The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of science, art, literature, and practical mechanics, by the orig. ed. of the Encyclopaedia metropolitana [T. Curtis]., 10. kötetThomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) |
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16. oldal
... Dryden's Eneid . The ladies gasped , and scarcely could respire ; The breath they drew no longer air , but fire . Dryden . A scantling of wit lay gasping for life , and groaning Id . beneath a heap of rubbish . I lay me down to gasp my ...
... Dryden's Eneid . The ladies gasped , and scarcely could respire ; The breath they drew no longer air , but fire . Dryden . A scantling of wit lay gasping for life , and groaning Id . beneath a heap of rubbish . I lay me down to gasp my ...
24. oldal
... Dryden . While the gaunt mastiff growling at the gate Affrights the beggar whom he longs to eat . Popc . Then Judah raged by ruffian discord led , Drunk with the steamy carnage of the dead : He saw his sons by dubious slaughter fall ...
... Dryden . While the gaunt mastiff growling at the gate Affrights the beggar whom he longs to eat . Popc . Then Judah raged by ruffian discord led , Drunk with the steamy carnage of the dead : He saw his sons by dubious slaughter fall ...
28. oldal
... Dryden . I fancy every body observes me as I walk the street , and long to be in my old plain gear again . Addison's Guardian . To see some radiant nymph appear In all her glittering birthday gear , You think some goddess from the sky ...
... Dryden . I fancy every body observes me as I walk the street , and long to be in my old plain gear again . Addison's Guardian . To see some radiant nymph appear In all her glittering birthday gear , You think some goddess from the sky ...
30. oldal
... Dryden . The spayed gelts they esteem the most profitable . Mortimer . Let the others be gelt for oxen . Id . Husbandry . GELD , in the old English customs , a Saxor word signifying money , or tribute . It also de- noted a compensation ...
... Dryden . The spayed gelts they esteem the most profitable . Mortimer . Let the others be gelt for oxen . Id . Husbandry . GELD , in the old English customs , a Saxor word signifying money , or tribute . It also de- noted a compensation ...
31. oldal
... Dryden . Sometimes we find them in the gemmeous matter Woodward . itself . Court - virtues bear like gems the highest rate , Born where heaven's influence scarce can penetrate . Pope . Fall many a gem of purest ray serene The dark ...
... Dryden . Sometimes we find them in the gemmeous matter Woodward . itself . Court - virtues bear like gems the highest rate , Born where heaven's influence scarce can penetrate . Pope . Fall many a gem of purest ray serene The dark ...
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156. oldal - Kent. Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass! He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer.
331. oldal - A verb is a word which signifies to be, to do, or to suffer ; as, I am — I rule — I am ruled.
32. oldal - I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear : Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.
22. oldal - Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
341. oldal - I am. Thou art. He is. We are. You are. They are. I was. Thou wast He was. We were. You were. They were.
376. oldal - I say, they will receive a terrible blow this parliament, and yet they shall not see who hurts them. This counsel is not to be contemned, because it may do you good, and can do you no harm : for the danger is past, as soon as you have burned the letter. And I hope God will give you the grace to make good use of it, unto whose holy protection I commend you*.
174. oldal - What years, i' faith ? Vio. About your years, my lord. Duke. Too old, by heaven; let still the woman take An elder than herself ; so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart. For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, More longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn, Than women's are.
330. oldal - An Adjective is a word added to a substantive, to express its quality : as, " An industrious man ; a virtuous woman.
34. oldal - tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners ; so that if we will plant nettles or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up thyme, supply it with one gender of herbs or distract it with many, either to have it sterile with idleness or manured with industry, why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.
124. oldal - All the interior angles of any rectilineal figure, together with four right angles, are equal to twice as many right angles as the figure has sides.