“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.”

— James Thomson (poet), The Castle of Indolence

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

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Scottish writer (1700-1748) 1700–1748

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