The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, a New Ed., with Notes, Volumen2T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1811 |
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... antiquities . No other country in the world has such a variety of governments , that are so different in their constitutions , and so refined in their politics . There is scarce any part of the nation that is not famous in history , nor ...
... antiquities . No other country in the world has such a variety of governments , that are so different in their constitutions , and so refined in their politics . There is scarce any part of the nation that is not famous in history , nor ...
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... antiquities . Among the authors of our own country , we are obliged to the Bi- shop of Salisbury , for his masterly and uncommon ob- servations on the religion and governments of Italy : Lassels may be useful in giving us the names of ...
... antiquities . Among the authors of our own country , we are obliged to the Bi- shop of Salisbury , for his masterly and uncommon ob- servations on the religion and governments of Italy : Lassels may be useful in giving us the names of ...
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... antiquities ; but all they have to show of this nature is an old rostrum of a Roman ship , that stands over the door of their arsenal . It is not above a foot long , and perhaps would never have been thought the beak of a ship , had not ...
... antiquities ; but all they have to show of this nature is an old rostrum of a Roman ship , that stands over the door of their arsenal . It is not above a foot long , and perhaps would never have been thought the beak of a ship , had not ...
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... antiquities in Verona , of which the principal is the ruin of a triumphal arch erected to Flaminius , where one sees old Doric pillars without any pedestal or basis , as Vitruvius has described them . I have not yet seen any gardens in ...
... antiquities in Verona , of which the principal is the ruin of a triumphal arch erected to Flaminius , where one sees old Doric pillars without any pedestal or basis , as Vitruvius has described them . I have not yet seen any gardens in ...
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... antiquities that have been shown me in Italy . The church of St. Justina , designed by Palladio , is the most handsome , luminous , disencumbered building in the inside that I have ever seen , and is esteemed by many artists one of the ...
... antiquities that have been shown me in Italy . The church of St. Justina , designed by Palladio , is the most handsome , luminous , disencumbered building in the inside that I have ever seen , and is esteemed by many artists one of the ...
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Página 280 - When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glist'ring with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers ; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild ; then silent night With this her solemn bird and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her starry train...
Página 279 - With thee conversing I forget all time ; All seasons and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Página 392 - As one who, long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight ; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Página 280 - But neither breath of Morn when she ascends With charm of earliest birds ; nor rising sun On this delightful land ; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew ; nor fragrance, after showers ; Nor grateful evening mild ; nor silent Night, With this her solemn bird, nor walk by moon, Or glittering star-light, without thee is sweet.
Página 472 - Besides my innumerable sins, I confess before thee, that I am debtor to thee for the gracious talent of thy gifts and graces, which I have neither put into a napkin, nor put it (as I ought) to exchangers, where it might have made best profit, but mis-spent it in things for which I was least fit : so I may truly say, my soul hath been a stranger in the course of my pilgrimage. Be merciful unto me, O Lord, for my Saviour's sake, and receive me unto thy bosom, or guide me in thy ways.
Página 273 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long...
Página 289 - tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon...
Página 79 - 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 280 - Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate; Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost.
Página 400 - But to consider this subject in its most ridiculous lights, advertisements are of great use to the vulgar. First of all as they are instruments of ambition. A man that is by no means big enough for the gazette may easily creep into the advertisements, by which means we often see an apothecary in the same paper of news with a plenipotentiary, or a running footman with an ambassador.