The Seasons, Hymns, Ode, and SongsJ. W. H. Payne, 1813 - 323 páginas |
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... appear undisguised . But however just this observation may be , and although we might safely rest Thomson's fame , as a good man , as well as a man of genius , on this sole footing ; yet the desire which the Public always shew of being ...
... appear undisguised . But however just this observation may be , and although we might safely rest Thomson's fame , as a good man , as well as a man of genius , on this sole footing ; yet the desire which the Public always shew of being ...
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... appears in the copy of verses which he wrote on that occasion . In the mean time , our author's reception , wherever he was introduced , emboldened him to risque the publication of his Winter in which , as himself was a mere novice in ...
... appears in the copy of verses which he wrote on that occasion . In the mean time , our author's reception , wherever he was introduced , emboldened him to risque the publication of his Winter in which , as himself was a mere novice in ...
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... appear evident to one who examines their several casts and manners . That none of them , however , have yet equalled their master ; and that his performance is an exquisite piece , replete with beauties of the most engaging and ...
... appear evident to one who examines their several casts and manners . That none of them , however , have yet equalled their master ; and that his performance is an exquisite piece , replete with beauties of the most engaging and ...
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... appears to be the general design of this Poem . Essentially different from a didactic piece , its bu- siness is to describe , and the occupation of its leisure to teach . And as in the Georgics , whenever the poet has , for a while ...
... appears to be the general design of this Poem . Essentially different from a didactic piece , its bu- siness is to describe , and the occupation of its leisure to teach . And as in the Georgics , whenever the poet has , for a while ...
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... appears to have been intended as a complete piece , and contains within itself the natural order of beginning , middle , and termination , yet as they were at length collected and modelled by their author , they have all a mutual ...
... appears to have been intended as a complete piece , and contains within itself the natural order of beginning , middle , and termination , yet as they were at length collected and modelled by their author , they have all a mutual ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
affects the various amid art thou Autumn beam beauty beneath bloom bosom boundless breast breathes breeze Caledonia Celadon charm clouds Coriolanus deep delightful descends descriptive poetry earth ether Ev'n exalted fair fair brow fancy fierce flame flocks flood gale gentle gloom glowing grace grove happy heart heaven hills Lapland light luxury matchless maze mighty mind mingled mix'd mountains Muse Musidora Nature Nature's night numbers o'er Palemon passions peace plain poet poison'd pomp pride race rage rapture rills rise rocks roll round rous'd rural scarce scene Season described Season on Animals shade shine smile snow soft song soul spreads Spring storm stream stretch'd Summer swain sweet sweet emotions swell tempest tender thee Thomson thou thought thunder toil train tribes vale vegetable vex'd virtue walk waste wave wild winds wing Winter wintry wonders woods youth
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Página 301 - Ye softer floods, that lead the humid maze Along the vale ; and thou, majestic main, A secret world of wonders in thyself, Sound His stupendous praise ; whose greater voice Or bids you roar, or bids your roarings fall.
Página 299 - 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.
Página 303 - tis nought to me: Since GOD is ever present, ever felt, In the void waste as in the city full; And where he vital breathes there must be joy.
Página 249 - SEE, Winter comes, to rule the varied year, Sullen and sad, with all his rising train ; Vapours, and clouds, and storms. Be these my theme; These, that exalt the soul to solemn thought, And heavenly musing. Welcome, kindred glooms...
Página 99 - 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.
Página 56 - Sits on the horizon round a settled gloom : Not such as wintry storms on mortals shed, Oppressing life ; but lovely, gentle, kind, And full of every hope and every joy, The wish of nature. Gradual sinks the breeze Into a perfect calm ; that not a breath Is heard to quiver through the closing woods, Or rustling turn the many-twinkling leaves Of aspen tall.
Página 265 - And heedless rambling Impulse learn to think ; The conscious heart of Charity would warm, And her wide wish Benevolence dilate ; The social tear would rise, the social sigh ; And into clear perfection, gradual bliss, Refining still, the social passions work.
Página 49 - COME, gentle SPRING! ethereal Mildness! come; And from the bosom of yon dropping cloud, While music wakes around, veil'd in a shower Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend.
Página 88 - The whole creation round. Contentment walks The sunny glade, and feels an inward bliss Spring o'er his mind, beyond the power of kings To purchase.
Página 263 - 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.