The Miscellaneous Works of Joseph Addison, Volume 1D. A. Talboys, 1840 - Medals, Ancient |
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... shore. The weather also makes the shore a pleasant place to live—most of the time. Go to the shore on a hot summer day and you may notice that it seems cooler near the water. It is, because land heats and cools much faster than the ...
... shore. The weather also makes the shore a pleasant place to live—most of the time. Go to the shore on a hot summer day and you may notice that it seems cooler near the water. It is, because land heats and cools much faster than the ...
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... SHORE PROTECTION MANUAL This Shore Protection Manual has been prepared to assemble in a single three - volume publication coastal - engineering practices for shore protection . " Coastal Engineering " is defined as the application of ...
... SHORE PROTECTION MANUAL This Shore Protection Manual has been prepared to assemble in a single three - volume publication coastal - engineering practices for shore protection . " Coastal Engineering " is defined as the application of ...
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... shores of the strait , is strewed with drift timber . In clear weather the north shore is visible from the point of the south shore nearest Big Island . Below this detroit the shores recede so as to form a small shallow lake , about ...
... shores of the strait , is strewed with drift timber . In clear weather the north shore is visible from the point of the south shore nearest Big Island . Below this detroit the shores recede so as to form a small shallow lake , about ...
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... shore lines fail to come up to the general plane . For example , in the vicinity of Rexton there is definite shore work up to nearly 900 feet above sea level , but at McMillan , about 30 miles to the northwest , the highest shore work ...
... shore lines fail to come up to the general plane . For example , in the vicinity of Rexton there is definite shore work up to nearly 900 feet above sea level , but at McMillan , about 30 miles to the northwest , the highest shore work ...
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... shore . I have been on hills a great many times , and I never went on a shore . And , besides , I want to find some shells for Royal . " 66 Yes , but , Lucy , " replied Marielle , " we don't know yet where it is safe for us to go on the ...
... shore . I have been on hills a great many times , and I never went on a shore . And , besides , I want to find some shells for Royal . " 66 Yes , but , Lucy , " replied Marielle , " we don't know yet where it is safe for us to go on the ...
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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.