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Though painful my absence, my doubts she beguiles,
And meets me at night with compliance and smiles.

What though on her cheeks the rose loses its hue.
Her wit and good humour bloom all the year through;
Time still, as he flies, adds increase to her truth,
And gives to her mind what he steals from her youth.

Ye shepherds so gay, who make love to ensnare,
And cheat with false vows the too credulous Fair;
In search of true pleasure how vainly you roam !
To hold it for life, you must find it at home.

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FROM the court to the cottage convey me away,
For I'm weary of grandeur, and what they call gay:

Where pride without measure,
And pomp without pleasure,

Make life in a circle of hurry decay.

Far remote and retir'd from the noise of the town,
I'll exchange my brocade for a plain russet gown;

My friends shall be few,
But well chosen and true,

And sweet recreation our evening shall crown.

II. With a rural repast, a rich banquet for me,
On a mossy green turf, near some shady old tree,
The river's clear brink

Shall afford me my drink,

And. Temperance my friendly physician shall be.

Ever calm and serene, with contentment still blest, Not too giddy with joy, or with sorrow depress'd,

I'll neither invoke

Nor repine at death's stroke,

retire from the world as I would to my rest.

A SELECTION OF WORDS IN MODERN USE, ARRANGED IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER, AND THE MEANING OF EACH EXPLAINED.

ABANDONED, forfaken

To aban'don, to forsake
To abbreviate, to shorten

To ab'dicate, to refign
To abet', to help, to encourage
Abet 'tor, one who encourages
Ab'ject, mean, cast down
Abortive, untimely

Abridgement, a short account
To abridge, to contract to shorten
To abrogate, to repeal
Abrupt, fudden, unexpected
To abscond', to hide, to abfent
To abfolve, to acquit

To abforb', to fuck up
To abstain, to forbear
Abste'mious, temperate
Abstinence, forbearance
Abstract, separated

To abstract, to take away
Abstru'fe, hidden, difficult
Abyss, unfathomable deep
To accede, to agree to
To accelerate, to hasten
Access, admiffion

Ac cessary, aiding, affifting
Accessory, additional aiding
Accipiant, a receiver

Acclamation, shouts of applause
Accom'plice, an associate
To accord, to agree
To accost, to address

Accoutrement, furniture, dress
To accoutre, to dress, to equip
To accrue, to arife from

To accu'mulate, to heap up
Acer'bity, fourness
Achievement, performance
To achieve, to perform.
Ac'id, four

[fatisfied
To acquiefce, to yield to; to be
Acquirement, gain, attainment
Acqua fition, gain by labour
To acquire, to gain by labour
To acquit, to fet free

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Acrimony, sharpness
Acrimonious, sharp
Acute, tharp, penetrating
Ad'age, a maxim

Adept, complete in any art
Ad'equate, equal to
Adhesion, a sticking to
To adhere, to stick together
Adjacent, bordering upon
Adieu, farewell

To adjust to regulate
To admin ister, to give
Admir tion, wonder
Admirable, wonderful
Admonition, counsel, reproof
To admon ish, to warn, to reprove
Adoption, a free choice of one
for a child

To adopt, to choose one for a child, to inherit

Adora'tion, reverence

To adore, to reverence highly
Adroit, active, skilful
Ad'vent, the Coming

Adverse, calamitous
To advert', to attend to

Adulation, flattery

Adult, grown up
Adversary, one in oppofition
Advocate, one who pleads for
another

Ae rial, belonging to the air
Af'fable, complaifant, frank
To affect, to move; to pretend to
what one is not

Affectation, artificial appearance
or behaviour
Affection, love, zeal
Affectionate, fond, benevolent
Affin'ity, kindred, resemblance
Affluence, plenty, riches
Af'fluent, rich, abounding
Aggrandizement, greatness
To aggrandize, to make great
Aggregate, the whole of fever
To aggravate, to enlarge [pa

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To amerce, to fine
Am'icable, friendly
Am'ity, friendship
Am'nesty, a general pardon
Amour, a love intrigue
Am'orous, inclined to love
Amphibious, can live in two ele-

Ample, large

[ments

To amplify, to enlarge
To amputate, to cut off a limb
Analogy, resemblance
Analogous, having analogy
Anatomy, cutting up the body
and explaining the parts (my
Anatomical, belonging to anato-
Anal yfis, a separation into parts
Anarchy, want of government ;
enfufion

ing
[certain day
Anniversary, yearly return of a
To announce, to publish
To annoy, to vex, to disturb
An'nual, yearly

Annu'ity, yearly payment
To annul', to make void
Anodyne, mitigating pain
Anonymous, without a name
Anom'aly, irregularity
Anom'alous, irregular

