The Life of Joseph Addison, المجلد 1Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1843 - 256 من الصفحات |
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... Translation from the Georgics . Essay on the Georgics . Verses to Sacheverel on the English Poets . Lines by Garth CHAPTER III . 1695 to 1700 . 22 Poems on public occasions why generally failures . Lines of Addison to the king . To Lord ...
... Translation from the Georgics . Essay on the Georgics . Verses to Sacheverel on the English Poets . Lines by Garth CHAPTER III . 1695 to 1700 . 22 Poems on public occasions why generally failures . Lines of Addison to the king . To Lord ...
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... TRANSLATION FROM THE GEORGICS . ESSAY ON THE GEORGICS . SACHEVERELL ON THE ENGLISH POETS . LINES BY GARTH . VERSES TO TRADITION has preserved to us few particulars con- cerning Addison during his residence at Oxford ; fewer by much than ...
... TRANSLATION FROM THE GEORGICS . ESSAY ON THE GEORGICS . SACHEVERELL ON THE ENGLISH POETS . LINES BY GARTH . VERSES TO TRADITION has preserved to us few particulars con- cerning Addison during his residence at Oxford ; fewer by much than ...
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... translation the remnant of his days . The gentle office of cheering the aged bard at his labours by praise and sympathy , was not less . congenial to the disposition of the youthful aspirant than creditable to his taste and discernment ...
... translation the remnant of his days . The gentle office of cheering the aged bard at his labours by praise and sympathy , was not less . congenial to the disposition of the youthful aspirant than creditable to his taste and discernment ...
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... translation of the second Georgic , of which the elder poet com- plaisantly remarked , after this , " my second swarm is scarce worth the hiving . " This courtesy was again requited on the part of the younger , by the humble but welcome ...
... translation of the second Georgic , of which the elder poet com- plaisantly remarked , after this , " my second swarm is scarce worth the hiving . " This courtesy was again requited on the part of the younger , by the humble but welcome ...
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... translation of Herodotus , a part to be executed , and the whole superintended , by himself . The exact period of this undertaking is unknown , for the letters are without date of year ; but it was evidently during his residence at ...
... translation of Herodotus , a part to be executed , and the whole superintended , by himself . The exact period of this undertaking is unknown , for the letters are without date of year ; but it was evidently during his residence at ...
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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.