The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Volume 1Cadell and Davies, 1811 - English literature |
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... kind of pa- triots , who think it no waste of the public treasure to purchase politeness to their country . The poem upon one of King William's campaigns , addressed to his Lordship , was received with great humanity , and occa- şioned ...
... kind of pa- triots , who think it no waste of the public treasure to purchase politeness to their country . The poem upon one of King William's campaigns , addressed to his Lordship , was received with great humanity , and occa- şioned ...
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... they were subjects so many centuries ago . Next to personal conversation with the writers themselves , this is the surest way of coming at their sense : a com- pendious and engaging kind of criticism , which con- vinces X PREFACE .
... they were subjects so many centuries ago . Next to personal conversation with the writers themselves , this is the surest way of coming at their sense : a com- pendious and engaging kind of criticism , which con- vinces X PREFACE .
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Joseph Addison Richard Hurd. pendious and engaging kind of criticism , which con- vinces at first sight , and shews the vanity of conjectures , made by antiquaries at a distance . If the knowledge of polite literature has its use , there ...
Joseph Addison Richard Hurd. pendious and engaging kind of criticism , which con- vinces at first sight , and shews the vanity of conjectures , made by antiquaries at a distance . If the knowledge of polite literature has its use , there ...
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... kind concern with which Mr. Addison left Me as a sort of incumbrance upon this valuable legacy . Nor must I deny myself the honour to acknowledge , that the goodness of that great man to me , like many other of his amiable qualities ...
... kind concern with which Mr. Addison left Me as a sort of incumbrance upon this valuable legacy . Nor must I deny myself the honour to acknowledge , that the goodness of that great man to me , like many other of his amiable qualities ...
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... kind of verse . But Dryden's unconfined genius had given a sanction to them . b O mayst thou still , & c . ] See note in the preceding page . It might have stood thus : " Still may thy muse the noble task prolong . " • reveal ― tell ...
... kind of verse . But Dryden's unconfined genius had given a sanction to them . b O mayst thou still , & c . ] See note in the preceding page . It might have stood thus : " Still may thy muse the noble task prolong . " • reveal ― tell ...
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Page 211 - To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart, To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold...
Page 43 - Profuse of bliss, and pregnant with delight! Eternal pleasures in thy presence reign, And smiling plenty leads thy wanton train; Eas'd of her load, subjection grows more light, And poverty looks cheerful in thy sight: Thou mak'st the gloomy face of nature gay, Giv'st beauty to the sun, and pleasure to the day.
Page 221 - Tis not in mortals to command success, But well do more, Sempronius; we'll deserve it.
Page 45 - I bridle in my struggling Muse with pain, That longs to launch into a nobler strain.
Page 183 - For, wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy...
Page 287 - ... there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works) he must delight in virtue; And that which he delights in must be happy. But when ! or where ! — This world was made for Caesar.
Page 109 - The man resolv'd and steady to his trust, Inflexible to ill, and obstinately just, May the rude rabble's insolence despise, Their senseless clamours, and tumultuous cries : The tyrant's fierceness he beguiles, And the stern brow, and the harsh voice defies, And with superior greatness smiles.
Page 246 - The gods, in bounty, work up storms about us, That give mankind occasion to exert Their hidden strength, and throw out into practice Virtues, which shun the day, and lie conceal'd In the smooth seasons and the calms of life.
Page 227 - Syphax your zeal becomes importunate ; I've hitherto permitted it to rave, And talk at large ; but learn to keep it in, Lest it should take more freedom than I'll give it.
Page 287 - Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man, Eternity ! thou pleasing, dreadful thought ! Through what variety of untry'd being, Through what new scenes and changes must we pass ! The wide, the unbounded prospect lies before me; But shadows, clouds, and darkness, rest upon it.