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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... sunk them in a watery grave . There now they lie beneath the rolling flood , Far from their friends and country , unaveng'd , And back the drooping war - ship comes again , Dispirited , and thin : her sons asham'd Thus idly to review ...
... sunk them in a watery grave . There now they lie beneath the rolling flood , Far from their friends and country , unaveng'd , And back the drooping war - ship comes again , Dispirited , and thin : her sons asham'd Thus idly to review ...
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... sunk in the swallowing deep , Or led the glittering prize into the Thames ? There was a time ( oh let my languid sons Resume their spirit at the rouzing thought ! ) When all the pride of Spain , in one dread fleet , Swell'd o'er the lab ...
... sunk in the swallowing deep , Or led the glittering prize into the Thames ? There was a time ( oh let my languid sons Resume their spirit at the rouzing thought ! ) When all the pride of Spain , in one dread fleet , Swell'd o'er the lab ...
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... sunk , Her high built honour moulder'd to the dust , Unnerv'd her force , her spirits vanish'd quite , With rapid wing her riches fled away , Her unfrequented ports alone the sign 240 Of what she was , her merchants scattered wide , Her ...
... sunk , Her high built honour moulder'd to the dust , Unnerv'd her force , her spirits vanish'd quite , With rapid wing her riches fled away , Her unfrequented ports alone the sign 240 Of what she was , her merchants scattered wide , Her ...
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... fleeting form and airy train Sunk in the gale , and nought but ragged rocks Rushed on the broken eye , and nought was heard But the rough cadence of the dashing wave . 295 LIBERTY . A POEM . IN FIVE PARTS . TO BRITANNIA . 11.
... fleeting form and airy train Sunk in the gale , and nought but ragged rocks Rushed on the broken eye , and nought was heard But the rough cadence of the dashing wave . 295 LIBERTY . A POEM . IN FIVE PARTS . TO BRITANNIA . 11.
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... sunk ? Your crowded plains Void of their cities , unadorn'd your hills , 250 255 260 Ungrac'd your lakes , your ports to ships unknown , 265 Your lawless floods , and your abandon'd streams , These could you know ? these could you love ...
... sunk ? Your crowded plains Void of their cities , unadorn'd your hills , 250 255 260 Ungrac'd your lakes , your ports to ships unknown , 265 Your lawless floods , and your abandon'd streams , These could you know ? these could you love ...
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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