James ThomsonMacmillan and Company, limited, 1907 - 259 pages |
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... literary criticism , though the relation between the life and the writings has not been ignored . For the biography of Thomson fairly good materials are available , thanks to the labours of a series of in- vestigators devoted to the ...
... literary criticism , though the relation between the life and the writings has not been ignored . For the biography of Thomson fairly good materials are available , thanks to the labours of a series of in- vestigators devoted to the ...
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... literary work involves a careful collation of the early editions of The Seasons , since there is as yet no full information published with regard to their important variations of text . Mr. Tovey's critical notes are useful , but in ...
... literary work involves a careful collation of the early editions of The Seasons , since there is as yet no full information published with regard to their important variations of text . Mr. Tovey's critical notes are useful , but in ...
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... literary ability , and were ready to give help and encourage- ment . It is generally agreed by Thomson's biographers , and gratefully acknowledged by Thomson himself , that a very important influence was exercised upon him by Robert ...
... literary ability , and were ready to give help and encourage- ment . It is generally agreed by Thomson's biographers , and gratefully acknowledged by Thomson himself , that a very important influence was exercised upon him by Robert ...
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... literary subjects were discussed with freedom and impartiality . . . . There the members used to submit their first essays in composition to the friendly censure of their associates , which helped to lop away luxuri- ances and check ...
... literary subjects were discussed with freedom and impartiality . . . . There the members used to submit their first essays in composition to the friendly censure of their associates , which helped to lop away luxuri- ances and check ...
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... literary influences that the young student found himself at Edinburgh . He became a member of more than one of the literary clubs which have been referred to - the " Grotesques " and the " Athenian Society " are both mentioned - but it ...
... literary influences that the young student found himself at Edinburgh . He became a member of more than one of the literary clubs which have been referred to - the " Grotesques " and the " Athenian Society " are both mentioned - but it ...
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Page 107 - THESE, as they change, ALMIGHTY FATHER, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of THEE. Forth in the pleasing Spring THY beauty walks, THY tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And every sense, and every heart is joy. Then comes THY glory in the Summer months, With light and heat refulgent. Then THY sun...
Page 208 - I care not, Fortune, what you me deny ; You cannot rob me of free Nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face...
Page 143 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep. All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night : how often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator...
Page 107 - Works in the secret deep ; shoots, steaming, thence The fair profusion that o'erspreads the Spring ; Flings from the Sun direct the flaming day; Feeds every creature ; hurls the tempest forth ; And, as on earth this grateful change revolves. With transport touches all the springs of life.
Page 240 - Stand, never overlook'd, our favourite elms, That screen the herdsman's solitary hut ; While far beyond, and overthwart the stream, That, as with molten glass, inlays the vale, The sloping land recedes into the clouds ; Displaying on its varied side the grace Of hedge-row beauties numberless, square tower, Tall spire, from which the sound of cheerful bells Just undulates upon the listening ear, Groves, heaths, and smoking villages, remote.
Page 174 - Profuse of bliss, and pregnant with delight! Eternal pleasures in thy presence reign, And smiling Plenty leads thy wanton train; Eas"d of her load Subjection grows more light, And Poverty looks cheerful in thy sight ; Thou mak'st the gloomy face of Nature gay, Giv'st beauty to the sun, and pleasure to the day.
Page 109 - And wait the approaching sign to strike, at once, Into the general choir. Even Mountains, Vales, And Forests seem, impatient, to demand The promised sweetness. Man superior walks Amid the glad Creation, musing praise, And looking lively gratitude. At last, The Clouds consign their treasures to the fields, And, softly shaking on the dimpled pool Prelusive drops, let all their moisture flow, In large effusion, o'er the freshened world. The stealing Shower is scarce to patter heard, By such as wander...
Page 129 - That winding leads through pits of death, or else Instructs him how to take the dangerous ford. The lengthened night elaps'd, the morning shines Serene, in all her dewy beauty bright, Unfolding fair the last autumnal day. And now the mounting sun dispels the fog ; The rigid hoar-frost melts before his beam; And hung on every spray, on every blade Of grass, the myriad dew-drops twinkle round.
Page 200 - Or stockdoves plain amid the forest deep, That drowsy rustled to the sighing gale ; And still a coil the grasshopper did keep ; Yet all these sounds yblent inclined all to sleep.
Page 115 - With quicken'd step, Brown night retires. Young day pours in apace, And opens all the lawny prospect wide. The dripping rock, the mountain's misty top, Swell on the sight, and brighten with the dawn.