The Miscellaneous Works of Joseph Addison, Band 2Lewis A. Lewis, 1830 |
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... thing . The inborn greatness of your soul we view , You tread the paths frequented by the few . With so much strength you write , and so much ease , Virtue and sense ! how durst you hope to please ? Yet crowds the sentiments of every ...
... thing . The inborn greatness of your soul we view , You tread the paths frequented by the few . With so much strength you write , and so much ease , Virtue and sense ! how durst you hope to please ? Yet crowds the sentiments of every ...
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... thing she acts or speaks , While winning mildness and attractive smiles Dwell in her looks , and with becoming grace Soften the rigour of her father's virtue . SYPHAX . How does your tongue grow wanton in her praise ! But on my knees I ...
... thing she acts or speaks , While winning mildness and attractive smiles Dwell in her looks , and with becoming grace Soften the rigour of her father's virtue . SYPHAX . How does your tongue grow wanton in her praise ! But on my knees I ...
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... things . Our lives , discolour'd with our present woes , May still grow white , and smile with happier hours . So the pure limpid stream , when foul with stains Of rushing torrents , and descending rains , Works itself clear , and as it ...
... things . Our lives , discolour'd with our present woes , May still grow white , and smile with happier hours . So the pure limpid stream , when foul with stains Of rushing torrents , and descending rains , Works itself clear , and as it ...
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... thing we say ; We hate you when you're easily said nay . How needless , if you knew us , were your fears ! Let love have eyes , and beauty will have ears . Our hearts are form'd as you yourselves would choose , Too proud to ask , too ...
... thing we say ; We hate you when you're easily said nay . How needless , if you knew us , were your fears ! Let love have eyes , and beauty will have ears . Our hearts are form'd as you yourselves would choose , Too proud to ask , too ...
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Joseph Addison. What pains to get the gaudy thing you hate ! To swell in show , and be a wretch in state ! At plays ... things , And courts less coveted than groves and springs . Love then shall only mourn when truth complains , And ...
Joseph Addison. What pains to get the gaudy thing you hate ! To swell in show , and be a wretch in state ! At plays ... things , And courts less coveted than groves and springs . Love then shall only mourn when truth complains , And ...
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ABIG Abigail Alcibiades arms beats Behold believe blood bower Cæsar Cato Cato's charms COACH conjurer dear death DECIUS dost thou dreadful drum duke of Anjou Enter Exit eyes fair fancy FANT Fantome fate father fear friends GARD ghost give gods GRID GRIDELINE grief hand happy hear heart heaven ho--nour honour husband JUBA KING LADY liberty live Look ye lover LUCIA LUCIUS madam maid MARCIA MARCUS marry master never night Numidian o'er passion Pharsalia pleasure PORTIUS Pray prince Prithee QUEEN rage riddle rise Roman Roman senate Rome Rosamond SCENE secret SEMP Sempronius senate servants SIR GEORGE SIR TRUSTY sorrow soul Spanish monarchy speak stand steward sword SYPHAX talk tears tell thee Theophrastus thou art thou hast thought thousand pound TINSEL Utica VELLUM virtue vows widow woman word wouldst young youth Сато
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Seite 64 - To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart, To make mankind in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold...
Seite 129 - It must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well — Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into naught ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.
Seite 65 - A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state. While Cato gives his little senate laws, What bosom beats not in his country's cause ? Who sees him act, but envies every deed ? Who hears him groan, and does not wish to bleed?
Seite 88 - A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty, Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
Seite 130 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Seite 130 - ... 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.
Seite 86 - My voice is still for war. Gods ! can a Roman senate long debate Which of the two to choose, slavery or death ! No, let us rise at once, gird on our swords, And, at the head of our remaining troops, Attack the foe, break through the thick array Of his throng'd legions, and charge home upon him.
Seite 129 - The wide, th' unbounded prospect lies before me ; But shadows, clouds, and darkness rest upon it. 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.
Seite 128 - Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station.
Seite 67 - And heavily in clouds brings on the day, The great, th' important day, big with the fate Of Cato and of Rome" Our father's death Would fill up all the guilt of civil war, And close the scene of blood. Already...