The Life of Joseph Addison, כרך 1Longman, Browne, Green & Longmans, 1843 |
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Abraham Stanyan acquaintance Addison afterwards agreeable ancient appears army battle of Blenheim beautiful BISHOP HOUGH Blois celebrated character classical Congreve conversation cou'd court Dear Sir Duke of Marlborough DUKE OF SOMERSET EARL OF MANCHESTER EARL OF WHARTON EDMUND LUDLOW England English esteem ev'ry favour France French Gallway Geneva genius give Godolphin Grace Hague hear Holland hope Humble Servant humour Italy JOSEPH ADDISON kind King Lªship Latin learned letter Lisbon lord Halifax LORD SOMERS lordship Majesty Marlborough medals Muse nature occasion Oxford Paris passage patron person poem poet poetical poetry political present prince probably queen racter received remarks Rome says secretary shou'd Sir Stepney Papers STANYAN Steele Swift taste Teverone thought Tickell papers TONSON town travels verse Wharton whig WORTLEY MONTAGU wou'd write WYCHE ye honour ye world
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עמוד 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...
עמוד 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...
עמוד 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...
עמוד 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.
עמוד 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.
עמוד 217 - Qualis populea 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.
עמוד 177 - To Dr. Jonathan Swift, the most agreeable companion, the truest friend, and the greatest genius of his age.
עמוד 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...
עמוד 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.
עמוד 114 - There is nothing in this city so extraordinary as the cathedral, which a man may view with pleasure after he has seen St. Peter's, though it is quite of another make, and can only be looked upon as one of the master-pieces of gothic architecture.