 | 1850 - 664 pages
...original or derived, but that the spirit, the Person within, controls, vivifies, and produces all. " These, as they change, Almighty Father, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of thee But wandering oft, with brute, uncoascious gaze, Man marka not thee, marks not the mighty... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 448 pages
...spirit, roughly brave, By ancient learning, to th' enlighten'd love Of ancient freedom warm'd. ***** 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... | |
 | Nicholas Murray Butler, Frank Pierrepont Graves, William McAndrew - 1918 - 470 pages
...of these changes in nature, in the old parsing-book, and the construction of the language as well? 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. And could they... | |
 | Cecil Victor Deane - 1967 - 166 pages
...theme of the whole poem, the ever-altering appearance of the outward garment of nature is emphasized: These, as they change, Almighty Father, these Are but the varied God. It may be further observed that Thomson does not solely convey the impression of change and motion... | |
 | James Chapman - 286 pages
...evil, or conceal'd, Disperse it, — as now, light dispels the dark. Milton. 23. THE SEASONS, A HYMN. 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... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...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 but the varied God! The rolling year Is full of Thee. Forth in the pleasing Spring TKy beauty walks, Thy tenderness and love. Wide flush the... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pages
...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 but the varied God, The rolling year Is full of thee. Forth in the pleasing Spring Thy beauty walks, thy tendemess and love. Wide flush the... | |
 | Richard Terry, Reader in Eighteenth-Century English Literature Richard Terry - 2000 - 300 pages
...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... | |
 | G. Gabrielle Starr - 2004 - 318 pages
...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!... | |
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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... 
