The Works of the Right Honorable Joseph Addison, Volume 4William Durell & Company, 1811 |
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... passages as are true in old authors , in settling such as are told after different manners , and in recording such as have been omitted . In this case a cabinet of medals is a body of history . It was indeed the best way in the world to ...
... passages as are true in old authors , in settling such as are told after different manners , and in recording such as have been omitted . In this case a cabinet of medals is a body of history . It was indeed the best way in the world to ...
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... passage of an old poet , as the poet often serves to unriddle a reverse . I could be lon- ger on this head , but I fear I have already tired you . Nay , says Eugenius , since you have gone so far with us , we must beg you to finish your ...
... passage of an old poet , as the poet often serves to unriddle a reverse . I could be lon- ger on this head , but I fear I have already tired you . Nay , says Eugenius , since you have gone so far with us , we must beg you to finish your ...
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... passages among the poets that relate to the particular device of a medal . I wonder , says Eugenius , that your medallists have not been as diligent in searching the poets as the historians , since I find they are so capable of en ...
... passages among the poets that relate to the particular device of a medal . I wonder , says Eugenius , that your medallists have not been as diligent in searching the poets as the historians , since I find they are so capable of en ...
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... passage , I would have the reverse you have shown us stamped on the side of it . The interpreters of Seneca , says Phi- lander , will understand the precedent verses as a description of Venus , though in my opinion there is only the ...
... passage , I would have the reverse you have shown us stamped on the side of it . The interpreters of Seneca , says Phi- lander , will understand the precedent verses as a description of Venus , though in my opinion there is only the ...
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... passage , than out of any seeming design to abuse him . Our English poets on the contrary show a kind of ma- lice prepense in their satires , and instead of bringing in the person to give light to any part of the poem , let you see they ...
... passage , than out of any seeming design to abuse him . Our English poets on the contrary show a kind of ma- lice prepense in their satires , and instead of bringing in the person to give light to any part of the poem , let you see they ...
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Page 111 - For they that led us away captive, required of us then a song, and melody in our heaviness : Sing us one of the songs of Sion. 4 How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a strange land?
Page 48 - His father's heir, and from his tender wings Shakes off his parent dust ; his method he pursues, And the same lease of life on the same terms renews : When grown to manhood he begins his reign, And with...
Page 8 - Statesman, yet friend to truth ! of soul sincere. In action faithful, and in honour clear ! Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend ; Ennobled by himself, by all approv'd, Prais'd, wept, and honour'd by the Muse he lov'd.
Page 82 - The righteous laws, and fraud and force restrain. Janus himself before his fane shall wait, And keep the dreadful issues of his gate, With bolts and iron bars: within remains Imprison'd Fury, bound in brazen chains; High on a trophy rais'd, of useless arms, He sits, and threats the world with vain alarms.
Page 7 - SEE the wild waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad sepulchre appears ! With nodding arches, broken temples spread, The very tombs now vanish'd like their dead!
Page 7 - Convinc'd, she now contracts her vast design, And all her Triumphs shrink into a Coin.
Page 283 - In joyous songs; the rocks resound her lays: In spinning, or the loom, she spends the night, And cedar brands supply her father's light. From hence were heard, rebellowing to the main, The roars of lions that refuse the chain, The grunts of bristled boars, and groans of bears, And herds of howling wolves that stun the sailors
Page 227 - It was indeed the most proper place in the world for a fury to make her exit, after she had filled a nation with distractions and alarms ; and I believe every reader's imagination is pleased, when he sees the angry goddess thus sinking, as it were, in a tempest, and plunging herself into hell, amidst such a scene of horror and confusion.
Page 85 - Which with the spoils of his dead foe he grac'd. The coat of arms by proud Mezentius worn, Now on a naked snag in triumph borne, Was hung on high, and glitter'd from afar, A trophy sacred to the God of War. Above his arms, fix'd on the leafless wood, Appear'd his plumy crest, besmear'd with blood...
Page 246 - Within a long recess there lies a bay : An island shades it from the rolling sea, And forms a port secure for ships to ride : Broke by the jutting land on either side, In double streams the briny waters glide, Betwixt two rows of rocks : a sylvan scene Appears above, and groves for ever green : A grot is form'd beneath, with mossy seats, To rest the Nereids, and exclude the heats.