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DEDICATION
MRS.
FRANCES SCHULTES.
IF the dedication
to virtue
addressing this
to
and
merit,
I shall be jus-
my
to dis-
manner deserving of
the
disposition untinc-
a2
DEDICATION.
IV
and degrade
endeavoured
to cultivate
But above
all,
you have
a resignation
The experience of
to
same un-
and
I encourage
ted,
I am,
of happiness.
and
may
be transmit-
that virtue
and the
is
to
our
the best
surest founda-
INTRODUCTION
THE
is
so pre-eminent an
illustrated,
it
and
conducive
to the
If
it
rature
lated,
were possible
whereby philological
it
would be easy
to
taste
might be regu-
its
INTRODUCTION.
nion continues to prevail amongst mankind, the
upon
fortuitous events
age, than
may
The
serve to prove.
truth of this
remark
is
so
public approbation
now endeavours
lead
him
medium
to discover
some
to distinction,
and
of novelty, originality,
Some
authors
by an elaborate amplification of
to attract notice
Popula-
by
is
due
to
enabled to
positions
sion to natural
With a view
allu-
to assist
INTRODUCTION.
Vll
re-
of expression which various writers have unconsciously fallen into, or designedly adopted.
classification of the similes
The
found
and form.
first
illustrated follow
them
more
diffusely
And
in succession.
be
will
as
it
first
of
all
names of
the
It
has
in-
unavoidable) to distinguish
prosaic extracts,
the
poetical from
or distinct
many proverbial
authors
who have
sanctioned them
but no similes
INTRODUCTION.
Vlll
of-
fend delicacy.
collection
is
an
presumed
will, in
own
by no means
may be
easily composed,
it
And
grandize a subject.
more mortifying
(as his
own
to
and ag-
creation) that
happy comparison,
which he considers
to
same
be
in-
same
INTRODUCTION.
It
may
deservedly
Where
lie
superinduce the
coincidences
may
there-
two
IX
invention, and
is
Hence a
whereby an author
test
may
discover
Some
an adoption,
desirable.
parisons, similes,
and a
is
remark,
"We studious
endeavour
made
folks like a
It
is
comparison better
scarcely necessary to
to establish a distinction
where
synonymous
the following
to
little
show
or
that
"
As righteousness tendeth
to
life,
so
he that
INTRODUCTION.
X
" pursueth
pursueth
evil,
it
his
to
own
death."
and
strictest
Proverbs.
" Far better
is
to
it
form
"
who
"
The
" which
all
man
of worth, than
likeness of those
" besides
"
affinity
God,
is
who
him
Euripides.
houses surely
" similitudes do
" derstand
is
Koran.
" Similitudes or likenesses are the images or pic" tures of the things to which they are compared,
"
by
e.g.
it
As a
vessel
is
known by
their speech
foolish."
Wifs Commonwealth.
To
it is
requisite that
subject,
INTRODUCTION.
follows
it,
and agreeably
Thus the
"White
pression,
XI
as snow,"
has reference to a
is
ex-
white or
snow
;"
or
it
may be
Now
it
White
as
snow
is
white."
is
may by
this
mode
tained.
It will
lity
and
to express
some
to consider that
subject
itself,
instead of
its
quality
by the
not perceiving
INTRODUCTION.
Xll
by a comparison of a
may some-
times be found
subject itself
"
viz.
may be
Pure
as sanctity,"
where the
considered in an intellectual
or a personification
affinity
ascertained
sion, " It is
the
pure as sanctity
pure
is
;"
agreeably to
Hence a
simile
may perhaps be
defined as a form
proper correlative.
"The
For example,
resemblance
we may
it
is
may be
The
is
which quality or
is
expression,
a proposition,
illustrated
by showing
as white as ivory
white,"
to the colour of
the
its
;"
is
as
thereby
attribute
is
INTRODUCTION.
Xlll
be
illustrated.
The reader
cessary
it is
will
now
perceive
how
essentially ne-
Many
by
their fancy,
to
be blinded
to severe
criticism,
to subsist
attribute
it is
its
to
ought
to operate
The
may be found
in the
works
INTRODUCTION.
XIV
"
Happy
"
As
as a
soft in
wave
bosom of a playing
kitten."
dews of night
distil."
"
A joy
morning
as pure
finds
and
stainless as the
gem
that the
The
"
An
feeling,
it is
who
great latitude
is
INTRODUCTION.
XV
use of hyperboles, where expressions are not inconsistent with the current idiom.
Thus we
say,
snow."
simile
ditation,
is
and
supposed
to
ought not
it
to
be introduced into
An
si-
them
because on
own judgment.
to
The
"
"
It
INTRODUCTION.
XVI
"
artificial fastidiousness,
We
may
which
shall
raise
fill
show
his "
tumour of
to
may be
No
fairly questioned.
unintelligibly
rity,
to write
is
sufficiently co-
be found
or
to excel Tillotson
may
and Robertson
will
in prose 3
The
ex-
INTRODUCTION.
"
pression
White
as
snow"
an example of the
is
"White
"White
u snow"
XVII
as the fanned
as
falling
In the
quality
is
first
is
a sensible object
it
is
in proportion to the
and
of appropriate images,
that
similes possess
their excellence.
Care should be taken that similes be not overloaded, for they often lose their intended effect by
their redundancy.
The
following
may be
beams of the
given as
" Brighter
when
great
forest's heart,
and scare
Some
INTRODUCTION.
XVlll
cellent
tion
models
for
with them.
have sunk
many
into oblivion
of their cotemporaries
amongst
simile, a chaste
furnished
his beautiful
radise
exordium
the Fifth
to
Book of Pa-
Lost.
when
" with her summer's robe she decks the plains, and
Few
si-
An
author
who happens
expressions used
credit
by
spectful
acknowledgment
tions of genius,
composition
induced
by
to
to
is
whenever
no
re-
their aid
is
required in
Homer, yet
this license of
INTRODUCTION.
denied
to
XIX
monk
"
Wherefore
Thing
It
said
by him,
it
to write
it
new
again."
writers,
first
rank
and propriety
recommended
But amongst
all
Luna
upon a dispassionate
who have
sufficiently demonstrate.
be adduced
to
which
men
The
may be
b2
INTRODUCTION.
XX
person, because he
Moses
as an extraordinary-
had conceived a
"God
critics of
said,
it
in this re-
In this instance
we have
page of
first
Homer
in his decline
whose grandeur
still
it
confessedly
is,
of
life,
for
comparing
must yield
to the description
"
He
moon
at the full
bow
as
as a rain-
can possibly
What
INTRODUCTION.
man's
its
been considered as a
himself: hence
" light, and in
we
him
with the
righteousness
fit
XXI
own Creator?
all
medium
"
God
God is
to represent
The
no darkness."
sun, as
among many
nations.
worshipped
Sun
of Righteousness
plicable to Christ.
is
Moloch
under
it
and the
The Saviour
in de-
himself,
Then
" the
is
to
for
he
kingdom
of their Father."
A similar
says,
sun in
passage
"raent;
to righteousness,
"
God
own
right
INTRODUCTION.
XX11
all
princi-
name
that
is
is to
come."
in
this
The same
"
Eye hath
not
" seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the
" heart of man, the things which
God hath
prepared
The circumstance
mind
into
an agreeable
pose of endeavouring
The
to find
some
similitude.
much
the
but as
may be adduced
Revelation
rating in the
mind
to annihilate, de-
following passage
the
om-
in
the
as to
Book
of
as capable of gene-
by
"And
INTRODUCTION.
XX111
and a rainbow
fire.
were
it
And
he set
" his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on
" the earth,
"
and
when he had
" sware by
him
and
And he
" voices.
lifted
up
his
hand
to
heaven, and
and
ever,
who
" and the earth, and the things that therein are,
" and the sea, and the things which are therein,
" that there should be time no longer."
tions
and comparing
it
its
may be
considered as
move
swiftly,
when
it
when
it
By the sun
INTRODUCTION.
XXIV
darkness,
it
showeth his
it
when
it
built
its
it,
by
by the
forth,
it,
and
in-
faculty of distinguish-
" ety
now
" but he
A
the
is
who hath
common
is
miserable."
is
discoverable in
The
declaration of Nathan to
" lives,"
of climax
may be added
instances
widow
the
to
which
cir-
XXV
INTRODUCTION.
Amongst
the
and especially
Eastern nations,
an honourable distinction
tribes,
line of
in-
was con-
hospitably enter-
childless
and be-
ing willing to express his gratitude for the benevolence which he had experienced, he in the spirit of
inspiration predicted the birth of a child,
and
as-
a son.
The
and
it is
rea-
It
(as
he suddenly
fell
On
this distressing
his
mother
for
assistance.
The
Shunamite
INTRODUCTION.
XXVI
life
ing
died.
he
sat
but
on her knees
human
and then
Overwhelmed with
the distracted
affliction,
an agony of speechless
The
grief.
pro-
but Elisha,
her soul
it
is
vexed
from me." At
length recovering the power of utterance, she described her loss in these most impassioned and pa"
thetic interrogations,
Did
desire a son of
dead.
He there
The
prophet's sympathy
my
prayed
to the
and the
laid
spirit
reflecting
Take up thy
mind
will
son."
perceive
how
consideris
height-
be impossible, according
to
And
it
seems
to
INTRODUCTION.
pression, or adopt
or periphrasis,
which could be
to create feelings of
XXV11
so
adapted
well
He
his periods.
sion of
Eve
first
transgres-
"
felt the
fruit,
all
There
is
no passage
mind
is
not
in so powerful a
now
to
writer, that
manner
can
affect the
as this does
and
it
skill or
effect, in
which Milton
flourished.
INTRODUCTION.
XXV111
manner
in like
at the close of
same author
where
scription,
a period
Adam
may be
se-
with Eve.
"
"
Of all
fairest
of creation,
last
and best
whom
excell'd
How
art
thou lost
" Rather
how
"
"
And me
" Certain
my
resolution
is
to die
"
How can I
"
"
"
live
without thee,
how
forgo
my
11
The
"
"
Mine never
It is
link of nature
shall
heart
draw me,
art,
no,
no
flesh
of
I feel
flesh,
be parted
bliss
state
or woe."
assisted
expressed by Ruth to
Naomi
INTRODUCTION.
"
And Ruth
me
Entreat
said,
XXIX
not to leave thee,
and more
my
Where
God.
be buried
also,
if
my
people, and
I die;
the universe,
heavens, and
" words of
"
my
will
speak
and hear,
ear,
ye
earth, the
earth
for the
Lord
The Book
"
By
all
He
in storehouses.
Let
all
the inha-
INTRODUCTION.
XXX
" stood
of
him
he
for
it
it
fast."
Mr. Mason
this
awe
agreeably
to
My soul confides
"
Who
And
calm'd
it
with a glance
it
with silver
The majesty
of
cliffs,
God
dark domain
lifted it to light,
and
is
call'd it Britain."
prophet Habakkuk:
"
"
The
He
And
his
The overflowing
of the water
INTRODUCTION.
XXXI
In his hand
He
all
created things
"
"
And
Thus
said,
bounds,
world
God:
"
The Lord
great in power
is
He hath
his
way
it
dry,
feet.
He
and drieth up
all
the rivers
Lebanon languishes.
hills melt,
" and
Who
who can
all
is
at
burned
that dwell
?"
INTRODUCTION.
XXX11
most celebrated
The power
lines.
of the Deity
"
The
is
eminently illustrated
from Obadiah
is
high
me down
to the
ground
Who
Though
among
bring
it
in his
Tragedy
of Irene:
him
"
my
him above
fury drag
him down
to tortures."
we
occasion-
Mer-
INTRODUCTION.
deities; but
tition
XXX111
compe-
in
Psalms.
"
He bowed
came down,
feet.
And he
rode
upon
" I fell
my
upon
lift
up
my
O my
God,
hands
am ashamed,
face to thee
my
for
our
ini-
" quities are increased over our head, and our tres" pass
is
And what imagery in any production of the human mind can be comparable to the following passage in the Book of Revelation, where the Almighty
is
to the righteous
who had
suffered tribulation
INTRODUCTION.
XXXIV
"
And God
wipe away
shall
tears
all
from their
" eyes."
It is
is
declared
hence
In declamation there
erfully operates
is
felicity.
to the
by way of
anti-
a matchless example.
" Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foun" dation of the earth, and the heavens are the works
and they
shall all
wax
but thou
re-
old as doth a
We
which
but thou
art the
same,
fail."
INTRODUCTION.
and often
XXXV
by a new
excite-
basis of truth,
lasting impressions
on the mind.
vanced,
illus-
may
reader
who
c 2
ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
The Compiler
to various
gentlemen
his
and he should
feel
a con-
mont Library
mind
in Dublin,
who with
a liberality of
afforded the
to enable
him
J.
Adams.
TO.
Barnaby Barnes.
Joseph Addison.
Robert Baron.
Anna
Lodow
Letitia Aikin.
Barry.
Mark Akenside.
Bernard Barton.
Anacreon
J. Beattie.
(translation).
Appollonius
Rhodius
tion).
(transla-
Francis Beaumont.
Joseph Beaumont.
&
Robert Armin.
Beaumont
John Armstrong.
Charles Beckingham.
William Ashburnham.
William Bedloe.
Francis Atterbury.
Aphra Behn.
John
Baillie.
Joanna
Baillie.
Fletcher.
Drawbridgecourt Belchier.
Fettiplace Bellers.
William Balmford.
Richard Bernard.
Samuel Bamford.
Thomas
John Bancroft.
Alexander Bicknell.
Betterton.
John Banks.
Anna
James
Letitia Barbauld.
Bird.
Alexander Barclay.
Richard Blackmore.
Richard Barford.
Martin Bladen.
AUTHORS NAMES, OR
Robert
Hugh
Blair.
Blair.
Amyas Bushe.
Robert Bloomfield.
Charles Butler.
Barton Booth.
Lord Byron.
Frances Boothby.
Thomas Campbell.
John Bowring.
James Campbell.
Henry Boyd.
Thomas Carew.
Harry Carey.
Samuel Boyse.
Lodowick
Carlell
Henry Bradshaw.
James
T. Brerewood.
Anthony Brewer.
Richard Carpenter.
Richard Brome.
William Cartwright.
Carlile.
Alexander Brome.
J.Caulfeild.
Henry Brooke.
James Cawthorn.
Mrs. F. Brooke.
Mrs. Centlivre.
Charlotte Brookes.
George Chapman.
William Broome.
Thomas
Anthony Brown.
W. Churchey.
William Browne.
Charles Churchill.
GeofFry Chaucer.
Chatterton.
Colley Cibber.
Michael Bruce.
Theophilus Cibber.
Buckingham.
Cicero (translation).
Christopher Bullock.
John
General
James Cobb.
J.
Edmund
Burgoyne.
Burke.
Clare.
Aston Cockayne.
Henry Burkhead.
Charles CorTey.
Charles Burnaby.
William Collins.
Charles Burney.
George Colman.
Frances Burney.
Coluthus (translation).
Robert Burns.
William Congreve.
Edward
John Cook.
Burt.
Thomas Cooke.
R. Dodsley.
Dodsley's Collection.
Mrs. Cooper.
Thomas Dogget.
Matthew Coppinger.
John Donne.
John Corye.
Dorset.
Barry Cornwall.
Gawen Douglas.
A.
S. Cottle.
Nathaniel Cotton.
Alexander Dow.
Charles Cotton.
Harriet Downing.
Abraham Cowley.
Nathan Drake.
Mrs. H. Cowley.
The Drama.
William Cowper.
Michael Drayton.
Judith Cowper.
Robert Drury.
David Craufurd.
Richard Crashaw.
George Croly.
Stephen Duck.
John Crown.
Thomas
Richard Cumberland.
Richard Duke.
Samuel Daniel.
Mr. Dunkin.
Sir
William Davenant.
Charles Davenant.
Robert Davenport.
J.
Davies.
William Davies.
Duffett.
Thomas Durfey.
John Dyer.
Edward Ecclestone.
Lawrence Echard.
R. Edwards.
John Day.
Charles A. Elton.
Thomas Dekker.
England's Parnassus.
J.
Delap.
Sir
John Denham.
John Dennis.
Thomas
John
Dilke.
Dillon.
Sir
George Etherege.
Edward
W.
Fairfax.
Falconer.
Harriet Falconer.
Sir Francis Fane.
William Dimond.
Sir
George Farquhar.
Richard Fanshaw.
AUTHORS NAMES, OR
Francis Fawkes.
Elijah Fenton.
Robert Greene.
Nathaniel Field.
S.
Henry
William Habington.
Fielding.
Gunning.
Edward Filmer.
Bp. Hall.
G. Fletcher.
William Hamilton.
Samuel Foote.
Hall Hartson.
John Ford.
William Havard.
Thomas
Peter Hausted.
Forde.
John Fountain.
Stephen Hawes.
Charles Fox.
William Hawkins.
William Hayley.
Philip Francis.
Eliza
Abraham Fraunce.
William Heard.
Thomas
Paul Heffernan.
Franklin.
Haywood.
Philip Frowde.
Mrs. Hemans.
Samuel Garth.
William Hemings.
George Gascoigne.
Robert Herrick.
John Gay.
James Hervey.
Charles Gildon.
T. K. Hervey.
Thomas
Hesiod (translation).
Gisborne.
Henry Glapthorne.
William Hett.
R. Glover.
Jasper Heywood.
Robert Glynn.
Thomas Heywood.
Thomas
John Heywood.
Goff.
Oliver Goldsmith.
Henry Higden.
Robert Gomersal.
Bevil Higgons.
Charles Goring.
Aaron
Robert Gould.
Benjamin Hoadly.
Hill.
John Gower.
Prince Hoare.
James Grainger.
William Hodson.
Bertie Greatheed.
James Hogg.
Matthew Green.
Thomas Hogg.
Thomas
Hoicroft.
Henry
Killigrew.
Henry King.
John Home.
John Kirk.
Barbara Hoole.
Thomas Kyd.
Charles Hopkins.
John Lacy.
Sir
Robert Howard.
L. E. Landon.
James Howard.
Walter
Edward Howard.
John Langhorne.
Gorges
Edmond Howard.
S.
Landor.
Lansdowne.
James Howell.
John Leanerd.
Francis Hoyland.
Mary
John Hughes.
Nathaniel Lee.
Thomas
J.
Hull.
H. L. Hunt.
Thomas
Hurlstone.
Leapor.
Miss Lee.
Charlotte Lennox.
M. G.
Lewis.
Robert Hurst.
John Lidgate.
John
Richard Jago.
George
Soame Jenyns.
Iilly.
Lillo.
Lisle
Robert Jephson.
Robert Lloyd.
Samuel Johnson.
Thomas Lodge.
John Logan.
Charles Johnson.
Edward Lovibond.
Sir
William Jones.
Sir
William Lower.
Henry Jones.
Lusiad (translation).
John Jones.
Lyttelton.
Lewis Machin.
Thomas Jordan.
Charles Macklin.
William Joyner.
Leonard Macnally.
Junius.
J.
George Keate.
Macpherson.
Madan.
Hugh Kelly.
L. Maidwell.
Thomas
Jasper Maine.
Killigrew.
AUTHORS NAMES, OR
David Mallet.
Thomas Moore.
Thomas Morton.
F. Manning.
Peter Motteux.
Christopher Marlowe.
John Mottley.
Shakerly Marmion.
William Mountford.
John Marston.
Arthur Murphy.
Benjamin Martyn.
Thomas Nabbs.
Andrew Marvel.
Henry Neele.
William Mason.
Robert Nevile.
Philip Massenger.
Duke
William Mavor.
Thomas Maurice.
Thomas May.
John
of Newcastle.
Mr. O'Brien.
Ogilvie.
Robert Mead.
John O'Keeffe.
Henry Medwall.
John Oldmixon.
Ossian's
Thomas Meriton.
Thomas Otway.
Poems.
Moses Mendez.
Oxford Sausage.
James Merrick.
William Painter.
Robert Merry.
John Palsgrave.
Thomas
Thomas Middleton.
Anthony Pasquin.
Parnell.
H. H. Milman.
William Paterson.
James
Henry Peacham.
Miller.
John Milton.
George Peele.
Mirandola.
William Penkethman.
Joseph Mitchell.
Thomas
Penrose.
Mary Russell
Ambrose
Philips.
Mitford.
James Montgomery.
Robert Montgomery.
Catherine Philips.
J. Philips.
Sir
Thomas Moore.
William Philips.
Sir
Thomas
Edward Moore.
Matthew
Picke.
Pilkington.
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S.
Christopher
Mr. Rolle.
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Pitt.
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Pix.
Poetical Calendar by
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&
Rolleston.
Richard Rolt.
William Rose.
Woty.
Robert Pollok.
J.
Rogers.
Pomfret.
Nicholas Rowe.
Mrs. Rowe.
Poole's Parnassus.
William Rowley.
Alexander Pope.
Samuel Rowley.
Samuel Pordage.
Joseph Rutter.
Ab. Portal.
M.
Thomas
Sacred Scriptures.
Porter.
Sackville.
Jane Porter.
William Sampson.
Dr. Porteus.
George Sandys.
George Powell.
Richard Savage.
Edmund Prestwich.
Charles Saunders.
Matthew
Prior.
Sir
Walter
Scott.
Francis Quarles.
Thomas
James Ralph.
Scot.
Alan Ramsay.
Amhurst
Thomas Randolph.
Elkanah
Edward Ravenscroft.
George Sewell.
Selden.
Settle.
Thomas Rawlins.
Thomas
Frederick Reynolds.
William Shakespear.
Nathaniel Richards.
Lewis Sharp.
Shadwell.
"William Richardson.
Cuthbert Shaw.
Richard Shiel.
William Roberts.
William Shenstone.
Mary Robinson.
S.
Thomas Shipman.
Edward Sherburne.
James
R. B. Sheridan.
Shirley.
Sheppard.
AUTHORS NAMES, OR
Henry
Lewis Theobald.
Shirley.
William Shirley.
Theocritus (translation).
William Thompson.
John Skelton.
Benjamin Thompson.
Edmund
James Thomson.
Smith.
John Smith.
George Thornley.
Henry Smithers.
Lord Thurlow.
Tobias Smollett.
Thomas
William Somervile.
John
Tickell.
Tillotson.
Thomas Southern.
Robert Southey.
George Townsend.
John Tobin.
Robert South.
Edmund
Spenser.
Tomkis.
John Tracy.
Edward
Stanley.
Joseph Trapp.
Thomas
Stanley.
George Turbervile.
Earl of Sterline.
Cyril Turner.
James
Vathek.
Sterling.
John Vanbrugh.
Sir
M.
Henry Vaughan.
Stevenson.
William Strode.
Lewis Wager.
John
Edmund
Studley.
Waller.
C. C. Sturm.
Isaac Walton.
John Sturmy.
Mr. Walwyn.
Sir
John Suckling.
Henry Earl of
Surrey.
Edward Ward.
Jonathan Swift.
Thomas Ward.
Joshua Sylvester.
Robert Waring.
Tasso (translation).
Thomas Warton.
Nahum Tate.
J.
Warton.
John Tatham.
Isaac Watts.
William Taverner.
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John Taylor.
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Sir
Richard Wilkinson.
William Wycherley.
Robert Wilmot.
Robert Yarrington.
Edward Young.
John Wilson.
Anne Countess
Jane Wiseman.
Thomas Wyatt.
of Winchilsea.
Lawrence Young;
and
certain
FLOWERS OF FANCY,
AB H
ABHOR
air
it
Banks.
Peaps.
Blachmore.
as hell.
ABORTIVE
as the first-born
ABSURD
as
from
South.
as to
hope
Glapthorne.
Byron.
as to en-
H.
Blair.
arithmetic.
ter.
Ibid.
South.
as to
1ABSURDITY
by a lighted
Tillotson.
draw a coward
was the picture of Alexan-
tell
us
it
Dry den.
ADA
Hopkins,
light.
Glapthorne,
Mallet.
ty
as
Miscellany.
celestial
and
wild,
tive,
Dryden
in
others.
fire.
as the roe.
free as
Conception,
as light
is
when
Drayton,
as fire.
Sharp.
jZV.
as
flame.
Ac-
Cotton.
Cawthorn.
ADAPTED
to
it
under-
standing. Akenside.
is
more adorned
her tears
in
ADVERSE
Shakes-
pear.
AGREEABLE
in the
ALERT
ALIKE
as
two
silver
dew
ALLURING
in a
comes
TV.
One
May,
Richardson.
left
by
like a rock
vale. Ibid.
AMBITIOUS
AMOROUS
Fletcher.
rock
like a
sandy
fy
spicy dale.
ALONE
it
water. Dryden.
as
as Cupid. Lyttelton.
pearl of
is
as the distant
as the devil.
Beaumont
$>
Fletcher.
Colman.
as the dove.
as
an Arca-
Merry.
ATT
ANGRY as a tiger.
J. Shirley.
Dames.
as a wasp. Gascoigne, J.
as a pismire. Chaucer.
Ha-
as a viper.
rington.
ANSWER
him
ANXIOUS
an echo. Jonson.
like
as a
APPARENT
wan
as the sun
APPREHENSIVE.
sive as lightning,
is
first faint
tinge of health
cheek. Landon.
Sylvester.
clear.
She hath a
and as swift
spirit
in execution.
APT
as
new
ARDENT
fallen
Shakespear.
dint.
Phaeton. Marston.
ARROGANT
ARTLESS
Masque, 1660.
as unpractised infancy.
Dryden's Troilus.
as the
ASPIRING
as
Higgons' dedication
fire.
ASTONISHED
as a
as he
one
who unawares,
in
to
Cowley.
England's Parnassus.
way.
Dry den.
as
Hoole's Ariosto.
Spenser.
as
R. Hurst.
ATTRACT
More
like a
magnet.
Tate.
R. Wilkinson.
Whose
as-
A U
all
As opening huds
R. Greene's Arcadia.
M.
AUSTERE as
Cato. R.
AWFUL
as a
Dry den.
attract
Robinson.
God who
as the
flings
as lightnings
Watts.
shine.
AZURE
Mickles Lusiad.
as the skies.
B.
JjALD
R. Brome.
as time.
BALMY
as the
Glapthorne.
BANEFUL
dew which
Marmion.
as a looking-glass,
the
morn sheds on
N.Rowe.
as death.
W. H.
Ireland.
BARBAROUS
Charles Hopkins, in
Dry-
den's Miscellany.
BARE
as winter. Burns.
Marston.
as
as
my nail.
as January.
new-born Venus
rising
Armin.
Tillotson.
desert sand.
South.
BASE
as
banks of Libya.
as leafless
boughs
as the
my
feet.
by
C. Hopkins.
BASHFUL
BASELESS
Cibber.
Play, Forgery.
as treason.
Watts.
as an anatomy.
sea.
to like.
from the
N.
Cotton.
BE A
BEAR
Bear
Watts.
it
with
BEAUTEOUS
Thomas Baker.
as a goddess.
Behn, Sothehy.
Suckling.
as lovers' eyes.
Venus when
an
as
G. P. Bromley.
fost'ring
Graces
angel.
as
rear'd.
And incense
in
to the present
goddess blaz'd.
summer
glittering
sun.
beams
Chatterton.
as the sunny
play.
the tribes, as
when on
Chatterton.
when
beam, which
Poetical Calendar.
is
he among
Quarles.
Falconer.
ing morn.
as the
than
Otway.
She
the
is
as the
morn in May.
J. Hewitt.
as
May.
tainment.
all
James Templeton.
Sotheby's Oberon.
as the spring,
lifts,
The
genial globe.
T. Warton.
its
as the
vernal hour.
B E A
Taliesin's
Poem.
new blown
as a rose.
as the
hyacinth. Baron.
BEAUTIFUL
as the day.
sun.
0. S. Wandesford.
sea.
Giacomo Greber.
others.
More
the rising
is
Script.
as a
in the pleasing
Different Widoivs.
than
riseth.
Ibid.
Durfey,
T. Heywood.
the sun.
sun
/. Shirley,
Wisdom of Solomon.
fy
as
More beau-
Azov,
Wandesford.
as the stars.
Beautiful
Holyday.
More
fall.
Marlowe.
as the
beautiful than
moon.
is
S. Rousseau's
when
first
heaven.
as
Bruce.
Landon.
shows
May. Ibid.
she comes arrayed
eve. Landon.
its
as
all
May
as light descending
as heaven.
Day.
like the
on the darkened
sight.
is
it
bright.
Ossian.
Beautiful and bright as the full moon. Dryden.as
Venus. R. Greene, Centlivre, fy others. More beautiful than
love's queen.
C. Johnson.
Fenton.
R. Greene.
than
as an angel.
orient pearls
and rubies
are.
fy others.
Beautiful and
Sir P. Sidney.
More
or glist'ring hyacinth.
as martyrs'
visions.
BL A
blossoms of spring. /. Hervey.
as a rose newly blown.
as
is
Montgomery.
Higden, R. Wilkinson.
silver.
Sacred Script.
as the flower
as the
wings
in
it
like her.
P. Francis.
BEGUILE
BELLOW
ty others.
BELOVED
as
Broome.
a cow. E. Ward.
-like
much
Preston's notes
on App. Rhodius.
BEND
ing
like lilies
overcharged with
charged with
lily
beauteous maid
rain.
Carew.
Bend
falling rain.
rain.
Poetical Calendar.
like the
like roses
like a
droop-
Behold that
lily
charged
crushed with
Ossian.
its
BEYOND.
astonishment
BITE
as
is
like pepper.
BITTER
to
me
Gay.
as death.
wormwood.
W.
as night.
Scott*
Fairfax.
Gascoigne, R. Greene,
BLACK
Shakespear.
She esteemed
fy others.
Ibid.
as gall.
8$ others.
J. Jones,
Goff, ty others.
as darkest midnight.
as pitchy night.
R.
Spenser.
as midnight.
Shiel.
as a
Sir
as darkest night.
BLA
den.
Chatterton.
unchanging
Greene, Shakespear,
Shakespear,
A. Cowley.
less night.
shades.
as eternal night's
as night's
Sicily
ples, or
as
as
Lilly.
fy
Fletcher.
as hell.
as
as
death.
fy
as the
as
ton, J.
the
as
hell.
night.
as
that low'r.
Look black
Collection.
as guilt.
Sin, black as
murder.
Davenant,
others.
pear.
fy
as if
Dekker.
A.
Hill.
Garrick, in Dodsleifs
as sin can
Harington, Sir W.
besmeared
coal.
Chaucer, Lidgate,
Shakes-
in hell. Ibid.
as thunder.
as soot.
as
Tale of
P. Pin-
it
dar.
J.
hell.
sullen as
as
He
others.
as
ty others.
SacJcville,
fy
others.
Lidgate, Spenser,
as pitch.
as
fy
E.
chimney
or polished
ebony. Shakespear.
Harington.
the smooth
or
back. Gay.
a raven. Sacred
glossy
T.
wing. G.
Killigrew,
wing of
night raven.
as
plumes. T. Heywood, Pope,
the
raven
a crow.
Chaucer, Shakespear,
plumage. Landon.
of a crow.
Chaucer.
the
a
autumn
Chaucer, Durfey,
Drayton.
Barclay, Spenser,
a berry. Chaucer.
Chaucer, Gower,
a mourning weed. A.
W.
tongue of
Seward.
Ward.
like
others.
as
jet.
others.
as jet.
as
J. Phillips.
as pitch
jet.
as
raven's
jet,
as
8$ others.
Script.,
as the raven's
as the
others.
stocks.
as
Peele, Prior,
the
fy
raven's
fy
others.
as
as
as
others.
feathers
8?
as
as sable.
fy
as funeral pall.
J.
fy others.
others.
Sir
sloe.
sloe.
as ink.
as
famy.
as
others.
as
Scott.
as the
in-
Cumberland.
BLI
Blacker than a Moor. A. Cowley. Play, Intriguing Widow.
N.
BLAND. An
odour
all
Her
soul
BLAST
when
Sounds, as bland
first
like lightning.
and consume
C. Davenant.
like lightning.
BLAZE
ture.
fierce as
Denham.
Quarles.
magnitude.
first
Smith.
a comet. Milton.
Blazing as a meteor.
burn
sudden as
like a basilisk,
S. Rousseau's
of the
like a star
it
Blaze
Centlivre.
others.
Whitaker.
fy
Blast,
Blast
Shakespear,
Lee.
like roving
/.
meteors.
W,
Thompson.
Habington.
Lillo.
8$
as fortune.
as Cupid.
Fletcher, Sylvester,
others.
Blind and
BLITHE
fy
Dryden.
as upstart great-
Sir
Mead, T. Killigrew,
as love.
mont
fy
others
others.
as moles.
Beau-
A. Maclaren. as
Chapman, Sir TV. Davenant,
Dryden. as a stone. Chaucer.
as bats, Sylvester,
as a beetle.
as the Cyclop.
Sir
W. Davenant.
as the sun.
B. Hoole.
Grainger.
as
BLO
morn of May.
kin on a
lambs on the
on the
as birds
Dry den's
tree.
light.
Sing as blithe as
Miscellany.
thrushes. L. Macnally.
wood.
Hogg.
J.
lea.
like
like
W.
Sir
the desert's
Somervile.
Her cheeks
like roses
bloom.
James
Scott.
She bloomed
Jones.
Banks.
lily.
Shenstone.
Bloom
May. H. Carey.
lovely as spring.
Po-
etical Calendar.
Glover.
others.
ty
Maia.
as the
as the
as a goddess. Pope.
BLOSSOM
merous
dawn. T. Moore.
-as
summer
like the
Southey.
sky
night.
Landon.
as the skies.
in April.
Sir
its
Who
is
afraid.
W.
Jones.
Blow
Shakespear.
air.
South.
Fawkes.
Smollett.
like a tempest.
Poole's Parnassus.
as health.
BLOW like
BLUE
N. Drake.
as
of Isle of Palms. Eye, blue as heaven. Byron.
Randolph. as sapphire. Sir P. Sidney, in England's
son, author
Parnassus, Vathek.
welkin. Marston.
azure.
as a bilberry. Poetical
as steel.
R. Wilkinson.
morn. Congreve.
B. Sheridan.
like the
fy others.
perfumed morn. R.
in blushes shine.
Sir
OI
morning sun
May.
to rise.
Blush as
if
Randolph.
Blush like a
R. Greene.
Sir P. Sidney.
Aurora.
like
Byron.
fair
morning
C. Johnson.
Durfey,
in
H. Neele.
Her cheeks
dyed in scarBlush as
A. Cowley.
The Forced Marriage, in Foote's Comic The-
modesty. Shakespear.
are deeper
let
deep as crimson.
atre.
herself.
Beaumont
fy
Blushing
Fletcher.
Turbervile.
nant
8$
others.
like a
Blush
blown
Sir
W.
when
the
fair like
rose.
Scott.
bride
Collins.
beam of
Blush red
Blush
bud in a
W. Dave-
like a rose
like a rose.
Beaumont
fy
Sir
Fletcher.
like
Penrose.
soft blushes
blush.
Blush
BLUSTER
fairs.
summer
rose.
Centlivre,
/. Stagg.
BOL
BOLD
Agrippa.
Ward,
8$ others.
as lions
BOTTOMLESS
Shirley.
as
BOUND like
fawn. Ibid.
B. Jonson, Taylor,
as a
mountain
W.
Scott.
roe. J. Wil-
like a sportive
Bound
as
fast,
Shakespear.
fire.
like a
H.
others.
as space. Byron.
Otway, Swift.
Bounding along
to Caucasus.
as
as elemental
as a ravenous
hell.
BOUNDLESS
blooms of spring.
Akenside.
G. S. Green.
as the air.
C. Johnson.
BOUNTEOUS as nature.
a doe. J. Caulfeild.
Prometheus
son,
as ambition.
Drijden.
others
fy
as the wind.
as thought,
Savage.
as the air.
BOUNTIFUL
Cowper.
J. Shirley.
BOW
down
head
as autumn.
as
April rains.
his
like the
BRAVE
Shakespear.
W.
bosom.
head
as a bulrush.
drooping
lily.
as Alcides. Smith.
Sacred Script.
Bowed
her
Jane West.
as Hercules. Durfey.
as Philip's
as Caesar. Ramsay,
son. Play, The Three Lords of London.
W. O Brien. as a lion. Cobb, Sheridan, 8$ others. as the
l
RI
ing.
like day.
Break out
Goff, Shirley.
like
BREATHE
soft as a
Neglected Virtue.
breathe
it
Marty n.
Breathe
Breathe as short
as a
golden
Poem,
Aurelia.
a new born
R. Montgomery.
summer
Dryden's Miscellany. more bright than summer
Randolph,
summer's
Pope.
of
sun
morning
golden
Old Ballad
R.
Henry
N. Rowe,
sun when
on
shore he
and decks
day.
Saunders.
sun amid
golden
R.
glory of
dazzling
Wandesford.
Death of Abel, an
Phoebus. Lidgate,
Wyatt. Brighter than PhoePeacham.
Phoebus'
T. Forde. than Phoebus'
bus
southern
W. BalmR.
than Phoebus
Phoebus when
Alexford. than
than the god of day. Durfey.
ander Earl of
R. Greene. than
Phoebeams of
than
BRIGHT
Chaucer, Gower,
as the sun.
Cumberland.
sun.
fy
others.
as the
in cloudless skies.
as the
sun.
as
sun.
suns. Somervile.
the
as the
Shiel.
Catherine,
sun.
rises fresh
as the
as the
the
the infant
the
orient.
Shiel.
as the glorious
sun.
sun.
others.
as the first
fy others.
the eastern
C.
8$
as the rising
day.
in
sun.
fy
South,
as the rising
oratorio.
as
sphere.
as
rays.
in the
Wilkinson.
skies.
glist'ring
Sterline.
the sun.
the
beams when
bus'
Dancer.
light
glittering
noon.
ah August noon.
Ossian.
the noon day's
<J others.
at his rise
as the
as noon day.
beam of noon.
beam. Mallet.
M.
others.
Clancy,
fy
as the
N. Lee.
as
Sylvester, Watts,
as
as
Landon.
stainless
to himself,
BRI
Bright and clear as the noon
Heywood.
