The Miscellaneous Works of Joseph Addison, Volume 1D. A. Talboys, 1840 - Medals, Ancient |
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Page 45
... Britannia's public posts retire , Nor longer , her ungrateful sons to please , For her advantage sacrifice your ease ; Me into foreign realms my fate conveys , Through nations fruitful of immortal lays , Where the soft season and ...
... Britannia's public posts retire , Nor longer , her ungrateful sons to please , For her advantage sacrifice your ease ; Me into foreign realms my fate conveys , Through nations fruitful of immortal lays , Where the soft season and ...
Page 49
... Britannia's isle adores ; How has she oft exhausted all her stores , How oft in fields of death thy presence sought , Nor thinks the mighty prize too dearly bought ! On foreign mountains may the sun refine The grape's soft juice , and ...
... Britannia's isle adores ; How has she oft exhausted all her stores , How oft in fields of death thy presence sought , Nor thinks the mighty prize too dearly bought ! On foreign mountains may the sun refine The grape's soft juice , and ...
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... Britannia's colours in the zephyrs fly ; Her chief already has his march begun , Crossing the provinces himself had won , Till the Moselle , appearing from afar , Retards the progress of the moving war . Delightful stream , had nature ...
... Britannia's colours in the zephyrs fly ; Her chief already has his march begun , Crossing the provinces himself had won , Till the Moselle , appearing from afar , Retards the progress of the moving war . Delightful stream , had nature ...
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... Britannia's arms appear , The vengeance due to their great deaths was near . Our godlike leader , ere the stream he past , The mighty scheme of all his labours cast , Forming the wond'rous year within his thought ; His bosom glow'd with ...
... Britannia's arms appear , The vengeance due to their great deaths was near . Our godlike leader , ere the stream he past , The mighty scheme of all his labours cast , Forming the wond'rous year within his thought ; His bosom glow'd with ...
Page 64
... Britannia's graceful sons appear in arms , Her harass'd troops the hero's presence warms , Whilst the high hills and rivers all around With thund'ring peals of British shouts resound : Doubling their speed they march with fresh delight ...
... Britannia's graceful sons appear in arms , Her harass'd troops the hero's presence warms , Whilst the high hills and rivers all around With thund'ring peals of British shouts resound : Doubling their speed they march with fresh delight ...
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Addison advanc'd Æneid æther amidst appear arms atque beauties bees behold blood breast bright Britannia's British Cadmus chariot charms circum cloth lettered cries CYCNUS death divine earth Edition English Ev'n ev'ry eyes Fain fate fcap fear fields fight fire fix'd flames flow'ry foolscap foolscap 8vo fury Gaul Georgic give goddess Godfrey Kneller gods grace Greek heat heaven hero Hesiod hive honour immortal J. C. LOUDON JOHN FAREY join'd Jove kindled labours Latin light limbs look lord lord Halifax maid Metamorphoses mighty moral mountains muse nature neighb'ring numbers nunc nymph o'er Ovid Ovid's Metamorphoses Pentheus Phaeton pleas'd poem poet poetry praise Quæ rage rais'd reader rise round shade shining shore sight skies sound steeds stood story streams tell thee thou thought thunder Tiresias toils tow'ring trembling turns verse view'd Virgil voice Whilst whole winds woods youth
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Page xii - He might well rejoice at the death of that which he could not have killed. Every reader of every party, since personal malice is past and the papers which once inflamed the nation are read only as effusions of wit, must wish for more of the Whig Examiners ; for on no occasion was the genius of Addison more vigorously exerted, and on none did the superiority of his powers more evidently appear.
Page 46 - For wheresoe'er I turn my ravish'd eyes, gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise, poetic fields encompass me around, and still I seem to tread on classic ground; for here the Muse so oft her harp has strung, that not a mountain rears its head unsung, renown'd in verse each shady thicket grows, and every stream in heavenly numbers flows.
Page 37 - I'll try to make their several beauties known, And show their verses worth tho' not my own. .Long had our dull forefathers slept supine, Nor felt the raptures of the tuneful Nine, Till Chaucer first, a merry bard, arose, And many a story told in rhyme and prose. But age has rusted what the poet writ, Worn out his language, and obscured his wit; In vain he jests in his unpolished strain, And tries to make his readers laugh in vain.
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| Title | The Miscellaneous Works of Joseph Addison, Volume 1 The Miscellaneous Works of Joseph Addison, Joseph Addison |
| Author | Joseph Addison |
| Publisher | D. A. Talboys, 1840 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 12 Feb 2008 |
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