The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: Letters, continued. 2d appendix, containing miscellanies and gleanings. Translations of Addison's Latin poems. Addison's Latin prose. Official documents. Addisoniana. GeneralH. G. Bohn, 1856 |
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... thick - skulled aldermen arise ; The comic tone , inspired by Congreve , draws At every word loud laughter and applause ; The whining dame continues as before , Her character unchanged , and acts a whore . Above the rest , the prince ...
... thick - skulled aldermen arise ; The comic tone , inspired by Congreve , draws At every word loud laughter and applause ; The whining dame continues as before , Her character unchanged , and acts a whore . Above the rest , the prince ...
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... thick inhabitants , a well - ordered state ; Each studious to promote the common weal , And cultivate the little arts of life . If haply now the curious traveller Over the rocky mound pursues his way , A dreary desert waste and wild he ...
... thick inhabitants , a well - ordered state ; Each studious to promote the common weal , And cultivate the little arts of life . If haply now the curious traveller Over the rocky mound pursues his way , A dreary desert waste and wild he ...
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... thick battalions scour the hostile ground . Impatient for the charge they shake the dart , And silent meet the horrid front of death . Full in the centre stalks their haughty chief , Advancing TRANSLATIONS OF ADDISON'S LATIN POEMS . 565.
... thick battalions scour the hostile ground . Impatient for the charge they shake the dart , And silent meet the horrid front of death . Full in the centre stalks their haughty chief , Advancing TRANSLATIONS OF ADDISON'S LATIN POEMS . 565.
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... thick and heavy groans sighs out his soul , Which curses as it goes the fatal beak : Thick patters with his little heels the ground . Noisy confusion fills the frighted field , Which blushes with 566 APPENDIX .
... thick and heavy groans sighs out his soul , Which curses as it goes the fatal beak : Thick patters with his little heels the ground . Noisy confusion fills the frighted field , Which blushes with 566 APPENDIX .
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... thick battle raged , the Pygmy king Prodigious power had shown ; around him rose A rampart of the bodies of the slain . Dauntless ' midst deaths he stood , like fate , unmoved , Nor aught availed the united flap of wings Or ported beaks ...
... thick battle raged , the Pygmy king Prodigious power had shown ; around him rose A rampart of the bodies of the slain . Dauntless ' midst deaths he stood , like fate , unmoved , Nor aught availed the united flap of wings Or ported beaks ...
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Seite 566 - Their dread commander ; he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower ; his form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured...
Seite 739 - THERE is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress: within my own memory I have known it rise and fall above thirty degrees. About ten 'years ago it shot up to a very great height, insomuch that the female part of our species were much taller than the men. (a) The women were of such an enormous stature, that we appeared as grasshoppers before them.
Seite 862 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison...
Seite 717 - When it was first acted, the numerous and violent claps of the Whig party on the one side of the theatre were echoed back by the Tories on the other, while the author sweated behind the scenes with concern to find their applause proceeding more from the hand than the head.
Seite 525 - Executor of this my last will and testament hereby revoking all former wills by me made. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this eighth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
Seite 729 - was particular in this writer, that when he had taken his resolution or made his plan for what he designed to write, he would walk about a room and dictate it into language with as much freedom and ease as any one could write it down, and attend to the coherence and grammar of what he dictated.
Seite 23 - INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF THE BIBLE: containing Proofs of the Authenticity and Inspiration of the Holy Scriptures; a Summary of the History of the Jews ; an Account of the Jewish Sects ; and a brief Statement of the Contents of the several Books of the Old and New Testaments. By GEORGE TOMLINE, DDFRS New Edition. Fcp. 8vo. 5s. 6d. cloth. TOOKE.-THE HISTORY OF PRICES : With reference to the Causes of their principal Variations, from the year 1792 to the year 1838, inclusive.
Seite 542 - I bridle in my struggling Muse with pain, That longs to launch into a nobler strain.
Seite 538 - For wheresoe'er I turn my ravish'd eyes, Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise, Poetic fields encompass me around, And still I seem to tread on classic ground...