The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Volume 1Bell & Daldy, 1885 |
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... wonder , and transcend our praise ? Can neither injuries of time , nor age , Damp thy poetic heat , and quench thy rage ? Not so thy Ovid in his exile wrote ; Grief chill'd his breast , and check'd his rising thought ; Pensive and sad ...
... wonder , and transcend our praise ? Can neither injuries of time , nor age , Damp thy poetic heat , and quench thy rage ? Not so thy Ovid in his exile wrote ; Grief chill'd his breast , and check'd his rising thought ; Pensive and sad ...
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... wonder fill the blest , In choirs of warbling seraphims , Known and distinguished from the rest , The success of Alexander's Feast made it fashionable for succeeding poets to try their hand at a musical ode ; but they mistook the matter ...
... wonder fill the blest , In choirs of warbling seraphims , Known and distinguished from the rest , The success of Alexander's Feast made it fashionable for succeeding poets to try their hand at a musical ode ; but they mistook the matter ...
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... wonder , but new wonders rise . As in the milky - way a shining white O'er - flows the heavens with one continued light ; tion of Horace's manner - Sermoni propiora . In the rest , the poetry is better than the criticism , which is ...
... wonder , but new wonders rise . As in the milky - way a shining white O'er - flows the heavens with one continued light ; tion of Horace's manner - Sermoni propiora . In the rest , the poetry is better than the criticism , which is ...
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... wonder what these laws could be . Nobody understood the critic's nicest laws better than Milton , or observed them with more respect . The observation might be true of Shakspeare ; but , by ill - hap , we do not so much as find his name ...
... wonder what these laws could be . Nobody understood the critic's nicest laws better than Milton , or observed them with more respect . The observation might be true of Shakspeare ; but , by ill - hap , we do not so much as find his name ...
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... wonder lost , And factions strive who shall applaud ' em most . Soon as soft vernal breezes warm the sky , Britannia's colours in the zephyrs fly ; Her chief already has his march begun , Crossing the provinces himself had won , Till ...
... wonder lost , And factions strive who shall applaud ' em most . Soon as soft vernal breezes warm the sky , Britannia's colours in the zephyrs fly ; Her chief already has his march begun , Crossing the provinces himself had won , Till ...
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Page 182 - Tis not a set of features, or complexion, The tincture of a skin, that I admire: Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.
Page 49 - The victor's shouts and dying groans confound, The dreadful burst of cannon rend the skies, And all the thunder of the battle rise. "Twas then great Marlborough's mighty soul was proved, That, in the shock of charging hosts unmoved, Amidst confusion, horror, and despair, Examined all the dreadful scenes of war ; In peaceful thought the field of death surveyed, To fainting squadrons sent the timely aid, Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage.
Page xvii - To strew fresh laurels, let the task be mine, A frequent pilgrim at thy sacred shrine ; Mine with true sighs thy absence to bemoan, And grave with faithful epitaphs thy stone.