James Thomson

She left the stock, the house, and several keepsakes to her sister, to her nephew Alfred William both her inkstand and her copy of John Hawkesworth 's translation of Fénelon 's Télémaque (apparently recognizing William...

Here JJ mixed the intellectual or spiritual with the practical: the same page bears a recipe for syllabub and the sentiment I had rather be a favourite of Angels than of men, but I believe...

The Seasons, Stories for Very Young Children, 1832-3, went through many editions. Like James Thomson before her, JM began with winter.

The title comes from James Thomson 's Rule, Britannia, 1740: When Britain first at heaven's command / Arose from out the azure main, her guardian angels sang of ruling the waves, of never being slaves.

Her title-page quotes Thomson on the young mind fed by the light of truth, and Virgil on being made a poet. The book cost half a crown and was sold by the author herself at...

This poem moves from Romantic natural description with a touch of Thomson (From ev'ry bough, from ev'ry jutting rock / The chrystals hang;—the torrent's roar has ceas'd, —/ As if that voice which call'd...

It was in four volumes, from the Minerva Press , with a quotation from Francis Bacon on the title-page, and further chapter-headings from Shakespeare , Swift , Prior , Thomson , Goldsmith , Edward Young

The volume's subscribers come from Lerwick, London, and places in between. It includes new material as well as most of the poems from Campbell's earlier volume; the same quotation from Thomson adorns the...

In this pastoral elegy the poet links the dead woman with the famous dead: writers, thinkers and artists, Newton , Milton , Thomson , Lely , and Handel .

Here she praises England (like James Thomson later) for its landscape, climate, and system of government. English weather, in which the seasons succeed each other with calm and regularity, becomes an image for the peaceable...

These are not narratives, but more like dramatised scenes from a child's daily life, with emphasis on food, play, and other pleasures. The vocabulary is limited, inessentials pared away, and the short sentences, often in...

EH 's socio-political allegory stands virtually alone in her oeuvre in its attempt to reproduce the political instrumentality of Manley 's scandal fiction during the reign of Anne. In its witty preface EH presents...

Though the poem, in heroic couplets, turns at the end to praise of virtue, its notion of indolence is more positive than that of James Thomson in The Castle of Indolence, 1748. In leisurely...

In 1933 there was excitement in the book-collecting world when a small collection of books that Austen had owned (by writers like Ariosto , Goldsmith , Hume , and Thomson ) appeared in the catalogue...

Among writers who received Lady Hertford's patronage were Elizabeth Singer Rowe , Elizabeth Boyd , Elizabeth Carter , Mary Chandler , Isaac Watts , Laurence Eusden (for whom she set topics of occasional poems), James Thomson