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The Works of ... Joseph Addison, Collected by Mr. Tickell
The Works of Joseph Addison Collected by Mr Tickell Author:Joseph Addison Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: r SMto cumpandere victut Insiliente mari submergitur alveus,urtdis. Scuta virum cristaque, ei inerti spicula ferro Tutelaque deumfluitant. SiL. It. l... more »ib. 14. Sunk by a weight so dreadful down she goes, And o'er her head the broken billows close, Bright shields and crests float round the whirling floods. And useless spears confus'd with tutelary gods. . Trabe rnptd Bruttia sam Prendit amicus inops, remque omnem surdaque vota Comlidit: loniojacet ipse in litlore, et und Ingentes de puppe dei,jamque obvia mergis Costa rasis lacera.- ——'— Pers. Sat. 6. My friend is shipwreck'd on the Brutian strand, His riches in th' Ionian main are lost; And he himself stands shiv'ring on the coast: Where, destitute of help, forlorn and bare, He wearies the deaf gods with fruitless pray'r. Their images, the relics of the wreck, Torn from their naked poop, are tided back 'By the wild waves; and rudely thrown ashore, Lie impotent, nor can themselves restore. The vessel sticks, and shows her open'd side, And on her shatter'd mast the mews in triumph ride. Mr.DRYDEW. You will think, perhaps, I carry my conjectures too far, if I tell you that I fancy they are these kind of gods that Horace mentions in his allegorical vessel, which was so broken and shattered to pieces; for I am apt to think that integra relates to the gods as well as the lintea. -Non tibi sunt Integra lintea Nan dii, quos iterumpressa voces malo. Hob. Od. 14. lib. 1. Thy stern is gone, thy gods are lost, And thou hast none to hear thy cry, When thou on dang'rous shelves art tost, When billows rage, and winds are high. Mr. Cbeech. Since we are engaged so far in the Roman shipping, ?ays Philander, I '11 here show you a medal that has on Fig...« less