The Seasons: And The Castle of IndolenceClarendon Press, 1891 - 436 páginas |
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... again to the collections of verse which were beginning to mark the rise of periodical litera- ture in Edinburgh . These verse exercises of Thomson while he was still a student include the lines On a Country THOMSON AT THE UNIVERSITY .
... again to the collections of verse which were beginning to mark the rise of periodical litera- ture in Edinburgh . These verse exercises of Thomson while he was still a student include the lines On a Country THOMSON AT THE UNIVERSITY .
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... lines On a Country Life , in heroic couplets , in which some see the germ of The Seasons ; a poem On Happiness , interesting as containing several ideas and images which afterwards reappeared in the Castle of Indolence ; and two shorter ...
... lines On a Country Life , in heroic couplets , in which some see the germ of The Seasons ; a poem On Happiness , interesting as containing several ideas and images which afterwards reappeared in the Castle of Indolence ; and two shorter ...
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... lines On the Death of his Mother . They have the ring of genuine sorrow . They suggest so irresistibly another and more famous poem on a similar subject , that one is tempted to think that Thomson's tribute was in the mind of Cowper ...
... lines On the Death of his Mother . They have the ring of genuine sorrow . They suggest so irresistibly another and more famous poem on a similar subject , that one is tempted to think that Thomson's tribute was in the mind of Cowper ...
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... lines . These thousand and odd lines do not , of course , represent the total amount of new matter incorporated with the earlier text , but the surplus of the new matter over and above what was required to balance the matter withdrawn ...
... lines . These thousand and odd lines do not , of course , represent the total amount of new matter incorporated with the earlier text , but the surplus of the new matter over and above what was required to balance the matter withdrawn ...
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... lines a suggestion of the statelier and more sustained music of the great master . The highest praise of Thomson's style is that it suits the general subject . He moves through a vast variety of scenes with a lofty sedateness , a serene ...
... lines a suggestion of the statelier and more sustained music of the great master . The highest praise of Thomson's style is that it suits the general subject . He moves through a vast variety of scenes with a lofty sedateness , a serene ...
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Aaron Hill Æneid Allan Ramsay amid Autumn beauty beneath blank verse breath Burns Canto Castle of Indolence charm cheerful clouds Comus death deep delight earlier editions earlier text earth edition of 1738 Ednam ethereal Faerie Queene fair fame fancy flame flocks flood friends gentle Georgic gloom grace groves Hagley Park heart heaven heroic couplet hills infant beds labour light lines living Lord Lost Lyttelton Malloch Milton mind mountains muse Musidora nature Nature's night Note o'er passage passion peace Philomela plain poem poet poetical poetry pours rage reference rise round rural scene Scotland Seasons shade shining sing smile snow soft song soul Southdean spirit Spring stanza storm stream Summer supra swain sweet swelling tempest thee Thomson thou thought toil vale verse virtue wave wild wind wing Winter wintry woods wretch youth
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Página 274 - And, when the Sun begins to fling His flaring beams, me, Goddess, bring To arched walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown, that Sylvan loves, Of Pine, or monumental Oak, Where the rude Axe with heaved stroke Was never heard the Nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallowed haunt.
Página 260 - Stand, never overlooked, our favourite elms, That screen the herdsman's solitary hut ; While far beyond, and overthwart the stream, That, as with molten glass, inlays the vale, The sloping land recedes into the clouds ; Displaying on its varied side the grace Of hedge-row beauties numberless, square tower, Tall spire, from which the sound of cheerful bells Just undulates upon the listening ear ; Groves, heaths, and smoking villages remote.
Página 183 - THESE, as they change, Almighty Father, these, Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of Thee. Forth in the pleasing Spring Thy beauty walks, Thy tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And every sense, and every heart, is joy.
Página 104 - Heavens ! what a goodly prospect spreads around, Of hills, and dales, and woods, and lawns, and spires, And glittering towns, and gilded streams, till all The stretching landscape into smoke decays...
Página 249 - As one who, long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight ; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Página 62 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe the' enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
Página 185 - As home he goes beneath the joyous moon. Ye that keep watch in heaven, as earth asleep Unconscious lies, effuse your mildest beams; Ye constellations, while your angels strike, Amid the spangled sky, the silver lyre. Great source of day ! best image here below Of thy Creator, ever pouring wide, From world to world, the vital ocean round, On nature write with every beam his praise.
Página 186 - tis nought to me: Since GOD is ever present, ever felt, In the void waste as in the city full; And where he vital breathes there must be joy.
Página 153 - 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, Congenial horrors, hail ! with frequent foot...
Página 161 - In vain for him th' 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.