The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 57Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1780 |
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... , Gay 1 : 114 Ariconium ( Hereford ) fwallowed , Ariel , chief of the Sylphs and Sylphids , Arion's harp be mine , Pbil . 39 , 40 Pope 1 : 135 Young 1 : 189 Ariofte 7 Ariofto without just design , Dry . 7 : INDE X. 29.
... , Gay 1 : 114 Ariconium ( Hereford ) fwallowed , Ariel , chief of the Sylphs and Sylphids , Arion's harp be mine , Pbil . 39 , 40 Pope 1 : 135 Young 1 : 189 Ariofte 7 Ariofto without just design , Dry . 7 : INDE X. 29.
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... Pbil . 53 Phil . 53 Bubble breaking , and a fable told , emblems of life , Prior 2 : 185 Buchanan , lines of , paraphrased , Sav . 170 Bucket - play ' twixt Whigs and Tories , Swift 1 : 136 ups and downs , Swift 1 : 136 Buckhurst ...
... Pbil . 53 Phil . 53 Bubble breaking , and a fable told , emblems of life , Prior 2 : 185 Buchanan , lines of , paraphrased , Sav . 170 Bucket - play ' twixt Whigs and Tories , Swift 1 : 136 ups and downs , Swift 1 : 136 Buckhurst ...
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... Pbil . 369 Fent . 227 Dry . 5 : 329 Pitt 273 war , Pitt 273 Rome's great rival , now no more , Carus defcribed , Hughes 278 Garth 53 Cafcade defcribed , Thom . 1 : 63 Cafe ftated , Prior 2 : 259 Cathel , Archbishop of , verfes on ...
... Pbil . 369 Fent . 227 Dry . 5 : 329 Pitt 273 war , Pitt 273 Rome's great rival , now no more , Carus defcribed , Hughes 278 Garth 53 Cafcade defcribed , Thom . 1 : 63 Cafe ftated , Prior 2 : 259 Cathel , Archbishop of , verfes on ...
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... Pbil . 335 Cow . I : 202 Gay 1 : 163 Young 1:83 Young 1:83 Cang 91 Milt . 3 : 132 A. Phil . 334 Swift 2 : 148 Swift 2 : 148 1 Courtier - trick , to ferve himself and forget his friend , Prior.2 : 2 and Proteus , Gay 2:86 of reptile race ...
... Pbil . 335 Cow . I : 202 Gay 1 : 163 Young 1:83 Young 1:83 Cang 91 Milt . 3 : 132 A. Phil . 334 Swift 2 : 148 Swift 2 : 148 1 Courtier - trick , to ferve himself and forget his friend , Prior.2 : 2 and Proteus , Gay 2:86 of reptile race ...
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... Pbil . 357 A. Phil . 357 A. Phil . 359 Rocb . 311 Gay 2 : 62 Gay 2 .: 69 prating , kindle wrath , comtempt or hate , Gay 2 : 110 blind to real merit , Gay 2 : 169 in vicious frolics fancy fpirit , Gay . 2 : 169 . are of all ranks and ...
... Pbil . 357 A. Phil . 357 A. Phil . 359 Rocb . 311 Gay 2 : 62 Gay 2 .: 69 prating , kindle wrath , comtempt or hate , Gay 2 : 110 blind to real merit , Gay 2 : 169 in vicious frolics fancy fpirit , Gay . 2 : 169 . are of all ranks and ...
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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,