The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 57Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1780 |
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... fame nature with the fententious , differing only in point of authority , the latter being the refult of the obferva- tion of the wife and learned , and ex- preffed with dignity ; but the former , that of the vulgar , and generally as ...
... fame nature with the fententious , differing only in point of authority , the latter being the refult of the obferva- tion of the wife and learned , and ex- preffed with dignity ; but the former , that of the vulgar , and generally as ...
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... between the articles under the fame alphabetical head , unless where they happen to be contradictory , and which the order of the alphabet , and not their connection , brought together . 3 INDEX IN D E X TO THE ENGLISH POET S. N. [ viii ]
... between the articles under the fame alphabetical head , unless where they happen to be contradictory , and which the order of the alphabet , and not their connection , brought together . 3 INDEX IN D E X TO THE ENGLISH POET S. N. [ viii ]
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... fame , to Peleus ' fon , ib . 2 : 148 tower - like , Pope il . 1 : 226 Pope il . 2 : 316 himself a hoft , Pope il . 1 : 115 alone withstands the Trojans , Pope il . 1 : 343 Pope il . 1 : 343 Pope il . 2 : 57 Pope il . 2 : 150 retires ...
... fame , to Peleus ' fon , ib . 2 : 148 tower - like , Pope il . 1 : 226 Pope il . 2 : 316 himself a hoft , Pope il . 1 : 115 alone withstands the Trojans , Pope il . 1 : 343 Pope il . 1 : 343 Pope il . 2 : 57 Pope il . 2 : 150 retires ...
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... fame be his , my country mine , Pope od . 3 : 199 Alcmena bore to Jove Alcides , Fent . 257 Aldrich , generous thoughts inftils , Phil . 54 Ale , praife of , Som . 127 Alecto fows feeds of difcord , Dry . 6 : 182 Alexander , a ...
... fame be his , my country mine , Pope od . 3 : 199 Alcmena bore to Jove Alcides , Fent . 257 Aldrich , generous thoughts inftils , Phil . 54 Ale , praife of , Som . 127 Alecto fows feeds of difcord , Dry . 6 : 182 Alexander , a ...
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... fame , to Peleus ' fon , ib . 2 : 148 tower - like , Pope il . 2 : 316 himself a hoft , Pope il . 1 : 15 alone withstands the Trojans , Pope il . 1 : 343 Pope il . 1 : 343 Pope il . 2 : 57 retires flowly , ftrikes Hector to the ground ...
... fame , to Peleus ' fon , ib . 2 : 148 tower - like , Pope il . 2 : 316 himself a hoft , Pope il . 1 : 15 alone withstands the Trojans , Pope il . 1 : 343 Pope il . 1 : 343 Pope il . 2 : 57 retires flowly , ftrikes Hector to the ground ...
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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,