A Rhyming Dictionary: Answering at the Same Time, the Purposes of Spelling and Pronouncing the English Language, a Plan Not Hitherto AttemptedT. Cadell and W. Davies, 1819 |
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a-ble adorn animal APHORISM beat Belonging bird bird of prey body bone Capable cause censure cheat chyle cloth coagulation colour Consisting consonant contempt contract corrupt Costive cover cyon deceive deprive Dictionary diphthong disease dress earth false figure fire fish flesh flower fruit Full give grow heraldry herb hollow horse hurt instrument interj join kind labour land language letter Liable liquor lying manner mark marriage mean measure medicine metal move noise oblique officer orthography pain pass passion peevish person Pertaining phlegm piece plant play plur plural prep Pret Preter Preterit pron pronounced pronunciation pustule Quality quick Relating Resembling rhymes bed rhymes go round rude selenography sharp ship silent e soft sorrow sort sound stone stringed musical stupid swelling syllable taste thin thing throw tincture tree verb vessel violent vowel wind woman wood words writing
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Page 327 - Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To Be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Page 307 - Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a shepherd's care ; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye ; My noonday walks he shall attend, And all my midnight hours defend.
Page 342 - Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
Page 325 - Thus critics of less judgment than caprice, Curious, not knowing, not exact, but nice, Form short ideas, and offend in arts (As most in manners) by a love to parts. Some to conceit alone their taste confine, And...
Page 323 - As oft the Learn'd by being singular; So much they scorn the crowd, that if the throng By chance go right, they purposely go wrong; So Schismatics the plain believers quit, And are but damn'd for having too much wit. Some praise at morning what they blame at night; But always think the last opinion right.
Page 319 - Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all. Thus when we view some well-proportion'd dome, (The world's just wonder, and ev'n thine, O Rome!) No single parts unequally surprise, All comes united to th' admiring eyes; 250 No monstrous height, or breadth, or length, appear; The whole at once is bold, and regular.
Page 311 - Who haunt Parnassus but to please their ear, Not mend their minds, as some to church repair, Not for the doctrine but the music there These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire; While expletives their feeble aid do join; And ten low words oft...
Page 329 - Though oft the ear the open vowels tire; While expletives their feeble aid do join; And ten low words oft creep in one dull line: While they ring round the same unvaried chimes With sure returns of still expected rhymes: Where'er you find "the cooling western breeze...
Page 307 - My hands shall rend what ev'n thy rapine spares: These in two sable ringlets taught to break, Once gave new beauties to the snowy neck...
Page 319 - Heaven who can contest? Some thought it mounted to the lunar sphere, Since all things lost on earth are treasured there. There heroes' wits are kept in pond'rous vases, And beaux' in snuff-boxes and tweezer-cases. There broken vows, and death-bed alms are found, And lovers...