The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Volume 2T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1811 |
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... covered with green olive - trees , or laid out in beautiful gardens , which gave us a great variety of pleasing prospects , even in the depth of winter . The most uncultivated of them produce abundance of sweet plants , as wild - thyme ...
... covered with green olive - trees , or laid out in beautiful gardens , which gave us a great variety of pleasing prospects , even in the depth of winter . The most uncultivated of them produce abundance of sweet plants , as wild - thyme ...
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... covered with paint- ed pillars of different orders . If these were so many true columns of marble , set in their proper architecture , they would certainly very much adorn the places where they stand , but as they are now , they only ...
... covered with paint- ed pillars of different orders . If these were so many true columns of marble , set in their proper architecture , they would certainly very much adorn the places where they stand , but as they are now , they only ...
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... covered with statues , gilding , and paint . A man would expect , in so very ancient a town of Italy , to find some considerable antiquities ; but all they have to show of this nature is an old rostrum of a Roman ship , that stands over ...
... covered with statues , gilding , and paint . A man would expect , in so very ancient a town of Italy , to find some considerable antiquities ; but all they have to show of this nature is an old rostrum of a Roman ship , that stands over ...
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... covered with their multitudes . They quickly ranged themselves , according to their several species , into a very beautiful congregation , and , like so many rational creatures , presented themselves before him to hear the word of God ...
... covered with their multitudes . They quickly ranged themselves , according to their several species , into a very beautiful congregation , and , like so many rational creatures , presented themselves before him to hear the word of God ...
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... covered with earth for some yards , as they told me , which notwithstanding are upon a level with the fields that lie about them , though it is probable they took the advantage of a rising ground to set it upon . It was a square tower ...
... covered with earth for some yards , as they told me , which notwithstanding are upon a level with the fields that lie about them , though it is probable they took the advantage of a rising ground to set it upon . It was a square tower ...
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Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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 misspent 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 into thy bosom, or guide me in thy ways.
Page 273 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 441 - If he be deigned the honour to sit down. Soon as the tarts appear, Sir Crape, withdraw ! Those dainties are not for a spiritual maw ; Observe your distance, and be sure to stand Hard by the cistern with your cap in hand; There for diversion you may pick your teeth, Till the kind voider* comes for your relief.