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, Volumen4Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805 |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 100
Página
... Woodward . Sal Ammoniack is found still in Ammonia , as mentioned by the ancients , and from whence it had its name . Woodward . SALA'CIOUS . adj . [ salacis , Lat . saluce , Fr. ] Lustful ; lecherous . One more salacious , rich , and ...
... Woodward . Sal Ammoniack is found still in Ammonia , as mentioned by the ancients , and from whence it had its name . Woodward . SALA'CIOUS . adj . [ salacis , Lat . saluce , Fr. ] Lustful ; lecherous . One more salacious , rich , and ...
Página
... Woodward . Determinations of justice were very summary and decisive , and generally put an end to the vexations of a law - suit by the ruin both of plain- tiff and defendant : travellers have recorded some samples of this kind . Addison ...
... Woodward . Determinations of justice were very summary and decisive , and generally put an end to the vexations of a law - suit by the ruin both of plain- tiff and defendant : travellers have recorded some samples of this kind . Addison ...
Página
... Woodward . wich . Prior . Celia and I , the other day , Walk'd o'er the sand hills to the sea . 2. Barren country covered with sands . Most of his army being slain , he , with a few of his friends , sought to save themselves by flight ...
... Woodward . wich . Prior . Celia and I , the other day , Walk'd o'er the sand hills to the sea . 2. Barren country covered with sands . Most of his army being slain , he , with a few of his friends , sought to save themselves by flight ...
Página
... Woodward . In enroll'd tuffs , flow'rs purfled , blue and white , Like saphire , pearl , in rich embroidery . Shaksp . He tinctures rubies with their rosy hue , And on the saphire spreads a heavenly blue . Blackmore . That the saphire ...
... Woodward . In enroll'd tuffs , flow'rs purfled , blue and white , Like saphire , pearl , in rich embroidery . Shaksp . He tinctures rubies with their rosy hue , And on the saphire spreads a heavenly blue . Blackmore . That the saphire ...
Página
... Woodward . SARK . n . s . [ rcynk , Sax . ] 1. A shark or shirk . 2. In Scotland it denotes a shirt . Flaunting beaus gang with their breasts open , and their sarks over their waistcoats . Arbuthnot . SARN.n.s. A British word for ...
... Woodward . SARK . n . s . [ rcynk , Sax . ] 1. A shark or shirk . 2. In Scotland it denotes a shirt . Flaunting beaus gang with their breasts open , and their sarks over their waistcoats . Arbuthnot . SARN.n.s. A British word for ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
Addison Ainsworth Arbuthnot Atterbury Bacon Ben Jonson Bentley blood body Boyle Brown called colour death Decay of Piety Denbam doth Dryd Dryden Dutch earth ev'ry eyes fair Fairy Queen fear fire French give Glanville ground hand hath head heart heav'n honour Hooker Hudibras Islandick Jonson kind king Knolles L'Estrange Latin light live Locke look lord Milt Milton mind Mortimer motion nature ness never night noun o'er pain plant Pope pow'r preterit prince Prior publick Raleigh salt sapience Saxon sense Shaks Shaksp Shakspeare sharp shew side Sidney sight sleep soft soul sound South Spectator Spenser spirit spring stand stone strong sweet Swift taste Tatler Temple tender thee thing thou thought Tillotson tion tongue unto verb virtue Waller Waterland Watts wind Wiseman Woodward word
Pasajes populares
Página 45 - Sheer o'er the crystal battlements : from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day ; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith like a falling star...
Página 73 - God knows, my son, By what by-paths and indirect crook'd ways I met this crown ; and I myself know well How troublesome it sat upon my head : To thee it shall descend with better quiet, Better opinion, better confirmation ; For all the soil of the achievement goes With me into the earth.
Página 90 - Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain-tops that freeze, Bow themselves, when he did sing : To his music, plants and flowers Ever sprung : as sun and showers There had made a lasting spring.
Página 155 - Of linked sweetness long drawn out With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus...
Página 73 - Here's the smell of the blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.
Página 175 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form; Then, have I reason to be fond of grief ? Fare you well: had you such a loss as I, I could give better comfort than you do.
Página 45 - The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon, With spectacles on nose and pouch on side, His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound.
Página 120 - To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise...
Página 73 - And flowers aloft shading the fount of life, And where the river of bliss through midst of heaven Rolls o'er Elysian flowers her amber stream. With these, that never fade, the Spirits elect Bind their resplendent locks, inwreath'd with beams : Now in loose garlands thick thrown off, the bright Pavement, that like a sea of jasper shone, Impurpled with celestial roses smiled.