Tasso.
as the noon-tide
Doyne's
Made
the place
at twelve o'clock at
noon. Lidgate.
Gildon,
Carey,
fy
Cawthom.
as mid-day sunshine.
beholders.
as Hyperion's
which dazzles
The Phoe-
beams.
nician Damsels, in
Bright
Centlivre.
Brightly
others.
as a sun-beam.
the star of
than
all
R.
Phoebus' rays.
when he with
Wilkinson.
than
Phoebus' rays
as
beams.
as meridian
Ramsay.
sun-shine.
summer when no
Brighter than
than
Follies.
car.
as
as
8$
the
rays.
S.
setting sun.
Fletcher,
as the
Betterton.
as
car.
you,
fy
others.
as
that
Swift,
to-
as
as
as orient
light.
east.
orient
as
as
others.
fir-
as the
ray. Scott
? others.
as
as
RI
M.
Bruce.
E.
Settle.
Goring.
sweetness. O'Keeffe.
as the
the
as
welcome
morn which
as the gale
morn when
gives the
which wafts
their
air,
Dodsley's Collection.
with dappled
Duke of Guise.
Play,
fires.
as
morn. Southern.
Lusiad.
serenely bright
like
morn. Mickles
on the morn. Jane West.
Bright and beauteous as Aurora's ray, when from the east she
gilds the
new born
day.
bed. C.
than
H. Johnson.
Ossian.
Calendar,
as
Shiel.
R.
Bright as
first
morn
A. Seward.
than
in the sweet
morn. N. Lee.
May.
than
the
when mounted on
in the
he triumphs
morning
when on
skies.
Edinburgh
Bright
Collection.
and
morn
BRI
May
Calendar.
Chaucer, Spenser,
as
fy others.
R. Bloomfield.
as
as
as
as the orient
eye.
as
orient
as
mid-day. A. Marvel.
Bright and
thorn.
beam of
Shine
by
E. Ward. Bright seems the season as
the new born spring when every flower puts forth its freshest
fragrance, and infant nature breathes her sweets around.
aw*ful as the
day, or
moon by
W. Hawkins.
Waller.
as
day. Pye.
night.
as heaven.
is
Landon.
Miscellany.
firmament. Sylvester.
Taming of a
as the
as high heaven.
as unclouded skies.
skies.
den's
Play,
Otway, Ogilvie.
sum-
Shrew.
mer
as bright as sun
resistless
as celestial light.
W.
light.
Earl of
Bright and
Hodson.
South.
Hughes.
as lightning.
Whose
Lloyd.
Dry-
Brighter than
Orrery.
C. Hopkins, in
summer. Goldsmith.
A. L. Aikin. Bright as
as the
as
As
bright, as
Brighter
Sir
Scott.
when
reflecting light.
Ossian.
8f
when
Congreve.
Bright
comes
Doyne's Tasso.
light. C.
Broome.
More
first
created
others. as the
as the
moon
lamp of
night.
Pope.
as the silver
moon. Play,
Pinder of Wakefield.
as silver Phoebe mounted on the high
top of the ruddy element. R. Greene.
Bright as shines the
silver
transparent
B R
Se-
spear.
Bright
as Cynthia's
beam
as the moon on
as the moon in autumn. Ossian.
of Fingal.
as the moon's
the western wave. Fragments ofAncient Poetry.
Chaucer, J. Shirley,
as a star.
tumnal
star.
8$
E. Young.
Blackmore.
not brighter
by night the milky way. Poems
leads the day.
Bright
the
the evening
of evening. Akenside.
A. Seward.
the morning
Play, Fickle Shepherdess. T. Killigrew.
Spenser, Dekker,
the of morn. Pollok.
the
leads the vernal morn. A. Seward.
twinkling
Spenser.
Hughes.
shines
on State Affairs.
as
as
as the star
as
star.
star.
others.
fy
as
star
like
star that
as
stars.
as Sirius rising
gundy.
close of day.
Preston's
More
App. Rhodius.
Duke of
in a frosty night.
Newcastle.
bright than
is
Dryden.
G. Townsend.
than
all
glittering train of
nymphs
that wait
Home.
than
all
the
or
hills,
mion.
A. Brewer,
tering sphere.
than
J. Leanerd, fy others.
Shakespear.
N. Rowe.
train of stars.
those
Mar-
as
as Love's star
B RI
Jonson.
wears of fixed
pomp
as the
Bright mid
Hughes.
skies.
mil-
led,
T. Heywood.
G. Peele, Fanshaw.
Lidgate,
mand, when
/. Dillon.
a frosty night.
as
Eoan
fire.
Israel
Pollok.
May
tiful as
to
as
God's
blaze.
W.
Jones.
as drops of
May
bow
that
dew
appearance of the
Sacred Script.
as the
nant-insuring bow.
storm. Campbell.
Iris
C. Burney.
day.
Buckingham.
spring.
than
Herrick.
Buckingham.
Sir
at
com-
Campbell.
desert.
teor.
as fire.
Israel
Play, Untrussing
morning.
is
Sir
W.
Scott.
bow of heaven.
W. Cowper.
Ossian.
as the
bow
fy
as the
rain.
as the cove-
day of
Fletcher.
Brighter
Bright and
moving many-colour'd
light.
sea.
Southey.
J. Wilson, author
of
of Palms. as innocence. /. Day. as the hue of healthy
innocence. G. Sewell.
as truth. Mallet. Play, Major Andre.
Isle
as virtue.
Byron.
South, E. Moore.
Form,
BRI
eye.
mion.
by
all
as a goddess. J.
made
as
Pandora,
Banks, Dryden.
first
man.
as a
Paris. Herrick,
so bright.
fy
Gower,
Gurtoris Needle.
ty others.
Brighter than
whele's Theocritus.
Bright as any
Harington.
brass. Fielding.
No gold
others.
as a
gemmed
silver.
Gammer
Play,
as polished silver.
Sir
tiara.
W.
Pol-
Bright as
Lidgate.
steel.
Jones.
as dia-
Dryden,
8$ others.
than
is
as flowers of
bloom of May.
G. Keate.
More
as a ruby. S. Foote.
lily.
of Palms.
sanguine bright
Brighter
Brighter
Marlowe.
as the
as the
The Shamrock, a
Collection of Poems.
Gower,
fy others.
as beryl. Ancient.
Shakespear.
as crystal.
Chaucer, Gascoigne,
as glass.
as butterflies. Byron.
/. Wilson, author
as the dew.
of
H. Carey.
Chapman.
/. Dillon.
as dew upon the hill.
dew-drop on the brow of morn. A. Seward. Tears,
bright and pure as the dew of morning. Reine Canziani.
as the
dewy lawn.
as the
W. Jones,
C2
fy
others.
Brighter than
B R
mountain snows at noon.
snow. M.R.Mitford.
Southey.
BRIGHTEN
like the
clouds away.
Young.
Brighten in her
when
moon
Ossian.
of heaven when the clouds vanish away and leave her calm and
broad
in the
BRILLIANT
as
star.
CawtJwrn.
the sun.
as
a
Townsend.
Rokeby.
John Hanway.
as diamonds.
Sir
own
W.
Scott.
Lord
the morn.
like
as the
morning
star.
G.
when
as rain drops
Montgomery.
BRISK
as Cupid.
Lyttelton
as a dancing-master. Durfey.
Durfey.
BRITTLE
BROAD
as day-light. South.
Amazonian
A. Fraunce.
as
ler.
Chaucer, Shakespear,
as glass.
targe. Milton.
in his
as the sea.
the
Glapthorne.
barn
Montgomery
sea.
as
Sacred Script.
as
as hell. /.
Banks.
wake
at ran-
as a berry.
Chau-
dom. Sir
TV. Scott.
own dimensions
doors. /. Heywood.
BROKEN
An
as a warrior's shield.
deluge. Mirandola.
Broad
others.
fy
G. Douglas,
fy others.
Shakespear.
fire.
Gay.
BUD
AL
growing by the brook of the field. EccleBudding like the purple May. Lord Thurlow.
forth as a rose
siasticus.
BURIED
W.
Scott.
BURN
as a flame of
Wyatt,
8$ others.
fire.
of
like
Sylvester.
fire.
fire.
More
Lidgate,
fiercely
fire.
spear.
Sacred Script.
Burn
Etna. G. Powell.
clear
and constant
of
BURST
like lightning
like lightning from a cloud. R. Southey.
from an angry cloud. Play, The Revolution. Impatiently they
and labour
BUSY
fy others.
as the industrious
BUXOM
BUZZ
as the day.
about like
flies.
R. Bloomfield.
Dry den.
C.
CACKLE
CALM as
Cooke.
know no
like a hen.
peace.
Gower.
Motteux, Blackmore,
as contentment.
Charles Fox.
fy others.
as the flood
Dryden.
as
when
as the
warmth upon
T.
ocean
the gentle
as ease.
Haywood,
when on
the unruffled
as sleep. Marston,
AL
C
Massinger.
summer
as
when
seas
wind
as the
when
sea,
still
waters
Pix.
flies o'er
Ajax,
when Amphitrite
Calmly as
laid.
is
N.
Ossian.
as a standing lake.
as infants
infants sleep.
Lee.
C. Johnson.
as
Byron.
innocence.
as innocence in sleep.
Shakespear.
breast.
fant.
wind
infant.
grows calm
summer seas
P. Pindar. Calm
like
George Graham.
smiles.
G. G. Douvilly.
o'er,
in
that smile to
when
surface.
its
lightnings cease
as ocean's stream
tie
as
as the sleep-
He
F. North.
again.
Serene, calm
Addison.
when
summer
John Clare.-
to roll.
Breast, calm
as
as forgiven saints
as a rocked in-
as sleeping innocence.
J.Montgomery.
as virtue.
Sir
W.
Ibid.
Watts.
as day's
ings be.
most gentle
close.
J.
Bernard Barton.
Scott of Amwell.
to feel a sun.
pers. Sir
hushed
W. Davenant.
air.
/. JYilson,
ern groves.
as
the
is
Dry den.
as the breath
Calm and
spicy
balmy sweets.
/. Harris.
all
CH A
cool wind that breathes
spring.
/. Shirley.
western winds.
the
as
fields
of heaven. Campbell.
Calm and
silent as the
Mirandola.
the
wounded
Calm
care. Otway.
is all
as the
Broome, C. Johnson.
as death.
shades of death. B.
Griffin.
hand
as despair.
Calmly as
Congreve.
as a discharged culverin.
the
Behn.-^-as
Words-
worth.
CAPACIOUS.
Flames,
capacious
as
all
W.
extent.
hell's
Shirley.
CAPRICIOUS
ing wind.
CAREFUL
M.
as a spoiled child.
Cumberland.
as the waver-
Robinson.
as a guilty conscience.
Cibber.
CARELESSLY.
dies.
Byron.
E.
Ward.
CAUTIOUS
as age. Play,
as a weather-
W.
Scott.
A.
CHANGEABLE
Hill.
like a
as the wind.
Baillie.
E. Irving.
as a
March
Dryden.
dream. Sir W.
Centlivre,
An
James Ralph.
Change as
ty
is less
More changeable
others.
as
changeable
than Proteus.
as
Scott.
Dryden,
April day
day. Sir
fy
CH A
CHANGEFUL
air.
Mrs. Brooke.
Pope.
as
as the
CERTAIN
pater,
nassus.
Old Plays, Spanish Gipsey, Herod % Antiunchanged edicts of Fate. Poole's Par-
as fate.
Sf others.
as the
as cold engendereth
Chaucer.
hail.
CHAFE
CHARILY.
Beaumont
fy
Fletcher.
like a
Smollett.
CHARMING
Maidens Tragedy.
as a cherubin. Durfey.
seau's Flowers
Charming
Dryden's Miscellany.
Theriad.
rays in
summer
bee. Pope.
skies. Fielding.
Venus
rising
Charming
as sunshine to the
from the
sea.
Charming
T. Hurlstone.
as
Scrijit.,
Sylvester.
CHASTE
spear,
seda.
as truth.
8$ others.
G. E. Howard.
H.
as Diana.
Stevenson.
as a
Greene, Shake-
woods. C. Johnson.
Jane Wiseman.
Davenant.
more
cold,
as
rites.
she.
Sir
Centlivre.
No
was
W.
I
CH A
Chaste as when she
as is the new-born virgin. Play, Queen.
was new born. Garrick. like infants. Mrs. S. Gunning. as
unborn infants. Play, Hector of Germany. as babes new
born. R. Bourne.
As chaste from any sinful act, as when we
were first mantled after birth. J. Shirley. Chaste as the first
as infant dreams. C.
voice of a new-born infant. Marston.
Johnson.
a nun. E. Ward.
G. G. Douvilly.
Bp. Hall.
D. Craufurd.
gious nun.
nun.
as
as a reli-
as the
Gay.
cretia.
E. Smith.
as Camilla.
Sir
W. Da-
Marmion. as Jove's
as
as the moon. T. Heywood.
wise child. Moses Mendez.
the white moon. Marlowe.
as the silver white beams of the
moon. J. G. Cooper. More chaste and fair than is the queen of
than the queen of night.
shades. Play, Edward the Third.
venant.
Poetical Miscellany.
M. Pilkington.
as Cynthia's
beams.
as cold
as light.
Poole's Parnassus.
Chaste as the
air.
or morning's
womb
Rowley.
Young.
as the dew-drop.
day
G. Walker.
forth.
as
Middleton,
fy
morning dew. E.
morning dew, she
CH A
sparkled, was exhaled, and went to heaven.
dew
sweet morning
Randolph.
as the
bosom. W. Chamberlaine.
nassus.
rose ere
=
as
bud ere
the
is
be blown. Shahespear.
it
be blown. Miller.
it
as flowers in bud.
mines of
rose, the
as the
maiden blossoms of a
unsullied
lily.
The
Rawlins.
opening
first
as untouched
the
Centlivre.
lilies,
Poole's Parnassus.
rose.
or untouched buds.
Dryden's Miscellany.
lilies.
is
crystal,
as
C. Johnson.
The unblown
as the
Ibid.
as the
/.
Corye.
lily
clad in
summer
fragrance.
fy
Fletcher.
as that plant
which scarce
suffers to
be touched. C. Turner.
Habington.
Shahespear, Beaumont
8$
as winter.
that's
Fletcher,
N.
others.
fy
Lee.
Chaste
as ice.
as the icicle
Shahespear. as
Dian's temple.
More
as winter's night.
icicles.
Chaste
conShahespear. mountain
secrated
snow
fy others.
as the
as
Spenser.
N.
Lee.
hills.
as trembling snow,
J. Shirley.
whose
as the white
fleeces
down of
as falling snows.
Dryden.
as maids' sighs.
Gildon.
as
as spirits' joys.
holy love.
Mrs. S.
CHE
Gunning.-
as
Randolph.
Parnassus.
emerald.
the
as
Poolers Parnassus.
camphire. Beaumont
Pix.
first
than
W.
an
C. Shaw.
parrot.
ape.
Play, Prodigal,
as dust.
Chapman.
dawn of
More
light.
C. Johnson.
as a cracked
G. Soane.
the Third.
Collection.
Jcington.
Sir
la mode.
Shakespear.
Edward
jay. FawJces.
J. Baillie.
Marriage a
of
WiU
Fletcher.
fy
like
Play,
as the eyes
as
C. Johnson.
cliffs.
a pye. Johnson. a
a magpie. Burgoyne,
CHEAP as lies.
as crystal. J. Shirley.
on the Scythian
CHATTER like
or
Durfey, R.
as the phcenix.
Davenant.
stal
turtles. Poole's
kinson.
when
sisters' love,
Gildon.
kiss.
A.
Ibid.
M.
Pil-
Cheering as
Bichnell.
of Isle of
Palms.
CHEERFUL
as the day.
W. Cowper,
Hughes,
after
J. G. Cooper,
as the lively
Sir
May
morn.
W. Davenant.
as
/.
others.
Armstrong.
dawning light.
May. Words-
worth.
that
CHE
spring of life, when every note was as the mounting lark's,
merry and cheerful to salute the morn. Southern. Cheerfully as
the soaring lark wakes the gay morn. Settle.
More cheerful
Her
May. M. Leapor.
mulus
fy
Byron.
CHERISH
CHILL
Hersilia.
M.
lays.
Bruce.
as
her like
warm
in their success.
as
Ro-
as the linnet's
Sir
W. Davenant.
Dennis.
J.
life.
as children climb
as victors
CHOLERIC
CHURLISH
by a
blast.
Dryden.
fire-side.
T. Morton.
as a bear.
Shakespear.
as
a hog. Jonson.
</.
as nestling
like ivy.
earth.
Otway.
like the
damps of mid-
W. Thompson.
night sepulchres.
CLASP
Shakespear.
Montgomery.
As
Donne.
elm. Pamell.
was the
as
sun's
summer
new face
suns.
brightest sunshine.
man,
fy
others.
his meridian.
W. Thompson.
G. S. Green.
I will
make
T. Dibdin.
it
Centlivre.
Truth, clear
as
as day. Shakespear,
as clear to
Mercurius Britannicus.
as
Tillotson,
Tillotson.
as the
CLE
noon-day sun. Miscellany of Poems by J. Husbands, J. Baillie.
as the sun at noon. Poetical Calendar, J. H. Stevenson.
Jonson, Middleton,
light.
light.
others.
noon-tide heavens.
and pure
Clear
fy others.
heaven's
as
'.
as unpolluted light.
R. Barford.
Daniel.
Look
clear
noon-day
light.
G. E. Howard.
and fresh
Aurora, when
a glorious day. S.
morning. Jonson.
as the
as
make
as
Earl
W. Melmoth.
when
heaven.
the
as
heaven's unclouded brow. Henry Vaughan.
the cloudless
heavens. JohnBowring.
Recreationfor ingenious Head summer evenings. Duchess of Newcastle.
ing heaven.
/. Harris.
crystal
as
Ibid.
as
as air.
pieces.
as
as stars.
Donne.
Seen as clear as
is
cence of infants.
R. Bernard.
as truth. Play,
Don
H. Vaughan,
as crystal
crystal.
the babe
new
<J
glass.
others.
fy
Clear as harmless
Chess.
as justice.
clear as
Shakespear.
M.
Beaumont
She looks as
John.
G. Lewis.
Savage.
morning
Clear as rain-
as glass.
Ha-
as shining glass.
Spenser, J.
as
is
as innocence.
as chastity. Ibid.
son.
8$ others.
Game of
Play,
innocence. C. Turner.
rington,
horned bow.
as great Delia's
he accuseth me.
roses newly
Clear (guiltless) as
Dryden.
Chapman.
Day.
as a mirror. Grainger.
ty others.
as crystal
CLI
as rock
stone. Spenser.
ment.
stal.
crystal.
John Hanway.
as springs.
as a brook,
W.
Jones.
whose
N.
as spot-
Field.
as
as gravel brook.
Duchess of Newcastle.
clear
and smooth as
as founts in July.
Shakespear.
Run
Cowley.
Philips.
than
J. Wilson.
less crystal.
Lilly.
M.
Pilkington.
Fletcher.
Clearer than
ice,
am
More clear
than
fetched
F. Beaumont.
as air.
CLING like
CLOSE
Brow,
as your
own
thoughts.
Rawlins.
prodigal. /. Kirk.
the bone.
cedonian phalanx.
others.
cockle.
as
T. Heywood.
as a confessor.
Swift.
Jonson, Beaumont
Southern.
as oak.
as
beggary to a
Congreve.
as the
fast,
The
fy
Ma-
Shakespear, Murphy,
Fletcher,
fy
others.
as
fy
as a
shells
Stick as
and
close,
secret
is
silent,
as
as close to
him
as
Lie as close as a
man
in a proclamation.
Keep
close together as
clear.
Lock them
Sing as skylark
shadow
to substance.
Sir
Southern.
Murphy.
W. Scott.
Lie close
COL
as sleeping serpents. Sir F. Fane.
like ivy to the noblest plants, Ibid.
Ibid.
coffers.
close,
as
as an old miser's
streams. J. Smith.
CLOUDED like
COILED
COLD
boa
like a
in the
wood. Byron.
chilly day-break.
Shiel.
others.
fy
wintry
Pix.
C.
frost.
Cold and
H. Milman.
bervile,
as a
/. Shirley.
Colder than an
as the icicle
a rock of
ice.
J.
icicle.
Cold as northern
winter. Gildon.
icicles.
Field.
Suckling,
crystal.
Durfey.
as
December. H.
as ice.
ice,
Tur-
which the
Poole's Parnassus.
Landon.
stone.
Cold as any
8$ others.
frost.
W.
Scott.
as snow.
as a
Beaumont
8$
-as falling
as nipping
on carved
N.
Cold as mountain
fy others.
Colder
Harington,
as winter's
Cold as winter's
Carew, Pope.
as winter snows.
Marsh.
snow. Rawlins.
as winter blasts.
Poole's Parnassus.
snow. Dryden.
As
the blast
Crown, Centlivre.
Beaumont
fy
Fletcher.
COL
Cold as the proud tops of those
whose heads are wrapt in everlasting snow,
hills,
roll o'er
snow on tallest
dissolved. Chapman.
as
hills.
frozen zone.
Fletcher.
region of the
Poole
Parnassus.
Northern
Marmion.
air.
Langhorne.
breast.
J.
Vanbrugh.
Fletcher.
as the
Beaumont
as
8$
the middle
water.
frozen
its
as the
as the
8$
Oldmixon.
as old Saturn.
star.
Stygian
as
Beaumont
is.
as the
T. Morton.
as an ice-house.
bosom
the Northern
is
ma-
the stone
A.Seward.
Mother Shipton. E. Young, fy
as the bed of death.
the hand of death. Dryden.
Glapthome.
distils.
others.
as
Otway.
dew of death. N.
as the
Cold as
Ibid.
when Merit
Duke of
Guise.
L.
Quarles,
charity.
Lee.
begs.
E chard.
Otway.
Appear
as age.
as a frown.
as
Settle,
as
chastest vestal.
Ibid.
Cold as a
others.
well.
R. Hurst.
Chaucer.
as a stone.
pale.
others.
as the
C. Lennox.
Chaucer, Lidgate,
8$
W. Davenant as marble.
Than marble more cold and
more
icy brook.
8$ others.
as
stone.
as
as
Settle.
crystal.
8$
as
pillar.
Fletcher,
crystal.
fy
Fletcher.
COM
How
Play,
clay.
and as dull
fy others.
more
to fire.
cold. Sir
8f others.
W. Rowley.
COMELY
he
as the earth
Than
HooWs
me
Bar-
Ariosto.
a mountain
Colder to
lies
Musco-
than adamant
Beaumont 8$ Fletcher,
W. Davenant. as Aquarius.
moon. Colman Jun.
Cold as a cucumber.
Otway.
L. Sharp,
W. Davenant.
others.
fy
as lead. Alex.
an asp.
as
fy others.
too.
T. Heywood,
clay,
T. Bayly, T. Porter,
as earth.
on,
to choose
as a fish. Sir
as the virgin
as rising day.
Otway.
G. Peele.
dewy
R. Davenport.
rose. Pitt,
as the
Oxford Sausage.
Shake-
spear.
N. Rowe.
Commanding
Donne.
as the breath of
at
midnight. R. Taylor.
COMMISERATE as
COMMON as the
air.
Crowne.
live.
as the air
as the day.
as for a
man who
T. Goff.
Gower.
that
as a cart-way. Pierce
St.
mount
as sickness. J. Webster.
he could bear
as the
Vision.
as
as
PasauiVs Nightcap.
as
dirt.
in
Hybla. Lilly.
stairs
Fielding.
as bees
it
way
the
WestminDurfey.
the
Plowman's
dust. Ibid.
Drijden.
ster-hall.
as light or
between
Crowne, Dryden.
as the light.
tunate
air.
air.
Usurper.
G. Sandys.
Watts.
J.
we
as
tread.
CON
winds. Sir
in taverns.
Ibid.
as fishes. F. Boothby.
as the
as Hercules. Marston.
Shakespear.
Jonson.
Duchess of Newcastle.
as day.
CONFORMABLE
as the melting
wax
to the
impressed
seal.
Hervey.
J.
as the sun at
CONSTANT
noon day. 0.
S. Wandesford.
as substance.
Shakespear.
N.
as the sun.
Field.
Johnson.
keeps
day.
others.
fy
G. Fitzgerald.
star.
Durfey.
as the heavens.
is
Tillotson.
move.
as the
Henry
Siddons.
The
or the needle to
its
pole.
as the
as the morn.
as the northern
true, fixed,
needle
Otway.
centre.
pole.
whose
and
Mrs. Brooke.
as light.
its
is
as the stars
Chapman,
J.
Day.
as tides,
as
Penelope.
Wily
CO u
beguiled, fy others.
as
Day.
as
Lucretia. J.
diamond's standing
More
constant
Gildon.
Peaps.
as dying martyrs.
as
as the
Tate.
light.
C. Johnson.
TV.
Cowper.
truth.
as
as holy faith. /.
B.
Burges.
CONTAGIOUS.
CONTEND
hill,
More
Chapman.
to black.
trary
as black to white.
C. Butler.
white
Con-
Quarles.
as sloth
CONVINCING
is
any
as
demonstration
the mathematics.
in
South.
COOL
as Christmas.
Henry Vaughan.
Farmer's Boy.
Beaumont
fy
Fletcher.
as virgin
morning dew.
gushing
rill.
Cawthorn.
Virtue.
tion.
TV.
COPIOUS
snow.
budding spring.
as breath of vernal air from snowy Alp. Milton.
as the blast that checks the
Preston's
App. Rhodius.
as patience.
as age.
Otway.
Cawthorn.
Thompson.
as a
as night.
A. Marvel,
as a sage's
morning contempla-
as bounty. Savage.
Young Hypocrite,
Glover.
/. Smith.
in Footers
Comic Theatre.
Whore.
lion.
Sacred Script.
TV. Scott.
Savage.
as
sun-beams.
cou
Montgomery.
W. Cowper.
as
A. Cherry.
is
COY
morn
as a maid.
Chaucer.
coy
J.
at the
as
CRAWL like
snails.
CREEP
shadows by him.
like
E. Ward.
Two
like a snail.
boy
like a
Landon.
a chestnut bough.
W. Davenant.
Duchess of Newcastle.
after a butterfly.
Harlequins, a Farce.
Sir
Creep close as
Shakespear.
Welshman.
W.
Scott.
fy
Fletcher.
like chastened
hound.
like a
his
CROUDING like
CROW like
CRUEL
Chapman, Broome,
More
8$ others.
E. Smith.
fy
others.
as the ocean
as the grave.
.
when
it
raves.
More
crustes.
Crouding thick
winds. Moore.
chanticleer. Shakespear.
as death.
Fanshaw.
summer
Oldmixon.
as Caligula. Fielding.
as a tiger.
Sir P. Sidney,
as
others.
Pro-
as
DAR
a tiger or bear. Play, Gentleman
Newcastle.
than
Dryden.
than
wild tigers.
More
G. Sandys.
bears.
Cruel as
Otrvay.
More
More
Duchess of
ing beasts that creep from savage den. Play, Youth's Comedy.
than
CUNNING
Gildon.
as serpents. Farquhar.
Ward.
as foxes.
The Ball.
monkey. T.
as a witch. Play,
W. Davenant.
E. Ward, T.
as a
Lansdowne.
D.
DANCE like a
kid.
Sir
W. Davenant.
like the
ocean spray.
Landon.
DANGEROUS
A.
Hill.
Dangerous as
spear.
More dangerous
J. Ford.
as infection.
baits to fish.
or seas. Dennis.
and winds
DARK
I'll
sings.
N.
Yet
Lee.
than
Shake-
like a rock,
both sea
dare. Ibid.
as hell. Randolph.
than Acheron.
spear.
as despair. Settle.
Sir T. Moore.
8$ others.
as midnight. Habington,
as the
A.
as
gloomy
night.
Poole's Parnassus.
womb
as
of night. /. Shirley.
Hill, Sf others.
as a
December
D
D. Terry.
midnight.
AR
sable night.
Dark
Donne.
Sir
there.
The Rape,
ty
Davenant.
TV.
Bird.
Tate.
8$
Dark
as the
hushed
as death. Cumberland.
Fair Circassian.
Brady
TV. Scott.
Dark
Otway.
grave.
as the
J. Corye.
N. Rowe.
as the grave,
were celebrated
A. Cowley. Play,
as the grave.
Dark and
others.
Dark
T. Heywood.
Darwin's Botanic
as meridian night.
Garden.
Psalms, by
Poole's
a
mouth.
a dungeon.
which no beam of comfort
a dungeon
Jonson.
Campbell.
a
Fragments
Massinger.
Montgomery, Landon,
of Ancient Poetry. a thunder
vapours gathering storms compose. Trans
Parnassus.
as
wolf's
as
winter.
as
in
as
enters.
as
as
cloud.
cloud.
as the
Sf others.
shadows
M. R,
Mitford.
as gathering tem-
Dark
raven's wing.
Ossian.
E. Young.
as Ethiops.
Garth.
as pitch.
Miscellany.
as a raven.
Colman.
as the
as
an oven. Fraunce.
Chaucer, Sidney,
Dark and
8? others.
as
any
coal.
as jet. Dryden's
/.
O'Keeffe.
DARKNESS
DART
thick as
like light.
ill
B. Martyn.
like lightning.
TV.
Davenant.
C. Johnson, So-
mervile.
DEA
ing star.
Byron.
Duchess of Newcastle.
hounds. Sir W, Scott. like the
upon a partridge.
DASH
sun-beam.
like a
Keate.
Dart
fy others.
like
C.
Bumaby.
Dash down like
Dashed on like a
DAUNTLESS
as death. Prior.
pounced bird of
as the strong
Jove. Grainger.
DAZZLE
others.
fy
H.
like the
Dazzling as the
Palms.
light.
others.
Shakespear.
others.
fy
Author of
Isle of
N. E. Kinder sley.
as clay.
Otway.
as a stone.
Otway.
as a
fy others.
DEADLY
flood of
as
Acheron or Styx.
deadly than a
basilisk.
mad
Cawthorn.
Doyne's
Lee, S. Foote.
as the baleful
Tasso.
R. Greene.
DEAF as death.
N.
Daz-
Pope, Cawthorn.
as a stock-fish.
Play,
dazzling
as earth.
Chaucer,
in
/. Wilson,
DEAD
Killigrew,
More
Ravenscroft.
light.
App. Rhodius.
ty
the Third.
ridian.
Edward
Poison,
fy
E. Irving.
others.
Deaf
as the dead.
more
Deadly as the
John Gait.
ty
others.
Corye.
More
Deaf as winds
DE A
and seas are
my
Deaf
Wandesford.
to
Deaf
Brown.
as rocks.
as a
Turbervile, J. Shirley,
<$ others.
Play, Bastard.
Otway.
seas
Banks.
less seas.
others.
fy
as adders.
Dryden.
as adders,
and
is.
Lee.
Sir F. Fane.
to.
N.
as deadly.
safely,
DEAR as his
soul's
redemption. Shakespear.
as
as
fy
life.
Whetstones,
Beaumont
Dearer than
as air.
others.
Dearer than
my
others.
ty
G.
Marston.
M. G. Lewis. than
T. Killigrew.
kid.
Shakespear, Machin,
South Downs.
lips
More deaf
More deaf
soul.
as
as winds.
as the billows.
fierce
Gildon.
C. Davenant, Lans-
as a storm.
others.
Higgons.
as
downe,
Fletcher,
ty
air or
eye-sight.
Ariosto.
Dear
Dearer than
Hill.
to
warmth
my
that feeds
Fletcher,
Dearly prized as
precious to
vital
life
Beaumont
breath.
A.
as the vital
die.
T. Cibber.
life.
N.
my life.
Lee.
than
Jonson.
life's
More
Otway.
than my
best joys.
dear,
more
feeds
its
motion. R. Dodsley.
heart.
Gray,
H. More.
as
in Dodsleifs Collection.
tide
DE A
warms
that
round
cling
my
in
this heart.
Matthew West.
my
T. Maurice.
heart.
A. Murphy.
veins.
Dearer
as the
life
blood
cir-
my
to
my
Dearer than
Gildon.
drops.
my
heart than
life's
blood.
Dear
Dear
to
as
that
purple drops.
ty
Dear
to
my
my
A.
Lillo,
fy
Dear
Fielding.
my
than light,
light.
gay
W. Dave-
me than light.
to
my
light of hea-
Sir
fires
Dearer
my
eyes. Hoole's
new-born
Dearer to
others.
me
eyes than
gloom of
Glap-
eyes.
Play, Alarbas.
Dearer to
my
Dearer to
Hill,
my own
as
as light.
Burns.
life.
Dearer to
ven, Hartson.
nant.
others.
Dear
Ariosto.
Dear
Sylvester.
Killigrew,
T.
thorne.
Play, Zenobia.
James Thomson.
More dear to
HooWs Ariosto.
Shahespear.
liberty.
G. R. Dixon.
Dearer
Dear
as the solar
beam.
to one
N.
Lee.
life
or love. Sheffield
life.
Gildon, Hayley,
fy others.
H. Downing. as
Pindar.
life,
my virtue, or my
to
querors.
me
TV.
than
all
Preston.
to
Otway.
as honour. P.
fame. Centlivre.
Dearer
Dearer
my name.
Dear
to
my soul
my
as the
J. Shirley.
Dearer
to
me
DEA
my hopes of glory, or immortal fame.
me
Dearer
to
Dearer
to these eyes
than
all
than
all
heaven
that
e'er
Dearer
Dearer to
weary pilgrims, or
my
than
all
my eyes
in
the
than
Dearer than
Otway.
to misers, gold.
gave to charm
me
dear to
Centlivre.
Goring.
is
than empire.
after fight.
More
world. Play,
Cenllivre.
Hayley, Goring.
all
conquered
fields.
Dearer
Dear
kindred. Behn.
Dear
to
as a parent. Pope.
Potter's Eschylus.
me
my
to
as fraternal affinity.
Dear
soul than
C. Macklin.
glory the
spirits
to raptured saints
dam. Spenser.
their
chil-
Cumberland.
relics
as
as to
rain. Ibid.
spring. Settle.
As
as
as
bee.
saints.
flattery to
to
is
flowers.
to
DEATHLESS as
DECAY like the
Dear
as
autumn
grass of the
when
in
Ossian.
hill.
As
to the farmer.
Burns.
like
weeds that
Dodsleys
Collection.
Or
Ogilvie.
DEL
DECEITFUL.
More
tyrannous, and
deceitful,
than sy-
fell,
rens, tempests,
Deceitful as
DECLINE
and
fall
before the
Drooping
Pope.
as with un-
head.
As
C. Cotton.
surcharged
with his seed and vernal humours falling thick, declines his
now
sinking empire
as hell. Jonson,
Play, Palladius
fy
Deep
Jones.
Irene.
Deep
as
is
Hey wood,
as
is
DEJECTED
as hell
8$ others*
as an ocean. Sir
of Isle of Palms.
others.
fy
heaven
is
high.
W.
as
as to
a well.
as
Chapman.
as thought. Marston.
Savage.
when
as Erebus.
Southern,
Deep
Watts.
his
Otway, Burns,
sea.
lie.
reason.
stood,
as
fy others.
Crown.
hell.
/. Wilson, author
Shakespear, Otway.
as
Fletcher,
as
as the ocean
T.
centre.
fy
lowest
the
judgments
Beaumont
E. Young.
profound.
by a
Goring.
fierce disease.
DEEP
Our
Gay.
Thus
God
pronounced,
Israel's
monarch
Cumberland.
DELECTABLE
and snow
are.
DELICIOUS
wind
Barclay.
as the breath of
Maia on
violets diffused.
Thom-
morning
Parnell.
as the
dew
that lies on
roses. Jonson.
DELIGHT
when
DEL
Byron.
battle.
of a miser when
like that
filling his
hoarded
chest, Ibid.
DELIGHTFUL
Duchess of Newcastle.
ton's
music
to the eye, as
Sir P. Sidney.
to the ear.
-as
No sound is
App. Rhodius.
by N. E. Kinder sley.
drops
refresh
new shorn
the
plain.
Merrick.
as the soft
Dry den.
trees.
as
from the
May
More
invites soft
violets'
when
as
Zephyr
May when
Warton.
DELUGE.
Thy
DELUSIVE
as a dream. Fenton.
as a midnight dream.
Caw-
thorn.
DEMONSTRATIVE.
truth.
Marmion.
DEMURE
It
is
as Euclid.
murely as a
murely as
saint.
Drums
melt
in
Duchess of Newcastle.
vestal nun. Pope.
if
Jack
a principle as demonstrative as
Entertainment.
father's
Demure
Look as
Look as
blessing.
dede-
Play,
would not
demure as a cat.
as if butter
Sitting as
Cumberland.
DEPART
like mist
when
it
flies
My fame is
DESCEND
Descend
as gently as night
dews
fall
Watts.
R. Blair.
Descend copiously like
to the earth.
DIF
rain. /.
Descend
Hervey.
W. Davenant. Descend in
managed
like the
HooWs
Sleep
Ariosto.
Descend
of Isle of Palms.
DESTROY
Even
Drayton. A. Hill.
a general plague.
like
your eyes
the tempest in
its
rage
Than
DESTRUCTIVE
cient Poetry.
My
heart detests
DEVOURING as
vening
tribes.
DEVOUT
DIE away
Smithers.
DETEST.
H.
him
PasquiVs Nightcap.
hell.
the deluge.
all
Barfor d.
C. Hopkins.
T. Maurice.
as vestals. Behn.
like the
Amwell.
Ossian.
Penrose.
Scott of
like the
breeze that met the orient ray, and 'mid the noon-day fervours
fann'd the grove.
DIFFER
C. Fox.
as
Differ as
Differ as
to like.
W.
Scott.
South.
W.
Day.
Sir
Scott.
Differ as far as a
DIFFERENCE
as vast as
from
glow-worm from a
fire.
star.
J.
May.
DIF
lion.
As wide
South.
is
it
lay in
as
its
it
has
resplendent with the light of the sun, and decked with the beauties
of nature. H. Blair.
