...streams of Nature and of Poetry, and he produces The Seasons. "See, WINTER comes, to rule the vary'd Year, Sullen, and sad, with all his rising Train;...that exalt the Soul to solemn Thought, And heavenly Musing." Thus Winter begins, the first of The Seasons to be written, being followed in the next four...

...Thomson, the poet of the seasons, imbibing something of the spirit of the sacred lyrists, exclaim — ' Vapours, and clouds, and storms, — Be these my theme,...that exalt the soul to solemn thought, And heavenly musing !' ' Heavenly musings' are, perhaps, better cherished by the gloom of winter, than by the sunshine...

...trusts to its good nature for overlooking this attempt to please himself. Paris, March, 1832. Chapter I "See, Winter comes, to rule the varied year, Sullen...his rising train; Vapours, and clouds, and storms — " Thomson, The Seasons, "Winter," I— 3. NEAR THE CENTRE of the State of New- York lies an extensive...

...The qualities of our cows, as milkers, would be materially enhanced by winter-feeding. DECEMBER. " See, Winter comes, to rule the varied year, Sullen and sad, with all his vising train, Vapors, and clouds, and storms." With the end of the last month and the entering upon...

...darts With rapid glide along the leaning line; And, fixing in the wretch his cruel fangs Winter 12 1 This is the cock musing. Welcome, kindred glooms! Congenial horrors, hail! Autumn POETRY QUOTATIONS 13 Thus Winter falls,...

...notched according to the number of individuals they had slain), he would conceal them from every eye. XII See, winter comes, to rule the varied year, Sullen...all his rising train — Vapours, and clouds, and storm. — T. X\bout the 4th of November, I took my leave of Boston, for the great commercial emporium,...