The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, 57. köideSamuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1780 |
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... Pitt 311 Pitt 31 brings the Dardans , delivered by Venus , Pope il . 1 : 100 Pope il . 1 : 164 - wound of , cured , warned by Hector to escape , carries off his father , Pope il . 1 : 169 Dry . 5 : 363 Dry . 5 : 383 leads Afcanius in ...
... Pitt 311 Pitt 31 brings the Dardans , delivered by Venus , Pope il . 1 : 100 Pope il . 1 : 164 - wound of , cured , warned by Hector to escape , carries off his father , Pope il . 1 : 169 Dry . 5 : 363 Dry . 5 : 383 leads Afcanius in ...
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... 141 Dry . 5 : 228 Prior 2 : 93 Pitt 272 Dry . 5 : 312 Pope od . 3 : 251 Aneis of Virgil , Eolia , a oating ifle , there fons their fifters wed , Fope od . 3 : 251 Alexander , feast of , feaft of , Alexandria fired Eolia , TO INDE X.
... 141 Dry . 5 : 228 Prior 2 : 93 Pitt 272 Dry . 5 : 312 Pope od . 3 : 251 Aneis of Virgil , Eolia , a oating ifle , there fons their fifters wed , Fope od . 3 : 251 Alexander , feast of , feaft of , Alexandria fired Eolia , TO INDE X.
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... Pitt 275 Pitt 275 gives profperous winds , Pope od . 3 : 251 binds the adverse in bags , Pope od . 3 : 251 tyrant of the wind , Pope od . 3 : 251 Thom . 1 : 212 Thom . 2 : 192 harp of , -'s harp , ode on , Flacus turned to a cormorant ...
... Pitt 275 Pitt 275 gives profperous winds , Pope od . 3 : 251 binds the adverse in bags , Pope od . 3 : 251 tyrant of the wind , Pope od . 3 : 251 Thom . 1 : 212 Thom . 2 : 192 harp of , -'s harp , ode on , Flacus turned to a cormorant ...
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... Pitt 371 Pope 1 : 7 Pitt 30 % read and meditate , Pilt 368 their beft expreffions claim our care , Pitt 399 our ftyle beft form'd on them , Pitt 369 Ancilia , origin of , Rowe L. 397 Andromache , ftory of , Dry , 6 : 16 lamentation over ...
... Pitt 371 Pope 1 : 7 Pitt 30 % read and meditate , Pilt 368 their beft expreffions claim our care , Pitt 399 our ftyle beft form'd on them , Pitt 369 Ancilia , origin of , Rowe L. 397 Andromache , ftory of , Dry , 6 : 16 lamentation over ...
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... Pitt . 373 Công . I53 what , Antonius , spite of his age and eloquence , bled , Antony , to keep the fair , gave the world , Anubis , dog , flatterer for his food , Anxious jealoufy's corroding fmart , Weft 117 Rowe L. 88 Prior 2 : 48 ...
... Pitt . 373 Công . I53 what , Antonius , spite of his age and eloquence , bled , Antony , to keep the fair , gave the world , Anubis , dog , flatterer for his food , Anxious jealoufy's corroding fmart , Weft 117 Rowe L. 88 Prior 2 : 48 ...
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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,