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... rules and sound views of our author will unquestionably prove beneficial to the agriculturists of other countries . " - Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal . MESSRS . LONGMAN AND Co.'s LIST OF Agriculture and Gardening 9.
... rules and sound views of our author will unquestionably prove beneficial to the agriculturists of other countries . " - Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal . MESSRS . LONGMAN AND Co.'s LIST OF Agriculture and Gardening 9.
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... sound forbear , Maria's name still wounds each British ear : Each British heart Maria still does wound , And tears burst out unbidden at the sound ; Maria still our rising mirth destroys , Darkens our triumphs , and forbids our joys ...
... sound forbear , Maria's name still wounds each British ear : Each British heart Maria still does wound , And tears burst out unbidden at the sound ; Maria still our rising mirth destroys , Darkens our triumphs , and forbids our joys ...
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... sound , Nor echoing rocks the doubled voice rebound . Things thus prepar'd When th ' under world is seiz'd with cold and night , And summer here descends in streams of light , The bees through woods and forests take their flight . They ...
... sound , Nor echoing rocks the doubled voice rebound . Things thus prepar'd When th ' under world is seiz'd with cold and night , And summer here descends in streams of light , The bees through woods and forests take their flight . They ...
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Joseph Addison. Hoarse broken sounds , like trumpets ' harsh alarms , Run through the hive , and call them to their arms ; All in a hurry spread their shiv'ring wings , And fit their claws , and point their angry stings : In crowds ...
Joseph Addison. Hoarse broken sounds , like trumpets ' harsh alarms , Run through the hive , and call them to their arms ; All in a hurry spread their shiv'ring wings , And fit their claws , and point their angry stings : In crowds ...
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... sound a march , nor give the sign for flight . Let flow'ry banks entice them to their cells , And gardens all perfum'd with native smells ; Where carv'd Priapus has his fix'd abode , The robber's terror , and the scare - crow god . Wild ...
... sound a march , nor give the sign for flight . Let flow'ry banks entice them to their cells , And gardens all perfum'd with native smells ; Where carv'd Priapus has his fix'd abode , The robber's terror , and the scare - crow god . Wild ...
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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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