The Miscellaneous Works of Joseph Addison, Volume 1D. A. Talboys, 1840 - Medals, Ancient |
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... ev'ry flow'r , and lightly skim The crystal brook , and sip the running stream : And thus they feed their young with strange delight , And knead the yielding wax , and work the slimy sweet . But when on high you see the bees repair ...
... ev'ry flow'r , and lightly skim The crystal brook , and sip the running stream : And thus they feed their young with strange delight , And knead the yielding wax , and work the slimy sweet . But when on high you see the bees repair ...
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... ev'ry bud , and suck each blossom dry ; Whilst others , labʼring in their cells at home , Temper Narcissus ' clammy tears with gum , For the first ground - work of the golden comb ; - On this they found their waxen works , and raise The ...
... ev'ry bud , and suck each blossom dry ; Whilst others , labʼring in their cells at home , Temper Narcissus ' clammy tears with gum , For the first ground - work of the golden comb ; - On this they found their waxen works , and raise The ...
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... ev'ry part , And shape the waxen fretwork out with art : The young at night , returning from their toils , Bring home their thighs clogg'd with the meadows ' spoils . On lavender and saffron buds they feed , On bending osiers , and the ...
... ev'ry part , And shape the waxen fretwork out with art : The young at night , returning from their toils , Bring home their thighs clogg'd with the meadows ' spoils . On lavender and saffron buds they feed , On bending osiers , and the ...
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... ev'ry blast , They carry stones to poise them in their flight , As ballast keeps th ' unsteady vessel right . But of all customs that the bees can boast , " Tis this may challenge admiration most ; That none will Hymen's softer joys ...
... ev'ry blast , They carry stones to poise them in their flight , As ballast keeps th ' unsteady vessel right . But of all customs that the bees can boast , " Tis this may challenge admiration most ; That none will Hymen's softer joys ...
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... ev'ry verse , array'd in majesty , Bold , and sublime , my whole attention draws , And seems above the critic's nicer laws . How are you struck with terror and delight , When 38 ACCOUNT OF THE.
... ev'ry verse , array'd in majesty , Bold , and sublime , my whole attention draws , And seems above the critic's nicer laws . How are you struck with terror and delight , When 38 ACCOUNT OF THE.
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Addison 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'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 Greek Language 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.