Your search for
Literary Period:
"Augustan"
,
"Early Modern"
AND
Gender of Author:
"Male"
AND
Nationality of Author:
"Scottish"
AND
Religion of Author:
"Deist or Theist"
AND
Metaphor Category:
"Fire"
AND
Genre:
"Poetry"
AND
Politics of Author:
"Opposition Whig"
AND
Work title:
"Autumn [from The Seasons (1730)]"
returned 2 results(s) in 0.001 seconds
Date: 1730, 1744, 1746
"O'er all the soul his sacred influence breathes!/ Inflames imagination; through the breast / Infuses every tenderness; and far / Beyond dim earth exalts the swelling thought."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1730, 1744, 1746
"With swift wing / O'er land and sea imagination roams; / Or truth, divinely breaking on his mind, / Elates his being, and unfolds his powers; / Or in his breast heroic virtue burns."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)