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, Volume 4 |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Addison appear Bacon bear better blood body bring Brown called cause common death doth Dryd Dryden Dutch earth eyes face fair fall fear fire force French give ground grow hand hard hath head heart hold Hooker keep kind king L'Estrange land Latin leave less light live Locke look manner matter means Milton mind motion move nature never night noun once pass person plant Pope Prior reason rest rise Saxon Sbakspeare sense serve side soft sort soul sound South speak Spenser spirit spring stand stone strike sweet Swift taken taste thee thing thou thought tion took turn unto verb virtue whole wind young
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Página 39 - 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 67 - 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 99 - 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 46 - Here's the smell of the blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.
Página 109 - 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 82 - 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 30 - 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.
Informação bibliográfica
| Título | 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, Volume 4 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, Samuel Johnson |
| Autor | Samuel Johnson |
| Edição | 9 |
| Editora | Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805 |
| Original de | a Biblioteca Pública de Nova Iorque |
| Digitalizado | 7 Set 2006 |
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