The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Volume 1H. G. Bohn, 1854 - 8 pages |
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... arms ; If once two rival kings their right debate , And factions and cabals embroil the state , The people's actions will their thoughts declare ; All their hearts tremble , and beat thick with war ; Hoarse , broken sounds , like ...
... arms ; If once two rival kings their right debate , And factions and cabals embroil the state , The people's actions will their thoughts declare ; All their hearts tremble , and beat thick with war ; Hoarse , broken sounds , like ...
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... arms ; Or else the spider at their entrance sets Her snares , and spins her bowels into nets . When sickness reigns , ( for they as well as we Feel all the effects of frail mortality , ) By certain marks the new disease is seen , Their ...
... arms ; Or else the spider at their entrance sets Her snares , and spins her bowels into nets . When sickness reigns , ( for they as well as we Feel all the effects of frail mortality , ) By certain marks the new disease is seen , Their ...
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... arms and palfreys , battles , fields , and fights , And damsels in distress , and courteous knights ; But when we look too near , the shades decay , And all the pleasing landscape fades away . Great Cowley then ( a mighty genius ) wrote ...
... arms and palfreys , battles , fields , and fights , And damsels in distress , and courteous knights ; But when we look too near , the shades decay , And all the pleasing landscape fades away . Great Cowley then ( a mighty genius ) wrote ...
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... arms . Whate'er his pen describes I more than see , Whilst every verse arrayed in majesty , Bold , and sublime , my whole attention draws , And seems above the critic's nicer laws.2 How are you struck with terror and delight , When ...
... arms . Whate'er his pen describes I more than see , Whilst every verse arrayed in majesty , Bold , and sublime , my whole attention draws , And seems above the critic's nicer laws.2 How are you struck with terror and delight , When ...
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... arms , and blood ; Nor rapid Xanthus ' celebrated flood , 1 Whether in comic sounds or tragic airs . ] A writer in fashion , like the stoical wise man , is everything he has a mind to be . comedies are very indifferent , and his ...
... arms , and blood ; Nor rapid Xanthus ' celebrated flood , 1 Whether in comic sounds or tragic airs . ] A writer in fashion , like the stoical wise man , is everything he has a mind to be . comedies are very indifferent , and his ...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Vol. 3: The Spectator ... Joseph Addison No preview available - 2017 |
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Addison Æneid ancient antiquities Antoninus Pius appear arms atque beautiful Cæsar Campania Cato Cato's charms church Claudian coins Commodus death DRYDEN emperor eyes fancy fate fear figure fire friends Gaul Georgic give goddess gods grace grief hand head heart heaven honour inscription Italy Jove JUBA Julius Cæsar kind king lake look Lucia Lucius Verus marble Marcia Marcus Marcus Aurelius medals mighty mountains muse Naples nature nymph o'er old Roman Ovid Pentheus poets Portius prince quæ QUEEN rage rise river rocks Rome round ruins S. C. Reverse says Cynthio says Eugenius says Philander SCENE Sempronius shade shine side sight Silius Italicus SIR TR soul stands statues SYPH Syphax tears tell Teverone thee thou thought town Trajan turn verse VIRG Virgil virtue Whilst whole winds youth