...Thomson : — " Come, gentle Spring ; ethereal mildness, come ! And from the hosom of yon drooping cloud, While music wakes around, veil'd in a shower Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend. From hrightening fields of ether, fair disclosed, Child of the sun, refulgent Summer comes In pride...

...gentle Spring ! ethereal Mildness! com«, And from the bosom of yon dropping cloud, While music wakce around, veil'd in a shower Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend. О Hertford, fitted or to shine in courts With unaffected grace, or walk the plain With innocence and...

...happy kind. COME, gentle Spring, ethereal Mildness, come, And from the bosom of yon dropping cloi.d, Sad cure ! the plain With innocence and meditation join'd In soft assemblage, listen to my song, Which thy own...

...sweetness and liberality of her nature : — " Come, gentle Spring ! ethereal mildness, come ! And from the bosom of yon dropping cloud, While music wakes around,...shower Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend. Oh, Hertford ! fitted or to shine in courts With unaffected grace, or walk the plain With innocence...

...bears away. SELECTIONS FROM THOMSON. SPRING. COME, gentle Spring, ethereal Mildness, come, And from the bosom of yon dropping cloud, While music wakes around,...shower Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend. And see where surly Winter passes off, Far to the north, and calls his ruffian hlasts : His blasts...

...flood of splendour. EXERCISES. Spring. Come, gentle Spring ! ethereal mildness ! come ! And from the bosom of yon dropping cloud, While music wakes around,...a shower Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend ! And see where surly Winter passes off, Far to the north, and calls his ruffian blasts ! His blasts...

...which are formed by the power of imagination. You may understand me by an example — " And from the bosom of yon dropping cloud, While music wakes around,...shower Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend." No doubt, the three or four different perceptions, which compose this delightful image, separately...

...delayed. Goldsmith. Come, gentle spring, ethereal mildness, come, And from the bosom of yon drooping cloud, While music wakes around, veil'd in a shower Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend. — Thomson. 0 Spring! of hope, and love, and youth, and gladness, Wind-wmged emblem! brightest, best,...

...ethereal mildness ! come; And from the bosom of yon dropping cloud Of balm of Paradise and heavenly dews, While music wakes around, veil'd in a shower Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend." From the presence of Jesus, however manifested, nothing can be separated that is delightful. He makes...

...dropping cloud, While music wakes around, veil'd iu a shower Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend. 0 HERTFORD, fitted or to shine in courts ' • With unaffected grace, or walk the plain With innocence and meditation join'd In soft assemblage, listen to my song, Which thy own...