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James Thomson war ein schottischer Schriftsteller.

✵ 11. September 1700 – 27. August 1748
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“But yonder comes the powerful king of day,
Rejoicing in the east.”

James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

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

“Sighed and looked unutterable things.”

James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

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

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

James Thomson (poet) The Castle of Indolence

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

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

James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

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

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

James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

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

“They who are pleased themselves must always please.”

James Thomson (poet) The Castle of Indolence

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

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

James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

Quelle: 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.”

James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

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

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

James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

Quelle: 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”

James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

Quelle: 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.”

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.”

James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

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

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

James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

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

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

James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

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

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

James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

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

“Falsely luxurious, will not man awake?”

James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

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

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

James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

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

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

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.”

James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

Quelle: The Seasons (1726-1730), Spring (1728), l. 283.

“Whoe'er amidst the sons
Of reason, valour, liberty, and virtue
Displays distinguish'd merit, is a noble
Of Nature's own creating.”

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

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