The works of ... Joseph Addison, collected by mr. Tickell, المجلد 51804 |
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... given us of him , and to try if we can find out in his looks and features either the haughty , cruel , or merciful temper that dis- covers itself in the history of his actions . We find too on medals the representations of ladies that ...
... given us of him , and to try if we can find out in his looks and features either the haughty , cruel , or merciful temper that dis- covers itself in the history of his actions . We find too on medals the representations of ladies that ...
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... given them information of such persons as are to be met with on no other kind of records . You must give me leave , says Cynthio , to reject this last use of medals . I do not think it worth while to trouble myself with a person's name ...
... given them information of such persons as are to be met with on no other kind of records . You must give me leave , says Cynthio , to reject this last use of medals . I do not think it worth while to trouble myself with a person's name ...
الصفحة 12
... given us a chronicle of the kings of Syria . For this too is an advantage medals have over books , that they tell their story much quicker , and sum up a whole volume in twenty or thirty reverses . They are indeed the best epitomes in ...
... given us a chronicle of the kings of Syria . For this too is an advantage medals have over books , that they tell their story much quicker , and sum up a whole volume in twenty or thirty reverses . They are indeed the best epitomes in ...
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... given me a greater taste of its antiquities , and have fixed in my memory several of the ruins that I have now forgotten . For my part , says Cynthio , I think there are at Rome enow modern works of architecture to employ any reasonable ...
... given me a greater taste of its antiquities , and have fixed in my memory several of the ruins that I have now forgotten . For my part , says Cynthio , I think there are at Rome enow modern works of architecture to employ any reasonable ...
الصفحة 21
... given us the fashion of a Greek sceptre . It is , indeed , odd enough to consider how all kinds of readers find their account in the old poets . Not only your men of the more re- fined or solid parts of learning , but even your alchy ...
... given us the fashion of a Greek sceptre . It is , indeed , odd enough to consider how all kinds of readers find their account in the old poets . Not only your men of the more re- fined or solid parts of learning , but even your alchy ...
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الصفحة 439 - Whosoever . therefore shall confess Me before men, him will I confess also before My Father which is in heaven. But whosoever shall deny Me before men, him will I also deny before My Father which is in heaven.
الصفحة 2 - Statesman, yet friend to truth ; of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear ; Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, Who ga'in'd no title, and who lost no friend ; Ennobled by himself, by all approv'd, And prais'd, unenvied, by the Muse he lov'd.
الصفحة 32 - The man resolv'd, and steady to his trust, Inflexible to ill, and obstinately just, May the rude rabble's insolence despise, Their senseless clamours and tumultuous cries : The tyrant's fierceness he beguiles. And the stern brow, and the harsh voice defies, And with superior greatness smiles.
الصفحة 258 - Bajan mole, Rais'd on the seas, the surges to control — At once comes tumbling down the rocky wall; Prone to the deep, the stones disjointed fall Of the vast pile; the scatter'd ocean flies; Black sands...
الصفحة 95 - For they that led us away captive, required of us then a song, and melody in our heaviness : Sing us one of the songs of Sion. 4 How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a strange land?
الصفحة 190 - ... this nation. The English and French, who always use the same words in verse as in ordinary conversation, are forced to raise their language with metaphors and figures, or, by the pompousness of the whole phrase, to wear off any littleness that appears in the particular parts that compose it. This makes our blank verse, where there is no rhyme to support the expression, extremely difficult to...
الصفحة 452 - Georgics; where we receive more strong and lively ideas of things from his words, than we could have done from the objects themselves; and find our imaginations more affected by his descriptions, than they would have been by the very sight of what he describes.
الصفحة 303 - When a man sees the prodigious pains and expence that our fore- fathers have been at in these barbarous buildings, one cannot but fancy to himself what miracles of architecture they would have left us, had they only been instructed in the right way...
الصفحة 153 - Vain fool, and coward!" said the lofty maid, " Caught in the train, which thou thyself hast laid ! On others practise thy Ligurian arts : Thin stratagems, and tricks of little hearts, Are lost on me: nor shalt thou safe retire, With vaunting lies to thy fallacious sire.
الصفحة 71 - The coat of arms by proud Mezentius worn, Now on a naked snag in triumph borne, Was hung on high, and glitter'd from afar, A trophy sacred to the God of War. Above his arms, fix'd on the leafless wood, Appear'd his plumy crest, besmear'd with blood...