The Poetical Works of ... Joseph AddisonRobert Urie, 1750 - 241 pages |
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Page 204 - My foul took hold on thee. VII. For though in dreadful whirls we hung High on the broken wave, I knew thou wert not flow to hear, Nor impotent to fave. VIII. The ftorm was laid, the winds retir'd, Obedient to thy will; The fea, that roar'd at thy command, At thy command was
Page 204 - V. Confufion dwelt in every face, And fear in every heart ; When waves on waves, and gulphs on gulphs, O'ercame the pilot's art. VI. Yet then from all my griefs, O Lord, Thy mercy fet me free, Whilft in the confidence of pray'r My foul took hold on thee.
Page 81 - And gives it rage to roar, and ftrength to fly. Should the whole frame of nature round him break, In ruin and confufion hurl'd, He unconcern'd, would hear the mighty crack, And (land fecure amidft a falling world. Such were the godlike arts that led Bright Pollux to the bleft abodes;
Page 46 - How oft in fields of death thy prefence fought, Nor thinks the mighty prize too dearly bought! On foreign mountains may the fun refine The grape's foft juice, and mellow it to wine,. With citron groves adorn a diftant foil, And the fat olive fwell with floods of oil: We envy not the warmer clime, that lies
Page 116 - Hail, great phyfician of the world, all hail; " Hail, mighty infant, who in years to come *' Shalt heal the nations, and defraud the tomb; '' Swift be thy growth! thy triumphs unconfin'd! " Make kingdoms thicker, and increafe mankind. " Thy daring art (hall animate the dead, " And draw the thunder on thy guilty head:
Page 199 - I ran, Thine arm unfeen convey'd me fafe, And led me up to man. VII. Through hidden dangers, toils, and deaths, It gently clear'd my way, And through the pleafing fnares of vice, More to be fear'd than they.
Page 81 - virtue of his foul can move; Not the red arm of angry Jove, That flings the thunder from the fky, And gives it rage to roar, and ftrength to fly. Should the whole frame of nature round him break, In ruin and confufion hurl'd, He unconcern'd, would hear the mighty crack, And (land fecure amidft a falling world. Such
Page 200 - worlds The glorious theme renew. XII. When nature fails, and day and night Divide thy works no more, My ever grateful heart, O Lord, Thy mercy
Page 147 - to (how, And hair that round Apollo's head might flow, With all the purple youthfulnefs of face, That gently blufhes in the wat'ry glafs. By his own flames confum'd the lover lies, And gives himfelf the wound by which he dies. To the cold water oft he joins his lips, -\ Oft catching at the beauteous
Page 72 - high extends, That in the pagan gods his lineage ends, Comes from afar, in gratitude to own The great fupporter of his father's throne: What tides of glory to his bofom ran, Clafp'd in the embraces of the god-like man ! How were his eyes with pleafing wonder