The Miscellaneous Works, Vol. 3: In Verse and Prose, of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq. With Some Account of the Life and Writings of the Author (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Vvith nodding arches, broken temples fpreadl The very tombs now vamfn'd like their dead! Some felt the filent firoke of mould'ring age; Some, hoilile fury; fome, teligious rage Barbarian blindnefs, Chrifiian zeal conlpire, And Papal piety, and Got/sic fire. Perhaps by its own ruins fav'd from flame, Some bury'd marble half preferves a Name; thatnamehhe learn'd with fiercedifputespurfue, And give to Trim old Veqfzan's due.

A'mbzrzm figh'd. She found it vain to trull The fa1thlefs Column, and the crumbling bull.

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