The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 57Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1780 |
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... Broome 157 and with Thefeus fled , Broome 157 now fhines a ftar on high , Broome 157 Anadne's clue , Gay 1 : 114 Ariconium ( Hereford ) fwallowed , Ariel , chief of the Sylphs and Sylphids , Arion's harp be mine , Pbil . 39 , 40 Pope 1 ...
... Broome 157 and with Thefeus fled , Broome 157 now fhines a ftar on high , Broome 157 Anadne's clue , Gay 1 : 114 Ariconium ( Hereford ) fwallowed , Ariel , chief of the Sylphs and Sylphids , Arion's harp be mine , Pbil . 39 , 40 Pope 1 ...
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... Broome 13 Butl . I : 127 Butl . I : I30 Rowe L. 458 Rowe L. 458 Arfinoe claims the throne of Egypt , puts Achillas to death , Art , rules of , unhappy to be tied up to , Nature's hand - maid , taught by Nature , may err , but Nature ...
... Broome 13 Butl . I : 127 Butl . I : I30 Rowe L. 458 Rowe L. 458 Arfinoe claims the throne of Egypt , puts Achillas to death , Art , rules of , unhappy to be tied up to , Nature's hand - maid , taught by Nature , may err , but Nature ...
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... Broome 146 Pope 1 : 281 Swift 1 : 68 Butin 2 : 209 Black . 143 Black . 144 Black 128 Black . 139 without directing mind , Black . 129 impotibility of forming the world by , Black . 18 Atoms , why they ftop in their flight , dance D 2 At ...
... Broome 146 Pope 1 : 281 Swift 1 : 68 Butin 2 : 209 Black . 143 Black . 144 Black 128 Black . 139 without directing mind , Black . 129 impotibility of forming the world by , Black . 18 Atoms , why they ftop in their flight , dance D 2 At ...
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... Broome 107 to proclaim the day to gods and men , Broome 107 Dry . 7 : 145 Aufonius , cento of , Auftrian eagle , Author to write all he ought , not all he can , in the condition of a culprit , upon himself , verfes to , epitaph of ...
... Broome 107 to proclaim the day to gods and men , Broome 107 Dry . 7 : 145 Aufonius , cento of , Auftrian eagle , Author to write all he ought , not all he can , in the condition of a culprit , upon himself , verfes to , epitaph of ...
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... Broome 163 4 to conquer , dreadful in its charms , Brome 163 conquers rudeft minds , Wall . 26 cynofure of neighbouring eyes , Milt . 3 : 103 captives all , Dry . 2 : 124 to draw true , fhews a mafter's hand , Dry . 2 : 127 joined with ...
... Broome 163 4 to conquer , dreadful in its charms , Brome 163 conquers rudeft minds , Wall . 26 cynofure of neighbouring eyes , Milt . 3 : 103 captives all , Dry . 2 : 124 to draw true , fhews a mafter's hand , Dry . 2 : 127 joined with ...
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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,