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1.
A day an hour of virtuous liberty
First Line:
A day an hour of virtuous liberty
Last Line:
Is worth a whole eternity in bondage
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
19296
2.
Actaeon's sufferings and Diana's rage
First Line:
Actaeon's sufferings and Diana's rage
Last Line:
Nursed secretly with milk the thriving god
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
11333
3.
Alas thou knows not Caesar's active soul
First Line:
Alas thou knows not Caesar's active soul
Last Line:
Impatient for the battle
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
20873
4.
Alas thou talkst like one who never felt
First Line:
Alas thou talkst like one who never felt
Last Line:
And with variety of pain distract me
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
19607
5.
As the fair vestal to the fountain came
First Line:
As the fair vestal to the fountain came
Last Line:
Swelled with the founder of immortal Rome
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
10661
6.
As careful mothers in their cradles lay
First Line:
As careful mothers in their cradles lay
Last Line:
Nature my nurse put me to bed betimes
DMI number:
5821
7.
At length I've acted my severest part
First Line:
At length I've acted my severest part
Last Line:
And so thy dearest youth farewell
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
40410
8.
Behold the African
First Line:
Behold the African
Last Line:
Blesses his stars and thinks it luxury
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
14178
9.
Bid me for honour plunge into a war
First Line:
Bid me for honour plunge into a war
Last Line:
I feel it here my resolution melts
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
19562
10.
Believe me Portius in my Lucia's absence
First Line:
Believe me Portius in my Lucia's absence
Last Line:
And with variety of pain distract me
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
14142
11.
Believe me prince though hard to conquer love
First Line:
Believe me prince though hard to conquer love
Last Line:
Light up another flame or put out this
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
19499
12.
But now the trumpet terrible from far
First Line:
But now the trumpet terrible from far
Last Line:
Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
7507
13.
But o my muse what numbers wilt thou find
First Line:
But o my muse what numbers wilt thou find
Last Line:
Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
28481
14.
But Pentheus grown more furious than before
First Line:
But Pentheus grown more furious than before
Last Line:
The Thebans tremble and confess the god
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
11377
15.
Cecilia whose exalted hymns
First Line:
Cecilia whose exalted hymns
Last Line:
In joy and harmony and love
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
6607
16.
Cycnus beheld the nymphs transformed allied
First Line:
Cycnus beheld the nymphs transformed allied
Last Line:
And as he whips upbraids them with his son
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
11261
17.
Contending troops and fields of death I sing
First Line:
Contending troops and fields of death I sing
Last Line:
And terribly presage destruction nigh
DMI number:
18109
18.
Conspiracies no sooner should be formed
First Line:
Conspiracies no sooner should be formed
Last Line:
Then executed
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
20347
19.
Falshood and fraud grow up in every soil
First Line:
Falshood and fraud grow up in every soil
Last Line:
The product of all climes
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
18853
20.
Famed far and near for knowing things to come
First Line:
Famed far and near for knowing things to come
Last Line:
In vaults where still it doubles every sound
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
11340
21.
Fathers we once again are met in council
First Line:
Fathers we once again are met in council
Last Line:
All Rome will be in tears
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
34094
22.
Ethereal sweets shall next my muse engage
First Line:
Ethereal sweets shall next my muse engage
Last Line:
And set my Tityrus beneath his shade
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
6619
23.
From hence let fierce contending nations know
First Line:
From hence let fierce contending nations know
Last Line:
And robs the guilty world of Cato's life
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
21308
24.
From life's superfluous cares enlarged
First Line:
From life's superfluous cares enlarged
Last Line:
Whilst yet with life his ashes glow
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
23927
25.
Hail charming maid how does thy beauty smooth
First Line:
Hail charming maid how does thy beauty smooth
Last Line:
I feel a dawn of joy break in upon me
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
19949
26.
Greatly unfortunate he fights the cause
First Line:
Greatly unfortunate he fights the cause
Last Line:
Draw all the vengeance of his arm upon them
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
18435
27.
