To Fortune; song reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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“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!”
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.
“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)
“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.
“Plac'd far amid the melancholy main.”
James Thomson (poet)
The Castle of Indolence
Canto I, Stanza 30.
The Castle of Indolence (1748)
“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.
