The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 57Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1780 |
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... fear the juft Gods , Cong . 36 - relents at the prayer of Priam , Pope il . 2 : 348 grants Priam a truce of twelve days , Pope il . 2 : 354 and Cygnus , fight of , Dry . 4:79 impatient , rath , inexorable , proud , Rofc . 264 fleel ...
... fear the juft Gods , Cong . 36 - relents at the prayer of Priam , Pope il . 2 : 348 grants Priam a truce of twelve days , Pope il . 2 : 354 and Cygnus , fight of , Dry . 4:79 impatient , rath , inexorable , proud , Rofc . 264 fleel ...
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... fear'd , for Rome and Liberty he liv'd and dy'd , Pitt 393 Pitt 393 - bold flights , th ' extravagance of virtue , Add . 289 --- laft good man of Rome , - on Addison's tragedy of , --- sent to a Lady , prologue to , - epilogue to ...
... fear'd , for Rome and Liberty he liv'd and dy'd , Pitt 393 Pitt 393 - bold flights , th ' extravagance of virtue , Add . 289 --- laft good man of Rome , - on Addison's tragedy of , --- sent to a Lady , prologue to , - epilogue to ...
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... fear , ib . dragg'd at length to her fatc , Aken . 333 Corydon , Hughes 121 Cost on graves is merely thrown away , Pope 1 : 265 Cotton , growth of every fultry clime , Dyer 71 Couch plain , and only rich his mind , Cong . 74 Covenant to ...
... fear , ib . dragg'd at length to her fatc , Aken . 333 Corydon , Hughes 121 Cost on graves is merely thrown away , Pope 1 : 265 Cotton , growth of every fultry clime , Dyer 71 Couch plain , and only rich his mind , Cong . 74 Covenant to ...
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... 2:15 . Pope il . 2:15 Pope il . 2:15 driven headlong on by fear , Rozve L. 292 -'s weapon never hurts the brave , Pope il . 1 : 337 H 3 Cowardice Cowardice alone is loss of fame , Dry . 3 DNDEX . IOF Course of nature is the art of God, ...
... 2:15 . Pope il . 2:15 Pope il . 2:15 driven headlong on by fear , Rozve L. 292 -'s weapon never hurts the brave , Pope il . 1 : 337 H 3 Cowardice Cowardice alone is loss of fame , Dry . 3 DNDEX . IOF Course of nature is the art of God, ...
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... - makes current in the man follies of the child , Fent . 227 conquers fear and thame , Cutts , verses to Lord John , Gay 2:52 Watts 113 Cyclops , Cyclops , one - eyed brothers , Add . 50 16 INDEX . Curio, a fpeaker turbulent and bold, ...
... - makes current in the man follies of the child , Fent . 227 conquers fear and thame , Cutts , verses to Lord John , Gay 2:52 Watts 113 Cyclops , Cyclops , one - eyed brothers , Add . 50 16 INDEX . Curio, a fpeaker turbulent and bold, ...
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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
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Page vii - but which it neceflarily implies, it is in all languages, both learned and unlearned, taken
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Page 246 - Ichor, blood of gods, Ida, fount-full hill, fair nurfe of fountains and of game,