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 Characters of the Poem on the Seasons, Volum 1Benjamin Johnson, 1804 |
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Side vi
... wonder that he soon conceived a friendship for our Author . What a warm return he met with , and how Mr. Thompson was affected by his friend's premature death , appears in the copy of verses which he wrote on that occasion . Our ...
... wonder that he soon conceived a friendship for our Author . What a warm return he met with , and how Mr. Thompson was affected by his friend's premature death , appears in the copy of verses which he wrote on that occasion . Our ...
Side xiii
... wonder that the subject attracted the attention of the painter ; for who , that possessed the small- est degree of sensibility , could pass over a scene so beautifully described ? We cannot withhold the tribute of praise due to Mr. Kirk ...
... wonder that the subject attracted the attention of the painter ; for who , that possessed the small- est degree of sensibility , could pass over a scene so beautifully described ? We cannot withhold the tribute of praise due to Mr. Kirk ...
Side xxv
... wonders that " he never saw before what Thomson shews him , and " that he never yet has felt what Thomson impresses . " His descriptions of extended scenes and general " effects bring before us the whole magnificence of " nature whether ...
... wonders that " he never saw before what Thomson shews him , and " that he never yet has felt what Thomson impresses . " His descriptions of extended scenes and general " effects bring before us the whole magnificence of " nature whether ...
Side xl
... wonder if some of his noblest pieces are the product of this delightful excursion . He returns , however , with apparent satis- faction , to take a last survey of the softer summer of our island ; and , after closing the prospect of ...
... wonder if some of his noblest pieces are the product of this delightful excursion . He returns , however , with apparent satis- faction , to take a last survey of the softer summer of our island ; and , after closing the prospect of ...
Side xliii
... wonder and ad- miration the most incurious spectator . The effects of cold are more sudden , and in many instances more extraordinary and unexpected , than those of heat . He who has beheld the vegetable productions of even a northern ...
... wonder and ad- miration the most incurious spectator . The effects of cold are more sudden , and in many instances more extraordinary and unexpected , than those of heat . He who has beheld the vegetable productions of even a northern ...
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æther amid art thou Autumn beam beauty beneath blast blaze blooming boundless breast breathes breeze charm clouds Coriolanus deep delight descends descriptive poetry Doddington dreadful E'en earth evanescent exalted fair fair brow fancy fierce flame flocks flood gale genius gloom grace grove happy heart heaven hills insects JAMES THOMSON Lapland light luxury matchless maze mighty mind mingled mix'd mountains Muse Nature Nature's night numbers o'er Palemon passions peace plain poem poet poison'd pomp pride race racter rage rapture retir'd rills rise rocks roll round rous'd rural scarce scene season shade shake shining smile snow soft song soul spreads Spring storm stream stretch'd Summer swain swelling tempest tender thee Thomson thou thought thro toil tribes Typhon vale vex'd virtue walk waste wave whole wide wild winds wing Winter wintry wonders woods youth
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Side 32 - Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe the enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
Side 162 - The impetuous song, and say from whom you rage. His praise, ye brooks, attune, ye trembling rills; And let me catch it as I muse along. Ye headlong torrents, rapid and profound...
Side 159 - Ye noble few ! who here unbending stand Beneath life's pressure, yet bear up awhile, And what your bounded view, which only saw A little part, deem'd Evil, is no more ; The storms of Wintry Time will quickly pass, And one unbounded Spring encircle all.
Side 163 - There let the shepherd's flute, the virgin's lay, The prompting seraph, and the poet's lyre, Still sing the God of Seasons as they roll.
Side xxiii - wonders that he never saw before what Thomson shews him, and that he never yet has felt what Thomson impresses.
Side 161 - Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of thee. Forth in the pleasing Spring Thy beauty walks, thy tenderness and love.
Side 164 - When, e'en at last, the solemn hour shall come, And wing my mystic flight to future worlds, I cheerful will obey : there, with new powers, Will rising wonders sing. I cannot go Where universal love not smiles around...
Side 137 - In vain for him the officious wife prepares The fire fair-blazing, and the vestment warm ; In vain his little children, peeping out Into the mingling storm, demand their sire, With tears of artless innocence. Alas ! Nor wife, nor children, more shall he behold, Nor friends, nor sacred home.
Side 1 - And Winter oft at eve resumes the breeze, Chills the pale morn, and bids his driving sleets Deform the day delightless...
Side 161 - With light and heat refulgent. Then Thy sun Shoots full perfection through the swelling year : And oft Thy voice in dreadful thunder speaks : And oft at dawn, deep noon, or falling eve, By brooks and groves, in hollow-whispering gales. Thy bounty shines in Autumn unconfin'd, And spreads a common feast for all that lives...