the whole in the words of the poets, when they could conveniently be brought within the compass of a line, and in the very arrangement of their words, in order to preserve entire the harmony and emphasis of the sentence, more especially in the proverbial fayings, which are much of the same nature with the sententious, differing only in point of authority, the latter being the result of the obfervation of the wife and learned, and expressed with dignity; but the former, that of the vulgar, and generally as vulgarly expressed, yet equally true with the fententious. Proverbial sayings could not well be disarranged, without spoiling them, or at least making them found harsh to an ear unaccustomed to an un usual arrangement. When a quality stands alone, without the express men*ion of its fubject, either person or thing, but which it necessarily implies, it is in all languages, both learned and unlearned, taken substantively; it may therefore lead the fentence, according to the general rule of index-making; namely, that a substantive is always to be the leading word; the truth of which will be confidered hereafter. For instance, we say, the virtuous, the vicious, &c. with respect to persons; and with respect to a thing, the good, the ill, the vain, &c. of life. When quality and fubject are both expressed together, I confider them as one word; both on account of their necessary connection; and especially, because the stress of the fentence turns upon them: I therefore fcruple not to make them the leading words: Dryden, for instance, to mention no other, says, lively faith bears aloft the mind: if the above rule, namely that VOL. LVII. a 4 of of always making a substantive to lead the sentence, be made an invariable and universal rule, it will necessarily ex, clude, from a place in an index, very many important sentences, which are without a substantive. Dryden again. fays, write well, or not at all: I therefore fcrupled not to make a verb the leading word; or even an adverb, if used emphatically; for instance, greaily wife to talk with our past hours, Young. I endeavoured all along, in the arrangement, to form some connection between the articles under the fame alphabetical head, unless where they happen to be contradictory, and which the order of the alphabet, and not their connection, brought together. 3 INDEX N. B. When the poet is in one volume only, the number denotes the page: when in more volumes than one, the first number, feparated by a colon, denotes the volume; the fecond, the page of that volume. ABBREVIATIONS EXPLAINED. Add. Addifon; Aken. Akenside; A. Phil. Ambrofe Philips; Black. Blackmore; Buck. Buckingham; Butl. Butler; Colf, Collins; Cong. Congreve; Cow. Cowley; Den. Denhams Dor. Dorfet: Dry. Dryden; Fent. Fenton; Hal. Halifax; Ham. Hammond; Laní. Lansdowne; Lytt. Lyttelton; Mall. Mallet; Milt. Milton; Ot. Otway; Parn. Parnell; Phil. John Philips; Pom. Pomfret; Pope il. od. Pope's Iliad and Odyffey: Roch. Rochefter; Rofc. Rofcommon; Rowe L. Rowe's Lucan; Sav. Savage; Shen. Shenstone; Som. Somervile; Step. Stepney; Thom. Thomfon; Tick. Tickell; Wall. Waller; Yal. Yalden. A ABANTES, their uncommon length of hair, Popeil. 1: 88 Abbeys put down, Asdael, character of, Audiel, zeal of, VOL. LVII. Din. 11 |