The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Volume 1Bell & Daldy, 1885 |
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Page xvii
... eyes . If business calls , or crowded courts invite , Th ' unblemished statesman seems to strike my sight ; If in ... eye - balls glance the sudden tears ? How sweet were once thy prospects , fresh and fair , Thy sloping walks , and ...
... eyes . If business calls , or crowded courts invite , Th ' unblemished statesman seems to strike my sight ; If in ... eye - balls glance the sudden tears ? How sweet were once thy prospects , fresh and fair , Thy sloping walks , and ...
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... eyes Survey the heavens , and search the clouded skies , To find out breeding storms , and tell what tempests rise . By turns they ease the loaden swarms , or drive The drone , a lazy insect , from their hive . The work is warmly plied ...
... eyes Survey the heavens , and search the clouded skies , To find out breeding storms , and tell what tempests rise . By turns they ease the loaden swarms , or drive The drone , a lazy insect , from their hive . The work is warmly plied ...
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... eyes With silent wonder , but new wonders rise . As in the milky - way a shining white O'er - flows the heavens with one continued light ; tion of Horace's manner - Sermoni propiora . In the rest , the poetry is better than the ...
... eyes With silent wonder , but new wonders rise . As in the milky - way a shining white O'er - flows the heavens with one continued light ; tion of Horace's manner - Sermoni propiora . In the rest , the poetry is better than the ...
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... eyes , Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise , Poetic fields encompass me around , VIRG . Geo . ii . And still I seem to tread on classic ground ; For here the muse so oft her harp has strung , That not a mountain rears its head ...
... eyes , Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise , Poetic fields encompass me around , VIRG . Geo . ii . And still I seem to tread on classic ground ; For here the muse so oft her harp has strung , That not a mountain rears its head ...
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... eye , The single eye that in his forehead glared Like a full moon , or a broad burnished shield , A forky staff we dexterously applied , Which , in the spacious socket turning round , Scoopt out the big round jelly from its orb . But ...
... eye , The single eye that in his forehead glared Like a full moon , or a broad burnished shield , A forky staff we dexterously applied , Which , in the spacious socket turning round , Scoopt out the big round jelly from its orb . But ...
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Page 182 - Tis not a set of features, or complexion, The tincture of a skin, that I admire: Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.
Page 49 - The victor's shouts and dying groans confound, The dreadful burst of cannon rend the skies, And all the thunder of the battle rise. "Twas then great Marlborough's mighty soul was proved, That, in the shock of charging hosts unmoved, Amidst confusion, horror, and despair, Examined all the dreadful scenes of war ; In peaceful thought the field of death surveyed, To fainting squadrons sent the timely aid, Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage.
Page xvii - To strew fresh laurels, let the task be mine, A frequent pilgrim at thy sacred shrine ; Mine with true sighs thy absence to bemoan, And grave with faithful epitaphs thy stone.