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Show L I After a life of glorious toils endur'd The earl of Effex was made Zieutenant gencral o the army; the moft popular man of the kingdom, and the darling of the {fwordmen. Clarendon His lieutenant, engaging againft his pofitive orders, being beaten by Lyfander, Alcibiades wa Sawift again banifhed Canft thou fo many gallant foldiers fee LievuTe'NaNTSHIP, 2. /. [from lieutenant.] The rank or office of lieutenant Lire. n. /. plural iwves. [lipian, to live Saxon. 1. Union and co-operation of foul wit body; vitality ; animation, oppofed t an zanimate flate On thy /ife no more -My /ife I never held but as a paw I'll teach my family to lead good fiwes 6. Condition; manner of living with re{pect to happinefs and mifery Such was the /ife the frugal Sabines led So Remus and his brother god were bred. Dryden 7. Continuance of our prefent ftate: as half his /ife was {pent in ftudy Some have not any clear ideas all their Ziwes. Locke Untam'd and fierce the tyger ftill remains And tires his /ife with biting on his chains. Prior The adminiftration of this bank is for /ifz and partly in the hands of the chief citizens Addifon on Italy 8. The living form : oppofed to copies That is the beft part of beauty which a pictur cannot exprefs, no, nor the firft fight of the /ife Bacon's Effays Let him vifit eminent perfons of great nam abroad, ‘that he may tell how the /ife agreeth wit the fame Bacon He that would be a mafter, muft draw by th life as well as copy from originals, and join theor and experience together Collier A ftatue than a breather. Siakef. Ant. and Cleopat Let the waters bring forth abundantly the movGen. i. 20 ing creature that hath /ife The identity of the fame man confifts in nothin but a participation of the fame continued life, b conftantly fleeting particles of matter, in fucceflio Locke vitally united to the fame organized body as diftin othe fro 9. Exac refemblance : with #o0 before it I believe no charadter of any perfon was eve better drawn ¢o the /ife than this Denbam Rich carvings, portraiture, and imag'ry Where ev'ry figure o the /ife exprefs' The godhead's pow'r Dryden's Knight's Tale He faw in order painted on the wal The wars that fame around the world had blown All 19 the life, and every leader known Dryden parts of human exiftence 2 O /ife, thou nothing's younger brother g that we ma So like W take the one for t'other Dream of a fhadow ! a refle€tion mad From the falfe glories of the gay reflected bow Is more a folid thing than thou Thou weak built ifthmus, that doft proudly rif Up betwixt two eternities Yet canft not wave nor wind fuftain But, broken and o'erwhelm'd, the ocea again ro. General ftate of man Studious they appea meet Of arts that polith /ife; inventors rare' Unmindful of their Maker Cowley ‘When I confider /ife, 'tis all a cheat Vet fool'd by hope men favour the deceit 11 With fome new joy, takes of§ what we pofieft Strange cozenage! none would live paft years again ¢ o Yet all hope pleafure in what yet remai And from the dregs of Afe think to receiv ‘What the firft {prightly running could not give I'm tir'd of waiting for this chemick gold Which fools us young, and beggars us when old Dryden Howe'er 'tis well that while mankin Through /ife's perverfe meanders errs He can imagin'd pleafures find Prior To combat againft real cares of (0 So peaceful fhalt thou end thy blifsful days Pope And fteal thyfelf from /ife by flow decays 3. Enjoyment, or pofleflion of exiftence as oppofed to death Then avarice 'gan through his veins to infpir His greedy flames, and kindle /ife devouring fire Fairy Queen Their complot is to have my /ife And, if my death might make this ifland happy And prove the period of their tyranny T would expend it with all willingnefs. Shake[peare Nor love thy /ife, nor hate; but what thou liv'f Live well, how long, or fhort permi¢ to Heav'n Milton He entreated me not to take his /ife, but exact fum of money 4. Blood the fuppofed vehicle of life His gufhing entrails fmoak'd upon the ground And the warm /ife came iffuing through the wound 1)0[11' with re {pedt to virtue or vice. Hig faith perhaps.in fome nice tenets migh Be wrong; his /ife. I'm fure-was in the right Cozvley Henry and Edward, brighteft fons of fame Apd virtuous Alfred, a more facred name Common occurrences; human affairs the courfe of things This I know not only by reading of book i my ftudy, but alfo by experience of /ife abroad i the world Alecbam Not to know at large of things remot From