The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 57Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1780 |
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... verse , in profe the mind , King 210 Collins 302 Collins 302 Add . 35 Gay 1 : 120 Gay 1 : 1 136 Pope il . 1 : 282 Cow . 1 : 253 Pope il . 2 : 159 Buck . 16 Prior 2 : 31 Prior 2 : 32 can ne'er decay nor die , Prior 2 : 39 all in all ...
... verse , in profe the mind , King 210 Collins 302 Collins 302 Add . 35 Gay 1 : 120 Gay 1 : 1 136 Pope il . 1 : 282 Cow . 1 : 253 Pope il . 2 : 159 Buck . 16 Prior 2 : 31 Prior 2 : 32 can ne'er decay nor die , Prior 2 : 39 all in all ...
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... verses to , Warts 229 Overfes to Mrs. B. Watts 216 Beneficence to fhed , celeftial office , Dyer 30 Benevolence graft on charities , Ben - Jochanan , character of , fair ! of generous minds , Benfon , Bp . manners with candour given ...
... verses to , Warts 229 Overfes to Mrs. B. Watts 216 Beneficence to fhed , celeftial office , Dyer 30 Benevolence graft on charities , Ben - Jochanan , character of , fair ! of generous minds , Benfon , Bp . manners with candour given ...
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... verses on , Wall . 68 Pope il . 2 : 221 Pom . 226 Buck . 114 Milt . 3 : 65 . Pope od , 4 : 19 . Som . 357 Som . 293 . Pope il . 2:29 . Den . 108 Sav . III Sav . 113 Dry . 7 : 262 Swift 2 : 299 Betty the Grizette , Swift 2 : 191 queen of ...
... verses on , Wall . 68 Pope il . 2 : 221 Pom . 226 Buck . 114 Milt . 3 : 65 . Pope od , 4 : 19 . Som . 357 Som . 293 . Pope il . 2:29 . Den . 108 Sav . III Sav . 113 Dry . 7 : 262 Swift 2 : 299 Betty the Grizette , Swift 2 : 191 queen of ...
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... verses on , at three years old , on my own , Mall . 158 Young 2 : 115 Shen . 43 Pope 2 : 354 Broome 92 Prior 2 : 12 Fent . 320 of the Queen , fong , directions to make , Bifcay , working bay of , Bishopricks are held in fee , Bishops ...
... verses on , at three years old , on my own , Mall . 158 Young 2 : 115 Shen . 43 Pope 2 : 354 Broome 92 Prior 2 : 12 Fent . 320 of the Queen , fong , directions to make , Bifcay , working bay of , Bishopricks are held in fee , Bishops ...
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... verses to , Blackmore , verfes under picture of , his Creation , Blame is eafy , to commend is bold , Blank oblivion , and untimely grave , Blazing ftar , beacon of war , Bleeding marks of grace , Cong . 172 Watts 186 Gay 1 : 296 Black ...
... verses to , Blackmore , verfes under picture of , his Creation , Blame is eafy , to commend is bold , Blank oblivion , and untimely grave , Blazing ftar , beacon of war , Bleeding marks of grace , Cong . 172 Watts 186 Gay 1 : 296 Black ...
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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,