A Sequel to the Diversions of Purley: Containing an Essay on English Verbs, with Remarks on Mr Tooke's Work, and Some Terms Employed to Denote Soul Or Spirit |
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... expression of diminutiveness , or of our contempt and dislike . To SCRIBBLE , is derived by Dr. Johnson from the Latin scribo - scribillo . It does not , however , signify to write little , but that what is written 10 AN ESSAY ON ...
... expression of diminutiveness , or of our contempt and dislike . To SCRIBBLE , is derived by Dr. Johnson from the Latin scribo - scribillo . It does not , however , signify to write little , but that what is written 10 AN ESSAY ON ...
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... expression of RAMBLE will be felt , if it is substituted for roam in any passage in which that word occurs . Late as I ROAM'D intent on Nature's charms , I reach'd at eve this wilderness profound . Beattie . Do not say RAMBLING muse ...
... expression of RAMBLE will be felt , if it is substituted for roam in any passage in which that word occurs . Late as I ROAM'D intent on Nature's charms , I reach'd at eve this wilderness profound . Beattie . Do not say RAMBLING muse ...
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... expression of con- tempt or dislike , by addition of the diminutive termination LE . With WRANGLING talents form'd for loud debate . Pope . Many other verbs with this termination , though it is not clear that they are all diminutives of ...
... expression of con- tempt or dislike , by addition of the diminutive termination LE . With WRANGLING talents form'd for loud debate . Pope . Many other verbs with this termination , though it is not clear that they are all diminutives of ...
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... expression . Dr. Johnson , " TO FLUSH , V. a . to colour , to " redden , properly , to redden suddenly . " “ TO FLUSTER , V. a . ( from to flush ) to make " hot and rosy with drinking , & c . " XV . TO STACKER , STAKKER , or STACHER ...
... expression . Dr. Johnson , " TO FLUSH , V. a . to colour , to " redden , properly , to redden suddenly . " “ TO FLUSTER , V. a . ( from to flush ) to make " hot and rosy with drinking , & c . " XV . TO STACKER , STAKKER , or STACHER ...
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... expression is imper- fect : WAVERING , however , or QUIVERING ( the words are probably of the same origin ) sufficiently expresses the frequency and rapidity of their motion . WAVER and QUIVER might , in many cases , be substituted one ...
... expression is imper- fect : WAVERING , however , or QUIVERING ( the words are probably of the same origin ) sufficiently expresses the frequency and rapidity of their motion . WAVER and QUIVER might , in many cases , be substituted one ...
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alii analogy Anglo Anglosaxon verb anima animi animus applied autem bodily act body breath called Chaucer Cicero ciple common conjecture connexion derived diminutive DINLE Diversions of Purley Douglas's Virgil Dryden effect Eneid English verbs etymo etymologists etymology expression fleog-an formed the frequentative French frequentative verbs GAST German ghost GLITTERING Gothic heaved hence Ibid instance Jamieson Johnson King Lear language Lapwing Latin Latin language Lindsay living principle metaphor metonymy Milton mind Moso-Gothic nature nouns objects old English opinion past parti past participle past tense perhaps philosophers Pope prefix preterite and past quæ Quintilian quod quotes resemblance Romeo and Juliet saxon Scotch Scotland seems sense signify similar simply and merely soul or spirit speak spiritus subtile supposed term thing thinking principle thou tongue Tooke Tooke's transferred trope truth verbs ending WANDER WAVER WELTER Wending whence wind word wraith
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Page 25 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds ; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistening with dew ; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers ; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild...
Page 25 - With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening" mild; then silent night With this her solemn bird, and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her starry train: But neither breath of morn, when she ascends With charm of earliest birds; nor rising sun On this delightful land; nor herb,...
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Page 27 - Seem'd heaven itself, till one suggestion rose; That vice should triumph, virtue vice obey, This sprung some doubt of Providence's sway: His hopes no more a certain prospect boast, And all the tenour of his soul is lost.
Page 152 - Afterwards, when the more enlarged experience of these savages had led them to observe, and their necessary occasions obliged them to make mention of, other caves, and other trees, and other fountains, they would naturally bestow upon each of those new objects the same name by which they had been accustomed to express the similar object they were first acquainted with.
Page 17 - And he changed his behaviour before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down upon his beard.
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Page 24 - Pleased with thyself, whom all the world can please How often have I led thy sportive choir, With tuneless pipe, beside the murmuring Loire ; Where shading elms along the margin grew. And...