two syllables . No man is tied , in modern poetry , to observe any farther rule in the feet of his verse , but that they be dissyllables ...
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... turn from a single direction toward various points . If he cannot wholly avoid the eye of the ob- server , he hopes to distract it by a multiplicity of the object . South , 4. To fill the mind with contrary con- siderations ; to perplex ...
... turn from a single direction toward various points . If he cannot wholly avoid the eye of the ob- server , he hopes to distract it by a multiplicity of the object . South , 4. To fill the mind with contrary con- siderations ; to perplex ...
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... turn the good we offer into envy . Sbars . So to mad Pentheus double Thebes appeafs , And furies howl in his distemper'd ears : Orestes SO , with like distraction tost , Is made to fly his mother's angry ghost . Waller . Commiserate all ...
... turn the good we offer into envy . Sbars . So to mad Pentheus double Thebes appeafs , And furies howl in his distemper'd ears : Orestes SO , with like distraction tost , Is made to fly his mother's angry ghost . Waller . Commiserate all ...
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... turn off from any direction : with from . This is not usual . It oft - times may succeed , so as perhaps Shall ... turn . ] To Shakspeare . turn off ; to turn aside . Not in use . He glad was to disturn that furious stream Of war on us ...
... turn off from any direction : with from . This is not usual . It oft - times may succeed , so as perhaps Shall ... turn . ] To Shakspeare . turn off ; to turn aside . Not in use . He glad was to disturn that furious stream Of war on us ...
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... turn- ed from its proper course or tendency . Fortunes , honour , friends , Are mere diversions from love's proper object , Which only is itself . Denham's Sophy . 3. Sport ; something that unbends the mind by turning it off from care ...
... turn- ed from its proper course or tendency . Fortunes , honour , friends , Are mere diversions from love's proper object , Which only is itself . Denham's Sophy . 3. Sport ; something that unbends the mind by turning it off from care ...
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A Dictionary of the English Language, Volum 2,Del 1 Samuel Johnson,Robert Gordon Latham Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1870 |
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Addison on Italy Addison's Spectator Æneid Arbuthnot Atterbury Bacon Bacon's Nat beasts Ben Jonson blood body Boyle Brown Brown's Vulgar cause Clarendon colour Coriolanus Cymbeline death Decay of Piety Denham Dict divine doth draw Dryd Dryden Dryden's Eneid Dutch earth Errours eyes fair Fairy Queen fall favour fear fire flowers force fore foul fruit give ground hath heart heav'n Henry VI honour Hooker Hudibras Juvenal kind King Lear L'Estrange Latin live Locke lord low Latin Macbeth Milton mind motion n. s. French nature ness never noun Opticks Othello Paradise Lost passion Pope pow'r Prior publick Raleigh Saxon sense Shaks Shaksp Shakspeare Shakspeare's Henry shew Sidney soul South Spenser spirits Swift Temple thee thing thou thought Tillotson tion tongue unto verb virtue Waller wind Woodward word