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... wind , Nor dare again the British strength engage ; Still they remember that destructive rage , Which lately made their ... winds could hardly drive them to their fate , And all the ocean labour'd with the weight . Where'er the waves in ...
... wind , Nor dare again the British strength engage ; Still they remember that destructive rage , Which lately made their ... winds could hardly drive them to their fate , And all the ocean labour'd with the weight . Where'er the waves in ...
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... wind ; For winds divert them in their flight , and drive The swarms , when laden homeward , from their hive . Nor sheep nor goats must pasture near their stores , To trample under foot the springing flowers ; Nor frisking heifers bound ...
... wind ; For winds divert them in their flight , and drive The swarms , when laden homeward , from their hive . Nor sheep nor goats must pasture near their stores , To trample under foot the springing flowers ; Nor frisking heifers bound ...
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... wind , Should dip or scatter those that lag behind , Here they may settle on the friendly stone , And dry their reeking pinions at the sun . Plant all the flow'ry banks with lavender , With store of sav'ry scent the fragrant air , Let ...
... wind , Should dip or scatter those that lag behind , Here they may settle on the friendly stone , And dry their reeking pinions at the sun . Plant all the flow'ry banks with lavender , With store of sav'ry scent the fragrant air , Let ...
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... wind , through distant tracts of air , And view the winged cloud all black'ning from afar ; While shady coverts and fresh streams they choose , Milfoil and common honey - suckles bruise , And sprinkle on their hives the fragrant juice ...
... wind , through distant tracts of air , And view the winged cloud all black'ning from afar ; While shady coverts and fresh streams they choose , Milfoil and common honey - suckles bruise , And sprinkle on their hives the fragrant juice ...
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... winds or storms are nigh , Nor trust their bodies to a faithless sky , But make small journeys , with a careful wing , And fly to water at a neighb'ring spring ; And lest their airy bodies should be cast In restless whirls , the sport ...
... winds or storms are nigh , Nor trust their bodies to a faithless sky , But make small journeys , with a careful wing , And fly to water at a neighb'ring spring ; And lest their airy bodies should be cast In restless whirls , the sport ...
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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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