There
is
as
it
makes now,
as
as there
much
between a
is
between white
as
light of a candle.
DIFFERENT
evil.
as
Atterhury.
and day.
as
hell.
as light
Centlivre.
diance of a star.
Brewer.
R. Greene.
heaven and
as the light of a
Tillotson.
crabs
Play, Jeronimo.
as sable
glow-worm
ebony
to
good and
as
Alpine snow.
Browne.
to
as night
to the ra-
/. Shir-
different
ley.
being told
how
a thing
is
to
be done. Tillotson.
DIFFUSIVE
is,
They
from
are no
to white. Play,
as the light.
DILATING
DIM
like the
like reflected
pale
moon
in
moon-beams on a
DIRE
as
when
Scott.
like the
form dim
as the
Ogilvie.
Thomson.
as the
DIS
DIRTY as earth.
DISAPPEAR as
Fielding.
cloud. Ibid.
morning
like
Unfortunate Usurper.
DISCONSOLATE
winter trumpet
Cornwall.
when
as
till its
and
Beaumont
the tempest of
failing
men
DISMAYED.
Shadwell.
fy Iris.
Fletcher; Play,
ty
November blew
the
Dismal
it
where storms
as the grave.
South,
in the
last
Dismal, hateful,
dispiriting, as darkness.
R. Hurst.
summer- tide
that
dismayed more
Settle.
groan which
morning
Maid's Tragedy.
as a
DISMAL
foot,
back
all
suddenly for
Earl of Surrey.
fear.
DISPARITY
DISPERSED
and
scattered,
whirlwinds. Southern.
air,
as a mist that
is
Dispersed
summer dust by
driven away with the
like
thereof.
Wisdom
of Solomon.
DISPROPORTIONATE.
But why do
compare things
to-
God ?
DISSEMBLING as
Tragedy.
men
with
South.
$ Fletcher
Play, Maid's
DIS
DISSOLVE
snow.
like
Byron.
ductile
as
W. Thompson.
breath of Vulcan.
wax
as
wax
the
before
before the
fire.
Merrick.
gales
Southey.
DISTANT
as the
moon from
the earth.
Cooke
Hesiod.
Tillotson.
Play from
as
as
N.
star.
heaven from
Schiller.
W. Rowley.
as earth
Cotton.
as the
as vice
and
virtue.
hell.
Your tem-
as pole
is
DISTASTEFUL
DISTIL
Distil
like
early dew.
Watts.
like
Bawd.
heavenly dew.
Ibid.
as the evening
dew. Ibid.
DISTRESSFUL
nest,
who views
the plundered
in
Greek Tra-
gic Theatre.
DOUBLING
DOUBT.
she
is
and turning
N.
like a
mounts and
Doubtful
it
as
Dread him
bad
when
DREAD
Lee.
falls
by
turns,
and trembles
o'er
E. Ward.
Weber
old
Metrical Romances.
Pope.
Glap-
DRI
thorne.
as
Pope, Hurst,
war. /. Oldmixon.
More
spear.
than
is
Noise,
others.
More
C. Cotton.
as lightning.
W. Rose.
I will
More
come
Sewell.
than the
Dryden's Miscellany.
Gildon,
as
in
like
Pye,
as killing thunder.
as lightning
from the
in terror clad,
dreadful as
shock. Southey.
a phantom train
Of shapes
band
DREARY
taire's
Ibid.
Chaos ere
Charles Fox.
creation's reign.
Translation of Vol-
Henriade.
DRINK
bow
as
Ibid.
T. Moore.
as ocean quaffs
My
up
as the rain-
the rivers.
drooping soul
shower. Ravenscroft.
As
Durfey, Farquhar,
Drayton.
others.
fy
Drink water
Drink
by the
like a
like a fleece.
DRI
DRIVEN as the smoke out of a chimney.
away
is
wind of heaven.
Sacred Script.
floor.
W.
Sir
Scott.
as faded
leaves
DROOP
Driven
Sacred Script.
Hervey.
/.,
Shakespear.
down with
rain. Play,
Gay.
like a lily.
Nero.
like a lily
in a
smoke.
lily
she
lovely
much morning dew. Chapman.
a
morning dew. Dryden.
wet.
like tulips
violets over-charged
like
like
fair
with too
Drooping
T.
over-charged with
Droop
like the
spread rose
Drooping
like the
Thou
grerv.
its
musk
descended, crushed
its fair
Her
fair
all its
H. More.
till
form,
sweetness
its
more lovely
by the gathered
force
And
Whilst
By
its
powers expands
left unshelter'd in
die.
So the chaste
flow'r,
DRY
That spreads
its
in its
bloom decays.
Herminius
Drooping
like a
Espasia, by Hart,
8$
Droop
As the
Rhodius.
ers. Fielding.
Byron.
Like
Byron.
N.
sits.
as youthful
plain,
like
fair
Thomas Cooke.
a willow.
hang
rain,
floweret blighted
She drooped
Smithers.
and
flow-
like
drooping she
Field.
Sacred Script.
like leaves
in
autumn. Car-
lell,
like
fy
mellow
DROWN
like a boundless
Drown our
Whirligig.
liant
others.
Welshman.
DROWZY as a dormouse.
T. Heywood,
W. Cowper.
clicking of a clock.
DRUNK as
pig. P.
a bacchanal. Durfey.
Pindar.as a common
a piper. Gay.
Coffey, 8$ others.
owl.
DRY
Dry
like
dew
South.
Gay.
as the
as
as
as a lord. Jevorn,
Glapthorne.
as an
as a mouse. Ingeland.
summer. T. Heywood.
as dust.
an emperor. Centlivre.
as the parched
vester,
as David's sow.
fldler.
as
Duke of Newcastle.
up
S. Sheppard.
Durfey.
E2
as pumice.
as saw-dust.
Syl-
H. Higden.
UL
as pepper. Dekker.
as a sponge. Durfey.
More dry
ley.
DULL as death.
Chapman. Your
to
as night.
Shakespear,
itself in ease
disposition
as the remain-
more
is
as the
moon
/.
*S7/ir-
dull than if
Dull
week
fat
as
that roots
Dull as Decem-
R. Bloomjield.
as winter's sleet.
John Gait.
eclipsed.
Mirandola.
ber.
as a bone.
Mirandola.
is.
you were
Lethe
Shakespear.
as
others.
than
Duller
cery
Fielding.
suit.
as dining
er,
Chapman,
ing.
ty
as an ass.
by
the clock.
Epilogue
a dormouse. Beaumont
an Duke of Newcastle,
Lidgate, T.
sound of a
as
ty
Field-
ox.
as
others.
to
Fletch-
Scott.
as the
full
hogshead. W. Walker.
DUMB
Palladius
fy
Irene.
Dumb
and
others.
as night. Play,
dead of night.
silent as the
Chaucer, Wyatt.
a
Jonson,
a
a
C.
Hopkins.
A. Brown. Dumb
marble
solemn
sorrow ought
a destined
be. Otway.
A. Hill.
Greeris Tu quoque.
Westminster Hall the long
a dog.
Bp. Hall.
O'Keeffe,
as
stone.
others.
fy
like
as
fish.
as
statue.
as
victim.
as
vacation.
in
as
S. Foote.
statues.
to
DURABLE
as
as oysters.
Coffey.
as brass.
W. Sampson.
DUSKY like
night. Byron.
More
than adamant.
H. Boyd.
MP
E.
IMAGER as
as
hound
Eager
as
den.
Dry-
game. Sir W.
as the
R. Davenport.
their prey.
The grey-
Scott.
Cumberland.
as the day.
T. Killi-
grew.
EASY
his
is
EARLY
a tiger. Chaucer,
greyhound on
as a
mossy bank
that
Easy
to repose
is
Sir
on as the
W.
Scott.
meadow
flower. Southey.
Her
ELASTIC
ELATE
and
H.
light as air. J.
Stevenson.
as power. Savage.
ing air that fans the sultry cheek of summer. Play, Gonzanga.
ELEGANT
as simplicity.
ELOQUENT.
More
Thomas Whincop.
elate.
W. Cowper.
to
know a Knave.
as
EMBRACE
it
infants.
EMPTY
of
air.
warm and
in
Embrace
G. Colman.
as the air.
Shenstone.
Swift, Sir
W.
Scott.
as air-pumps drained
as a
as
shadows
ENC
$
Empty and
Fletcher.
flits
ENCHANT like
the
Theban
Sounds, as enchanting as
Circe. R. Greene.
J.
ENDLESS
as eternity. /. Mitchell.
on Alpine
hills,
as
or Hybla's bees.
on
Congreve.
ENTIRE
ENVENOMED
ENVIOUS
ERECT
as an asp.
as a rival.
W. Cowper.
Wycherley.
as alders. Dryden.
ESTABLISHED
moon.
Sylvester.
T. Jordan.
as
Damon
fy
Pythias.
is
as day-
Play,
time as evident as if
dial.
South.
Ibid.
it
were pointed
as mathematical de-
monstration. Ibid.
ceeds her as
much
of December.
Shakespear, Miller.
doth exceed as
Queen.
As
pale-cheeked
far
The
sun
May
She ex-
doth the
last
in light
star.
Play,
sister,
Ex-
FAD
ceed as far as mid-day Phoebus doth the dullest
W.
star.
Balmford,
EXCEL,
stars.
Venus
or
beams most
the sea-nymphs.
diamond does
Sacred Script.
Excel as much
Excel as
Spenser.
as
stars,
excelleth folly as
Excelling as far as
Advocate.
Wisdom
May.
as
clear
Lidgate.
far
far as heaven's
Its whiteness
little star.
does as far
M.
Coppinger.
EXCELLENT
EXHALED
as angels.
Beaumont
$ Fletcher.
like
EXHAUSTLESS
Settle.
landers.
EXPANSIVE
EXPIRE,
as
as the light.
R. Nevile.
EXULTING like
EYE
W.
their prey, as
Scott.
F.
ADE
darkness. Cornwall.
like the
of a summer's day,
Universal
Ma-
AI
F
of Isle of Palms.
away
like
Man.
Play, Every
Merrick.
Fade
like
May.
Fade quick
down
As
as a rose. Lidgate.
Fading as the
Penrose.
Sturm.
as flower in
like
T. Cibber.
Poetical Calendar.
Fade
Fade like
Campbell.
forest roses.
W. Cowper.
Spenser.
autumn.
like a
Fade quick
sun.
Fading
Powell.
Settle,
Fade
as a dream. Beattie.
Fading
C. Bullock.
like a
like
like a
like a withered
dream.
G. Keate.
Isle of
Palms.
rainbow,
Him,
is
apt to fade
away
all
is
not
fyc.
FAINT
Watts.
as evening shadows.
wasted
W.
Sir
light.
glimmering taper's
as a
Jones.
FAIR
Pollok.
as the sun.
as Phoebus.
star.
air.
Titan's shine.
R. Greene.
Chaucer.
Hughes.
more
as
Fair as Phcebus'
T. Forde.
Poole's Parnassus.
face
Fairer than
fair
than
Fair like
is
the sun's
Knack
to
know a Knave.
heaven he rides in
end strong
Beaumont
as
fy
is
all
as the sun,
a vernal sun.
Fletcher,
cal Calendar.
when up
others.
Thomson.
as day.
the steep of
Fair, mild,
Shakespear,
W. Heard.
FAI
as
M.
day
Pilkington.
W. Browne,
Spenser,
Lansdowne,
8$ others.
new-born
others.
8$
as early day.
the
as
light. Ibid.
morn. Denham. as
beams of light. Goring.
Fairer than the morning light. W.
when from
the
as
bright
Taliesin.
morn in
N. Rone.
Fletcher.
fy
Chaucer.
by Aurora's
as the
in the
day
Ogilvie.
all
Trial of Chivalry.
the East
The
is
sun,
repercussed self so
fair
Psyche.
Fair as
More
fair
morn. Beau-
morning's
morn. Poem,
as roseate
when he
Play, Codrus.
the
as
as the morning,
Nabbs.
with blushes.
as the
blushing morn.
mont
morning.
brightest beam.
Fairer than
Fair
Dryden,
as orient
Thompson.
morn.
as the
morning.
as the grey-eyed
Sir W. Davenant.
as
N.
Lee.
Fair as the
as the
More
fair
when
first
as a
Fair as vernal
Jones.
Fair as
Fairer than a
summer morning.
Sir
W.
riseth,
first
smiles of
Fair, sweet,
Hersilia.
Shipman.
Sir
summer mornings
as the
W. Davenant.
are.
as shoots the
when day
morning
spangled with
F
Dearest love
AI
morn,
the plains,
when May's
pellucid
morns crimson
the
A. Seward.
Her morning bloom was doubly fair,
Like summer's day-break, when we see
orient.
The
dew
Spread
cob-web lawn,
Or hang moist
when
rural songs
thony Brown.
flowers
first
th'
as the light of
Parnassus.
ing dews.
E. Howard.
when
when
than a
N.
fair,
Fletcher, Sir
fy
T.
beam of
Yalden, in
light.
than
new-born
summer
setting suns.
morn looks
Fair as a
BeauW. Davenant,
beams of
Drydens Miscellany.
the
W.
beams of
unshaded
W. Da-
new-born
as the
Fair as the
Beaumont.
star,
mont
as the
as winter stars, or
The golden
Lee.
not so
it is
Blackmore.
Pope.
as the open-
the morn.
Anwhen
the year
the morn.
all
star. Jonson.
fies
buds ar-
washed
F. Sellers.
in the sky.
W. Wordsworth.
day. Southey.
fy
others.
as
as
Scott.
as
as
as light.
earliest
as the infant
light.
Sir
F
venant.
as
new-born
AI
Pix, Theobald,
light.
Fair as
fy others.
the new-born light, when Nature deck'd the smiling infant world
when blossoms,
fruits,
when
all
than the
Hughes.
floods of light.
look'd gay
when
Farquhar.
silver sky.
as
Ramsay.
summer
as
expanse, but
all is
skies,
blooming summer.
the blue
T. Thompson.
star.
as
morning
is
the
Fair as
is
the milk-white
way of Jove.
Otway.
as heaven. Mirandola.
brow. Play,
W.
Thompson.
a thousand
Sicilides.
stars.
Marlowe.
W. Wordsworth.
stars.
Wordsworth.
as the rainbow.
than
J".
W,
Ossian.
Montgomery.
the skies.
as the moon.
Sacred Script.,
Byron.
as
moon-beam.
R. Pollok.
Ibid.
as the harvest
full
Tate.
moon
G. Soane.
as descending snow, or
moon.
on the
Fair as
setting
ty
others.
M.
as
as
Stevenson.
AI
S.
than
snow
the
Bamford.
than
Ibid.
than
the
northern snow.
Poem,
More
Eschylus.
fair
an Entertainment.
than
rills
W.
Fairer than
Jones.
Watts.
as May. A. Cowley.
morn of May. Sir W. Jones. Fair and lovely
gladsome May. W. Browne. as Eden. E. Young,
Fairer than a
as the
Matthew Rolleston.
as blissful
ridge.
the
bud
as the
Eden. W. Thompson.
as the primal
unblasted.
Beaumont
bud unfolding
in a shower.
M.
Dry den,
Seward.
Prior.
as Eden's bowers.
fy
the
than
Play, Different
Widows.
Otway.
as springing flowers.
Pix.
as
as the
A.
silver
as opening flowers.
as
Cole-
than the
Fairer
Fletcher.
Logan.
Pilkington.
as
A.
T. Noble.
Fair as rising
Miscellany.
the rose in
Daniel, Swift,
May. Chaucer,
as
as the rose-bud.
Sir
Swift.
8$ others.
as
W.
as
Scott.
AI
Sidney,
Miscellany.
Fair as the
others.
than
spotless
Chaucer,
lily.
Drydens
lilies.
Poetical Calendar.
lilies.
Fair as
lily.
Ramsay, Somervile.
than
lilies.
M.
Pilkington.
than
lily
Tickell. Play,
as the daisy.
as the lily
Irishman
in
London.
the
Fair
as the prim-
poplar
damsen, or
sky-dyed
blushing grape. Poems on
Calendar.
down. N.
Fairer than
plumes of swans.
down. M. Pilkington. than
as the lovely
rising
on the
plain.
Jago.
as the
as the
sloe. Poetical
State Affairs.
softest
as cygnet's
Cotton.
the
Dryden.
as the
the
Edward
Jones's Poetical
Gay.
Fair as the
W. Plawkins.
Sherburne.
thorne.
soft
as
as
8$
as
others.
as
love's
Philips.
as
as
as
Paris.
as
the
love.
T.
F AI
Fair and lovely as a goddess. Browne.
wood.
Fragments
love,
artful dress.
when
Centlivre.
the goddess
Moore.
Sotheby's Oberon.
as love.
heaven. Fix.
Doynes
the sea.
Ramsay.
sea. Friendship's
F. Beaumont.
as immortal beings.
as a cherub, Theobald.
T.
as the inhabitants of
as an angel.
T. Scott,
Bailey,
TV.
others.
Of-
Fair,
Cupid. Gildon.
like
and of
fering.
as a goddess.
as heavenly goddesses.
first
as
Tasso.
Dancer.
most
in
as a
Play, Herminius
Espasia, by Hart.
8$
as Diana.
first
she
fair
wakened from
than Naiad of
or her
scene
days of
the huntress queen.
who ruled
Wilson, author of
Fair
of Palms. than Daphne.
Hebe.
Helen. R. Greene,
Gunning,
Graces. Gildon.
Poem Time, by
the flood,
yore,
in
Gildon.
Isle
/.
8? others.
Rolt,
as
Swift, fy others.
as
as Iris.
as the
as
Hugh
as
J.
Kelly.
to
Eastern minds.
H. Downing.
of virtue. N.Rowe.
ty
Fletcher, J. Dennis.
as truth. Ibid.
as the
fame
as innocence. C. Cibber,
Boyle Earl of Orrery. as pictured innocence. Thomas Gisbome.as immortal fame in smiles arrayed. Lusiad. as honour.
Falconer.
Akenside.
as virtuous friendship.
Fair as fair
warms
may
Ibid.
be.
as
the
as the
Marlowe.
wove
in fan-
F A L
round the poet's head. W. Mason.
Forms, as
Ber-
when
fair as
nard Barton.
Bertram,
More
as silver.
Prior.
N.
cold as alabaster.
Shakespear.
Lee.
as a
Byron.
as milk.
fair
than rocks
Taming of a Shrew. MarMachin.
T. Forde.
star.
text B.
Fair, but
copy-book.
in a
FAITHFUL
Vows
dying
ful as a
S. Walker.
saint's.
as the needle to
its
as faith-
Centlivre.
Centlivre.
pole.
W.
as the pole
/.
Cumberland.
G. Cooper.
FAITHLESS
as the sea.
FALL
C. Hopkins, Gay,
Martyr.
shooting star
Theobald.
fall
to
When
he
again. Skakespear.
Fall on
Sidney.
he
Fall like
me
Southey.
a bright ex-
Lucifer, never to
hope
Sir P.
dew. Herrick.
Fall like a
morning dew. MilA. Browne. Soft they fell
dew upon
M.
the thirsty
hills.
Cumberland.
Like showers.
T.
Fall
May,
W. Davenant.
W. Dimond. Fall like
fall fast
headed
like
Tears
as the
falls like
like a silent
bourne.
John Bidlake.
as heaven's blest
ty others.
summer shower.
Southey.
like hoary-
AL
snow. Ecclestone.
Crown.
Fall
to
H.
J.
Ste-
Marlowe, E. Ward,
8$
others.
autumn
like
Green.
Ossian.
grown
fully ripe.
by the mower's
Fall beneath
scythe. J. Banks.
Fall
like
Fall like
like
like
like grass
my arm
Rolt.
scythe.
Dryden.
fruit.
M.
wheat be-
Fall before
Young.
standing corn.
before
hail,
T. Rodd's Ballads.
sickle
falls
the ridge of
Fall thicker than the chequered leaves the stern winds rend
A. Brewer.
trees
turns
them
into
when winter
frosts of adversity, their friends will fall off like leaves in au-
tumn.
Sir
W.
Tillotson.
Scott.
Fall
Light they
as
light
fell
as
as
when
the
sigh
of a lover.
earth receives in
morn
Your dying
dreadful
Dryden.
accents
fell
as
wrecking
yell,
sink
Fall tremendous
Wherever
ty
Arria.
to stand before
Tillotson.
it,
but
fell
down
like
Dagon
be-
FALLACIOUS as
AM
lection.
FALSE
L. Theobald.
as inconstancy.
Watts.
ful sea.
smooth
as the
its
deceit-
as the insa-
storms. Ibid.
False as
Otway.
the
is
He
to tempt,
first
smooth faced
as the wind,
the
than
False
waters^
N. Lee.
water. Shakespear,
the stream. Boyse. Falser than
Congreve,
the smiles of
A. Cowley. False
cankerThurlow.
Shakespear.
blooms
fleeting wind.
Lee.
winds, or wandering
fy
Sylvester.
seas.
as
others.
as
as
fires.
S.
faithless April.
as
as air.
in spring.
as fleeting
as
air.
fy
as the
others.
as
as
Ibid.
earth.
as stairs
as
as
as the
inveigling airs,
fa-
smoothest brow
Ibid.
Ibid.
wolf
As a
as
it
courts to death.
made
False as vows
in wine.
crocodile.
Dryden.
than
crocodiles.
wind.
Hoole's Ariosto.
a pander's face.
to
Beaumont
Sir
W.
M.
Fix.
8$
Scott.
FAMILIAR
ty
Fletcher,
Durfey.
others.
before the
Shakespear.
oaths.
South.
G. Colman.
as
as household words.
False as the
flit
as
as
Phaon
Falser than
Fletcher.
fy
as Judas.
Nymph.
as fox to lamb.
as clouds that
as dicers'
C. Butler.
Durfey.
harlot's tears.
Play, Constant
Shakespear.
the
the
smoke of hell.
mouth of envy.
FAN
as
my
Beaumont
sleep.
sleep.
SewelL
daisy.
Sir
W.
FANTASTIC
FAR as
H. Carey.
Watts.
As
by H. Cheeke.
is
/.
roll.
is
from
sky
in
Luna
Watts.
Brown.
the
air.
shined. J. Taylor.
as heaven
from
As
Whose
as the east
A.
Chapman.
Far as
Or where
Portal.
Where blow
its
is
as
in
Phoebus
worthiness as
is
is
As
Ibid.
light.
as ever
from fraud
early
beam
displays,
its
rays
Supplement
FAST
far as
As
Far as Phoebus
Shakespear.
earth.
Reported
Watts.
Sol or
AnWill,
as
Ibid,
Re-
Titus
bliss.
farthest sea.
from heaven. C.
abroad doth
as the
and seas
far
Montgomery.
delight, as hell
Phoebus doth
washed by the
far
air,
as the
from
and
as the earth,
as far as danger
Gibber.
is
dronicus.
couch as
mountain
moved
my
to the
W. Davenant.
Sir
as winds.
the utmost
Otway.
dew
Scott.
sky.
Familiar to
Fletcher.
ty
air,
or racing clouds.
crown. Churchill.
Dodsley's Collection.
Boyse.
J.
Banks.
Ride
faster
Fly faster
Shakespear.
Fast
FIC
grease. Sacred
Jonson,
a whale. Chaucer. a hog. Play, Contention
bacon. Sir W. Davebetween Liberality and Prodigality.
plenty. H.
Sacred
the
FAT
as butter.
Script.
as
others.
Lilly,, ty
as
as
as
nant.
as
Script.
heifer at grass.
as
Ward.
FATAL
More
Eyes, more
terrible
and
fatal
fatal
HooWs Ariosto.
More
C. Hopkins.
fatal
than
Fatal,
FATHOMLESS
as hell.
E. Young.
Fawning
T. Middleton.
as a dog. Smol-
lett.
FEARFUL
Byron.
as a siege. Shakespear.
as a
young
colt.
Suckling.
as a hare. Strode,
Ward.
FEARLESS
as valour.
B. Hoole.
as the strong
winged eagle.
Ossian.
FEEBLE
smoke.
as
J.
Hervey.
as dissolving
light
spider
FELL
as death. Shakespear, C.
pest, plague,
and
fire.
Gibber.
W. Sotheby.
than
tigers
More
fell
than tem-
plain.
Pope.
Garth.
E. Young.
Affairs.
FIE
stant as the air.
ty
A.
Hill.
Play, Nero.
as
the flying
Beaumont
air.
Fletcher.
E. Ward, Gay,
as the wind.
others.
fy
as the sea
or wind. Somervile.
FIERCE
as the
whom
As
God. G. Townsend.
as the
Townsend.
Jove.
Home.
man
M.
Bladen.
fy
G.
Fierce as
N.
Fierce and
god of battles.
Lee.
as the
flash.
as a ruthless fiend.
the
soul.
woman. Daniel.
Pope.
as
Dryden.
N. Rowe.
when love
N. Rowe.
control,
lab'ring
as
Settle.
as death.
Pomfret.
or spotted pestilence.
the wrath of
vengeance of a god.
Poem, Ilderim.
Fierce
Fiercer
Arria.
forked shafts which cleave the oak, rend steeples to their base,
as thunder. C. Cibber,
ty
others.
Flame,
E. Ward.
as a flood of flame
as fire.
by Vulcan
Fierce as a whirlwind.
Sylvester.
The Revolution.
Fairfax, Dryden,
sent,
Southey.
it
flew. Pope.
Fierce as con-
Pope, B. Martyn.
in his soul
is
a storm.
Duke, Gay,
fy
others.
Hannah More.
as wintry storm.
as the
Rage
Fierce as
J. Philips.
as a winter storm
FIE
Fierce in war as the mountain storm. Ibid.
storm. Ossian.
when tempests on
Fierce as
Day.
T.
Heave
More
herd.
fierce
as any lion
in the
as hungry
Otway.
of the desert.
lions
as the
his den. /.
Wars of Cyrus
nassus.
More
More
fierce
Hervey.
others.
fy
fierce
mountain
as the lion
as the
Midian
than robbed
tiger.
Poole's Par-
Play, Sicilides.
tiger.
far than
empty
tigers, or the
Shakespear, Otway.
roaring sea.
from
lions
Fierce as
as a lion. Lid-
others.
as a lion when provoked. Otway.
fy
when men him chase. Lidgate. as a hunted lion
as a lion in a cage. Play, Candlemastoils. A. Hill.
gate, Spenser,
day.
a
a panther. Cumberland.
evening wolves. Sacred
a famished
marked
Script.
hungry wolf.
tiger
as
as
leopard. R. Shiel.
as the
Cumberland.
Somervile.
lair.
as
J. Ogilvie.
wolf.
as
Comedy.
by
prowling wolf, that nightly makes the helpless flock his prey.
C. Lennox.
bulls.
tusks
G. Sandys.
when
More
fierce
savage
John Browne.
Pope.
fierce than
Fiercer
as a
than pirates.
Fielding.
Dr.
Fierce as a bandog
than cannon.
startled adder.
Falconer.
Dry den.
More
FIE
FIERCELY
FIGHT
FINE
like a lion.
N.
Lee.
Nabbs,
as Arachne's web.
Beaumont.
J.
P. Pindar.
W.
a gossamer. Ibid.
Sedley.
as
faith.
8$
others.
lord. Fielding.
Cowley.
and
as
silk.
W. Thompson.
fy
others.
M.
M A. Meilan.
lies.
Firm
Ibid.
Play, Soliman
make
you.
R. Bloomfield.
8$
as
W. Thompson.
Lee.
as fate. Play,
My promise firm as
Firm
Mrs.
Love
as
fate's
celestial poles
upon the
on which
shoulders of Atlas.
as a butterfly.
can
Massinger.
Vir-
fy
A-la-mode ; Otway,
from Colchos.
silver,
as truth.
as destiny. /. Shirley,
Carew.
Stevenson.
T. Dibdin.
as a rainbow.
heaven
as beaux. Ibid.
Shakespear, T. Betterton.
mervile.
au-
web of
web of
as virtue.
the
Duchess of Newcastle.
FIRM
Southey.
thread.
W. Davenant,
O'Keeffe.
frail as
as
fine
Greene's Arcadia.
Fine as silkworms'
ginia ; Sir
Fine and
Scott.
Thread,
gossamer's. Southey.
Wool,
Perseda.
Quarks.
My fortune
FI R
Firmer than old Atlas stands. N. Lee.
Firm
as earth.
Chapman.
on
its
own foundations.
foundations.
The Liberal.
and
W. Thompson.
lasting.
main. /. Adams.
as the mountain,
round whose
Firm
stand firm.
tides
still
As a rock
Poole's Parnassus.
flinty field.
Glover.
its
as
as
Goff,
as flint.
fy others.
Sir
Firm
Firm
as a stone.
W.
full
of
fire as steel
Chapman.
Poems on State
More
Scott.
firm than
and
as plates
Beaumont
flint.
Firm
Affairs.
W.
Shirley.
Chapman.
Scott.
Scott.
Fletcher.
as the stately
we 11 stand
Firm
as
oak which
(constant) as
life
unto
Firm (constant)
as
as Cato. Thomson.
8$
W.
W.
of brass. C. Churchill.
as the rock of
Sacred Script.,
Southern.
faith
billows lash
rock,
heat to
my
as
wall.
as brass.
Sir P. Sidney.
Mirandola,
a
Firm and
post.
stands fast
as
as the
as
castle,
8$ others.
as a
others.
when
a
an isthmus. Thomson.
adamant. Yarrington,
a sacred Drama.
Memphian pyramid.
ty
moun-
unremoveable, so shall
Harington's Ariosto.
Mead,
Firm
Solomon, an Oratorio.
shall stand.
as
as a rock. Jonson,
Watts.
Lady Alimony.
as
Firm
mountain. Shakespear.
lion's nerve.
FIT
FITFUL as the
FIXED as fate.
8$ others.
W.
Sir
Scott
as a star.
My
Banks.
Fixed as
resolution
is
fixed as
Fixed and
Fixed and
from
Schiller.
fy others.
Carlos,
as the
John Bidlake.
T. Heywood, Young,
Sampson.
Don
More
Tatham.
the centre.
is
is
as a rock.
W.
as a rock, in constancy.
as rocks of adamant.
G. Powell.
like a
rock
unmov'd she stood) that dares the storms, and ev'ry beating
Fixed like a statue. Jane Wiseman, E.
surge. J. Tracy.
Young,
others.
W.
Sir
Scott.
like
Why
Thou
As if
a lightning blast
And had
Fixed as a
not
left
as a
like
comet in
like a
like lightning
Hghtning
o'er the
pure ethereal
of the com-
others.
posture
Harington.
FLASH
this
the
What means
Jones.
its
fire.
Banks.
Po-
like a meteor.
like
H. Bradshaw,
Sir
fy
others.
R. Southey, fy
W. Scott. like
FLE
As lightning gleams
Rogers.
May
warm
basilisks',
FLAT
as a flounder.
as a pancake.
FLEET
/.
R. Green.
others.
fy
Fleeter than
others.
8$
others.
fy
Southey.
Fleeter
than the winds blown o'er the keen air'd mountain by the
Thomson.
north.
Fleet as the
air.
an Opera.
Fleeting as the
Fleeting as the
Flostella.
air,
More
fleet
a shadow.
H.
Blair.
fiercest
falls.
dream.
Fleet like
Fleeting as smoke.
as clouds,
Metrical Miscellany.
/. Bird.
as
as eagles.
airy
their
to their
as
Scott.
T. Moore.
as
as the lightly
W.
Scott.
when
Sir
Fleeter
forest deer.
Fleet as
like a
the
Pope. as
do cut
way with
plumes
Play, Youth's Comedy.
hawk. Sir W.
tempests blow.
Mickle's
Thurlow.
Campbell.
as a shade. Pitt.
fy
Fleet
Lee.
Fleeting as the
Doyne's Tasso.
others.
N.
Fenton.
E. Young.
than lightning.
when
Poem, Polindor
air.
Blachmore.
the
as Zephyr's pinion.
Lusiad.
or hours.
bosom of
as stags.
Mickle.
G. E. Howard.
fy
bound-
as
Fleeter
Dryden.
flies,
when he be-
FLE
holds the dread hyena near.
C. Fox.
as the hare.
Griffith.
W. Cowper.
others.
Richard
H. Downing,
fy
as fancy.
C. Dibdin.
FLEXIBLE
FLIT
Indian cane.
as
W. Cowper.
as
the bladed
is
grass.
vester.
FLOCK
Syl-
like flies to
them, as a swarm of
flies
cluster.
Ibid.
FLORID.
Where
FLOURISH
as blossoms in
Banished Duke.
Flourishing like
morning flower
Watts.
streams.
FLOW
P. Francis.
Ossian.
My temper,
Crown.
like a plant
Burns.
by gentle
like
an inundation. Pix.
R. Wilkinson.
like a river.
C. Hopkins.
Sir
lating tide.
like a
T. Holcroft.
ing tide.
Ecclesiasticus.
Flow
lily.
Watts.
as a
E. Young.
like a torrent.
like a stream.
Flow like a spring tide. Quarles. like a rushThomas Moore. Flow amply, like the undu-
Flowing as the
Duchess of Newcastle.
Byron.
rills.
sea.
Tears
is
A.
Hill.
FLY
FLUSH as May. Shakespear.
FLY swift as time. Marlowe.
As
J. Smith.
wain
swift as Aurora's
Fly
fy
others.
Like
light-
flight,
me
furious
fly.
a Poem.
ning let
Henry Jones.
Fly
Quarles.
fast as day.
Cupid's Whirligig.
Fly
wings of
Sir
W.
Sir
light.
Scott.
like sky-rockets.
R. B. Sheridan.
summer
gazine.
Marston.
like
Dante.
like a
meteor
like
winds.
at the
Spenser.
before
the wind.
Ossian.
Sir
sweeping tempest
flies.
like
when whirlwinds
Watts.
The
not
so
desires.
rise,
my
fast as
R. Taylor.
App. Rhodius. Fly
thistle
Ma-
northern wind.
of the
the Scottish
Ossell,
W. Scott. Fly
fore the wind. Fragments of Ancient
like
fore the morning sun. Quarles.
E. Ward, Watts. As empty chaff,
zephyr's breath.
before the
Mirandola.
star.
Lay of
the
like
like mist
of flame.
like a rocket.
Parnell.
like a whirlwind.
more
flash
Fiddle.
the wind.
sky. Poem,
like the
swiftly as the
Like
Chapman.
like
flies
Fly
smoke before
FLY
the rising tempest.
Watts.
M.
Sacred Script.
as a cloud.
Pilkington.
Fly
of
cloud
Fly as
Wyatt.
like a cloud
fast as
Beaumont fy Fletcher,
Quarles, ty others.
She flies from love, as shadows from the
light. J. Crown.
Fly as a dream. Sacred Script., A. Philips,
Fly light as an empty dream, or vagrant wind.
ty others.
Fly away like a shadow.
J. Corye.
Doynes
Script.
like a
dream, when
man awakes.
Arcadia, a
Fly as
Pastoral.
more
swift than
like a bird.
as
Ibid.
as the eagle
like a flock of
air.
Spenser.
fled.
Andromache,
when any
/.
in
Taylor.
as doth a fearful
Fly away
Hook's Ariosto.
an eagle.
Hooles Ariosto.
dove,
espies.
Grainger.
Fly away
Daphne. Langhorne.
swift like
Mercury. Marlowe.
like
Dry den.
like timorous
flight,
as
Ogilvie.
me
Fly
would a
tiger or a lion.
Play,
as a trembling
her.
fly.
fawn
Fly
FOR
Fly
Watts.
Fly
Gay.
Spenser.
fen. Ibid.
Marsh.
fast as hind.
fast as
fly
o'er the
it
confused.
Charles
rats
like
from sinking
ships.
roaring on them.
Young.
Dunkin.
when
as frighted pas-
Byron.
Cornwall, R. Bloomfield.
as scandal.
comes
Southey.
of Persian Literature.
into his heart.
South,
Shame
poisoned arrow
Fly as
if
in
Fly from
would from the mouth of a cannon, or the breath
of a pest-house. South. Fly from sin, as from the face of a
Fly as from a scorpion. Marlowe.
serpent. Ecclesiasticus.
alto.
them
as he
fierce basilisk.
Play, Dif-
ferent Widows.
beam of
face of the
sun.
FOND as a child.
turtles.
follows
sunshine,
Otway.
/. Worsdale.
Wit's Commonwealth.
R. B. Sheridan. as two
Fonder than ignorance. Shakespear.
as pigeons.
Dryden.
as
C. Beckingham.
budding
FOR
FORGOTTEN as a dream. Sylvester.
FORMAL as simple men in authority.
FOUL
den.
as the fiends
which
fell
Sir W. Davenant)
fy
storm. Beaumont
W. Davenant.
Sir
as hell.
Your
Her
others.
Beaumont 8$ Fletcher
more
foul than
Foul as
infamy. T.Hull.
leijs
Tate.
as the
more
dew of May.
Poetical Calendar.
line.
W.
Sir
air.
Garth.
as the
Dodsbalmy
Jones.
as the
as eastern winds or
of roses in their
Ann
flights.
it
blooms.
on a bank of sum-
when they do
the violets,
till all
Fragrant
Yearsley.
as the violet as
More
Denham.
Chapman.
as Vulcan's
as the morn.
others.
T. Moore.
as the
fy
as the gentle
summer
air.
Shiel.
Tobin.
Theobald.
Thomson.
breathings of Arabian
R.
is
Arachne's
fragile like
Scott of Amwell,
breath of morn.
Banks.
as ditch water.
as the spring.
Collection,
rising day.
Weak and
FRAGRANT
credit
as blotted pestilence.
smithy. Shakespear.
FRAGILE.
Fletcher.
first
grow
first kisses.
C. Bullock.
rose water.
Mrs. Brooke.
More
More
as
Fragrant as the
lily's
perfume.
FRE
perfumed breath, or scent of vernal
lily's
ron.
W. Thompson.
as the
in bloom.
M.
dow
Fragrant as mea-
Pilkington.
flower of the
jasmine.
