The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, 57. köideSamuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1780 |
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... eternal mind , condemned for irreligion , Cow . I : 352 Black . 6 Black 6 Ancestors ' difgrace , with virtuous acts efface , Pope 1 : 323 Dry . 5 : 382 Dry , 6 : 145 Dry . 147 Dry . 6:33 Pitt 351 Anchifes prefages Iulus ' greatnefs ...
... eternal mind , condemned for irreligion , Cow . I : 352 Black . 6 Black 6 Ancestors ' difgrace , with virtuous acts efface , Pope 1 : 323 Dry . 5 : 382 Dry , 6 : 145 Dry . 147 Dry . 6:33 Pitt 351 Anchifes prefages Iulus ' greatnefs ...
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... eternal youth , fong of , proclaim Chrift's birth , we rife , who mortals dy'd , fall of , food of , bad , their number , erazed from book of life , Anger transforms manhood to beaft , pain of , punishes the fault , how expreffed ...
... eternal youth , fong of , proclaim Chrift's birth , we rife , who mortals dy'd , fall of , food of , bad , their number , erazed from book of life , Anger transforms manhood to beaft , pain of , punishes the fault , how expreffed ...
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... - fhooting king , Tick . 181 making love , Tick . 146 god of fweet fong and inspirer of lays , Tick . 146 eternal charms his youthful cheeks diffufe , Pit 201 Apollo , Apollo , his treffes dropping with ambrofial dews , pale 26 INDE X.
... - fhooting king , Tick . 181 making love , Tick . 146 god of fweet fong and inspirer of lays , Tick . 146 eternal charms his youthful cheeks diffufe , Pit 201 Apollo , Apollo , his treffes dropping with ambrofial dews , pale 26 INDE X.
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... 2 : 196 - which the father of the fire bestow'd , forg'd on th ' eternal anvil of the gods , my new - modelled , 2 Pope il . 2 : 208 Pope il . 2 : 208 Bull.r : zo8 Arno , Amo , the river , which runs by Florence , 30 INDE X.
... 2 : 196 - which the father of the fire bestow'd , forg'd on th ' eternal anvil of the gods , my new - modelled , 2 Pope il . 2 : 208 Pope il . 2 : 208 Bull.r : zo8 Arno , Amo , the river , which runs by Florence , 30 INDE X.
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... eternal blaft ! ' terror of Armadas ! Young 1 : 2534 Young 1 : 253 Young 1 : 253 cut from the Continent , that world of flaves , ib . 253 . dedicated long to liberty , Young 1 : 253 , her foe most fatal , Vice , Young 1 : 253- care to ...
... eternal blaft ! ' terror of Armadas ! Young 1 : 2534 Young 1 : 253 Young 1 : 253 cut from the Continent , that world of flaves , ib . 253 . dedicated long to liberty , Young 1 : 253 , her foe most fatal , Vice , Young 1 : 253- care to ...
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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,