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... join'd , Heaven dares entrust the cause of humankind . Britannia's graceful sons appear in arms , Her harass'd troops the hero's presence warms , Whilst the high hills and rivers all around With thund'ring peals of British shouts ...
... join'd , Heaven dares entrust the cause of humankind . Britannia's graceful sons appear in arms , Her harass'd troops the hero's presence warms , Whilst the high hills and rivers all around With thund'ring peals of British shouts ...
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... join'd , Temp'ring each other in the victor's mind , Alternately proclaim him good and great , And make the hero and the man complete . Long did he strive th ' obdurate foe to gain By proffer'd grace , but long he strove in vain ; Till ...
... join'd , Temp'ring each other in the victor's mind , Alternately proclaim him good and great , And make the hero and the man complete . Long did he strive th ' obdurate foe to gain By proffer'd grace , but long he strove in vain ; Till ...
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... join'd ! Methinks I hear the drum's tumultuous sound , The victor's shouts and dying groans confound , The dreadful burst of cannon rend the skies , And all the thunder of the battle rise . ' Twas then great Marlbro's mighty soul was ...
... join'd ! Methinks I hear the drum's tumultuous sound , The victor's shouts and dying groans confound , The dreadful burst of cannon rend the skies , And all the thunder of the battle rise . ' Twas then great Marlbro's mighty soul was ...
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... join'd : Where sounding strings and artful voices fail , The charming rod and mutter'd spells prevail . Let sage Urganda wave the circling wand On barren mountains , or a waste of sand , The desert smiles ; the woods begin to grow , The ...
... join'd : Where sounding strings and artful voices fail , The charming rod and mutter'd spells prevail . Let sage Urganda wave the circling wand On barren mountains , or a waste of sand , The desert smiles ; the woods begin to grow , The ...
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... join'd , And now renounc'd his office to mankind . " E'er since the birth of time , " said he , " I've borne “ A long ungrateful toil without return ; " Let now some other manage , if he dare , " The fi'ry steeds , and mount the burning ...
... join'd , And now renounc'd his office to mankind . " E'er since the birth of time , " said he , " I've borne “ A long ungrateful toil without return ; " Let now some other manage , if he dare , " The fi'ry steeds , and mount the burning ...
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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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