Read full poem →The Works of ALEXANDER POPE, ESQ.; vol. i. with explanatory
Notes and Additions never before printed. London: Printed
for B. LINTOT, 1736. Small 8vo.
Dictionary Entry
The act of adding anything.
In a Sentence
“The addition of five more items to the agenda will make the meeting unbearably long.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. additionsmade additionsadditions lateradditions new
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Poetry examples for “additions”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →rletcher singly; and the third in 1649, which has both names. The third, however, seems
to be merely the second, with a new title-page, and the additions of the auxiliary title The
Bmagnf Courtier, a drama, and D' Avenant s prologue for the revival.
Read full poem →Dryden, under the title of The rrophetess; or The History of Dioclesian,
with alterations and additions, after the manner ^of an opera, represented
at the Queen's Theatre, and printed 4to. London, 1690. For the plot
Read full poem →of necessity be cut down into an after-piece, such a change
was requisite — but what apology is there for the additions
not being in the style of the old play. The patch-work is
Read full poem →My little book seems scarcely to admit of prefatory words: either it
will speak for itself, or all my additions must fail to speak for it.
Read full poem →Which doth her valiant stinking breath confound,--
Yet she with these additions is no more
Than a sweet, filthy, fine, ill-favour'd whore.
Read full poem →=ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING’S POEMS.=
With numerous Additions. Three Vols. Foolscap 8vo.
Read full poem →4. Reprinted, with large additions by John Stowe. London, 1561. Folio. (See
further below, p. 31). I possess a copy.
Read full poem →§ 8. Contents of Stowe's Edition (1561): Part I.--Reprinted
Matter. § 9. Part II.--Additions by Stowe. § 10. Part I. discussed.
§ 11. Part II. discussed. § 12. Poems added by Speght.
Read full poem →The eighteen loose sheets of additions to Canto I. consist of--