The Miscellaneous Works: In Verse and Prose, of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq; in Three Volumes. With Some Account of the Life and Writings of the Author. By Mr. TickellT. Walker, 1773 |
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... skies with long ascending flames are bright , And all the fea reflects a quivering light . Thus Etna , when in fierce eruptions broke , Fills heav'n with ashes , and the earth with smoke : Here crags of broken rocks are twirl'd on high ...
... skies with long ascending flames are bright , And all the fea reflects a quivering light . Thus Etna , when in fierce eruptions broke , Fills heav'n with ashes , and the earth with smoke : Here crags of broken rocks are twirl'd on high ...
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... skies To findout breeding storms , and tell what tempefts rife . By turns they ease the loaded fwarms or drive The drone , a lazy infect , from their hive . The work is warmly ply'd through'all the cells , And strong with thyme the new ...
... skies To findout breeding storms , and tell what tempefts rife . By turns they ease the loaded fwarms or drive The drone , a lazy infect , from their hive . The work is warmly ply'd through'all the cells , And strong with thyme the new ...
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... skies : And once when haft'ning from the watry fign They quit their ftation , and forbear to fhine . The bees are prone to rage , and often found To perish for revenge , and die upon the wound . Their venom'd fting produces aking pains ...
... skies : And once when haft'ning from the watry fign They quit their ftation , and forbear to fhine . The bees are prone to rage , and often found To perish for revenge , and die upon the wound . Their venom'd fting produces aking pains ...
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... skies : And here the proud triumphal arches rife , Where the old Romans deathlefs acts display'd , Their bafe degenerate progeny upbraid : Whole rivers here forfake the fields below , And wond'ring at their height through airy channels ...
... skies : And here the proud triumphal arches rife , Where the old Romans deathlefs acts display'd , Their bafe degenerate progeny upbraid : Whole rivers here forfake the fields below , And wond'ring at their height through airy channels ...
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... fing the furious troops in battle join'd ! Methinks I hear the drums tumultuous found , The victor's fhouts and dying groans confound , VOL . I. F The The dreadful burft of cannon rend the skies , And POEMS on feveral OCCASIONS . 97.
... fing the furious troops in battle join'd ! Methinks I hear the drums tumultuous found , The victor's fhouts and dying groans confound , VOL . I. F The The dreadful burft of cannon rend the skies , And POEMS on feveral OCCASIONS . 97.
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Página xxxvi - There taught us how to live; and (oh! too high The price for knowledge) taught us how to die.
Página xxxv - Or dost 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, When pain distresses, or when pleasure charms, In silent whisperings purer thoughts impart, And turn from ill, a frail and feeble heart ; Lead through the paths thy virtue trod before, Till bliss shall join, nor death can part us more.
Página 47 - And the fat olive swell with floods of oil : We envy not the warmer clime, that lies In ten degrees of more indulgent skies...
Página 240 - Nor mix the toils of hunting with her ease. But oft would bathe her in the...
Página xxxv - From world to world, unweary'd does he fly; Or curious trace the long laborious maze Of heaven's decrees, where wond'ring angels gaze?
Página 225 - Ah wretched me ! I now begin too late To find out all the long perplex'd deceit ; It is myself I love, myself I see ; The gay delusion is a part of me. I kindle up the fires by which I burn, And my own beauties from the well return. Whom...
Página 31 - What found of brazen wheels, what thunder, fcare, And ftun the reader with the din of war! With fear my fpirits and my blood retire, To fee the feraphs funk in clouds of fire ; But when, with eager fteps, from hence I...
Página 51 - I've already troubled you too long, Nor dare attempt a more advent'rous song. My humble verse demands a softer theme, A painted mea,dow, or a purling stream ; Unfit for heroes; whom immortal lays, And lines like Virgil's, or like yours, should praise.
Página 209 - The point still buried in the marrow lay. And now his rage, increasing with his pain, Reddens his eyes, and beats in every vein ; Churn'd in his teeth the foamy venom rose, Whilst from his mouth a blast of vapours flows, Such as th' infernal Stygian waters cast ; The plants around him wither in the blast.
Página 212 - Long did he live within his new abodes, Ally'd by marriage to the deathless Gods; And, in a fruitful wife's embraces old, A long increase of children's children told: But no frail man, however great or high, Can be concluded blest before he die.