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Page iv
How strongly these periods are marked in the history of Poetry , both antient and
modern , a cursory view will fuffice to thew . The scarcity of originals here is
universally acknowledged and and lamented , and the present race of poets are
iv AN ...
How strongly these periods are marked in the history of Poetry , both antient and
modern , a cursory view will fuffice to thew . The scarcity of originals here is
universally acknowledged and and lamented , and the present race of poets are
iv AN ...
Page viii
To paint the face of nature as changing through the changing seasons ; to mark
the approaches , and trace the progress of these viciffitudes , in a series of
landskips all formed upon images of grandeur or beauty ; and to give animation
and ...
To paint the face of nature as changing through the changing seasons ; to mark
the approaches , and trace the progress of these viciffitudes , in a series of
landskips all formed upon images of grandeur or beauty ; and to give animation
and ...
Page xii
Each , too , like the prismatic colours , is indistinguishably blended in its origin
and termination with that which precedes , and which follows it ; and it may be
expected from the pencil of an artist to hit off these mingled shades so as to
produce a ...
Each , too , like the prismatic colours , is indistinguishably blended in its origin
and termination with that which precedes , and which follows it ; and it may be
expected from the pencil of an artist to hit off these mingled shades so as to
produce a ...
Page xiv
Of these , some are obvious to the common observer , and require only justness
and elegance of taste for the selection : others discover themselves only to the
mind opened and enlarged by science and philosophy . All the knowledge we ...
Of these , some are obvious to the common observer , and require only justness
and elegance of taste for the selection : others discover themselves only to the
mind opened and enlarged by science and philosophy . All the knowledge we ...
Page xvi
The most faithful pencil here produces the noblest pictures ; and Thomson , by
strictly adhering to the character of the poet of nature , has treated all these topics
with a true sublimity , which a writer of less knowledge and accuracy could never
...
The most faithful pencil here produces the noblest pictures ; and Thomson , by
strictly adhering to the character of the poet of nature , has treated all these topics
with a true sublimity , which a writer of less knowledge and accuracy could never
...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Seasons |
| Author | James Thomson |
| Publisher | W. Strahan, 1778 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 20 Aug 2014 |
| Length | 209 pages |
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