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Page 3
... 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 snows in livid torrents lost , The mountains lift their green
heads ...
... 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 snows in livid torrents lost , The mountains lift their green
heads ...
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... Even shooting listless langour thro ' the deeps ; Then seek the bank where
flowering elders croud , Where scatter'd wild the lily of the vale 445 Its balny
effence breathes , where cow flips lang The dewy head , where purple violets lurk
, With ...
... Even shooting listless langour thro ' the deeps ; Then seek the bank where
flowering elders croud , Where scatter'd wild the lily of the vale 445 Its balny
effence breathes , where cow flips lang The dewy head , where purple violets lurk
, With ...
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Every cople Deep - tangled , tree irregular , and bush Bending with dewy
moisture , o'er the heads of the coy quirifters that lodge within , Are prodigal of
harmony . The thrush 595 And wood - lark , o'er the kind contending throng
Superior ...
Every cople Deep - tangled , tree irregular , and bush Bending with dewy
moisture , o'er the heads of the coy quirifters that lodge within , Are prodigal of
harmony . The thrush 595 And wood - lark , o'er the kind contending throng
Superior ...
Page 29
Hence , around 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 ...
Hence , around 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 ...
Page 33
... balmy - breathing , near , Stands kindling up their rage . The trembling steed ,
With this hot impulse seiz'd in everý nerve , 806 Nor hears the rein , nor heeds
the founding thong ; Blows are not felt ; but tosling high his head , And by the well
...
... balmy - breathing , near , Stands kindling up their rage . The trembling steed ,
With this hot impulse seiz'd in everý nerve , 806 Nor hears the rein , nor heeds
the founding thong ; Blows are not felt ; but tosling high his head , And by the well
...
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Bibliographic information
| 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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