PREFACE.

The object of this work is to show, to some extent, the obligations our language owes to various authors for numerous phrases and familiar quotations which have become “household words," and " to restore to the temples of poetry the many beautiful fragments which have been stolen from them, and built into the heavy walls of prose."

The present edition has been revised, and enlarged by the addition of sixty-three pages. CAMBRIDGE, January, 1856.

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INDEX OF AUTHORS.

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Addison, Joseph, 149 Carey, Henry,

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Akenside, Mark, 199 Cervantes, Miguel de, 294
Aldrich, James,
283. Charles II.,

308
Austin, Mrs. Sarah, .291 Churchill, Charles, 209

Cibber, Colley,

148
Bacon, Francis,
296 Coke, Lord,

307
Bailey, Philip James, 282 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 241
Barbauld, Mrs.,
217 Collins, William,

198
Barnfield, Richard, 94 Colman, George,

225
Barrett, Eaton Stannard, 292 Common Prayer,

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Basse, William,

109 Congreve, William, 152
Baxter, Richard, 136 Cotton, Nathaniel, 199
Beattie, James,

208 | Cowley, Abraham, 106
Beaumont, Francis, 100 | Cowper, William, 210
Berkeley, Bishop, 172 Crabbe, George,

220
Blair, Robert,

173 Cranch, Christopher P., 291
Bolingbroke, Lord, 297 Crashaw, Richard, 106
Booth, Barton,

209
Brown, Tom,
145 Defoe, Daniel,

146
Brown, John,
191 Dekker, Thomas,

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Bryant, William Cullen, 284 Denham, Sir John, 107
Bunyan, John,

143 Doddridge, Philip, 186
Burke, Edmund, 300 Dodsley, Robert,

181
Burns, Robert, 221, 309 Donne, Dr. John,

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Butler, Samuel, 130 Drake, Joseph Rodman, 270
Byrom, John,

171 | Dryden, John, . 137, 309
Byron, Lord,
259 Dyer, John,

186
Dyer,

305
Campbell, Thomas, 248
Canning, George, 226 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 285
Carew, Thomas,
101 | Everett, David,

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Franklin, Benjamin, 298 | L'Estrange, Roger, 129
Fletcher, Andrew, 297 Longfellow, Henry Wads-
Fouche, Joseph,
309 worth,

287 Fuller, Thomas, 296 Lowell, James Russell,. 290

Lovelace, Richard, 105 Garrick, David, 193 Lyttleton, Lord, . 191 Garth, Samuel,

305 Lytton, Edward Bulwer, 281 Gay, John,

170 Goldsmith, Oliver, 200 Macaulay, Thomas BabGrafton, Richard, 303 ington,

302 Gray, Thomas,

194 Mackintosh, Sir James, 301 Green, Matthew, 172 Marlowe, Christopher, 93 Greene, Albert G., • 291 Mickle, William Julius, 216 Greville, Fulke (Lord Milnes, Richard MonckBrooke), 93

278 Milton, John,

110 Halleck, Fitz-Greene, 286 Miscellaneous,

303 Heber, Reginald, 257 Montague, Lady Mary Herbert, George,

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Wortley,

171
Herrick, Robert, 103 Montrose, Marquis of, 109
Hervey, Thomas K., 283 Moore, Edward, . 192
Hill, Aaron,
182 Moore, Thomas,

255 Hobbes, Thomas, 295 | More, Hannah,

217 Holy Scriptures, 1 Morris, Charles,

218 Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 289 Morton, Thomas, 226 Home, John, 200 Moss, Thomas,

225 Hood, Thomas,

273 Hopkinson, Joseph, . 227 New Testament, .

14 Norris, John,

144 Irving, Washington, 309

Otway, Thomas,

144 Johnson, Samuel, 187 Jones, Sir William, 217 Paine, Thomas,

301 Jonson, Ben,

98 Palafox, Don Joseph, 302
Parker, Martyn,

305 Keats, John,

271 Parnell, Thomas, 169 Key, F. S.,

291 Payne, J. Howard, 307 Kempis, Thomas à, 293 Percy, Thomas,

207 King, William, 209 Philips, John,

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Pinckney, Charles CotesLamb, Charles, 248 worth,

306 Langhorne, John, 216 | Pollok, Robert,

273 Lee, Nathaniel, 145 Pope, Alexander, 154 Lee, Henry,

306 Porteus, Beilby, . 208

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Prior, Matthew,

147 | Sterne, Laurence, 299 Proctor, Bryan Walter, 278 Still, Bishop (John) 305

Suckling, Sir John, 103 Quarles, Francis, 101 Swift, Jonathan,

152 Sylvester, Joshua,

94 Rabelais, Francis, 293 Raleigh, Sir Walter, 93 Taylor, Henry,

282 Randolph, John, 301 Tennyson, Alfred, 279 Rochefoucauld, Duc de, 308 Tertullian,'.

306 Rochester, Earl of, 143 Theobald, Louis,

146 Rogers, Samuel 276 Thomson, James,

183 Roscommon, Earl of, 136 Thrale, Mrs.,

209 Rowe, Nicholas, 153 Tickell, Thomas,

169 Trumbull, John,

219 Savage, Richard, 181 Tuke, Sir Samuel, 182 Scott, Sir Walter, 251 Tusser, Thomas,

92 Sewall, Jonathan M., 258 Sewell, Dr. George, 172 Uhland, John Louis, 291 Shakespeare, William, 26, 310 Sheffield, Duke of Buck- Vaughan, Henry, 136 inghamshire,

144 Shenstone, William, 193 Wolcot, John, (Peter Sheridan, Richard Brins- Pindar,).

216 ley,

219 Waller, Edmund, 108 Shirley, James,

105 Warburton, Thomas, 307 Sidney, Sir Philip, 295 Watts, Isaac,

180 Smollett, Tobias, 206 Wither, George,

100 Southern, Thomas, 146 Wolfe, Charles,

272 Southey, Robert, 247 Woodworth, Samuel,

259 Spencer, William R., 241 Wordsworth, Williain,. 227 Spenser, Edmund, 95 Wotton, Sir Henry, Sprague, Charles, 286 Steers, Miss Fanny, 292 Young, Edward, 174

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