RousT. Moore.
the phoenix'
a bee.
as the
as
S.
nest.
as
Nor
And
Arabian winds
still
grow,
vi'lets
blow,
More
Arabia
Young.
sacrificed,
than
all
and
all
new-mown
FRAIL
More
the flower.
whose
FRANK
thin
T. Herbert.
Fragrant
hay.
dew upon
than
as
Aurelia, a Poem.
as
as
is
herself.
the film
Mirth
Montgomery.
E. Young.
as the flower.
Campbell.
and merry
Campbell.
Play,
Merry Devil of
Edmonton.
FRANTIC
FREE as liberty.
M.
Bladen.
Shakespear.
cence.
Otway.
ty
others.
Free
as virtue. Randolph.
as innocence.
as innocence can
/. Shirley.
as
bending an-
as first inno-
make me. A.
Hill.
itself.
May.
Free
E. Ward.
Free from shame
as thought.
and unconfined as
FRE
as truth's fair nakedness.
W. Davenant.
Sir
Free as truth
is
T. Heywood.
A. Bushe, Banks,
the
breeze, or
of heaven. Akenside.
Free and
N.
Beaumont
the common
Thomson.
mental
Tate.
he breathes. Glapthorne, Den
as the
sun.
as the sun.
rays.
as the sun's
the
as light.
as
as
faithful
Fletcher,
fy others.
light
vital
light.
as
Coffey.
Field,
air.
as
others.
8$
8$
as ele-
air.
as the air
air.
ham.
J.
Free as mountain
and transient as
air,
W. Mason.
blast.
its
Pope.
ford.
fire,
fragrant
Watts.
gales that
air.
C. Dibdin.
and
As
plains.
Behn.
as fate. T.
mountain
as
Walk
free as
Free as
as the gale.
winds
or wind.
seas,
Samuel Bam-
as the zephyr's
Byron.
as the
R. Bloomfield.
air.
bound-
as
lions.
N.
Lee.
W. Davenant.
as flowers in
as emperors. Marston.
the
Shenstone.
Heywood.
the wind.
as
as a
yonder
Free as roving
Surrey.
the
bird.
as
Free as the
others.
Paul Hiffernan.
as a
P. Pindar.
boughs. H. Boyd.
bird on a tree.
ocean's spray.
as
Landon.
wave.
birds of
fy
others.
W. Davenant.
or wind.
as
as
wing. Garrick.
less
Shakespear, Byron,
winds.
W. Hcm-
air.
G. Keate.
air.
meads
W. Cartwright.
As shepherds
as an
FREEZE
Rawlins.
like a
FRE
FRESH
wright, Pope,
as the
mervile.
others.
fy
W. Cart-
dawning light. Milton. as the rising dawn. Sosummer's dawn. Ramsay. as the morn. Pope
as
as
morning.
Giles Fletcher,
morn. Poems, Forest of VaAs Aurora's blushing morn. Garth. As Aurora be-
Durfey,
8$ others.
rieties.
as blushing
Romulus
Hersilia,
fy
fy
8$ others.
as
spring.
as
spring.
as
Hersilia.
R. Barford.
Old Woman.
the
Fountain Play,
the
the blooming
Ro-
Play, Amorous
mulus
as the bright
Beaumont
fy
Fletcher.
N. Rowe.
flowers.
Sir W. Davenant.
its
when wan-
dew from her cheeks. Nabbs. Fresh as April. CaMay. Chaucer, Spenser, fy others. Fresh and blithe
as May. John Keefe.
as the month of May. Chaucer, Lilly,
Fresh and youthful as the month of May. L. Barty others.
rey.
Fresh and blooming as the month of May. Pope. as
the lovely form of youthful May. Sotheby's Oberon.
as meadow in a morn of May. Lilly. as a morning in May. The
Footman, an Opera.
Fresh and jocund as the breast of May.
and
rew.
kiss
as
Marston.
Than May
April blossom.
Francis North.
rick.
ven
Durfey.
T. Moore.
in the
prime.
Tatham.
flowers. Shakespear.
wings.
Chaucer.
Fresh as an
as Flora in her
morning dew.
roses.
May
Spenser.
distilled
sits
on
on
dew that drops from bounteous heamake the shadowy bank pregnant with
as the
morning, to
FRE
Habington.
violets.
Sj-
Science, Fair
summer
fair as
mont's Psyche.
vester.
fy
May flowers.
as
Fawkes
as
May
Beau-
rose.
Syl-
as flowers in
others.
flower of
as
May.
May.
in
as
Em, Marriage
Spenser, Gay.
fresh
Fresh and
doth
Spenser.
light.
Sandys.
More
G.
morn. Rawlins.
as breath-
W. Hamilton.
More fresh and fair than blossoms which the morning air
Fresh as the balm.
steals perfume from. R. Lloyd, Arcadia.
as the buds of roses. T. Middleton.
as a roseJ. Ford.
Somervile.
-as
a rose.
Chaucer, Durfey,
morning
Ramsay.
as roses
Peaps.
in the
dewy
mer's
rose.
Salmagundy.
when
the
C.
Molloy.
mask
rose.
Theophilus Gib-
as a rose in June.
Reuben Bourne.
in
May.
as da-
A colour
fresh
FRU
as
damask
Warner's
rose.
Albion's
Cumberland.
a daisy.
Watts.
shall live.
dawn.
of
H. Faughan,
zephyr on
Fawkes. Fresh
Davenant. Fresh
youth. Duke of Newcastle. Feel
Glapthorne,
J. Dillon.
and gay,
the
as childhood.
C.
fresh,
Southey.
fresh as a bridegroom
new minted
FRESHEN
like
as the wave.
Go
Spenser.
when he meets
attire
As
eagle
yourself
Fresh
a chafed
W. Taverner.
lion.
velvet. Shakespear
FRTGHTFUL
sixpence. Marston.
a hastening shower.
FRET like
as a
the gales
hill.
as
Downing.
as
others.
fy
as the
Sacred Script.
Thurlow.
fine as
as air.
Fresh and
Sylvester.
Fresh and
England.
Spenser.
Beaumont
like a
fy
Fletcher.
gummed silk.
like a
gummed
/. Baillie.
Shakespear.
Frightful to
W. Taverner.
FRISK like a
goat. /. Shirley.
FRIVOLOUS
FROLICK,
amid
FROWARD
as children suddenly
year.
N.
Cotton.
as
autumn. Fountain.
G2
genial
as the full-grown
FUG
Newcastle.
Dryden.
as the Nile.
FUGITIVE
meads of Paradise.
as the
W. Davenant.
C. Cotton.
as wind.
Thomas
Gent.
FULL. As
full
Rape.
am
Heywood.
as full of
She was
frozen night
is
humour
Shiel.
Rape upon
T.
R.
As
Shiel.
full
My mouth was
of sorrows,
as full of wit,
of meat. Fielding.
R.
full
Shahespear.
of meat. W. Davies.
Play,
of sweetness.
is
as a sea of sands.
full
Full
of charms, as nature
Full as an egg.
Gay.
is
of
is full
as an
egg
is
day of Term.
Fielding.
FULSOME
FURIOUS
Cibber.
as a whirlwind.
as the wind.
A.
Shahespear.
Hill.
Otway.
as
as
Libyan whirlwinds. C.
when Boreas
cliffs.
Doyne's Tasso.
as
as a flame of fire.
G. Townsend.
Sylvester.
as stormy bil-
proud mountains'
as a tiger. /. Corey.
Lidgate.
Wild and
fu-
Furious as an enraged
G.
GABBLE
GAPE
like a goose.
Dryden.
like oysters.
Beau-
GAY
mont
mer
fy
Fletcher.
dust. Byron.
GATHER
Webster, Baron,
like a snow-ball.
Abdicated Prince.
fy others.
GAUDY
like a
Landon.
like
summer.
as the
J. Shirley,
as a tulip. Durfey.
as
GAUNT
Chapman.
as famished wolves.
Shake-
as a grave.
spear.
GAY
Chatterton.
the sprightly
as nature at the
morning
smile.
W. Richardson.
of day.
den's Miscellany, fy
cellany; Durfey,
as the spring.
fy
others.
as the gilded
as the
Make
Gay
the
Queen
above. Hayley.
as a peacock.
Chaucer.
as a goldfinch. Sir
W.
Scott.
Jane West.
the
first
her smile as
is
summer fly.
as the gilded
Edinburgh
Cornwall.
Gay
as a
lamb
in
Collection, 1767.
More gay
Gaily as
AZ
G
Gay
Barham Livius.
sells,
Lewis.
as the zephyrs of
More
Donne, R. Lloyd.
as Flora.
morn of May.
summer. M. G.
elegant and gay
Gay as
Gay and bloom-
/. Smith.
as Paradise,
Conquest,
Shadwell.
Lacy. Gayer than
a
W.
a
Gay and
a
Play, The Mistakes
youth. T.
a bridegroom. Blackmore, Joseph Fawcet,
Savage.
young bridegrooms. C.Johnson.
as
tulip.
Holcroft.
as
Odingsells.
More gay
GAZE
bride.
as
as
as mirth.
as
others.
Sherlock.
beautiful like
such insatiate
fants,
when they
relieved.
Pix.
GENERAL
as the sun.
C. Churchill.
Play,
as the air.
GENEROUS as a prince.
dews
its
star
the Third.
W.
Sir
of eve. Akenside.
as evening.
as spring
Scott.
infancy. Settle.
as the day.
8? others.
GENTLE
in
Edward
Colman, Burke,
A. Marvel.
as nature
as the golden
as star-beams
on the
A. Cowley. Gentle
as the morn. Poems
as Cynthia's silver beam. Ode to Fancy.
on State Affairs, N. Lee, 8$ others. as a morn of May. The
midnight seas.
B. Booth.
Liberal.
summer
Watts.
Gentler than
light.
Dodsley's Collection.
airs.
W. Cowper.
as winds,
when Zephyr
as soft
blows.
brushthe gentler
Jonson.
winds
ing wind runs
Doyne's Tasso. Gentle and smooth
the groves of
Marmion.
the gale
water when no wind breathes on
flowers.
o'er
stir
W. Richardson.
as the
that
as
spring.
as
it.
the grass.
Ossian.
as the gale,
as
GEN
fumes anew the blossomed
that
wave
Richardson.
vale.
musky wings
their
A. Seward.
Mickle.
Richardson.
Hogg.
Each word is
bosom of the
Southern.
W, Scott.as the
Sir
twilight breeze.
Mary
Robinson.
some folding
tropic noon.
Montgomery.
violet,
not moving
Dry den,
its
as
fy
Azor.
that dances in
Abelard
its
is
lily
as the
Cooke's Hesiod.
as
of a
among
as
as the
bosom of
flower. Langhorne.
W,
as the whispering
W.
in
as
W. Thompson. Gently
slumbers creep. N, Rowe. Gently as
as descending dews,
dews descend, or
falls
is
gentleness.
S. Rousseau's Flowers
at
dew
falls
fleece of snow
on the bosom
Gentle as sum-
GH A
Mrs.
Gunning.
S.
as flakes of
as the
flowers. Sturm.
lection.
-,
lamb. R. B. Sheridan.
din.
as a dove.
perfume of
Dodsleys Col-
as a lamb.
others.
A.
Bicknell.
Howard
der dove.
J.
fy
Stagg.
fy
unweaned
as the
C. Trotter, Fielding,
less dove.
others.
8f
as the gall-
as
the ten-
is
W. Hamilton.
as a
new-born
Wordsworth.
R. Hurst.
Settle.
Rose.
soft as notes
as innocence. TV.
ment.
Cornwall.
priests
do speak
when
dying
W.
blooming innocence.
as a
happy
lover's sigh.
Davenant
Words, gentler
to
as
Cockain.
as an infant child.
The Liberal.
as a maid.
as a love-sick youth,
like a goddess.
C. Churchill.
child.
Fountain.
saints.
Gently as sleep
in
mossy
cells, lulled
GHASTLIER than
GIDDY as a goose.
GLAD
ivood.
as the
death. Southey.
Burgoyne.
T. Hey-
Bird.like
like a
like
T. Moore.
spring. Pasquin.
a flash of
falling star.
Byron.
GLI
not the hawk,
when from
marks
GLARING as
E. Young.
Glaring and
gay as
GLEAM like
on the
James Campbell.
A tongue
like the
like
broken moon-light
glib as
Durfey.
oil.
Kyd.
Glide, like a
shadow. R. Greene.
morn
o'er
GLIMMER
like a meteor.
GLISTER
Glide away
of Fancy.
Southey.
like gold.
GLIB.
Montgomery.
fierce as
foe. /. Bird.
a thunder cloud.
GLIDE
Pomfret.
falling Lucifer.
ing
his vic-
Southey.
tim.
S. Rogers.
Scott of Arnwell.
dying tapers. Pix.
like
like the
A. Barclay.
T. Heywood, South,
Revenge ; N. Richards.
others.
ty
G. Peele.
like a star.
Devices of sundry
like gold.
GLITTER
like a star.
Chapman, Banks,
8$
others.
like a
like
starry sky.
like a sun-beam.
W. Wordsworth.
like a gem.
a flame. Chapman.
Sotheby's Oberon.
Akenside.
burnished gold.
like
like
Modem
Manners.
GLITTERING
W.
Scott.
as
as a
Byron.
Southey.
like
like
crescents
morning dew.
Poem,
glow-worm. W. Tennant.
as Phoebus.
GLO
Burke.
Parnell.
like a
Spenser.
Blackmore.
refulgent star.
like a
Olympus
GLOOMY
Milton, Pope,
as night.
Townsend.
Ossian.
G.
as hell.
fy
Wrong.
fy others.
path
as death.
Marmion,
others.
'fy
as the
More
like the
glori-
sun in his
sun. Behn.
Lidgate.
Crown.
as the
summer sun
as the day.
M.
as the
Stevenson, Doyne's
Beaumont
sets in the
Tasso.
like
when
Gloomy
P or den.
Otway.
G. Croly.
GLORIOUS
as a November
Mr. May's King
as the grave.
full
silver
G. Peek.
court.
stars.
Dryden.
star.
like
like the
Asa.
as mid-day.
light
broke through the chaos. Suckling. as the morn. Soas the morning
as a summer morn. W. Tennant.
mervile.
Countess of Winchilsea.
Titan
cloud.
rises.
Durfey.
Sacred Script.
rainbow giving
Massinger.
morning
as the
AuMore
as the
morning
as the
moon
of a
as the
as the spring.
Sacred Script.
as unclouded
May.
Tobin.
as a
diamond
GR A
More
Gait.
morning
full
Glorious as Mars.
Sir
He
W. Davenant.
at the
was as the
moon
star in the
Ecclesias-
ticus.
GLOW
summer
like
unwearied
lustre.
ing as the
summer
like
like
morn when
evening sky.
TV.
Ahenside.
Glow like
Thompson.
oven.
anvil.
Glow
Sir
W.
like
morn when
Charlotte Brookes'
Glowing as the
Vatheh.
holy
vestals'
W. Scott.
W. Scott.
a volcano. Sir
like radiant
brand. Ibid.
like heaven.
Zimri, an Oratorio.
like a flame.
pure
Glow-
Glowing
T. Moore.
Campbell.
suns.
Merry.
fires.
as a fiery
like a fiery
like steel
upon the
Scott.
Dian
when she draws her bow. Byron. Not with more grace the
nectar'd cup is given by rose-lipp'd Hebe to the Lord of Heaven. Hayley. One there was like orient morn, and graceful
as of goddess born.
GRACIOUS
as the
GRADUAL
and
morning
silent
Bacon.
Dr. Johnson.
GRATEFUL
to the
W. Thompson.
when
Titan's golden
celestial light.
beam
first
C. Fox.
GR A
new-recovered sight of one long fated to the dreary glooms of
darkness. J. G. Cooper.
where
to fainting
trickling
the morning
dew on dying
Grateful as
C. Lennox.
plants.
fields.
hope of wonted
Gay.
external sensation
terature, by
N. E.
own
Chess.
as fall-
child.
as the touch
Kindersley.
Addison, Colman.
barn. Farquhar.
is
GRAVE as a judge.
Doyne's Tasso.
rain.
No
of peace.
Play,
as a tetrarch.
Look grave
Somervile.
Grave
as a justice
as an old abbess.
Play,
Game of
owl in a
W. Davenant.
as an
Sir
Look
as
GREAT
Gay.
as
Jove.
as a duchess.
of Guise, by Dryden
GREEDY
kites.
as a
Dryden.
Rowe.
Gay.
as a king. Durfey,
as the grave.
A. Marvel.
Tatham.
8$
Somervile.
Duke
Lee.
Cumberland.
Greedy of
it
as wolves.
as a cat
is
South.
Otway.
as
of a dish of milk.
Greedily as bees
Tatham.
GREEN
the
as spring. Hunt.
bay-tree.
as a laurel.
Marmion, T. Shadwell,
Chaucer,
fy
others.
Wyatt.
as
as
grass.
GUI
Common Prayer Booh,
Gascoigne,
Chaucer, Gascoigne,
leek.
val.
Watts.
as a
Cambrian
leek. Bre-
W.Words-
as
Palms.
GREY
Ms.
the spring
as
worth.
No
as the leaf.
8$ others.
May. T.Shadwell.
as
others.
8$
as glass.
Chaucer,
Chaucer, Gascoigne,
others.
fy
as a falcon.
as
others.
ty
as
as
Pindar.
South.
his debts
when he
as for a bankrupt to
is
not
examine and
look into his accounts, which at the same time that they ac-
must needs
quaint,
More
also upbraid
Ibid.
GRIM as hell.
Shahespear.
More
GROW
Script.
as the
lily.
Ibid.
as
Ibid.
like
made drunk.
The
lofty head.
its
Ossian.
I will guide
assist the
/. Taylor.
in
Greek
Tragic Theatre.
GUILEFUL
as the hunter's
snare.
S.
Rousseau
Flowers of
Persian Literature.
GUILELESS
GUILTLESS
Settle.
as the
as innocence.
Gomersal.
as an infant's dreams.
HAL
H
HALLOWED as
Heaven's
is
Mason.
TV.
self.
HANDSOME
as a
as an angel. Southern, Fielding, fy others.
goddess. Behn.
as
as a cherubin. Centlivre, James Wild.
Venus.
/. Mottley.
first
as Adonis.
labour. Byron.
as
as a peach-tree in blos-
som. T. Morton.
Duke.
rain.
heavy head
hung
is
like the
Codrus.
Shakespear.
like
like a white
bending
lilies
overcharged with
rain.
down with
overcharged with
plain,
whose
My virgin head
Dryden.
with
head declined
Milton.
as with ungentle
Hang
Cotton.
dew. Beaumont
eared corn.
lily
ty
Suckling.
Hang down
Fletcher.
hung
his head.
like a columbine.
P. Pindar.
She
morning
/.
lily.
down
thy head
Marston.
Like
like a lilly
like a
a drooping
nipped by
its
Hang
Hang
spear.
together like a
Hang heavy
will I
o'er
him
like flax
on a
distaff.
Shake-
like a
Grief on her lovely aspect hangs like a cloud upon the morning's
Theobald.
HAPPILY
HAPPY as a god.
A.
Hill.
Cornwall.
The Robbers.
as angels. Farce,
HA
Who fares
best.
as Heaven's angels.
Play,
a
a
Lansdowne.
fy others.
as
Happy and
others.
Wordsworth.
as a king.
as a queen.
M. P. Andrews,
The Mistakes ;
prince. Play,
bird.
as
Sylvester.
fy
Ibid.
day
as the
is
faithful as
two
Garrick,
long.
worth.
HARD
as a stone.
Chaucer, Lidgate,
Hard and
Sacred Script.
rieties.
as marble.
fy others.
rocky
as the
Sylvester,
Duchess of Newcastle,
fy
others.
fy others.
than rocky
rocks. Glapthorne.
Spenser.
hills.
Hard
as stony
Hard
as an adamant.
rocks of adamant.
Marmion, Habington,
ty others.
as
Hearts
fy others.
more hard than adamantine rocks. J. Taylor. Hard as a diamond. Chaucer. Heart, hardened as the diamond. W. PainHard as flint. Sacred Script., A. Barter's Palace of Pleasure.
clay, fy others.
as
fire-engendering
than
mond.
flint,
flints
or marble stone.
fy
steel,
others.
as steel.
Peele.
or
as iron, or steel.
A. PHIL
flint,
Lidgate, Barclay,
adamant. G.
Marlowe.
T. Moore.
plains.
than
than marble,
A. Barclay.
than
Poole's Parnassus.
flint.
on sun-burnt
8$ others.
as iron.
or diaflint,
as glass.
Harder
Sandys, Fountain,
Parnassus.
heart. Play,TheRevolution.
Poole's Parnassus.
Hard
(difficult) as for
a camel to thread
as to paint echo to
HAR
the sight. Swift.
as the
Sylvester.
Harder than
singer.
Ibid.
than
HARDY
prop a
HARMLESS
A.
turtle.
lambs.
A.
Ibid.
As
beams. Mas-
Hill.
ty others.
Philips.
as the
Nemean
fy
others.
harmless
as the
Otway.
as
berland.
less
tell
falling tower.
J. Wilson, author
per.
as to
Shakespear.
Watts.
herdess.
to
to
veil
Chaucer, Lidgate,
as a lion.
lion's nerve.
Smith.
to
as
and without
effect, as is the
Dryden. Harm-
fire.
Harmless as the
HARMONIOUS
as planets
silent dead.
Preston's
App. Rhodius.
move.
J.
Adams.
E. Young,
$ others.
harmonious as
celestial
music. T. Maurice.
lark's
when she
sings
notes
Sp>enser.
He who
may
more sonorous
music of an
N. E,
infant's prattle.
is
but
Kindersley.
HARMONIZE.
See
o'er the
E A
HARSH
The
face.
New
Theobald.
HASTE
fatal as the
as a generous unfleshed
hound, that hears from far the hunter's horn and cheerful cry.
Dryden.
HASTY as
as they
fire.
would
fly
Shakespear.
as
fire.
L. Theo-
bald.
HATE
him, as
do
cockatrice. Play,
Shakespear.
hell's pains.
Lord Cromwell.
Hate thee
as I
would a
like a serpent's
HATEFUL
to
my
Beaumont
8$
Fletcher, J. Philips,
you are
soul, as sin
as hateful
unto the
grown, as
Corye.
saints.
and
others.
as hell.
To my
sight
to
More hateful than contempt. Mrs. Cowley. Hatename of slave. P. Francis. as the grave. Pope.
Shakespear.
the
ful as
my
HAUNT
like a
him
like a sprite.
phantom. Sir W.
PasquiVs Nightcap.
Haunt me
Scott.
Haunt him
W.
like a passion.
Wordsworth.
HAZARDOUS.
As hazardous
for a
moderate understanding
common form
to
to
HEALING
as balm. Jephson.
as the
W. Thompson.
W. Davenant.
HEA
HEARTLESS,
M.
deer.
HEAVE
Bruce.
The Liberal.
tion.
Montgomery. like
a sea in restless
cred Script.
as the
Marlowe.
than
mo-
Ossian.
and
Sa-
sea.
weight as heavy
My
on him.
/. Shirley.
as a stone.
Lidgate.
HEEDLESS
HERD
like
wounded deer
in
company. Dryden.
High
Sylvester.
Collection.
as the
Marlowe, Shakespear,
as heaven.
Script.
head
others.
8$
than heaven
from
above the
Watts.
Phoebus
Congreve.
W.
Dryden,
Olympus. Beaumont
Olympus' cloud-dividing
high
huge
Rawlins.
Olympus'
Hopkins.
Banks. High above
Atlas
a
Play,
Alpine
a monumental pyramid.
a
Beaumont
a May-pole. Duchess of
R. Greene. High
Newcastle.
could
my
ground we
Lidgate.
tread.
as
the spheres.
as
as
these, as
C.
to
Timoleon.-
as
as Atlas.
mole-hill. Ibid.
as the
hills.
Settle, Powell.
as
steeple.
ty
Fletcher.
as cedars.
HISS
ty others.
top.
top.
like snakes.
as I
Broome.
as the noise of
many
as
as
Shakespear.
HOARSE
as
J. C-Keeffe, 8$ others.
Fletcher,
8$
as
lance.
Sidney.
Sir
as the clouds.
J.
Sir
as the skies.
stars.
pitch
HOT
HOLLOW as a vault.
HOLY as religion. R.
when
Faulkland.
Shiel.
Cumberland.
W.
Sir
Scott.
flame as holy
Holy
as her-
as altars' incense.
Glap-
thorne.
HONEST
as truth itself.
between
as the skin
HONORED like
HORRIBLE
TV.
a god.
J.
Stagg.
others.
fy
as murderers.
as death.
Thompson.
TV.
T. Heywood.
as the mandrake's
Shenstone.
W. Cartwright.
Montgomery.
his prey.
horrid as
as the light.
A. Brewer, Pope.
groan. Shakespear.
on
Hemings,
HORRID
N. Rowe.
as
Mars. Pope.
when
N.
Lee.
Black and
HOT as fire.
Gower, Lidgate,
ley, fy others.
Durfey.
fy others.
as
P. Pindar.
ton.
as the
Hot as thunder.
summer sun. A.
as the
A. Cowley.
as flaming Etna.
C. Hopkins.
from the
N.
Lee.
fire.
Jonson.
Hill.
all his
as the
flames.
summer. Dray-
as ripe noon.
of
Hot
entrails
as lightning. Glapthorne.
Smith.
Fanshaw, Cow-
Hot
hell.
Hot as an
Parnassus.
when kindled
Shakespear.
through. Duchess of Newcastle.
molten
Taverner.
Otway.
molten
Blackmore. Hot
Hotter than melting
gunpowder. Shakespear. Jove. Pomfret.
as coals,
as
as
gold.
lead.
as liquid brass.
flint,
or fluid glass.
as
as zeal. Quarles.
as
TV.
HOV
Garth.
W. Davenant.
brandy.
HOVER like
as a peppercorn.
as a toast.
as
as peppered
like the
mid-
like a northern
tem-
R. Bernard.
A. Maclaren.
George Thornley.
N. Rowe.
Murphy.
They come
Tu
as
humbly
Humble
quoque.
as
as the
Sad Shepherd.
as a lamb.
Barclay.
Congreve.
as
as a spaniel. Play,
as April. Jonson.
Sir
W.
Scott.
as quicksilver. Jonson.
HUNGRY
E. Ward,
as the sea.
Sf others.
Shakespear.
as a
hawk.
/.
Shirley,
as night.
W. Gilbank.
as midnight.
Shakespear. Play,
Traitor to himself.
W. Browne.
and silent as the lonely churchyard at the midnight hour.
A. Cherry. Hushed as the foot of night. R. Blair. as dead
IM M
calms.
N.
Lee.
All
is
still.
retir'd,
Hushed
Otway.
and the
as the falling
like
C. Hopkins.
I.J.
IDLE. More
idle than a
JEALOUS as
usurpers. /. Carlile.
as a turnkey.
Beaumont
fy
Fletcher.
JEST
IGNORANT
ILLUMINE
is
irradiated
Shakespear.
as dirt.
the soul
by
Donne.
by the
light
terature.
ILLUSIVE
as the
ILLUSTRIOUS
Venus
Beaumont.
fy others.
IMMOVEABLE
faith.
Fido.
as fate. Play,
Glapthorne.
Game
as
of Chess; Glover.
Translation of Pastor
as a steadfast rock.
moveable as mountains.
/.
Montgomery.
Im-
IMM
IMMUTABLE
Dryderis Miscellany.
as fate.
as the laws of
nature. Burke.
IMPARTIAL
as truth.
South.
IMPASSIVE
as marble.
The
IMPATIENT
Johnson.
Liberal.
as desire. Southern.
an
as
The unbroken
M. Bladen.
colt is not
C. Shadwell.
as the wind.
rider's weight.
My secret
G. Powell.
he rushed. A. Hill.
IMPLACABLE
lightning.
Impetuous as a storm
as a tigress
as storms.
Impe-
C. Johnson.
down
new with young. Garth.
C. Cibber.
as a torrent rushing
as fate.
is
absurd or
Poem, Tyranny
IMPOSSIBLE
is
false,
can by
true.
South.
from a
true. Ibid.
man
as for a
a sick
South.
to
as
man
to live,
be at ease.
who wants
eyes.
should
snow. Shakespear.
cool.
as for
him
and not
as that
day with
night.
Quarles.
a star. Ibid.
as to catch the
as for
as that fire
Tillotson.
to see,
to breathe. Ibid.
light, frost
with
fire,
or
W.Davenant.
wind
in a net
as to reach
down
thatbloweth
in the
INC
air. Lilly.
as to cast a drop of water in the breaking gulf,
and take unmingled thence, that drop again, without adding or
diminishing. Shakespear.
of voice. E. Young.
the Father of Lies.
as to silence an echo
by
God
as to reconcile the
the strength
of Truth and
Tillotson.
as for Heaven to hold communion with Hell. W. Thompson. as youth in health to dote
upon a grief. Middleton. as to cure a disease by an invective.
South.
Impossible and contradictious, as for a man to be
envious and innocent too. Ibid.
Impossible
might'st as well
to
storm-lash'd, recede
As
IMPROBABLE,
prey. Lansdowne.
IMPUDENT as
he
kill
the basilisk,
him with
his eyes.
who
man until
W. Davenant.
Sir
INCONSTANT
as the
moon. Dryden,
T. Heywood,
wind.
Shakespear,
wind.
Hoole's Ariosto.
Glapthorne.
Lower.
More
summer
blasts.
is
is
More
changing
as
T.
Kyd.
than
the air.
Mary Robinson.
as the
inconstant
# others. as the
than autumn's
Not more
Cibber,
others.
fy
Inconstant
bosom of
the rose.
Hey-
INC
wood, Jonson,
others.
fy
Mrs. Manley.
flowing seas.
Incon-
as April.
we
More
C. Johnson.
Glapthorne.
as the
shadows
as the
survey. S. Boyse.
INCREASE
Akenside.
like
like a flood in a
narrow
when
vale.
rolling
The
Ossian.
noise
INDUSTRIOUS as
INEXORABLE
T. Killigrew.
the ant.
as the grave.
of mariners. Glapthorne.
G. Powell.
like
consuming
Play, Costly
fire.
Whore.
is
an infectious
sin, it
C. Johnson.
INFERIOR
INFINITE
as a
INFLEXIBLE
hardened
weak
as space.
starlight to the
SoameJenyns.
steel.
Ajax,
in
like
as a rock.
James Kenney.
INHOSPITABLE
INIMICAL,
Marmion.
Shakespear.
as
new-born
virtue.
breeze
INNOCENT
others.
as the quicksands.
its
M. Bladen.
Corye.
as grace
R. Davenport.
fy
itself.
as angels.
as chaste
Inno-
IN
a vestal. E. Morris.
less as
others.
new-born babe
is
infant's. Sir
Newcastle.
air. Ibid.
stal
as
is
Thy
D. Terry.
Thoughts, in-
fy
The
T. Holcroft, C. Dibdin.
babe unborn.
as the
Farquhar.
Innocent as infancy.
Sedley
heart
thy breast
free,
is
still
as purest
innocent as cry-
Goring.
Yarrington,
The
nocent.
Home.
Tatham.
fy others.
others.
fy
is
W. Davenant.
as flowers. Sir
as
in
May.
sun.
water-gruel.
TV.
as
Wordsworth.
or stars of morning
as the sand
Script.
INSATIABLE
as death.
as the grave.
Sacred Script.
Marston, South,
fire.
fy
as fate. Somervile.
others.
ty
Fletcher,
8$ others.
Insatiate as the
More
Duchess of Newcastle.
insatiable
Insatiable as
covetousness. South.
INSENSATE
/.
Merrick.
INSENSIBLE
as rock. /. Reed.
Pordage.
INSEPARABLE
INS
INSOLENT as power when put in vulgar
INTANGLE thyself in thy own work
hands. Dryden.
like a silkworm.
/.
Webster.
INTRICATE
More
Welshman.
T. Heywood.
tal eyes.
Abdication of Ferdinand.
JOCUND
Merry.
as sprightly
huntsmen
as
JOYFUL
C. Cibber.
as
as the soar-
as saints forgiven
mourned her
on
as a vernal morn. R.
Universal Magazine.
D. Deacon.
ing lark.
JOVIAL
May. Rawlins.
C. Hopkins.
thee.
wakes from a
much
to find her
Joyful as
frightful dream,
I look
ingham.
as the
W.
Davies.
IRREVOCABLE
Medes and
Persians.
R. Baron.
JUMP like
JUST
as honour. Mallet.
Thomson. as Minos.
Smith.
Dryden.
as
as
KIN
K.
JtvEEN
as
Savage.
scorn.
as the lightning.
E. Filmer.
Keen
L. Macnally.
Gay,
fy others.
needle to
inflict
as vinegar.
KILL
like
as
is
as a razor.
as
blighting
as
Garth.
Scourge of Folly,
Shakespear.
Look
as the
keen
as
A. Brewer.
mandrake's shrieks.
wholesome
Kill the
Gildon.
F. North.
more
is
Keener
Keen
Hervey.
J.
meagre harpies
as
Somervile.
Broome.
as a northern blast.
as the
Eyes,
Tate.
vonshire.
KIND
as compassion. Mallet.
goodness. Gildon.
as angels.
N.
as mercy.
W. Thompson.
Cotton.
as
G. Sewell.
as will-
life
blest influence.
spring. Dekker.
Drums
A. Cowley.
Entertainment.
new
Kind and
as the sun's
married
as foster-
a dove.
D.
Terry.
Kinder than
billing turtles.
A.
Hill.
KIN
KINDLE
KISS
JLABOUR
Earl of
Jonson.
dry-
like the
whose
I still
Sterline.
as a cripple.
the nightingale
like
Centlivre.
LAME as Vulcan.
LAMENT Like
like fires
A. Cowley.
plaintive song bewails
my
lament
my moan.
B.
father's
wrongs,
gic Theatre.
Otway.
like a
Languish
in affliction like
flowers that droop and hang their pining heads beneath the
like a flowerless
LANK
LASTING
as God's love.
Jerusalem. /. Hervey.
Pomfret.as the
as eternity.
Ibid.
light of the
New
as the frame of
LATE.
Too
Too
late, like
late, like
Shakespear.
Shenstone.
or wind.
Waller, F. Beaumont.
as the
LIG
Mr.
wind.
Godolphin, in
Dry den's
Lawless and
Miscellany.
L. The-
obald.
LEAN
as a skeleton.
vey, fy others.
LEAP
fy
R. Bronte.
than
Leap
Leaping
Spenser.
Chaucer,
as a gridiron. P. Hoare.
spring.
as a rake.
as a rake. Spenser.
H. Ward.
as famine.
Fletcher,
and meagre
T. Heywood.
as a lath.
J. Shirley.
mont
T. Shadwell.
Lean
as Lent.
wanton kids
like
like a
HeyLean
giddy kid.
in pleasant
Sir P. Sidney.
LEPROUS
LEVEL as
as sin
itself.
Dekker.
C. Gibber.
Southey.
LIBERAL
sun.
nant.
Heaven.
Cockain.
spear,
Churchill.
as the sea.
Play, Jeronimo.
LIFELESS
as a corpse.
Cumberland.
as a stone. /. Wilson,
LIGHT
others.
as noon. Sylvester.
Dodslefs
Collection,
fy
flew.
Rawlins.
LI G
hails the infant
the
morn.
silvered vale.
lily-
mountain
gales.
A.
Light as
T. Gent.
Hill.
Thy
clouds,
lip
summer
flies
Cawthom.
Offering.
Heart, light as
More
Light as a feather.
Play,
downy
feather.
J.
Hervey.
J.
Heywood,
fy others.
as the feathered
least breath
the volatile
wafted to
as the
bles
spersed smoke.
and
All.
Bloomjield.
Herrysone.
than
No bird
so light as
as a lark. Sir
W.
Scott.
away before
Glapthorne.
as a bird.
they. Pope.
the ze-
as flying leaf.
of the heath that summer chases with her evening breath. Poem,
Charlemagne, by Lucien Bonaparte, translated. Lighter than
than
levity.
Churchill.
than
a madman's dreams.
A. Cowley.
B. Hoadly.
as feathered
Mercury.
LI V
dancing
as a
step
fairies
as the roe.
Eschylus.
sallies as
Prodigality
C. Shad-
as
8$
/. Dillon.
W. Wordsworth.
Duke, 8?
E. P. Knight, R. Lloyd. as chaff that flies
before the wind. Dryden.
as the summer's dust. E. Young.
as truth itself. W. Whitehead.
Death creeps on him lightly
as a shadow. Cumberland.
Light as the shadows flitting o'er
others.
steeps. Dillon.
as cork. Herrick,
as chaff.
LIKE
as cherry
rings. Ibid.
Miller.
he
is
is
Water
to you.
Shakespear.
to cherry.
as
as pilchards to her-
milk to milk
is
spear.
as star to star.
Gay.
/Shake-
A. Brewer.
more like.
Narcissus to
Poole's
Par-
nassus.
LIMPID
as water dropping
from the
clefts
of mossy marble.
Dyer.
LITTLE
as rainy drops
which
fluttering fly,
LIVELY
T. Holcroft.
LIVID
as lead. Byron.
LO A
LOATHE
him
Middleton
fy
much
as
as youth
Rowley.
Oldmixon.
LOATHSOME
known
Play,
More loathsome
than
than a
Ungrateful Favorite.
A. Macdonald.
toad.
fountain. Akenside
Loathsome
leper. Randolph.
How to choose
as a toad.
swoln toad.
a good Wife.
LOFTY
W. Thompson.
breath
8f
An-
as the pine.
A.
Pasquin.
LONELY
traveller lost
LONG as
works
when
Chaucer.
a tedious
Shakespear.
tale.
as the
as
the day to
him who
LOOK as
dreadfully as death.
as a
May-
Richmond.
Dry den.
ful action,
shall
basilisk,
were a basilisk
Margaret of Anjou.
As
Denham. O that I
H. Carey. Looks kill not,
Sir John
fatal blight,
by N. E. Kindersley.
LOST
C. Cibber.
Dryden.
as air. Marston.
as a billow in the
as the
Cawthorn.
unbounded main.
