The Miscellaneous Works of Joseph Addison, Volume 1D. A. Talboys, 1840 - Medals, Ancient |
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... shade the streams below ; That when the youth , led by their princes , shun The crowded hive , and sport it in the sun , Refreshing springs may tempt them from the heat , And shady coverts yield a cool retreat . Whether the neighb'ring ...
... shade the streams below ; That when the youth , led by their princes , shun The crowded hive , and sport it in the sun , Refreshing springs may tempt them from the heat , And shady coverts yield a cool retreat . Whether the neighb'ring ...
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... his elms and knotty pear trees bloom , And thorns ennobled now to bear a plum , And spreading plane trees , where supinely laid He now enjoys the cool , and quaffs beneath the shade . D L But these , for want of room , 24 A TRANSLATION OF.
... his elms and knotty pear trees bloom , And thorns ennobled now to bear a plum , And spreading plane trees , where supinely laid He now enjoys the cool , and quaffs beneath the shade . D L But these , for want of room , 24 A TRANSLATION OF.
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... shade the turf below : The plant in holy garlands often twines The altars ' posts , and beautifies the shrines ; Its taste is sharp , in vales new - shorn it grows , Where Mella's stream in wat'ry mazes flows . Take plenty of its roots ...
... shade the turf below : The plant in holy garlands often twines The altars ' posts , and beautifies the shrines ; Its taste is sharp , in vales new - shorn it grows , Where Mella's stream in wat'ry mazes flows . Take plenty of its roots ...
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... d and shelter'd in inglorious ease : who before the songs of shepherds made , When gay and young my rural lays I play'd , And set my Tityrus beneath his shade . A SONG FOR ST . CECILIA'S DAY , AT OXFORD 32 A TRANSLATION OF , ETC.
... d and shelter'd in inglorious ease : who before the songs of shepherds made , When gay and young my rural lays I play'd , And set my Tityrus beneath his shade . A SONG FOR ST . CECILIA'S DAY , AT OXFORD 32 A TRANSLATION OF , ETC.
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... shade . IV . Music religious heat inspires , It wakes the soul , and lifts it high , And wings it with sublime desires , And fits it to bespeak the deity . Th ' Almighty listens to a tuneful tongue , And seems well pleas'd and courted ...
... shade . IV . Music religious heat inspires , It wakes the soul , and lifts it high , And wings it with sublime desires , And fits it to bespeak the deity . Th ' Almighty listens to a tuneful tongue , And seems well pleas'd and courted ...
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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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