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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Spring. A Poem. By Mr. Thomson"
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Date: 1728
"BUT yonder breathing Prospect bids the Muse / Throw all her Beauty forth, that Daubing all / Will be to what I gaze; for who can paint / Like Nature? Can Imagination boast / Amid his gay Creation Hues like Her's? / And can He mix them with that matchless Skill, / And lay them on so delicately sw...
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1728
Exhausted Nature sinks a-while to Rest, / Still interrupted by disorder'd Dreams, / That o'er the sick Imagination rise, / And in black Colours paint the mimic Scene."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)