Antag'onist, an opponent, a rival

Antece'dent, 2
Ante'riour,

} going before

[mains

Anticipation, foretaste [up before
To anticipate, to foretaste, to take
Antidote, a medicine which expels
Antiquated, old, out of use
Antiquity, ancient times, or re-
Antique, ancient
Aperture, an opening
Aphorifm, a maxim
Apology, defence, excuse
To apologize, to plead in excufe
Apostrophe, turning the course of
speech; contraction of words (')
Apothegm, a short instructive sen-

tence

To appal, to frighten, to depress
Apparatus, furniture
Appa'rent, plain, seeming
Appellation, name, title
Appen'dix, fomething added
To appertain, to belong to
Appertenance, what belongs to
Applaufe, praise [another thing
To applaud, to praise [derstand
To apprehend, to seize, to un-
To appropriate, to devote, to apply
To approximate, to approach by
degrees

Apropos, pertinently, patly

edote, a piece of fecret history | Aptitude, fitness

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"Arm'istice, a cessation of arms
Aromatick, spicy
Arrant, very bad

Arrearage, part of paidebt un

To arrest, to seize

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At'tribute, a property
'To attribute, to ascribe, to im-
Av'arice, covetousness
Avaricious, covetous, greedy
Avaunt, be gone
Audacity, boldness, rashness
Auda cious, bold, daring
Au'dible, that may be heard
Auditor, a hearer

Auditory, the hearers
Av'enue, an entrance

Average, middle proportion

Arrogance, unbecoming pride; To aver', to declare positively

afsuming too much

Arrogant, proud, haughty

To arrogate, to claim too much

Artifice, a trick, fraud
Artificial, made by art
Af'pect, look, appearance
Afper'ity, roughness
Asper'sion, slander
To asperse', to slander
To afpire, to defire eagerly
Affsailant, he who invades
To affail, to attack

Affaffin, a fecret murderer
To afsfassinate, to murder secretly

Affault', an attack

To affault, to attack

Affent, consent

Affidu'ity, diligence
Affid'uous, diligent
To affim'ilate, to make like
To afsuage, to soften, to pacify
Astronomy, the science of the

fstars

Astronomical, belonging to af-
tronomy
Astrol ogy, the art of foretelling
by stars

To avert', to turn afide
To augment', to increase
August, grand, royal
Avid'ity, greediness

Avocation, a calling away
To avouch, to affirm, to own
Auro'ra, the morning

Au'ipice, influence, protection
Aufpicious, profperous, happy
Auster'ity, feverity
Austere, rigid, fevere
Authentic'ity, genuineness
Authentick, genuine
Auxiliary, helping
Awry', alquint
A'zure, blue

B.

Bacchanalian, a drunkard
Bay, an honorary crown
Beat itude, blessedness
Beatif'ick, heavenly, blissful [happy
To beatify, to make completely
Behoove, to be fit, to be meet
Belles-lettres, polite literature
Bellig'erent, carrying on war
Benediction, a blessing
Benefac'tion, a charitable gift

Benefac'tor, one who does favours | Carnivorous, feeding on flesh

Beneficence, generofity

Beneficent, doing good

Benevolence, kindness, good will

Benevolent, kind, affectionate
Benig nity, goodness, kindness
Benign, kind, generous
Bequest', fomething left by will
To bequeath, to leave by will
Bias, weight on one fide
Big'otry, blind zeal, prejudice
Big'ot, one devoted to a certain

party
Bil'ious, pertaining to the bile
Billet-doux, a love-letter
Biography, a book of lives
Blithe, gay, airy

Bombaft, big empty words
Bombastick, high founding

Bot'any, the knowledge of plants

Bouquet, a bunch of flowers

Brilliancy, luftre

Brachial, belonging to the arms

Brilliant, shining, sparkling

To broach, to open, to utter

Car'ol, a fong of joy, or devotion
Cashier, a cash keeper

To cashier, to dismiss, to discard
Casualty, accident
Cafual, accidental
Cat alogue, enumeration of par-
ticulars

Cataract, a fall of water; a dif-
ease in the eye
Catastrophe, an event, a calamity
Catechism, instruction by quef-
tion and answer
Catechetical, by question and an-
fwer

Categorical, positive, express
Catholick, general, univerfal
Catholicifm, universal candour
Caveat, a caution

Cav'il, a frivolous excuse
To cav'il, to raise flight objec-

tions

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To cede, to yield, to give up

Brogue, corrupt speech, a kind of Celeb'rity, fame, renown

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To celebrate, to praise; to com

mend

Celer'ity, fwiftness

Celestial, heavenly

Celibacy, a fingle life
Censure, blame, reproach
Censorious, severe, railing
Cephal'ick, belonging to the head
Cerulean, blue, sky-coloured
Chagrin, vexation

Champaign, a flat open country
Chaos, confufion

Chaotick, indigested, confused Charity, alms, affection, benevo lence

Charitable, kind, giving alms
Charlatan, a quack

Charnel, containing flesh or bones
Chafm, a cleft, a gap
Chev'ifance, enterprise

Chicanery, artifice

To chicane, to prolong a conteft by tricks

Chime'ra, a wild fancy, a feigned

monster

Chimer'ical, imaginary

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