The world of spirits, action all, and life By boundless LOVE and perfect WISDOM form'd, ove ha l'origin primiera il mondo incorporeo, tutto moto, ed una vita libera e pura. Qui però, tale è il volere della Providenza Eterna, tiene il suo luogo nube profonda. A noi basti comprendere che questo stato di tenebre, immerso in capricciose passioni ed in vane intraprese, quest'infanzia dell'esistenza manifestare non ponno l'ultimo scopo delle opere di un DIO, create con un amor senza limite e con perfetta sapienza; e che ognor più si sublimano, viepiù che la mente meditando si elevi (63). AUTUMN ARGUMENT The subject proposed.. Addressed to Mr. Onslow. A prospect of the fields ready for harvest. Reflections in praise of industry raised by that view. Reaping. A tale relative to it. A harvest-storm. Shooting and hunting, their barbarity. A ludicrous account of fox-hunting. A view of an orchard. Wall-fruit. A vineyard. A description of fogs, frequent in the latter part of Autumn; whence a digression, inquiring into the rise of fountains and rivers. Birds of season considered, that now shift their habitation. The prodigious number of them that cover the northern and western isles of Scotland. Hence a view of the country. A prospect of the discoloured, fading woods. After a gentle dusky day, moonlight. Autumnal meteors. Morning: to which succeeds a calm, pure, sunshiny day, such as usually shuts up the season. The harvest being gathered in, the country dissolved in joy. The whole concludes with a panegyric on a philosophical country life. Crown'd with the sickle and the wheaten sheaf, While AUTUMN, nodding o'er the yellow plain, Comes jovial on; the Doric reed once more, Well pleas'd, I tune. Whate'er the Wintry frost Nitrous prepar'd, the various-blossom'd Spring Put in white promise forth; and Summer-suns Concocted strong, rush boundless now to view; |