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Colin Nicholas Manlove. 9 Thomson : The Seasons ( 1726-44 ) Thomson's The Seasons owes much to Milton , but , where Milton set out to justify the ways of God to men , Thomson is more concerned so to justify the ways of nature , if within ...
Colin Nicholas Manlove. 9 Thomson : The Seasons ( 1726-44 ) Thomson's The Seasons owes much to Milton , but , where Milton set out to justify the ways of God to men , Thomson is more concerned so to justify the ways of nature , if within ...
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... Thomson turns from scenes of woe to blame man for allowing them to happen ; some- times he simply presents the fact without comment . In his winter retreat , Thomson tells us , he would speculate on whether nature , destructive as he ...
... Thomson turns from scenes of woe to blame man for allowing them to happen ; some- times he simply presents the fact without comment . In his winter retreat , Thomson tells us , he would speculate on whether nature , destructive as he ...
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... Thomson's poem are not all , of course , final ones . Some of the apparent contradictions on civilisation and primitive nature could be removed if distinction had been made between the good and bad aspects of both sides : if , say , Thomson ...
... Thomson's poem are not all , of course , final ones . Some of the apparent contradictions on civilisation and primitive nature could be removed if distinction had been made between the good and bad aspects of both sides : if , say , Thomson ...
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