Grown old in rhyme twas barbarous to discard
First Line:
Grown old in rhyme twas barbarous to discard
Last Line:
Nor force him to be damned to get his living
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute) & Joseph Addison (Confident) & Sir Richard Steele (Confident) & Anne Finch [nee Kingsmill] (Speculation)
DMI number:
13373
28.
Grown old in rhyme twere barbarous to discard
First Line:
Grown old in rhyme twere barbarous to discard
Last Line:
Nor force him to be damned to get his living
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute) & Joseph Addison (Confident) & Sir Richard Steele (Confident) & Anne Finch [nee Kingsmill] (Speculation)
DMI number:
1970
29.
Have I not cause to rave and beat my breast
First Line:
Have I not cause to rave and beat my breast
Last Line:
To all the pangs and fury of despair
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
18674
30.
He greatly loves thee
First Line:
He greatly loves thee
Last Line:
Drive the big passion back into his heart
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
19606
31.
He sought fresh mountains in a foreign soil
First Line:
He sought fresh mountains in a foreign soil
Last Line:
The pleasure lessened the attending toil
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
37092
32.
How does the lustre of our father's actions
First Line:
How does the lustre of our father's actions
Last Line:
Would almost tempt us to renounce his precepts
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
18935
33.
How are thy servants blessed O lord
First Line:
How are thy servants blessed O lord
Last Line:
Shall join my soul to thee
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
11673
34.
How long great poet shall thy sacred lays
First Line:
How long great poet shall thy sacred lays
Last Line:
A nobler change than he himself can tell
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
4855
35.
Him Pentheus viewed with fury in his look
First Line:
Him Pentheus viewed with fury in his look
Last Line:
And flings the loosened shackles from his hands
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
11373
36.
Honour's a fine imaginary notion
First Line:
Honour's a fine imaginary notion
Last Line:
To real mischiefs while they hunt a shadow
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
19063
37.
Honour's a sacred tie the law of kings
First Line:
Honour's a sacred tie the law of kings
Last Line:
It is not to be sported with
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
19058
38.
Honour's a sacred tie the law of kings
First Line:
Honour's a sacred tie the law of kings
Last Line:
It ought not to be sported with
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
25238
39.
Honour's sacred tie the law of kings
First Line:
Honour's sacred tie the law of kings
Last Line:
It ought not to be sported with
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
35737
40.
How Salmacis with weak enfeebling streams
First Line:
How Salmacis with weak enfeebling streams
Last Line:
And tinged its source to make his wishes good
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
11441
41.
How Salmacis with weak enfeebling streams
First Line:
How Salmacis with weak enfeebling streams
Last Line:
To weaken it and make his wishes good
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
6620
42.
Hymen thou source of chaste delights
First Line:
Hymen thou source of chaste delights
Last Line:
That knows the sweets of virtuous love
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
28080
43.
I feel the woman breaking in upon me
First Line:
I feel the woman breaking in upon me
Last Line:
And melt about my heart my tears will flow
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
21332
44.
I have observed of late thy looks are fallen
First Line:
I have observed of late thy looks are fallen
Last Line:
Overcast with gloomy care and discontent
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
19342
45.
In the first rise and infancy of farce
First Line:
In the first rise and infancy of farce
Last Line:
And kindly treat like well bred men the stranger
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
35907
46.
In this grave age when comedies are few
First Line:
In this grave age when comedies are few
Last Line:
We never think this house is too much haunted
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
35902
47.
In those dark caverns of the teeming earth
First Line:
In those dark caverns of the teeming earth
Last Line:
Fall innocent and meet us on our guard
Author:
George Sewell (Confident)
DMI number:
11590
48.
In a fair chase a shady mountain stood
First Line:
In a fair chase a shady mountain stood
Last Line:
Their wretched master panting in a deer
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
11330
49.
In rising blushes still fresh beauties rose
First Line:
In rising blushes still fresh beauties rose
Last Line:
Turns in eclipses to a ruddy light
DMI number:
39307
50.
It must be so Plato thou reasonest well
First Line:
It must be so Plato thou reasonest well
Last Line:
And that which he delights in must be happy
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
27042
51.
