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Page 78
... 'd ; she comes from France : Rescue , like courteous knights , the nymph from danger ; And kindly treat , like well - bred men , the stranger . EPILOGUE TO THE BRITISH ENCHANTERS1 . WHEN Orpheus tun'd his 78 A PROLOGUE .
... 'd ; she comes from France : Rescue , like courteous knights , the nymph from danger ; And kindly treat , like well - bred men , the stranger . EPILOGUE TO THE BRITISH ENCHANTERS1 . WHEN Orpheus tun'd his 78 A PROLOGUE .
Page 92
... nymphs , and streams , and woods , and rural deities . O'er all , the heaven's refulgent image shines ; On either gate were six engraven signs . Here Phaeton , still gaining on th ' ascent , To his suspected father's palace went , Till ...
... nymphs , and streams , and woods , and rural deities . O'er all , the heaven's refulgent image shines ; On either gate were six engraven signs . Here Phaeton , still gaining on th ' ascent , To his suspected father's palace went , Till ...
Page 100
... nymphs lament their empty urns , Boeotia , robb'd of silver Dirce , mourns , Corinth Pyrene's wasted spring bewails , And Argos grieves whilst Amymone fails . The floods are drain'd from every distant coast , Even Tanais , though fix'd ...
... nymphs lament their empty urns , Boeotia , robb'd of silver Dirce , mourns , Corinth Pyrene's wasted spring bewails , And Argos grieves whilst Amymone fails . The floods are drain'd from every distant coast , Even Tanais , though fix'd ...
Page 103
... nymphs came round him , and amaz'd , On the dead youth , transfix'd with thunder , gaz'd ; And , whilst yet smoking from the bolt he lay , His shatter'd body to a tomb convey , And o'er the tomb an epitaph devise : " Here he who drove ...
... nymphs came round him , and amaz'd , On the dead youth , transfix'd with thunder , gaz'd ; And , whilst yet smoking from the bolt he lay , His shatter'd body to a tomb convey , And o'er the tomb an epitaph devise : " Here he who drove ...
Page 105
... nymphs transform'd , allied To their dead brother , on their mortal side , In friendship and affection nearer bound ; He left the cities and the realms he own'd ; Through pathless fields and lonely shores to range , And woods , made ...
... nymphs transform'd , allied To their dead brother , on their mortal side , In friendship and affection nearer bound ; He left the cities and the realms he own'd ; Through pathless fields and lonely shores to range , And woods , made ...
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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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