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... ruffian blasts : His blafts obey , and quit the howling hill , The shatter'd foreft ,
and the ravag'd vale ; While softer gales succeed , at whose kind touch , 15
Diffolving snows in livid torrents lost , The mountains lift their green heads to the
sky .
... ruffian blasts : His blafts obey , and quit the howling hill , The shatter'd foreft ,
and the ravag'd vale ; While softer gales succeed , at whose kind touch , 15
Diffolving snows in livid torrents lost , The mountains lift their green heads to the
sky .
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At first a dusky wreath they seem to rise , Scarce staining ether ; but by fast
degrees , In heaps on heaps , the doubling vapour fails Along the loaded sky ,
and mingling deep 150 Sits on th ' horizon round a settled gloom . Not such as
wintry ...
At first a dusky wreath they seem to rise , Scarce staining ether ; but by fast
degrees , In heaps on heaps , the doubling vapour fails Along the loaded sky ,
and mingling deep 150 Sits on th ' horizon round a settled gloom . Not such as
wintry ...
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185 Thus all day long the full - distended clouds Indulge their genial stores , and
well - fhower'd earth Is deep enrich'd with vegetable life ; Till , in the western sky ,
the downward fun Looks out , effulgent , from amid the flush 190 Of broken ...
185 Thus all day long the full - distended clouds Indulge their genial stores , and
well - fhower'd earth Is deep enrich'd with vegetable life ; Till , in the western sky ,
the downward fun Looks out , effulgent , from amid the flush 190 Of broken ...
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Mean time refracted from yon eastern cloud , Beftriding earth , the grand ethereal
bow Shoots up immense ; and every hue unfolds , 205 In fair proportion running
from the red , To where the violet fades into the sky . Here , awful Newton , the ...
Mean time refracted from yon eastern cloud , Beftriding earth , the grand ethereal
bow Shoots up immense ; and every hue unfolds , 205 In fair proportion running
from the red , To where the violet fades into the sky . Here , awful Newton , the ...
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... an even calm Perpetual reign'd , save what the zephyrs bland Breath'd o'er the
blue expanse : for then nor storms 325 Were taught to blow , nor hurricanes to
rage ; Sound slept the waters ; no fulphureous glooms Swelld in the sky , and
sent ...
... an even calm Perpetual reign'd , save what the zephyrs bland Breath'd o'er the
blue expanse : for then nor storms 325 Were taught to blow , nor hurricanes to
rage ; Sound slept the waters ; no fulphureous glooms Swelld in the sky , and
sent ...
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| Title | The Seasons Volume 1 of The works of James Thomson in four volumes complete |
| Author | James Thomson |
| Publisher | A. Millar, 1752 |
| Original from | the Bavarian State Library |
| Digitized | 8 Jun 2017 |
| Length | 222 pages |
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