The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 57Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1780 |
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... praise , Young 2:15 ends in public good , Cong : 4 Young 2137 avarice , two Demons , burn mankind , envy , faction's viperous brood , and revenge have certain speed , ' s aims , how endless , Ambitious man , a flave , Young 2 : 137 Weft ...
... praise , Young 2:15 ends in public good , Cong : 4 Young 2137 avarice , two Demons , burn mankind , envy , faction's viperous brood , and revenge have certain speed , ' s aims , how endless , Ambitious man , a flave , Young 2 : 137 Weft ...
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... praise , Young 2 : 15 ends in public good , Cong . 4 Young 2137 avarice , two Demons , burn mankind , envy , faction's viperous brood , and revenge have certain fpeed , ' s aims , how endless , Ambitious man , a flave , Ambrofe Philips ...
... praise , Young 2 : 15 ends in public good , Cong . 4 Young 2137 avarice , two Demons , burn mankind , envy , faction's viperous brood , and revenge have certain fpeed , ' s aims , how endless , Ambitious man , a flave , Ambrofe Philips ...
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... praise , to borrow from by fair aliufion , employed much time on their works , explore with a watchful eye , Dry . 7 : 154 Thom . 2 : 22 Smith 194 Pope 1 : 99 Pitt 371 Pope 1 : 7 Pitt 30 % read and meditate , Pilt 368 their beft ...
... praise , to borrow from by fair aliufion , employed much time on their works , explore with a watchful eye , Dry . 7 : 154 Thom . 2 : 22 Smith 194 Pope 1 : 99 Pitt 371 Pope 1 : 7 Pitt 30 % read and meditate , Pilt 368 their beft ...
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... praise of , hard task , tho ' injurious , has charms , like wit , to judges fhould be fhewn , proper fphere , the town , the court , let reft ferene and ever pleas'd , withers like a fhrivel'd flower , fair flower ! foon fades away ...
... praise of , hard task , tho ' injurious , has charms , like wit , to judges fhould be fhewn , proper fphere , the town , the court , let reft ferene and ever pleas'd , withers like a fhrivel'd flower , fair flower ! foon fades away ...
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... praise , Bargain , Bark , life of trees lies in , a feather on the towering wave , Barks made of ofiers , lin'd with skins , Barley - mow and the dunghill , Pitt 352 Swift 1 : 108 Cow . I : 255 Butl . 2:28 . Young 1 : 19 Rowe L. 167 Gay ...
... praise , Bargain , Bark , life of trees lies in , a feather on the towering wave , Barks made of ofiers , lin'd with skins , Barley - mow and the dunghill , Pitt 352 Swift 1 : 108 Cow . I : 255 Butl . 2:28 . Young 1 : 19 Rowe L. 167 Gay ...
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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,