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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Barrett, Eaton Stannard, 292
Basse, William,
Baxter, Richard,
Beattie, James,
Beaumont, Francis,
Berkeley, Bishop,

Bolingbroke, Lord,

Brown, Tom,

Brown, John,

Bryant, William Cullen, 284

Bunyan, John,

Burke, Edmund,
Burns, Robert,
Butler, Samuel,

Byrom, John, .
Byron, Lord,

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Campbell, Thomas, .
Canning, George,
Carew, Thomas,

Denham, Sir John,
Doddridge, Philip,
300 Dodsley, Robert,

221, 309 Donne, Dr. John,

130 Drake, Joseph Rodman, 270

171 Dryden, John,

259 Dyer, John,

226 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 285

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101 Everett, David,

146

Rabelais, Francis,

Raleigh, Sir Walter, 93 Taylor, Henry,

Randolph, John,
Rochefoucauld, Duc de,
Rochester, Earl of,
Rogers, Samuel,
Roscommon, Earl of,
Rowe, Nicholas,

301 Tennyson, Alfred,
308 Tertullian,.

143 Theobald, Louis,
276 Thomson, James,
136 Thrale, Mrs.,

153 Tickell, Thomas,

Trumbull, John,

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