The Miscellaneous Works of Joseph Addison, Volume 1D. A. Talboys, 1840 - Medals, Ancient |
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Page 37
... turns too closely on the reader press ; He more had pleas'd us , had he pleas'd us less . 2 Dr. Johnson states , on the authority of Spence , that when Addison wrote this very confident and discriminative character of Spenser he had ...
... turns too closely on the reader press ; He more had pleas'd us , had he pleas'd us less . 2 Dr. Johnson states , on the authority of Spence , that when Addison wrote this very confident and discriminative character of Spenser he had ...
Page 39
... Turn ev'ry line with art , and smooth thy verse ; The courtly Waller next commands thy lays : Muse , tune thy verse , with art , to Waller's praise . While tender airs and lovely dames inspire Soft melting thoughts , and propagate ...
... Turn ev'ry line with art , and smooth thy verse ; The courtly Waller next commands thy lays : Muse , tune thy verse , with art , to Waller's praise . While tender airs and lovely dames inspire Soft melting thoughts , and propagate ...
Page 45
... 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 ground1 ; 1 Malone states that this was the first time the phrase classic ground , since so ...
... 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 ground1 ; 1 Malone states that this was the first time the phrase classic ground , since so ...
Page 62
... turn their eyes , On her resolves the western world relies , Confiding still , amidst its dire alarms , In Anna's councils , and in Churchill's arms . Thrice happy Britain , from the kingdoms rent , To sit the guardian of the continent ...
... turn their eyes , On her resolves the western world relies , Confiding still , amidst its dire alarms , In Anna's councils , and in Churchill's arms . Thrice happy Britain , from the kingdoms rent , To sit the guardian of the continent ...
Page 64
... turn , Demand alliance , and in friendship burn ; A sudden friendship , while with stretch'd - out rays They meet each other , mingling blaze with blaze . Polish'd in courts , and harden'd in the field , Renown'd for conquest , and in ...
... turn , Demand alliance , and in friendship burn ; A sudden friendship , while with stretch'd - out rays They meet each other , mingling blaze with blaze . Polish'd in courts , and harden'd in the field , Renown'd for conquest , and in ...
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Addison 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'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 Greek Language 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.