The Seasons: By James Thomson; with His Life, an Index, and Glossary. ... and Notes to The Seasons, by Percival StockdaleT. Chapman, 1793 - 225 pages |
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... heads to the sky . As yet the trembling year is unconfirm'd , 20 And WINTER oft at eve resumes the breeze ; Chills the pale morn , and bids his driving sleets Deform the day delightless ; so that scarce The bittern knows his time , with ...
... heads to the sky . As yet the trembling year is unconfirm'd , 20 And WINTER oft at eve resumes the breeze ; Chills the pale morn , and bids his driving sleets Deform the day delightless ; so that scarce The bittern knows his time , with ...
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... head , where purple violets lurk , With all the lowly children of the shade : Or lie reclin'd beneath yon spreading ash , Hung o'er the steep ; whence , borne on liquid wing , The sounding culver shoots ; or where the hawk , 450 High ...
... head , where purple violets lurk , With all the lowly children of the shade : Or lie reclin'd beneath yon spreading ash , Hung o'er the steep ; whence , borne on liquid wing , The sounding culver shoots ; or where the hawk , 450 High ...
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... heads Of the coy quiristers that lodge within , Are prodigal of harmony . The thrush And wood - lark , o'er the kind contending throng Superior heard , run thro ' the sweetest length Of notes ; when listening PHILOMELA deigns 395 To let ...
... heads Of the coy quiristers that lodge within , Are prodigal of harmony . The thrush And wood - lark , o'er the kind contending throng Superior heard , run thro ' the sweetest length Of notes ; when listening PHILOMELA deigns 395 To let ...
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... head Of wandering swain , the white - wing'd plover wheels Her sounding flight ; and then directly on In long excursion skims the level lawn , To tempt him from her nest . The wild - duck , hence , O'er the rough moss , and o'er the ...
... head Of wandering swain , the white - wing'd plover wheels Her sounding flight ; and then directly on In long excursion skims the level lawn , To tempt him from her nest . The wild - duck , hence , O'er the rough moss , and o'er the ...
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... head , And by the well - known joy to distant plains Attracted strong , all wild he bursts away ; 810 O'er rocks , and woods , and craggy mountains flies ; And , neighing , on the aërial summit takes Th ' exciting gale ; then , steep ...
... head , And by the well - known joy to distant plains Attracted strong , all wild he bursts away ; 810 O'er rocks , and woods , and craggy mountains flies ; And , neighing , on the aërial summit takes Th ' exciting gale ; then , steep ...
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Aaron Hill aërial amid Autumn beam beauty beneath blast blaze bloom boundless breast breath breeze charm Chertsey clouds dark deep delight descends dreadful EARL OF BUCHAN earth ether Ev'n exalts fair fair brow fancy fate fierce flame flocks flood friends gale genius gloom glowing grace Gray's Inn grove happy heart heaven hills JAMES THOMSON light liquid world luxury Maidstone maze mighty mind mingled mix'd mountains Muse MUSIDORA Nature Nature's night numbers o'er PALEMON passions peace PERCIVAL STOCKDALE plain Poem poet poetical poison'd pomp pride race rage rapture rills rise rocks roll round rural savage scene Seasons shade shining smile snow soft song soul spreads Spring storm stream stretch'd swain swelling swift tempest tender thee THOMSON thou thought thro toil vale vex'd virtue walk waste wave wild winds wing Winter wintry wonders woods
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Page 213 - THESE, as they change, ALMIGHTY FATHER, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of THEE. Forth in the pleasing Spring THY beauty walks, THY tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And every sense, and every heart is joy.
Page 221 - Shine not in vain ; nor think, though men were none, That heaven would want spectators, God want praise. Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep. All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night : how often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator...
Page 217 - Should fate command me to the farthest verge Of the green earth, to distant barbarous climes, Rivers unknown to song ! where first the sun Gilds Indian mountains, or his setting beam Flames on th...
Page 217 - tis nought to me: Since GOD is ever present, ever felt, In the void waste as in the city full; And where he vital breathes there must be joy.
Page 214 - But wandering oft, with brute unconscious gaze, Man marks not Thee, marks not the mighty hand, That, ever busy, wheels the silent spheres ; Works in the secret deep ; shoots, steaming, thence The fair profusion that o'erspreads the Spring...
Page 214 - Works in the secret deep ; shoots, steaming, thence The fair profusion that o'erspreads the Spring ; Flings from the sun direct the flaming day; Feeds every creature ; hurls the tempest forth; And, as on earth this grateful change revolves, With transport touches all the springs of life.
Page 215 - As home he goes beneath the joyous moon. Ye that keep watch in heaven, as earth asleep Unconscious lies, effuse your mildest beams, Ye constellations, while your angels strike, Amid the spangled sky, the silver lyre. Great source of day ! best image here below Of thy Creator, ever pouring wide, From world to world, the vital ocean round, On nature write with every beam His praise.
Page 179 - Father of light and life, Thou Good Supreme ! O teach me what is good ; teach me Thyself ! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit ; and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure, Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss...
Page 43 - But happy they ! the happiest of their kind ! Whom gentler stars unite, and in one fate Their hearts, their fortunes, and their beings blend. 'Tis not the coarser tie of human laws, Unnatural oft and foreign to the mind, That binds their peace, but harmony itself, Attuning all their passions into love ; Where Friendship...
Page 209 - See here thy pictur'd life ; pass some few years, Thy flowering Spring, thy Summer's ardent strength > Thy sober Autumn fading into age, And pale concluding Winter comes at last, And shuts the scene.