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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300 Dodsley, Robert,

181

97

Brown, John,

Bryant, William Cullen,
Bunyan, John,
Burke, Edmund,

Burns, Robert,

221, 309 Donne, Dr. John,

130 Drake, Joseph Rodman, 270

171 Dryden, John,

259 Dyer, John,

Dyer,

248

137,309

186

226 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 285