The Seasons, Hymns, Ode, and SongsJ. W. H. Payne, 1813 - 323 pages |
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... give some account of a deceased friend is often a piece of justice likewise , which ought not to be refused to his memory ; to prevent or efface the impertinent fictions which officious biographers are so apt to collect and propagate ...
... give some account of a deceased friend is often a piece of justice likewise , which ought not to be refused to his memory ; to prevent or efface the impertinent fictions which officious biographers are so apt to collect and propagate ...
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... give offence ; but the ministry , still sore from certain pasquinades , which had lately produced the stage act ; and as little satisfied with some part of the prince's political conduct , as he was with their management of the public ...
... give offence ; but the ministry , still sore from certain pasquinades , which had lately produced the stage act ; and as little satisfied with some part of the prince's political conduct , as he was with their management of the public ...
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... give it an air of the burlesque . This was the last piece Thomson himself published ; his tragedy of Coriolanus being only prepared for the theatre , when a fatal accident robbed the world of one of the best men , and best poets , that ...
... give it an air of the burlesque . This was the last piece Thomson himself published ; his tragedy of Coriolanus being only prepared for the theatre , when a fatal accident robbed the world of one of the best men , and best poets , that ...
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... give the reader . Only one gentleman , Mr. Collins , who had lived some time at Richmond , but forsook it when Thomson died , wrote an ode to his memory . This , for the dirge - like melancholy it breathes , and the warmth of affection ...
... give the reader . Only one gentleman , Mr. Collins , who had lived some time at Richmond , but forsook it when Thomson died , wrote an ode to his memory . This , for the dirge - like melancholy it breathes , and the warmth of affection ...
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... gives us in an avowed faithful paraphrase or translation ; as we see in a few passages taken from Virgil , and in that beautiful picture from Pliny the elder , where the course , and gradual increase , of the Nile , are figured by the ...
... gives us in an avowed faithful paraphrase or translation ; as we see in a few passages taken from Virgil , and in that beautiful picture from Pliny the elder , where the course , and gradual increase , of the Nile , are figured by the ...
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affects the various amid art thou Autumn beam beauty beneath bloom bosom boundless breast breathes breeze Caledonia Celadon charm clouds Coriolanus deep delightful descends descriptive poetry earth ether Ev'n exalted fair fair brow fancy fierce flame flocks flood gale gentle gloom glowing grace grove happy heart heaven hills Lapland light luxury matchless maze mighty mind mingled mix'd mountains Muse Musidora Nature Nature's night numbers o'er Palemon passions peace plain poet poison'd pomp pride race rage rapture rills rise rocks roll round rous'd rural scarce scene Season described Season on Animals shade shine smile snow soft song soul spreads Spring storm stream stretch'd Summer swain sweet sweet emotions swell tempest tender thee Thomson thou thought thunder toil train tribes vale vegetable vex'd virtue walk waste wave wild winds wing Winter wintry wonders woods youth
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Page 301 - Ye softer floods, that lead the humid maze Along the vale ; and thou, majestic main, A secret world of wonders in thyself, Sound His stupendous praise ; whose greater voice Or bids you roar, or bids your roarings fall.
Page 299 - THESE, as they change, ALMIGHTY FATHER, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of THEE. Forth in the pleasing Spring THY beauty walks, THY tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And every sense, and every heart is joy.
Page 303 - tis nought to me: Since GOD is ever present, ever felt, In the void waste as in the city full; And where he vital breathes there must be joy.
Page 249 - SEE, Winter comes, to rule the varied year, Sullen and sad, with all his rising train ; Vapours, and clouds, and storms. Be these my theme; These, that exalt the soul to solemn thought, And heavenly musing. Welcome, kindred glooms...
Page 99 - Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe the enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
Page 56 - Sits on the horizon round a settled gloom : Not such as wintry storms on mortals shed, Oppressing life ; but lovely, gentle, kind, And full of every hope and every joy, The wish of nature. Gradual sinks the breeze Into a perfect calm ; that not a breath Is heard to quiver through the closing woods, Or rustling turn the many-twinkling leaves Of aspen tall.
Page 265 - And heedless rambling Impulse learn to think ; The conscious heart of Charity would warm, And her wide wish Benevolence dilate ; The social tear would rise, the social sigh ; And into clear perfection, gradual bliss, Refining still, the social passions work.
Page 49 - COME, gentle SPRING! ethereal Mildness! come; And from the bosom of yon dropping cloud, While music wakes around, veil'd in a shower Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend.
Page 88 - The whole creation round. Contentment walks The sunny glade, and feels an inward bliss Spring o'er his mind, beyond the power of kings To purchase.
Page 263 - In vain for him the officious wife prepares The fire fair-blazing, and the vestment warm ; In vain his little children, peeping out Into the mingling storm, demand their sire, With tears of artless innocence. Alas ! Nor wife, nor children, more shall he behold, Nor friends, nor sacred home.