The poetical works of James Thomson. With life, critical diss., and explanatory notes. The text ed. by C.C. Clarke1873 |
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... lucubrations . And yet , clumsy and tedious as portions of this poem are , it has noble passages , and its paintings of historical events are often in spirit and in language worthy of the themes A 2 WITH A CRITICISM ON HIS POETRY . xvii.
... lucubrations . And yet , clumsy and tedious as portions of this poem are , it has noble passages , and its paintings of historical events are often in spirit and in language worthy of the themes A 2 WITH A CRITICISM ON HIS POETRY . xvii.
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James Thomson. often in spirit and in language worthy of the themes and of the bard . Let none sneer at " Liberty " till they have read it ; and if , during the operation , they may sometimes sleep , yet assuredly at the close of it they ...
James Thomson. often in spirit and in language worthy of the themes and of the bard . Let none sneer at " Liberty " till they have read it ; and if , during the operation , they may sometimes sleep , yet assuredly at the close of it they ...
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... spirit all . The youthful Sun Shot his best rays , and still the gracious clouds Dropp'd fatness down ; as o'er the swelling mead The herds and flocks , commixing , play'd secure . This when , emergent from the gloomy wood , The glaring ...
... spirit all . The youthful Sun Shot his best rays , and still the gracious clouds Dropp'd fatness down ; as o'er the swelling mead The herds and flocks , commixing , play'd secure . This when , emergent from the gloomy wood , The glaring ...
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... Spirit all , And unremitting Energy , pervades , Adjusts , sustains , and agitates the whole . He ceaseless works alone ; and yet alone Seems not to work with such perfection fram'd Is this complex stupendous scheme of things . But ...
... Spirit all , And unremitting Energy , pervades , Adjusts , sustains , and agitates the whole . He ceaseless works alone ; and yet alone Seems not to work with such perfection fram'd Is this complex stupendous scheme of things . But ...
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... spirit of the wind Blows Spring abroad ; for you the teeming clouds Descend in gladsome plenty o'er the world ; And the Sun sheds his kindest rays for you , Ye flower of human race ! In these green days , Reviving Sickness lifts her ...
... spirit of the wind Blows Spring abroad ; for you the teeming clouds Descend in gladsome plenty o'er the world ; And the Sun sheds his kindest rays for you , Ye flower of human race ! In these green days , Reviving Sickness lifts her ...
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Page 308 - I care not, fortune, what you me deny ; You cannot rob me of free nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face, You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve : Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the great children leave : Of fancy, reason, virtue, nought can me bereave.
Page 228 - Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the Day of Atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.
Page 143 - As thus the snows arise; and foul, and fierce, All Winter drives along the darkened air; In his own loose-revolving fields, the swain Disaster'd stands; sees other hills ascend, Of unknown joyless brow; and other scenes, Of horrid prospect, shag the trackless plain: Nor finds the river, nor the forest, hid Beneath the formless wild; but wanders on From hill to dale, still more and more astray; Impatient flouncing through the drifted heaps, Stung with the thoughts of home; the thoughts of home Rush...
Page 37 - Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe the enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
Page 170 - There let the shepherd's flute, the virgin's lay, The prompting seraph, and the poet's lyre, Still sing the God of Seasons as they roll. For me, when I forget the darling theme, Whether the blossom blows, the Summer ray Russets the plain, inspiring Autumn gleams, Or Winter rises in the blackening east...
Page 229 - And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
Page 145 - Ah little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround; They, who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth, And wanton, often cruel, riot waste; Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain.
Page 169 - 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.
Page 144 - In vain for him th' officious wife prepares The fire fair-blazing and the vestment warm ; In vain his little children, peeping out Into the mingling storm, demand their sire, With tears of artless innocence. Alas ! Nor wife, nor children, more shall he behold, Nor friends, nor sacred home.
Page 169 - Ye softer floods, that lead the humid maze Along the vale; and thou, majestic main, A secret world of wonders in thyself, Sound his stupendous praise; whose greater voice Or bids you roar, or bids your roarings fall. Soft roll your incense, herbs, and fruits, and flowers, In mingled clouds to him whose sun exalts, Whose breath perfumes you, and whose pencil paints.