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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... woes , And ev'ry tear in lines fo mournful flows ; We , fpite of fame , her fate revers'd believe , O'erlook her crimes , and think fhe ought to live . Let Let joy tranfport fair Rofamonda's fhade , And wreaths of [ 4 ]
... woes , And ev'ry tear in lines fo mournful flows ; We , fpite of fame , her fate revers'd believe , O'erlook her crimes , and think fhe ought to live . Let Let joy tranfport fair Rofamonda's fhade , And wreaths of [ 4 ]
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... fate , Since love , which made ' em wretched , makes ' em great , Nor longer that relentless doom bemoan , Which gain'd a Virgil , and an Addison . Accept , great monarch of the British lays , The tribute fong an humble subject pays ...
... fate , Since love , which made ' em wretched , makes ' em great , Nor longer that relentless doom bemoan , Which gain'd a Virgil , and an Addison . Accept , great monarch of the British lays , The tribute fong an humble subject pays ...
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... fate , Who ferve in the state , Sir TRUSTY folus , [ Exit Grid . And should lay out our cares On public affairs ; When conjugal toils , And family broils Make all our great labours mifcarry ! Yet this is the lot Of him that has got Fair ...
... fate , Who ferve in the state , Sir TRUSTY folus , [ Exit Grid . And should lay out our cares On public affairs ; When conjugal toils , And family broils Make all our great labours mifcarry ! Yet this is the lot Of him that has got Fair ...
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... fate ! Curfe this unhappy , guilty face , Every charm , and every grace , way , That to thy ruin made their And led thine innocence aftray : [ Apart . At At home thou seeft thy Queen enraged , Abroad thy ROSAM ON D. 17.
... fate ! Curfe this unhappy , guilty face , Every charm , and every grace , way , That to thy ruin made their And led thine innocence aftray : [ Apart . At At home thou seeft thy Queen enraged , Abroad thy ROSAM ON D. 17.
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... fate ! PAGE . Deplorable ftate ! GRIDELINE . To die- PAGE . -To be flain GRIDELINE . By a barbarous fwain , BOTH . That laughs at your pain . GRIDELINE . How fhou'd I act ? canft thou advise ? PAGE . Open the gate , if you are wife ; I ...
... fate ! PAGE . Deplorable ftate ! GRIDELINE . To die- PAGE . -To be flain GRIDELINE . By a barbarous fwain , BOTH . That laughs at your pain . GRIDELINE . How fhou'd I act ? canft thou advise ? PAGE . Open the gate , if you are wife ; I ...
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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.