E. Young,
I die
LOU"
forgotten here, lost like a blossom which the wand'ring wind
LOUD
W. Davenant.
as a storm.
Yatden,
Durfey,
Chaucer, Shakespear,
8$
others.
ty others.
as thunder.
Campbell.
as Sinai's thunder.
Louder he'll blow, and it shall speak more shrill than when
from Sinai's hill, in thunder through the horrid reddening
smoke, the Almighty spoke.
Loud
Pomfret.
as the noisy-
Watts.
deep
in storms.
N. Rowe.
waves.
Watts.
precipice
M. Bruce.
it
Ibid.
Loud
as a rushing stream
roars,
8$ others.
when
M.
o'er
Bruce.
the
as
rugged
as the surges
when
as the
roar. Pope.
as the wind.
Ossian,
Cumberland.
as blasts that
their
stormy breath,
s
App.
Robinson.
Rhodius.
fey.
as the
blast
as a trumpet.
as the
;;
LO V
Speak
as loud as
thundering
Mars. Shakespear.
Pope.
field.
as
Fame.
the
When
en-
Southern.
Roar through
the woods,
forests fall
And
Loud
its
shades devour
as
Pope.
H. Moore.
bull.
LOVE.
more than the sunburnt earth loves softenmore than new ransomed captives love the day,
I love thee
ing showers,
than ewes their lambs, than tender kids their fawning dams.
Motteux.
More
Loved
Cooke.
LOVELY
loved by
me
as benevolence.
T. Chalmers.
T. Scot.
the gods
an angel. J. Wild.
H. More.
gifts.
as spotless honour.
as Pandora,
Milton.
as a seraph.
as a cherubim.
as
whom
Venus. E.
Blachnore.
Dimond.
as
Lovelier far
light.
Dryderis Miscellany.
as the
as the first
beam of
the
LO V
sun. Ibid.
when
it
More
when
first
More
as
is
Lovely
G. Cooper.
/.
like the
Ossian.
Isle of Palms.
others.
Taming of a
when he
celestial Ram. W. Joy-
beam of
is
Play,
^r
More
Shrew.
R. Davenport.
R. Davenport.
the morning.
as Aurora.
fy
Gay.
E. Brydges.
as
land.-
as the
the
morn
like the
dawns
as the
kindles. Faulk'
in heaven. W. Richardson.
dawn of day. Aurelia, a Poem.
Dry den's Miscellany. as the rising dawn
that
dawn. T. Noble.
when
first
as the
dawning
east.
as the
C. Cotton.
as the
beams
Ossian.
that play
about the east and lead the coming day. Dryden's Miscellany.
Lovely as the morning beam, yet pure as the fountain that reflects its ray. Morton.
as the blush that breaks the day Da-
venport.
More
displays his
of night. C. Fox.
Lovely
as spring.
Poem, Leonora
to
Tasso
12
as a
yK~
LOW
May.
M Bruce, Pasquin.
as the
as
day
morn
N. Richards.
May
adorned with
Lovely
flourishing
morn
Play,
New
all
view as
to the
Trick
to
blooming Nature
first
T.
K. Hervey.
Lovely
Luna. R. Greene.
as
in
her
Somervile.
No
though the
fair child
Otway.
beams of the
gleam on
rising sun
cheek, lovely
its
dew-covered
evening's glow.
as vernal roses.
Southey.
T. Penrose.
Ibid.
as the
as
Lovely
M. A.
when
gazine.
R.
Ossian.
sides.
summer
Shiel.
LOW
as beggary. Rawlins.
8$ others.
Etna. Play,
as Erebus.
Dryden,
fy
Damon
8$
Pythias.
LOWER
as hell
as helL
is
from
;
M.
Shakespear.
is
Brewer.
T. Heywood.
others.
Zelmane.
Low
as obedience.
A.
MAD
LUCID
as air/ Shenstone.
Lucid
Bruce.
A light more
like truth.
star.
LUDICROUS
LULLING
Gay.
as the song of
Byron.
at rest.
LUMINOUS
LUSCIOUS
as a star. Ravenscroft.
Pope.
as locusts.
Shakespear.
LUXURIANT
sea.
Thomson.
M.
lVlAD
as the winds.
C.
Davenant
wind,
Armstrong.
Dryden's Miscellany ;
spear.
W. Davenant, C. Davenant.
ing tempests.
J.
as the sea.
as the
T. Dibdin.
is
as roll-
Godolphin, in
vexed
sea.
Shake-
as the seas
petite
had whet
Banks.
his fury.
Mad
lowe.
as to build
on a
hill
Ne-
as a Bedlamite.
and
mean
N. Rome.
lions.
C. Macklin.
as fire.
of sand. R. Davenport.
Maras the
field.
Dry den.
-as
mad
dog. Shakespear.
Mad
MA J
Hey wood, Beaumont ty
as a
March
as a
Libyan wilderness by
hare. J.
Fletcher, 8$ others.
its
up
lions
in chase
or fight. /. Montgomery.
MAJESTIC
side
Lansdowne.
as
Deep on
upon the
panoply.
Cornwall.
Universal Magazine.
N. E. Kinder sley.
M. R.
MALICIOUS as a witch,
as a
MANTLE like
manifest as mid-
Swetnam arraigned.
by
monkey. Corye.
W.
Wilkie.
in the sun
little
Play, Dido.
W. Wilkie.
meadows. George Soane.
the ground.
as
is
like dancing
Unnumbered
which
Sacred Script.
as the sand
Many
Ibid.
as the flow-
forth at once,
as a cloistered saint.
as gentle Mercy's
Earl of Carlisle. as a
Play, Royal Cuckold.
saint.
as
Pope.
Moses.
MEL
W. Cowper.
womanhood.
as
maiden.
W. T. Moncrieff.
Pasquin,
fy
others.
Wordsworth.
Meek
as the
as doves.
Meekly as a
W. Davenant,
R. Blair.
dove.
turtle
Sir
as the
as doves
whose
livers
meek might
have no
gall.
day. B. Hoole.
as parting
Meekly
others.
ty
Meek
Meek as
W. Davenant.
Sir.
be. Drayton.
MELANCHOLY
as
Faulkland.
sets.
as night.
C. Shadwell.
Congreve,
light.
Mountfort.
as dark night.
as melancholy as if there
Fielding.
as
a discarded statesman.
Look
Murphy.
in the house.
drum.
wfth one
T.
a
Green's Tu
a
a bass
a
Shakespear.
a warren.
Davenant.
a lodge
Gay,
gib Shakespear.
a
a lugged
an old
a monkey. Leanerd. a moulting
Phillis at Court.
an owl at
as
Centlivre.
as
as
as
lute.
as a cat. Lilly,
hare. Ibid.
Ibid.
as
sick
as
lover's
Sir TV.
in
fy
Holcroft.
quoque.
concert.
viol in
as
string.
fiddle
as a
others.
cat.
bear. Ibid.
as
as
lion.
chicken.
as
J.
Cumberland.
MELODIOUS
Cornwall.
as
the nightingale
first
down
in the west,
by the winds
in
autumn.
as the
new mated
morning as the
thrush.
last star
goes
Voice,
B.
MELT
as
like the
spring dew-drop.
Mrs.Hemans.
Melt away
Hodson.
my sight like a
like a bubble. G.
Keate.
W.
like mist.
Scott.
MER
Ossian.
mist-wreaths
like
Marlowe, Byron,
like snow.
Chaucer, Harington,
mid-day sun.
Sylvester.
M.
Earl of
ern bank.
like
Bladen.
Melt
Melt, as
like shrinking
Melt away
Carlisle.
snow
like
Melting like
others.
fy
Sir
in the sun.
others.
ty
like the
which some warm sun has found fallen out of season. TheLiberal.
Melt away
away
warm weather.
Dry den.
like ice.
M. A. Browne.
wax before
wax
like
R. Wilkinson.
like
wax
wax
C. Middleton, in
fire.
Quarles.
Jonson.
as a lover's prayer.
Melt
Shakespear.
Melt away
Melt
Hughes.
Melted
into gentler
like
like
like butter.
Melting
Sacred Script.
Sales Koran.
like ointment.
in a thaw.
like
England's Parnassus.
the
like
Melt
like
Melt
Ecclesiasticus.
radise of Coquettes.
Poole's Parnassus.
Dry den.
like chafed
A. Seward.
as heaven.
Rolt.
MERCILESS
as death.
Hay ley.
More
MERRY
as the
morning
lark. Play,
E.
M
Moore.~as
gay
the day
long.
is
IL
Sir
W. Wordsworth.
W. Davenant.
fy
Shakespear, J. Davies,
can. J. Davies.
MIGHTY
fy
Goldsmith.
as a king.
as a corporal
Holiday ;
J. Davies'
fy others.
Scourge of
R. Burns.
Byron. cup and
Chaucer, Drayton.
as the popinjay.
a riddle. C. Gibber.
others.
fy
Folly.
merry as
Merry as good
good welcome can make good people.
Shakespear, Miller,
Merry and
as
as crickets.
as a kitten.
as a marriage bell.
as
as
E. Ward.
N. Rowe. Mightier than
as a morrice-dancer.
as Phlegrean Jove.
the
Donne.
sea.
MILD
as
Countenance, mild
tear. Pollok.
Mild
as
as love.
Stagg.
Mild
than the
to their
Higgons.
that
Milder
W. Davenant.
their mothers,
Sir
saint.
F. Reynolds.
Jane West.
Banks.
as infants
as sighing saints.
A.
newly rocked to
Hill.
sleep. Bevil
as a maiden. Fraunce.
as the voice
breath of
day.
like the
footed
May
as evening suns
as the
summer
as
when flowery-
W. Thompson. He
him with his favour.
as the
MIL
summer's evening ray.
Heard,
TV.
as the
summer's evening
Thompson.
than
-as
the gentlest
Fawkes.
Ibid.
Mild
as
Lines by
like
Mild
Cawthorn.
fy others.
as ambrosial
morn.
as opening
as
W.Richardson.
April morn.
R. Bloomfield.
as
as
the opening
morn of May.
Shenstone.
as a May morning. T. Holcroft ; Play, Deaf fy
Dumb.--as the orient dawn of May. TV. Mason. as the doveeyed morn awakes the May. Fenton. Milder than the blushing dawn. Somervile. Mild as the dawn of Aurora. Poem, SorMild as the fragrance of Aurora's dawn, when
rows of Love.
Mild and sweet
vernal showers bedew the lilied lawn. Ibid.
like the fair summer evening. E. Young. Mild as when Phcebus
as
vault she glides in peace serene, and bids our cares and sorrows
cease.
Mild
Poem by L. Bonaparte.
beam of night. Fragments of Ancient Poetry. as
beam of night. Play, Selim 8$ Zuleika. as the star-
Translation of Charlemagne, a
the softest
beam on
A. Seward.
as
as the
Cornwall.
as a
summer's sky.
of May. J. Macgilvray.
J, Worsdale.
as the
summer
as the gales
Milder
Pye.
MO A
Mild
the
as April's
love-inspiring
summer
eve. Smollett.
H More.
Smithers.
Poetical
trees.
o'er
as
as
summer shower,
evenlanguid
hour, and wakes
Poem,
the melodies
Margaret of Anjou.
of day,
decay.
heard remote along
a summer
happy
Dodsley's
woo.
Adams,
a lamb.
Miscellany.
Dry
lamb. The Cloud King.
a dove. Durfey,
peaceful dove. F. Reynolds.
Mild and
shower. R. Bloomfield.
as
that falls at
to life the
ing's fragrant
as
the vale
Collection.
sea.
Beattie.
lovers
as
as the bleating
J. Price.
that
as
/.
Sidney, Sylvester,
as
den's
in
flower.
at close
fy others.
as
as the
in-
Mild
as sleep. Jacob.
MISCHIEVOUS
ape.
as a
as milk.
TV.
Churchey.
as an
T. Smollett.
its
cradle,
left
it.
;;
MOD
MODERN
Nature
Play,
her bloom. Pix.
an
Leanerd.
Caa nun.
Poetical
a
a maid. E. Young. Modest
and bashful
Duchess of Newcastle.
dove.
MODEST
as morn.
West.
as the
spear.
as infant
as the
coldly
Pericles.
as
the
as justice.
in
angel.
lendar, Stevenson.
Poetical
as
/.
as virgins are.
Recreations.
as
as
as a virgin.
as the
Shakespear.
Which from
And
the touch
If aught approach
Its
its
fragile spray
MOMENTARY as a sound.
like a flash of lightning,
an eye.
Shakespear.
Momentary and
which vanisheth
short
in the twinkling
of
Tillotson.
as death.
motionless as
is
C. Churchill.
who
Rowe. as
N. Rome,
<
rocks. Sir
others.
W.
Pale and
image. T. Moore.
a storm,
Dryden, N.
as a statue. Motteux,
as a stone.
Motionless as an
Arabian Nights Entertainments,
is
to strike her
M
W.
dead. Sir
Scott.
Southey.
MOUNT
Pope. like
as a tower. Pope.
upwards
H.
Watts.
as the centre.
Mount
Randolph.
like a flame.
Mount and
Marmion.
a goddess.
as high as
Stevenson.
MOURN
as a dove.
W. Davenant.
Mourn
fy
others.
In gentle
murmurs
will I
mourn, as
MOW
down
the grass.
like
A.
MULTIPLY
Spenser.
Cumberland.
as death.
autumn
corn. Shakespear,
TV. Shirley.
like
Hill, Byron.
Multiplied as
MULTITUDINOUS
in a
sun-beam. Foote.
MUNIFICENT
as Nature. Massinger,
flies.
as with the
Murmuring
Chaucer.
W. Wordsworth.
W. Hayley.
Murmur
sound
as a fire that
like flames
like a brook.
Byron.
Fragments of Ancient
Poetry.
MUSICAL
as
A.
Hill.
than
is
than
syren's voice.
More
the harp of
Play, Cupid's
MUX
The Delian
Whirligig.
lute is not
evening echoes
fell
as
M. A.
Browne.
MUTABLE.
vester.
More mutable
than wind.
Ibid.
than
fickle winds.
Play, Spanish
Tragedy.
MUTE
as a stone. Lidgate.
as Silence' self.
Colman,
fy
others.
as a statue. Middleton,
F. Burney.
Mute and
as death.
pale as death
8$
Rowley.
G.
C. Churchill,
Beaumont
itself.
A. Cowley.
Mute as night, as silent and as secret. T. Heywood. as a
fish. Fielding, Gay, fy others.
as a mackarel. Foote, A. Maclaren, fy others.
as a mouse in a cheese, or a goose in a hayFletcher.
as the dead.
T. Moore.
or a fish in a kettle.
clapper.
rick,
as the grave.
C. Cibber.
as a bell without a
T. Holcroft.
N.
Mickles Lusiad.
as a Mauritanian
worm. Chaucer.
Palsgrave, T. Heywood,
as a
NARROW as
J. Hervey.-
others.
blood. Jonson.
Cumberland.
Blair.
fy
left as
NATIVE as my
NATURAL
am
South.
as to breathe.
as
for corn to
as sleep.
ear.
H.
its
it is
hue. Ibid.
as for
as streams flow
fire
to cast
abroad a
NIP
Natural to
flame. South.
to
me
as
it is
merit. South.
NEAT
as a bridegroom.
me
to
as branches to
Cyril Turner.
More
Marston.
NECESSARY
water,
air,
NEEDLESS,
as to bring an
as the
argument
NICE
full in
morn. W. Cartwright.
as day. Jonson.
as
prove that
to
as
morning dew.
Ibid.
as the
winged hours.
R. Herrick.
Poole's Parnassus.
Nimbler than
air.
as the wind.
nimbly as a
venant.
Nimble
King Saul
Davenant.
as the
rabbit.
A. Cowley.
silver.
G. Colman.
hare.
More nimble
Poetical
as a cat. II
T. Heywood, Sir
as a squirrel.
as a
as an eel. /. Taylor,
8$ others.
John Taylor.
TV.
Lydian
as quick-
Nim-
Nimble-fingered as a
W. Davenant.
me, as the
Calendar.
Sir P. Sidney.
than
W. Da-
Sir
flight.
harper. Ibid.
Fly nim-
ty others.
T. Rawlins.
as a leopard.
as fiery elves.
The Shamrock.
Nimble as thought.
Poole's Parnassus.
star.
Spenser,
NIP
not
is
it
as ermines. Dryden.
NIMBLE
Sir
as
life
R. Edwards.
fire.
NEW
as sleep. Marston.
and
bitter north-east
Jonson.
N 01
NOISELESS
C. Hopkins.
as the light.
as planets
move. Sir
less noise
feet,
Ibid.
NOISY
as the wind.
Script.
Swift.
of
many
waters. Ibid.
NUMBERLESS
by
crystal drops of
NUMEROUS
as glittering
8$
Tate.
womb of morning. A. L.
fy others.
Aikin.
In number more
Rose.
Numerous
E. Young.
as the sand.
the seas.
Duke.
C. Hopkins, in
as
Numerous
Dryden s Miscellany.
as
Thurlow.
Numerous
as the sands of
More
fields,
as leaves
on
as leaves that
as leaves in forests
strew the ground, when chiding autumn bids her gale resound.
Preston's
App. Rhodius.
as
bearded ears
in fields.
in the
Dryden.
C. Hopkins.
Garth.
as
OLD
bushes of sweet thyme, show greater numbers of industrious
bees. Poole's Parnassus.
O.
OBDURATE as a rock.
thorne.
as the grave.
OBEDIENT
tions as a
as
Byron.
Goring.
as a
Abraham. Barclay.
Obedient to
OBSCURE,
as doth a cloud
More obscure
Harington.
Quarles.
as brass.
the
all his
mo-
Baillie.
sun's
Ob-
OBSTINATE
others.
as
an
OBTRUSIVE
OBVIOUS.
idiot.
C. Johnson.
the
Play,
light.
Zelmane.
ODIOUS
as comparisons. Shakespear,
More
More
as a wicked old
man. South.
weather on a
May
odious to
me
than foul
day. Otway.
ODORIFEROUS.
More
man's Tragedy.
ODOROUS
The
OLD
ton,
as
Time. A. Behn, T.
Shakespear.
Scot, 8$ others.
as Nestor. Play,
as a weather-beaten conduit of
spear.
as
W. Habington.
this.
Old-fashioned as
if
as winter.
date with
as Sybilla.
many
T. Killigrew.
human
Wife.
nature
It is as old
itself.
Haring-
South.
OMI
OMINOUS
as the looks of
ONWARD
W.
shore. Sir
OPEN as the
Medusa. Marmion.
summer wave
Scott.
fy others.
as the
Open
W. Hett.
open as
in his
To open
sky. Landon.
ing's
eye.
Sir
like a fragrant
Open
W. Davenant.
as a shadeless
bud before
the
morn-
OPPOSITE
and nay.
as yea
Quarles.
Opposed
ORIENT
and purest
as black
white. Ibid,
God
is
to sin.
Tillotson.
The
Thurlow.
as the day.
was
as the pearl.
Lilly.
OVERFLOW
Queen.
like
like a
sudden
floods.
mighty deluge.
Howard
Tillotson.
fy
Dryden's Indian
OVERPOWERING
as
when
flashes
star
OVERTAKE
swiftest tide.
lesser
Banks.
OUTRAGEOUS
as a sea.
Milton, T.
Bayly.as a mother
bear. Dryden.
OUTSHINE
does a
as a
star.
Ibid.
J. Ford.
as the
moon
star.
Play,
PAL
a
star.
full
Jr
John, Taylor.
ALE as death.
Landon.
wan
Pale and
and languid as
livid as the
if
as
Gildon.
Pale and
by
by sorrow.
that
fy others.
as death.
flash out-
G. Colman,jun.
it.
Ogilvie.
W.
moon withdraws
J. Mickle.
MickWs
fy others.
as the withering
as the ghost
as a spectre
Rey-
C. Hopkins, F.
as a ghost.
the gleaming
derer's bed.
on the Stygian
murcoast.
Lusiad.
as a spirit who is surprised by sun-rise. Sir
W. Scott.' as a man long unslept. Chaucer.
like a man
awaked from a swoon. Lidgate. as a pensive cloistered nun.
Charlotte Smith.
Miscellany.
John Home.
C.
A. Elton.
Cheek, pale as
as the
is
as Cynthia's rays.
C. Johnson.
moon
the moon's
bow.
when mas
a Duchess of Newcastle
the snowy skin of
Play, Fatal Union
of
Poem,
W. Davenant. modest
The Union of
droopa snowdrop. Byron.
Roses.
that fades before the day-break. Landon.
leaves.
fy
as
others.
Sir
as
as
the
ing snowdrops.
lily
lily
the vale.
as
as
Walwyn.
as fires
lily.
MickWs Lusiad.
as horse-radish.
Pale as a prim-
Mrs. Cowley.
as a stick
K2
as a
PAL
parsnip. Morton.
nally,
as
as alabaster. Byron.
as marble. L.
marble.
Southey.
Landon.
cold.
Fitzarthur.
Play, Alonzo.
of Palms.
quarter.
Ibid.
moon when
as ashes.
An
outline pale
Gascoigne, Spenser,
like April
as the
and
is
M. P. Andrews.
moon
Pale
fy others.
Chaucer, Sackville,
fy
hills.
Margaret.
as
as
as a sheet.
Colman.
as a
Pale
W. Sampson.
A. Dow.
like
Play, Codrus.
light.
fy
Chaucer, G. Sandys.
in her first
of the
Ballad, William
as box.
You
Pale
Shiel.
advanced. Ibid.
far
milk. Shakespear.
R.
indistinct as that
Ramsay.
morn.
as a statue.
J.
Pale as lead.
Spenser.
his look.
others.
Sir W. Scott.
as clay.
Poem, Ellen
as a statue in an
was
Mac-
as a watery
A. Seward.
as the watery
W. Churchey.
on
PALL
PANT
him
Sacred Script.
PASS away
wall.
shade. Spenser.
Quarles.
rising sun.
Akenside.
like a
shadow on the
tale.
like
summer
Cumberland.
clouds.
C. Fox.
like clouds
like
smoke. H. Blair.
like
smoke
PER
before the wind. Quarles. like a vapour.
like gentle
like a
Mrs. Cowley.
summer
Hemans.
breeze. Mrs.
Pass away-
April showers
like
field.
the thin
man would
or a
air,
Tillotson.
Her
was passive
disposition
buds
to in-
T. Hull.
PATIENT
Charlotte Charke,
N.
tortoise.
Tate.
others.
fy
as the dove.
as the
Shakespear.
as a
and leaving
PEACEABLE
as sleep.
Beaumont
fy
Fletcher.
as spotless in-
PEACEFUL
as a calm.
Sotheby's Oberon.
ful
Beaumont
8$
Fletcher.
as a sleeping child.
M. A.
as the dead.
Browne. Peace-
PELLUCID
T. Shipman.
John Baillie.
as a sick
as a child
has
as glass. R. Nevile.
who
monkey. L. Machin.
as circles.
PERFIDIOUS
Marlowe.
Donne.
Beaumont
Fletcher, T.
Betterton.
PERFUME
pile.
Behn.
T. Nabbs.
Perfume
my
chamber
nest. Play,
Marriage Broker.
PER
Perfumed, as
if
fruitful
their
spices loosely
Yield a more precious breath than that which moves the whispering leaves in the Panchaian groves. Habington.
And
o'er their
head
Shedding
its
And
On velvet
Such perfumes
PERISH
W. Cowper.
more.
PERSPICUOUS.
The purpose
is
stance. Shakcspear.
PERSUADE.
You may
some
sportive wind,
is
fleet
wings of
is
Shirley.
PERSUASIVE
PERT
as reason.
as a pearmonger.
A. Pasquin.
Gay.
as a pyet.
as an
PERVERSE as a hog.
PERVIOUS as the air.
PETRIFIED.
Play from
PIERCE
Smollett.
Schiller.
like lightning.
Glapthorne,
T. Heywood,
others.
W. Killigrew.
like a pointed dart. Watts.
Piercing as the mid-day sun.
Shakespear.
as light. Duchess of Newcastle, Dryden's Miscellany.
as light from heaven. A. Hill.
More piercing than
skies.
Sir
PL A
the darts that break from burning exhalations' power. Play,
King
John,
man's Vision.
like
PINE.
So pines
Robb'd by the
mated love
spoiler of her
finest
plume and
voice,
From spray
PITEOUS
wings she
Bemoans her
fate,
and
flies,
Sturmy.
solitary dies.
as looks the
PITILESS
as death. Dryden.
as a storm. Spenser.
as
fire.
PITYsuch as
PLACID as
PLAGUE.
an
tender parents
infant's rest.
I will plague
Watts.
feel.
the Egypti-
T. Holcroft.
ans.
PLAIN
Beaumont
as truth.
8$
Fletcher, Marston.
Durfey, Parnell.
sun.
The
Tillotson.
translated-, Play,
as day.
N.
Lee.
face.
Shakespear.
as noses
Colman.
four.
Foote.
Plain as the
the noon-day.
is.
as the nose
intelligible as that
church.
as
Sir W. Davenant.
C. Butler.
It is evident
Fond Lady.
upon
faces.
Plain, easy,
and
More plain
as way to parish
South.
Plain
PLAINTIVE.
PLAY
Sylvester.
PL A
PLAYFUL
as a lamb. Play,
PLEASANT
Ibid.
as sleep after
Pleasanter to
me
Spenser.
toil.
A. Cowley.
as the light.
Ramsay.
as returning light.
on Zion's
Ossian.
hill.
as the
of spring, when
leaf rears
when
the
as the
it
Ibid.
to
as the
as the
shower which
hill.
Ibid.
as Elysium.
Adam
Ossian.
past.
as the
as a
riseth,
shower
falls
gale of spring.
over
flies
on the sunny
field.
as the odorous
Ossian.
Poem,
as the
E. Young.
Pleasant to
me
memory
as Paradise
W. Mount-
Marlowe.
when
the sun
fresh,
fort.
the
gale of the
was
Ibid.
hills.
Ibid.
its
Watts.
and
clear, as
when
in
as
Pleasant,
May
as the
violets, stealing
and
PLEASE
PLEASING
Gildon.
J.
when
first
as
dawn of day.
morn
as the rosy
PON
W.
More
Dryden.
ing.
my
Pleasing to
Glapthorne.
as winter suns or
summer
shade.
dreams of health
as
Hett.
Pleasing as
hope. Play,
Momus
turned Fabulist.
as
hope
to the despair-
as blackberries.
PLENTY
W.
Centlivre, Sir
Uproar.
PLIABLE
Scott.
as hops.
M.
Play, Plymouth in an
as nettles.
P. Andrews.
as an ozier.
Lacy, J. Worsdale.
W.
as a twig.
Davies.
PLIANT
wax. John
as the
More
T. Moore.
Baillie.
PLUMP
P. Pindar.
chicken.
Herrick.
after showers.
Burns.
Behn.
to
as a puffin. Farquhar.
T. Killigrew
him
as a damson.
as a cherry.
as grapes
as a gooseberry.
E. Ward.
Plump
R.
as
E. Young.
Rawlins.
Play, Psyche.
stalled theology.
POINT
as grapes.
Young
Pointed at as a prodigy.
an
aspic's tooth.
Moses Mendez.
new forsaken
shore.
Quarles.
lies
upon
POO
POOR
others.
ty
as Job, an alche-
Poor
M.
as a starved herring.
PORTENTOUS
as
T. Durfey, S. Foote,
P. Andrews.
which struck
Byron.
as a miser.
as a church mouse.
o'er
midnight
POSITIVE.
POTENT
as
whirlwinds.
H. Boyd.as
ShaJcespear.
Marston.
POUNCE.
POUR
Landon.
POWERFUL as death.
Brown.
Montgomery.
Medea's drugs.
PRATTLE
jay.
M.
Pilkington.
like
Lidgate.
Centlivre.
More
precious to
than
as
E. Ward.
parrots.
More
TomJcis.
my
heart than
life
or freedom.
Browne.
Precious as
my soul.
Sir
W. Davenant.
my
W. Hayley,
Dr. John
M. R.
More preAndrew
Jordan.
More
heart.
Mitford.
PREGNANT as
PRESAGE.
UB
beauty shine, and armed with fate presage destruction and the
fall
Bevil Higgons.
of kings.
and war,
like
PRESUPPOSE
star.
Sylvester.
dent. South.
PREY
on
itself,
PRIVATE.
view of
PRIZE
like monsters
common
eyes.
rites
Otway.
or
life
human
happiness. Play,
Valiant Welshman.
PROFOUND
as reason. Savage.
Profound as the
sea. Sir
as hell. Swift.
Play,
have dived
Ungrateful Favorite.
W. Davenant, Higgons.
infinite,
PROSTRATE
as earth.
T. Heywood.
like
Tillotson.
summer's corn by
PROUD
pall.
Chaucer, Barclay,
as Lucifer.
Chaucer.
as any great
lady of a
new made
pie.
lord. P. Pindar.
Chaucer.
as the
air,
others.
as prince in
as the
fy
as
May.
Virginia;
Turk-
Jonson.
as a beauty. C. Cibber.
and pert as a
Sir W. Scott.
fy
Mogul. Somervile.
ty others.
as the
as a
Proud
R. Hamilton.
PUN
PUNCTUAL
A.
Hill.
as a tertian ague.
Play, Braggadocio.
PUNY
as pigmies.
PURE
as innocence.
and fresh
E. Ward.
Dr. Johnson.
Thomson.
T. Heywood.
Marmion. Pure
maiden
as
in-
infant goodness.
as
R. Bloomjield.
Mirandola.
Cumberland.
heaven.
as
as grace. Shakespear.
T. Middleton.
as vestal truth.
Pure
others.
fy
unblemished innocence.
as purity.
as truth. Mallet,
as
T. Durfey.
others.
ty
as sanctity. Byron.
let.
as the
as virtue.
Greatheed, Hunt,
Falsehood.
infant chastity.
as
Byron.
W. Mason.
nocence.
W. Hemings,
Dekker,
as innocence.
Thomson.
as friendship.
Mal-
and innocent
as the thoughts of
Mary Robinson.
saints.
Pure
A. Cowley. as
H. More.
spotless saints.
dying
sainted spirits
Pure as angels.
H. Downing;
vestal. J.
H.
Stevenson.
Maker's
sight.
soft desires.
Farquhar.
H. Stevenson.
new baptized
soul. F.
Pure
as
Dekker.
Pure
worn by angels
Southey.
as angels'
as infancy.
as an infant's
who
like a
Beaumont.
as an infant's thoughts.
gel's wishes.
J.
un-
Pure as
in their
all
T. Holcroft.
dreams or an-
as infant's sleep.
Henry Medwall.
as light.
fy
others.
PUR
heaven. P.
the effulgence of
Richardson.
morning
as
Francis.
ethereal light.
as
as
Miss Porden.
Pure as the
sun's beams.
as the solar
W.
Chatterton.
light.
as heaven's ethereal
as the light
and
beam
my
is
Pure
Mallet.
Townsend.
truth.
D.
Purer
Beaumont.
/.
as the
Palms.
Anacreon.
know
W. Richardson.
coronet. T. Moore.
as
fire.
as the
young moon's
M.R. Mitford.
Lower.
Johnson, Marlowe,
the celestial
fires.
diant as celestial
and as
free
8$
Pure
others.
fire.
My love is
J. Bird.
from blemish, as
is
fy others.
Pure
clear like
Pure and
as pure to
the element of
fire,
ra-
you
or the
as vestal flames.
Mountford, Pix.
Fountain.
Johnson.
My love
upon an
Pure and
Drayton, Dilke,
Shall pure
as
Pure
altar.
Poem.
Mrs. Brookes.
Ely's Cossack.
Vesta's flame. C.
as the morning.
Townsend.
fair
Pure and
morn. Ibid.
as the un-
as morning's
fair as
dew-drops. Pollok.
dew.
Pure
PUR
morning drops upon the
as the fresh
As
Shakespear.
rose.
Purer
than the new-formed pearl bosomed within the opening rosebud's silken folds. Play, Sulieman.
A joy,
as pure
That morning
Of the
and
stainless as the
on blossom,
finds
gem
or stem
leaf,
fair
glows.
Bernard Barton.
Pure as the
crystal drop
May
blooms of
distil.
Akenside.
on the mountain's
spring
vernal
as air.
in
J. Wilson,
Pure
Yearsley.
like ether.
as blossoms
W.
Wordsworth.
as
as
grew
first
spear.
in Creation's
as the spotless
Hogg.
lily.
as
new
fallen
fy
Pure and
as the white
lily.
Shake-
born in
whose
M.
as the
as spotless lilies
Browne.
Pure
as the unsullied
morning. R. Shiel.
Porter.
hawthorn
new
first
lovely as the
dise
as the
Author of Isle of Palms.
more pure than ether. Ann
as the breath of
Sotheby's Oberon.
air.
spreads. R. Bloomfield.
gales
tain.
when forth it
Mary Robinson.
side.
others.
as snow. Sa-
8? others.
T.
as
lingsworth.
blast.
as
snow
Davenport.
as virgin snow.
PUR
Her thoughts were
scending. R. Dodsley.
Browne.
Murphy.
W. Hett. Pure
as April snow.
Play, Jack
of Isle of Palms.
Drums
as refined gold.
Entertainment.
R. Blair.
Chaucer, Quarles.
as silver
fire,
as the diamond.
J.
Hervey.
Pure as virgin
in the fire.
Day, Marmion.
/.
as crystal. Sir
glasses. J.
Milman.
hunter
A. Cowley.
its
by the
skilful statuary.
that paint
Queen
sullies
as Parian
the
in Poetical Calendar.
or mountain snow.
doves. Ibid.
Day.
crystal.
of Love. Potter,
Pure as gold.
the forge.
midnight snow. /.
like
/. Wilson, author
whose limpid
tide reflects
it
flows. Ibid.
Pure
the flowers
No
as the
sparkling
stream fresh from the rock was purer than her mind. A. Seward.
Pure
tasted fountain.
R.
Shiel.
as
W. Browne.
as an un-
PUR
Sir W. Scott.
as the
Ode to Fancy. as the stream that
T. Hogg.
as the waters of the moun-
C. Fox.
rill.
Ere
When
Across
By
rising
th'
fly,
of heaven.
Hay ley.
PURITY.
ing
Not the young roses in the bud secured, nor breakmorn ungazed at by the sun, nor falling snow, has more of
purity. Behn.
of even. W. Wordsworth.
Pursue me
Quarles.
like
my
shadow.
A. Cherry.
Q.
Q UAKE
like
an aspen
a trembling aspen
Sir
W.
Scott.
Chaucer, Sylvester,
leaf.
G. Wilkins.
leaf.
like
fy
others.
aspen leaves
in
like
May.
Hoole's Ariosto.
QUARRELSOME
like
dew
stirred
by
as a surly justice,
the breeze.
Wordsworth,
Ralph.
QUICK
as thought.
R. Waring, Dekher,
8$
Quicker
others.
Quick
as thy wishes, or
Richard Valpy.
my own
as airy fancy
scandal. R. Bloomfield.
desires.
flies.
Quick
South.
N.
Lee.
A. Selden.
as intuition.
as fancy.
Fly quick as
as sight.
QUI
Congreve.
as the eye
sky. Hayley.
R. Bloomfield.
as light. Savage,
as the
as lightning.
Beaumont
Quick of
tric
the clouds
its
A. Seward.
as the lightning's glance. Potter's Eschylus.
Quick as the winged lightning let me fly. Play, Philoclea. as
flash.
flight.
strikes.
Sturmy.
/.
ning's flash.
flashing lightning.
tastic fire.
ful General.
W. Davenant.
as heaven's fan-
Jane West.
W. Thompson.
as
as a nim-
a winged
arrow shot out of
an arrow from a
a bow. Arabian Nights Entertainments.
bow. Ibid.
well
as
as an
as
Briton.
as lightning flies
as a tempest.
night.
QUIET
C. Churchill.
as
its
when not
cerulean breast.
W.
S. Landor.
Dryden.
D.
as de-
Terry.
halcyons brooding on a winter
Landon.
Watts.
an
scending dews.
midnight.
W. Hodson.
as the night.
fy Fletcher,
C. Phillips.
L. Sharp.
as
sea.
as
as a child.
as
infant's sleep.
QUI
as a
Shakespear, Sidney,
The
The
The
QUIVER
as a lamb.
of dying harmony,
lulling notes
As
fy others.
like
W. Hayley.
Vatheh.
aspen leaves.
naked Russian
like a
soul,
W. Hawkins.
like a
poor aspen
snow.
in the
Sir
tree.
W. Da-
venant.
R.
IvADIANT as the
More
G. Sandys.
than
as the
morn-
More
Radi-
Maurice.
W.
Sir
Jones.
beams athwart
bow. W. Wordsworth.
Radiant and
fair
as
the ocean.
the
when from
as the sun
Vatheh,
as heaven's
Robert Hurst.
as
Glapthorne.
as the sparkling
as snow. /. Wilson,
as dew. Ibid.
T. Heywood, Marlowe,
T.
when he
RAGE
as
Quarles.
fy others.
like the
Gay.
like
RAV
and spreads a waste around.. B. Martyn.
wild sea
wind.
when
wind. T. Carew.
Rage
Ibid.
all
as the northern
Beaumont ty Fletcher.
Shakespear. Like an angry boar.
like a
Doyne's Tasso.
RAGGED
dar.
RAISE
Dry den,
as a colt.
Foote.
as a
young
P. Pin-
colt.
our hearts as
much above
RANK as
Tillotson.
Rapid and
Aljieri s Plays,
by Charles
a
Poem. as electric flame shot from a summer cloud. Poem,
Margaret of Anjou. as the meteor's ray. A. Seward. as the
turbid stream that bursts from caverned hills its passage.
Lloyd.
Doyne's Tasso.
RARE
as the
Midsummer.
/. Taylor.
More
fy others.
as a black
like
snow at
James
Howell.
RASH
fire.
as fire.
Shakespear, Sandys.
W. Dimond.
less wind.
Rash and
precipitate as
as the remorse-
as Phaeton. S. Sheppard.
L2
Prior.
