The Miscellaneous Works, Vol. 3

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Excerpt from 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 Verses Occasion'd by Mr. Addison's Treatise of Medals. See the wild waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad sepulchre appears: With nodding arches, broken temples spread! The very tombs now vanish'd like their dead! Some felt the silent stroke of mould'ring age, Some, nostile fury, some, religious rage: Barbarian blindness, Christian zeal conspire, And Papal piety, and Gothic fire. Perhaps by its own ruins sav'd from flame, Some bury'd marble half preserves a Name, That Name, the learn'd with fierce disputes pursue, And give to Titus old Vespasian's due. Ambition sigh'd. She found it vain to trust The faithless Column, and the crumbling Bust, About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.