The Life of Joseph Addison, المجلد 1Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1843 - 256 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة ix
... Latin verses . His acquirements . Designed for the Church . Patronage of letters at this period . Its results . His first English verses addressed to Dryden . Translation from the Georgics . Essay on the Georgics . Verses to Sacheverel ...
... Latin verses . His acquirements . Designed for the Church . Patronage of letters at this period . Its results . His first English verses addressed to Dryden . Translation from the Georgics . Essay on the Georgics . Verses to Sacheverel ...
الصفحة x
... Latin Poems . His celebration of Dr. Burnet's theory . Boileau's remarks on his poems . He sets out on his travels . His letters to several friends . Takes up his residence at Blois . His mode of life there . Letters . Friendship and ...
... Latin Poems . His celebration of Dr. Burnet's theory . Boileau's remarks on his poems . He sets out on his travels . His letters to several friends . Takes up his residence at Blois . His mode of life there . Letters . Friendship and ...
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... LATIN VERSES . HIS ACQUIREMENTS . DESIGNED FOR THE CHURCH . PATRONAGE OF LETTERS AT THIS PERIOD . ITS RESULTS . HIS FIRST ENGLISH VERSES ADDRESSED TO DRYDEN . TRANSLATION FROM THE GEORGICS . ESSAY ON THE GEORGICS . SACHEVERELL ON THE ...
... LATIN VERSES . HIS ACQUIREMENTS . DESIGNED FOR THE CHURCH . PATRONAGE OF LETTERS AT THIS PERIOD . ITS RESULTS . HIS FIRST ENGLISH VERSES ADDRESSED TO DRYDEN . TRANSLATION FROM THE GEORGICS . ESSAY ON THE GEORGICS . SACHEVERELL ON THE ...
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... Latin , and a wide range in polite literature . There is no appearance that the exact sciences ever obtained any great share of his attention ; but he was not , like Pope and Swift , chargeable with the arrogance and folly of decrying ...
... Latin , and a wide range in polite literature . There is no appearance that the exact sciences ever obtained any great share of his attention ; but he was not , like Pope and Swift , chargeable with the arrogance and folly of decrying ...
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... Latin verse had been the means of gaining for him , in his eighteenth year , a demy- ship of Magdalene college ; and in this art he continued occasionally to exercise himself during the whole period of his residence at Oxford . His ...
... Latin verse had been the means of gaining for him , in his eighteenth year , a demy- ship of Magdalene college ; and in this art he continued occasionally to exercise himself during the whole period of his residence at Oxford . His ...
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Abraham Stanyan acquaintance Addison afterwards ancient appears army battle of Blenheim BISHOP HOUGH Blois celebrated character classical Congreve conversation cou'd court Dear Sir doubtless Dryden duchess of Marlborough DUKE OF SOMERSET EARL OF MANCHESTER EARL OF WHARTON England English esteem father favour France French friendship Gallway Geneva genius Georgics give Godolphin Grace hear Holland hope Humble Servant humour Ireland Italy JOSEPH ADDISON kind King L'ship Latin learned letter Lisbon literary lord Halifax LORD SOMERS lordship Majesty Marlborough Milston Muse nature occasion Ovid Oxford parliament patron person piece poem poet poetical poetry political present prince probably queen received reign remarks Rome says secretary shou'd Steele Stepney Papers Swift taste thought Tickell Papers tions TONSON town translation travels verse Wharton whig WORTLEY MONTAGU wou'd writer WYCHE ye honour ye world
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الصفحة 172 - 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...
الصفحة 119 - 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...
الصفحة 120 - 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...
الصفحة 38 - Long had our dull fore-fathers slept supine, Nor felt the raptures of the tuneful Nine; Till Chaucer first, a merry bard, arose, And many a story told in rhyme and prose. But age has rusted what the poet writ, Worn out his language, and obscur'd his wit: In vain he jests in his unpolish'd strain, And tries to make his readers laugh in vain.
الصفحة 58 - am called,' he said, ' an enemy of the Church. But I will never ' do it any other injury than keeping Mr Addison out of it.
الصفحة 217 - Quails popule& moerens Philomela sub umbra Amissos queritur foetus, quos durus arator Observans nido implumes detraxit ; at ilia Flet noctem, ramoque sedens miserabile carmen Integral, et moestis late loca questibus implet.
الصفحة 215 - I have news brought me of a nest which has abundance of little eggs, streaked with red and blue veins, that, by the description they give me, must make a very beautiful figure on a string. My neighbours are very much divided in their opinions upon them : some say they are a skylark's...
الصفحة 177 - To Dr. Jonathan Swift, the most agreeable companion, the truest friend, and the greatest genius of his age.
الصفحة 180 - above all men in that talent called humour, and enjoyed it in such perfection, that I have often reflected, after a night ' spent with him apart from all the world, that I had...
الصفحة 50 - It is certain that this Chancellor was a most excellent lawyer, very learned in all polite literature, a superior pen, master of a handsome style, and of easy conversation; but he is said to make too much haste to be rich, as his predecessor, and most in place in this age did, to a more prodigious excess than was ever known.