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Page 47
To The richest bounty of indulgent Heaven . Meantime a smiling offspring rises
round , And mingles both their graces . By degrees , The human blossom blows ;
and every day , Soft as it rolls along , shews some new charm , The father's lustre
...
To The richest bounty of indulgent Heaven . Meantime a smiling offspring rises
round , And mingles both their graces . By degrees , The human blossom blows ;
and every day , Soft as it rolls along , shews some new charm , The father's lustre
...
Page 67
The housewife waits to roll her feecy stores , With all her gay - drest maids
attending round . One , chief , in gracious dignity enthron'd , · Shines o'er the reft ,
the pastoral queen , and rays Her smiles , sweet - beaming , on her shepherd -
king ...
The housewife waits to roll her feecy stores , With all her gay - drest maids
attending round . One , chief , in gracious dignity enthron'd , · Shines o'er the reft ,
the pastoral queen , and rays Her smiles , sweet - beaming , on her shepherd -
king ...
Page 80
Along these lonely regions , where retir'd , From little scenes of art , great Nature
dwells In awful solitude , and nought is seen But the wild herds that own no
master's stall , Prodigious rivers roll their fatt'ning feas : On whose luxuriant
herbage ...
Along these lonely regions , where retir'd , From little scenes of art , great Nature
dwells In awful solitude , and nought is seen But the wild herds that own no
master's stall , Prodigious rivers roll their fatt'ning feas : On whose luxuriant
herbage ...
Page 142
Expos'd , and naked , to its utmost rage , Thro ' all the sea of harvest rolling round
, The billowy plain floats wide ; nor can evade , Tho ' pliant to the blast , its seizing
force ; Or whirl'd in air , or into vacant chaff Shook waste . And sometimes too ...
Expos'd , and naked , to its utmost rage , Thro ' all the sea of harvest rolling round
, The billowy plain floats wide ; nor can evade , Tho ' pliant to the blast , its seizing
force ; Or whirl'd in air , or into vacant chaff Shook waste . And sometimes too ...
Page 169
But should a quicker breeze amid the boughs Sob , o'er the sky the leafy deluge
streams ; Till chok'd , and matted with the dreary shower , The forest - walks , at
every rising gale , Roll wide the wither'd waste , and whistle bleak . Flęd is the ...
But should a quicker breeze amid the boughs Sob , o'er the sky the leafy deluge
streams ; Till chok'd , and matted with the dreary shower , The forest - walks , at
every rising gale , Roll wide the wither'd waste , and whistle bleak . Flęd is the ...
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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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