The Works of the English Poets: AddisonH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... first began to grow : How wild Lycaon , chang'd by angry gods , And frighted at himself , ran howling through the woods . may'st thou still the noble task prolong , Nor age , nor fickness , interrupt thy song : Then may we wondering ...
... first began to grow : How wild Lycaon , chang'd by angry gods , And frighted at himself , ran howling through the woods . may'st thou still the noble task prolong , Nor age , nor fickness , interrupt thy song : Then may we wondering ...
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... first shall storm the breach , or mount the wall . In vain the thronging enemy by force Would clear the ramparts , and repel their course They break through all , for William leads the way , Where fires rage moft , and loudeft engines ...
... first shall storm the breach , or mount the wall . In vain the thronging enemy by force Would clear the ramparts , and repel their course They break through all , for William leads the way , Where fires rage moft , and loudeft engines ...
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... First , for your bees a proper station find , That's fenc'd about and shelter'd from the wind ; For winds divert them in their flight , and drive ' The fwarms , when loaden homeward , from their hive . Nor fheep , nor goats , must ...
... First , for your bees a proper station find , That's fenc'd about and shelter'd from the wind ; For winds divert them in their flight , and drive ' The fwarms , when loaden homeward , from their hive . Nor fheep , nor goats , must ...
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... first ground - work of the golden comb ; On this they found their waxen works , and raise The yellow fabrick on its glewy base . Some educate the young , or hatch the feed With vital warmth , and future nations breed ; } } C 4 Whilft ...
... first ground - work of the golden comb ; On this they found their waxen works , and raise The yellow fabrick on its glewy base . Some educate the young , or hatch the feed With vital warmth , and future nations breed ; } } C 4 Whilft ...
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... , and fea , and all " the deep of heaven ; " That this first kindled life in man and beast , " Life that again flows into this at last . " That That no compounded animal could die , But when diffolv'd 26 ADDISON'S POEMS .
... , and fea , and all " the deep of heaven ; " That this first kindled life in man and beast , " Life that again flows into this at last . " That That no compounded animal could die , But when diffolv'd 26 ADDISON'S POEMS .
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Page 329 - 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 229 - Though in a bare and rugged way, Through devious, lonely wilds I stray, Thy bounty shall my pains beguile : The barren wilderness shall smile, With sudden greens and herbage crowned, And streams shall murmur all around...
Page 330 - ... 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 44 - On foreign mountains may the Sun refine The grape's soft juice, and mellow it to wine, With citron groves adorn a distant soil, And the fat olive swell with floods of oil : We envy not the warmer clime, that lies...
Page 107 - The god sits high, exalted on a throne Of blazing gems, with purple garments on ; The hours, in order rang'd on either hand, And days, and months, and years, and ages stand. Here spring appears with...
Page 253 - Put forth thy utmost strength, work every nerve, And call up all thy father in thy soul : To quell the tyrant Love, and guard thy heart On this weak side, where most our nature fails, Would be a conquest worthy Cato's son.
Page 248 - Commanding tears to stream through every age ; Tyrants no more their savage nature kept, And foes to virtue wonder'd how they wept. Our author shuns...
Page 223 - To all my weak Complaints and Cries Thy Mercy lent an Ear, Ere yet my feeble Thoughts had learnt To form themselves in Pray'r. Unnumber'd Comforts to my Soul Thy tender Care bestow'd, Before my Infant Heart conceiv'd From whom those Comforts flow'd. When in the slipp'ry Paths of Youth With heedless Steps I ran, Thine Arm unseen convey'd me safe And led me up to Man...
Page 35 - Through pathless fields, and unfrequented floods, To dens of dragons and enchanted woods. But now the mystic tale, that pleased of yore, Can charm an understanding age no more; The long-spun allegories fulsome grow, While the dull moral lies too plain below.
Page 281 - This sober conduct is a mighty virtue In lukewarm patriots. Cato. Come! no more, Sempronius, All here are friends to Rome, and to each other. Let us not weaken still the weaker side By our divisions. Sem. Cato, my resentments Are sacrificed to Rome — I stand reproved.