English Synonymes Explained: In Alphabetical Order ; with Copious Illustrations and Examples Drawn from the Best Writers ; to which is Now Added an Index to the WordsHarper, 1882 - 856 من الصفحات |
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action ADDISON admit affections animals applied bad sense BLAIR body BURKE cation cause cerns character CICERO circum circumstances comes common compounded comprehends conduct connected COWPER CUMBERLAND degree denotes distinction DRYDEN employed endeavor epithets eral erly erwise evil express favor fear feeling figurative former French frequently friends German give Greek happiness heart Hebrew honor human ical idea implies individual ject JOHNSON Latin latter lence less look low German manner marks means ment MILTON mind mode moral nature ness nifies object offend one's onomatopoeia opposed pain participle particular passion persons or things pleasure POPE produce properly quires regard religion respects Saxon sentiment serves SHAKSPEARE signifies literally signifies the thing sion sometimes speak species spects spirit STEELE superior tain TATLER temper THOMSON thought tion violent virtue wish words РОРЕ
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الصفحة 427 - Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee: — I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not , fatal vision , sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
الصفحة 173 - Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossom'd furze unprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion, skilled to rule, The village master taught his little school. A man severe he was, and stern to view ; I knew him well, and every truant knew...
الصفحة 196 - His house was known to all the vagrant train ; He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain.
الصفحة 419 - Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man ; to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing...
الصفحة 112 - With heaven's artillery fraught, come rattling on Over the Caspian ; then stand front to front, Hovering a space, till winds the signal blow To join their dark encounter in mid air...
الصفحة 244 - The silk-worm, after having spun her task, lays her eggs and dies. But a man can never have taken in his full measure of knowledge, has not time to subdue his passions, establish his soul in virtue, and come up to the perfection of his nature, before he is hurried off the stage.
الصفحة 279 - The love he bore to learning was in fault ; The village all declared how much he knew, 'Twas certain he could write, and cipher too...
الصفحة 369 - If to do were as easy as to know what were^ good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
الصفحة 285 - I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed; But let me that plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed...
الصفحة 360 - 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.