It must be so Plato thou reasonst well
First Line:
It must be so Plato thou reasonst well
Last Line:
Indifferent in his choice to sleep or die
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
12927
52.
It must be so Plato thou reasonst well
First Line:
It must be so Plato thou reasonst well
Last Line:
The wreck of matter and the crush of worlds
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
35133
53.
It must be so Plato thou reasonst well
First Line:
It must be so Plato thou reasonst well
Last Line:
The wrecks of matter and the crush of worlds
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
20895
54.
Lost in the gloomy horror of the night
First Line:
Lost in the gloomy horror of the night
Last Line:
A stately prospect waving in the clouds
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
4163
55.
Let us appear nor rash nor diffident
First Line:
Let us appear nor rash nor diffident
Last Line:
Is worth a whole eternity in bondage
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
37437
56.
Let us appear not rash nor diffident
First Line:
Let us appear not rash nor diffident
Last Line:
Betrays like treason
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
18533
57.
Love is a blind and foolish passion
First Line:
Love is a blind and foolish passion
Last Line:
Pleased and disgusted with it knows not what
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
19452
58.
My soul is quite weighed down with care and asks
First Line:
My soul is quite weighed down with care and asks
Last Line:
The soft refreshment of a moment's sleep
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
20812
59.
My love was fickle once and changing
First Line:
My love was fickle once and changing
Last Line:
And finds variety in one
DMI number:
17755
60.
I'm lost in ecstacy
First Line:
I'm lost in ecstacy
Last Line:
Thy past unkindness I absolve my stars
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
19206
61.
I long to clasp that haughty maid
First Line:
I long to clasp that haughty maid
Last Line:
Pant in her breast and vary in her face
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
20546
62.
If yet your thoughts are loose from state affairs
First Line:
If yet your thoughts are loose from state affairs
Last Line:
For next to what you write is what you praise
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
6744
63.
Let all Cecilia's praise proclaim
First Line:
Let all Cecilia's praise proclaim
Last Line:
In joy and harmony and love
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
11744
64.
Kneller with silence and surprise
First Line:
Kneller with silence and surprise
Last Line:
Had drawn a George or carved a Jove
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
9310
65.
Let me advise thee to retreat betimes
First Line:
Let me advise thee to retreat betimes
Last Line:
The post of honour is a private station
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
20623
66.
Methinks I see | Th' insulting tyrant prancing over the field
First Line:
Methinks I see | Th' insulting tyrant prancing over the field
Last Line:
Who owes his greatness to his country's ruin
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
21195
67.
Marcus the friendships of the world are oft
First Line:
Marcus the friendships of the world are oft
Last Line:
And such a friendship ends not but with life
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
18968
68.
Lucia thou knowst not half the love he bears thee
First Line:
Lucia thou knowst not half the love he bears thee
Last Line:
And thinks and talks and looks like one transported
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
19605
69.
Not all the pomp and majesty of Rome
First Line:
Not all the pomp and majesty of Rome
Last Line:
Of armies flushed with conquest
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
18436
70.
No common height the muse must soar
First Line:
No common height the muse must soar
Last Line:
The earth you burn and that you build
Author:
Thomas Newcomb (Confident)
DMI number:
11593
71.
Near to the Rose where punks in numbers flock
First Line:
Near to the Rose where punks in numbers flock
Last Line:
And is in Statu quo himself again
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
3903
72.
Now Marcus now thy virtue's on the proof
First Line:
Now Marcus now thy virtue's on the proof
Last Line:
On this weak side where most our nature fails
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
19561
73.
O for a peal of thunder that could make
First Line:
O for a peal of thunder that could make
Last Line:
Earth sea and air and heaven and Cato tremble
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
21156
74.
O Portius didst thou taste but half the griefs
First Line:
O Portius didst thou taste but half the griefs
Last Line:
My other griefs were but my Lucia kind
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
19506
75.
O Portius is there not some chosen curse
First Line:
O Portius is there not some chosen curse
Last Line:
Who owes his greatness to his country's ruin
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
30905
76.
