The Seasons: And The Castle of Indolence |
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... raised her devotional exercises to a pitch bordering on enthusiasm . " It is pleasant to see the character of the parent appear in the child - Thomson had much of his mother in him . One of his latest biogra- phers , curious in matters ...
... raised her devotional exercises to a pitch bordering on enthusiasm . " It is pleasant to see the character of the parent appear in the child - Thomson had much of his mother in him . One of his latest biogra- phers , curious in matters ...
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... raise him in the opinion of his companions . This exercise , which Johnson calls too poetically splendid , was not in verse , as has been said by all the biographers , but in prose neither did it , as they have affirmed , restrain his ...
... raise him in the opinion of his companions . This exercise , which Johnson calls too poetically splendid , was not in verse , as has been said by all the biographers , but in prose neither did it , as they have affirmed , restrain his ...
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... raised such ex- pectation , that every rehearsal was dignified with a splen- did audience , collected to anticipate the delight that was preparing for the public . It was observed , however , that nobody was much affected , and that the ...
... raised such ex- pectation , that every rehearsal was dignified with a splen- did audience , collected to anticipate the delight that was preparing for the public . It was observed , however , that nobody was much affected , and that the ...
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... raise the beauties of nature out of the low regions of sensual delight , and make them objects of moral grandeur and spiritual contemplation . Thomson perceived order , unity , and high meaning in the loveliest as well as the loftiest ...
... raise the beauties of nature out of the low regions of sensual delight , and make them objects of moral grandeur and spiritual contemplation . Thomson perceived order , unity , and high meaning in the loveliest as well as the loftiest ...
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... raise the virtues , animate the bliss , ; E'en charm the pains to something more than joy , And sweeten all the toils of human life : This be the female dignity , and praise . " To himself the poet assigns a congenial task , which he ...
... raise the virtues , animate the bliss , ; E'en charm the pains to something more than joy , And sweeten all the toils of human life : This be the female dignity , and praise . " To himself the poet assigns a congenial task , which he ...
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Aaron Hill amid Autumn bard beam beauty Behold beneath bliss bloom breast breath breeze calm CASTLE OF INDOLENCE charm clouds Coriolanus deep delight descends E'en earth Ednam ether fair fair brow fame fancy flame flocks flood gale genius gentle gloom glow grace Greece groves hand happy heart Heaven hills Indolence JAMES THOMSON labour light lively Lyttelton mind mingled mix'd mountains Muse Nature Nature's night nought numbers o'er peace Philomelus plain poem poet poison'd Pour'd rage rapture rills rise rising song roll round rural scene season shade shining silent sing sleep smile snow soft song Sophonisba soul Southdean spirit spreads Spring storm stream stretch'd sublime swain sweet swelling tempest tender thee Thomson thou thought toil train vale vex'd virtue walk wander waste wave wide wild winds wing Winter wintry woods wretch youth
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Page 244 - I care not, Fortune, what you me deny : You cannot rob me of free Nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face ; You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve : Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the great children leave : Of fancy, reason, virtue, nought can me bereave.
Page lix - 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.
Page 209 - The impetuous song, and say from whom you rage. His praise, ye brooks, attune, ye trembling rills ; And let me catch it, as I muse along. Ye headlong torrents, rapid, and profound; 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. Soft roll your incense, herbs, and fruits, and flowers, In mingled clouds to Him ; whose sun exalts,...
Page lvii - 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 lx - Behold, fond Man! See here thy pictur'd life ; pass some few years, Thy flowering Spring, thy Summer's ardent strength, ' Thy sober Autumn fading into age, And pale concluding Winter comes at last, And shuts the scene.
Page li - With quicken'd step, Brown Night retires : young Day pours in apace, And opens all the lawny prospect wide. The dripping rock, the mountain's misty top, Swell on the sight, and brighten with the dawn.
Page 218 - Behold the merry minstrels of the morn, The swarming songsters of the careless grove, Ten thousand throats, that, from the flowering thorn, Hymn their good God, and carol sweet of love...
Page 211 - When even at last the solemn hour shall come, and wing my mystic flight to future worlds, I cheerful will obey ; there, with new powers, will rising wonders sing : I cannot go where Universal Love not smiles around, sustaining all yon orbs and all their sons; from seeming Evil still educing Good, and Better thence again, and Better still, in infinite progression.
Page 210 - Ye woodlands all, awake: a boundless song Burst from the, groves! and when the restless day, Expiring, lays the warbling world asleep, Sweetest of birds! sweet Philomela, charm The listening shades, and teach the night His praise.
Page 21 - Cling to the bud, and, with inserted tube. Suck its pure essence, its ethereal soul ; And oft, with bolder wing, they soaring dare The purple heath, or where the wild thyme grows, And yellow load them with the luscious spoil.