The Works of the English Poets: AddisonH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... ; If you , well pleas'd , fhall fmile upon my lays , Secure of fame , my voice I ' ll boldly raise , For next to what you write , is what you praise . } то TO THE KING . WHEN now the business of the 8 POEM S. ADDISON'S.
... ; If you , well pleas'd , fhall fmile upon my lays , Secure of fame , my voice I ' ll boldly raise , For next to what you write , is what you praise . } то TO THE KING . WHEN now the business of the 8 POEM S. ADDISON'S.
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... voice : She faw the Boyne run thick with human gore , And floating corps lie beating on the shore ; She faw thee climb the banks , but try'd in vain To trace her Hero through the dufty plain , When through the thick embattled lines he ...
... voice : She faw the Boyne run thick with human gore , And floating corps lie beating on the shore ; She faw thee climb the banks , but try'd in vain To trace her Hero through the dufty plain , When through the thick embattled lines he ...
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... voice , and fung the man Who , driven by stress of fate , such dangers bore On ftormy feas , and a disastrous fhore , Before he fettled in the promis'd earth , And gave the empire of the world its birth . Troy long had found the ...
... voice , and fung the man Who , driven by stress of fate , such dangers bore On ftormy feas , and a disastrous fhore , Before he fettled in the promis'd earth , And gave the empire of the world its birth . Troy long had found the ...
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... voice rebound . Things thus prepar'd- When th ' under - world is feiz'd with cold and night , And fummer here defcends in streams of light , The bees through woods and forests take their flight . They rifle every flower , and lightly ...
... voice rebound . Things thus prepar'd- When th ' under - world is feiz'd with cold and night , And fummer here defcends in streams of light , The bees through woods and forests take their flight . They rifle every flower , and lightly ...
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... voice the tuneful accents fly , In foaring trebles now it rises high , And now it finks , and dwells upon the base . Cecilia's name through all the notes we fing , The work of every fkilful tongue , The found of every trembling string ...
... voice the tuneful accents fly , In foaring trebles now it rises high , And now it finks , and dwells upon the base . Cecilia's name through all the notes we fing , The work of every fkilful tongue , The found of every trembling string ...
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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.