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... Thomson , and a great many others who flourished within his time ; and these were precisely the poets we most cared to cultivate . In later years , but too late for my youthful purposes , Messrs . Whittaker brought out a Dictionary of ...
... Thomson , and a great many others who flourished within his time ; and these were precisely the poets we most cared to cultivate . In later years , but too late for my youthful purposes , Messrs . Whittaker brought out a Dictionary of ...
Page xx
... THOMSON , James , 1700-1748 . Ag . Agamemnon , a Tragedy . - Cast . Ind . Castle of Indolence . - Cor . Coriolanus , a Tragedy . - Ed . and El . Edward and Eleonora , a Tragedy . - Aut . Spr . Sum . Wint . Seasons .-- Tan . and Sig ...
... THOMSON , James , 1700-1748 . Ag . Agamemnon , a Tragedy . - Cast . Ind . Castle of Indolence . - Cor . Coriolanus , a Tragedy . - Ed . and El . Edward and Eleonora , a Tragedy . - Aut . Spr . Sum . Wint . Seasons .-- Tan . and Sig ...
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... Thomson , Summer . Have no more profit of their shining nights , Than those that walk , and wot not what they are . ASTRONOMY . Devotion ! daughter of astronomy ! An undevout astronomer is mad . ATHEISM . Sh . Love's L. L. Young , N. T. ...
... Thomson , Summer . Have no more profit of their shining nights , Than those that walk , and wot not what they are . ASTRONOMY . Devotion ! daughter of astronomy ! An undevout astronomer is mad . ATHEISM . Sh . Love's L. L. Young , N. T. ...
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... Thomson , Spring . Byron , Lara . Of such enchanting scene ! Scott , Lord of the Isles , 1v . 13 . How calm , how beautiful comes on The stilly hour , when storms are gone ; When warring winds have died away , And clouds , beneath the ...
... Thomson , Spring . Byron , Lara . Of such enchanting scene ! Scott , Lord of the Isles , 1v . 13 . How calm , how beautiful comes on The stilly hour , when storms are gone ; When warring winds have died away , And clouds , beneath the ...
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... Thomson . Can never be a mouse of any soul . Pope , Wife of Bath , 298 . More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes , When it obeys the watchful eye of caution . Let this great maxim be my virtue's guide : In part she is to blame ...
... Thomson . Can never be a mouse of any soul . Pope , Wife of Bath , 298 . More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes , When it obeys the watchful eye of caution . Let this great maxim be my virtue's guide : In part she is to blame ...
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