RAV
RAVISHING
READY
swer
like the
of Newcastle.
RECOIL
T. Heywood.
like a
Play
selves.
as
fy
fire.
Red
others.
Red
Doyne's Tasso.
new enkindled
like the
Chaucer, Lidgate,
fire.
Davenant.
bashful leaves
its
upon them-
The Revolution.
',
rior blushed.
as
TV.
Scott.
TV.
RED
an-
REBELLIOUS
at the
The
as birds to
is
as a firebrand. Southey.
Red and
Shakespear.
hot as
fire.
any
Chatterton.
the morning
Titan's
Shakespear.
evening sky. Chatterton.
summer
evening sky.
sunset summer clouds which range the
verge of heaven. Byron.
the Arab
Mirandola.
Duchess of Newcastle,
Danae's
Grainger.
Randolph.
a
Chaucer, Spenser,
the
blushing
Poole Parnassus.
a cherry. Jonson; Play,
Psyche,
Parnassus.
early
a
crimson. Sacred
Frederick
coal. J. Taylor.
as
face.
as
Ibid.
as
as
as
as
lip.
rose.
rose.
Pilon.
scarlet.
as
like
fy
others.
as
cherries. Poole's
as
others.
others.
fy
as
carrot.
fy
gulf.
as rubies.
/.
as
as
as
light.
Script.
as
coral.
as
as
as coral.
others.
REDDEN
like the
REDOLENT like to
a
meadow
REEL like
others.
lately
M.
morning.
With rage
Settle.
redden
Bruce.
a field of beans
like a staggering
drunkard. Ibid.
like
any
scarlet rose.
Gay.
or like
mown. Herrick.
like scarlet.
Beaumont
drunkard. Watts.
8$
Fletcher, fy
like a tottering
REL
REFINED
the ethereal
REFLECT
Cibber.
air.
G. Peele.
like
like a polished
REFRESH
nial
Thy words
A. Pasquin.
my
Smollett.
Smith.
Zephyrus
like ge-
languid soul.
Refreshing as
as the cold of
Sacred Script.
as at
of
snow
summer's sultry
Por den.
as the
silent
Paraphrase on
the
grant wings wafts such refreshing gladness to the heart of panting pilgrims, as thy balmy words to
off the
balmy fragrance on
REFULGENT
Pope.
a Poem.
its
exhausted
spirits.
as the
REGARDLESS
as the
turned Fabulist.
G. Townsend.
as the
in
god of day.
ocean he renews
Preston's
Momus
as the sun.
his ray.
my
Smollett.
Vestriad,
as the grave.
Goring.
as a rock.
Dryden.
REL
as the rocks
English Brothers.
a
Mohawk. P.
RELIEVE.
as a
Play, Three
flint.
App. Rhodius.
as
Pindar.
some
burning
thirst.
REMORSELESS
REPAY.
Love
as a storm. Shadwell.
like
REPENTANT
as Magdalen.
REPLENISHED
REPUGNANT
it
borrows. Milton.
Wit's
Commonwealth.
fire.
Oxford Sausage.
REPULSE
RESISTLESS
Mickle.
as the
as lightning.
that slide to
electric fire.
resistless
as the
waves that
bed
Jephson.
Resistless as the
when loud
as the blaze of
by Philips
as the
Isle of Palms.
as the waves.
Ibid.
W. Cowper.
More restless
as a flood brushed
Watts.
by the wind.
as
those atoms be which the fierce winds subject unto their rule.
/. Bancroft.
cage.
T. Hulcroft.
as a cat in a
RIC
RETIRE
like
REVERED
hell.
slain.
M. A.
Impute
it
Hoole's Ariosto.
Meilan.
REVERENCE.
Garth.
much
ration,
censed
niards.
REVOLVING
in-
L. Sharp.
deities.
REVIVE
RICH
had
some shep-
J.
Hervey.
as a ball. Barclay.
Nabbs.
as Nature.
as a silver mine.
Rich and
Byron.
free as
world.
mines.
found
in the
than
vian mines.
E. Young.
Indies are.
Poole's Parnassus.
Hayley.
than
Peru-
as the ocean's
with praise as
is
if all their
Rich
the ouze
wreck. Shahespear.
seas,
their
sea or land.
nae's shower.
Cumberland.
as Eden's
fruit
it
touch. /. Miller.
as Inde.
Rich as Da-
More
More rich
Donne.
rich
and gaudy
RID
than
Heywood.
More
gold. ShaJcespear.
Richer
pearl. /. Ford.
Rich as a
in
RIDICULOUS
as a gigantic coward.
Wycherley.
as gold lace
W. Heard.
lark.
RIGHT
as
others.
W.
any
as
Lidgate.
nail.
Play,
as
my
Mock
leg.
Doctor.
Duffett, Durfey, 8$
as
my
glove. Sir
Scott.
RIGHTEOUS
RIGID
RIPE
line.
my
as a saint.
E. Ward.
as harvest. Jonson.
H.
Stevenson,
as a gushing grape.
S. Foote.
RISE
C. Burnaby.
as a cherry.
C, Gibber,
W. Scott, ty others.
morning mist. Pope, Dryden.
as constantly as summer dews at eve. H. H. Milman,
like
mist. Southey.
like
feathered Mercury.
like a
Rise
like the
like the
Rise
Rise
ShaJcespear.
Watts.
Sacred
Rise and
like
and
fire.
fall
Rising
Fool of Quality,
He
ROU
HOAR
fy others.
fey,
Beaumont
like thunder.
like a tempest.
Durfey.
Fletcher,
fy
Dryden,
others.
like
the
Bancroft,
toil.
Milman.
like a
gorged
mangled prey.
Sacred Script.
like bears.
like a bull.
Colman.
Broome.
Roar and
ROLL
like waves.
Doyne's Tasso.
Watts.
away
like mist.
Sir
W.
Scott.
like
Lloyd on Churchill.
like a
Roll
Ossian.
Ibid.
Pollok.
of the tempest.
ROSY as
More
Fountain.
Rosy
as rising morn.
ROUGH
Ravenscroft, Dryden.
ral.
as
as a storm.
C. Johnson.
as the
Shakespear.
The
sea.
Otway, Duke,
8$
others.
as
is
ROU
Rough
winds or
Jenyns.
seas.
W.
as Albion's rocks.
Wilkie.
as a bear. Lidgate,
like to the
E. Ward,
as
App. Rhodius.
as a satyr.
8$ others.
Rough
Ward.
Esau.
Miscellany.
as a frieze jerkin.
as cloth of hair.
C. Butler.
Dryden.
as a bur.
as
maple
rind.
myrtle.
ROUND
as a ball. Lidgate,
Suckling, Dryden,
Abdicated Prince,
T. Walker.
A. Cowley.
moon
as an apple.
bud of
as a globe.
Bloody Duke,
Beaumont Fletcher,
Chapman. as a full moon.
Round and
Play, Cymon.
Tillotson.
as the
others.
Chaucer, P. Pindar.
RUDDY
E.
as wild
as a nutmeg-grater.
as a hoop. Plays,
at full.
fy
as a ring.
others.
8$
as the
Greene,
others.
<$
Spenser.
Wager.
as
General Cashiered.
RUDE
as a bear.
mountain
Mrs.
Griffith.
RUGGED
as burs. /.
like
Heywood.
as a bear.
as the
Tobin.
Cumberland.
as
Thurlow.
RUMINATE
brain. Shakespear.
RUN like
sun.
Edward Burt.
like a frighted
Run
at his heels.
Run
P. Francis.
SAD
RUSH
like a torrent.
torrent. Pope.
a torrent. Sir W.
Rush onward
Rhodius.
E. Young.
lightning.
Rush
Scott.
like a whirlwind. S.
like a fiery-
his
mind like
App.
like
like
Rush on
Bamford.
Frag-
like a storm.
on
Rush
spear.
in
upon
on. South.
it
it
shock. Ibid.
RUSTLE
Byron.
like leaves.
lifts
RUTHLESS
of Isle of Palms.
as the savage of the
wood. N. Rowe.
as the hard-
S.
OABLE.
More
Quarles.
SACRED
as truth.
pain. Byron.
Dr. Johnson.
W. Broome.
as the
as the vestal
fire
of the
fire.
Roman
vestals. Play,
Gentleman Cully.
Play, Bastard.
as
Trotter.
SAD
as night. B. Thompson.
as deepest night.
Otway.
A face
AF
dim. Ossian.
even-tide,
their
Sad
balmy wings
W. Thompson.
all
mate.
woe in gentle
new blown roses from
the
She comes
Sad and
James Ralph.
mourning like a virgin at her lover's tomb. Sir W. Davenant.
Sad as the childless Rachel. Rome, a Poem.
o'er with clouds, majestically sad.
SAFE
Beaumont
8$
Fletcher, Sir
as in a tower of brass.
W. Davenant.
as in a fort of brass.
SAGE as
SALT.
W.
as a
Jones.
SAVAGE
as ocean in a storm.
More
C. Churchill.
savage than
than
the
T. Cooke.
tumn. /. Tatham.
Marlowe.
them as wolves a flock of sheep. Sir W. Lower. Scatter them abroad like a storm. T. Heywood.
like the storm of
Scatter
like a
Glover.
a hound. Goldsmith.
Scatter his
them as
army like
SCENT like
Scattered like
Scatter
light.
C. Emily.
SEN
SCORCH like a fiery brand. Sir W. Scott.
SCORNFUL as upstarts that are newly raised. T. Shipman.
SCREAM like an eagle whose nest has been plundered of her
brood. Sir W.Scott.
SCULK like the owl before the sun's golden ray. R. Baron.
SEASONABLE as clouds of rain in the time of drought. Ecclesiasticus.
SECOND me
SECRET
others.
as death.
A.
Hill.
as the centre.
Shirley,
Behn.
night.
others.
as the grave.
Cumberland.
as thought.
their sins
as
SECURE
T. Scott.
as everlasting
Duellist; Ralph,
fy
as misers'
as
fy others.
from
men would keep
hidden
Valiant Welshman.
a dumb man. Shakespear. a
as
Otway, H. Boyd,
as darkness.
Mock
Play,
treasures.
fish.
A.
Portal.
O'Keeffe.
ere
SEDATE
Hervey.
SEDUCING
SEIZE
as hope.
Marmion.
up Ganymede.
SENSELESS
mood.
Pasquin.
as a statue. T. Dilke.
as stones.
as a block. Spenser, in
T.
Hey-
England's
SENSIBLE.
Its feeling is
more
soft
SENSUAL
as swine.
Otway.
ER
SERENE
A.
as peace.
B. Hoole.
Jane Wiseman.
Hughes,
as light.
light.
Ogilvie.
C. Fox.
sky.
innocence, or peace.
the good man's
Watts.
heaven's unsullied
Eden's cloudless
Howard.
Hill,
as hope. Mallet.
as
breast.
as
as
as
Dry den.
Hall Hartson. as
upon the world. Milton. Serene
and modest as the morn. C. Cotton. Serene as a calm summer's day. Sturm.
as airs that fan the summer. Akenside.
Serene and calm as the still air, when scarce a breeze is found
to spread its wings. A. Bushe.
Serene as night. J. Wilson,
author of Isle of Palms.
Like placid summer's eve serene.
clouds.
when
Ogilvie. Serene as
summer's evening
summer
William Ashbumham.
skies.
Queen of the
as
skies. Falconer.
fields
of
air,
SERIOUS
as death.
E. Young.
SEVERE
as truth.
Savage.
More
Ibid.
S. T. Coleridge.
leaf.
when
ruffled
as law.
South.
as philosophy.
George Wyther.
A.
Selden,
like a reed.
J. Bird.
like leaves
Shake the
Dryden.
by the storm.
corn. Shakespear.
ingham.
Dodsleifs Collection.
to
as night. Byron.
fy others.
Byron.
like
like
a reed
Sheffield Duke
Quarles.
of Buck-
like a spied
SHARP
as fire.
Chaucer.
Caledonia, a Poem.
as light.
R.Burns.
as Lynceus' sight.
as
Gascoigne.-
thin air.
as a
vi-
SHI
per's tooth. Play, Riches.
than
Sharp
That word is to me
sharper than a razor's blade. Play, Jacob fy Esau.
Its edge
is sharper than the sword.
Shakespear.
Sharp as swords.
Play, Pathomachia ; E. Ward, 8$ others.
as a two-edged
iShakcspear.
as a razor. /. Shirley,
sword.
Denham,
Sacred Script.
8$
others.
as knives. Sylvester.
Dryden.
a
M'Swiney.
briar.
as
scythes.
Duchess
others.
Royal Flight.
Chaucer, G. Sandys.
Owen
steel.
as
thistles.
as a winter
Dryden' s Miscellany.
as a needle.
Sharp as pointed
as
ing.
fy
morn-
Foote.
of a hawk. E.Ward.
beamed
meridian. R. Crashaw.
He
day's
Lidgate.
as sharp as a
is
SHED
dew. T. K. Hervey.
silently as a gentle
morning
Blessings, as rich
As
star.
Her
eyes shed
John Bartholomew.
When
The
SHELTER it as
them
in a tear.
wear
H. Vaughan.
as
Phoebus
sun. J. Gough.
beam of
as Phoebus.
G. Peele.
hill,
its
Edward Burt.
when he disperses
splendour.
SH
C. Turner.
Her
like the
sun upon
Sacred
Shine as
morning
as the
Spenser.
Shine
and
Rhodius.
star.
stars.
Preston's
fair.
She
Spe?iser.
like the
App.
dewy
Thomson.
guiled.
M. A.
in
Intriguing Widow.
Meilan.
Shine like the fixed stars with beams of glory that shall
for ever.
N.
dent, calm
Play,
As
Lee.
Themistocles.
Shine as bright as
whose
Icelandic Poetry.
like a
brow of
volume of bright
her brows.
R. Greene.
fierce tempests.
all
night.
A.
star,
S. Cottle's
Duchess of Newcastle.
constellations. /. Shirley.
last
shine resplen-
still let it
Her eyes,
as Titan.
E. Ward.
Spenser.
like the
S
of the morning sky.
amongst the
Quarks.
Spenser,
lesser lights.
like
Luna. T. Meriton.
like
moon
as Cynthia
Banks.
train.
Shine like
heaven.
grams, Landon.
like light.
of heaven.
as
Ibid.
fire.
as
like a fire.
at night.
Ossian.
like
in the
as in drops of
dew
like
Shine bright
like a flame
morning sun.
as the bright-
a flame. E. Ward.
dew-drops
J. Shirley.
Cornwall.
Doyne's Tasso.
on the heath
Ariosto.
like
Harington's Epi-
R. Greene.
lamps of
M. R.
Shine like
Shine bright
Mitford.
Montgomery.
like
snow
like
like a
like a
gem enchased
like a
light,
at sunrise
on the mountain's
in gold.
M. A.
Browne.
Heywood.
fy
like glass.
others.
Shine
Thomas Wyatt.
lilies
like
like a glory.
Dryden.
of purest
clay.
fine
Sir
gem
gem. Banks.
T. Heming.
Harington, Donne.
crest.
Dryden.
Fielding.
Sylvester.
light,
new
all-glo-
birth-day
light.
/. Bird.
who
I shall shine as
SH O
Rome
bright in
Her
T. Heywood.
was
hair
when
his
his brightness.
the world
all
lowe.
bow
of
its
in April's
C. Cotton.
G. Sandys,
like a star
air as
Porden.
bow
Addison.
SHOOT
fiery rays
nimbly as a
TV. Scott.
star.
Jonson.
like a
Miss
like a blazing
sweeping
down
M. A.
Browne.
Joanna
Armin.
as a dream. ShaJcespear.
Otway.
as a
as St.
of,
as
his
Baillie.
/.
Hervey.
SHORT-LIVED
as the
Script.
as the
upon the
clouds,
SHRIEK
Shriek as one
venant.
less path.
SHRILL
men. Jonson.
split
on a strange
who
treads
Sir TV.
coast.
upon a viper
in his
Da-
heed-
Southey.
as a thrush
trump more
shrill
than Triton's
is
at sea.
TV.
Browne.
G. Peele.
IL
SHRINK
within
its
folded leaves
when
touched. Sir
Ibid.like a
autumn which
Cornwall.
stone.
like
as if blasted
fair
leaf of
TV.
summer's ray.
which creeps
Davenant.
mid-day sun. Thomson. like violets
T. Moore.
like flowers beneath the
it is
in the
in
parchment
by
in
parchment
like
in the fire.
E. Eccle-
Shrink
At which
SHUN
pestilence. Middleton,
Gay.
T.
Hey wood.
shunned
like a plague.
like a
C. Churchill.
Liberal.
bats.
SHY
Edward
Burt.
as the fawn.
a ring-dove.
SICK
A.
M. R.
Philips.
as
Mitford.
as death. Farquhar.
as a dog. Jago.
the cleft
of a rock. Ossian.
as the foot of
deep as death.
J.
H.
Stevenson.
Campbell.
as the
Silent
grave.
M2
S
others.
R.
as the sepulchre.
M
Shiel.
W. Conner.
Silently as a dream.
and slow
Silent
like
Byron. deep
a
Wordsworth.
streams. Montgomery.
a standing
moon.
growth of
Behn.
her
Milton.
the night hid
the moon when she
Pythagoras. Pope.
vacant
Milton.
and
some
queen. Edinburgh
and sad
a bird newly caught. Poetical Calendar.
your shade.
a bagpipe without wind. T. Holcrqft.
shade
winds were
chaos
before
Davenant.
DaCarew, Sir
made.
depth of
Montgomery.
midnight.
pool.
as
as
J. Shirley,
in
deserts
as
interlunar cave.
Si-
as
Collection.
captive
sullen like
lent
TV.
the
as
flowers.
as
ghost.
as
as
Silent
as
as
as
Silent in
Cibber.
as the
others..
fy
the
as the night.
Sir TV.
venant,
lay
Shenstone.
as
air.
silent as
the
silent as a
falling
as
midnight shade.
silent. Green's Tu
when locked fast in sleep.
Boyse.
day gives way to night. Banks. Bedewed
Silent as nature,
quoque.
and
as the
C.
As
as
the
as the
Silent
TV.
night.
aS*.
summer's night.
Mrs. Rome.
dews. Pollok.
TV.
Penkethman.
Silent as
Fall
si-
lently like
Silent
and motionless as a
as a dormouse. Sir
statue.
W. Da-
as the
god of sleep.
Sir
W. Killigrew.
as simple sheep.
Spenser.
Cawthorn.
as dove on tree.
as a sheep.
Chaucer.
SLI
SINCERE
as truth. Mallet
of holy
vestals.
Otway.
souls,
Oldmixon.
SING
8$ others.
Sing as sweet as
like Philomela.
Earl of Orrery.
Who is Afraid ?
The lark when
and
ease,
And
SINK
it
Rome, a Poem.
like the
murmurs of a
N. Rowe.
falling wind.
Scott.
Sink under
like lead.
Parnell.
SIT
UP
SKIP
all
P. Pindar.
like grasshoppers.
SKITTISH
SLEEK
as
unbacked
colts.
Spanish Bawd.
fy
Sleek as
Fletcher.
jelly.
A. Fraunce.
SLEEP
Sleep as sound
gibbed
SLIDE
More
is
Sir
Shakespear.
Play,
as a top.
W.
Sir
than
cygnet's plush.
More
J. Ford.
sleek
Scott.
C. Lennox.
Sleep as sound as
W. Davenant.
still
cat. /. Wilson.
like a fish.
More
careless infancy.
Carew
as satin.
Tomkis, Centlivre.
C. Cibher.
Sleepy as a
SLI
SLIPPERY
as ice. Landon.
Marmion,
SLOW
as a snail. Paradise of
fy others,
as an eel. Play,
Knave
in
Grain;
fy others.
as an elephant.
TV.
Davenant,
Virgin
as tortoises.
SLOWLY
Mr
W.
as on
SLUMBER
like
and gentle as
SMALL
summer
Scott.
infants'
Slumbers, soft
Dry den.
dreams.
others.
fy
T. Heywood.
as winter's
Prior.
discern.
J.Hervey.
W.Paley. Smaller
as a particle of light.
SMILE
like
Smiling like
Settle.
the blushing
morn
wont
as thou wert
Spenser.
Lion,
Comic Opera.
like a
May
bus
starts
Ramsay.
mer
dress.
as
from Thetis'
lap.
as
summer
Settle.
seas,
when
in
Eden
in its
sum-
as
G. Peele.
kissed
as a peaceful sea
Centlivre.
which never
as the
as
silent
breath troubles
when
like
green
calm. L. Machin.
waters be when no
a
waters be
them. Beaumont
calmest
a calm. Duchess of Newcastle.
Dryden.
ocean in
Smiling
Like the
Byron.
rises
Union.
SMITE
So
fy
Fletcher.
as
waters.
as
Doyne's Tasso.
as the
smooth
as
when
Smooth
as
the
the
halcyon builds
her
Ramsay.
Smooth
all
nest.
Browne.
as the face of
wa-
S
ters
appeared,
first
ere
mer brooks.
Leanerd.
/.
began
tides
Madan
W. Woty,
as the spring.
heaven's face.
others.
Carew.
ty others.
8$
as
as porphyry. J.
as pearl.
Smooth,
Day,
as polished jet.
as ivory. Harington,
Harington
Play,
new polished
R.
King
tooth.
E.
oil.
as wax. Shakespear.
Garth.
soft,
fy
Smoother than
Smooth
cream. Jonson.
clear as
as
/. Shirley.
as the elephant's
Fletcher.
as butter.
T.
Sylvester,
Smooth and
as polished ivory.
Calendar.
Churchill
as a mirror. Southey.
as ice.
as Cupid's ivory
Beaumont
Poetical
W. Warner.
others.
Somervile.
alabaster. Shakespear.
Parliament of Bees.
der.
T. Lodge.
Ramsay.
Albion's England, by
Baron,
Cumberland.
as Parian marble.
E. Howard.
monumental
Meander's crystal
as
G. Canning.
as crystal ice.
Poole's Parnassus,
6r
sum-
Ossian,
Philips.
in Poetical
H. Vaughan.
as a polished mirror.
crystal.
as
A.
as a mill-pond.
Heywood.
on Pope.
winds
or
strive,
to
as gliding streams in
Smooth and
as amber.
C.
soft as ermine.
as velvet. /. Day.
Beaumont fy Fletcher. as youth. Durfey ; Play,
Unequal Match.
as Diana's lip. Shakespear.
Diana's lip
is not more smooth and rubeous. Poole's Parnassus.
Smooth
Durfey.
as
new
as silk.
Gascoigne, Dryden.
satin.
Sir W. Davenant.
smooth as
as the
virgins' be.
as
down.
M.
Pilkington.
as
SMU
down on
the
as the shining
Smoother than
feather. Randolph.
T. Killigrew.
as rushes.
lilies.
as blacksmiths.
SOFT
A.
P. Pindar.
others.
fy
Savage.
Montgomery.
ridge.
fy
N. Rowe.
N.
as content.
soft as a
Qualities,
H. Brooke.
meekness.
Beaumont
as pity.
as forgiving mercy.
Banks.
sky.
Soar
as compassion.
Hill,
Smooth
Duffett.
down on
as the raven's
Jago.
as platters.
SMUTTY
Fletcher,
as love,
Field.
rocked
as
Cole-
mery.
low lamenting
lay.
W. Thompson.
harmonious woe
in
Voice more
as Phi-
than
soft
W. Thompson.
w oos
t
linnet's lay.
A mw
The Shamrock.
ell.
as
when
she
infant's
Words
lyre.
Hughes.
as the notes
Troy. C. Shaw.
on the
Gonzanga. Music, so
would deem from viewless harps such
liquid
Soft a cadence,
when swan-like
flutes at
and melting
as the
L. Theobald.
as di-
John Bowring.
Soft
'rapt
OF
Espasia, by Hart.
8$
expiring
the tender
moving
when longing lovers meet. Ramsay. yielding
Poem, Paradise of
Language,
adorabreathes. W. Cowper.
Softer than
Garth. than
M. A.
Poem, Abelard
to
Browne.
as
Eloisa.
as
sighs
as
sighs.
Coquettes.
soft as
tion
sighs.
Softer
R. Wilkinson,
sighs.
Cumberland,
Davenant.
language.
Sir
W.
Suckling.
as
Soft as lovers'
lovers' whispers
R. Burns.
fy
The wind
D. Terry.
others.
Beaumont
fy
Fletcher.
souls
their
and take
her.
trickling
balm
tenderest
in
expressions.
memory of
as the
Gay.
to bleeding pains.
Poole's Parnassus.
others.
the
hand of
an
as
A.
Hill.
as
E.
printless
as
sleep.
infant's
Prince Hoare.
Soft were
my
slum-
rest,
N.
Cotton.
Adams,
my
slumber. Massinger.
sweet
fy
Win her
Byron.
as the velvet
as infants' sleep.
Play,
buried love.
in
Dry dens
Miscellany.
Cupid. Behn.
as the
words and looks were softer than an infant's blushes. C. Gibas the kisses of
Soft as morning light. Sir W. Jones.
ber.
the light.
C. Cotton.
More soft
Light, soft
than Luna's silver beaming light. Poem, Aurelia.
Soft and silent as
as the dewy queen of night. B. Hoole.
Edward
as the
moon-
OF
S
Soft as yon silver
Mrs.
breast.
beams
B. Rogers.
trembling-
M. R. Mitford.
on trembling streams.
J.
that sleep
Radcliffe.
in
bloom of spring
A. Seward.
beam.
morn
morn when
as a vernal
as the
as the spirit of
cooling
breezes fan every smiling flower and odorous plant sparkling with
fair
their sweets.
herd's Lottery.
B. Hoole.
as spring.
Love, a Poem.
More
others.
as air.
soft
as the
Soft as
air.
More
J. Shirley.
His voice
Dryden.
air.
Banks, A. Hill.
Mrs. Rowe.
is
as closing
than
beam. Sorrows of
Shahespear, Duchess of Newcastle, fy
as day's departing
upper
air.
air,
Sir F.
air.
Beaumont
fy
Fletcher.
Hunt.
Smith.
ship.
than the
May. Shep-
as the
soft
as
Aurelia, a Poem.
brow of
as the
May. Byron.
ing in
R. Hurst. More
bends
C. John-
Nabhs.
tions on Milton's
Metrical Miscellany.
Their
strife
was
as the
summer's
soft as
gale.
two summer
She comes
SOF
upon me with
rvell.
gales o'er-smoothing
gale. Falconer.
summer
as soft an air as
Jane West.
an Oratorio.
as
A.
fy
Richardson.
as the
tall
W.
as
Beaumont''s Psyche.
gales.
Morton.
Hill,
Arria.
year. Alfred,
Jones.
soft than
blow. Langhorne.
W.
meadow
Sir
More
trees.
spring. F. Hoyland.
vernal Zephyrs.
when
in flowery vales
breeze.
it
balmy breath of
plays. Fielding.
as Zephyr's
balmy
C. Churchill.
Richard
Pollok.
as
T. Franklin.
Shiel.
Soft as
A.
Dodsley's
Percy,
Mary Robinson.
Roses, a Poem.
Bevil Higgons.
trees,
Philips.
Ibid.
Garrick.
morn.
in
Collection.
T.
as breeze of spring
as
Friendship's Offering.
Soft
fans
SO
fans the grove. Play, Alarbas.
as
the
first
fair
breeze that
breeze which
mead
wantons
Play, Codrus.
breezy breath of wind. M. Green.
dew. Campbell;
author of
Palms,
balmy dew. F.
of
morning dew. Milbourne, W.
Landor.
Beaumont.
gently
the dews of heaven. Poetical Calendar.
night dews
Soft
dew. W. Heard.
as the
as
as
J. Wilson,
as the
Isle
as
as
S.
as the
as the
Words,
Ramsay.
life.
Clare.
fall
flowers, bestowing
new
fall.
dew on blowing
than the
softer
falling
/".
dew
May.
MicJcle's Lusiad.
Poetical Album.
Fall soft as
W. Jones.
flowers.
upon
W. Thompson. Soft as the pearly dew
grove. Hunt.
as dew on waking flowers. Sir
summer dews on
as the
dews
that steal
rose.
Cumberland.
dews
More
son.
Rolleston.
soft,
away upon
the flowers.
the
'
dew
refreshing
where
it falls.
shower.
TV.
TV. S.
Davenant.
of Palms.
Landor.
as the
gossamer
from spray
in
to spray.
S. Johnson.
Soft
as falling
SOF
W. Davenant.^as murmuring
murmuring waters. R. Barford. as
spring. Sir
currents.
as
As
the
Dryden.
murmur
of the
Soft as
murmurs of
mela's strain.
mer
Ode
Fancy.
to
falling
as
lilies.
as
as Philoas
sum-
lilies,
or as
as leaves of roses.
Oiway.
Shenstone.
snow. W.Thompson.
bell. Tickell.
as blossoms.
flowers. Chatterton.
Behn.
as a
',
as feathery
down. Dwijer.
as
Madan on
Pope.
Poole's Parnassus.
as
as swan's
More
down of swans.
Old
down
the Turk.
stone.
others.
as
as the
down
down of
Play. Muleasses
cygnet.
A. Frounce, R. B. Sheridan,
downy wing. B.
Hoole.
its
nest.
Byron.
C. Johnson.
as the cygnet's
Fletcher,
O F
Holford.
Addison.
swan.
as the
plumes of
thistle
Shepherd's Lottery.
tion,
Christopher Anstey
8$ others.
A. Cowley.
cina's doves.
as Venus' doves.
as billing doves.
W. Thompson.
downy
turtle's
downy
Soft as fleece.
M.
//.
silk.
Drayton.
as
/. Shir-
wool new
Pilkington.
Soft as
as Naples silk.
others.
than
F. Hoyland.
fleece.
John Smith.
ty
down of bees.
fy
drest.
kin's
Softer than
Chaucer, Drayton,
Soft as wool.
ley.
breast. Mallet.
W. Davenant.
breast. Sir
Softer and
Edinburgh Collec-
Cytherea's dove.
as
swan. Plays,
as Leda's
Intriguing Widow.
8$
Medwall, Lidgate,
as the
finest
Persian
Maid of
Orleans.
sarsnet.
and white
like
the Indian
skins.
as velvet.
Drayton.
snowy
tree.
Chaucer, Lidgate,
as
satin.
/.
Weston.
Poole's Parnassus.
A. Cowley.
fy others.
N.
than beavers'
as
Soft
Softer
Mr.
Play,
Turbulent.
Lee.
than
More
soft
than
oil.
Sotheby's Oberon.
snow
Softly as
scending snows.
Fall soft as
Palms.
Drop
Banks.
M.
softly
Fall soft as
Soft as jelly.
Clancy,
Pope.
Moore.
Davenant.
A. Cowley.
falls.
fy
others.
Carew,
as
oil.
T. Heywood.
as pap.
/.
Gay,
oo
Jonson.
or
Dryden.
than tender
nant.
mony.
to
as wax.
curds,
W. Dave-
Lady
Ali-
Shakespear, G. S. Green.
seal.
as lambkins.
PolwheWs
Theocritus.
Soft as
SOLEMN as
dying
night. Jesuit.
saints'
farewell,
as ravens.
E. Young.
Solemn as
fell.
trump. G. Croly.
SOLID
SOLITARY like
seen.
E. Young.
as a rock.
its fair
head un-
Ossian.
SONOROUS
as the storm.
Broome.
as
blow. E. Young.
SOONER
hard
steel will
than
women vowed
town on
to blushless
fire
be extinct with
tears,
haviour and soft minioning, will turn from that where appetite
is fixed.
its
Marston.
shall quit
its
Parnassus.
Sooner the
Irwin.
o o
hawk
I will
Landon. Sooth-
mu-
Voice more
W. Mason.
soothing than the lover's lute, or the soft warbling of the pastoral flute. Patriot Vision,
a Poem.
A mw
ell.
murmuring through
Dodsley's Collection.
soft,
as the
sound of water
mountain stream.
Amwell.
SORROW
sits like
rose. Rolt.
SOUND
doom
bell.
is
as
Sound
as
shall
sound as a
bell.
fy othevs.
Question.
Fletcher,
Tvial of Chivalry;
Geneval Conway.
and now
as a
heart
Bavnaby
Poetvy, a
as old wine.
Beau-
far
As hollow
ofFremov'd
in a distant sky,
verjuice.
John D. Breval.
as sour as if he
man
My
othevs.
fy
Fletcher.
Sj-
The dying
SOUR
by
as a fish. Play,
as a rock.
ty
Play,
Sound
8f others.
wake
is
Shakespear, Beaumont
Barnes,
mont
trump
the dreadful
Browne.
T. Middleton.
Cully.
W.
Shivley.
as a crab.
as crab-juice. A. Cherry.
This fellow is
were the offspring of a crab-tree. Play, Gentle-
SPO
SPACIOUS
as heaven. Lillo.
SPANGLED
dew.
Herrick.
SPARKLE
J. G. Cooper.
like a star.
Sir W. Jones.
diamond sparkled
shooting star.
like a
morning
like the
star.
in a frosty night.
myriad
Lay
stars all
Newcastle.
dew. C. Dibdin.
Middleton
8$
Rowley, Marmion,
Judith Cowper.
like the
show
morning
All
fy others.
like
as polished gems.
Dryden.
like
Duchess of
N.
Lee.
Sparkling as a goddess.
Jane Porter,
SPEED
life.
G. E. Howard.
my
I,
flight.
like abird
up-
Andromache,
SPEEDY
Doynes
Tasso.
More speedy
Pace, speedy as
SPITEFUL. More
SPLENDENT
SPLENDID
spiteful than a
as at
as the
SPORTFUL
as zephyrs.
as nature.
SPORTIVE
as a kid. Play,
the
SPO
as
W. Wordsworth.
fawn.
SPOTLESS
as
and as
W. Thompson.
eye of day.
bers,
a Play from
G. E. Howard.
as the light. J.
Schiller.
warm
light diffusive.
its
Charlotte
heat,
its
More
as the
As pure from
Psyche.
Matthew Cop-
fire.
Heywood
T.
as the vestal
Rome, a Poem.
flame.
beam
spot as elemental
pinger.
that falls in
Marston.
as snow.
not
Marston.
den snow
as
lilies.
Anstey.
is
UntrodSpotless
as
Smith.
Glapthorne.
Christopher
G. E. Howard.
T. Middleton.
Not
sanctity
as an angel.
were. C. Davenant.
as mountain
as an alabaster rock.
more spotless.
W. Thompson.
Browne.
as new-fallen snow.
as seraph's robes of
T. Heywood.
as first-created angels
new-spun
light.
TV.
W. Hawkins.
More
Thompson.
Glapthorne.
am
Jephson.
vestal. /.
Maine.
e'er inshrined in
is
as a
Heaven
Spotless as Innocence
John Clare.
SPOTTED as leopards.
E. Young,
Swift.
SPREAD
like
an ocean. Lovibond.
when
ST A
as it wanders. Glover.
Spreading like a sea. Spenser. like
a vast meandering flood. Preston's App. Rhodius.
Spread
broad as a lake. Mason. Spread like a gathering whirlwind
o'er the land.
Lidgate.
night. Sir
like
SPRING
grass.
Day.
a surface. Pomfret.
like a sun.
of the
W. Davenant.
SPRIGHTLY
unyoked
T.
heifers.
Duke.
as an antelope.
bounding
Watts.
roe. J. Hervey.
as
Spring like
Who
Best ; R. Hamilton.
Vaihek.
Fares
SPURN
STABLE
propped on
itself.
Didone
Abbandonata.
Stand
Paulina.
fy
it
into froth.
Dryden.
Henry
Roman
upon the
quills
Dell.
Stand as
in-
gla-
fretful
porcupine. Shakespear.
STARE
Dryden.
spear.
him
Gay.
like congers.
like a calf
P. Pindar.
new come
Stu-
START like
Landon.
Byron.
as
who
sees a lion
Started as
at lightning-gleam.
like a steed
STA
he had seen a basilisk.
M.
E. Young.
like
STARTLE.
Tis those on
on
breathes,
whom
whom
G. Lewis.
STATELY
STAUNCH
as hound.
STEADFAST
Lidgate.
W.
Scott.
T. Heywood.
as the sun.
Medea
STEADY
R.
Sir
as a rock. Durfey,
as
in
as a wall.
as the pole.
Watts.
Sir
is
Chaucer,
W. Richardson.
solid base.
A. Cherry.
as an ostrich.
Her
Griffith.
truth
W.
Scott.
as a rock.
Merry.
STEAL
upon
W. Thompson.
Steal
Death
steals o'er
Play, Pcetus
fy
me
Arria.
trees.
T. Rodd's Ballads.
STEAM like
a bath. Jonson.
STERN
as death.
Sir
Beaumont
fy
W. Davenant.
Fletcher.
STI
More
Whore.
stern
Shakespear.
sea.
M. A.
STICK
A. Ramsay.
pitch to a rope.
tree.
STIFF
like burs.
Gay.
Stick
Stick to
him
Centlivre.
Stick close to
me
as
is
my
skin.
Edward
Burt.
Dryden.
as frost. Polwhele's Theocritus.
T. Dilke,
Hausted.
bristles
STILL
wall. Fielding.
Byron.
upon a
J. Taylor.
Browne.
feast.
T. Day.
hell.
fy
than
N.
Lee,
A.
A.
as a stake.
Peaps.
on a shooting porcupine.
as death.
Nevile,
Stiffer
others.
P.
than
/. Harris.
Selden,
fy
others.
Still
and dark as
shades of death.
Oberon.
Still
and
Still
JBehn.
Still
others.
fy
Sir W.
Hogg.
Scott.
as night, or
air.
light. /. Wilson,
Still
Quarles
summer's noon-tide
as the ca-
Still
as the night.
silent
moon.
as the night,
when not
a zephyr
stirs
R. Montgomery.
slumbering
Wilson, author of
of Palms.
of
W. Thompson. pale midnight when she
Cawthorn.
throws on heaven and earth a deep repose.
C. Lennox.
others.
ty
as
fy
as
fy
as the
as sleep.
as
as the foot
Fletcher,
sleep.
