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James Thomson – angielski poeta, dramaturg i librecista pochodzenia szkockiego; autor słów m.in. do maski Thomasa Arne’a Alfred z pieśnią Rule, Britannia!.

Jego główne dzieło to poemat opisowy Pory roku . Fragmenty tego poematu zostały przełożone na polski przez Alojzego Felińskiego, Konstantego Tymienieckiego i Józefa Korzeniowskiego. Ten niezwykle popularny, pozbawiony mistycyzmu poemat w swoim czasie silnie oddziaływał na preromantyzm i romantyzm w całej Europie. Inne dzieła Thomsona to poematy patriotyczne Britannia i Liberty , słynna oda Rule, Britannia! oraz epos alegoryczny Castle of Indolence , naśladujący styl i dziewięciowersową strofę ababbcbcc Edmunda Spensera. Wydanie zbiorowe pism Thomsona ukazało się w roku 1897. Wikipedia  

✵ 11. Wrzesień 1700 – 27. Sierpień 1748
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James Thomson: Cytaty po angielsku

“The best of men have ever loved repose:
They hate to mingle in the filthy fray;
Where the soul sours, and gradual rancour grows,
Imbitter'd more from peevish day to day.”

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James Thomson (poet) The Castle of Indolence

Canto I, Stanza 17.
The Castle of Indolence (1748)

“Crowned with the sickle, and the wheaten sheaf,
While Autumn, nodding o'er the yellow plain,
Comes jovial on.”

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James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

Źródło: The Seasons (1726-1730), Autumn (1730), l. 1-3.

“A pleasing land of drowsyhed it was,
Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye;
And of gay castles in the clouds that pass,
Forever flushing round a summer sky:
There eke the soft delights that witchingly
Instil a wanton sweetness through the breast,
And the calm pleasures always hover'd nigh;
But whate'er smack'd of noyance or unrest
Was far, far off expell'd from this delicious nest.”

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James Thomson (poet) The Castle of Indolence

Canto I, Stanza 6.
The Castle of Indolence (1748)

“But yonder comes the powerful king of day,
Rejoicing in the east.”

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James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

Źródło: The Seasons (1726-1730), Summer (1727), l. 81.

“Sighed and looked unutterable things.”

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James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

Źródło: The Seasons (1726-1730), Summer (1727), l. 1188.

“A little, round, fat, oily man of God.”

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James Thomson (poet) The Castle of Indolence

Canto I, Stanza 69.
The Castle of Indolence (1748)

“I care not, Fortune, what you me deny;
You cannot rob me of free Nature's grace,
You cannot shut the windows of the sky,
Through which Aurora shows her brightening face;
You cannot bar my constant feet to trace
The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve.
Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace,
And I their toys to the great children leave:
Of fancy, reason, virtue, naught can me bereave.”

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James Thomson (poet) The Castle of Indolence

Canto II, Stanza 3.
The Castle of Indolence (1748)

“Who stemm'd the torrent of a downward age.”

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James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

Źródło: The Seasons (1726-1730), Summer (1727), l. 1515.

“But who can paint
Like Nature? Can imagination boast,
Amid its gay creation, hues like hers?”

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James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

Źródło: The Seasons (1726-1730), Spring (1728), l. 465.

“So stands the statue that enchants the world,
So bending tries to veil the matchless boast,
The mingled beauties of exulting Greece.”

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James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

Źródło: The Seasons (1726-1730), Summer (1727), l. 1346.

“They who are pleased themselves must always please.”

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James Thomson (poet) The Castle of Indolence

Canto I, Stanza 15.
The Castle of Indolence (1748)

“The negligence of Nature wide and wild,
Where, undisguised by mimic art, she spreads
Unbounded beauty to the roving eye.”

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James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

Źródło: The Seasons (1726-1730), Spring (1728), l. 71-73.

“Come, gentle Spring! ethereal mildness, come.”

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James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

Źródło: The Seasons (1726-1730), Spring (1728), l. 1.

“For still the world prevail'd, and its dread laugh,
Which scarce the firm philosopher can scorn.”

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James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

Źródło: The Seasons (1726-1730), Autumn (1730), l. 233.

“An elegant sufficiency, content,
Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books,
Ease and alternate labour, useful life,
Progressive virtue, and approving Heaven!”

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James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

Źródło: The Seasons (1726-1730), Spring (1728), l. 1158-1161.

“The kiss, snatch'd hasty from the sidelong maid.”

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James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

Źródło: The Seasons (1726-1730), Winter (1726), l. 625.

“Poor is the triumph o’er the timid hare!
Scared from the corn, and now to some lone seat
Retired”

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James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

Źródło: The Seasons (1726-1730), Autumn (1730), l. 71-73.

“A bard here dwelt, more fat than bard becomes
Who void of envy, guile and lust of gain,
On virtue still and nature's pleasing themes
Poured forth his unpremeditated strain.”

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James Thomson (poet) The Castle of Indolence

Canto I, Stanza 68. (Last line said to be "writ by a friend of the author.").
The Castle of Indolence (1748)

“Amid the roses fierce Repentance rears
Her snaky crest.”

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James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

Źródło: The Seasons (1726-1730), Spring (1728), l. 996.

“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!”

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James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

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

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

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James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

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

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

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James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

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

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

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James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

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

“Falsely luxurious, will not man awake?”

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James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

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

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

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James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

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

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

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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.”

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James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

Źródło: 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.”

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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.”

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