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"Come, gentle Spring! ethereal Mildness! come."
James Thomson / The Seasons. Spring. Line 1.
The Seasons. Spring. Line 1.
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"Base Envy withers at another's joy, And hates that excellence it cannot reach."
James Thomson / The Seasons. Spring. Line 283.
The Seasons. Spring. Line 283.
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"But who can paint Like Nature? Can imagination boast, Amid its gay creation, hues like hers?"
James Thomson / The Seasons. Spring. Line 465.
The Seasons. Spring. Line 465.
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"Amid the roses fierce Repentance rears Her snaky crest."
James Thomson / The Seasons. Spring. Line 996.
The Seasons. Spring. Line 996.
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"Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot."
James Thomson / The Seasons. Spring. Line 1149.
The Seasons. Spring. Line 1149.
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"An elegant sufficiency, content, Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books, Ease and alternate labour, useful life, Progressive virtue, and approving Heaven!"
James Thomson / The Seasons. Spring. Line 1158.
The Seasons. Spring. Line 1158.
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"The meek-ey'd Morn appears, mother of dews."
James Thomson / The Seasons. Summer. Line 47.
The Seasons. Summer. Line 47.
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"Falsely luxurious, will not man awake?"
James Thomson / The Seasons. Summer. Line 67.
The Seasons. Summer. Line 67.
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"But yonder comes the powerful king of day, Rejoicing in the east."
James Thomson / The Seasons. Summer. Line 81.
The Seasons. Summer. Line 81.
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"Ships dim-discover'd dropping from the clouds."
James Thomson / The Seasons. Summer. Line 946.
The Seasons. Summer. Line 946.
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"And Mecca saddens at the long delay."
James Thomson / The Seasons. Summer. Line 979.
The Seasons. Summer. Line 979.
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"For many a day, and many a dreadful night, Incessant lab'ring round the stormy cape."
James Thomson / The Seasons. Summer. Line 1003.
The Seasons. Summer. Line 1003.
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"Sigh'd and look'd unutterable things."
James Thomson / The Seasons. Summer. Line 1188.
The Seasons. Summer. Line 1188.
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"A lucky chance, that oft decides the fate Of mighty monarchs."
James Thomson / The Seasons. Summer. Line 1285.
The Seasons. Summer. Line 1285.
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"So stands the statue that enchants the world, So bending tries to veil the matchless boast, The mingled beauties of exulting Greece."
James Thomson / The Seasons. Summer. Line 1346.
The Seasons. Summer. Line 1346.
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"Who stemm'd the torrent of a downward age."
James Thomson / The Seasons. Summer. Line 1516.
The Seasons. Summer. Line 1516.
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"Autumn nodding o'er the yellow plain."
James Thomson / The Seasons. Autumn. Line 2.
The Seasons. Autumn. Line 2.
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"Loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is when unadorn'd, adorn'd the most."
James Thomson / The Seasons. Autumn. Line 204.
The Seasons. Autumn. Line 204.
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"He saw her charming, but he saw not half The charms her downcast modesty conceal'd."
James Thomson / The Seasons. Autumn. Line 229.
The Seasons. Autumn. Line 229.
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"For still the world prevail'd, and its dread laugh, Which scarce the firm philosopher can scorn."
James Thomson / The Seasons. Autumn. Line 233.
The Seasons. Autumn. Line 233.
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"See, Winter comes to rule the varied year."
James Thomson / The Seasons. Winter. Line 1.
The Seasons. Winter. Line 1.
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"Cruel as death, and hungry as the grave."
James Thomson / The Seasons. Winter. Line 393.
The Seasons. Winter. Line 393.
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"There studious let me sit, And hold high converse with the mighty dead."
James Thomson / The Seasons. Winter. Line 431.
The Seasons. Winter. Line 431.
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"The kiss, snatch'd hasty from the sidelong maid."
James Thomson / The Seasons. Winter. Line 625.
The Seasons. Winter. Line 625.
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"These as they change, Almighty Father! these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of Thee."
James Thomson / Hymn. Line 1.
Hymn. Line 1.
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"Shade, unperceiv'd, so softening into shade."
James Thomson / Hymn. Line 25.
Hymn. Line 25.
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"From seeming evil still educing good."
James Thomson / Hymn. Line 114.
Hymn. Line 114.
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"Come then, expressive silence, muse His praise."
James Thomson / Hymn. Line 118.
Hymn. Line 118.
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"A pleasing land of drowsyhed it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, Forever flushing round a summer sky: There eke the soft delights that witchingly Instil a wanton sweetness through the breast, And the calm pleasures always hover'd nigh; But whate'er smack'd of noyance or unrest Was far, far off expell'd from this delicious nest."
James Thomson / The Castle of Indolence. Canto i. Stanza 6.
The Castle of Indolence. Canto i. Stanza 6.
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"O fair undress, best dress! it checks no vein, But every flowing limb in pleasure drowns, And heightens ease with grace."
James Thomson / The Castle of Indolence. Canto i. Stanza 26.
The Castle of Indolence. Canto i. Stanza 26.
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"Plac'd far amid the melancholy main."
James Thomson / The Castle of Indolence. Canto i. Stanza 30.
The Castle of Indolence. Canto i. Stanza 30.
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"A bard here dwelt, more fat than bard beseems."
James Thomson / The Castle of Indolence. Canto i. Stanza 68.
The Castle of Indolence. Canto i. Stanza 68.
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"A little round, fat, oily man of God."
James Thomson / The Castle of Indolence. Canto i. Stanza 69.
The Castle of Indolence. Canto i. Stanza 69.
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"I care not, Fortune, what you me deny: You cannot rob me of free Nature's grace, You cannot shut the windows of the sky Through which Aurora shows her brightening face; You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve: Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the great children leave: Of fancy, reason, virtue, naught can me bereave."
James Thomson / The Castle of Indolence. Canto ii. Stanza 3.
The Castle of Indolence. Canto ii. Stanza 3.
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"Health is the vital principle of bliss, And exercise, of health."
James Thomson / The Castle of Indolence. Canto ii. Stanza 55.
The Castle of Indolence. Canto ii. Stanza 55.
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"Forever, Fortune, wilt thou prove An unrelenting foe to love; And when we meet a mutual heart, Come in between and bid us part?"
James Thomson / Song.
Song.
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"Whoe'er amidst the sons Of reason, valour, liberty, and virtue Displays distinguish'd merit, is a noble Of Nature's own creating."
James Thomson / Coriolanus. Act iii. Sc. 3.
Coriolanus. Act iii. Sc. 3.
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"O Sophonisba! Sophonisba, O!"
James Thomson / Sophonisba. Act iii. Sc. 2.
Sophonisba. Act iii. Sc. 2.
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"When Britain first, at Heaven's command, Arose from out the azure main, This was the charter of her land, And guardian angels sung the strain: Rule, Britannia! Britannia rules the waves! Britons never shall be slaves."
James Thomson / Alfred. Act ii. Sc. 5.
Alfred. Act ii. Sc. 5.
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