FOR C. BATHURST, J. BUCKLAND, W.STRAHAN, J. RIVING-
TON AND SONS, T.DAVIES, T. PAYNE, L. DAVIS, W. OWEN,
B. WHITE, S. CROWDER, T. CASLON, T. LONGMAN,
B. LAW, E. AND C. DILLY, J. DODSLEY, J. WILKIE,
J. ROBSON, J. JOHNSON, T. LOWNDES, T. BECKET,
G. ROBINSON, T. CADELL, J. NICHOLS, F. NEW-
BERY, T. EVANS, J. RIDLEV, R. BALDWIN,
G. NICOL, LEIGH AND SOTHEBY, J. BEW
N.CONANT, J. MURRAY, W. FOX, J. BOWEN.

MDCCLXXX.

ADVERTISEMENT.

THE

HE following Index is a fynoptical view of the English Poets in these 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 descriptions of places and countries, and in accounts of remarkable events, either in the natural or political world, and of the ancient customs or antiquities; in critical obfervations on poets and poetry, by Dryden, Addifon, Pope, &c. with strong remonstrances against the vile prostitution of the gift of heaen to impure and immoral purposes:

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of always making a fubftantive to lead
the fentence, be made an invariable and
univerfal rule, it will neceffarily ex-
clude, from a place in an index, very
many important fentences, which are
without a fubftantive. Dryden again
fays, write well, or not at all: I there-
fore fcrupled not to make a verb the
leading word; or even an adverb, if
ufed emphatically; for inftance, greatly
wife to talk with our paft hours, Young.
I endeavoured all along, in the arrange-
ment, to form fome connection between
the articles under the fame alphabetical
head, unless where they happen to be
contradictory, and which the order of
the alphabet, and not their connection,
brought together.

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