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Quotes by James Thomson

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

James Thomson (1700 - 1748)
Source: The Seasons. Winter, 1726
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See, Winter comes to rule the varied world, Sullen and sad.

James Thomson (1700 - 1748)
Source: The Seasons. Winter, 1726
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An elegant sufficiency, content, Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books, Ease and alternate labour, useful life, Progressive virtue, and approving Heaven!

James Thomson (1700 - 1748)
Source: Spring
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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 will be slaves.

James Thomson (1700 - 1748)
Source: Alfred, 1740
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Sighed and looked unutterable things.

James Thomson (1700 - 1748)
Source: The Seasons. Summer, 1727
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For loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is when unadorned adorned the most.

James Thomson (1700 - 1748)
Source: The Seasons. Autumn, 1730
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Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot.

James Thomson (1700 - 1748)
Source: The Seasons. Spring, 1728
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But yonder comes the powerful King of Day, Rejoicing in the East.

James Thomson (1700 - 1748)
Source: The Seasons.
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Or where the Northern ocean, in vast whirls, Boils round the naked melancholy isles Of farthest Thulé and the Atlantic surge Pours in among the stormy Hebrides.

James Thomson (1700 - 1748)
Source: The Seasons. Autumn, 1730
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Ships dim-discovered dropping from the clouds.

James Thomson (1700 - 1748)
Source: The Seasons. Summer, 1727
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