Frasi di James Thomson

James Thomson è stato un poeta e drammaturgo scozzese.

Fu prolifico autore di poemetti sulle stagioni, ove infranse gli artifici settecenteschi. Tra i suoi lavori spiccano la serie di poemi The Seasons e la composizione del testo del canto patriottico britannico Rule, Britannia!.



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✵ 11. Settembre 1700 – 27. Agosto 1748
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“I Britanni mai saranno schiavi.”

da Rule, Britannia!

James Thomson: Frasi in inglese

“But yonder comes the powerful king of day,
Rejoicing in the east.”

James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

Origine: The Seasons (1726-1730), Summer (1727), l. 81.

“Sighed and looked unutterable things.”

James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

Origine: The Seasons (1726-1730), Summer (1727), l. 1188.

“A little, round, fat, oily man of God.”

James Thomson (poet) The Castle of Indolence

Canto I, Stanza 69.
The Castle of Indolence (1748)

“Who stemm'd the torrent of a downward age.”

James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

Origine: The Seasons (1726-1730), Summer (1727), l. 1515.

“But who can paint
Like Nature? Can imagination boast,
Amid its gay creation, hues like hers?”

James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

Origine: The Seasons (1726-1730), Spring (1728), l. 465.

“They who are pleased themselves must always please.”

James Thomson (poet) The Castle of Indolence

Canto I, Stanza 15.
The Castle of Indolence (1748)

“Come, gentle Spring! ethereal mildness, come.”

James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

Origine: The Seasons (1726-1730), Spring (1728), l. 1.

“For still the world prevail'd, and its dread laugh,
Which scarce the firm philosopher can scorn.”

James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

Origine: The Seasons (1726-1730), Autumn (1730), l. 233.

“The kiss, snatch'd hasty from the sidelong maid.”

James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

Origine: The Seasons (1726-1730), Winter (1726), l. 625.

“Poor is the triumph o’er the timid hare!
Scared from the corn, and now to some lone seat
Retired”

James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

Origine: The Seasons (1726-1730), Autumn (1730), l. 71-73.

“A bard here dwelt, more fat than bard becomes
Who void of envy, guile and lust of gain,
On virtue still and nature's pleasing themes
Poured forth his unpremeditated strain.”

James Thomson (poet) The Castle of Indolence

Canto I, Stanza 68. (Last line said to be "writ by a friend of the author.").
The Castle of Indolence (1748)

“Amid the roses fierce Repentance rears
Her snaky crest.”

James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

Origine: The Seasons (1726-1730), Spring (1728), l. 996.

“See, Winter comes to rule the varied year,
Sullen and sad.”

James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

Origine: The Seasons (1726-1730), Winter (1726), l. 1.

“A lucky chance, that oft decides the fate
Of mighty monarchs.”

James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

Origine: The Seasons (1726-1730), Summer (1727), l. 1285.

“The meek-ey'd Morn appears, mother of dews.”

James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

Origine: The Seasons (1726-1730), Summer (1727), l. 47.

“Falsely luxurious, will not man awake?”

James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

Origine: The Seasons (1726-1730), Summer (1727), l. 67.

“Welcome, kindred glooms!
Congenial horrors, hail!”

James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

Origine: The Seasons (1726-1730), Winter (1726), l. 5-6.

“He ceased; but still their trembling ears retained
The deep vibrations of his witching song.”

James Thomson (poet) The Castle of Indolence

Canto I, Stanza 20.
The Castle of Indolence (1748)

“Base Envy withers at another’s joy,
And hates that excellence it cannot reach.”

James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

Origine: The Seasons (1726-1730), Spring (1728), l. 283.

“Whoe'er amidst the sons
Of reason, valour, liberty, and virtue
Displays distinguish'd merit, is a noble
Of Nature's own creating.”

Coriolanus, Act iii, scene 3; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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