The Poetical Works of James Thomson, Band 1Little, Brown,., 1854 |
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... has been discovered ; and his cor- respondence , as well as his works , prove that they never varied : : - From the information of David Laing , Esq . " DEAR SIR , " Edinburgh , February or March xiv MEMOIR OF THOMSON .
... has been discovered ; and his cor- respondence , as well as his works , prove that they never varied : : - From the information of David Laing , Esq . " DEAR SIR , " Edinburgh , February or March xiv MEMOIR OF THOMSON .
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... DEAR SIR , " I RECEIVED yours , by which I find you have been as much concerned as Mr. Colden indifferent about me ; he , good man , recommends me to God Almighty : very well ; but I wish he had exerted something more of the layman on ...
... DEAR SIR , " I RECEIVED yours , by which I find you have been as much concerned as Mr. Colden indifferent about me ; he , good man , recommends me to God Almighty : very well ; but I wish he had exerted something more of the layman on ...
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... DEAR SIR , " I HAD yours some days since , the only letter I re- ceived since I came from Scotland . I was almost out of humour at the letter I wrote for to Mr. Elliot , since it so curtailed yours to me ; I went and delivered it , he ...
... DEAR SIR , " I HAD yours some days since , the only letter I re- ceived since I came from Scotland . I was almost out of humour at the letter I wrote for to Mr. Elliot , since it so curtailed yours to me ; I went and delivered it , he ...
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... DEAR DOCTOR , : - " East Barnet , July 20 , 1725 . " I CANNOT imagine the meaning of this long silence , unless my last letter has not come to your hand , which was written two or three months since . I would have seconded it , though ...
... DEAR DOCTOR , : - " East Barnet , July 20 , 1725 . " I CANNOT imagine the meaning of this long silence , unless my last letter has not come to your hand , which was written two or three months since . I would have seconded it , though ...
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... DEAR SIR , " I WOULD chide you for the slackness of your corre- spondence ; but , having blamed you wrongfully last time , I shall say nothing until I hear from you , which I hope will be soon . " There is a little business I would ...
... DEAR SIR , " I WOULD chide you for the slackness of your corre- spondence ; but , having blamed you wrongfully last time , I shall say nothing until I hear from you , which I hope will be soon . " There is a little business I would ...
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AARON HILL Agamemnon Allan Ramsay Amid arts beauty behold beneath bless'd bliss blooming breath Britons Castle of Indolence charms cheerful Coriolanus corruption DEAR SIR death deep delight divine E'en earth Ednam eternal fair fame fancy favour fire flame genius give glory Goddess grace Greece happy heart Heaven honour hope inspire JAMES THOMSON Jedburgh King land letter Liberty light live Lord Lord Lyttelton Lyttelton Mallet mankind Masque of Alfred mind mix'd moral Muse nature never o'er passion peace pleasing pleasure poem Poet poetry pomp pour'd praise pride Prince of Wales rage reason reign rise Roman Rome round scene Secretary of Briefs shade shine shore sing smiling soft song sons Sophonisba soul Southdean spirit spread spring sunk sweet swell taste tear tender thee thine thou toil truth tyrant vale verses virtue whence wild Winter
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Seite cxxv - 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...
Seite clv - Sisters now attend, Now waft me from the green hill's side, Whose cold turf hides the buried friend...
Seite cliv - Then maids and youths shall linger here, And while its sounds at distance swell, Shall sadly seem, in pity's ear, To hear the woodland pilgrim's knell.
Seite cxlviii - It was this devotion to the works of Nature that, in his Qeorgics, inspired the rural Virgil to write so inimitably ; and who can forbear joining with him in this declaration of his, which has been the rapture of ages...
Seite cliv - mid the varied landscape weep. * But thou, who own'st that earthy bed, Ah ! what will every dirge avail ; Or tears, which love and pity shed, That mourn beneath the gliding sail...
Seite 183 - Gladiator : * pitiless his look, And each keen sinew braced, the storm of war, Ruffling, o'er all his nervous body frowns. The dying...
Seite cxxi - For his chaste muse employed her heaven-taught lyre None but the noblest passions to inspire ; Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, One line which, dying, he could wish to blot.
Seite 187 - In elegant design, Improving nature: in ideas fair, Or great, extracted from the fine antique; In attitude, expression, airs divine; Her sons of Rome and Florence bore the prize. To those of Venice she the magic art Of colours melting into colours gave. Theirs too it was by one embracing mass Of light and shade, that settles round the whole...
Seite vi - Upon his fete, and in his hand a staf. This noble ensample to his shepe he yaf, That first he wrought, and afterward he taught.
Seite cxxv - The Earl of Buchan, unwilling that so good a man and sweet a poet should be without a memorial, has denoted the place of his interment, for the satisfaction of his admirers, in the year of our Lord, 1792.