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, المجلد 2Benjamin Johnson, 1804 |
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... fire ; And as he charges through the prostrate war , His keen arm teaches faithless men no more To dare the sacred vengeance of the just . 160 166 And what , my thoughtless sons ! should fire you more , Than when your well - earn'd ...
... fire ; And as he charges through the prostrate war , His keen arm teaches faithless men no more To dare the sacred vengeance of the just . 160 166 And what , my thoughtless sons ! should fire you more , Than when your well - earn'd ...
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... fires , Than by despotic rage ; † that inward gnaws , A native foe ; a foreign tears without . First from your flatter'd Cæsars this began , Till , doom'd to tyrants an eternal prey , Thin peopled spreads , at last , the syren plaint ...
... fires , Than by despotic rage ; † that inward gnaws , A native foe ; a foreign tears without . First from your flatter'd Cæsars this began , Till , doom'd to tyrants an eternal prey , Thin peopled spreads , at last , the syren plaint ...
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... fire and earthquake rent ; Whole stately cities in the dark abrupt Swallow'd at once , or vile in rubbish laid , A nest for serpents ; from the red abyss New hills , explosive , thrown ; the Lucrine lake A reedy pool ; and all to Cuma's ...
... fire and earthquake rent ; Whole stately cities in the dark abrupt Swallow'd at once , or vile in rubbish laid , A nest for serpents ; from the red abyss New hills , explosive , thrown ; the Lucrine lake A reedy pool ; and all to Cuma's ...
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... fire , and sword , and rage , and horrid names . O Greece ! thou sapient nurse of finer arts ! Which to bright Science blooming Fancy bore , Be this thy praise , that thou , and thou alone , In these hast led the way , in these excell'd ...
... fire , and sword , and rage , and horrid names . O Greece ! thou sapient nurse of finer arts ! Which to bright Science blooming Fancy bore , Be this thy praise , that thou , and thou alone , In these hast led the way , in these excell'd ...
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... fire to that quarter of it where stood the house of the celebrated Protogenes , he chose rather to raise the siege , than hazard the burning of a famous picture , called Jasylus , the master - piece of that painter . And copious action ...
... fire to that quarter of it where stood the house of the celebrated Protogenes , he chose rather to raise the siege , than hazard the burning of a famous picture , called Jasylus , the master - piece of that painter . And copious action ...
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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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الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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!
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 142 - Whatever sprightly juice or tasteful food On the green bosom of this earth are found, And all old Ocean genders...
الصفحة 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!
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...