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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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“Forever, Fortune, wilt thou prove
An unrelenting foe to love,
And, when we meet a mutual heart,
Come in between and bid us part?”

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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.”

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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.”

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James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

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

“O Sophonisba! Sophonisba, O!”

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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.”

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James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

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

“Ships dim-discovered dropping from the clouds.”

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James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

Źródło: 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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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Źródło: 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.”

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James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

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

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

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James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

Źródło: 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.”

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James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

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

“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?”

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James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

Preface
The Seasons (1726-1730)

“Plac'd far amid the melancholy main.”

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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.”

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

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

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James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

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

“And Mecca saddens at the long delay.”

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James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

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

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

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James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

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