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 1Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805 |
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... never doubled ; but c is used before it to shorten the vowel by a double consonant , as cuckle , pickle . L .. L has in English the same liquid sound as in other languages . The custom is to double the at the end of monosyllables , as ...
... never doubled ; but c is used before it to shorten the vowel by a double consonant , as cuckle , pickle . L .. L has in English the same liquid sound as in other languages . The custom is to double the at the end of monosyllables , as ...
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... never cease ; Confus'd , and chiding , like , the hollow roar Of tides receding from th ' insulted shore ; Or like the broken thunder , heard from far , When Jove to distance drives the rolling war . The courts are fill'd with a ...
... never cease ; Confus'd , and chiding , like , the hollow roar Of tides receding from th ' insulted shore ; Or like the broken thunder , heard from far , When Jove to distance drives the rolling war . The courts are fill'd with a ...
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... never used but with to . ] 1. In a manner suitable to ; agreeably to ; in proportion . Our churches are places provided , that the people might there assemble themselves in due and decent manner , according to their several degrees and ...
... never used but with to . ] 1. In a manner suitable to ; agreeably to ; in proportion . Our churches are places provided , that the people might there assemble themselves in due and decent manner , according to their several degrees and ...
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... Never pray more ; abandon all remorse ; On horrors head horrors accumulate ; For nothing canst thou to damnation add . Shaks . Crusht by imaginary treasons weight , Which too much merit did accumulate . Sir John Denham . ACCUMULATION ...
... Never pray more ; abandon all remorse ; On horrors head horrors accumulate ; For nothing canst thou to damnation add . Shaks . Crusht by imaginary treasons weight , Which too much merit did accumulate . Sir John Denham . ACCUMULATION ...
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... never yet withstood , Does nourish mine , and turns to blood . Grane . A'CORN . n . s . [ æconn , Sax . from ac , an oak , and conn , corn or grain ; that is , the grain or fruit of the oak . ] The seed or fruit born by the oak ...
... never yet withstood , Does nourish mine , and turns to blood . Grane . A'CORN . n . s . [ æconn , Sax . from ac , an oak , and conn , corn or grain ; that is , the grain or fruit of the oak . ] The seed or fruit born by the oak ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Addison ancient animal Arbuthnot arms Atterbury Bacon bear beat Ben Jonson blood body Boyle break breast breath Brown's Vulgar Errours called cause church Clarendon colour Corvell death derived Dict doth Dryd Dryden Dutch earth English eyes Fairy Queen fear fire French fruit give grace ground grow hand hath head heart heav'n Henry VII honour Hooker horse Hudibras kind king King Lear kyng L'Estrange language Latin live Locke lord manner ment Milton mind motion nature never noun Opticks Paradise Lost particle person plant Pope preterit prince Quincy Saxon sense Shaks Shaksp Shakspeare Shakspeare's shew Sidney signifies sometimes soul sound South Spenser spirit sweet Swift syllable Tatler thee thing thou thought Tillotson tion tongue tree unto verb virtue Waller Watts wind word
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 12 - As one who, long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight ; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Seite 32 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long...
Seite 124 - That, with the hurly," death itself awakes ? Can'st thou, O partial sleep ! give thy repose To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude ; And in the calmest and most stillest night, With all appliances and means to boot, Deny it to a king? Then, happy low, lie down ! Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
Seite 15 - But forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made. The servant therefore fell down, and worshipped him, saying; Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.
Seite 10 - The which observed, a man may prophesy With a near aim of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasure"d. Such things become the hatch and brood of time...
Seite 32 - Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him ; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison. Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing.
Seite 7 - Horatio, what a wounded name, Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me. If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart, Absent thee from felicity awhile, And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain, To tell my story.