The Works of Joseph Addison: Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's Edition, with Letters and Other Pieces Not Found in Any Previous Collection, Volume 5Putnam, 1854 |
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... Imagination , • 315 322 412 . 66 66 46 66 " 6 327 413 . 86 66 66 66 66 332 414 . 66 66 66 66 336 415 . 66 66 66 6 . 66 341 416 . 66 66 66 66 46 347 417 . 66 66 66 66 66 352 418 . 66 66 66 . 66 · 357 419 . 66 66 66 66 66 362 420 . 66 66 ...
... Imagination , • 315 322 412 . 66 66 46 66 " 6 327 413 . 86 66 66 66 66 332 414 . 66 66 66 66 336 415 . 66 66 66 6 . 66 341 416 . 66 66 66 66 46 347 417 . 66 66 66 66 66 352 418 . 66 66 66 . 66 · 357 419 . 66 66 66 66 66 362 420 . 66 66 ...
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... imagination . If the reader would see how the best of the Latin critics writ , he may find their manner very beautifully described in the charac- ters of Horace , Petronius , Quintilian , and Longinus , as they are drawn in the essay of ...
... imagination . If the reader would see how the best of the Latin critics writ , he may find their manner very beautifully described in the charac- ters of Horace , Petronius , Quintilian , and Longinus , as they are drawn in the essay of ...
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... imagination , and by consequence remove him to a greater distance from themselves . But further , this desire of fame naturally betrays the ambi tious man into such indecencies as are lessening to his reputation . He is still afraid ...
... imagination , and by consequence remove him to a greater distance from themselves . But further , this desire of fame naturally betrays the ambi tious man into such indecencies as are lessening to his reputation . He is still afraid ...
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... imagination of man to distend itself with greater ideas , than those which he has laid together in his first , second , and sixth books . The seventh , which describes the creation of the world , is likewise wonderfully sublime , though ...
... imagination of man to distend itself with greater ideas , than those which he has laid together in his first , second , and sixth books . The seventh , which describes the creation of the world , is likewise wonderfully sublime , though ...
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... imagination , and raise the ideas of an author . Tully tells us , mentioning his dialogue of old age , in which Cato is the chief speaker , that upon a review of it he was agreeably imposed upon , and fancied that it was Cato , and not ...
... imagination , and raise the ideas of an author . Tully tells us , mentioning his dialogue of old age , in which Cato is the chief speaker , that upon a review of it he was agreeably imposed upon , and fancied that it was Cato , and not ...
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action Adam Adam and Eve Addison admired Æneid agreeable allegory ancient angels appear Aristotle beautiful behold character chearfulness circumstances colours consider creation critics death delight described discourse divine DRYDEN earth endeavoured English entertainment Enville epic poem fable fallen angels fame fancy filled give happy head heart heaven Homer ideas Iliad imagination infernal Jupiter kind ladies likewise live look mankind manner Menippus Milton mind Mohocks nature never night noble observed occasion Ovid paper Paradise Lost particular passage passions perfection persons piece pleased pleasure poem poet poetry proper raise reader reason received represented ROSCOMMON Satan says secret sentiments shew sight Sir Roger soul Spectator speech spirit sublime take notice Tatler tells Thammuz thee thing thou thought tion told verse VIRG Virgil virtue whole words writing
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Page 467 - Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses. He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still. Then are they glad because they be quiet ; so he bringeth them unto their desired haven.
Page 435 - I have set the Lord always before me: Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: My flesh also shall rest in hope. For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell ; l Neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. Thou wilt show me the path of life: In thy presence is fulness of joy ; At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
Page 58 - OF man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly Muse...
Page 92 - Awake, My fairest, my espoused, my latest found, Heaven's last best gift, my ever new delight ! Awake : the morning shines, and the fresh field Calls us; we lose the prime, to mark how spring Our tended plants, how blows the citron grove, What drops the myrrh, and what the balmy reed, How nature paints her colours, how the bee Sits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet.
Page 142 - And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer, and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand.
Page 40 - Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve.
Page 155 - Our lingering parents, and to the eastern gate Led them direct, and down the cliff as fast To the subjected plain; then disappear'd. They, looking back...
Page 146 - So many grateful altars I would rear Of grassy turf, and pile up every stone Of lustre from the brook, in memory, Or monument to ages ; and thereon Offer sweet-smelling gums, and fruits, and flowers.
Page 134 - Some say, he bid his angels turn askance The poles of earth, twice ten degrees and more, From the sun's axle ; they with labour push'd Oblique the centric globe.
Page 92 - My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone ; The flowers appear on the earth ; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land ; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.