The Castle of Indolence, and Other PoemsUniversity of Kansas Press, 1961 - 222 pages |
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... praise , as proofs of great industry , and great nicety of observation ; but the highest praise , the praise of genius , they cannot claim . The noblest beauties . of art are those of which the effect is co - extended with rational ...
... praise , as proofs of great industry , and great nicety of observation ; but the highest praise , the praise of genius , they cannot claim . The noblest beauties . of art are those of which the effect is co - extended with rational ...
Page 128
... praise had long been sounded in terms comprehensible to the layman . The subtitle of Edmund Halley's Latin lines ... praises Descartes at length as the great solitary genius who had brought the new truth ; yet he seems to adapt Halley's ...
... praise had long been sounded in terms comprehensible to the layman . The subtitle of Edmund Halley's Latin lines ... praises Descartes at length as the great solitary genius who had brought the new truth ; yet he seems to adapt Halley's ...
Page 158
... praise of Frederick is associated with praise of the Throne and of " Royal Beauty , " despite the fact that the Prince was on bad terms with his father . This pas- sage was dropped in 1730 , though earlier in the year Thomson had ...
... praise of Frederick is associated with praise of the Throne and of " Royal Beauty , " despite the fact that the Prince was on bad terms with his father . This pas- sage was dropped in 1730 , though earlier in the year Thomson had ...
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allegorical Archimage Armstrong Arts and Industry Bard Beauty Bliss Bower Brentford Britannia British Canto Castle of Indolence deep delights Descartes dream Dunciad Earth effect eighteenth century elaborate enchanter English Harp Heart Heaven Hill Hughes Hypochondria Idless imitation inspired Introduction Isle James Thomson John John Conduitt John Hughes Knight of Arts landscape Landskips Liberty light lines Lucretius Luxborough Luxury Lycidas Lyttelton Mallet Milton Mind moral Murdoch Muse MUSIDORA Nature Nature's Newtonian nought Numbers o'er panegyric passage Peace philosophic Pleasure poet Poetry pour'd Power praise quoted reference retirement round rural Scene Seasons second edition Shade Shenstone shine Sir Isaac Newton Sleep soft Solitude song Soul sound Spenser Spenserian Spenserian stanzas Spirit stanza Streams sweet thee theme Thom Thomson's poem thou thro Title-page Toil Vale verse Virtue vision ween wild Wind words World Wretch xlviii