James ThomsonMacmillan and Company, limited, 1907 - 259 páginas |
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... described for us , by one who knew her , as a person of uncommon natural endowments , " with an imagination for vivacity and warmth scarce inferior to her son's , and which raised her devotional exercises to a pitch bordering on ...
... described for us , by one who knew her , as a person of uncommon natural endowments , " with an imagination for vivacity and warmth scarce inferior to her son's , and which raised her devotional exercises to a pitch bordering on ...
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... described as a straw - thatched house , " clinging with a nestling snugness to the base of Southdean Law , " and commanding a view of the valley . The river Jed sweeps round its garden , and in the distance is seen " the clear - cut sky ...
... described as a straw - thatched house , " clinging with a nestling snugness to the base of Southdean Law , " and commanding a view of the valley . The river Jed sweeps round its garden , and in the distance is seen " the clear - cut sky ...
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... described as a man of excellent literary 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 ...
... described as a man of excellent literary 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 ...
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... described by Pope : - " My dear Tibullus , ' — if that will not do , Let me be Horace and be Ovid you : Or I'm content , allow me Dryden's strains , And you shall rise up Otway for your pains . " As regards the structure of his poem ...
... described by Pope : - " My dear Tibullus , ' — if that will not do , Let me be Horace and be Ovid you : Or I'm content , allow me Dryden's strains , And you shall rise up Otway for your pains . " As regards the structure of his poem ...
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... described as intelligent and accom- plished , and Thomson gladly accepted the opportunity which this position offered him , of travelling abroad under the most favourable circumstances . During his absence from England he kept up a ...
... described as intelligent and accom- plished , and Thomson gladly accepted the opportunity which this position offered him , of travelling abroad under the most favourable circumstances . During his absence from England he kept up a ...
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Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 174 - Profuse of bliss, and pregnant with delight! Eternal pleasures in thy presence reign, And smiling Plenty leads thy wanton train; Eas"d of her load Subjection grows more light, And Poverty looks cheerful in thy sight ; Thou mak'st the gloomy face of Nature gay, Giv'st beauty to the sun, and pleasure to the day.
Página 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...
Página 129 - That winding leads through pits of death, or else Instructs him how to take the dangerous ford. The lengthened night elaps'd, the morning shines Serene, in all her dewy beauty bright, Unfolding fair the last autumnal day. And now the mounting sun dispels the fog ; The rigid hoar-frost melts before his beam; And hung on every spray, on every blade Of grass, the myriad dew-drops twinkle round.
Página 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.
Página 115 - With quicken'd step, Brown night retires. Young day pours in apace, And opens all the lawny prospect wide. The dripping rock, the mountain's misty top, Swell on the sight, and brighten with the dawn.