Thomson, James (1700-1748)

The Castle of Indolence. An Allegorical Poem.

London

Andrew Millar

1748

"But more he search'd the mind, and roused from sleep / Those moral seeds whence we heroic actions reap."

  At other times he pried through nature's store,
  Whate'er she in the ethereal round contains,
  Whate'er she hides beneath her verdant floor,
  The vegetable and the mineral reigns;
  Or else he scann'd the globe, those small domains,
  Where restless mortals such a turmoil keep,
  Its seas, its floods, its mountains, and its plains;
  But more he search'd the mind, and roused from sleep
Those moral seeds whence we heroic actions reap.
(Canto II, ll. 91-99, p. 202)

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See The Castle of Indolence. An Allegorical Poem. Written in Imitation of Spenser by James Thomson. (London: A. Millar, 1748). <Link to ECCO>

Reading James Thomson, Liberty, The Castle of Indolence, and other Poems, ed. James Sambrook. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986).

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