:

THE

POETICAL WORKS

OF

JAMES THOMSON.

WITH HIS LAST

CORRECTIONS, ADDITIONS,

AND

IMPROVEMENTS.

WITH THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR.

Cooke's Edition.

He wants no advocate his caufe to plead :

You will yourselves be patrons of the dead.

No party his benevolence confin'd,

No fect--alike it flow'd to all mankind.

Such was the Man---the Poet well you know;

Oft' has he touch'd your hearts with tender woe!

For his chafte Mufe employ'd her heav'n-taught lyre.

None but the noblest paffions to infpire:

Not one immoral, one corrupted thought,

One line which, dying, he could wish to blot --

Prol. to Coriol.

EMBELLISHED WITH SUPERB ENGRAVINGS.

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THE

POETICAL WORKS

OF

JAMES THOMSON.

CONTAINING HIS

SEASONS,

BRITANNIA, | LIBERTY,
ODES, SONGS,

CASTLE OF INDOLENCE, HYMN ON SOLITUDE,

Thefe, as they change, Almighty Father! these
Are but the varied God. The rolling year
Is full of Thee. Forth in the pleafing Spring
Thy beauty walks, thy tenderness and love....
Then comes thy glory in the Summer months,
With light and heat refulgent.---

Thy bounty fhines in Autumn unconfin'd,
And fpreads a common feaft for all that lives.
In Winter awful Thou! with clouds and ftorms

Around Thee thrown! tempelt o'er tempest roll'd! &c.

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