The works of mr. James Thomson, to which is prefixed the life of the author by P. Murdoch, Volume 11802 |
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... scene of life which Mr. Thomson always remembered with particular pleasure . But what he wrote during that time , either to enter- tain Sir William and Mr. Riccarton , or for his own amusement , he destroyed every new year's day ...
... scene of life which Mr. Thomson always remembered with particular pleasure . But what he wrote during that time , either to enter- tain Sir William and Mr. Riccarton , or for his own amusement , he destroyed every new year's day ...
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... scene of the following stanzas is supposed to lie on the Thames near Richmond . 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 ...
... scene of the following stanzas is supposed to lie on the Thames near Richmond . 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 ...
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... scene . Be gracious , Heaven ! for now laborious Man Has done his part . Ye fostering breezes , blow ! Ye softening dews , ye tender showers , descend ! And temper all , thou world - reviving sun , Into the perfect year ! Nor ye who ...
... scene . Be gracious , Heaven ! for now laborious Man Has done his part . Ye fostering breezes , blow ! Ye softening dews , ye tender showers , descend ! And temper all , thou world - reviving sun , Into the perfect year ! Nor ye who ...
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... scenes ; such as the Mantuan swain Paints in the matchless harmony of song . Or catch thyself the landscape , gliding swift Athwart imagination's vivid eye : Or by the vocal woods and waters lull'd , And lost in lonely musing , in the ...
... scenes ; such as the Mantuan swain Paints in the matchless harmony of song . Or catch thyself the landscape , gliding swift Athwart imagination's vivid eye : Or by the vocal woods and waters lull'd , And lost in lonely musing , in the ...
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James Thomson. And lively fermentation , mounting , spreads All this innumerous - coloured scene of things . As rising from the vegetable world My theme ascends , with equal wing ascend My panting Muse ; and hark , how loud the woods ...
James Thomson. And lively fermentation , mounting , spreads All this innumerous - coloured scene of things . As rising from the vegetable world My theme ascends , with equal wing ascend My panting Muse ; and hark , how loud the woods ...
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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 grove 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 vale vex'd virtue walk wandering waste wave Whence wide wild winds wing Winter wintry woods wretch youth
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Página 175 - 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 175 - 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 unconfined, And spreads a common feast for all that lives. In Winter awful thou...
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 18 - Deep-struck, and runs out all the lengthened line; Then seeks the farthest ooze, the sheltering weed, The caverned bank, his old secure abode ; And flies aloft, and flounces round the pool, Indignant of the guile. 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 abandoned, to the shore You gaily drag your unresisting prize.
Página 176 - But wandering oft with brute unconscious gaze, Man marks not THEE ; marks not the mighty hand, That ever busy wheels the silent spheres...
Página 35 - 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 213 - 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, You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve : Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the great children leave : Of fancy, reason, virtue, nought can me bereave.
Página 88 - The great deliverer he, who from the gloom Of cloistered monks and jargon-teaching schools, Led forth the true philosophy, there long Held in the magic chain of words and forms And definitions void: he led her forth, Daughter of Heaven! that, slow-ascending still, Investigating sure the chain of things, With radiant finger points to Heaven again.
Página 138 - O'er that the rising system, more complex, Of animals; and, higher still, the mind...
Página 186 - Than whom a fiend more fell is nowhere found. It was, I ween, a lovely spot of ground ; And there a season atween June and May, Half...