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, Volume 1Benjamin Johnson, 1804 |
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... wave , The year's best sweets shall duteous rise To deck its Poet's sylvan grave . * II . In yon ' deep bed of whispering reeds His airy harp shali now be laid , That he whose heart in sorrow bleeds , May love thro ' life the soothing ...
... wave , The year's best sweets shall duteous rise To deck its Poet's sylvan grave . * II . In yon ' deep bed of whispering reeds His airy harp shali now be laid , That he whose heart in sorrow bleeds , May love thro ' life the soothing ...
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... waves , in undulation vast , Till , from the centre to the streaming clouds , A shoreless ocean tumbled round the globe . 310 315 The seasons since have , with severer sway , Oppress'd a broken world : the Winter keen Shook forth his ...
... waves , in undulation vast , Till , from the centre to the streaming clouds , A shoreless ocean tumbled round the globe . 310 315 The seasons since have , with severer sway , Oppress'd a broken world : the Winter keen Shook forth his ...
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... shadowy clouds . High to their fount , this day , amid the hills 395 And woodlands warbling round , trace up the brooks ; The next , pursue their rocky - channel'd maze Down to the river , in whose ample wave Their SPRING . 13.
... shadowy clouds . High to their fount , this day , amid the hills 395 And woodlands warbling round , trace up the brooks ; The next , pursue their rocky - channel'd maze Down to the river , in whose ample wave Their SPRING . 13.
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... wave Their little Naiads love to sport at large . Just in the dubious point , where with the pool Is mix'd the trembling stream , or where it boils Around the stone , or from the hollow'd bank Reverted plays in undulating flow , There ...
... wave Their little Naiads love to sport at large . Just in the dubious point , where with the pool Is mix'd the trembling stream , or where it boils Around the stone , or from the hollow'd bank Reverted plays in undulating flow , There ...
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... wave , Or whelm❜d beneath the boiling eddy sinks . These are the charming agonies of love , Whose misery delights . But thro ' the heart Should Jealousy its venom once diffuse , ' Tis then delightful misery no more , But agony unmix'd ...
... wave , Or whelm❜d beneath the boiling eddy sinks . These are the charming agonies of love , Whose misery delights . But thro ' the heart Should Jealousy its venom once diffuse , ' Tis then delightful misery no more , But agony unmix'd ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
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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Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página xxiii - wonders that he never saw before what Thomson shews him, and that he never yet has felt what Thomson impresses.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 1 - And Winter oft at eve resumes the breeze, Chills the pale morn, and bids his driving sleets Deform the day delightless...
Página 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...