"Nor absent are those tuneful shades, I ween, / Taught by the Graces, whose inchanting touch / Shakes every passion from the various string; / Not those, who solemnize the moral scene."
— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
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1730
Metaphor
"Nor absent are those tuneful shades, I ween, / Taught by the Graces, whose inchanting touch / Shakes every passion from the various string; / Not those, who solemnize the moral scene."
Metaphor in Context
But see who yonder comes! in sober state,
Fair, mild, and strong, as is a vernal sun:
'Tis Phoebus self, or else the Mantuan swain!
Great Homer too appears, of daring wing,
Parent of song! and equal by his side,
The British muse; join'd hand in hand they walk,
Darkling, full up the middle steep to fame.
Nor absent are those tuneful shades, I ween,
Taught by the Graces, whose inchanting touch
Shakes every passion from the various string;
Not those, who solemnize the moral scene.
(ll. 544-554)
Fair, mild, and strong, as is a vernal sun:
'Tis Phoebus self, or else the Mantuan swain!
Great Homer too appears, of daring wing,
Parent of song! and equal by his side,
The British muse; join'd hand in hand they walk,
Darkling, full up the middle steep to fame.
Nor absent are those tuneful shades, I ween,
Taught by the Graces, whose inchanting touch
Shakes every passion from the various string;
Not those, who solemnize the moral scene.
(ll. 544-554)
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"Winter" was first published in 1726, and first collected in 1730. See The Seasons, A Hymn, A Poem to the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton, and Britannia, a Poem. By Mr. Thomson (1730). <Link to ECCO> Reprinted, revised and expanded in 1744, 1746. See also The Seasons. By James Thomson. (1744). <Link to ECCO> And The Seasons. By James Thomson. (1746). <Link to ECCO>
Text transcribed from The Seasons. By Mr. Thomson (London: Printed in the Year 1730). <Link to ECCO>
Text transcribed from The Seasons. By Mr. Thomson (London: Printed in the Year 1730). <Link to ECCO>
Date of Entry
06/20/2013
