The Miscellaneous Works of Joseph Addison, Volume 1D. A. Talboys, 1840 - Medals, Ancient |
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... rest have been re - drawn , and re - engraved ) , and several new Woodcuts , price 31s . 6d . cloth . 3d A POPULAR LAW DICTIONARY ; Familiarly Explaining the Terms and Nature of English Law ; adapted to the compre- hension of persons ...
... rest have been re - drawn , and re - engraved ) , and several new Woodcuts , price 31s . 6d . cloth . 3d A POPULAR LAW DICTIONARY ; Familiarly Explaining the Terms and Nature of English Law ; adapted to the compre- hension of persons ...
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... rest . In pursuance of our prescribed plan we must also exclude the Freeholder , but present our readers with some papers of the Whig Examiner , of which John- son , all prejudiced as he was against Addison's politics , confesses that ...
... rest . In pursuance of our prescribed plan we must also exclude the Freeholder , but present our readers with some papers of the Whig Examiner , of which John- son , all prejudiced as he was against Addison's politics , confesses that ...
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... rest of his trees , Chide the late spring , and ling'ring western breeze : His bees first swarm'd , and made his vessels foam With the rich squeezing of the juicy comb . Here lindens and the sappy pine increas'd ; Here , when gay flow ...
... rest of his trees , Chide the late spring , and ling'ring western breeze : His bees first swarm'd , and made his vessels foam With the rich squeezing of the juicy comb . Here lindens and the sappy pine increas'd ; Here , when gay flow ...
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... rest , The morning still renews their labours past ; Then all rush out , their diff'rent tasks pursue , Sit on the bloom , and suck the rip'ning dew ; Again when evening warns them to their home , With weary wings and heavy thighs they ...
... rest , The morning still renews their labours past ; Then all rush out , their diff'rent tasks pursue , Sit on the bloom , and suck the rip'ning dew ; Again when evening warns them to their home , With weary wings and heavy thighs they ...
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... rest , Attend , harmonious saint , and see , Thy vocal sons of harmony ; Attend , harmonious saint , and hear our pray'rs ; Enliven all our earthly airs , And , as thou sing'st thy God , teach us to sing of thee : Tune every string and ...
... rest , Attend , harmonious saint , and see , Thy vocal sons of harmony ; Attend , harmonious saint , and hear our pray'rs ; Enliven all our earthly airs , And , as thou sing'st thy God , teach us to sing of thee : Tune every string and ...
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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.