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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... Look after Gallic towns and forts in vain ; No more his wonted marks he can descry , But fees a long unmeafur'd ruin lie ; Whilft , pointing to the naked coaft , he shows His wondring mates where towns and steeples rose , Where crowded ...
... Look after Gallic towns and forts in vain ; No more his wonted marks he can descry , But fees a long unmeafur'd ruin lie ; Whilft , pointing to the naked coaft , he shows His wondring mates where towns and steeples rose , Where crowded ...
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... look , Which fuch confufion and amazement ftrook Through Gallic hofts : but , oh ! let us descry Mirth in thy brow , and pleasure in thy eye ; Let nothing dreadful in thy face be found , But for a - while forget the trumpet's found ...
... look , Which fuch confufion and amazement ftrook Through Gallic hofts : but , oh ! let us descry Mirth in thy brow , and pleasure in thy eye ; Let nothing dreadful in thy face be found , But for a - while forget the trumpet's found ...
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... looks are diffèrent as their kings ; Some fparkle bright , and glitter in their wings ; Others look loathsome and diseas'd with floth , Like a faint traveller whose dufty mouth Grows dry with heat , and spits a maukish froth . The firft ...
... looks are diffèrent as their kings ; Some fparkle bright , and glitter in their wings ; Others look loathsome and diseas'd with floth , Like a faint traveller whose dufty mouth Grows dry with heat , and spits a maukish froth . The firft ...
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... looks are thin , Their funeral rites are form'd , and ev'ry bee With grief attends the fad folemnity ; The few difeas'd furvivors hang before Their fickly cells , and droop about the door , Or flowly in their hives their limbs unfold ...
... looks are thin , Their funeral rites are form'd , and ev'ry bee With grief attends the fad folemnity ; The few difeas'd furvivors hang before Their fickly cells , and droop about the door , Or flowly in their hives their limbs unfold ...
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... look too near , the fhades decay , And all the pleafing landskip fades away . Great Corley then ( a mighty genius ) wrote , O'er - run with wit , and lavish of his thought : His turns too clofely on the reader prefs : In more had pleas ...
... look too near , the fhades decay , And all the pleafing landskip fades away . Great Corley then ( a mighty genius ) wrote , O'er - run with wit , and lavish of his thought : His turns too clofely on the reader prefs : In more had pleas ...
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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.