Джеймс Томсон — шотландский поэт и драматург, известный в первую очередь благодаря своему произведению «Времена года» . Томсон является автором слов знаменитой британской патриотической песни «Правь, Британия, морями!».
С 1715 по 1719 год учился в Эдинбургском университете, где изучал латынь, греческий язык, философию. После окончания университета жил в Эдинбурге, стал членом литературного кружка Grotesque Club. Публиковал стихи в Edinburgh Miscellany. В 1725 году переехал в Лондон вместе с другом, поэтом Дэвидом Моллетом.
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Источник: стихи
“But yonder comes the powerful king of day,
Rejoicing in the east.”
Источник: The Seasons (1726-1730), Summer (1727), l. 81.
“Sighed and looked unutterable things.”
Источник: The Seasons (1726-1730), Summer (1727), l. 1188.
“A little, round, fat, oily man of God.”
Canto I, Stanza 69.
The Castle of Indolence (1748)
“Who stemm'd the torrent of a downward age.”
Источник: The Seasons (1726-1730), Summer (1727), l. 1515.
“But who can paint
Like Nature? Can imagination boast,
Amid its gay creation, hues like hers?”
Источник: The Seasons (1726-1730), Spring (1728), l. 465.
“They who are pleased themselves must always please.”
Canto I, Stanza 15.
The Castle of Indolence (1748)
“Come, gentle Spring! ethereal mildness, come.”
Источник: 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.”
Источник: The Seasons (1726-1730), Autumn (1730), l. 233.
“The kiss, snatch'd hasty from the sidelong maid.”
Источник: 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”
Источник: The Seasons (1726-1730), Autumn (1730), l. 71-73.
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.”
Источник: The Seasons (1726-1730), Spring (1728), l. 996.
“See, Winter comes to rule the varied year,
Sullen and sad.”
Источник: The Seasons (1726-1730), Winter (1726), l. 1.
“A lucky chance, that oft decides the fate
Of mighty monarchs.”
Источник: The Seasons (1726-1730), Summer (1727), l. 1285.
“The meek-ey'd Morn appears, mother of dews.”
Источник: The Seasons (1726-1730), Summer (1727), l. 47.
“Falsely luxurious, will not man awake?”
Источник: The Seasons (1726-1730), Summer (1727), l. 67.
“Welcome, kindred glooms!
Congenial horrors, hail!”
Источник: The Seasons (1726-1730), Winter (1726), l. 5-6.
“He ceased; but still their trembling ears retained
The deep vibrations of his witching song.”
Canto I, Stanza 20.
The Castle of Indolence (1748)
“Base Envy withers at another’s joy,
And hates that excellence it cannot reach.”
Источник: The Seasons (1726-1730), Spring (1728), l. 283.
Coriolanus, Act iii, scene 3; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
