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Page x
... wonder that he foon conceived a friendship for our author . What a warm return he met with , and how Mr. Thomfon was affected by his friend's premature death , appears in the copy of verfes which he wrote on that occafion . In the mean ...
... wonder that he foon conceived a friendship for our author . What a warm return he met with , and how Mr. Thomfon was affected by his friend's premature death , appears in the copy of verfes which he wrote on that occafion . In the mean ...
Page xlix
... wonder if some of his nobleft pieces are the product of this delightful ex- curfion . He returns , however , with apparent fatif- faction , to take a laft survey of the fofter summer of our island ; and , after clofing the prospect of ...
... wonder if some of his nobleft pieces are the product of this delightful ex- curfion . He returns , however , with apparent fatif- faction , to take a laft survey of the fofter summer of our island ; and , after clofing the prospect of ...
Page liii
... wonder and admiration the moft incurious fpectator . The effects of cold are more fudden , and in many inftances more extraordinary and unexpected , than those of heat . He who has beheld the vegetable productions of even a northern ...
... wonder and admiration the moft incurious fpectator . The effects of cold are more fudden , and in many inftances more extraordinary and unexpected , than those of heat . He who has beheld the vegetable productions of even a northern ...
Page lv
... wonders of the icy sea , and volcanoes " flaming thro ' a waste of snow ; " are objects judiciously selected from all that Nature pre- fents moft fingular and striking in the various domains of boreal cold and wintry defolation . Thus ...
... wonders of the icy sea , and volcanoes " flaming thro ' a waste of snow ; " are objects judiciously selected from all that Nature pre- fents moft fingular and striking in the various domains of boreal cold and wintry defolation . Thus ...
Page lviii
... any great ftretch of fancy . The nearer they ap- proach to common life , the more certainly will they produce their effect . Wonder and furprise are af fections of fo different a kind , and so distract lvii AN ESSAY ON.
... any great ftretch of fancy . The nearer they ap- proach to common life , the more certainly will they produce their effect . Wonder and furprise are af fections of fo different a kind , and so distract lvii AN ESSAY ON.
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amid beauty beneath beſt blaſt bofom boundleſs breaſt breathes breeze clouds courſe deep defcends defcription earth ether facred fatire feafon fecret fhade fhine filent fimple fing firſt flame fleep flocks flood fmiles fnow focial foft fome fong fons foon foreft foul friendſhip ftill ftorm ftream fuch funk fwain fwelling gale gloom grace grove heart heaven hills himſelf itſelf laft landſcape laſt lefs loft looſe luftre mingled mix'd moſt mountains Mufe Muſe Nature Nature's night o'er paffions pleafing pleaſure poet rage raiſe reſtleſs rife round ruſhes ſcarce ſcene ſeaſon ſeem ſenſe ſhade ſhake ſhall ſhe ſhore ſhower ſky ſpirit ſpreads Spring ſtate ſtill ſtores ſtorm taſte tempeft thee thefe themſelves theſe thofe Thomſon thoſe thou thouſand thro toil treaſures uſe vale vex'd waſte wave whofe whoſe wild winds wing Winter wiſdom wonders woods