The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 57Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1780 |
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... eclogue , Pope 2 : 340 Sav . 84 Baftard , born to himself , Sav . 84 in freedom fofter'd , and by fortune fed , Sav . 84 nature's unbounded fon , Sav . 84 Baftile , to imprison hands , But I : 98 Bafting , no blemish , But !. 1 : 163 ...
... eclogue , Pope 2 : 340 Sav . 84 Baftard , born to himself , Sav . 84 in freedom fofter'd , and by fortune fed , Sav . 84 nature's unbounded fon , Sav . 84 Baftile , to imprison hands , But I : 98 Bafting , no blemish , But !. 1 : 163 ...
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... eclogue , Pope 2 : 340 Sav . 84 Baftard , -born to himself , Sav . 84 in freedom fofter'd , and by fortune fed , Sav . 84 nature's unbounded fon , Sav . 84 Baftile , to imprifon hands , Butler : 98 Bafting , no blemish , But !. 1 : 163 ...
... eclogue , Pope 2 : 340 Sav . 84 Baftard , -born to himself , Sav . 84 in freedom fofter'd , and by fortune fed , Sav . 84 nature's unbounded fon , Sav . 84 Baftile , to imprifon hands , Butler : 98 Bafting , no blemish , But !. 1 : 163 ...
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... eclogue , Cape of Good Hope , Caperdewfie , heels freed from , Capers prompt the taste of luxury , Capitol , fite of , Prior 1 : 268- Pope 1 : 239 Collins 289 Dyer 113 Butl . i : 185 Dyer 107 Milt . 2 : 202 Dyer 13 Young 1 : 158 Som ...
... eclogue , Cape of Good Hope , Caperdewfie , heels freed from , Capers prompt the taste of luxury , Capitol , fite of , Prior 1 : 268- Pope 1 : 239 Collins 289 Dyer 113 Butl . i : 185 Dyer 107 Milt . 2 : 202 Dyer 13 Young 1 : 158 Som ...
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... eclogue , Cow . 2 : 348 Walsh 348 and Alexis , Duke 174 Gay 1 : 258 and Cupid , Walsh 343 and Daphne , an eclogue , SLyit . 47 Sav . 152 Sav . 152 Dry . 2 : 114 and Delia , epistle to , - a bookish mind with pedantry unfraught , Damps ...
... eclogue , Cow . 2 : 348 Walsh 348 and Alexis , Duke 174 Gay 1 : 258 and Cupid , Walsh 343 and Daphne , an eclogue , SLyit . 47 Sav . 152 Sav . 152 Dry . 2 : 114 and Delia , epistle to , - a bookish mind with pedantry unfraught , Damps ...
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... eclogue , epiftle to , young , fickle , fair , a levity inborn , adjur'd to pity , VOL . LVII . K Swift 2 : 121 Swift 1 : 159 Watts 341 A. Phil 377 Wolf 354 Pom . 253 Sav . 153 Ham . 213 Delia Ham . 214 Delia in the country , the ...
... eclogue , epiftle to , young , fickle , fair , a levity inborn , adjur'd to pity , VOL . LVII . K Swift 2 : 121 Swift 1 : 159 Watts 341 A. Phil 377 Wolf 354 Pom . 253 Sav . 153 Ham . 213 Delia Ham . 214 Delia in the country , the ...
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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,