The Imperial Dictionary of the English Language: A Complete Encyclopedic Lexicon, Literary, Scientific, and Technological, Volume 1 |
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acid action allied Amer ammonia anapestic anat ancient angle animals anti antimony antiquity arch argali arms astron attached Bacon Bailey belonging birds body called cause Chaucer church colour common consisting containing court Dict divine Dryden English feet fishes flowers formerly fruit G. C. Lewis genus genus of plants give Goth Greek hence hist Icel John kind larvæ LL.D Lord Macaulay manner means ment metal metron Milton molluscs name given native nature Naut noun object one's opposed ornament person Pertaining poet Pope Prefix priv produced Rare resembling root Scotch Scotland Scots law sense Shak ship sometimes species Spenser stamens star substance taining Tennyson term applied thing Thos thou tion tree v. t. pret verb vessel word
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Page 180 - In darkness, and with dangers compassed round And solitude ; yet not alone while thou £ Visit'st my slumbers nightly, or when morn Purples the east : still govern thou my song, Urania, and fit audience find, though few...
Page 210 - I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them.
Page 162 - I hope it is no very cynical asperity, not to confess obligations, where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.
Page 76 - But without a parable spake he not unto them : and when they were alone, he expounded all things to his disciples.
Page 178 - Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence, native to famous wits Or hospitable, in her sweet recess, City or suburban, studious walks and shades. See there the olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long; There flowery hill Hymettus, with the sound Of bees...
Page 56 - How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree, While many a pastime circled in the shade...
Page 188 - ... little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, — in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult.
Page 185 - All books he reads, and all he reads assails, From Dryden's Fables down to Durfey's Tales. With him, most authors steal their works, or buy ; Garth did not write his own Dispensary.
Page 60 - Where this perception is, there is knowledge; and where it is not, there, though we may fancy, guess or believe, yet we always come short of knowledge. For, when we know that white is not black, what do we else but perceive that these two ideas do not agree? When we possess ourselves with the utmost security of the demonstration that the three angles of a triangle...
Page 54 - For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee ? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son.