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, Volum 1 |
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Frases i termes més freqüents
according action Addison ancient animal appear applied arms authority Bacon bear better blood body break bring brought called cause common death derived Dict doth Dryd Dryden earth English eyes fair fall fear fire follow force French give ground grow hand hath head heart Hooker Italy keep kind king land language leaves less light live Locke look lord Lost manner matter means Milton mind nature never noun particle pass person plant Pope present reason rest Saxon Sbakspeare seems sense side signifies sometimes soul sound speak Spenser spirit stand Swift taken term thee thing thou thought tion tree turn unto verb whole wind
Passatges populars
Pàgina 95 - 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...
Pàgina 69 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long...
Pàgina 95 - 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.
Pàgina 26 - 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.
Pàgina 79 - 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...
Pàgina 75 - 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.
Pàgina 10 - 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.
Informació bibliogràfica
| Títol | 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, Volum 1 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 |
| Edició | 9 |
| Editor | Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805 |
| Original de | Biblioteca Pública de Nova York |
| Digitalitzat el | 7 Set. 2006 |
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