Selections from the Works of Joseph AddisonH. Holt, 1906 - 360 páginas |
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... hero can his Muse engage ; Nor earth's wide scene confine his hallowed rage . See ! see , he upward springs , and towering high Spurns the dull province of mortality , Shakes heaven's eternal throne with dire alarms , And sets th ...
... hero can his Muse engage ; Nor earth's wide scene confine his hallowed rage . See ! see , he upward springs , and towering high Spurns the dull province of mortality , Shakes heaven's eternal throne with dire alarms , And sets th ...
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... hero pleases , and her satire bites . From her no harsh unartful numbers fall , She wears all dresses , and she charms in all . How might we fear our English poetry , That long has flourished , should decay with thee ; 125 Did not the ...
... hero pleases , and her satire bites . From her no harsh unartful numbers fall , She wears all dresses , and she charms in all . How might we fear our English poetry , That long has flourished , should decay with thee ; 125 Did not the ...
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... heroes fought promiscuous in their streams . But now , to Nassau's secret councils raised , He aids the hero , whom before he praised . I've done at length ; and now , dear Friend , receive The last poor present that my Muse can give ...
... heroes fought promiscuous in their streams . But now , to Nassau's secret councils raised , He aids the hero , whom before he praised . I've done at length ; and now , dear Friend , receive The last poor present that my Muse can give ...
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... hero's godlike acts can pierce , Or where the fame of an immortal verse . Oh could the Muse my ravished breast inspire With warmth like yours , and raise an equal fire , Unnumbered beauties in my verse should shine , And Virgil's Italy ...
... hero's godlike acts can pierce , Or where the fame of an immortal verse . Oh could the Muse my ravished breast inspire With warmth like yours , and raise an equal fire , Unnumbered beauties in my verse should shine , And Virgil's Italy ...
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... Heroes , and Gods , and Roman consuls stand , Stern tyrants , whom their cruelties renown , And emperors in Parian marble frown ; 90 While the bright dames , to whom they humbly sued , Still show the charms that their proud hearts ...
... Heroes , and Gods , and Roman consuls stand , Stern tyrants , whom their cruelties renown , And emperors in Parian marble frown ; 90 While the bright dames , to whom they humbly sued , Still show the charms that their proud hearts ...
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Página 206 - OF man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly Muse...
Página 81 - When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tomb-stone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow...
Página 170 - ... them into the tide and immediately disappeared. These hidden pit-falls were set very thick at the entrance of the bridge, so that throngs of people no sooner broke through the cloud, but many of them fell into them. They grew thinner towards the middle, but multiplied and lay closer together towards the end of the arches that were entire.
Página 331 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet; and yet it is sung but by some blind crowder, with no rougher voice than rude style; which being so evil apparelled in the dust and cobwebs of that uncivil age, what would it work, trimmed in the gorgeous eloquence of Pindar?
Página 211 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer's day, While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Página 185 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar...
Página 258 - The wide, the unbounded prospect lies before me : But shadows, clouds, and darkness, rest upon it. Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Página 156 - ... than blemish his good qualities. As soon as the sermon is finished, nobody presumes to stir till Sir Roger is gone out of the church. The knight walks down from his seat in the chancel between a double row of his tenants, that stand bowing to him on each side : and every now and then inquires how...
Página xviii - And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
Página 251 - They that go down to the sea in ships, That do business in great waters ; These see the works of the Lord, And his wonders in the deep. For he commandeth and raiseth the stormy wind, Which lifteth up the waves thereof.