Winter1900 - 4 páginas |
Términos y frases comunes
Algernon Sidney appeared in 1727 Bayne says British Cassius chidden congenial contained ten hundred descriptive poetry Dictionary of Biography Earl of Buchan earlier text early editions edition of 1746 edition of Autumn edition of Britannia edition of Spring edition of Summer edition of Winter four hundred Four Seasons HARVARD COLLEGE Horrors hundred and eighty-one Hymn JAMES THOMSON later edition lines in Winter Logie Robertson Lyttleton Millar and Millan Morel Murdoch name of Millar Night note on line Octavo original text Persian Letters Peter Cunningham Poem to Newton Poet Poet's poetical dedication Price One Shilling printed for Millan proposals for printing prose dedication published by Millan published in 1728 Quarto Edition reader represent the Original Robertson says Seccombe separate edition Sir Spencer Compton six lines Soul statement styled The British sunny calms text of Winter third edition Thomson wrote THOMSON'S WINTER thro Tovey twelve hundred
Pasajes populares
Página 19 - 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 23 - Nature ! great parent ! whose unceasing hand Rolls round the seasons of the changeful year, How mighty, how majestic, are thy works...
Página 20 - Shed o'er the peaceful world. Then is the time, For those whom wisdom and whom nature charm, To steal themselves from the degenerate crowd, And soar above this little scene of things, To tread low-thoughted Vice beneath their feet, To soothe the throbbing passions into peace, And woo lone Quiet in her silent walks.
Página 25 - 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...
Página 25 - Keen-fastening, shakes them to the solid base. Sleep frighted flies; and round the rocking dome, For entrance eager, howls the savage blast.
Página 26 - Tis brightness all; save where the new snow melts 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.
Página 19 - I wandered through your rough domain; Trod the pure virgin snows, myself as pure ; Heard the winds roar, and the big torrent burst ; Or seen the deep fermenting tempest brew'd, In the grim evening sky. Thus pass'd the time, Till through the lucid chambers of the south Look'd out the joyous Spring, look'd out, and smil'd.
Página 25 - tis midnight deep. The weary clouds, Slow-meeting, mingle into solid gloom. Now, while the drowsy world lies lost in sleep, Let me associate with the serious night, And Contemplation, her sedate compeer; Let me shake off th' intrusive cares of day, And lay the meddling senses all aside.
Página 27 - Now, all amid the rigours of the year, In the wild depth of Winter, while without The ceaseless winds blow ice, be my retreat, Between the groaning forest and the shore Beat by the boundless multitude of waves, A rural, shelter'd, solitary scene; Where ruddy fire and beaming tapers join, To cheer the gloom. There studious let me sit...
Página 26 - Attract his slender feet. The foodless wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The hare, Though timorous of heart, and hard beset By death in various forms, dark snares, and dogs, And more unpitying men, the garden seeks, Urged on by fearless want. The bleating kind Eye the bleak heaven, and next the glistening earth, With looks of dumb despair ; then, sad dispersed, Dig for the withered herb through heaps of snow.