ufe, obfcure and fubtile; but to kno That which before us lies in daily /fe Is the prime wifdom Milton's Paradife Loff 12. Living perfon Why fhould I play the Roma fool, and di On my own fword ? whilft I fee /iwes the gathe Do better upon them Shakefpeare's Macbeth 13. Narrative of a life paft Plutarch, that writes his /ife Tells us, that Cato dearly lov'd his wife Pope 14 Spirit tion britknefs ; vivacity ; refolu The Helots bent thitherwar of refolution, as if their captai out of whic with a new /if had- been a roo their courage had fprung Sidrey They have no notion of /ife and fire in fanc and in words; and any thing that is juft in grammar and in meafure, is as good oratory and poetr to them as the beft. Felton Not with half the fire and /ife With which he kifs'd Amphytrion's wife 15. Animal being Broome on the Odyffiy 5. Condu&; manner of livin Milton All that cheers or foftens /ife The tender fifter, daughter, friend, and wife. Poge Live on, and think to-morrow will repay To-morrow's falfer than the former day Lies more; and when it fays we fhall be blef 16 Prior animated exiftence ; anima Full nature fwarms with /ifz Syflem of animal nature Lives through all /ife Thomfon Pope 17. Life is alfo ufed of vegetables, an whatever grows and decays Li'reBrLoobp. z. /. [/ife and blood. Th blood neceffary to life; the vital blood "This ficknefs doth infec The very lifeblood of our enterprize. Shakefpeare How could't thou drain the /ifeblood of th child His forchead firuck the ground Lifchlood and liferufh'd mingled through the wound Diyden Mys. Barker Shakefps King Lear To wage againdt thy foes She fhews a body rathcr than a /ife ftate Pope Clos'd their long glories with a figh And captains and Jieutenants {light for me? = Gay 2. Prefen ETI L1 Shake[peare They loved with that calm and noble value whic dwells in the heart, with a warmth like that o Jifeblood Spettator Money, the /ifeblsod of the nation Corrupts and ftagnates in the veins Unlefs a proper circulatio Its motion and its heat maintains Saift LireeverLa'sTinG An herb. Ainfaw Li'recivine, #z. [ [life and giving. Having the power to give life His own heat Kindled at firt from heav'n's lifegiving fire Spenfer He fat devifing deat To them who liv'd; nor on the virtae though Of that /ifegiving plant Milton's Paradife Lof Lirecua™rp. # [, [life and guard. The guard of a King's perfon Li'FeLESS. adf. [from life. 1. Dead; deprived of life I who make the triumph of. to-day May of to-morrow's pomp one part appear Ghaftly with wounds, and /ifelefs on the bier. Priors 2. Unanimated ;. void of life Was I to have never parted from thy.fide As good have grown there ftilla /ifelefs rib.! Milton Thus bega Outrage from Jifele[s things Milton The power which produces their motions, {pring from fomething without themfelves: if this powe were fufpended, they would become a /ifelefs unactive heap of matter Cheyne And. empty words fhe gave, and‘founding ftrain, But fenfelefs, /ifelefs ! idol void and vain Pope 3. Wanting power,. force, or {pirit Hopelefs and helplefs doth A geon wend But to procraftinate his /ifelefs end Shakefpeare Unknowing to command, proud to obe A ifelefs king, a royal fhade I lay Prior 4. Wantin ergy or deprive of phyfical en The other viétor-flame a moment ftood Then fell, and /ifelefs left th® extinguifh'd wood Drydetrs Li'revEsLy. adw. [from lifelefs.] With-out vigour ; frigidly ; jejunely L1'FELIKE. adj. [/ife and like.] Like living perfon Minerva lifelike, on embodied ‘aj Imprefs'd the form of Ipthema the fair Popes Li'restrING. #. /. [life and firing. Nerve ; ftrings imagined to convey life. Thefe lines are the veins, the arteries The undecaying /ifeffrings of thofe heart That ftill fhall pant, and ftill fhall exercif The motion fpirit and nature both impart. Danie Li'reriME. 2. f. [life and time. tinuance or duration of life Con Jordain' talked profe all his /ife-time withou knowing what it was Addifor on Medals. Lirewre'arRy adj. [life an Wretched; tired of living A dram of poifon aveary. Let me hav fuch foon fpeeding geer As will difperfe itfelf through all the veins That the /ifewveary taker may fall dead. Shakefpeares Zo Lirt. . a. [hyffta, Swedith; lofier, Danith I /fted, or /ifz; I have lifted or /ift. 1. To raife from the ground to elevate; to hold on high to heave Filial ingratitude Is it not as this mouth fhould tear this han For /ifting food to't Shakefpeare's K Your guefts are coming Lift up your countenance as "twere the da Of celebration of that nuptial, Shak, Hinter's Tale Prepp' P |