The Poetical Works of James Thomson: With His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements. With the Life of the AuthorC. Cooke, 1794 - 314 pages |
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... wild and romantic as thofe of Salvator Rofa , pleafingly varied with precipices , torrents , cliffs , deep vallies , mountains , and gloomy caverns . Innumerable are the little " circumstances in his defcriptions , totally unobferved by ...
... wild and romantic as thofe of Salvator Rofa , pleafingly varied with precipices , torrents , cliffs , deep vallies , mountains , and gloomy caverns . Innumerable are the little " circumstances in his defcriptions , totally unobferved by ...
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... , long , thy ftone and pointed clay Shall melt the mufing Briton's eyes ; O ! Vales , and wild Woods , fhall he fay , In yonder grave your Druid lies ! Richmond Church . THE SEASONS . Spring , The Argument . THE fubje xxiv LIFE OF THOMSON .
... , long , thy ftone and pointed clay Shall melt the mufing Briton's eyes ; O ! Vales , and wild Woods , fhall he fay , In yonder grave your Druid lies ! Richmond Church . THE SEASONS . Spring , The Argument . THE fubje xxiv LIFE OF THOMSON .
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... wild and irregular paffion of Love , oppofed to that of a pure and happy kind . COME , gentle Spring ! ethereal mildness , come , And from the bofom of yon dropping cloud , While music wakes around , veil'd in a fhower Of fhadowing ...
... wild and irregular paffion of Love , oppofed to that of a pure and happy kind . COME , gentle Spring ! ethereal mildness , come , And from the bofom of yon dropping cloud , While music wakes around , veil'd in a fhower Of fhadowing ...
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... wilds , a cutting gale Rife not , and scatter from his humid wings ΠΙΟ The clammy mildew ; or , dry - blowing , breathe 115 Untimely frott ; before whofe baleful blaft 120 The full - blown Spring through all her foliage shrinks ...
... wilds , a cutting gale Rife not , and scatter from his humid wings ΠΙΟ The clammy mildew ; or , dry - blowing , breathe 115 Untimely frott ; before whofe baleful blaft 120 The full - blown Spring through all her foliage shrinks ...
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... wild concert , with the warbling brooks Increas'd , the diftant bleatings of the hills , And hollow lows refponfive from the vales , Whence blending all the sweeten'd zephyr springs . Mean time , refracted from yon ' eaftern cloud ...
... wild concert , with the warbling brooks Increas'd , the diftant bleatings of the hills , And hollow lows refponfive from the vales , Whence blending all the sweeten'd zephyr springs . Mean time , refracted from yon ' eaftern cloud ...
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