The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, 57. köideSamuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1780 |
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... Young 3 : 2 Dry . 2 : 146 Den . 135 Den . 142 Milt . 2 : 103 Den . 113 - impairs ftrength , understanding , weakens fenfe of pleasure , the glory of , to wish to die , Age , life's winter , --- 11- alas ! who must not yield to ...
... Young 3 : 2 Dry . 2 : 146 Den . 135 Den . 142 Milt . 2 : 103 Den . 113 - impairs ftrength , understanding , weakens fenfe of pleasure , the glory of , to wish to die , Age , life's winter , --- 11- alas ! who must not yield to ...
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... Young 3 : 231 Raphael's defign how mean compared , and Titian's colouring , Almighty power ! our guide in counsel , and our ftrength in fight , Young 3 : 231 at nature's helm on high , Yung 3 : 231 ' tis thine from death to free , Young ...
... Young 3 : 231 Raphael's defign how mean compared , and Titian's colouring , Almighty power ! our guide in counsel , and our ftrength in fight , Young 3 : 231 at nature's helm on high , Yung 3 : 231 ' tis thine from death to free , Young ...
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... Young 1 : 74 Buck . 89 King 214 A. Phil . 358 curs'd , awakes the world to war and ruin , Cong . 61 fhall the guilty ... Young 2 : 122 Young 2 : 122 Gay 2 : 44 Add . 251 Hugbes 50 Pope od . 3 : 119 Sav . 107 Sav . 107 Gay 2 : 186 found ...
... Young 1 : 74 Buck . 89 King 214 A. Phil . 358 curs'd , awakes the world to war and ruin , Cong . 61 fhall the guilty ... Young 2 : 122 Young 2 : 122 Gay 2 : 44 Add . 251 Hugbes 50 Pope od . 3 : 119 Sav . 107 Sav . 107 Gay 2 : 186 found ...
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... Young 2 : 64 Young I : 103 Young 2 : 96 A. 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 ...
... Young 2 : 64 Young I : 103 Young 2 : 96 A. 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 ...
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... Young 3 : 92 Parn . 105 Butl . 2 : Io7 Young 3 : 15 Sav . 60 Pope il . 2 : 280 Gay 2 : 93 never pleads in vain , Pope od . 3 : 204 Afflictions , foul to be great in , Yal . 352 throw out virtues into practice , Add . 284 mercies in ...
... Young 3 : 92 Parn . 105 Butl . 2 : Io7 Young 3 : 15 Sav . 60 Pope il . 2 : 280 Gay 2 : 93 never pleads in vain , Pope od . 3 : 204 Afflictions , foul to be great in , Yal . 352 throw out virtues into practice , Add . 284 mercies in ...
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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,