The Works of the English Poets: AddisonH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... pleasing airs my ravifh'd foul confound With circling notes and labyrinths of found ; Here domes and temples rise in distant views , And opening palaces invite my Mufe . How has kind heaven adorn'd the happy land , And scatter'd ...
... pleasing airs my ravifh'd foul confound With circling notes and labyrinths of found ; Here domes and temples rise in distant views , And opening palaces invite my Mufe . How has kind heaven adorn'd the happy land , And scatter'd ...
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... pleasing and delightful . Precepts of morality , befides the natural corruption of our tempers , which makes us averfe to them , are fo abstracted from ideas of fenfe , that they feldom give an opportunity for those beautiful ...
... pleasing and delightful . Precepts of morality , befides the natural corruption of our tempers , which makes us averfe to them , are fo abstracted from ideas of fenfe , that they feldom give an opportunity for those beautiful ...
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... pleasing and agreeable man- ner ; for there are several ways of conveying the fame truth to the mind of man ; and to choose the pleasant- est of these ways , is that which chiefly distinguishes poetry from profe , and makes Virgil's ...
... pleasing and agreeable man- ner ; for there are several ways of conveying the fame truth to the mind of man ; and to choose the pleasant- est of these ways , is that which chiefly distinguishes poetry from profe , and makes Virgil's ...
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... pleasing circumftance of this truth , and fo conveys the whole in a more di- verting manner to the understanding . I fhall give one inftance out of a multitude of this nature that might be found in the Georgics where the reader may fee ...
... pleasing circumftance of this truth , and fo conveys the whole in a more di- verting manner to the understanding . I fhall give one inftance out of a multitude of this nature that might be found in the Georgics where the reader may fee ...
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... pleasing snares of vice , More to be fear'd than they . VIII . When worn with ficknefs , oft haft thou With health renew'd my face ; And when in fins and forrows funk , Reviv'd my foul with grace . IX . Thy bounteous hand with worldly ...
... pleasing snares of vice , More to be fear'd than they . VIII . When worn with ficknefs , oft haft thou With health renew'd my face ; And when in fins and forrows funk , Reviv'd my foul with grace . IX . Thy bounteous hand with worldly ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Aëre æther arms aſk atque behold beſt blood bluſhes breaſt bright Cadmus Cæfar caft Cato Cato's cauſe charms courſe CYCNUS death DECIUS defcription eaſe Ev'n eyes faid fame fate father fays fecret fenate fhall fhining fight fire firſt fome forrows foul friends ftand ftill ftory ftrength fubject fuccefs fuch fword Georgic goddeſs gods grief heart heaven himſelf itſelf Jove JUBA laft laſt loft LUCIA LUCIUS maid Marcia Marcus mighty moſt muſt myſelf numbers Numidian nunc nymph o'er Ovid paffion Pentheus Phaeton pleaſe pleaſure Poet Portius praiſe prince purſue rage raiſe reft reſt rife rifu riſe Roman Rome SEMPRONIUS ſhall ſhe ſhine ſhould ſhow ſkies ſky ſpeak ſpread ſtand ſtate ſtill ſtood ſtreams Syphax tears thee thefe theſe thofe thoſe thou thoughts thouſand thunder verfe verſe view'd Virgil virgin virtue waſte Whilft youth САТО
Pasajes populares
Página 225 - Ten thousand thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ ; Nor is the least a cheerful heart, That tastes those gifts with joy.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 45 - Tis Britain's care to watch o'er Europe's fate, And hold in balance each contending state, To threaten bold presumptuous kings with war, And answer her afflicted neighbours pray'r.
Página 153 - Who now appear'd but one continu'd wound. With dropping tears his bitter fate he moans, And fills the mountain with his dying groans. His servants with a piteous look he spies, And turns about his supplicating eyes.
Página 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.
Página 100 - Not the red arm of angry Jove, That flings the thunder from the sky, And gives it rage to roar, and strength to fly. Should the whole frame of nature round him break, In ruin, and confusion hurl'd, He, unconcern'd would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure, amidst a falling world.
Página 210 - Virgil seems no where so well pleased, as when he is got among his Bees in the Fourth Georgic; and ennobles the actions of so trivial a creature, with metaphors drawn from the most important concerns of mankind. His verses...
Página 249 - ... storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state. While Cato gives his little senate laws...
Página 278 - Rome will rejoice, and cast its eyes on Cato, As on the second of mankind. CATO. No more! I must not think of life on such conditions. DEC. Caesar is well acquainted with your virtues, And therefore sets this value on your life: Let him but know the price of Cato's friendship, And name your terms.