The Poetical Works of Thomson and Gray (Classic Reprint)
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| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from The Poetical Works of Thomson and Gray When the Author of the Seasons came to London In pursuit of patronage and fame, his first want, as hi biographer informs us, was a pair of shoes. "For the supply of all his necessities, his whole fund was his Winter, which for a time could find no purchaser; till, at last, Mr. Millar, a bookseller in the Strand, was persuaded to buy it at a low price; and this low price he had for some time reason to regret." We are not informed what estimate Thomson himself had formed of this production: whether with self-supported confidence he anticipated the reception it would eventually meet with from the public, or whether he was satisfied to di-pose of his unproductive treasure for a sum that provided for the wants of the moment - as he would have disposed of a precious stone of uncertain value to the first lapidary who would set a price upon it. In his most sanguine and ambitious moments he could not have ventured to hope, that the poem would ultimately not only amply reward its purchaser, but take its rank among productions which are considered as eras in our literature, and become identified with the language. The ´Seasons´ is one of those rare and original productions, in which, at distant intervals in the progress of literature, genius appears to burst forth in distinct individuality of character, in spite, it may be, of the bad taste or prevailing mediocrity of the period. There is in the human frame a perfect but indefinable correspondence, which extends to every joint, to the very hair of the head: the artificial violation of this harmony is immediately perceptible. Something of this kind exists with respect to the productions of real genius. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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