The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 57Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1780 |
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... blind to their own defects , Pope 1 : 91 Dry . 7 : 314 why all this fcrawl and fcribbling fore , Thom , 1 : 216 ye lose the prefent , to gain the future age , ib . 1 : 216 Autumn , with lavifh ftores , fpreads Nature's lap , Hughes 192 ...
... blind to their own defects , Pope 1 : 91 Dry . 7 : 314 why all this fcrawl and fcribbling fore , Thom , 1 : 216 ye lose the prefent , to gain the future age , ib . 1 : 216 Autumn , with lavifh ftores , fpreads Nature's lap , Hughes 192 ...
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... blind , that fung Achilles ' rage , Dry . 2 : III Pope od . 3 : 224 Fent . 238 Gay 2 : 172 Gray 351 Hugbes 197 he fung and begg'd , Hughes 197 fings the wooden horse , Pope od . 3 : 221 not fond of flattery , nor unpleas'd with praife ...
... blind , that fung Achilles ' rage , Dry . 2 : III Pope od . 3 : 224 Fent . 238 Gay 2 : 172 Gray 351 Hugbes 197 he fung and begg'd , Hughes 197 fings the wooden horse , Pope od . 3 : 221 not fond of flattery , nor unpleas'd with praife ...
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... Blind to the future , to the present blind , to ourfelves , adopt each vice , Blindness to the future kindly given , complaint of , Blifs , the firft , the greateft , is in virtue to excel , E 2 Lanf . 289 Young 3 : 246 Pope 2 : 206 ...
... Blind to the future , to the present blind , to ourfelves , adopt each vice , Blindness to the future kindly given , complaint of , Blifs , the firft , the greateft , is in virtue to excel , E 2 Lanf . 289 Young 3 : 246 Pope 2 : 206 ...
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... blind , that fung Achilles ' rage , he fung and begg'd , fings the wooden horse , Dyer 31 Milt . 2 : 134 Yal . 442 Butl . 2 : 225 Dry . 2 : III Pope od . 3 : 224 Fent . 238 Gay 2 : 172 Gray 351 Hugbes 197 Hughes 197 Pope od . 3 : 221 ib ...
... blind , that fung Achilles ' rage , he fung and begg'd , fings the wooden horse , Dyer 31 Milt . 2 : 134 Yal . 442 Butl . 2 : 225 Dry . 2 : III Pope od . 3 : 224 Fent . 238 Gay 2 : 172 Gray 351 Hugbes 197 Hughes 197 Pope od . 3 : 221 ib ...
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... Blind to the future , to the prefent blind , --- to ourfelves , adopt each vice , Blindness to the future kindly given , complaint of , Bifs , the firft , the greateft , is in virtue to excel , Lanf . 289 Young 3 : 246 Pope 2 : 206 ...
... Blind to the future , to the prefent blind , --- to ourfelves , adopt each vice , Blindness to the future kindly given , complaint of , Bifs , the firft , the greateft , is in virtue to excel , Lanf . 289 Young 3 : 246 Pope 2 : 206 ...
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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
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Page 254 - Ichor, blood of gods, Ida, fount-full hill, fair nurfe of fountains and of game,