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... thunder of the battle laid ; Attend , auspicious prince , and let the muse In humble accents milder thoughts infuse . Others , in bold prophetic numbers skill'd , Set thee in arms , and led thee to the field ; My muse expecting on the ...
... thunder of the battle laid ; Attend , auspicious prince , and let the muse In humble accents milder thoughts infuse . Others , in bold prophetic numbers skill'd , Set thee in arms , and led thee to the field ; My muse expecting on the ...
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... thunder aw'd , And claim'd their homage , and commenc'd a god ; I flourish'd all the while in arts of peace , Retir'd and shelter'd in inglorious ease : who before the songs of shepherds made , When gay and young my rural lays I play'd ...
... thunder aw'd , And claim'd their homage , and commenc'd a god ; I flourish'd all the while in arts of peace , Retir'd and shelter'd in inglorious ease : who before the songs of shepherds made , When gay and young my rural lays I play'd ...
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... thunder , scare , And stun the reader with the din of war ! With fear my spirits and my blood retire , To see the seraphs sunk in clouds of fire ; But when , with eager steps , from hence I rise , And view the first gay scenes of ...
... thunder , scare , And stun the reader with the din of war ! With fear my spirits and my blood retire , To see the seraphs sunk in clouds of fire ; But when , with eager steps , from hence I rise , And view the first gay scenes of ...
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... thunder aim'd at his aspiring head , And fain her godlike sons would disunite By foreign gold , or by domestic spite ; But strives in vain to conquer or divide , Whom Nassau's arms defend and counsels guide . Fir'd with the name , which ...
... thunder aim'd at his aspiring head , And fain her godlike sons would disunite By foreign gold , or by domestic spite ; But strives in vain to conquer or divide , Whom Nassau's arms defend and counsels guide . Fir'd with the name , which ...
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... thunder - struck Enceladus , Groveling beneath th ' incumbent mountain's weight , Lies stretch'd supine , eternal prey of flames ; And when he heaves against the burning load , Reluctant , to invert his broiling limbs , A sudden ...
... thunder - struck Enceladus , Groveling beneath th ' incumbent mountain's weight , Lies stretch'd supine , eternal prey of flames ; And when he heaves against the burning load , Reluctant , to invert his broiling limbs , A sudden ...
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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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