The Poetical Works of James Thomson, Band 1Little, Brown,., 1854 |
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... honoured him with his kindness , and invited him to spend his sum- mer vacations at his seat . Under the auspices of these generous friends , and of Sir Gilbert Elliot of Minto , * Thomson wrote various pieces ; but on the first of ...
... honoured him with his kindness , and invited him to spend his sum- mer vacations at his seat . Under the auspices of these generous friends , and of Sir Gilbert Elliot of Minto , * Thomson wrote various pieces ; but on the first of ...
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... honour and happiness of your acquaintance , and ought with the utmost deference and veneration to approach so supreme a genius , yet my full heart is not to be re- pressed by formalities ; and you must allow me the pleasure of pouring ...
... honour and happiness of your acquaintance , and ought with the utmost deference and veneration to approach so supreme a genius , yet my full heart is not to be re- pressed by formalities ; and you must allow me the pleasure of pouring ...
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... allows . " Mr. Mallet is now gone into the country , where * This line was changed to " E'en Kings from whose high source all honours flow . " he justly expects to be vastly entertained , and in- xxxvi MEMOIR OF THOMSON .
... allows . " Mr. Mallet is now gone into the country , where * This line was changed to " E'en Kings from whose high source all honours flow . " he justly expects to be vastly entertained , and in- xxxvi MEMOIR OF THOMSON .
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... honour of subscribing myself , dear Sir , your most obliged , and most devoted , humble servant , " JAMES THOMSON . " * The efforts of Mr. Hill , aided , it is said , by those of Mr. Thomas Whatley , a gentleman of acknowledged taste ...
... honour of subscribing myself , dear Sir , your most obliged , and most devoted , humble servant , " JAMES THOMSON . " * The efforts of Mr. Hill , aided , it is said , by those of Mr. Thomas Whatley , a gentleman of acknowledged taste ...
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... honour and happiness of your company , as you shall be pleased to direct . Mr. Mallet left with me , what they call a Spanish cheese , which he begs you to ac- cept of . At last , I have been with the Speaker , this morning ; but would ...
... honour and happiness of your company , as you shall be pleased to direct . Mr. Mallet left with me , what they call a Spanish cheese , which he begs you to ac- cept of . At last , I have been with the Speaker , this morning ; but 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.