Webster's Complete dictionary of the English language. Thoroughly revised and improved, by C.A. Goodrich and N. Porter1884 |
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الصفحة 1505
... poets have sanctioned . The most prominent in the long series of English writers , down to the latest , have been read for the purpose of selecting illustrations , especially those writers whose use of language is particularly idiomatic ...
... poets have sanctioned . The most prominent in the long series of English writers , down to the latest , have been read for the purpose of selecting illustrations , especially those writers whose use of language is particularly idiomatic ...
الصفحة 1523
... poems , the most interesting are the Traveler's Song , the Death of Byrhtnoth , Athelstan's Victory at Brunanburh , the very peculiar and artificial Rhyming Song , and a collection of metrical enigmas : most of these poems are preserved ...
... poems , the most interesting are the Traveler's Song , the Death of Byrhtnoth , Athelstan's Victory at Brunanburh , the very peculiar and artificial Rhyming Song , and a collection of metrical enigmas : most of these poems are preserved ...
الصفحة 1524
... poem , which recites the early fabulous history of Britain . It is a free translation , or , more truly , a working over , of the Roman de Brut , composed in French by Wace , and finished in 1155. Layamon was a priest , who lived at ...
... poem , which recites the early fabulous history of Britain . It is a free translation , or , more truly , a working over , of the Roman de Brut , composed in French by Wace , and finished in 1155. Layamon was a priest , who lived at ...
الصفحة 1525
... poem is evidently more modern than that of Layamon . Its appearance , however , is rendered uncouth by a peculiarity of spelling , which is not without interest and value to the philologist : it carries out consistently the tendency of ...
... poem is evidently more modern than that of Layamon . Its appearance , however , is rendered uncouth by a peculiarity of spelling , which is not without interest and value to the philologist : it carries out consistently the tendency of ...
الصفحة 1527
... poem , entitled The Bruce , was followed in the early part of the next century by the Originale Chronykil of Andrew ... poets of higher genius , William Dunbar and Sir David Lyndsay . In more recent times , the most eminent writers of ...
... poem , entitled The Bruce , was followed in the early part of the next century by the Originale Chronykil of Andrew ... poets of higher genius , William Dunbar and Sir David Lyndsay . In more recent times , the most eminent writers of ...
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الصفحة 1619 - Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we: come on, let us deal wisely with them ; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and...
الصفحة 1636 - France, and great numbers bought by the clergy and gentry, to distribute gratis among their poor parishioners and tenants. In Pennsylvania, as it discouraged useless expense in foreign superfluities, some thought it had its share of influence in producing that growing plenty of money, which was observable for several years after its publication.
الصفحة 1616 - More, more, I prithee, more. Ami. It will make you melancholy, Monsieur Jaques. Jaq. I thank it. More, I prithee, more. I can suck melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs.
الصفحة 1520 - I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have committed to Him against that day.
الصفحة 1624 - Audacious neighborhood, the wisest heart Of Solomon he led by fraud to build His temple right against the temple of God On that opprobrious hill, and made his grove The pleasant valley of Hinnom, Tophet thence And black Gehenna called, the type of Hell.
الصفحة 1629 - The Atlantic was roused. Mrs. Parting-ton's spirit was up ; but I need not tell you that the contest was unequal. The Atlantic Ocean beat Mrs. Partington. She was excellent at a slop, or a puddle, but she should not have meddled with a tempest.
الصفحة 1624 - Wit ever wakeful, fancy busy and procreative as an insect, courage, an easy mind that, without cares of its own, is at once disposed to laugh away those of others, and yet to be interested in them, — these and all congenial qualities, melting into the common copula of them all, the man of rank and the gentleman, with all its excellences and all its weaknesses, constitute the character of Mercutio ! Act i.
الصفحة 1642 - Therefore at this fair are all such merchandise sold, as houses, lands, trades, places, honors, preferments, titles, countries, kingdoms, lusts, pleasures, and delights of all sorts, as whores, bawds, wives, husbands, children, masters, servants, lives, blood, bodies, souls, silver, gold, pearls, precious stones, and what not.
الصفحة 1636 - I therefore filled all the little spaces that occurred between the remarkable days in the calendar with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality, as the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue ; it being more difficult for a man in want to act always honestly, as, to use here one of those proverbs, it is hard for an empty sack to stand upright.
الصفحة 1642 - City lay through the midst of it. Now this valley is a very solitary place ; the prophet Jeremiah thus describes it : "A wilderness, a land of deserts and pits, a land of drought, and of the Shadow of Death, a land that no man," but a Christian, " passeth through, and where no man dwelt,