The Miscellaneous Works of Joseph Addison, Volume 4D. A. Talboys, 1830 |
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... least entertainments that I met with in travelling , to examine these several descriptions , as it were , upon the spot , and to com- pare the natural face of the country with the land- scapes that the poets have given us of it ...
... least entertainments that I met with in travelling , to examine these several descriptions , as it were , upon the spot , and to com- pare the natural face of the country with the land- scapes that the poets have given us of it ...
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... least whilst fortune favour'd his deceit . ) Vane Ligus , frustraque animis elate superbis , Nequidquam patrias tentasti lubricus artes . Vain fool and coward , cries the lofty maid , Caught in the train which thou thyself hast laid ...
... least whilst fortune favour'd his deceit . ) Vane Ligus , frustraque animis elate superbis , Nequidquam patrias tentasti lubricus artes . Vain fool and coward , cries the lofty maid , Caught in the train which thou thyself hast laid ...
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... least some sign of reverence ; bow yourselves at his name ; give some show of gratitude , according to the best of your capacities ; express your thanks in the most becoming manner that you are able , and be not unmindful of all the ...
... least some sign of reverence ; bow yourselves at his name ; give some show of gratitude , according to the best of your capacities ; express your thanks in the most becoming manner that you are able , and be not unmindful of all the ...
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... least four miles from any part of the terra firma , nor are the shallows that lie about it ever frozen hard enough to bring over an army from the land - side ; the constant flux or reflux of the sea , or the natural mildness of the ...
... least four miles from any part of the terra firma , nor are the shallows that lie about it ever frozen hard enough to bring over an army from the land - side ; the constant flux or reflux of the sea , or the natural mildness of the ...
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... least doubt it when I saw Ravenna , that is now almost at the same distance from the Adriatic , though it was formerly the most famous of all the Roman ports . One may guess at its ancient situation from Martial's Meliusque rane ...
... least doubt it when I saw Ravenna , that is now almost at the same distance from the Adriatic , though it was formerly the most famous of all the Roman ports . One may guess at its ancient situation from Martial's Meliusque rane ...
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Æneid Alps ancient antiquities Antoninus Pius arch arms atque Aurelius beautiful Campania canton of Berne church Claudian commonwealth convent dominions DRYDEN duke emperor famous figure formerly French Gaul Geneva Genoa Genoese give grotto hands inhabitants inscription island Italians Italy kind king lake lies looks Lucius Verus marble Marcus Marcus Aurelius medals mentioned Mevania Milan miles Misenus mole monument mountains multitude Naples natural neighbouring noble notwithstanding observed occasion old Roman palace particular passed pieces pillars poets pope port present prince probably quæ Ravenna reason represented republic republic of St rest rich Rimini rise river rocks Roman catholic Rome ruins seen side Silius Italicus stands statues stone stood Switzerland taken notice temple Teverone thousand town Tyrol vapour vast Venetians Venice Virgil whole winds wonder wood
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Página 93 - Within a long recess there lies a bay : An island shades it from the rolling sea, And forms a port secure for ships to ride : Broke by the jutting land on either side, In double streams the briny waters glide, Betwixt two rows of rocks : a sylvan scene Appears above, and groves for ever green : A grot is form'd beneath, with mossy seats, To rest the Nereids, and exclude the heats.
Página 120 - Sirens' cliffs, a shelfy coast, Long infamous for ships and sailors lost, And white with bones. Th' impetuous ocean roars, And rocks rebellow from the sounding shores.
Página ii - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison...
Página 33 - Do you think that, without a mystery, the first present that God Almighty made to man was of you, O ye fishes ? Do you think that without a mystery, among all creatures and animals which were appointed for sacrifices, you only were excepted, O ye fishes ? Do you think there was nothing meant by our Saviour Christ, that next to the paschal lamb he took so much...
Página 152 - The Palatine, proud Rome's imperial seat, (An awful pile ! ) stands venerably great : Thither the kingdoms and the nations come, In supplicating crowds to learn their doom ; To Delphi less th...
Página 130 - And the sea trembled with her silver light. Now near the shelves of Circe's shores they run (Circe the rich, the daughter of the sun), A dangerous coast! — The goddess wastes her days In joyous songs ; the rocks resound her lays : In spinning, or the loom, she spends the night ; And cedar brands supply her father's light.
Página 73 - It was indeed the most proper place in the world for a fury to make her exit, after she had filled a nation with distractions and alarms ; and I believe every reader's imagination is pleased when he sees the angry goddess thus sinking, as it were, in a tempest, and plunging herself into hell, amidst such a scene of horror and confusion.
Página 125 - 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...
Página 1 - We were here shown at a distance the Deserts, which have been rendered so famous by the penance of Mary Magdalene, who, after her arrival with Lazarus and Joseph of Arimathea at Marseilles, is said to have wept away the rest of her life among these solitary rocks and mountains. It is so romantic a scene, that it has always probably given occasion to such chimerical relations...
Página 133 - And rolled his yellow billows to the sea. About him, and above, and round the wood, The birds that haunt the borders of his flood, That bathed within, or basked upon his side, To tuneful songs their narrow throats applied.