The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumen 57Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1780 |
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Página 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
Página 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
Página 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
Página 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
Página 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:
Página vii - it may therefore lead the fentence, according to the general rule of index-making; namely, that a
Página viii - not to make a verb the leading word ; or even an adverb, if ufed emphatically ; for
Página vii - but which it neceflarily implies, it is in all languages, both learned and unlearned, taken
Página vii - not to make them the leading words : Dryden, for inftance, to mention no other, fays,
Página 254 - Ichor, blood of gods, Ida, fount-full hill, fair nurfe of fountains and of game,