The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 57Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1780 |
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... making them found harth to an ear unaccustomed to an un- ufual arrangement . When a quality ftands alone , without the express men- * ion of its subject , either person or thing , but which it neceffarily implies , it is in all 2 but.
... making them found harth to an ear unaccustomed to an un- ufual arrangement . When a quality ftands alone , without the express men- * ion of its subject , either person or thing , but which it neceffarily implies , it is in all 2 but.
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... thing , the good , the ill , the " vain , & c . of life . When quality and fubject are both expreffed together , I confider them as one word ; both on ac- - count of their neceffary connection ; and efpecially , because the ftrefs of ...
... thing , the good , the ill , the " vain , & c . of life . When quality and fubject are both expreffed together , I confider them as one word ; both on ac- - count of their neceffary connection ; and efpecially , because the ftrefs of ...
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... things reduced to , Adam , offspring of heaven and earth , and Eve , character of , encompaffed by the beasts , and Eve daily labour of , relates his creation , had fpeech and reafon , first fleep of , dream of , Pope od . 3 : : 26 Pope ...
... things reduced to , Adam , offspring of heaven and earth , and Eve , character of , encompaffed by the beasts , and Eve daily labour of , relates his creation , had fpeech and reafon , first fleep of , dream of , Pope od . 3 : : 26 Pope ...
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... things , and Eve covered with skins , regret on leaving paradife , doomed , fubmiffive to his doom , and Eve burn in luft , Milt . 2 : 36 Milt . 2 : 41 , 42 Milt . 2 : 49 Den . 102 Den . 52 Milt . 2 : 95 Milt . 2 51 , 52 Milt . 2 : 97 ...
... things , and Eve covered with skins , regret on leaving paradife , doomed , fubmiffive to his doom , and Eve burn in luft , Milt . 2 : 36 Milt . 2 : 41 , 42 Milt . 2 : 49 Den . 102 Den . 52 Milt . 2 : 95 Milt . 2 51 , 52 Milt . 2 : 97 ...
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... thing in nature's spite , Affectation fades the brightest form , Dry . 6 : 27 Weft 195 Weft 195 Weft 195 Dry . 6 : 214 Watts 70 Wall . 154 Rowe L. 73 Aken . 168 Aken . 168 Cong . 144 Young 1 : 148 faints into airs , and languishes with ...
... thing in nature's spite , Affectation fades the brightest form , Dry . 6 : 27 Weft 195 Weft 195 Weft 195 Dry . 6 : 214 Watts 70 Wall . 154 Rowe L. 73 Aken . 168 Aken . 168 Cong . 144 Young 1 : 148 faints into airs , and languishes with ...
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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,