Isle
infant. J.
time.
as
/.
a calm. Sackville.
Still as at
as
STI
Mrs. Hemans.
or moving
Still
spirit
as old chaos
when
and sullen as the awful pause that precedes nature's conR. B, Sheridan. as the breathless interval between
Still
vulsion.
Still as
as a rock.
Campbell.
Beaumont
Gammer
Gurton's Needle.
Royal Voyage. as a
a tombstone never to be moved. Pope.
still
as
as statues. Play,
how
Dies on the ear
How
The
calm
silent
not a sound
as fatal planets.
N.
Lee.
an adder. Sacred
J. Lilly.
Nero ; N.
Script., J.
is still.
James Bird,
as a mouse.
Vestriad, fy others.
Hervey.
Cotton,
like
STINK
heard,
as lambs. Ibid.
STING
as
Stand
Byron.
statue.
is
still
Still
Fletcher.
8$
Sit as
fy
others.-like
an adder's tooth.
wrought.
N.
Cotton.
a Poem.
A. Murphy.
More stormy
than the
STOUT
Hector.
Moffett,
Achilles. Moffett,
as
and tempest
all
the main.
young
lions.
T. Shadwell,
W. Thompson.
E. Ward,
others.
fy
as
others.as
Sampson or
T. Killigrew.
fy
others.
STR
STRAIGHT as a line.
Chapman, D.
Chaucer Spenser,
',
Esau. as wands.
fy
/.
Belchier,
as
palm
the
Lidgate.
Prior.
tree.
as
fy others.
as a fir.
A. Cherry.
as
Young.
before the wind. Play,
Neglected Virtue.
Dryden.
W. Davenant.
like lightning.
T. Shadwell.
STRONG as
truth.
Beaumont
fy
Fletcher, Savage.
as
demon-
author of
Savage,
of Palms.
beauty. Play, General
Savage.
youth. Pope. heaven
Shakespear.
Jove.
stration.
E. Young.
religious bonds.
Southey.
Wilson,
as necessity.
Isle
nature. South.
as
Shakespear.
as fate.
Durfey.
8$ others.
Marlowe.
More
winged
force.
Strong as death.
as de-
as
itself.
stiny. T.
as
cashiered ;
as
as
Addison.
as
P. Francis.
STR
main, or as a whirlwind sweeping o'er the plain. Fragments of
a whirlwind on
a whirlwind on
Fingal, a Poem.
Ancient Poetry,
A.
Hill.
as a stream of
course. Ibid.
as a deluge.
Ossian.
tides.
Doyne's
Campbell.
as a rock.
as a tower.
than adamant.
Play, Virgin
H. Boyd.
Strong as
steel.
Wright,
as
as a
Swift.
fy
than
as
Dr.
Shakespear.
as Hercules.
Fletcher.
as
Sampson. E. Ward,
Fielding.
8$
Spanish Tragedy.
fy others.
Beaumont
as brass.
/. Harris.
as Atlas.
Hector. Play,
Lidgate.
Johnson.
trees.
Martyr.
as floods
as a river in its
its
Watts.
tears
many
as mountain cataract.
J. Bird.
Fragments of
hill.
stormy way.
its
Tasso.
the
as
as
Sir J.
H. Moore.
Stronger than
others.
G. Sewell.
revenge.
a on
Landor.
the mountain born. W.
Strong and
a
Byron.
an elephant. Sidney.
young
a
a camel. G. Colman.
Duke of Newcastle. Strong and
brandy. Farquhar, Jephson,
mustard.
Strong as a
lion.
Sacred
Script.,
T.
Hey wood.
as
as
tiger.
lion
beautiful as
S.
as
horse.
stout as
as
J.
Sf
STRUGGLE
Landon.
as
like the
others.
Crown, Gay.
W. Davenant, Dilke.
like a peacock.
Lucifer. J. Harris.
STUBBORN
as a rock. Pope,
W. Mason,
fy others.
as a rock
SUN
R. Hurst.
its sides.
Dryden, Sir W.
as steel.
Dryden.
Scott,
Stubborn as an elephant's
others.
W.
as a log. Poetical
Ca-
Rowley.
STUMBLE like
STUPID as
lendar.
W. Davenant.
a post. E. Ward,
fy others.
John Stevens.
as an ass.
as a fish. P. Pindar.
Look
as
as stupid as
STURDY
W. Cowper.
as a rock.
as a serpent.
fox.
others.
fy
E. Ward.
Shakespear, Burton,
as
Sphynx.
fy others.
air.
Shakespear.
the
as
T.
Marmion.
as a
Shakespear.
SUCCEED as
fast
SUDDEN
sires.
as thought.
Beaumont
Johnson.
8$
Beaumont
Fletcher.
Fletcher, Landon.
as de-
as a stroke of thunder.
fy others.
Dr.
Sudden
SUFFUSION
SULLEN
as a bear.
Cumber-
land.
smoke
glass.
SUNNY
as
summer
R. Wilkinson.
skies.
Landon.
SUP
SUPER EMINENT
among
ture,
N. E.
by
Kindersley.
SUPERFLUOUS
and
moon
first principle.
South.
a self-evident
Ibid.
SUPPLE
Poetical Calendar.
SURE
son.
as that ther
is
a God. Pomfret.
Marston, Glapthorne,
as fate.
God is
as
fy others.
true.
Tillot-
as death.
Plays,
aversion.
as
8$
Fetcher.
as
as
as the
ning.
in
his
as steel.
tracts
as
follows
her Will.
mill
my face.
SURLY
as
laws.
as steel
am
as light-
hail.
fy
as
N. Rowe.
Sir R.
Sure of it as I
Howard.
Sure as a
others.
SURPASS
more
least.
My la-
Shakespear.
Earl of Surrey.
She
another
Harington.
little star.
moon
ments.
She doth
Gascoigne.
sun
you
all
as
much
as Titan
full
Turbervile.
glass.
Henry
much
much as
Surpass as
Chapman.
as
as sparkling
the sun in
its
diamonds surpass
meridian glory
is
WE
S
heaven
beyond
is
above a brute
so
much
Surpass as far as
Miller.
much
as a
man
is
is
May
liam Dunbar.
SURPRISE
SUSPEND.
dread
like the
when he
Dr. Johnson.
Liberal.
Lord Mansfield.
SWEEP
away
like the
like a flood.
SWEET
Watts.
like
Play, Alarbas.
Robinson.
P. Pindar.
Sweet as
Sweeter than
charity.
liberty.
W. Cowper.
Congreve,
as
as sincerity.
E. Moore,
T.
than freedom. Massinger. than
Herrich, Akenside,
Andronicus,
the smile when fond lovers meet. Burns.
as love.
fy
fy
Titus
Scot,
life.
others.
others.
fy
W.
Sweep
like a whirlwind.
Elysium.
Mary
Landon.
Rowley.
others.
as the soft
as
It will
spirit
gall'd heart
And
dart,
sweeter
These
still,
and
fainter joys,
by
clois-
virgin's
With
sound in the
offered
far
above
when purest
love
WE
The
When
he
tears,
fy
Fletcher, C. Cotton,
$ others.
nant.
as the flowery
R. Drury. Sweeter
than spring and all the golden buttons on her fresh boughs.
Play, Rivals.
More sweet, more gay than vernal fragrance
Sweeter than
and the flowers of May. Mickle's Lusiad.
blooming Nature, or the breath of wanton Zephyr. C. Johnson.
than nature just refreshed by heaven when opening buds
spring. Ibid.
as the
budding spring.
R. Wilkinson.
Sweet as the blooming season of the year,
Sweet
as the
and laughing
as summer.
Shake-
spear.
as
a beauteous
Clare.
as
like the
N. Rowe.
rising
as
C.
morn.
/. Bidlake.
W. Thompson,
8$ others.
fy others.
morn. Motteux.
darts to
as the
the
as the
T. Percy,
F. Bellers.
as the
Potter, in Poetical
dawn of
day.
than
Sweet as the
as the
violet's
WE
at parting. J. Shirley.
Miller.
May
Pieces
April.
Poems on
others.
or
in
State Affairs.as
fy
smiling
as the
May.
May.
the breath of
Sweet as
breath of genial
J.
G. Cooper.
Hayley.
Rogers.
falling in
thome.
/. Shirley, J.
May
on
lilies.
Glap-
T. Middleton.
rose.
B.
Calendar.
as
openSv Tickell.
don.
as
in tears the
Lee.
dew comes
Lan-
violet.
rosebuds steep-
Burns.
ing.
N.
as
autumn.
to the
as cooling
J. Jones.
Dew,
sweeter far than that which hangs like chains of pearl on Her-
mon
G. Peele.
hill.
when
shining o'er the Eastern hills exhales from the carnation buds.
C. Bullock.
Martyn.
the landscape
summer
the
in.
B.
o'er
more
as the
distil.
rarified
when she
Head
Pieces.
Tatham.
B. Barton.
L. Hunt,
air.
rora's air
nious
Sweet
and
M. A.
as vernal
paints the
Sweet as the
Falconer.
as
clear as
lilies fair.
air the
air.
Sweet and
Browne.
blow,
sweep the
as the
C. Cotton.
as the
fly to
Ara-
SWE
bian winds. T. Scott, Christopher Bulloch.
Arabian winds
as
winds,
Mrs. Rowe.
half so sweet.
Bastard.
fields and
extreme heat of summer. Sir P. Sidney.
than aromatic winds which blow o'er spicy groves.
J. G.
shadowed waters
Cooper.
blow.
o'er a
than
in the
Duke of
Newcastle.
Sweet as west-winds breathing
bank of violets. W. Thompson. as the sound of gales
amid green
Scott of Amrvell.
as
violet's
dewy
leaves.
R. Dodsley.
Sweet
As sweet
Martyn.
Sweet as the
soft gales
first
fields
they fan. B.
gentle
Dodsley
Collection.
as
as the
C. Johnson.
fall
when
Sweet as
to Eloisa.
as are the
Behn.
as the breeze
Breath, as sweet as
store life to
man half-dead
is
as the breath of
before. Behn.
musky
breeze.
warm
WE
Sweet as new
sanias.
air
Beau-
gay
ty
bloom the apple boughs. Charlotte Brookes 's Reliques of Irish
Poetry.
Sweet as the fragrance which perfumes the zephyr's
wing. Glover.
More sweet then Zephyr when he leaves the
Breath, sweet as odours
rose. Paradise of Coquettes, a Poem.
blown by zephyrs o'er the vales. Motteux. Sweet as the
breath of Flora when she lies in jasmine shades, and for young
Zephyr sighs. Fenton. Sweeter than Flora, or her blooming
flowers. Harriet Downing.
Sweet as the chaplet blooming
Flora weaves. Rome, a Poem.
R. Davenport,
as incense.
mont
Fletcher.
Duchess of Newcastle,
J.
air.
Newcastle.
C. Churchill.
morning
fy others.
Banks.
air,
to
incense.
Duke of
gums. E. Ward.
precious nard. /.
myrrh, or
all
spices. Rowley.
Play,
Scythian musk.
J. Shirley.
Marston.
than
than
Indian
lendar, G. Walker.
than cinnamon. M
Sir
W.
Stevenson.
Sweet as
Jones.
Sir
though
W. Davenant.
built in
Thy
breath
own
sacrifice.
Ibid.
Her breath
when she is her
pile. /. Shirley.
fine
perfumed
WE
S
myrrh.
G. Peele.
shaw.
neral
as the
sweet
Breezes,
James Montgomery.
Sweet as
spices. Play,
Fatal Union.
all
Arabia's
smoking
rise
G. Gascoigne,
Jonson.
Shakespear,
P. Sidney, Whetstone,
E. Ward,
spear,
Sf
others.
8$ others.
N.
damask
as the
Durfey,
as a
bed of
Centlivre.
Durfey.
Sir
Shake-
of the damask
as the fragrance
as a rose.
roses.
Lee.
C. Cotton.
balm.
as
drops of balm.
as
Landon.
as
others.
fy
Randolph.
nest.
rose. Jago.
R. Cra-
pile,
pyre.
phoenix'
the
as
is
W.
roses.
soft.
when
T. Rawlins.
No
Jones.
as the
roses opening in
the
garden's pride, while the glad sun calls out the blooming
life
the
others.
as
blooming
maiden blossoms of a
as springs refreshing.
rose. T. Dogget.
Reuben Bourne.
dew. E. Young.
Scott.
Otway.
Randolph.
Sweet as
as the
roses,
and
Sweet as rose-buds
in a
summer's morn.
as roses
morning
washed with morning dew. Sir W.
orient
dews o'erspread.
their
Behn.
May
rose.
in the
J. Ogilvie.
dew away.
than roses
its
S
as a full-blown rose in
had blown
The
By
WE
blushing rose-bud in
its
vernal bed
Was
more
more
air,
A. Seward.
Sweet as the opening budding rose. Ramsay.
Sweet and
lovely, fresh and fair, as when the budding rose doth first
appear, when sunny beams in May make temperate air. Hanot
sweet,
innocent, or
fair.
rington.
briar. Jonson.
Suckling.
than
Landon.
R. Wilkinson.
as the
<^
bramble flower.
as double
violet.
Herrick.
others.
violets.
violet.
Her breath is
The violet's perfumed and purple
C. Johnson.
violets.
or phoenix burning in
odour. Banks.
its
crest,
Sweet
balmy south wind blows.
Thurlow.
as western wind breathes from the violets' fragrant
beds when balmy dews Aurora sheds. /. G. Cooper. as a
Sweet and fair as lilies are. W.
lily. Play, Looking-glass.
when
the
Hett.
Burns.
close.
as the
Fugitive Miscellany.
as jessamine.
Shenstone.
as
lilies
of
lilies
of
A. Cherry.
Goldsmith.
than
WE
son.
the
M.
Pilkington.
sand
Quarles.
H. Vaughan.
Landon.
to
Poetical
in
Potter,
Calendar.
plains.
damasked meads
o'er the
flowers.
as spring-time
as the breath of
Shakespear.
flowers.
as vernal
flowers in
as
soms
A.
of opening flowers.
spring.
dews of
spring.
W. Davenant.
May
Ibid.
as
sweet
or April showers
as
new-blown breath
the flowers in
bloom of
Chatterton.
flower. Sir
Hill.
as
begin or consummate
as the April
/.
W. Hawkins.
dew.
air.
M.
Sweet
May.
J. G. Cooper.
as honeysuckle.
Pilkington.
Hogg.
as the
than
as the
blossoming hawthorn in
dewy milk-white
J. Smith, C. Dibdin.
as
thorn. Burns.
woodbine flowers.
thyme.
Gay. than
den's Miscellany.
ripened hay.
as
the
hay. Burns.
as
John Clare.
new-mown
A. Marvel,
the
Hogg.
morn-
in
Dry-
Somervile.
than
new hay.
Sounds, sweeter
Music,
Author of Ellen Fitzarthur.
sweeter than a seraph's lyre soothing a dying saint. Play, Gonthan seraphs' harps.
zanga.
the
J.
Hervey.
Sweet as
Sounds, sweet
WE
Sweeter to
my
Thy
voice
Calendar.
than music
TV. S.
Speak
Landor.
than
than
Tunes, more
Poetical
Hervey.
than
the Muses'
the
in a strain
Sweet
Whose every
ruin. Southern.
fall,
and charm me
Centlivre.
to
than
Voice,
calm moon-light
ocean. /. Wilson,
Thurlow.
M. A.
own
Sweet
as the matin
fair
queen
lute.
in a
as
hymn
as notes
as the
Shakespear.
May.
Sounds, so
Browne.
in Dodsley's Collection.
seas.
than mer-
John Duncomb.
my
Greene's Arcadia.
Landon.
to
to her
As blows
Now
string.
Rome, a Poem.
WE
S
Breathe music sweet and
resistless as the
young Apollo's
lyre.
my
Cumberland.
Music, sweeter to
most
artificial
all
mony. B. Hoole.
son.
vernal year.
Chatterton.
A. Seward.
thrush
W. Thomp-
as the
as the nightingale.
G. Peele,
Fielding. Holcroft.
Daniel Hayes.
Worsdale.
J.
Voice,
Sweeter
heard by
strain
still
Miscellany of Poems,
by J. Husbands
lark. L. Theobald.
carol. Dirnond.
Ogilvie.
;
E.
Thomas Hurl-
G. E. Howard.
Sweet
o'er
the verdant
moan.
Not
Such
As from
knows,
Anna Seward.
SW
The laugh as glad,
The song as sweet,
As
Which
Sweet
Sweet to the soul as
manna to the taste. W. Thompson. as the honey of Hybla.
Shakespear.
Sweeter than the honey of Mount Hybla. Play,
Alexander fy Timotheus. Sweet as Hybla honey. W. Thompto the soul as
honey
son, T.
Morton.
Davenant.
Dryden.
Banks.
the attic bee stored in her cell for Jove's nativity. J. Howell.
than
E. Young.
Calendar.
heaven
distilled.
Hybla. Dryden.
soft
Chaucer.
as liquorice root.
Play,
than
Schoolboy's
as the
juice.
Poetical
from
that
Sweeter than
Coffey.
manna
Mask.
Behn.
as sugar.
as the
than
Grainger.
Sweet
when
Jonson.
like
the fields in
falling waters.
Byron.
How
A. L.
soft,
as
sooth-
murmuring waves
A'ikin.
how
an
May,
be lulled by
the
Sweet as the
murmur of
Mickle's Lusiad.
as the vintage
when
the showering
S
Byron.
ing.
ney
to seamen. Ibid.
Savage. as
as persuasion.
Byron. &s
children.
E
Ibid.
pillage to soldiers.
as prize-mo-
as
child.
Landon.
as the poets'
G. PuttenJiam,
as milk.
numbers. N. Rowe.
Sweeter
SWEETNESS.
Howard
Sf
Dry-
SWELL like
seas.
Watts.
sea.
C. Pitt.
wave. T. Moore.
the
like a
stopped
Jonson.
like
SWIFT
Chaucer, SJiahespear,
as thought.
DeJcker.
thought.
as mortal thought.
ShaJcespear.
thoughts.
quick thought.
nassus.
N.
Lee.
DaugJiters.
Churchill.
Watts.
Pix,
as
my
will.
TicJcell, fy others.
the
as con-
as the
wish. Southern.
as
W. Jones.
Cowley.
Swift as was
as desire.
tions of desire.
Tragedy.
Francis.
as frenzy
my
as man's
Gay.
as light thoughts.
as the
fy others.
flies.
fy otliers.
Garth.
as
moC.
as
a lover's
S
Motteux.
than
wheel of nature
Davenant,
WI
Watts.
rolls.
fy others.
Milton.
wing of
as
Run
the day.
ter.
from
Damon
Pythias.
fy
Swift as
Centlivre.
his pride.
/. Kirk.
than
Beaumont
ty
Youth's Comedy.
John Duncombe, in
from the rising sun. Draper,
Swift and bright like a sunbeam. Sir
Poetical Calendar.
as a ray shot
in Poetical Calendar.
Scott.
as speech. Play,
Watts,
than
Fletcher.
W.
as the rushing
time.
Swift as the
Chapman, Sir W.
as time.
a glancing
star.
Milton.
Cowley.
as stars
down
as the sparkle of
G. Peele.
shoot.
as
as the
shooting star that gilds the night with rapid transient blaze.
Swifter than the shooting of a star. G. Croly.
Somervile.
Shenstone,
as streaming light.
Sf others.
Bird.
Sir
as lightning.
ning.
as light.
Blackmore.
as darting light.
light.
A. Cowley.
as the journeys of
Ibid.
W. Davenant.
Blackmore.
Campbell.
the light.
The Shamrock.
rose.
it
as descending rays of
ruddy
Shakespear, Armin,
Play, Herminius
ning. Lidgate,
8?
fy
light.
Espasia, by Hart.
as fire or light-
Chatterton.
T.
A. Dow,
Heywood.
fy
others.
Plays.
Swift and
momentous
WI
as the
lightning's
W.
Whitehead.
than
blast.
Preston's
Montgomery.
App. Rhodius,
Mays
Lucan.
he ex-
as
Translation of
flies.
On
flies
/. Bird.
fate.
winged lightning.
F. Burney.
App.
cing lightning
light.
its
Hooles Ariosto.
flies.
Blackmore.
Preston's
J. Bird.
as the
Rhodius.
as
as the glan-
as
the lightning's
is
fire.
bald.
Harington.
as
A. Seward.
as
Langhorne.
ral.
Anthony Brown.
as
the light-
More
stey.
swift
and
and
it
Play, Orgula.
silent as lightning.
shall
move, and be as
fatal too.
G. G. Douvilly.
T. Shipman.
Watts.
Swifter than
lied lightning.
lied thunder.
Cumberland.
lightning, winds, or
heaven. C. Johnson.
Swift
from
as the
as the bolts
of
fate.
Pasquin.
SW
bolt of angry Jove.
Somervile.
of wind. Jephson.
Oberon.
as a fiery meteor.
as
Swift
as
as
to its goal.
fiery
as the
Lisle.
Moore.
N. Drake.
/. Bird.
a shooting meteor.
Cumberland.
the
meteor
momentary me
Dryden, Southey.
as a falling meteor.
Savage.
W. Sotheby's
fire.
as rushing fire.
Swift
Milman.
fire
that
cing flame.
T. Moore.
More
wintry storm.
let
him
others.
fy
Doyne's Tasso.
the plain.
C. Colton.
others.
fy
cretius.
Urge
by rapid whirl-
as a tempest.
as
as a whirlwind.
as a rapid whirlwind.
E. Prest-
as the tempest, or
C. Fox.
Prior.
Murphy.
wind. Churchill.
as a
blast,
north.
than
fly the
fy others.
/. Philips.
as hea-
swift
bursting storm.
as glan-
E. Young.
W. Hamilton.
den,
Hamilton.
TV.
as darted flame.
others.
fy
as the
as the whirlwind
as the whirlwind's
App. Rhodius.
Swift and subtle
as the
as the
Swifter than
SWI
Poem, Margaret of Anjou
More
Harington.
as western wind.
tern
and as
invisible.
ing mists.
Southey. Swift
James Boaden.
as the
J.
Somervile.
Arabian main.
C. Fox.
Jasper Heywood.
flight.
G. Peele, E. Smedley.
wind.
away and
Swift as fleeting
as the south
as
Somervile.
by J. Husbands.
than
B. Purges.
Miscellany of Poems,
Chatterton.
More
winds. Fraunce.
gusts of wind.
fly.
N. Rowe.
ford.
than
Rhodius.
than winds
Smollett.
Swifter
or rays of light
glides
More
/.
Wandes-
I'll fly.
T. Penrose.
as the strongest
sweep the
than
Cockain, Chatterton.
Zephyrus.
Sylvester.
as fleeting air.
G.
Swift as
W.Browne.
Canning.
More
air.
as the
swift than
W. Hodson.
when Boreas
distilling rain.
Jenyns.
sky.
fiercely blows.
Pope.
than roll
W. Hamilton.
His arms
S
the land.
Sylvester.
Goring.
as a
caverns of their
WI
clear as
an arrow
as an arrow. Syl-
Southey.
Fly
arrow from a bow. Fielding, Southey, fy others.
Swift as an arrow when winged from a bow. R. Drury.
as
the arrow from Apollo's bow. Mickle's Lusiad.as an arrow
vester,
Somervile.
as
in its flight.
swift as an
/.
Banks.
Parthian bows. T.
Shakespear.
May.
May.
flies.
Watts.
as an
Swift as
E. Ward.
arrow from a
Swifter than arrow from a bow.
arrow
as an Indian
Orrery,
bow. C. Fox.
winged arrow from
feathered arrow
from
bow.
Calendar.
an arrow from sounding yew. Hoole's
a
from bow.
Taylor,
a
Garth.
a Parthian
Metasfrom vexed Diana's bow.
threatening
W.
from heaven she
Davenant.
an arrow
winged wind she
Mickle's Lusiad.
from a Turkish
the Tartar's
as the
the
as
Ariosto.
as shaft
Sylvester.
shaft.
as
as
Poetical
archer's
flies
flying shaft.
tasio.
as
shaft.
Sir
as
as a shaft, or
darted.
den.
as
flew.
Churchill.
shaft
Sylvester.
bow. Sylvester.
as shafts fly
T.
May.
God barbed
as
Blackmore. Swiftly
G. Sandys.
flies.
winged
Sacred Script.
W.
Swift as a pile
bird. Fairfax.
the heaven.
as shaft
eagles.
Hoole's
shaft
as
as
Fairfax, J.
S. Walker.
ty
others.
than
than
the eagles of
S
Ossian.
Watts.
Soame Jenyns. as the eagle's wing. Sir W. DaFly more swift than eagles through the sky. M. Pil-
yielding
air.
venant.
kington.
WI
as
eagle
as the
W.
ing doves. Thomas Hogg. than
hasting to her prey. Sylvester.
prey. G. Townsend, J. Bird.
as
as
eagle to
as the
as
his
as
the
swift
Devices.
Strode.
the falcon.
W.
flight.
S. Walker.
A.
motions were.
Bicknell.
flight
Theatre.
wing
saw her
Gay.
fly.
Burns.
when
Swift as a falcon
App. Rhodius.
my
as
fly to
as swallow
in
her
flies.
flight.
Shakespear, G. Peele,
Spenser.
as
fy others.
ears of corn.
nymph
the falcon
flies
on the
hill.
fy others.
Marriage Promise.
W.
More
Swift as
Spenser.
Puttenham,
swallow
G. Peele.
as
or that Greekish
S. Walker.
Not
who
swifter
seeks
from
Swift as a sea-bird
as a roe. Spenser, G.
Drayton.
as a roe
as a roe
on the
SWi
is
Ossian.
desert.
as
N.
as the
Chatterton.
Philips.
as a stag. Pope.
as the
Cotton.
Run
as breathed stags.
Poetical Calendar.
hart.
Ogilvie.
Lee.
as
in chase.
Spenser.
flies
along the
fly.
N.
as hinds in chase.
the
Swift as
any buck
Parnell.
as
Wars of Cyrus.
Shake-
Oldmixon.
bounding
Swift
young
as a roe flies
Fraunce.
as the
Thornley, J. Banks.
as the
Mickle's Lusiad.
Swift as the elk.
as a hind.
mountain hind.
J.
George
G. Cooper.
Jenyns.
the
roe.
hart,
torio.
his
lion
as a lion terrible
and bold,
J.
when
fly.
Duke.
Swift as a grey-
hound
he
flies.
Hoole's Ariosto.
Sotheby's Oberon.
as a
greyhound
herd scud
Greene
8f
Pye's Pindar.
wood,
Sf
others.
More
the
as Pegasus.
Marlowe, T. Hey-
winged Pegasus
in
WI
John Taylor.
Script.,
swifter
than
Swift as an express.
J.
Sacred
a post.
Fly
W. Cowper.
Tatham.
Swiftly
move
as
Jove's messenger.
they charge in
plain.
Sir
Quarles.
vester.
skimming
W. Jones. Swiftly as Syrians when
war. Sir W. Davenant. Swift as cannon's shot.
dewy
o'er the
G.
Stevens.
A.
than
plagues the venomed breath went forth. Play, Faithful GeSwift as contagion, or epidemic plagues. C. Macklin.
neral.
Lansdowne, E. Moore.
Swifter
SWIM
like a duck.
ShaJcespear.
T.
ALKATIVE
more
as parrots.
T. Nabbs.
Poole's Parnassus.
is
tience.
like
more than
TALL
like one
who
much
is
poured
at table is like
as the
Atlas.
like
company.
Ibid.
Anakims. Sacred
T.Rawlins.
Script.
More tall than daring
Tall as cedar tree. G. Puttenham.
as
as forest cedars.
wood. Translation of
Montgomery.
as the
Voltaire's Henriade.
as the
palm
tree,
TEN
G. Colman.
as hop-poles.
as cypresses. S.
TAME
Beaumont
as patience.
venant.
Tame
as fear. Ibid.
as a dormouse. J.
Webster.
Fletcher.
fy
Tamer than
innocency. Ibid.
others.
fy
as
W. Da-
as a lamb. Lid-
W.Davenant.
as doves. Sir
as geese. Pope,
as a bundle of
is
hay
to a
some
child. Shakespear,
a siege. Marmion.
Otway.
-as
hungry
South.
lion.
festival, to
a twice-told
an impatient
tale.
Pope.
as
as a rail-
z.%
Hayley.
TENDER
as melting pity.
Gildon.
Southey.
as angels.
C. Burnaby.
Centlivre.
Tender
as infancy. Shake-
a lamb.
W.
T. Moncrieff.
as the
More
Tender as the
gall-less dove. J.
sigh.
Landon.
sunny
G. Cooper.
wood-dove's
in
as a chick.
C.
A. Elton.
Constant and
Tender
as the
Chaucer, Herrick,
fy
TER
others.
as
Sacred Script.
Sad Shepherd,
Shenstone.
flower.
Jonson's
as buds.
at
morning
as
dew of
$ others. as hell.
Milton.
woven
Chaucer.
TERRIBLE as death.
An
in the
by
oath terrible to
Marston, South,
me
Styx
as
Gods. Dryden.
Ter-
More
to the
is
terrible
some destroying
angel.
Terrible like
Southey.
fierce
light-
slaughter.
Ossian.
Terrible as
T. Heijwood.
consume.
all
Doyne's Tasso.
T. Heijwood. Terrible as
flash.
as a
and
is
meteor of
Ossian.
fire.
Explosion,
terrible as a volcano.
sweeps the
tentless
Mars.
jestically terrible as
as
Mars. Lansdowne.
as an
greve.
More
me
As
Script.
as a gorgon.
THAW.
/. Mottley.
floods
No
Centlivre.
Con-
Terrible to
foe
is
so ter-
Oldmixon.
which
THICK
Southey.
others.
as stars
is
sown. Dryden.
THI
stars, or
day.
summer
W. Thompson.
flowers.
as the winter
as the
Settle.
beams of
/. Shirley.
C. Churchill.
More
Chapman.
Thick
G.
With precious
beset
A. Barclay. Thick
Play,
Dryden, Addison.
Wily
pour. Gay.
approach. Play,
King John.
me you
Play, If you know
as hail. Lidgate, Wyatt,
as thick as hail.
stones
as hailstones.
as hailstones
beguiled.
Peele.
as winter's hail.
others.
fy
fall.
as hailstones
Somervile.
not
as April's hail.
know nobody.
winter's hail.
Play Alcazar
Thick as
Garth.
hail.
flies.
upon
Thick as the
Theatre.
the
falling
naked Alps.
Pitt.
Chaucer,
as rain.
Sir
A. Bailey. Drop
W. Davenant.
Dangers,
PaThick
More
triotism.
summer shower.
summer showers,
Addison.
G. Croly.
as
as the flowers in
meadows. A. Cowley.
Thick
Pope.
in fields.
M. R. Mitford. Where
as
the dews
sun-bright showers. Darwin Botanic Garden.
A.
Cowley.
autumn
auT. Heywood, E. Young.
tumnal
Milton, Pope.
autumn strow
of flowers. R.Blair.
as dew-drops.
SirW.
Scott.
as
's
as
as
leaves.
as the leaves in
leaves.
THI
the woods. Dryden.
nell.
Thick
budding leaves or
as the
as scattered leaves in
as hops. Play,
as grapes
upon a bunch.
Spanish
Bawd;
Fielding.
Taylor;
J.
others.
fy
Chapman.
as flies in spring.
of honey. Drayton
as the ant-flies in
summer evening
in
The
tide.
wasps
Miscellany.
bees
Savage.
flies.
as
renew
flowery
their
Barclay.
as the
Dryden
in
Pope.
fly.
Ibid.
toils.
humming
hungry shoals do
summer
in a
Thick
berland.
as bees
lilies
Dryden.
feed.
As
swarm
as
E. Young.
as herrings.
as stones. Harington.
as atoms.
W. Taverner.
thick
and numberless
Milton.
T.
as bright
As
as
as the
Thick
Hey wood.
atoms
as the
as a
in the
sunny motes.
motes that
as motes in a sun-beam.
as
Marlowe.
Chaucer.
thick as
dew
May. E. Ward. as
thick as locusts. Cum-
as
in
solar ray.
dew
crows in
son.
as
W. Wordsworth.
P.Pindar.
Thom-
branched oak.
shore. Play,
as
about a hive. A.
as grasshoppers in
fold.
mead
o'er
light
as
mustard. Shakespear.
rils
abound as thick
as thought could
TOU
THIN
Micky s
as the light.
Lusiad.
Thin of substance
Johnson.
than burnt
Donne.
air.
in the sunshine of an
as the
air.
Crown, C.
/.
Thinner
autumn
Southey.
frost.
Lady Alimony.
as a
Thin spun as is
Thin as the filmy-
cobweb. Sir W.
Scott.
W. Wordsworth.
T. Heywood.
Gay.
as a lath.
THIRSTY
as a paper leaf.
S. Foote.
like
as a groat.
A. Murphy.
R. Greene.
as a horse-leech.
THREATEN
as a rake.
roll
them
as a
drum. Gay.
TIMOROUS
TINGE.
as a sheep. Sir
As
W.
darksome clouds
Scott.
o'er April
Tinge the
fair
And wrap
each smiling
scene with
sky
murky
hill
dye,
and glade
TIRESOME
TORMENT.
as the
of the town,
TORPID
as a toad in marble.
TORTUROUS
TOUGH
croft.
ber.
C.
as hell.
as steel.
N.
H.
Wilson's
Dr. Johnson.
Field.
Beaumont
as whitleather.
T. Holcrqft.
fy
Fletcher.
as whalebone.
Play of Poverty
Wealth.
Ban-
as Indian rub-
TOW
TOWER
Tower
aloft, like
G. Croly.
TRACELESS
TRACKLESS
as the wind.
W. Davenant.
Sir
as
N.
air.
Cotton.
s Fables.
Andromache,
in
as tranquil as the
Greek
A look
TRANSCEND.
The
When
solar light
Anna Seward.
TRANSCENDENT as
TRANSIENT
as the
stream. Fenton.
the day.
gleam that
G. Townsend.
gilds the surface of a freezing
More
stormy
Mary
Transient
Robinson.
as the rain-
dew of morn.
summer morn's exhaling dew. Anna
Calendar.
Seward.
flower of April morn.
Mickle.
shade of
breath upon a mirwandering
T. Moore.
hour. W. Cowper.
bow.
J.
Hervey.
as the radiant
as silver
as the
as
as the
TV. J.
cloud.
Ossian.
as the fleeting
ror.
dreams.
/. Sterling.
Her
as the
as
as fleeting
G.
R. Dixon.
TRANSPARENT
air,
or crystal.
morning dew, or
Chapman.
More
crystal. J. Shirley.
fy
others.
as crystal.
Beaumont
fy
TRO
W. Cartwright,
Fletcher,
Bicker staff.
/.
others.
as a rock of solid
Banks, C. Johnson,
fy
crystal.
Dry den.
fy
as glass.
others.
TREMBLE
row
when he hears
by
William Painter.
Scott, fy others.
like
W.
leaf.
Shakespear,
Spenser.
All tremble
Scott.
Palace of Plea-
aspen leaves.
like
a green aspen
Murphy.
like a leaf.
sure,
when you
like
an
frown,
winds. J. Banks.
O my
Byron.
divided soul,
how do
I tremble
doubtful
Tremble
like
I love
a frosty Russian on a
and tremble
hill.
Poole's
Sir
like to the
Parnassus.
W. Davenant.
Duke of Guise.
TREMENDOUS
as a god. Pope.
TROUBLED as
the sea.
Beaumont
8$
Bloody Duke.
Fletcher.
More
troubled
J.
Howard.
as a law-suit.
TRU
TRUE
as fate. Dekker.
Lidgate.
God
as
as the Gospel.
is
in
as
from
as
the Creed.
is
Gay.
as angels.
as guardian angels.
Thompson.
TV.
as truth's
the
spheres
Nature's
Campbell.
T.
the day. N. Lee. sun to-day. Shakespear. the
the
diurnal
Davenant.
the
sun
Sir
the monarch
sun. B. Booth, Murphy,
the
planets
moons. Shakespear.
of the day. Durfey.
iron
flowing are the moon. Dryden
adamant. Shakespear.
Cook.
adamant.
the
B. Booth, Somervile,
the
the needle
the north. Sir
Davenant.
the magnetic needle
needle
the needle tracks the
the north, Durfey.
the
earth
Shakespear.
T. Moore.
the substance.
the main. Sir W. Davenant.
the shadow
hermits' confession
deaths. Sir
Chatterton.
the hermit
the plighted vow. Poetical CaDavenant.
dying martyrs
C. Johnson.
Chaucer, Gower,
R, Greene, A.
turtle-dove. Chaucer. True love
simplicity. Shakespear.
Chastity
TV.
itself.
Browne.
as honour.
Mallet, Falconer.
is
to
circling
as Nature
true.
plan.
as
Burke.
as
race.
as
tides
dial to
as
TV,
others.
fy
as
dial to
as
to
their
to
Troilus.
's
as steel to
to
to
ty
as
to
as
load-star.
as
to
at their
TV.
to
as
as steel.
to their faith.
as
8$ others.
Philips,
as turtles.
as turtle to
in
as
8$ others.
as
as rivers to
centre.
as
lendar.
as
others.
as
TV.
to
as
/.
pole.
to
Scot.
as light.
as
to his
as
as
her mate. Spenser, Shakespear. True unto thy bed, and chaste
e'er
brows. Play,
a stone.
Gammer
Chaucer.
as blade to
TUNEABLE.
was
hilt.
Thurlow.
as the skin
Gurton's Needle.
as touch. Spenser.
TV.
Browne,
between thy
as a die.
Gay.
as
as death. Marlowe.
T. Dibdin.
lark to shepherd's
ear. Shakespear.
TUNEFUL as
grove. R. Rolt.
UNC
TURBULENT.
The
sea in all
fury
its
is
less turbulent
and
TURN
TWINE
Wyatt, A. Barclay.
as the wind.
Wyatt,
as a ball. Lidgate,
others.
fy
beech. Cumberland.
The rock
like ivy
Twine as
Twine about
him
TWINKLE
like a star.
