The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, 57. köideSamuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1780 |
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... turn ; in characters of cele- brated perfons , both ancient and mo- dern ; in descriptions of places and coun- tries , and in accounts of remarkable events , either in the natural or political world , and of the ancient customs or an ...
... turn ; in characters of cele- brated perfons , both ancient and mo- dern ; in descriptions of places and coun- tries , and in accounts of remarkable events , either in the natural or political world , and of the ancient customs or an ...
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... turns upon them : I therefore fcruple not to make them the leading words : Dryden , for inftance , to men- tion no other , fays , lively faith bears aloft the mind : if the above rule , namely that VOL . LVII . a 4 of of always making a ...
... turns upon them : I therefore fcruple not to make them the leading words : Dryden , for inftance , to men- tion no other , fays , lively faith bears aloft the mind : if the above rule , namely that VOL . LVII . a 4 of of always making a ...
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... turn from ill , a frail and feeble heart , a candid cenfor and a friend fevere , verfes to , Ardenna's groves fhall boast , letter on his death , B Pope 2 : 225 Pope 2 : 225 Tick . 187 Tick . 188 Tick . 189 Tick . 190 Sam . 174 Som ...
... turn from ill , a frail and feeble heart , a candid cenfor and a friend fevere , verfes to , Ardenna's groves fhall boast , letter on his death , B Pope 2 : 225 Pope 2 : 225 Tick . 187 Tick . 188 Tick . 189 Tick . 190 Sam . 174 Som ...
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... turns on all hands its difcerning eyes , fmooths our path to prudence , is ready to furmife , --- on the verge of , fit to counfel or command , Pope il . 1 : 110 Young 3 : 45 Pope ed . 4 : 63 Pope od . 4 : 59 Rowe L. 110 Age 9 1 Age is ...
... turns on all hands its difcerning eyes , fmooths our path to prudence , is ready to furmife , --- on the verge of , fit to counfel or command , Pope il . 1 : 110 Young 3 : 45 Pope ed . 4 : 63 Pope od . 4 : 59 Rowe L. 110 Age 9 1 Age is ...
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... turn children , mendicant in tattered weeds , Dry . 7 : 119 Cow . 1 : 143 Cow . I : ISI Den . 112 Collins 275 Cow . 2 : 371 Pope od . 4 : 80 Agenor makes a ftand against Achilles , Pope il . 2 : 258 refcued by Apollo , Pope il . 2 : 258 ...
... turn children , mendicant in tattered weeds , Dry . 7 : 119 Cow . 1 : 143 Cow . I : ISI Den . 112 Collins 275 Cow . 2 : 371 Pope od . 4 : 80 Agenor makes a ftand against Achilles , Pope il . 2 : 258 refcued by Apollo , Pope il . 2 : 258 ...
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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,