The Poetical Works of James Thomson, Band 1Little, Brown,., 1854 |
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... scene of the ghost's exploits , and beheld , when he had just begun to pray , a ball of fire strike him upon the head . Overwhelmed with consternation , he could not utter another word , or make a second attempt to pray . He was carried ...
... scene of the ghost's exploits , and beheld , when he had just begun to pray , a ball of fire strike him upon the head . Overwhelmed with consternation , he could not utter another word , or make a second attempt to pray . He was carried ...
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... scenes with laughter . Give my service to him . Tell him I laugh at the thoughts of him , and should be very glad to hear from him . You may send your letters to my mother in Edinburgh in a line inclosed , desiring her to send them to ...
... scenes with laughter . Give my service to him . Tell him I laugh at the thoughts of him , and should be very glad to hear from him . You may send your letters to my mother in Edinburgh in a line inclosed , desiring her to send them to ...
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... scene at an easy rate . None ever enjoyed it to the height you do , and you are worthy of it . There I walk in spirit , and disport in its beloved gloom . This country I am in , is not very entertaining ; no variety but that of woods ...
... scene at an easy rate . None ever enjoyed it to the height you do , and you are worthy of it . There I walk in spirit , and disport in its beloved gloom . This country I am in , is not very entertaining ; no variety but that of woods ...
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... scenes of life , balancing the power of Eu- rope , watching over our common welfare , inform- * In the original folio edition of the poem , the title page contains this motto : " His tibi me rebus quædam divina Voluptas Percepit , atque ...
... scenes of life , balancing the power of Eu- rope , watching over our common welfare , inform- * In the original folio edition of the poem , the title page contains this motto : " His tibi me rebus quædam divina Voluptas Percepit , atque ...
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... scenes made upon his mind , and of his future intentions with respect to literature : - " Paris , December 27 , N. S. 1730 . " M. DE VOLTAIRE's Brutus has been acted here seven or eight times with applause , and still continues to be ...
... scenes made upon his mind , and of his future intentions with respect to literature : - " Paris , December 27 , N. S. 1730 . " M. DE VOLTAIRE's Brutus has been acted here seven or eight times with applause , and still continues to be ...
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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.