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, Volume 1 |
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... skies , All - fmiling , to his hot dominion leaves . Ex ' S Hence , let me hafte into the mid - wood shade , Where scarce a fun - beam wanders thro ' the gloom ; 10 And on the dark - green grass , beside the brink Of haunted stream ...
... skies , All - fmiling , to his hot dominion leaves . Ex ' S Hence , let me hafte into the mid - wood shade , Where scarce a fun - beam wanders thro ' the gloom ; 10 And on the dark - green grass , beside the brink Of haunted stream ...
Page 83
... skies are cool . See , how at once the bright effulgent fun , Rifing direct , fwift chases from the sky The short - liv'd twilight ; and with ardent blaze Looks gaily fierce o'er all the dazzling air : He mounts his throne ; but kind ...
... skies are cool . See , how at once the bright effulgent fun , Rifing direct , fwift chases from the sky The short - liv'd twilight ; and with ardent blaze Looks gaily fierce o'er all the dazzling air : He mounts his throne ; but kind ...
Page 96
... need I mention these inclement skies , Where , frequent o'er the fick'ning city , Plague , The fierceft child of NEMESIS divine , 1050 Defcends ? Descends ? * From Ethiopia's poison'd woods , From ftifled 96 $ U M M E R.
... need I mention these inclement skies , Where , frequent o'er the fick'ning city , Plague , The fierceft child of NEMESIS divine , 1050 Defcends ? Descends ? * From Ethiopia's poison'd woods , From ftifled 96 $ U M M E R.
Page 98
... skies , of iron fields , Where drought and famine starve the blasted Fir'd by the torch of noon to tenfold rage , Th ' infuriate hill that shoots the pillar'd flame ; And , rous'd within the fubterranean world , Th ' expanding ...
... skies , of iron fields , Where drought and famine starve the blasted Fir'd by the torch of noon to tenfold rage , Th ' infuriate hill that shoots the pillar'd flame ; And , rous'd within the fubterranean world , Th ' expanding ...
Page 155
... , of fickly beamless white ; Oft in this feafon , filent from the north A blaze of meteors fhoots : ensweeping firft The lower skies , they all at once converge 1 1095 1105 High to the crown of heaven , and all at High AUTUMN . 155 1075 ...
... , of fickly beamless white ; Oft in this feafon , filent from the north A blaze of meteors fhoots : ensweeping firft The lower skies , they all at once converge 1 1095 1105 High to the crown of heaven , and all at High AUTUMN . 155 1075 ...
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Page 162 - Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 58 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot...
Page 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...
Page 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.