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 Charachters of the Poem on the Season, Volume 2Benjamin Johnson, 1804 |
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... blood of glorious ages mine ; Nor bursts my sleeping thunder on their head . 20 25 35 Whence this unwonted patience ? this weak doubt ? 30 This tame beseeching of rejected peace ? This meek forbearance ? this unnative fear , To generous ...
... blood of glorious ages mine ; Nor bursts my sleeping thunder on their head . 20 25 35 Whence this unwonted patience ? this weak doubt ? 30 This tame beseeching of rejected peace ? This meek forbearance ? this unnative fear , To generous ...
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... blood , Nought save the sweetness of indulgent showers , Trickling , distils into the vernant glebe ; 115 Instead of mangled carcases , sad - seen , When the blythe sheaves lie scatter'd o'er the field ; When only shining shares , the ...
... blood , Nought save the sweetness of indulgent showers , Trickling , distils into the vernant glebe ; 115 Instead of mangled carcases , sad - seen , When the blythe sheaves lie scatter'd o'er the field ; When only shining shares , the ...
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... blood , And the dread toil of ages , won so dear , Your pride , your triumph , your supreme delight ! For whose defence oft , in the doubtful hour , You rush'd with rapture down the gulf of Fate , Of death ambitious ! till by awful ...
... blood , And the dread toil of ages , won so dear , Your pride , your triumph , your supreme delight ! For whose defence oft , in the doubtful hour , You rush'd with rapture down the gulf of Fate , Of death ambitious ! till by awful ...
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... blood . The simpler arts were all their simpler wants Had urg❜d to light ; but instant , these supply'd , Another set of fonder wants arose , And other arts with them of finer aim , Till , from refining want to want impell'd , 10 15 ...
... blood . The simpler arts were all their simpler wants Had urg❜d to light ; but instant , these supply'd , Another set of fonder wants arose , And other arts with them of finer aim , Till , from refining want to want impell'd , 10 15 ...
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... Sparta by turns , and Athens , vilely su❜d , Su'd to be venal parricides , to spill Their country's bravest blood , and on themselves To turn their matchless mercenary arms . 440 Peaceful in Susa , then , sat the great king 42 LIBERTY .
... Sparta by turns , and Athens , vilely su❜d , Su'd to be venal parricides , to spill Their country's bravest blood , and on themselves To turn their matchless mercenary arms . 440 Peaceful in Susa , then , sat the great king 42 LIBERTY .
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æther amid ancient arts Athens bade beam behold beneath blest bliss blood bloom breath Britons brow calm CASTLE OF INDOLENCE charms Corruption dark deep delight dread E'en earth Epaminondas fair fame fir'd flame flood Formia Freedom gale genius glad glory goddess goddess of Liberty grace Greece happy heart heaven Hence honour human Idless Isthmian games Italy JAMES THOMSON join'd kings knight labour land Liberty light luxurious mankind matchless mind mix'd Muse Musidora Nature's o'er passions peace Phoenicia plain pour'd pride race rage rais'd Rapine reign rise roll'd Roman Rome round rous'd sacred scene scorn'd seiz'd shade shine shore Silures sing slaves smil'd smile soft song sons soul spirit spread stream sunk sweet swell swell'd taught tempest tender thee thou thro toil touch'd trembling turn'd tyrants vale vile virtue waves whence wild winds wretch