James ThomsonMacmillan and Company, limited, 1908 - 259 pages |
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... taste and some original talent . He seems to have supplied the boy with books , and to have directed his early reading and his first essays in poetry ; and Thomson , at the time when he was engaged on his own poem of Winter , wrote thus ...
... taste and some original talent . He seems to have supplied the boy with books , and to have directed his early reading and his first essays in poetry ; and Thomson , at the time when he was engaged on his own poem of Winter , wrote thus ...
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... taste and enthusiasm in appreciation , happened to see it , and went round the coffee - houses praising it , " and Johnson accepts this statement . Others say that Rundle was the person who first recommended the poem ; and Warton tells ...
... taste and enthusiasm in appreciation , happened to see it , and went round the coffee - houses praising it , " and Johnson accepts this statement . Others say that Rundle was the person who first recommended the poem ; and Warton tells ...
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... taste im- proves the beauties . To you alone it belongs to write so inimitably , and to read so indulgently . " It would be ill - nature to criticise severely so natural an effusion of pleasure and gratitude . The result of this letter ...
... taste im- proves the beauties . To you alone it belongs to write so inimitably , and to read so indulgently . " It would be ill - nature to criticise severely so natural an effusion of pleasure and gratitude . The result of this letter ...
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... taste and of a feeling heart . Her sense of justice and pity for misfortune led her in the early part of 1728 to use her influence with the Queen in favour of Richard Savage , then under sentence of death for homicide committed in a ...
... taste and of a feeling heart . Her sense of justice and pity for misfortune led her in the early part of 1728 to use her influence with the Queen in favour of Richard Savage , then under sentence of death for homicide committed in a ...
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... taste and judgment " this inimitable masterpiece both of language and genius , " and in his reply to the letter above cited he endeavours to dissuade his correspon- dent from carrying out his intention , oddly arguing that the beauty of ...
... taste and judgment " this inimitable masterpiece both of language and genius , " and in his reply to the letter above cited he endeavours to dissuade his correspon- dent from carrying out his intention , oddly arguing that the beauty of ...
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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.