The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Bind 2Vernor and Hood; John Walker; Cuthell and Martin; W.J. and J. Richardson; Longman and Rees; R. Lea; and J. and A. Arch. ; T. Maiden, printer, Sherbourn-Lane, 1804 |
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This place was therefore called The Lover's Leap ; and whether or no the fright they had been in , or the resolution that could push them to so dreadful a remedy , or the bruises which they often received in their fall , banished all ...
This place was therefore called The Lover's Leap ; and whether or no the fright they had been in , or the resolution that could push them to so dreadful a remedy , or the bruises which they often received in their fall , banished all ...
Side 22
This account is very dry in many parts , as only mentioning the name of the lover who leaped , the person he leaped for , and relating , in short , that he was either cured , or killed , or maimed , by the fall .
This account is very dry in many parts , as only mentioning the name of the lover who leaped , the person he leaped for , and relating , in short , that he was either cured , or killed , or maimed , by the fall .
Side 23
Atalanta , an old maid , whose cruelty had several years before driven two or three despairing lovers to this leap , being now in the fifty - fifth year of her age , and in love with an officer of Sparta , broke her neck in the fall .
Atalanta , an old maid , whose cruelty had several years before driven two or three despairing lovers to this leap , being now in the fifty - fifth year of her age , and in love with an officer of Sparta , broke her neck in the fall .
Side 24
Hurt in the fall , but recovered . N. B. This was her second time of leaping . Hesperus , a young man of Tarentum , in love with his master's daughter , drowned , the boats not coming in soon enough to his relief .
Hurt in the fall , but recovered . N. B. This was her second time of leaping . Hesperus , a young man of Tarentum , in love with his master's daughter , drowned , the boats not coming in soon enough to his relief .
Side 25
... but hearing that Sappho had been there before him , and that her body could be no where found , he very generously lamented her fall , and is said to have written his hundred and twenty - fifth ode upon that occasion .
... but hearing that Sappho had been there before him , and that her body could be no where found , he very generously lamented her fall , and is said to have written his hundred and twenty - fifth ode upon that occasion .
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| Titel | The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Bind 2 The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Joseph Addison |
| Forfatter | Joseph Addison |
| Udgiver | Vernor and Hood; John Walker; Cuthell and Martin; W.J. and J. Richardson; Longman and Rees; R. Lea; and J. and A. Arch. ; T. Maiden, printer, Sherbourn-Lane, 1804 |
| Oprindeligt fra | Harvard University |
| Digitaliseret | 17. jan 2008 |
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