The Miscellaneous Works of Joseph Addison, Volume 1D. A. Talboys, 1840 - Medals, Ancient |
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... blood , With eager warmth they fight , ambitious all Who first shall storm the breach , or mount the wall . In vain the thronging enemy by force Would clear the ramparts , and repel their course ; They break through all , for William ...
... blood , With eager warmth they fight , ambitious all Who first shall storm the breach , or mount the wall . In vain the thronging enemy by force Would clear the ramparts , and repel their course ; They break through all , for William ...
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... blood , and smear'd with dust and sweat , Whilst angry gods conspire to make him great . Thy navy rides on seas before unprest , And strikes a terror through the haughty east ; Algiers and Tunis from their sultry shore , With horror ...
... blood , and smear'd with dust and sweat , Whilst angry gods conspire to make him great . Thy navy rides on seas before unprest , And strikes a terror through the haughty east ; Algiers and Tunis from their sultry shore , With horror ...
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... blood , On every guilty plain , and purple flood , Thy arms have made , and cease an impious war , Nor waste the lives intrusted to thy care . Or if no milder thought can calm thy mind , Eehold the great avenger of mankind , See mighty ...
... blood , On every guilty plain , and purple flood , Thy arms have made , and cease an impious war , Nor waste the lives intrusted to thy care . Or if no milder thought can calm thy mind , Eehold the great avenger of mankind , See mighty ...
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... blood : When such , detain'd at home , support our state In William's stead , and bear a kingdom's weight , The schemes of Gallic policy o'erthrow , And blast the counsels of the common foe ; Direct our armies , and distribute right ...
... blood : When such , detain'd at home , support our state In William's stead , and bear a kingdom's weight , The schemes of Gallic policy o'erthrow , And blast the counsels of the common foe ; Direct our armies , and distribute right ...
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... declare , That spread th ' Arcadian shepherd's name so far . How bees from blood of slaughter'd bulls have fled , And swarms amidst the red corruption bred . For where th ' Egyptians yearly see their bounds Refresh'd 30 A TRANSLATION OF.
... declare , That spread th ' Arcadian shepherd's name so far . How bees from blood of slaughter'd bulls have fled , And swarms amidst the red corruption bred . For where th ' Egyptians yearly see their bounds Refresh'd 30 A TRANSLATION OF.
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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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