The SeasonsJones, 1835 - 136 pages |
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Page viii
... low pursuit ! and feed my soul With knowledge , conscious peace , and virtue pure ; Sacred , substantial , never - fading bliss ! Winter . SPRING . ARGUMENT . The subject proposed . Inscribed to viii BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH , & c .
... low pursuit ! and feed my soul With knowledge , conscious peace , and virtue pure ; Sacred , substantial , never - fading bliss ! Winter . SPRING . ARGUMENT . The subject proposed . Inscribed to viii BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH , & c .
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... vegetables . On brute animals . And last , on man . Concluding with a dissuasive from the wild and irregular passion of love , opposed to that of a pure and happy kind . SPRING . COME , gentle Spring , ethereal mildness , ARGUMENT. ...
... vegetables . On brute animals . And last , on man . Concluding with a dissuasive from the wild and irregular passion of love , opposed to that of a pure and happy kind . SPRING . COME , gentle Spring , ethereal mildness , ARGUMENT. ...
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... pure , into these secret stores Of health , and life , and joy ? the food of man , While yet he lived in innocence , and told A length of golden years , unflesh'd in blood ; A stranger to the savage arts of life , Death , rapine ...
... pure , into these secret stores Of health , and life , and joy ? the food of man , While yet he lived in innocence , and told A length of golden years , unflesh'd in blood ; A stranger to the savage arts of life , Death , rapine ...
Page 10
... Pure was the temperate air : an even calm Perpetual reign'd , save what the zephyrs bland Breathed o'er the blue expanse ; for then nor storms Were taught to blow , nor hurricanes to rage ; Sound slept the waters : no sulphureous glooms ...
... Pure was the temperate air : an even calm Perpetual reign'd , save what the zephyrs bland Breathed o'er the blue expanse ; for then nor storms Were taught to blow , nor hurricanes to rage ; Sound slept the waters : no sulphureous glooms ...
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... pure perfection rise . Now when the first foul torrent of the brooks , Swell'd with the vernal rains , is ebb'd away , And , whitening , down their mossy - tinctured stream Descends the billowy foam ; now is the time , While yet the ...
... pure perfection rise . Now when the first foul torrent of the brooks , Swell'd with the vernal rains , is ebb'd away , And , whitening , down their mossy - tinctured stream Descends the billowy foam ; now is the time , While yet the ...
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amid Apennine art thou Autumn beam beauty beneath blank verse blast blaze bliss bloom bosom boundless breast breath breeze bright Castle of Indolence clouds dark deep delight deluge descends diffused dreadful earth ether exalts fair fair brow faithless fancy fierce flame flocks flood gale gentle gloom glowing grace grove happy heart heaven herds hills JAMES THOMSON Lapland light lustre luxury Lycurgus matchless maze mighty mind mingled mix'd mountains Muse Nature Nature's night numbers o'er passions peace plain poison'd pomp pride race rage rapture rills rise roar robe rocks roll round rural scene season shade shake shining shoot smile snow soft song soul spreads Spring storm stream stretch'd swain sweet swelling swift tempest tender thee thou thought thunder toil Typhon vale vex'd virtue walk wander waste wave wide wild winds wing Winter wintry woods youth