In the same year the Seasons also appear in 8vo, each in a separate volume. Spring is printed for A. Millar; Summer, Autumn, and Winter (with the Hymn, the Poem on Newton, and Britannia) for J. Millan. They are sometimes found bound up together under the names of Millar and Millan. Text the same as in the quarto, save "Winter", which contains 787 lines (text D). 1738 The Seasons appear in the first volume of The Works of Mr. Thomson. In two Volumes. London: Printed for A. Millar, overagainst St. Clement's Church in the Strand. MDCCXXXVIII. 8vo. Text save spelling and punctuation the same as in the quarto of 1730. "Winter" has 787 lines, as in the 8vo. ed. of 1730. 1744 The Seasons appear in the first volume of The Works of Mr. Thomson. In two Volumes. Vol. I. With Additions and Corrections. London: Printed for A. Millar, in the Strand. 1744. The following advertisement is prefixed: The Seasons having been published several Years ago, and considerable Additions made to them lately, some little Anachronisms have thence arisen, which it is hoped the Reader will excuse. Spring 1173 lines (text C). Summer 1796 lines (text C), Autumn 1375 lines (text B), Winter 1069 lines (text E), Hymn 118 lines (text B). Omitted: The short prose-dedications on the title-pages in front of each Season. In the same year The Seasons appear in a separate edition: The Seasons. By James Thomson. London: Printed for A. Millar, in the Strand. 1744. 12mo. Text the same as in the " Works". The following dedication is prefixed: To His Royal Highness Frederic Prince of Wales, This Poem, Corrected and made less unworthy of his Protection, is, with the utmost Gratitude and Veneration, inscribed, by His Royal Highness's most obedient and most devoted Servant, James Thomson. 1746 The Seasons. By James Thomson. London: Printed for A. Millar, in the Strand. 1746. 12 mo. Last edition revised by the author. Spring 1176 lines (text D). Summer 1805 lines (text D). Autumn 1373 lines (text C). Winter 1069 lines (text F). Hymn 118 lines (text C). VARIANTS ORTHOGRAPHICAL AND PUNCTUATIVE. - In consulting the following lists it should be remembered that the general rule which may be established with reference to the substantives occurring in the original editions of The Seasons here noticed, viz. that they begin with a capital letter exceptions have been recorded is broken by the quarto of 17301), which uses small letters in this case (and also in the cases of adjectives. which sometimes commence with a capital in the other editions). When a noun has been quoted from the quarto, e. g in order to indicate a punctuative variant preserved also in the subsequent texts, it has not been expressly noted that it takes a large initial in the latter.2) — The sign, only used after words closing up a verse, marks the absence of a stop. Plain A ed. 1728 Spring. Bed. 1730, as in the quarto Ced. 1744, as in "The Works" 1 ethereal C Ethereal D 50 BC Ded. 1746. Hartford, CD 6 grace; B 9 paints; BCD 10 thee 21 delightless: CD 27 Life and CD 31 all 12 Blasts: CD 14 Vale; CD him. BCD 28 Cold; CD 29 But, CD surrounding BCD 32 airs; BCD 34 Joyous, CD 36 Where C 40 Song and CD 41 Meanwhile inc. B Meanwhile, CD Share, CD 43 sidelong BCD 44 neighbouring BCD 45 Step; and, liberal, CD 49 breezes, BCD 50 showers, BCD 52 Nor, ye B Nor, ye, D 