An elegant sufficiency, content,
Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books,
Ease and alternate labour, useful life,
Progressive virtue, and approving Heaven!
-- James Thomson (1700-1748)
-- The Seasons, Spring, Line 1158
Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books,
Ease and alternate labour, useful life,
Progressive virtue, and approving Heaven!
-- James Thomson (1700-1748)
-- The Seasons, Spring, Line 1158
Related:
- Come, gentle Spring! ethereal Mildness! come.
-- James Thomson (1700-1748)
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The Seasons, Spring, Line... - Amid the roses fierce Repentance rears
Her snaky crest.
James Thomson (1700-1748) -- The Seasons, Spring,... - Base Envy withers at another's joy,
And hates that excellence it cannot reach.
James Thomson (1700-1748) -- The Seasons, Spring,... - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought,
To teach the young idea how to shoot.
James Thomson (1700-1748) -- The Seasons, Spring,... - But who can paint
Like Nature? Can imagination boast,
Amid its gay creation, hues like hers? -- James Thomson... - Autumn nodding o'er the yellow plain.
-- James Thomson (1700-1748)
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The Seasons, Autumn, Line... - Cruel as death, and hungry as the grave.
-- James Thomson (1700-1748)
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The Seasons, Winter, Line... - A lucky chance, that oft decides the fate
Of mighty monarchs.
James Thomson (1700-1748) -- The Seasons, Summer,... - And Mecca saddens at the long delay.
-- James Thomson (1700-1748)
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The Seasons, Summer, Line...
