The Works of Joseph Addison: The SpectatorG.P. Putnam & Company, 1854 |
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... Homer's Odyssey . ' It is where Sisyphus is represented lifting his stone up the hill , which is no sooner carried to the top of it , but it immediately tumbles to the bottom . This double motion of the stone is admirably described in ...
... Homer's Odyssey . ' It is where Sisyphus is represented lifting his stone up the hill , which is no sooner carried to the top of it , but it immediately tumbles to the bottom . This double motion of the stone is admirably described in ...
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... Homer , to preserve the unity of his action , hastens into the midst of things , as Horace has observed ; had he gone up to Leda's egg , or begun much later , even at the rape of Helen , or the in- vesting of Troy , it is manifest that ...
... Homer , to preserve the unity of his action , hastens into the midst of things , as Horace has observed ; had he gone up to Leda's egg , or begun much later , even at the rape of Helen , or the in- vesting of Troy , it is manifest that ...
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... Homer has nothing to boast of as to the unity of his fable , though at the same time , that great critic and philosopher endeavours to palliate this imperfection in the Greek poet , by imputing it in some measure to the very na- ture of ...
... Homer has nothing to boast of as to the unity of his fable , though at the same time , that great critic and philosopher endeavours to palliate this imperfection in the Greek poet , by imputing it in some measure to the very na- ture of ...
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... Homer and Virgil have shewn their principal art in this particular ; the action of the Iliad , and that of the Æneid . were in themselves exceeding short ; but are so beautifully ex- tended and diversified by the invention of episodes ...
... Homer and Virgil have shewn their principal art in this particular ; the action of the Iliad , and that of the Æneid . were in themselves exceeding short ; but are so beautifully ex- tended and diversified by the invention of episodes ...
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... Homer has excelled all the heroic poets that ever wrote , in the multitude and variety of his characters . Every god that is admitted into his poem , acts a part which would have been suit- able to no other deity . His princes are as ...
... Homer has excelled all the heroic poets that ever wrote , in the multitude and variety of his characters . Every god that is admitted into his poem , acts a part which would have been suit- able to no other deity . His princes are as ...
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The Works of Joseph Addison: Rosamond; The drummer; Cato. Poemata Joseph Addison Vista completa - 1888 |
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Página 394 - THE Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a shepherd's care ; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye ; My noonday walks he shall attend, And all my midnight hours defend.
Página 455 - I have set the Lord always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth : my flesh also shall rest in hope. For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. Thou wilt shew me the path of life : in thy presence is fulness of joy ; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
Página 437 - I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me: there was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it: now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man. Then said I, "Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
Página 102 - Awake, My fairest, my espoused, my latest found, Heaven's last best gift, my ever new delight ! Awake : the morning shines, and the fresh field Calls us; we lose the prime, to mark how spring Our tended plants, how blows the citron grove, What drops the myrrh, and what the balmy reed, How nature paints her colours, how the bee Sits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet.
Página 69 - Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed; his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood...
Página 68 - OF man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly Muse...
Página 645 - I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell ; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell : God knoweth ;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
Página 419 - WHEN all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys ; Transported with the view, I'm lost In wonder, love, and praise : n.
Página 102 - My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone ; The flowers appear on the earth ; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land ; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Página 487 - Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses. He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still. Then are they glad because they be quiet ; so he bringeth them unto their desired haven.