Frasi di James Thomson
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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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James Thomson Frasi e Citazioni

“I Britanni mai saranno schiavi.”

da Rule, Britannia!

James Thomson: Frasi in inglese

“Delightful task! to rear the tender thought,
To teach the young idea how to shoot.”

James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

Origine: The Seasons (1726-1730), Spring (1728), l. 1149-1150.

“O Sophonisba! Sophonisba, O!”

Sophonisba, Act iii, scene 2; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). The line was altered after the second edition to "O Sophonisba! I am wholly thine".

“Cruel as death, and hungry as the grave.”

James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

Origine: The Seasons (1726-1730), Winter (1726), l. 393.

“Ships dim-discovered dropping from the clouds.”

James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

Origine: The Seasons (1726-1730), Summer (1727), l. 946.

“But what most showed the vanity of life
Was to behold the nations all on fire.”

James Thomson (poet) The Castle of Indolence

Canto I, Stanza 55.
The Castle of Indolence (1748)

“There studious let me sit,
And hold high converse with the mighty dead.”

James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

Origine: The Seasons (1726-1730), Winter (1726), l. 431-432.

“For many a day, and many a dreadful night,
Incessant lab'ring round the stormy cape.”

James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

Origine: The Seasons (1726-1730), Summer (1727), l. 1002.

“Plac'd far amid the melancholy main.”

James Thomson (poet) The Castle of Indolence

Canto I, Stanza 30.
The Castle of Indolence (1748)

“He saw her charming, but he saw not half
The charms her downcast modesty conceal'd.”

James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

Origine: The Seasons (1726-1730), Autumn (1730), l. 229.

“And Mecca saddens at the long delay.”

James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

Origine: The Seasons (1726-1730), Summer (1727), l. 979.

“For loveliness
Needs not the foreign aid of ornament,
But is when unadorned adorned the most.”

James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

Origine: The Seasons (1726-1730), Autumn (1730), l. 208-210.

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