The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, 57. köideSamuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1780 |
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... Wall . Waler ; Yal . Yalden . A ABANTES , their uncommon length of hair , Popeil . 1 : 38 Abbeys put down , Asdael , character of , Audiel , zeal of , VOL . LVII . B Don . II Dry . 1 : 193 Milt . 1 : 166 Aldiel Abdiel , reception of in ...
... Wall . Waler ; Yal . Yalden . A ABANTES , their uncommon length of hair , Popeil . 1 : 38 Abbeys put down , Asdael , character of , Audiel , zeal of , VOL . LVII . B Don . II Dry . 1 : 193 Milt . 1 : 166 Aldiel Abdiel , reception of in ...
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... Wall . 44 Pope 2 : 204 Hughes 41 Hugbes 168 Hughes 169 and , fmiling , grac'd the plain , Hughes 169 Adraftus king of Argos , Pope 1 : 305 defcent of , Pope 1 : 305 Adrian to his foul , imitated , Prior 1 : 157 Adriel , character of ...
... Wall . 44 Pope 2 : 204 Hughes 41 Hugbes 168 Hughes 169 and , fmiling , grac'd the plain , Hughes 169 Adraftus king of Argos , Pope 1 : 305 defcent of , Pope 1 : 305 Adrian to his foul , imitated , Prior 1 : 157 Adriel , character of ...
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... Wall . 154 Rowe L. 73 Aken . 168 Aken . 168 Cong . 144 Young 1 : 148 faints into airs , and languishes with pride , -Pope 1 : 145 walks , for graceful cafe , Aken . 346 Affectation Affectations quite reverfe the foul , Affection is the ...
... Wall . 154 Rowe L. 73 Aken . 168 Aken . 168 Cong . 144 Young 1 : 148 faints into airs , and languishes with pride , -Pope 1 : 145 walks , for graceful cafe , Aken . 346 Affectation Affectations quite reverfe the foul , Affection is the ...
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... Wall . 60 , 63 Cong . Io2 carelefs with artful care , ( ng , 152 Amorous old man , Mall 180 teazing ghoft of the departed man , Mall . 180 Amphiaraus , fkill'd in fate , and dark futurity , - immortal name ! Pope 1 : 306 Pope od . 4 ...
... Wall . 60 , 63 Cong . Io2 carelefs with artful care , ( ng , 152 Amorous old man , Mall 180 teazing ghoft of the departed man , Mall . 180 Amphiaraus , fkill'd in fate , and dark futurity , - immortal name ! Pope 1 : 306 Pope od . 4 ...
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... Wall . 60 , 63 Cang . Io2 Cang , 152 Mall 180 teazing ghoft of the departed man , Mall . 180 Amphiaraus , skill'd in fate , and dark futurity , Pope 1 : 306 immortal name ! Pope od . 4 : 55 Amphimachus and Nauftes the Carians guide ...
... Wall . 60 , 63 Cang . Io2 Cang , 152 Mall 180 teazing ghoft of the departed man , Mall . 180 Amphiaraus , skill'd in fate , and dark futurity , Pope 1 : 306 immortal name ! Pope od . 4 : 55 Amphimachus and Nauftes the Carians guide ...
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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,