The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Volume 1Cadell and Davies, 1811 - English literature |
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... While speechless o'er thy closing grave we bend , Accept these tears , thou dear departed friend ! Oh , gone for ever , take this long adieu ; And sleep in peace , next thy lov'd Montagu ! XX To strew fresh laurels , let the task be.
... While speechless o'er thy closing grave we bend , Accept these tears , thou dear departed friend ! Oh , gone for ever , take this long adieu ; And sleep in peace , next thy lov'd Montagu ! XX To strew fresh laurels , let the task be.
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... thou warn poor mortals left behind , A task well suited to thy gentle mind ? Oh , if sometimes thy spotless form descend , To me thy aid , thou guardian Genius , lend ! When rage misguides me , or when fear alarms ,
... thou warn poor mortals left behind , A task well suited to thy gentle mind ? Oh , if sometimes thy spotless form descend , To me thy aid , thou guardian Genius , lend ! When rage misguides me , or when fear alarms ,
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... Thou hill , whose brow the antique structures grace , Rear'd by bold chiefs of Warwick's noble race , Why , once so lov'd , whene'er thy bower appears , O'er my dim eye - balls glance the sudden tears ? How sweet were once thy prospects ...
... Thou hill , whose brow the antique structures grace , Rear'd by bold chiefs of Warwick's noble race , Why , once so lov'd , whene'er thy bower appears , O'er my dim eye - balls glance the sudden tears ? How sweet were once thy prospects ...
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... thou to claim . Swift after him thy social spirit flies , And close to his , how soon ! thy coffin lies . Blest pair ! whose union future bards shall tell In future tongues : each other's boast ! farewel . Farewel ! whom join'd in fame ...
... thou to claim . Swift after him thy social spirit flies , And close to his , how soon ! thy coffin lies . Blest pair ! whose union future bards shall tell In future tongues : each other's boast ! farewel . Farewel ! whom join'd in fame ...
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... Thou makest ] vide after , Thou teachest ] This way of using verbs of the present and imperfect tense , in the second person singular , should be utterly banished from our poetry . The sound is intolerable . Milton and others have ...
... Thou makest ] vide after , Thou teachest ] This way of using verbs of the present and imperfect tense , in the second person singular , should be utterly banished from our poetry . The sound is intolerable . Milton and others have ...
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Addison ancient Antoninus Pius appear arms atque beauty behold breast Cæsar Cato Cato's charms Claudian Commodus CREECH death DECIUS DRYDEN emperor ev'ry eyes fancy fate father fear figure fire flame friends Georgic give goddess gods grace GRIDELINE grief hand head heart heaven Hesiod honour inscription Jove JUBA Julius Cæsar kind king look LUCIA LUCIUS maid MARCIA Marcus mighty modern medals muse nature numbers Numidian nunc nymph o'er old coins omne Ovid passion Pentheus Pharsalia poem poetry PORTIUS prince quæ QUEEN rage rise Roman Roman senate Rome ROSAMOND round S. C. Reverse says Cynthio says Eugenius says Philander SCENE SEMPRONIUS senate shine sight Silius Italicus SIR TRUSTY soul stand sword SYPHAX tears tell thee thou thought tibi Trajan turn verse view'd VIRG Virgil virtue Whilst whole winds words youth
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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.