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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... dark assassins stain'd . But chief let Rome , the mighty city ! speak The full - exerted genius of thy reign . Behold her rise amid the lifeless waste , Expiring Nature all corrupted round ; 200 While the lone Tiber , thro ' the desert ...
... dark assassins stain'd . But chief let Rome , the mighty city ! speak The full - exerted genius of thy reign . Behold her rise amid the lifeless waste , Expiring Nature all corrupted round ; 200 While the lone Tiber , thro ' the desert ...
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... dark Egyptian lore ; These endless wonders that this sacred way Illumine still , and consecrate to Fame ; 235 240 These fountains , vases , urns , and statues charg'd With the fine stores of art - completing Greece . Mine is , besides ...
... dark Egyptian lore ; These endless wonders that this sacred way Illumine still , and consecrate to Fame ; 235 240 These fountains , vases , urns , and statues charg'd With the fine stores of art - completing Greece . Mine is , besides ...
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... dark abrupt Swallow'd at once , or vile in rubbish laid , A nest for serpents ; from the red abyss New hills , explosive , thrown ; the Lucrine lake A reedy pool ; and all to Cuma's point The sea recovering his usurp'd domain , And pour ...
... dark abrupt Swallow'd at once , or vile in rubbish laid , A nest for serpents ; from the red abyss New hills , explosive , thrown ; the Lucrine lake A reedy pool ; and all to Cuma's point The sea recovering his usurp'd domain , And pour ...
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... darkness the desponding mind , 40 45 50 55 60 1 65 Then tyrant Power the righteous scourge unloos'd ; For yielded reason speaks the soul a slave . Instead of useful works , like Nature's great , Enormous , cruel wonders crush'd the land ...
... darkness the desponding mind , 40 45 50 55 60 1 65 Then tyrant Power the righteous scourge unloos'd ; For yielded reason speaks the soul a slave . Instead of useful works , like Nature's great , Enormous , cruel wonders crush'd the land ...
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... Darkness , than they spurn'd The Persian chains ; while thro ' the city , full Of mirthful quarrel and of witty war , Incessant struggled taste refining taste , And friendly free discussion , calling forth 220 From the fair jewel truth ...
... Darkness , than they spurn'd The Persian chains ; while thro ' the city , full Of mirthful quarrel and of witty war , Incessant struggled taste refining taste , And friendly free discussion , calling forth 220 From the fair jewel truth ...
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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