The Works of Joseph Addison: Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's Edition, with Letters and Other Pieces Not Found in Any Previous Collection; and Macaulay's Essay on His Life and Works, 1. köideG.P. Putnam & Company, 1853 |
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Page xxi
... pleasing coast . If e'er thy sight would blissful scenes explore , The current pass , and seek the further shore . " Ever since the time of Pope there has been a glut of lines of this sort ; and we are now as little disposed to admire a ...
... pleasing coast . If e'er thy sight would blissful scenes explore , The current pass , and seek the further shore . " Ever since the time of Pope there has been a glut of lines of this sort ; and we are now as little disposed to admire a ...
Page xxxii
... pleasing treatise on " Medals . " It was not published till after his death ; but several distinguished scholars saw the manuscript , and gave just praise to the grace of the style , and to the learning and ingenuity evinced by the ...
... pleasing treatise on " Medals . " It was not published till after his death ; but several distinguished scholars saw the manuscript , and gave just praise to the grace of the style , and to the learning and ingenuity evinced by the ...
Page xxxviii
... pleasing . We are inclined to think that if Addison had left heroic couplets to Pope , and blank verse to Rowe , and had employed himself in writing airy and spirited songs , his reputation as a poet would have stood far higher than it ...
... pleasing . We are inclined to think that if Addison had left heroic couplets to Pope , and blank verse to Rowe , and had employed himself in writing airy and spirited songs , his reputation as a poet would have stood far higher than it ...
Page lxiii
... pleasing portion of literary history . They had early attached themselves to the same political party and to the same patrons . While Anne's whig ministry was in power , the visits of Swift to London and the official residence of ...
... pleasing portion of literary history . They had early attached themselves to the same political party and to the same patrons . While Anne's whig ministry was in power , the visits of Swift to London and the official residence of ...
Page lxxi
... pleasing to reflect that the only revenge which Addison took was to insert in the Freeholder a warm encomium on the translation of the Iliad ; and to exhort all lovers of learning to put down their names as subscribers . There could be ...
... pleasing to reflect that the only revenge which Addison took was to insert in the Freeholder a warm encomium on the translation of the Iliad ; and to exhort all lovers of learning to put down their names as subscribers . There could be ...
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ABIGAL Addison admire Æneid appear arms beauties behold blood Boileau BUTLER Cæsar Cato Cato's charms COACHMAN conjurer Danube death dost drum Dryden English ev'ry eyes fame FANTOME fate fear friends GARDENER genius Georgics give goddess gods grace GRIDELINE grief hand hast hear heart heaven Jove JUBA KING LADY Lancelot Addison Latin live look Lord Lord Halifax lov'd LUCIA maid MARCIA Marlborough mighty muse never numbers nymph o'er Ovid passion Pentheus pleasure poem poet poetry Pope PORTIUS praise prince QUEEN rage rise Roman Rome Rosamond SCENE SEMPRONIUS shade shine SIR GEORGE Sir Richard Steele SIR TRUSTY soul speak Spectator Steele story streams Swift SYPHAX taste Tatler tears tell thee thing thou thought thousand thunder Tickell TINSEL tories turn VELLUM verse view'd Virgil virtue Voltaire whig Whilst wou'd writing young youth
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Page 209 - And nightly to the list'ning earth Repeats the story of her birth : Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Page 205 - Though in the paths of death I tread, With gloomy horrors overspread, My steadfast heart shall fear no ill, For Thou, O Lord, art with me still : Thy friendly crook shall give me aid, And guide me through the dreadful shade.
Page 193 - Inspir'd repuls'd battalions to engage, ^ And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel by divine command With rising tempests shakes a guilty land, Such as of late o'er pale Britannia past, Calm and serene he drives the furious blast ; And, pleas'd th' Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm.
Page 392 - To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart, To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold...
Page 211 - In midst of dangers, fears, and death, Thy goodness I'll adore, And praise thee for thy mercies past, And humbly hope for more. My life, if thou preserv'st my life, Thy sacrifice shall be ; And death, if death must be my doom, Shall join my soul to thee.
Page 138 - For, wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy...
Page 206 - When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys; Transported with the view, I'm lost In wonder, love, and praise.
Page 401 - Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius ; we'll deserve it [Exit.
Page 207 - Ten thousand thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ, Nor is the least a cheerful heart, That tastes those gifts with joy.
Page 206 - Thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view, I'm lost In wonder, love, and praise. O, how shall words with equal warmth The gratitude declare, That glows within my ravish'd heart ! But Thou canst read it there. Thy providence my life sustain'd, And all my wants redrest, When in the silent womb I lay, And hung upon the breast.