The Miscellaneous Works of Joseph Addison, 2. kötetG. Bell and Sons Limited, 1914 |
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Æneid ancient antique Antoninus Pius appear arms atque Author beautiful Cæsar Campania Christianity church Claudian Commodus Creech dominions Dryden Duke Emperor enemy fancy figure formerly France French Georgic give hand head heathen honour Inhabitants inscription Irenæus Italy Julius Cæsar kind King Lake Latin learned lived look Lucius Verus marble Marcus Aurelius Medals mentioned miracles modern mountains multitude Naples nation nature noble observed occasion old Coins old Roman Ovid Pagan palace particular passage persons pillars Poem Poets present Prince publick quæ quam quod reason religion represented Republick rise river rocks Rome ruines S.C. Reverse Saviour Saviour's history says Cynthio says Eugenius says Philander seen shew side Silius Italicus Spanish monarchy stands Statius statues suppose temple Teverone them,¹ Tiberius town Trajan verse Virg Virgil whole
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439. oldal - Whosoever . therefore shall confess Me before men, him will I confess also before My Father which is in heaven. But whosoever shall deny Me before men, him will I also deny before My Father which is in heaven.
307. oldal - The man resolved and steady to his trust, Inflexible to ill, and obstinately just, May the rude rabble's insolence despise, Their senseless clamours and tumultuous cries ; The tyrant's fierceness he beguiles, And the stern brow, and the harsh voice defies, And with superior greatness smiles.
4. oldal - A Georgic therefore is some part of the science of husbandry put into a pleasing dress, and set off with all the beauties and embellishments of poetry.
176. oldal - ... present, and the riches of the people much more at the disposal of the priests, there was so much money consumed on these Gothic cathedrals as would have finished a greater variety of noble buildings than have been raised either before or since that time.
347. oldal - He bar'd an ancient oak of all her boughs ; Then on a rising ground the trunk he plac'd, Which with the spoils of his dead foe he grac'd. The coat of arms by proud Mezentius worn, Now on a naked snag in triumph borne.
102. oldal - 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.
4. oldal - But this kind of poetry I am now speaking of, addresses itself wholly to the imagination : it is altogether conversant among the fields and woods, and has the most delightful part of nature for its province. It raises in our minds a pleasing variety of scenes and landscapes, whilst it teaches us ; and makes the dryest of its precepts look like a description.
279. oldal - Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear; Who broke no promise, served no private end, Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend; Ennobled by himself, by all approved, And praised, unenvied, by the Muse he loved.
345. oldal - The righteous laws, and fraud and force restrain. Janus himself before his fane shall wait, And keep the dreadful issues of his gate, With bolts and iron bars: within remains Imprison'd Fury, bound in brazen chains; High on a trophy rais'd, of useless arms, He sits, and threats the world with vain alarms.
3. oldal - Doric dialect; nor can the majesty of an heroic poem anywhere appear so well as in this language, which has a natural greatness in it, and can be often rendered more deep and sonorous by the pronunciation of the lonians. But in the Middle style, where the writers in both tongues are on a level, we see how far Virgil has excelled all who have written in the same way with him. There has been abundance of criticism spent on Virgil's Pastorals...