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Page xxxv
The description of such natural objects as by their beauty , grandeur , or novelty ,
agreeably impress the imagination , has at all times been a principal and
favourite occupation of poetry . Various have been the methods in which such ...
The description of such natural objects as by their beauty , grandeur , or novelty ,
agreeably impress the imagination , has at all times been a principal and
favourite occupation of poetry . Various have been the methods in which such ...
Page xxxvi
Something of a more folid nature was required as the ground - work of a poetical
fabric ; pure description was opposed to sense ; and , binding together the wild
flowers which grew obvious to common sight and touch , was deemed a trilling ...
Something of a more folid nature was required as the ground - work of a poetical
fabric ; pure description was opposed to sense ; and , binding together the wild
flowers which grew obvious to common sight and touch , was deemed a trilling ...
Page xxxvii
And as in the Georgics , whenever the poet has , for a while , borne away by the
warmth of fancy , wandered through the flowery wilds of description , he suddenly
checks himself , and returns to the toils of the husbandman ; fo THOMSON , in ...
And as in the Georgics , whenever the poet has , for a while , borne away by the
warmth of fancy , wandered through the flowery wilds of description , he suddenly
checks himself , and returns to the toils of the husbandman ; fo THOMSON , in ...
Page xlvi
... most beautiful passage in the philofophical poet Lucretius ; who certainly
wanted nothing but a better fyftem and more circumscribed subject , to have
appeared as one of the greatest masters of description in either ancient or
modern poetry .
... most beautiful passage in the philofophical poet Lucretius ; who certainly
wanted nothing but a better fyftem and more circumscribed subject , to have
appeared as one of the greatest masters of description in either ancient or
modern poetry .
Page lix
On these accounts , writers much inferior in respect to the powers of description
and imagery , have equalled our poet in elegant and benevolent sentiment , and
perhaps excelled him in interesting narration . Of these , it will be sufficient to ...
On these accounts , writers much inferior in respect to the powers of description
and imagery , have equalled our poet in elegant and benevolent sentiment , and
perhaps excelled him in interesting narration . Of these , it will be sufficient to ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Seasons |
| Author | James Thomson |
| Publisher | A. Strahan, 1799 |
| Original from | Library of Catalonia |
| Digitized | 6 Aug 2008 |
| Length | 238 pages |
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