The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 57Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1780 |
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... pride , Pope il . 2 : 328 flower of war , fhield and bulwark of the Grecian hoft , Fent . 268 Tick . 174 pride of Greece , and bulwark of our host , Pope il . 1 : 49 full fifty thips commands , Pope il . 1 : 94 entertains the Grecian ...
... pride , Pope il . 2 : 328 flower of war , fhield and bulwark of the Grecian hoft , Fent . 268 Tick . 174 pride of Greece , and bulwark of our host , Pope il . 1 : 49 full fifty thips commands , Pope il . 1 : 94 entertains the Grecian ...
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... Aken . 168 Aken . 168 Cong . 144 Young 1 : 148 faints into airs , and languishes with pride , -Pope 1 : 145 walks , for graceful cafe , Aken . 346 Affectation Affectations quite reverfe the foul , Affection is the chain INDE X. TI.
... Aken . 168 Aken . 168 Cong . 144 Young 1 : 148 faints into airs , and languishes with pride , -Pope 1 : 145 walks , for graceful cafe , Aken . 346 Affectation Affectations quite reverfe the foul , Affection is the chain INDE X. TI.
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... pride , deck'd with olives flows , mixes with Arethusa , unmixt , to his Sicilian river glides , feeks , with pace , the lov'd Sicilian Alfop never but like Horace jokes , Altar raised to disease , to love of French romances built ...
... pride , deck'd with olives flows , mixes with Arethusa , unmixt , to his Sicilian river glides , feeks , with pace , the lov'd Sicilian Alfop never but like Horace jokes , Altar raised to disease , to love of French romances built ...
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... : 119 Sav . 107 Sav . 107 Gay 2 : 186 found the vanity of column and buft , Pope 2 : 145 meannefs of , mean , ignoble pride ! Cow . 2 : 263 Young 3 : 226 Ambition Ambition makes my little lefs , feeds on trath , 20 INDE X.
... : 119 Sav . 107 Sav . 107 Gay 2 : 186 found the vanity of column and buft , Pope 2 : 145 meannefs of , mean , ignoble pride ! Cow . 2 : 263 Young 3 : 226 Ambition Ambition makes my little lefs , feeds on trath , 20 INDE X.
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... pride , deck'd with olives flows , mixes with Arethufa , unmixt , to his Sicilian river glides , feeks , with pace , the lov'd Sicilian Alfop never but like Horace jokes , Altar raised to disease , to love of French romances built ...
... pride , deck'd with olives flows , mixes with Arethufa , unmixt , to his Sicilian river glides , feeks , with pace , the lov'd Sicilian Alfop never but like Horace jokes , Altar raised to disease , to love of French romances built ...
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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
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