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, Band 3Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805 |
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... light made with oil and a wick . O thievish night , Why should'st thou , but for some felonious end ; In thy dark lanthorn thus close up the stars , That nature hung in heav'n , and fill their lemps With everlasting oil , to give due light ...
... light made with oil and a wick . O thievish night , Why should'st thou , but for some felonious end ; In thy dark lanthorn thus close up the stars , That nature hung in heav'n , and fill their lemps With everlasting oil , to give due light ...
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... lights , and the con- venient landing , are admirably well contrived . Addison on Italy . What the Romans called ... light . Dryden . Though they are not self - evident principles , yet if they have been made out from them by a wary ...
... lights , and the con- venient landing , are admirably well contrived . Addison on Italy . What the Romans called ... light . Dryden . Though they are not self - evident principles , yet if they have been made out from them by a wary ...
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... light , to pre- vent the art of the lantern - maker . More's Divine Dialogues . Our ideas succeed one another in our minds , not much unlike the images in the inside of a Lanthorn , turned round by the heat of a candle . Locke . 2. A ...
... light , to pre- vent the art of the lantern - maker . More's Divine Dialogues . Our ideas succeed one another in our minds , not much unlike the images in the inside of a Lanthorn , turned round by the heat of a candle . Locke . 2. A ...
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... light a candle for him at any set hour . Wilkins . I see men as lusty and strong that eat but two meals a - day , as others , that have set their sto- machs , like larums , to call on them for four or five . Locke . The young Æneas ...
... light a candle for him at any set hour . Wilkins . I see men as lusty and strong that eat but two meals a - day , as others , that have set their sto- machs , like larums , to call on them for four or five . Locke . The young Æneas ...
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... light as down , is as truly gold as that in an ingot . Digby on Bodies . To LEAF . v . n . [ from the noun . ] To bring leaves ; to bear leaves . Most trees fall off the leaves at autumn ; and if not kept back by cold , would leef about ...
... light as down , is as truly gold as that in an ingot . Digby on Bodies . To LEAF . v . n . [ from the noun . ] To bring leaves ; to bear leaves . Most trees fall off the leaves at autumn ; and if not kept back by cold , would leef about ...
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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