The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, Parte13William Dwight Whitney Century Company, 1890 |
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Términos y frases comunes
A. P. de Candolle anat birds body bone Brit called century character Chaucer Child's Ballads Church color common dicotyledonous E. A. Freeman Early mod Encyc entom fish flowers formerly genera genus Goth Halliwell hence Hist Icel intrans iron Jonson kind machicolate machine mackerel maculate magnet male manganese manner manus marble margin mark marsupial mass mast mastic material matter maxilla means measure mechanical mediate membrane ment mercury Merlin E. E. T. S. mesothorax meta metal metamere metatarsus meter method Middle English Middle English form Milton native natural order neut noun obsolete form orig person pertaining Piers Plowman plants pret Prov Rare resembling sclerite Shak sometimes species subfamily taining thou tion trans tree tribe usually word
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Página 3662 - The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy ; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted...
Página 3599 - Mammon, the least erected Spirit that fell From Heaven; for even in Heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches of Heaven's pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy else enjoyed In vision beatific.
Página 3735 - THE measure is English heroic verse without rime, as that of Homer in Greek, and of Virgil in Latin — rime being no necessary adjunct or true ornament of poem or good verse, in longer works especially, but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre...
Página 3612 - And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna : for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat.
Página 3690 - But hail thou Goddess, sage and holy, Hail divinest Melancholy, Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue; Black, but such as in esteem Prince...
Página 3578 - Until they won her; for indeed I knew Of no more subtle master under heaven Than is the maiden passion for a maid, Not only to keep down the base in man, But teach high thought, and amiable words And courtliness, and the desire of fame, And love of truth, and all that makes a man.
Página 3672 - Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.
Página 3604 - Not poppy, nor mandragora, Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep Which thou ow'dst yesterday.
Página 3612 - And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.
Página 3612 - But to my mind, — though I am native here, And to the manner born, — it is a custom More honour'd in the breach, than the observance.