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10 AND see where surly WINTER passes off , Far to the north , and calls his
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
...
10 AND see where surly WINTER passes off , Far to the north , and calls his
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
...
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20 As yet the trembling year is unconfirm'd , And Winter oft at eve resumes the
breeze , Chills the pale morn , and bids his driving fleets Deform the day
delightless : so that scarce The bittern knows his time , with bill ingulpht To shake
the ...
20 As yet the trembling year is unconfirm'd , And Winter oft at eve resumes the
breeze , Chills the pale morn , and bids his driving fleets Deform the day
delightless : so that scarce The bittern knows his time , with bill ingulpht To shake
the ...
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315 The seasons fince have , with severer sway , Oppress'd a broken world : the
Winter keen Shook forth his waste of snows ; and Summer shot His pestilential
heats . Great Spring , before , 320 Green'd all the year ; and fruits and blossoms ...
315 The seasons fince have , with severer sway , Oppress'd a broken world : the
Winter keen Shook forth his waste of snows ; and Summer shot His pestilential
heats . Great Spring , before , 320 Green'd all the year ; and fruits and blossoms ...
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To merit death ? you , who have given us milk 360 In luscious streams , and lent
us your own coat Against the winter's cold ? and the plain ox , That harmless ,
honest , guilelefs animal , In what has he offended ? He , whose toil , Patient and
...
To merit death ? you , who have given us milk 360 In luscious streams , and lent
us your own coat Against the winter's cold ? and the plain ox , That harmless ,
honest , guilelefs animal , In what has he offended ? He , whose toil , Patient and
...
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Thick in yon stream of light , a thousand ways , Upward , and downward ,
thwarting , and convolv'd , 340 The quivering nations sport ; till , tempeft - wing'd ,
Fierce Winter sweeps them from the face of day , Even so luxurious men ,
unheeding ...
Thick in yon stream of light , a thousand ways , Upward , and downward ,
thwarting , and convolv'd , 340 The quivering nations sport ; till , tempeft - wing'd ,
Fierce Winter sweeps them from the face of day , Even so luxurious men ,
unheeding ...
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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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