54 Ear: CD 56 its B Height CD 62 War; then, CD 71 ports; BCD Nor ye C 81 Hues; CD 68 unbounded! CD 69 azure 74 land, BCD 77 Delicious, CD thee, BCD 88 whitens; BCD 98 embryo BCD 99 its BD 1) And also by the separate octavo editions of the Seasons founded upon the text of the quarto (see pp. VI, XI), which, however, have not been noticed here. 2) Neither have I taken account of the suppression of the apostrophe in the words tho and thro, an unimportant, typographical singularity of the edition of 1746. VARIANTS ORTHOGRAPHICAL AND PUNCTUATIVE XIII 111 181 Breeze, CD 193 Even BCD 197 last, CD 200 211 day CD 214 Town, C 100 Smoke, CD 104 Sweet-briar C Sweet-bryar D 107 Country, CD around, CD 108 white-empurpled CD The full stop after spies is found in all the orig. edd., but the context requires a comma or colon. 114 Mildew; or, dry-blowing, CD 118 oft, CD 120 eat, CD 128 skilful BCD 129 burns; BCD 130 Till, BC smoak, B Smoke, CD 131 falls: CD 132 onions, steaming hot, B 136 dreams, B 142 its B 161 lessening B 170 iron C 174 Ether; CD 180 Hope and CD 190 suspense, BCD 192 strike, at once, CD 194 seem, expansive, B seem, impatient, CD flow, BCD 205 descends, B 209 And, CD western CD 215 out, effulgent, CD Meantime D eastern CD 229 ethereal ÇD 231 Proportion running D 236 Light by D thee BCD 243 Shade, CD 244 Morning-Beam, CD 247 wild, CD 249 Tribes: CD 250 Dale, CD 253 mountain rock, B 254 it's C 257 Nursing D 258 moistning D prolifick CD 259 pierce, C 260 pure, C 261 Man, D 264 savage CD 268 nor, D 270 away; CD 274 Mean time BC Meantime D Dance and CD Sport || D CD 286 sonance. C 234 Prism; CD 228 240 glory; BCD Mean time BC 230 immense; CD 235 philosophic C 242 vanish'd D 289 275 Talk, successive, C 279 Deed, CD 285 Rays, as, C Mead, CD 287 Flocks, commixing, CD 291 Music C Whole C 292 heard, BCD 295 con297 phrase, B 300 wav'd B 313 fleece, B 324 Minutes whence D 326 iron C 330 within: CD [292] Which selfish Joy disdaining seeks, D 341 swells; BCD 343 mix'd CD 345 inly rankling, C [311] rush'd || D 359 vast; 360 Till, BC Center CD clouds BCD 363 Chace: C 364 snows; BCD 365 Heats. Great Spring, before, CD 366 369 reign, D 370 Expanse: CD CD blush'd C 367 Sweetness, CD 372 Waters; CD 380 wholesom B triment and CD Rain || D 404 Him, B 407 People, 413 What D BCD 416 384 its B 386 Lion CD 398 fruits, BC 399 he, BC 403 he deals. B Blood-stain'd deserves D thicket, B 405 the awaken'd B 406 you, BCD What, D 410 cold? BCD Whose B 411 lies? B he BCD 414 Patient and CD clothes CD 415 he Hands, D 417 That, perhaps, C nal D 419 labour? BCD 420 That perhaps, D 418 Autumsuggest: but BCD 421 ad [388/89] deep, | Gives as D venturous, CD [378] away, D [379] mossy-tinctur'd D [381] dark brown D [387] Folds; D [390] weak helpless uncomplaining D Hook: D [413] Shore, D [429] [392] When with D [411] once he D [437] Rage: D 440 round. A round? 