The Poetical Works of James Thomson, Volym 1Little, Brown,., 1854 |
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The Poetical Works of James Thomson, Volym 1 Samuel Johnson,James Thomson Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1855 |
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AARON HILL Agamemnon Allan Ramsay arts beauty behold beneath bless'd bliss blooming breath Britons Castle of Indolence charms cheerful Coriolanus corruption DEAR SIR death deep delight divine E'en earth edition Ednam eternal fair fame fancy favour fire flame genius give glory grace Greece happy heart Heaven honour hope inspire JAMES THOMSON Jedburgh King land letter Liberty light live Lord Lord Lyttelton Lyttelton Mallet mankind Masque of Alfred mind mix'd moral Muse nature never o'er passion peace pleasing pleasure poem Poet poetry pomp pour'd praise pride Prince of Wales rage reason reign rise Roman Rome round scene Secretary of Briefs shade shine shore sing smiling soft song sons Sophonisba soul Southdean spirit spread spring sweet swell taste tear tender thee thine thou toil truth tyrant vale verses virtue whence wild Winter
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Sida cliv - IN yonder grave a Druid lies, Where slowly winds the stealing wave! The year's best sweets shall duteous rise To deck its poet's sylvan grave.
Sida 70 - To thee belongs the rural reign; Thy cities shall with commerce shine; All thine shall be the subject main, And every shore it circles, thine. Rule...
Sida clv - No sedge-crowned sisters now attend, Now waft me from the green hill's side, Whose cold turf hides the buried friend...
Sida cliv - mid the varied landscape weep. * But thou, who own'st that earthy bed, Ah ! what will every dirge avail ; Or tears, which love and pity shed, That mourn beneath the gliding sail...
Sida cxlvii - For this reason the best, both ancient and modern, poets have been passionately fond of retirement and solitude. The wild romantic country was their delight. And they seem never to have been more happy than when lost in unfrequented fields, far from the little busy world, they were at leisure to meditate, and sing the works of Nature.
Sida 18 - ... God amid the secret grove, Ye unseen beings, to my harp repair, And raise majestic strains, or melt in love. Those tender notes, how kindly they upbraid ! With what soft woe they thrill the listener's heart ! Sure from the hand of some unhappy maid, Who died in youth, these sweet complainings part.
Sida cxxv - Father of light and life, thou Good Supreme ! O teach me what is good ! teach me Thyself! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit ; and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss...
Sida 4 - CHARLES) Principles of Geology; or, the Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants considered as illustrative of Geology. Ninth Edition. Woodcuts. Svo. 1Ss. Manual of Elementary Geology ; or, the Ancient Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants illustrated by its Geological Monuments.
Sida cxxviii - 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.
Sida cxxxi - The' inspiring breeze: and meditate the book Of Nature ever open; aiming thence, Warm from the heart, to learn the moral song.