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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... sense , which may be traced in his judgments on other attempts to act upon the imagination . The edition itself disappointed those who had conceived high expectations of his ability to elucidate the obscurities of the great dramatist ...
... sense , which may be traced in his judgments on other attempts to act upon the imagination . The edition itself disappointed those who had conceived high expectations of his ability to elucidate the obscurities of the great dramatist ...
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... sense is too subtle and evanescent to be fixed in a paraphrase ; such are all those which are by the grammarians ... sense may easily be collected entire from the examples . In every word of extensive use , it was requisite to mark the ...
... sense is too subtle and evanescent to be fixed in a paraphrase ; such are all those which are by the grammarians ... sense may easily be collected entire from the examples . In every word of extensive use , it was requisite to mark the ...
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... senses may be so inter- woven , that the perplexity cannot be disentangled , nor any reason be assigned why one should ... sense of words is often driven out of use by their metaphorical ac- ceptations , yet must be inserted for the sake ...
... senses may be so inter- woven , that the perplexity cannot be disentangled , nor any reason be assigned why one should ... sense of words is often driven out of use by their metaphorical ac- ceptations , yet must be inserted for the sake ...
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... sense , will often exhibit to a more accurate examiner , diversities of signification , or , at least , afford different shades of the same meaning : one will show the word applied to persons , another to things ; one will express an ...
... sense , will often exhibit to a more accurate examiner , diversities of signification , or , at least , afford different shades of the same meaning : one will show the word applied to persons , another to things ; one will express an ...
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... sense ; the geometrician will talk of a courtier's zenith , or the eccentrick virtue of a wild hero , and the physician of sanguine expectations and phlegmatick delays . Copiousness of speech will give opportunities to capricious choice ...
... sense ; the geometrician will talk of a courtier's zenith , or the eccentrick virtue of a wild hero , and the physician of sanguine expectations and phlegmatick delays . Copiousness of speech will give opportunities to capricious choice ...
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.