The Miscellaneous Works of Joseph Addison, Band 2Lewis A. Lewis, 1830 |
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... virtue . " He not only runs counter to this , " he says , " in the fate of his principal character , but everywhere makes virtue suffer and vice triumph for not only is Cato vanquished by Cæsar , but the treachery and perfidious- ness ...
... virtue . " He not only runs counter to this , " he says , " in the fate of his principal character , but everywhere makes virtue suffer and vice triumph for not only is Cato vanquished by Cæsar , but the treachery and perfidious- ness ...
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... virtues can be measured by the common standard of human nature ; and surely if any man may be represented on the stage as godlike , it is Cato . The critic is more successful in his attempt to show the absurdities into which the author ...
... virtues can be measured by the common standard of human nature ; and surely if any man may be represented on the stage as godlike , it is Cato . The critic is more successful in his attempt to show the absurdities into which the author ...
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... virtue join'd . Meanwhile , bright princess , who , with graceful ease And native majesty , are form'd to please ; Behold those arts with a propitious eye , That suppliant to their great protectress fly ! Then shall they triumph , and ...
... virtue join'd . Meanwhile , bright princess , who , with graceful ease And native majesty , are form'd to please ; Behold those arts with a propitious eye , That suppliant to their great protectress fly ! Then shall they triumph , and ...
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... virtue draw , While envy is itself in wonder lost , And factions strive who shall applaud you most ; Forgive the fond ambition of a friend , Who hopes himself , not you , to recommend , And join th ' applause which all the learn'd ...
... virtue draw , While envy is itself in wonder lost , And factions strive who shall applaud you most ; Forgive the fond ambition of a friend , Who hopes himself , not you , to recommend , And join th ' applause which all the learn'd ...
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... virtue's cause ; His fate renew'd our deep attention draws , Excites by turns our various hopes and fears , And all the patriot in thy scene appears . On Tiber's banks thy thought was first inspir'd , ' Twas there , to some indulgent ...
... virtue's cause ; His fate renew'd our deep attention draws , Excites by turns our various hopes and fears , And all the patriot in thy scene appears . On Tiber's banks thy thought was first inspir'd , ' Twas there , to some indulgent ...
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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...