The Miscellaneous Works of Joseph Addison, Volume 2Lewis A. Lewis, 1830 |
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... fall . O let me still for mercy call ! Accept , great queen , like injur'd heaven , The soul that begs to be forgiven : If in the latest gasp of breath , If in the dreadful pains of death , When the cold damp bedews your brow , You hope ...
... fall . O let me still for mercy call ! Accept , great queen , like injur'd heaven , The soul that begs to be forgiven : If in the latest gasp of breath , If in the dreadful pains of death , When the cold damp bedews your brow , You hope ...
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... fall , Crush'd by the thunder of the Gaul ? Why did the spear my bosom miss ? Ye pow'rs , was I reserv'd for this ! Distracted with woe I'll rush on the foe To seek my relief : The sword or the dart Shall pierce my sad heart , And ...
... fall , Crush'd by the thunder of the Gaul ? Why did the spear my bosom miss ? Ye pow'rs , was I reserv'd for this ! Distracted with woe I'll rush on the foe To seek my relief : The sword or the dart Shall pierce my sad heart , And ...
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... fall , We may the whole new scenes of transport call . Thus jewellers confound our wand'ring eyes , And with variety of gems surprise . Here sapphires , here the Sardian stone is seen , The topaz yellow , and the jasper green . The ...
... fall , We may the whole new scenes of transport call . Thus jewellers confound our wand'ring eyes , And with variety of gems surprise . Here sapphires , here the Sardian stone is seen , The topaz yellow , and the jasper green . The ...
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... fall or rise , And fate depended on a fair one's eyes ; The sweet infection , mix'd with dangerous art , Debas'd our manhood , while it sooth'd the heart , You scorn to raise a grief thyself must blame , Nor from our weakness steal a ...
... fall or rise , And fate depended on a fair one's eyes ; The sweet infection , mix'd with dangerous art , Debas'd our manhood , while it sooth'd the heart , You scorn to raise a grief thyself must blame , Nor from our weakness steal a ...
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... fall down before them , And own the force of their superior virtue ? Is there a nation in the wilds of Afric , Amidst our barren rocks , and burning sands , That does not tremble at the Roman name ? SYPHAX . Gods ! where's the worth ...
... fall down before them , And own the force of their superior virtue ? Is there a nation in the wilds of Afric , Amidst our barren rocks , and burning sands , That does not tremble at the Roman name ? SYPHAX . Gods ! where's the worth ...
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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 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 nonsense Numidian o'er passion Pharsalia 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 woes woman word wouldst young youth Сато
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Page 56 - 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...
Page 121 - 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.
Page 118 - How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue ! Who would not be that youth ? what pity is it That we can die but once to serve our country...
Page 120 - Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station.
Page 122 - 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.
Page 57 - 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?
Page 82 - Utica, And at the head of your own little senate; You don't now thunder in the capitol, With all the mouths of Rome to second you. Cato. Let him consider that, who drives us hither, 'Tis Caesar's sword has made Rome's senate little, And thinned its ranks. Alas! thy dazzled eye Beholds this man in a false, glaring light, Which conquest, and success...
Page 94 - tis no matter, we shall do without him. He'll make a pretty figure in a triumph, And serve to trip before the victor's chariot. Syphax, I now may hope thou hast forsook Thy Juba's cause, and wishest Marcia mine.
Page 78 - 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.
Page 95 - So, where our wide Numidian wastes extend, Sudden, th' impetuous hurricanes descend, Wheel through the air, in circling eddies play, Tear up the sands, and sweep whole plains away. The helpless traveller, with wild surprise, Sees the dry desert all around him rise, And smother'd in the dusty whirlwind dies.