The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 57Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1780 |
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... Fent . Fenton ; Hal . Halifax ; Ham . Hammond ; Lanf . Lanfdowne ; Lytt . Lyttelton ; Mall . Mallet ; Milt . Milton ; Ot . Otway ; Parn . Parnell ; Phil . John Philips ; Pom . Pomfret ; Pope il . od . Pope's Iliad and Odyffey ; Roch ...
... Fent . Fenton ; Hal . Halifax ; Ham . Hammond ; Lanf . Lanfdowne ; Lytt . Lyttelton ; Mall . Mallet ; Milt . Milton ; Ot . Otway ; Parn . Parnell ; Phil . John Philips ; Pom . Pomfret ; Pope il . od . Pope's Iliad and Odyffey ; Roch ...
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... Fent . 268 Tick . 174 pride of Greece , and bulwark of our host , Pope il . 1 : 49 full fifty thips commands , Pope il . 1 : 94 entertains the Grecian embaffy , Pope il . 1 : 274 rejects their proposal , Pope il . 1 : 279 first of men ...
... Fent . 268 Tick . 174 pride of Greece , and bulwark of our host , Pope il . 1 : 49 full fifty thips commands , Pope il . 1 : 94 entertains the Grecian embaffy , Pope il . 1 : 274 rejects their proposal , Pope il . 1 : 279 first of men ...
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... Fent . 265- Fent . 268 Prior 2 201 Dry . 4 : 102 Dry . 4 : 122 Pope od . 3 : 300 Pope il . 1 : 88 . Ajax , fwift in pursuit , and active in the Ajax INDE X. 15.
... Fent . 265- Fent . 268 Prior 2 201 Dry . 4 : 102 Dry . 4 : 122 Pope od . 3 : 300 Pope il . 1 : 88 . Ajax , fwift in pursuit , and active in the Ajax INDE X. 15.
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... death we yearly mourn , pledge of peaceful times , 299 325-332 333 345 350 . 356 361 Fent . 276 Pepe il . 2231 Pope il . 2 : 231 A. Phil . 306 A. Phil . 307 A. Phil . 308 Albine , Albino , fair boaft of this fair ifland , A. 16 IN DE X.
... death we yearly mourn , pledge of peaceful times , 299 325-332 333 345 350 . 356 361 Fent . 276 Pepe il . 2231 Pope il . 2 : 231 A. Phil . 306 A. Phil . 307 A. Phil . 308 Albine , Albino , fair boaft of this fair ifland , A. 16 IN DE X.
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... Fent . 199 Phil . 22 . learn from others ' miferies to prize thy welfare , Phil . 22 rich queen of mifts and fogs ... Fent . 278 Pope 1 : 166 Pupe 1 : 205 Fent . 206 Fent . 260 . Pope od . 3 : 207 palace and gardens defcribed , Pape od ...
... Fent . 199 Phil . 22 . learn from others ' miferies to prize thy welfare , Phil . 22 rich queen of mifts and fogs ... Fent . 278 Pope 1 : 166 Pupe 1 : 205 Fent . 206 Fent . 260 . Pope od . 3 : 207 palace and gardens defcribed , Pape od ...
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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,