James ThomsonMacmillan and Company, limited, 1908 - 259 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 33
Page 5
... Lord George Graham . Of these the only piece which has much merit is Lisy's Parting with her Cat , a rather clever exercise in mock - heroic blank verse . Lisy ( or Lizzie ) was his favourite sister . Of his other pursuits at this ...
... Lord George Graham . Of these the only piece which has much merit is Lisy's Parting with her Cat , a rather clever exercise in mock - heroic blank verse . Lisy ( or Lizzie ) was his favourite sister . Of his other pursuits at this ...
Page 9
... Lord George Graham , and from him he obtained a good deal of information as to the conditions of the literary world in London , a subject about which Thomson was not likely to be very well informed . Mallet , who is noted by Johnson as ...
... Lord George Graham , and from him he obtained a good deal of information as to the conditions of the literary world in London , a subject about which Thomson was not likely to be very well informed . Mallet , who is noted by Johnson as ...
Page 10
... Lord President of the Court of Session , who had been interested in his poetry in Scotland , and who recommended him to some of his influential friends , and made him acquainted also with Aikman the painter , between whom and Thomson a ...
... Lord President of the Court of Session , who had been interested in his poetry in Scotland , and who recommended him to some of his influential friends , and made him acquainted also with Aikman the painter , between whom and Thomson a ...
Page 12
... Lord Binning ( eldest son of the Earl of Haddington ) , who , we may observe , was the son - in- law of Lady Grizel Baillie . The post had probably been obtained by means of that lady , though , 12 [ CHAP . JAMES THOMSON.
... Lord Binning ( eldest son of the Earl of Haddington ) , who , we may observe , was the son - in- law of Lady Grizel Baillie . The post had probably been obtained by means of that lady , though , 12 [ CHAP . JAMES THOMSON.
Page 13
... Lord Binning's son , a child of five years old , to read - not an occupation which he very much cared for , but one which he accepted for want of a better , resolving to pursue his own studies in the meantime . He professes inability to ...
... Lord Binning's son , a child of five years old , to read - not an occupation which he very much cared for , but one which he accepted for want of a better , resolving to pursue his own studies in the meantime . He professes inability to ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
admiration Agamemnon Andrew Millar appeared arts Autumn beauty beneath blank verse Britannia Castle of Indolence clouds Clytemnestra criticism death described diction Dodington doubt drama earth Edinburgh edition of Winter effect Eleonora endeavoured English enthusiastic especially example expression external nature fact favour feeling flood follows friends garden genius Georgics Hagley Hagley Park happy heart heaven Hill influence interest JAMES THOMSON Johnson later letter Liberty lines literary Lord Lyttelton Mallet Masinissa Millar Milton Murdoch Muses Musidora night o'er original Paradise Lost passage patriotic play poem poet poetical poetry Pope praise produced published reference regard remark revision Richmond Richmond Hill romantic Rule Britannia says scene Seasons seems shade Sigismunda snow song Sophonisba soul Southdean spirit Spring stanza stream style success suggested Summer Talbot Tancred taste tempest Thomson thro Timoleon tion tragedy vale Virgil virtue walk wind write young
Popular passages
Page 107 - THESE, as they change, ALMIGHTY FATHER, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of THEE. Forth in the pleasing Spring THY beauty walks, THY tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And every sense, and every heart is joy. Then comes THY glory in the Summer months, With light and heat refulgent. Then THY sun...
Page 208 - I care not, Fortune, what you me deny ; You cannot rob me of free Nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face...
Page 143 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep. All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night : how often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator...
Page 240 - Stand, never overlook'd, our favourite elms, That screen the herdsman's solitary hut ; While far beyond, and overthwart the stream, That, as with molten glass, inlays the vale, The sloping land recedes into the clouds ; Displaying on its varied side the grace Of hedge-row beauties numberless, square tower, Tall spire, from which the sound of cheerful bells Just undulates upon the listening ear, Groves, heaths, and smoking villages, remote.
Page 117 - Dash'd in a cloud of foam, it sends aloft A hoary mist, and forms a ceaseless shower. Nor can the...
Page 107 - Works in the secret deep ; shoots, steaming, thence The fair profusion that o'erspreads the Spring ; Flings from the sun direct the flaming day; Feeds every creature ; hurls the tempest forth; And, as on earth this grateful change revolves, With transport touches all the springs of life.
Page 109 - And wait the approaching sign to strike, at once, Into the general choir. Even Mountains, Vales, And Forests seem, impatient, to demand The promised sweetness. Man superior walks Amid the glad Creation, musing praise, And looking lively gratitude. At last, The Clouds consign their treasures to the fields, And, softly shaking on the dimpled pool Prelusive drops, let all their moisture flow, In large effusion, o'er the freshened world. The stealing Shower is scarce to patter heard, By such as wander...
Page 145 - Sin has ne possim naturae accedere partis frigidus obstiterit circum praecordia sanguis, 485 rura mihi et rigui placeant in vallibus amnes, flumina amem silvasque inglorius.
Page 107 - But wandering oft, with brute unconscious gaze, Man marks not Thee, marks not the mighty hand, That, ever busy, wheels the silent spheres ; Works in the secret deep ; shoots, steaming, thence The fair profusion that o'erspreads the Spring...
Page 200 - Or stockdoves plain amid the forest deep, That drowsy rustled to the sighing gale ; And still a coil the grasshopper did keep ; Yet all these sounds yblent inclined all to sleep.