'Tis these that early taint the female soul. 'Tis two or three, my lord, that bring you word This mode of speech, though used by good authors, and supported by the il y a of the French, has yet an appearance of barbarism. It is sometimes used of the first or second person, sometimes of more. Give grandam kingdom, and its grandam will Whose care is gone before to bid us welcome: Sometimes applied familiarly, ludicrously, or rudely to persons. If folly grows romantick, I must paint it.Īlexander Pope. Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, I have often seen people lavish it profusely in tricking up their children, and yet starve their minds.Ī mole courses it not on the ground, like the rat or mouse, but lives under the earth. The Lacedemonians, at the straights of Thermopylæ, when their arms failed them, fought it out with their nails and teeth. If Abraham brought all with him, it is not probable that he meant to walk it back again for his pleasure. It is used ludicrously after neutral verbs, to give an emphasis. The design, it seems, is to avoid the dreadful imputation of pedantry. It is sometimes expressed by 't.Īs would have hurl'd him thrice his length. If we find a greater good in the present constitution, than would have accrued either from the total privation of it, or from other frames and structures, we may then reasonably conclude, that the present constitution proceeded from an intelligent and good being, that formed it that particular way out of choice.Īs with a man by his own alms impoison'd, The glory which encompassed them covered the place, and darted its rays with so much strength, that the whole fabrick began to melt. Imagine that which you would most deplore,Īnd that which I would speak, is it or more.Ī mind so furnished, what reason has it to acquiesce in its conclusions! How can I speak? or how, sir, can you hear? The time will come, it will, when you shall know Abraham Cowley.īut kindly waits his father's coming home. Tell me, O tell, what kind of thing is wit, Will our great anger learn to stoop so low? Nothing can give that to another which it hath not itself. Samuel Johnson's Dictionary Rate this definition: 0.0 / 0 votesĮtymology: hit, Saxon.
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