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Page ii
... WHOEVER WISHES TO ATTAIN AN ENGLISH STYLE , FAMILIAR BUT NOT COARSE , AND ELEGANT BUT NOT OSTENTATIOUS , MUST GIVE HIS DAYS AND NIGHTS TO THE VOLUMES OF ADDISON . DR . JOHNSON . THE MISCELLANEOUS WORKS OF JOSEPH ADDISON . IN FOUR VOLUMES.
... WHOEVER WISHES TO ATTAIN AN ENGLISH STYLE , FAMILIAR BUT NOT COARSE , AND ELEGANT BUT NOT OSTENTATIOUS , MUST GIVE HIS DAYS AND NIGHTS TO THE VOLUMES OF ADDISON . DR . JOHNSON . THE MISCELLANEOUS WORKS OF JOSEPH ADDISON . IN FOUR VOLUMES.
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... give an enlarged account of his birth , education , and progress , from boyhood to maturity , is now an unnecessary task , were the limits of this Notice ample enough to receive the copious and instructive detail . We choose rather to ...
... give an enlarged account of his birth , education , and progress , from boyhood to maturity , is now an unnecessary task , were the limits of this Notice ample enough to receive the copious and instructive detail . We choose rather to ...
Page x
... give those rules of correcter taste by which the licentious poetry , still prevalent in his day , was finally rejected , and the morals of the people thereby improved . The pure and enlightened are never slaves , and his political worth ...
... give those rules of correcter taste by which the licentious poetry , still prevalent in his day , was finally rejected , and the morals of the people thereby improved . The pure and enlightened are never slaves , and his political worth ...
Page xii
... give too some papers in the Lover , the Discourse on Ancient and Modern learning , and , though it relates exclusively to a particular occasion , the late Trial and Conviction of Count Tariff , being fully persuaded ourselves that it ...
... give too some papers in the Lover , the Discourse on Ancient and Modern learning , and , though it relates exclusively to a particular occasion , the late Trial and Conviction of Count Tariff , being fully persuaded ourselves that it ...
Page xiv
... gives the evidences of that faith which enabled him in calm tranquillity to await the awful hour of dissolution . His life was passed in the energies of active benevolence , and his Discourse of the Christian Religion stamps with his ...
... gives the evidences of that faith which enabled him in calm tranquillity to await the awful hour of dissolution . His life was passed in the energies of active benevolence , and his Discourse of the Christian Religion stamps with his ...
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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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