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Page xi
To effect a change in the manners and taste of a nation was indeed a mighty work , and can only be overlooked amidst the results that have proceeded directly and progressively from it . 66 Imagination , " it has been truly observed ...
To effect a change in the manners and taste of a nation was indeed a mighty work , and can only be overlooked amidst the results that have proceeded directly and progressively from it . 66 Imagination , " it has been truly observed ...
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But still the god - like man , by some hard fate , Receives the glory of his toils too late ; Too late the verse the mighty act succeeds , One age the hero , one the poet breeds . A thousand years in full succession ran , Ere Virgil ...
But still the god - like man , by some hard fate , Receives the glory of his toils too late ; Too late the verse the mighty act succeeds , One age the hero , one the poet breeds . A thousand years in full succession ran , Ere Virgil ...
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Or if no milder thought can calm thy mind , Eehold the great avenger of mankind , See mighty Nassau through the battle ride , And see thy subjects gasping by his side : Fain would the pious prince refuse th ' alarm , Fain would he check ...
Or if no milder thought can calm thy mind , Eehold the great avenger of mankind , See mighty Nassau through the battle ride , And see thy subjects gasping by his side : Fain would the pious prince refuse th ' alarm , Fain would he check ...
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Who can describe the scatter'd victory , And draw the reader on from sea to sea ? Else who could Ormond's god - like acts refuse , Ormond the theme of every Oxford muse ? Fain would I here his mighty worth proclaim , Attend him in the ...
Who can describe the scatter'd victory , And draw the reader on from sea to sea ? Else who could Ormond's god - like acts refuse , Ormond the theme of every Oxford muse ? Fain would I here his mighty worth proclaim , Attend him in the ...
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But see , at length , the British ships appear ! Our Nassau comes ! and as his fleet draws near , The rising masts advance , the sails grow white , And all his pompous navy floats in sight . Come , mighty prince , desir'd of Britain ...
But see , at length , the British ships appear ! Our Nassau comes ! and as his fleet draws near , The rising masts advance , the sails grow white , And all his pompous navy floats in sight . Come , mighty prince , desir'd of Britain ...
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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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