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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... wide for the operation of petty compe- tition and private malignity ; where merit might soon become conspicuous , and would find friends as soon as it became reputable to befriend it . A lady , who was acquainted with his mother ...
... wide for the operation of petty compe- tition and private malignity ; where merit might soon become conspicuous , and would find friends as soon as it became reputable to befriend it . A lady , who was acquainted with his mother ...
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... wide expansion of general views , and his enume¬ ration of circumstantial varieties , would have been obstructed and embarrassed by the fre- quent intersection of the sense , which are the necessary effects of rhyme . His descriptions ...
... wide expansion of general views , and his enume¬ ration of circumstantial varieties , would have been obstructed and embarrassed by the fre- quent intersection of the sense , which are the necessary effects of rhyme . His descriptions ...
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... themes unworthy of your ear : Such themes as these the rural MARO sung To wide - imperial ROME , in the full height Of elegance and taste , by GREECE refin'd . B 2 55 In antient times , the sacred plough employ'd The kings SPRING . 3.
... themes unworthy of your ear : Such themes as these the rural MARO sung To wide - imperial ROME , in the full height Of elegance and taste , by GREECE refin'd . B 2 55 In antient times , the sacred plough employ'd The kings SPRING . 3.
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... wide - dejected waste . For oft , engender'd by the hazy North , Myriads on myriads , insect armies warp Keen in the poison'd breeze ; and wasteful eat , Thro ' buds and bark , into the blacken'd core , Their eager way . A feeble race ...
... wide - dejected waste . For oft , engender'd by the hazy North , Myriads on myriads , insect armies warp Keen in the poison'd breeze ; and wasteful eat , Thro ' buds and bark , into the blacken'd core , Their eager way . A feeble race ...
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... wide air ; and o'er the void of heaven Breathes the big clouds with vernal showers distent . 145 At first a dusky wreath they seem to rise , Scarce staining ether ; but by swift degrees , In heaps on heaps , the doubling vapour Along ...
... wide air ; and o'er the void of heaven Breathes the big clouds with vernal showers distent . 145 At first a dusky wreath they seem to rise , Scarce staining ether ; but by swift degrees , In heaps on heaps , the doubling vapour Along ...
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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.