The Poetical Works of James ThomsonWilliam Tegg and Company, Cheapside, 1850 - 685 стор. |
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... Plain Dealer ; " which has recently been drawn from obscurity by Allan Cunningham , Esq . , and introduced into his very elegant Life of Thomson , prefixed to an octavo edition of his " Seasons . " 46 The learned world has expressed its ...
... Plain Dealer ; " which has recently been drawn from obscurity by Allan Cunningham , Esq . , and introduced into his very elegant Life of Thomson , prefixed to an octavo edition of his " Seasons . " 46 The learned world has expressed its ...
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... plain . Thomson has fewer SMALL CAPITALS and italics , to create emphatic distinctions , than any of his poetic contempora- ries . He felt that good poetry requires little aid of this kind to render it easy of comprehension . His few ...
... plain . Thomson has fewer SMALL CAPITALS and italics , to create emphatic distinctions , than any of his poetic contempora- ries . He felt that good poetry requires little aid of this kind to render it easy of comprehension . His few ...
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... plain stone , without any inscription : nor did his brother poets at all exert themselves on the oc- casion , as they had lately done for one who had been the terror of poets all his life - time . This silence furnished mat- ter to one ...
... plain stone , without any inscription : nor did his brother poets at all exert themselves on the oc- casion , as they had lately done for one who had been the terror of poets all his life - time . This silence furnished mat- ter to one ...
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... plain Shakes from afar . In no one subject are common writers more confused and unmeaning , than in their descriptions of rivers , which are generally said only to wind and to murmur , while their qualities and courses are seldom ...
... plain Shakes from afar . In no one subject are common writers more confused and unmeaning , than in their descriptions of rivers , which are generally said only to wind and to murmur , while their qualities and courses are seldom ...
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... plain expression . From what secret impatience of the justest praise , when bestowed on others , this often proceeds , rather than a pre- tended delicacy , is beyond my purpose here to inquire . But as nothing is more foreign to the ...
... plain expression . From what secret impatience of the justest praise , when bestowed on others , this often proceeds , rather than a pre- tended delicacy , is beyond my purpose here to inquire . But as nothing is more foreign to the ...
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Agamemnon amid Antium beauty Behold beneath bliss bloom bosom breast breath Britons Carthage Castle of Indolence charms clouds Clytemnestra Coriolanus dark death deep delight dreadful earth exalted fair fame fate flame flood genius gentle gloom glory grace Greece hand happy heart Heaven Hence honour JAMES THOMSON join'd king land Liberty light live lord mankind Masinissa mind mix'd mountains Muse Narva Nature Nature's night noble nought o'er once passions peace Phoenissa plain poison'd pomp pour'd pride prince rage rapture reign rise Roman Rome round sacred scene shade shine shore Sigismunda slaves smile soft song Soph Sophonisba soul spirit spread Spring storm stream sunk sweet swelling Syphax Tancred tears tempest tender thee thine Thomson thou thought toil trembling Tullus tyrant vale verse Veturia vex'd virtue Volsci Volscian Volusius wave whence wild winds wretch youth
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Сторінка 122 - Wisely regardful of the embroiling sky, In joyless fields and thorny thickets, leaves His shivering mates, and pays to trusted man His annual visit. Half afraid, he first Against the window beats; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is; Till more familiar grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet.
Сторінка 34 - O'er which the Cambrian mountains, like far clouds That skirt the blue horizon, dusky rise. Flush'd by the spirit of the genial year, .Now from the virgin's cheek a fresher bloom Shoots, less and less, the live carnation round; Her lips blush deeper sweets ; she breathes of youth ; The shining moisture swells into her eyes, In brighter flow ; her wishing bosom heaves, With palpitations wild; kind tumults seize Her veins, and all her yielding soul is love. From the keen gaze her lover turns away,...
Сторінка 130 - Now, all amid the rigours of the year, In the wild depth of Winter, while without The ceaseless winds blow ice, be my retreat, Between the groaning forest and the shore., Beat by the boundless multitude of waves, A rural, shelter'd, solitary scene ; Where ruddy fire and beaming tapers join, To cheer the gloom. There studious let me sit, And hold high converse with the mighty dead...
Сторінка 105 - The stork-assembly meets; for many a day, Consulting deep, and various, ere they take Their arduous voyage through the liquid sky. And now their route...
Сторінка 112 - That winding leads through pits of death, or else Instructs him how to take the dangerous ford. The lengthen'd night elaps'd, the Morning shines Serene, in all her dewy beauty bright ; Unfolding fair the last autumnal day. And now the mounting sun dispels the fog ; The rigid hoar-frost melts before his beam ; And hung on every spray, on every blade Of grass, the myriad dew-drops twinkle round.
Сторінка 26 - Sole-sitting, still at every dying fall Takes up again her lamentable strain Of winding woe ; till, wide around, the woods Sigh to her song, and with her wail resound.
Сторінка 147 - 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; 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.
Сторінка 57 - Nor, creeping through the woods, the gelid race Of berries. Oft in humble station dwells Unboastful worth, above fastidious pomp. Witness, thou best Anana, thou the pride Of vegetable life, beyond whate'er The poets imaged in the golden age : Quick let me strip thee of thy tufty coat, Spread thy ambrosial stores, and feast with Jove!
Сторінка 267 - In lowly dale, fast by a river's side, With woody hill o'er hill encompassed round, A most enchanting wizard did abide, Than whom a fiend more fell is nowhere found. It was, I ween, a lovely spot of ground ; And there a season atween June and May, Half prankt with spring, with summer half imbrowned, A listless climate made, where, sooth to say, -- No living wight could work, ne cared even for play.
Сторінка 50 - Ere the soft fearful people to the flood Commit their woolly sides. And oft the swain, On some impatient seizing, hurls them in: Embolden'd then, nor hesitating more, Fast, fast, they plunge amid the flashing wave, And, panting, labour to the farthest shore.