The Works of the English Poets: AddisonH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... friendship and , therefore , I thus publicly bequeath them to you , in return for the many valuable inftances of your affection . That they may come to you with as little difad- vantage as poffible , I have left the care of them to one ...
... friendship and , therefore , I thus publicly bequeath them to you , in return for the many valuable inftances of your affection . That they may come to you with as little difad- vantage as poffible , I have left the care of them to one ...
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... friends , if poffible , as fincere as yourself . When you have found fuch , they cannot wish you more true happi- nefs than I , who am , with the greatest zeal , Dear SIR , Your moft entirely affectionate friend , and faithful obedient ...
... friends , if poffible , as fincere as yourself . When you have found fuch , they cannot wish you more true happi- nefs than I , who am , with the greatest zeal , Dear SIR , Your moft entirely affectionate friend , and faithful obedient ...
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... friend survive . I'm tir'd with rhyming , and would fain give o'er , But justice ftill demands one labour more : The noble Montague remains unnaın'd , For wit , for humour , and for judgment fam'd ; To Dorfet he directs his artful Mufe ...
... friend survive . I'm tir'd with rhyming , and would fain give o'er , But justice ftill demands one labour more : The noble Montague remains unnaın'd , For wit , for humour , and for judgment fam'd ; To Dorfet he directs his artful Mufe ...
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... friend , receive The laft poor present that my Muse can give . I leave the arts of poetry and verfe To them that practise them with more fuccefs . Of greater truths I'll now prepare to tell , And fo at once , dear friend and Mufe ...
... friend , receive The laft poor present that my Muse can give . I leave the arts of poetry and verfe To them that practise them with more fuccefs . Of greater truths I'll now prepare to tell , And fo at once , dear friend and Mufe ...
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... friendship's holy tyes : Their fovereign's well - diftinguish'd fmiles they share , Her ornaments in peace , her ftrength in war ; The nation thanks them with a public voice , By fhowers of bleffings heaven approves their choice ; Envy ...
... friendship's holy tyes : Their fovereign's well - diftinguish'd fmiles they share , Her ornaments in peace , her ftrength in war ; The nation thanks them with a public voice , By fhowers of bleffings heaven approves their choice ; Envy ...
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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.