The Miscellaneous Works of Joseph Addison, Volum 1D. A. Talboys, 1840 |
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Pàgina 11
... rise or fall . Our British youth , unus'd to rough alarms , Careless of fame , and negligent of arms , Had long forgot to meditate the foe , And heard unwarm'd the martial trumpet blow ; But now , inspir'd by thee with fresh delight ...
... rise or fall . Our British youth , unus'd to rough alarms , Careless of fame , and negligent of arms , Had long forgot to meditate the foe , And heard unwarm'd the martial trumpet blow ; But now , inspir'd by thee with fresh delight ...
Pàgina 25
... turns with curious eyes Survey the heav'ns , and search the clouded skies To find out breeding storms , and tell what tempests rise . VOL . I. D By turns they ease the laden swarms , or drive VIRGIL'S FOURTH GEORGIC . 25.
... turns with curious eyes Survey the heav'ns , and search the clouded skies To find out breeding storms , and tell what tempests rise . VOL . I. D By turns they ease the laden swarms , or drive VIRGIL'S FOURTH GEORGIC . 25.
Pàgina 26
... rise and fall ; Whilst griping tongs turn round the glowing ball . With puffing bellows some the flames increase , And some in waters dip the hissing mass ; Their beaten anvils dreadfully resound , And Ætna shakes all o'er , and ...
... rise and fall ; Whilst griping tongs turn round the glowing ball . With puffing bellows some the flames increase , And some in waters dip the hissing mass ; Their beaten anvils dreadfully resound , And Ætna shakes all o'er , and ...
Pàgina 28
... rise ; They waste their honey , and their combs deface , And wild confusion reigns in every place . Him all admire , all the great guardian own , And crowd about his courts , and buzz about his throne . Oft on their backs their weary ...
... rise ; They waste their honey , and their combs deface , And wild confusion reigns in every place . Him all admire , all the great guardian own , And crowd about his courts , and buzz about his throne . Oft on their backs their weary ...
Pàgina 32
... rise ; Now bending thighs and gilded wings it wears Full grown , and all the bee at length appears ; From every side the fruitful carcass pours Its swarming brood , as thick as summer show'rs , Or flights of arrows from the Parthian ...
... rise ; Now bending thighs and gilded wings it wears Full grown , and all the bee at length appears ; From every side the fruitful carcass pours Its swarming brood , as thick as summer show'rs , Or flights of arrows from the Parthian ...
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Frases i termes més freqüents
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
Passatges populars
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.