443 love; BD Love: C 452 luxuriant; BCD 463 wild; BCD 468 ethereal D 472 taught: 451 Grass, CD CD 484 æthereal B etherial 492 auriculas a B 496 [452] Pride the D Damask-rose. CD 498 and, D Bush, CD 511 Continual, CD climb; BCD Vegetative C 515 Ether, CD 519 thy BC Command BCD 526 537 thought, way, B 469 and, BC and B 473 Wild-thyme C CD 488 Grace: CD 489 first; Freaks: CD 497 Father Dust, D 504 Nor, CD shower'd BCD 510 knee; BCD Thoughts, CD Master-hand, CD 513 Thee, B 516 soils, BCD 518 tide; BCD the CD 521 wintry CD hark how C 535 through C BCD 541 Than, all alive, BCD 547 Bush || BCD 548 moisture, BCD 551 kind contending CD 552 through C 553 notes; BCD 557 Bullfinch CD 558 furze || BCD 559 these, B These || CD 564 Pipe discordant CD 570 kind D 571 way CD 573 her. B 579 inspir'd, CD 580 then, CD 581 approach; BCD 583 rotation CD 594, 595 its BD soothe CD 603 Domes; CD 611 Hair and D wool; BC oft, when unobserv'd, BCD 612 Straw: CD soft and CD CD now in CD dance, 621 place CD moment, CD 623 Young, CD and CD 627 O CD 628 Care, CD 629 hearts? B CD 544 he BCD 600 617 Her 624 Warm'd [684] Love, 651 tyrant D 640 neighbouring BCD 649 hot pursuing BCD 655 its brightening BCD 659 musick B 660 persuade. 664 when, CD 667 Robb'd BCD 669 poplar CD shade; 670 Where, BCD all abandon'd BCD despair, BCD BCD BCD D 674 677 Ardent, disdain; CD and, CD Life and D 701 rejoicing never [754] (Note) Western D [760] which, Houshold - Kind. CD 717 ardour CD 712 rook; B 714 721 Gale; CD 733 Brutes, CD below, BCD 735 deep-scorch'd, 737 Scarce seen CD 741 Sense. CD 743 Fight; and, CD CD idly butting, B idly-butting, CD 748 battle BCD 754 joy, delighted, CD 765 Ooze and D 766 flounce and CD un weildy B 770 heart; B 771 wolf; B bear; B 772 fell; B 783 way, and that, B convolv'd, ancient CD 773 Libyan B CD glee, CD 781 him BCD 788 iron CD 793 And, CD but God? BCD 806 appears: 790 Broil: CD 791 Labours, BCD Law, 804 803 work; CD CD 808 falling, B 835 deep-laid indissoluble CD CD 798 diffuses? What, complex stupendous CD 810 him. B 812 him B 813 his B 816 his B 822 thee, B 824 Bounty; CD 827 Tenderness and CD 830 vye CD Hence! D 837 unfeeling, B another's CD 838 yourselves; away. BC yourselves; away! D 845 unexplor'd; CD 849 abroad; BC 850 world; BCD 852 human CD 854 exhalts B 856 sunny CD 860 degrees CD 864 God to CD [939] its D 865 power B 867 impelling, B impell'd, B 870 wide-rejoicing B 876 spirits in B 877 Cheek a CD 881 heaves, CD 885 exstatic D 887 Hearts: CD 888 sigh; BCD eye, B 897 beware; CD 899 lies, CD late | A late, BCD 898 Torrent-Softness CD 900 away: B away; CD while BCD Soul, CD 902 form; BCD grace; BCD 903 eye, BCD [912] Hours; CD [916] Design, against CD 913 rosy bosom'd B 916 she BCD 919 Friends; D 920 social CD sits; C 922 while borne away, CD 927 love-dejected CD 929 Glooms; CD 931 Romantic, CD 932 heart-thrilling CD 934 Lilies, CD 936 day, BCD 938 through C 939 degrees, CD 940 he BCD 943 World || CD 944 care, B 945 midnight BCD drear; BCD 967 crouds 947 page, BCD 962 a while BCD 965 mimick D BCD distress'd; CD 968 secret-winding flower-enwoven CD 980 vain; CD unmix'd, CD 995 the CD 999 sunny CD 978 shore; BCD borne BCD 981 distance CD 992 fairy CD Prospects, CD 998 then instead BCD love1004 Fears || CD 1016 Veins: CD 1024 waste. CD 1025 they! BCD happiest CD 1036 Confidence: CD 1038 him, BCD 1041 1043 desire, BCD feel; BCD 1045 possess'd CD 1047 Those D 1048 Nature live, CD 1050 its BD 1052 wish; CD 1054 mind-illumin'd CD mony, BCD 1058 Degrees, C 1061 lustre and B CD 1069 you whom B ye, whom CD 1072 1075 fly. The BCD 1077 them BCD 1082 they B. 1034 Soul; CD days: BCD cements in BCD Summer. 1055 har 1063 Care. Heart: CD Variations of B (ed. 1730, 4 to) from A (ed. 1727). 4 comes, soul. 20 ecstasy 21 power, 38 White |