The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, 57. köideSamuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1780 |
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... language of , nor ftores nor granaries belong , yet with unfparing bounty fed , of paffage , of paffage flocking to St. Kilda , Thom . I : 28 Pope od . 3 : 68 Dry . 3 : 243 Dyer 130 Shen . 21 Thom . 2 : 182 Thom . 2 : 182 Thom . 1 : 134 ...
... language of , nor ftores nor granaries belong , yet with unfparing bounty fed , of paffage , of paffage flocking to St. Kilda , Thom . I : 28 Pope od . 3 : 68 Dry . 3 : 243 Dyer 130 Shen . 21 Thom . 2 : 182 Thom . 2 : 182 Thom . 1 : 134 ...
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... language of , nor ftores nor granaries belong , yet with unfparing bounty fed , of paffage , of paffage flocking to St. Kilda , Thom . I : 28 Pope od . 3 : 68 Dyer 130 Dry . 3 : 243 Shen . 21 Thom . 2 : 182 Thom . 2 : 182 Thom . 1 : 134 ...
... language of , nor ftores nor granaries belong , yet with unfparing bounty fed , of paffage , of paffage flocking to St. Kilda , Thom . I : 28 Pope od . 3 : 68 Dyer 130 Dry . 3 : 243 Shen . 21 Thom . 2 : 182 Thom . 2 : 182 Thom . 1 : 134 ...
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... language of , unmix'd , manners of , pure , Britton , lines under print of , Broghill commended , Young 3 : 226- Young 230 Fent . 203 Fent . 203 Lanf . 284 Mall . 175 Cow . 1 : 337 Tal . 401 Yal . 402 Yal . 402 Prior 2 : 262- Cow . 1 ...
... language of , unmix'd , manners of , pure , Britton , lines under print of , Broghill commended , Young 3 : 226- Young 230 Fent . 203 Fent . 203 Lanf . 284 Mall . 175 Cow . 1 : 337 Tal . 401 Yal . 402 Yal . 402 Prior 2 : 262- Cow . 1 ...
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... language of the plain , affords much food for fatire , it abounds in lords , prologue to , Courtesy oft found in lowly fheds , Courtier must be fupple , full of guile , any ape furpaffes , in malice and grimaces , · Young 3:44 A. Pbil ...
... language of the plain , affords much food for fatire , it abounds in lords , prologue to , Courtesy oft found in lowly fheds , Courtier must be fupple , full of guile , any ape furpaffes , in malice and grimaces , · Young 3:44 A. Pbil ...
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... language fweet , the robe of Justice wore , Coxcomb , made by induftry and art , Coxcombs , an ever empty race , to all but coxcombs are a jeft , Cong . I56 Den . 54 5 Hughes 237 A. Phil . 354 A. Pbil . 357 A. Phil . 357 A. Phil . 359 ...
... language fweet , the robe of Justice wore , Coxcomb , made by induftry and art , Coxcombs , an ever empty race , to all but coxcombs are a jeft , Cong . I56 Den . 54 5 Hughes 237 A. Phil . 354 A. Pbil . 357 A. Phil . 357 A. Phil . 359 ...
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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,