The Poetical Works of James Thomson: With His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements : with the Life of the Author and an Essay on the Plan and Characters of the Poem on the Seasons, Volumen1Benjamin Johnson, 1804 |
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... than universally admired , those only ex- cepted who had not been used to feel or to look for any thing in poetry beyond a point of satirical or epigram- matic wit , a smart antithesis richly trimmed with rhyme vi LIFE OF THOMSON .
... than universally admired , those only ex- cepted who had not been used to feel or to look for any thing in poetry beyond a point of satirical or epigram- matic wit , a smart antithesis richly trimmed with rhyme vi LIFE OF THOMSON .
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... feel , for the person whom of all mankind ' he most revered and loved . From an easy competence he was reduced to a state of precarious dependence , in which he passed the re- mainder of his life , excepting only the two last years of ...
... feel , for the person whom of all mankind ' he most revered and loved . From an easy competence he was reduced to a state of precarious dependence , in which he passed the re- mainder of his life , excepting only the two last years of ...
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... feel , rather than to the few who reason , is improperly oc- cupied about the abstruse and argumentative parts of a science ; yet , to reject those grand and beautiful ideas which a philosophical view of nature offers to the mind ...
... feel , rather than to the few who reason , is improperly oc- cupied about the abstruse and argumentative parts of a science ; yet , to reject those grand and beautiful ideas which a philosophical view of nature offers to the mind ...
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... feeling heart may derive from its own proper sources a store of corresponding sentiment , which will naturally clothe itself in the form of ex- pression best suited to the occasion . Nor does the invention of those simple incidents ...
... feeling heart may derive from its own proper sources a store of corresponding sentiment , which will naturally clothe itself in the form of ex- pression best suited to the occasion . Nor does the invention of those simple incidents ...
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... feels no more That noble wish , that never - cloy'd desire , Which , selfish joy disdaining , seeks alone To bless ... feeling , fell And joyless Inhumanity pervades And petrifies the heart . Nature , disturb'd , 305 Is deem'd vindictive ...
... feels no more That noble wish , that never - cloy'd desire , Which , selfish joy disdaining , seeks alone To bless ... feeling , fell And joyless Inhumanity pervades And petrifies the heart . Nature , disturb'd , 305 Is deem'd vindictive ...
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Términos y frases comunes
æther amid art thou Autumn beam beauty beneath blast blaze blooming boundless breast breathes breeze charm clouds Coriolanus deep delight descends descriptive poetry Doddington dreadful E'en earth evanescent exalted fair fair brow fancy fierce flame flocks flood gale genius gloom grace grove happy heart heaven hills insects JAMES THOMSON Lapland light luxury matchless maze mighty mind mingled mix'd mountains Muse Nature Nature's night numbers o'er Palemon passions peace plain poem poet poison'd pomp pride race racter rage rapture retir'd rills rise rocks roll round rous'd rural scarce scene season shade shake shining smile snow soft song soul spreads Spring storm stream stretch'd Summer swain swelling tempest tender thee Thomson thou thought thro toil tribes Typhon vale vex'd virtue walk waste wave whole wide wild winds wing Winter wintry wonders woods youth
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Página 32 - 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.
Página 162 - The impetuous song, and say from whom you rage. His praise, ye brooks, attune, ye trembling rills; And let me catch it as I muse along. Ye headlong torrents, rapid and profound...
Página 159 - Ye noble few ! who here unbending stand Beneath life's pressure, yet bear up awhile, And what your bounded view, which only saw A little part, deem'd Evil, is no more ; The storms of Wintry Time will quickly pass, And one unbounded Spring encircle all.
Página 163 - 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.
Página xxiii - wonders that he never saw before what Thomson shews him, and that he never yet has felt what Thomson impresses.
Página 161 - Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of thee. Forth in the pleasing Spring Thy beauty walks, thy tenderness and love.
Página 164 - When, e'en at last, the solemn hour shall come, And wing my mystic flight to future worlds, I cheerful will obey : there, with new powers, Will rising wonders sing. I cannot go Where universal love not smiles around...
Página 137 - In vain for him the 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.
Página 1 - And Winter oft at eve resumes the breeze, Chills the pale morn, and bids his driving sleets Deform the day delightless...
Página 161 - With light and heat refulgent. Then Thy sun Shoots full perfection through the swelling year : And oft Thy voice in dreadful thunder speaks : And oft at dawn, deep noon, or falling eve, By brooks and groves, in hollow-whispering gales. Thy bounty shines in Autumn unconfin'd, And spreads a common feast for all that lives...