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, Volume 2Benjamin Johnson, 1804 |
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... amid the deep Inglorious sunk them in a watery grave . There now they lie beneath the rolling flood , Far from their friends and country , unaveng'd , And back the drooping war - ship comes again , Dispirited , and thin : her sons asham ...
... amid the deep Inglorious sunk them in a watery grave . There now they lie beneath the rolling flood , Far from their friends and country , unaveng'd , And back the drooping war - ship comes again , Dispirited , and thin : her sons asham ...
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... amid the lifeless waste , Expiring Nature all corrupted round ; 180 185 190 195 200 While the lone Tiber , thro ' the desert plain Winds his waste stores , and sullen sweeps along . Patch'd from my fragments , in unsolid pomp , Mark how ...
... amid the lifeless waste , Expiring Nature all corrupted round ; 180 185 190 195 200 While the lone Tiber , thro ' the desert plain Winds his waste stores , and sullen sweeps along . Patch'd from my fragments , in unsolid pomp , Mark how ...
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... amid reluctant waves , Draw the cool murmurs of the breathing deep No spreading ports their sacred arms extend ; No nighty moles the big intrusive storm , From the calm station , roll resounding back . An almost total desolation sits ...
... amid reluctant waves , Draw the cool murmurs of the breathing deep No spreading ports their sacred arms extend ; No nighty moles the big intrusive storm , From the calm station , roll resounding back . An almost total desolation sits ...
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... amid his floods , 60 65 Swell'd his fierce heart , and cry'd .... " This flood is mine , " " Tis I that bid it flow . " .... But , undeceiv'd , His frenzy soon the proud blasphemer felt : Felt that , without My fertilizing power , Suns ...
... amid his floods , 60 65 Swell'd his fierce heart , and cry'd .... " This flood is mine , " " Tis I that bid it flow . " .... But , undeceiv'd , His frenzy soon the proud blasphemer felt : Felt that , without My fertilizing power , Suns ...
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... the deep - adorning Cyclade isles In shining prospect rise , and on the shore Of farthest Crete resounds the Libyan main . O'er all two rival cities rear'd the brow , 100 105 And balanc'd all . Spread on Eurota's bank , Amid 32 LIBERTY .
... the deep - adorning Cyclade isles In shining prospect rise , and on the shore Of farthest Crete resounds the Libyan main . O'er all two rival cities rear'd the brow , 100 105 And balanc'd all . Spread on Eurota's bank , Amid 32 LIBERTY .
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æther amid ancient arts Athens bade beam behold beneath bliss blood bloom breath bright Britons brow calm CASTLE OF INDOLENCE charms Corruption dark deep delight dread E'en earth Epaminondas fair fame fir'd flame flood Freedom gale genius GEORGE PALMER glad glory goddess goddess of Liberty grace Greece happy heart heaven Hence honour human Idless Isthmian games Italy JAMES THOMSON join'd kings knight labour land Liberty light luxurious mankind matchless mind mix'd Muse Musidora Nature's o'er passions peace Phoenicia plain pour'd pride race rage rais'd Rapine reign rise Roman Rome round rous'd sacred scene scorn'd seiz'd shade shine shore Silures sing slaves smil'd smile soft song sons soul spirit spread stream sunk sweet swell taught tempest tender thee thou thro toil touch'd trembling truth turn'd tyrants vale vile virtue waves whence wild winds wretch zeal
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Page 134 - A pleasing land of drowsy-head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye ; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky...
Page 209 - When Britain first, at Heaven's command, Arose from out the azure main ; This was the charter of the land, And guardian angels sung this strain : " Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves!
Page 129 - This Poem being writ in the manner of Spenser, the obsolete words, and a simplicity of diction in some of the lines which borders on the ludicrous, were necessary to make the imitation more perfect.
Page 142 - Placed far amid the melancholy main, (Whether it be lone fancy him beguiles ; Or that aerial beings sometimes deign To stand embodied, to our senses plain) Sees on the naked hill, or valley low, The whilst in ocean Phoebus dips his wain, A vast assembly moving to and fro: Then all at once in air dissolves the wondrous show.
Page 145 - Such the gay splendour, the luxurious state, Of caliphs old, who on the Tigris' shore, In mighty Bagdat, populous and great, Held their bright court, where was of ladies store ; And verse, love, music, still the garland wore : When Sleep was coy, the bard, in waiting there...
Page 142 - Whatever sprightly juice or tasteful food On the green bosom of this earth are found, And all old Ocean genders...
Page 204 - Observe the rising lily's snowy grace, Observe the various vegetable race ; They neither toil, nor spin, but careless grow, Yet see how warm they blush, how bright they glow! What regal vestments can with them compare! What king so shining! or what queen so fair!
Page 134 - And flocks loud bleating from the distant hills, And vacant shepherds piping in the dale ; And, now and then, sweet Philomel would wail, Or stockdoves plain amid the forest deep, That drowsy rustled to the sighing gale ; And still a coil the grasshopper did keep ; Yet all these sounds yblent inclined all to sleep.
Page 210 - Still more majestic shalt thou rise, More dreadful from each foreign stroke; As the loud blast that tears the skies Serves but to root thy native oak.
Page 148 - Rout excite? Why? On each other with fell Tooth to fall; A Neighbour's Fortune, Fame, or Peace, to blight, And make new tiresome Parties for the coming Night. LIV The puzzling Sons of Party next appear'd, In dark Cabals and nightly Juntos met; And now they whisper'd close, now shrugging rear'd Th...