The Miscellaneous Works of Joseph Addison, Volume 1D. A. Talboys, 1840 - Medals, Ancient |
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... breast , and check'd his rising thought ; Pensive and sad , his drooping muse betrays The Roman genius in its last decays . Prevailing warmth has still thy mind possest , And second youth is kindled in thy breast ; Thou mak'st the ...
... breast , and check'd his rising thought ; Pensive and sad , his drooping muse betrays The Roman genius in its last decays . Prevailing warmth has still thy mind possest , And second youth is kindled in thy breast ; Thou mak'st the ...
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... breast inspire With warmth like yours , and raise an equal fire , Unnumber'd beauties in my verse should shine , And Virgil's Italy should yield to mine ! See how the golden groves around me smile , That shun the coast of Britain's ...
... breast inspire With warmth like yours , and raise an equal fire , Unnumber'd beauties in my verse should shine , And Virgil's Italy should yield to mine ! See how the golden groves around me smile , That shun the coast of Britain's ...
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... breast , and boil in every vein : Here shatter'd walls , like broken rocks , from far Rise up in hideous views , the guilt of war , Whilst here the vine o'er hills of ruin climbs , Industrious to conceal great Bourbon's crimes . At ...
... breast , and boil in every vein : Here shatter'd walls , like broken rocks , from far Rise up in hideous views , the guilt of war , Whilst here the vine o'er hills of ruin climbs , Industrious to conceal great Bourbon's crimes . At ...
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... breasts demand the strife , And thirst of glory quells the love of life . No vulgar fears can British minds control ; Heat of revenge , and noble pride of soul , O'erlook the foe , advantag'd by his post , Lessen his numbers , and ...
... breasts demand the strife , And thirst of glory quells the love of life . No vulgar fears can British minds control ; Heat of revenge , and noble pride of soul , O'erlook the foe , advantag'd by his post , Lessen his numbers , and ...
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... breast still swells with great designs , In ev'ry thought the tow'ring genius shines : If to the foe his dreadful course he bends , O'er the wide continent his march extends ; If sieges in his lab'ring thoughts are form'd , Camps are ...
... breast still swells with great designs , In ev'ry thought the tow'ring genius shines : If to the foe his dreadful course he bends , O'er the wide continent his march extends ; If sieges in his lab'ring thoughts are form'd , Camps are ...
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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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