The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 57Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1780 |
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... Swift 2 : 159 ' s , Dean at , Achillas pierc'd Pompey's breast , partner - ruffian , in Pompey's fall , meets his juft fate , Achilles , fwift - footed fon of Peleus , wrath , fpring of woes to Greece , fuch was the will of Jove , Swift ...
... Swift 2 : 159 ' s , Dean at , Achillas pierc'd Pompey's breast , partner - ruffian , in Pompey's fall , meets his juft fate , Achilles , fwift - footed fon of Peleus , wrath , fpring of woes to Greece , fuch was the will of Jove , Swift ...
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... Swift 2 : 195 Cow . 2 : 273 Pope 3 204 : Dry . 1 : 155 Butl . 2:74 Wall . 60 , 63 Cang . Io2 Cang , 152 Mall 180 teazing ghoft of the departed man , Mall . 180 Amphiaraus , skill'd in fate , and dark futurity , Pope 1 : 306 immortal ...
... Swift 2 : 195 Cow . 2 : 273 Pope 3 204 : Dry . 1 : 155 Butl . 2:74 Wall . 60 , 63 Cang . Io2 Cang , 152 Mall 180 teazing ghoft of the departed man , Mall . 180 Amphiaraus , skill'd in fate , and dark futurity , Pope 1 : 306 immortal ...
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... Swift 2 : 32 Swift 2 : 32 Broome 128 Broome 128 Collins 271 Som . 154 Ham . 211 Sav . 132 Milt . I : 242 But I : 49 Butl . x : 49 Dyer 57 Phil . 82 Prier 1 : 198 Parn . 264 Phil . 78 reftrains the rage of kings , nobly fupports juftice ...
... Swift 2 : 32 Swift 2 : 32 Broome 128 Broome 128 Collins 271 Som . 154 Ham . 211 Sav . 132 Milt . I : 242 But I : 49 Butl . x : 49 Dyer 57 Phil . 82 Prier 1 : 198 Parn . 264 Phil . 78 reftrains the rage of kings , nobly fupports juftice ...
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... Swift 2 : 72 Annus Mirabilis , Another - gates adventure , Anfon , voyage of , on death of lady , fuccefs against the Spaniards , unwarp'd by folly , and by vice unftain'd , Mall . 331 Young 2 : 191 Dry . I : 61 Butl . I : 115 Dyer 125 ...
... Swift 2 : 72 Annus Mirabilis , Another - gates adventure , Anfon , voyage of , on death of lady , fuccefs against the Spaniards , unwarp'd by folly , and by vice unftain'd , Mall . 331 Young 2 : 191 Dry . I : 61 Butl . I : 115 Dyer 125 ...
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... Swift 2 : 243 Swift 1 : 183 Swift 2 : 367 Swift 1 : 39 out - witted , that fneaking , whey - fac'd god , of Belvidere , -'s vengeance for his injur'd prieft , Apollonius Rhodius , tranflations from , Apology , & c . for an unfeasonable ...
... Swift 2 : 243 Swift 1 : 183 Swift 2 : 367 Swift 1 : 39 out - witted , that fneaking , whey - fac'd god , of Belvidere , -'s vengeance for his injur'd prieft , Apollonius Rhodius , tranflations from , Apology , & c . for an unfeasonable ...
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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,