And woes on woes, a still-revolving train ! Of the SOLE BEING right, who spoke the word, The final issue of the works of GOD, By boundless Love and perfect WISDOM form'd, And ever rising with the rising mind, END OF THE FIRST PART. THE SEASONS BY JAMES THOMSON; WITH THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR. TO WHICH ARE ADDED HESIOD, or the RISE of WOMAN, and the HERMIT, by PARNELL; TOGETHER WITH HENRY and EMMA, by PRIOR. A new Edition in two volumes. VOL. II. PARIS: Printed for THEOPHILUS BARROIS junior, Bookseller, Quay Voltaire, n°. 3. 1803. AUTUM N. THE ARGUMENT. The subject proposed. Addressed to MR. ONSLOW, A prospect of the fields ready for harvest. Reflections in praise of industry raised by that view. Reaping. A tale relative to it. A harvest-storm. Shooting and hunting; their barbarity. A ludicrous account of fox-hunting. A view of an orchard. Wallfruit. A vineyard. A description of fogs frequent in the latter part of AUTUMN: Whence a digression, enquiring into the rise of fountains, and rivers. Birds of season considered, that now shift their habitation. The prodigious number of them that cover the northern and western isles of SCOTLAND. Hence a view of the country. A prospect of the discoloured, fading woods. After a gentle dusky day, Moon-light. Autumnal meteors. Morning; to which succeeds a calm, pure, sunshiny day, such as usually shuts up the season. The harvest being gathered in, the couutry dissolved in joy. The whole concludes with a panegyric on a philosophical country life. CROWN'D with the sickle and the wheaten sheaf, Α |