The Works of Joseph Addison: Dialogues on medals. Travels. Essays on Virgil's Georgics. Discourse on ancient and modern learning. Of the Christian religion. Letters. Political writingsJ. B. Lippincott, 1888 |
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... arm distain'd with blood , Who joins in leagues the jarring lands , The horn of plenty fills her hands . SEN . MED . act . 1 . The description , says Eugenius , is a copy of the figure we have before us and for the future , instead of ...
... arm distain'd with blood , Who joins in leagues the jarring lands , The horn of plenty fills her hands . SEN . MED . act . 1 . The description , says Eugenius , is a copy of the figure we have before us and for the future , instead of ...
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... arm'd the god begins his airy race , And drives the racking clouds along the liquid The two heads over the two cornu - copiæ are of children , who are sometimes called among the poet of Peace , as they took away the occasions of war ...
... arm'd the god begins his airy race , And drives the racking clouds along the liquid The two heads over the two cornu - copiæ are of children , who are sometimes called among the poet of Peace , as they took away the occasions of war ...
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... arms bare , and as much exposed to view as our handa and faces are at present . Before I had made this remark , I have sometimes wondered to see the Roman poets , in their de scriptions of a beautiful man , so often mentioning the turn ...
... arms bare , and as much exposed to view as our handa and faces are at present . Before I had made this remark , I have sometimes wondered to see the Roman poets , in their de scriptions of a beautiful man , so often mentioning the turn ...
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... arms , With endless rapture you recite , And in that pleasing name delight ; My heart , inflam'd by jealous heats , With numberless resentments beats ; From my pale cheek the colour flies , And all the man within me dies . It was ...
... arms , With endless rapture you recite , And in that pleasing name delight ; My heart , inflam'd by jealous heats , With numberless resentments beats ; From my pale cheek the colour flies , And all the man within me dies . It was ...
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... arms ; Yet sufferably bright , the eye might bear The ungrown glories of his beamy hair . Mild was the babe , and from his cries there A gentle breathing and a harmless flame . b The sun rises on a medal of Commodus , as Ovid in the ...
... arms ; Yet sufferably bright , the eye might bear The ungrown glories of his beamy hair . Mild was the babe , and from his cries there A gentle breathing and a harmless flame . b The sun rises on a medal of Commodus , as Ovid in the ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Addison Æneid ancient antiquities Antoninus Pius appear arms atque beautiful Cæsar Campania canton of Berne Christianity church Claudian DIALOGUES ON MEDALS DRYDEN duke emperor fancy figure formerly French Genoa Georgic give grotto hand head heathen Hesiod honour inhabitants inscription Irenæus Italians Italy Julius Cæsar kind king lake Latin Latium learned lived look Lord Lucius Verus marble Marcus Aurelius mentioned Mevania miles miracles modern mountains Naples nature noble observed occasion old coins old Roman Ovid Pagan palace particular passage persons piece pillars poem poets present prince probably quæ reason religion represented republic Reverse rise river rocks Rome ruins Saviour says Cynthio says Eugenius says Philander seen side Silius Italicus stands Statius statues Stepney suppose tell temple thing thought Tiberius tion town Trajan verse VIRG Virgil whole
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 433 - Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven. But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.
Seite 37 - JUSTUM et tenacem propositi virum Non civium ardor prava jubentium, Non vultus instantis tyranni Mente quatit solida, neque Auster, Dux inquieti turbidus Adriae, 5 Nee fulminantis magna manus Jovis : Si fractus illabatur orbis, * Impavidum ferient ruinae.
Seite 487 - Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth. Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.
Seite 257 - Rais'd on the seas, the surges to control— At once comes tumbling down the rocky wall; Prone to the deep, the stones disjointed fall Of the vast pile; the scatter'd ocean flies; Black sands...
Seite 372 - It is altogether conversant among the fields and woods, and has the most delightful part of nature for its province. It raises in our minds a pleasing variety of scenes and landscapes, whilst it teaches us and makes the driest of its precepts look like a description.
Seite 172 - Do you think that, without a mystery, the first present that God Almighty made to man, was of you, O ye fishes ? Do you think that, without a mystery, among all creatures and animals which were appointed for sacrifices, you only were...
Seite 376 - ... from the solemnity of the expression, and gives it too great a turn of familiarity : much less ought the low phrases and terms of art, that are adapted to husbandry, have any place in such a work as the Georgic, which is not to appear in the natural simplicity and nakedness of its subject, but in the pleasantest dress that poetry can bestow on it.
Seite 230 - 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.