The Works of James Thomson: With His Last Corrections and Improvements. To which is Prefixed, An Account of His Life and Writings. In Two Volumes, Volym 11763 |
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Sida iv
... Some inaccura- cies of style , and those luxuriances which a young wri- ter can hardly avoid , lay open to their cavils and cen fure ; fo far indeed they might be competent judges : but the fire and enthusiasm of the poet had entirely ...
... Some inaccura- cies of style , and those luxuriances which a young wri- ter can hardly avoid , lay open to their cavils and cen fure ; fo far indeed they might be competent judges : but the fire and enthusiasm of the poet had entirely ...
Sida xiii
... some of his friends , who would re- proach him with indolence ; while he thought them , at leaft , as indolent as himself . But he saw very foon , that the subject deserved to be treated more seriously , and in a form fitted to convey ...
... some of his friends , who would re- proach him with indolence ; while he thought them , at leaft , as indolent as himself . But he saw very foon , that the subject deserved to be treated more seriously , and in a form fitted to convey ...
Sida xviii
... some jest , or some humorous apo- logy for the offender . Nor was he ever feen ruffled or difcompofed , but when he read or heard of fome flagrant inftance of injustice , oppression or cruelty : then , indeed , the strongest marks of ...
... some jest , or some humorous apo- logy for the offender . Nor was he ever feen ruffled or difcompofed , but when he read or heard of fome flagrant inftance of injustice , oppression or cruelty : then , indeed , the strongest marks of ...
Sida 30
... Some eminence , AUGUSTA , in thy plains , And see the country , far diffus'd around , One boundless blush , one white - empurpled shower Of mingled bloffoms ; where the raptur❜d eye Hurries from joy to joy , and , hid beneath The fair ...
... Some eminence , AUGUSTA , in thy plains , And see the country , far diffus'd around , One boundless blush , one white - empurpled shower Of mingled bloffoms ; where the raptur❜d eye Hurries from joy to joy , and , hid beneath The fair ...
Sida 39
... Some lightly toffing to the graffy bank , And to the fhelving fhore flow - dragging some , With various hand proportion'd to their force . If yet too young , and easily deceiv'd , 415 425 A worthless prey fcarce bends your pliant rod ...
... Some lightly toffing to the graffy bank , And to the fhelving fhore flow - dragging some , With various hand proportion'd to their force . If yet too young , and easily deceiv'd , 415 425 A worthless prey fcarce bends your pliant rod ...
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Sida 162 - Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain.
Sida 39 - With eye attentive mark the springing game. Straight as above the surface of the flood They .wanton rise, or urged by hunger leap, Then fix, with gentle twitch, the barbed hook: Some lightly tossing to the grassy bank, And to the shelving shore slow-dragging some, With various hand proportion'd to their force.
Sida 120 - Though borne triumphant, are they safe ; the gun, Glanc'd just and sudden from the fowler's eye, O'ertakes their sounding pinions ; and again, Immediate, brings them from the towering wing, Dead to the ground ; or drives them wide-dispers'd, Wounded, and wheeling various, down the wind.
Sida 368 - As when a shepherd of the Hebrid Isles*, Placed far amid the melancholy main, (Whether it be lone fancy him beguiles ; Or that aerial beings sometimes deign To stand embodied, to our senses plain) Sees on the naked hill, or valley low, The whilst in ocean Phoebus dips his wain, A vast assembly moving to and fro: Then all at once in air dissolves the wondrous show.
Sida 138 - Roll wide the wither'd waste, and whistle bleak. Fled is the blasted verdure of the fields ; And, shrunk into their beds, the flowery race Their sunny robes resign. Even what remain'd Of stronger fruits falls from the naked tree ; And woods, fields, gardens, orchards, all around The desolated prospect thrills the soul.
Sida 67 - Wide flies the tedded grain; all in a row Advancing broad, or wheeling round the field, They spread the breathing harvest to the sun, That throws refreshful round a rural smell; Or, as they rake the green-appearing ground, And drive the dusky wave along the mead, The russet hay-cock rises thick behind, In order gay. While heard from dale to dale, Waking the breeze, resounds the blended voice Of happy labour, love, and social glee.
Sida 160 - Along the mazy current. Low the woods Bow their hoar head ; and ere the languid sun Faint from the west emits his evening ray, Earth's universal face, deep hid and chill, Is one wild dazzling waste, that buries wide The works of man.
Sida 58 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot...
Sida 418 - OR ever, Fortune, wilt thou prove An unrelenting foe to love, And when we meet a mutual heart, Come in between, and bid us part : Bid us sigh on from day to day, And wish, and wish the soul away; Till youth and genial years are flown, And all the life of life...
Sida 103 - Against his own sad Breast to lift the hand Of impious Violence. The lonely Tower Is also shunn'd ; whose mournful Chambers hold, So night-struck Fancy dreams, the yelling Ghost. Among the crooked Lanes, on every Hedge, The Glow-Worm lights his Gem; and, thro' the Dark, A moving Radiance twinkles.