The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Volumen4Vernor and Hood; John Walker; Cuthell and Martin; W.J. and J. Richardson; Longman and Rees; R. Lea; and J. and A. Arch. ; T. Maiden, printer, Sherbourn-Lane, 1804 |
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... poets are generally long - lived , and run beyond the usual age of man , if not cut off by some accident or excess , as Anacreon , in the midst of a very merry old age , was choaked with a grape - stone . The same re- dundancy of ...
... poets are generally long - lived , and run beyond the usual age of man , if not cut off by some accident or excess , as Anacreon , in the midst of a very merry old age , was choaked with a grape - stone . The same re- dundancy of ...
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... poet . I myself remember King Charles the Second lean- ing on Tom d'Urfey's shoulder more than once , and humming over a song with him . It is certain that monarch was not a little supported by , Joy to great Cæsar , which gave the ...
... poet . I myself remember King Charles the Second lean- ing on Tom d'Urfey's shoulder more than once , and humming over a song with him . It is certain that monarch was not a little supported by , Joy to great Cæsar , which gave the ...
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... poet , when he had any disputes with particular persons about the justness and regularity of his productions . It is but a melancholy comfort for an author to be satisfied that he has written up to the rules of art , when he finds he ...
... poet , when he had any disputes with particular persons about the justness and regularity of his productions . It is but a melancholy comfort for an author to be satisfied that he has written up to the rules of art , when he finds he ...
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... a firework , rises in a mist , or tells a story out of Esop . " I do not believe , as good a poet as you are , that you can make finer landscapes than those about the king's houses , or , with all your descriptions , 26 101 . GUARDIAN .
... a firework , rises in a mist , or tells a story out of Esop . " I do not believe , as good a poet as you are , that you can make finer landscapes than those about the king's houses , or , with all your descriptions , 26 101 . GUARDIAN .
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... poets tell us of Achilles , whom his mother is said to have dipped , when he was a child , in the river Styx . The story adds , that this made him invulnerable all over , excepting that part which the mother held in her hand during this ...
... poets tell us of Achilles , whom his mother is said to have dipped , when he was a child , in the river Styx . The story adds , that this made him invulnerable all over , excepting that part which the mother held in her hand during this ...
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Página 356 - Yet, when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best.
Página 306 - She openeth her mouth with wisdom, and in her tongue is the law of kindness. She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness. Her children arise up and call her blessed, her husband also, and he praiseth her.
Página 63 - ... behold, I have done according to thy words: lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart, so that there was none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee. "And I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked, both riches and honour, so that there shall not be any among the kings like unto thee all thy days.
Página 359 - But the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women, and the chief men of the city, and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them out of their coasts.
Página 62 - O LORD my God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of David my father: and I am but a little child: I know not how to go out or come in.
Página 62 - Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad...
Página 223 - And Hazael said. But what, is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing?
Página 111 - A GOOD conscience is to the soul what health is to the body : it preserves a constant ease and serenity within us, and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can possibly befal us.
Página 175 - Timogenes would have scorned to have betrayed a secret that was intrusted with him, though the fate of his country depended upon the discovery of it. Timogenes took away the life of a young fellow, in a duel, for having spoken ill of Belinda, a lady whom he himself had seduced in her youth, and betrayed into want and ignominy.
Página 427 - It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the Lord; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised the Lord, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever...