The Poetical Works of James Thomson: With His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements : with the Life of the Author and an Essay on the Plan and Characters of the Poem on the Seasons, Volume 1Benjamin Johnson, 1804 |
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... e'en the microscopic eye ! Full Nature swarms with life ; one wond'rous mass Of animals or atoms organiz'd , Waiting the vital Breath , when Parent - Heaven Shall bid his spirit blow . The hoary fen , In putrid streams , emits the ...
... e'en the microscopic eye ! Full Nature swarms with life ; one wond'rous mass Of animals or atoms organiz'd , Waiting the vital Breath , when Parent - Heaven Shall bid his spirit blow . The hoary fen , In putrid streams , emits the ...
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... 280 And hates that excellence it cannot reach . Desponding Fear , of feeble fancies full , Weak and unmanly , loosens every power . E'en Love itself is bitterness of soul , 285 A pensive anguish pining at the heart ; Or , 10 SPRING .
... 280 And hates that excellence it cannot reach . Desponding Fear , of feeble fancies full , Weak and unmanly , loosens every power . E'en Love itself is bitterness of soul , 285 A pensive anguish pining at the heart ; Or , 10 SPRING .
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... E'en of the clown he feeds ? and that , perhaps , To swell the riot of th ' autumnal feast , Won by his labour ? Thus the feeling heart Would tenderly suggest ; but ' tis enough , In this late age , advent'rous to have touch'd Light on ...
... E'en of the clown he feeds ? and that , perhaps , To swell the riot of th ' autumnal feast , Won by his labour ? Thus the feeling heart Would tenderly suggest ; but ' tis enough , In this late age , advent'rous to have touch'd Light on ...
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... E'en shooting listless langour thro ' the deeps , Then seek the bank where flowering elders crowd , Where scatter'd wild the lily of the vale 455 Its balmy essence breathes , where cowslips hang 445 The dewy head , where purple violets ...
... E'en shooting listless langour thro ' the deeps , Then seek the bank where flowering elders crowd , Where scatter'd wild the lily of the vale 455 Its balmy essence breathes , where cowslips hang 445 The dewy head , where purple violets ...
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... e'en to birds and beasts the tender arts Of pleasing teaches : hence the glossy kind Try every winning way inventive love 615 Can dictate , and in courtship to their mates Pour forth their little souls . First , wide around , With ...
... e'en to birds and beasts the tender arts Of pleasing teaches : hence the glossy kind Try every winning way inventive love 615 Can dictate , and in courtship to their mates Pour forth their little souls . First , wide around , With ...
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æther amid art thou Autumn beam beauty beneath blast blaze blooming boundless breast breathes breeze charm clouds Coriolanus deep delight descends descriptive poetry Doddington dreadful E'en earth evanescent exalted fair fair brow fancy fierce flame flocks flood gale genius gloom grace grove happy heart heaven hills insects JAMES THOMSON Lapland light luxury matchless maze mighty mind mingled mix'd mountains Muse Nature Nature's night numbers o'er Palemon passions peace plain poem poet poison'd pomp pride race racter rage rapture retir'd rills rise rocks roll round rous'd rural scarce scene season shade shake shining smile snow soft song soul spreads Spring storm stream stretch'd Summer swain swelling tempest tender thee Thomson thou thought thro toil tribes Typhon vale vex'd virtue walk waste wave whole wide wild winds wing Winter wintry wonders woods youth
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Page 32 - Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe the enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
Page 162 - The impetuous song, and say from whom you rage. His praise, ye brooks, attune, ye trembling rills; And let me catch it as I muse along. Ye headlong torrents, rapid and profound...
Page 159 - Ye noble few ! who here unbending stand Beneath life's pressure, yet bear up awhile, And what your bounded view, which only saw A little part, deem'd Evil, is no more ; The storms of Wintry Time will quickly pass, And one unbounded Spring encircle all.
Page 163 - There let the shepherd's flute, the virgin's lay, The prompting seraph, and the poet's lyre, Still sing the God of Seasons as they roll.
Page xxiii - wonders that he never saw before what Thomson shews him, and that he never yet has felt what Thomson impresses.
Page 161 - Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of thee. Forth in the pleasing Spring Thy beauty walks, thy tenderness and love.
Page 164 - When, e'en at last, the solemn hour shall come, And wing my mystic flight to future worlds, I cheerful will obey : there, with new powers, Will rising wonders sing. I cannot go Where universal love not smiles around...
Page 137 - In vain for him the officious wife prepares The fire fair-blazing, and the vestment warm ; In vain his little children, peeping out Into the mingling storm, demand their sire, With tears of artless innocence. Alas ! Nor wife, nor children, more shall he behold, Nor friends, nor sacred home.
Page 1 - And Winter oft at eve resumes the breeze, Chills the pale morn, and bids his driving sleets Deform the day delightless...
Page 161 - With light and heat refulgent. Then Thy sun Shoots full perfection through the swelling year : And oft Thy voice in dreadful thunder speaks : And oft at dawn, deep noon, or falling eve, By brooks and groves, in hollow-whispering gales. Thy bounty shines in Autumn unconfin'd, And spreads a common feast for all that lives...