A glossary and etymological dictionary of obsolete and uncommon wordsW. Pickering, 1832 |
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... common and obvious name . Where is the eldest son of Priam , That Abraham coloured Trojan ? HAWKINS's O. P. BRAHAM - MEN , a cant term for idle and thievish vagabonds , who formerly went about the country half naked , or drest in ...
... common and obvious name . Where is the eldest son of Priam , That Abraham coloured Trojan ? HAWKINS's O. P. BRAHAM - MEN , a cant term for idle and thievish vagabonds , who formerly went about the country half naked , or drest in ...
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... common signs of the Bush Tavern , the Bull and Bush , & c . A garlond had he sette upon his hedde , As grete as it were for an alestake . CHAUCER'S PRO . TO SOMPNOUR'S TALE . Another brought her bedes Of jet or of cole , To offer to the ...
... common signs of the Bush Tavern , the Bull and Bush , & c . A garlond had he sette upon his hedde , As grete as it were for an alestake . CHAUCER'S PRO . TO SOMPNOUR'S TALE . Another brought her bedes Of jet or of cole , To offer to the ...
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... common adjuration , meaning for the love of God , of heaven , & c . and sometimes of all loves on earth . For al the loves on erthe , Hodge , let me see it . O. P. GAMMER GURTON'S NEEDLE . Conjuring his wife , of all loves , to prepare ...
... common adjuration , meaning for the love of God , of heaven , & c . and sometimes of all loves on earth . For al the loves on erthe , Hodge , let me see it . O. P. GAMMER GURTON'S NEEDLE . Conjuring his wife , of all loves , to prepare ...
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... common expression , to lead apes in hell , said of women dying old maids , seems to have puzzled all preceding writers as to its origin ; but all agree that it owes its rise to the Reformation , no men- tion being made of it prior to ...
... common expression , to lead apes in hell , said of women dying old maids , seems to have puzzled all preceding writers as to its origin ; but all agree that it owes its rise to the Reformation , no men- tion being made of it prior to ...
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... common expression , to lead apes in hell , said of women dying old maids , seems to have puzzled all preceding writers as to its origin ; but all agree that it owes its rise to the Reformation , no men- tion being made of it prior to ...
... common expression , to lead apes in hell , said of women dying old maids , seems to have puzzled all preceding writers as to its origin ; but all agree that it owes its rise to the Reformation , no men- tion being made of it prior to ...
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Términos y frases comunes
ALISAUNDRE ancient anon arms called CHAUCER'S KNIGHT'S TALE CHAUCER'S MERCHANT'S TALE CHAUCER'S MILLER'S TALE CHAUCER'S REVE'S TALE CHAUCER'S ROM CHAUCER'S SOMPNOUR'S TALE cloth CŒUR DE LION colour CORIOLANUS corruption CRESS custom DAMON AND PYTHIAS denote derived doth EASTWARD HOE etymology fair female fool formerly French gold GOWER'S grete GURTON'S NEEDLE GUY OF GISBORNE HAMLET hath head hence HONEST WHORE HOOD AND GUY horse HUDIBRAS IBID John JONSON'S king kyng lady LEAR lord LYDGATE'S MACBETH meaning MEAS MERCHANT'S TALE MERRY WIVES MILTON'S modern word NIGHT'S DREAM O. P. GAM O. P. THE FOUR O. P. THE HONEST O. P. THE SPANISH OTHELLO PARDONER'S TALE person play PLOWMAN'S PLOWMAN'S TALE QUEEN RICH ROSE sense SEVEN SAGES Shakspeare shew SHIPMAN'S TALE SHREW signify song spelt SPENSER'S F sword TEMPEST thee thing thou TROI TWELFTH NIGHT wine WINTER'S TALE WIVES OF WINDSOR worn
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Página 41 - All murder'd : for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...
Página 260 - What hands are here? ha! they pluck out mine eyes! Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand? No; this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the green one red.
Página 98 - I'll observe his looks; I'll tent him to the quick: if he but blench, I know my course.
Página 65 - Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers ; I had rather hear a brazen canstick turn'd, Or a dry wheel grate on the axle-tree ; And that would set my teeth nothing on edge, Nothing so much as mincing poetry : 'Tis like the forc'd gait of a shuffling nag.
Página 239 - On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object: can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France? or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt?
Página 200 - In following him, I follow but myself; Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty, But seeming so, for my peculiar end : For when my outward action doth demonstrate The native act and figure of my heart In compliment extern, 'tis not long after But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at : I am not what I am.
Página 170 - Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note.
Página 133 - Honour's a lease for lives to come, And cannot be extended from The legal tenant : 'tis a chattel Not to be forfeited in battle. If he that in the field is slain Be in the bed of honour lain, He that is beaten may be said To lie in honour's truckle-bed. For as we see th...
Página 286 - In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets...
Página 17 - ... in England, show us here The mettle of your pasture ; let us swear That you are worth your breeding : which I doubt not; For there is none of you so mean and base, That hath not noble lustre in your eyes. I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,* Straining upon the start. The game's afoot ; Follow your spirit : and, upon this charge, Cry — God for Harry ! England ! and Saint George ! [Exeunt . Alarum, and Chambers go off.