Cumberland.
Marlowe, Ravenscroft.
Duchess of Newcastle.
stars.
a frosty night.
like stars in
Chaucer.
U.
UGLY
P. Pindar, T. E. Hook,
as sin.
Davenport, E. Moore.
hell.
Marlowe, T. Heywood,
fy
others.
as a death's-head.
8$ others.
as a fiend.
as
death.
C. Johnson.
as
Mrs. C.
Clive.
Uglier
Sir W. Davenant.
as a satyr. Play, The Legacy.
as an ape.
E. Ward. as a baboon. Centlivre. as a bear. Shakespear.
as a toad. R. Davenport.
UNBLAMED
as faith. Mallet.
UNBLEMISHED
shaded
Sir
light.
UNBOUNDED
son.
as Innocence
W. Davenant.
itself.
as God's power.
Unbounded
UNBROKEN as
C. Macklin.
as un-
Pomfret.
as the sea.
Thom-
Goring.
UNCERTAIN
as the sea.
Beaumont
fy
Fletcher,
Buckingham.
UNC
as
the light
strives.
Doyne's Tasso.
A. Bushe.
John Mottley.
as the seasons.
Fix.
UNCHANGEABLE
UNCHANGED and
changed
as
E.
as fate.
Settle.
un-
God. Pollok.
UNCLOUDED
as the virgin
morn when
silver
Fawkes,
Behn.
confined and
whispering
Dryden's Miscellany.
dew
from
winds.
Duke.
as day. Akenside.
free as
Settle,
Un-
as the celestial
air.
Parhand of
circles.
nassus.
E.
Churchill.
as air.
Glover.
as
evening on the
Scott of
fields.
UNCONSCIOUS
as
falls
A mw ell.
mountain of
as the
the
its ore,
or rock of
its in-
UNCONSTRAINED
as air.
Somervile,
freedom
as
in the
UNCONTROLLABLE
as
winds
must be
strict in
frailty's ruins,
as the
honour of a virgin
title,
like
one of
as heaven.
Gildon.
Marmion.
as purity
and innocence.
South.
meadows
are floated
UN M
UNDISTURBED,
placid,
and serene,
like a fine
calm summer's
Young.
evening.
UNFORTUNATE
as if a
UNGENEROUS
common
did
flee
from a
and a bear
lion,
bit him.
as neglect. Savage.
UNIVERSAL
others.
man
into the
and a serpent
UNITED
W. Wordsworth.
Beaumont ty
W. Davenant. as
we breathe. Carew.
Fletcher, fy
the light or
Poem.
as
UNKIND
UNLIKE
as scorn. Savage.
as intellect
UNMOVEABLE
W.
as fate. Play,
Game of
Chess.
Tillotson.
as rocks.
Shirley.
UNMOVED as
death. Pope.
Poole's Parnassus.
as
fate.
Goring.
to the importunities of
the poles.
as rocks
as
when mountain
Unmoved
As
as rocks
Unmoved
as stone. Parnell.
lightning's shock
As
unmoved. T. Heywood.
UNN
UNNATURAL
nights in
as mirth at a funeral.
summer
UNNUMBERED
Milton. as
E. Young.like
frosty
time. J. Smith.
as the sands of
soil.
Play,
Portsmouth Heiress.
E. Ward.
UNSHAKEN
Dr. Johnson.
Glapthorne, Blackmore,
fy others.
Fletcher.
as a rock.
as un-
UNSPOTTED
M. K.
as the light.
lily.
Masters.
UNSTABLE
than the
sea.
air,
Gildon.
as
all
Doyne's Tasso.
UNSTAINED
More
Commonwealth.
T.Heywood.
/. Hervey.
Wit's
our hopes.
G. E. Howard.
as a shadow.
as sand. Landon.
and pure as
is
the
lily,
V AI
Unstained as driven snow. Universal Magazine.
Thomson.
as a clear
UNSTEADY as
Mary R.
the wind.
UNSUBSTANTIAL
ing shade. Poet's
Stockdale.
as moonlight. Sir
Day, a Poem.
W. Scott.as
the fleet-
Unsubstantial and
fleet-
UNSULLIED
E.
Settle,
A.
new
Merrick.
fallen
as
as
snow.
C. Johnson.
as descending snow.
/.
G. Cooper.
as the light.
Merry, A. Brown.
it
open.
Selim
as the
UNTAINTED
light
is
Gildon.
Zuleika.
fy
as the morning.
less untainted.
South.
Banks.
virgin
Glapthorne.
UPRIGHT as a wall.
as
Play, Second
Lidgate.
USELESS
A.
Selden.
Tillotson.
as dials in
sepulchres. Pope.
V.
and water.
Dr. Johnson.
AL
as to
as
fleeting
Mickles Lusiad.
air.
as are
principles. Ibid.
infants'
bubbles
and vanish
Smollett.
toil.
brook
as for a
C. Beckingham.
nought.
into
pests within a
as bottling
barren
soil.
as to hold tem-
Byron.
J. Hoole.
up of wind.
Smollett.
as to
sow
Swift.
as to
in Afric's
Ibid.
Vain and illusive as a sick man's dream.
Vain and unsubstantial as the dreams which vanish
VALIANT
a
spear,
Beaumont
as war.
Shakespear.
as
J. Shirley,
8$
lion.
fy
others.
Fletcher.
Mars. Pope.
as
Jonson.
fire.
as Hercules.
as Hector. Ibid.
as
Shake-
as Achilles.
T. Lodge.
VANISH
sunbeam.
like a
Tobin.
ing star.
by approaching
Lord of
the
wind. Marmion.
Ralph.
vester,
like the
Ossian.
by the
rays of light.
air.
R.
air.
like vapours.
Ibid.
Syl-
of mist be
James
like
like
Like brooding
a moment. R. Hurst.
vanish into
Voltaire's
Dry den.
light.
as the
Vanishing as clouds.
J. Taylor.
fleet
like a shoot-
Henriade translated.
clouds. Play,
Vanish
Scott.
Shadwell.
W.
Sir
sun-flash o'er a
As
Phillips.
Vanish
like
the
VAR
Drenched
fy
smoke
as
dow.
H.Blair.
night.
Dryden.
Dried.
as a shade.
like
the.
as a storm of wind.
Warner,
dius.
fy
or shadows.
others.
Quarles.
like
dream of the
tion
Blair.
Sir
Tillotson.
W.
Scott.
to Eloisa,
Southey.
Dryden.
chanted ground.
like a vision
in
E. Ward.
like a ghost.
an
forms drawn
Vanish away
light.
like a
like a
of day
others.
fy
night.
like
of the night.
Falconer, L. Macnally.
as a fleeting dream.
and disappear
E. Young, R,
as a dream.
a Poem.
as spectres at ap-
like a rainbow.
M. R.
like en-
Mitford.
Swift as a bird 'scap'd from the fowler's hand, hence hast thou
vanish'd with impetuous
flight.
Theatre.
VARIABLE
mond.
8$
Sis-
Ed-
VARIOUS
ture.
rious
Savage.
as light. Ibid.
and inconstant
Scott of Amwell.
as the
human
humour
moon. Watts.
moon. Southern.
as
as na-
Va-
an April day.
than
wit. Akenside.
as the
E. Young.
M. A.
Browne.
Various
Various and
More
various
Morpheus
AR
V
in his sleepy
Marmion.
den.
quented plains.
M. Pilkington.
More
Congreve.
With every
Quarles.
a vane. Lidgate.
VAST
demands of human
as the
tended sky.
Chatterton.
VEER
Ahenside.
will.
Veer
Gildon.
Hanway. Veering
A. Bushe.
as scorpions.
Gaffe.
C.
VERMILIONED
VIEWLESS
Pope.
like a ruby.
John
as a
mad
dog.
A.
settled point.
Hill.
as the
Venemous and
T. Killigrew.
More venemous
than
Her
Durfey.
lips
vermilioned
Walwyn.
as the winds.
VIGILANT
Veer-
others.
Marsh.
as asps.
Shakespear.
dog's tooth.
mortal plagues.
mad
as the
poison of a serpent.
as a
as the ex-
G. Townsend.
VENEMOUS
M.
Sir
W. Scott. as
the
air.
G. Lewis.
as a lynx.
Dilke.
VIGOROUS
as the sun.
W. Wordsworth.
VILE
lany.
as
-
as clay.
VINDICTIVE
as
fire.
Pomfret.
like a
as the dross.
Ahenside.
Thomson.
Watts.
as the dross
as the fiends.
H. Boyd.
Penelope.
Boyle
WAR
Earl of Orrery, Addison.
whom
as Fabricius, of
that a
man might
course, as to induce
South.
it
was said
him
do a base or a dishonest
to
action.
was our mother Eve ere Satan came and with de-
as
VISIBLE
on a man's
as a nose
The sun is
brow of
Shakespear.
face.
the
heaven. Habington.
VIVIFYING
rays.
The
More
Liberal.
VOLATILE
E. Young.
as air.
Sir W.Scott.
as water.
Montgomery.
flower.
as
as a butterfly.
VatheJc.
VOLUPTUOUS
VORACIOUS
P. Pindar.
as a kite.
W.
VV AIT
on.
that wait
on
guilt, as
Sacred Script.
W. Davenant.
from
their graves.
J. Dennis.
Spenser.
ape. Harington.
WARM as
ecstasy.
like a vaga-
leaves.
Chapman.
Behn.
as the roe.
buds.
autumn
like
like
affrighted
as the calf.
as a
Durfey.
Dryden.
whose horn new
as a kid.
as a kid
Polwheles Theocritus.
as
an
W. Cowper.
as Phoebus at noon.
/. G.
WAR
as
June.
as
Seward.
W. Thompson.
Gay. Somervile,
toast.
WARY as a fox.
WASH.
How
I will
T. Moore.
day sun,
as a spring
poet's muse.
as a love-sick
Peele, P, Pindar.
as wool.
B. Cornwall.
wash my hands
like Pilate
from thy
like the
smoke
Watts.
WATCH
first child.
Watch
Landon.
as the
like a lynx.
Watch me
fruit.
WATCHFUL
New Spain.
like a cat.
L. Macnally, Byron,
as a lynx.
ty
others.
al]
still
Harington.
Wave
Dyer.
Waved as
like
thread.
/. Hervey.
Denham.
as wind.
as a weathercock.
Gascoigne.
Weak and
Aurelia,
G. Keate.
as fow-
E. Ward.
WAVERING
Script.,
of age
sea.
Play,
Watch me
A. Cherry
cat.
lers
like a
by her tender
young mother watches her
Garrick.
P. Pindar.
like a taper.
young. A. Brewer.
perian
Play,
folly.
to
WASTE
as
ty others.
8$ others.
R. Bernard.
water.
Sacred
as the scorched
Tasso.
Weak as
the
WEL
Weak
twilight,
yeaned.
is
WEALTHY as a prince.
More wealthy
Swift.
as a
Wordsworth.
TV.
ocean. J. Beaumont.
showers. E. Howard, in
another Niobe
I'll
weep
till
am
Like
Chaucer.
gedy.
Drydens Miscellany.
Bailey.
WELCOME
cred Script.
him
happy tidings
as the feet of
that bringeth
after fears.
as
health
health
drink
N.
Lee.
gedy.
as
Sa-
as health.
Maidens Tra-
to
pressed. Ibid.
peace to those
all
Play, Second
tidings.
to the sick.
as
nassus.
war
to labourers.
good
Otway.
as rest to pains
and
to lovers,
Higgons.
Cibber.
C.
care.
as
sword of
as hope
Himself.
the conquering
to captives. Play,
C. Cibber.
as
as
as liberty
freedom to
freedom
to the
Bechingham.
slaves.
Sir
captive. /.
as the voice
Hervey.
mercy
H.
Jacob.
dungeon
slave. Ibid.
as
to a man condemned. Dry den.
Welcome to me as to a sinking mariner the lucky plank that bears
him to the shore. Dryden. as after darkness cheerful light.
Lansdowne. as the cheerful light. Jephtha, a Sacred Drama.
Welcome to my eyes as rising sun to new recovered sight.
C. Machlin.
Welcome to mine eyes as is the day-spring from
the morning's womb unto the wretch whose nights are tedious.
Play, Second Maiden's Tragedy.
as Aurora the messenger of
light to those
who have
WEL
Emilia.
Dryden.
More welcome
C. Beckingham.
to
J. Corye.
as the sun.
in winter are.
disordered chaos.
den.
Jago.
dawn of day.
bright
birds.
morn
silence hushed.
as winter's sun, or
Centlivre.
star,
when
W. Davenant.
Sir
to the
as suns
Dry-
as a winter's sun.
as
as
More welcome
make
R. Baron.
first light
is tost,
day
Potter
that
winds
its sails
after a night of
Eschylus.
As
Himself.
to
hope
still
as land
To wind-bound
Potter's Eschylus.
descries.
his
mariners
shrouds.
Manuch.
man.
den ease
ing
to
to
Play, Leir.
to
that are
is
wet with
As
to the year.
fy
W. Browne, 8f
More welcome
Miscellany.
As wel-
Hersilia;
Marmion.
Poetical
Theobald.
as the flowers in
fy
others.
upon a rigorous
May. The Cloud
moistening showers
kindly showers
as
mountains flow
Greene
soft
fy
as the
as
to
Most welcome
to the thirsty
Pyes Pindar.
as sud-
Romulus
Seward.
winter's heels.
clouds.
C.
sound health-
Crown.
in pain. J.
as spring
my
as
one
come
meadows
as sleep.
men oppressed
others.
Welcome
ful sleep to
Pyes Pindar.
fy
as sleep
Welcome
T. Heywood.
as
to
me
as cool fresh
Favonian gales. A.
as
morning
dew to
WHI
T. Middleton:- as dewy cherries
roses.
to
be
to
Fatal Falsehood.
tars
to the taste in
It shall
Welcome as shady
Cumberland.
sacrifice.
Amw ell. as
a draught of
as
victory.
Higgons.
toils
Welcome
Play, heir.
Dryden.
as a king.
as
as
N.
open
me
air to prisoners.
as victory,
life,
Lee.
to
Welcome
Greene
fy
as gold
as
charm-
Suckling.
when on virtuous
Pye's Pindar. Most
as
lers.
Poole's Parnassus.
WHIRL
the dust as
Whirled
WHISPERING like
WHITE
as innocence.
Beaumont
8?
arise.
Dryden.
N.
Ro?ve.
as sainted innocence.
WH
/. Fountain,
high court.
Beaumont
Durfey.
as the
Fletcher.
ty
to Jove's
Sacred Script.,
as snow.
the
snow. Jonson, G. Sandys,
Chaucer,
ty others.
as
others.
fy
as flaky
as flakes
flake
as
as
as
J.
ton.
in
it is
as
Jones.
winter's breast.
as
spear, 8$ others.
Chetwood, in
The
fleecy snows.
fresh falling
as
others.
fy
snow.
as falling
Lilly.
as winter's
Drydens Miscellany.
Vestriad, a
Whiter and
Poem.
softer than
the
and tainted
stained
Barnes.
nine.
by
its
its
fall
as purest
snow
bleached snow.
as
pureness
snow.
skies.
Youth's Comedy.
fy
morning snow.
as the fanned
is
B.
Shakespear, Beaumont,
Play,
its
as the pure
that falls
Southey.
snow ere
Landon.
mountain snow.
thorne.
as the
as spotless snow.
below.
Doyne's Tasso.
Southey.
it.
that
is
fy others.
as the
as
the
as infant snow.
C. Cotton.
snow
others.
Addison.
as
bolted
Glap-
unsunned snow.
by
as Alpine snow.
the northern
Tomhis, Lee,
WHI
Mickle's Lusiad.
light.
Rhodius
snow.
Albert, a
Dry den.
as drifted snow.
Poem ;
fy
others.
as untrod snow. L.
Preston's
App.
as drifts of Thracian
Machin, G. Sandys.
as
Ossian.
rise
M. R.
Mitford.
as a swan.
Landon.
Gower,
others.
lany.
as the
Southey.
Cowley.
bosom of a swan.
Ossian.
as the swan's
breast.
down of swans. Play, Nero's Tragedy ; E. RaWhite and soft as the down on the swan's bosom. W.
Habington. White as the downy swan. M. Robinson.
More
and
soft as the
venscroft.
WHI
unsullied breast.
more
lei/.
White
spotless silver
as the
soms. C. Cotton.
the
White
as
as a
lily.
as rising
virgin
was her
fy
soul.
or as falling snow.
Whiter than
Durfey.
snow new
or
Pe-
Fletcher,
<
fy
others.
others.
Poole's Parnassus.
lilies,
lilies.
pearls, or
Chaucer, Sidney,
as pearl. Sir
Chaucer, Beaumont
lily flower.
Whiter than
White
turtles. /. Shir-
Charlemagne, a Poem,
lops'
Paphian
W.Scott.
The
Addison.
white. G. Sandys.
W. Davenant.
as
virgin growth,
E. Sherburne.
fallen.
Sir
lilies in their
lily,
W.
drop.
Tate.
J. Mickle.
More
as
J. Webster,
White as
Alarbas.
a blooming hawthorn.
silver.
Play, Herod
fy
Antipater.
as
R. Greene, Jonson, fy
others.
Whiter than the ivory arm bestowed by Jove on
Pelops. W. Cowper.
White as Pelops' shoulder. W. Browne,
burnished
M.
silver.
Stevenson.
Sylvester.
as ivory.
Shakespear.
as bear's
Whiter
Play, If you know not me you know nobody.
than is the Alpine crystal mould. Play, Taming of a Shrew.
teeth.
White
W. Wordsworth.
like marble.
Dodsley's Collection.
Offering.
as polished marble.
Sir
W.
Scott.
as
cheese
new
as
fy
Albion rocks.
others.
pressed. Jonson.
Drayton.
as curds.
as curds
WIL
Chaucer,
fy others,
Chaucer, Beaumont,
as morning's milk.
others.
ty
/. Ford, C. Cotton,
fy others.
Sacred
as wool.
8f
White as
Tatham.
Face, as white as
others.
White
death.
/.
as blanched almonds.
Script.,
W. Cartwright,
Calendar.
Whiter than new yeaned lambs. Sir C. Sedley.
White as chalk. Chaucer. -as flour. Chaucer, Weber's Old
Metrical Romances.
as whalebone. Henry Earl of Surrey,
Turbervile,
others.
fy
silver,
snow,
lilies.
Jonson.
WHOLE
WHOLESOME
WIDE
Beaumont
as a fish.
as the
Thomas
tent.
Thy fame
Wide
Stanley.
Cumberland.
Wide
Goring.
Ward.
M.
as the poles.
as
Chapman.
air.
Watts, Pollok.
as the heavens.
E. Young.
morning
E. Young.
as creation.
as the world.
wide as day.
J. Shirley.
Wide asunder
Bladen.
as the Atlantic
Lansdowne.
Wide
as the
to southern skies.
A.
as earth.
and Pacific
as hell. Play,
E.
Stretch as
as
Cowley. as the
Dyer. as seas
Marmion.
as the air.
spread wide
shall
extend. Pope.
<$
as a trout. /. Skelton.
Watts.
sea.
seas.
A.
and land.
Hill.
as
as a church-
WILD
than
W. Coivper. Wilder
Beaumont % Fletcher.
Wild as winter. Beaumont fy Fletcher, Burns. as March. C.
Johnson.
as flame, or winter. R.
as the lightning. Watts.
as frenzy.
than despair.
Davenport.
phy.
as
N.
Savage.
Lee.
as storms.
as madness.
destruction.
Settle.
fy
Murothers.
Wild as
WIL
the winds, as raging, and impetuous. Durfey.
sweep the
Dryden.
deserts.
Wild
as winds
that
sions rage.
Coleridge.
Pope.
Francis.
Wild
as
sea.
angry
seas.
P.
Poetical Calendar.
deep chafed by the tempest. W. RichardWild and ungovernable as the sea, or wind. Cohnan.
as the wave. Burns.
as the waves of wintry sea. Ismael FitzWilder
adam.
as billows. Sir W. Scott; Rome, a Poem.
than winds or waves. Congreve.
Wild as winds and righting
seas. Thomson. Wilder than a lion. Lidgate. Wild as a Rusas the roaring
son.
T. Middleton.
sian bear.
wolves
as a wolf. Davenport.
Play,
or tigers.
Shakespear.
Merry Milkmaids.
as Thessalian bulls.
Dryden.
Wild
Wilder than
than wolves
young
a buck.
as
R. Barfor d.
bulls.
as
others.
More wild and
fy
buck or doe. Barclay. Wild and wanton
as the colts that through
as a colt in a common. Odingsells.
the commons run. Thomson.
Wild and skittish as an unbacked colt. Duffett. as hawks. Burgoyne. as the scream
of the curlew. Sir W. Scott.
as haggards of the rock. Shakespear.
as the chanting thrush upon the spray. Gay.
as
Wild as a woodbine up
cowslips in the dale. R. Bloomfield.
Beaumont
fy
Fletcher, J. Davies,
wanton than
either
I grew. Ibid.
WILLING
angels. Play,
WILY
as an old fox.
codile.
W.
Scott.
as oracles.
the cro-
T. Killigrerv.
W. Hodson.
WINGED as
WISE
King
as Lucifer.
of Newcastle,
as
as Apollo.
fy others.
E.Young.
8$ others.
as
William Hett.
as
as an angel. Black-
Socrates.
E. Young.
as Cato.
WRE
Paradise of Dainty Devices.
pents. Sacred Script.,
WITHER
Schiller.
and
as a bishop.
Cibber.
as ser-
others.
Withered
Dryden.
its
Wither
Pollok.
it
Durfey.
ed,
Script.
Withered
is
Dead Sea
air.
like hay.
T. Moore.
native
its
Gay.
like a
its
herb.
Withering
Wyatt, Spenser.
The
faded
as the green
Withered up
Shakespear.
as the
Ibid.
from
from
reputation of a
which
is
woman
no sooner
WITTY as youthful
More
WORSE
Shepherd,
fy
others.
than
than
human
torture.
Edward
than murder.
than shame.
Ibid.
Stanley.
C.
Johnson.
WORTH.
More worth
than
all
up
in the
WRATHFUL as
WRETCHED.
a storm. Ossian.
More wretched
who
toils
beneath
who
is
W RI
doomed
to a life
WRINKLED
a tortoise.
lands.
as a baboon.
Randolph.
Mrs. Cowley.
Stiffly
R. Brome.
Y.
lELL
Broome.
YELLOW as gold.
as amber. Byron.
as
Romances,
fy
a quince.
Moliere, Berwick
others.
L. Wager.
1771.
as
as ripened quinces.
Congreve.
YIELD
YOUNG as
Young and
Ossian.
cheerful as the
Beaumont fy Fletcher,
Behn, fy others.
as the dawning morn. W. Thompson.
as
Aurora's dawn. Durfey. Like a day dawn she was young and
day.
R. Bloomfield.
pure. Byron.
Young
as the morning.
Young
Young and
Play, Stepmother.
blooming^as the spring. Fielding. Young and gay as newborn spring. Behn.
Young as the infant blossoms of the
spring, and fragrant as the odours which they bring. Durfey.
Young and gay in beauty's bloom, like the sweet month of
as
Cupid. Play,
How
to choose
a good Wife.
ZE A
YOUTHFUL
as the
morn. Beaumont
Fletcher.
the
month
Hebe.
as
Mrs.
S. Gunning.
Z.
JEALOUS
as a
dog
early-
the
as
MISCELLANEOUS EXTRACTS,
SHOWING
MORNING. DEW.
SUN.
W HEN Phoebus
And Dame Aurora
The herbs and
beams
to shew,
And
in the skies
Dame Aurora
Began her
And
cast
silver
dew.
Ibid.
DESCRIPTIVE PASSAGES.
The
fragrant roses
bright,
Lidgate.
it
The
The
And
early lark
sings her
The ruddy
Out of the
Morn
Now Morn
DESCRIPTIVE PASSAGES.
The Morning
Surveyed the
sitting in a throne
of gold
earth.
Ibid.
The
cheerful
Clad
Lady of the
Light,
Aurora
Threw
rose,
tresses
the light.
Ibid.
Then Aurora
richly dight
In an azure mantle
fair,
Hung
Where Hyperion's
chariot issues.
Ibid.
Now
light
Blachmore.
Delightful
morn
And
thou,
sun,
by whom the
distant hills
DESCRIPTIVE PASSAGES.
With
While
in the flow'ry
meads
earth,
David Ogborne.
But now the morn rose from her Phrygian
And
The
That follows
her.
cell,
sun
Now
And
In verdant vesture
fields
Unnumber'd beauties
and
trees
bloom
appear
all
W. Mavor.
The morn
day
Of the
diffusive joy.
W. Havard.
The morn
Rises upon
With her
And
my thoughts,
DESCRIPTIVE PASSAGES.
How
glorious
is
morn
the
how sweet
the air
Hark
Do
how the
Glad hymns
who made
to him,
William Harrison.
Fair rob'd Aurora from the bright'ning East
And wide
to display,
The Shamrock.
Now breaks
To
The
Is
life
its
light of
The dew,
genial source,
its soft
refreshing
nature, parch'd
heaven
has given
his
lend
the
morn
glorious orb,
on
To
To
the
sleeping nature
by
hour
power
The
mournful gem
silent
is
shed.
forth in crimson,
flowers of the field spread wide their odorous cups to drink the
DESCRIPTIVE PASSAGES.
And
The
Attun'd their
And
little
songs to love,
With rapture
The Shamrock.
Behold the ocean
in a
calm subside,
W. Churchey.
The opening
Where dew-drops
And
gossamers
Like
veil
all
sparkling lay
bespangled
all
with gold,
And thrown
in
O'er the
To
fair
many
a careless fold
Lay of the
Scottish Fiddle, a
Poem.
From
his bright
chamber
To
shine
The
dancing sea.
Ada, a Poem, by
M.A.
waste of flowers
Browne.
DESCRIPTIVE PASSAGES.
And
Nor
Nor
Pining in thraldom.
TV.
....
Methinks
Eternal painter,
Richardson.
now begin
to rise
rise,
to Phillis
in
one
lids
of
all
heaven's lesser
eyes.
Poole's Parnassus.
The
illustrious officer of
day
The
Each
violet lifts
stir itself
up
and spread
He
No
his
for a god.
TV.
Churchey.
DESCRIPTIVE PASSAGES.
Thy
all
And
first
Grey on
Soon
in a
W. Churchey.
calm subside,
will the
till
resistless
splendour beam'd
George Tonmsend.
Now
glow.
And
And
Oft
at the
Its rage,
announcing tempest as
it
roars
DESCRIPTIVE PASSAGES.
The
Wide
And
fires the
Charlemagne
Luc'ten Bonaparte's
And
ethereal plain,
humid
translated.
air,
You
fruitful nourishers
silver urns,
their
fill.
Prologue
to Phillis
of Scyros.
Which various
the
glade,
And
Darwin.
The
May
DESCRIPTIVE PASSAGES.
For
see,
The dawn
gem
O bid yon
And
cerulean
of purest ray
fire
dress her
up
in
purple pride.
Her
And
And
Thomas Pearson.
DAY.
NIGHT.
MOON. STARS.
Eye of the
DESCRIPTIVE PASSAGES,
'twas
my chance
What
a sweet thing
to
is
night
Dame Luna's
And burning
His
light
and
fair,
sage
Precedes her
silent
march
Author of The Times, a Poem.
Lo
How
Her
queen of night,
still
That with
Herminius
8$
Espasia, by Hart.
DESCRIPTIVE PASSAGES.
its
Bernard Barton.
It
For
lo
Now
must be
late,
tip,
Near mounted
to her noon.
W. Thompson.
Thou moon,
fair
to the lonely
walk'st
hours confess
Thy
architect divine.
And
ceil'd.
George Peele.
Dark came
Now
faintly
moon
o'er the
shadowy
earth.
Cumberland.
Now
eve crept
Dusky
silent on,
nor would I
At dewy eve
To
to wander,
Ibid.
fail
when
the sun
The
cloudless skies,
who
DESCRIPTIVE PASSAGES.
Her
silver
Of yonder
George Keate.
Diffusing.
And
as the
moon
The
divine,
do
shine.
How calm
Like a
this
hour
moon
looks out
smiles.
Play, Sulieman.
How
is this
scene
tabernacle bright
On
Now
night's pale
With
The
queen
in
majesty serene,
solemn scene
John Ogilvie.
Rising above the silent wood,
Night's regent pour'd a silver flood,
And bright
On many a
her
glitt'ring
spangles
fell
DESCRIPTIVE -PASSAGES.
The moon
And
o'er the
John Bidlake.
Now
And
moon upon
the sea,
The
Arose
Her path
And
silver
queen of night
in full-orb'd lustre,
and began
threw her
George Townsend.
thou
meek orb
On
beams
the
noon of night,
Sublimely
still,
and beautifully
pale.
Mary
fair
Even
Venus
Robinson.
shines
beam
And
A. L.
The moon
The
So,
lifts
veil,
And to
all-lovely,
Soft gliding,
powers of darkness
fly.
away
shine,
A thin.
DESCRIPTIVE PASSAGES.
The
train
That
of Anguish
fly
Charles Fox.
All round was
still
and calm
Was
fast
The
glorious
And
No
approaching
moon pursued
ear,
It scarcely stirr'd in
The
and that so
softly blew,
Bernard Barton.
TIME.
See how Time hath turned his restless wheel about, and made
moon and heaven's bright eye gallop the zodiack
and end the year
the silver
George Peele.
SUMMER.
Now
Vanish'd
its
hush'd
clouds
Now Summer
its
in soft whisp'ring
is o'er,
tempestuous roar
zephyrs woos,
dews
sight,
And
DESCRIPTIVE PASSAGES.
AUTUMN.
Now glowing Autumn spreads
Her rainbow tints o'er rip'ning fields and meads.
The orb of day, magnificently bright,
Pours
golden
light.
BLUSHING.
Sometime the blood down
And up
Sometime she
Now
fall,
blush'd,
pale,
among
Yet
still
The
And though
lily
flower,
And shew
the rose
comely
to fleet,
face.
Lidgate.
She blush'd
fled.
And
George Sandys.
How
heavenly
a tear shed by
is
filial
when
it
beams through
affection.
And
W. Thompson.
DESCRIPTIVE PASSAGES.
-
brilliant
At
its
own
dew-drops,
its
back
beauties blushing.
John Dillon.
....
The modest
John Dames.
Well does that vermeil
is
tint
for
it
Play, Selim
fy
Zuleika.
EYES.
Hear, parent sun
Peter Motteux.
is
tell
awaked.
Lewis Machin.
Thin clouds
like scarfs
rious eye.
Michael Drayton.
The sun
to
my
itself,
actions.
The Sun is
called
by Gower,
day
by Francis
Robert Green, the
;
heaven
the
the
the
DESCRIPTIVE PASSAGES.
What needs
Your eye
discourses with
more
Shakerly Marmion.
tongues of orators.
Her
sparkling eye
is
like the
morning
star.
Joshua Sylvester.
Her
And
Those
To
bright
a fairer day,
Herminius
I
morn
rivals of the
beam
ty
Espasia, by Hart.
Her
stars
when
sits
like
Nathaniel Field.
the basilisk.
ire,
of the night, that shoot forth their brightness upon the earth
all
things be in silence.
sun,
Had
And seem
DESCRIPTIVE PASSAGES.
Beauty
Hangs
morn,
vie,
TEARS.
With
that, the
And as men
The
leves
sene the
and the
it
stoppe
dew bedroppe
floures eke,
The
felle.
Gower
And
'still,
And
tear
and break,
Lidgate.
Let
fall
Spenser.
DESCRIPTIVE FASSAGES.
Trickling tears, that like two orient pearls did purely shine
Her
flint.
Greene's Arcadia.
And marks
Down your
Which spoke
Zelmane.
At
first
she wept
and
as
we
tear.
John Ogilvie.
Her
still,
murmur
soft complaint,
Benjamin Martyn.
How
As
if
e'en grief
becomes her
her face,
Lovely Cleone
Joy
silent pleasure in
wherefore weeps
my fair ?
shadow'd eyes,
DESCRIPTIVE PASSAGES.
Shall like the sun drive hence those clouds of sorrow,
The
B. Martyn.
From
my
warning,
Nor such
Oratorio.
Unvalued here
Such
tears
may
fall
Thou
weep'st I see
there
of a
sin-sick soul.
Old Play,
St. Cecily.
John Banks.
She weeps
The
precious
dew
see, a chain
falls
lids
Settle.
For
in
your eye
W. Rowley.
Meek
Penrose.
DESCRIPTIVE PASSAGES.
whom
ev'ry tear
it.
James Shirley.
And
at
my farewell many
innocent tears
bosom of the
Into the
spring.
Ibid.
Witness
like, swell
all
those
dewy
tears
which as
pearl,
or diamond-
Chapman.
See
how
lie
John Dancer.
they
sit
beautified
like
's
in her
Why
The
as this
is
Crashaw.
DESCRIPTIVE PASSAGES.
these tears of pearly
steal
dew
Charles Johnson.
See
how
nature 'gins to
And how
work
drops of pearly dew,
know a Knave.
to
Why
Now
warm blood
like the
rivulets
of tears, that
of Flora.
Greene's Arcadia.
Behold
my
tears
oh,
Thomas Heywood.
Motionless
She
To
sits,
if riveted
Her
down
Charles Macklin.
as sweet a
dew
Thomas Rawlins.
DESCRIPTIVE PASSAGES.
Silence at
dews that
fall
first
then tears
bright drops like May-morn
from the sweet blossomed thorn.
Hall Hartson.
I shall deserve those tears, that
shew
like
dew upon
the
morn-
ing's cheek.
Sir
Why dost
thou weep
Why
Tears
falling
W. Davenant.
dis-
dew ?
W. Davenant) Christopher
dews
silently as
Bullock.
in
dead of
night.
Dryden.
Distil
mine eyes
dew.
into a
At
Pity's
summons, or
at
Mercy's
fall
call.
Poetical Calendar.
No
Nor
Robert Glynn.
Oh why
When
beauty weeps,
It spreads
And
'tis
like the
a cloud of terror
stamps
all
sun
eclips'd,
around,
dismal woe.
Charles Beckingham.
DESCRIPTIVE PASSAGES.
By
And
Crashaw.
Lo
Ismene,
Francklin's Sophocles.
That labour
Otway.
Junia in tears
And
So
so the precious
Steals
Sheffield DuJce
The
pearly tears
fell
of Buckingham.
like April
dew-
drops.
MicMe.
The
dew hangs
on the
in
her
fair
violet.
L. E. Landon.
rose,
Panthea, a Tragedy.
DESCRIPTIVE PASSAGES.
She comes
Her
Sit
heavy on the
And
down by
eyes weigh'd
stoop
its
tears
as morning dews
golden round,
tulip's
G. Soane.
When
moon-light waves
Of soften'd
light,
And
think of love.
Daniel Terry.
The
tear of sensibility
like the
dew-drop of heaven on
sweetness where
all
its
Edward
Tears stain her lovely cheek,
The
new
rose and
lily
as oft
Morris.
we view
The streaming
tears
seemed
of the clear
Doyne's Tasso.
Her
fair
the white and like the purple rose if they are sprinkled
dewy
by a
cloud.
Ibid.
DESCRIPTIVE PASSAGES.
all
drown the
Elkanah
Tears
trickle
like
dew
Settle.
from the
distilling
full-blown rose.
Fielding.
feel like
evening dew.
Fenton.
N.
stealing
Lee.
Upon
lies like
eye-lids of the
Upon
pearl
morn
Those
dew upon
Thomas Ford.
Tears stood on her cheeks as doth the honey-dew upon a gather'd lily almost wither'd.
Shafcespear.
DESCRIPTIVE PASSAGES.
On
lily.
Hugh Kelly.
So looks the
down
its
lily after
silken leaves,
Fit
it
lilies
How
how
Above
silver
drops
Subdue
Whose
tear.
W. Mason.
.... they are the tears
When
Humanity
lets fall
untimely
slain.
Murphy.
Why
are
you pale ?
why do
Lillo.
DESCRIPTIVE PASSAGES.
He
Mary R.
Mitford.
he
is
clothed in tears.
John Day.
W, Hawkins.
From
fall
not be forgiven.
Catch
And
it,
angels, ere
it fall
Dr. Brown.
Meek-ey'd compassion,
By beaming
May
fav'rite
of heav'n,
So
shall the
And
wounds
DESCRIPTIVE PASSAGES.
Until
my
Warm'd her
He
While down
his
trickles
down
My
his cheeks,
still
With
it
pride,
Geraldine, revive
stifling sighs,
sweet
sister,
knew
He
slept
still,
thrill,
DESCRIPTIVE PASSAGES.
So heavy on
Upon
thee, as the
sits
mildews hang
Thomas Cooke.
TO A LADY WEEPING.
When
The
Its
tears of thine,
But sweetest
fairest wreath,
thro' a
And
dewy
veil
odours breathe.
rise,
Who
But when
Who
DESCRIPTIVE PASSAGES.
WEEPING FOR
Have you
beheld
how an
JOY.
April shower
stops,
How
And
fair
Shall I
that
sun-bright
more than
Whose
How
is
Whence
Ah
she
that by just
oft
clear.
And
do
When
And lent
fair face,
light.
Of his mixt
DESCRIPTIVE PASSAGES.
not,
my wanton,
smile
upon my knee,
enough for
griefe
's
thee.
When
thy father
did see
first
He
Weepe
When
first his
my wanton,
not,
joy.
upon
smile
's
my
knee,
enough
griefe
for thee.
stint,
flint,
Fell
When
he
boy,
Weepe
When
not,
my
The wanton
Mother
my
's
knee,
enough
griefe
for thee.
cride,
He
For he
blisse,
boy,
Weepe
When
not,
my
's
griefe
my knee,
enough
for thee.
Greene's Arcadia.
DESCRIPTIVE PASSAGES.
THE SUN-FLOWER.
The
Scarce
is
the
dusky
veil
of night withdrawn,
to the view,
And when
summer noon
Thy
Tho'
And
all
all
life
are fled.
Charles Fox.
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