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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... train To walk , when poor Lavinia drew his eye ; Unconscious of her power , and turning quick With unaffected blushes from his gaze : He saw her charming , but he saw not half The charms her downcast modesty conceal'd : That very moment ...
... train To walk , when poor Lavinia drew his eye ; Unconscious of her power , and turning quick With unaffected blushes from his gaze : He saw her charming , but he saw not half The charms her downcast modesty conceal'd : That very moment ...
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... train , and he thinks always " as a man of genius ; he looks round on nature and on " life with the eye which nature bestows only on a " poet ; the eye that distinguishes , in every thing pre- " sented to his view , whatever there is in ...
... train , and he thinks always " as a man of genius ; he looks round on nature and on " life with the eye which nature bestows only on a " poet ; the eye that distinguishes , in every thing pre- " sented to his view , whatever there is in ...
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... train of observation and reasoning as merits the appellation of science , is comprehended under the two divisions of Natural Philosophy and Natural History . Both of these may be employed to advantage in descriptive poetry : for ...
... train of observation and reasoning as merits the appellation of science , is comprehended under the two divisions of Natural Philosophy and Natural History . Both of these may be employed to advantage in descriptive poetry : for ...
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... winds Elow not in vain . Far hence they keep repress'd Those deepening clouds on clouds , surcharg'd with That , o'er the vast Atlantic hither borne , [ rain , In endless train , would quench the summer - blaze 6 SPRING .
... winds Elow not in vain . Far hence they keep repress'd Those deepening clouds on clouds , surcharg'd with That , o'er the vast Atlantic hither borne , [ rain , In endless train , would quench the summer - blaze 6 SPRING .
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... train , would quench the summer - blaze , 140 And , cheerless , drown the crude unripen'd year . The north - east spends his rage ; he now shut up Within his iron cave , th ' effusive south Warms the wide air , and o'er the void of ...
... train , would quench the summer - blaze , 140 And , cheerless , drown the crude unripen'd year . The north - east spends his rage ; he now shut up Within his iron cave , th ' effusive south Warms the wide air , and o'er the void of ...
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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...