James ThomsonMacmillan and Company, limited, 1908 - 259 pages |
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... Lyttelton , and the tenure of his posts , which have not appeared in any previous biography . The due estimation of Thomson's literary work involves a careful collation of the early editions of The Seasons , since there is as yet no ...
... Lyttelton , and the tenure of his posts , which have not appeared in any previous biography . The due estimation of Thomson's literary work involves a careful collation of the early editions of The Seasons , since there is as yet no ...
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... Lyttelton and the description of Hagley Park . The additions , however , were to some extent balanced by omissions , and the total increase amounted to less than a hundred lines . The author is said to have received £ 50 ( or fifty ...
... Lyttelton and the description of Hagley Park . The additions , however , were to some extent balanced by omissions , and the total increase amounted to less than a hundred lines . The author is said to have received £ 50 ( or fifty ...
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... Lyttelton of May , 1750 ; and it is highly probable that Thomson called upon him in Paris . We may notice that while the first three acts of Sophonisba end regularly with the expected simile , the custom was entirely dropped by Thomson ...
... Lyttelton of May , 1750 ; and it is highly probable that Thomson called upon him in Paris . We may notice that while the first three acts of Sophonisba end regularly with the expected simile , the custom was entirely dropped by Thomson ...
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... Lyttelton , a young gentleman and member of Parliament , wrote the Persian Letters . They are reckoned prettily done . " In October he writes to the same correspondent again , on hearing news of his brother's death , and among other ...
... Lyttelton , a young gentleman and member of Parliament , wrote the Persian Letters . They are reckoned prettily done . " In October he writes to the same correspondent again , on hearing news of his brother's death , and among other ...
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... Lyttelton . It is true that the preface in which these statements are made is a piece of mystification ; but it does not follow that all the statements made in it are untrue , and we know that Voltaire was in corre- spondence with Lyttelton ...
... Lyttelton . It is true that the preface in which these statements are made is a piece of mystification ; but it does not follow that all the statements made in it are untrue , and we know that Voltaire was in corre- spondence with Lyttelton ...
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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.