The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Volume 1Bell & Daldy, 1885 |
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... Look after Gallic towns and forts in vain ; No more his wonted marks he can descry , But sees a long unmeasured ruin lie ; Whilst , pointing to the naked coast , he shows His wondering mates where towns and steeples rose , Where crowded ...
... Look after Gallic towns and forts in vain ; No more his wonted marks he can descry , But sees a long unmeasured ruin lie ; Whilst , pointing to the naked coast , he shows His wondering mates where towns and steeples rose , Where crowded ...
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... look Which such confusion and amazement strook Through Gallic hosts : but , oh ! let us descry Mirth in thy brow , and pleasure in thy eye ; Let nothing dreadful in thy face be found ; But for awhile forget the trumpet's sound ; Well ...
... look Which such confusion and amazement strook Through Gallic hosts : but , oh ! let us descry Mirth in thy brow , and pleasure in thy eye ; Let nothing dreadful in thy face be found ; But for awhile forget the trumpet's sound ; Well ...
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... kings are settled in their hive , Mark him who looks the worst , and lest he live Idle at home in ease and luxury , The lazy monarch must be do med to die ; So let the royal insect rule alone , And reign 12 ADDISON'S WORKS .
... kings are settled in their hive , Mark him who looks the worst , and lest he live Idle at home in ease and luxury , The lazy monarch must be do med to die ; So let the royal insect rule alone , And reign 12 ADDISON'S WORKS .
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... looks are different as their king's , Some sparkle bright , and glitter in their wings ; Others look loathsome and diseased with sloth , Like a faint traveller , whose dusty mouth Grows dry with heat , and spits a mawkish froth . The ...
... looks are different as their king's , Some sparkle bright , and glitter in their wings ; Others look loathsome and diseased with sloth , Like a faint traveller , whose dusty mouth Grows dry with heat , and spits a mawkish froth . The ...
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... look too near , the shades decay , And all the pleasing landscape fades away . Great Cowley then ( a mighty genius ) wrote , O'er - run with wit , and lavish of his thought : His turns too closely on the reader press ; He more had ...
... look too near , the shades decay , And all the pleasing landscape fades away . Great Cowley then ( a mighty genius ) wrote , O'er - run with wit , and lavish of his thought : His turns too closely on the reader press ; He more had ...
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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.