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“There studious let me sit,
And hold high converse with the mighty dead.”

James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

Source: The Seasons (1726-1730), Winter (1726), l. 431-432.

“For many a day, and many a dreadful night,
Incessant lab'ring round the stormy cape.”

James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

Source: The Seasons (1726-1730), Summer (1727), l. 1002.

“Shade, unperceiv'd, so softening into shade.”

James Thomson (poet)

Source: Hymn (1730), line 25.

“I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?”

James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

Preface
The Seasons (1726-1730)

“Plac'd far amid the melancholy main.”

James Thomson (poet) The Castle of Indolence

Canto I, Stanza 30.
The Castle of Indolence (1748)

“When Britain first, at Heaven's command,
Arose from out the azure main,
This was the charter of the land,
And guardian angels sung this strain:
'Rule, Britannia, rule the waves;
Britons never, never, never shall be slaves.”

James Thomson (poet)

Alfred, Act II, sc. v (1740).

“He saw her charming, but he saw not half
The charms her downcast modesty conceal'd.”

James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

Source: The Seasons (1726-1730), Autumn (1730), l. 229.

“And Mecca saddens at the long delay.”

James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

Source: The Seasons (1726-1730), Summer (1727), l. 979.

“For loveliness
Needs not the foreign aid of ornament,
But is when unadorned adorned the most.”

James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

Source: The Seasons (1726-1730), Autumn (1730), l. 208-210.

“Come then, expressive silence, muse His praise.”

James Thomson (poet)

Source: Hymn (1730), line 118.