The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 57Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1780 |
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... rage , the people's not the writer's fin , Lanf . 234 Almighty is the God of gods , feat of , painter glows in every line , Pope il . I : 239 Cow . 2 : 82 Som . 225 Som . 225 Som . 225 Young 3 : 231 Raphael's defign how mean compared ...
... rage , the people's not the writer's fin , Lanf . 234 Almighty is the God of gods , feat of , painter glows in every line , Pope il . I : 239 Cow . 2 : 82 Som . 225 Som . 225 Som . 225 Young 3 : 231 Raphael's defign how mean compared ...
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... rage , the people's not the writer's fin , Lanf . 234 Almighty is the God of gods , Pope feat of , painter glows in every line , il . 1 : 239 Cow . 2 : 82 Som . 225 Raphael's defign how mean compared , and Titian's colouring , Som . 225 ...
... rage , the people's not the writer's fin , Lanf . 234 Almighty is the God of gods , Pope feat of , painter glows in every line , il . 1 : 239 Cow . 2 : 82 Som . 225 Raphael's defign how mean compared , and Titian's colouring , Som . 225 ...
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... . I : 242 But I : 49 Butl . x : 49 Dyer 57 Phil . 82 Prier 1 : 198 Parn . 264 Phil . 78 reftrains the rage of kings , nobly fupports juftice oppref ̃d , Phil . 78 Anna 1 Anna fat arbitrefs of Europe's fate , filent , 24 INDE X.
... . I : 242 But I : 49 Butl . x : 49 Dyer 57 Phil . 82 Prier 1 : 198 Parn . 264 Phil . 78 reftrains the rage of kings , nobly fupports juftice oppref ̃d , Phil . 78 Anna 1 Anna fat arbitrefs of Europe's fate , filent , 24 INDE X.
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... 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 , ib . 220 Bards , who fo fond ...
... 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 , ib . 220 Bards , who fo fond ...
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... rage , what magic can affuage , Bill of rights , Billet - doux , its matter paffionate , yet true , Billingsgate , there tongues that never ceafe , Binding fillets others more become , Ve L. LVII . E Dry . I 192 Prior 2 : 241 Lanf . 142 ...
... rage , what magic can affuage , Bill of rights , Billet - doux , its matter paffionate , yet true , Billingsgate , there tongues that never ceafe , Binding fillets others more become , Ve L. LVII . E Dry . I 192 Prior 2 : 241 Lanf . 142 ...
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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,