English Synonymes: With Copious Illustrations and Explanations, Drawn from the Best WritersBaldwin, Cradock, and Joy, and Simpkin and Marshall, 1826 - 688 páginas |
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... figurative language of our Saviour for that particular modus or modification of the intel- lect , which is of practical utility to the possessor . Intellect sometimes runs through a family , and becomes as it were an hereditary portion ...
... figurative language of our Saviour for that particular modus or modification of the intel- lect , which is of practical utility to the possessor . Intellect sometimes runs through a family , and becomes as it were an hereditary portion ...
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... figurative sense , may be as gene- rally applied as offering ; Ye mighty princes , your oblations bring , And pay due honours to your awful king . PITT . The kind oblation of a falling tear . DRYDEN . MALEDICTION , CURSE , IMPRECATION ...
... figurative sense , may be as gene- rally applied as offering ; Ye mighty princes , your oblations bring , And pay due honours to your awful king . PITT . The kind oblation of a falling tear . DRYDEN . MALEDICTION , CURSE , IMPRECATION ...
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... figurative signification from the check - mate , a movement in the game of chess , whereby one stops one's adversary from making a further move ; whence to check signifies to stop the course of thority ; chide is in Saxon cidan ...
... figurative signification from the check - mate , a movement in the game of chess , whereby one stops one's adversary from making a further move ; whence to check signifies to stop the course of thority ; chide is in Saxon cidan ...
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... figurative sense , to the thoughts and designs which are conceived in the mind . Failure is more definite in its signification , and limited in its application ; we speak of the failures of individuals , but of the miscarriages of ...
... figurative sense , to the thoughts and designs which are conceived in the mind . Failure is more definite in its signification , and limited in its application ; we speak of the failures of individuals , but of the miscarriages of ...
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... figurative sense from general application . Insolvency , from in priva- tive , and solvo to pay , signifying not to ... figuratively ; Sir , if you spend word for word with me I shall make your wit bankrupt . ' SHAKSPEARE . 6 ERROR ...
... figurative sense from general application . Insolvency , from in priva- tive , and solvo to pay , signifying not to ... figuratively ; Sir , if you spend word for word with me I shall make your wit bankrupt . ' SHAKSPEARE . 6 ERROR ...
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Términos y frases comunes
according action ADDISON affections applied authority bad sense BLAIR body BURKE cause cerned character Christian Cicero circumstances comes common commonly compounded comprehends conduct CUMBERLAND degree denotes desire disposition distinction divine DRYDEN duty employed epithets evil exertion expresses favor fear feeling former French frequently German give Greek habits happy heart Hebrew hence HUDIBRAS human idea implies individual JENYNS JOHNSON judgement Latin latter less likewise low German manner marks marriage means ment MILTON mind mode nature ness never nexion nifies object offender one's opinion opposed ourselves pain participle particular passions perly Pisistratus pleasure POPE principles produce racter regard religion render respects Saxon sentiment SHAKSPEARE signifies literally society sometimes soul SOUTH speak species spects spirit STEELE superior supposed temper THOMSON tion Titus Manlius Torquatus uncon vice vidual violence virtue wish word
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Página 283 - To men of other minds my fancy flies, Embosom'd in the deep where Holland lies. Methinks her patient sons before me stand, Where the broad ocean leans against the land, And sedulous to stop the coming tide, Lift the tall rampire's artificial pride. Onward methinks, and diligently slow, The firm connected bulwark seems to grow ; Spreads its long arms amidst the watery roar, Scoops out an empire, and usurps the shore...
Página 174 - Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.
Página 320 - But happy they, the happiest of their kind, Whom gentler stars unite, and in one fate Their hearts, their fortunes, and their beings blend. 'Tis not the coarser tie of human laws, Unnatural oft, and foreign to the mind, That binds their peace ; but harmony itself, Attuning all their passions into love . Where friendship...
Página 92 - Ye noble few ! who here unbending stand Beneath life's pressure, yet bear up awhile, And what your bounded view, which only saw A little part, deem'd Evil, is no more ; The storms of Wintry Time will quickly pass, And one unbounded Spring encircle all.
Página 15 - If by a more noble and more adequate conception, that be considered as wit which is at once natural and new, that which, though not obvious, is, upon its first production, acknowledged to be just...
Página 208 - But when contending chiefs blockade the throne, Contracting regal power to stretch their own ; When I behold a factious band agree To call it freedom when themselves are free ; Each wanton judge new penal statutes draw, Laws grind the poor^ and rich men rule the law...
Página 68 - His house was known to all the vagrant train ; He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain.
Página 75 - Labour, and penury, the racks of pain, Disease, and sorrow's weeping train, And death, sad refuge from the storms of fate!
Página 23 - Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour; Far other aims his heart had learn'd to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to rise.
Página 348 - Yet come it will, the day decreed by fates! (How my heart trembles while my tongue relates!) The day when thou, imperial Troy! must bend, And see thy warriors fall, thy glories end.