Author: HighwaymanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The Royal Highwayman; Or, The Knight of the Road
Author: HighwaymanFlora Macdonald, Etc
Author: LenoreThe Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone, Written by Himself and Extracted from His Journals. From the American Edition of His Life and Works, Edited by His Son, W. T. W. Tone
Author: Theobald Wolfe TONEPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1816-1870
Author: Words, Words Words!
Author: Eric PartridgePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317426436
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
First published in 1933 (this edition in 1939), this book sees Partridge introducing the reader to the eccentric lexicographers Wesley and Captain Grose. In an entertaining way, the book jovially explores and discusses various words and phrases such as "bloody", euphemisms, the Devil’s nicknames, various versions of slang, and familiar terms of address. He does so with light-worn learning making the book of interest to a whole variety of readers.
Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous English Literature
Author: Samuel HalkettPublisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (Complete)
Author: Various AuthorsPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465562885
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 4411
Book Description
This is the third English Dictionary which the present Editor has prepared, and he may therefore lay claim to an unusually prolonged apprenticeship to his trade. It is surely unnecessary for him to say that he believes this to be the best book of the three, and he can afford to rest content if the Courteous Reader receive it with the indulgence extended to his Library Dictionary, published in the spring of 1898. It is based upon that work, but will be found to possess many serviceable qualities of its own. It is not much less in content, and its greater relative portability is due to smaller type, to thinner paper, and still more to a rigorous compression and condensation in the definitions, by means of which room has been found for many additional words. The aim has been to include all the common words in literary and conversational English, together with words obsolete save in the pages of Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, and the Authorised Version of the Bible. An attempt has been made also to include the common terms of the sciences and the arts of life, the vocabulary of sport, those Scotch and provincial words which assert themselves in Burns, Scott, the Brontës, and George Eliot, and even the coinages of word-masters like Carlyle, Browning, and Meredith. Numberless compound idiomatic phrases have also been given a place, in each case under the head of the significant word.
Chamber's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
Author: Thomas DavidsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1202
Book Description
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