James Thomson

The novel begins without preliminary paratext. An epigraph from James Thomson (Ah! little think the gay licentious proud . . .) declares sympathy for the underdog, but this is not, as the title...

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.

Julie Ellison , who traces in Ouâbi the influence of male British poets like Thomson and Goldsmith , and their sentimental, topographical, masculinist traditions, judges that the poem's vision of racial harmony depends on...

AP quotes Pope on her title-page (about indifference to fame) and Shakespeare , Thomson , Savage , and others as chapter-headings. She sets her novel around the lakes of Killarney in Ireland. Antonia is...

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 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...

The chapter headings quote a range of canonical or contemporary writers, including Shakespeare , Milton , Pope , Thomson , Goldsmith , William Mason , John Langhorne , Burns , Erasmus Darwin , Edward Young

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...

The title-page quotes Shakespeare : later on Pope , Thomson , Thomas Tickell , Charles Cotton , and others are quoted too. Characters include a seducer and promiser-breaker who dies in a duel. The central...

LLS grew up under her mother's eye, and was educated through both reading and social contact. She later remembered reading Henry Mackenzie 's The Man of Feeling at fourteen and fearing she might not cry...

ET 's reputation persisted for some time after her death. Mary Scott praised her highly in The Female Advocate, 1774. John Duncombe (though her posthumous publication was too late for inclusion in his Feminiad...

The title-page quotes James Thomson . The preface declares a serious, anxious, and most sincere desire to inculcate respect and tenderness towards all the inferior creatures. Watts sets out the fairly new idea that...