The Miscellaneous Works of Joseph Addison, Volumen1D. A. Talboys, 1840 |
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... bear a comparison with this excellent , and we would say classical work , of Professor Low . It will become the manual of practical agriculture for the British empire ; and the judicious practical rules and sound views of our author ...
... bear a comparison with this excellent , and we would say classical work , of Professor Low . It will become the manual of practical agriculture for the British empire ; and the judicious practical rules and sound views of our author ...
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... bears those ripened racy fruits which at once refresh and nourish . Addison's parting breath was spent in the utterance of Christian exhortation , and his last work gives the evidences of that faith which enabled him in calm ...
... bears those ripened racy fruits which at once refresh and nourish . Addison's parting breath was spent in the utterance of Christian exhortation , and his last work gives the evidences of that faith which enabled him in calm ...
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... bear a kingdom's weight , The schemes of Gallic policy o'erthrow , And blast the counsels of the common foe ; Direct our armies , and distribute right , And render our Maria's loss more light . But stop , my muse , th ' ungrateful sound ...
... bear a kingdom's weight , The schemes of Gallic policy o'erthrow , And blast the counsels of the common foe ; Direct our armies , and distribute right , And render our Maria's loss more light . But stop , my muse , th ' ungrateful sound ...
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... knotty pear trees bloom , And thorns ennobled now to bear a plum , And spreading plane trees , where supinely laid He now enjoys the cool , and quaffs beneath the shade . But these , for want of room , I must 24 A TRANSLATION OF.
... knotty pear trees bloom , And thorns ennobled now to bear a plum , And spreading plane trees , where supinely laid He now enjoys the cool , and quaffs beneath the shade . But these , for want of room , I must 24 A TRANSLATION OF.
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... bear , Oft in his cause embattled in the air , Pursue a glorious death in wounds and war . Some , from such instances as these , have taught " The bees ' extract is heav'nly ; for they thought " The universe alive ; and that a soul ...
... bear , Oft in his cause embattled in the air , Pursue a glorious death in wounds and war . Some , from such instances as these , have taught " The bees ' extract is heav'nly ; for they thought " The universe alive ; and that a soul ...
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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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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.