SEE, Winter comes to rule the varied year, Sullen and sad, with all his rising train : Vapours, and clouds, and storms. Be these my theme, These ! that exalt the soul to solemn thought, And heavenly musing. Welcome, kindred glooms ! Congenial horrors,... The Seasons - Page 127by James Thomson - 1822 - 158 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Aikin - 1843 - 830 pages
...polar circle. A thaw. The whole concluding with moral reflections on a future state. SEE, Winter comes, t from life ; this act Shall bruise the head of Satan, crush his st Vapors, and clouds, and storms. Be these my theme ! These ! that exalt the soul to solemn thought,... | |
| John Aikin - 1843 - 826 pages
...polar circle. A thaw. The whole concluding with moral reflections on a future state. SEE, Winter comes, om earthly vehicles to these of air. Think not, when woman's transi Vapors, and clouds, and storms. Be these my theme ! These ! that exalt the soul to solemn thought.... | |
| Henry Stephens - 1844 - 738 pages
...intelligence and admirable efficiency of his labourers. 19. OF THE WEATHER IN WINTER. • " See Winter comes to rule the varied year. Sullen and sad* with all...train ; Vapours, and clouds, and storms. Be these mv theme." THOMSON. (257.) As the weather, at all seasons, has undeniably a sensible power to expedite... | |
| Charles Waterton - 1844 - 408 pages
...beautiful colours. s' Fecit avem Circe, sparsitque coloribus alas." THE HOLLY. " See, Winter comes to rule the varied year, Sullen and sad, with all...his rising train, Vapours, and clouds, and storms." THOMSON. I AM very partial to the holly, the yew, and the ivy. They give both food and shelter to the... | |
| 1874 - 648 pages
...enjoyed their respective turns in the familiar procession of the year ; and now came the turn of Winter, Sullen and sad, with all his rising train, Vapours, and clouds, and storms. Yet this blustering and frowning countenance of Winter is not usually prolonged through many days.... | |
| Charles Waterton - 1846 - 392 pages
...with beautiful colours. " Fecit avem Circe, sparsitque coloribus alas." THE HOLLY. " See, Winter comes to rule the varied year, Sullen and sad, with all...his rising train, Vapours, and clouds, and storms." THOMSON. I AM very partial to the holly, the yew, and the ivy. They give both food and shelter to the... | |
| James Thomson - 1847 - 504 pages
...circle. A thaw. The whole concluding with moral reflections on a future state. WINTER. SEE, WINTER comes, to rule the varied year, Sullen and sad, with all...thought, And heavenly musing. Welcome, kindred glooms ! Cogenial horrors, hail ! with frequent foot, 6 Pleas'd have I, in my cheerful morn of life, When... | |
| 1847 - 540 pages
...with tardy pace, Sour is his front, and furrow'd is his face. DRYDEN'S Ovid. 2. See, winter comes, to rule the varied year, Sullen and sad, with all...his rising train ; Vapours, and clouds, and storms. THOMSON'S Seasons. 3. As yet the trembling year is unconfin'd, And winter oft at eve resumes the breeze,... | |
| William Harvey Wells - 1847 - 228 pages
...actions and qualities of rational beings ; as, " The ground thirsts for rain." " See Winter comes, to rule the varied year, Sullen and sad, with all his rising train." — Thomson. 10. Apostrophe is a figure by which a speaker or writer turns from the party to which... | |
| 1848 - 322 pages
...and still, To promise a dawn never-dying ! SHAKPE'S LONDON MAGAZINE. 289 WINTER. SEE, Winter comes to rule the varied year, Sullen and sad, with all his rising train; Vapours, and clouds, and storms The eon Scarce spreads through ether the dejected day. Taint are his gleams, and ineffectual shoot... | |
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