The works of ... Joseph Addison, collected by mr. Tickell, المجلد 5 |
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الصفحة 37
Thou saw'st when raging Ocean burst his bed , O'er - topp'd the mountains , and the earth o'erspread ; When the rash youth inflam'd the high abodes , Scorch'd up the skies , and scar'd the deathless gods .
Thou saw'st when raging Ocean burst his bed , O'er - topp'd the mountains , and the earth o'erspread ; When the rash youth inflam'd the high abodes , Scorch'd up the skies , and scar'd the deathless gods .
الصفحة 72
To thee the Warrior - God , aloft in air A mountain pile of Roman arms they rear : The gen'ral grasping in his victor hand A pine of stately growth , he wav'd the brand , And cry'd , O Mars ! to thee devote I yield These choice first ...
To thee the Warrior - God , aloft in air A mountain pile of Roman arms they rear : The gen'ral grasping in his victor hand A pine of stately growth , he wav'd the brand , And cry'd , O Mars ! to thee devote I yield These choice first ...
الصفحة 80
I could not have thought your mountains , seas , and promontaries , could have made up an assembly of such well - shaped persons . This therefore , says Philander , is a geography particular to the medalists . The poets. ever saw .
I could not have thought your mountains , seas , and promontaries , could have made up an assembly of such well - shaped persons . This therefore , says Philander , is a geography particular to the medalists . The poets. ever saw .
الصفحة 145
There is scarce any part of the nation that is not famous in history , nor so much as a mountain or river that has not been the scene of some extraordinary action . As there are few men that have talents or opportunities of examining so ...
There is scarce any part of the nation that is not famous in history , nor so much as a mountain or river that has not been the scene of some extraordinary action . As there are few men that have talents or opportunities of examining so ...
الصفحة 147
On the twelfth of December , 1699 , I set out from Marseilles to Genoa in a tartane , and arrived late at a small French port , called Cassis , where the next morning we were not a little surprised to see the mountains about the town ...
On the twelfth of December , 1699 , I set out from Marseilles to Genoa in a tartane , and arrived late at a small French port , called Cassis , where the next morning we were not a little surprised to see the mountains about the town ...
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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...