The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 57Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1780 |
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... book of life , Anger transforms manhood to beaft , pain of , punishes the fault , how expreffed , mighty , what can it not do , Milt . 1 152 Cow . 2 : 85 Pom . 351 Watts 103 Milt . 2 : 151 Broome 21 Milt . 1 : 159 , 161 it makes the ...
... book of life , Anger transforms manhood to beaft , pain of , punishes the fault , how expreffed , mighty , what can it not do , Milt . 1 152 Cow . 2 : 85 Pom . 351 Watts 103 Milt . 2 : 151 Broome 21 Milt . 1 : 159 , 161 it makes the ...
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... Book and bell , to curfe with , Book - learned wife , a great plague , Books , ends of , and the world to be conjoined , perfection in , to be plain and brief , -- as affected are as men , Prior 1 230 Broome 135 Dry . 3 : 208 Dry . 7 ...
... Book and bell , to curfe with , Book - learned wife , a great plague , Books , ends of , and the world to be conjoined , perfection in , to be plain and brief , -- as affected are as men , Prior 1 230 Broome 135 Dry . 3 : 208 Dry . 7 ...
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... book of Iliad , 107 to Mrs. M -——— t , 111 , prologue to Fenton's Mariamne , 113 . Maynard imitated , 117 on a mischievous woman , 118 the coquette , 118 . widow and virgin - fifters , 119 on death of Fenton , 121 poem on death , 126 ...
... book of Iliad , 107 to Mrs. M -——— t , 111 , prologue to Fenton's Mariamne , 113 . Maynard imitated , 117 on a mischievous woman , 118 the coquette , 118 . widow and virgin - fifters , 119 on death of Fenton , 121 poem on death , 126 ...
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... books , to eafe the pain of coward thought , Care , a thoughtful being , long and spare , in vain we seek to fly , purfues every where , Swift 2 : 195 Prior 284 Parn . 69 Gay 2 : 84 Ot . 73 toffes on his iron bed , or , mufing , faftens ...
... books , to eafe the pain of coward thought , Care , a thoughtful being , long and spare , in vain we seek to fly , purfues every where , Swift 2 : 195 Prior 284 Parn . 69 Gay 2 : 84 Ot . 73 toffes on his iron bed , or , mufing , faftens ...
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... , elegy , 106 to Kneller , 108 to a candle , elegy , 109 of pleafing , Ovid's third book of love , letter to Cobham , on Mifs Temple , III 142 146 149 Congreve , Congreve , Pindaric ode , 151 to Godolphin , - INDE X.
... , elegy , 106 to Kneller , 108 to a candle , elegy , 109 of pleafing , Ovid's third book of love , letter to Cobham , on Mifs Temple , III 142 146 149 Congreve , Congreve , Pindaric ode , 151 to Godolphin , - INDE X.
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Achilles Aken Anacreontic beauty beft Black bleffing blifs breaſt Broome Buck Butl Butlo Cæfar caufe character charms Collins Cong Cowley Dæmon death defcribed Duke Dyer eclogue elegy epiftle epilogue epitaph eternal facred fame fate fatire fcience feaft fenfe Fent fhall fight firft flain flave fome fong fools forrow foul fource fpring ftand ftill ftory fure fweet Garth goddeſs gods Gray happineſs heaven himſelf Horace Hugbes Hughes hymn imitated Jove juft King laft Lanf laſt loft LVII Lytt Mall Milt mind numbers o'er paffion paraphraſed Parn Patroclus Phil Pitt plagues of Egypt pleaſe pleaſure poem poet Pope Pope il Pope od praife praiſe prefent pride Prior prologue rage reafon rife Rofc Rowe Rowe L Shen ſtate Swift Thom Tick tranflation Ulyffes univerfal verfes verſes virtue Wall Watts Weft whofe wife Young
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Page v - of places and countries, and in accounts of remarkable events, either in the natural or political •world, and of the ancient cuftoms or antiquities ; in critical obfervations on
Page vi - with dignity ; but the former, that of the vulgar, and generally as vulgarly exprefled, yet equally true with the fententious. Proverbial fayings could not well be difarranged, without fpoiling them, or at
Page v - particulars ; namely, in prudential, moral and religious fentences; in remarkable proverbial fayings, either of a ludicrous or ferious turn ; in characters of celebrated perfons, both ancient and modern ; in
Page vi - when they could conveniently be brought within the compafs of a line, and in the very arrangement of their words, in order to preferve entire the harmony and
Page viii - exclude, from a place in an index, very many important fentences, which are without a fubftantive. Dryden again fays, -write well, or not at all:
Page vii - it may therefore lead the fentence, according to the general rule of index-making; namely, that a
Page viii - not to make a verb the leading word ; or even an adverb, if ufed emphatically ; for
Page vii - but which it neceflarily implies, it is in all languages, both learned and unlearned, taken
Page vii - not to make them the leading words : Dryden, for inftance, to mention no other, fays,
Page 254 - Ichor, blood of gods, Ida, fount-full hill, fair nurfe of fountains and of game,