File:The poetical works of James Thomson, James Beattie, Gilbert West, and John Bampfylde. Illustrated by Birket Foster. With biographical notices of the authors (1853) (14772984045).jpg

Identifier: poeticalworksof00thomuoft (find matches)
Title: The poetical works of James Thomson, James Beattie, Gilbert West, and John Bampfylde. Illustrated by Birket Foster. With biographical notices of the authors
Year: 1853 (1850s)
Authors: Thomson, James, 1700-1748 Beattie, James, 1735-1803 West, Gilbert, 1703-1756 Bampfylde, John Codrington, 1754-1796 Foster, Myles Birket, 1825-1899
Subjects:
Publisher: London G. Routledge
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
nd wit that knows no gall. Meantime, their joyous task goes on apace: 405 Some mingling stir the melted tar, and some, Deep on the new-shorn vagrants heaving side, To stamp his masters cipher, ready stand; Others the unwilling wether drag along; And, glorying in his might, the sturdy boy 410 Holds by the twisted horns the indignant ram. Behold where bound, and of its robe bereft, By needy Man, that all-depending lord, How meek, how patient, the mild creature lies ! What softness in its melancholy face, 415 What dumb complaining innocence appears ! Fear not, ye gentle tribes, tis not the knife Of horrid slaughter that is oer you wavd; No, tis the tender swains well-guided shears, Who, having now, to pay his annual cafe, 420 Borrowed your fleece, to you a cumbrous load, Will send you bounding to your hills again. A simple scene! yet hence Britannia seesHer solid grandeur rise : hence she commandsThe exalted stores of every brighter clirne, 425 The treasures of the Sun without his rage :
Text Appearing After Image:
P. 43. SUMMER. 43 Hence, fervent all, with culture, toil, and arts,Wide glows her land : her dreadful thunder henceRides oer the waves sublime, and now, een now,Impending hangs oer Gallias humbled coast ; 430 Hence rules the circling deep, and awes the world. Tis raging noon; and, vertical, the SunDaits on the head direct his forceful rays.Oer heaven and earth, far as the ranging eyeCan sweep, a dazzling delude reigns ; and all 435 From pole to pole is undistinguishd blaze.In vain the sight, dejected to the ground,Stoops for relief; thence hot ascending SteamsAnd keen Reflection pain. Deep to the rootOf vegetation parchd, the cleaving fields 440 And slippery lawn an arid hue disclose,Blast Fancys bloom, and wither een the Soul.Echo no more returns the cheerful soundOf sharpening scythe : the mower, sinking, heapsOer him the humid hay, with flowers perfumd; 445 And scarce a chirping grasshopper is heardThrough the dumb mead. Distressful Nature pants.The very streams look languid from a

Note About Images