English Synonyms DiscriminatedLumley, 1856 - 312 páginas |
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abdicated accessory idea Adelung adjective amusement ancient anglo-saxon animals applied austere beautiful bishop body called celebrated character charming Christian church Cicero cloth gilt colouring common constitutes continuance delight derived discrimination disposition distinct Dryden edition employed english word engravings etymologically connected etymon excellence excites expression FABLES AND PARABLES fancy fashion favour feeling fiction Fouqué french frequently german gilt leaves give gothic gothic dialects greek grow habitual hence heterodoxy honour human humour implies inasmuch intellect italian Johnson king language lares latin less magistrate Marco Visconti means ment metaphor Milton mind moral motion nature object observation odour opposed original Ovid participle persons pleonasm Plutarch poet popular present Quintilian religion romance ROMANTIC FICTION Roubaud saxon sense sentiment Shakspeare signifies spell story style substantive syllable synonyms synonymy term thing tion translation Trusler Undine usage verb whence whereas words describe writers
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Página 121 - Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Come, and trip it as you go On the light fantastic toe...
Página 34 - Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Página 181 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike ; Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike...
Página 193 - THE parts of human learning have reference to the three parts of man's Understanding, which is the seat of learning : History to his Memory, Poesy to his Imagination, and Philosophy to his Reason.
Página 50 - Custom is a frequent repetition of the same act; habit is the effect of such repetition: fashion is the custom of numbers; usage is the habit of numbers. It is a good custom to rise early; this will produce a habit of so doing ; and the example of a distinguished family may do much toward reviving the fashion, if not re-establishing the usage.
Página 82 - He scours along the field, with loosened reins, And treads so light, he scarcely prints the plains ; Like Boreas in his race, when, rushing forth, He sweeps the skies, and clears the cloudy north : The waving harvest bends beneath his blast, The forest shakes, the groves their honours cast ; He flies aloft, and with impetuous roar Pursues the foaming surges to the shore.
Página 32 - The most common faults respecting emphasis are laying so strong an emphasis on one word as to leave no power of giving a particular force to other words, which though not equally, are in a certain degree emphatical ; and placing the greatest stress on conjunctive particles, and other words of secondary importance.
Página 32 - ... the best sermons in the world. We meet with the same speaking statues at our bars, and in all public places of debate. Our words flow from us in a smooth continued stream, without those strainings of the voice, motions of the body, and majesty of the hand, which are so much celebrated in the orators of Greece and Rome.
Página 171 - Humour can prevail, When Airs, and Flights, and Screams, and Scolding fail. Beauties in vain their pretty Eyes may roll; Charms strike the Sight, but Merit wins the Soul.
Página 111 - Ambitious fool ! with horny hoofs to pass O'er hollow arches of resounding brass, To rival thunder in its rapid course, And imitate inimitable force ! But he, the King of...