 | Jeremiah Bascom Reeves - 1924 - 396 pages
...summary, James Thomson closed his ' ' Seasons ' ' with a ' ' Hymn. ' ' The first lines are : These as they change, Almighty Father ! these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of thee. It is a noble poem, but it is not the type of poetry that the hymn-book contains. Shenstone left no... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pages
...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...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 pages
...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
...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... 
