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Parole e frasi comuni
allodium animal applied ball bast beat belly bend bird blot blow body Bohem boil boss Bret brigandine bubble bunch busk butt called cascare chatter Chaucer clap claw clob clod cloth colour commonly connexion corn Cotgr crack creak crooked derived Dict Diez dregs dress dull equivalent Esthon explained expressed false etymology fasten Finnish languages flax formerly Fris Gael give Goth grimmen Grisons head Hence hollow horse Icel imitation kind knob knock kopano koppa language Lith lump manner mouth noise notion one's paljas piece probably properly Prov quod represented root Rouchi round Russ seems sense ship shiver soft sound speak stick stone stop strike swelling Swiss syllable term thence thick thing tion tree Vaud Venet verb vessel Wallon whence wood Wört
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Pagina 4 - His godlike guest, walks forth, without more train Accompanied than with his own complete Perfections ; in himself was all his state, More solemn than the tedious pomp that waits On princes when their rich retinue long Of horses led, and grooms besmeared with gold, Dazzles the crowd, and sets them all agape.
Pagina 8 - I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus, The whilst his iron did on the anvil cool, With open mouth swallowing a tailor's news ; Who, with his shears and measure in his hand, Standing on slippers, which his nimble haste Had falsely thrust upon contrary feet, Told of a many thousand warlike French That were embattailed and rank'd in Kent : Another lean unwash'd artificer Cuts off his tale and talks of Arthur's death.
Pagina 336 - I showed the statute to you. Face. You did so. Dap. And will I tell then ! By this hand of flesh, Would it might never write good courthand more, If I discover.
Pagina 360 - The original meaning of cockney is a child too tenderly or delicately nurtured, one kept in the house and not hardened by out-ofdoors life ; hence applied to citizens, as opposed to the hardier inhabitants of the country, and in modern times confined to the inhabitants of London. The Promptorium Parvulorum, and the authorities cited in Mr. Way's note, give ' Coknay, carifotus, delicius, mammotrophus ' ; ' To bring up like a cocknaye, mignoter.' ' Delicias facere, to play the cockney.
Pagina 438 - Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt; And, in clear dream and solemn vision Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear ; Till oft converse with...
Pagina 10 - But the Lord is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation.
Pagina 37 - If by your art, my dearest father, you have Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them : The sky, it seems, would pour down stinking pitch, But that the sea, mounting to the welkin's cheek, Dashes the fire out.
Pagina 92 - Groome was fled away; But vaine it was to thinke from him to flie: Who overtaking him did disaray, And all his face deform'd with infamie...
Pagina 79 - ... the admission of all the duties implied in feudal tenancy, it was an act jealously looked after by the lords, and advocare, or the equivalent Fr. avouer, to avow, came to signify the admission by a tenant of a certain person as feudal superior. Finally with some grammatical confusion, Lat.
Pagina 369 - Of all that mote delight a dainty ear, Such as at once might not on living ground, Save in this paradise, be heard elsewhere : Right hard it was for wight which did it hear To read what manner music that mote be; For all that pleasing is to living ear Was there consorted in one harmony; Birds, voices, instruments, winds, waters, all agree.