Selections from the Works of Joseph AddisonH. Holt, 1906 - 360 pagina's |
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Pagina vii
... father , Launcelot Addison , had been English chaplain at Dunkirk , 1660-1662 , and at Tangier , 1662-1670 . In 1683 he was ap- pointed Dean of Lichfield . He was known as a writer and recorded his foreign experiences in three books ...
... father , Launcelot Addison , had been English chaplain at Dunkirk , 1660-1662 , and at Tangier , 1662-1670 . In 1683 he was ap- pointed Dean of Lichfield . He was known as a writer and recorded his foreign experiences in three books ...
Pagina 1
... fathers slept supine , Nor felt the raptures of the tuneful Nine ; ' Till Chaucer first , a merry bard , arose , And many a story told in rime , and prose . But age has rusted what the poet writ , Worn out his language , and obscured ...
... fathers slept supine , Nor felt the raptures of the tuneful Nine ; ' Till Chaucer first , a merry bard , arose , And many a story told in rime , and prose . But age has rusted what the poet writ , Worn out his language , and obscured ...
Pagina 20
... father , and the captive wept . An English Muse is touched with generous woe , 10 1705 , And rush in crowds . 13 1705 , So used . 12 1705 , 335 340 11 1705 , with their drowned masters mixed . Midst heaps of broken spears and standards ...
... father , and the captive wept . An English Muse is touched with generous woe , 10 1705 , And rush in crowds . 13 1705 , So used . 12 1705 , 335 340 11 1705 , with their drowned masters mixed . Midst heaps of broken spears and standards ...
Pagina 22
... father's throne : What tides of glory to his bosom ran , Clasped in th ' embraces of the godlike man ! How were his eyes with pleasing wonder fixed To see such fire with so much sweetness mixed , Such easy greatness , such a graceful ...
... father's throne : What tides of glory to his bosom ran , Clasped in th ' embraces of the godlike man ! How were his eyes with pleasing wonder fixed To see such fire with so much sweetness mixed , Such easy greatness , such a graceful ...
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... father of almighty Rome ( Divinely flushed 15 with an immortal bloom That Cytherea's fragrant breath bestowed ) In all the charms of his bright mother glowed . 420 The royal youth by Marlborough's presence charmed , 425 Taught by his ...
... father of almighty Rome ( Divinely flushed 15 with an immortal bloom That Cytherea's fragrant breath bestowed ) In all the charms of his bright mother glowed . 420 The royal youth by Marlborough's presence charmed , 425 Taught by his ...
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Selections From the Works of Joseph Addison: Edited With an Introduction and ... Edward Bliss Reed Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2018 |
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Populaire passages
Pagina 212 - OF man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly Muse...
Pagina 172 - ... them into the tide and immediately disappeared. These hidden pit-falls were set very thick at the entrance of the bridge, so that throngs of people no sooner broke through the cloud, but many of them fell into them. They grew thinner towards the middle, but multiplied and lay closer together towards the end of the arches that were entire.
Pagina 337 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet; and yet it is sung but by some blind crowder, with no rougher voice than rude style; which being so evil apparelled in the dust and cobwebs of that uncivil age, what would it work, trimmed in the gorgeous eloquence of Pindar?
Pagina 217 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer's day, While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Pagina 189 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar...
Pagina 264 - The wide, the 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.
Pagina 158 - ... than blemish his good qualities. As soon as the sermon is finished, nobody presumes to stir till Sir Roger is gone out of the church. The knight walks down from his seat in the chancel between a double row of his tenants, that stand bowing to him on each side : and every now and then inquires how...
Pagina xviii - And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
Pagina 219 - The seat of desolation, void of light, Save what the glimmering of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful...
Pagina 257 - They that go down to the sea in ships, That do business in great waters ; These see the works of the Lord, And his wonders in the deep. For he commandeth and raiseth the stormy wind, Which lifteth up the waves thereof.