O how shall words with equal warmth
First Line:
O how shall words with equal warmth
Last Line:
But thou canst read it there
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
11885
77.
O liberty thou goddess heavenly bright
First Line:
O liberty thou goddess heavenly bright
Last Line:
Givest beauty to the sun and pleasure to the day
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
30196
78.
O ye immortal powers that guard the just
First Line:
O ye immortal powers that guard the just
Last Line:
And show mankind that goodness is your care
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
20817
79.
O ye powers that search
First Line:
O ye powers that search
Last Line:
The best may err but you are good
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
20600
80.
O Lucia language is too faint to show
First Line:
O Lucia language is too faint to show
Last Line:
To make such ravage in a noble soul
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
19577
81.
O Lyria Lyria in thy absence
First Line:
O Lyria Lyria in thy absence
Last Line:
Were but my Lyria kind
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
40408
82.
Of wondrous art my muse delighted sings
First Line:
Of wondrous art my muse delighted sings
Last Line:
And squeaks his part in language not his own
Author:
Thomas Fitzgerald (Absolute)
DMI number:
16154
83.
Of trivial things I sing surprising scenes
First Line:
Of trivial things I sing surprising scenes
Last Line:
Its squeaking voice and accents not its own
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute) & George Sewell (Confident)
DMI number:
11583
84.
On foreign mountains may the sun refine
First Line:
On foreign mountains may the sun refine
Last Line:
And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
31948
85.
Old Chiron took the babe with secret joy
First Line:
Old Chiron took the babe with secret joy
Last Line:
And a new name from the new figure took
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
11276
86.
Oh he was made up of love and charms
First Line:
Oh he was made up of love and charms
Last Line:
To hear his virtues and old age grew wise
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
19665
87.
Oh liberty thou goddess heavenly bright
First Line:
Oh liberty thou goddess heavenly bright
Last Line:
Givest beauty to ye sun and pleasure to ye day
Author:
Joseph Addison (Confident)
DMI number:
1735
88.
Oh the charming month of May
First Line:
Oh the charming month of May
Last Line:
Who on her skimming dish carves her name | Who on &c
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
17756
89.
Oh the charming month of may
First Line:
Oh the charming month of may
Last Line:
Who on her skimming dish carves his name | Who on &c
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
23611
90.
Oh think what anxious moment pass between
First Line:
Oh think what anxious moment pass between
Last Line:
Determines all and closes our design
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
20346
91.
Pardon a weak distempered soul that swells
First Line:
Pardon a weak distempered soul that swells
Last Line:
The sport of passions
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
20299
92.
Prepare the hallowed strain my muse
First Line:
Prepare the hallowed strain my muse
Last Line:
And at a distance die
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
11511
93.
Portius draw near my son thou oft has seen
First Line:
Portius draw near my son thou oft has seen
Last Line:
The post of honour is a private station
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
37439
94.
Rome still survives in this assembled senate
First Line:
Rome still survives in this assembled senate
Last Line:
All Rome will be in tears
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
37141
95.
Remember o my friends the laws the rights
First Line:
Remember o my friends the laws the rights
Last Line:
But piously transmit them to your children
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
32176
96.
Remember o my friends the laws the rights
First Line:
Remember o my friends the laws the rights
Last Line:
Or our deaths glorious in thy just defence
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
19298
97.
See they suffer death
First Line:
See they suffer death
Last Line:
And lay the uplifted thunder bolt aside
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
20496
98.
See nature round a hoary prospect yields
First Line:
See nature round a hoary prospect yields
Last Line:
Her icy journey marked with silver wounds
Author:
Thomas Newcomb (Confident)
DMI number:
11667
99.
So the pure limpid stream when foul with stains
First Line:
So the pure limpid stream when foul with stains
Last Line:
And a new heaven in its fair bosom shows
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
12989
100.
So the pure limpid stream when foul with stains
First Line:
So the pure limpid stream when foul with stains
Last Line:
And a new heaven on its fair bosom shows
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
20950
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