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... Fain from the neighb'ring dangers would they run , And wish themselves still nearer to the sun . The Gallic ships are in their ports confin'd , Denied the common use of sea and wind , Nor dare again the British strength engage ; Still ...
... Fain from the neighb'ring dangers would they run , And wish themselves still nearer to the sun . The Gallic ships are in their ports confin'd , Denied the common use of sea and wind , Nor dare again the British strength engage ; Still ...
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... Fain would the pious prince refuse th ' alarm , Fain would he check the fury of his arm ; But when thy cruelties his thoughts engage , The hero kindles with becoming rage , Then countries stol'n , and captives unrestor'd , Give strength ...
... Fain would the pious prince refuse th ' alarm , Fain would he check the fury of his arm ; But when thy cruelties his thoughts engage , The hero kindles with becoming rage , Then countries stol'n , and captives unrestor'd , Give strength ...
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... Ormond's god - like acts refuse , Ormond the theme of every Oxford muse ? Fain would I here his mighty worth proclaim , Attend him in the noble chase of fame , Through all the noise and hurry of the fight , 14 TO THE KING .
... Ormond's god - like acts refuse , Ormond the theme of every Oxford muse ? Fain would I here his mighty worth proclaim , Attend him in the noble chase of fame , Through all the noise and hurry of the fight , 14 TO THE KING .
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... whose fancy's unexhausted store Has given already much , and promis'd more . Congreve shall still preserve thy fame alive , And Dryden's muse shall in his friend survive . } I'm tir'd with rhyming , and would fain give 40 ACCOUNT OF THE.
... whose fancy's unexhausted store Has given already much , and promis'd more . Congreve shall still preserve thy fame alive , And Dryden's muse shall in his friend survive . } I'm tir'd with rhyming , and would fain give 40 ACCOUNT OF THE.
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Joseph Addison. } I'm tir'd with rhyming , and would fain give o'er , But justice still demands one labour more : The noble Montague remains unnam'd , For wit , for humour , and for judgment fam'd ; To Dorset he directs his artful muse ...
Joseph Addison. } I'm tir'd with rhyming , and would fain give o'er , But justice still demands one labour more : The noble Montague remains unnam'd , For wit , for humour , and for judgment fam'd ; To Dorset he directs his artful muse ...
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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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