| 39 Famous Quotes by James Thomson (1)
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“The Redbreast, sacred to the household gods,
Wisely regardful of the embroiling sky,
In joyless fields and thorny thickets leaves
His shivering mates, and pays to trusted Man
His annual visit.”
Robins Quotes Source: Seasons--Winter (l. 246)
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“Invite the rook who high amid the boughs,
In early spring, his airy city builds,
And ceaseless caws amusive.”
Rooks Quotes Source: Seasons--Spring (l. 756)
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“The stately-sailing swan
Gives out his snowy plumage to the gale;
And, arching proud his neck, with oary feet
Bears forward fierce, and guards his osier isle,
Protective of his young.”
Swans Quotes Source: Seasons--Spring (l. 775)
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“The Clouds consign their treasures to the fields;
And, softly shaking on the dimpled pool
Prelusive drops, let all their moisture flow
In large effusion, o'er the freshen'd world.”
Rain Quotes Source: Seasons--Spring (l. 173)
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“Among the changing months, May stands confest
The sweetest, and in fairest colors dressed.”
May Quotes Source: On May
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“Think, oh, grateful think!
How good the God of Harvest is to you;
Who pours abundance o'er your flowing fields,
While those unhappy partners of you kind
Wide-hover round you, like the fowls of heaven,
And ask their humble dole.”
Harvest Quotes Source: Autumn (l. 169)
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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.”
Sculpture Quotes Source: Seasons--Summer (l. 1,346)
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“'Tis silence all,
And pleasing expectation.”
Expectation Quotes Source: Seasons--Spring (l. 160)
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“Base envy withers at another's joy,
And hates that excellence it cannot reach.”
Envy Quotes Source: Seasons--Spring (l. 28)
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“But through the heart
Should Jealousy its venom once diffuse,
'Tis then delightful misery no more,
But agony unmix'd, incessant gall,
Corroding every thought, and blasting all
Love's paradise.”
Jealousy Quotes Source: Seasons--Spring (l. 1,073)
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“Slow let us trace the matchless vale of Thames;
Fair winding up to where the Muses haunt
In Twit'nham bowers, and for their Pope implore.”
Thames river Quotes Source: Seasons--Summer (l. 1,425)
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“For nothing human foreign was to him.”
Humanity Quotes Source: To the Memory of Lord Talbot, translation of "Humani nihil a me alienum puto"
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“Of evening tinct,
The purple-streaming Amethyst is thine.”
Sky Quotes Source: Seasons--Summer (l. 150)
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“At first, heard solemn o'er the verge of Heaven,
The Tempest growls; but as it nearer comes,
And rolls its awful burden on the wind,
The Lightnings flash a larger curve, and more
The Noise astounds; till overhead a sheet
Of livid flame discloses wide, then shuts,
And opens wider; shuts and opens still
Expansive, wrapping ether in a blaze.
Follows the loosen'd aggravated Roar,
Enlarging, deepening, mingling, peal on peal,
Crush'd, horrible, convulsing Heaven and Earth.”
Storms Quotes Source: Seasons--Summer (l. 1,133)
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