Selections from the Writings of Joseph AddisonGinn, 1905 - 346 Seiten |
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... Prince's eye ; Thy fav'rites grow not up by fortune's sport , Or from the crimes , or follies of a court ; On the firm basis of desert they rise , 25 30 35 From long - try'd faith , and friendship's holy tyes : 40 Their Soveraign's well ...
... Prince's eye ; Thy fav'rites grow not up by fortune's sport , Or from the crimes , or follies of a court ; On the firm basis of desert they rise , 25 30 35 From long - try'd faith , and friendship's holy tyes : 40 Their Soveraign's well ...
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... Prince ! how is thy greatness crost , And all the gaudy dream of empire lost , That proudly set thee on a fancy'd throne , And made imaginary realms thy own ! 190 195 200 205 210 Thy troops , that now behind the Danube join , Shall ...
... Prince ! how is thy greatness crost , And all the gaudy dream of empire lost , That proudly set thee on a fancy'd throne , And made imaginary realms thy own ! 190 195 200 205 210 Thy troops , that now behind the Danube join , Shall ...
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... Prince his blasted hopes renews , And while the thick embattled host he views Stretcht out in deep array , and dreadful length , His heart dilates , and glories in his strength . 245 The fatal day its mighty course began , That the ...
... Prince his blasted hopes renews , And while the thick embattled host he views Stretcht out in deep array , and dreadful length , His heart dilates , and glories in his strength . 245 The fatal day its mighty course began , That the ...
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... Prince of Numidia . Syphax , General of the Numidians . Portius , Marcus , Sons of Cato . Decius , Ambassador from Cæsar . Mutineers , Guards , & c . WOMEN . Marcia , Daughter to Cato . Lucia , Daughter to Lucius . SCENE a large Hall in ...
... Prince of Numidia . Syphax , General of the Numidians . Portius , Marcus , Sons of Cato . Decius , Ambassador from Cæsar . Mutineers , Guards , & c . WOMEN . Marcia , Daughter to Cato . Lucia , Daughter to Lucius . SCENE a large Hall in ...
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... life was the ruine of his shop ; for about the time that his favourite Prince left the Crown of Poland , he broke and disappeared . 20 5 This man and his affairs had been long out 34 The Spectator's Criticisms not Personal.
... life was the ruine of his shop ; for about the time that his favourite Prince left the Crown of Poland , he broke and disappeared . 20 5 This man and his affairs had been long out 34 The Spectator's Criticisms not Personal.
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Seite xviii - Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease : Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Seite 167 - Cast thy eyes eastward, said he, and tell me what thou seest. I see, said I, a huge valley, and a prodigious tide of water rolling through it. The valley that thou seest, said he, is the vale of misery ; and the tide of water that thou seest, is part of the great tide of eternity. What is the reason...
Seite 173 - A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
Seite 25 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Seite 26 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Seite 329 - cries Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer, "why I could act as well as he myself. I am sure, if I had seen a ghost, I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did.
Seite 61 - But being ill-used by the above-mentioned widow, he was very serious for a year and a half ; and though, his temper being naturally jovial, he at last got over it, he grew careless of himself, and never dressed afterwards. He continues to wear a coat and doublet of the same cut that were in fashion at the time of his repulse...
Seite 169 - Look no more, said he, on man in the first stage of his existence, in his setting out for eternity; but cast thine eye on that thick mist into which the tide bears the several generations of mortals that fall into it.
Seite 58 - Thus I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species...
Seite 80 - ... though I am always serious, I do not know what it is to be melancholy, and can therefore take a view of nature in her deep and solemn scenes with the same pleasure as in her most gay and delightful ones.