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. Tickell |
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MESSEN GE R. Hither the victor flies , ( his Queen And royal progeny unseen ; ) Soon as the British shores he reachd , Hither his foaming courser stretch'd ; And see ! his eager steps prevent The message that himself bath sent !
MESSEN GE R. Hither the victor flies , ( his Queen And royal progeny unseen ; ) Soon as the British shores he reachd , Hither his foaming courser stretch'd ; And see ! his eager steps prevent The message that himself bath sent !
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WHIL CHILE you the fierce divided Britons awe , And Cato with an equal virtue draw , While envy is itself in wonder loft , And factions strive who fall applaud you mo } } ; Forgive the fond ambition of a friend , Who hopes himself , not ...
WHIL CHILE you the fierce divided Britons awe , And Cato with an equal virtue draw , While envy is itself in wonder loft , And factions strive who fall applaud you mo } } ; Forgive the fond ambition of a friend , Who hopes himself , not ...
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With how much care he forms himself to glory , And breaks the fierceness of his native temper , To copy out our father's bright example , He loves our sister Marcia , greatly loves her , His eyes , his looks , his actions all betray it ...
With how much care he forms himself to glory , And breaks the fierceness of his native temper , To copy out our father's bright example , He loves our sister Marcia , greatly loves her , His eyes , his looks , his actions all betray it ...
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While good , and just , and anxious for his friends , He's still severely bent against himself ;; Renouncing sleep , and rest , and food , and ease , He strives with thirst and hunger , toil and heat ; And when his fortune sets before ...
While good , and just , and anxious for his friends , He's still severely bent against himself ;; Renouncing sleep , and rest , and food , and ease , He strives with thirst and hunger , toil and heat ; And when his fortune sets before ...
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Portius himself oft falls in tears before me , As if he mourn'd his rival's ill success , Then bids me hide the motions of heart , Nor shew which way it turns . So much he fears The fad effects , that it would have on Marcus .
Portius himself oft falls in tears before me , As if he mourn'd his rival's ill success , Then bids me hide the motions of heart , Nor shew which way it turns . So much he fears The fad effects , that it would have on Marcus .
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ABIGA Abigal Afide appear arms bear believe better BUTLER Cato Cato's cauſe charms COACH comes Conjurer court dear death drum Enter ev'ry Exit eyes fair fall Fantome fate father fear firſt follow friends GARDINER give gods grief hand head hear heart heav'n himſelf hope houſe JUBA KING L A D Lady laſt legs live look Lucia Lucius Marcia Marcus maſter means muſt myſelf nature never once perſon pleaſe poor Portius Pray preſent Prince Queen riſe Roman Rome ſay SCENE ſee Sempronius ſhall ſhe ſhould Sir GEORG Sir GEORG E ſome ſoul ſpeak ſtand ſtill ſuch Syphax talk tears tell thee theſe thing thoſe thou thought thouſand TINSEL turn uſe V E L L U Vellum virtue whole woman young
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Page 154 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us — And that there is, all nature cries aloud Through all her works — He must delight in virtue; And that which He delights in must be happy.
Page 155 - ... there is all Nature cries aloud Through all her works). He must delight in virtue ; And that which He delights in must be happy. But when ? or where ? This world was made for Caesar — I'm weary of conjectures — this must end them.
Page 154 - Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into...
Page 92 - Which of the two to chuse, slavery or death ! No, let us rise at once, gird on our swords, And, at the head of our remaining troops, Attack the foe, break through the thick array Of his throng'd legions, and charge home upon him. Perhaps some arm, more lucky than the rest, May reach his heart, and free the world from bondage.
Page 137 - Imaginary ills, and fancy'd tortures ? I hear the sound of feet ! they march this way ! Let us retire, and try if we can drown Each softer thought in sense of present danger. When love once pleads admission to our hearts (In spite of all the virtue we can boast) The woman that deliberates is lost.
Page 150 - How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue ! Who would not be that youth ? what pity is it That we can die but once to serve our country...
Page 305 - If it affirms any thing, you cannot lay hold of it ; or if it denies, you cannot confute it. In a word, there are greater depths and obscurities, greater intricacies and perplexities, in an elaborate and well-written piece of nonsense, than in the most abstruse and profound tract of school-divinity.
Page 132 - Remember, O my friends, the laws, the rights, The generous plan of power deliver'd down, From age to age, by your renown'd forefathers, (So dearly bought, the price of so much blood) O let it never perish in your hands ! But piously transmit it to your children.
Page 153 - There the brave youth, with love of virtue fired, Who greatly in his country's cause expired, Shall know he conquered. The firm patriot there, (Who made the welfare of mankind his care) Though still, by faction, vice, and fortune crost, Shall find the generous labor was not lost.
Page 125 - Thus o'er the dying lamp th' unsteady flame Hangs quivering on a point, leaps off by fits, And falls again, as loth to quit its hold. — Thou must not go, my soul still hovers o'er thee, And can't get loose.
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| Pealkiri | 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. Tickell 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. Tickell, Joseph Addison |
| Autor | Joseph Addison |
| Publisher | T. Walker, 1773 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 21 sept. 2006 |
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