The Works of Joseph Addison: Dialogues on medals. Travels. Essay on Virgil's Georgics. Discourse on ancient and modern learning. Of the Christian religion. Letters. Political writingsG.P. Putnam & Company, 1853 - English literature |
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Page 147
... Naples . The Spaniards tax them very high upon occasion , and are so sensible of the ad- vantage this gives them over the republic , that they will not suf- fer a Neapolitan to buy the lands of a Genoese , who must find a purchaser ...
... Naples . The Spaniards tax them very high upon occasion , and are so sensible of the ad- vantage this gives them over the republic , that they will not suf- fer a Neapolitan to buy the lands of a Genoese , who must find a purchaser ...
Page 164
... Naples rather in the hands of the first than of the other . One may generally observe , that the body of a people has juster views for the public good , and pursues them with greater uprightness than the nobility and gentry , who have ...
... Naples rather in the hands of the first than of the other . One may generally observe , that the body of a people has juster views for the public good , and pursues them with greater uprightness than the nobility and gentry , who have ...
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... Naples , who sent an ambassador to ask for it ; and the rest placed over one of the side doors that lead to the Uffizio della sanità . The Antenor relic is still more remarkable . In 1274 some workmen who were digging upon the ...
... Naples , who sent an ambassador to ask for it ; and the rest placed over one of the side doors that lead to the Uffizio della sanità . The Antenor relic is still more remarkable . In 1274 some workmen who were digging upon the ...
Page 218
... tortis anfractibus albet . A highway made by Vespasian , like the Grotto Oscuro near Naples . b This fountain is not known . Inde salutato libatis Tibride nymphis , Excipiunt arcus , operosaque 218 REMARKS ON ITALY .
... tortis anfractibus albet . A highway made by Vespasian , like the Grotto Oscuro near Naples . b This fountain is not known . Inde salutato libatis Tibride nymphis , Excipiunt arcus , operosaque 218 REMARKS ON ITALY .
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... NAPLES . Upon my arrival at Rome , I took a view of St. Peter's , and the Rotunda , leaving the rest till my return from Naples , when I should have time and leisure enough to consider what I saw . St. Peter's seldom answers expectation ...
... NAPLES . Upon my arrival at Rome , I took a view of St. Peter's , and the Rotunda , leaving the rest till my return from Naples , when I should have time and leisure enough to consider what I saw . St. Peter's seldom answers expectation ...
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Addison Æneid ancient antiquities Antoninus Pius appear arms atque beautiful Cæsar Campania Christianity church Claudian Commodus CREECH DRYDEN duke emperor fancy figure formerly French Genoa Georgic give grotto Hæc hand head heathen Hesiod honour inhabitants inscription Italians Italy Julius Cæsar kind king lake learned lived look Lord Lucius Verus marble Marcus Aurelius medals mentioned Mevania miles modern mountains Naples nature noble observed occasion old coins old Roman Ovid palace particular passage perhaps persons piece pillars poem present prince probably quæ reason religion represented republic rise river rocks Rome ruins S. C. Reverse Saviour says Cynthio says Eugenius says Philander seen side Silius Italicus stands Statius statues Stepney suppose tell temple thing thou thought Tiberius tion town Trajan verse VIRG Virgil whole
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Page 443 - 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.
Page 5 - Statesman, yet friend to Truth ! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear ; Who broke no promise, served no private end, Who gained no title, and who lost no friend ; Ennobled by himself, by all approved, And praised, unenvied, by the Muse he loved.
Page 36 - 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.
Page 554 - You have yet an opportunity, by God's blessing, to secure to you and your posterity the quiet enjoyment of your religion and liberties, if you are not wanting to yourselves, but will exert the ancient vigour of the English nation : but, I tell you plainly, my opinion is, if you do not lay hold on this occasion, you have no reason to hope for another.
Page 620 - I shall make it my endeavour to preserve this government, both in church and state, as it is now by law established.
Page 233 - 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 270 - The Trojan, from the main, beheld a wood, Which thick with shades, and a brown horror, stood : Betwixt the trees the Tiber took his course, With whirlpools dimpled ; and with downward force That drove the sand along, he took his way, And rolled his yellow billows to the sea. About him, and above, and round the wood, The birds that haunt the borders of his flood, That bathed within, or basked upon his side, To tuneful songs their narrow throats applied.
Page 103 - For they that led us away captive, required of us then a song, and melody in our heaviness : Sing us one of the songs of Sion. 4 How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a strange land?
Page 4 - With sharpen'd sight pale antiquaries pore, Th' inscription value, but the rust adore : This, the blue varnish, that the green endears, The sacred rust of twice ten hundred years.
Page 42 - His father's heir, and from his tender wings Shakes off his parent dust ; his method he pursues, And the same lease of life on the same terms renews : When grown to manhood he begins his reign, And with stiff pinions can his flight sustain...