The Miscellaneous Works of Joseph Addison, Volume 1D. A. Talboys, 1840 - Medals, Ancient |
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... hands , and no husband who should not present it to his wife . We cannot urge its value too strongly on all whom it concerns . " - Eclectic Review . DOMESTIC DUTIES ; or , Instructions to Young Married Ladies on the Management of their ...
... hands , and no husband who should not present it to his wife . We cannot urge its value too strongly on all whom it concerns . " - Eclectic Review . DOMESTIC DUTIES ; or , Instructions to Young Married Ladies on the Management of their ...
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... hand that first kindled the lamp of trans- mitted knowledge is too often lost in its brightening blaze , and the first impulse is for- gotten as the huge mass rolls onward in its accelerated career . 99 But We scarcely deem an apology ...
... hand that first kindled the lamp of trans- mitted knowledge is too often lost in its brightening blaze , and the first impulse is for- gotten as the huge mass rolls onward in its accelerated career . 99 But We scarcely deem an apology ...
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... hand ; Like Homer's Hector when he flung his fire Amidst a thousand ships , and made all Greece retire . But who can run the British triumphs o'er , And count the flames dispers'd on every shore ? Who can describe the scatter'd victory ...
... hand ; Like Homer's Hector when he flung his fire Amidst a thousand ships , and made all Greece retire . But who can run the British triumphs o'er , And count the flames dispers'd on every shore ? Who can describe the scatter'd victory ...
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... adorn'd the happy land , And scatter'd blessings with a wasteful hand ! But what avail her unexhausted stores , Her blooming mountains , and her sunny shores , With all the gifts that heav'n and earth impart , 48 LETTER FROM ITALY .
... adorn'd the happy land , And scatter'd blessings with a wasteful hand ! But what avail her unexhausted stores , Her blooming mountains , and her sunny shores , With all the gifts that heav'n and earth impart , 48 LETTER FROM ITALY .
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... hand , sure pledge of amity ; When , thus encourag'd , he began his tale : - I'm one , says he , of poor descent , my name Is Achæmenides , my country Greece , Ulysses ' sad compeer , who , whilst he fled The raging Cyclops , left me ...
... hand , sure pledge of amity ; When , thus encourag'd , he began his tale : - I'm one , says he , of poor descent , my name Is Achæmenides , my country Greece , Ulysses ' sad compeer , who , whilst he fled The raging Cyclops , left me ...
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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.