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Literary Period:
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Nationality of Author:
"Scottish"
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Date: 1730, 1744, 1746
"With swift wing / O'er land and sea imagination roams; / Or truth, divinely breaking on his mind, / Elates his being, and unfolds his powers; / Or in his breast heroic virtue burns."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1745
"My fluttering Soul was all on Wing to find Thee, / My Love! my Sigismunda!"
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1746
"Now, while I taste the Sweetness of the Shade, / While Nature lies around deep-lull'd in Noon, / Now come, bold Fancy, spread a daring Flight, / And view the Wonders of the torrid Zone."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)