The Seasons: By James ThomsonJohn Shweighauser, 1769 - 180 pages |
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amid aſcend beam beauty beneath blaſt bliſs bloom boſom boundleſs breathes breeze chearful cloſe clouds courſe croud deep deſcends diffuſive diſtant earth ether fair filent firſt flame flocks flood foft fong fons foreſt foul froſt gale gloom grove heart heaven hills inceſſant inſpiring laſt loft looſe mingled mix'd mountains Muſe muſic Nature Nature's night o'er paſſions pleaſing pleaſure praiſe rage raiſe reſounding reſtleſs riſe rocks roll roſe round rous'd ſavage ſave ſcarce ſcatters ſcene ſeas ſeaſon ſecret ſee ſeem ſenſe shade shining ſimple ſing ſmiles ſnow ſocial ſoft ſoftening ſome ſong ſpirit ſport ſpreads Spring ſprings ſtand ſtate ſteep ſtill ſtores ſtorm ſtrain ſtream ſtretch'd ſtrong ſuch ſun ſwain ſweep ſweet ſwelling ſwift tempeſt thee theſe thoſe thou thouſand thro toil train treaſures vale vaſt waſte wave whoſe wild winds wing wintry woods دو دو
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Page 163 - 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. Then comes THY glory in the Summer months, With light and heat refulgent.
Page 40 - O'ercharged, amid the kind oppression roll. Wide flies the tedded grain; all in a row Advancing broad, or wheeling round the field, They spread their breathing harvest to the sun, That throws refreshful round a rural smell...
Page 139 - Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain.
Page 163 - Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And* every sense and every heart is joy. Then comes thy glory in the summer months, With light and heat refulgent. Then thy sun Shoots full perfection through the swelling year...
Page 163 - With light and heat refulgent. Then thy sun Shoots full perfection through the swelling year: And oft thy voice in dreadful thunder speaks, And oft at dawn, deep noon, or falling eve, By brooks and groves in hollow-whispering gales. Thy bounty shines in Autumn unconfined, And spreads a common feast for all that lives.
Page 161 - Tis done! dread Winter spreads his latest glooms, And reigns tremendous o'er the conquer'd year. How dead the vegetable kingdom lies! How dumb the tuneful! horror wide extends .His desolate domain.
Page 115 - Thy country feels through her reviving arts, Plann'd by thy wisdom, by thy soul inform'd; And seldom has she known a friend like thee. But see the fading many-colour'd woods, Shade deepening over shade, the country round Imbrown; a crowded umbrage, dusk, and dun, Of every hue, from wan declining green To sooty dark.
Page 21 - And snatch'd o'er hill and dale, and wood and lawn. And verdant field, and darkening heath between, And villages embosom'd soft in trees, And spiry towns by surging columns mark'd Of household smoke, your eye excursive roams...
Page 165 - 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.
Page 136 - 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.