The Miscellaneous Works of Joseph Addison, Volumen1D. A. Talboys, 1840 |
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... say , that we do not know any works in the whole range of female literature that we could more honestly and cordially recommend as a Christmas present for a young lady . " - Scottish Guardian . PROGRESSIVE EDUCATION . Translated from ...
... say , that we do not know any works in the whole range of female literature that we could more honestly and cordially recommend as a Christmas present for a young lady . " - Scottish Guardian . PROGRESSIVE EDUCATION . Translated from ...
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... say is national , and ought to receive the encouragement and patronage of every agriculturist and breeder in the kingdom . " - Bell's Life in London . Part II . will be published on April 1st . Just published , by the same Author ...
... say is national , and ought to receive the encouragement and patronage of every agriculturist and breeder in the kingdom . " - Bell's Life in London . Part II . will be published on April 1st . Just published , by the same Author ...
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... say premature , for the man who dies at the age of forty - seven is abridged of the period of life from which the mature productions of his mind may be expected . The spring of life may greet us with its flowery offerings , and the ...
... say premature , for the man who dies at the age of forty - seven is abridged of the period of life from which the mature productions of his mind may be expected . The spring of life may greet us with its flowery offerings , and the ...
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... says : " Whoever has given the world the translation of part of the third Georgic , which he calls the Power of Love , has put me to sufficient pains to make my own not inferior to his ; as my lord Roscommon's Silenus had formerly given ...
... says : " Whoever has given the world the translation of part of the third Georgic , which he calls the Power of Love , has put me to sufficient pains to make my own not inferior to his ; as my lord Roscommon's Silenus had formerly given ...
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... says , " the letter from Italy has been always praised , but has never been praised beyond its merit . It is more correct with less appearance of labour , and more elegant with less appearance of ornament , than any other of his poems ...
... says , " the letter from Italy has been always praised , but has never been praised beyond its merit . It is more correct with less appearance of labour , and more elegant with less appearance of ornament , than any other of his poems ...
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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.