The Poetical Works of James Thomson, Band 1Little, Brown,., 1854 |
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... truth sincere , as weeping friendship kind , Thee , truly generous , and in silence great , Thy country feels through her reviving arts , Plann'd by thy wisdom , by thy soul inform'd ; And seldom has she known a friend like thee ...
... truth sincere , as weeping friendship kind , Thee , truly generous , and in silence great , Thy country feels through her reviving arts , Plann'd by thy wisdom , by thy soul inform'd ; And seldom has she known a friend like thee ...
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... truth , when I vow , I'd rather have it than the acclamations of thou- sands ' tis so sincere , so delicate , so distinguishing , so glowing , and what peculiarly marks and endears it , so beautifully generous . That great mind , and ...
... truth , when I vow , I'd rather have it than the acclamations of thou- sands ' tis so sincere , so delicate , so distinguishing , so glowing , and what peculiarly marks and endears it , so beautifully generous . That great mind , and ...
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... , such a beauty , truth , force , and elegance of thought , and expression ; such animated , fine sense , and chastised fancy ; so much dignity and condescension , sublimity and sweetness ; in a xxxii MEMOIR OF THOMSON .
... , such a beauty , truth , force , and elegance of thought , and expression ; such animated , fine sense , and chastised fancy ; so much dignity and condescension , sublimity and sweetness ; in a xxxii MEMOIR OF THOMSON .
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... truth is , he promised me to alter them , as I wrote to you ; but in a following letter told me , that , after several attempts , he found it absolutely out of his power ; and , rather than lose them MEMOIR OF THOMSON . xli.
... truth is , he promised me to alter them , as I wrote to you ; but in a following letter told me , that , after several attempts , he found it absolutely out of his power ; and , rather than lose them MEMOIR OF THOMSON . xli.
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... truth and harmony are the objects of these passions . 66 Every Muse , every Virtue , here , languishes for your return to me your absence would be much se- verer , if my partial sympathy in the happiness of my native country did not ...
... truth and harmony are the objects of these passions . 66 Every Muse , every Virtue , here , languishes for your return to me your absence would be much se- verer , if my partial sympathy in the happiness of my native country did not ...
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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.