The Miscellaneous Works of Joseph Addison, Volume 1D. A. Talboys, 1840 - Medals, Ancient |
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... tells us more about its cultivation , manufacture , natural history , and other particulars , than we have ever met with before in travel , essay , or cyclopedia . " - Literary Gazette . " ITS MEDICINAL & MORAL EFFECTS . A DICTIONARY ...
... tells us more about its cultivation , manufacture , natural history , and other particulars , than we have ever met with before in travel , essay , or cyclopedia . " - Literary Gazette . " ITS MEDICINAL & MORAL EFFECTS . A DICTIONARY ...
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... tells his story in the British tongue ; Thy charming verse , and fair translations , show How thy own laurel first began to ... tell . Magd . Coll . Oxon . June 2 , 1693 . POEM TO HIS MAJESTY . PRESENTED TO THE LORD KEEPER 4 TO MR . DRYDEN .
... tells his story in the British tongue ; Thy charming verse , and fair translations , show How thy own laurel first began to ... tell . Magd . Coll . Oxon . June 2 , 1693 . POEM TO HIS MAJESTY . PRESENTED TO THE LORD KEEPER 4 TO MR . DRYDEN .
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... tells His inmost thoughts , determining the doom Of towns unstorm'd , and battles yet to come . And well could you , in your immortal strains , Describe his conduct , and reward his pains : But since the state has all your cares engrost ...
... tells His inmost thoughts , determining the doom Of towns unstorm'd , and battles yet to come . And well could you , in your immortal strains , Describe his conduct , and reward his pains : But since the state has all your cares engrost ...
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... watch , by turns with curious eyes Survey the heav'ns , and search the clouded skies To find out breeding storms , and tell what tempests rise . VOL . I. By turns they ease the laden swarms , or drive VIRGIL'S FOURTH GEORGIC . 25 #
... watch , by turns with curious eyes Survey the heav'ns , and search the clouded skies To find out breeding storms , and tell what tempests rise . VOL . I. By turns they ease the laden swarms , or drive VIRGIL'S FOURTH GEORGIC . 25 #
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... tell , And so at once , dear friend and muse , farewell . 3 Addison was about this time introduced by Congreve to Montague , then chancellor of the exchequer : he was learning the trade of a courtier , and subjoined Montague as a ...
... tell , And so at once , dear friend and muse , farewell . 3 Addison was about this time introduced by Congreve to Montague , then chancellor of the exchequer : he was learning the trade of a courtier , and subjoined Montague as a ...
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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.