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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... scene the ruins of ancient Rome . The goddess of Liberty , who is supposed to speak through the whole , ap- pears characterized as British Liberty , to ver . 44 . Gives a view of ancient Italy , and particularly of republican Rome , in ...
... scene the ruins of ancient Rome . The goddess of Liberty , who is supposed to speak through the whole , ap- pears characterized as British Liberty , to ver . 44 . Gives a view of ancient Italy , and particularly of republican Rome , in ...
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... scene , Still in the mind's pure eye more solemn drest ; When straight , methought , the fair majestic power 25 Of Liberty appear'd ; not , as of old , Extended in her hand the cap and rod , Whose slave - enlarging touch gave double ...
... scene , Still in the mind's pure eye more solemn drest ; When straight , methought , the fair majestic power 25 Of Liberty appear'd ; not , as of old , Extended in her hand the cap and rod , Whose slave - enlarging touch gave double ...
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... scene that paints whate'er I say . The great republic see ! that glow'd , sublime , With the mixt freedom of a thousand states , Rais'd on the thrones of kings her curule chair , And by her fasces aw'd the subject world . See busy ...
... scene that paints whate'er I say . The great republic see ! that glow'd , sublime , With the mixt freedom of a thousand states , Rais'd on the thrones of kings her curule chair , And by her fasces aw'd the subject world . See busy ...
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... scenes Of men and deeds to trace , unhappy land ! Would trust thy wilds , and cities loose of sway ? Are these the vales that , once , exulting states In their warm bosom fed ? the mountains these On whose high - blooming sides My sons ...
... scenes Of men and deeds to trace , unhappy land ! Would trust thy wilds , and cities loose of sway ? Are these the vales that , once , exulting states In their warm bosom fed ? the mountains these On whose high - blooming sides My sons ...
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... scenes of rising culture spread , Pale shine thy ragged towns . Neglected round Each harvest pines , the livid , lean produce Of heartless Labour ; while thy hated joys , Not proper pleasure , lift the lazy hand . Better to sink in ...
... scenes of rising culture spread , Pale shine thy ragged towns . Neglected round Each harvest pines , the livid , lean produce Of heartless Labour ; while thy hated joys , Not proper pleasure , lift the lazy hand . Better to sink in ...
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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...