 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 страници
...concluded The Seasons sees the pheromena of Nature as the result of the benevolent contrivance of God: i These, as they change, Almighty Father, these Are...year Is full of Thee. Forth in the pleasing Spring TKy beauty walks, Thy tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields; the softening air is balm; Echo the... | |
 | Martha Finley - 1993 - 362 страници
...heart, and kissing her tenderly. CHAPTEK XV. " Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And every sense, and every heart, is joy." THOMSON. IT was spring again; early in April; the air was filled with the melody of birds, and balmy... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 страници
...in 1730 with "Winter," which was later used as the first book of The Seasons. A HYMN ON THE SEASONS These, as they change, Almighty Father! these Are...Forth in the pleasing Spring Thy beauty walks, thy tendemess and love. Wide flush the fields; the softening air is balm; Echo the mountains round; the... | |
 | Richard Terry, Reader in Eighteenth-Century English Literature Richard Terry - 2000 - 300 страници
...Shaftesburian deism finds its most sustained expression. In the opening lines the poet declares of the seasons, 'These, as they change, ALMIGHTY FATHER! these,/ Are but the VARIED GOD' — the emphatic repetition of 'these', placed at the beginning and end of the opening line, contributing to... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 2002 - 172 страници
...schooldays and would have recognised its debt to Virgil. Wide-flush the Fields; the softening Air is Balm; Echo the Mountains round; the Forest smiles; And every Sense, and every Heart is Joy. (A Hymn on the Seasons 5-7) Though a peculiar one, the claim that 'the Forest smiles' is consistent... | |
 | G. Gabrielle Starr - 2004 - 318 страници
...or the moral music of nature. As he describes his subject in the concluding "A Hymn on the Seasons," These, as they change, Almighty Father! these Are...but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of thee . . . (11. 1-3) Mysterious round! what skill, what force divine, Deep-felt in these appear! a simple... | |
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THESE, as they change, ALMIGHTY FATHER, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of THEE. Forth in the pleasing Spring THY beauty walks, THY tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round... 
