Selections from the Works of Joseph AddisonH. Holt, 1906 - 360 páginas |
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... raise one person without depressing another , " 2 and in that sentence , Steele unconsciously foretold his own fate . He has been used so often as the foil for Addison's personal and literary virtues , that to compare the two writers ...
... raise one person without depressing another , " 2 and in that sentence , Steele unconsciously foretold his own fate . He has been used so often as the foil for Addison's personal and literary virtues , that to compare the two writers ...
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... raised , He aids the hero , whom before he praised . Tve done at length ; and now , dear Friend , receive 150 The last poor present that my Muse can give . I leave the arts of poetry and verse To them that practice them with more ...
... raised , He aids the hero , whom before he praised . Tve done at length ; and now , dear Friend , receive 150 The last poor present that my Muse can give . I leave the arts of poetry and verse To them that practice them with more ...
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... raise an equal fire , Unnumbered beauties in my verse should shine , And Virgil's Italy should yield to mine ! 40 45 50 See how the golden groves around me smile , That shun the coast of Britain's stormy isle , Or when transplanted and ...
... raise an equal fire , Unnumbered beauties in my verse should shine , And Virgil's Italy should yield to mine ! 40 45 50 See how the golden groves around me smile , That shun the coast of Britain's stormy isle , Or when transplanted and ...
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... Raised of themselves , their genuine charms they boast , And those who paint them truest , praise them most . 18 1705. Within the constant . 470 475 Na 155 . The Tatler THURSDAY , APRIL 6 , 24 SELECTIONS FROM ADDISON .
... Raised of themselves , their genuine charms they boast , And those who paint them truest , praise them most . 18 1705. Within the constant . 470 475 Na 155 . The Tatler THURSDAY , APRIL 6 , 24 SELECTIONS FROM ADDISON .
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... raised , that having read the controversies of some great men concerning the antiquities of Egypt , I made a voyage to Grand Cairo , on purpose to take the 15 measure of a pyramid : and as soon as I had set myself right in that ...
... raised , that having read the controversies of some great men concerning the antiquities of Egypt , I made a voyage to Grand Cairo , on purpose to take the 15 measure of a pyramid : and as soon as I had set myself right in that ...
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Página 212 - 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 172 - ... 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 337 - 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 217 - 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 189 - 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 264 - 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 158 - ... 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 219 - The seat of desolation, void of light, Save what the glimmering of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful...
Página 257 - 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.