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2. It is supposed in popular language tobe the seat sometimes of courage, some-times of affection, sometimes of honesty,or baseness.
He with providence and courage so passed overall, that the mother took such spiteful grief at it,that her heart brake withal, and she died. Sidney.
Thou would’st have left thy dearest heart bloodthere,
Rather than made that savage duke thine heir,And disinherited thine only son. Shakesp.
Snakes in my heart blood warm’d, that sting myheart. Shakesp.
Our battle is more full of names than yours,
Our men more perfect in the use of arms,
Our armour all as strong, our cause the best;Then reason wills our hearts should he as good.
Shakesp.
I thank you for my venison, master Shallow.—Master Rage, much good do it your good heart.
Shakesp.
But since the brain doth lodge the po w’rs of sense.How makes it in the heart those passions spring ?
The mutual love, the kind intelligence’Twixt heart and brain, this sympathy doth bring.
Davies.
We all set our hearts at rest, since whatevercomes from above is for the best. IS Estrange.
The only true zeal is that which is guided by agood light in the head, and that which consists ofgood and innocent affections in the heart. Spruit.
Brest with heart corroding grief and years,
'To the gay court a rural shed prefers. Pape.
3. The chief part; the vital part ; the vigo-rous or efficacious part.
Barley being steeped in water, and turned upona dry floor, will sprout half an inch ; and if it helet alone, much more, until the heart be out .Bacon .
4. The inner part of any thing.
Some Englishmen did with great danger passby water into the heart of the country. Abbot.
The king’s forces are employed in appeasingdisorders more near the heart of the kingdom.
Hayward.
Generally the inside cr heart of trees is harderthan the outward parts. Boyle.
Here in the heart of all the town I’ll stay,
And timely succour where it wants convey. *
Dryden.
If the foundation be bad, provide good pilesmade of heart of oak, such as reach ground.
Moion.
5. Person ; character. Used with respectto courage or kindness.
The king’s a bawcock, and a heart of gold,
A lad of life, au imp of fame. Shakesp.
Hey, my hearts ; cheerly, my hearts. Shakesp.
What says my heart of elder ? Ha ! is he dead r
Shakesp.
6. Courage; spirit.
If it please you to make his fortune known, Iwill after take heart again to go on with his false-hood. Sidney.
There did other like unhappy accidents happenout of England, which gave heart and good op-portunity to them to regain their old possessions.
Spender.
Wide was the wound; and a large lukewarm flood,Red as the rose, thence gushed grievously,
That when the painim spy’d the streaming blood,Gave him great heart and hope of victory.
Fairy Queen.
Eve, recov’ring heart, reply’d.^ Milton.
Having left that city well provided, and in goodheart, his majesty removed with his little army toBewdley. Clarendon.
Finding that it did them no hurt, they took heartupon’t, went up to’t, and viewed it. L’Estrange.
The expelled nations take heart, and when theyfly from one country iuvade another. Temple.
7. Seat of love.
Ah! what avails it me the flocks to keep,
Who lost .my heart whilelurcserv’d my sheep! Pope.
8. Affection; inclination.
Joab perceived that the king’s heart was towardsAbsalom. 2 S&m.
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Means how to feel, and learn each other’s heart,By th’abbot’s skill of Westminster is found. Daniel.
Nor set thy heart,
Thus over-fond, on that which is not thine. Milt.
’Tis well to be tender; but to set the heart toomuch upon any thing is what we cannot justify.
v L'Estrange.
A friend makes me a feast, and sets all beforeme, but I set iny heart upon one dish alone, andif that happen to be thrown down, I scorn all therest. Temple.
Then mixing pow’rful herbs with magick art,She chanc’d nis form who could not change his
What did I not, her subborn heart to gain ?
But all ray vows were answer’d with disdain. Dryd.
9. Memory: though South seems to dis-tinguish.
Whatsoever was attained to, concerning God and his working in nature, the same was deliveredover by heart and tradition from wise men to aposterity equally zealous. Raleigh.
We call the committing of a thing to memorythe getting it by heart ; for it is the memory thatmust transmit it to the heart ; and it is in vain toexpect that the heart should keep its hold of anytruth, when the memory has let it go. South.
Shall I in London act this idle part ?
Composing songs for fools to get by heart. Pope.
10. Good-will; ardour of zeal. To taketo heart any thing, is to be zealous orsolicitous or ardent about it.
If he take not their causes to heart, how shouldthere be but in them frozen coldness, when hisaffections seem benumbed, from whom theirshould take fire? Hooker.
