The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 57Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1780 |
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... beauty plead in vain , unhappy boy ! no prayer avails , Albino , his death we yearly mourn , pledge of peaceful times , 299 325-332 333 345 350 . 356 361 Fent . 276 Pepe il . 2231 Pope il . 2 : 231 A. Phil . 306 A. Phil . 307 A. Phil ...
... beauty plead in vain , unhappy boy ! no prayer avails , Albino , his death we yearly mourn , pledge of peaceful times , 299 325-332 333 345 350 . 356 361 Fent . 276 Pepe il . 2231 Pope il . 2 : 231 A. Phil . 306 A. Phil . 307 A. Phil ...
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... beauty plead in vain , Albino , unhappy boy ! no prayer avails , his death we yearly mourn , - pledge of peaceful times , 299 325-332 333 345 350 . 356 361 Fent . 276 Pope il . 2235 Pope il . 2 : 231 A. Phil . 306 A. Phil . 307- A. Phil ...
... beauty plead in vain , Albino , unhappy boy ! no prayer avails , his death we yearly mourn , - pledge of peaceful times , 299 325-332 333 345 350 . 356 361 Fent . 276 Pope il . 2235 Pope il . 2 : 231 A. Phil . 306 A. Phil . 307- A. Phil ...
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... rattlings animate , Pope 1 : 139 Thom . 1 : 137 Rorve L. 67 Them . 1 : 86 Bathing , defcribed , benefits of , in the river , Batrachomyomachia , Tiom . 1 : 86 Coru . I : 320 Parn . 37 Batter 44 Coru . I : 28z Beauty , Anacreontic , INDE X.
... rattlings animate , Pope 1 : 139 Thom . 1 : 137 Rorve L. 67 Them . 1 : 86 Bathing , defcribed , benefits of , in the river , Batrachomyomachia , Tiom . 1 : 86 Coru . I : 320 Parn . 37 Batter 44 Coru . I : 28z Beauty , Anacreontic , INDE X.
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... beauty in difgrace , perfect , but of guilty fame , what cruel destiny waits on , Mik . 1 : 249 Pope 1 : 133 Pope od 3 : 215 Lan . 155 Lanf . 155 Beauty , Beauty , fatal to the owners , Dry . 7 INDE X.
... beauty in difgrace , perfect , but of guilty fame , what cruel destiny waits on , Mik . 1 : 249 Pope 1 : 133 Pope od 3 : 215 Lan . 155 Lanf . 155 Beauty , Beauty , fatal to the owners , Dry . 7 INDE X.
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... beauty , Cow . 1:58 what hourly nonfenfe haunts , fantastic , Gay 2 : 41 Buck . 52 admir'd by weak minds , Milt . 2 ... Beauty , Beauty , employment of , by constraint poffeffing , lifelefs INDE X. 45.
... beauty , Cow . 1:58 what hourly nonfenfe haunts , fantastic , Gay 2 : 41 Buck . 52 admir'd by weak minds , Milt . 2 ... Beauty , Beauty , employment of , by constraint poffeffing , lifelefs INDE X. 45.
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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,