The Miscellaneous Works of Joseph Addison, Bind 1D. A. Talboys, 1840 |
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... Hesiod in his Georgics . The truth of it is , the sweetness and rusticity of a pastoral cannot be so well expressed in any other tongue as in the Greek , when rightly mixed and qualified with the Doric dialect ; nor can the majesty of ...
... Hesiod in his Georgics . The truth of it is , the sweetness and rusticity of a pastoral cannot be so well expressed in any other tongue as in the Greek , when rightly mixed and qualified with the Doric dialect ; nor can the majesty of ...
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... Hesiod and Virgil . Among these different kinds of subjects , that which the Georgics go upon , is , I think , the meanest and least improving , but the most pleasing and delightful . Precepts of mo- rality , besides the natural ...
... Hesiod and Virgil . Among these different kinds of subjects , that which the Georgics go upon , is , I think , the meanest and least improving , but the most pleasing and delightful . Precepts of mo- rality , besides the natural ...
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... Hesiod and Virgil have met with in this kind of poetry , which may give us some farther notion of the excellence of the Georgics . To begin with Hesiod ; if we may guess at his character from his writings , he had much more of the ...
... Hesiod and Virgil have met with in this kind of poetry , which may give us some farther notion of the excellence of the Georgics . To begin with Hesiod ; if we may guess at his character from his writings , he had much more of the ...
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... Hesiod has dispatched in half a one ; but has so raised the natural rudeness and simplicity of his subject with such a significancy of expression , such a pomp of verse , such a variety of transitions , and such a solemn air in his ...
... Hesiod has dispatched in half a one ; but has so raised the natural rudeness and simplicity of his subject with such a significancy of expression , such a pomp of verse , such a variety of transitions , and such a solemn air in his ...
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... Hesiod . Nudus ara , sera nudus— And we may easily guess at the judgment of this extraordinary critic , whoever he was , from his cen- suring this particular precept . We may be sure Virgil would not have translated it from Hesiod , had ...
... Hesiod . Nudus ara , sera nudus— And we may easily guess at the judgment of this extraordinary critic , whoever he was , from his cen- suring this particular precept . We may be sure Virgil would not have translated it from Hesiod , had ...
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Addison Æneid æther amidst appear arms atque beauties bees behold blood breast bright Britannia's British Cadmus chariot charms circum cloth lettered cries CYCNUS death divine earth Edition English ev'ry eyes Fain fate fcap fear fields fight fire fix'd flames flow'ry foolscap foolscap 8vo fury Gaul Georgic give goddess Godfrey Kneller gods grace Greek Greek Language heat heaven hero Hesiod hive honour immortal J. C. LOUDON JOHN FAREY join'd Jove kindled labours Latin light limbs look lord lord Halifax maid Metamorphoses mighty moral mountains muse nature neighb'ring numbers nunc nymph o'er Ovid Ovid's Metamorphoses Pentheus Phaeton pleas'd poem poet poetry praise Quæ rage rais'd reader rise round shade shining shore sight skies sound steeds stood story streams tell thee thou thought thunder Tiresias toils tow'ring trembling turns verse view'd Virgil voice Whilst whole winds woods youth
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Side xii - He might well rejoice at the death of that which he could not have killed. Every reader of every party, since personal malice is past and the papers which once inflamed the nation are read only as effusions of wit, must wish for more of the Whig Examiners ; for on no occasion was the genius of Addison more vigorously exerted, and on none did the superiority of his powers more evidently appear.
Side 46 - 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; for here the Muse so oft her harp has strung, that not a mountain rears its head unsung, renown'd in verse each shady thicket grows, and every stream in heavenly numbers flows.
Side 37 - I'll try to make their several beauties known, And show their verses worth tho' not my own. .Long had our dull forefathers 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 obscured his wit; In vain he jests in his unpolished strain, And tries to make his readers laugh in vain.