The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, 57. köideSamuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1780 |
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... song of new fimilies ,. 1 : 270 -- Newgate's garland , 1 : 273 prologue to Dione , 10 : 275 contemplation on night , 1 : 277 thought on eternity , 1 : 279 epigrammatical expoftulation , 1 : 280 epitaph of bye - words , 1 : 281 - my own ...
... song of new fimilies ,. 1 : 270 -- Newgate's garland , 1 : 273 prologue to Dione , 10 : 275 contemplation on night , 1 : 277 thought on eternity , 1 : 279 epigrammatical expoftulation , 1 : 280 epitaph of bye - words , 1 : 281 - my own ...
Page 207
... her death compleat , ode on a Sermon against , to the Father , & c . Glover , veries to , on his Leonidas , Prior 1 : 82 Aken . 238 Watts 359 Lytt . 98 Glover , 6 . Glover , liberty and virtue claim thy song INDE X. 207.
... her death compleat , ode on a Sermon against , to the Father , & c . Glover , veries to , on his Leonidas , Prior 1 : 82 Aken . 238 Watts 359 Lytt . 98 Glover , 6 . Glover , liberty and virtue claim thy song INDE X. 207.
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... song , Glumdalclitch , lamentation of , Glutted market makes provifions cheap , Gluttons in murder , wanton to destroy , Gluttony , fure men are curfed for , Gnomes , dæmons of earth mischievous , Goat diftill'd her milk for Jupiter ...
... song , Glumdalclitch , lamentation of , Glutted market makes provifions cheap , Gluttons in murder , wanton to destroy , Gluttony , fure men are curfed for , Gnomes , dæmons of earth mischievous , Goat diftill'd her milk for Jupiter ...
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... song for , Kingdom , on virtue alone can ftand , 1718 , ode for , -to a fhip compare , Kings can do no wrong , Prior 2 : 175 Prior 2 : 175 Milt . 2 : 213 Milt . 2 : 178 Young 3 : 155 Cow . 2 : 235 Hal . 228 Pope il . 1 : 50 Butl . x ...
... song for , Kingdom , on virtue alone can ftand , 1718 , ode for , -to a fhip compare , Kings can do no wrong , Prior 2 : 175 Prior 2 : 175 Milt . 2 : 213 Milt . 2 : 178 Young 3 : 155 Cow . 2 : 235 Hal . 228 Pope il . 1 : 50 Butl . x ...
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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,