The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: With the Exception of His Numbers of the Spectator, Volumes 5 à 6W. Durell & Company, 1811 |
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... live in great plenty amidst so rich and well - cultivated a soil , were not the taxes and impositions so very exorbi- tant ; for the courts are much too splendid and mag- nificent for the territories that lie about them , and one cannot ...
... live in great plenty amidst so rich and well - cultivated a soil , were not the taxes and impositions so very exorbi- tant ; for the courts are much too splendid and mag- nificent for the territories that lie about them , and one cannot ...
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... live with more ease and prosperity than the subjects of little commonwealths ; as , on the contra- ry , there are none who suffer more under the grie- vances of a hard government , than the subjects of little principalities . I left the ...
... live with more ease and prosperity than the subjects of little commonwealths ; as , on the contra- ry , there are none who suffer more under the grie- vances of a hard government , than the subjects of little principalities . I left the ...
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... live at Geneva . These mountains likewise very much increase their summer heats , and make up a horizon that has something in it very singular and agreeable . On one side you have the long tract of hills , that goes under the name of ...
... live at Geneva . These mountains likewise very much increase their summer heats , and make up a horizon that has something in it very singular and agreeable . On one side you have the long tract of hills , that goes under the name of ...
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... the sharers of it rich enough , without rais- ing them too much above the level of the rest . This is absolutely necessary in these little republics , where the rich merchants live very much within their estates , REMARKS ON ITALY . 5.3.
... the sharers of it rich enough , without rais- ing them too much above the level of the rest . This is absolutely necessary in these little republics , where the rich merchants live very much within their estates , REMARKS ON ITALY . 5.3.
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With the Exception of His Numbers of the Spectator Joseph Addison. the rich merchants live very much within their estates , and , by heaping up vast sums from year to year , might become formidable to the rest of their fellow - citizens ...
With the Exception of His Numbers of the Spectator Joseph Addison. the rich merchants live very much within their estates , and , by heaping up vast sums from year to year , might become formidable to the rest of their fellow - citizens ...
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ABIGAIL arms atque beauty behold blood bright BUTLER Cæsar canton of Berne cantons Cato Cato's charms Christianity church COACHMAN conjurer death DECIUS dost thou drum emperor Ev'n ev'ry eyes Fantome fate father fear friends GARDENER Gaul Georgic give goddess gods GRIDELINE grief hand hast hear heart heaven Hesiod honour Irenæus Jove JUBA king LADY lake learned live look lov'd Lucia LUCIUS maid Marcia Marcus mighty mountains muse numbers Numidian nymph o'er Ovid Pagan passion Pentheus poet Portius prince Prithee QUEEN rage religion rise river Roman Roman senate Rome Rosamond Saviour Saviour's history SCENE SEMPRONIUS shine sight SIR GEORGE SIR TRUSTY soul Spanish monarchy speak stand Switzerland sword SYPHAX tears tell thee thing thought thousand TINSEL tion Tirol town VELLUM verse view'd virgin virtue Whilst whole winds youth САТО
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Page 128 - 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.
Page 62 - For, wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy...
Page 157 - ... 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.
Page 213 - Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel by divine command With rising tempests shakes a guilty land, Such as of late o'er pale Britannia...
Page 189 - 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...
Page 269 - The man resolv'd and steady to his trust, Inflexible to ill, and obstinately just, May the rude rabble's insolence despise, Their senseless clamours, and tumultuous cries : The tyrant's fierceness he beguiles, And the stern brow, and the harsh voice defies, And with superior greatness smiles.
Page 90 - Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius; we'll deserve it.
Page 197 - With all the gifts that heav'n and earth impart, The smiles of nature, and the charms of art, While proud oppression in her valleys reigns, And tyranny usurps her happy plains...
Page 111 - Would he save Cato, bid him spare his country. Tell your dictator this: and tell him, Cato Disdains a life which he has power to offer.
Page 184 - Messiah's outspread banner shines, How does the chariot rattle in his lines! What sounds of brazen wheels, what thunder, scare, And stun the reader with the din of war! With fear my spirits and my blood retire, To see the seraphs sunk in clouds of fire; But when, with eager steps, from hence I rise, And view the first gay scenes of Paradise, What tongue, what words of rapture, can express A vision so profuse of pleasantness!