The Works of James Thomson: With His Last Corrections and Improvements. ...A. Millar, 1766 |
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... pure , or more intense , than himself . OUR author's poetical ftudies were now to be in- terrupted , or rather improved , by his attendance on the honourable Mr. Charles Talbot in his travels . A delightful task indeed ! endowed as that ...
... pure , or more intense , than himself . OUR author's poetical ftudies were now to be in- terrupted , or rather improved , by his attendance on the honourable Mr. Charles Talbot in his travels . A delightful task indeed ! endowed as that ...
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... on Vegetables , on brute Animals , and laft on Man ; concluding with a diffuafive from the wild and irregular passion of Love , opposed to that of a pure and happy kind . SPRING . C OME , gentle SPRING , ethereal Mildness.
... on Vegetables , on brute Animals , and laft on Man ; concluding with a diffuafive from the wild and irregular passion of Love , opposed to that of a pure and happy kind . SPRING . C OME , gentle SPRING , ethereal Mildness.
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... pure , into these secret stores Of health , and life , and joy ? the food of Man , 235 While yet he liv'd in innocence , and told A length of golden years ; unflefh'd in blood ,. A ftranger to the favage arts of life , Death , rapine ...
... pure , into these secret stores Of health , and life , and joy ? the food of Man , 235 While yet he liv'd in innocence , and told A length of golden years ; unflefh'd in blood ,. A ftranger to the favage arts of life , Death , rapine ...
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... Pure was the temperate air ; an even calm Perpetual reign'd , fave what the zephyrs bland Breath'd o'er the blue expanfe : for then nor forms Were taught to blow , nor hurricanes to rage ; 325 Sound flept the waters ; no fulphureous ...
... Pure was the temperate air ; an even calm Perpetual reign'd , fave what the zephyrs bland Breath'd o'er the blue expanfe : for then nor forms Were taught to blow , nor hurricanes to rage ; 325 Sound flept the waters ; no fulphureous ...
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... pure exhilarating foul Of nutriment and health , and vital powers , Beyond the fearch of art , ' tis copious blet . For , with hot ravine fir'd , enfanguin'd Man Is now become the lion of the plain , 340 And worfe . The wolf , who from ...
... pure exhilarating foul Of nutriment and health , and vital powers , Beyond the fearch of art , ' tis copious blet . For , with hot ravine fir'd , enfanguin'd Man Is now become the lion of the plain , 340 And worfe . The wolf , who from ...
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الصفحة 44 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot...
الصفحة 175 - Of horrid prospect, shag the trackless plain: Nor finds the river, nor the forest, hid Beneath the formless wild; but wanders on From hill to dale, still more and more astray; Impatient flouncing through the drifted heaps, Stung with the thoughts of home; the thoughts of home Rush on his nerves, and call their vigour forth In many a vain attempt.
الصفحة 176 - ... they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain. How many sink in the devouring flood, Or more devouring flame.
الصفحة 172 - Father of light and life, thou Good Supreme ! O teach me what is good ; teach me Thyself! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit; and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss...
الصفحة 176 - Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain.
الصفحة 31 - The stately-sailing swan Gives out his snowy plumage to the gale, And, arching proud his neck, with oary feet Bears forward fierce, and guards his osier-isle, Protective of his young.
الصفحة 49 - Till far o'er ether spreads the widening glow And from before the lustre of her face White break the clouds away. With quickened step Brown night retires. Young day pours in apace And opens all the lawny prospect wide. The dripping rock, the mountain's misty top Swell on the sight and brighten with the dawn. Blue through the dusk the smoking currents shine, And from the bladed field the fearful hare Limps awkward, while along the forest glade The wild deer trip and often turning gaze At early passenger.
الصفحة 89 - At first, heard solemn o'er the verge of Heaven, The tempest growls; but as it nearer comes, And rolls its awful burden on the wind, The lightnings flash a larger curve, and more The noise astounds...
الصفحة 146 - High hovering o'er the broad cerulean scene, Sees Caledonia, in romantic view : Her airy mountains, from the waving main, Invested with a keen diffusive sky. Breathing the soul acute : her forests huge...
الصفحة 172 - All nature reels. Till Nature's King, who oft Amid tempestuous darkness dwells alone, And on the wings of the careering wind Walks dreadfully serene, commands a calm; Then, straight, air, sea, and earth, are hush'd at once.