The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 57Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1780 |
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... Weft 195 Weft 195 Weft 195 Dry . 6 : 214 Watts 70 Wall . 154 Rowe L. 73 Aken . 168 Aken . 168 Cong . 144 Young 1 : 148 faints into airs , and languishes with pride , -Pope 1 : 145 walks , for graceful cafe , Aken . 346 Affectation ...
... Weft 195 Weft 195 Weft 195 Dry . 6 : 214 Watts 70 Wall . 154 Rowe L. 73 Aken . 168 Aken . 168 Cong . 144 Young 1 : 148 faints into airs , and languishes with pride , -Pope 1 : 145 walks , for graceful cafe , Aken . 346 Affectation ...
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... Weft 179 Agib and Secander , the fugitives , Agincourt ftrewed with Gallic corps , has raised Henry's name , Agis , not the last of Spartan names , Aglauros , ftory of , Agriculture , origin of , tools of , feafons of , fair queen of ...
... Weft 179 Agib and Secander , the fugitives , Agincourt ftrewed with Gallic corps , has raised Henry's name , Agis , not the last of Spartan names , Aglauros , ftory of , Agriculture , origin of , tools of , feafons of , fair queen of ...
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... duke , Philip's fcourge of vengeance rofe , with flames of inquifition rofe from hell , Amaryllis , C 2 Weft 219 Hughes 42 Lugbes 42 Drv . 4 : 299 Amaryl's . Amaryllis , tears for , Amata infpired by Alecto oppofes INDE X. 19.
... duke , Philip's fcourge of vengeance rofe , with flames of inquifition rofe from hell , Amaryllis , C 2 Weft 219 Hughes 42 Lugbes 42 Drv . 4 : 299 Amaryl's . Amaryllis , tears for , Amata infpired by Alecto oppofes INDE X. 19.
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... Weft 312 Prior 2 : 18z Swift 2 : 195 Cow . 2 : 273 Ambrofe Philips is preferr'd for wit , Pope 3 : 204 Amiel , character of , Dry . 1 : 155 Ammunition , to preach the faith with ; Butlo 2:74 Amoret , Waller to , Wall . 60 , 63 Cong ...
... Weft 312 Prior 2 : 18z Swift 2 : 195 Cow . 2 : 273 Ambrofe Philips is preferr'd for wit , Pope 3 : 204 Amiel , character of , Dry . 1 : 155 Ammunition , to preach the faith with ; Butlo 2:74 Amoret , Waller to , Wall . 60 , 63 Cong ...
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... Weft 179 Agib and Secander , the fugitives , Agincourt strewed with Gallic corps , Collins 242 Add . 11 has raised Henry's name , Hughes 51 Agis , not the last of Spartan names , Pope 1 : 208 Aglauros , ftory of , Add . 135 Agriculture ...
... Weft 179 Agib and Secander , the fugitives , Agincourt strewed with Gallic corps , Collins 242 Add . 11 has raised Henry's name , Hughes 51 Agis , not the last of Spartan names , Pope 1 : 208 Aglauros , ftory of , Add . 135 Agriculture ...
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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,