"Now, while I taste the Sweetness of the Shade, / While Nature lies around deep-lull'd in Noon, / Now come, bold Fancy, spread a daring Flight, / And view the Wonders of the torrid Zone."
— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
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Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printe for A. Millar
Date
1746
Metaphor
"Now, while I taste the Sweetness of the Shade, / While Nature lies around deep-lull'd in Noon, / Now come, bold Fancy, spread a daring Flight, / And view the Wonders of the torrid Zone."
Metaphor in Context
Now, while I taste the Sweetness of the Shade,
While Nature lies around deep-lull'd in Noon,
Now come, bold Fancy, spread a daring Flight,
And view the Wonders of the torrid Zone:
Climes unrelenting! with whose Rage compared,
Yon Blaze is feeble, and yon Skies are cool.
(p. 54 in Sambrook)
While Nature lies around deep-lull'd in Noon,
Now come, bold Fancy, spread a daring Flight,
And view the Wonders of the torrid Zone:
Climes unrelenting! with whose Rage compared,
Yon Blaze is feeble, and yon Skies are cool.
(p. 54 in Sambrook)
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Reading
Citation
See The Seasons. By James Thomson. (London: Printed [by Henry Woodfall] for A. Millar, in the Strand, 1746). 234 pp. <Link to ECCO>
Summer was first published in 1727. Text much revised and expanded between 1727 and 1746. Searching metaphors in The Poetical Works (1830) through Stanford HDIS interface, later checked against earlier editions. Also reading James Sambrook's edition of The Seasons and The Castle of Indolence (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972), which reproduces the 1746 edition of Thomson's poem.
Summer was first published in 1727. Text much revised and expanded between 1727 and 1746. Searching metaphors in The Poetical Works (1830) through Stanford HDIS interface, later checked against earlier editions. Also reading James Sambrook's edition of The Seasons and The Castle of Indolence (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972), which reproduces the 1746 edition of Thomson's poem.
Date of Entry
07/07/2013
