A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to Customs, Proverbs, Etc., which Have Been Thought to Require Illustration, in the Words of English Authors, Particularly Shakespeare, and His Contemporaries, Volumen1J.R. Smith, 1859 |
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... given because they are rare and curious , and may explain difficult passages in authors of this period which have not yet been brought into discus- sion . It is for this reason that some new words , the meaning of which could only be given ...
... given because they are rare and curious , and may explain difficult passages in authors of this period which have not yet been brought into discus- sion . It is for this reason that some new words , the meaning of which could only be given ...
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... given period in the progress of our language , it could not fail to happen that many useful illustra- tions of its history must be developed in the search . Early attached to the study of our native language , and , consequently , an ...
... given period in the progress of our language , it could not fail to happen that many useful illustra- tions of its history must be developed in the search . Early attached to the study of our native language , and , consequently , an ...
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... given us the most convenient form ; his plan and method have , therefore , been followed here , as far as seemed necessary in a work less scientific . The Chaucerian and the Saxon Dictionaries , whenever formed , ought surely to adopt a ...
... given us the most convenient form ; his plan and method have , therefore , been followed here , as far as seemed necessary in a work less scientific . The Chaucerian and the Saxon Dictionaries , whenever formed , ought surely to adopt a ...
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... given other examples . This is decisive : As iron , touch't by the adamant's effect , To the north pole doth ever point direct . Sylv . Du B. , p . 64 . The adamant and beauty we discover To be alike ; for beauty draws a lover , The ...
... given other examples . This is decisive : As iron , touch't by the adamant's effect , To the north pole doth ever point direct . Sylv . Du B. , p . 64 . The adamant and beauty we discover To be alike ; for beauty draws a lover , The ...
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... given by the Spaniards , and by Fernandez , Hernandez , and Nierem- berg , to the pelican of Mexico ; and erroneously , by Clusius , and others after him , to the Indian hornbill , or buceros hydrocorax . Rees's Encycl . Most like to ...
... given by the Spaniards , and by Fernandez , Hernandez , and Nierem- berg , to the pelican of Mexico ; and erroneously , by Clusius , and others after him , to the Indian hornbill , or buceros hydrocorax . Rees's Encycl . Most like to ...
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Página 7 - tis most certain, Iras. Saucy lictors Will catch at us, like strumpets ; and scald rhymers Ballad us out o' tune : the quick comedians Extemporally will stage us, and present Our Alexandrian revels : Antony Shall be brought drunken forth, and I shall see Some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness I
Página 316 - I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano ; A stage, where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one.
Página 227 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice...
Página 443 - If I do prove her haggard, Though that her jesses were my dear heart-strings, I'd whistle her off, and let her down the wind, To prey at fortune.
Página 211 - Thou, nature, art my goddess ; to thy law My services are bound : Wherefore should I Stand in the plague of custom ; and permit The curiosity of nations to deprive me, For that I am some twelve or fourteen moon-shines Lag of a brother? Why bastard?
Página 258 - Dun is extricated of course ; and the merriment arises from the awkward and affected efforts of the rustics to lift the log, and from sundry arch contrivances to let the ends of it fall on one another's toes.
Página 451 - Of good or bad unto the general; And in such indexes, although small pricks To their subsequent volumes, there is seen The baby figure of the giant mass Of things to come at large.
Página 230 - Hear, Nature, hear ! dear goddess, hear ! Suspend thy purpose, if thou didst intend To make this creature fruitful ! Into her womb convey sterility ! Dry up in her the organs of increase, And from her derogate body never spring A babe to honour her...
Página 14 - To cry aim," in archery, to encourage the archers by crying out aim, when they were about to shoot. Hence it came to be used for to applaud, to encourage, in a general sense See King John, ii.
Página 53 - Then he sets off to catch them. Any one, who is taken, cannot run out again with his former associates, being accounted a prisoner, but is obliged to assist his captor in pursuing the rest. When all are taken, the game is finished ; and he, who was first taken, is bound to act as catcher in the next game.