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, Bind 2Benjamin Johnson, 1804 |
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Side 5
... o'er the deep , from her majestic brow She tore the laurel , and she tore the bay ; Nor ceas'd the copious grief to bathe her cheek , Nor ceas'd her sobs to murmur to the main . Peace discontented nigh , departing , stretch'd Her dove ...
... o'er the deep , from her majestic brow She tore the laurel , and she tore the bay ; Nor ceas'd the copious grief to bathe her cheek , Nor ceas'd her sobs to murmur to the main . Peace discontented nigh , departing , stretch'd Her dove ...
Side 6
... o'er the conquer'd seas , For which their wisdom plann'd , their councils glow'd , And their veins bled , thro ' many a toiling age ! Oh ! first of human blessings , and supreme ! Fair Peace ! how lovely , how delightful thou ! By whose ...
... o'er the conquer'd seas , For which their wisdom plann'd , their councils glow'd , And their veins bled , thro ' many a toiling age ! Oh ! first of human blessings , and supreme ! Fair Peace ! how lovely , how delightful thou ! By whose ...
Side 8
... o'er that to watch , E'en with a hand severe , and jealous eye . In intercourse be gentle , generous , just , By wisdom polish'd , and of manners fair ; But on the sea be terrible , untam'd , Unconquerable still ; let none escape , Who ...
... o'er that to watch , E'en with a hand severe , and jealous eye . In intercourse be gentle , generous , just , By wisdom polish'd , and of manners fair ; But on the sea be terrible , untam'd , Unconquerable still ; let none escape , Who ...
Side 9
... o'er the land , 200 205 210 215 220 Should this bright stream , the least inflected , point Its course another way , o'er other lands The various treasure would resistless pour , Ne'er to be won again ; its ancient tract Left a vile ...
... o'er the land , 200 205 210 215 220 Should this bright stream , the least inflected , point Its course another way , o'er other lands The various treasure would resistless pour , Ne'er to be won again ; its ancient tract Left a vile ...
Side 10
... of government And life , a total dissolution comes ; Sloth , ignorance , dejection , flattery , fear , Oppression raging o'er the waste he makes , 255 260 265 The human being almost quite extinct , And the whole 10 BRITANNIA .
... of government And life , a total dissolution comes ; Sloth , ignorance , dejection , flattery , fear , Oppression raging o'er the waste he makes , 255 260 265 The human being almost quite extinct , And the whole 10 BRITANNIA .
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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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Side 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...
Side 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!
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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...
Side 142 - Whatever sprightly juice or tasteful food On the green bosom of this earth are found, And all old Ocean genders...
Side 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!
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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...