If he would take the business to hca and dealin it effectually, it would succeed well. Bacon .
The lady marchioness of Hertford eiicaged herhusband to take this business to heart. Clarendon.
Amongst those, who took it most to heart , SirJohn Stawell was the chief. Clarendon.
Every prudent and honest man would join him-self to that side which had the good of theircountry most at heart. Addison.
Learned men have been now a long time search-ing after the happv country from which our firstparents were exiled : if they can find it, with allmy heart. Woodward.
T would not be sorry to find the Presbyterians mistaken in this point, which they have most atheart. Swift.
What I have most at heart is, that some me-thod should be thought on for ascertaining and
fixing our language. Sw\ft.
11. Passions; anxiety ; concern.
Set your heart at rest;
The fairy land buys not the child of me. Shakesp.
12. Secret thoughts; recesses of the mind.
Michal saw King David leaping and dancing
before the Lord, and she despised him in herheart. 2 Sam. vi. 16.
The next generation will in tongue and heart,and every way else, become English ; so as therewill be no difference or distinction, but the Irishsea, betwixt us. Davies.
Thou sawest the contradiction between myheart and hand. K. Charles.
Would you have him open his fieart to you, andask your advice, you must begin to do so withhim first. Locke.
Men, some to pleasure, some to business take;But every woman is, at heart, a rake. Pope.
13. Disposition of mind.
Doing all things with so pretty a grace, that itseemed ignorance could not make turn do amiss,because ne had a heart to do well. Sidney.
14. The heart is considered as the seat oftenderness: a hard heart therefore iscruelty.
I’ve seen thee stern, and thou hast oft beheldHeart hardening spectacles. Shakesp.
Such iron hearts we are, and suchThe base barbarity of human kind. Rowe.
15. To find in the heart . To be not whollyaverse.
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For my breaking the laws of friendshipyou, I could find in my heart to ask you efor it, but that your now handling of me greason to confirm my former dealing. Sid*.
16. Secret meaning; hidden intention*
I wilt on with my speech in your praise,
And then shew you tne heart of my message.
Shaw'
17. Conscience; sense of good or ill. ^
Every man’s heart and conscience doth inor evil, even secretly committed, and kno* nnone but itself, either like or disallow itself. Xtf
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18. Strength; power; vigour; efficacy*^
Try whether leaves of trees, swept tog (,t ^with some chalk and dung mixed, to give nmore heart, would not make a good compost-^,,
That the spent earth may gather heartAnd, better u by cessation, bear the grain. P 1 - 0 (
Care must be taken not to plow ground ° U j n i-heart, because if ’tis not in heart, it may he ^proved by marl again. 3lM‘*
19. Utmost degree.
This gay charm,
Like a right gipsy, hath, at fast and loose^^.
Beguil’d me to the very heart of loss.
20. Life. For my heart seems somto signify, if life was at stake; “sometimes for tenderness. •
I bid tlifi rascal knock upon your gale, ^. ‘And could not get him/or my heart to do 1 **
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A prating boy, that begg’d it us a fee:
1 could not Jor my heart deny it him.Profoundly skill’d in the mack art,
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As English Merlin for his heart . . .
21. It is much used in compos^ 10mind, or affection. c 0 r-
IiEART-ACH. n. s. [heart and ack -Jrow; pang; anguish of mind.
To die—to sleep— ,
No more ; and, by a sleep, to say we c | ,
The heart-ach, and the thousand naturalThat flesh is heir to. Shakt'il 1 '. .^jid
Heart-break, n. s. [heart and vOverpowering sorrow. .
Better a little chiding than a great d cflbreak.
Heart-breaker. ...for a woman's curls, supposedthe heart of all her lovers. .
Like Samson’s heartbreakers, it gm* a
In time to make u nation rue.
Heart-breaking, adj. Oven?with sorrow. . sa d
Those piteous plaints and sorrowfu si*Which late you poured forth, as ye -
Beside the silver springs of HeliconMaking your musick of heartbreaking
Heart -breaking, n.s. Ove Fgrief.
What greater hcartbre iking ft* 11 .. se cXC \.fi^!!there be to one, than to have ft**laid open, and the sentence o ft j
passed upon him ? D* 1
Heart-burned, adj. [keat ‘ ^
Having the heat infianied- ,
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