The Works of Mr. James Thomson: With His Last Corrections and Improvements ... To which is Prefixed, the Life of the Author, Volume 1R. Baldwin, 1802 |
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... heads to the sky . As yet the trembling year is unconfirm❜d , And Winter oft at eve resumes the breeze , Chills the pale morn , and bids his driving sleets Deform the day delightless : so that scarce The bittern knows his time , with ...
... heads to the sky . As yet the trembling year is unconfirm❜d , And Winter oft at eve resumes the breeze , Chills the pale morn , and bids his driving sleets Deform the day delightless : so that scarce The bittern knows his time , with ...
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... head , where purple violets lurk , With all the lowly children of the shade : Or lie reclin❜d beneath yon spreading ash , Hung o'er the steep ; whence , borne on liquid wing , The sounding culver shoots ; or where the hawk , High , in ...
... head , where purple violets lurk , With all the lowly children of the shade : Or lie reclin❜d beneath yon spreading ash , Hung o'er the steep ; whence , borne on liquid wing , The sounding culver shoots ; or where the hawk , High , in ...
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... heads Of the coy quiristers that lodge within , Are prodigal of harmony . The thrush And wood - lark , o'er the kind - contending throng Superior heard , run through the sweetest length Of notes ; when listening Philomela deigns To let ...
... heads Of the coy quiristers that lodge within , Are prodigal of harmony . The thrush And wood - lark , o'er the kind - contending throng Superior heard , run through the sweetest length Of notes ; when listening Philomela deigns To let ...
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... head Of wandering swain , the white - wing'd plover wheels Her sounding flight , and then directly on In long excursion skims the level lawn , Το tempt him from her nest . The wild - duck , hence , O'er the rough moss , and o'er the ...
... head Of wandering swain , the white - wing'd plover wheels Her sounding flight , and then directly on In long excursion skims the level lawn , Το tempt him from her nest . The wild - duck , hence , O'er the rough moss , and o'er the ...
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... head , And by the well - known joy to distant plains Attracted strong , all wild he bursts away ; O'er rocks , and woods , and craggy mountains flies ; And , neighing , on the aèrial summit takes Th ' exciting gale ; then , steep ...
... head , And by the well - known joy to distant plains Attracted strong , all wild he bursts away ; O'er rocks , and woods , and craggy mountains flies ; And , neighing , on the aèrial summit takes Th ' exciting gale ; then , steep ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
amid art thou beam beauty Behold beneath blaze bliss bloom bosom breast breath breeze bright calm CASTLE OF INDOLENCE charm clouds dæmon darting deep delight earth ether fair fair brow fancy flame Fleet Street flocks flood gale gentle gloom grace Greece groves happy heart heaven hills JAMES THOMSON join'd light lyre matchless maze mighty mind mingled mix'd mountains Muse MUSIDORA Nature Nature's night nought o'er passions peace Philomelus plain poison'd Pour'd pride rage rapture reigns rills rise robe round rural sacred scene seraphic shade shine sigh silvan sing sleep smile snow soft song soul spirit spread Spring storm stream stretch'd swain sweet sweet emotions swell tempest tender thee Thomson thou thought toil train trembling vale vex'd virtue walk wandering waste wave Whence wide wild winds wing wintry woods wretch youth
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Página 34 - Then maids and youths shall linger here, And while its sounds at distance swell, Shall sadly seem in pity's ear To hear the woodland pilgrim's knell. Remembrance oft shall haunt the shore, When Thames in summer wreaths is drest, And oft suspend the dashing oar, To bid his gentle spirit rest...
Página 175 - 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 Shoots full perfection through the swelling year...
Página 40 - 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.
Página 141 - 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 ! Congenial horrors, hail ! with frequent foot...
Página 135 - In herbs and fruits ; whatever greens the Spring , When heaven descends in showers ; or bends the bough When Summer reddens, and when Autumn beams ; Or in the Wintry glebe whatever lies Conceal'd and fattens with the richest sap : These are not wanting ; nor the milky drove , Luxuriant, spread o'er all the lowing vale ; Nor bleating mountains...
Página 33 - In yonder grave a druid lies, Where slowly winds the stealing wave ; The year's best sweets shall duteous rise ^ To deck its poet's sylvan grave. In yon deep bed of whispering reeds His airy harp shall now be laid, That he, whose heart in sorrow bleeds, May love through life the soothing shade.
Página 14 - With yielding hand, That feels him still, yet to his furious course Gives way, you, now retiring, following now Across the stream, exhaust his idle rage; Till floating broad upon his breathless side, And to his fate abandon'd, to the shore You gaily drag your unresisting prize.
Página 103 - Beneath the shelter of encircling hills, A myrtle rises, far from human eye, And breathes its balmy fragrance o'er the wild : So flourish'd, blooming, and unseen by all, The sweet Lavinia...
Página 115 - To raise the virtues, animate the bliss, And sweeten all the toils of human life : This be the female dignity, and praise.
Página 148 - Attract his slender feet. The foodless wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The hare, Though timorous of heart, and hard beset By death in various forms, dark snares, and dogs, And more unpitying men, the garden seeks, Urged on by fearless want. The bleating kind Eye the bleak heaven, and next the glistening earth, With looks of dumb despair ; then, sad dispersed, Dig for the withered herb through heaps of snow.