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“Tutor'd by thee, hence Poetry exalts
Her voice to ages; and informs the page
With music, image, sentiment, and thought,
Never to die! the treasure of mankind!
Their highest honour, and their truest joy!”

James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

Source: The Seasons (1726-1730), Summer (1727), l. 1752.

“See, Winter comes to rule the varied year,
Sullen and sad.”

James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

Source: The Seasons (1726-1730), Winter (1726), l. 1.

“A lucky chance, that oft decides the fate
Of mighty monarchs.”

James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

Source: The Seasons (1726-1730), Summer (1727), l. 1285.

“The meek-ey'd Morn appears, mother of dews.”

James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

Source: The Seasons (1726-1730), Summer (1727), l. 47.

“Falsely luxurious, will not man awake?”

James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

Source: The Seasons (1726-1730), Summer (1727), l. 67.

“Welcome, kindred glooms!
Congenial horrors, hail!”

James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

Source: The Seasons (1726-1730), Winter (1726), l. 5-6.

“He ceased; but still their trembling ears retained
The deep vibrations of his witching song.”

James Thomson (poet) The Castle of Indolence

Canto I, Stanza 20.
The Castle of Indolence (1748)

“Base Envy withers at another’s joy,
And hates that excellence it cannot reach.”

James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

Source: The Seasons (1726-1730), Spring (1728), l. 283.

“O fair undress, best dress! it checks no vein,
But every flowing limb in pleasure drowns,
And heightens ease with grace.”

James Thomson (poet) The Castle of Indolence

Canto I, Stanza 26.
The Castle of Indolence (1748)

“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 (poet)

Coriolanus, Act iii, scene 3; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“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 (poet)

To Fortune; song reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Ah! what avail the largest gifts of Heaven,
When drooping health and spirits go amiss?
How tasteless then whatever can be given!
Health is the vital principle of bliss,
And exercise, of health.”

James Thomson (poet) The Castle of Indolence

Canto II, Stanza 55.
The Castle of Indolence (1748)

“Delightful task! to rear the tender thought,
To teach the young idea how to shoot.”

James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

Source: The Seasons (1726-1730), Spring (1728), l. 1149-1150.

“O Sophonisba! Sophonisba, O!”

James Thomson (poet)

Sophonisba, Act iii, scene 2; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). The line was altered after the second edition to "O Sophonisba! I am wholly thine".

“Cruel as death, and hungry as the grave.”

James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

Source: The Seasons (1726-1730), Winter (1726), l. 393.

“Ships dim-discovered dropping from the clouds.”

James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

Source: The Seasons (1726-1730), Summer (1727), l. 946.

“Their only labour was to kill the time;
And labour dire it is, and weary woe,
They sit, they loll, turn o'er some idle rhyme,
Then, rising sudden, to the glass they go,
Or saunter forth, with tottering steps and slow.”

James Thomson (poet) The Castle of Indolence

Canto I, Stanza 72.
The Castle of Indolence (1748)

“But what most showed the vanity of life
Was to behold the nations all on fire.”

James Thomson (poet) The Castle of Indolence

Canto I, Stanza 55.
The Castle of Indolence (1748)

“These as they change, Almighty Father! these
Are but the varied God. The rolling year
Is full of Thee.”

James Thomson (poet)

Source: Hymn (1730), line 1.

“Or where the Northern ocean, in vast whirls,
Boils round the naked melancholy isles
Of farthest Thulè, and th' Atlantic surge
Pours in among the stormy Hebrides.”

James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

Source: The Seasons (1726-1730), Autumn (1730), l. 871-874.