The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 57Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1780 |
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... Phil . 385 Mall . 170 Pope il : 2 : 174 Gay 1 : 33 All - confuming care destroys the strength , Pope od . 3 : 208 All cry and no wool , Butl . r : 43 but little wool , Allegorical expreffion , origin of , imagery , what , Allegories ...
... Phil . 385 Mall . 170 Pope il : 2 : 174 Gay 1 : 33 All - confuming care destroys the strength , Pope od . 3 : 208 All cry and no wool , Butl . r : 43 but little wool , Allegorical expreffion , origin of , imagery , what , Allegories ...
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... Phil . 389 Wft 136 Dry . 6 : 33 Fope 1 : 256 hores , Hughes 29 Pope 1 : 233 Garth 40 Pore 1 : 133 Alva , fiery duke , Philip's fcourge of vengeance rofe , with flames of inquifition rofe from hell , Amaryllis , C 2 Weft 219 Hughes 42 ...
... Phil . 389 Wft 136 Dry . 6 : 33 Fope 1 : 256 hores , Hughes 29 Pope 1 : 233 Garth 40 Pore 1 : 133 Alva , fiery duke , Philip's fcourge of vengeance rofe , with flames of inquifition rofe from hell , Amaryllis , C 2 Weft 219 Hughes 42 ...
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... Phil . 358 curs'd , awakes the world to war and ruin , Cong . 61 fhall the guilty brothers fire , Gay 1 : 330 and Thebes embroil in war , reftlefs , Gay 1 : 330 . Ot . 7 . proud has no bounds , Dry . 3 : 127 knows no bounds , by mothers ...
... Phil . 358 curs'd , awakes the world to war and ruin , Cong . 61 fhall the guilty brothers fire , Gay 1 : 330 and Thebes embroil in war , reftlefs , Gay 1 : 330 . Ot . 7 . proud has no bounds , Dry . 3 : 127 knows no bounds , by mothers ...
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... Phil . 333 Cow . 2 : 285 powerful fource of good or ill !. Young 2 : 143 Pope 249 makes a patriot , as it makes a knave , Pope 2 : 49 truly great of virtuous praise , Young 2:15 ends in public good , Cong : 4 Young 2137 avarice , two ...
... Phil . 333 Cow . 2 : 285 powerful fource of good or ill !. Young 2 : 143 Pope 249 makes a patriot , as it makes a knave , Pope 2 : 49 truly great of virtuous praise , Young 2:15 ends in public good , Cong : 4 Young 2137 avarice , two ...
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... Phil . 68 Agamemnon , king of men , Pope il . 1 , 69 king of kings , Pope il . 1 : 71 tries what the Greeks may dare , Pope il . 1. 70 majestically tall , like fome proud bull , ib . 86 his ftrength like Neptune , like Mars his mien ...
... Phil . 68 Agamemnon , king of men , Pope il . 1 , 69 king of kings , Pope il . 1 : 71 tries what the Greeks may dare , Pope il . 1. 70 majestically tall , like fome proud bull , ib . 86 his ftrength like Neptune , like Mars his mien ...
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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,